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PHOENIX (AP) — The Supreme Court has preserved a federal law giving preference to Native American families when it comes to adopting Native children in foster care. The court’s 7-2 ruling Thursday leaves in place the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act, which aims to reverse centuries of government-sanctioned efforts to weaken tribal identity by separating Native American children from their families and raising them outside their tribal cultures.
Here are some things to know about the law and the issues around it:
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WHAT WAS PURPOSE OF THE 1978 INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ACT?
The law requires states to notify tribes when adoption cases involve their members or children eligible for tribal membership, and to try to place them with their extended family, their tribe or other Native American families. It was enacted to address historic injustices: Before the law took effect, between 25% and 35% of Native American children were being taken from their families and placed with adoptive families, in foster care or in institutions. The majority were placed with white families or in boarding schools in attempts to assimilate them. A series of scandals involving the long-closed boarding schools shed light on government-sanctioned efforts to wipe out Native culture by cutting their hair and forbidding them from speaking their languages.
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HOW ARE TRIBAL LEADERS REACTING?
Native American leaders are celebrating the ruling as a huge win. A joint statement by Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin, Jr., Morongo Band of Mission Indians Chairman Charles Martin, Oneida Nation Chairman Tehassi Hill and Quinault Indian Nation President Guy Capoeman said they hope it will “lay to rest the political attacks aimed at diminishing tribal sovereignty.” Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren called it a victory for “all Indigenous children and all Indigenous Nations in the United States.” The Native American Rights Fund said 497 tribal nations, 62 Native organizations, 23 states, 87 members of Congress and 27 child welfare and adoption organizations signed onto Supreme Court briefs supporting the law.
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WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TRIBES AND THE U.S.?
Justice Neal Gorsuch set the ruling in the context of a sweeping history of the relationship between tribal nations and state and federal governments, noting that past Supreme Court rulings at times were confusing or contradictory. “Often, Native American Tribes have come to this Court seeking justice only to leave with bowed heads and empty hands,” Gorush said. “But that is not because this Court has no justice to offer them. Our Constitution reserves for the Tribes a place — an enduring place — in the structure of American life. It promises them sovereignty for as long as they wish to keep it. And it secures that promise by divesting States of authority over Indian affairs and by giving the federal government certain significant (but limited and enumerated) powers aimed at building a lasting peace.”
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WHAT WAS THE ARGUMENT AGAINST THE ACT?
Three white families and several Republican-led states including Texas claimed the law is based on race in violation of the equal protection clause and puts the interests of tribes ahead of what’s best for the children. They also argued that the law gives the federal government excessive power over adoptions and foster placements, which are generally overseen by states, and challenged whether Congress even has the authority to pass laws addressing Native American issues. The lead plaintiffs, Chad and Jennifer Brackeen of Fort Worth, Texas, adopted a Native American child after a lengthy battle with the Navajo Nation, one of the two largest tribes in the U.S. The couple wants to adopt the boy’s 5-year-old half-sister, who has lived with them since infancy; the Navajo Nation opposes it. Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented, with Alito writing that the decision “disserves the rights and interests of these children.”
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WHAT HAPPENS NOW?
Justice Brett Kavanaugh cautioned in a separate concurring opinion that the court didn’t address the merits of whether the law provides an unconstitutional racial preference for Native foster and adoptive parents. “In my view, the equal protection issue is serious,” Kavanaugh wrote, and suggested the court should revisit the issue with plaintiffs found to have proper standing in a state court. Attorney Mathew McGill, representing the Brackeens, said he would press just such a claim. McGill runs the gaming practice for the Gibson Dunn law firm and successfully argued Murphy v. NCAA before the Supreme Court, which gave all states the ability to legalize sports betting to the detriment of tribal casinos around the country. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/things-to-know-about-the-supreme-court-ruling-upholding-the-indian-child-welfare-act/ | 2023-06-16 16:24:22 | 1 | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/things-to-know-about-the-supreme-court-ruling-upholding-the-indian-child-welfare-act/ |
DETROIT (AP) — Volkswagen is recalling nearly 225,000 vehicles in the U.S. because the tire pressure monitoring systems may not detect air losses in all four tires at the same time.
The recall covers certain 2019 Tiguan, Golf Sportswagen, Golf Alltrack, Golf R, and Audi Q3 and A3 vehicles. Also covered are some 2019 and 2020 Jetta, Golf, Atlas and Audi A3 models and some 2020-2021 Atlas Cross Sport and Atlas vehicles.
Documents posted Friday by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration say a sudden pressure loss in all four tires increases the risk of a crash.
Dealers will update the tire pressure monitoring software at no charge to owners. Notification letters will be sent Dec. 30.
Volkswagen petitioned to avoid a recall, saying the problem was inconsequential to motor vehicle safety. But the request was denied by the agency.
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MIDLAND, MI — The Midland Center for the Arts has announced its “spectacular” 2023/24 season lineup, including “Mean Girls,” “Chicago” and Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas.”
“Featuring a lineup of captivating performances from Broadway hits and symphonic classics to cutting-edge contemporary dance and global music, the center is looking forward to welcoming audiences to a spectacular season,” a Midland Center for the Arts news release states.
The arts center, which touts a 1,500-seat auditorium and 400-seat theater, is located at 1801 W. St. Andrews in Midland.
Here’s a look at the season ahead:
Broadway & Beyond:
“Cirque Dreams Holidaze,” Nov. 17-18, 2023
“Mean Girls,” Feb. 9-10, 2024
“Annie,” March 8-9, 2024
“Come From Away,” April 1-2, 2024
“Chicago,” May 17-18, 2024
Midland Symphony Orchestra:
“Spooky Symphony,” Oct. 7, 2023
“Postcards,” Nov. 4, 2023
“Holiday Pops” with Abby Mueller, Dec. 9, 2023
“Wonders of Nature,” Feb. 24, 2024
“These Women’s Works,” April 13, 2024
Center Stage Theatre:
“The Prom,” August 2-11, 2023 (a regional premiere)
“Doubt: A Parable,” Oct. 12-15, 2023
Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas,” Dec. 8-17, 2023
“Vanya & Sonya & Masha & Spike,” April 12-21, 2024
“Next to Normal,” May 17-26, 2024
MATRIX:MIDLAND Series:
Jazz at Lincoln Center Presents “Sing & Swing,” Feb. 22, 2024
“Wonders of Nature” with Midland Symphony Orchestra, Feb. 24, 2024
360 ALLSTARS, April 20, 2024
“How to Navigate Life” with Belle Liang, April 24, 2024
Windows On Our World:
The Gavilán Brothers, Oct. 13, 2023
REFLEX, Nov. 3, 2023
“Beyond Babel,” March 17, 2024
“There’s something in this season for everyone to enjoy, and I hope patrons will be as excited about the art and artists joining us as I am,” Midland Center for the Arts President and CEO Jon Loos said in a statement.
“This season has comedies full of side-splitting humor, dance from leading choreographers, enthralling music, high-energy Broadway performances, intimate dramas, and more. We are proud to continue our tradition of providing world-class entertainment to the Great Lakes Bay Region.”
For more information about the Midland Center for the Arts, season subscriptions and the these upcoming shows, visit www.midlandcenter.org.
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At its current pace, Medicare’s Hospital Insurance trust fund will run out of money in 2028, according to the June 2022 Medicare trustees report. That’s a two-year extension on the previous estimate, but experts say it’s still not good news, and the government needs to stop twiddling its thumbs. Here’s what you should know.
WHAT HAPPENS IF THE TRUST FUND IS DEPLETED?
If the Medicare Hospital Insurance trust fund is depleted, it doesn’t mean Medicare Part A will implode. But the program won’t have enough revenues to cover all operating costs, by a shortfall of about 10% starting in 2029.
“This part of the Medicare program won’t be able to make payments to health care providers and health insurers that are due, and those payments will become increasingly delayed over time,” says Matthew Fiedler, a senior fellow with the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy.
This backlog could result in a big financial shock to hospitals that rely on Medicare revenues to operate. Ultimately, Fiedler says , “hospitals might rethink the extent to which they want to participate in the Medicare program.”
It’s important to understand that Medicare’s Hospital Insurance trust fund doesn’t finance all of Medicare — it funds Medicare Part A, or hospital insurance. Medicare Part B, which covers doctor’s appointments and outpatient care, and Medicare Part D, which covers prescription drugs, are funded mainly out of patient premiums and the government’s general revenues.
WHAT ARE THE MOST LIKELY FIXES?
There are several ways the government could handle the situation, from tweaking service coverage to redirecting revenues. Here are a few options:
Move some Medicare Part A services to Part B
Some experts have suggested that the government could shift some post-acute services — such as physical therapy or nursing management after a hospital stay — from Part A to Part B.
“That makes the Part A trust fund look better, because you’ve taken some of the expenses off the books,” says Dr. Mark McClellan , the Robert J. Margolis professor of business, medicine and policy at Duke University, who holds a doctorate in economics. “But that’s not really changing the overall cost or sustainability of the program.”
For Medicare beneficiaries, this change could mean that some post-acute services that are covered 100% under Part A could be subject to the Part B deductible and 20% coinsurance, unless the beneficiary has a Medigap or Medicare Advantage plan that covers some costs.
Modernize the Medicare drug benefit
When Medicare Part D was introduced in 2006, there weren’t as many expensive specialty drugs on the market. Today, the government foots the majority of the bill for high-cost drugs. Lowering drug costs and applying those savings to the Part A trust fund is an option. Current legislation in Congress would help Medicare beneficiaries spend less on prescription drugs and decrease costs for specific high-cost drugs over time.
“The Senate bill includes an important modernization of Medicare’s drug benefit, to provide more comprehensive coverage for Medicare beneficiaries with high drug costs and to get Medicare’s drug plans to negotiate more aggressively with drug manufacturers,” McClellan says.
Cut payments to providers
In the short term, the government could reduce Medicare payments to some or all Part A providers, said Joseph Antos, senior fellow and Wilson H. Taylor scholar in health care and retirement policy with the American Enterprise Institute.
“Congress has done this before and can do it again, particularly if this is accompanied by some other adjustment that takes effect in year nine or 10 to give the money back,” said Antos in an email. (The Congressional Budget Office does 10-year cost estimates, so a nine- or 10-year adjustment schedule “maximizes scorable savings but signals to providers that the cut would be temporary,” Antos said.)
For beneficiaries, the impact from this approach would be minimal, although it may reduce access to some providers or lead to some providers adding services that aren’t covered by Medicare to increase revenues, Antos explained.
Move funds from general revenues
The most likely option is for the government to authorize a one-time shot of general funds to the Medicare trust fund. “I could easily see how they would say, ‘For a temporary basis, for five years, we will authorize an infusion from general revenues to top it up,’” Antos said.
If that happens, he said, the country’s debt will continue to increase. “That would not have an impact on beneficiaries,” Antos said. “It would have an impact on their children.”
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This article was provided to The Associated Press by the personal finance website NerdWallet. Kate Ashford is a writer at NerdWallet. Email: kashford@nerdwallet.com.
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Lonely Planet's Expert Predictions for the Coming Year Celebrate the World's Top Places for Food, Unwinding, Connection, Journeys, and Learning
Fast-Changing Jamaica, Resurgent Sydney, Eating in Lima, and the Renaissance City of Manchester, UK All Included in 2023 Hot-List
NEW YORK, Nov. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Global travel authority Lonely Planet has today unveiled its top destinations to visit next year with the release of Lonely Planet's Best in Travel 2023.
Lonely Planet's annual marquee moment celebrates its expert predictions for where to go in the year ahead. Best in Travel 2023 is Lonely Planet's 18th annual collection, featuring 30 must-visit destinations around the globe.
As part of its larger ambition to deliver an engaging product that solves proactive travel planning needs through personalized, local-led guidance, Lonely Planet has reimagined Best In Travel for 2023. This year's list centers expert local perspectives at the heart of each destination, and is sorted by the type of trip best had there: eat, journey, connect, learn and unwind. This shift in the list's organization signals Lonely Planet's reinvigorated dedication to aiding travelers in navigating the world in the ways most meaningful to them.
Lonely Planet's Best in Travel 2023 offers a comprehensive set of itineraries aimed at helping travelers to explore the world — while following along with some seriously knowledgeable locally-based experts along the way.
The eat category features Peru's capital Lima alongside chef Ricardo Martins, affordable world class dining in South Africa and the dining scene around Umbria, Italy, among others.
Intrepid journeys include the reinstated night train between Istanbul and Sofia, Bulgaria and a long-weekend road trip through Nova Scotia, Canada's dramatic Atlantic province narrated by surfer Dean Petty.
The overlooked peninsula of Halkidiki in Greece, historic Jordan told through the lens of designer Tania George, future-facing Jamaica and ever-popular Malta all offer tempting chances to unwind.
Travelers looking to connect with distinctive local scenes are directed to the buzzing art-centric Accra with Surf Ghana's Sandy Alibo and musician Pure Akan, as well as Sydney, back on the map after the enforced separation of the past few years.
In the learn category Lonely Planet spotlights destinations such as New Mexico with the incredible Native American hoop dancer ShanDien Sonwai LaRance, Manchester, home to one of the UK's most dynamic arts scenes, and the laid-back surf culture of El Salvador.
Each year, Lonely Planet's Best in Travel 2023 lists start with nominations from Lonely Planet's vast community of staff, writers, bloggers, publishing partners and more. The nominations are then whittled down by its panel of travel experts to just 30 destinations. Each is chosen for its topicality, unique experiences, 'wow' factor and its ongoing commitment to sustainability, community and diversity.
According to Lonely Planet's Senior Vice President of Content and Executive Editor Nitya Chambers the release of Lonely Planet's annual "hot list" of destinations and travel experiences comes at an exciting time to be planning travel. "2023 is shaping up to be the year to get out and explore. With much of the world firmly on the road to recovery, travelers are looking for different locations and experiences."
"The lists celebrate the world in all its wonderful enticing variety," Chambers continues. "Each of the itineraries in Lonely Planet's Best in Travel 2023 shows how to leave the crowds behind and truly get the heart of a destination."
As always Lonely Planet's Best in Travel 2023 delivers new takes on popular destinations such as Western Australia and Japan, and unearths some lesser-known gems like the food scene in Montevideo, Uruguay, indigenous community-operated attractions in Alaska and South America's eco-tourism rising star Guyana.
Lonely Planet's Best in Travel 2023 - Complete List
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Amber Alert issued in Texas for 7-year-old girl
Published: Jun. 20, 2023 at 12:06 AM EDT|Updated: 38 minutes ago
(Gray News) - Authorities in Texas issued an Amber Alert on Monday for a 7-year-old girl.
According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the San Antonio Police Department in Texas is searching for Amarianna Benavidez.
The 7-year-old girl is 4 feet 3 inches tall and weighs 70 pounds. She was last seen wearing a pink shit, purple shorts and no shots.
Officials believe the girl is in “grave or immediate danger.”
Police did not initially describe the circumstances leading up to the 7-year-old’s disappearance.
Anyone with information about Amarianna’s location should call San Antonio police at 210-207-7660.
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Lawsuit accuses Backstreet Boy Nick Carter of raping teen girl
LAS VEGAS (KVVU/Gray News) - A lawsuit filed in Southern Nevada accuses Backstreet Boys member Nick Carter of raping a 17-year-old girl.
KVVU reports the complaint was filed in Clark County District Court on Thursday and claims the victim, a now 39-year-old woman from Las Vegas, was raped in 2001 in Tacoma, Wash.
According to the complaint, the incident happened while the girl was seeing the Backstreet Boys on tour. The complaint said the victim was 17 at the time and has autism and cerebral palsy.
The concert took place at the Tacoma Dome in February 2001. The victim was with a friend while waiting in an autograph line with other fans when Carter invited her on the tour bus, the lawsuit said.
Carter offered the girl a drink, and she requested apple juice, the lawsuit said. Carter reportedly offered the girl cranberry juice and she said the drink “tasted weird.” Carter allegedly said the drink was “VIP juice,” an alcoholic cranberry drink.
Carter then reportedly brought the girl to a bathroom on the tour bus and forced her to perform a sexual act while she cried, the lawsuit alleges.
Afterward, Carter allegedly wanted to finish showing the girl the tour bus and brought her to a room with a bed. Carter allegedly raped the girl, “shushing” her and telling her “It would be [their] ‘special secret.’”
When the girl said she was going to tell someone about what happened, Carter allegedly called the girl a name and that no one would believe her.
According to the lawsuit, Carter told the victim that any of the females waiting for his autograph would have wanted her experience.
The lawsuit alleges that the plaintiff contracted a sexually transmitted infection as a result of the interaction.
Additionally, the lawsuit said the attack was part of a pattern of behavior. It alleges that Carter sexually abused a 15-year-old girl and once he turned 21, he would provide alcohol to victims before abusing them.
Lawyers claim the victims had not had sex before their interactions with Carter and tested positive for an STI after their interactions. The lawsuit alleges 10 victims in total.
Carter was previously accused of sexual assault in 2003, but those charges were ultimately dropped.
KVVU reports it is not naming the plaintiff in the case, as she is an alleged sexual assault victim. And it has reached out to Carter and the Backstreet Boys for comment regarding this report.
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Where NJ fans can see Andrea Bocelli
Even people who know nothing about opera know the name Andrea Bocelli. Celine Dion once said, “If God would have a singing voice, he must sound a lot like Andrea Bocelli.”
I don’t know, would God be a tenor?
In addition to recording nine complete operas, Bocelli has put out pop and classical music and has sold 75 million records worldwide.
Fans, get ready to make that bucket list one line shorter because Andrea Bocelli is touring this fall. He won’t be performing directly in NJ but he’ll be close. It is a brief tour in the U.S. beginning Nov. 29 in San Antonio, Texas and ending Dec. 17 in Hollywood, Florida.
But on Wednesday, Dec. 13 Andrea Bocelli performs at Madison Square Garden. Very convenient for Garden State fans.
For South Jersey fans he will perform at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia on Thursday, Dec. 7.
You can expect these shows to include love songs as well as holiday music from his "My Christmas" and "A Family Christmas" albums. Seeing Bocelli perform these so close to the holiday should be quite special.
Tickets to see Andrea Bocelli go on sale through Ticketmaster on April 24 at 10 a.m. but for a higher price you can find tickets right now on secondary sites like Vivid Seats and StubHub. As I write this, one front-row ticket at MSG is going for $4,428 on StubHub.
Bocelli is 64 years old. He was born with impaired vision from congenital glaucoma, then at age 12 became completely blind due to a brain hemorrhage from a sports injury.
He wasn't always so famous. He performed in piano bars and small local singing contests. He didn't rise to fame until he was 36 years old, in 1994, winning the newcomer’s category of the 44th Sanremo Music Festival performing "Il mare calmo della sera."
Here’s that long-ago performance.
Hard to think of this legend as a newcomer.
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Vilnius, Lithuania (CNN) — Security guarantees from leading nations and assurances that Ukraine’s future lies in NATO on Wednesday appeared to calm brewing worries that Ukrainian frustrations at not being admitted to the alliance would overshadow one of the most significant meetings of the alliance in recent memory.
President Joe Biden and G7 leaders unveiled a substantial show of support for Ukraine Wednesday at the NATO Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, offering a joint declaration of support for Ukraine aimed at bolstering the war-torn country’s military capability.
Biden acknowledged that the alliance did not invite Ukraine to membership during the summit as it works on “necessary reforms,” but, he said, “We’re not waiting on that process to be finished” to boost the country’s security.
“Mr. Zelensky and I talked about the kind of guarantees we could make in the meantime… And so today, the long-term commitments we’re making are backed up by the notion that in the meantime, we’re going to provide security to Ukraine for its needs and against any aggression that may occur.”
Ukraine has been a dominant item on the summit’s agenda as the US president looks to keep the group united behind President Volodymyr Zelensky in the face of Russia’s invasion. Zelensky arrived in Lithuania on Tuesday and had issued a blistering statement expressing his frustration at not receiving more specific details on when and how Ukraine would join the alliance.
However, it appears he heard enough to go home happy, saying, “The results of the summit are good” in a news conference with the alliance’s chief. Among the moves NATO took was agreeing to remove one requirement for Ukrainian entrance to the group – a Membership Action Plan – given Kyiv’s close relationship with NATO nations. It did not provide a firm timeline for when the Ukrainians will become official members.
“We can state that the results of the summit are good, but should we receive an invitation they would be the optimum,” Zelensky said.
Zelensky added that he is grateful to Biden and said he was “confident” Ukraine would join NATO once the war is over.
“I believe that NATO needs us just as we need NATO, and I believe that this is absolutely fair,” he said.
Biden has emphasized that Ukraine is not ready to enter NATO, telling CNN in an exclusive interview last week that Russia’s war in Ukraine needs to end before the alliance can consider adding Kyiv to its ranks.
An example of the tensions between Washington and Kyiv spilled into public view ahead of the meeting when national security adviser Jake Sullivan fielded a tense question from a Ukrainian activist during an appearance at a NATO public forum Wednesday morning, offering, perhaps, a preview of how Biden will respond to Zelensky’s frustrations later on in the day. Sullivan defended the decision to keep Ukraine out of the alliance for now, and told the activist that “the American people do deserve a degree of gratitude” for their support as he praised the Ukrainian people for standing up to Russia’s aggression.
“The American people have sought – in watching and wanting to stand in solidarity with the brave and courageous people of Ukraine – to step up and deliver. And I think the American people do deserve a degree of gratitude – from us, from the United States, from our government deserve gratitude for their willingness to step up and from the rest of the world, as well, as do every ally and partner that’s supporting it,” Sullivan said.
But none of that tension was present when Biden and Zelensky stood in front of the cameras later on Wednesday.
In an event with Zelensky and G-7 leaders, Biden told the Ukrainian president that American support is not going anywhere. The declaration, Biden said, “starts a process by which each of our nations, and any other nation who wishes to participate, will negotiate long term bilateral security commitments with and to Ukraine.”
“We’re going to help Ukraine build a strong defense across land, air, and sea,” Biden vowed, calling it “a force of stability in the region to deter against any and all threats.”
He thanked G7 leaders and Zelensky for their work, calling the declaration a “powerful statement of our commitment to Ukraine” as he reiterated the US will be there “for as long as it takes.”
Zelensky thanked the leaders for the new commitment.
“The Ukrainian delegation is bringing home significant security, victory for the Ukraine, for our country, for our people, for our children. It opens for us absolutely new security opportunities, and I thank everyone who made it possible,” he said.
New military aid for Ukraine
The announcement will start a process of bilateral negotiations with Kyiv, Sloat said.
There will be a “long-term investment in Ukraine’s future force” aimed at “ensuring Ukraine has a sustainable fighting force capable of defending Ukraine now and deterring Russian aggression in the future, a strong and stable economy, and the help Ukraine needs to advance the reform agenda to support the good governance necessary to advance Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic aspirations,” she said.
Sloat said the purpose of the declaration would be to bolster Ukraine’s deterrence and send a message to Russia.
“We believe the declaration we will announce today seeks to ensure Ukraine’s future as a free independent, democratic, and sovereign nation. It signals in joint long-term commitment to building a powerful defensive and deterrence force for Ukraine, of course for both stability and for peace. This multi-lateral declaration will send a significant signal to Russia that time is not on its side,” Sloat said.
And while Biden is expected to offer “near and long-term support for Ukraine” during a one-on-one meeting with Zelensky, the issues lingering over Kyiv’s accession to NATO could strike a different tone to the two leaders’ congratulatory encounters held earlier this year.
Zelensky’s first trip outside Ukraine since the war began was to Washington just before Christmas, where he was feted by Biden in the Oval Office before giving a speech to Congress. A couple months later, Biden made a surprise visit to Kyiv to return the favor and announce a half-billion-dollar assistance package. The dramatic scene was marked by air raid sirens going off as the two presidents walked near the gold-domed St. Michael’s Cathedral.
Their last in-person meeting took place at the G7 Summit in Hiroshima, Japan, in May. Zelensky used the opportunity to press the world leaders for more assistance, coming just after the Russians took the town of Bakhmut following months of heavy fighting.
The meeting will be draped by a 15-year wait for Ukraine to get answers on just when it can join the allied group. NATO first welcomed Ukraine’s membership aspirations during a 2008 meeting in Bucharest, Romania, but little progress has been made and the timeline remains uncertain.
“Ukraine and many NATO allies are calling for a clearer pathway, a roadmap, some kind of statement at Vilnius that will show Ukraine what it needs to do to get into the alliance. And I think that is very important to happen for the alliance to be credible. Given the stakes of the war … given what the Ukrainians have endured, if we walk out of Vilnius without a firmer sense of what it will take to get Ukraine into the alliance, I worry about the alliance’s credibility,” said Chris Skaluba, director of the Transatlantic Security Initiative in the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security.
Biden’s ‘major address’
Biden and members of his administration have remained committed to the alliance’s current “open door” posture.
However, NATO countries in Eastern Europe bordering Ukraine or Russia have made a stronger push for a commitment to extend membership to Ukraine, including providing a more concrete timetable, which has created tension within the alliance leading up to the summit.
As leaders gather, experts are also watching for whether the alliance can offer any additional long-term security assistance to Ukraine, including the possibility of additional F-16 fighter jets and other long-term investments as a key signal to Russia of NATO’s long-term support for Ukraine.
Biden and NATO leaders have “unanimously agreed” to send a “substantial” new aid package to Ukraine, Sloat told reporters Wednesday — but she declined to provide additional details.
Biden is also set to give a foreign policy speech that his aides have described as a “major address” later on Wednesday, reflecting on the strength and power of the NATO alliance.
Biden will also discuss “how the widespread support for Ukraine is reflective of the value of our alliances and partnerships, which he has revitalized since taking office,” Sloat said, as the president uses the bully pulpit to highlight his foreign policy experience as he seeks a second term.
Biden will “underscore how we have an opportunity at this moment to apply the same unity and sense of purpose and urgency to addressing the other great challenges of our time, including the climate crisis, emerging technologies, upholding the international rules of the road, and expanding opportunities,” Sloat said.
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Recession or soft landing? Five reasons to be cautiously optimistic about 2023
By Matt Egan, CNN
Last year was dominated by scary headlines about crushing inflation, super-sized interest rate hikes and mounting recession fears.
It was a brutal period for the stock market, with roughly one-fifth of the value of the S&P 500 vanishing and the Nasdaq dropping by more than one-third. All three major US markets suffered their worst years — by far — since 2008.
And yet now that 2022 is over, there are clear bright spots in this economy that offer hope 2023 will not be the year the next recession begins.
Historic jobs recovery
Hiring remains surprisingly resilient. The economy added a robust 263,000 jobs in November, and the unemployment rate is just 3.7% — down dramatically from nearly 15% in the spring of 2020.
This is just a touch above the half-century low that was tied earlier this year.
Although major tech and media companies including Amazon, Twitter and Meta have laid off thousands of workers, initial jobless claims remain low.
New numbers published last week show first-time applications for unemployment benefits edged up to 225,000. That’s still low historically and almost exactly where jobless claims were a year ago, long before recession fears emerged.
“This is one reason to the be optimistic the economy could skirt a recession,” Moody’s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi told CNN on Thursday. “Without mass layoffs, it’s unlikely consumers will stop spending and the economy suffer a downturn.”
Inflation is cooling
The cost of living is still way too high, but the rate of inflation appears to have peaked.
Consumer prices soared by 7.1% year-over-year in November. At almost any other point in the past 40 years, that would be alarmingly high. But this marked the fifth-straight month of improvement and a significant cooldown from 9.1% in June. It’s also the lowest annual inflation rate in nearly a year.
If this trend continues, it could significantly lower the risk of a recession. But if inflation remains well above the Federal Reserve’s 2% target, that would be problematic.
Gas prices have plunged
The No. 1 headache for consumers for much of this year has eased considerably.
After spiking above $5 a gallon for the first time ever in June, gas prices have plunged. The national average for regular gasoline recently dropped to $3.10 a gallon, an 18-month low, though it has crept higher in recent days to about $3.22 a gallon.
Gas prices are expected to climb again this spring and summer but, for now at least, experts are not forecasting a return to $5 a gallon.
Real wages are heating up
For much of the past year, wages have been hot but inflation has been hotter.
That means adjusted for inflation, paychecks have been shrinking.
But that trend has begun to reverse, at least when measured on a monthly basis. Real wages have been growing faster than consumer prices, a significant shift that could give consumers firepower to keep spending next year.
The Fed won’t hike to the moon
The Fed’s war on inflation is the reason the risk of a recession is significant. The central bank is effectively slamming the brakes on the economy.
The spike in borrowing costs has already set off a deep slump in the housing market, the most interest rate-sensitive part of the economy.
The fear is that the Fed will eventually overdo it, raising rates so high and keeping them there for so long that it causes a recession — if the Fed hasn’t already done that.
But Fed officials have signaled they could be ready to pause their inflation-fighting campaign late in the winter or early in the spring.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has made it clear the Fed isn’t anywhere near ready to hit the gas on the economy by cutting rates. But just removing its foot from the brake would be a positive.
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National Archives says it hasn't received some Trump administration records
The National Archives said they 'do not have custody' of 'everything we should'
The National Archives and Records Administration says that it is missing records from the Trump administration that it says were supposed to be turned over at the end of his term.
"While there is no easy way to establish absolute accountability, we do know that we do not have custody of everything we should," Archivist Debra Steidel Wall said in a letter to the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Friday, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Wall explained that the National Archives does not have some messages sent and received by members of the Trump administration that were sent on unofficial accounts while doing business for the president.
"NARA has been able to obtain such records from a number of former officials and will continue to pursue the return of similar types of Presidential records from former officials," the letter said. "As appropriate, NARA would consult with the Department of Justice on whether ‘to initiate an action for the recovery of records unlawfully removed,’ as established under the Federal Records Act."
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE SEEKS EXPEDITED APPEAL OF SPECIAL MASTER APPOINTMENT FROM 11TH CIRCUIT
The letter declined to answer whether Trump surrendered all of his presidential records and instead directed that question to the Justice Department.
In a statement to Fox News Digital, Trump spokesperson Liz Harrington said the Constitution and Presidential Records Act are on the former president's side.
"The National Archives didn't seem to have a problem when previous presidents stored records at abandoned unsecured furniture warehouses across the street from a McDonald's," Harrington said, "but they do seem to have a problem with the Constitution which they put a ‘harmful content’ warning label on, and the Presidential Records Act, both of which are on President Trump's side."
JUDGE OVERRULES SPECIAL MASTER ORDER FOR TRUMP TO GIVE 'FINAL' OBJECTIONS ON FBI SEARCH INVENTORY
"Former President Trump and his senior staff have shown an utter disregard for the rule of law and our national security by failing to return presidential records as the law requires," House Oversight and Reform Committee Chair Rep. Carolyn Maloney, a Democrat, said in a statement Saturday.
"I will continue to do everything in my power to ensure that all presidential records from the Trump White House are returned to the custody of the government and to make sure these abuses never happen again," Maloney added.
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DENVER (KDVR) — If you have been invited to a Thanksgiving dinner, there are some things you should know about etiquette before attending.
When it comes to attending a holiday dinner like Thanksgiving, you have probably heard the line, “You don’t need to bring anything, just yourself.” But should you bring something anyway?
The answer is yes!
Here are seven things to know about Thanksgiving etiquette, according to Food Network:
- Bring something: From a bottle of wine to your favorite craft beer to a wheel of cheese or a sleeve of fancy crackers, bringing a gift is a thoughtful gesture. If something specific is requested, make sure to bring that and refrain from improvising.
- Make a dish for everyone: Bring a dish that anyone with any type of food allergy or preference can eat. A vegetable, such as green beans, carrots, cauliflower, broccoli or sweet potatoes, is a safe option.
- Make your dish twice the gift: Bring a dish in a new container or bowl and leave it for the host to keep after dinner to remind them of you.
- No last-minute cancellations: Backing out at the last minute can throw off the host’s menu, food costs and seating arrangements. Only cancel if there’s a true emergency or you are sick.
- Icebreakers: If you know the host, come early to greet others. If you don’t know everyone, offer to help pour drinks and be a part of the conversation. The Food Network said wearing something like a statement necklace or bold broach can help spark conversation.
- Help with cleanup: When you notice your host start to clear plates and head back into the kitchen, offer to help with the dishes.
- Thank your host: Food Network said you should send your host a handwritten thank-you note (skip the text messages in this case), flowers or a memento from the day, such as a curated album of candid photographs.
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PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla., July 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- In a significant achievement that firmly underscores its commitment to the highest standards of healthcare, Dr. Sulaiman AL-Habib Hospital in AL Khobar, Saudi Arabia, has been awarded the distinguished Accreditation for Medical Travel Services by Global Healthcare Accreditation (GHA). This accolade validates HMG Al Khobar's dedication to delivering an exceptional medical travel patient journey, from the initial interaction through to superior clinical outcomes and post-treatment care.
Dr. Sulaiman Al Habib Medical Group (HMG) is renowned for its exceptional healthcare services across 9 leading-edge hospitals located in Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and the Kingdom of Bahrain. HMG Al Khobar is the first of HMG's hospital's to be accredited by GHA, with several more expected to start the accreditation process soon.
HMG Al Khobar has garnered a remarkable reputation within the distinguished medical group, as evidenced by its numerous international accreditations. The hospital has successfully earned HIMSS EMRAM Stage-7 Accreditation from the USA, World Health Organization (WHO) Patient Safety Friendly Hospital Assessment, American College of Radiology (ACR), College of American Pathologists (CAP), and Association for the Advancement of Blood & Biotherapies (AABB), in addition to the CBAHI. It is also recognized as the first fully integrated digital health project in the region.
GHA is recognized as a global leader in medical tourism and health tourism, having developed international standards accredited by ISQua/IEEA and professional norms for medical travel in consultation with leading global experts in the industries it represents, including health providers, insurers, and employers. The GHA accreditation seal helps build trust by demonstrating to patients and international payers that the organization has implemented procedures and policies designed to mitigate risks to medical travel patients and enhance the patient experience across each step of the patient journey.
Mr. Abdullah Abdulaziz Al Turki, the General Director of the HMG Al-Khobar said, "With thousands of success stories from our valued patients and their families, Dr. Sulaiman Al Habib Hospital, Al-Khobar has earned a reputation as a world-class healthcare provider. The hospital's unique services have attracted international patients, and its impact on the country and community is significant. Obtaining the GHA Accreditation is a proud moment for us, signaling our deep commitment to advancing patient experiences and outcomes for local and international patients."
GHA is dedicated to advancing healthcare quality and safety in the medical tourism industry. Through its accreditation, certification, training, development and optimization and advisory services,, GHA aims to promote transparency, patient-centered care, and continuous improvement. Additionally, the GHA accreditation process positions healthcare providers to attract and serve medical travel patients, thereby improving not only clinical outcomes and patient satisfaction but also positively impacting the organization's business performance.
Ms. Renée-Marie Stephano, GHA's Interim Chief Executive Officer, emphasized the transformative role of GHA accreditation, saying, "Accreditation by GHA serves as a badge of trust and quality in healthcare, assuring patients, governments, insurance companies, facilitators and other stakeholders that GHA-accredited hospitals, like HMG Al Khobar, are committed to the highest standards of patient care and successful medical outcomes. Moreover, by securing GHA Accreditation, HMG Al Khobar has underscored its dedication to a key objective of Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030, which is to facilitate access and improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare services. We congratulate HMG Al Khobar for achieving this esteemed recognition."
To promote awareness of the importance of GHA accreditation for safety and patient experience, Global Healthcare Accreditation has launched an extensive bilingual (English and Arabic) consumer and buyer marketing campaign. The objective is to educate the marketplace about the significant benefits of choosing hospitals that have achieved GHA accreditation for their medical tourism programs.
Mr. Abdullah Abdulaziz Al Turki went on to say, "Achieving GHA Accreditation for Medical Travel Services offers us the opportunity to join GHA's internationally recognized network of providers, as well as increased visibility through GHA's consumer awareness initiatives that reach a global audience. We are thrilled to be part of this mission, propelling our reach to patients globally and further affirming our status as a trusted healthcare provider."
Ms. Stephano noted, "GHA and our team of surveyors would like to extend our deepest appreciation and commendation to HMG Al Khobar's Corporate Quality Improvement and Patient Safety team for their unwavering dedication, unmatched commitment, and exceptional teamwork that resulted in their successful accreditation. Your hard work and tireless efforts have truly raised the bar in quality, and we are proud to be associated with such an outstanding team."
HMG Al Khobar's accomplishment is indeed a landmark moment for Saudi Arabia's healthcare sector, spotlighting the region's commitment to providing world-class patient care. Other healthcare institutions in the region and beyond can take inspiration from this achievement, understanding that GHA accreditation not only enhances their reputation but also sets them up for business growth and increased demand.
About HMG Al Khobar:
HMG Al Khobar is one of eleven hospitals under the Dr. Sulaiman Al Habib Medical Group. Boasting one of the premier healthcare networks in the Middle East, the organization is committed to advancing the frontiers of healthcare by continually investing in state-of-the-art medical technologies and fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation. This dedication to staying at the forefront of medical advancements enables them to provide patients with access to the latest diagnostic tools, advanced treatments, and groundbreaking medical breakthroughs.
About Global Healthcare Accreditation (GHA):
Global Healthcare Accreditation® (GHA) is the recognized global authority in accreditation and certification focused on medical and wellness travel, health tourism, safety, and well-being. Founded in 2016, GHA's initial business purpose centered on improving the patient experience for medical travelers and supporting healthcare providers in validating quality, increasing visibility, and implementing a sustainable business model for medical travel. Since then, GHA pioneers a variety of programs for organizations and individuals, covering the entire spectrum of the care continuum and offering certification and accreditation in all aspects of health and wellbeing.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — As the nation marked 1 million deaths from COVID-19 last week, the milestone was bookended by mass shootings that killed people simply living their lives: grocery shopping, going to church, or attending the fourth grade. The number, once unthinkable, is now an irreversible reality in the United States — just like the persistent reality of gun violence that kills tens of thousands of people every year.
Americans have always tolerated high rates of death and suffering — among certain segments of society. But the sheer numbers of deaths from preventable causes, and the apparent acceptance that no policy change is on the horizon, raises the question: Has mass death become accepted in America?
“I think the evidence is unmistakable and quite clear. We will tolerate an enormous amount of carnage, suffering and death in the U.S., because we have over the past two years. We have over our history,” says Gregg Gonsalves, an epidemiologist and professor at Yale who, before that, was a leading member of the AIDS advocacy group ACT UP. He made his comments in an interview last week, before the latest massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, where 21 people were killed on Tuesday, including 19 children.
“If I thought the AIDS epidemic was bad, the American response to COVID-19 has sort of … it’s a form of the American grotesque, right?” Gonsalves says. “Really — a million people are dead? And you’re going to talk to me about your need to get back to normal, when for the most part most of us have been living pretty reasonable lives for the past six months?”
Certain communities have always borne the brunt of higher death rates in the United States. There are profound racial and class inequalities in the United States, and our tolerance of death is partly based on who is at risk, said Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, a sociology professor at the University of Minnesota who studies mortality.
“Some people’s deaths matter a lot more than others,” she lamented in an interview last week. “And I think that’s what we’re seeing in this really brutal way with this coincidence of timing.”
In the shooting in Buffalo, New York, on May 14, the alleged shooter was a racist bent on killing as many Black people as he could, according to authorities. The family of 86-year-old Ruth Whitfield, one of 10 people killed there in an attack on a grocery store that served the African American community, channeled the grief and frustration of millions as they demanded action, including passage of a hate crime bill and accountability for those who spread hateful rhetoric.
“You expect us to keep doing this over and over and over again — over again, forgive and forget,” her son, former Buffalo Fire Commissioner Garnell Whitfield, Jr., told reporters. “While people we elect and trust in offices around this country do their best not to protect us, not to consider us equal.”
In the handful of days after the shooting in Buffalo, a man 1,700 miles away in Texas legally purchased one AR-style rifle, then another, along with 375 rounds of ammunition, according to state senators briefed by law enforcement. He then carried out the attack on Robb Elementary. Just 10 days had passed.
The sense that politicians have done little even as the violence repeats itself is shared by many Americans. It’s a dynamic that’s encapsulated by the “thoughts and prayers” offered to victims of gun violence by politicians unwilling to make meaningful commitments to ensure there really is no more “never again,” according to Martha Lincoln, an anthropology professor at San Francisco State University who studies the cultural politics of public health.
“I don’t think that most Americans feel good about it. I think most Americans would like to see real action from their leaders in the culture about these pervasive issues,” said Lincoln, who spoke before the attack on the school in Texas, and who adds that there is a similar “political vacuum” around COVID-19.
The high numbers of deaths from COVID-19, guns and other causes are difficult to fathom and can start to feel like background noise, disconnected from the individuals whose lives were lost and the families whose lives were forever altered.
American society has even come to accept the deaths of children from preventable causes.
In a recent guest column published in The Advocate newspaper, pediatrician Dr. Mark W. Kline pointed out that more than 1,500 children have died from COVID-19, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, despite the “myth” that it is harmless for children. Kline wrote that there was a time in pediatrics when “children were not supposed to die.”
“There was no acceptable pediatric body count,” he wrote. “At least, not before the first pandemic of the social media age, COVID-19, changed everything.”
There are many parallels between the U.S. response to COVID-19 and its response to the gun violence epidemic, according to Sonali Rajan, a professor at Columbia University who researches school violence.
“We have long normalized mass death in this country. Gun violence has persisted as a public health crisis for decades,” she said last week, noting that an estimated 100,000 people are shot every year and some 40,000 will die.
Gun violence is such a part of life in America now that we organize our lives around its inevitability. Children do lockdown drills at school. And in about half the states, Rajan said, teachers are allowed to carry firearms.
When she looks at the current response to COVID-19, she sees similar dynamics. Americans, she said, “deserve to be able to commute to work without getting sick, or work somewhere without getting sick, or send their kids to school without them getting sick.”
“What will happen down the line if more and more people get sick and are disabled?” she asked. “What happens? Do we just kind of live like this for the foreseeable future?”
It’s important, she said, to ask what policies are being put forth by elected officials who have the power to “attend to the health and the well-being of their constituents.”
“It’s remarkable how that responsibility has been sort of abdicated, is how I would describe it,” Rajan said.
The level of concern about deaths often depends on context, says Rajiv Sethi, an economics professor at Barnard College who has written about both gun violence and COVID-19. He points to a rare but dramatic event such as an airplane crash or an accident at a nuclear power plant, which do seem to matter to people.
By contrast, something like traffic deaths gets less attention. The government last week said that nearly 43,000 people had died on the nation’s roads last year, the highest level in 16 years. The federal government unveiled a national strategy earlier this year to combat the problem.
Even when talking about gun violence, mass shootings get a lot of attention but represent a small number of the gun deaths that happen in the United States every year, Sethi said in an interview last week. For example, there are more suicides from guns in America than there are homicides, an estimated 24,000 gun suicides compared with 19,000 homicides. But even though there are policy proposals that could help within the bounds of the Second Amendment, he says, the debate on guns is politically entrenched.
“The result is that nothing is done,” Sethi said. “The result is paralysis.”
Dr. Megan Ranney of Brown University’s School of Public Health calls it a frustrating “learned helplessness.”
“There’s been almost a sustained narrative created by some that tells people that these things are inevitable,” said Ranney, an ER doctor who did gun violence research before COVID-19 hit, speaking before Tuesday’s Texas school shooting ended 21 lives. “It divides us when people think that there’s nothing they can do.”
She wonders if people really understand the sheer numbers of people dying from guns, from COVID-19 and from opioids. The CDC said this month that more than 107,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2021, setting a record.
Ranney also points to false narratives spread by bad actors, such as denying that the deaths were preventable, or suggesting those who die deserved it. There is an emphasis in the United States on individual responsibility for one’s health, Ranney said — and a tension between the individual and the community.
“It’s not that we put less value on an individual life, but rather we’re coming up against the limits of that approach,” she said. “Because the truth is, is that any individual’s life, any individual’s death or disability, actually affects the larger community.”
Similar debates happened in the last century about child labor laws, worker protections and reproductive rights, Ranney said.
An understanding of history is important, said Wrigley-Field, who teaches the history of ACT UP in one of her classes. During the AIDS crisis in the 1980s, the White House press secretary made anti-gay jokes when asked about AIDS, and everyone in the room laughed. Activists were able to mobilize a mass movement that forced people to change the way they thought and forced politicians to change the way they operated, she said.
“I don’t think that those things are off the table now. It’s just that it’s not really clear if they’re going to emerge,” Wrigley-Field said. “I don’t think giving up is a permanent state of affairs. But I do think that’s where we’re at, right at this moment.” | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/school-shootings-covid-is-mass-death-now-tolerated-in-america/ | 2022-05-26 12:50:34 | 1 | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/school-shootings-covid-is-mass-death-now-tolerated-in-america/ |
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Ukrainian government is looking to block its athletes from sports competitions, particularly qualifying events for next year’s Paris Olympics, which readmit Russian athletes.
The International Olympic Committee recommended Tuesday that sports federations allow Russians and Belarusians to compete as neutral athletes without national symbols. Ukraine wanted to continue the full exclusion, which had been in place in most sports since shortly after last year’s Russian invasion.
Government minister Oleh Nemchinov said Thursday that a decision had been taken only to enter events with no Russians involved, according to public broadcaster Suspilne.
No ruling was immediately published and it was not clear exactly how it would be implemented. The IOC recommends allowing Russians to compete as individuals but not as national teams. However, several Olympic sports run individual and team events together at a single location, as in gymnastics or fencing. International sports federations are not obliged to implement the IOC’s recommendations and most have yet to commit to readmitting Russian and Belarusian athletes.
There was no clarification on how Ukraine’s approach might affect tennis, where individual Russians and Belarusians already play on the men’s and women’s tours, and have played against Ukrainians. They remain barred from national team tennis events like the Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup.
Ukraine boycotted an Olympic judo qualifier last year when the sport’s governing body allowed Russians, including several from the country’s military, to take part as neutral athletes. Ukrainian officials have previously not ruled out boycotting next year’s Paris Olympics rather than compete against Russians.
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House conservatives revolted against their leaders Tuesday by bringing floor action to a screeching halt — a stunning display of internal strife fueled by residual anger over the debt ceiling deal Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) struck with President Biden and passed last week.
The rebellion had the immediate effect of blocking a handful of messaging bills House GOP leaders were hoping to pass this week. But the longer-term ramifications might prove to be much more grave for McCarthy, who survived a tumultuous road to the Speakership, then orchestrated a delicate deal with Biden to prevent a default, only to have the agreement backfire politically — in a highly public fashion — when payback-seeking conservatives mutinied on Tuesday.
The stunning episode — which came as McCarthy was basking in the glow of the debt ceiling victory — has immediately renewed questions about whether he and his leadership team can regain control of the floor and manage their restive conference with a razor-thin majority going forward.
It also demonstrated that McCarthy’s conservative detractors will seek novel ways to exert their influence over the Speaker, even without detonating the motion-to-vacate option, which would trigger a vote to remove his gavel.
“We’re frustrated at the way this place is operating,” Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) — one of the conservatives who voted against the rule — told reporters as the vote was happening.
It’s incredibly rare for members of the majority party to force down a rule, a procedural vote that governs debate of legislation on the floor. Members almost always vote along party lines for the rule even if they later break rank to vote for or against the underlying legislation, making it a test of party unity.
A rule vote last failed on the floor in 2002.
But Tuesday was the second time in a week that House conservatives voted against the GOP rule. Democrats crossed the aisle last week to help McCarthy pass the rule governing the debt ceiling package after 29 Republicans voted against it. That vote was an anomaly, fueled by Biden’s endorsement of the package and the underlying urgency of preventing a default.
In contrast to last week, when leadership had advance notice of the rebellion and time to secure Democratic cooperation, Tuesday’s revolt came as a surprise and sparked a dramatic scramble on the House floor.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) and House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) huddled with more than a dozen conservatives in the back of the chamber in a tense effort to flip votes and ease the conservatives’ concerns. Conversations developed from tense one-on-one conversations to group discussions.
Rep. Dan Bishop (R-N.C.) at one point appeared visibly angry, speaking with animated hand gestures. House Freedom Caucus Chair Scott Perry (R-Pa.) was also present, though he voted for the rule.
The rule ultimately failed, 220-206, after the five-minute vote was held open for more than 50 minutes, with Scalise joining 11 other Republicans to oppose the bill — a strictly tactical move that allows him to bring it up later.
The underlying legislation stalled by the defeated rule included two measures to prohibit federal bans of gas stoves and two others designed to curb federal regulations on the industry.
Bishop said leadership flouted an agreement struck in January during the Speaker’s race to revert total discretionary spending to fiscal 2022 levels. It is not clear whether such an agreement existed, though conservatives at the time called for a budget resolution within that framework.
GOP leaders also defend the debt bill as increasing defense spending and reverting other spending to around fiscal 2022 levels.
Conservatives were also frustrated by more Democrats voting for the debt limit bill than Republicans.
“We took a stand in January to end the era of the imperial Speakership, and we’re concerned that the fundamental commitments that allowed Kevin McCarthy to assume the Speakership have been violated as a consequence of the debt limit deal,” Gaetz said.
“The answer for us is to reassert House conservatives as the appropriate coalition partner for our leadership instead of them making common cause with Democrats.”
The conservatives have leverage.
With Democrats certain to oppose future rules on all partisan measures, just a handful of conservatives have the power to block the entirety of the Republican agenda into the indefinite future. Some suggested they’re ready to do just that.
“What we plan to do is to be ready at all points in time, acting in good faith, to reforge the unity that was destroyed last week. And so what happens depends on what — leadership is inclined to reciprocate and proceed,” Bishop told reporters.
“Every single thing about this is about how are we going to proceed to move the priorities for the American people,” Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) said. “But it’s gonna take a lot to restore our faith that we can do that in light of what happened with the debt limit.”
The driving force behind the clash involved Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.), who has been embroiled in a back-and-forth with Scalise over the Georgia Republican’s legislation to prevent a federal ban on pistol stabilizing braces.
Clyde last week accused leadership of threatening to block his bill from receiving a floor vote if he opposed the rule on the debt ceiling bill. Scalise said Tuesday morning he informed Clyde it was Republican opposition — not his vote on last week’s rule — that was preventing a vote, but GOP leadership was “working hard” to get the legislation passed.
Following that response, Clyde doubled down on his accusation.
“Let me be unequivocally clear, I was threatened that if I voted against the closed rule to the debt ceiling agreement, it would be very difficult to bring my pistol stabilizing brace bill to the House floor vote a vote,” he said.
Clyde had been expecting to get a vote on his bill next week. After meeting with Scalise following the failed rule vote, he said a vote is scheduled on the legislation next Tuesday.
Clyde voted in favor of the rule on Tuesday, but other conservatives leaned on his clash with leadership to justify their dramatic protest. During Tuesday’s vote, Gaetz said he was “very aggrieved at the punishment that was delivered to” Clyde.
“We’re not gonna live in a system where our members are subject to this type of petty punishment,” Gaetz said.
But Bishop said the alleged threat against Clyde “is a symptom of the larger issue” that fueled the votes against the rule.
It is unclear what the conservatives are demanding.
Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) said he wants McCarthy to announce that he went back on his word but will abide by it going forward.
The compromise bill infuriated the ideological fringes of both pirates — a dynamic McCarthy has readily acknowledged. But the Speaker has also characterized that opposition as evidence of a successful deal in divided Washington, suggesting it would be a template for the must-pass bipartisan bills to come, including legislation to fund the government and prevent a government shutdown.
“I think it only proves that the bill was right,” McCarthy told reporters in the Capitol on Monday night.
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Name a cockroach after your ex-partner for Valentine’s Day
(Gray News) - Sometimes love is not in the air on Valentine’s Day, but some unique options are still available to celebrate the holiday.
According to the San Antonio Zoo, it is again offering its Cry Me a Cockroach Fundraiser back by popular demand.
Officials at the zoo said it is offering those interested a chance to name a cockroach, rodent, or veggie after their ex and watch it be fed to an animal.
For a donation of $5 to $25, those interested can name a cockroach after an ex-partner and receive a digital Valentine’s Day card along with sending the card to the ex letting them know that a roach has been named after them.
According to the zoo, the funds raised will support its vision of securing a future for wildlife in Texas and worldwide.
The Bronx Zoo said it is also offering a gift to the ex-partner with its Name a Roach for your Valentine event.
“You don’t always have the right words, but you can still give them goosebumps,” officials with the zoo shared.
The event offers options that range from $15 to $75 in which your ex can receive a tote bag or tumbler with a cockroach image to an original name-a-roach gift, complete with a digital certificate.
Additionally, the Toronto Zoo Wildlife Conservancy launched a Name-a-Roach Valentine’s Day special.
Zoo officials in Toronto said due to the overwhelming demand they have already reached capacity for requests while raising more than $15,000 in January.
These unique Valentine’s Day programs are scheduled to be open until Feb. 14.
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Multiple Michigan agencies are investigating what happened to three local rappers who went missing 10 days ago after a performance at a club was canceled, Detroit police said Monday.
Armani Kelly, 28, Dante Wicker, 31 and Montoya Givens, 31, who are all associates, were supposed to perform at a club in Detroit on January 21, according to Michael McGinnis, commander of major crimes.
"It's our understanding that the performance got canceled, and from there -- we just have a whole lot of unanswered questions that we are trying to find out," McGinnis said. All of their phones "stopped having activity" by the early morning hours of January 22, McGinnis added.
"The mother of one of the victims, the next day, made a report of the missing person. That mother became very proactive in the investigation and started searching for her vehicle through OnStar," McGinnis said.
The mom found the car in Warren, Michigan, McGinnis said, where authorities recovered the car on January 23. By January 27, information about Kelly's disappearance was spreading throughout the media, McGinnis said.
"Once that happens, other family members of the other missings come to realize that that's a friend of their loved ones and they haven't seen them either, so then they both get reported missing," McGinnis said.
"We want to find them and get them home to their loved ones," he said. "Really think about the victims' families in this case, they have no answers. They don't know where their loved one is.
"We need help," McGinnis said. "If somebody knows something, we're asking please call and share that information with us."
Kelly's mother, Lorrie Kemp, told CNN affiliate WXYZ she has posted flyers all around Lansing, where Kelly grew up, in an attempt to find her son.
"I don't want to be on 'Dateline' in 20 years to find his body," she said.
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SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. — Rain and storms moving through metro Atlanta have prompted Sandy Springs to reschedule its Fourth of July fireworks show.
The fireworks show will be rescheduled to take place during one of the City Green Live performances this year.
"More information will be shared once a date has been confirmed," a tweet from Sandy Springs read.
The decision comes after a Flash Flood Warning has been issued for DeKalb and Fulton counties until Tuesday at 4 a.m.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of SolarEdge Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: SEDG) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
This lawsuit is on behalf of a class consisting of persons who purchased or otherwise acquired common shares of SolarEdge stock between August 6, 2022 to October 19, 2022, both dates inclusive.
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: January 3, 2023
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that SolarEdge Technologies, Inc. made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) the designs of the power optimizers, inverters, and components thereof used to develop SolarEdge's products potentially originated with and were misappropriated from Ampt LLC ("Ampt"), a competitor in the renewable energy industry; (ii) Ampt made claims against the Company for misappropriating Ampt's patented technology, (iii) evidentiary support existed for the allegations that SolarEdge misappropriated certain patents relating to the design and development of the Company's power optimizers and inverters; (iv) as a result, SolarEdge faced a threat of regulatory and/or court action, which could prohibit the import, marketing, and sale of its power optimizers and inverters, including solar energy systems that contain such products; which in turn (v) seriously threatened SolarEdge's ability to monetize on their solar energy systems that contain the power optimizers and inverters in the United States and generate revenue; and (vi) certain revenues generated from the sale of power optimizers and inverters were potentially based on SolarEdge's unlawful activities, including the misappropriation of patented designs by Ampt.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in SolarEdge you have until January 3, 2023 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
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Lina Abu Akleh is in Washington to receive the President's Award from the National Press Club in honor of her aunt, Shireen, a veteran correspondent from Al Jazeera who was killed while covering an Israeli military action in the West Bank in May. In addition to being a well-known, and highly regarded journalist, Shireen was also an American citizen. Her protective vest was clearly marked PRESS at the time she was killed. There have been no charges filed or notices of discipline or suspension for this killing. Several investigations have concluded that the shot that killed Shireen was fired from a position that was controlled by the IDF. The family, Al Jazeera, dozens of members of Congress, the Secretary of State, the National Press Club and other press freedom organizations believe there should be an independent investigation led by the United States Department of Justice into the killing of this American citizen and highly respected journalist.
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece has told the head of the United Nations that Turkey is directly challenging its sovereignty over islands in the eastern Aegean Sea, and pursuing a hostile and “revisionist” policy that is destabilizing the region.
The four-page letter to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, dated May 25 and signed by Greece’s permanent U.N. representative, Maria Theofili, was seen by The Associated Press on Thursday.
“Greece solemnly calls upon Turkey to stop questioning Greece’s sovereignty over its Aegean islands, in particular through legally baseless and historically false assertions (and) to abstain from threatening Greece with war,” the letter reads.
Greece and Turkey have been at odds for decades over sea boundaries, but the disagreement flared in 2020 as oil and gas exploration in the eastern Mediterranean intensified.
Turkey is demanding that Greece demilitarize its eastern islands, maintaining the action is required under 20th century treaties that ceded sovereignty of the islands to Greece. The Greek government calls the demand a deliberate misinterpretation and has accused Turkey, a fellow NATO member, of stepping up hostile actions in the area.
“Highly threatening acts by Turkey (include) repeated overflights of Greek territory by fighter jets in contravention to international law,” the letter said.
The Greek-Turkish dispute largely centers around oil-and-gas drilling rights in the eastern Mediterranean, specifically around Greek islands near Turkey’s coastline.
A Turkish survey mission two years ago triggered a tense naval stand-off that Western allies had warned ran the risk of escalating into a military conflict.
In response to the energy crisis worsened by the war in Ukraine, Greece has pledged to temporarily reverse a coal phase-out and step up hydrocarbon exploration along its western coastline. ___
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Some Republican senators are feeling uneasy about the reports that Justice Clarence Thomas accepted tens of thousands of dollars worth of hospitality, luxury travel and other favors from a conservative donor — and that unease could fuel bipartisan support for a Supreme Court ethics reform bill.
Their growing concern comes amid declining public approval of the Supreme Court and evidence that Americans increasingly believe the courts and law enforcement agencies have become politicized.
“I think we are moving dangerously close to a place where the public has lost faith and trust in the credibility of our governing institutions. They don’t trust the court, I don’t think what’s going on with Justice Thomas is helping anything,” Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) said.
Murkowski said she spoke on Tuesday with Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) about a proposal he is circulating among colleagues to require the Supreme Court to adopt a judicial code of conduct. She said she supported the approach outlined in the proposal: to require justices — not members of Congress — to set ethics rules for the Supreme Court.
“I see no reason not to be able to support this other than are Republicans worried that we don’t want to embarrass the conservative members of the court. We need to be worried about the credibility of the court right now. If I were Chief Justice Roberts, I would have been working on this the minute this news broke,” she said.
Reporting by ProPublica that Thomas failed to disclose luxury trips he accepted regularly from Texas billionaire Harlan Crow, as well as the sale of a property in which he owned a one-third interest to one of Crow’s company has prompted a public outcry.
Democrats on Capitol Hill are calling on Chief Justice John Roberts to investigate the matter and the Senate Judiciary Committee is planning to hold a hearing about the high court’s ethical standards.
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), declined to comment on directly the allegations that Thomas vacationed on Crow’s superyacht or regularly flew on his Bombardier Global 5000 jet, without disclosing it, but she said she supports the Judiciary Committee looking into the court’s ethics.
“I think it’s an issue the Judiciary Committee should take a look at,” she said. “I think the Judiciary Committee should have a hearing and hear from the Judicial Conference.”
The Judicial Conference is the policymaking body for federal courts.
She said senators should “hear from legal experts” and “then make some sort of decision.”
Collins said when she learned of that Thomas had accepted hospitality and travel from a wealthy friend, “my reaction was that I wondered what the judicial practices were in this area.”
“I know that personal hospitality is exempt and that he has known the Crow family for a long time, they’re personal friends, but that doesn’t usually extend to the use of airplanes to pick up someone to bring someone to a site,” she said.
The 1978 Ethics in Government Act requires high-level government officials, including Supreme Court justices, to file publicly available financial disclosure statements.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, noted on the floor Tuesday that while the disclosure rules exempt food, lodging or entertainment received as personal hospitality, they do not exempt transportation and travel.
He said “each one of those trips” Thomas took on Crow’s plane “seems to be a slam-dunk violation of this provision.”
He also pointed out that the law required Thomas to disclose “any purchase, sale or exchange in real property other than the property used solely as a personal residence of the reporting individual.”
Members of the Supreme Court do not have to abide by the Judicial Conference’s code of conduct for U.S. judges, which binds every other member of the federal judiciary.
When Democrats on the Judiciary Committee asked Roberts to adopt that code of conduct for himself and fellow justices, Roberts responded that the high court “had no reason to adopt the Code of Conduct as its definitive source of ethical guidance.”
Even Republicans who don’t think Congress should police the Supreme Court’s ethics tacitly acknowledge that Thomas’s close relationship with the Dallas businessman, which comes with many fancy perks, may appear problematic to regular Americans.
“My first reaction was the court being a separate branch of government should have the first opportunity to police it or to monitor or to respond to it,” Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) said.
He noted that Thomas plans to amend his financial disclosure documents to reflect the real estate transaction he made with Crow.
“I think sometimes we get to the point where we see something bad happening and we say, ‘Well, we have to do something,’ but we don’t know what it is and we end up doing something in a knee-jerk fashion,” he said, adding Thomas’s acceptance of hospitality and travel “is being identified” in a negative light.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he thinks the court will move on its own to adopt new ethical guidelines and that Congress shouldn’t intervene.
“A lot of us are really leery of micromanaging the other branch but I think that’s where the court is headed, at least that’s where I hope they are,” he said.
“I think the court is on the track of making sure the perception problem is dealt with,” he added. “Clarence Thomas is a friend. I like him and I take his word for what happened. The reason we have these [ethics] rules on our side [of government] is to make sure people feel confident and I think that’s where the court is headed.”
Other Republicans are taking a harder line in defending Thomas.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said “most of” the criticism of Thomas is “partisan.”
“When I look at Clarence Thomas’s long career, I see a courageous intellectual,” he said. “He’s been an amazingly independent sort of libertarian-leaning intellectual.”
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), a member of the Judiciary panel, said, “I think the topic of judicial ethics is certainly an appropriate topic for the Judiciary Committee” but said “I don’t think that’s actually what Senate Democrats are interested in.”
“Senate Democrats are driving a smear campaign directed very particularly at Justice Clarence Thomas because they despise Justice Thomas. They disagree with his jurisprudence,” he said.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) didn’t outright defend Thomas, but on Tuesday defended the Supreme Court’s independence and said he had “total confidence” in Roberts to handle any ethical issues facing the court.
The Supreme Court controversy comes at the same time two federal district court judges — one appointed by former President Trump and one appointed by former President Obama — issued dueling rulings on the abortion pill Mifepristone.
And the Senate’s confirmation process for Supreme Court nominees has become more and more partisan over the past two decades.
Murkowski argues that it’s important to restore Americans’ faith in their institutions, including the federal judiciary.
“I think there have been some recent rulings that have rattled people and their confidence in the impartiality of our process that [judicial nominees] go through for confirmation,” she said.
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REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Microsoft is fusing ChatGPT-like technology into its search engine Bing, transforming an internet service that now trails far behind Google into a new way of communicating with artificial intelligence.
The revamping of Microsoft’s second-place search engine could give the software giant a head start against other tech companies in capitalizing on the worldwide excitement surrounding ChatGPT, a tool that’s awakened millions of people to the possibilities of the latest AI technology.
Along with adding it to Bing, Microsoft is also integrating the chatbot technology into its Edge browser. Microsoft announced the new technology at an event Tuesday at its headquarters in Redmond, Washington.
“Think of it as faster, more accurate, more powerful” than ChatGPT, built with technology from ChatGPT-maker OpenAI but tuned for search queries, said Yusuf Mehdi, a Microsoft executive who leads its consumer division, in an interview.
A public preview of the new Bing launched Tuesday for desktop users who sign up for it, but Mehdi said the technology will scale to millions of users in coming weeks and will eventually come to the smartphone apps for Bing and Edge. For now, everyone can try a limited number of queries, he said.
The strengthening partnership with OpenAI has been years in the making, starting with a $1 billion investment from Microsoft in 2019 that led to the development of a powerful supercomputer specifically built to train the San Francisco startup’s AI models.
While it’s not always factual or logical, ChatGPT’s mastery of language and grammar comes from having ingested a huge trove of digitized books, Wikipedia entries, instruction manuals, newspapers and other online writings.
Microsoft Corp. CEO Satya Nadella said Tuesday that new AI advances are “going to reshape every software category we know,” including search, much like earlier innovations in personal computers and cloud computing. He said it is important to develop AI “with human preferences and societal norms and you’re not going to do that in a lab. You have to do that out in the world.”
The shift to making search engines more conversational — able to confidently answer questions rather than offering links to other websites — could change the advertising-fueled search business, but also poses risks if the AI systems don’t get their facts right. Their opaqueness also makes it hard to source back to the original human-made images and texts they’ve effectively memorized, though the new Bing includes annotations that reference the source data.
“Bing is powered by AI, so surprises and mistakes are possible,” is a message that appears at the bottom of the preview version of Bing’s new homepage. “Make sure to check the facts.”
As an example of how it works, Mehdi asked the new Bing to compare the most influential Mexican painters and it provided typical search results, but also, on the right side of the page, compiled a fact box summarizing details about Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and Jose Clemente Orozco. In another example, he quizzed it on 1990s-era rap, showing its ability to distinguish between the song “Jump” by Kris Kross and “Jump Around” by House of Pain. And he used it to show how it could plan a vacation or help with shopping.
Gartner analyst Jason Wong said new technological advancements will mitigate what led to Microsoft’s disastrous 2016 launch of the experimental chatbot Tay, which users trained to spout racist and sexist remarks. But Wong said “reputational risks will still be at the forefront” for Microsoft if Bing produces answers with low accuracy or so-called AI “hallucinations” that mix and conflate data.
Google has been cautious about such moves. But in response to pressure over ChatGPT’s popularity, Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Monday announced a new conversational service named Bard that will be available exclusively to a group of “trusted testers” before being widely released later this year.
Wong said Google was caught off-guard with the success of ChatGPT but still has the advantage over Microsoft in consumer-facing technology, while Microsoft has the edge in selling its products to businesses.
Chinese tech giant Baidu also this week announced a similar search chatbot coming later this year, according to Chinese media. Other tech rivals such as Facebook parent Meta and Amazon have been researching similar technology, but Microsoft’s latest moves aim to position it at the center of the ChatGPT zeitgeist.
Microsoft disclosed in January that it was pouring billions more dollars into OpenAI as it looks to fuse the technology behind ChatGPT, the image-generator DALL-E and other OpenAI innovations into an array of Microsoft products tied to its cloud computing platform and its Office suite of workplace products like email and spreadsheets.
The most surprising might be the integration with Bing, which is the second-place search engine in many markets but has never come close to challenging Google’s dominant position.
Bing launched in 2009 as a rebranding of Microsoft’s earlier search engines and was run for a time by Nadella, years before he took over as CEO. Its significance was boosted when Yahoo and Microsoft signed a deal for Bing to power Yahoo’s search engine, giving Microsoft access to Yahoo’s greater search share. Similar deals infused Bing into the search features for devices made by other companies, though users wouldn’t necessarily know that Microsoft was powering their searches.
By making it a destination for ChatGPT-like conversations, Microsoft could invite more users to give Bing a try, though the new version so far is limited to desktops and doesn’t yet have an interface for smartphones — where most people now access the internet.
On the surface, at least, a Bing integration seems far different from what OpenAI has in mind for its technology. Appearing at Microsoft’s event, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the “the new Bing experience looks fantastic” and is based in part on learnings from its GPT line of large language models. He said a key reason for his startup’s Microsoft partnership is to help get OpenAI technology “into the hands of millions of people.”
OpenAI has long voiced an ambitious vision for safely guiding what’s known as AGI, or artificial general intelligence, a not-yet-realized concept that harkens back to ideas from science fiction about human-like machines. OpenAI’s website describes AGI as “highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work.”
OpenAI started out as a nonprofit research laboratory when it launched in December 2015 with backing from Tesla CEO Elon Musk and others. Its stated aims were to “advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return.”
That changed in 2018 when it incorporated a for-profit business Open AI LP, and shifted nearly all its staff into the business, not long after releasing its first generation of the GPT model for generating human-like paragraphs of readable text.
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BOSTON, June 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Circle Internet Financial, a global fintech firm and issuer of USDC, today announced Craig Broderick joins its Board of Directors. Mr. Broderick brings over three decades of experience as a former risk management executive at Goldman Sachs and serves as a prominent advisor for leading financial institutions.
"Strong risk management is essential to Circle's efforts to make USDC the safest, most trusted and transparent digital dollar on the internet," said Jeremy Allaire, CEO and Co-Founder of Circle. "Craig's deep knowledge and experience as the long-time risk management leader for one of the world's largest and most successful financial institutions will be an important asset as we continue advancing our regulatory-first business approach."
Mr. Broderick is the former Chief Risk Officer of Goldman Sachs, where he served on the Management Committee and was Co-Chair of the Firmwide Risk Committee and other control-related committees. In a 32-year career with Goldman Sachs, Broderick oversaw the firm's credit, market, liquidity, operational, model, counterparty and insurance risks.
Broderick shares his risk management expertise as Chair of the Board Risk Committee for the Bank of Montreal and McDermott International. He also serves as Senior Advisor to financial and risk organizations and is on the Board of organizations that align with Circle's mission, including StreetSquash, a New York-based urban youth enrichment program, and Finance Requires Effective Education (FREE), which provides financial education to underserved communities.
"The digital currency landscape is evolving rapidly and will clearly play an important role in the global financial landscape in the coming years," said Mr. Broderick. "Circle is exceptionally well-positioned to lead developments in this field, and I'm excited to help the firm realize its potential."
Broderick holds a B.A. in economics from the College of William and Mary and is active with his alma mater, serving for nine years as a Trustee of the William and Mary Foundation, and served as Chair of its Investment Committee.
About Circle
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2022 primary season concludes with fiery Republican face-offs in battleground New Hampshire
Trump remains neutral in combustible GOP Senate and House primaries in swing state New Hampshire
HAMPTON BEACH, N.H. – Six months after Texas held the first primaries of 2022, it is the season finale, as New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Delaware hold nominating contests on Tuesday.
New Hampshire, a small but crucial general election battleground state, is host to the final high-profile and competitive Republican Senate and House of Representatives primaries, which throughout the past six months have often pitted conservative candidates supported by mainstream Republicans against far-right contenders often aligned with former President Trump and his legions of MAGA loyalists.
The final contests come with just eight weeks to go until November’s midterm elections, when the GOP aims to win back majorities in the House and Senate. While the former president remained uncharacteristically neutral in New Hampshire’s top three Republican primary showdowns, there has been a deluge of outside spending in the final weeks by Republican and Democratic outside groups who view the Trump aligned candidates as unelectable in November.
"I’ve been concentrating on Granite Staters for the past two years. They’re the ones that matter. Not people in Washington D.C.," retired Army Gen. Don Bolduc told Fox News on the eve of the Sept. 13 primary after speaking with supporters at a bagel and coffee shop in the seaside village of Hampton Beach.
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The primary winner will face off in November with former governor and first-term Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan in a race that is among a handful across the country that may determine if the GOP wins back the Senate majority. Republicans have heavily targeted Hassan, who they view as very vulnerable due to her lackluster poll numbers.
Bolduc, who served 10 tours of duty in the war in Afghanistan, is running as a populist and outsider as he makes his second straight run for the GOP Senate nomination in New Hampshire. His 2020 bid was unsuccessful, in part because Trump endorsed Bolduc's rival. After keeping Trump at arm's length in his first Senate campaign, Bolduc has strongly embraced the former president's unproven claims that the 2020 election was "rigged." Bolduc was part of a group of retired generals who signed a letter questioning the legitimacy of the election due to what they charged was "a tremendous amount of fraud."
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The final public opinion polls in New Hampshire indicated Bolduc with a double-digit lead over the rest of the large field of Republican Senate candidates. While Bolduc has given New Hampshire conservatives plenty of red meat, there are concerns from some Republicans in the state and nationally that a primary victory by the retired general, who has severely struggled with fundraising, will allow Hassan to win re-election.
Two weeks ago a newly formed super PAC named the White Mountain PAC, which has loose links to longtime Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell's political orbit, dished out roughly $4 million to run TV commercials in New Hampshire blasting Bolduc for his "crazy ideas."
Another spot by the group boosted New Hampshire Senate President Chuck Morse, who polls indicated was in second place behind Bolduc.
"I have taken the arrows from my fellow Republican candidates, and I’m standing strong," Bolduc told supporters at a town hall on Saturday in Laconia, where he was born and raised. "When God made Bolducs, he made oak trees, not willow trees. We don’t bend with the wind. We stand firm."
"The reason they're afraid of me is they can't control me….I scare them," Bolduc said when asked by Fox News about the big bucks outside GOP groups were spending to target him.
Bolduc’s also tangled verbally with GOP Gov. Chris Sununu, who remains very popular with Granite State Republicans.
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Bolduc claimed last year that Sununu was a "communist Chinese sympathizer" and that the Sununu family’s business "supports terrorism." While Bolduc has walked back those attacks on the popular governor, he continues to criticize Sununu’s policies during the coronavirus pandemic as "executive overreach."
A few weeks ago Sununu said on a popular statewide talk-radio program that Bolduc’s "not a serious candidate, he’s really not, and if he were the GOP nominee, I have no doubt we would have a much harder time…He’s kind of a conspiracy theorist-type candidate."
McConnell and other Senate GOP leaders spent a year trying to recruit Sununu to take on Hassan, but the governor announced last November that he would instead run for re-election. On Thursday, he endorsed New Hampshire Senate President Chuck Morse, who polls indicated was in second place behind Bolduc.
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"Chuck Morse has been there every step of the way in our record of success here in New Hampshire," Sununu said of the small business owner who’s served as president of the state senate for most of the past decade. "I couldn’t be more proud to endorse a partner that I’ve had at the Statehouse."
Morse, in a Fox News interview on Monday, touted that "I worked with the governor to make sure that we made New Hampshire the envy of the northeast, and it’s working. And his coming out to endorse me is going to work."
Morse has been targeted on TV by a massive seven-figure ad buy from the Senate Majority PAC, the top super PAC supporting Senate Democrats which is aligned with Senate Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer.
When asked if he is the only Republican who can topple Hassan in November, Morse said "I think that’s been made pretty clear. Chuck Schumer’s already spent $6 million against me because I can beat Sen. Hassan and we’re going to prove that."
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Bolduc and Morse are the front-runners in a GOP Senate primary field that also includes cryptocurrency entrepreneur Bruce Fenton; businessman, economist and author Vikram Mansharamani; and former Londonderry, New Hampshire, town manager Kevin Smith, a former state representative who also served as board chair of the Pease Development Authority.
Fiery congressional showdowns
Trump’s also remained neutral in the GOP primaries in New Hampshire’s two congressional districts, where Republicans are targeting Democratic Reps. Chris Pappas and Annie Kuster.
In the state’s First Congressional District, which has long been a highly contested swing House district, Matt Mowers touted that he’s "the only one" in a crowded field of Republican candidates who defeat Pappas in November.
Mowers, a former New Hampshire GOP executive director who worked on former President Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and served in the State Department during the Trump administration, easily captured the 2020 congressional nomination in the district before losing to Pappas by five points in the general election.
"This has always been about who is the tested America First fighter for New Hampshire, and I’ve always been the one who’s stepping up to say that I will," Mowers showcased. "I’m the only one who worked with President Trump to stop the influx of illegal drugs. I worked with President Trump to establish the Keystone XL Pipeline and worked get it approved. I worked with him to take on entrenched bureaucracy."
However, the 33-year-old Mowers faces a fierce rival for the GOP nomination in 25-year-old Karoline Leavitt, who has increasingly targeted Mowers in a Republican primary that has turned increasingly combustible.
The most recent public opinion poll indicated Leavitt - a New Hampshire native who worked in Trump’s White House press shop and later for GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, who is now the number three ranking House Republican – just two points behind Mowers in the race for their party’s nomination.
"I’m proud to be the home-grown America First candidate in this race," Leavitt, who would become the youngest woman ever elected to Congress if she wins the primary and again in November, told reporters on Thursday, as she campaigned in Londonderry, New Hampshire with a very high-profile surrogate – conservative firebrand Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas.
The battle between Leavitt and Mowers has been one to the right, with both showcasing their Trump administration experience. However, Mowers does not go as far as Leavitt when it comes to Trump’s 2020 election loss to President Biden. Leavitt fully backs Trump’s unsubstantiated charges the election was "stolen," while Mowers is more pragmatic, saying that he continues to have concerns about voting "irregularities around the country."
Leavitt has attacked Mowers as "a career politician," and argued to Fox News that "Matt Mowers can’t answer a question to save his life because he is bought and paid for by the party bosses down in Washington D.C."
Mowers — who in June was endorsed by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Minority Whip Steve Scalise, who are the top two Republicans in the chamber — is being backed by a seven-figure ad buy from the Congressional Leadership Fund, a powerful super PAC aligned with the House GOP leaders. Additionally, another outside Republican group, the more moderate Defending Main Street Super PAC, has spent more than $1 million to blast Leavitt on the airwaves.
When asked about the big bucks flooding into the district, Mowers said "it tells me that folks know we’re the one who’s going to win this race and defeat Chris Pappas…this is the seat that is going to determine whether Nancy Pelosi is Speaker of the House again."
However, Leavitt emphasized that "the people are with me" and charged that "the establishment in Washington is viciously smearing me with $5 million in negative attack ads."
The attacks and counterattacks involving Leavitt and Mowers and their allies may open the door to Gail Huff Brown, a former longtime TV news reporter and wife of former Republican Sen. Scott Brown, who served as U.S. ambassador to New Zealand during the Trump administration. The most recent poll – from the University of New Hampshire Survey Center — indicated Huff Brown in third place but gaining ground. The survey also indicated two other candidates in the GOP primary - former state senator and executive councilor Russell Prescott and state Rep. Tim Baxter – in single digits.
"I think the voters are tired of the negative, and they’re tired of the negative advertising they see on TV. They’re tired of the money – millions of dollars pouring into New Hampshire," Huff Brown told Fox News on Monday in Derry, New Hampshire. "People are tired of all of that. And my hope is that people see right down the middle there is me"
In the state’s Second Congressional district GOP primary race, former Hillsborough County treasurer Bob Burns showcases his "pro-Trump" credentials.
Burns, who ran unsuccessfully for the Republican congressional nomination in 2018, is facing off against Keene Mayor George Hansel, who was endorsed by Sununu as he jumped into the race earlier this year. The winner will tangle with Kuster, a ferocious fundraiser who’s running for sixth two-year term in the House.
Pro-Democratic groups meddled in the primary, boosting the conservative credentials of Burns, whom they view as the less electable contender in November.
However, American Liberty Action PAC, which formed over the summer and has yet to disclose its donors, is running ads boosting Hansel.
Former Libertarian Lily Tang Williams is also running for the GOP nomination in the Second District.
Sununu faces a handful of long shot challengers in the GOP gubernatorial primary, as he seeks a fourth two-year term steering New Hampshire. State Sen. Dr. Tom Sherman is unopposed for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination.
Rhode Island
Democratic Gov. Dan McKee is facing four primary challengers as he bids for a full four-year term. McKee, who was first elected lieutenant governor in 2014, took over as governor after then-Gov Gina Raimondo stepped down after being confirmed in 2021 as Commerce secretary in the Biden administration. McKee's challengers include Secretary of State Nellie Gorbea, former Secretary of State Matt Brown, and former CVS executive Helena Foulkes. The Democratic nominee will face off in November against either Republicans Ashley Klaus or Jonathan Riccitelli.
Half a dozen Democrats are running in their party’s primary in the race to succeed retiring 11-term Democratic Rep. Jim Langevin, in blue state Rhode Island. Republican Allan Fung, the former mayor of Cranston, is unopposed in the GOP primary. Republicans are encouraged that they can flip the blue-held seat red in November.
Delaware
President Biden’s home state does not have any elections this year for governor or U.S. Senate, but the statewide auditor’s race is grabbing attention.
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Democratic incumbent Kathy McGuiness – who was convicted this summer of official misconduct and conflict of interest – is being challenged by lawyer and accountant Lydia York.
Delaware Gov. John Carney is expected to remove McGuiness from office once she’s sentenced – which is expected in the coming weeks. But there’s the possibility McGuiness wins Tuesday’s primary and then November’s general election and retakes her office in January.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Tuesday night’s Cibola freshman football game was a special one for Derek Barreras. Derek, who has down syndrome, is a big football fan and always wanted to score a touchdown.
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Barreras finally got his opportunity on Tuesday night when he took the opening handoff of the game for a 45 yard touchdown. It is a moment that he will always remember.
“It was amazing. For it to be my first time here, I was pretty nervous. Now I’m here and got a touchdown. Simple.”
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LONDON (AP) — The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s children start the academic year at a new school on Thursday after the family traded the bustle of central London for the slower pace of life outside the capital.
In preparation for the first day of classes, the palace released photos of Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis visiting Lambrook School, near Windsor, during a welcome event for new pupils that took place before the start of the term.
Prince William and his wife, Kate, selected the outdoorsy prep school with its 52 acres (21 hectares) of grounds after they decided to move to Windsor, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) from their old home at Kensington Palace in central London.
School fees will cost William and Kate in excess of 50,000 pounds ($57,400) a year.
The family is now based at Adelaide Cottage, a historic home near Windsor Castle, where Queen Elizabeth II has spent most of her time since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The queen gave William and Kate permission to lease the four-bedroom house that was built for Queen Adelaide in 1831. | https://www.wfla.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-royal-children-start-new-academic-year-at-school-in-windsor/ | 2022-09-08 00:20:33 | 0 | https://www.wfla.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-royal-children-start-new-academic-year-at-school-in-windsor/ |
Scientists say New England is having more frequent droughts than before. They threaten farmers, deplete water supplies, and increase the risk of wildfires. This summer's been a tough one.
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Scientists say New England is having more frequent droughts than before. They threaten farmers, deplete water supplies, and increase the risk of wildfires. This summer's been a tough one.
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UConn vs. Iona Predictions & Picks: Spread, Total - NCAA Tournament First Round
Friday's game features the UConn Huskies (25-8) and the Iona Gaels (27-7) facing off at MVP Arena (on March 17) at 4:30 PM ET. This matchup, according to our computer prediction, will result in a 74-68 win for UConn.
Based on our computer prediction, Iona projects to cover the 9.5-point spread in its matchup versus UConn. The total has been set at 141.5, and the two sides are projected to exceed it.
UConn vs. Iona Game Info & Odds
- Date: Friday, March 17, 2023
- Time: 4:30 PM ET
- TV: TBS
- Where: Albany, New York
- Venue: MVP Arena
- Line: UConn -9.5
- Point Total: 141.5
- Moneyline (To Win): UConn -500, Iona +360
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UConn vs. Iona Score Prediction
- Prediction: UConn 74, Iona 68
Spread & Total Prediction for UConn vs. Iona
- Pick ATS:
Iona (+9.5)
- Pick OU:
Over (141.5)
UConn is 18-9-0 against the spread this season compared to Iona's 15-8-0 ATS record. A total of 17 out of the Huskies' games this season have gone over the point total, and 11 of the Gaels' games have gone over. The two teams score 154.9 points per game, 13.4 more points than this matchup's total. In the past 10 contests, UConn is 8-2 against the spread and 8-2 overall while Iona has gone 7-3 against the spread and 9-1 overall.
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UConn Performance Insights
- The Huskies outscore opponents by 13.5 points per game (scoring 78.5 points per game to rank 33rd in college basketball while giving up 65 per outing to rank 41st in college basketball) and have a +443 scoring differential overall.
- UConn wins the rebound battle by an average of 9.7 boards. It is grabbing 35.9 rebounds per game (12th in college basketball) compared to its opponents' 26.2 per outing.
- UConn makes 4.1 more threes per contest than the opposition, 9 (34th in college basketball) compared to its opponents' 4.9.
- The Huskies put up 101 points per 100 possessions (21st in college basketball), while allowing 83.7 points per 100 possessions (17th in college basketball).
- UConn and its opponents have been mostly even in the turnover battle. The Huskies commit 12.3 per game (221st in college basketball) and force 12.7 (120th in college basketball play).
Iona Performance Insights
- The Gaels outscore opponents by 11.4 points per game (posting 76.4 points per game, 67th in college basketball, and allowing 65 per contest, 41st in college basketball) and have a +387 scoring differential.
- Iona grabs 33.4 rebounds per game (81st in college basketball) while allowing 30.9 per contest to opponents. It outrebounds opponents by 2.5 boards per game.
- Iona hits 7.1 three-pointers per game (210th in college basketball), 1.3 more than its opponents.
- Iona has typically won the turnover battle this season, committing 10.3 per game (36th in college basketball) while forcing 12.9 (104th in college basketball).
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The Vendome Hotel fire in Boston on June 17, 1972, remains the largest line-of-duty death toll in the city. Nine firefighters lost their lives fighting that blaze.
Guest columnist Kevin Duffy paid homage to those men the other day (link here to his column.) And today’s “From the Archives” entry shares the front pages that carried the grim news.
You’ll notice that Day 2 includes a notice from the publisher that the Record American and Boston Herald Traveler had merged. But the coverage of first-responders remains in this paper’s DNA. When the shots ring out, the alarm bells ring or someone is sick or hurt, police, fire, EMTs and reservists run at the danger. Add doctors, nurses and Good Samaritans to that equation. On the water, the Coast Guard and fellow boaters are also heroes among us.
That’s why we’re devoting today to the Vendome Hotel fire.
As the Boston Fire Historial Society reports, the hotel was celebrated for its “Parisian elegance, stately decor and location fronting the Commonwealth Avenue mall.” But it fell into disrepair and was going to be transformed into luxury apartments.
On Saturday, June 17, 1972, that all changed. Fire broke out, 100 customers in a cafe ran out and soon a fire on the upper floors and parts of the building collapsing cost nine firefighters their lives. The last injured firefighter was rescued the next day, Father’s Day.
Those who died were:
Fire Lieutenant Thomas J. Carroll
Fire Lieutenant John E. Hanbury
Fire Fighter Charles E. Dolan
Fire Fighter Joseph P. Saniuk
Fire Fighter John E. Jameson
Fire Fighter Thomas W. Beckwith
Fire Fighter Paul J. Murphy
Fire Fighter Richard B. Magee
Fire Fighter Joseph F. Boucher, Jr.
To quote Kevin Duffy’s excellent column: “There weren’t many people there when it came down, then. But there were some; there were the seventeen Boston firefighters that came down with it, and under it. Eight of them survived. For the other nine and their families, so much more came down with the Vendome Hotel, 50 years ago this week.”
He’s right in adding “passersby on Commonwealth Avenue might occasionally stop to note a certain monument at Dartmouth Street … (and) thank and honor” those who died “doing their jobs.” | https://www.bostonherald.com/2022/06/15/from-the-archives-the-vendome-hotel-fire-50-years-later/ | 2022-06-15 15:56:31 | 0 | https://www.bostonherald.com/2022/06/15/from-the-archives-the-vendome-hotel-fire-50-years-later/ |
Sacred Heart beats Lawrence County in Ky. Girls Sweet 16
Published: Mar. 8, 2023 at 7:41 PM EST|Updated: 31 minutes ago
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WSAZ) - Wednesday marked more action in the girls’ Sweet 16 tournament at Rupp Arena in Lexington.
The Lawrence County Bulldogs took on the Sacred Heart Valkryies.
Sacred Heart beat Lawrence County 70-33.
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Madrid (AP) — Spain’s armed forces have fired an army captain after a video showed some 30 soldiers of the officer’s unit kneeling in front of the Valley of the Fallen mausoleum, the most potent existing symbol of the dictatorship of late Gen. Francisco Franco.
The Defense Ministry said Thursday the captain was dismissed within hours of the video being posted on social media and that an investigation into the incident would be completed within 48 hours.
The video posted by a pro-democracy army group showed the soldiers kneeling with rifles in their hands on the steps at the mausoleum’s esplanade as a priest blessed them.
Many people viewed the video as tarnishing Spain’s claim to be a secular state, and several political parties have demanded an explanation from Defense Minister Marita Robles.
The grandiose mausoleum — with a towering cross that is visible from kilometers (miles) away — was Franco’s burial place and has always been a revered shrine for his extreme right-wing followers. The current Socialist-led coalition government ordered the removal of Franco’s remains in 2019 under a law that banned exaltation of the dictator at the site.
That decision fulfilled a decades-old desire of many in Spain who considered Franco’s mausoleum an affront to his victims and to Spain’s standing as a modern democratic state. Thousands of political prisoners who worked on the construction of the mausoleum near Madrid are buried there without identification.
Franco ruled Spain between 1939 and 1975, after he and other officers led a military insurrection against the Spanish democratic government in 1936, a move that started a three-year civil war. The military and the Roman Catholic church formed the backbone of Franco’s regime until the dictator died in 1975.
In recent years there have been isolated incidents involving retired army officers criticizing the government and expressing nostalgia for the Franco regime. | https://www.koin.com/news/international/spain-probes-blessing-of-soldiers-at-dictators-monument/ | 2022-06-03 00:18:22 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/news/international/spain-probes-blessing-of-soldiers-at-dictators-monument/ |
Drownings up in Palm Beach County
Published: Jun. 13, 2022 at 12:01 PM EDT|Updated: 47 minutes ago
Drownings are up in Palm Beach County this year compared to a year ago.
According to the Palm Beach County Medical Examiner, there were 11 drownings between Jan. 1 and May 31 of 2021, but 16 between the same time frame this year, an increase of 45%.
Year over year, homicides in Palm Beach County are up — 35 between Jan. 1 and May 31 of 2021, and 39 this year — as are suicides, with 95 in 2021 compared to 103 in 2022.
Drug overdoses, however, are down 2%, with 233 between January and May of last year and 227 during the same time period this year.
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LONDON (AP) — Britain was ill-prepared for a pandemic partly because government resources had been diverted away from pandemic planning to brace for a possibly chaotic exit from the European Union without a deal, the U.K.’s former health secretary told an inquiry Tuesday.
Matt Hancock also said officials had to scramble to source protective equipment, set up mass testing and contact tracing systems “from scratch” once the coronavirus pandemic broke out because the U.K.’s planning attitude was entirely “geared towards how to clear up after a disaster, not prevent it.”
“The doctrine of the U.K. was to plan for the consequences of a disaster — can we buy enough body bags? Where are we going to bury the dead?” Hancock said.
“Large-scale testing did not exist and large-scale contact tracing did not exist because it was assumed that as soon as there was community transmission, it wouldn’t be possible to stop the spread, and therefore, what’s the point in contact tracing?” he added.
That assumption was “completely wrong” and a “colossal” failure, Hancock said.
Hancock acknowledged that an official pandemic preparedness board paused its work in 2018 to 2019 because resources were moved away to focus instead on the threat of a “disorganized Brexit.”
Britain’s government was consumed in 2019 with the possibility of crashing out of the EU without a deal on the departure terms in place. A bitterly divided Parliament rejected then-Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit plan three times.
The U.K. eventually left the trade bloc in 2020.
As health secretary, Hancock became one of the best-known politicians in Britain as he led efforts to halt the spread of the coronavirus before he was forced to quit in June 2021, when he was caught breaking social distancing rules with an aide. Pictures of him kissing the aide in government offices were splashed across front pages at the time.
Hancock has previously faced criticism about the U.K.’s COVID testing measures and how authorities failed to manage the spread of the pandemic in care homes for the elderly. The U.K. had one of the highest COVID-19 death tolls in Europe, with the virus recorded as a cause of death for almost 227,000 people.
Hancock said an emotional sorry Tuesday to all those who died and were affected.
“I’m profoundly sorry for each death that has occurred. I also understand why, for some, it will be hard to take that apology from me,” he said.
Earlier, Hancock was confronted by members of the group COVID Families for Justice who held up pictures of relatives who died in the pandemic as he arrived at the inquiry in central London.
The wide-ranging inquiry, led by a retired judge, aims to investigate the U.K.’s preparedness for the coronavirus pandemic, how the government responded and what lessons can be learned for the future.
Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who led the U.K. during the pandemic, agreed in late 2021 to hold the probe after heavy pressure from bereaved families.
Senior politicians have been called to face questions. Last week, former Prime Minister David Cameron testified that the U.K. had prepared for the “wrong” pandemic by focusing too much on the dangers of a flu outbreak. Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt echoed that argument when he admitted he didn’t challenge “groupthink” based around preparing for a flu pandemic. | https://phl17.com/health/ap-health/uk-was-ill-prepared-for-pandemic-because-resources-were-diverted-to-brexit-ex-health-chief-says/ | 2023-06-28 10:57:03 | 1 | https://phl17.com/health/ap-health/uk-was-ill-prepared-for-pandemic-because-resources-were-diverted-to-brexit-ex-health-chief-says/ |
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Pick 10" game were:
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STOCKHOLM, Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BioArctic AB's (publ) (Nasdaq Stockholm: BIOA B) partner Eisai presented new data for lecanemab (BAN2401), an investigational anti-amyloid beta (Aβ) protofibril antibody for the treatment of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) due to Alzheimer's disease (AD) and mild AD (collectively known as early AD) with confirmed presence of amyloid pathology in the brain, at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC) held in San Diego, California and virtually July 31 through August 4, 2022.
Eisai presented lecanemab data and research in one oral and eight poster presentations at the meeting. Highlights included new data on a subcutaneous formulation of lecanemab. The new data has been used to define the appropriate subcutaneous dosing now being further evaluated in the Phase 3 Clarity AD open label extension study. A further highlight was the presentation of a modeling simulation of the impact of ApoE4 genotype on the incidence of amyloid-related imaging abnormalities – edema/effusion (ARIA-E) – in subjects treated with lecanemab. The modeling predicted incidence on ARIA-E in ApoE4 carriers (homo- and heterozygotes) and non-carriers, and corresponds well with what has been observed in the Phase 2b core and open label extension studies.
"Eisai's broad clinical program for lecanemab continues to deliver data regarding how lecanemab could be used as a potential disease-modifying treatment for patients with Alzheimer's disease. The subcutaneous dosing currently being evaluated in the Clarity AD open-label extension study can potentially be of further benefit for patients. There is a great enthusiasm in the Alzheimer field for lecanemab and the other late-stage second generation anti-amyloid antibodies with Phase 3 readouts in the coming months. We are eagerly looking forward to the topline data of the Clarity AD Phase 3 study this fall and the possibility of helping the Alzheimer community battle the disease," said BioArctic's CEO Gunilla Osswald.
In July 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) accepted the Biologics License Application (BLA) for lecanemab under the accelerated approval pathway and was granted priority review, with a Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) action date of January 6, 2023. The readout of the primary endpoint data of Clarity AD will occur in the fall of 2022. The FDA has agreed that the results of Clarity AD when completed, can serve as the confirmatory study to verify the clinical benefit of lecanemab.
All Eisai's presentation and posters from the AAIC congress regarding lecanemab are available on www.bioarctic.com.
This release discusses investigational uses of an agent in development and is not intended to convey conclusions about efficacy or safety. There is no guarantee that any investigational uses of such product will successfully complete clinical development or gain health authority approval.
For further information, please contact:
Gunilla Osswald, CEO
E-mail: gunilla.osswald@bioarctic.se
Phone: +46 8 695 69 30
Oskar Bosson, VP Communications and IR
E-mail: oskar.bosson@bioarctic.se
Phone: +46 70 410 71 80
The information was released for public disclosure, through the agency of the contact persons above, on August 5, 2022, at 08:00 a.m. CET.
About lecanemab (BAN2401)
Lecanemab is an investigational humanized monoclonal antibody for Alzheimer's disease (AD) that is the result of a strategic research alliance between BioArctic and Eisai. Lecanemab selectively binds to, neutralize and eliminate soluble toxic Aβ aggregates (protofibrils) that are thought to contribute to the neurodegenerative process in AD. As such, lecanemab may have the potential to have an effect on disease pathology and to slow down the progression of the disease. Eisai obtained the global rights to study, develop, manufacture, and market lecanemab for the treatment of AD pursuant to an agreement concluded with BioArctic in December 2007. In March 2014, Eisai and Biogen entered into a joint development and commercialization agreement for lecanemab. Currently, lecanemab is being studied in a pivotal Phase 3 clinical study in symptomatic early AD (Clarity AD), following the outcome of the Phase 2b clinical study (Study 201). In addition, the Phase 3 clinical study, AHEAD 3-45, for individuals with preclinical (asymptomatic) AD, meaning they are clinically normal and have intermediate or elevated levels of brain amyloid, is ongoing. AHEAD 3-45 is conducted as a public-private partnership between the Alzheimer's Clinical Trial Consortium, funded by the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health, and Eisai. In 2021, DIAN-TU selected lecanemab for a clinical trial for dominantly inherited Alzheimer's disease as a background anti-amyloid treatment when exploring combination therapies with anti tau treatments in dominantly inherited Alzheimer's disease subjects. In June 2021, FDA granted lecanemab Breakthrough Therapy designation and in December 2021, FDA granted lecanemab Fast track designation. Furthermore, Eisai has performed a lecanemab subcutaneous dosing Phase 1 study and the subcutaneous formulation is currently being evaluated in the Clarity AD open label extension study.
About the collaboration between BioArctic and Eisai
Since 2005, BioArctic has long-term collaboration with Eisai regarding the development and commercialization of drugs for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. The most important agreements are the Development and Commercialization Agreement for the lecanemab antibody, which was signed in December 2007, and the Development and Commercialization agreement for the antibody BAN2401 back-up for Alzheimer's disease, which was signed in May 2015. Eisai is responsible for the clinical development, application for market approval and commercialization of the products for Alzheimer's disease. BioArctic has no development costs for lecanemab in Alzheimer's disease and is entitled to payments in connection with regulatory filings, approvals, and sales milestones as well as royalties on global sales.
About BioArctic AB
BioArctic AB (publ) is a Swedish research-based biopharma company focusing on disease-modifying treatments for neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and ALS. BioArctic focuses on innovative treatments in areas with high unmet medical needs. The company was founded in 2003 based on innovative research from Uppsala University, Sweden. Collaborations with universities are of great importance to the company together with its strategically important global partner Eisai in Alzheimer disease. The project portfolio is a combination of fully funded projects run in partnership with global pharmaceutical companies and innovative in-house projects with significant market and out-licensing potential. BioArctic's Class B share is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm Mid Cap (ticker: BIOA B). For more information about BioArctic, please visit www.bioarctic.com.
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In the wake of Hurricane Fiona walloping Puerto Rico, communities are underwater, bridges and roads destroyed, and many residents' homes are unlivable. Early figures indicate a tough road ahead as residents attempt to recover.
It will be some time before experts get a full handle on the scale of the damage caused by Fiona, according to Rachel Cleetus, the policy director for the Climate and Energy Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists.
"What we can be pretty sure, from looking at some of these early images that are coming in, it will be very, very significant," she said.
Here are the latest numbers:
1. Some areas of Puerto Rico got over 30 inches of rain
The island was inundated by huge amounts of rainfall, according to data from the National Hurricane Center.
Southern Puerto Rico was hit with 12 to 20 inches. Some areas received a maximum of nearly 3 feet of rain during the storm. Residents in Northern Puerto Rico saw four to 12 inches of rainfall, with some areas getting a maximum of 20 inches, the data shows. In the days following the storm, communities still got several inches of rain, and have dealt with significant flooding.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra on Wednesday declared a Public Health Emergency on the island because of the impact of the flooding from Fiona.
This follows President Biden's disaster declaration.
2. Dozens have to be rescued by the National Guard
As of Monday in the hard-hit municipality of Cayey, the Puerto Rico National Guard rescued 21 elderly and bedridden people at an elderly home. Landslides threatened the home's structure and residents' safety, according to the National Guard. An infantry group in the Mayagüez municipality rescued 59 people from a flooded community. That includes two bedridden elderly people and 13 pets.
These are just in areas where rescuers are able to reach.
"We haven't yet had damage assessments where people have been able to go out to some more remote areas that have been cut off completely to really start getting a sense of the scale of the damage," Cleetus told NPR.
Puerto Rican emergency management officials told The Associated Press that several municipalities are still cut off to aid days after the storm, and it's unclear how badly residents there were effected.
3. More than 900,000 are still without power
Much of Puerto Rico's infrastructure, particularly the island's power grid, are still facing difficulties that were exacerbated by Hurricane Maria in 2017. It took weeks or even months to restore power to some areas. For example, one Puerto Rican journalist told NPR he lived without power for a year. And it remained unreliable years later.
PowerOutage.us, which tracks service disruptions, says about 928,000 households are in the dark as of Friday morning — roughly five days after Fiona hit.
4. Hundreds of thousands are still without water
By Friday, government data showed that more than 358,000 customers (about 27%) were still without water service.
At one point this week, the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority reported more than 760,000 customers had no water service or were dealing with significant interruptions.
5. Puerto Rico's economy could take a multibillion-dollar hit
Cleetus believes that when experts are able to properly calculate the full destruction of Fiona, they will find a multibillion-dollar economic disaster.
Given Fiona's strength and longevity, the economic impact to Puerto Rico won't be on the same scale as Hurricane Maria, which was a Category 4 when it made landfall there. Maria left about 3,000 people dead and cost more than $100 billion in damages. For comparison, Fiona was a Category 1 hurricane when it hit the island. (It has since gained strength to a Category 4 hurricane as it approaches Bermuda.)
The problem is, Fiona arrived in Puerto Rico when it had yet to properly recover from the damage done by Maria, Cleetus said. The economic losses from this storm will be compounded by the still-existing problems on the island that were worsened by Maria, she added.
"Sometimes we tend to focus on the storms when they're in the headlines, and you look at it as a unique event," she said. "But it's the compounding effect of these events that is really pernicious for communities."
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The following is a list of those births reported to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette by area hospitals. It may not be a complete list since parents may ask the hospital not to publicly release the news of a birth.
BAPTIST HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER-NORTH LITTLE ROCK
May 11
Eric and Dana Wood, North Little Rock, son.
May 12
Clay and Kelsey Boyett, England, daughter.
May 15
Fernando and Onelda Murillo, Sherwood, son.
May 16
Kobe Hamilton and Treasure Ripka, North Little Rock, daughter.
UAMS MEDICAL CENTER
May 7
Marlena and Patrick Wilson, North Little Rock, son.
May 10
Jill and Ryan Evans, Mayflower, daughter.
May 12
Courtney and Charlie Ausbrooks, Sheridan, daughter.
May 16
Sharon Phillips and James Logan, Jr., North Little Rock, son. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/may/21/births/ | 2023-05-21 10:20:36 | 0 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/may/21/births/ |
New identity unites the company in a common mission following rapid transformation and acquisitions
MONTREAL, Sept. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Haivision Systems Inc. ("Haivision") (TSX: HAI), a leading global provider of mission-critical, real-time video networking and visual collaboration solutions, announced today the launch of its bold new brand identity at IBC2022 reflecting the company's leadership in mission-critical live video solutions, pioneering spirit, and exciting direction for the future.
Haivision's new identity is a culmination of strategic innovation and acquisitions and marks a new chapter as the company positions itself for the future. With an integrated product portfolio, the recent launch of Haivision Command 360 for mission-critical collaboration, the IBC launch of next-generation broadcast cloud technology, Haivision Hub MCR, and the introduction of Haivision-branded 5G contribution solutions including Haivision Pro, Haivision Air, Haivision Rack, and Haivision StreamHub, Haivision remains focused on continuous innovation.
"Haivision has been continually raising the bar for real-time video solutions since its inception 18 years ago and the evolution of our brand heralds a natural next step in our journey to power the company's continued transformation and growth," said Mirko Wicha, President and CEO of Haivision. "The new Haivision brand identity embodies the core strengths of our solutions portfolio and technology, focused on addressing the challenges of our customers."
The company's new branding represents its deep expertise in mission-critical live video networking and collaboration, inspired by the core values of security, reliability, quality, and performance inherent in all Haivision's solutions and services that customers have come to know and rely on.
"In less than two years, Haivision has completed its IPO, made two significant acquisitions (Cinemassive and Aviwest), and added exciting new products to its solutions portfolio. The time is right to bring together all our products, technology, and people under one inspiring brand," said Marcus Schioler, Vice President, Marketing, Haivision, who led the branding evolution. "Our new unified look reflects the integrated way in which the company will work to achieve our vision to shape the future of video and will make it easier for our clients to understand who we are and what we do."
The updated visual identity will be on display at Haivision's stand at IBC2022. To see the latest Haivision technology in action, visit us at IBC, Hall 2, stand B36.
Haivision is a leading global provider of mission-critical, real-time video networking and visual collaboration solutions. Our connected cloud and intelligent edge technologies enable organizations globally to engage audiences, enhance collaboration, and support decision making. We provide high quality, low latency, secure, and reliable live video at a global scale. Haivision open sourced its award-winning SRT low latency video streaming protocol and founded the SRT Alliance to support its adoption. Awarded four Emmys® for Technology and Engineering from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Haivision continues to fuel the future of IP video transformation. Founded in 2004, Haivision is headquartered in Montreal and Chicago with offices, sales, and support located throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia. To learn more, visit Haivision at haivision.com.
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MANHATTAN, N.Y. (PIX11) — For almost 400 years, people have been coming to the South Street Seaport in New York City, and now the history and culture of the area are in focus as the district begins a new chapter.
Pier 17 along South Street in Lower Manhattan is an eight-block neighborhood with shops, restaurants, and historic ships.
Tulika lives in the neighborhood and will tell you a secret about the area.
“I feel like it’s a little more secluded and not as touristy as the other spots,” she said while sipping a coffee from a shop in the Tin Building.
This is the first entire summer season that the Tin Building has been open. From outdoor fitness to fine dining, there’s something for every taste at the Seaport.
Andrew Schwartz, with The Howard Hughes Corporation, said it was designed to be an experience.
“There’s tremendous history at The Seaport. Anything and anyone came through here. Embrace the cultural and historical. That’s our goal,” he said.
The real estate company developed the seaport beginning in 2010 and rebuilt Pier 17. There’s also commercial space. The Rooftop at Pier 17 has planned concerts and movie nights this summer.
The Tin Building honors the original Fulton Fish Market, which was there for 183 years until it moved to the Bronx in 2005.
This is the first summer for the Tin Building and its 12 restaurants, four bars, and a market with world-famous food from French chef Jean-George, who has curated all the menus and products inside.
The Wavertree is docked at the pier and dates back to 1885. It has been open for tours since 2016 after a $13 million restoration by the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.
The South Street Seaport Museum tells the stories of the city’s waterfront through the centuries, and the NYC Ferry is located next to the pier, a short walk from the subway station at Fulton Center. | https://www.wivb.com/destination-ny/manhattan-seaport-welcomes-locals-and-tourists-with-summer-events-and-activities/ | 2023-06-23 19:06:08 | 0 | https://www.wivb.com/destination-ny/manhattan-seaport-welcomes-locals-and-tourists-with-summer-events-and-activities/ |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Morning" game were:
4-6-2-5, FIREBALL: 9
(four, six, two, five; FIREBALL: nine)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Morning" game were:
4-6-2-5, FIREBALL: 9
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MUSKOGEE, Okla. (KSNF) — The Oklahoma School for the Blind is helping to boost education excitement and skill building through a challenging orientation and mobility program called “Cane Quest.”
Designed for visually impaired students in grades 3-12, Cane Quest is a program developed by the Braille Institute of America. The Oklahoma School for the Blind (OSB) is just one of many schools across the country that participates in this activity.
All contestants use long, white canes for travel to identify obstacles in their paths and changes in surfaces, such as drop-offs at stairs or curbs.
“This program has participants follow route directions, cross streets, get into vehicles, and demonstrate all of those different skills that we would use to get around. So the students are demonstrating those skills and competing to gain the most points,” said Faye Miller, OSB orientation and mobility specialist and regional Cane Quest coordinator.
Recently, 36 contestants competed in the 10th annual Oklahoma Regional Cane Quest competition held by the OSB. Those contestants were divided into three categories: Scouts (grades 3-6), Explorers (grades 7-9), and Trailblazers (grades 10-12).
Cane Quest contestants in the Scouts category competed on the OSB campus in Muskogee and demonstrated a variety of human guide skills, body and spatial awareness abilities, and safe negotiation of stairs.
Competitors in the Explorers and Trailblazers categories competed in downtown Muskogee, near the Muskogee Civic Center. They crossed streets and alleys and demonstrated different long cane techniques while following recorded directions.
“The community involvement that comes with Cane Quest allows our students to show off their skills, but it also allows individuals from the community to see how much potential our kids have. Just because they have a visual impairment doesn’t mean they don’t have the ability to develop great independent travel skills,” said Miller.
Among those competing were 9th-grade student Angel Cozort of Vinita, Oklahoma, and 12th-grade student Samantha Six of Disney, Oklahoma. Both Cane Quest contestants took home top honors this year by medaling in their respective categories.
“Having this opportunity really does let them shine and feel proud of themselves. They’re also very motivated. We have several rivalries between students at our school and they really work hard to improve their skills so that they can metal higher than whoever their rival happens to be. It’s a great way for them to really be motivated,” said Miller. | https://www.ksn.com/news/dont-miss-this/visually-impaired-students-show-off-mobility-skills-in-oklahoma/ | 2022-11-19 00:22:15 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/news/dont-miss-this/visually-impaired-students-show-off-mobility-skills-in-oklahoma/ |
Q4-2022 Highlights
- Revenues increased 53.9% to $120.0 million, compared to $78.0 million for the same quarter last year.
- Adjusted EBITDA(1) increased 85.5% to $6.0 million, or 5.0% of revenues (Adjusted EBITDA Margin(1)), compared to $3.3 million, or 4.2% of revenues, for the same quarter last year.
- Gross margin increased 32.5% to $31.1 million, compared to $23.5 million for the same quarter last year.
- Gross margin as a percentage of revenues(2) was 25.9%, compared to 30.1% for the same quarter last year, a decrease explained in part by the acquisition of R3D Consulting Inc. ("R3D") ("R3D Acquisition").
- Selling, general and administrative expenses as a percentage of revenues(2) decreased to 21.8%, from 27.9% for the same quarter last year.
- Net loss of $7.3 million, or $0.08 per share, compared to a net loss of $2.5 million, or $0.04 per share, for the same quarter last year.
- Q4 Bookings(2) reached $107.2 million, which translated into a Book-to-Bill Ratio(2) of 0.89.
- Successfully completed 21 go-live implementations and signed 11 new clients during the fourth quarter, and 120 new clients during fiscal 2022.
- Entered into a binding agreement on June 1, 2022 to acquire US-based Datum Consulting Group, LLC, a leader in IP enabled digital transformation services for data rich insurers and other regulated entities such as state governments.
F2022 Highlights
- Revenues increased 52.2% to $437.9 million, compared to $287.6 million last year.
- Adjusted EBITDA increased 134.4% to $22.6 million, or 5.2% of revenues (Adjusted EBITDA Margin), from $9.6 million, or 3.4% of revenues, last year.
- Gross margin increased 39.9% to $116.1 million, compared to $83.0 million last year.
- Gross margin as a percentage of revenues was 26.5%, compared to 28.9% last year, a decrease explained in part by the R3D Acquisition.
- Selling, general and administrative expenses as a percentage of revenues decreased to 22.6%, from 28.4% last year.
- Net loss of $15.5 million, or $0.18 per share, compared to a net loss of $17.3 million, or $0.30 per share last year.
- Fiscal 2022 Bookings reached $1,031.8 million, which translated into a Book-to-Bill ratio of 2.36.
MONTREAL, June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Alithya Group inc. (TSX: ALYA) (NASDAQ: ALYA) ("Alithya" or the "Company") reported today its results for the fourth quarter and fiscal 2022 ended March 31, 2022. All amounts are in Canadian dollars unless otherwise stated.
Summary of the financial results for the fourth quarter and for the twelve-month period:
"We are pleased to have registered another quarter of record revenues to end our 2022 fiscal year. Our fiscal year was marked by notable growth in revenues and Adjusted EBITDA, both on a sequential basis, and year-over-year. We posted a strong performance in terms of Bookings, with a robust annual Book-to-Bill ratio of 2.36 for the past 12 months, ending the year with strong numbers in Q4 in the manufacturing and healthcare verticals, in the United States. Our healthy pipeline of signed contracts reflects the level of trust that our customers continue to place in us in carrying out their critical, digital transformation projects. It also validates the strategic merits of our recent acquisitions, with customers now demanding additional services derived from those transactions, including new solutions and bolstered expertise.
Following an already active year on the acquisition front, on June 1, 2022, we announced our acquisition of US-based Datum Consulting Group and its affiliates ("Datum"), expected to close on July 1, 2022. Datum is a leader in specialized IP-enabled digital transformation services and software, primarily targeting customers in the insurance industry and public sector. By joining forces with Datum, Alithya continues its steady penetration of the fast-growing InsurTech market. In addition to welcoming an impressive client base that includes 6 of the top 10 health insurers in the United States, synergies obtained from the acquired company include a suite of proprietary products and cloud-based SaaS offerings generating recurring revenue, as well as a highly skilled workforce of 150 professionals based in the United States, Europe, India, and Australia.
With the acquisition of Datum, Alithya will have completed 9 successful acquisitions since going public in 2018, including three in the past two quarters alone. Given our new critical mass and growing maturity, we started in Q4 accelerating our efforts to drive cost efficiencies and synergies across the company.
We have the leaders and experience required to vigilantly address the current challenges of global uncertainties, a competitive landscape, continued labour market shortages, and some inflationary pressure on wages. As the accelerated growth of our revenues sometimes forces us, reluctantly, to hire more subcontractors, which has a negative impact on our gross margins, we remain committed and focused on our 2021-2024 strategic plan objectives and enter fiscal 2023 with confidence and optimism."
Revenues
Revenues amounted to $120.0 million for the three months ended March 31, 2022, including revenues from the R3D Acquisition, recorded in other Canadian entities of the Group following its administrative integration at the end of the third quarter of this year, and $5.0 million from the acquisition of Vitalyst, LLC ("Vitalyst") ("Vitalyst Acquisition"), representing a $42.0 million increase, or 53.9%, from $78.0 million for the three months ended March 31, 2021.
Revenues in Canada increased by $28.8 million, or 63.3%, to $74.2 million for the three months ended March 31, 2022, from $45.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2021. The increase in revenues was due to organic growth in all areas, the general recovery of activity levels, revenues from the R3D Acquisition, and growth from the two long-term contracts signed as part of the R3D Acquisition. On a sequential basis, revenues in Canada increased by $2.1 million, from $72.1 million for the third quarter of this year.
U.S. revenues increased by $11.6 million, or 39.4%, to $41.3 million for the three months ended March 31, 2022, from $29.7 million for the three months ended March 31, 2021, due primarily to organic growth in all areas, the general recovery of activity levels, and revenues of $5.0 million from the Vitalyst Acquisition. On a sequential basis, revenues in the U.S. increased by $7.6 million, from $33.7 million for the third quarter of this year, despite an unfavorable US$ exchange rate impact of $0.2 million.
International revenues increased by 54.7%, to $4.5 million, from $2.9 million for the same quarter last year, due primarily to a general recovery of activity levels, partially offset by the negative impact of foreign exchange variations between the two periods. In local currency, this represents a record quarter for revenues. On a sequential basis, international revenues increased by $0.7 million, from $3.8 million for the third quarter of this year.
Gross Margin
Gross margin increased by $7.6 million, or 32.5%, to $31.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2022, from $23.5 million for the three months ended March 31, 2021. Gross margin as a percentage of revenues decreased to 25.9% for the three months ended March 31, 2022, from 30.1% for the three months ended March 31, 2021.
The percentage decrease was driven in part by decreased gross margin in Canada from the R3D Acquisition, whose operations are now recorded in other Canadian entities of the Group following its administrative integration at the end of the third quarter of this year, and whose revenues historically show a higher proportion from billable subcontractors, resulting in lower margins. Gross margin percentage also decreased in other areas of the business due to an increase in subcontractor revenues relative to revenues from permanent employees. The high demand for Alithya's services, as evidenced by its strong revenue growth, coupled with a tightening labour market, have resulted in this increased reliance on subcontractors. Finally, increased costs in certain customer projects in Canada and the U.S., partly due to market pressures on salary costs, and decreased governmental wage subsidies in Canada were partially offset by increased gross margins internationally and a positive margin impact from the Vitalyst Acquisition.
Selling, General and Administrative Expenses
Selling, general and administrative expenses totaled $26.2 million for the three months ended March 31, 2022, an increase of $4.5 million, or 20.5%, from $21.7 million for the three months ended March 31, 2021. As a percentage of consolidated revenues, total selling, general and administrative expenses amounted to 21.8% for the three months ended March 31, 2022, compared to 27.9% for the same period last year.
Adjusted EBITDA
Adjusted EBITDA amounted to $6.0 million for the three months ended March 31, 2022, representing an increase of $2.7 million, from $3.3 million for the three months ended March 31, 2021. As explained above, the contribution from the Vitalyst Acquisition and increased gross margin were partially offset by increased selling, general and administrative expenses. Adjusted EBITDA Margin was 5.0% for the three months ended March 31, 2022, compared to 4.2% for the three months ended March 31, 2021.
Net Loss
Net loss for the three months ended March 31, 2022 was $7.3 million, an increase of $4.8 million, from $2.5 million for the three months ended March 31, 2021. The increased loss was driven by increased selling, general and administrative expenses, increased business acquisition, integration and reorganization costs, increased depreciation and amortization, increased net financial expenses, and decreased income tax recovery, partially offset by increased gross margin in the three months ended March 31, 2022, compared to the three months ended March 31, 2021. On a per share basis, this translated into a basic and diluted net loss per share of $0.08 for the three months ended March 31, 2022, compared to a net loss of $0.04 per share for the three months ended March 31, 2021.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
For the three months ended March 31, 2022, net cash used in operating activities was $4.8 million, representing an increase of $2.8 million, from $2.0 million of cash used for the three months ended March 31, 2021. The cash flows for the three months ended March 31, 2022 resulted primarily from the net loss of $7.3 million, plus $5.0 million of non-cash adjustments to the net loss, consisting primarily of depreciation and amortization and share-based compensation, partially offset by deferred taxes, and $2.6 million in unfavorable changes in non-cash working capital items. In comparison, the cash flows for the three months ended March 31, 2021 resulted primarily from the net loss of $2.5 million, plus $3.5 million of non-cash adjustments to the net loss, consisting primarily of depreciation and amortization, unrealized foreign exchange loss, and share-based compensation, partially offset by the forgiveness of PPP loans and deferred taxes, and $3.0 million in unfavorable changes in non-cash working capital items.
Revenues
Revenues amounted to $437.9 million for the twelve months ended March 31, 2022, including $51.0 million from the R3D Acquisition and $5.0 million from the Vitalyst Acquisition, representing a $150.3 million increase, or 52.2%, from $287.6 million for the twelve months ended March 31, 2021.
Gross Margin
Gross margin increased by $33.1 million, or 39.9%, to $116.1 million for the twelve months ended March 31, 2022, from $83.0 million for the twelve months ended March 31, 2021. Gross margin as a percentage of revenues decreased to 26.5% for the twelve months ended March 31, 2022, from 28.9% for the twelve months ended March 31, 2021. However, excluding the impact of the R3D Acquisition prior to its administrative integration at the end of the third quarter of this year, gross margin as a percentage of revenues would have been 1.7% higher for the twelve months ended March 31, 2022.
Selling, General and Administrative Expenses
Selling, general and administrative expenses totaled $98.8 million for the twelve months ended March 31, 2022, an increase of $17.1 million, or 20.9%, from $81.7 million for the twelve months ended March 31, 2021. As a percentage of consolidated revenues, total selling, general and administrative expenses amounted to 22.6% for the twelve months ended March 31, 2022, compared to 28.4% for the twelve months ended March 31, 2021.
Adjusted EBITDA and Net loss
Adjusted EBITDA amounted to $22.6 million for the twelve months ended March 31, 2022, representing an increase of $13.0 million, from $9.6 million for the twelve months ended March 31, 2021. Net loss for the twelve months ended March 31, 2022 was $15.5 million, an improvement of $1.8 million, from $17.3 million for the twelve months ended March 31, 2021.
Subsequent Event
On June 1, 2022, the Company entered into a binding agreement to acquire all of the outstanding shares of the US-based Datum Consulting Group, LLC and its affiliates ("Datum)"("Datum Acquisition"). The closing of the transaction is expected to take place on July 1, 2022 and is subject to customary conditions for a transaction of this nature, including approval from the Toronto Stock Exchange.
The Datum Acquisition will be completed for total consideration of up to US$45.5 million ($57.5 million), including the assumption of estimated IFRS 16 lease liabilities of US$0.5 million ($0.6 million), subject to working capital and other adjustments. The consideration will consist of: (i) approximately US$13.7 million ($17.3 million) in cash; (ii) US$4.0 million ($5.1 million) payable by the issuance of 1,867,262 Subordinate Voting Shares, (iii) deferred cash consideration of approximately US$10.3 million ($13.0 million) and deferred share consideration of US$4.0 million ($5.1 million), both payable over three years and (iv) potential earn-out consideration of up to US$13.0 million ($16.4 million), payable in cash (75%) and shares (25%), based on annual gross profit increases, available over three years.
As a result of measures enacted during fiscal 2022 and 2021 to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, increased uncertainty surrounding global economic conditions and business impacts have resulted. In this context, the Company's priority remains the protection of its people, its clients and the Company. However, notwithstanding the ongoing, global uncertainties, the Company has demonstrated its ability to navigate the crisis and maintain focus on its long-term strategic plan, which sets as a goal to consolidate its position to become a trusted North American digital transformation leader.
According to this plan, Alithya's consolidated scale and scope should allow it to leverage its geographies, expertise, integrated offerings, and position on the value chain to target the fastest growing IT services segments. Alithya's specialization in digital technologies and the flexibility to deploy enterprise solutions, and deliver solutions tailored to specific business objectives, responds directly to client expectations. More specifically, Alithya has established a three-pronged plan focusing on:
- Increasing scale through organic growth and strategic acquisitions
- Achieving best-in-class employee engagement
- Providing its investors, partners and stakeholders with long-term growing return on investment.
This press release contains statements that may constitute "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws and "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and other applicable U.S. safe harbours (collectively "forward-looking statements"). Statements that do not exclusively relate to historical facts, as well as statements relating to management's expectations regarding the future growth, results of operations, performance and business prospects of Alithya, and other information related to Alithya's business strategy and future plans or which refer to the characterizations of future events or circumstances represent forward-looking statements. Such statements often contain the words "anticipates," "expects," "intends," "plans," "predicts," "believes," "seeks," "estimates," "could," "would," "will," "may," "can," "continue," "potential," "should," "project," "target," and similar expressions and variations thereof, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words.
Forward-looking statements in this press release include, among other things, information or statements about: (i) our ability to generate sufficient earnings to support our operations; (ii) our ability to take advantage of business opportunities and meet our goals set in our three-year strategic plan; (iii) our ability to develop new business, broaden the scope of our service offerings and enter into new contracts; (iv) our strategy, future operations, and prospects; (v) our need for additional financing and our estimates regarding our future financing and capital requirements; (vi) our expectations regarding our financial performance, including our revenues, profitability, research and development, costs and expenses, gross margins, liquidity, capital resources, and capital expenditures; (vii) our ability to realize the expected synergies or cost savings relating to the integration of our business acquisitions, and (viii) the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and related response measures on our business operations, financial results and financial position and those of our clients and on the economy in general.
Forward-looking statements are presented for the sole purpose of assisting investors and others in understanding Alithya's objectives, strategies and business outlook as well as its anticipated operating environment and may not be appropriate for other purposes. Although management believes the expectations reflected in Alithya's forward-looking statements were reasonable as at the date they were made, forward-looking statements are based on the opinions, assumptions and estimates of management and, as such, are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties and other factors, many of which are beyond Alithya's control, and which could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in such statements. Such risks and uncertainties include but are not limited to those discussed in the section titled "Risks and Uncertainties" of Alithya's Management's Discussion and Analysis for the quarter ended March 31, 2022 and Management's Discussion and Analysis for the year ended March 31, 2022, as well as in Alithya's other materials made public, including documents filed with Canadian and U.S. securities regulatory authorities from time to time and which are available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and EDGAR at www.sec.gov. Additional risks and uncertainties not currently known to Alithya or that Alithya currently deems to be immaterial could also have a material adverse effect on its financial position, financial performance, cash flows, business or reputation.
Forward-looking statements contained in this press release are qualified by these cautionary statements and are made only as of the date of this press release. Alithya expressly disclaims any obligation to update or alter any forward-looking statements, or the factors or assumptions underlying them, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by applicable law. Investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements since actual results may vary materially from them.
This press release includes certain measures which have not been prepared in accordance with IFRS and other financial measures. EBITDA, EBITDA Margin, Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA Margin, are non-IFRS measures and Bookings, Book-to-Bill Ratio, Gross Margin as a Percentage of Revenues and Selling, General and Administrative as a Percentage of Revenues are other financial measures used in this press release. These measures do not have any standardized meaning prescribed by IFRS and are therefore unlikely to be comparable to similar measures presented by other companies. These measures should be considered as supplemental in nature and not as a substitute for the related financial information prepared in accordance with IFRS. Additional details for these non-IFRS and other financial measures can be found in section 5,"Non-IFRS and Other Financial Measures", of Alithya's MD&A for the year ended March 31, 2022, filed on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and on EDGAR at www.sec.gov, and are incorporated by reference in this press release, which includes explanations of the composition and usefulness of these non IFRS financial measures and non IFRS ratios.
The following table reconciles net loss to EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA:
Alithya will hold a conference call to discuss these results on June 17, 2022, at 9:00 AM Eastern Time. Interested parties can join the call by dialing 888 396 8049, conference ID 43750636, or via webcast at https://www.icastpro.ca/muu7r8. The conference call recording can be accessed via the same URL link until July 17, 2022.
Alithya is a North American leader in strategy and digital transformation, employing a dedicated and highly skilled workforce of 3,700 professionals in Canada, the United States and internationally. Since its founding in 1992, Alithya's capacity, size, and capabilities have continuously evolved, guided by a long-term strategic vision to become the trusted advisor of its clients. Alithya's strategy is based on a plan of accelerated organic growth and complementary acquisitions to create a global leader. The company's integrated offer is based on four pillars of expertise: business strategies, enterprise cloud solutions, application services, and data and analytics. Alithya deploys leading-edge solutions, services, and skills as one of the most prominent consulting firms, driving successful digital change as a trusted advisor to customers in a variety of sectors, including financial services, manufacturing, renewable energy, telecommunications, transport and logistics, professional services, healthcare, government, and beyond. Alithya strives to be a model of corporate responsibility, professional equity, diversity, and inclusion, with a vibrant business culture that embraces social consciousness at its core. To learn more about Alithya, visit www.alithya.com.
Note to readers: Management's Discussion and Analysis and the annual consolidated financial statements and notes thereto, and the Annual Report on Form 40-F, for the year ended March 31, 2022 are available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com, on EDGAR at www.sec.gov and on the Company's website at www.alithya.com. Shareholders may, upon request, receive a hard copy of these documents free of charge.
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FORT SMITH, Ark. — University of Arkansas - Fort Smith announced that the Arkansas Supreme Court will travel to the campus as part of the Court's "Appeals on Wheels" program on Thursday, Oct. 20.
The outreach program provides students with the opportunity to witness the operations of the Supreme Court on a first-hand basis. The Court will hear an oral argument at 10 a.m. in the case CR-22-114, Shawn Cone v. State of Arkansas, an appeal from Craighead County Circuit Court.
Although most appeals are completed in written form through briefs, oral argument provides an opportunity for the attorneys on each side of a case to further explain certain legal points and for the Justices to ask questions directly of the attorneys about material they have included in their written briefs.
After the oral argument, Court Justices will meet with various student groups to answer general questions about the law, hold discussions on how courts work and the role of judges in the judicial system.
“It is important for the judicial branch of government to go out into the community and show citizens the manner in which an appellate argument is conducted,” said Chief Justice John Dan Kemp. “We do not want people to feel far removed from the judiciary. The judicial branch is essential to keeping a system of checks and balances in place. We hope that members of the public, as well as students, will attend this court hearing.”
According to a release from UAFS, the public is invited to attend but seating is limited and individuals must be seated at 9:45 a.m.
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BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s executive intensified its legal standoff with Hungary on Friday by taking the country to the EU’s highest court over a restrictive law on LGBT issues and media freedom.
The EU had already tried for a year to make Hungary change a law that bans content portraying or promoting homosexuality. The European Commission said it “discriminates against people on the basis of their sexual orientation and gender identity.”
“The Commission considers that the law violates the internal market rules, the fundamental rights of individuals (in particular LGBTIQ people) as well as — with regard to those fundamental rights — the EU values,” the statement said.
It was the latest episode in a long political battle in which Brussels perceives Prime Minister Viktor Orbán as deliberately stepping away from the cornerstones of Western democracy while Hungary depicts the European Commission as overly meddling in internal politics and imposing moral standards it considers far too liberal.
Hungary’s right-wing governing party last year banned the depiction of homosexuality or sex reassignment in media targeting minors under 18. Information on homosexuality was also forbidden in school sex education programs, or in films and advertisements accessible to minors.
The governing Fidesz party argued the measures were meant to protect children from pedophilia. But the law spurred large protests in the capital, Budapest, and critics, including numerous international rights organizations, said the measures served to stigmatize LGBTQ people and conflate them with pedophiles.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen immediately called the law “a shame” and made it a point of pride to counter it with legal procedures. Friday’s decision was the latest step in the drawn-out process.
“The Commission decided to bring the case to court because the Hungarian authorities have not sufficiently addressed the Commission’s concerns and have not included any commitment from Hungary to remedy the situation,” European Commission spokesman Christian Wigand said.
At the same time, the commission has long criticized the retrenchment of media freedoms in the member state and on Friday it took Hungary to the European Court of Justice because it believes it muscled out a radio station because it refused to toe the government line.
Commercial station Klubradio, which went off the air over a year ago, was one of the last radio channels in Hungary that regularly featured opposition politicians and other critical voices during its news and talk programs.
Critics of the government say the station’s liberal stance led to a discriminatory decision by the country’s media regulator when it refused to renew Klubradio’s broadcasting license.
The station has broadcast only online since losing its radio frequency.
“The (EU) Commission believes that Hungary is in breach of EU law by applying disproportionate and nontransparent conditions to the renewal of Klubradio’s rights to use radio spectrum,” the EU statement said.
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Justin Spike reported from Budapest, Hungary. | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/ap-international/eu-takes-hungary-to-highest-court-over-lgbt-laws/ | 2022-07-15 23:02:46 | 0 | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/ap-international/eu-takes-hungary-to-highest-court-over-lgbt-laws/ |
NEW YORK, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Okta, Inc..
Shareholders who purchased shares of OKTA during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
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CLASS PERIOD: March 5, 2021 to March 22, 2022
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Okta had inadequate cybersecurity controls; (ii) as a result, Okta's systems were vulnerable to data breaches; (iii) Okta ultimately did experience a data breach caused by a hacking group, which potentially affected hundreds of Okta customers; (iv) Okta initially did not disclose and subsequently downplayed the severity of the data breach; (v) all the foregoing, once revealed, was likely to have a material negative impact on Okta's business, financial condition, and reputation; and (vi) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
DEADLINE: July 19, 2022 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/okta-inc-loss-submission-form/?id=29279&from=4
NEXT STEPS FOR SHAREHOLDERS: Once you register as a shareholder who purchased shares of OKTA during the timeframe listed above, you will be enrolled in a portfolio monitoring software to provide you with status updates throughout the lifecycle of the case. The deadline to seek to be a lead plaintiff is July 19, 2022. There is no cost or obligation to you to participate in this case.
WHY GROSS LAW FIRM? The Gross Law Firm is nationally recognized class action law firm, and our mission is to protect the rights of all investors who have suffered as a result of deceit, fraud, and illegal business practices. The Gross Law Firm is committed to ensuring that companies adhere to responsible business practices and engage in good corporate citizenship. The firm seeks recovery on behalf of investors who incurred losses when false and/or misleading statements or the omission of material information by a company lead to artificial inflation of the company's stock. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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Company announces expansion of treatment options in Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- GEM Specialty Health, Inc., a digital specialty health company, announced the 40-state availability of GEM SLEEP, a comprehensive solution offering diagnosis, treatment and support for the 30 million people in the U.S. suffering from sleep apnea. The announcement comes alongside GEM SLEEP adding oral appliance solutions to the available treatment offerings in the Twin Cities through the Snoring & Sleep Apnea Dental Treatment Center (SSADTC).
Nearly one in eight Americans suffer from sleep apnea and roughly 80% of those impacted are untreated. GEM SLEEP is a digital, one-stop solution that includes a virtual sleep clinic, a range of treatment options, and ongoing support to ensure a better night's sleep.
According to a study by the National Library of Medicine, undiagnosed and untreated obstructive sleep apnea can lead to abnormal physiology with serious implications including increased cardiovascular disease, stroke, metabolic disease, excessive daytime sleepiness, work-place errors, traffic accidents, and death.
GEM SLEEP overcomes barriers to treatment in a highly fragmented, difficult to navigate category that has not yet been addressed. GEM SLEEP offers:
- Timely Access: Instead of waiting 2-3 months to get into a sleep clinic, GEM SLEEP offers a home sleep test within days.
- Affordability: GEM SLEEP bundles care and products driving cost down and improving price transparency.
- Improved Experience: Navigating traditional sleep apnea care is fragmented and disconnected. GEM SLEEP is the end-to-end solution.
- Robust Support: GEM SLEEP has built-in support to help consumers succeed and adhere to their treatment.
- Outcomes: GEM SLEEP seeks to improve health through improved blood pressure, resting heart rate, and quality of sleep. This will also lead to improved quality of life through less grogginess, being less likely to have an accident, and maximum personal performance.
"Sleep apnea continues to be a very troublesome condition for millions of people around the world," said Brian Sauer, CEO and Founder of GEM HEALTH. "My personal experience with getting diagnosed and treated for sleep apnea was anything but delightful. GEM SLEEP improves the consumer experience and helps unlock the sleep apnea market for our provider, payer, employer, and device partners."
Adding an oral appliance therapy program offers an effective alternative or complement to traditional CPAP. Providing options is the key to prolonged therapy use and improved quality of life.
"We are excited to be selected by GEM SLEEP as their dental sleep medicine provider in the Twin Cities area. GEM SLEEP offers a seamless process for diagnosis and management of OSA. They also focus on creating an exceptional patient experience, and this fits well with our philosophy of patient care," said Jonathan Parker, DDS at SSADTC.
GEM SLEEP starts with a free online assessment. Those who show a risk of sleep apnea can order an at-home sleep test. Those tests are reviewed by GEM SLEEP clinicians and within days, individuals who are diagnosed with OSA will receive a customized treatment recommendation and next steps all available within GEM SLEEP.
OSA sufferers and their bed partners can get started with GEM SLEEP at www.mygemsleep.com. More information on parent company, GEM HEALTH can be found at www.gem.health. GEM HEALTH is actively pursuing insurance coverage to ensure affordability for the over 30M Americans who are currently living with sleep apnea.
GEM HEALTH helps people live healthier, happier lives by addressing their specialty conditions from end to end. GEM HEALTH removes the confusion and frustration of not knowing where to start or the next steps when navigating a condition. The first product, GEM SLEEP, focuses on helping the estimated 24 million people with undiagnosed or untreated obstructive sleep apnea find relief. GEM SLEEP provides a simple guided experience through diagnosis, treatment, and ongoing support; reducing the time to relief from months to weeks. GEM SLEEP treats patients in 40 states (and growing) and is actively developing reimbursement options through health plans and employers to ensure broad access to care. To learn more about GEM HEALTH's approach to obstructive sleep apnea, visit mygemsleep.com or follow us on LinkedIn.
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The weed-free, turf grass lawn has been the American ideal for a very long time, but more and more people are looking for more environmentally friendly alternatives. Host Charity Nebbe talks alternative lawns with Iowa State University ecologist Cathy McMullin and biologist Kaycie Waters.
Guests:
- Cathy McMullin, ISU adjunct associate professor in the forestry department
- Kaycie Waters, ISU Extension and Outreach natural resources field specialist
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SARASOTA COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida couple was arrested Thursday for their alleged connection to a disturbing viral video that showed a raccoon being burned alive in a dumpster.
“Today we share another video likely to go viral depicting the two people responsible,” the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office wrote in a tweet.
Alicia and Roddy Kincheloe, both of Sarasota, were arrested following “one of the most extensive investigations ever conducted by our Agricultural Unit,” the sheriff’s office added.
In a now-deleted Facebook video, a woman could be seen recording the raccoon as it growled and showed its teeth while trapped inside a dumpster.
In a second video, the woman can be heard laughing as she approached the same dumpster with the animal’s charred and smoking remains inside.
“Some people say throw an apple with bleach in there,” the woman can be heard saying in the video. “We just toasted his a–. Who’s hungry?”
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LAS VEGAS, April 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- BLUETTI, a leading provider of portable power stations, is proud to announce that its products EP600 and AC500 have won the prestigious Red Dot Design Award 2023. The award recognizes the outstanding design of the two products and acknowledges the innovation and excellence of BLUETTI's design team.
The Red Dot Design Award is one of the most renowned design competitions in the world, and it attracts thousands of entries from different countries and industries. The award recognizes products that demonstrate exceptional design, quality, and innovation. Winning the award is a significant achievement for BLUETTI, and it demonstrates the company's commitment to creating products that are not only functional but also aesthetically pleasing.
The EP600&B500 is BLUETTI's latest Energy Storage System (ESS) that utilizes solar energy to provide clean and reliable power to households. It's designed for on-grid or off-grid use with easy installation(no wall mounting required) and simple operation. With a sleek, practical modular design, and cutting-edge technology, it is the perfect solution to reach power independence in a sustainable way.
The AC500&B300S is a modular power station for home backup or off-grid living. It adopts reliable LiFePo4 batteries that contains no harmful heavy metals and advanced technology to enable fast charging, split phase function, and UPS protection. It features a simple yet aesthetic design, and superior performance, a true marriage of functionality and beauty.
"We are thrilled to have won the Red Dot Design Award 2023," said Jame Ray, spokesperson for BLUETTI, "Our design team has worked tirelessly to create products that not only perform well but also look great. Winning this award is a testament to their hard work and dedication, and we are proud of what we have achieved".
BLUETTI has won this award several times for its innovative and eco-friendly energy products. Innovation, sustainability, and excellence are written in its DNA. The EP600 and AC500 are currently available for purchase on BLUETTI's website, and they come respectively with a 10-year and 4-year warranty.
About BLUETTI
From the very beginning, BLUETTI has tried to stay true to a sustainable future through green energy storage solutions for both indoor and outdoor use while delivering an exceptional eco-friendly experience for our homes and our world. That's why BLUETTI makes its presence in 70+ countries and is trusted by millions of customers across the globe. For more information, please visit BLUETTI online at https://www.bluettipower.com/ or follow BLUETTI on:
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NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Country music star Toby Keith was back on stage over the Fourth of July weekend with his first shows since revealing last summer that he had been fighting stomach cancer.
Hundreds attended the native Oklahoman’s pop-up concerts Friday and Saturday night in Norman, where he lives, The Oklahoman reports. He performed at Hollywood Corners, a 1920s roadhouse and service station that he bought and converted into a deli, bar and music venue.
Norman resident Joanna Hall, who attended Friday’s show, told the newspaper that Keith put on a great performance and was “very thankful for everybody who showed up.”
“He seemed a little taken aback that that many people were there,” Hall said. “He was like, ‘This was supposed to be a secret. … This was a bigger secret than what I intended.’ ”
Keith’s publicist confirmed that Keith and his Easy Money Band played for about two and a half hours both nights.
Last June, Keith said that he had been battling stomach cancer since fall 2021 and had already spent the past six months undergoing chemotherapy, radiation and surgery. Keith, who turns 62 this weekend, told The Oklahoman last month that he was continuing with chemotherapy, that his tumor had shrunk by a third and that his blood tests have looked good. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/entertainment-news/ap-toby-keiths-shows-at-his-oklahoma-music-venue-mark-return-to-stage-after-revealing-cancer-diagnosis/ | 2023-07-06 18:29:13 | 0 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/entertainment-news/ap-toby-keiths-shows-at-his-oklahoma-music-venue-mark-return-to-stage-after-revealing-cancer-diagnosis/ |
CHICAGO (WGN) — A woman was arrested after allegedly stabbing an elderly dog multiple times while a teen girl was taking it on a walk in Chicago.
Jeanette Olivo, 61, was arrested Monday in the 6400 block of West Irving Park Road.
A police report stated that a 15-year-old girl was walking her family chihuahua, Bebe, nearby. According to the report, after speaking briefly with the girl Olivo allegedly stabbed the dog “without warning or provocation.”
Olivo allegedly then chased the 15-year-old girl and stabbed the dog again multiple times. She was placed into custody shortly after.
Responding officers noted that Bebe had significant bleeding.
“He just wants to sit next to you and cuddle because he is always cold,” family said. “We kind of think of him as a cat — he likes to lay up on top of the sofa.”
Family said Bebe survived the stabbing and is recovering.
According to police records, Olivo was arrested on Dec. 10 in an unrelated incident for aggravated assault and battery.
In Bebe’s stabbing, she was charged with aggravated cruelty to an animal and aggravated assault. Olivo is due in bond court on Tuesday.
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BALTIMORE, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Medifast, Inc. (NYSE: MED), the global company behind one of the fastest-growing health and wellness communities, OPTAVIA®, announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a $1.64 quarterly cash dividend to its stockholders. The quarterly cash dividend of $1.64 per share is payable on August 8, 2022 to stockholders of record as of the close of business on June 28, 2022.
Medifast expects to maintain a program of paying dividends on a quarterly basis. However, the declaration of dividends in the future is subject to the discretion of the company's Board of Directors, who will evaluate the company's dividend program from time to time based on factors that it deems relevant.
Medifast (NYSE: MED) is the global company behind one of the fastest-growing health and wellness communities, OPTAVIA®, which offers scientifically developed products, clinically proven plans and the support of independent OPTAVIA Coaches and a Community to help Customers achieve Lifelong Transformation, One Healthy Habit at a Time®. As the publicly traded market leader by revenue in the U.S. $7 billion weight management industry, the company has impacted more than 2 million lives through its Community of OPTAVIA Coaches, who teach Customers how to develop holistic healthy habits through the proprietary Habits of Health® Transformational System. Medifast was recognized in 2022 as one of America's Best Mid-Sized Companies by Forbes, in 2020 and 2021 as one of FORTUNE's 100 Fastest-Growing Companies and was named to Forbes' 100 Most Trustworthy Companies in America list in 2017. For more information, visit MedifastInc.com or OPTAVIA.com and follow @Medifast on Twitter.
Please Note: This release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking statements generally can be identified by use of phrases or terminology such as "intend," "anticipate," "expect" or other similar words or the negative of such terminology. Similarly, descriptions of Medifast's objectives, strategies, plans, goals or targets contained herein are also considered forward-looking statements. These statements are based on the current expectations of the management of Medifast and are subject to certain events, risks, uncertainties and other factors. Some of these factors include, among others: constraints, volatility or disruptions in the capital markets or other factors affecting the amount and timing of share repurchases under Medifast's accelerated share repurchase program; risks associated with Medifast's direct-to-consumer business model; the impact of rapid growth on Medifast's systems; disruptions in Medifast's supply chain; Medifast's inability to continue to develop new products; effectiveness of Medifast's advertising and marketing programs, including use of social media by independent OPTAVIA Coaches; Medifast's inability to maintain and grow the network of independent OPTAVIA Coaches; the departure of one or more key personnel; Medifast's inability to protect against online security risks, to protect its brand, or to protect against product liability claims; Medifast's planned growth into domestic and international markets; adverse publicity associated with Medifast's products; Medifast's inability to continue declaring dividends; fluctuations of Medifast's common stock market price; the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Medifast's results and the severity, length and ultimate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people and economies; increases in competition, litigation, natural disasters, acts of war, other geopolitical events, climate change, shareholder activism, regulatory changes, inflation, labor shortages, supply chain issues and the resulting impact on market conditions and consumer spending; and the impact of changes in internal control over financial reporting. Although Medifast believes that the expectations, statements and assumptions reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, it cautions readers to always consider all of the risk factors and any other cautionary statements carefully in evaluating each forward-looking statement in this release, as well as those set forth in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2022, and other filings filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, including its current reports on Form 8-K. All of the forward-looking statements contained herein speak only as of the date of this release.
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First-of-its-kind Technology Addresses Worldwide Pilot Shortage, Escalating Demand for Flight Schools and Urgent Need to Reduce Air Pollution
ZURICH and SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Loft Dynamics AG, creator of the world's first and only virtual reality (VR) simulator authorized by a major aviation regulator, today announced it has re-branded and raised $20M in financing. This is the company's first institutional round, led by U.S. technology investors Craft Ventures, Sky Dayton, and Up Ventures. The funding will accelerate Loft Dynamics' growth into international markets, particularly the USA. The rebranding from VRM Switzerland to Loft Dynamics positions the company for global expansion at a time when the pilot shortage has reached a crisis point and the need to reduce air pollution has never been more urgent.
"After many years in development, we are ready to expand Loft Dynamics to become a global company and bring our technology and training solutions to the world," said Fabi Riesen, Co-Founder & CEO of Loft Dynamics. "This funding comes at exactly the right moment as we will be able to meet the escalating demand for flight schools and accelerate the range of aircraft types we support."
Loft Dynamics is already serving customers such as Airbus Helicopters, Air Zermatt, Colorado Highland Helicopters, Helitrans Norway, Meravo, and Mountainflyers. Flight schools, airlines, fleet operators, governments, and aircraft manufacturers are queuing up for a better solution to pilot training. With fewer pilots coming out of the military, and the mass retirement of pilots during the COVID-19 pandemic, the global need for trained pilots has never been higher. Loft Dynamics delivers highly efficient, exceptionally realistic, non-polluting, and dramatically less expensive pilot training.
"When open-minded entrepreneurs apply innovative technology to a safety objective, large changes are possible in a short time frame. Loft Dynamics is paving the way for the integration of Virtual Reality applications in pilot training," said Patrick Ky, Executive Director and head of the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). "EASA looks forward to seeing the flight safety benefits of this as soon as possible, in line with the objective of EASA's Rotorcraft Safety Roadmap of increasing safety by 50% by the end of 2028 compared with 2017 figures."
Loft Dynamics replaces legacy flight simulators and makes training safer. Traditional full-motion flight simulators are expensive, giant apparatuses only available in limited training centers built specifically to house them. As a result, students are forced to complete most of their training in the actual aircraft, which is expensive and impractical for most aspiring pilots.
Over the past six years, the team of engineers and aviation experts at Loft Dynamics developed a safer, more accessible, and more realistic training alternative: a unique helicopter simulator combining a high-resolution VR system, a dynamic six-degrees-of-freedom motion platform, and a full-scale replica cockpit – in a package 10 times smaller and roughly 20 times less expensive than traditional full-motion simulators. What's more, it cuts air time training by up to 60%.
"At Airbus Helicopters, we are committed to pushing technology forward to enhance safety in training," says Christoph Zammert, Executive Vice-President Customer Support & Services at Airbus Helicopters, a Loft Dynamics strategic partner and customer. "The Loft Dynamics simulator allows pilots to regularly train the full range of normal, abnormal, and emergency procedures, in addition to all manner of weather conditions – safely and immersively anywhere in the world."
Loft Dynamics' simulators provide pilots with a highly realistic and immersive flight experience. They combine panoramic views inside and outside the aircraft – from exact perspectives to precise colors, shading, vibrations, better visual cues, dramatically more realistic motion and sound characteristics of the actual aircraft. The pilot experiences the correct loads and force feedback from flight controls and is fully immersed.
"As a jet pilot, I have spent countless hours in traditional flight simulators, and unfortunately, I know their limitations," said Sky Dayton, investor and founder of Earthlink and Boingo Wireless, who is joining Loft Dynamics' board of directors. "I heard about this innovative company in Zurich combining VR with motion, and flew to Switzerland to see it for myself. I was blown away by the realism: I landed on a runway, and as the skids touched down, I could feel the texture of the asphalt. I practiced emergency procedures that would be extremely dangerous in an actual helicopter. Days later, I still had the muscle memory of the movements and vibrations of the real aircraft. Loft Dynamics is going to revolutionize pilot training."
Unlike traditional simulators, the Loft Dynamics training platform provides tremendous flexibility for new modules, enabling pilots to train for what they will encounter in real life before they encounter it.
The flexibility of the platform means that in the future, emergency response pilots will be able to practice landing on every building in their city, firefighter pilots will fly the mountains where they will be battling wildfires, training and retraining muscle memory and reflexes. Mountain flying, night operations, weather and windshear recovery, rescue, sling load carrying – the possibilities to create and train scenarios are endless.
Loft Dynamics is the world's first and only VR full motion simulator qualified by a major aviation regulator, with European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) authorization in May 2022 as an EASA FTD Level 3 Flight Simulation Training Device (FSTD) for the Airbus H125 (developed in collaboration with Airbus Helicopters), the most popular single-engine turbine helicopter in the world, and the Robinson R22, the most popular piston helicopter. This means that pilots can train in Loft Dynamics simulators and receive credit as though in the actual aircraft. Full equivalency has never been granted to a VR system before.
Loft Dynamics AG, formerly VRMotion AG, was founded in Zurich in 2018 and has become the market leader in the development and construction of VR training devices for helicopter pilots. It was the first to receive Flight Simulation Training Device (FSTD) EASA FTD Level 3 authorization from the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) for a VR full motion simulator. With a talented team of passionate engineers, highly specialized developers and dedicated aviation experts, Loft Dynamics helps leading global aircraft manufacturers, airlines, aviation operators, flight schools and training organizations worldwide provide safer and more effective pilot training.
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Russian and Belarusian players banned from a women’s tennis tournament in Prague
PRAGUE (AP) — The organizers of a women’s tennis tournament in the Czech Republic say Russian and Belarusian players will not be allowed to participate in next week’s Prague Open. The announcement comes a day after police prevented a Russian player from entering the country. The director of the hard-court tournament did not identify the player but he says she was the first player with a Russian passport to arrive in the country. He says other Russian and Belarusian players were told not to travel to Prague. The Women’s Tennis Association allows players from the two countries to compete as neutral athletes but the Czech government has banned them. | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/28/russian-and-belarusian-players-banned-from-a-womens-tennis-tournament-in-prague/ | 2023-07-28 13:50:45 | 1 | https://kion546.com/ap-colorado/2023/07/28/russian-and-belarusian-players-banned-from-a-womens-tennis-tournament-in-prague/ |
Eugene’s City Hall is once again in question. Citizens and city councilors alike thought the issue was settled once the agreement was made to purchase the old EWEB headquarters on the river, but in a surprise turnaround EWEB announced in the early hours of April 1 that the deal had fallen through.
Eugene City Manager Sarah Medary said the city had already decided to embrace the popularity of tiny homes and located a log cabin mounted on a flatbed trailer, just large enough to seat the eight councilors and mayor.
“The logs reflect the city of Eugene’s longtime exploitation of the area’s natural resources,” a press release from the city said, “and the trailer will allow the city to move City Hall to any location needed as well as away from the dangers of floodwaters, angry voters or other natural disasters.” In order to be eco-friendly, the flatbed can be hauled by an electric Ford F150, by a pair of mules, or by the council itself. | https://eugeneweekly.com/2023/03/30/city-hauled/ | 2023-03-31 15:20:02 | 1 | https://eugeneweekly.com/2023/03/30/city-hauled/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — Just as a trial was to begin, it was revealed Tuesday that Cuba Gooding Jr. has settled accusations that he raped a woman in a New York City hotel a decade ago, according to court records. The actor had insisted through lawyers that his encounter with the woman was consensual after the two met at a nearby restaurant.
The trial was to start with jury selection in New York federal court as the Oscar-winning “Jerry Maguire” star faced allegations that he met the woman in Manhattan, persuaded her to join him at a hotel, and convinced her to stop at his room so he could change clothing.
The woman had proceeded anonymously until last week, when Judge Paul A. Crotty ruled that she would have to reveal her name at trial. She said in her lawsuit that Gooding raped her in his room. His lawyers, though, insisted that it was consensual sex and that she bragged afterward to others that she had sex with a celebrity.
The lawsuit sought $6 million in damages. Attorney Gloria Allred, one of several representing the woman, declined comment. The lawsuit was filed against a man who authorities say has been accused of committing sexual misconduct against more than 30 other women, including groping, unwanted kissing and other inappropriate behavior.
Late last week, the judge seemed to strengthen the woman’s hand at trial and in settlement negotiations by ruling that he would let three women testify that they also were subjected to sudden sexual assaults or attempted sexual assaults after meeting Gooding in social settings such as festivals, bars, nightclubs and restaurants.
One of the women who had planned to testify at the trial was Kelsey Harbert, who told police Gooding fondled her without her consent at Magic Hour Rooftop Bar & Lounge near Times Square in 2019.
Harbert said last year after Gooding pleaded guilty in New York state court to a charge that spared him from jail or a criminal history that never getting her day in court was “more disappointing than words can say.”
The Associated Press does not typically identify people who say they have been sexually assaulted unless they grant permission, as Harbert has done.
Gooding, a star in films including “Boyz n the Hood” and “Radio,” was permitted to plead guilty in April 2022 to a misdemeanor, admitting that he forcibly kissed a worker at a New York nightclub in 2018.
By staying out of trouble and completing six months of alcohol and behavioral counseling, Gooding was permitted to withdraw his guilty plea and plead guilty to a non-criminal harassment violation, eliminating his criminal record and preventing further penalties. | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/actor-cuba-gooding-jr-settles-civil-sex-abuse-case-ahead-of-trial/ | 2023-06-07 04:06:54 | 1 | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/actor-cuba-gooding-jr-settles-civil-sex-abuse-case-ahead-of-trial/ |
Biden expected to tap Julie Chavez Rodriguez to run campaign
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is expected to tap Julie Rodriguez, a senior White House adviser, to manage his reelection campaign, a person familiar with deliberations on the matter said Sunday.
The person spoke on condition of anonymity because Rodriguez’s appointment has not been finalized and Biden has yet to formally launch his reelection campaign. CBS News was first to report that Biden has decided to pick Rodriguez.
Rodriguez, a longtime Democratic party activist, also worked in former President Barack Obama’s White House. She’s the granddaughter of labor leader Cesar Chavez and labor activist Helen Fabela Chávez.
Growing up in California she was active in campaigns, picket lines, boycotts, marches and union meetings.
She has served as Biden’s director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs since the beginning of his presidency and added the senior adviser role last June.
Rodriguez also has deep ties to Vice President Kamala Harris. She served on Harris’ Senate staff and on Harris’ 2020 presidential campaign as national political director and traveling chief of staff. She went on to be hired by Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign as a deputy campaign manager and senior adviser for Latino outreach.
Biden is expected to formally announce his 2024 reelection campaign as soon as this week, according to three people briefed on the discussions.
The people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations, said they were not aware that a final decision on timing had been made, but that Biden had been eyeing Tuesday, April 25, four years to the day since the Democrat entered the 2020 race. The upcoming announcement is expected to be in the form of a video released to supporters.
Biden, 80, has repeatedly said he intends to run for a second term but advisers say he has felt little need to jump into campaigning because he faces no significant opposition to his party’s nomination.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The woman who says Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker paid for a 2009 abortion claims he encouraged her to have another abortion two years later, according to a new report. She declined to have the second abortion, according to the report, and the relationship ended.
The New York Times, which published the report late Friday, said it withheld the name of the woman, who insisted on anonymity to protect her son. Walker’s campaign declined to comment to the Times.
The report was one of several new revelations that surfaced late Friday, capping a dramatic week in a campaign that could determine control of the U.S. Senate. Walker is challenging incumbent Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock in one of the most closely watched races heading into next month’s midterm elections.
In a brief interview with NBC News, Walker said he didn’t know about an abortion.
“The first I knew about any of this was when some reporter asked me about an abortion. And I’m like, ‘No, that’s a lie.’ And then I was asked if I paid for an abortion, and I said: ‘No. I did not pay for an abortion,’” Walker told the network. “I’m not saying she did or didn’t have one (an abortion). I’m saying I don’t know anything about that. I don’t know.”
The Walker campaign provided NBC with text messages of the unnamed woman texting Walker’s wife about the abortion on Friday morning. That, Walker told NBC, was the first time he confirmed the woman’s identity. NBC, like the Times, withheld the woman’s name.
“Did you know Herschel paid for my abortion the first time? Or that he told me it wasn’t the ‘right time’ to have (their current child)?” the woman wrote in a 9:54 a.m. text message to Julie Walker, the candidate’s wife.
“This message makes me incredibly sad. You know I have continually tried to bridge a better relationship between you and Herschel putting (the child) first,” Julie Walker responded.
Meanwhile, the Daily Beast, which first reported earlier this week that Walker paid for the 2009 abortion, published details provided by the woman about the candidate’s involvement with their child. Walker, according to the Daily Beast, has not seen the child in person for more than six and a half years. He has met the child a total of three times, according to the report, which the outlet said it corroborated with photographs provided by the woman. Two of those instances, the report said, were related to child support proceedings.
The woman also provided the Daily Beast with screenshots of text messages Walker has sent to the child, including one from July in which the candidate didn’t tell the child about the existence of a third half-sibling.
“You have the brother and sister I told you about. Love you,” Walker wrote, according to the Daily Beast.
Walker later texted the child a picture of the other half-sibling, according to the report, saying “This picture never went.”
Walker frequently texted the child messages that read “love you.” The pace of the messages, the report said, increased as Walker prepared to announce his Senate campaign.
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Astros vs. Brewers: Odds, spread, over/under - May 23
Yordan Alvarez and the Houston Astros (28-19) will visit Christian Yelich and the Milwaukee Brewers (25-22) at American Family Field on Tuesday, May 23, with a start time of 7:40 PM ET.
The Brewers have been listed as +110 moneyline underdogs in this matchup with the favored Astros (-135). A 9.5-run total is set in the matchup.
Astros vs. Brewers Time and TV Channel
- Date: Tuesday, May 23, 2023
- Time: 7:40 PM ET
- TV: BSWI
- Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Venue: American Family Field
- Probable Pitchers: J.P. France - HOU (1-0, 4.11 ERA) vs Colin Rea - MIL (0-3, 5.52 ERA)
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Astros vs. Brewers Betting Trends and Insights
- This season, the Astros have been favored 33 times and won 19, or 57.6%, of those games.
- In games they have played as moneyline favorites with odds of -135 or shorter, the Astros have a 16-11 record (winning 59.3% of their games).
- The implied probability of a win from Houston, based on the moneyline, is 57.4%.
- The Astros won each of the nine games they played as a moneyline favorite over their last 10 matchups.
- In its last 10 outings (all 10 of them had set totals), Houston and its opponents combined to go over the run total four times.
- The Brewers have been victorious in 10, or 47.6%, of the 21 contests they have been chosen as underdogs in this season.
- The Brewers have a win-loss record of 8-7 when favored by +110 or worse by bookmakers this year.
- The Brewers have played as underdogs in six of their past 10 games and have gone 2-4 in those contests.
- In the last 10 games with a total, Milwaukee and its opponents have combined to hit the over five times.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Jake Cronenworth hit a tiebreaking, two-run single with two outs in the seventh inning and the San Diego Padres rallied past the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-3 Saturday night to advance to the NL Championship Series for the first time since 1998.
The Padres stunned the 111-win Dodgers with the five-run rally to win the best-of-five NL Division Series 3-1 in front of a raucous sellout crowd of 45,139 at Petco Park.
San Diego will host the Philadelphia Phillies in Games 1 and 2 of an all-wild card NLCS on Tuesday and Wednesday nights. The Phillies beat the Atlanta Braves 8-3 to win their NLDS in four games.
The Padres last reached the NLCS 24 years ago when they beat the Atlanta Braves in six games and were then swept by the New York Yankees in the World Series. A handful of players from that team watched from a luxury suite, including Hall of Fame closer Trevor Hoffman and center fielder Steve Finley.
The game was delayed 31 minutes at the start by rain, which returned in the eighth inning and prompted a short delay while the grounds crew worked on the mound.
After left-hander Tyler Anderson stymied the Padres through five scoreless innings, the Padres broke through against the Dodgers’ bullpen in the seventh.
Jurickson Profar drew a leadoff walk against Tommy Kahnle, took third on Trent Grisham’s single to right and scored when Austin Nola’s infield single glanced off the glove of first baseman Freddie Freeman. Yency Almonte, who took the loss, came on and and was greeted by Kim Ha-seong’s RBI double down the left field line, followed by Juan Soto’s tying single to right.
With two outs and the crowd on it feet, Cronenworth singled to center off local product Alex Vesia to give the Padres the lead, punching the air with his right fist and hollering as he pulled into second base on the throw home. Soto, acquired from Washington in a blockbuster trade on Aug. 2, slid home headfirst and jumped up and cheered.
After the first rain delay, fans were amped up in anticipation of Joe Musgrove pitching his hometown Padres into the NL Championship Series. The big right-hander from suburban El Cajon, a first-time All-Star in 2022, was the first Padres pitcher from San Diego to make a postseason start in his hometown.
But Anderson outpitched Musgrove, holding the Padres to two hits through five innings.
The Dodgers took a 2-0 lead in the third. Mookie Betts walked with one out and Trea Turner scorched a grounder past third baseman Manny Machado, who has carried the Padres much of the season, to move Betts to third. Freeman, who helped the Braves win the World Series last year before signing with the Dodgers as a free agent, doubled down the right field line to bring them both in.
Will Smith hit a sacrifice fly against Steven Wilson with the bases loaded in the seventh for a 3-0 lead.
The Dodgers were left with a massive disappointment. Manager Dave Roberts predicted during spring training that they would win the World Series. They won the NL West for the ninth time in 10 seasons and finished 22 games ahead of San Diego. The Dodgers went 14-5 against the Padres in the regular season and had won nine straight regular-season series against them.
Musgrove was trying for his second straight playoff series-clinching win. On Sunday night, he dominated the New York Mets at Citi Field, allowing just one hit and one walk in seven innings in a 6-0 win that sent the Padres to the NLDS.
He gave up two runs and six hits in six innings against the Dodgers, struck out eight and walked three.
FIRST PITCH
Jake Peavy, the 2007 NL Cy Young Award winner who was Musgrove's boyhood idol, threw out the ceremonial first pitch to former teammate Mark Loretta. Musgrove switched to Peavy's No. 44 after he was obtained by the Padres prior to the 2021 season. Peavy said he texted congratulations to Musgrove after he threw the first no-hitter in franchise history on April 9, 2021, and met him for the first time this weekend. “Like, I’m honored that this dude saw me," Peavy said of being Musgrove's idol, "because I did it with the Roger Clemens and the Nolan Ryans of the world. I looked up to these guys and ripped off some of their game to become my own version of myself.”
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Dodgers: Play their spring training opener Feb. 25 against Milwaukee.
Padres: RHP Yu Darvish likely will get the start Tuesday night in Game 1 of the NLCS.
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Tragedy strikes Oregon family twice after 12-year-old dies in Cannon Beach
By Soyoung Kim
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CANNON BEACH Oregon (KPTV) — A family is going through the unimaginable loss of a 12-year-old boy — just months after they lost three family members in another tragedy.
Oregon State Police said Rafael Jr. Nolazco Luna was a passenger in a deadly car crash on Highway 101. He lost his life less than a mile away from his home, which was so full of love.
His father said his love for his son will be eternal.
“I want him to be remembered forever, and I want to keep him in my heart forever,” Rafael Nolazco Pineda, Rafael Jr.’s father, said.
As the family grieves the sudden and tragic loss of Rafael Jr., they said they remember his loving spirit.
“He was always really happy. One thing I will always remember is he would come and he would see me and he would always give me and my kids a big hug,” Dania Nolazco, Rafael Jr.’s sister, said.
Those who knew him best describe his playful and kind nature, and said he loved good eats.
“He loved sushi. I always take him for sushi,” Rafael said.
Oregon State Police said they responded to a two-car crash on Highway 101 on Monday just before 7 p.m. Investigators said Rafael Jr. was a passenger in a car that was making a left turn onto Sunset Boulevard. That’s when they said it was struck on the passenger side by a truck. Officials said Rafael Jr. was taken to a hospital and died from his injuries.
“I love him so much,” Rafael said.
This family is now having to mourn once again just months after losing three other family members in a severe-weather-related accident when a tree fell onto their car on Highway 26 in December.
“My brother and my nephews who I love so much,” Rafael said. “We were not even done with one tragedy, and then another one, this one. For me, my heart is completely broken, I’m destroyed right now.”
The family said the love they’ve received from their community and knowing their loved ones are all in a better place are what’s getting them through this unimaginable time.
“We have a big family and that has been a big support,” Dania said.
There’s a GoFundMe to support the family with funeral-related expenses.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is moving forward with an overhaul of several student debt forgiveness programs, aiming to make it easier for borrowers to get relief if they are duped by their colleges or if they put in a decade of work as public servants.
The Education Department on Monday finalized a package of rules that it proposed earlier this year. The new rules take hold in July and are separate from President Joe Biden’s sweeping student debt forgiveness plan, which has been held up in court amid a legal challenge from Republican-led states.
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona called it a “monumental step” that will make it faster and simpler to get debt relief. “The Biden administration is fixing a broken system and putting borrowers first,” Cardona told reporters on Monday.
Chief among the changes is a revamp of a program known as borrower defense, which offers debt forgiveness to students whose colleges make false advertising claims or otherwise commit fraud. The program aims to help the victims of predatory for-profit colleges, but it has been bogged down by complex rules and political battles, resulting in a mounting backlog of applications.
The new policy clarifies that the Education Department can review claims from individual borrowers or it can grant forgiveness to huge swaths of students from the same college, if it has been found to have committed fraud. The department can pursue such “group discharge” claims on its own or in response to requests from states or nonprofit legal groups.
It’s a reversal from Trump-era policies that eliminated group discharges and made it harder for individuals to qualify for relief. The new rule cements the department’s ability to erase debt for thousands of borrowers in a single action, as the Biden administration has already done for those who attended ITT Tech, Corinthian Colleges and other for-profit college chains.
In a major shift, the federal government will also be able to force colleges to cover the cost when their students are granted loan cancellation because of fraud. Those costs have typically been passed to taxpayers, prompting complaints from conservative critics who say the program too freely cancels debt at the public’s expense.
“We’re putting students ahead of special interests,” said Cardona, adding that his agency will go after “shady schools” that leave students with heavy debt and “useless” college degrees.
The rules were embraced by student advocates but blasted by an industry group representing for-profit colleges. The group said the rules will deprive schools of due process protections, and it questioned how closely the department reviewed the more than 5,000 public comments responding to its initial proposal.
“The department has cut corners in a rush to ram through a punitive borrower defense rule with serious legal and regulatory flaws that could undermine the American education system,” said Jason Altmire, a former Democratic congressman and president and CEO of Career Education Colleges and Universities.
The overhaul also brings big changes to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, which was created by Congress as an incentive for government and nonprofit workers but has failed to deliver its promise because of notoriously complex rules.
Under the existing rules, teachers, nurses and other public workers can get the rest of their federal student debt erased after making 120 monthly payments. All payments must be made in full and within 15 days of their due date, otherwise they don’t get counted toward the 120 monthly payments.
The new rule erases the 15-day rule, allowing payments to count even if they are made late or in multiple installments. It also allows borrowers to make up to a year of payments in advance in a single sum, rather than making monthly payments.
Borrowers in certain situations will also be able to make progress toward debt forgiveness even if they aren’t making payments. Those who get their student loans paused for cancer treatment, military service or the Peace Corps, for example, will be treated as if they are still making monthly payments during that time.
More flexibility will also be added to a separate program offering debt cancellation to those with disabilities.
That program cancels federal student debt for people who are permanently disabled and unable to generate significant income. But many have been granted that relief later had their debt reinstated because they failed to submit paperwork during a three-year monitoring period.
The new rule will eliminate the monitoring period and make more types of disabilities eligible for cancellation.
Loosening the rules around existing debt forgiveness programs has been a priority for the Biden administration, which has already granted $38 billion in debt cancellation for defrauded students, public students and others. That doesn’t include Biden’s broad cancellation plan, which is estimated to cost about $400 billion.
A federal appeals court has temporarily blocked Biden’s plan, creating uncertainty for millions of borrowers who were told they would get up to $20,000 canceled. The Education Department has said it’s still processing applications even while it’s barred from erasing the debt. Cardona on Monday said his agency is moving “full steam ahead” with the plan.
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Henderson Co. marks 2022 Veterans Day at Parkers Crossroads
HENDERSON COUNTY, Tenn. — A Veterans Day ceremony was conducted to bring honor to the men and women who have served our country greatly.
Henderson County Mayor Robbie McCready, who also served in the military, told of the impact this ceremony has for him.
“Being here, especially at this at this war veterans cemetery, brings things full circle. They teach us always have his back to the grave. And today, we are here,” McCready said.
The ceremony was full of traditions and memorial items that gave honor to men and women who served, along with their families.
“And it’s a joy. When I walk by someone thanking me for being a veteran. I spent 40 years in the Air Force, and we need to honor our military because we wouldn’t have freedom and liberty to enjoy as we do today,” said Spurgeon J. Smith, a Retired Chief E-9 with the U.S. Air Force.
One way that this cemetery chose to honor the men and women who have served our country is to allow them to be buried here at this cemetery with no cost.
“People traveled all over the states and they entrust us here in Henderson County with their loved ones. When they come back, or they come here to visit, they entrust us with one of their most treasured possessions,” McCready said.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — European officials are scrambling to help Ukraine stay warm and keep functioning through the bitter winter months, pledging Friday to send more support that will mitigate the Russian military’s efforts to turn off the heat and lights.
Nine months after Russia invaded its neighbor, the Kremlin’s forces have zeroed in on Ukraine’s power grid and other critical civilian infrastructure in a bid to tighten the screws on Kyiv. Officials estimate that around 50% of Ukraine’s energy facilities have been damaged in the recent strikes.
France is sending 100 high-powered generators to Ukraine to help people get through the coming months, French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna said Friday.
She said Russia is “weaponizing” winter and plunging Ukraine’s civilian population into hardship.
British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, arriving Friday on a visit to Kyiv, said a promised air-defense package, which Britain valued at 50 million pounds ($60 million), would help Ukraine defend itself against Russia’s bombardments.
“Words are not enough. Words won’t keep the lights on this winter. Words won’t defend against Russian missiles,” Cleverly said in a tweet about the military aid.
The package also includes 24 ambulances and 11 other emergency vehicles, some of them armored.
“As winter sets in, Russia is continuing to try and break Ukrainian resolve through its brutal attacks on civilians, hospitals and energy infrastructure,” Cleverly said.
Russian officials have claimed they are hitting legitimate targets. But the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights on Friday expressed his shock at the depth of civilian suffering caused by the bombing, amid broader allegations of abuses.
“Millions are being plunged into extreme hardship and appalling conditions of life by these strikes,” Volker Türk said in a statement Friday. “Taken as a whole, this raises serious problems under international humanitarian law, which requires a concrete and direct military advantage for each object attacked.”
The U.N. humanitarian office also chimed in with its concerns. “Ukraine is turning increasingly cold without power, without steady water supply and without heating,” Jens Laerke, a spokesman for the office, said Friday.
He said the global body and its partners were sending hundreds of generators to Ukraine to help the government there in its efforts to keep people warm and maintain essential services, such as health care. The World Health Organization said it is sending generators to hospitals.
Cleverly’s visit came a day after European officials launched a scheme called “Generators of Hope,” which calls on more than 200 cities across the continent to donate power generators and electricity transformers.
The generators are intended to help provide power to hospitals, schools and water pumping stations, among other infrastructure.
Generators may provide only a tiny amount of the energy that Ukraine will need during the cold and dark winter months.
But the comfort and relief they provide is already evident, as winter begins in earnest and power outages occur regularly. The whine and rumble of generators is becoming commonplace, allowing stores that have them to stay open and Ukraine’s ubiquitous coffee shops to keep serving hot drinks that maintain a semblance of normality.
Despite strong wind, rain, sub-zero temperatures at night, icing and broken power lines, more than 70% of Ukraine’s electricity requirements were being met on Friday morning, the country’s state power grid operator Ukrenergo said in a statement.
The electricity supply has been at least partially restored in all regions of Ukraine, and the country’s energy grid was once again connected to that of the European Union, Ukrenergo CEO Volodymyr Kudrytskyi said on Friday.
Kudrytskyi added that, despite that progress, about half of Ukrainian residents continue to experience disruption. He said all three of Ukraine’s nuclear plants located in areas controlled by Kyiv have resumed operation.
“In one to two days, nuclear power plants will reach their normal scheduled capacity, and we expect that it will be possible to transfer our consumers to a planned shutdown (regime) instead of emergency (blackouts),” Kudrytskyi said on Ukrainian TV.
Ukrainian authorities are opening thousands of so-called “points of invincibility” — heated and powered spaces offering hot meals, electricity and internet connections. Ukrainian President Zelenskyy said late Thursday that almost 4,400 such spaces have opened across most of the country.
He scoffed at Moscow’s attempts to intimidate Ukrainian civilians, saying that was the Russian military’s only option after a string of battlefield setbacks. “Either energy terror, or artillery terror, or missile terror — that’s all that Russia has dwindled to under its current leaders,” Zelenskyy said.
Elsewhere, Ukrainian officials and energy workers continued their push to restore supplies after a nationwide barrage Wednesday left tens of millions without power and water.
Kyiv’s mayor Vitali Klitschko said Friday morning that heating was back on in a third of the capital’s households, but that half of its population still lacked electricity.
Writing on Telegram, Klitschko added that authorities hoped to provide all consumers in Kyiv with electricity for a period of three hours on Friday, following a pre-set schedule.
As of Friday morning in Kharkiv, all residents of Ukraine’s second-largest city had had their electricity supplies restored, but more than 100,000 in the outlying region continued to see interruptions, the regional governor said.
In the south, authorities in the city of Mykolayiv said that running water was set to start flowing again after supplies were cut off by Russian strikes on Thursday.
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Christian Walker Player Prop Bets: Diamondbacks vs. Reds - July 21
Published: Jul. 21, 2023 at 1:24 AM MST|Updated: 2 hours ago
On Friday, Christian Walker (batting .200 in his past 10 games) and the Arizona Diamondbacks face the Cincinnati Reds, whose starting pitcher will be Ben Lively. First pitch is at 7:10 PM ET.
He had a hitless showing in his previous game (0-for-3) against the Braves.
Christian Walker Game Info & Props vs. the Reds
- Game Day: Friday, July 21, 2023
- Game Time: 7:10 PM ET
- Stadium: Great American Ball Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Reds Starter: Ben Lively
- TV Channel: MLB Network
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -238)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +340)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +120)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +105)
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Christian Walker At The Plate
- Walker is batting .263 with 28 doubles, 20 home runs and 39 walks.
- Among the qualifying hitters, he ranks 59th in batting average, while his on-base percentage ranks 57th and he is 12th in slugging.
- Walker has picked up a hit in 57 of 93 games this year, with multiple hits 27 times.
- In 19.4% of his games this season, he has gone deep, and 5% of his trips to the dish.
- Walker has driven home a run in 38 games this year (40.9%), including more than one RBI in 15.1% of his games and producing three or more of his team's runs on seven occasions..
- In 45 of 93 games this season, he has scored, and five of those games included multiple runs.
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Reds Pitching Rankings
- The Reds pitching staff is 18th in MLB with a collective 8.5 strikeouts per nine innings.
- The Reds have a 4.76 team ERA that ranks 26th across all league pitching staffs.
- The Reds give up the fifth-most home runs in baseball (130 total, 1.3 per game).
- Lively makes the start for the Reds, his 10th of the season. He is 4-5 with a 3.72 ERA and 53 strikeouts in 55 2/3 innings pitched.
- In his most recent outing on Sunday against the Milwaukee Brewers, the righty threw four innings, giving up one earned run while surrendering three hits.
- The 31-year-old has amassed a 3.72 ERA and 8.6 strikeouts per nine innings in 11 games this season, while giving up a batting average of .241 to opposing hitters.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats kept control of the Senate on Saturday, repelling Republican efforts to retake the chamber and making it harder for them to thwart President Joe Biden’s agenda. The fate of the House was still uncertain as the GOP struggled to pull together a slim majority there.
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto’s victory in Nevada gave Democrats the 50 seats they needed to keep the Senate. Her win reflects the surprising strength of Democrats across the U.S. this election year. Seeking reelection in an economically challenged state that has some of the highest gas prices in the nation, Cortez Masto was considered the Senate’s most vulnerable member, adding to the frustration of Republicans who were confident she could be defeated.
“We got a lot done and we’ll do a lot more for the American people,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Saturday night. “The American people rejected — soundly rejected — the anti-democratic, authoritarian, nasty and divisive direction the MAGA Republicans wanted to take our country.”
With the results in Nevada now decided, Georgia is the only state where both parties are still competing for a Senate seat. Democratic incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock faces GOP challenger Herschel Walker in a Dec. 6 runoff. Alaska’s Senate race has advanced to ranked choice voting, though the seat will stay in Republican hands.
Democratic control of the Senate ensures a smoother process for Biden’s Cabinet appointments and judicial picks, including those for potential Supreme Court openings. The party will also keep control over committees and have the power to conduct investigations or oversight of the Biden administration, and will be able to reject legislation sent over by the House if the GOP wins that chamber.
In Phnom Penh, Cambodia, for the summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Biden said of the election results: “I feel good. I’m looking forward to the next couple of years.”
He said winning a 51st seat from the Georgia runoff would be important and allow Democrats to boost their standing on Senate committees.
“It’s just simply better,” Biden said. “The bigger the number, the better.”
If Democrats manage to pull off a win in the House, it would mean full control of Congress for Democrats — and another chance to advance Biden priorities, which he has said include codifying abortion rights. The party still lacks the 60 votes in the Senate needed to move many kinds of major legislative changes.
Biden, who called to congratulate Cortez Masto, said he was still hopeful that Democrats could hold the House.
“It’s a stretch,” he acknowledged. “Everything has to fall our way.”
The Senate fight had hinged on a handful of deeply contested seats. Both parties spent tens of millions of dollars in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Nevada and Georgia, the top battlegrounds where Democrats had hoped that Republicans’ decision to nominate untested candidates — many backed by former President Donald Trump — would help them defy national headwinds.
Democrats scored a big win in Pennsylvania, where Lt. Gov. John Fetterman defeated celebrity heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz, who was endorsed by Trump, to pick up a seat currently held by a Republican. Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly won reelection by about 5 percentage points.
A closely divided swing state, Nevada is one of the most racially diverse in the nation, a working-class state whose residents have been especially hard-hit by inflation and other economic turmoil. Roughly three-fourths of Nevada voters said the country is headed in the wrong direction, and about half called the economy the most important issue facing the country, according to AP VoteCast, a survey of 2,100 of the state’s voters.
Heading into the midterm election, Republicans focused relentlessly on the economy, a top concern for many voters amid stubborn inflation and high gas and food prices. The GOP also hit Democrats on crime, a message that sometimes overstated the threat but nonetheless tapped into anxiety, particularly among the suburban voters who turned away from the party in 2018 and 2020. And they highlighted illegal border crossings, accusing Biden and other Democrats of failing to protect the country.
But Democrats were buoyed by voters angry about the Supreme Court’s June decision overturning the constitutional right to an abortion. They also portrayed Republicans as too extreme and a threat to democracy, following the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and Trump’s false claims — repeated by many GOP candidates — that the 2020 election was stolen from him.
Schumer said Democratic candidates’ promises to defend abortion rights resonated with voters. He said the election results made him feel good about the country and its commitment to democracy.
“We knew that the negativity, the nastiness, the condoning of Donald Trump’s big lie — and saying that the elections were rigged when there’s no proof of that at all — would hurt Republicans, not help them,” Schumer said. “But too many of them, and their candidates, fell into those traps.”
Referring to Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan, Schumer said voters had rejected “extremist MAGA Republicans.”
Nationally, VoteCast showed that 7 in 10 voters said the Supreme Court’s decision on Roe v. Wade was an important factor in their midterm decisions. It also showed the reversal was broadly unpopular. And roughly 6 in 10 said they favor a law guaranteeing access to legal abortion nationwide.
Half of voters said inflation factored significantly in their vote, while 44% said the future of democracy was their primary consideration.
Beyond Congress, Democrats won key governors’ races in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania — battlegrounds critical to Biden’s 2020 win over Trump. Republicans, though, held governors’ mansions in Florida, Texas and Georgia — another battleground state Biden narrowly won two years ago.
Though the midterms failed to deliver Republican romps, Trump remains a major factor in the national party and plans to announce his a third run for the presidency Tuesday at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida — setting up a potential rematch for the White House with Biden.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The International Criminal Court said Friday that it has issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for war crimes, accusing him of personal responsibility for the abductions of children from Ukraine.
It was the first time the global court has issued a warrant against a leader of one of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council.
The ICC said in a statement that Putin “is allegedly responsible for the war crime of unlawful deportation of (children) and that of unlawful transfer of (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation.”
The move was immediately dismissed by Moscow — and welcomed by Ukraine as a major breakthrough. Its practical implications, however, could be limited as the chances of Putin facing trial at the ICC are highly unlikely.
But the moral condemnation will likely stain the Russian leader for the rest of his life — and in the more immediate future whenever he seeks to attend an international summit in a nation bound to arrest him.
"So Putin might go to China, Syria, Iran, his ... few allies, but he just won’t travel to the rest of the world and won’t travel to ICC member states who he believes would ... arrest him,” said Adil Ahmad Haque, an expert in international law and armed conflict at Rutgers University.
Others agreed. “Vladimir Putin will forever be marked as a pariah globally. He has lost all his political credibility around the world. Any world leader who stands by him will be shamed as well,” David Crane, a former international prosecutor, told The Associated Press.
The court also issued a warrant for the arrest of Maria Lvova-Belova, the commissioner for Children’s Rights in the Office of the President of the Russian Federation. The AP wrote about her involvement in the abduction of Ukrainian orphans in October, in the first investigation to follow the process all the way to Russia, relying on dozens of interviews and documents.
ICC President Piotr Hofmanski said in a video statement that while the ICC’s judges have issued the warrants, it will be up to the international community to enforce them. The court has no police force of its own to do so.
The ICC can impose a maximum sentence of life imprisonment “when justified by the extreme gravity of the crime,” according to its founding treaty, the Rome Statute, that established it as a permanent court of last resort to prosecute political leaders and other key perpetrators of the world’s worst atrocities — war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.
Still, the chances of Putin or Lvova-Belova facing trial remain extremely remote, as Moscow does not recognize the court’s jurisdiction — a position it vehemently reaffirmed Friday.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia doesn’t recognize the ICC and considers its decisions “legally void.” He called the court’s move “outrageous and unacceptable.”
Peskov refused to comment when asked if Putin would avoid making trips to countries where he could be arrested on the ICC’s warrant.
Ukraine’s human rights chief, Dmytro Lubinets, has said that based on data from the country's National Information Bureau, 16,226 children were deported. Ukraine has managed to bring back 308 children.
Lvova-Belova, who was also implicated in the warrants, reacted with dripping sarcasm. "It is great that the international community has appreciated the work to help the children of our country, that we do not leave them in war zones, that we take them out, we create good conditions for them, that we surround them with loving, caring people,” she said.
Ukrainian officials were jubilant at the move.
In his nightly address to the nation, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called it a “historic decision, from which historic responsibility will begin."
“The world changed," said presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak. Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said the “wheels of justice are turning," and added that "international criminals will be held accountable for stealing children and other international crimes.”
Olga Lopatkina, a Ukrainian mother who struggled for months to reclaim her foster children who were deported to an institution run by Russian loyalists, welcomed news of the arrest warrant. “Everyone must be punished for their crimes,” she said in a message exchange with the AP.
While Ukraine is also not a member of the global court, it has granted it jurisdiction over its territory and ICC prosecutor Karim Khan has visited four times since opening an investigation a year ago.
Besides Russia and Ukraine, the United States and China are not members of the 123-member ICC.
The ICC said its pre-trial chamber found “reasonable grounds” that Putin "bears individual criminal responsibility” for the child abductions “for having committed the acts directly, jointly with others and/or through others" and for failing to “exercise control properly over civilian and military subordinates who committed the acts.”
During a visit this month, ICC prosecutor Khan said he went to a care home for children 2 kilometers (just over a mile) from front lines in southern Ukraine.
“The drawings pinned on the wall ... spoke to a context of love and support that was once there," he said in a statement. "But this home was empty, a result of alleged deportation of children from Ukraine to the Russian Federation or their unlawful transfer to other parts of the temporarily occupied territories.”
“As I noted to the United Nations Security Council last September, these alleged acts are being investigated by my office as a priority. Children cannot be treated as the spoils of war,” Khan said.
And while Russia rejected the allegations and warrants, others said the ICC action will have an important impact.
“The ICC has made Putin a wanted man and taken its first step to end the impunity that has emboldened perpetrators in Russia’s war against Ukraine for far too long," said Balkees Jarrah, associate international justice director at Human Rights Watch. "The warrants send a clear message that giving orders to commit, or tolerating, serious crimes against civilians may lead to a prison cell in The Hague.”
Crane, who indicted Liberian President Charles Taylor 20 years ago for crimes in Sierra Leone, said dictators and tyrants around the world "are now on notice that those who commit international crimes will be held accountable.”
Taylor was eventually detained and put on trial at a special court in the Netherlands. He was convicted and sentenced to 50 years' imprisonment.
On Thursday, a U.N.-backed inquiry cited Russian attacks against civilians in Ukraine, including systematic torture and killing in occupied regions, among potential issues that amount to war crimes and possibly crimes against humanity.
The sweeping investigation also found crimes committed against Ukrainians on Russian territory, including deported Ukrainian children who were prevented from reuniting with their families, a “filtration” system aimed at singling out Ukrainians for detention, and torture and inhumane detention conditions.
On Friday, the ICC put the face of Putin on the child abduction allegations.
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Woman says foster dog may be euthanized for protecting her
ARLINGTON, Va. (WJLA) - A Virginia woman who fosters dogs is fighting for one of her fosters to live.
Rachel Manu said her foster dog defended himself and protected her from another dog, and now the dog could be euthanized.
The foster dog, Marley, could be euthanized next week.
“The poor baby just wants to be loved. And I think she got into protective mode when that provocation occurred,” Manu said.
Right now, Marley is in a 10-day bite quarantine after an incident. Manu said she was taking her for a walk when another dog, which was harnessed and leashed, got away from its owner and ran over to them barking.
“I bent down to grab the other dog’s leash to pull her away, and that’s when Marley was able to get around me and grab the other dog,” Manu said. “I understand that Marley did go from zero to 60 real fast, but I also feel she wasn’t the initial aggressor in this situation, and she should be given a chance for rehabilitation.”
Over the weekend, she posted a plea on Instagram for people to save Marley, including other shelters or permanent homes with land to roam.
There has been quite a response, with more than 1,000 people signing a petition to save Marley from being put down.
But despite that, Manu said the shelter told her Marley could not be adopted.
“I was very straightly told that she is unadoptable,” Manu said. “They say they are not interested in releasing her to any rescues.”
WJLA reached out to the shelter, The Humane Rescue Alliance in D.C., who said that Marley’s bite could have killed the other dog.
Still, they said the decision has not been made.
“I’m feeling like it’s the response from the public because when I even spoke with the woman yesterday evening it was very much like, this was happening, and she’s sorry that it’s happening, but it’s happening,” Manu said.
The shelter says there was a miscommunication and that options are still being considered.
But there is still a chance Marley could be euthanized in a matter of days.
“I understand the shelter’s concern for public safety, but I also think as animal advocates they should be trying to give Marley the chance that she deserves to live in a home where she can be safe and happy and loved,” Manu said.
There’s no word yet on when the final decision about Marley’s fate will be made.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Uber Eats, DoorDash and Grubhub sued New York City on Thursday to block its new minimum pay rules for food delivery workers.
The recently announced rules, touted as a national first, could nearly triple average earnings for app-based delivery workers in the coming years. An increased pay rate of $17.96 an hour is set to take effect July 12.
New York’s more than 60,000 delivery workers currently make an average of $7.09 an hour, according to the city.
The food delivery services are seeking a temporary restraining order in state Supreme Court in Manhattan to stop the changes from going into effect on July 12. The companies claim the changes would result in higher costs for consumers.
“The city’s entire rule depends on the false assumption that restaurants make no money on deliveries – it must be paused before damaging restaurants, consumers and the couriers it purports to protect,” Uber spokesperson Josh Gold said in a prepared statement.
DoorDash and Grubhub jointly filed a lawsuit. Uber filed its own lawsuit, as did New York-based Relay Delivery.
An email seeking comment was sent to city officials.
In a prepared statement sent to The New York Times, Vilda Vera Mayuga, the commissioner of New York City’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, said delivery workers “deserve fair pay for their labor.”
“These workers brave thunderstorms, extreme heat events and risk their lives to deliver for New Yorkers — and we remain committed to delivering for them,” she said.
Under the new rule, food delivery services will have some flexibility in how they pay new workers. Apps can choose if they want to pay delivery workers per trip, per hour worked or another policy created by the company — as long as earnings meet the minimum pay rate, the city has said. | https://www.ksn.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-food-delivery-services-sue-nyc-over-minimum-pay-rates-for-app-based-workers/ | 2023-07-07 21:34:48 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-food-delivery-services-sue-nyc-over-minimum-pay-rates-for-app-based-workers/ |
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US nominates Ajay Banga for World Bank president
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is nominating former Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga to lead the World Bank. President Joe Biden announced the choice on Thursday, crediting Banga with critical experience on global challenges including climate change. The news comes days after Trump appointee David Malpass announced plans to step down in June from his role leading the 189-nation poverty reduction agency. Malpass ran into criticism last year for comments seeming to cast doubt on the science that says the burning of fossil fuels causes global warming. Malpass later apologized. Biden’s climate envoy, John Kerry, says Banga is “the right choice” for the World Bank role.
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US revises down last quarter’s economic growth to 2.7% rate
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy expanded at a 2.7% annual rate from October through December, a solid showing despite rising interest rates and elevated inflation, the government said in a downgrade from its initial estimate. The government had previously estimated that the economy grew at a 2.9% annual rate last quarter. The Commerce Department’s revised estimate of last quarter’s gross domestic product — the economy’s total output of goods and services — marked a deceleration from the 3.2% growth rate from July through September. While overall growth was solid in the fourth quarter, business spending barely rose, and consumers spent cautiously, suggesting that the economy lost momentum at the end of 2022.
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TikTok banned from EU Commission phones over cybersecurity
LONDON (AP) — The European Union’s executive branch has temporarily banned TikTok from phones used by employees as a cybersecurity measure. The move reflects widening worries from Western officials over the Chinese-owned video sharing app. The European Commission said Thursday that it suspended the use of TikTok on devices issued to staff or personal devices that staff use for work. It follows similar moves in the U.S., where more than half of the states and Congress have banned TikTok from official government devices. European Commission staffers are required to delete TikTok from private devices that they use for professional business by March 15. TikTok’s Brussels-based public policy official tweeted that the suspension “is misguided and based on fundamental misconceptions.”
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Stocks rise on Wall Street and break a 4-day losing streak
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks climbed after a see-saw day on Wall Street to break out of their longest losing streak since December. The S&P 500 rose 0.5% Thursday for its first gain in five days. Tech stocks helped lead the way after Nvidia reported better results for the latest quarter than expected. It’s a turnaround for tech and high-growth stocks, which have struggled recently because of worries about rising interest rates. They’re seen as some of the most vulnerable as the Federal Reserve jacks rates higher in hopes of stamping out inflation. Treasury yields fell Thursday to take some pressure of the stock market.
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Federal authorities arrest Ozy Media founder Carlos Watson
NEW YORK (AP) — The founder of the troubled digital start-up Ozy Media has been arrested on fraud charges as part of what prosecutors say was a scheme to prop up the financially struggling company. Carlos Watson was to be arraigned in a federal court in Brooklyn Thursday afternoon. The company hemorrhaged millions of dollars before it shut down amid revelations of possibly deceptive business practices. The arrest came after two of the company’s top executives pleaded guilty this month to fraud charges. Ozy’s then-chief operating officer, Samir Rao, allegedly impersonated a YouTube executive during a pitch to Goldman Sachs, a potential investor.
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FTX founder faces new charges in rewritten indictment
NEW YORK (AP) — FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried faces additional fraud charges in a rewritten indictment that was unsealed in New York federal court. The new charges were included in an updated indictment unveiled Thursday. It wasn’t known when Bankman-Fried would return to Manhattan for an arraignment. He has already pleaded not guilty to charges that he cheated investors and looted customer deposits at FTX, his cryptocurrency platform. He is free on a $250 million personal recognizance bond. The bail arrangement allows him to live with his parents in Palo Alto, California.
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Beyond Meat beats Q4 forecasts despite flagging sales
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) — Beyond Meat reported better-than-expected fourth quarter sales despite flagging consumer demand and lower prices. The plant-based meat maker said its revenue fell 21% to $80 million in the October-December period. Still, that beat Wall Street’s expectations. Analysts polled by FactSet were forecasting revenue of $75.8 million. Beyond Meat’s shares jumped 13% in after-hours trading. The El Segundo, California, maker of plant-based burgers, sausages, nuggets and other products said sales volumes continued to decline despite price cuts in the U.S. and Europe. The company also said the strong dollar also cut into profits from abroad.
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Boeing plans to end production of ‘Top Gun’ plane in 2025
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Boeing says it expects to end production of the F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet in late 2025. That’s the plane that starred in last year’s movie, “Top Gun: Maverick,” with Tom Cruise playing a Navy pilot. Boeing says it expects to deliver the last F/A-18 to the U.S. Navy, then shut down the assembly line. The company says the plane could get two extra years of production if India puts in an order. The F/A-18 debuted in 1983 from McDonnell Douglas, and more than 2,000 of them have been built since then.
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The S&P 500 rose 21.27 points, or 0.5%, to 4,012.32. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 108.82 points, or 0.3%, to 33,153.91. The Nasdaq composite added 83.33 points, or 0.7%, to 11,590.40. The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies advanced 13.42 points, or 0.7%, to 1,908.09. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/business-highlights-world-bank-nomination-17802269.php | 2023-02-23 22:19:01 | 0 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/business-highlights-world-bank-nomination-17802269.php |
Yellen says bank situation ‘stabilizing,’ system is ‘sound’
WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is trying project calm after regional bank failures, saying the U.S. banking system is “sound” but additional rescue arrangements “could be warranted” if any new failures at smaller institutions pose a risk to financial stability.
Yellen, in an excerpt of remarks prepared for delivery to the American Bankers Association on Tuesday, says that overall “the situation is stabilizing.”
“And the U.S. banking system remains sound,” Yellen says.
Yellen’s remarks come after a series of troubling bank developments this month.
Silicon Valley Bank, based in Santa Clara, California, failed on March 10 after depositors rushed to withdraw money amid anxiety over the bank’s health. It was the second-largest bank collapse in U.S. history. Regulators convened over the following weekend and announced that New York-based Signature Bank also had failed. They said that all depositors at both banks, including those holding uninsured funds, those exceeding $250,000, would be protected by federal deposit insurance.
And last week a third bank, San Francisco-based First Republic Bank, was fortified by $30 billion in funds raised by 11 of the biggest U.S. banks in an attempt to prevent it from collapsing.
The government is now determined to restore public confidence in the banking system and to prevent any more turmoil. The Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission have launched investigations into the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, and President Joe Biden has called on Congress to strengthen rules on regional banks and to impose tougher penalties on executives of failed banks.
Yellen, in her prepared remarks, says the government’s intervention was necessary to “protect the broader banking system” and more rescue efforts could be necessary.
“Similar actions could be warranted if smaller institutions suffer deposit runs that pose the risk of contagion,” she says.
Yellen faced the Senate Finance Committee last week and offered upbeat reassurances to rattled bank depositors and investors that the U.S. banking system “remains sound” and Americans “can feel confident” about the safety of their deposits.
She will appear in front of congressional panels twice more this week, in the Senate and the House, and will inevitably face more questions about the nature of the bank failures and the government’s effort to quell them.
“Let me be clear: The government’s recent actions have demonstrated our resolute commitment to take the necessary steps to ensure that depositors’ savings and the banking system remain safe,” she said.
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There aren’t many places that Meridian junior Kendal Holzinger would rather be than behind the plate on a softball field. But for now, she’s just happy to be anywhere on the softball field, period.
“It feels awesome,” Holzinger said of returning to action for the Mustangs after being sidelined with a knee injury since mid-October. “It’s hard to watch on the sidelines. It feels sometimes that you take it for granted that you are able to do things. To really sit back and watch your friends enjoy all this, and they don’t really understand what you’re going through – it’s tough.”
Holzinger, who has been Meridian’s everyday catcher from the moment she stepped inside the school doors as a freshman, tore the ACL and meniscus in her left knee while warming up for a volleyball match on Oct. 19 and had reparative surgery on Nov. 3, causing her to miss the remainder of the Mustangs’ volleyball season, all of the basketball season, and the first few weeks of the softball season.
She admitted that being forced to sit and watch her teammates was a humbling experience.
“I definitely took my athletic ability for granted (before I got injured),” she said. “Now that I’m back, my mind’s still in the pre(-injury) mode, where I think I can move and jump and do all the things I could do before and move quickly. Now, I can tell that I need to take a step back, take things a little bit easier. It’s really hard for me to move laterally right now, so it’s just a little bit different.”
Although Holzinger still cannot squat well enough to resume her catching duties and has been ordered not to resume catching for a full year after her surgery, she has been a welcome addition to the Mustangs’ lineup and at third base.
“It’s different (playing third base), but I’m really just glad to be out on the field,” she noted. “I’ve been catching since I was 10, and it’s hard, because I’m the type of person that needs to be in the action on every single play.
“It’s a big change, and seeing the ball come off the bat is way different (at third) than being behind the plate,” she added. “ … I miss (catching) every day.”
Meridian softball coach Jamie Smith also misses Holzinger’s experience and durability behind the plate, but she is glad to have one of the elder statesmen on her team back on the field and in the lineup.
“She understands the game, so she helps get cutoffs lined up, which we weren’t doing before, and just her understanding of what to do with the ball, talking with the kids, (is valuable),” said Smith. “Vocally, she’s really helping us right now. Of course, it’s great to get her in the lineup, because she’s not going to strike out very often. She’ll move runners for us.
“Our biggest concern is her running the bases. Other than that, it’s great to have her back,” Smith added, noting with a grin, “Of course, we can’t wait until she’s behind the dish next year.”
According to Holzinger, her extended convalescence was difficult psychologically, even when others would do their best to cheer her up.
“The hardest thing would definitely be people not knowing what you’re going through. They’d be like, ‘Good thing you have next year,’ but I do want to play in college, and your junior year is your big recruiting year,” she said.
“It was hard to hear, ‘Oh, you’ll just get ‘em next year,’ or ‘Oh, you’re fine.’ They just don’t really understand,” she added. “I went to therapy for three days a week for two months, and I wasn’t hanging out with my friends much. I had rehab to do.”
During those trying times, though, Holzinger was continually preparing for the day that she’d be back in the Mustangs’ lineup. That day came about two weeks ago, and she made an immediate impact not only with her leadership but also with her bat.
“I was hitting for about a month before I was cleared (to play). I was feeling good,” she said, adding with a grin, “ … I really tried to get in the (batting) cages and get ahead of it, because I knew that when I was cleared, they were going to just throw me back out there.” | https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/highschool/article/meridian-s-holzinger-feels-awesome-back-18107722.php | 2023-05-19 02:00:35 | 1 | https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/highschool/article/meridian-s-holzinger-feels-awesome-back-18107722.php |
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AUSTIN, Texas, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Officials reported this month that at least eight inmates have died in multiple prisons in Les Cayes, Haiti. The prisons have run out of food and water, adding to the death toll in the already overcrowded prisons this year.
Mission of Hope, a non-profit organization headquartered in Austin, TX is working diligently in response to this horrific news, to ensure inmates in the three local prisons near their Titanyen, Haiti campus do not face the same critical, life-threatening conditions others are facing.
"When we heard this news, we knew we had to do something," said Mission of Hope President Brad Johnson. "In partnership with Convoy of Hope, we are allocating a large distribution of food to prisons. We do not want overcrowded prisons to run out of food and families to get word that their loved ones have died in conditions that should not be tolerated."
The food crisis is not the only issue Haiti is facing right now. The country has been rocked by the 2021 assassination of its president, earthquakes in the south killing over 2,000 people in 2021, as well as increased gang violence that has halted most people from being able to live their normal lives including going to work, church, school, or even the market for essential goods.
Mission of Hope believes that Haiti can be changed, but it starts with educating the next generation. With over 16,000 students in our education network, Mission of Hope is providing a quality, Christ-centered education, and a daily meal to students who might not otherwise be able to eat that day. By educating students and seeing them graduate, their lives are changing and so are their families.
As an organization following Jesus Christ, Mission of Hope exists to bring life transformation to every man, woman, and child. Mission of Hope currently works in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Key West. We believe nations can be transformed one life at a time by focusing on nutrition, education, medical care, and church advancement.
For more information, visit missionofhope.com.
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NFL Week 2 featured plenty of action, and the Buffalo Bills and Philadelphia Eagles flexed their muscles in blowout wins on Monday Night Football. Our experts cashed both of their players props for MNF, hit their pick on the Green Bay Packers -10 and had the correct spread pick for the Lions vs. Commanders matchup. After a great weekend, our experts are back with NFL Week 3 betting picks and odds for Thursday Night Football between the Steelers and Browns, so let’s dive into their analysis.
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Thursday Night Football will feature an AFC North matchup as the Pittsburgh Steelers head to Cleveland to take on the Browns. Both teams struggled in NFL Week 2 as Pittsburgh fell to the New England Patriots at home 17-14, and Cleveland suffered a 31-30 loss to the New York Jets after they gave up two touchdowns in the final 1:30 of the contest. Although they’re both coming off losses, we think their offenses can perform well Thursday night, and our best bet is on over 38.5 points.
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The Browns have allowed 516 passing yards through Weeks 1 and 2 (24th in NFL) and 27.5 points per game (26th in NFL), so Thursday’s contest could be a wake-up call for the Steelers’ passing attack. The total has finished with over 38.5 points in 11 of the last 15 meetings between these teams, and Thursday’s contest seems like the sportsbooks are trying to bait bettors into the under after it hit in Thursday Night Football of Weeks 1 and 2. We don’t predict that will happen, and our best bet is on over 38.5 points.
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HOUSTON, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Chord Energy Corp. (Nasdaq: CHRD) ("Chord" or the "Company") plans to announce its Second Quarter 2022 financial and operational results on Wednesday, August 3, 2022 at market close. Additionally, the Company will host a live webcast and conference call on Thursday, August 4, 2022 at 9:00 a.m. Central Time to discuss Second Quarter 2022 financial and operational results.
A recording of the conference call will be available beginning at 12:00 p.m. Central Time on the day of the call and will be available until Thursday, August 11, 2022 by dialing:
The call will also be available for replay for approximately 30 days at www.chordenergy.com.
Additionally, Chord Energy plans to participate in the following energy conferences and investor events:
About Chord Energy Corp.
Chord Energy Corp. is an independent exploration and production company with quality and sustainable long-lived assets in the Williston Basin. The Company is uniquely positioned with a best-in-class balance sheet and is focused on rigorous capital discipline and generating free cash flow by operating efficiently, safely and responsibly to develop its unconventional onshore oil-rich resources in the continental United States. For more information, please visit the Company's website at www.chordenergy.com.
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MIAMI (AP) — Reggae musician Joseph “Jo Mersa” Marley, Bob Marley’s grandson and Stephen Marley’s son, has died at 31.
His representative confirmed his death to Rolling Stone on Tuesday but a cause of death was not immediately disclosed.
Born in Jamaica and raised in Miami, Marley followed in his family’s musical footsteps, taking the stage with his family’s band, Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers. He began writing music when in middle school and made his musical debut in 2010 with the release of the single “My Girl,” on which he collaborated with his cousin Daniel Bambaata Marley. In 2016, he collaborated on a song with his father for the latter’s album “Revelation Part 2: The Fruit of Life.”
Marley grew up with his musician father and surrounded by Bob Marley’s other children, including uncle Ziggy and aunts Sharon and Cadella.
Jo Mersa Marley spoke of how music enveloped his upbringing in a previous interview with Rolling Stone.
“I would come home and try to do homework, but I’d end up getting distracted and go peek in the studio. You would always want to run in and run out to see what was going on,” he said.
He was intent on creating his own path, and released his own debut album “Eternal” in 2021. He had studied studio engineering at Miami Dade College.
“I am one of the new generation of Marleys, but I am still experimenting at the same time,” he had told Rolling Stone. “My plan is to do something new with my roots.”
News of Marley’s death elicited mourning on social media, including a post from Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness.
“My heartfelt sympathies to Joseph’s friends and associates and to the Reggae music fraternity and fans everywhere,” Holness tweeted Tuesday. “His untimely passing at the young age of 31y.o. is a huge loss to the music as we look to the next generation.” | https://www.kark.com/entertainment-news/ap-joe-mersa-marley-bob-marleys-grandson-dies-at-31/ | 2022-12-29 12:21:21 | 0 | https://www.kark.com/entertainment-news/ap-joe-mersa-marley-bob-marleys-grandson-dies-at-31/ |
BERLIN (AP) — Voters are going to the polls in Germany’s northern state of Bremen on Sunday to decide whether the center-left Social Democrats should continue to run a city they’ve governed since World War II.
The party of Chancellor Olaf Scholz came second behind its conservative rivals for the first time in 70 years at the last election, but retained power with the help of the Greens and Left party.
While recent polls show greater support for the Social Democrats than their challengers from the Christian Democratic Union, both of Mayor Andreas Bovenschulte’s junior coalition partners have lost ground.
The Greens, in particular, have suffered setbacks due to criticism of their energy policies at the national level, where they are in a coalition with the Social Democrats and the libertarian Free Democrats.
Almost 500,000 voters aged 16 and older in Bremen and its North Sea exclave, Bremerhaven, are eligible to cast their ballots. Polls close at 6 p.m. (1600GMT; 12 EDT), after which initial projections based on exit polls and partial vote counts are released. A final tally is not expected before Monday. | https://www.cenlanow.com/international/ap-international/regional-election-in-north-german-state-of-bremen-a-test-for-center-left-alliance/ | 2023-05-15 08:04:58 | 1 | https://www.cenlanow.com/international/ap-international/regional-election-in-north-german-state-of-bremen-a-test-for-center-left-alliance/ |
24 people ‘closely affiliated’ with gang indicted for CARES Act fraud, prosecutor says
SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA/Gray News) - U.S. Attorney Brandon B. Brown announced the unsealing of an indictment related to Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act fraud involving a Shreveport gang on Tuesday
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act was created to help business owners suffering during the COVID-19 pandemic, but Brown said individuals and groups reportedly collaborated and used false information to complete paperwork to get the funds and purchase firearms.
He said they were able to receive anywhere from $20,000 to $200,000.
“There’s no secret that the Shreveport community is suffering from a violent crime epidemic,” said Brown.
He said 23 of 24 people who are part of or closely affiliated with the gang SOD were arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The prosecution is under way for those individuals.
The 24th person, Rodriguez Henry, is currently considered a fugitive.
They could face up to five years in prison, three years of supervised release and up to a fine of $25,000.
“We will use all of the tools on our tool belt to help make our community safer,” said Brown.
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STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) — Residents of Stockton, California, were able to rest easier following the weekend arrest of a man suspected of killing six men and wounding a woman in a series of shootings over a period of three months in Northern California, the city’s mayor said Sunday.
Mayor Kevin Lincoln said he shed tears of relief when he was informed that the suspect who police believe had terrorized Stockton since July was taken into custody around 2 a.m. Saturday.
Wesley Brownlee was dressed in black, wore a mask around his neck, had a handgun and “was out hunting” for another possible victim when he was arrested while driving around the Central Valley city, where five of the shootings took place, Police Chief Stanley McFadden said at a Saturday news conference.
“The city was able to sleep a little bit better last night,” Lincoln said Sunday morning. “No resident of this city should have to walk around town looking over their shoulder in fear.”
The mayor credited residents of Stockton who called in hundreds of tips to investigators that eventually led to the arrest of the 43-year-old suspect.
It wasn’t immediately clear on Sunday whether Brownlee, of Stockton, had an attorney to speak on his behalf. He was expected to be arraigned Tuesday on murder charges.
“This person caused a lot of hurt, caused a lot of trauma,” Lincoln said. “My prayer, my hope, as mayor is that our community begins the process of healing as a result of the serial killings.”
Police had been searching for a man clad in black who was caught on video at several of the crime scenes in Stockton, where five men were ambushed and shot to death between July 8 and Sept. 27. Four were walking, and one was in a parked car.
Police believe the same person was responsible for killing a man 70 miles (113 kilometers) away in Oakland in April 2021 and wounding a homeless woman in Stockton a week later.
Investigators have said ballistics tests and video evidence linked the crimes. A police photo showed the black-and-gray weapon allegedly carried by the suspect. It appeared to be a semi-automatic handgun containing some nonmetallic materials.
At Saturday’s news conference, a moment of silence was held for the victims.
Juan Vasquez Serrano, 39, was killed in Oakland on April 10, 2021, and Natasha LaTour, 46, was shot in Stockton on April 16 of that year but survived. The five men killed in Stockton this year were Paul Yaw, 35, who died July 8; Salvador Debudey Jr., 43, who died Aug. 11; Jonathan Hernandez Rodriguez, 21, who died Aug. 30; Juan Cruz, 52, who died Sept. 21; and Lawrence Lopez Sr., 54, who died Sept. 27.
Police said Brownlee has a criminal history and is believed to have also lived in several cities near Stockton, but they did not give further details.
After receiving hundreds of tips, investigators located and watched the place where Brownlee was living.
“Based on tips coming into the department and Stockton Crime Stoppers, we were able to zero in on a possible suspect,” McFadden said. “Our surveillance team followed this person while he was driving.”
Investigators watched his patterns and determined that he was out searching for another victim, the chief said.
“We are sure we stopped another killing,” he said.
McFadden added that Brownlee was detained after engaging in what appeared to be threatening behavior, including going to parks and dark places, stopping and looking around before driving on.
Investigators were still processing evidence and trying to identify a motive for the attacks, Officer Joseph Silva, a police spokesperson, said Sunday. Police said some victims were homeless, but not all. None were beaten or robbed, and the woman who survived said her attacker didn’t say anything.
The police chief thanked various local, state and federal agencies that took part in the investigation, including the FBI, U.S. Marshals and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
Local investigators had also worked with police in Chicago to determine whether the killings might be linked to two 2018 murders in that city’s Rogers Park neighborhood. Authorities said videos of suspects showed a man in black with a distinctive walk.
However, Chicago police said Friday that there didn’t appear to be any link. | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/national/ap-california-city-rests-easier-after-serial-killings-arrest/ | 2022-10-17 18:04:09 | 0 | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/national/ap-california-city-rests-easier-after-serial-killings-arrest/ |
FREMONT, Mich. (WOOD) — A family missing from Fremont, Michigan, has been found in Wisconsin, the Fremont Police Chief said.
According to police, the family was found late Sunday morning in Steven’s Point, Wisconsin, a roughly 450-mile drive from their home.
Anthony and Suzette Cirigliano, both 51, and their sons, ages 19 and 15, went missing on Oct. 16 after Anthony Cirigliano called 911 asking for protection.
“It is related to September 11th and people want to erase me from the face of the Earth,” he told a dispatcher. “I am not crazy.”
Now that the family has been found, the Fremont Police Department has closed its investigation.
Police said Sunday “the elements of the investigation do not meet the criteria for protective custody.”
The family left behind Suzette Cirigliano’s mother, who has dementia and needs full-time care. She was found walking around the neighborhood Monday night. She is now in the care of other family members.
On Monday, the family was spotted at a gas station in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, nearly 300 miles from their Fremont home.
Relatives told Nexstar’s WOOD that police told them the family was last known to be in Iron Mountain on Tuesday and Wednesday, near the Michigan/Wisconsin border. Stevens Point, where the family was found, is roughly 150 miles south of Iron Mountain in central Wisconsin.
It’s roughly 565 miles to drive from Fremont, north into the Upper Peninsula and to Iron Mountain, then south to Stevens Point. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/top-stories/missing-michigan-family-found-hundreds-of-miles-from-home/ | 2022-10-23 21:21:49 | 1 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/top-stories/missing-michigan-family-found-hundreds-of-miles-from-home/ |
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mountain Commerce Bancorp, Inc. (the "Company") (OTCQX: MCBI), the holding company for Mountain Commerce Bank (the "Bank"), today announced that it established a senior revolving line of credit in the maximum amount of $20 million with a financial institution. This line of credit replaces the existing senior term loan with a current balance of $10 million that was due to mature on April 10, 2023.
Pursuant to the terms of the loan and security agreement, the line of credit will mature on August 1, 2025 and bear interest at a per annum rate equal to the Prime Rate in effect from time to time minus .50 percent (50 bps), subject to a floor rate of 3.50%. Interest only payments on the line of credit are due quarterly, with remaining principal amounts due at maturity. A non-use fee of .10 percent (10 bps) will be assessed if the principal amount declines below $10 million. The Company's obligations under the line of credit are secured by a pledge of 100% of the stock of the Bank and are subject to terms and covenants similar to the existing senior term loan. The Company intends to use the available balance of the line of credit to support the operations of the Bank and for general corporate purposes.
About Mountain Commerce Bank
Mountain Commerce Bank is a state-chartered financial institution headquartered in Knoxville, TN. The Bank traces its history back over a century and serves Middle and East Tennessee through 6 branches located in Brentwood, Erwin, Johnson City, Knoxville and Unicoi. The Bank focuses on responsive relationship banking of small and medium-sized businesses, professionals, affluent individuals, and those who value the personal service and attention that only a community bank can offer. For further information, please visit us at www.mcb.com.
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Celtics vs. Heat: Odds, spread, over/under and other Vegas lines - Eastern Conference Finals Game 3
The Boston Celtics and the Miami Heat will match up in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Finals.
In this article, you can find the spread and odds across multiple sportsbooks for the Celtics vs. Heat matchup.
Celtics vs. Heat Game Info
- Date: Sunday, May 21, 2023
- Time: 8:30 PM ET
- How to Watch on TV: TNT
- Location: Miami, Florida
- Venue: FTX Arena
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Celtics vs. Heat Odds, Spread, Over/Under
Here's a look at the odds, spread and over/under for this matchup available at several sportsbooks.
Celtics vs Heat Additional Info
Celtics vs. Heat Betting Trends
- The Celtics average 117.9 points per game (fourth in the league) while giving up 111.4 per outing (fourth in the NBA). They have a +535 scoring differential overall and outscore opponents by 6.5 points per game.
- The Heat score 109.5 points per game (30th in NBA) and allow 109.8 (second in league) for a -26 scoring differential overall.
- These two teams score 227.4 points per game combined, 12.9 more than this game's total.
- Opponents of these teams score 221.2 combined points per game, 6.7 more points than this matchup's over/under.
- Boston has won 45 games against the spread this season, while failing to cover or pushing 37 times.
- Miami has compiled a 30-48-4 record against the spread this season.
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ARLINGTON, Va., Oct. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, The American Diabetes Association® (ADA) announced its recognition as a winner in the 2022 Sharecare Awards in the category of chronic diseases for The Big Step Up: Detection that encourages people to take the big step up for their health. Sharecare, in association with The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, New York Chapter (NY NATAS), the Sharecare Awards promote and reward excellence for the best productions and programming in health and well-being.
Each year for Diabetes Awareness Month, the ADA curates a national campaign geared towards motivating, educating, and empowering people living with diabetes. In partnership with 50 films and Rustler & Co., the ADA developed a video for the 2021 Diabetes Awareness Month that showcases real-life and impactful stories to highlight how diabetes affects millions of people. We are also excited to unveil this year's campaign to empower those living with diabetes for the 2022 Diabetes Awareness Month that we produced in cooperation with the same team. Go to www.diabetes.org/hitsdifferent on November, 1st to learn more.
The American Diabetes Association is one of 15 winners in the fourth annual Sharecare Awards across a range of categories, from chronic conditions to community health. During the month of October, each category winner will be featured on Sharecare's LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter channels under the hashtag #SharecareAwards and alongside a range of health and well-being influencers and celebrity activists, including: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony award-winning actress Rita Moreno; NBA Hall of Famer Dominique Wilkins; and CNN correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, among others.
"Winning The Sharing Care Award helps recognize the hard work and dedication that the ADA always strives to provide for the 133 million Americans living with diabetes or prediabetes. We appreciate this recognition and support from all of you, and we hope to continue to provide those living with diabetes the resources and tools to thrive, because we are all Connected for Life," said Sabrena Pringle, VP of communications for the ADA. "If you need help managing your diabetes, we encourage you to visit diabetes.org."
Entries were judged by the Sharecare Awards Academy of Judges – a curated team of leading healthcare and media professionals with expertise in each of the competition categories. The Sharecare Award in each category was determined after a second round of judging by the deans of the Academy of Judges and a committee of additional experts.
"In an extremely competitive fourth year, each of our finalists delivered inspiring content, productions, and programs that exemplify the commitment to education, awareness, and inspired action that the Sharecare Awards were founded to recognize," said Donna Hill Howes, chief nursing officer and senior vice president of corporate partnerships at Sharecare. "We now take great pleasure in using our platform to showcase the best-in-class work of our winners across categories that represent the diversity of experiences shaping consumers' health and lives today."
The Sharecare Awards is operated through the Sharecare Foundation, a nonprofit entity that Sharecare established solely in support of this awards program, with the support of its generous sponsors and in association with NY NATAS, which fosters creativity and inspires artistic and technical excellence through the renowned Emmy® Award. More information about the Sharecare Awards is available at https://sharecareawards.org.
About the American Diabetes Association
The American Diabetes Association (ADA) is the nation's leading voluntary health organization fighting to bend the curve on the diabetes epidemic and help people living with diabetes thrive. For 82 years, the ADA has driven discovery and research to treat, manage, and prevent diabetes while working relentlessly for a cure. Through advocacy, program development, and education we aim to improve the quality of life for the over 133 million Americans living with diabetes or prediabetes. Diabetes has brought us together. What we do next will make us Connected for Life. To learn more or to get involved, visit us at diabetes.org or call 1-800-DIABETES (1-800-342-2383). Join the fight with us on Facebook (American Diabetes Association), Spanish Facebook (Asociación Americana de la Diabetes), LinkedIn (American Diabetes Association), Twitter (@AmDiabetesAssn), and Instagram (@AmDiabetesAssn).
About The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, New York Chapter
The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, New York Chapter, founded in 1955, is the preeminent membership organization serving media professionals by offering career enhancing events and networking opportunities. New York NATAS fosters creativity and inspires artistic and technical excellence through the renowned Emmy® Award, the coveted peer-recognition symbol of distinction in regional television.
About Sharecare
Sharecare is the digital health company that helps people manage all their health in one place. The Sharecare platform provides each person – no matter where they are in their health journey – with a comprehensive and personalized health profile where they can dynamically and easily connect to the information, evidence-based programs and health professionals they need to live their healthiest, happiest and most productive lives. In addition to providing individual consumers with direct access to award-winning and innovative frictionless technologies, scientifically validated clinical protocols and best-in-class coaching tools, Sharecare also helps providers, employers and health plans effectively scale outcomes-based health and wellness solutions across their entire populations. To learn more, visit www.sharecare.com.
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Hawaii wins Little League title, beating Curacao 13-3
For a week and a half at the Little League World Series, no team came close to Hawaii. The championship Sunday was no different.
Hawaii got back-to-back homers from Kekoa Payanal and Kama Angell in the first inning, sparking a 13-3 win in just four innings over Curacao.
The LLWS title is Hawaii’s fourth. It won in 2018 and this same Honolulu team finished third last year, when COVID-19 travel restrictions prevented international teams from participating.
How good was Hawaii? In six games, all victories, the closest margin was four runs. Hawaii outscored opponents 60-5.
“We’re fortunate that everything clicked at the right moment,” Hawaii Manager Gerald Oda said. “I’m very grateful that these kids played loose and relaxed.”
Part of that run was without Oda, who missed several games with COVID-19. Oda also managed Hawaii’s 2018 team.
“After 2018, I thought the next time I came to Williamsport was going to be as a spectator,” he said. “I never thought in my wildest dreams I’d be back in 2022 coaching a team.”
Hawaii starter Jaron Lancaster was dominant once again Sunday as he threw all four innings, while only allowing three runs, three hits and striking out 10 Curacao hitters.
“I knew Curacao was going to be a great team,” Jaron said. “My mindset was to go out there, do my best and do my thing. I know my offense and defense got my back.”
Jaron’s father, James Lancaster, said all the work that went into the title run was worth it.
“It’s been a rough ride,” said Lancaster, whose family lives about 4,800 miles from central Pennsylvania. “We haven’t been home in over a month.”
Curacao took the first lead of any team over Hawaii in the tournament when Davey Jay-Rijke led off the game with what looked like a bloop single, but he bolted on to second when neither middle infielder were covering that bag. Davey-Jay eventually came around to score on a wild pitch.
“Sooner or later, someone’s going to score,” Oda said. “We told our kids to keep fighting and battling. It’s going to be a great day.”
Hawaii only trailed for a few minutes. A home run from lead-off hitter Kekoa to left field, and a shot by Kama that barely cleared the wall in center, reignited the Hawaii side and put the team from the West region up 2-1. It also chased Curacao starter Shemar Jacobus.
“Any time when someone can score a run that’s huge,” Oda said. “When someone hits a home run, the whole team gets excited and lifts everyone’s spirits.”
The game ended in the fourth inning when Kama hit a single down the left-field line that scored Esaiah Wong to clinch the victory and another championship for Hawaii.
Under Little League rules, a team wins if it is leading by 10 runs or more after four innings.
“I saw the ball go down and I saw coach sending in Ruston (Hiyoto),” Kama said. “I was very emotional. It was the best time I had in my life.”
Curacao sits at one title, which came back in 2004. But the team from a small Caribbean island with a population about the size of Springfield, Massachusetts, made it to the final in 2019 as well as this year.
“I’m so proud of these guys,” said Curacao Manager Zaino Everett, whose team won five elimination games to get to the title game. “We are a champion and the second team in the whole world. Nobody expected us to be here.”
After the trophy presentation and news conference were over, and most fans were gone, the Hawaii players celebrated their title in just the way a bunch of 10-to-12-year-old boys would. They went sliding on cardboard sheets down the big hill behind Lamade Stadium. | https://www.wbaltv.com/article/hawaii-wins-little-league-title-beating-curacao/41011065 | 2022-08-29 02:49:19 | 0 | https://www.wbaltv.com/article/hawaii-wins-little-league-title-beating-curacao/41011065 |
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman met with her counterparts from South Korea and Japan on Wednesday, emphasizing the U.S. commitment to defend its allies and trilateral security cooperation to confront an accelerating nuclear threat from North Korea.
The latest top-level meetings among the countries came as North Korea apparently presses ahead with preparations for its first nuclear test explosion in nearly five years, which U.S. officials say could occur in the coming days.
After a meeting in Seoul, Sherman and the South Korean and Japanese vice foreign ministers issued a joint statement condemning North Korea’s provocative streak in weapons demonstrations this year and pledging closer security cooperation to curb the growing threats.
The statement said Sherman reaffirmed “steadfast” U.S. commitments to the defense of South Korea and Japan, including “extended deterrence,” referring to an assurance to defend its allies with its full military capabilities, including nuclear.
“The United States, the Republic of Korea and Japan are fully and closely aligned on the DPRK,” Sherman said in a news conference, using the initials of North Korea’s official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
Sherman noted that North Korea since last September has significantly increased the pace and scale of its ballistic launches, posing a “serious threat” to security in the region and beyond, and urged Pyongyang to cease taking “these provocative and destabilizing actions and to commit to the path of diplomacy.”
Following the meeting, South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun-dong met separately with Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Takeo Mori and they were in agreement about an “urgent” need to improve bilateral relations, their ministries said.
South Korea and Japan had engaged in a highly public feud in recent years over trade and Japan’s brutal colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula before the end of World War II, which included wartime industrial and sexual slavery of Koreans. The Biden administration has been pressing Seoul and Tokyo to repair ties to shore up a united front against the North Korean nuclear threat and China’s rising influence in the region.
Mori also held separate talks with Sherman where they agreed to maintain and strengthen sanctions against Russia over its war on Ukraine and work more closely to address challenges related to China, Japan’s Foreign Ministry said.
Jolting an old pattern of brinkmanship, North Korea has already set an annual record in ballistic launches through the first six months of 2022, firing 31 missiles over 18 test events, including its first demonstrations of intercontinental ballistic missiles since 2017.
The unusually fast pace in testing activity underscores authoritarian leader Kim Jong Un’s dual intent to advance his arsenal and pressure the Biden administration over long-stalled negotiations aimed at leveraging its nukes for economic and security concessions, experts say.
Sherman’s visit to Asia came after North Korea in its biggest-ever single-day testing event launched eight ballistic missiles into the sea from multiple locations on Sunday, prompting the U.S. and its Asian allies to respond with tit-for-tat missile launches and aerial demonstrations involving dozens of fighter jets.
A nuclear test would further escalate North Korea’s pressure campaign and could possibly allow the country to claim it acquired the technologies to build a bomb small enough to be clustered on a multi-warhead ICBM or on Kim’s broad range of shorter-range weapons threatening South Korea and Japan.
South Korean and U.S. officials have said the North has all but finished preparations for a detonation at its nuclear testing ground in the remote northeastern town of Punggye-ri, an assessment backed by the International Atomic Energy, which says there are indications that one of the site’s passages has been reopened. The site had been inactive since hosting the country’s sixth nuclear test in September 2017, when it claimed it detonated a thermonuclear bomb designed for its ICBMs.
North Korea will likely time the test to maximize political effect and some analysts say it could take place around a major conference of the ruling Workers’ Party that has been vaguely scheduled for the first half of June.
North Korea’s state media said Wednesday that Politburo members met a day earlier to discuss the agenda for an upcoming plenary meeting of the party’s Central Committee that has been called by Kim to review major state affairs, including national efforts to slow a COVID-19 outbreak. He may also use the meeting to address his nuclear weapons ambitions and external relations with Washington and Seoul, experts say.
Kim’s absence from Tuesday’s preparatory meeting suggests that he’s focused on supervising preparations for North Korea’s seventh nuclear test and drafting his speeches for the plenary, said analyst Cheong Seong-Chang at South Korea’s Sejong Institute.
The North Korean party’s previous plenary in December lasted for a record five days and saw Kim repeat his vow to boost his country’s military capabilities and order the production of more powerful and sophisticated weapons systems.
Nuclear talks between the U.S. and North Korea have stalled since 2019 because of disagreements over an easing of crippling U.S.-led sanctions in exchange for North Korean disarmament steps, which underscored Kim’s unwillingness to give away an arsenal he sees as his strongest guarantee of survival.
___ Associated Press writer Mari Yamaguchi in Tokyo contributed to the report. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/international/us-stresses-allied-cooperation-in-face-of-n-korea-threats/ | 2022-06-08 23:40:32 | 0 | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/international/us-stresses-allied-cooperation-in-face-of-n-korea-threats/ |
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — To Ja Morant, the answer was a slam dunk. His ferocious jam Saturday night was his best one yet.
“Yeah, easy,” he said, because of its difficulty, when asked if it topped his rapidly expanding collection of sensational slams. “It’s what everybody has been waiting for. I finally made it.”
Morant’s dunk came in the third quarter of the Memphis Grizzlies’ 130-112 victory over the Indiana Pacers. He drove left into the middle of the lane, put the ball in his right hand and pulled his arm far back to easily throw it down over leaping Pacers big man Jalen Smith.
Teammates jumped off the bench in excitement and reaction followed quickly on social media, with Morant admiring his work with his own tweet — and warning to fellow players — following the game.
“Jump with me if you want to go viral,” he wrote over a tweet from the NBA’s account showing multiple angles of the dunk.
The No. 2 pick in the 2019 draft quickly emerged as one of the NBA’s highest flyers and has gone on to become one of its best players. The 2020 Rookie of the Year was a first-time All-Star last season and was voted the winner of the Most Improved Player player.
He would seem a shoe-in to win another award, the trophy for the slam dunk contest, if he ever entered the event at the NBA’s All-Star weekend.
Cleveland’s Donovan Mitchell, the 2018 winner, called on Morant to show his skills in Salt Lake City with a response to Morant’s tweet.
“Bruh just do the … dunk contest,” he wrote.
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Early Sunday morning in Fort Worth, a male sufferer was once fatally shot, in step with police studies.
Fort Worth officials knowledgeable WFAA that the sufferer have been found out with a gunshot wound to his torso. Despite being transported to a scientific facility for scientific consideration, he was once declared lifeless.
The police have not begun to unlock the identify of the sufferer.
The incident happened all the way through a “large party” the place the sufferer and the suspect engaged in a verbal argument, in step with officers. The suspect then pulled out a weapon and it sounds as if fired a number of rounds, putting the sufferer at least one occasions with a bullet.
The suspect fled the scene sooner than any emergency staff arrived at the scene.
No further information is available at this time in regards to the deadly shooting in Fort Worth. | https://blackchronicle.com/deadly-shooting-at-fort-worth-texas-party/ | 2023-04-30 19:32:44 | 1 | https://blackchronicle.com/deadly-shooting-at-fort-worth-texas-party/ |
CEDARHURST, N.Y., July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The securities litigation law firm of Kuznicki Law PLLC issues this alert to shareholders of Okta, Inc. ("Okta" or the "Company") (NasdaqGS: OKTA), if they purchased the Company's securities between March 5, 2021 and March 22, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). Shareholders have until July 19, 2022 to file lead plaintiff applications in the securities class action lawsuit.
Shareholders are encouraged to contact us at https://kclasslaw.com/cases/securities/okta-inc-nasdaqgs-okta/, by calling toll-free at 1-833-835-1495 or by email (dk@kclasslaw.com).
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OWINGS MILLS, Md., June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In its 37th year of honoring the nation's most elite high school athletes, Gatorade today announced Jacob Murrell of McDonogh School in Owings Mills, Md. is the 2021-22 Gatorade National Boys Soccer Player of the Year. Murrell won the prestigious award for his accomplishments on and off the field, joining an impressive group of former Gatorade National Boys Soccer Players of the Year who have combined for 12 National Championships and 13 MLS first round draft picks.
Murrell was surprised with the trophy by his family, coaches and teammates at school. Check out a video of the announcement here.
The award, which recognizes not only outstanding athletic excellence, but also high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character demonstrated on and off the field, distinguishes Murrell as the nation's best high school boys soccer player. The Gatorade Player of the Year Selection Committee, which leverages experts including coaches, scouts, media and others to evaluate candidates, selected Murrell from nearly half a million other student-athletes who play boys soccer nationwide.
Competition for the national award was fierce. Murrell topped the list of state winners in boys soccer who collectively boast an incredible list of accomplishments, including 16 First Team All-State honorees, 25 who are committed to play soccer at Division I colleges/universities and 18 with a GPA of 4.0 and above.
"Jacob delivered one of the most amazing seasons in MIAA history under odd circumstances," said Sheldon Shealer, national editor of prepsoccer.com. "McDonogh opted out of organized team athletics in the fall of 2020, so he entered his senior season with only two years of playing defender under his belt at the high school level. While his club success (with Pipeline SC) gave us insight that he could be a significant high school player this past season, I don't think anyone could have foreseen him scoring 41 goals in a highly competitive league where 20 goals is considered exceptional. He is a gifted athlete and exceptionally hard worker with a rare combination of pace and strength, but he also has the ability to be clinical on his finishes. He can score in so many ways, beating defenders and keepers 1v1, scoring from distance, scoring with placement and/or power, or scoring on crosses. He carried a very inexperienced team to a runner-up finish in one of the nation's strongest high school leagues."
The 6-foot-2, 175-pound senior forward scored 41 goals and passed for 20 assists this past season, leading the Eagles (21-3) to the Maryland Independent Athletic Association Class A state tournament championship game. Murrell compiled 12 multi-goal games, including four hat tricks and four four-goal games. The Baltimore Sun All-Metro Player of the Year and a United Soccer Coaches High School All-American selection, he was named to the game's Best XI at the High School All-American Game in December.
Murrell has volunteered locally with the Char Hope Foundation, dedicated to helping adults in the Maryland agricultural community who are facing the challenges of substance abuse. He has also donated his time as a youth soccer coach.
Murrell has maintained a B-plus average in the classroom. He has signed a National Letter of Intent to play soccer on scholarship at Georgetown University this fall.
"Having served athlete communities for decades, Gatorade understands how sports instill valuable lifelong skills on and off the field," said Gatorade Senior Vice President and General Manager Brett O'Brien. "It's clear Jacob Murrell is a leader, role model and team player in all areas of life, which is why we are confident in his selection as this year's winner and his ability to continue driving change in and out of sport in the future."
Each year, a selection committee evaluates the nation's top talent to choose one state winner from each of the 50 states as well as Washington D.C., in 12 different sports: football, girls volleyball, boys and girls cross country, boys and girls basketball, baseball, softball, boys and girls soccer, and boys and girls track & field. In all, 608 athletes are honored each year. From the pool of state winners, one national winner is selected in each of the 12 sports.
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Jen Shah is opening up about her legal troubles and addressing her previous comments about wanting to bring Kim Kardashian onto her legal team.
The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star recently sat down for a tearful, two-part interview with the YouTube series Up and Adam, and spoke with host Adam Newell about her drive to fight the charges against her.
"I'm fighting for my freedom," Shah, 48, shared in the emotional interview. "I'm innocent. I'm not guilty of any of these charges that I've been accused of. I'm innocent."
Shah is facing federal charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering in an alleged long-running telemarketing scam. The reality star pleaded not guilty in April.
"To me, this is the only option for me, is to fight, to show everybody out there, who was so quick to jump on the bandwagon and make assumptions, that you know what? I'm innocent," she added. "You fight to vindicate your name, and your family's name. I'm fighting for my family."
To this end, Shah said she wasn't joking when she said she wanted Kardashian -- a longtime advocate for criminal justice reform and the Innocent Project -- to be a part of her legal team.
"I was being very serious when I mentioned Kim Kardashian, because I respect Kim Kardashian for the work that she has done. I am grateful for the work she has done for the Black people that have been wrongly accused, that have been imprisoned, that she has fought for, that she has lobbied for, that she has gone to the White House to fight with, alongside their family, to get people out," Shah shared. "These are people that should never be there. She took time to do that, and I respect that. I look up to her for that."
Shah also said she knows how hard Kardashian has been working to pursue her legal passion, and respects her hard work.
"I supported my husband through law school. I saw how grueling that is. I know what it's like to watch somebody prepare for the bar exam, you know?" she explained. "And I believe she did it to further help people and be on the right side of justice, and I admire that."
That being said, Shah noted that, even without Kardashian on board, she has "the utmost faith in my legal team right now."
Ultimately, Shah said she feels that her determination to prove her innocence will pay off.
"If you do the right thing, then eventually the right thing is going to happen and you will be blessed, and I don't know why I'm going through this or my family's going through this, but I don't question a lot. I don't question God's plan," she said. "There is a reason for this and I just feel like I need to set an example for others, that you fight. You fight your a** off for your freedom."
For more on Shah's ongoing legal woes, check out the video below.
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LORETTO, Pa. (AP) — Josh Cohen scored 31 points as Saint Francis (PA) beat Fairleigh Dickinson 82-72 on Thursday night.
Cohen shot 11 of 12 from the field and 9 for 13 from the line for the Red Flash (12-16, 9-6 Northeast Conference). Maxwell Land scored 24 points while shooting 8 for 12 (4 for 6 from 3-point range) and 4 of 4 from the free throw line, and added five rebounds. Cam Gregory recorded 11 points and was 2 of 4 shooting and 6 of 7 from the free throw line.
Grant Singleton led the Knights (16-14, 9-6) in scoring, finishing with 20 points. Joe Munden Jr. added 14 points and eight rebounds for Fairleigh Dickinson. In addition, Sean Moore had 13 points and two steals.
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Both teams next play Saturday. Saint Francis (PA) hosts Wagner while Fairleigh Dickinson hosts Saint Francis (BKN).
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(Our Auto Expert) — I first drove the BMW i4 in Germany just about a year ago, and I can tell you. This is the first electric car I really, really wanted to own. It was designed not to look like an electric car but to look like every other BMW. It just happened to be electric. If you weren’t quite sure because you thought electric cars were beaten with the ugly stick. This might be the electric car you should have in your driveway.
Let’s be honest. BMW has created quite a few problems with categories of cars. The i4 is not a sedan. It’s not a coupe because it doesn’t have two doors. Although some would argue that you can have a four-door coupe, and it’s not a hatch bag because it doesn’t have a parcel shelf that lifts out. However you classify this car, it is very sexy.
There are a couple of things that are a giveaway on this vehicle. That tells you that it’s an electric BMW. First of all, it doesn’t need cooling because it doesn’t have an ice engine, so the grill is sealed. Second of all, there is blue around the BMW logo. It comes with two or three different options. This vehicle ranges between 250-ish and 300 miles, depending on your configurations. Apart from that, this vehicle is pretty straightforward for ordering. The bad news is, it’s so popular you might be waiting well, over a year.
BMW thought of everything. One of the other things I like is having a driveway with multiple cars in it. I can drive into the driveway, and then, when I’m into the driveway, I can actually Park the vehicle. If I wish, I can hit back up assistant here and take my hands off the wheel, and the vehicle will back out exactly the same way that I came in, and it will do all the turning.
So it’s using the wheel to back out the same way that I came in, and it will back out onto the street exactly how I came into the vehicle. All the way out, the way I came in, and all I’m doing is controlling the break. So I did nothing, and I’m exactly back where I started on the street, and that’s an absolute piece of brilliance. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/automotive/what-kind-of-car-is-the-bmw-i4/ | 2022-08-01 22:48:48 | 0 | https://www.texomashomepage.com/automotive/what-kind-of-car-is-the-bmw-i4/ |
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
5-0-8
(five, zero, eight)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
5-0-8
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Life in Russia and Ukraine has changed one year into the war. China wants the war to end as soon as possible. Plus, doctors are looking for options as an abortion medication's access is at risk.
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Life in Russia and Ukraine has changed one year into the war. China wants the war to end as soon as possible. Plus, doctors are looking for options as an abortion medication's access is at risk.
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An owner of several funeral homes on Long Island was arrested Wednesday on charges that he sprayed wasp killer at police officers and attacked journalists — including an Associated Press photographer — during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, authorities said.
Peter G. Moloney, 58, of Bayport, New York, faces numerous charges, including civil disorder and assaulting police officers, according to court documents. He was expected to make an initial court appearance in New York later Wednesday.
There was no lawyer listed for him yet in the court docket. A woman who answered the phone at Moloney Family Funeral Homes, where he is listed as co-owner, said they had no comment.
An FBI agent wrote in court papers that Moloney appears to have come to the Capitol “prepared for violence,” with protective eyewear, a helmet and a can of insecticide — wasp, hornet & yellow jacket killer. Monoley was seen at the Capitol with a colleague, who authorities did not identify publicly.
Video shows Moloney spraying the insecticide at officers who were desperately trying to beat back the angry mob and protect the Capitol, the agent wrote.
Authorities say video also shows Moloney participating in an attack on a AP photographer, who was documenting the violence at the Capitol. Moloney grabbed the AP photographer’s camera and pulled, causing the photographer to stumble down the stairs, the agent wrote. Moloney was then seen “punching and shoving” the photographer before other rioters pushed the photographer over a wall, the agent wrote.
Authorities say Moloney also grabbed another media member’s camera, causing that journalist to stumble down the stairs.
More than 1,000 people have been charged with federal crimes in the riot that halted the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory, and authorities continue to regularly make arrests more than two years later. Authorities are still working to identity a slew of rioters seen on camera storming the Capitol or engaging in violence.
Nearly 600 of them have pleaded guilty to riot-related charges, while more than 100 others have been convicted by judges or juries. More than 500 have been sentenced, with over half getting terms of imprisonment ranging from seven days to 18 years.
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is lucid, conscious and stable but his condition remains serious, the Vatican said Thursday, a day after it revealed that the 95-year-old’s health had deteriorated recently.
A statement from Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said Pope Francis asked for continued prayers “to accompany him in these difficult hours.”
On Wednesday Francis revealed that Benedict was “very ill” and went to see Benedict at his home in the Vatican Gardens where he has lived since retiring in 2013, sparking fears that he was near death.
The Vatican later said Benedict’s health had deteriorated in recent hours but that the situation was under control as doctors monitored him.
Benedict in 2013 became the first pope in 600 years to retire, and he chose to live out his retirement in seclusion in a converted monastery in the Vatican Gardens. Few had expected his retirement — now in its 10th year — to last longer than his eight-year reign as pope.
Bruni said Thursday that Benedict “managed to rest well last night, is absolutely lucid and conscious and today, while his condition remains grave, the situation at the moment is stable.”
“Pope Francis renews the invitation to pray for him and accompany him in these difficult hours,” he said.
Responding to that call, the diocese of Rome scheduled a special Mass in honor of Benedict on Friday at St. John Lateran, Benedict’s former basilica in his capacity as the bishop of Rome.
Word of Benedict’s declining health immediately posed questions about what would happen when he dies, given the unprecedented reality of having a reigning pope presumably presiding over the funeral of a former pope.
Most Vatican experts expect any funeral would resemble that for any retired bishop of Rome, albeit with the caveat that there would be official delegations to honor a former head of state, as well as pilgrims from Germany — homeland of Benedict, the former Joseph Ratzinger — and beyond.
While St. Peter’s Square was mostly filled with visitors from abroad on Thursday — during peak Christmas tourist season — some Italians were out to pay their respects or at least offer a prayer.
“Obviously it is a bad situation, we are all close to Pope Ratzinger, we are sad about the situation, so we came here to make our small contribution,” said one pilgrim, Giorgio Gibin.
Another visitor to the square, Anna Małcka, noted Benedict’s advanced age and wished him well.
“I think by now he has lived about long enough, poor thing, and since he is sick, he is not well, if God wishes, he will take him away,” she said.
Otherwise, while the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano headlined its Thursday editions with news of Benedict’s health, life continued as normal in the tiny city-state that Benedict and Pope Francis call home.
Francis had a seemingly routine day of audiences Thursday, meeting with his ambassador to Madagascar, the commander of the Swiss Guards and a fellow Jesuit.
In the square, the line of tourists waiting to get into St. Peter’s Basilica wrapped almost entirely around the piazza, with couples and families stopping to pose for selfies in front of the life-sized Nativity scene and Christmas tree set up in the square.
Small groups of nuns hurried across the cobblestones and tour guides holding flags herded their charges, while nearby souvenir sellers did brisk business hawking Vatican magnets, rosaries and bobblehead Francis statues.
“We hadn’t heard the news,” said Liam Marchesano, a 22-year-old economics student from Mantova who was waiting to see the basilica with his girlfriend. “Maybe that’s why there’s such a long line.” | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/vatican-benedict-xvi-lucid-stable-but-condition-serious/ | 2022-12-29 18:29:44 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/vatican-benedict-xvi-lucid-stable-but-condition-serious/ |
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