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Dan Snyder hires Bank of America Securities for potential sale of Commanders originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago
Dan and Tanya Snyder announced on Wednesday that they and the Washington Commanders have hired Bank of America Securities to help with “potential transactions.”
Forbes first reported the news and said that Snyder and his bankers are considering options for the Commanders. Those scenarios include selling the franchise in its entirety or a minority stake.
The Snyders said in the statement that they “remain committed to the team.”
Dan Snyder purchased the Washington NFL team in May 1999 for $750 million.
Forbes estimates that the franchise is now worth $5.6 billion. By comparison, the Denver Broncos’ new ownership group paid $4.65 billion in August to take over.
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Snyder is being investigated by the House Oversight Committee over allegations of sexual harassment, financial impropriety and other workplace violations. Mary Jo White, a former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and a former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission chairwoman, was also hired by the NFL to investigate Snyder.
In October, an ESPN report came out saying that Snyder claimed “dirt” on other NFL owners, along with league commissioner Roger Goodell. Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay said at a league meeting that there is “merit to removing” Snyder from his position in Washington, though that would require 24 of 31 of the other owners to vote him out.
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White House Black Market's #ItsHerHouse Campaign and Wilson Elser WAVE Sponsorship Celebrate Women in The Workforce
FORT MYERS, Fla., March 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Chico's FAS, Inc. (NYSE: CHS) is commemorating International Women's Day by demonstrating their dedication to diversity, equality and inclusivity with special campaigns and partnerships that promote and celebrate female empowerment.
Practicing What They Preach
As a company of brands founded by women, led by women and for women, Chico's FAS is on a mission to encourage every woman to wear their confidence and never compromise. In fact, Chico's FAS boasts a female majority in leadership and board member positions and is accredited as one of Newsweek's 'America's 100 Most Loved Workplaces' in 2022. With 96% of their sales associates, 99% of their field associates and 98% of their field leadership composed of women, Chico's FAS is committed to remaining an industry leader that caters to the needs of their team as well as women everywhere.
"Chico's FAS is a champion for women's advancement and is committed to being an industry leader that tends to the real needs of every woman. To ensure the success of this mission, our goal is to treat our Associates with the same care and attention as our customers and we are committed to developing and promoting their long-term success. We want to inspire confidence in everything we do." - Chico's FAS ESG Report
#WHBMPowerHouse Campaign
Recognizing that nothing inspires confidence like a power suit, White House Black Market is launching the #ItsHerHouse Powerhouse Campaign to celebrate women supporting women in the workforce. #ItsHerHouse aims to showcase successful female professionals who are loyal customers of the brand, while also providing them a platform to salute the women who had a positive impact on their lives.
Select WHBM Customers who have shown such appreciation for the brand as their go-to destination for well-designed tailoring pieces will be given a styling session at their local boutique, as well as a gift card. Participants are then given the chance to pay it forward and give a woman in their lives a styling session and a gift card of their own, whether it be a mentor, a mentee or co-worker.
White House Black Market x W.A.V.E.
Drawing inspiration from its trailblazing customers and employees who lead by example daily, White House Black Market is honored to support Wilson Elser W.A.V.E (Women Attorneys Valued & Empowered) Makers Daring to Lead Conference in celebration of International Women's Day. Through fostering personal and professional growth, W.A.V.E. strives to strengthen the next generation of female leaders who will drive progress and advancement in their field.
The W.A.V.E. Makers Daring to Lead Conference will be held on March 9, 2023, at the UNLV Foundation Building in Las Vegas, and commemorate the outstanding achievements of women leaders in the legal, business, and academic communities. As a proud sponsor, White House Black Market will provide the latest tailored suiting pieces to dress the guest speakers, as they discuss topics including empowering other women, business transition, pursuing passions, overcoming challenges and barriers, giving back and more. #WHBMPowerhouse #ItsHerHouse
To learn more about Wilson Elser W.A.V.E.'s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, visit WilsonElser.com.
ABOUT CHICO'S FAS:
Chico's FAS is a Florida-based fashion company founded in 1983 on Sanibel Island, Fla. The Company reinvented the fashion retail experience by creating fashion communities anchored by service, which put the customer at the center of everything we do. As one of the leading fashion retailers in North America, Chico's FAS is a company of three unique brands - Chico's®, White House Black Market® and Soma® - each thriving in their own white space, founded by women, led by women, providing solutions that millions of women say give them confidence and joy.
As of January 28, 2023, the Company operated 1,269 stores in the U.S. and sold merchandise through 58 international franchise locations in Mexico and 2 domestic franchise airport locations. The Company's merchandise is also available at www.chicos.com, www.chicosofftherack.com, www.whbm.com and www.soma.com.
To learn more about Chico's FAS, please visit our corporate website at www.chicosfas.com. The information on our corporate website is not, and shall not be deemed to be, a part of this press release or incorporated into our federal securities law filings.
ABOUT WILSON ELSER WAVE
As one of the largest premier law firms in the country, Wilson Elser ranks among the top 200 law firms identified by The American Lawyer and ranks 56th in the National Law Journal's survey of the nation's largest law firms. Steadfast in creating a vibrant diverse workplace across its 38 offices, Wilson Elser has allocated resources through its national Diversity & Inclusion Committee and Women Attorneys Valued & Empowered (WAVE) programs, two national firm initiatives created to advance the personal and professional well-being of the firm's women attorneys. As a result of its commitment to hire, retain and advance diverse attorneys, the firm has expanded the number of national leadership roles held by women. Today, a quarter of the Executive Committee members are women; six are regional managing partners, including Sheri Thome, RMP of the Las Vegas office; and 11 chair national practice groups. The firm's efforts have been recognized by leading national legal publications, including The American Lawyer, ranked 76 for number of women equity partners, and National Law Journal, ranked 31 on its Women's Scorecard.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A top executive at former President Donald Trump’s family business pleaded guilty Thursday to evading taxes in a deal that could potentially make him a star witness against the company at a fall trial.
Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg pleaded guilty to all 15 of the charges he faced in the case.
In a low, somewhat hoarse voice, he admitted taking in over $1.7 million worth of untaxed perks — including school tuition for his grandchildren, free rent for a Manhattan apartment and lease payments for a luxury car — and explicitly keeping some of the plums off the books.
Judge Juan Manuel Merchan agreed to sentence Weisselberg to five months’ incarceration at New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex, although he will be eligible for release much earlier if he behaves well behind bars. The judge said Weisselberg will have to pay nearly $2 million in taxes, penalties and interest.
The plea bargain also requires Weisselberg to testify truthfully as a prosecution witness when the Trump Organization goes on trial in October on related charges. The company is accused of helping Weisselberg and other executives avoid income taxes by failing to accurately report their full compensation to the government. Trump himself is not charged in the case.
Weisselberg said nothing as he left court, offering no reply when a journalist asked him whether he had any message for Trump.
Weisselberg’s lawyer Nicholas Gravante Jr. said his client pleaded guilty “to put an end to this case and the years-long legal and personal nightmares it has caused for him and his family.”
“We are glad to have this behind him,” the lawyer added.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in a statement that Weisselberg’s plea “directly implicates the Trump Organization in a wide range of criminal activity and requires Weisselberg to provide invaluable testimony in the upcoming trial against the corporation.”
“We look forward to proving our case in court against the Trump Organization,” he added.
Testimony by Weisselberg could potentially weaken the Trump Organization’s defense. If convicted, the company could face fines or potentially be placed on probation and be forced to change certain business practices.
Weisselberg, 75, is the only person to face criminal charges so far in the Manhattan district attorney’s long-running investigation of the company’s business practices.
Seen as one of Trump’s most loyal business associates, Weisselberg was arrested in July 2021. His lawyers have argued the Democrat-led district attorney’s office was punishing him because he wouldn’t offer information that would damage Trump.
The district attorney has also been investigating whether Trump or his company lied to banks or the government about the value of its properties to obtain loans or reduce tax bills.
Then-District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., who started the investigation, last year directed his deputies to present evidence to a grand jury and seek an indictment of Trump, according to former prosecutor Mark Pomerantz, who previously led the probe.
But after Vance left office, his successor, Bragg, allowed the grand jury to disband without charges. Both prosecutors are Democrats. Bragg has said the investigation is continuing.
The Trump Organization is not involved in Weisselberg’s expected guilty plea Thursday and is scheduled to be tried in the alleged compensation scheme in October.
Prosecutors alleged that the company gave untaxed fringe benefits to senior executives, including Weisselberg, for 15 years. Weisselberg alone was accused of defrauding the federal government, state and city out of more than $900,000 in unpaid taxes and undeserved tax refunds.
Under state law, punishment for the most serious charge against Weisselberg, grand larceny, could carry a penalty as high as 15 years in prison. But the charge carries no mandatory minimum, and most first-time offenders in tax-related cases never end up behind bars.
The tax fraud charges against the Trump Organization are punishable by a fine of double the amount of unpaid taxes, or $250,000, whichever is larger.
Trump has not been charged in the criminal probe. The Republican has decried the New York investigations as a “political witch hunt” and has said his company’s actions were standard practice in the real estate business and in no way a crime.
Last week, Trump sat for a deposition in New York Attorney General Letitia James’ parallel civil investigation into allegations that Trump’s company misled lenders and tax authorities about asset values. Trump invoked his Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination more than 400 times. | https://www.kark.com/news/national-news/trump-organization-cfo-pleads-guilty-to-tax-evasion/ | 2022-08-18 18:58:35 | 1 | https://www.kark.com/news/national-news/trump-organization-cfo-pleads-guilty-to-tax-evasion/ |
LONDON — Two-time Oscar winner Kevin Spacey is going on trial Wednesday in a London court on charges of sexually assaulting four men as long as two decades ago.
Spacey has said an acquittal in the case could revive a career that has largely been on ice since sexual misconduct allegations surfaced against the star who won his first Academy Award for supporting actor in “The Usual Suspects” in 1995.
“There are people right now who are ready to hire me the moment I am cleared of these charges in London,” Spacey said in a rare interview published this month in Germany’s Zeit magazine. He said the media had turned him into a “monster.”
The charges involving men now in their 30s or 40s date from 2001 to 2013 — covering most of the decade when he lived in Britain and served as artistic director of the Old Vic Theatre until 2015.
The jury trial in Southwark Crown Court is scheduled to last four weeks.
The actor — charged under his full name, Kevin Spacey Fowler — is free on bail.
Spacey’s downfall came amid the #MeToo movement in the United States when allegations led to him being written off the Netflix political thriller “House of Cards," where he played lead character Frank Underwood, a ruthless and corrupt congressman who becomes president. He was cut from the completed film “All the Money in the World,” and the scenes reshot with Christopher Plummer.
Spacey became one of the most celebrated actors of his generation in 1990s, starring in films including “Glengarry Glen Ross” and “LA Confidential.” He won his second Oscar, for best actor, in the 1999 movie “American Beauty.”
Spacey recently had his first film roles in several years, appearing in 2022 in Italian director Franco Nero’s “The Man Who Drew God,” and playing the late Croatian President Franjo Tudjman in biopic “Once Upon a Time in Croatia.” He also stars in the unreleased U.S. film “Peter Five Eight.”
Italy’s National Cinema Museum in Turin gave him its lifetime achievement award in January. He also taught a masterclass and introduced a sold-out screening of “American Beauty” in what were billed as Spacey’s first speaking engagements in five years.
Spacey saluted organizers for “making a strong defense of artistic achievement” and for having “le palle” — the Italian word for male body parts synonymous with courage — to invite him.
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SPRINGFIELD — Maurice Douglass got his Christmas wish early this year.
All the Springfield High School football coach wanted was for his program to hold practice on Thanksgiving Day — an event that brings symbolizes team success, he said.
“It’s got a lot to do with the commitment of the kids and the coaches throughout the year,” Douglass said. “It’s a great way to spend some time together and reminisce on some of the things that have happened throughout the year.”
A practice on Turkey Day means the program is one of four teams remaining in Ohio in their division. Springfield has done it three of the past four years, only missing out on the Turkey Day practice in 2020 due to the shortened COVID-19 season.
“It’s a time of giving and being around loved ones, sharing great moments and memories and things that have happened throughout the year,” Douglass said. “It’s a time of being thankful. What better way to be thankful than being able to play for a state final.”
The Wildcats (12-1) will face Cincinnati Moeller (13-1) in a Division I state semifinal at 7 p.m. Friday at Piqua’s Alexander Stadium with a trip to Canton for their second straight state final on the line.
The winner will play either Lakewood St. Edward (13-1) or Gahanna Lincoln (13-1) at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 2, at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium in Canton.
A year ago, the Wildcats beat Moeller 22-21 to advance to the program’s first state final appearance since the playoff era began in 1972.
With a victory, the Wildcats can become the first program in Clark County history to advance to back-to-back state championship games. Only two other Clark County programs — Catholic Central in 1991 and Shawnee in 2011 — have advanced to the state championship game.
Springfield enters the state semifinals having won eight straight games since falling to Fairmont in Week 6. The Wildcats routed Olentangy Liberty 35-7 in the Region 2 championship game last Friday night at London’s Bowlus Field to advance to their fourth straight state semifinal game. They became the 25th program in Ohio history to accomplish the feat, according to the OHSAA unofficial record book.
Springfield senior defensive back Tyron Barnes is practicing on Thanksgiving for the third time. The state semifinal has been a big topic at the dinner table in previous years, he said.
“It feels good to just still be playing and go home and eat with your family and then go out and play the next day,” he said. “(At dinner) It’s like, ‘Hey, you gotta get this win’.”
Senior defensive end Robert Owens, Jr., is practicing on Thanksgiving for the first time.
“It’s a new experience,” he said. “It’s a good experience to have. Everybody should get a chance to do it, but not everybody does. I’m just ready to go prepare for the game.”
The Wildcats’ preparation for the state semifinals got a boost a few weeks ago when Springfield Superintendent Bob Hill canceled classes this week as part of a Wellness Week for the district. The break has allowed the Wildcats to focus solely on the task at hand — beating Moeller.
“It’s pretty cool,” Douglass said. “We’ve been able to get a good practice in and not have a lot of distractions. … It’s been a pretty pleasant situation to be in.”
Douglass isn’t surprised to be preparing for Moeller on Thanksgiving for the second straight season.
“(Moeller coach Mark Elder) has done a great job with those guys since he’s been down there,” Douglass said. “He’s got the support of the community and I know they’ve got a lot of people who believe in what they have. They returned a lot of guys from last year’s team. Even though we weren’t really looking at it like that, it was kind of meant to be. I know (Coach Elder) has been looking forward to this game. We did our part and now we’re both here and on Friday night at 9:30, we’ll find out who’s the champion.”
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TUCSON, Ariz., March 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc. (NASDAQ: AXDX) a disruptor in bloodstream infection identification and susceptibility testing today announced the appointment of Hany Massarany to chairman of the company's board of directors effective February 22, 2023.
Jack Phillips, Chief Executive Officer of Accelerate Diagnostics, stated, "I am excited for Hany to step into this very important role as Chairman. Hany brings a wealth of leadership and strategic vision, focused on diagnostics and infectious disease testing, which is vital as we grow our market share through strategic partnering and further our innovation in Rapid ID/AST." According to Hany Massarany, "Accelerate Diagnostics continues to be a pioneer in the field of rapid identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing. Our technology is saving lives by enabling septic patients to receive the right antibiotic therapy days earlier than current conventional laboratory methods. I look forward to working closely with our board and management team, as we continue to drive our performance and growth in this very important and rapidly growing market."
Mr. Massarany replaces John Patience, who served as board chairman for 10 years. Mr. Patience will remain on the company's board of directors. In addition to this change, the company announced the retirement of Mark Miller and Frank ten Brick from the board of directors. Accelerate is grateful to both Mr. Miller and Mr. ten Brick for their years of service and many contributions to the company.
About Hany Massarany
Mr. Massarany was President and Chief Executive Officer of GenMark Diagnostics, Inc., a provider of multiplex molecular diagnostic solutions, for nine years. He has also served as President at Ventana Medical Systems and Head of Roche Tissue Diagnostics, a division of F. Hoffman-La Roche Ltd. focused on manufacturing instruments and reagents that automate tissue processing and slide staining diagnostics for cancer. Mr. Massarany has held various global leadership positions with Ventana, including Chief Operating Officer, Executive Vice President, Worldwide Operations, Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy and Development, and Vice President, North American Commercial Operations. Mr. Massarany also held executive management positions with Bayer Diagnostics and Chiron Diagnostics, working in both the Asia Pacific region and the United States. Mr. Massarany currently serves as a director of Biodesix, Inc., a medical diagnostics company.
About Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc.
Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc. is an in vitro diagnostics company dedicated to providing solutions for the global challenges of antibiotic resistance and sepsis. The Accelerate Pheno® system and Accelerate PhenoTest® BC kit combine several technologies aimed at reducing the time clinicians must wait to determine the most optimal antibiotic therapy for deadly infections. The FDA cleared system and kit fully automate the sample preparation steps to report phenotypic antibiotic susceptibility results in approximately 7 hours direct from positive blood cultures. Recent external studies indicate the solution offers results 1-2 days faster than existing methods, enabling clinicians to optimize antibiotic selection and dosage specific to the individual patient days earlier.
"Accelerate Diagnostics" and diamond shaped logos and marks are registered trademarks of Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc.
For more information about the company, its products and technology, or recent publications, visit axdx.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain of the statements made in this press release are forward looking or may have forward looking implications. Actual results or developments may differ materially from those projected or implied in these forward-looking statements. Information about the risks and uncertainties faced by Accelerate Diagnostics is contained in the section captioned "Risk Factors" in the company's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 14, 2022, and in any other reports that the company files with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company's forward-looking statements could be affected by general industry and market conditions, and regulatory approvals. Except as required by federal securities laws, the company undertakes no obligation to update or revise these forward-looking statements to reflect new events, uncertainties or other contingencies.
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"Sometimes The Truth Is Worth Fighting For" - Wade Boggs
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LOS ANGELES, April 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Wade Boggs, the iconic World Series winning third baseman and Hall of Famer, spent 18 seasons in Major League Baseball, playing for the Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees and Tampa Bay Rays, and, according to Boggs, unwittingly starring as Pabst Blue Ribbon's mustachioed mascot, Cool Blue.
Boggs discovered his likeness to Blue in 1983, after a now legendary flight and has been on a quest to uncover the truth ever since. Now Boggs is going public with his claims, dropping a video exposé, and demanding beer justice for baseball fans and beer drinkers across the country.
As Wade Boggs says in the video, 'the numbers don't lie!' In 1983 Boggs went 18 for 44 against Pabst Blue Ribbon's home town of Milwaukee, the brand was founded in 1844. 12oz Pabst Blue Ribbon, Boggs is a 12 time All-Star. During his career in Boston, Boggs had 47 triples, Pabst Blue Ribbon's alcohol content, 4.7%.
What does Wade Boggs want? The truth! But Boggs is also fighting for fans everywhere who also want the truth and ice-cold refreshing Pabst Blue Ribbon. Which is why he is demanding beer justice and restitution from Pabst Blue Ribbon, and has issued the following list of demands:
- Admit the truth that Wade Boggs is Cool Blue!
- Give fans a few Pabst Blue Ribbons on Wade Boggs
- Name a brewery after Wade Boggs
- Put Wade Boggs on bottles of Pabst Blue Ribbon
- Publish Wade Boggs' favorite Chicken recipe
- Make Wade Boggs the official spokesperson for Pabst Blue Ribbon
"Pabst Blue Ribbon owes me, and fans across the nation, the truth, Boggs is Blue" says Wade Boggs. "I'm after justice, and nothing tastes better with it than an ice cold PBR. This is why I'm calling on Pabst to meet my demands, admit the truth, and serve up some beers in Cool Blue's honor to fans everywhere."
Boggs has launched a website to host his exposé, Boggsisblue.com, and his demands. Pabst Blue Ribbon has yet to publicly respond to Boggs.
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Canned shrimp sold at Walmart, grocery stores recalled over spoilage concerns
(CNN) - Kawasho Foods has recalled some of its canned shrimp over health concerns.
The company reported there is a possibility that its Geisha medium shrimp product is under-processed, which could lead to the potential for spoilage organisms or pathogens.
According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the canned shrimp was reportedly sold at multiple retailers that include Walmart, Safeway and Albertsons stores in California, Utah, Arizona and Colorado.
The shrimp is packaged in 4-ounce cans and the recall includes those with UPC code 071140003909 from lot No. LGC12W12E22 with a best-by date of May 12, 2026.
The company says consumers should not use the product, even if it doesn’t look or smell spoiled.
Consumers who bought the canned shrimp are urged to return it to the place of purchase for a full refund.
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Many people save money at the supermarket by switching from fresh vegetables to frozen.
But Google search data shows that some people online are wondering if frozen vegetables are as nutritious as the fresh veggies sold at their local grocery store.
THE QUESTION
Are frozen vegetables as healthy as fresh vegetables?
THE SOURCES
- Cleveland Clinic
- Houston Methodist
- Michigan State University Extension
- Study by the University of California-Davis
- Study published in the Journal of Food Composition and Analysis
- Shelley Maniscalco, registered dietician and founder of Nutrition on Demand
THE ANSWER
Yes, frozen vegetables are just as healthy as fresh vegetables.
WHAT WE FOUND
Frozen vegetables are just as healthy as fresh vegetables sold at the grocery store, according to the Cleveland Clinic and Houston Methodist Hospital. In fact, researchers have found that frozen produce is generally nutritionally similar to fresh produce.
“Fresh veggies often taste the best, especially if the vegetable is in season. But the good news is that the nutritional value of a vegetable isn't reduced during the freezing process — making frozen veggies just as healthy as fresh ones,” Emma Willingham, a former clinical dietitian at Houston Methodist, said.
Vegetables picked straight off the vine have the most nutrients. But unless you grow your own veggies or live near a farm or a farmer’s market, you’re most likely getting your fresh produce from the grocery store.
It usually takes a few days to several weeks for fresh vegetables to go from a farm to your fridge, according to a University of California-Davis study. During that time, the vegetable’s nutrients begin to break down. The exact amount of nutrient degradation depends on the type of vegetable and the particular nutrient.
Frozen vegetables, on the other hand, are typically picked and flash-frozen within hours of being harvested, registered dietician Shelley Maniscalco told VERIFY. This allows frozen veggies to retain more of their nutrients, vitamins and minerals, the Cleveland Clinic and Houston Methodist both say.
“Freezing is like nature's pause button. Since frozen veggies are flash-frozen at the peak of their nutrient density, they can actually have higher nutrient profiles than fresh veggies that have sat around in the grocery store for a while,” Willingham said.
Researchers at the University of California-Davis said the freezing process is typically preceded by blanching, a short-time heating step that inactivates enzymes, which may result in some relatively limited loss of quality.
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Belinda Huijuan Tang's debut novel A Map for the Missing is a story about family, forgiveness and the challenge of grappling with the past while charting a path for the future.
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Cowbell appoints reinsurance expert Julia Cederroth as senior director of reinsurance
PLEASANTON, Calif., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cowbell Cyber, a leading provider of cyber insurance for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), today announced the addition of Julia Cederroth as senior director of reinsurance. This new position empowers policyholders by helping to build cyber resiliency and close insurability gaps as part of Cowbell's reinsurance solutions.
Prior to joining Cowbell, Cederroth served as vice president and cyber treaty broker at Gallagher Re as a member of the Global Treaty Broking team and Cyber Center of Excellence. Cederroth specialized in sourcing capacity for complex treaties, developing data-driven insights such as market benchmarking to elucidate the unique opportunities cyber presents to re/insurers and capital providers alike. Before joining Gallagher Re, Cederroth acted as associate director at Aon Reinsurance Solutions and senior consultant at Aon Inpoint, where she became a trusted strategic advisor to a diverse range of carrier clients.
"Cowbell values its partnerships - including high levels of engagement and transparency with re/insurers," says Cederroth. "I see Cowbell's attentiveness to adapt to policyholders' evolving cyber exposures as benefiting our current and potential reinsurers. Beyond proactively empowering insureds to reduce cyber incidents, the data generated within Cowbell's platform can be analyzed at the portfolio level in ways we're not accustomed to seeing in cyber. After years of feedback from clients and underwriters facing this aggregation challenge, I look forward to working with trading partners that share our enthusiasm for signaling a new era in cyber insurance!"
"We look forward to Julia's expertise and help in deepening relationships with the reinsurer community while continuing to innovate with cyber insurance programs that serve our targeted market within our robust product suite," said Cowbell co-founder and COO, Trent Cooksley.
Cederroth is a veteran of the insurance industry. She brings ten years of experience as a cyber consultant and enterprise risk management specialist in the financial services sector, built upon her foundational training at UBS and Deloitte Consulting. She holds a B.S. with high honors in business and technology from Stevens Institute of Technology.
Cowbell's closed-loop approach to risk management – Assess, Insure, Improve, Respond – bolsters the company's aggressive loss control strategy, along with its precision in underwriting. The resources, bundled at no charge in Cowbell's cyber policies, help empower businesses to proactively eliminate risk exposures. To date, Cowbell's policyholder base has grown over 5,000% year-over-year and is forecasted to triple during the 2022 calendar year. To learn more about Cowbell, visit https://cowbell.insure/.
About Cowbell Cyber
Cowbell is signaling a new era in cyber insurance by harnessing technology and data to provide small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with advanced warning of cyber risk exposures bundled with cyber insurance coverage adaptable to today and tomorrow's threats. In its unique AI-based approach to risk selection and pricing, Cowbell's continuous underwriting platform, powered by Cowbell Factors, compresses the insurance process from submission to issue to less than 5 minutes. Cowbell Insurance Agency is currently licensed in 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. Cowbell Reinsurance Company is a licensed insurance captive in the State of Vermont. For more information, please visit www.cowbell.insure.
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AMSTERDAM, Dec. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- To celebrate the world's biggest football event of the year, Bigo Live Netherlands held a special live-stream session with Dutch football superstar Wesley Sneijder. Having previously taken Netherlands to the finals in 2010, the football hero exclusively shared his take on the current season, as well as personal football related stories for fans around the world.
During the stream, Wesley was asked some of his own personal international football stories during his almost triumphant run in 2010. The stream also accommodated for Q&A sessions with the fans, with one lucky fan having the chance to speak with Wesley one-on-one and winning his signed jersey.
Wesley also reflected on his bittersweet memories of the tournament. In the 2010 season, the final was contested between the Netherlands and Spain. Speaking on that final from his perspective, he gave audiences an insight not generally known, saying "We were so close to winning the cup. Unfortunately, three minutes before the finish, Iniesta scored the game-winning goal. Nobody knows, however, that I severely strained my hamstring at the time."
When asked about the support the Dutch national team received at that time, Wesley said, "That is the most important thing. When I played in 2010, I saw 70% of the stadium was orange, which made me feel proud." Although he returned home disappointed having missed out on football's biggest prize, he was astounded by the hundreds of thousands of fans who greeted him on the streets of Netherlands with 'welcome-back' banners and great positivity. "We had a terribly unfortunate final, but they were all there for us," Wesley Sneijder said.
During the segment of the live stream where he was discussing fantasy football strategies and possible dark horses of the tournament, Wesley was proven quite accurate with his analyses.
"The global football event of the year is never short of dark horses, if I had to pick one right now, Morocco can go further," Wesley mentioned. This statement has been proven true with the fantastic Moroccan team defying the odds to become the first ever nation from Africa to compete in the semi-finals.
Wesley also gave some further insights into his personal goals, revealing his plans to become a coach as he really enjoys the role, mentioning that the team that he would like to coach one day is Galatasaray.
As this season wraps up, a Bigo Live spokesperson added, "Knowing our users' interests plays a big role in how Bigo Live engages with our audience. Through the passion of football, we are confident that users of Bigo Live will continue to showcase their talents, share their enthusiasms and inspire each other through real-time interactions while streaming."
Fans that may have missed the special in November can now download the live streaming app, available in-app for Bigo Live users worldwide.
About Bigo Live
Bigo Live is one of the world's fastest-growing live streaming social communities where users broadcast in real-time to share life moments, showcase their talents, and interact with people from around the world. Bigo Live has around 400 million users in over 150 countries and is currently the market leader in the live streaming industry. Launched in March 2016, Bigo Live is owned by Bigo Technology, which is based in Singapore.
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GUANGZHOU, China, Oct. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The 132nd Canton Fair opens online on October 15, 2022. It is starting with the promoting event of Canton Fair Products Release, a four-day special edition event debuting over 200 attention-grabbing new products to global buyers. The series establishes industry benchmarks to guide and drive more enterprises to become more innovative and cultivate new competitive advantages.
The Canton Fair Selections series can be found on the official Canton Fair website. The series highlights 7 themes, including electronic appliances, building materials and home decorations, industrial manufacturing, hardware tools, household item, fashion life, and health and recreation. In total, 200 new product videos will be launched, each accessible by global buyers who can watch them directly through the new product release section of the official Canton Fair website, highlights will also be shared to official Canton Fair Facebook and Tiktok accounts as well as Canton Fair emails.
57% of the selected new products are from high-quality enterprises in related industries and fields of domestic manufacturing in China, including global top 500 companies such as Gree Electric Appliances, Midea Group, Unilumin Group; and leading forces in sub-sectors, such as Tongrun Auto Accessory, a leading company in jacks, Fuling Plastics, a leading company in environmentally friendly catering appliances, and a leading company in the field of chemiluminescence, which is participating for the first time, Norman Biological Technology.
Household, Leisure and Entertainment Products
- Natuo Thunder Music Flashlight from Binovo Manufacturing.,Ltd., can sense changes in external sound, and automatically move the light accordingly to create a visual representation of the rhythm of the sound with 12 integrated functions, including flashlight, ambient light, speaker, and pickup light.
- The Smokeless Grill Cooker by Guangdong Linkfair Household adopts a new smoke-free system enabling the fumes from the oil to be continuously cooled and solidified by an innovative built-in hood, which uses water film filtration and circulation technology to capture smoke.
Intelligent Technology Products
- The patented Motobatt Li-Ion hybrid technology (MHT), from Guangzhou Kaijie Power Supply Industrial Co., Ltd., can extend battery life, reduce recycling costs, and exceed the performance of Li-Ion and lithium batteries through its intelligent battery control system.
- The 5G Intelligent Interactive Cabinless Sanitation Robot from Changsha Zoomlion Environmental Industry Co., Ltd incorporates advanced innovative technologies such as 5G intelligent voice interaction, garbage identification, and crewless operation for intelligent operation and movement.
For more information and opportunities, please register https://www.cantonfair.org.cn/en-US/register/index?utm_source=rwyx#/foreign-email or contact wuruoshan@cantonfair.org.cn
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are rising on a calming Wall Street Tuesday, even the banks most beaten down by the industry’s crisis, amid hopes for more help from the U.S. government.
The S&P 500 was 0.8% higher in afternoon trading. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 175 points, or 0.5%, at 32,421, as of 1:16 p.m. Eastern time, while the Nasdaq composite was 1.1% higher.
Markets around the world have pinballed sharply this month on worries the banking system may be cracking under the pressure of the fastest set of hikes to interest rates in decades. If the S&P 500 squeezes out a gain, it would mark its first back-to-back rise in two weeks.
In the U.S., shares of smaller and mid-sized banks rose after Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told a bankers’ group more government assistance “could be warranted” if risks arise that could bring down the system.
Earlier this month, the U.S. government said it would make depositors at Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank whole, even those with more than the $250,000 limit insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. They were the second- and third-largest U.S. bank failures in history.
They had struggled as depositors rushed to pull their money out en masse. Such runs can topple a bank, and investors have since been hunting for the next one that could fall. Much focus has been on First Republic Bank, which shares some similar traits with Silicon Valley Bank, and its stock had lost 90% for the month through Monday.
It jumped 53.7% Tuesday.
Other smaller and mid-sized banks also rallied, including a 8.3% climb for Comerica and an 8.9% gain for Zions Bancorp.
Hopes for the banking industry began to turn over the weekend after regulators pushed together two huge Swiss banks. Shares of both banks in that deal rose Tuesday in Switzerland, including a 12% jump for acquirer UBS. Credit Suisse, meanwhile, rose 4.5% after tumbling a day earlier.
Credit Suisse had longstanding problems that were relatively unique, but all banks on both sides of the Atlantic have the shared challenge of navigating a world with much higher interest rates than a year earlier.
Central banks have jacked up rates at a blistering pace in hopes of getting high inflation under control. But such moves act like huge hammers with little nuance. They try to bring down inflation by slowing the entire economy.
That raises the risk of a recession later on. Higher rates also hurt prices for stocks and other investments. That’s one of the factors that hurt Silicon Valley Bank, which saw the value of its bond investments drop with the rise in rates.
The Federal Reserve is beginning its latest meeting on interest rates Tuesday, with an announcement slated for Wednesday.
Earlier this month, much of Wall Street was bracing for the Fed to reaccelerate its hikes and raise by 0.50 percentage points. A string of reports on the economy came in hotter than expected, including data on the job market, retail sales and inflation itself.
But all the turmoil in the banking industry has traders betting the Fed will stick with an increase of 0.25 points.
Traders are even beginning to bet that the Fed may cut interest rates later this year. Rate cuts can act like steroids for markets, and they would also give the economy and banks more room to breathe. On the downside, they could give inflation more fuel.
“Can the Federal Reserve really continue to hike rates in the face of a banking crisis?” Clifford Bennett of ACY Securities said in a report. “There are ongoing stresses in the banking system that will only grow with further rate hikes.”
Beyond its decision on rates, the Federal Reserve on Wednesday will also release its latest projections on where policymakers see inflation and interest rates heading in upcoming years. While so much is still in flux because of the banking industry’s troubles, Wall Street tends to take the Fed’s roadmaps seriously.
In markets abroad, stocks rallied across Europe and Asia.
In the bond market, huge swings continue to rock the market. Yields have been mostly plunging this month on expectations for an easier Fed. The yield on the two-year Treasury, for example, tumbled from its highest level since 2007, above 5%, back below 4%, which is a massive move for it.
It rose to 4.18% from 3.97% late Monday.
The 10-year Treasury yield, which helps set rates on mortgages and other important loans rose to 3.58% from 3.44%.
The higher yields helped knock down stocks on Wall Street that are known for paying relatively fat dividends. When bonds are paying more in interest, they can peel away investors who are searching for income. Utility stocks in the S&P 500, for example, dropped 3.1%. That helped to check the market’s overall gains.
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A slew of Phillies injury updates out of the All-Star break ...
Bryce Harper is fine after being hit by a 90 mph sinker in his surgically repaired elbow Saturday in the second-to-last game before the break. He missed Sunday's series finale in Miami but was back in the lineup Friday night against the Padres, batting fourth as the designated hitter.
Harper's days as the primary DH are numbered. His debut at first base is imminent. Rob Thomson would not rule out this weekend.
"Possibly, yeah," the manager said when asked about Harper playing first base in the four-game series against the Padres. Harper has cleared all the necessary hurdles to play first base, according to Thomson.
When Harper does debut at first base, he won't immediately play there every day. He will be built up and isn't done DH'ing for good.
"We're going to ease him into this thing," Thomson said. "Play him, give him a day off. Play him two days, give him a day off. It's not going to be every day."
Thomson is excited about Harper's defensive potential at first base, though continues to caution there will be bumps and miscues along the way. Harper has never played first base before at any level.
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"We’ll learn more in game situations, but I told him the other day as far as arm strength, you might have the best arm strength of any first baseman right now in the major leagues," Thomson said. "He can really throw. It’s remarkable really how far he’s come in a short period of time.
"I think in time he’s going to be really good because he’s athletic, his glove skills are really good, he moves his feet, he’s reading hops. The thing we have to move through as this thing goes on is just situational — cuts and relays, bunt plays, that type of thing. We have no other way to do it other than put him in a game."
When Harper makes the switch to first base, Kyle Schwarber will become the regular DH. The sooner the better for that transition because it has been a rough year in left field for Schwarber.
When Schwarber leaves the field, Brandon Marsh will shift over to left with Johan Rojas playing center field. Rojas, ranked by MLB Pipeline as the Phillies' sixth-best prospect, was called up Friday as the Phillies placed Cristian Pache on the injured list with right elbow irritation.
"Before he even signed a pro contract, for some reason he had a screw put in his elbow," Thomson said. "So he’s getting irritation from that screw. He’s seeing the doctor tonight or tomorrow and we’ll figure out what’s going on. But there’s some pain in there, so we’ll figure out what we need to do."
Rojas will fill the Pache role as the starting center fielder against most left-handed pitchers.
Dominguez throws live BP
Seranthony Dominguez faced hitters — Drew Ellis and Garrett Stubbs — on the field in live batting practice for the first time since being placed on the injured list on June 17 with an oblique strain.
"He came out of it healthy," Thomson said. "We'll see where he's at tomorrow. He started off a little bit erratic but he picked things up pretty good. But the main thing, really, is that he came out of it healthy and felt good."
Dominguez is eligible to return at any time but will likely require at rehab assignment first.
Cortisone shot for Alvarado
Jose Alvarado was placed on the 15-day IL Sunday morning with left elbow inflammation, the same injury that cost him just over a month from May 7 through June 9.
Alvarado received a cortisone shot on Monday and the swelling is out of his elbow, according to Thomson.
"He's feeling really good," Thomson said. "I'm not sure when he's going to start throwing, but he's feeling really good."
Thomson said it was still too early to tell whether Alvarado might miss less time than he did the first time.
Other updates
• There is no timeline yet for Josh Harrison's return. He went on the IL mid-week with a right wrist injury suffered in Miami.
Drew Ellis was recalled from Triple A to take his place on the active roster. Harrison has played sparingly this season, with six of his nine starts since June 1 coming at second base.
• Top pitching prospect Andrew Painter has not resumed throwing since being shut down last week with elbow discomfort. The last update the Phillies provided on Painter prior to Friday was a positive one. An MRI last week showed healing in the sprained ligament in his elbow. | https://www.nbcsportsphiladelphia.com/mlb/philadelphia-phillies/phillies-news/bryce-harper-first-base-phillies-injury-updates/528569/ | 2023-07-15 02:26:34 | 0 | https://www.nbcsportsphiladelphia.com/mlb/philadelphia-phillies/phillies-news/bryce-harper-first-base-phillies-injury-updates/528569/ |
Aimbridge Hospitality's Evolution Lifestyle Division Selected as Operator
MIAMI, Dec. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CL Hotels, a sponsor of hospitality investments, recently announced that it has closed the acquisition of Coachman Hotel, a 104-room boutique property, located in South Lake Tahoe - California, a year-round ski and lake-side beach destination that attracts more than 15 million tourists every year.
"The acquisition of Coachman in such a challenging financial market demonstrates the strength of CL Hotels and our permanent commitment to curate properties that will bring excellent results to our investors," explains Joao Woiler, CL Hotels managing partner. "The purchase comes along with a multi-million investment plan that is focused on expanding room offer, meeting space and Food & Beverage options," said Bruno Piacentini, CL Hotels managing partner.
The first investments that CL Hotels plans to do in the Coachman include the remodeling of 22 rooms to be added to the 82 recently renovated and the expansion of the meeting space, adding 900 sf to the actual 800 sf available – boosting property capacity to host larger groups for companies off-sites and retreats. Besides, CL Hotels also plans to open an F&B outlet that will offer a variety of contemporary options, and grab-and-go.
"The Coachman will continue to be an independent hotel and for the management we have retained our long-term partner Evolution Hospitality, the lifestyle and boutique arm of Aimbridge Hospitality, a leading, global hotel management company," said Woiler. "We believe we can deliver exceptional returns by finding unique assets in desired destinations that can benefit from institutional management and planning," explains Piacentini.
The Coachman is a charming boutique hotel, newly renovated, located only a 5-minutes' walk from the Heavenly Mountain ski gondola, where winter visitors can access 97 trails and 4,800 skiable acres. During summer, guests can enjoy a wide variety of outdoor activities like hiking, biking, gliding, climbing walls, rope courses, among others. There is also a private lakeside beach that is a short walk from the hotel, where guests can relax or enjoy water sports. Coachman has a cozy atmosphere with a nice outdoor area, where visitors can relax and have drinks & smores by the fire pit.
Nick Pappas and Greg Morgan with Newmark and Scott Fair with NAI Tahoe Sierra were the brokers for the transaction. Terms of transaction were not disclosed.
About CL Hotels
CL Hotels is a sponsor of hospitality investments, focused primarily on cash flow generating projects in the continental U.S. Through its vast network of brokers, operators, partners, and industry peers, CL Hotels selects top properties which can benefit from the strategy, capital and asset management skills of its team. CL Hotels and its principals have acquired, renovated, managed and disposed of a portfolio of hotels with + 3,200 rooms and asset value of + US$ 640 million.
About Aimbridge Hospitality
Aimbridge Hospitality is a leading, global hospitality company with a growing hotel portfolio representing more than 1,500 properties in 50 states and over 20 countries, inclusive of pipeline. As a top hotel management company and trusted operator of over 80 lodging brands and distinctive luxury and lifestyle assets, Aimbridge leverages its scale and operational excellence to consistently deliver results for hotel owners and offer unparalleled opportunities for associates around the globe. Aimbridge adds value through focused, expertise-driven operating divisions in Full Service, Evolution Lifestyle, Enhanced Select Service, and Select Service, optimizing owners' investment returns and driving hotel market success. The Aimbridge EMEA Division has supporting offices across Europe in Amsterdam, Birmingham, and Glasgow. The Aimbridge LatAm Division has offices in Monterrey and Mexico City. Aimbridge Hospitality's global headquarters is based in Plano, Texas. To learn more, visit www.aimbridgehospitality.com. Connect with Aimbridge on LinkedIn.
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Mother charged with murder after death of 6-year-old in 2020 house fire
UNION, S.C. (WHNS/Gray News) - A mother is facing charges in the death of her 6-year-old daughter after she set her house on fire in 2020, according to police in South Carolina.
Police said officers were dispatched to the home in Union for a house fire with possible entrapment on November 25, 2020, at about 5:40 p.m.
When they arrived, officers found the house engulfed, with flames already coming from the windows and front door.
One burn victim, the child’s grandmother Barbara Newton, was outside the home, police said.
WHNS reported that the 6-year-old girl was still inside the home.
Police said 32-year-old Carlene Ratcliffe set fire to her own home and left the house as her child was asleep inside.
Newton was out shopping at the time of the fire and saw the fire once she returned home, according to WHNS. She tried to run inside to rescue the girl but was unsuccessful. Newton sustained serious burns to about half of her body as a result and was flown to the Augusta Burn Center for treatment.
The heat radiating from the house made it difficult for firefighters and officers to enter the home, and two of them sustained burn injuries during the attempts.
One officer suffered a burn to his left hand, and a firefighter suffered a burn to his back and shoulders. Both were treated at the scene.
Once the fire was put out, the 6-year-old girl was found dead in the home and identified as Caeli Ratcliffe.
According to the medical examiner, Caeli died as a result of smoke and soot inhalation.
After a long investigation, Ratcliffe was charged with two counts of arson and one count of homicide by child abuse and one count of murder.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Thousands of demonstrators representing organized labor marched in South Korea’s capital on Saturday denouncing government attempts to force thousands of striking truckers back to work after they walked out in a dispute over the price of freight.
There were no immediate reports of injuries or major clashes from the protests near the National Assembly in Seoul. The marchers, mostly members of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, accused President Yoon Suk Yeol’s conservative government of labor oppression and ignoring what they described as the truckers’ harsh work conditions and financial struggles, worsened further by rising fuel costs.
The government on Tuesday issued an order for some 2,500 drivers of cement trucks to return to work, saying that their walkout is rattling the national economy. It wasn’t immediately clear how many truckers returned to their jobs following the order as their union vowed to continue the strike.
Thousands of members of the Cargo Truckers Solidarity union have been striking since last week, calling for the government to make permanent a minimum freight rate system that is to expire at the end of 2022.
While the minimum fares are currently applied to shipping containers and cement, the strikers also call for the benefits to be expanded to other cargo. That would include oil and chemical tankers, steel and automobile carriers and package delivery trucks under the broader agreement.
Container traffic at ports recovered to 81% of normal levels as of Saturday morning after dropping to around just 20% earlier this week, according to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. It said more than 5,000 truckers were actively participating in the strike on Saturday.
Tuesday’s order marked the first time a South Korean government exercised its controversial powers under a law revised in 2004 to force truckers back to their jobs.
A failure to comply without “justifiable reason” is punishable by up to three years in jail or a maximum fine of 30 million won ($22,400). Critics say the law infringes on constitutional rights because it doesn’t clearly define what qualifies as acceptable conditions for a strike.
Officials say they issued the “work start order” to cement truckers first because the construction industry was hit hardest by shipment delays. They say they are considering expanding the order to drivers transporting fuel as a second step, citing concerns about possible shortages at gas stations.
The strike’s impact has so far been mostly limited to domestic industries and there has been no immediate reports of major disruptions to export industries such as semiconductors.
Yoon’s government has offered to temporarily extend the minimum freight fares for another three years but balked at the demand to widen the scope of such payments.
The truckers say the minimum-rate system is crucial for their finances and personal safety, saying that without it they are forced to increase their deliveries and drive dangerously to make ends meet. | https://www.wjhl.com/business/ap-business/ap-thousands-protest-in-south-korea-in-support-of-truckers/ | 2022-12-03 19:25:32 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/business/ap-business/ap-thousands-protest-in-south-korea-in-support-of-truckers/ |
(The Hill) — An international group of law enforcement agencies seized a Hong Kong-registered cryptocurrency website and arrested its founder for allegedly operating a haven for criminals to launder funds.
Justice Department and Treasury Department officials on Wednesday alleged cryptocurrency exchange Bitzlato processed more than $700 million in illicit funds by failing to implement an effective anti-money laundering program and that it was aware some accounts were engaging in criminal activity.
Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said U.S. and French authorities dismantled Bitzlato’s digital infrastructure and FBI agents arrested Russian national Anatoly Legkodymov, the founder and majority owner of the website, on Tuesday evening in Miami.
“Today, the Department of Justice has dealt a significant blow to the crypto crime ecosystem,” Monaco said.
Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo said the department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network designated Bitzlato as a “primary money laundering concern” after authorities identified nearly 50 percent of Bitzlato’s known transactions between 2019 and 2021 as involving illicit Russian finances or other “risky sources.”
“Bitzlato was particularly active in facilitating illicit activity, but it is ultimately part of a larger, larger ecosystem of cyber criminals that are allowed to operate with impunity within Russia,” said Adeyemo.
Bitzlato could not be reached for comment.
“This service has been seized by the Gendarmerie Nationale cyberspace command under the authority of the French Paris Prosecutor’s office (JUNALCO) as part of a coordinated international law enforcement action against Bitzlato,” reads a notice on Bitzlato’s website.
Much of the criminal complaint, which was unsealed in the Eastern District of New York on Wednesday, focuses on Bitzlato’s relationship with Hydra Marketplace, a massive Russian-based darknet market sanctioned by the U.S. last year.
The complaint claims a “substantial portion” of the billions in cryptocurrency Hydra received was sent directly from Bitzlato wallets.
It further alleges that Legkodymov and other senior managers were aware of the high volume of criminal funds and that the website had ineffective verification procedures.
Legkodymov resides in China but flew to New York in roughly October and continued to administer Bitzlato from the U.S., according to court filings. Officials declined to say at Wednesday’s news conference why he was in Miami at the time of his arrest. | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/authorities-seize-crypto-website-bitzlato-arrest-founder-for-allegedly-operating-criminal-haven/ | 2023-01-18 19:39:47 | 1 | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/authorities-seize-crypto-website-bitzlato-arrest-founder-for-allegedly-operating-criminal-haven/ |
Florida - Monday May 22, 2023: Florida gas prices are still declining as nearly 2.4 million Floridians prepare to travel for Memorial Day weekend. According to AAA's holiday travel forecast, more than 2.1 million Floridians will take a road trip.
Florida gas prices have declined 31 cents per gallon over the course of the past 30 days. During the past week alone, the state average declined 7 cents per gallon.
On Sunday, Florida drivers paid an average price of $3.41 per gallon. Though drivers in some regions are finding prices in the $3.20s or lower.
"It's looking like Florida drivers will spend a dollar per gallon less for gasoline than they did last Memorial Day weekend," said Mark Jenkins, spokesman, AAA - The Auto Club Group. "The state average should trickle even lower this week. However, even if pump prices do suddenly rise this week, it's unlikely it'd be by a large enough margin that Floridians would change their plans, since most travel plans have already been finalized by now."
Regional Florida Prices
• Most expensive metro markets – West Palm Beach-Boca Raton ($3.66), Naples ($3.55), Miami ($3.52)
• Least expensive metro markets – Panama City ($3.14), Crestview-Fort Walton Beach ($3.16), Pensacola ($3.22)
Find Florida Gas Prices
- Daily gas price averages can be found at Gasprices.aaa.com
- State and metro averages can be found here
Ways to Save on Gasoline
• Combine errands to limit driving time.
• Shop around for the best gas prices in your community.
• Pay with cash. Some retailers charge extra per gallon for customers who pay with a credit card.
• Remove excess weight in your vehicle. Every 100 pounds taken out of the vehicle improves fuel economy by 1-2 percent.
• Drive conservatively. Aggressive acceleration and speeding reduces fuel economy.
AAA Resources for Drivers
• Enroll in savings programs. AAA Members who enroll in Shell's Fuel Rewards program can save 30 cents per gallon on their first fill-up and 5 cents per gallon each additional trip to the pump. Click here for more information.
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Grand Forks officially terminates Fufeng Deal
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (Valley News Live) - Grand Forks city officials have officially decided to terminate the development agreement between the city and Fufeng USA Inc. on Thursday, April 20.
City officials made the decision based off a January 27, 2023 determination by the US Government and the United States Air Force, saying it posed a significant threat to national security, and a short and long-term threat to operations being done at the Air Force base in Grand Forks.
Back in February, the Grand Forks City Council voted unanimously to cancel the proposed Chinese-owned corn milling plant project, citing certain national security concerns.
Grand Forks will also demand and look to obtain funds from the Letter of Credit for the costs, expenses, and fees by the City under the Development Agreement made.
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Latest push to revive Equal Rights Amendment fails in Senate
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked a Democratic measure to revive the Equal Rights Amendment, dealing yet another blow to supporters who have pushed for more than five decades to amend the Constitution to prohibit discrimination based on sex.
Democrats failed to win the necessary 60 votes to move forward with the resolution, which would have removed a 1982 deadline for state ratification and reopened the process to amend the Constitution.
The 51-47 vote included support from two Republicans, Maine Sen. Susan Collins and Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski — well short of the 10 GOP votes needed.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., put the resolution up for a vote this week, even as it was unlikely to pass. He said it was especially timely in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision last year to overturn Roe v. Wade and the constitutional right to an abortion.
“Women in America have far fewer rights today than they did even a year ago,” Schumer said.
After the vote, Schumer said the Senate is “not giving up,” and would keep trying to pass the measure.
Congress sent the amendment, which guarantees men and women equal rights under the law, to the states in 1972. It gave states seven years to ratify it, later extending the deadline to 1982. But the amendment wasn’t ratified by the required three-quarters of states before the deadline.
Three years ago, however, Virginia lawmakers voted to ratify the amendment, becoming the 38th and final state needed.
At the same time, several states — including Nebraska, Tennessee, Idaho, Kentucky and South Dakota — have attempted to remove their prior approval.
States can support the federal version individually, though it is not ratified into the U.S. Constitution, so those ratifications remain mostly symbolic.
In a statement of policy, the White House said that President Joe Biden “strongly supports” extending the deadline and that it is long past time.
“Gender equality is not only a moral issue – the full participation of women and girls across all aspects of our society is essential to our economic prosperity, our security, and the health of our democracy,” the White House said.
Republicans have argued that Democrats are trying to rewrite history.
“The Democrats’ novel unconstitutional approach bypasses states’ rights and circumvents the process our founders put in place,” said Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., after the vote. “This is simply another liberal wish list item meant to drive a political wedge.”
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Maui Ahuna ruled eligible for Tennessee baseball, will debut against Charleston Southern
Maui Ahuna is eligible for Tennessee baseball, UT announced Monday.
The Vols shortstop and prized offseason addition will debut against Charleston Southern on Tuesday after waiting to receive eligibility clearance from the NCAA. Ahuna transferred to Tennessee from Kansas in June after an All-Big 12 season.
"Suppah man is back," Ahuna tweeted Monday afternoon.
UT announced that Ahuna's eligibility had been reinstated and he was available to join the UT roster effective immediately. It also announced that Vols coach Tony Vitello completed his suspension by sitting out UT's sweep against Dayton.
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Ahuna did not play in No. 2 Tennessee's first eight games after UT announced it awaiting Ahuna's compliance clearance prior to its season-opening 3-1 loss to Arizona on Feb. 17.
Ahuna is a projected first-round pick in the 2023 MLB Draft. He batted .396 with eight homers and 48 RBIs at Kansas last season. The 6-foot-1, 165-pound shortstop had 16 doubles and four triples.
Ahuna was the gem of UT's vaunted transfer class, which also features outfielder Griffin Merritt, third baseman Zane Denton, and pitcher Andrew Lindsey.
The Vols went 1-2 in three games in the MLB Desert Invitational before trouncing Alabama A&M in back-to-back run-rule victories. UT won 10-0 on Tuesday and 23-1 on Wednesday. The Vols swept Dayton in a three-game series at Lindsey Nelson Stadium.
Ahuna likely will fit into the top five spots in the Tennessee lineup. Redshirt sophomore Austin Jaslove started all eight games at shortstop with Ahuna out. The Vols also worked sophomore Christian Moore at shortstop Wednesday.
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Introducing the Sapphire brand from Lucid, with the Lucid Air Sapphire, the world's first luxury electric super-sports sedan
- Lucid Air Sapphire features three motors, carbon-ceramic brakes, aerodynamic package, new sport seats, and track-tuned suspension for a sublime driver-focused sporting experience
- Sub-two seconds 0-60 mph, sub-four seconds 0-100 mph, sub-nine seconds quarter mile, and top speed exceeding 200 mph
- Production begins in first half of 2023
NEWARK, Calif., Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lucid Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: LCID), setting new standards with the longest-range, fastest-charging electric car on the market with the award-winning Lucid Air, today introduced Sapphire, Lucid's new ultra-high-performance brand, led by the new Lucid Air Sapphire – the world's first fully electric luxury super-sports sedan.
"Last year, Lucid rocked the world with the launch of Lucid Air, a fusion of unsurpassed range, efficiency, superior driving dynamics, and interior space, uniquely enabled by our in-house technology." said Peter Rawlinson, CEO and CTO, Lucid Group. "Today, with the introduction of the Sapphire line, we take the next logical step of advancement. Lucid Air Sapphire, being the very first Lucid product to bear the Sapphire name, builds upon our technical prowess to take electric high-performance on to next level. Sapphire represents the pinnacle of electric performance; finally achieving the performance that I've so long searched for. After painstaking development work, I am able to confirm Lucid Air Sapphire has achieved a satisfactory performance, and I trust the most discerning drivers will agree."
"Sapphire is the embodiment of what ultra-high-performance luxury means to Lucid," said Derek Jenkins, SVP of Brand and Design, Lucid Group. "Sapphire is among the most valued gemstones, prized for their brilliance, color, and hardness. Imperial Blue has long been the de facto national color for American motorsports teams engaged in international competitions. As Lucid's dedicated ultra-high-performance brand, Sapphire references this history while setting new standards for innovation and technology."
At the heart of Lucid Air Sapphire lies a three-motor powertrain – the first from Lucid – featuring a new twin motor rear-drive unit and a single motor front-drive unit.
"With three state-of-the-art electric motors – all developed and manufactured in-house by Lucid – Lucid Air Sapphire reaches an entirely new level of performance," said Eric Bach, SVP of Product and Chief Engineer, Lucid Group. "And because a three-motor Lucid Air was always part of the development program, it retains all the strengths of Lucid Air variants already on the market – including limo-like rear legroom, a voluminous trunk and frunk, and impressive efficiency."
These technically innovative electric motors incorporate Lucid's microjet stator cooling and wave winding. The twin rear-drive unit also introduces new heat exchanger technology and heightened coolant flow rate. The battery system is also upgraded for higher power and more precise thermal logic.
As expected, Lucid Air Sapphire's three-motor powertrain delivers even more horsepower than the car's dual-motor siblings, including the 1,050-hp Lucid Air Grand Touring Performance. With over 1,200 hp, Lucid Air Sapphire is not only the most powerful electric sedan in the world, it is the most powerful sedan in the world.
With this vast power and the enhanced delivery afforded by the twin rear-drive unit, Lucid Air Sapphire will accelerate from a standstill to 60 mph in less than two seconds, from zero to 100 mph in less than four seconds, and the standing quarter mile in under 9 seconds. These figures are achievable with no extra-cost equipment upgrades or protracted preconditioning routines. Additionally, massive carbon ceramic disc brakes come as standard, endowing Air Sapphire with a stopping power to match its prodigious performance.
Final horsepower ratings will be announced later, along with instrumented demonstrations of the incredible performance capabilities of the vehicle.
As with other Lucid Air variants, Lucid's engineers followed a holistic approach to development of the first Sapphire model. In practice, this meant devoting exacting attention to every facet of performance.
"Our aim with this, our first Sapphire model, is to complement the exceptional powertrain with sharper, more responsive driving dynamics and increased body control," said David Lickfold, Director of Chassis and Vehicle Dynamics, Lucid Group. "At the same time, it was important to retain the exceptional ride quality for which Lucid Air has come to be known."
Lucid Air Sapphire features stiffer front and rear springs, unique damper settings, stiffer bushings, and a unique tuning for ABS, traction, stability control, and electronic power steering. Standard carbon ceramic brakes provide exceptional stopping power and contribute to Lucid Air Sapphire's endurance in high-performance driving. This advanced chassis setup is conceived to maximize the benefits of the torque-vectoring capabilities of the three-motor powertrain, as well as the wider, more aggressive wheels and tires. The car rides on ultra-high performance staggered Aero Sapphire wheels, with specially developed Michelin PS4S tires, sized 265/35R20 at front and 295/30R21 in the rear. These unique wheels also feature removable carbon-fiber aero disk wheel covers, which further optimize the aerodynamic efficiency of the car.
In addition to delivering prodigious power to the rear of the vehicle, the twin rear-drive unit allows for torque vectoring that extends the capabilities of the car beyond that achievable with a passive all-wheel-drive system.
For example, the twin rear-drive unit can effectively pivot the rear of the vehicle, providing torque to the rear wheels in opposite directions to promote either turn-in or straight-line stability – similar to a brake-based setup and a rear-wheel steering system, but faster, quieter, and more seamless. In tight corners, the system is able to apply regenerative braking on the inside wheel while powering the outside, greatly enhancing vehicle turn-in rotation and with much quicker response times than rear-wheel steering systems.
The benefits for drivers are wide-reaching, with improvements to turn-in, cornering balance across all speeds, corner exit, and high-speed stability and disturbance rejection. The driving experience differs across drive modes to give multiple characters in conjunction with steering, suspension, powertrain, and brake settings.
Lucid Air Sapphire is designed to be as functional as it is beautiful.
Special attention has been given to refining the aerodynamic character of the body for Lucid Air Sapphire. The outcome of this effort is a balance between added downforce, which enhances vehicle stability at higher speeds, and reducing drag, which affects both performance and efficiency.
The launch of the Sapphire brand from Lucid also marks the introduction of a new Sapphire Blue exterior paint, a radiant color that will be exclusive to Sapphire vehicles. Initially, all Lucid Air Sapphires will be finished exclusively in the new Sapphire Blue color to mark the brand introduction.
Lucid Air Sapphire is augmented with the recently announced Stealth Look as standard, bringing a more sinister, sporting character to the exterior of the vehicle.
The cabin of Lucid Air Sapphire extends the purposeful beauty of the exterior with a new interior theme called Sapphire Mojave. This includes new highly bolstered 18-way power sport seats, upholstered in black leather trimmed with black Alcantara and Sapphire Blue contrast stitching. Though designed for spirited driving, the seats still provide decadent comfort, with heating, cooling and massage functionality. The headrest showcases a debossed Lucid bear logomark, one of the icons of the Lucid brand identity reflecting the California origins of the brand. Dash and doors are decorated with Mojave darkwood veneers, while the steering wheel and upper roof structure for the standard Glass Canopy roof are trimmed in black Alcantara.
Lucid Air Sapphire also features a unique Sapphire-themed on-screen display, with specially configured drive modes and performance settings.
Lucid Air Sapphire makes its public debut at the Quail Lodge during Monterey Car Week. Lucid Air Sapphire will be offered as a limited-production model, with deliveries planned in the US and Canada next year. The price is $249,000 USD and $325,000 CAD1. Reservations go live Tuesday, August 23, 2022 at 9 AM Pacific time.
Information about availability for markets outside of North America will be communicated in the future.
What's more, Lucid Air Sapphire is just the beginning, representing the launch of an entirely new performance-focused brand within Lucid. Additional Sapphire models will be available for all Lucid models moving forward, continuing to set new standards for what luxury performance can look and feel.
Lucid's mission is to inspire the adoption of sustainable energy by creating advanced technologies and the most captivating luxury electric vehicles centered around the human experience. The company's first car, Lucid Air, is a state-of-the-art luxury sedan with a California-inspired design that features luxurious full-size interior space in a mid-size exterior footprint. Underpinned by race-proven battery technology and proprietary powertrains developed entirely in-house, Lucid Air was named the 2022 MotorTrend Car of the Year®. Lucid Air Grand Touring features an official EPA estimated 516 miles of range or 1,050 horsepower. Deliveries of Lucid Air, which is produced at Lucid's factory in Casa Grande, Arizona, are currently underway to U.S. customers.
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Munster temperatures will reach the 50's today. It should reach a crisp 55 degrees. A 35-degree low is forecasted. We'll see sunshine today, but also cloud cover at times. Models are suggesting a 24% chance of precipitation in today's outlook. The area will see gentle winds today, with forecast models showing only 13 mph wind conditions coming up from Northwest. Special National Weather Service Alert: Small Craft Advisory until WED 4:00 AM CDT. This report is created automatically with weather data provided by TownNews.com. For more daily forecast information, visit nwitimes.com.
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Sick of hearing about record heat? Scientists say those numbers paint the story of a warming world
(AP) - The summer of 2023 is behaving like a broken record about broken records.
Nearly every major climate-tracking organization proclaimed June the hottest June ever. Then July 4 became the globe’s hottest day, albeit unofficially, according to the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer. It was quickly overtaken by July 5 and July 6. Next came the hottest week, a tad more official, stamped into the books by the World Meteorological Organization and the Japanese Meteorological Agency.
With a summer of extreme weather records dominating the news, meteorologists and scientists say records like these give a glimpse of the big picture: a warming planet caused by climate change. It’s a picture that comes in the vibrant reds and purples representing heat on daily weather maps online, in newspapers and on television.
Beyond the maps and the numbers are real harms that kill. More than 100 people have died in heat waves in the United States and India so far this summer.
Records are crucial for people designing infrastructure and working in agriculture because they need to plan for the worst scenarios, said Russell Vose, climate analysis group director for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. He also chairs a committee on national records.
In the past 30 days, nearly 5,000 heat and rainfall records have been broken or tied in the U.S. and more than 10,000 records set globally, according to NOAA. Texas cities and towns alone have set 369 daily high temperature records since June 1.
Since 2000, the U.S. has set about twice as many records for heat as those for cold.
“Records go back to the late 19th century and we can see that there has been a decade-on-decade increase in temperatures,” said Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, keeper of the agency’s climate records. “What’s happening now is certainly increasing the chances that 2023 will be the warmest year on record. My calculations suggest that there’s, right now, a 50-50 chance.”
The larger the geographic area and the longer stretch of time during which records are set, the more likely the conditions represent climate change rather than daily weather. So the hottest global June is “extremely unlikely” to happen without climate change, as opposed to one city’s daily record, Texas state climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon said.
Still, some local specifics are striking: Death Valley has flirted this summer with the hottest temperature in modern history, though that 134 degree Fahrenheit (56.7 Celsius ) record is in dispute.
Phoenix grabbed headlines among major U.S. cities on Tuesday when it marked a 19th consecutive day of unrelenting mega heat: 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43.3 Celsius) or more. It kept going, reaching a 22nd straight day on Friday. The daytime heat was accompanied by a record stretch of nights that never fell below 90 Fahrenheit (32.2 Celsius).
“Everybody’s drawn to extremes,” Vose said. “It’s like the Guinness Book of World Records. Human nature is just drawn to the extreme things out of curiosity.”
But the numbers can be flawed in what they portray.
The scientific community “doesn’t really have the vocabulary to communicate what it feels like,” said Stanford University climate scientist Chris Field, who co-chaired a groundbreaking United Nations report in 2012 warning of the dangers of extreme weather from climate change.
“I don’t think it captures the human sense, but it really does underscore that we live in a different world,” Field said of the records.
Think of the individual statistics as brush strokes in a painting of the world’s climate, Cornell University climate scientist Natalie Mahowald said. Don’t fixate on any specific number.
“The details of course matter, but the thing that really matters, especially for the impressionist painting, is when you step back and take a look at everything that’s happening,” Mahowald said.
She and other climate scientists say long-term warming from burning coal, oil and natural gas is the chief cause of rising temperatures, along with occasional boosts from natural El Nino warmings across parts of the Pacific, like the planet is experiencing this year.
El Nino is a natural temporary warming of parts of the Pacific that changes weather patterns worldwide and adds an extra warm boost. An El Nino formed in June and scientists say this one looks strong. For the previous three years El Nino’s cool flip side, La Nina, dampened a bit of the heat humans are causing.
A super El Nino spiked global temperatures in 1998, then was followed by less warming and even some flat temperatures for a few years until the next big El Nino, Mahowald said.
Weather won’t worsen each year and that should not become a common expectation, but it will intensify over the long run, she said.
The University of Michigan’s Richard Rood used to blog about climate records for Weather Underground, but in 2014 he got sick of continuously new extremes and stopped.
“I think we need to get away from that sort of record-setting sensationalism at some level and really be getting down to the hard work,” he said, addressing the need for people to adapt to a warmer world and get serious about slashing emissions causing hotter, more extreme weather.
NOAA tracks weather observations from tens of thousands of stations throughout the U.S. and its global calculations incorporate data from more than 100,000 stations, Vose said.
When those records come in, the agency checks their quality and calculates where the numbers fit historically. NOAA’s National Center for Environmental Information in North Carolina is the arbiter of national records, while the local National Weather Service offices handle those for individual cities, Vose said.
A special international committee deals with world records and, at times, scientists disagree on the reliability of 100-year-old data. Those disagreements come into play over questions such as determining the hottest temperature recorded on Earth.
Validating records takes time. Because of a backlog of extreme weather events to analyze, officials haven’t finished approving 130 degree Fahrenheit records from 2020 and 2021 at Death Valley, Vose said.
“Our primary job is keeping score, meaning what happened? How unusual was it?” he asked. “It’s not like we take great joy in saying it was the warmest year on record. Again.”
It’s the bigger picture that matters, Northern Illinois University climate scientist Victor Gensini said.
“Look at them all together in the aggregate sense of the atmospheric orchestra,” Gensini said. “There are so many clear signs that we are just not living in the same type of climate that we were.”
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DALLAS (AP) _ Arcosa Inc. (ACA) on Thursday reported first-quarter earnings of $20.2 million.
The Dallas-based company said it had net income of 41 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for costs related to mergers and acquisitions, came to 42 cents per share.
The provider of infrastructure-related products and services posted revenue of $535.8 million in the period.
Arcosa shares have climbed nearly 1% since the beginning of the year. In the final minutes of trading on Thursday, shares hit $53.13, a drop of 16% in the last 12 months.
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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Clubhouse Media Group, Inc. (OTCMKTS: CMGR) ("CMGR"), an influencer-based social media firm and digital talent management agency, announced that they have finalized a brand promotional deal with Steven Jackson, through their partnership with The Reiman Agency. Jackson is a former running back and three-time Pro-Bowl selection. Jackson was a 1st round draft pick when he entered the league in 2004. He played 12 NFL seasons and he is the Rams all-time leading rusher.
"Steven is an incredible talent. It was a pleasure to work with his team on what I believe will be the first of many partnerships to come" said Alden Reiman, CEO of The Reiman Agency.
"Jackson is yet another NFL star we have been fortunate enough to close a deal with" said Amir Ben-Yohanan, CEO of CMGR. "Our agency business is ramping up. The increased volume of deals coming down the pipeline is very exciting, and the team is working hard every day to continue on this path moving forward."
About Clubhouse Media Group, Inc.
CMGR offers management, production, and deal-making services to its handpicked influencers, a management division for individual influencer clients, and an investment arm for joint ventures and acquisitions for companies in the social media influencer space.
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RICHMOND, Va. -- Don't miss your chance to sign up for the Ukrop's Monument Avenue 10K presented by Kroger, which is less than three months month away.
The in-person run scheduled for Saturday, April 22 on Monument Avenue is dubbed "RVA’s favorite spring tradition."
"Year after year people from around the Richmond region and beyond gather to share in the journey of crossing the 10k finish line. The 10k is a day about togetherness, and we know so many of you have very personal reasons for participating," event organizers with Sports Backers said. "Whether it’s reuniting with your YMCA 10k Training Team, running the whole thing in costume, or walking with your family, we’re excited for you to shine. One thing we know is that the enthusiasm for the 10k is unmatched! We’re so excited to see everyone and celebrate our amazing community!"
If you're interested in running or walking, sign up here before the price goes up Wednesday, Feb. 1.
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The new 204,000 square foot campus features multiple maker spaces and rooms that have never been seen before to serve up to 1,600 students.
BURTON, Ohio and PITTSBURGH, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- After nearly ten years of planning, collaboration, and construction, the Berkshire Local School District is ready to showcase its new campus at a ribbon-cutting ceremony on August 9th.
Built on the Kent State University Geauga campus, the new school features separate wings for different age groups, including pre-K and kindergarten, elementary, middle, and high school. Its center core contains shared and large volume spaces.
In addition to a state-of-the-art auditorium and beautiful new gymnasium, the campus also includes immersive maker spaces and Innovation Labs® designed to inspire creativity and project-based learning. Its age-appropriate spaces, such as a castle, treehouse, pirate ship, robots, and high school Innovation Labs® were designed and installed by Inventionland Education.
The new building also features career tech spaces for diesel mechanics and healthcare education.
"We're excited for the impact the new campus will have in our community for our next generation of students, as we prepare them for successful careers of the future," states Berkshire Local Schools Superintendent John Stoddard. "The new school emphasizes real-world, project-based learning, and being on the Kent State Geauga campus provides a roadmap to college, the trades, or entrepreneurship," Stoddard continues.
"We're especially grateful for the support of our community, Kent State University, and many donors that made this possible," Stoddard concludes. A list of donors and naming opportunities can be found at HomeOfTheBadgers.com, the Berkshire Educational Foundation's website.
The ribbon-cutting and open house will allow the local community and press to see firsthand the many truly unique features of the school, including a sampling of activities in the project-based learning maker spaces. In addition, Bert the Badger and the Berkshire marching band will also be on hand.
Berkshire Local Schools serves students from Burton, Thompson, Montville, Claridon, and Troy townships. It covers 118 square miles and is located approximately 40 miles from Cleveland, Ohio. Learn more at BerkshireSchools.org. For donor information and naming opportunities, please see HomeofTheBadgers.com.
Inventionland Education brings award-winning Innovation Labs® to K12 schools with immersive learning spaces, an innovation curriculum, and professional learning that inspires students and educators. For more information, please visit InventionlandEducation.com.
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PERRYTON, Texas (AP) — A tornado ripped through the Texas Panhandle town of Perryton on Thursday, causing widespread damage as another in a series of fierce storms carved its way through the South.
The National Weather Service in Amarillo confirmed that a tornado hit the area Thursday afternoon. But there was no immediate word on its size or whether anyone was injured, meteorologist Luigi Meccariello said.
“There are still reports of ongoing rescues,” he said, but didn’t have any details.
First responders from surrounding areas and from Oklahoma descended on the town.
Storm chaser Brian Emfinger told Fox Weather that he watched the twister move through a mobile home park, mangling trailers and uprooting trees.
“I had seen the tornado do some pretty serious destruction to the industrial part of town,” he said. “Unfortunately, just west of there, there is just mobile home, after mobile home, after mobile home that is completely destroyed. There is significant damage.”
Nearly 50,000 customers were without electricity in Texas and Oklahoma, according to the poweroutage.us website.
By evening, the weather front was moving southeast across Oklahoma. The weather service said a second round of storms would continue to move through that state and portions of Texas through the evening while the risk of severe weather, including tornados, remained for the metropolitan Oklahoma City area. | https://www.wivb.com/news/u-s-headlines/tornado-causes-widespread-damage-in-texas-panhandle-town/ | 2023-06-16 01:41:58 | 0 | https://www.wivb.com/news/u-s-headlines/tornado-causes-widespread-damage-in-texas-panhandle-town/ |
18-wheeler catches fire in Nacogdoches County crash that killed 1, injured 2
NACOGDOCHES COUNTY, Texas (KTRE) - DPS troopers are investigating a fatal two-vehicle crash that took place July 12 on U.S. Highway 59, about three miles south of Garrison.
The preliminary crash investigation has indicated a 2018 Dodge SUV was traveling north at about 10:10 p.m. and for unknown reasons drove over into the southbound lanes, where it struck a 2006 Peterbilt truck tractor with a semi-trailer head-on. Troopers said after the initial collision, the Peterbilt caught fire and burned.
The driver of the Peterbilt has been identified as Titus Jackson, 46, from Coushatta, LA, and he was taken to Nacogdoches Medical Center for treatment.
The driver of the Dodge was taken to a Tyler hospital for treatment, DPS said. A passenger in the Dodge was ejected during the crash and was pronounced deceased at the scene by a Nacogdoches County Justice of the Peace. The identities of the driver and passenger are being withheld until investigators notify the next of kin.
This crash remains under investigation. Additional information is not available at this time.
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RELIANCE I and II Adjunctive MDD Trials Continue to Advance
CORAL GABLES, Fla., Oct. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Relmada Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: RLMD), a late-stage biotechnology company addressing diseases of the central nervous system (CNS), today announced that its RELIANCE III study (REL-1017-303), evaluating REL-1017 in the monotherapy setting for Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), did not achieve its primary endpoint, which was a statistically significant improvement in depression symptoms compared to placebo as measured by the Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS) on Day 28. In the study, the REL-1017 treatment arm showed a MADRS reduction of 14.8 points at Day 28 versus 13.9 points for the placebo arm, a higher than expected placebo response. Paradoxical results were observed in certain study sites, where placebo dramatically outperformed REL-1017. Relmada is investigating the nature of these results.
REL-1017, which was administered for 28 days to 232 subjects in RELIANCE III, demonstrated very favorable tolerability and safety, confirming the results of Phase 1 and Phase 2 studies (Fava et al, 2022)¹, with no opioid-like effects, no withdrawal effects, and no psychotomimetic effects. There were no adverse events related to QTcF prolongation.
"While these RELIANCE III results are disappointing for patients, the need for new, safe and effective treatments for MDD continues to exist. We look forward to the data from the ongoing RELIANCE I and II trials of REL-1017, a potential new therapy for the adjunctive treatment of MDD." said Maurizio Fava, Psychiatrist-In-Chief, Massachusetts General Hospital and Slater Family Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School.
To better understand the paradoxical results, a post-hoc, exploratory analysis using the band-pass method (Merlo-Pich et al, 2010²) was conducted. The band-pass analysis excludes sites with implausibly high or low placebo responses (defined as a mean decrease from baseline in MADRS10 score greater than 14 and less than 3 points) and showed a meaningful difference between REL-1017 and placebo (>4.9 points on the MADRS, p<0.05).
Relmada continues to enroll patients in RELIANCE I and RELIANCE II, two ongoing Phase 3, placebo-controlled, pivotal studies evaluating REL-1017 as a potential adjunctive treatment for MDD. The RELIANCE development program also includes RELIANCE-OLS, a long-term open-label safety study that is enrolling rollover participants from all three pivotal studies, as well as de novo participants.
¹Fava M, Stahl S, Pani L, De Martin S, Pappagallo M, Guidetti C, Alimonti A, Bettini E, Mangano RM, Wessel T, de Somer M, Caron J, Vitolo OV, DiGuglielmo GR, Gilbert A, Mehta H, Kearney M, Mattarei A, Gentilucci M, Folli F, Traversa S, Inturrisi CE, Manfredi PL. REL-1017 (Esmethadone) as Adjunctive Treatment in Patients With Major Depressive Disorder: A Phase 2a Randomized Double-Blind Trial. Am J Psychiatry. 2022 Feb;179(2):122-131. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2021.21020197. Epub 2021 Dec 22. PMID: 34933568.
²Merlo-Pich E, Alexander RC, Fava M, Gomeni R. A new population-enrichment strategy to improve efficiency of placebo-controlled clinical trials of antidepressant drugs. Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2010 Nov;88(5):634-42. doi: 10.1038/clpt.2010.159. Epub 2010 Sep 22.
REL-1017, a new chemical entity (NCE) and novel NMDA receptor (NMDAR) channel blocker that preferentially targets hyperactive channels while maintaining physiological glutamatergic neurotransmission, is currently in late-stage development for the treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD). The ongoing Reliance Clinical Research Program is designed to evaluate the potential for REL-1017 as a rapid-acting, oral, once-daily antidepressant treatment. In a Phase 2 trial, REL-1017 demonstrated rapid, robust, and sustained antidepressant effects with statistically significant improvements compared to placebo. The Phase 2 study also showed a favorable pharmacokinetic, safety, and tolerability profile of REL-1017 consistent with results observed in previously completed Phase 1 studies.
Relmada Therapeutics is a late-stage biotechnology company addressing diseases of the central nervous system (CNS), with focus on major depressive disorder (MDD). Relmada's experienced and dedicated team is committed to making a difference in the lives of patients and their families. Relmada's lead program, REL-1017, is a new chemical entity (NCE) and novel NMDA receptor (NMDAR) channel blocker that preferentially targets hyperactive channels while maintaining physiological glutamatergic neurotransmission. REL-1017 has entered late-stage development as an adjunctive treatment for MDD in adults. In addition, Relmada is advancing a clinical-stage program in neurodegenerative diseases based on psilocybin and select derivative molecules. Learn more at www.relmada.com.
The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides a safe harbor for forward-looking statements made by us or on our behalf. This press release contains statements which constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Any statement that is not historical in nature is a forward-looking statement and may be identified by the use of words and phrases such as "expects," "anticipates," "believes," "will," "will likely result," "will continue," "plans to," "potential," "promising," and similar expressions. These statements are based on management's current expectations and beliefs and are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements, including potential failure of RELIANCE trial results to demonstrate clinically significant evidence of efficacy and/or safety, failure of top-line results to accurately reflect the complete results of the trial, failure to obtain regulatory approval of REL-1017 for the treatment of major depressive disorder, and the other risk factors described under the heading "Risk Factors" set forth in the Company's reports filed with the SEC from time to time. No forward-looking statement can be guaranteed, and actual results may differ materially from those projected. Relmada undertakes no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. Readers are cautioned that it is not possible to predict or identify all the risks, uncertainties and other factors that may affect future results and that the risks described herein should not be a complete list.
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DETROIT (AP) — Simone Ashley was busy working and traveling when “Bridgerton” debuted on Netflix in December 2020 and was an immediate smash with viewers. The Shonda Rhimes-produced series about the romantic pursuits of a large family in Regency-era London wasn't on Ashley's radar. So, when the audition for season two came about, she didn't quite grasp what a big opportunity lay before her.
“It kind of came at a time of my life where I was living between Los Angeles and London and all of my stuff was in the States," recalled Ashley. “I was just on the road the whole time.”
In hindsight, it worked to Ashley's benefit that she wasn't fully aware of what a high-profile project “Bridgerton” would be, so it didn't overwhelm or distract her during the audition process.
“A lot of the time when you audition for something, there is a bit of pressure and you can’t help but feel emotionally invested and get your hopes up and all of those things that every actor goes through. This one all happened in like 10 days, and I just didn’t really understand what was happening," she said.
Ashley got the role of Kate Sharma, a fiercely independent, sharp, protective older sister who wins the heart of Anthony Bridgerton, played by Jonathan Bailey. It's Ashley's charisma, charm and grace that make her one of The Associated Press' breakthrough entertainers of 2022 alongside Iman Vellani,Tenoch Huerta, Stephanie Hsu and others.
Although she was already a working actor when she got the job and best-known for the Netflix series “Sex Education,” Ashley realizes filming season two of “Bridgerton” was a “once in a lifetime” experience she can never duplicate. "I don’t think I’ll ever be able to approach a project with that kind of obliviousness, because there will always be a slight expectation and pressure now.”
A big part of the magic of that experience was her chemistry with Bailey, whom she calls Johnny.
“Among all the chaos and the craziness, as soon as we were in front of the cameras and they were rolling, it was just better. We didn’t have to warm up to anything," she said, adding they had a kind of “tunnel vision” while working together.
“Bridgerton”'s reach is worldwide and Ashley has been recognized in some surprising places at times when she did not expect it.
“I was in the middle of nowhere in Switzerland, literally in the middle of nowhere, and I was going swimming and some girls recognized me there," she said. “Everyone that does approach me, the majority are women of color and they are just so lovely. People are just always so supportive to see someone like me representing in the industry, which I think is really important.”
She's also intent to enjoy the ride and "just have fun with it. It’s a very fun industry that we’re in. It's a lot of hard work, but, you know, it’s the entertainment industry.”
Some memorable experiences from this past year include attending her first Met Gala, where she was dressed by Jeremy Scott and met Maggie Rogers, one of her favorite musicians. She went to the Grand Prix in Monaco. Then there was the time at the BAFTAs when she was approached by education and human rights activist Malala Yousafzai.
“I met Malala during the BAFTAs. She came up to me and she was like, ‘Oh my God, ’Sex Education.' My name is Malala.' And I was like, ‘Babe, I know who you are.’ So that was really exciting because she's Malala, you know? It was very humbling to introduce herself to me.”
Success has only incentivized Ashley to keep working to meet the variety of opportunities that are now all possible. She’s looking to 2023 with a clear understanding of her goals. There are “exciting” projects on the horizon, she says, which she can’t speak about, including the live-action "Little Mermaid” movie starring Halle Bailey.
“I’ve got ambitions that I’m determined to achieve," she says. "I know what works for me. I know what I want to do with my voice now and the kind of roles that I want to take on.”
She's also filming “Bridgerton” season three which she says has been “really lovely" because she and Bailey are now supporting characters to a new love story.
“I think both Johnny and I were just relieved that we could kind of have fun a little bit more and go off and do whatever things we have surrounding this and then come back."
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For more on AP’s 2022 class of Breakthrough Entertainers, please visit: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-breakthrough-entertainers | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/AP-Breakthrough-Entertainer-Simone-Ashley-finds-17658558.php | 2022-12-17 00:07:48 | 0 | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/AP-Breakthrough-Entertainer-Simone-Ashley-finds-17658558.php |
HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese regulators have said e-commerce giant Alibaba’s finance affiliate Ant Group can raise $1.5 billion for its consumer finance unit in an important step forward after the government called off a planned IPO two years ago and ordered the firm to restructure.
The China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission (CBIRC) in the southwestern city of Chongqing said in a notice dated Dec. 30 that Ant’s consumer credit unit had gained approval to increase its capital to 18.5 billion yuan ($2.7 billion) from 8 billion yuan ($1.16 billion).
The approval came weeks after Beijing signaled at an economic work conference that it would support technology firms to boost economic growth and create more jobs.
Under the latest capital expansion plan, Ant would contribute 9.25 billion yuan ($1.34 billion) for a 50% stake of its Chongqing consumer credit unit, while a separate company controlled by the government in the eastern city of Hangzhou, where Alibaba has its headquarters, would hold 10%.
The approval comes more than a year after an earlier plan to raise 22 billion yuan ($3.2 billion) fell through when China Cinda Asset Management — a state-owned bad loans manager — pulled out of an agreement to acquire a 20% stake in Ant’s consumer finance arm.
Ant is restructuring after Chinese regulators pulled the plug on its mega-IPO just days before its market debut in Hong Kong and Shanghai.
They then tightened regulations on the financial technology industry, ordering companies like Ant to operate more like banks and follow capital requirements.
This meant Ant had to clean up violations in some of its businesses, such as credit, insurance and wealth management.
The company is awaiting approval of licenses to operate as a financial holding company and as a personal credit ratings firm.
Alibaba shares in Hong Kong jumped over 7% on Wednesday. The company’s New York-listed shares have fallen more than 23% in the past year. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Chinese-regulators-approve-capital-expansion-for-17693248.php | 2023-01-04 08:37:44 | 1 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Chinese-regulators-approve-capital-expansion-for-17693248.php |
BENICIA, Calif. (AP) — Han Solo may be a hunk. But “Pan Solo” is a hunk of bread.
That’s what a bakery in the San Francisco Bay Area has dubbed its 6-foot (1.8 meter) bread sculpture of the “Star Wars” character as he appeared after being frozen in carbonite in “The Empire Strikes Back.”
Hannalee Pervan and her mother, Catherine Pervan, co-owners of One House Bakery in Benicia, California, spent weeks molding, baking and assembling the life-sized sculpture using wood and two types of dough, including a type of yeastless dough with a higher sugar content that will last longer.
The two worked at night, after the day’s business was done. The lovingly crafted details show Han Solo’s anguished face and his hands straining to reach out.
Hannalee said she might have gotten a bit obsessed.
“Mom made me leave it because I was obsessing over the lips,” Hannalee Pervan told the New York Times. “She was like, ‘You need to walk away.’”
Creating Pan Solo was particularly meaningful, she told the paper, because she contracted COVID-19 in January 2021 and lost much of her senses of smell and taste.
“So just to find joy in a different part of food is really important,” she said.
The sculpture is now on display outside of the bakery, located about a half-hour’s drive north of San Francisco.
Pan Solo is the bakery’s entry in the annual Downtown Benicia Main Street Scarecrow Contest. The public will get to vote on their favorites from among more than two dozen creations entered by local businesses.
The Pervans, who are big science-fiction and fantasy fans, entered another “Star Wars”-themed creation in 2020 featuring the Mandalorian and Baby Yoda.
Unfortunately, Pan Solo won’t last forever. The dough eventually will be composted, not eaten.
So as a wise Jedi might warn: Don’t use the forks, Luke.
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This story was first published on Oct. 15, 2022. It was updated on Oct. 16, 2022 to correct the spelling of baker Hannalee Pervan’s first name.
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Karine Jean-Pierre mocked for claiming US added ‘ten thousand million jobs’: ‘Staggering amateurism’
The White House press secretary's gaffe was quickly pointed out by conservatives on Twitter
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre stepped into a hornet’s nest of mockery on Twitter Friday after stating that the U.S. has added "ten thousand million jobs" since President Biden took office.
Jean-Pierre made the gaffe during the Friday White House press briefing while she was talking about job growth for the month of August.
As Fox Business reported Thursday, the U.S. economy added 315,000 new jobs in August, making it is the "lowest monthly gain since April 2021."
Regardless, Jean-Pierre called this "good news" and took the opportunity to tout the total job growth under Biden since his inauguration. "As you know, the good news is, in August the economy created 315,000 jobs, which is important. We have created nearly ten thousand million jobs since President Biden took office, which is the fastest job growth in history."
Though that math did not sound right to those crunching the numbers on Twitter.
Tech researcher and businessman Dr. Eli David ran the math on the press secretary’s numbers and sarcastically remarked how well the jobs numbers are under Biden. "That's 10 billion, more than the entire population of the world. Amazing job!," he tweeted.
"’Ten thousand million?’ Did you also take math via Zoom?," asked Red State columnist Buzz Patterson.
American Greatness senior fellow Ned Ryun wrote, "Honestly, she just needs to put on clown makeup before every press conference."
UK journalist Nile Gardiner witnessed the gaffe and claimed it’s emblematic of the lameness of the Biden administration. He tweeted, "The sheer hubris and staggering amateurism of the Biden presidency is breathtaking."
Australian conservative commentator Rita Panahi jokingly tweeted, "Wowee that’s 10 billion jobs, that’s 30 jobs per American man, woman & child. Well done, Joe!"
FED RAISES INTEREST RATES BY 75 BASIS POINTS IN ANOTHER HISTORIC MOVE TO TACKLE INFLATION
"This explains the inflation," quipped political scientist Ian Bremmer.
And Conservative radio host George Brauchler tweeted sarcastically, "10 billion jobs?! That IS amazing!"
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Former President Barack Obama’s personal chef has drowned near the family’s home on Martha’s Vineyard.
Massachusetts State Police confirmed that the paddleboarder whose body was recovered from Edgartown Great Pond on Monday was Tafari Campbell, 45, of Dumfries, Virginia.
Campbell was employed by the Obamas and was visiting Martha’s Vineyard. The Obamas were not present at the home at the time of the accident.
In a statement, the former president and his wife, Michelle Obama, called Campbell a “beloved part of our family.”
“When we first met him, he was a talented sous chef at the White House – creative and passionate about food, and its ability to bring people together,” the couple said. “In the years that followed, we got to know him as a warm, fun, extraordinarily kind person who made all of our lives a little brighter.”
“That’s why, when we were getting ready to leave the White House, we asked Tafari to stay with us, and he generously agreed. He’s been part of our lives ever since, and our hearts are broken that he’s gone.”
The search for the missing paddleboarder started Sunday after reports from a fellow paddleboarder that he had struggled on the surface, went under and didn’t resurface.
The search was paused late Sunday but on Monday state police said sonar from a boat located the body about 100 feet (30 meters) from shore at a depth of about 8 feet. Campbell was not wearing a life jacket, police said.
The Obamas said Campbell is survived by his wife and their twin boys. | https://www.trentonian.com/2023/07/24/obamas-personal-chef-drowns-near-familys-home-on-marthas-vineyard/ | 2023-07-25 15:44:20 | 0 | https://www.trentonian.com/2023/07/24/obamas-personal-chef-drowns-near-familys-home-on-marthas-vineyard/ |
(The Hill) — Evusheld, the preventative monoclonal antibody treatment for COVID-19, has lost its emergency use authorization in the U.S. as it is most likely not effective against the strains of the coronavirus currently circulating.
The announcement from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) comes weeks after the agency issued a notice saying it did not expect Evusheld to be effective against the XBB.1.5 omicron subvariant, responsible for 61 percent of cases in the country, according to the most recent federal data.
“Today’s action to limit the use of Evusheld prevents exposing patients to possible side effects of Evusheld such as allergic reactions, which can be potentially serious, at a time when fewer than 10% of circulating variants in the U.S. causing infection are susceptible to the product,” the FDA said in a statement.
Evusheld is a combination of two monoclonal antibodies. It was authorized for use in people who are moderately or severely immunocompromised and likely would not have developed a strong immune response from COVID-19 vaccines.
According to a press release from Evusheld producer AstraZeneca, laboratory data has shown the treatment to be ineffective against many omicron subvariants, including the top three circulating in the U.S.: XBB.1.5, BQ.1.1 and BQ.1.
The constant mutation of the coronavirus has rendered other similar treatments effectively obsolete. The FDA in November paused authorization on the monoclonal antibody treatment bebtelovimab, the last such treatment meant to treat coronavirus infections.
In light of this treatment becoming unavailable, the FDA advised that patients who develop symptomatic cases of COVID-19 seek out treatments such as Paxlovid, remdesivir or molnupiravir, antivirals, which are still expected to be effective in treating infections.
Facilities that have Evusheld in stock, however, should retain what they have instead of disposing of the drugs, the FDA advised, as other COVID-19 strains susceptible to the treatment may become prevalent in the future.
AstraZeneca said trials are already underway on the “next-generation long-acting antibody.” According to the company, lab studies have shown its current drug candidate to be effective against all COVID-19 strains tested to date. The drugmaker is aiming to have this medication available in the latter half of 2023. | https://www.krqe.com/health/fda-pulls-authorization-for-covid-antibody-treatment-over-lack-of-effectiveness/ | 2023-01-27 19:09:41 | 1 | https://www.krqe.com/health/fda-pulls-authorization-for-covid-antibody-treatment-over-lack-of-effectiveness/ |
In the departures hall of Washington Dulles International Airport, hundreds of uniformed United Airlines pilots filed silently past travelers pulling suitcases and children toward the check-in kiosks.
Faces stoic, they carried signs with messages such as "Fix our schedules!" and "Future pilots are watching."
Such protests have been staged at airports all across the country in recent weeks, as United, American and Southwest airlines have all been engaged in contract talks. Quality of life issues have taken center stage.
Finding work life balance in a job that can't be done remotely
Negotiations actually began in 2019, but the pandemic delayed any increase in pay for years. Then, Delta pilots secured a 34% raise on March 1 and United and American have said they will match that.
What remains unsolved is a question so many workers have asked themselves since the coronavirus upended every job in the country: How do I better balance my work with my life?
As a 737 captain for United Airlines, Alex Cole is away from home roughly 15 days a month. He's missed family birthdays and celebrated Christmas on dates other than Dec. 25.
"These are special moments that you don't get back," he says.
Of course, one could argue that this is the life you choose when you become a pilot. It's part of why flying for the major airlines pays well.
But Captain Dennis Tajer, a 30-year veteran of American Airlines and spokesman for the union representing 15,000 pilots at American, says a pilot shortage has made things worse.
"I don't know what's going to happen this summer," said Tajer at a May 1 protest at Chicago O'Hare airport.
Early in the pandemic, thousands of pilots were offered early retirement. Then, to the airlines' great surprise, travel came roaring back.
Since then, they've been hiring furiously, but pilot training is a slow, lengthy process. There aren't actually enough pilots to train newcomers, because they're needed in the skies.
For pilots, it's all about scheduling
To meet demand, American is giving pilots tighter schedules, less buffer time around flights and more nights away from home, Tajer said.
Now, there are fewer one and two-day trips, as four and five-day stints have become the norm.
"Not only does that destroy our family life, but when a trip falls apart on day one, that leaves all that extra flying out there to be picked up somehow," he said.
Here's a scenario: A storm delay causes a flight crew to "time out." Airlines do have reserve pilots who can come in and take over the rest of the trip. But pilots at different airlines have said they are also seeing more involuntary reassignments. Someone may be finishing a three-day trip and instead of going home, they're redirected onto yet another flight to cover for that timed out crew.
Pilots want limits on such reassignments, and incentives along with better scheduling systems for those who want to jump in at the last minute and pick up extra flying time.
Airline management has acknowledged that both workers and customers have been through a lot lately, as demand for travel has outstripped supply.
"What's called irregular operations are going to happen. I think it's the extent that it's happened," says Jerry Glass of FH Solutions Group, who has represented airlines in negotiations for 40 years, although he's not involved in the current pilot talks.
Glass says the pilot shortage isn't the only challenge airlines are facing. More frequent bad weather is also causing havoc.
Regardless, he is advising companies to reassess how they schedule workers or else risk problems finding talent.
"You've probably heard the expression 'Time is the new money.' For this generation of workers that's coming into the workforce — their quality of life is very important to them," says Glass.
"Much more so than my generation where, you know, if you have to work, you work."
What the pilot talks mean for the flying public
So, should you be worried about your summer travel? Short answer: probably not.
Earlier this spring, pilots at American and Southwest voted to approve strikes. But American has just reached a preliminary agreement with its pilots, so a deal appears close. Also, federal law requires mediation before pilots are allowed to strike. The White House would have to get involved.
Still, Helane Becker, senior airline analyst with TD Cowen, says Americans should be prepared for flying to get more expensive.
"Not only because pilot pay is going up, but flight attendant pay is going up as well," she notes, as well as mechanic pay.
With Americans still hungry for travel, airline workers, like so many others in this post-pandemic economy, are in a good position to ask for more.
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ROME (AP) — The leader of Italy’s center-left campaign alliance on Tuesday cited the gains of a Swedish populist party with neo-Nazi roots as further proof that fear is propelling the far-right’s growth in Europe. He also warned that the outcome of his own country’s approaching election could determine Italy’s future role in Europe.
“Fears are today a big part of the way in which our societies are living this period,” former Premier Enrico Letta said, citing the pandemic and its economic woes, the energy crisis of soaring utility bills and Russia’s war against Ukraine.
“It’s easier for the right, for the extreme right to push, to boost (itself) on these fears,” Letta, who leads the Democratic Party, told The Associated Press in an interview.
In the Swedish election last weekend, a populist, anti-immigration party, Sweden Democrats, surged in balloting to become the country’s second-largest political force. Fears of gang violence dominated Sweden’s election campaign.
“It’s a moment in which sentiments of fear are getting a foothold in Europe,″ Letta said.
The elections in Italy on Sept. 25 “are like a Brexit referendum in the U.K,.” Letta said, referring to the stunning 2016 vote that saw Britain decide to leave the European Union.
“You have just two possible solutions. The solution that the right is raising is a solution of nationalism,” Letta said. “The other solution is on our side, and our solution means Europe.”
His chief rival in Italy’s election is Giorgia Meloni, who leads the far-right Brothers of Italy party, which has roots in neo-fascism. She hopes to become the first woman to hold the Italian premiership.
In opinion polls, Letta’s Democratic Party has been running neck-and-neck with Meloni’s party. Voter surveys indicate her party, which has called for a naval blockade of Africa’s Mediterranean coast to try to stop migrants from reaching Italy, could garner more than 20% in the upcoming balloting. In the previous election it won only a 4% share.
Because Italy’s electoral system rewards parties that join forces in campaign alliances, Meloni holds a big advantage over Letta.
She has forged alliances with the right-wing, anti-migrant League leader Matteo Salvini and former Premier Silvio Berluscon,i who heads the center-right Forza Italia party. Letta, meanwhile, has refused to ally with the 5-Star Movement — Italy’s biggest populist party in Parliament which helped collapse Premier Mario Draghi’s government in July — while his overture for a campaign alliance with two small centrist parties was rebuffed.
Should the right triumph, “it’s a danger for the future of Italy,” said Letta. ”It is a danger because Italy needs European cooperation. And without European cooperation it would be impossible to find solutions to all our problems.”
Letta in the interview ruled out any Draghi-style broad coalition government, like the one the former European Central Bank chief formed in early 2021 to help Italy’s pandemic-battered economy recover.
“There won’t be any governments of national unity,” he said.
Letta spoke during a break from campaigning across Italy in an electric bus. He chose that vehicle type to highlight a scarcity of charging stations in Italy. “The country isn’t modern,” Letta said.
His Democratic Party views the election outcome as critical for civil rights.
“Italy is years behind” on rights, Letta said. For example, Italy doesn’t allow same-sex marriage or adoption by singles. “The right proposes going backward,” he said.
He reflected on polemics over Peppa Pig, the popular cartoon character. Recently, a candidate from Meloni’s party expressed outrage that the cartoon featured a family with two female polar bears as parents and demanded that Italian state TV, funded by taxpayers, never air such an episode.
Meloni has hailed what she calls “natural” families and has denounced LGBTQ+ lobbies.
The campaign demand to censor a cartoon is “really madness,” said Letta.
“Our model is Europe, our model isn’t the Hungary of (Viktor) Orban or the Poland of (Jaroslaw) Kacynzski,” Letta said, referring to the leaders of right-wing political parties whose policies have been hostile to LGBTQ+ communities.
Some Italian women have voiced concern that Meloni might seek to abolish a law that allows abortion in the first 12 weeks, and after that if the women’s health or life is endangered.
“Meloni is very ambiguous on this topic and on this question,″ Letta said. In some regions of Italy, including the central Marche, where Brothers of Italy govern, the shortage of doctors willing to perform abortions in public hospitals has forced women to travel across Italy for the procedure.
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General Motors, which plans to go almost entirely electric by 2035, is creating a new energy division that will produce chargers for electric vehicles, as well as solar panels and other energy-related technology for homes and businesses.
The company said Tuesday that the unit, called GM Energy, will create systems for households and commercial customers that link electric vehicles to power storage and generation. The division should have the capacity to sell energy from electric vehicle and stationary storage batteries back to utilities during peak periods of energy usage.
“GM Energy has the opportunity to help deliver sustainable energy products and services that can help mitigate the effect of power outages and provide customers with resilient and cost-effective energy management,” Travis Hester, vice president of GM EV Growth Operations, said in a statement.
GM’s Energy Services Cloud will include data and energy management tools and let customers manage their energy usage.
Ultium Charge 360, which includes several charging station networks and software, will expand its portfolio of integrated public charging networks, integrated mobile apps, and additional product and service offerings over time as part of the division.
GM said it also has partnerships with several companies, including solar technology and energy services provider SunPower. In the deal with SunPower, the two companies will develop and offer customers a home energy system that includes integrated electric vehicle and battery solutions, solar panels and home energy storage. The system will be available at the same time as the retail launch of the 2024 Chevrolet Silverado EV, which is expected to start production in the fall 2023.
There’s also a pilot project with Pacific Gas and Electric to allow residential customers to use their compatible electric vehicles with a bi-directional charger as backup power for essential home needs during power outages. After initial lab tests, the companies anticipate expanding the offer to some residential customers within PG&E’s service area. This is expected to begin next year. | https://www.kark.com/news/business/ap-general-motors-broadens-electric-goals-with-new-division/ | 2022-10-11 21:15:42 | 0 | https://www.kark.com/news/business/ap-general-motors-broadens-electric-goals-with-new-division/ |
VESTAL, NY – In Monday evening American Legion Baseball action, Vestal Post 89 defeated Binghamton Post 80 by a score of 14-3 in 5 innings.
Binghamton grabbed the early lead, Trevor Dannison led off the game with a double before stealing third and scoring on a past ball to make it 1-0.
Vestal answered in the bottom half of the inning, in part thanks to a double from Alisha Ramia with the bases loaded to score 3 runs to bring the score to 5-1.
Post 89 did not stop there, putting up crooked numbers in the second and third innings as well.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A 19-year-old man was killed and a 21-year-old man was wounded in a predawn shooting Saturday at the University of New Mexico campus in Albuquerque, where police said it was not an active shooting or a threat to others on campus.
School officials called off a basketball game scheduled with in-state rival New Mexico State.
The shooting took place about 3 a.m. and the wounded man was taken to a hospital for treatment of unspecified injuries, police said. His condition was not immediately disclosed.
Albuquerque police called the shooting “a singular incident” and not a threat to other students on campus.
“This is not an active shooter,” the department said.
The university issued alerts overnight notifying the campus community that the shooting happened near Alvarado Hall, a student dormitory.
University and Albuquerque police are investigating the shooting. State police said the investigation was in the preliminary stages, but that authorities did not believe there was an ongoing threat to the community.
Steve Kirkland, University of New Mexico athletic director, said in a statement that officials from both schools decided to postpone the evening basketball game.
“Our thoughts are with all of those impacted by this tragedy,” the statement said, adding that details would be released later about rescheduling the game and refunds.
The Rio Grande Rivalry matchup between the Lobos (3-0) and the Aggies (1-1) had been scheduled at 5 p.m. local time at The Pit, where the athletic department said more than 13,000 tickets had been sold. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-pre-dawn-shooting-at-university-of-new-mexico-kills-1/ | 2022-11-20 05:38:05 | 1 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-pre-dawn-shooting-at-university-of-new-mexico-kills-1/ |
Report ranks ADP, Dev Technology Group, and UKG as top workplaces for women technologists, with data revealing women tech hires are on the rise but below pre-pandemic levels
SAN MATEO, Calif., Sept. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AnitaB.org, the global nonprofit focused on intersectional gender and pay parity in tech, announced today that ADP, Dev Technology Group, and UKG are the 2022 Top Companies for Women Technologists Winners at this year's Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC), the world's largest gathering of women and non-binary technologists, during President and CEO Brenda Darden Wilkerson's opening plenary address.
Top Companies for Women Technologists is a national program from AnitaB.org that identifies key trends around the equity of women and non-binary technologists in the workforce and is the only benchmarking program that looks specifically at the technical workforce and awards companies that are making the most progress toward equity. In 2022, AnitaB.org analyzed data on representation, programs, and policies from 52 companies, measuring 422,494 technologists across various industries from January 1, 2021, to December 31, 2021.
In addition to announcing the Winners, the Top Companies for Women Technologists Key Findings & Insights Report shows that, while many things have rebounded in the tech industry in terms of gender diversity, it is still not quite back to pre-pandemic levels.
According to the report, in the past year, companies are making productive efforts to hire more women of color technologists and reported a 5.0% increase in total women technologists from 2021 to 2022. Conversely, attrition rates are higher for women technologists (16%) compared to men technologists (13.7%). That gap widens further for women technologists who are Black (25%), Latinx (18.8%), Native American (18.2%), and Pacific Islander (23.5%). Any gains in intersectional gender diversity due to hiring will be marginal until companies can reduce this high rate of attrition.
"We're thrilled to announce this year's Winners of Top Companies for Women Technologists for their ongoing work to advance intersectional gender equity," said Brenda Darden Wilkerson, President and CEO of AnitaB.org. "In 2022, our rights and protections are under attack on both the state and federal levels. Tech companies must ensure women and non-binary technologists have a sense of inclusion and belonging in their workplace. The data and insights from the Winners and other participating companies provide the foundation to begin and continue much-needed conversations around diversity, allowing us to cultivate a truly inclusive community."
Launched in 2011, Top Companies for Women Technologists helps organizations discover areas where they can improve their structural equity and signals a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion that women and non-binary technologists look for in an employer.
For media inquiries, please contact Skai Blue Media at TeamAnitaB@skaibluemedia.com.
At AnitaB.org, we envision a future where the people who imagine and build technology mirror the people and societies for whom they build it. We connect, inspire, and guide women technologists and organizations that view technology innovation as a strategic imperative. For more than 30 years, this community has grown and changed to become the leading organization for women in technology. Today, AnitaB.org works with women and non-binary technologists in more than 50 countries and partners with leading academic institutions and Fortune 500 companies. For more information about AnitaB.org, visit anitab.org or find us on LinkedIn at @anitab-org and Instagram at @anitab_org.
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READING, Pa., Jan. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Penske Truck Leasing, a leading global transportation services provider, announced that its Penske Driver™ mobile application has been certified as an Electronic Logging Device (ELD) in Canada. The app meets the requirements of the Canadian ELD Mandate, asking commercial carriers and drivers to electronically log their hours of service (HOS).
Penske Driver™ provides a secure and reliable solution for logging HOS, while also streamlining the process. The app provides real-time visibility into driver performance, allowing fleet managers to track driver productivity and can view real-time vehicle performance to keep fleets running smoothly.
"We are excited to have our Penske Driver™ app certified as an ELD in Canada," said Ann Walsh, senior vice president of digital and customer data for Penske Transportation Solutions. "This certification showcases our commitment to providing our customers with the best possible solutions for managing their fleets. Our team has worked hard to ensure that the app meets the highest standards for accuracy and reliability."
With the app, truck drivers can now take advantage of the latest technology while staying compliant with regulations in both the U.S. and Canada, bringing an ease to cross-border travel.
For more information, visit the Penske Driver™ mobile application website here.
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STORRS, Conn. (AP)Caroline Ducharme’s return after missing 13 games with a concussion came at just the right time for the UConn Huskies.
The sophomore guard scored all 10 of her points in the fourth quarter, including the winning free throws with just under 5 seconds left, and No. 6 Connecticut came from behind to beat Creighton 62-60 on Wednesday night.
Ducharme, playing for the first time this calendar year, was 0 for 6 from the floor before her late scoring surge helped UConn (23-4, 15-1 Big East) overcome an 11-point fourth-quarter deficit.
”And it wasn’t an easy 10,” UConn coach Geno Auriemma said. ”But they’re the kind of points we’re used to seeing Caroline get in those moments. So, she’s back just in time. It’s a great Valentine’s Day gift.”
Lou Lopez Senechal scored 17 points to lead the Huskies, Aaliyah Edwards had 12 and Dorka Juhasz added 10 points.
Morgan Maly had 15 points for Creighton (18-7, 12-5), which lost for the first time in seven games. Rachael Saunders and Lauren Jensen each had 13.
Creighton trailed by two points at the half, but opened the second half with 3-pointers from Maly and Saunders – part of a 19-1 run that stretched back into the first half.
The Bluejays held UConn without a point for the first five minutes of the third quarter, turning a 30-21 deficit into a 40-31 lead. They led 48-39 after three quarters.
Saunders’ 3-pointer in the fourth quarter made it 50-39 before the Huskies began chipping away.
A three-point play by Ducharme drew the fifth foul on Saunders and cut UConn’s deficit to 57-54.
Edwards made a layup to make it 57-56, and Lopez Senechal’s layup gave the Huskies a 58-57 lead. But Morgan Maly responded with a 3-pointer to put Creighton back up with 1:07 left in the game.
Lopez Senechal responded with a jumper to tie it at 60, then drew an offensive foul on Maly off the ball with 16 seconds remaining.
Ducharme drove into the lane with 4.8 seconds left, drawing a foul on Carly Bachelor and calmly hit the two foul shots to give UConn the winning points.
”Just being out on the floor was a big step for me and just being able to handle everything that goes with being in the game – the lights, the noise all of that and still being able to play basketball,” Ducharme said. ”So, then I think once I was able to settle in and adjust to that, I think going through the game, I think we all knew that we all needed to step up and hit shots.
”So I think that was all that was really on my mind is that we needed some offense.”
Edwards fouled Lauren Jensen on a drive with 0.7 seconds left. But the junior guard missed both foul shots, the second intentionally, and Edwards grabbed the rebound to secure the win.
”It sucks to lose the way we lost tonight, but it also should give us confidence if we see these guys in 2 1/2 weeks,” Creighton coach Jim Flanery said. ”We’d have a great chance and this is a kinda team that we are going to see in the NCAA Tournament. So from that standpoint, we’ve given ourselves a great look at what it’s going to take to be successful and tonight we were one basket short.”
UConn won the first meeting this season in December, 72-47, in Omaha.
BIG PICTURE
Creighton: The Bluejays fell to 11-3 on the road, matching the most road wins in Flanery’s 21 seasons at the school. … The Bluejays hit 12 of 33 3-point attempts after shooting just 3 of 28 in the loss in December.
UConn: The Huskies had nine players available for the first time since Dec. 21… G Azzi Fudd, who had been the Huskies leading scorer, has missed 17 games this season after twice injuring her right knee. Auriemma said he still has no timeline for her return.
KEY STATS
Creighton outrebounded the bigger Huskies 39-31, but UConn outscored the Bluejays in the paint 22-14.
DOG DAY
One other Husky returned from the disabled list Wednesday. Jonathan XIV, the team’s canine mascot, made his first appearance at a game since undergoing surgery to remove his spleen on Jan. 20. The dog received a standing ovation.
UP NEXT
Creighton: The Bluejays return home to face Georgetown on Saturday.
UConn: UConn travels to Philadelphia to take on No. 14 Villanova on Saturday.
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Generation has collaborated with The BlackRock Foundation, McKinsey & Company, Microsoft Corp. and Verizon to successfully tackle global unemployment, placing thousands of people into jobs that have generated more than $140 million in salary income to date
WASHINGTON, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Generation, the global nonprofit employment network, today announced that it has surpassed the milestone of 25,000 graduates across 16 countries since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020, placing thousands of people into jobs and bringing total graduates to 65,000 since it launched more than seven years ago.
With the combined commitment of Generation's Global Jobs Recovery coalition – The BlackRock Foundation, McKinsey & Company, Microsoft Corp., and Verizon – the organization has trained, placed, and supported people of all ages into careers that would otherwise be inaccessible. In these new jobs, the 25,000 pandemic graduates have together already earned more than $140 million in salary income.
"We are thrilled to reach this milestone alongside our collaborators, and we are inspired by the hard work and dedication of the thousands of individuals who have transformed their lives through our programs during the pandemic," said Mona Mourshed, Founding Global CEO of Generation. "We have seen firsthand how, even in remote environments, people can learn new skills, demonstrate talents, and excel in the workplace. But truly inclusive employment still faces many challenges, and we continue to work alongside employers, governments, and practitioners to create opportunities for talented candidates of every race, gender, ethnicity, and educational background."
Notably, while the majority of Generation's programs moved permanently to online or blended delivery during the pandemic, results have remained strong. 74% of graduates have been placed in jobs within 3 months of program completion, rising to 85% within 6 months. They earn 3-4 times the income they had prior to Generation. At one year after job placement, 78% remain employed.
The individuals that Generation serves typically face a variety of challenges before participating in the employment program. 40% have been unemployed for 6 months or longer. For 2020 graduates, only 38% of them report being able to afford daily needs prior to the Generation program whereas 81% of them say they can do so today. They are a diverse group as well. Two-thirds of this group of pandemic graduates has only secondary school education or vocational training, 53% are female, the majority are from underrepresented communities where they live, and more than 30% have dependents.
Per dollar of support Generation has received to date from the Global Jobs Recovery coalition, these 25,000 graduates have generated $2.74 in earnings. The organization expects these graduates to earn an additional $474.5 million through 2027, which means that each dollar of philanthropic support to Generation will have produced $11.85 in five-year earnings for this group.
In late 2020, Generation received a commitment of $77 million in new funding and $50 million in in-kind resources over two years from BlackRock, McKinsey & Company, Microsoft Corp., and Verizon, encompassing cash funding, in-kind resources, and connections to employers in their ecosystems for Generation graduates. To date, this support, alongside that of other national and local funders, has enabled the significant expansion of Generation's collaboration with governments and other workforce partners, globally, supporting the embedding of Generation's approach within large-scale, existing systems.
Generation's work with its partners continues, and the organization expects to have 20,000 graduates in 2022, growing from ~12,000 last year.
Nasira, Generation Graduate and Disability Support Worker, Royal Rehab AFEA Care Services, said:
"When my son was born with Down syndrome, working was out of the question. Shortly after, the pandemic hit, and I felt incredibly useless stuck at home. In the depths of isolation, I received an email about Generation's disability support worker program. The course was fully online – meaning I could complete it around caring for my son. It changed the trajectory of family life forever, providing me with the knowledge to monetise my nurturing tendencies and turn them into a career".
Luciano, Generation Graduate and Programmer, Salesforce, said:
"Generation's facilitation of the digital economy and its mission to provide opportunities for those most affected by the global pandemic is so powerful. Covid's impact on commercial flights and the tourism industry meant that I lost my job right at the start of the pandemic. Before Generation, I was not that familiar with the world of programming , but guided by the placement team, I very soon discovered it was a fascinating field with continuous challenges and opportunities to learn, which very much matches my skill set."
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Recently, there’s been an abundance of attention around residents being “fed up” with San Francisco and several tragic acts of violence that have happened here recently. Given the myriad of issues the city faces, a number of people have left — either during or as we have come out of the COVID pandemic.
In the early days of the pandemic, I considered leaving, too. I was privileged to have a job that allowed me to work remotely, and I was far away from family on the East Coast. Though I enjoyed San Francisco, when I wrote my rent check each month, I felt the burden of the city’s high price tag and wondered if life would be “easier” elsewhere as a single woman.
Then, one day, as I walked the Panhandle, I approached two guitarists playing in the grass, with people from all walks of life stopping to listen, some sitting, others standing, all socially distanced, wearing smiles as their bodies flowed to the music. It was the San Francisco I’d grown to love: intimate, creative, open.
I lived in New York City for a decade before I moved to San Francisco knowing only two people in the Bay Area. While I initially compared the two cities, once I let go that Muni was never going to be the New York City subway system and accepted that finding late-night food took more effort, my appreciation for the soul of San Francisco became evident.
I actually knew and hung out with my neighbors. I’d close down restaurants sharing stories with the bartenders or owners, often making friends along the way. I took stand-up improv and pottery classes. I lived near the Haight and felt its history all around me. And when I first drove across the Golden Gate Bridge heading north, my body could feel the bridge’s majestic strength.
I thought, “This is home. I’m not going anywhere.”
I wanted to support — and keep building community — instead of running away. And I was privileged to be able to do so given my circumstances. I ordered books for curbside pick up from the Booksmith. I sat bundled up outside at the Page or Madrone, nursing a beer as Karl rolled in, making small talk with fellow bar patrons. I took virtual classes, like candle making with Workshop SF and writing classes with the Writing Salon and organized virtual writing groups at the end of courses. I walked along Ocean Beach offering “hellos” to strangers. I continued to walk loops around the Panhandle.
When I first moved here, an old-timer described San Francisco to me as “provincial,” which I find to be endearing and true in the best ways. There’s space to breathe here and an intangible spirit — of curiosity, experimentation and love — that is allowed to grow here into whatever version of yourself you’re growing into.
Yes, there is a lot that is broken in this city — and in this country. My family and friends in New York City are experiencing increased homelessness, violence and fears of being in a harder cycle that all urban cities go through. Sometimes these challenges feel insurmountable. Our government must do a better job finding workable solutions to address homelessness, affordable housing and urban violence. Every resident deserves to feel — and be — safe and protected. You shouldn’t have to make a six-figure salary to live here comfortably. Companies and nonprofits also have roles to play in supporting our communities.
I often ask myself, what’s the role I play in all of this? What can I do?
I care about community and neighbors and contribute whenever I can. I encourage younger generations to engage in service and tell them nonprofit organizations, such as Coro, do amazing work. I volunteer with Girls on the Run, a nonprofit that teaches elementary and middle-school girls fundamentals of self-esteem and supports them in training for a 5-kilometer run. Supporting local businesses is especially important to me, too, so I get my manicures at the Nail Hall, a female-run business in the Mission.
I’ve taken painting classes at Root Division and supported local artists through venues like SoFar Sounds.
Much of this is about reconnecting with human beings and supporting community. I became attached to my phone during the pandemic, so now I intentionally pull myself away from it walking the city’s streets, noticing the purples, pinks, blues and grays of our houses, and many skies. Instead of scrolling while waiting in line, I stand and wait — sometimes I make eye contact with someone and say, “hi.” Sometimes there’s a short conversation about how good all this rain was — and how it’s nice to see the sun again.
Will I stay here forever? I do not know. Life is uncertain. But whether you’re a San Francisco native or a relative newbie like myself, I believe every day we get to choose how we will be the heartbeat of this magnificent city.
Lindy Mockovak is a social impact professional originally from Alexandria, Va. She’s lived in Washington, D.C.; New York City; Nairobi, Kenya; Kigali, Rwanda; and in NoPa and the Lower Haight neighborhoods for nearly six years. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/san-francisco-stay-choice-home-17852310.php | 2023-04-12 13:25:03 | 1 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/san-francisco-stay-choice-home-17852310.php |
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Elon Musk tells investors he’ll pause on Tesla stock sales
(AP) - CEO Elon Musk says he won’t sell any more shares in Tesla for 18 months or more, likely an attempt to comfort shareholders of the electric vehicle company who have watched the stock lose nearly half of its value since Musk’s purchase of Twitter went through in October.
“I’m not selling any stock for 18 to 24 months,” Musk said during an audio-only Twitter Spaces group conversation on Thursday. Musk then said he wouldn’t sell Tesla shares for two years, but backtracked and said he would pause sales for at least one year.
Musk dumped another $2.58 billion worth of Tesla stock last week and has sold nearly $23 billion worth of his car company’s shares since April, when he started building a position in Twitter. A significant portion of those proceeds have gone to help fund his $44 billion acquisition of the social media company, which has been marked by chaos since Musk took over.
In less than two months, Musk has presided over a dizzying series of changes that have unnerved advertisers and turned off users. He’s laid off half of the workforce, axed contract content moderators and disbanded a council of trust and safety advisors. He has dropped enforcement of COVID-19 misinformation rules and called for criminal charges against Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert.
Tesla investors have grown weary of the 24/7 Twitter chaos that they say has distracted the eccentric CEO from the electric car company, his main source of wealth.
Tesla’s market value was over $1.1 trillion on April 1, the last trading day before Musk disclosed he was buying up Twitter shares. The company has since lost nearly two-thirds of its value, at a time when rival automakers are cutting in on Tesla’s dominant share of electric vehicle sales.
Tesla shares fell more than 1% on Friday, to $123.74. They were more than $360 each on April 1 and hit an all-time high of more than $414 in November of 2020.
This week, Tesla boosted the discounts it’s offering through year’s end on its two top-selling models, an indication that demand is slowing for its electric vehicles.
The Austin, Texas, company began offering a $3,750 incentive on its Model 3 sedan and Model Y SUV on its website earlier this month, but on Wednesday doubled the discount to $7,500 for those who take delivery between now and Dec. 31.
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NEW TAIPEI CITY, Taiwan, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ClearMind Biomedical's novel neurosurgical endoscope, the Axonpen System, has completed its First in Man (FIM) clinical trial in Taiwan with outstanding results.
The Axonpen System which received US FDA 510(k) clearance in 2020 and from the Taiwan FDA in 2021, is designed to enable neurosurgeons worldwide to perform the least invasive brain surgeries for their patients. With the device requiring only a 6.5mm channel to access the intracranial space, the Axonpen System has broken ground as the least invasive treatment for intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) in the industry. Once past the skull, the device can illuminate and visualize intracranial tissues and fluids and, typically in cases of ICH and subdural hematomas, carry out controlled aspiration and irrigation where needed.
All 10 trial participants demonstrated speedier recovery times, spending just an average of three days in the intensive care unit. This is more than a 50% reduction in time when compared with the 10 to 14 days needed for recovery from traditional treatment methods. Patients demonstrated a full recovery of motor skills in most cases. Furthermore, post-treatment ICH blood remnants were below 15ml across the cohort. For a better prognosis, a minimum of 70% or more of the hemorrhage should be removed, with no more than 15ml of blood remnants at the injury site. Every additional 1ml of clotted blood removed enhances the chances of a good recovery by 10%.
"We set out to develop a fully integrated neurosurgical endoscope that is not only safe with minimal downtime but also optimal with every function needed by neurologists performing the procedure, which our trial has proven. While achieving this, we remain compliant of international regulations and standards to meet the needs of medical practitioners and ensuring patients' safety during treatment," said Carrey Yang, CEO of ClearMind Biomedical.
Prioritizing patients' wellbeing, ClearMind Biomedical's motto when it comes to treating ICH is "One Doctor, One Hour." The company intended for the Axonpen System to empower doctors at regional hospitals to complete ICH surgeries in one hour, a challenge it has successfully met.
Presently, ClearMind Biomedical's second trial for the Axonpen System is underway in Taiwan and the company is looking to conduct its next trial in the US.
The Axonpen System is the most integrated minimally invasive neurosurgical tool, combining over eight key features including tissue visualization, a debrider and a flexible tip. Thus far, surgeons have provided feedback that the integrated functions lead to simpler operations which is key to reducing surgery time and risks. Similar devices on the market are more costly and often require pairing with other devices such as endoscopes to perform surgeries that the Axonpen System can single-handedly carry out. Involving multiple devices during surgery increases complexity while requiring more personnel in the operating theatre which can be unfeasible in regional hospitals.
With the company's steadfast focus on minimally invasive brain surgeries and successful results from the FIM clinical trial, ClearMind Biomedical has recently concluded a funding round that will help finance upcoming clinical trials for the Axonpen System, research and development for future products, and market expansion.
About the Company
ClearMind Biomedical was established in 2014 with backing from Y Combinator, one of the largest venture capital funds in the US. The founders of ClearMind are members of the Stanford-Taiwan Biomedical Fellowship Program, where they were inspired to start their company. ClearMind Biomedical's vision is to save lives and help patients recover from otherwise debilitating brain injuries.
For more information, visit www.clearmindbiomedicalgroup.com.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Activist and best-selling author Naomi Klein has a book coming out in September that will combine personal reflections with political reporting and cultural commentary.
Farrar, Straus & Giroux announced Wednesday that in “Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World,” Klein will explore a time rife with “confusion across political, technological, environmental and medical spheres.”
One point of confusion touched on in the book: Online commentators who mistake Klein for the author Naomi Wolf, leading Klein to tweet “please keep your Naomis straight” in 2020.
Klein said in a statement Wednesday that the book was a “departure” for her, “more personal, more experimental” and will explore “what it feels like to watch one’s identity slip away in the digital ether.”
“Mostly, it’s an attempt to grapple with the wildness of right now — with conspiracy cultures surging and strange left-right alliances emerging and nobody seeming to be quite what they seem,” she said. “‘Doppelganger’ is my attempt at a usable map of our moment in history — but to make it, I had to get lost a few times.”
Klein’s previous books include “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism” and “On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal.” She is an associate professor at the University of British Columbia and co-director of the school’s Centre for Climate Justice. | https://www.kxnet.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/naomi-klein-has-new-more-personal-book-out-in-september-doppelganger/ | 2023-05-18 00:43:34 | 0 | https://www.kxnet.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/naomi-klein-has-new-more-personal-book-out-in-september-doppelganger/ |
The Federal Aviation Administration is requiring that all new commercial airplanes be built with a secondary barrier to the flight deck.
The new mandate will make it harder for intruders to enter the cockpit when the door is opened, ensuring the safety of the aircraft, flight crew and passengers.
"No pilot should have to worry about an intrusion on the flight deck," said Acting FAA Associate Administrator for Safety David Boulter in a press release.
Manufacturers will be forced to install the secondary barriers on all new commercial planes once the rule goes into effect.
"Every day, pilots and flight crews transport millions of Americans safely, and today we are taking another important step to make sure they have the physical protections they deserve," U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in a news release.
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The Biden administration made the rule a priority in 2021. The FAA formally proposed it in 2022 after feedback from aircraft manufacturers and labor partners.
The mandate meets a requirement of the 2018 FAA Reauthorization Act, which helps improve aircraft safety certification processes.
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COLUMBIA, Mo., Nov. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- American Outdoor Brands, Inc. (NASDAQ Global Select: AOUT) (AOB), an industry leading provider of products and accessories for outdoor enthusiasts, this week honored its employees who served to protect the freedoms we greatly enjoy. Most of AOB's 300 employees are located at its corporate headquarters in Columbia, Missouri, and nearly 14% of those employees are veterans. Together, they represent the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. National Guard, U.S. Navy, and the U.S. Army Reserve.
Brian Murphy, President and CEO, said, "We will be forever indebted to our American veterans for their patriotism, love of country, and their willingness to sacrifice for the benefit of each of us and for our way of life. While it is a small token of our gratitude, we are honored to set aside time this week to convey our deepest thanks for their service and selflessness."
In recognition of their service, the company hosted a celebration lunch on Thursday, November 10th for its veterans with members of the leadership team, where each veteran also received a gift. The company honored its remote veterans by sending a package to each. All employees were invited to get involved by creating hand-written postcards that will be delivered to the Harry S. Truman Memorial Veteran's Hospital on November 11th. Throughout the year, the company supports veterans through its contributions to Welcome Home, Inc. (https://www.welcomeveterans.org/), which seeks to end veteran homelessness, and to Central Missouri Honor Flights (https://www.centralmissourihonorflight.com/), which transports veterans to Washington, D.C. to visit the memorials dedicated to honor their service and sacrifices.
About Veteran's Day
Veteran's Day, celebrated each November 11th, recognizes heroes who have served in the armed forces and those that gave the ultimate sacrifice of their lives in conflict. Veteran's Day began in 1919 on the first anniversary of the 1918 armistice that ended World War I. The Office of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs establishes a theme for Veteran's Day each year and the theme set for 2022 is "Honor."
About American Outdoor Brands, Inc.
American Outdoor Brands, Inc. (NASDAQ Global Select: AOUT) is an industry leading provider of outdoor products and accessories, including hunting, fishing, camping, outdoor cooking, shooting, and personal security and defense products, for rugged outdoor enthusiasts. The company produces innovative, top quality products under its brands BOG®; BUBBA®; Caldwell®; Crimson Trace®; Frankford Arsenal®; Grilla Grills®; Hooyman®; Imperial®; LaserLyte®; Lockdown®; MEAT!; Old Timer®; Schrade®; Tipton®; Uncle Henry®; ust®; and Wheeler®. For more information about all the brands and products from American Outdoor Brands, Inc., visit www.aob.com.
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Over 37 million Americans have diabetes, a chronic disease that affects how your body turns food into energy. Many of those living with diabetes need insulin to survive, but the price of the medication in the United States is often expensive.
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, a bill recently passed by the U.S. Senate, includes the largest-ever federal effort on climate change and aims to lower rising costs of goods while paying down the nation's debt. It also includes provisions to increase access to affordable healthcare.
On social media, some people are claiming that a provision in the bill to cap insulin prices at $35 a month for all Americans was removed by Senate Republicans.
THE QUESTION
Does the Inflation Reduction Act cap insulin prices?
THE SOURCES
- Inflation Reduction Act of 2022
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Xavier Becerra, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services
THE ANSWER
Yes, the Inflation Reduction Act does cap insulin prices, but only for Medicare patients.
The original text of the bill included a provision that extended the $35 insulin cap to Americans covered by private insurance. But it was stripped from the bill by the Senate Parliamentarian, forcing a separate vote on the provision that failed to get enough GOP support to pass.
WHAT WE FOUND
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 does cap insulin prices at $35 per month for some Americans, but not all.
The bill package included a proposal to put a $35 monthly cap on the cost of insulin for Medicare patients. More than 63 million Americans are enrolled in Medicare, and 1 out of every 3 Medicare patients has diabetes, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
The original bill also included a provision that extended the $35 insulin cap to Americans covered by private insurance. However, Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough ruled that the private insurance part of the cap failed to comply with strict budgetary rules.
This required the Senate to vote to include the cap for people with private insurance. They needed 60 votes to pass it and avoid a filibuster. Only 57 senators voted for it, and 43 Republicans voted against it, so it was stripped from the bill. As a result, the version of the Inflation Reduction Act passed by the Senate caps insulin prices at $35 a month for Medicare patients only.
Along with the insulin cap, the bill will also extend enhanced federal tax credits to save millions of people an average of $800 a year on health insurance premiums on Affordable Care Act Marketplaces and limit the amount of money people with Medicare Part D pay out-of-pocket for prescription drugs to $2,000 a year, according to CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure.
"With this bill, millions of Americans will see lower health care costs,” Department of Health and Human Secretary Xavier Becerra said in an Aug. 7 statement. “In addition, it will do something that we have tried – and failed – to do in Washington for decades – allow Medicare to negotiate a better deal on prescription drugs. No one should have to go without health care or a prescription they need because they can't afford it.”
President Joe Biden is urging a swift passage of the bill in the House when it returns briefly from summer recess on Aug. 12.
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The multi-year agreement will help the Mexican hotel operator accelerate its growth plans and drive higher revenue through Sabre's SynXis Central Reservations.
SOUTHLAKE, Texas, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sabre Corporation (NASDAQ: SABR), a leading provider of software and technology powering the global travel industry, today announced a new distribution agreement with Posadas, Mexico's leading hotel operator, which will help accelerate its growth plans and drive higher revenue through Sabre's SynXis Central Reservations (CR) platform.
The agreement will allow the hotel operator to put its inventory in front of hundreds of thousands of travel agents globally across all major global distribution systems (GDS) through Sabre Hospitality's innovative SynXis CR. This platform offers specific functionalities and capabilities that help drive higher revenue and streamline internal processes, improving efficiency.
"Sabre is an important travel technology company in the world and with leadership in Mexico that offers a comprehensive distribution platform for the different sales channels including the Global Distribution Systems (GDS)," said José Jaime Lorenzo, director of Revenue Management, Technology and Distribution, Posadas. "Our partnership with Sabre includes replacing our current GDS connectivity technology with SynXis."
Sabre also continues to support Posadas' GDS marketing, helping to position its hotels under the Live Aqua, Grand Fiesta Americana, Curamoria Collection, Fiesta Americana, The Explorean, IOH, Fiesta Inn, Gamma and one brands through Sabre's Sponsored Property and Promospot campaigns.
"We are delighted to support Posadas' distribution strategy with the implementation of SynXis CR. To successfully compete and drive incremental revenue opportunities, it is essential that hoteliers equip themselves with the right technology tools to put their offerings in front of global markets," said Frank Trampert, senior vice president and global general manager, Community Sales, Sabre Hospitality. "We are excited to enable Posadas to capture and create future travel demand in a key market like Mexico and beyond."
Available in eight languages, SynXis CR enables a single system of record that can help implement hoteliers' distribution strategy, reaching the industry's broadest distribution points and supporting their business goals. Hotel owners and managers can enter and maintain their own property information, including rates, photos, inventory and policies, as well as view booking data and reports through the SynXis online portal, where they can access various marketing tools.
About Sabre Corporation
Sabre Corporation is a leading software and technology company that powers the global travel industry, serving a wide range of travel companies, including airlines, hoteliers, travel agencies and other suppliers. The company offers sales, distribution and fulfillment solutions that help its customers operate more efficiently, generate revenue and deliver personalized experiences to travelers. Through its leading travel marketplace, Sabre connects travel providers with buyers around the world. Sabre's technology platform manages more than $260 billion in global travel expenses annually. Headquartered in Southlake, Texas, USA, Sabre serves customers in more than 160 countries around the world. For more information, visit www.sabre.com.
About Posadas
Posadas is the leading hotel operator in Mexico that owns, leases and manages 185 hotels and 28,690 rooms, with a presence in the most important and visited beach and city destinations in Mexico and the Dominican Republic. Its hotels located in city destinations represent 87% of the total rooms it has and in beach destinations 13%. Posadas operates the Live Aqua Beach Resort, Live Aqua Urban Resort, Live Aqua Boutique Resort, Grand Fiesta Americana, Curamoria Collection, Fiesta Americana, The Explorean, IOH, Fiesta Inn, Gamma and one brands, as well as the Live Aqua Residence Club and Fiesta Americana Vacation Club vacation programs. Posadas has been listed on the Mexican Stock Exchange (BMV) since 1992. For more information, visit: www.posadas.com.
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Pentagon drops COVID-19 vaccine mandate for troops
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon formally dropped its COVID-19 vaccination mandate Tuesday, but a new memo signed by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin also gives commanders some discretion in how or whether to deploy troops who are not vaccinated.
Austin’s memo has been widely anticipated ever since legislation signed into law on Dec. 23 gave him 30 days to rescind the mandate. The Defense Department had already stopped all related personnel actions, such as discharging troops who refused the shot.
“The Department will continue to promote and encourage COVID-19 vaccination for all service members,” Austin said in the memo. “Vaccination enhances operational readiness and protects the force.”
Austin said that commanders have the authority to maintain unit readiness and a healthy force He added, however, that other department policies — including mandates for other vaccines — remain in place. That includes, he said, “the ability of commanders to consider, as appropriate, the individual immunization status of personnel in making deployment, assignment, and other operational decisions, including when vaccination is required for travel to, or entry into, a foreign nation.”
The contentious political issue, which has divided America, forced more than 8,400 troops out of the military for refusing to obey a lawful order when they declined to get the vaccine. Thousands of others sought religious and medical exemptions. Austin’s memo ends those exemption requests.
Austin, who instituted the mandate in August 2021 after the Pfizer vaccine was approved by the Food and Drug Administration and as the coronavirus pandemic raged, was staunch in his desire to maintain it insisting the vaccine was necessary to protect the health of the force. He and other defense leaders argued that for decades troops, particularly those deployed overseas, had been required to get as many as 17 different vaccines. No other vaccine mandates were affected by the new law.
But Congress agreed to rescind the mandate, with opponents reluctantly saying that perhaps it had already succeeded in getting the bulk of the force vaccinated. Roughly 99% of active-duty troops in the Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps had gotten the vaccine, and 98% of the Army. The Guard and Reserve rates are lower, but generally are more than 90%.
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FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Michigan's top court says judge had no power to indict officials in Flint water scandal, including ex-Gov. Rick Snyder.
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This occurred Friday night on the surface of the sun?
A storm/solar flare occurred on the surface of the sun Friday evening and sent out coronal mass ejection (plasma cloud) towards earth. This cloud/coronal mass ejection is expected to interact with earth’s magnetic field near the poles Sunday night and especially Monday night.
What does this mean?
Nasa is forecasting a moderate to strong geomagnetic storm as a result of this plasma cloud hitting earth Sunday night, and probably even more so Monday night. If this geomagnetic storm ends up being strong, there is a distinct chance that the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) could be visible farther south than normal.
Does this mean Central New York could get a light show Sunday/Monday nights??
Yes! The odds are higher for the Northern Lights to be visible as far south as Utah, Colorado and the Northeast, including CNY Sunday and Monday nights.
The charged particles released from the sun after a solar flare are directed to the poles, hence the Northern Lights are most common over higher latitudes north of Central New York, but occasionally when a stronger geomagnetic storm occurs the light show reaches farther south.
Will the weather cooperate, and what’s the best way to view the Northern Lights??
Yes, it looks like Mother Nature may cooperate with the clouds breaking up by the late evening into the overnight. Fingers crossed!
If you are going to venture out to see if the light show is visible in CNY, be sure to find a nice dark area with an open view of the Northern sky/horizon, like Lake Ontario’s shoreline.
Let’s all hope we get a chance to view this fairly rare sight in these parts this time around. If not, though, there could be other opportunities ahead.
More nights of Northern Lights ahead?
While we can’t predict whether we will have more Northern Lights next week or next month we can say we are heading into a more active period on the sun over the next year or two which would lead to more chances.
Solar flares are tied closely to the number of sunspots on the sun and they come in cycles. We are now an increase in sunspots that will peak sometime between now and 2026.
Reaching a maximum of sunspots would mean more solar flares and more rounds of Northern Lights. Stay tuned… | https://www.localsyr.com/news/local-news/another-chance-to-view-of-northern-lights-in-cny-soon/ | 2023-04-23 01:07:09 | 1 | https://www.localsyr.com/news/local-news/another-chance-to-view-of-northern-lights-in-cny-soon/ |
A shuttle ride may have cost one Korn Ferry Tour player his job.
Wilson Furr missed the cut Friday at the Korn Ferry Tour’s Lecom Suncoast Classic – and will now likely be reshuffled out of most upcoming events – after the 24-year-old Jackson, Mississippi, native was among three players penalized for taking an unauthorized shuttle ride from a tournament volunteer midway through their second rounds.
“This sucks,” Furr told GolfChannel.com via phone on Friday night after his flight home landed in Birmingham, Alabama. “There’s no way around it. It just sucks. To start the day, probably one of the bigger rounds I’ve played in my career, and I knew it, and for this to happen then, just ugh.”
The news was first reported by Monday Q Info’s Ryan French.
Furr and his playing competitors, Alejandro Tosti and Mason Andersen, were each assessed two-stroke penalties for violating Model Local Rule G-6, which states, “A player or caddie must not ride on any transportation. A player operating under a stroke and distance penalty is always authorized.”
The supplemental rules sheet for this week’s event, however, did specify that “automotive transportation is permitted during play from No. 7 green to No. 8 tee only.” The shuttles were also transporting players from the driving range to Nos. 1 and 10 tees prior to their rounds.
“But the places we took the shuttle to and from, that was not authorized,” Tosti said.
Tosti said he was the first of the three players to walk off the 18th green at Lakewood National Golf Club in Lakewood Ranch, Florida, and through a tunnel under a grandstand when he noticed a volunteer sitting in an empty three-rowed golf cart, the same type that had shuttled them to the 10th tee earlier in the day. Furr added that the shuttle was designated as such via signage.
“I asked the guy, ‘Are you giving rides to the first tee?’ And he said, ‘Yeah, jump in,’” Tosti recalled. “I know that I cannot jump in a cart that is not official, but this was almost like organized. It almost seemed like someone sent this guy to give us a ride. It was ready, waiting for us to walk off the green and give us a ride to the first tee, and that guy apparently was not supposed to be there.”
The volunteer, tasked with taking players between the range and their starting tees, had apparently stopped along his route – and then, clearly not knowing the specific rule either, gone rogue. The afternoon wave had yet to begin, and there were five groups behind Tosti, Furr and Andersen still needing to turn.
Furr guessed that the shuttle driver had stopped to watch the group hit their putts through the tunnel opening.
I mean, we literally would’ve run into his cart if we kept walking,” Furr said. “… Just a classic case of bad place, bad time.”
A few holes later, while Furr, Tosti and Andersen were walking off the fourth tee box, a rules official approached them and asked them how they got to the first tee after making the turn. All three players admitted to taking the shuttle, but none of them knew it was a penalty.
The rules sheets, including the official notice to players, that contained the MLR and supplemental verbiage, according to a KFT media official, were made available to players via several avenues, including being posted on the player info board in player dining, the caddie info board next to the range and both starter’s boxes.
Tosti and Furr both said they didn’t read the specific rule (Andersen has yet to respond to a message seeking his version of events), but considering the walk from No. 18 to No. 1 is longer than both the approved shuttle routes, Furr argued, “It wasn’t crazy for me to think there was supposed to be a shuttle there.”
“At the end of the day, we are responsible,” Tosti added. “But this was very, very strange. We were pretty much set up to get a ride from hole 18 to the first tee. Everything was very unusual. I tried to make sure that that ride was official … and the guy sounded so sure, he’s waiting for us, and it kind of makes sense that he’s giving rides to the first tee because you have to go all around the clubhouse and it’s a long walk.”
The three players pleaded as much to officials while walking down the fourth fairway and again in scoring after their rounds.
“We let them hear it,” Furr said. “But after hearing the exact same response seven different ways, I just left. We weren’t getting anywhere. The guy’s word was final.
“I just wonder, is there no discretion?”
Andersen’s two penalty shots meant little – he shot 77 and missed the cut by 13 shots. Tosti’s were more costly, as it knocked him from 10 under to 8 under, now eight shots off the lead.
But neither were devastated quite like Furr, who played Nos. 4-9, after being notified of the infraction, in 2 under, yet his second straight 2-under 69 left him two shots below the cut line.
The former All-American who led Alabama to a national runner-up finish to a juggernaut Oklahoma State squad in 2018, Furr turned pro in 2021 but didn’t earn his first KFT card until Q-School last November. He had made three of his first seven cuts as a rookie this season, not finishing better than T-54, and he entered this week’s event – his eighth and final guaranteed start before the first reshuffle – No. 148 in points.
“And it’s not getting any better,” Furr said.
Furr said he was so mad after Friday’s round that he locked himself out of his tour account by typing in the wrong password five times. He is doubtful, however, that he’s done enough to get into the next four events – there is a reshuffled after those as well – on his number.
“It looks like it will be close,” Furr said. “But I don’t think it would be close if I made the cut, which I did. I don’t know, it’s just a tough pill to swallow.”
Even if he’s not exempt for upcoming events, Furr still has pathways into fields via the alternate list, Monday qualifiers and sponsor exemptions.
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Donanemab significantly slowed cognitive and functional decline for amyloid-positive early symptomatic Alzheimer's disease patients, lowering their risk of disease progression; nearly half of participants at earlier stage of disease on donanemab had no clinical progression at 1 year
Additional subpopulation analyses presented live showed that those study participants at earliest stage of disease had even greater benefit, with 60% slowing of decline compared to placebo
Furthermore, treatment effect continued to increase relative to placebo over the course of the trial, even though many participants completed their course of therapy at 6 or 12 months, supporting limited duration dosing
FDA submission completed in Q2; regulatory action expected by end of year
INDIANAPOLIS, July 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) presented full results from the Phase 3 TRAILBLAZER-ALZ 2 study showing that donanemab significantly slowed cognitive and functional decline in people with early symptomatic Alzheimer's disease (AD). The data were shared at the 2023 Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC) as a featured symposium and simultaneously published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
"The positive TRAILBLAZER-ALZ 2 data bring hope to people with Alzheimer's disease who urgently need new treatment options. This is the first Phase 3 study of a disease-modifying therapy to replicate the positive clinical results observed in a previous study," said Anne White, executive vice president of Eli Lilly and Company and president of Lilly Neuroscience. "If approved, we believe donanemab can provide clinically meaningful benefits for people with this disease and the possibility of completing their course of treatment as early as 6 months once their amyloid plaque is cleared. We must continue to remove any barriers in access to amyloid-targeting therapies and diagnostics in an already complex healthcare ecosystem for Alzheimer's disease."
Lilly previously announced that donanemab met the primary and all cognitive and functional secondary endpoints in the Phase 3 study. Submission to the U.S. FDA for traditional approval was completed last quarter with regulatory action expected by the end of the year. Submissions to other global regulators are currently underway, and the majority will be completed by year end.
The TRAILBLAZER-ALZ 2 results support Lilly's application for regulatory approval to treat people with amyloid-positive early symptomatic Alzheimer's disease (either mild cognitive impairment or mild dementia), regardless of their baseline level of tau. TRAILBLAZER-ALZ 2 enrolled participants with a broader range of cognitive scores and amyloid levels than other recent trials of amyloid plaque-targeting therapies. Participants in TRAILBLAZER-ALZ 2 were stratified by their level of tau, a predictive biomarker for disease progression, into either a low-medium tau group (sometimes referred to as intermediate tau) or a high tau group, which represented a later pathological stage of disease progression. All participants were then assessed over 18 months using scales that measure both cognition and function, including the integrated Alzheimer's Disease Rating Scale (iADRS) and the Clinical Dementia Rating-Sum of Boxes (CDR-SB).
As previously reported, among participants with low-medium levels of tau (n=1182), donanemab treatment significantly slowed decline by 35% on iADRS and 36% on CDR-SB. Among all amyloid-positive early symptomatic AD study participants (n=1736), treatment with donanemab significantly slowed decline by 22% on iADRS and 29% on CDR-SB. Additional data presented at AAIC reinforced that regardless of baseline clinical or pathological stage of disease, treatment with donanemab resulted in cognitive and functional benefits relative to placebo:
- In participants with mild cognitive impairment (n=214), donanemab slowed decline by 60% on iADRS and 46% on CDR-SB (for those with mild dementia due to AD, n=534, donanemab slowed decline by 30% on iADRS and 38% on CDR-SB, respectively).
- In participants under the age of 75 (n=542), donanemab slowed decline by 48% on iADRS and 45% on CDR-SB.
- In participants aged 75 or greater (n=551), donanemab slowed decline by 25% on iADRS and 29% on CDR-SB.
- Results were similar across other subgroups, including participants who carried or did not carry an ApoE4 allele.
- The overall treatment effect of donanemab continued to grow throughout the trial, with the largest differences versus placebo seen at 18 months.
"These results demonstrate that diagnosing and treating people earlier in the course of Alzheimer's disease may lead to greater clinical benefit," said Liana Apostolova, M.D., distinguished professor in Alzheimer's Disease research and professor in neurology, radiology, medical and molecular genetics at Indiana University School of Medicine, where she is associate dean for Alzheimer's disease research and directs the clinical core of the Alzheimer's Disease Center. "The delay of disease progression over the course of the trial is significant and will give people more time to do such things that are meaningful to them."
Donanemab specifically targets deposited amyloid plaque and has been shown to lead to plaque clearance in treated patients. Treatment with donanemab significantly reduced amyloid plaque levels regardless of baseline pathological stage of disease. Among all participants, treatment with donanemab reduced amyloid plaque on average by 84% at 18 months, compared with a 1% decrease for participants on placebo. Participants were able to stop taking donanemab once they achieved pre-defined criteria of amyloid plaque clearance.* Approximately half of participants met this threshold at 12 months and approximately seven of every ten participants reached it at 18 months.
In the earlier pathological stage of disease in participants with low-medium tau, treatment with donanemab resulted in 47% of participants with no progression at one year on the CDR-SB assessment, versus 29% on placebo. Those participants treated with donanemab also had a 39% lower risk of progressing to the next clinical stage of disease over the 18-month trial. This delay in progression meant that, on average, participants treated with donanemab had an additional 7.5 months before they reached the same level of cognitive and functional decline on CDR-SB compared to those on placebo.
"People living with early, symptomatic Alzheimer's disease are still working, enjoying trips, sharing quality time with family – they want to feel like themselves, for longer," said Mark Mintun, M.D., group vice president Neuroscience Research & Development at Lilly, and president of Avid Radiopharmaceuticals. "The results of this study reinforce the importance of diagnosing and treating disease sooner than we do today."
The incidence of amyloid-related imaging abnormalities (ARIA) and infusion-related reactions was consistent with the previous TRAILBLAZER-ALZ study. ARIA occurs across the class of amyloid plaque clearing antibody therapies. It is most commonly observed as temporary swelling in an area or areas of the brain (ARIA-E) or as microhemorrhages or superficial siderosis (ARIA-H), in either case detected by MRI, and these may be serious and even fatal in some cases. This risk should be managed with careful observation, monitoring with MRIs, and appropriate actions if ARIA is detected. Serious infusion-related reactions and anaphylaxis were also observed.
For full TRAILBLAZER-ALZ 2 results, see the publication in JAMA.
A live webcast of the scientific session at AAIC featuring the donanemab presentations can be viewed on the investor section of Lilly's web site.
Lilly will host an investor call on Monday, July 17, at 1:30 p.m. EDT (10:30 a.m. PDT) to discuss the company's presentations at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference.
About TRAILBLAZER-ALZ 2 Study and the TRAILBLAZER-ALZ program
TRAILBLAZER-ALZ 2 (NCT04437511) is a Phase 3, double-blind, placebo-controlled study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of donanemab in participants ages 60-85 years with early symptomatic Alzheimer's disease (MCI or mild dementia due to Alzheimer's disease) with the presence of confirmed Alzheimer's disease neuropathology. The trial enrolled 1736 participants, across 8 countries, selected based on cognitive assessments in conjunction with amyloid plaque imaging and tau staging by PET imaging.
Lilly previously announced and published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) results from the Phase 2 TRAILBLAZER-ALZ study in 2021. In addition, Lilly shared data from TRAILBLAZER-ALZ 4, the first active comparator study in early symptomatic Alzheimer's disease, at the 15th Clinical Trials on Alzheimer's Disease (CTAD) conference in 2022.
Lilly continues to study donanemab in multiple clinical trials, including TRAILBLAZER-ALZ 3, which is focused on preventing symptomatic Alzheimer's disease in participants with preclinical AD; TRAILBLAZER-ALZ 5, a registration trial for early symptomatic Alzheimer's disease currently enrolling in China; and TRAILBLAZER-ALZ 6, which is focused on expanding our understanding of ARIA through novel MRI sequences, blood-based biomarkers, and different dosing regimens of donanemab.
About Lilly
Lilly unites caring with discovery to create medicines that make life better for people around the world. We've been pioneering life-changing discoveries for nearly 150 years, and today our medicines help more than 51 million people across the globe. Harnessing the power of biotechnology, chemistry and genetic medicine, our scientists are urgently advancing new discoveries to solve some of the world's most significant health challenges, redefining diabetes care, treating obesity and curtailing its most devastating long-term effects, advancing the fight against Alzheimer's disease, providing solutions to some of the most debilitating immune system disorders, and transforming the most difficult-to-treat cancers into manageable diseases. With each step toward a healthier world, we're motivated by one thing: making life better for millions more people. That includes delivering innovative clinical trials that reflect the diversity of our world and working to ensure our medicines are accessible and affordable. To learn more, visit Lilly.com and Lilly.com/newsroom or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn. P-LLY
* Participants completed their course of treatment with donanemab once they reached a pre-defined level of plaque clearance. Average baseline amyloid levels were ~100 Centiloids for participants with early symptomatic Alzheimer's disease.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements (as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995) about donanemab as a potential treatment for people with early symptomatic Alzheimer's disease and the timeline for future readouts, presentations, and other milestones relating to donanemab and its clinical trials and reflects Lilly's current beliefs and expectations. However, as with any pharmaceutical product, there are substantial risks and uncertainties in the process of drug research, development, and commercialization. Among other things, there is no guarantee that planned or ongoing studies will be completed as planned, that future study results will be consistent with study findings to date, that donanemab will prove to be a safe and effective treatment, or that donanemab will receive regulatory approval. For further discussion of these and other risks and uncertainties, see Lilly's Form 10-K and Form 10-Q filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Except as required by law, Lilly undertakes no duty to update forward-looking statements to reflect events after the date of this release.
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– NBA to Become First Sports League to Partner with Cosm on Shared Reality Experience
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The NBA and Cosm, a leading immersive technology, media, and entertainment company, today announced a multi-year partnership that will feature a new live game viewing experience for fans. In this first-of-its-kind partnership, Cosm will produce and present select games from NBA League Pass, the league's out-of-market live game streaming service, in immersive 8K on large-scale LED-dome systems at its forthcoming venues.
The agreement makes the NBA the first professional sports league to partner with Cosm to debut select NBA League Pass games in "Shared Reality," a new type of immersive experience, driven by Cosm's CX System, that seamlessly bridges the virtual and physical worlds. Cosm brings the world's best fan experiences to the screen and merges a stadium-like atmosphere – the energy of the crowd, elevated food and beverage options, specialized merchandise, and state-of-the-art visuals – to make guests feel like they are in an NBA Arena. Members of NBA ID, the league's new global membership program, will receive exclusive benefits at Cosm's venues, including discounts on tickets, merchandise, and events.
"We are excited to bring NBA games to Cosm's innovative venues and further our common goal of enhancing the fan experience," said Teddy Kaplan, Associate Vice President, New Media Partner Management Lead at the NBA. "Cosm's Shared Reality technology offers a new and exciting way to bring fans together in person and closer to the game."
"This is one of the most transformational deals to hit the sports industry in quite some time," added Jeb Terry, President & CEO at Cosm. "Our team has created an entirely new experience, driven by industry-leading technology, to give fans a new way to watch the game. We have an incredible opportunity to work with a partner as innovative as the NBA, to combine our collective know-how, and to rewrite the playbook on how leagues, broadcasters, and brands can bring fans closer to the action than ever before. The promise of Cosm is to give you the best seat in the house, no matter where that house is. It is the best of at-home and in-arena experience as one, and we're thrilled to deliver on that promise with the NBA."
"Cosm is transforming the experience of the live game, and we could not have asked for a better partner than the NBA to show off the future of fandom," added Peter Murphy, Vice President, Head of Business Development and Partnerships at Cosm. "We look forward to leveraging Cosm's unparalleled experience in experiential technology to distribute live NBA games in a way the world has never seen before. Through our partnership, NBA games will be a pillar in Cosm's venue programming for years to come."
The NBA and Cosm will continue to work together to deliver live, immersive 8K feeds directly into Cosm's research and development facility ("Experience Center") in Salt Lake City, UT. Both the league and company will collaborate and amplify the announcement by hosting private events at the Experience Center throughout NBA All-Star 2023.
Cosm recently broke ground at its first venue in Los Angeles at Hollywood Park, adjacent to SoFi Stadium and Intuit Dome, and announced its second venue in Dallas at Grandscape, with plans to expand to additional locations in key markets. Details around the schedule of events upon the opening of these venues will be shared at a later date.
About NBA
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a global sports and media organization with the mission to inspire and connect people everywhere through the power of basketball. Built around five professional sports leagues: the NBA, WNBA, NBA G League, NBA 2K League and Basketball Africa League, the NBA has established a major international presence with Games and programming available in 215 countries and territories in more than 50 languages, and merchandise for sale in more than 200 countries and territories on all seven continents. NBA rosters at the start of the 2021-22 season featured a record 121 international players from 40 countries. NBA Digital's assets include NBA TV, NBA.com, the NBA App and NBA League Pass. The NBA has created one of the largest social media communities in the world, with 2.1 billion likes and followers globally across all league, team, and player platforms. Through NBA Cares, the league addresses important social issues by working with internationally recognized youth-serving organizations that support education, youth and family development, and health-related causes.
About Cosm
Cosm is the leading experiential media and immersive technology company redefining the way the world experiences content. With acclaimed history of developing some of the most innovative experiential technology in the world, Cosm powers sensorial experiences for every type of fan, from sports and entertainment to science, immersive art and education; this includes the world's largest and most advanced planetariums, giant screens, museums, and theme park attractions. Cosm is also recognized for its immersive production and software development prowess, producing the world's largest events with industry leading resolution and distribution methodology. Its immersive venues bridge the virtual and physical worlds through pioneered technology that expands the realm of what's possible, connecting people and bringing them together in, what is called, Shared Reality. As the company continues to expand to new cities and countries, Cosm is sparking shared passions and providing guests across the globe with experiences they need to feel to believe. To learn more, visit www.cosm.com and follow on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and TikTok.
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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- An HIV-Positive consumer has joined a federal lawsuit against pharmaceutical manufacturer Gilead Sciences in a complaint alleging unfair and anti-competitive behavior in violation of multiple states' laws, according to an Amended Complaint filed Friday in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
Download the complaint here.
The lawsuit accuses Gilead Sciences, Inc. of paying off competitors in order to prevent generic versions of a life-saving drug, Truvada, from coming to market. Truvada is a medication that both prevents and treats HIV. Gilead holds the patent for Truvada, in addition to various other drugs that treat serious health conditions.
The lawsuit details a strategy where Gilead made a large, unexplained payment to a generic drug manufacturer, Cipla, in return for Cipla's agreement not to compete against Gilead by selling a generic version of Truvada. The lawsuit alleges Gilead paid off Cipla in a number of possible ways, including granting it a license to produce another generic drug, the right to provide the ingredients for another company's generic competitor to Truvada, and/or a license to produce drugs for Hepatitis C in India. These types of payments are all made possible because Gilead owns the patents on these critical drugs.
"This unlawful agreement between Gilead and Cipla kept the price of Truvada at anticompetitive levels, making it harder for consumers and their health plans to afford to cover it," said Consumer Watchdog attorney Ben Powell. "The bottom line is having access to this medication is literally a matter of life and death for many consumers, and we hope the Court will put a stop to this drug manufacturer putting profits over people's lives."
In August, the court denied Gilead's Motion to Dismiss the lawsuit, allowing the case to proceed and finding that the Plaintiff's claims were legally sound. At the same time, the court held that claims under California law require a Plaintiff who purchased Truvada in California. The HIV-positive consumer, referred to in the lawsuit as John Doe, joining the lawsuit fulfills that requirement.
The complaint alleges violations of both California and Florida laws, including California's Cartwright Act, the California Unfair Competition Law, and the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act, and includes class members from around the country. It seeks to force Gilead to return any unlawful profits it gained as a result of its illegal and anti-competitive behavior.
The case, Jackson Police Officers and Fire Fighters Health Insurance Trust and John Doe v. Gilead Sciences, et al., No. 4:20-cv-06522, was filed in San Francisco federal district court. Plaintiffs are represented by Whatley Kallas LLP and attorneys for Consumer Watchdog.
Consumer Watchdog is a non-profit public interest organization. Visit us on the web at www.ConsumerWatchdog.org
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California governor Gavin Newsom signed a landmark bill into law last week, forcing large internet companies like Facebook to make their sites safer for children. Aside from sparking irritation in tech circles, it has put a spotlight on an area where states are making greater headway than Congress: passing laws to regulate the free-wheeling dominance of Big Tech firms.
Rallying against Big Tech is that rare issue both Republicans and Democrats can agree on, yet several federal proposals with bipartisan support have stalled in Washington, including a comprehensive privacy bill and an antitrust package that will probably be mothballed next year amid a likely GOP majority in the House. When it comes to policing Big Tech, Congress is essentially gridlocked. The real action is happening at the state level.
Texas and Florida have been trying to push through new social media laws, currently tangled up in the courts with the possibility now of a Supreme Court ruling. Both seek to stop companies such as Facebook and Twitter Inc. from blocking certain types of political speech — which will likely do more to appeal to their Republican bases than to adequately clean up harmful online content. Even so, like California’s new rules, they underscore the growing importance of state-level firepower in regulating tech. With Congress doing so little, more state legislators should try to pick up the slack and pass sorely needed legislation that addresses infringements of privacy, online harms and market abuse by these firms.
Doing so would take a cue from Big Tech’s own playbook.
For years, industry lobbyists have targeted state lawmakers to quietly push for watered-down privacy laws, shrewdly preempting tougher policies that might threaten their business models by forcing changes to their ad or data-collection practices.
Privacy laws recently passed in Virginia, Utah and Colorado, along with similar bills under consideration in another 22 states, lack any real enforcement power. That’s because technology firms themselves have been instigating or advising on the legislation.
Amazon.com Inc., for instance, fed Virginia lawmakers the initial text of a bill that became that state’s privacy law. “Amazon gave us the first cut of a draft to look at,” Democratic Virginia state Senator David Marsden told Protocol recently.
A powerful tech industry group known as the State Privacy and Security Coalition (SPSC), whose members include Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc., Alphabet Inc. and Amazon, has also offered state lawmakers “substantive expertise” and advice on privacy legislation. One lobbyist with the group helped Utah Republican state Senator Kirk Cullimore add substitute language to his state’s privacy bill, according to the minutes of a February 2022 hearing.(1)
Bizarrely, the current best effort at protecting consumer privacy has come from a large tech company. Apple Inc.’s App Tracking Transparency pop-up, introduced to iPhones globally last year, has done more than any law to curb targeted advertisers on our phones, knocking an estimated $14 billion off Facebook’s ad sales this year alone (and improving Apple’s business in the process).
Highly profitable tech companies shouldn’t be our ultimate data protectors, neither should they dictate the direction of privacy policy. That is the job of democratically elected lawmakers.
California offers a helpful template. Its own privacy law, which was rolled out in 2020,(2)became a de facto US standard because tech companies realized it would be easier to follow its rules universally rather than weed out California users.
The same could happen with the state’s new Age Appropriate Design Code. It forces internet firms to redesign their websites or algorithms if they infringe on the privacy of under 18s or expose them to harmful content, and is tougher than the British rules it is based on.
Facebook, for instance, has been accused of continuing to surveil teens for ad targeting even after saying it wouldn’t under the new UK rules protecting kids. It’ll be harder to get away with that under California’s law. The state’s attorney general can pursue penalties of as much as $7,500 for every minor affected by a company that breaks the legislation.
Tougher state rules aimed at the tech industry wouldn’t just create national momentum for finally passing federal laws; they might also compel tech companies to be more accepting of federal regulation, seeing it as a more palatable alternative to a confusing patchwork of state directives. And once Congress eventually standardizes something, even if it’s a few years down the line, there would be less risk that certain regulations could be watered down. The federal laws would be more powerful.
Oddly, groups campaigning for better privacy or online protections haven’t been lobbying state houses at anywhere near the same level as tech companies, according to Jesse Lehrich, co-founder of Accountable Tech, a civic group pushing for stronger regulation of social media firms. “I’ve been a little bit surprised because I haven’t heard many of our allies getting serious about mapping out where there may be opportunities,” he said.
That could be a missed chance for advocacy groups. California has shown that states can accomplish far more than Congress at tackling Big Tech’s dominance. Federal laws trying to do the same look near-impossible next year. States could make a necessary difference, and they should.
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(1) Anton van Seventer, a lobbyist for the State Privacy and Security Coalition, was cited in the minutes as having helped pass the bill.
(2) California’s privacy law had initially passed in 2018, but was strengthened after a ballot initiative that made it such that the legislature couldn’t roll it back.
This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.
Parmy Olson is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering technology. A former reporter for the Wall Street Journal and Forbes, she is author of “We Are Anonymous.”
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ALBANY, N.Y., Jan. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Every child deserves the opportunity to learn, thrive, succeed, and be happy. And every parent in New York should have the freedom to choose the type of education that works best for their individual kids. Families of schoolchildren across the state are preparing to spread those messages next week in Albany at an awareness-raising celebration of school choice at the New York State Capitol.
The event will be held on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023, from 11:00 AM to 2:15 PM at the New York State Capitol (State Street and Washington Avenue in Albany). Families will meet at the Million Dollar Staircase at 1:45 PM – 2:15 PM to rally in celebration of school choice. More than 50 participants are expected to attend.
Hosted by Children's Scholarship Fund, New York Charter Schools Association, Families for NYC, and the Empire Center for Public Policy, the event will bring parents representing traditional public, public charter, and private schools from across the state to meet with their representatives and other statewide elected officials and share their stories of exercising school choice on behalf of their children. The celebration is open to the press and the public.
"All children in New York deserve a quality, effective education, regardless of how much money their parents earn or where they live," said Darla Romfo, President and CEO of Children's Scholarship Fund. "At this rally, we will celebrate how school choice can reduce inequality in education, and provide families with hope for an even brighter future for their children."
"School choice allows families to make the best decisions possible based on their children's unique circumstances. As educators and parents, our highest priority is always to ensure the well-being of our children. The ability to select a school education that provides the most appropriate academic, social, and emotional supports is paramount to that effort and should not be considered a luxury," said Yomika S. Bennett, executive director of the New York Charter Schools Association. "Parents' voices must be respected and we stand in solidarity with our partners to protect families' rights not only during School Choice Week but every day as families make one of the most important decisions that will shape their children's future."
Children's Scholarship Fund is a 501c3 nonprofit organization focused on expanding educational opportunity by providing scholarships to families in need so children can attend the K-8 schools that are the best fit, regardless of their ability to pay or where they live.
The New York Charter Schools Association is a nonprofit organization that serves as a unified voice for the over 350 public charter schools serving approximately 160,000 students, representing their interests at the state and local levels.
Families for NYC is a news, resource, and opinion platform dedicated to helping New York City-based families fight for a safer and better city.
The Empire Center for Public Policy is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit think tank with a mission of making New York a better place to live and work by promoting public policy reforms grounded in free-market principles, personal responsibility, and the ideals of effective and accountable government.
The Jan. 24 event is timed to coincide with National School Choice Week (NSCW), which will feature more than 26,000 school choice events across all 50 states to raise equal and positive awareness of the traditional public, public charter, public magnet, private, online, and home education options available for families.
In addition to this event, 1,197 public and private schools in New York will host independent events and activities during NSCW. These schools enroll an estimated 459,359 students across all grade levels.
For more information, visit scholarshipfund.org or schoolchoiceweek.com.
National School Choice Week (NSCW) informs, inspires, and empowers parents to discover the K-12 education options available for their children, including traditional public, public charter, public magnet, online, private, and home schooling. Every January, tens of thousands of schools, organizations, and individuals plan unique events and activities to shine a positive spotlight on effective education options in their communities. The Week is a project of the nonpartisan, nonpolitical National School Choice Awareness Foundation.
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BOYERTOWN, Pa. - Berks and PAC cross conference matchup on the diamond between Wilson West Lawn and Boyertown. The visiting Bulldogs hanging on for the, 7-5 win over the Bears.
Both teams pitching holding each other in check until the fifth inning, and it would be the Bulldogs opening the scoring. Tommy Hunsicker and Tyler Wentzel helping to build a, 5-0 lead after the top of the fifth.
The Bears not going away quietly, Pat McNeil helping to lead his squad back to tie things up at five in the sixth inning.
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ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey's presidential elections appeared to be heading toward a second-round runoff on Monday, with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has ruled his country with a firm grip for 20 years, leading over his chief challenger, but falling short of the votes needed for an outright win.
With 99.4% of the domestic votes and 84% of the overseas votes counted, Erdogan had 49.4% of the votes, with his main rival, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, garnering 45%, Ahmet Yener, the head of the Supreme Electoral Board, told reporters. A third candidate, nationalist politician Sinan Ogan received 5.2%.
Erdogan, 69, told supporters in the early hours of Monday that he could still win. He said, however, that he would respect the nation's decision if the race went to a runoff on May 28.
The vote was being closely watched to see if the strategically located NATO country — which has a coast on the Black Sea to the north, and neighbors Iran, Iraq and Syria to the south — remains under the control of the increasingly authoritarian president or can embark on a more democratic course that was envisioned by Kilicdaroglu.
Opinion polls in the runup to Sunday's vote had given Kilicdaroglu, the joint candidate of a six-party opposition alliance, a slight lead over Erdogan, who has governed Turkey as either prime minister or president since 2003.
Kilicdaroglu sounded hopeful for a second-round victory.
"We will absolutely win the second round ... and bring democracy" said Kilicdaroglu, 74, maintaining that Erdogan had lost the trust of a nation now demanding change.
Ogan has not said whom he would endorse if the elections go to a second-round. He is believed to have received support from electors wanting change after two decades under Erdogan but unconvinced by the Kilicdaroglu-led six party alliance's ability to govern.
The election results showed that Erdogan's ruling Justice and Development Party was also set to retain its majority in the 600-seat parliament, although the assembly has lost much of its legislative power after a referendum to change the country's system of governance to an executive presidency narrowly passed in 2017.
Anadolu news agency said Erdogan's ruling party alliance was hovering around 49.3%, while Kilicdaroglu's Nation Alliance had around 35.2% and support for a pro-Kurdish party stood above 10%.
The fact that Erdogan appears to have held on to his majority increases his chances of winning a second-round vote, with more voters likely to support Erdogan to avoid a split legislature.
This year's election came amid a backdrop of economic turmoil, a cost-of-living crisis and a February earthquake that killed more than 50,000 people. Western nations and foreign investors are also awaiting the outcome because of Erdogan's unorthodox leadership of the economy and often mercurial but successful efforts to put Turkey at the center of international negotiations.
As in previous years, Erdogan led a highly divisive campaign in his bid to stretch his rule into a third decade. He portrayed Kilicdaroglu, who had received the backing of the country's pro-Kurdish party, of colluding with "terrorists" and of supporting what he called "deviant" LGBTQ rights. In a bid to woo voters hit hard by inflation, he increased wages and pensions and subsidized electricity and gas bills, while showcasing Turkey's homegrown defense industry and infrastructure projects.
Kilicdaroglu, for his part, campaigned on promises to reverse crackdowns on free speech and other forms of democratic backsliding, as well as to repair an economy battered by high inflation and currency devaluation.
"That the election results have not been finalized doesn't change the fact that the nation has chosen us," Erdogan said.
More than 64 million people, including the overseas voters, were eligible to vote and nearly 89% voted. This year marks 100 years since Turkey's establishment as a republic — a modern, secular state born on the ashes of the Ottoman Empire.
Voter turnout in Turkey is traditionally strong, despite the government suppressing freedom of expression and assembly over the years and especially since a 2016 coup attempt. Erdogan blamed the failed coup on followers of a former ally, cleric Fethullah Gulen, and initiated a large-scale crackdown on civil servants with alleged links to Gulen and on pro-Kurdish politicians.
Erdogan, along with the United Nations, helped mediate a deal with Ukraine and Russia that allowed Ukrainian grain to reach the rest of the world from Black Sea ports despite Russia's war in Ukraine. The agreement, which is implemented by a center based in Istanbul, is set to expire in days, and Turkey hosted talks last week to keep it alive.
But Erdogan also has held up Sweden's quest to join NATO, contending that nation has been too lenient on followers of the U.S.-based cleric and members of pro-Kurdish groups that Turkey considers national security threats.
Critics maintain the president's heavy-handed style is responsible for a painful cost-of-living crisis. The latest official statistics put inflation at about 44%, down from a high of around 86%. The price of vegetables became a campaign issue for the opposition, which used an onion as a symbol.
In contrast with mainstream economic thinking, Erdogan contends that high interest rates fuel inflation, and he pressured the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey to lower its main rate multiple times.
Erdogan's government also faced criticism for its allegedly delayed and stunted response to the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that left 11 southern provinces devastated. Lax implementation of building codes is thought to have exacerbated the casualties and misery.
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ROME (AP) — Lines formed Sunday at Italy’s northern border crossings with France following Paris’ decision to reinforce border controls over a diplomatic row with Italy about migration policy and humanitarian rescue ships that shows no end in sight.
The Ventimiglia-Menton crossing along the picturesque Mediterranean coast has often been a flashpoint of the migrant debate, with makeshift camps giving shelter to migrants who try to cross into France after arriving in Italy. On Sunday morning, several dozen migrants were sleeping on mattresses under a highway overpass — numbers that could swell as France cracks down on crossings.
France announced this week it was sending 500 extra officers to beef up its frontiers with Italy, and announced “serious” passport controls, in retaliation for Italy’s delays in helping humanitarian ships that rescue migrants in the Mediterranean. Police checked cars crossing the border Sunday, stopping migrants, and patrolled trains.
After a weekslong-standoff, Italy allowed three aid groups to disembark their passengers in Italian ports because doctors determined they were all vulnerable, but refused entry to a fourth. The Ocean Viking charity rescue ship, which had been at sea for nearly three weeks, eventually docked in Toulon, France after Paris reluctantly took it in.
Italy’s new far-right-led government headed by Premier Giorgia Meloni has vowed that Italy will no longer be the primary port of entry for migrants leaving on smugglers' boats from Libya and is demanding Europe do more to shoulder the burden and regulate the aid groups that operate rescue ships in the Mediterranean.
France strongly criticized Italy’s handling of the Ocean Viking, which was accompanied by triumphant social media posts by right-wing League party leader Matteo Salvini that “the air has changed” before France had publicly agreed to take it in.
In retaliation, France announced it was withdrawing from a European Union “solidarity” mechanism approved in June to relocate 3,000 migrants from Italy.
Italy called France's response "disproportionate" and "aggressive" and won the support of other front-line Mediterranean countries, including Greece, Malta and Cyprus. The four countries penned a joint statement Saturday calling for a new, obligatory solidarity mechanism to take in migrants.
In addition, the four countries called on the European Commission to initiate talks on better regulating private rescue ships.
“Fines, seizures and more controls in sight,” Salvini tweeted Sunday about threatened new measures against charity rescue ships. “The government is ready to get tough.”
On Sunday, Germany’s ambassador to Italy, Viktor Elbling, defended the aid groups, saying they help save lives and that “their humanitarian commitment warrants our recognition and our support.”
“In 2022, 1,300 people have already died or gone missing in the Mediterranean. NGOs have saved 12% of the survivors,” he tweeted.
The German groups Mission Lifeline and SOS Humanity were able to disembark all their passengers in Italy last week, and the budget committee of the Bundestag decided to provide another group, United4Rescue, with two million euros for civil sea rescue in 2023, with similar funding through 2026.
Italy has justified its hard line by noting that it has already welcomed nearly 90,000 migrants this year, far more than any other European country. However, only a fraction of them stay in Italy and apply for asylum, with most continuing their journeys north in hopes of reaching relatives and better established migrant communities in France, Germany, Sweden and elsewhere.
France far outranks Italy in terms of processing asylum applications. Data from January to August shows that Germany received the most applications this year, topping 100,000, followed by France with 82,535. Italy trailed Spain and Austria in fifth place with 43,750 applications.
French government spokesman Olivier Veran reaffirmed Sunday that France would no longer welcome the “just over 3,000 people from Italy, including 500 by the end of the year” as part of the European solidarity mechanism. He called Italy the “loser” in the scenario.
“We will not maintain the proposal that was planned,” Veran said on BFM TV.
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NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BluePoint Mortgage, a premier wholesale lender has been recognized as one of the best places to work in Orange County, California.
For the fourth consecutive year, the Orange County Register has included BluePoint Mortgage on its list of "Top Places to Work." The rankings for midsize companies with 100-500 employees are based on corporate values, meaningful work, employee development and innovation.
According to Top Workplaces, LLC research, 86% of employees at Top Workplaces are committed to their work compared to 43% at average workplaces. Additionally, Top Workplace companies have an employee engagement rate of 84% compared to 36% at average workplaces.
"BluePoint Mortgage is honored to have been recognized as a Top Workplace" says Sam Soliman, Chief Executive Officer of BluePoint Mortgage. "We provide an amazing culture and support system that enables our account executives, underwriters, loan processors and closers to thrive!"
BluePoint Mortgage is dedicated to creating an exciting atmosphere that encourages teamwork and individual performance. Employees frequently compete for awards such as title belts, "Walk of Fame" stars, weekend stays at luxury hotels, gift cards to high-end restaurants, and other performance awards. Recently, Michel Escobedo – Non-QM Jr. Underwriter won the "Grinder of the month" award for her hard work and dedication in July, and Sr. Account Executive Allen Samuel enjoyed a stay at the Ritz-Carlton for winning a loan submission competition.
We are hiring!
The company currently has an immediate need for experienced Account Executives and welcomes applicants with Non-QM experience. Interested applicants can apply here bluepointmtg.com/careers.
BluePoint Mortgage is a top wholesale lender that began more than 30 years ago.
We expedite Non-QM, FHA, VA and conventional loan programs for a growing list of mortgage brokers throughout the nation.
The Scotsman Guide ranks BluePoint Mortgage within its list of Top 20 Wholesale Lenders.
The company does not offer retail loans.
BluePoint Mortgage is based in Newport Beach, CA. NMLS ID# 320004, BRE# 01403107.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is preparing to appeal a judge’s decision granting the appointment of an independent arbiter to review records seized in a criminal investigation by the FBI from former President Donald Trump’s Florida home.
Citing national security concerns and other factors, the department also asked U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to put on hold her directive prohibiting it from using the seized classified records for investigative purposes while it contests her ruling.
“Without a stay, the government and public also will suffer irreparable harm from the undue delay to the criminal investigation,” department lawyers said in a motion Thursday in which they announced their intent to appeal the order to the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The 21-page Justice Department filing lays bare the government’s concern about the impact it believes will be caused by the judge’s order, which temporarily halted core aspects of its criminal investigation, and its continued objections to the planned appointment of a “special master” to conduct an independent review of the records taken from Mar-a-Lago. Already, the department said, the intelligence community has paused its separate risk assessment that the judge had permitted to continue because of “uncertainty regarding the bounds of the Court’s order.”
The department gave the judge until next Thursday to stay her original order, saying it would otherwise ask the federal appeals court to do so. Though such an appeal will almost certainly result in further delays to its underlying investigation, the department made clear throughout its motion its belief that it would be “injured” beyond repair if the judge’s order was permitted to stand.
The judge gave the Trump team until Monday morning to respond to the Justice Department motion.
The FBI has been investigating for months what it says was the unlawful retention of national defense information at Mar-a-Lago as well as efforts to obstruct the probe. It is not clear whether Trump or anyone else will face charges.
Reacting to Thursday’s motion, Trump renewed his attacks on the entire investigation.
“So now the FBI and Biden Department of ‘Justice’ leakers are going to spend Millions of Dollars, & vast amounts of Time and Energy, to appeal the order on the ‘Raid of Mar-a-Lago document hoax,'” he wrote on his Truth Social platform.
The FBI seized 33 boxes and containers with more than 100 documents with classified markings, including some designated top-secret, during an Aug. 8 search of the property. Those records have been segregated from the thousands of non-classified documents that were taken, the department said.
The Trump legal team had asked the judge, a Trump appointee, to name a special master — in many cases, a lawyer or retired judge — to examine the seized documents to ensure that personal materials are returned to him and that any privileged records are weeded out from the rest of the investigation.
In a procedural win for the ex-president, Cannon granted that request, agreeing to appoint an arbiter to inspect the records and filter out any that may be protected by claims not only of attorney-client privilege but executive privilege too. She also directed the FBI to temporarily stop using those documents in its investigation until a report from the special master or “further court order.”
Though she did permit the intelligence community to continue with an assessment of the security risk posed by the improper retention of classified secrets, that work has been paused in consultation with the Justice Department. The FBI’s chief counterintelligence official, Alan E. Kohler Jr., said in a declaration accompanying the court filing that the classification review and national security risk assessment were “inextricably linked with the criminal investigation” and that it made no sense to “bifurcate” the FBI officials in both of those endeavors.
On Thursday, the Justice Department lambasted anew the idea that any of the classified records could be protected by such claims, or that Trump could be entitled to the return of any government documents since he is no longer president. It also asked the judge to lift her directive that highly classified records be shared with a special master.
“The classification markings establish on the face of the documents that they are government records, not Plaintiff’s personal records. The government’s review of those records does not raise any plausible attorney-client privilege claims because such classified records do not contain communications between Plaintiff and his private attorneys,” the motion states.
It adds that “no potential assertion of executive privilege could justify restricting the Executive Branch’s review and use of the classified records at issue here.”
The judge’s ruling carries the prospect of substantially delaying the criminal investigation though it seems unlikely to have significant long-term effects that would take the probe off course. The department, for instance, said it did not interpret the order as a prohibition against interviewing witnesses about how the records were relocated from the White House to Mar-a-Lago or how they were stored — suggesting that at least that investigative work would continue. Nor did it think there was a bar against the department from briefing members of Congress.
“Even so,” department lawyers wrote, “the prohibition on the review and use of the classified records is uniquely harmful here, where the criminal investigation concerns the retention and handling of those very records, with the concomitant national security concerns raised by that conduct.”
The two sides were directed to submit proposed names of a special master by Friday.
The department said it planned to “provide its views” by that deadline, and that its filing on Friday would confirm its plans to make available to the Trump team copies of all unclassified documents taken during the search and to return personal records that were not commingled with classified materials.
The department earlier in the week said that the seized records included “medical documents, correspondence related to taxes, and accounting information.”
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(WFRV) – Yelp released its top 100 pizza spots in the United States and Canada, and Wisconsin claimed two spots.
On January 23, Yelp provided its top pizza spots across the country, and Canada too. Wisconsin’s two pizza places are in Madison and Milwaukee.
The two pizza spots are:
- Santino’s Little Italy – Milwaukee
- Ranked 46th
- Novanta – Madison
- Ranked 83rd
Santino’s website displays multiple reviews from various places including Zagat and the Washington Post. Their menu shows its various items including, pizza, pasta, salads and other options.
Santino’s Little Italy is located at 352 East Stewart Street.
Novanta says they opened back in June 2013 and currently have two locations, one in Madison and one in Middleton. Their menu highlights its various pizza options with or without tomato sauce.
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FORT WORTH, Texas — A Fort Worth man was arrested in connection to cold case homicides that happened in the Los Angeles area dating back to the 1980s, police confirmed to WFAA on Friday.
The Fort Worth Police Department said its operations and surveillance team assisted Los Angeles police in the arrest of Billy Ray Richardson. Fort Worth police said any information relating to the cases would be released by Los Angeles authorities.
The Los Angeles Times, which initially broke the story, reported that police connected Richardson to four cold-case homicides: the 1980 killings of Beverly Cruse, Debra Cruse and Kari Lenander in Los Angeles, and the 1995 slaying of Trina Wilson in Inglewood.
Richardson was booked into the Tarrant County Jail. He is pending extradition to Los Angeles, according to the LA Times.
The LA Times reported in 1980 that Beverly and Debra Cruse were found dead by their brother, James, in the bedroom of Beverly’s apartment in Palms. He hadn't heard from his sisters in several days and went to check on them.
Kari Lenander, who was 15 years old at the time, was found raped and strangled, her body dumped in a gutter in South L.A. nearly five months later in July, according to a LAPD bulletin.
Information regarding the death of Trina Wilson were not immediately available.
To read more background on the homicides, visit the LA Times here.
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A rare kitten considered the ‘unicorn’ of cats has just been adopted
(Gray News) – A rare kitten experts call the “unicorn” of cats has been adopted from a Nevada animal shelter.
The Animal Foundation, located in Las Vegas, announced the adoption of Comet in a Facebook post.
Comet is a male tortoiseshell kitten, according to the shelter.
They said many in veterinary medicine can work years, even decades, without ever coming across a male tortie in person.
Tortoiseshell cats are usually female and rarely male. This is because two X chromosomes are required to produce the coloring of black, orange and yellow or gold, according to cattownoakland.org. Male cats usually only have one X and one Y chromosome. Male torties have an extra X chromosome, making them a rare XXY.
Only about 1 out of 3,000 tortoiseshells are male, and these males are usually sterile, according to the website.
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The trial of Alex Murdaugh, the one-time patriarch of a multigenerational legal dynasty in South Carolina who is now accused of killing his wife and son, began Wednesday.
Murdaugh was indicted in July 2022 after 13 months of speculation that drew national attention to the state’s Lowcountry, The Washington Post has reported. He is also accused of taking part in a multimillion-dollar insurance fraud scheme, with prosecutors saying he defrauded $8.4 million from victims.
Creighton Waters, the state’s lead prosecutor, said forensic evidence and cellphone data help show that Murdaugh shot and killed his wife and son before calling his wife in an attempt to create an alibi.
“Once you get [to] the end of that journey and you have a chance to deliberate, the evidence is going to be such that you’re going to reach the inescapable conclusion that Alex,” Waters said to the jury, pointing across the courtroom to Murdaugh, “murdered Maggie and Paul. That he was the storm. That the storm was coming for them, and the storm arrived on June 7, 2021, just like the storms that are heading here right now.”
Murdaugh’s defense attorney Dick Harpootlian told jurors to be fair.
“You were picked because you said you could follow the law. You were picked because Alex Murdaugh believes you can be fair,” he said.
State law indicates that, if convicted of murder, Murdaugh could face the death penalty, The Post has reported previously.
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NEW DELHI (AP) — Sri Lanka's strategic location has attracted outsized interest in the small island nation from regional giants China and India for more than a decade, with Beijing and its free-flowing loans and infrastructure investments widely seen as having gained the upper hand in the quest for influence.
But Sri Lanka's economic collapse has proved an opportunity for India to swing the pendulum back, with New Delhi stepping in with massive financial and material assistance to its neighbor.
“There is no such thing as charity in international politics,” said Sreeram Chaulia, who heads the School of International Affairs at O.P. Jindal University in Sonipat, India.
“The intent is to drive China away from India’s backyard and restore the balance in New Delhi’s favor.”
Sri Lanka, a country of 22 million, sits off the southern coast of India on the Indian Ocean shipping lanes through which China receives the vast majority of its imported oil from the Middle East.
As part of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative to pump money into infrastructure projects across Asia and Africa, former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa took on many loans, including $1.1 billion to build a port in his home region of Hambantota despite the plan having been rejected by an expert panel.
When the deep-water port failed to generate the foreign revenue needed to pay China back, Sri Lanka in 2017 was forced to hand the facility and thousands of acres of land around it to Beijing for 99 years — giving China a key foothold directly opposite regional rival India’s coastline.
That stoked India's ongoing concerns about China’s growing influence in South Asia, particularly in smaller countries like Sri Lanka, Nepal and Maldives.
Concerns over China's increasing regional assertiveness deepened in 2020 when Indian and Chinese soldiers clashed in deadly skirmishes on the disputed Himalayan Ladakh border.
In its maritime approach, Beijing's military focus is currently more on the South China Sea and the Pacific, while its interest in Sri Lanka and the Indian Ocean appears to be more economically motivated, said Rahul Roy-Chaudhury, a London-based analyst with the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
“On the security side for China it's not a priority, but it is an emerging opportunity for China to bolster its influence in South Asia and ... to counter India's influence,” he said.
Caught in between is Sri Lanka itself which, like many others in the region, needs both China and India, whose combined population is nearly 3 billion people, Roy-Chaudhury said.
“It's not black and white,” he said. “The leaders of these countries have to be pro-India and pro-China at the same time.”
Sajith Premadasa, the current Sri Lankan opposition leader, emphasized that while the country is “extremely grateful” for India's help in the current crisis, the government needs to ensure that Sri Lanka's sovereignty and political independence are not impacted by the situation.
“What Sri Lanka should do always is to ensure our own national interests — in order to maximize our own national interests,” he told The Associated Press. “We should work with everyone in international society, irrespective of which power group or power bloc anybody belongs to.”
Sri Lanka has been rocked by protests since April after its foreign currency reserves ran dry, leading to widespread food and fuel shortages and power cuts, with demonstrators calling for the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the brother of Mahinda Rajapaksa who was elected in 2019.
In May, Mahinda, who had been appointed prime minister, himself resigned, but Gotabaya has clung to power.
Gotabaya inherited an economy already in a slump after a series of attacks in early 2019 by Islamic extremists caused a dramatic drop-off in tourism, a major source of income, and enormous foreign debt from infrastructure projects, many bankrolled by Chinese money and commissioned by brother Mahinda.
But a series of unwise economic decisions made the situation worse, and it was further exacerbated by the global coronavirus hitting the tourism sector again, while the war in Ukraine has driven up food and fuel costs.
The government now owes $51 billion and is unable to make interest payments. It has suspended repayment of $7 billion in foreign debt due this year out of $25 billion to be repaid by 2026, pending the outcome of negotiations with the International Monetary Fund on a rescue package.
China, Sri Lanka's third largest creditor after Japan and the Asian Development Bank, accounts for about 10% of its debt.
China has offered to lend more on favorable terms but has balked at forgiving some of Sri Lanka's debt, possibly over concerns it would prompt other borrowers across Asia and Africa to demand the same relief.
But Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, who took office after Mahinda Rajapaksa resigned, has said that Sri Lanka has not been able to access $1.5 billion in loans offered by China, because Beijing has made the money contingent on the country having enough foreign reserves for three months.
Beijing has also promised to “play a positive role” in Sri Lanka's talks with the IMF and is providing some 500 million yuan, about $75 million, in humanitarian aid, according to Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijan.
Meanwhile, India has stepped in with millions of dollars worth of rice, milk powder, medicine and other humanitarian aid, as well as diesel fuel and gasoline.
India has also extended Sri Lanka a $4 billion credit line on favorable terms that has been widely credited with helping the country's crisis from worsening, even as Wickremesinghe last week declared the economy had “completely collapsed.”
Wickremesinghe, who has served as prime minister several times before, is seen as pro-India, though he has limited leverage in his current role with Gotabaya Rajapaksa remaining president.
While the Rajapaksa family is considered pro-China, and with the general perception that China has been partially responsible for the country's problems, the political winds seem to be shifting in India's favor, Chaulia said.
India has not been actively promoting the perception that Chinese loans contributed to the crisis in Sri Lanka, but it also has not fought it, seeing the idea of a Chinese “debt trap” as an advantageous narrative for it regionally.
“India is not worried if this message comes across,” Roy-Chaudhury said.
New Delhi has recently succeeded in wresting away some of Beijing’s important projects in Sri Lanka, which is also a major destination for Indian exports.
In March, Sri Lanka finalized a joint venture with India to develop a solar power plant in the island nation. That same month, Colombo also terminated a contract with a Chinese company to build a $12 million wind farm in the country and offered it to an Indian rival.
“While India is trying to maintain its strategic footprint in Sri Lanka, its main aim appears to be to minimize Chinese hold in the country,” said K C Singh, a former Indian foreign secretary and a strategic affairs expert.
Coming to Sri Lanka's aid also fits neatly into Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's “Neighborhood First” foreign policy initiative, which focuses on cultivating and sustaining relations with nearby countries, and it is also in India’s self interest not to have a neighboring country like Sri Lanka collapse into chaos, Roy-Chaudhury said.
But at the same time India does not want to find itself in a position where it is stuck alone with an economic bailout, so it has been pushing Sri Lanka to turn to the IMF and asking for other countries to help.
“In security terms, yes, it would want to be a preferred security partner,” Roy-Chaudhury said.
“In economic terms, I think it would want to be one of a number of countries providing economic reassurance or support.”
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Rising reported from Bangkok. Associated Press journalists Krutika Pathi in New Delhi, Joe McDonald in Beijing, and Krishan Francis in Colombo, Sri Lanka, contributed to this report. | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Sri-Lanka-crisis-gives-India-chance-to-gain-sway-17275848.php | 2022-06-30 06:16:28 | 1 | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Sri-Lanka-crisis-gives-India-chance-to-gain-sway-17275848.php |
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Angelo Badalamenti, the composer best known for creating otherworldly scores for many David Lynch productions, from “Blue Velvet” and “Twin Peaks” to “Mulholland Drive,” has died. He was 85.
He died of natural causes on Sunday, his family said in a statement.
Born in Brooklyn in March 1937 to a fish market owner father with a musical background (a percussionist in Sicily), Badalamenti grew up listening to Italian opera with his family, started piano lessons at age 8 and went on to earn a bachelor’s and master’s degree from the Manhattan School of Music. During the summers he would play piano at resorts in the Catskills for the Borscht Belt acts.
After college he taught middle school. He composed a Christmas carol for his students that ended up on PBS and essentially launched his career in entertainment, where he wrote songs for Nina Simone (“Another Spring”) and Nancy Wilson (“Face It Girl, It’s Over”). He also wrote songs for films like “Gordon’s War” and “Law and Disorder” but his big break came in 1986 when, through a series of industry connections starting with unit manager Peter Runfolo, he was asked to help Isabella Rossellini sing “Blue Velvet” for Lynch’s iconic film.
“They were shooting down in North Carolina, and so they flew me down to meet with Isabella and to see what I could do. When I got there, we went into a little room with just Isabella and me and a piano. I worked with her for two or three hours straight until we got a good take on a small recorder,” he said in an interview with Culture.org. “David was shooting the last scene. We brought him the cassette tape. He put on his earphones and right away said, “That’s the ticket! This is peachy keen!” I had to ask the line producer what peachy keen meant.”
He also ended up writing the song “Mysteries of Love” and found Julee Cruise, who died earlier this year, to sing it, starting a long collaboration between the trio that would extend to Lynch’s seminal series “Twin Peaks.”
“David felt that the music of ‘Twin Peaks’ would have to cover a lot of ground, a wide range of moods: sadness, passion, ecstasy, love, tenderness, and violence. He wanted the music to be dark and abstract,” he said. “He asked me for music that would tear the hearts out of people.”
Badalamenti worked with other directors too, including Jane Campion (“Holy Smoke!), Danny Boyle (“The Beach”) Paul Schrader (“The Comfort of Strangers”) and Walter Salles (“Dark Water”). He also wrote “The Flaming Arrow” Torch Theme for the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics and the theme for “Inside the Actors Studio.” But it’s his work with Lynch that hovers above them all, which would include “The Straight Story,” “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me,” “Lost Highway” and “Mulholland Drive.”
“He’s got this musical soul, and melodies are always floating around inside,” Lynch told People Magazine in 1990. “I feel the mood of a scene in the music, and one thing helps the other, and they both just start climbing.”
Badalamenti also got to exercise his acting chops in a memorable scene in “Mulholland Drive” where he plays a gangster who is very particular about his espresso.
When it came to how he approached his scores, he said he was always at the service of the director’s vision.
“Sometimes you want the music to go along with what’s happening on screen. Other times I love the idea of the music going against what’s happening – that’s often a cooler way to do things,” he told NME in 2011.
“I always have one major question for a director when I compose a soundtrack: what do you want your audience to feel? Do you want to scare the s—t out of them? Squirm in their seat? Feel beautiful? And how they answer that question gives me cues to work on. I translate their words into music.” | https://www.wfla.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-twin-peaks-composer-angelo-badalamenti-dies-at-85/ | 2022-12-13 11:08:14 | 0 | https://www.wfla.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-twin-peaks-composer-angelo-badalamenti-dies-at-85/ |
World War II “ghost boat” emerges in drought-stricken lake
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Low water levels in California’s drought-stricken Shasta Lake have revealed the long-lost wreckage of a ship that served in World War II. The U.S. Forest Service says the amphibious Higgins landing craft — referred to as the “ghost boat” — appeared last fall in the drought-stricken reservoir.
Markings on the boat’s side confirmed it was used on the USS Monrovia, the battleship that served as Gen. George Patton’s headquarters during the invasion of Sicily. Dwight D, Eisenhower, who planned and oversaw the invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, was also on board the ship at one point.
The ship went on to serve in several missions, which reportedly included the invasion of Tarawa, where more than 1,200 Marines died in just 76 hours.
The USS Monrovia eventually sank in shallow waters off an island in the Pacific Ocean.
The “ghost boat” was salvaged and somehow ended up at the bottom of California’s largest reservoir.
“There is more to discover of its history and obviously its time on Shasta Lake, and still the circumstance of its sinking remains a mystery,” the Forest Service wrote.
The boat will be restored and will eventually be displayed at a museum in Nebraska.
Higgins Industries in New Orleans built several thousand landing craft between 1942 and 1945. Around 1,500 “Higgins boats” were deployed at Normandy.
California is enduring a drought that scientists are calling the worst in 1,200 years. In July, another sunken boat dating back to World War II emerged from a shrinking reservoir that straddles Nevada and Arizona. | https://www.wsgw.com/world-war-ii-ghost-boat-emerges-in-drought-stricken-lake/ | 2022-10-11 16:16:25 | 1 | https://www.wsgw.com/world-war-ii-ghost-boat-emerges-in-drought-stricken-lake/ |
15 excellent South Jersey takeout food places you have to try
When the gang is hungry but no one feels like cooking, it's time to order takeout food! But, from where?
15 Excellent South Jersey Takeout Food Places You Must Try
Here are 15 South Jersey restaurants our listeners recommended for having exceptional takeout food.
Where Are These Restaurants?
They are scattered around Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland, and lower Ocean counties. Not all of these fine restaurants are going to be close to you, but some of them should be.
Do These Restaurants Also Serve Eat-In Food?
Most are eat-in or take out and some also offer delivery. Some excellent restaurants do not offer takeout food and some restaurants really do an outstanding job with takeout food. Those were the establishments we were looking for.
Why Didn't Our favorite Takeout Food Place Make This List?
There are many wonderful restaurants spread around South Jersey. We admittedly have not tried them all. We counted on listeners' recommendations for the restaurants listed. Several of them were suggested multiple times. That usually shows people enjoy a particular eatery.
We undoubtedly haven't included all the great takeout places in South Jersey on our first try at this. Just 15 of them.
Leave your suggestion in the comments, and we will consider the restaurant the next time. Bon appetite! | https://nj1015.com/15-excellent-south-jersey-takeout-food-places-you-have-to-try/ | 2022-12-27 00:49:23 | 0 | https://nj1015.com/15-excellent-south-jersey-takeout-food-places-you-have-to-try/ |
CLEVELAND -- The Detroit Tigers have made a series of moves to pave the way for reliever Jose Cisnero’s return from the injured list.
The Tigers optioned right-handed pitcher Elvin Rodriguez to Triple-A Toledo after Thursday night’s game. On Friday, the Tigers designated right-handed reliever Drew Carlton for assignment. | https://www.mlive.com/tigers/2022/07/tigers-make-2-moves-as-jose-cisnero-returns-from-injured-list.html | 2022-07-15 15:30:54 | 1 | https://www.mlive.com/tigers/2022/07/tigers-make-2-moves-as-jose-cisnero-returns-from-injured-list.html |
Updated December 22, 2022 at 7:00 AM ET
JoAnne Bland wants to welcome you to Selma, Ala. The 69-year-old was born in this small city, and except for time away for college and the Army, her hometown has defined her work, purpose and, possibly, her very soul. It's a calling, one she wants to share with all Americans.
When you meet JoAnne Bland, you're told to expect a "bossy grandmother who is totally awesome." That's how Deborah Douglas, the author of a travel guide to the U.S. Civil Rights Trail, describes Bland anyway.
Bland has been giving tours of Selma for 33 years. She's direct and gets right to the point when explaining how things work on her tour.
"I talk, you listen," she says with a laugh. And that laugh is a cue to her storytelling style, a mix of humor and no "sugarcoating." Underneath her jacket, she wears a T-shirt with a one-word message: "Kindness."
Her tours begin near the famed Edmund Pettus Bridge, named for a Confederate general who went on to become a Ku Klux Klan leader and a U.S. senator. It's on this bridge where the path of American history shifted — so much so, it prompted President Lyndon Johnson to appear before a televised, joint session of Congress on March 15, 1965, and urge passage of the Voting Rights Act.
"At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom. So it was at Lexington and Concord. So it was a century ago at Appomattox. So it was last week in Selma, Ala.," Johnson said.
A foot soldier for civil rights at 11 years old
Bland was just 11 years old on March 7, 1965, the day now known as "Bloody Sunday." She had come with her older sister Linda to join a march from Selma to the state Capitol in Montgomery. Led by John Lewis of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Hosea Williams of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, they had gathered to march for voting rights. Out of about 15,000 Black Selma residents, only about 300 had registered to vote.
The marchers were met by armed state troopers and local police, some on horseback, and viciously beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Film captured that day brought the brutality used to suppress the rights of Black Americans into homes across the U.S.
The marchers became known as "foot soldiers," and living that history is what drives Bland to keep sharing it, trying to safeguard the lessons from that time and ensure they get passed to future generations.
"I don't have time to waste. This is urgent that we start to capture our own histories ... I'm one of the youngest people who participated. One of, not the youngest. But we're leaving here every day. And when we leave, those stories are gone. Who will tell the story? And who will tell the children that they have the same strength if we don't?"
A peppermint from Martin Luther King Jr.
Bland calls her tours "Journeys for the Soul," and they include a stop in a neighborhood of small brick buildings separated by patches of lawn. It's where Bland grew up, raised by her dad and grandmother in the George Washington Carver Homes. During the push for civil rights, this public housing became a haven for local and out-of-town activists.
"My grandmother and most of the mothers in the community would say when it would start to get dark in the evening to go find a white person, because we would always find them sitting on those steps, the steps of Brown Chapel with a backpack on their back leaning against the wall, perfectly happy to sleep there because they couldn't stay in hotels. It was dangerous for them because they were outside agitators."
Brown Chapel AME Church is just next door. Some of the mightiest figures in the civil rights movement convened here, including Martin Luther King Jr. Bland says she doesn't remember his voice being like we think of it today, but what she does recall makes clear just how young she was when she met him.
"The one thing I remember, he was always eager to talk to us young people," she says. "And when the elders would try to keep us away, he said, 'No, let them come. Let them come.' And he would ask you about your day and you wanted to tell him every detail ... And he always had a peppermint, a Starlight peppermint. And he would always give you that peppermint. And to this day, I love peppermints."
A park for the foot soldiers
Outside the church, Bland marches to a small playground surrounded by a chain-link fence and some old, chipped pavement that sits in the shadow of Brown Chapel.
"You're standing on the last piece of the original cement where we gathered on what is now known as Bloody Sunday. I followed John Lewis and Hosea Williams up to that bridge to be beaten by law enforcement officers. You're standing on sacred ground," she says.
Bland is trying to save this patch of concrete. She wants to incorporate it into a park celebrating civil rights history, an attraction that would bring tourists deeper into the city, so they don't just stop at the Edmund Pettus Bridge to snap a photo. She hopes it would lift up this community, majority Black and many struggling with poverty.
It would also be a place, she says, where future generations could "walk in the footsteps of history-makers." She already has a name: Foot Soldier's Park.
"We were terrified"
The next stop on Bland's tour is just a few blocks down what's now Martin Luther King Street. It's First Baptist Church, which Bland remembers as the headquarters for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, roughly a mile from the Edmund Pettus Bridge. It's here where Bland recalls how law enforcement chased her and marchers back to First Baptist Church on Bloody Sunday.
"My sister and I ... ran back here," Bland says. "And we were terrified and we kept running and we ran up those steps and went inside the church thinking we were safe. We were not. They came into the church and started beating people all over again. I saw them pick up a young man about 16 years old and just hoist him above their heads and throw him into the baptismal pool. What happened at that bridge didn't stop at that bridge. It happened out here all night long."
Bland doesn't stop teaching during her tour, pointing out the dividing line between Black Selma and white Selma, the house where Dr. King stayed when he was in town and the antebellum house of a landowner that dates back to the 1850s.
"I've come a long, long way with this civil rights history because it's been like therapy. Talking about it — it was like a cleansing. But I'm not nearly in that same place with this slavery history. Our history had to be the worst of all mankind. Everything was taken. Nothing was given."
A painful past and present still in Selma
The legacy of slavery and the Civil War era as a whole remains very much present in Selma. Inside the city's Live Oak Cemetery, the tall oak trees tower above graves and are draped in Spanish moss.
"This cemetery. I have a love/hate relationship with it," says Bland. "The trees are magnificent." She chuckles and says that in the spring, when the azaleas are in bloom, it's like "God just threw up pink."
The cemetery predates the Civil War and includes a monument to Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate general and Ku Klux Klan grand wizard. You might think the monument is old, like the cemetery, but it was put up after Selma elected its first Black mayor in 2000.
"It says to me, you may have a Negro mayor, but I'm still here," Bland says. "We gotta find a way to change hearts. And the people who think like that are still here. And they're still fighting this war."
Bland points out the Confederate flags, all around the cemetery, and said she always brings her school groups to Live Oak.
"I use this as a teaching tool to let young people know it wasn't that long ago — that this is still here."
Bland knows that given the growing debate around education and race — namely how critical race theory has galvanized some on the political right — that there are those who might feel that teaching this history risks making white children feel bad about themselves. But that's not what she's setting out to do, she says.
"Well, one, you can't let a child leave thinking you're blaming them. No, you're not even blaming their parents," she explains. "Hopefully, I'm inspiring that white child with the stories of the past to join with the children of color to make sure this never, ever happens to another people."
Bland ends her tour back near the bridge where her life — and America, really — changed back in 1965. The bridge is still named after that civil war general and KKK leader, but she wouldn't change it.
"When you change names, you change history. I walked across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, all those bad things he did."
She then adds: "Every time you walk across that bridge, I bet [he's] rolling in his grave, that's what grandma would say."
Bland says she thinks what she and the legions of civil rights foot soldiers accomplished on Bloody Sunday was to "change the whole meaning of this bridge."
"Selma gave so much, this history is so rich that it's sort of like Mecca, coming to Mecca," she says. "I had so many people tell me they didn't realize the bridge was that small. That's because the history is so huge, so huge."
On March 25, 1965, on their third try, marchers joined by Martin Luther King Jr. arrived in Montgomery. JoAnne Bland was among them. The Voting Rights Act passed that August.
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ROCKY RIVER, Ohio (WJW) – Singer Celine Dion’s medical diagnosis is shedding light on a condition known as stiff-person syndrome, a neurological disorder that can cause chronic pain, muscle spasms and heightened sensitivity to noise, among other symptoms.
“I felt really bad for her. She is going to have a long, tough time. Your life will never be the same,” said 75-year-old Maureen Materna, of Rocky River, Ohio.
Materna has been dealing with stiff-person syndrome for 11 years.
“Even though my feet look completely normal, it feels like I’m walking on broken glass,” said Materna.
It took Materna two years and 20 different doctors before she met with a neurologist with the Cleveland Clinic.
“I listed all my symptoms and right away he said, ‘You have stiff-person syndrome,'” Materna remembers.
Dr. Robert Wilson said this rare disease affects about one in a million people.
“Maureen is a warrior. These people have pain. Severe stabbing, ripping, torturous pain,” said Wilson.
There is currently no cure for stiff-person syndrome — only treatment.
“Their muscles are locked beyond their control, so there are medicines they can use like muscle relaxers and autoimmune treatments,” said Wilson.
As for Maureen, she has learned to live with this debilitating disease. She’s hopeful that Dion’s diagnosis will help shed light on it, too. | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/living-with-stiff-person-syndrome-it-feels-like-im-walking-on-broken-glass-ohio-woman-says/ | 2022-12-09 17:23:21 | 0 | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/living-with-stiff-person-syndrome-it-feels-like-im-walking-on-broken-glass-ohio-woman-says/ |
For the seventh straight year, Los Angeles-based shoe company sells out of limited-edition Black Friday ballet flats within hours
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Last week, Los Angeles-based shoemaker Tieks released – and sold out – its seventh annual limited-edition Black Friday ballet flat - Black Leopard. Inspired by one of the animal kingdom's most elusive creatures - widely known for its power and grace - the limited-edition Black Leopard Tieks mimicked the appearance of the animal's coat and were accompanied by a black and grey leopard topper on the classic Tiek Blue box.
Black Leopard became available exclusively on Tieks' website on Thursday, November 24, and sold out within several hours. Tieks fans are known for their dedication to the brand - customers waiting in a queue for over an hour and the rapid rate at which the shoe sold out is a testament to the excitement of the Tieks community.
"Since the inception of our Black Friday release seven years ago, the annual release has become a tradition for the Tieks community," said Kfir Gavrieli, founder and CEO of Tieks. "It's always remarkable to see the reception our Black Friday releases receive, and Black Leopard was no exception."
The inaugural Black Friday release occurred in 2016 when Tieks announced their Metallic Champagne flats by inviting fans to a Champagne party and making the shoe exclusively available to party invitees between Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Kfir Gavrieli saw the excitement around the release and made the four-day shoe an annual tradition, allowing the Tieks community to purchase a one-of-a-kind shoe.
The shoe launches annually at midnight EST, and purchasers receive a special card and a limited rendition of Tieks' signature box topper. Every year, thousands of fans attempt to guess the color and style while eagerly anticipating the midnight release and the chance to purchase the highly sought-after ballet flat. The Black Friday shoe is one of Tieks' biggest launches of the year, and although the release runs for four days, the limited-edition flats often sell out within hours.
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FORT MYERS, Florida (AP) — President Joe Biden surveyed the devastation of hurricane-ravaged Florida on Wednesday, promising to marshal the power of the federal government to help rebuild as he comforted local residents alongside Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, a potential 2024 foe.
Both men declared they were putting politics aside for now.
“Today we have one job and only one job, and that’s to make sure the people in Florida get everything they need to fully, thoroughly recover,” Biden said in this southwestern Florida community that bore the brunt of Ian’s assault.
“It’s going to take a hell of a long time, hopefully without any snags in the way,” he said. “Later, after the television cameras have moved on, we’re still going to be here with you.”
Earlier, DeSantis and his wife Casey greeted the president and first lady Jill Biden as they arrived at Fisherman’s Wharf, where homes and business lay in ruins amid debris and muck after Hurricane Ian tore through last week.
Biden and DeSantis spoke by themselves next to a boat the storm had lifted into a cafe, then moved separately among local residents hit hard by the hurricane. Biden embraced one woman.
The scope of the devastation was immense. Biden’s motorcade drove by wind-shorn trees, some uprooted, others with branches pulled backwards by the storm. Fields off the highway were still flooded, forming stagnant lagoons.
Signs for stores and restaurants were blown out; ruined mattresses were piled in neighborhood streets, a building was tipped to the side like a chess piece. An armada of workers and repair trucks struggled with recovery.
Hurricane Ian has resulted in at least 84 people confirmed dead, including 75 in Florida, and many people still wait for power to be restored. Ian’s 150 mph winds and punishing storm surge last week took out power for 2.6 million in Florida. Many people still are unable to get food and water.
At a briefing with local officials, Biden emphasized that the rebuilding effort will take months or years.
“The only thing I can assure you is that the federal government will be here until it’s finished,” Biden said.
With the midterm elections just a month away, the crisis was bringing together political rivals in common cause at least for a time.
DeSantis, as well as Sen. Rick Scott, have been among Biden’s most prominent Republican critics. Both, along with Republican Sen. Marco Rubio and other state and local officials, were accompanying the president on Wednesday.
Before the trip, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre suggested it would be inappropriate for them to focus on political differences.
“There will be plenty of time, plenty of time, to discuss differences between the president and the governor — but now is not the time,” Jean-Pierre told reporters at a White House briefing. “When it comes to delivering and making sure that the people of Florida have what they need, especially after Hurricane Ian, we are one. We are working as one.”
Before the storm hit, the president had intended to visit the Florida cities of Orlando and Fort Lauderdale last week, where he planned to stress his efforts to strengthen Social Security and Medicaid. Biden has accused Scott of wanting to end both programs by proposing that federal laws should expire every five years, although the Florida senator has said he wants to preserve the programs.
Biden and DeSantis have had a multitude of differences in recent years over how to fight COVID-19, immigration policy and more. In recent weeks, they tussled over the governor’s decision to put migrants on planes or buses to Democratic strongholds, a practice that Biden has called “reckless.”
The hurricane changed the purpose and tone of Biden’s first trip to Florida this year, which was in an area devastated by winds and surging water . Boats, including huge yachts, were capsized and hurled inland.
FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell told reporters on Air Force One that the cost of rebuilding will be huge: “It will certainly be in the billions and perhaps one of the more costly disasters that we’ve seen in many years.”
DeSantis made a point Wednesday of praising FEMA along with local and state agencies, saying coordination among them has been exceptional during Ian’s aftermath.
“There’s been less bureaucracy holding us back in this one than probably any one I’ve ever seen,” DeSantis said a briefing in Matlacha. He gave a 30-minute midday briefing on hurricane recovery efforts, including news that running water had been restored through much of the affected zone.
The White House message of bipartisan unity marks a difference from Biden’s predecessor, Donald Trump, who at times threatened to withhold aid to Democratic officials who criticized him, including Democratic Govs. Gavin Newsom of California and Andrew Cuomo of New York.
Trump threatened to withhold federal money from California after wildfires, saying its state officials were to blame for the deadly conflagrations, tweeting in 2018: “Billions of dollars are given each year, with so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagement of the forests. Remedy now, or no more Fed payments!”
Politicians’ responses to natural disasters have the power to make or break political careers.
As Florida’s governor for eight years, Jeb Bush maintained a steady response to a parade of hurricanes and was rewarded with sky-high approval ratings. The response by President George W. Bush and Louisiana lawmakers to Hurricane Katrina in 2005 hangs over their legacies.
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, the Republican who welcomed President Barack Obama to his state to survey Hurricane Sandy damage just days before the 2012 general election, said that during natural disasters “the best political strategy is to have no political strategy, to do your job.” | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/floridas-island-dwellers-dig-out-from-ians-destruction-as-biden-vows-full-recovery%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BC/ | 2022-10-05 22:35:40 | 0 | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/floridas-island-dwellers-dig-out-from-ians-destruction-as-biden-vows-full-recovery%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BC/ |
NEW YORK, July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Digital World Acquisition Corp. ("Digital World" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: DWAC; DWACW). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Digital World and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On October 29, 2021, The New York Times published an article entitled "Trump's $300 Million SPAC Deal May Have Skirted Securities Laws." The article reported that Donald J. Trump's efforts to take Trump Media & Technology Group ("TMTG") public via a merger with Digital World, a special purpose acquisition company ("SPAC"), involved discussions of a merger with Digital World's founder before Digital World itself went public. These discussions may have violated federal securities laws, which prohibit SPACs from planning mergers before conducting their initial public offerings.
On this news, Digital World's stock fell $6.93 per share, or 10.23%, to close at $60.82 per share on November 1, 2021.
Then, on June 13, 2022, Digital World stated in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that "[a]s previously disclosed in Digital World's quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the period ended March 31, 2022 and other filings with the SEC, Digital World received a document request and subpoena from the SEC seeking various documents and information regarding, among other things, meetings of Digital World board of directors; communications with and the evaluation of potential targets, including TMTG; communications relating to TMTG; agreements with and payments made to certain advisors; investors, including investor meetings and agreements; the appointment of certain of Digital World's officers and directors; policies and procedures relating to trading; and documents sufficient to identify banking, telephone, and email addresses. The SEC also recently issued an order of examination pursuant to Section 8(e) of the Securities Act, with respect to the Registration Statement relating to the Business Combination, and a further subpoena in support thereof."
On this news, Digital World's stock price fell $10.71 per share, or 28.18%, to close at $27.30 per share on June 14, 2022.
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FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Major oil-producing countries led by Saudi Arabia said they're cutting supplies of crude — again. This time, the decision was a surprise and is underlining worries about where the global economy might be headed.
Russia is joining in by extending its own cuts for the rest of the year. In theory, less oil flowing to refineries should mean higher gasoline prices for drivers and could boost the inflation hitting the U.S. and Europe. And that may also help Russia weather Western sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine at the expense of the U.S.
The decision by oil producers, many of them in the OPEC oil cartel, to cut production by more than 1 million barrels a day comes after prices for international benchmark crude slumped amid a slowing global economy that needs less fuel for travel and industry.
It adds to a cut of 2 million barrels per day announced in October. Between the two cuts, that's about 3% of the world's oil supply.
Here are key things to know about the cutbacks:
WHY ARE OIL PRODUCERS CUTTING BACK?
Saudi Arabia, OPEC's dominant member, said Sunday that the move is “precautionary” to avoid a deeper slide in oil prices.
Saudi Energy Minister Abdulaziz bin Salman has consistently taken a cautious approach to future demand and favored being proactive in adjusting supply ahead of a possible downturn in oil needs.
That stance seemed to be borne out as oil prices fell from highs of over $120 per barrel last summer to $73 last month. Prices jumped after Sunday's announcement, with international benchmark Brent crude trading at about $85 on Monday, up 6%.
With fears of a U.S. recession exacerbated by bank collapses, a lack of European economic growth and China’s rebound from COVID-19 taking longer than many expected, oil producers are wary of a sudden collapse in prices like during the pandemic and the global financial crisis in 2008-2009.
Capital markets analyst Mohammed Ali Yasin said most people had been waiting for the June 4 meeting of the OPEC+ alliance of OPEC members and allied producers, most prominently Russia. The decision underlined the urgency felt by producers.
“It was a surprise to all, I think, watchers and the market followers,” he said. “The swiftness of the move, the timing of the move and the size of the move were all significant.”
The aim now is to ward off "a continous slide of the oil price” to levels below $70 per barrel, which would be “very negative” for producer economies, Yasin said.
Part of the October cut of 2 millions barrels per day was on paper only as some OPEC+ countries aren’t able to produce their share. The new cut of 1.15 million barrels per day is distributed among countries that are hitting their quotas — so it amounts to roughly the same size cut as in October.
Governments announced the decision outside the usual OPEC+ framework. The Saudis are taking the lead with 500,000 barrels per day, with the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Iraq, Oman, Algeria and Kazakhstan contributing smaller cuts.
WILL THE PRODUCTION CUT MAKE INFLATION WORSE?
It certainly could. Analysts say supply and demand are relatively well balanced, which means production cuts could push prices higher in coming months.
The refineries that turn crude into gasoline, diesel and jet fuel are getting ready for their summer production surge to meet the annual increase in travel demand.
In the U.S., gasoline prices are highly dependent on crude, which makes up about half of the price per gallon. Lower oil prices have meant U.S. drivers have seen the average price fall from records of over $5 per gallon in mid-2022 to $3.50 per gallon this week, according to motor club AAA.
The cuts, if fully implemented, “would further tighten an already fundamentally tight oil market,” Jorge Leon, senior vice president at Rystad Energy, said in a research note. The cut could boost oil prices by around $10 per barrel and push international Brent to around $110 per barrel by this summer.
Those higher prices could fuel global inflation in a cycle that forces central banks to keep hiking interest rates, which crimp economic growth, he said.
Given the fears about the overall economy, “the market may interpret the cuts as a vote of no confidence in the recovery of oil demand and could even carry a downside price risk — but that will only be for the very short term,” Leon said.
WHAT WILL THIS MEAN FOR RUSSIA?
Moscow says it will extend a cut of 500,000 barrels per day through the rest of the year. It needs oil revenue to support its economy and state budget hit by wide-ranging sanctions from the U.S., European Union and other allies of Ukraine.
Analysts think, however, that Russia's cut may simply be putting the best face on reduced demand for its oil. The West shunned Russian barrels even before sanctions were imposed, with Moscow managing to reroute much of its oil to India, China and Turkey.
But the Group of Seven major democracies imposed a price cap of $60 per barrel on Russian shipments, enforced by bans on Western companies that dominate shipping or insurance. Russia is selling oil at a discount, with revenue sagging at the start of this year.
WHAT DOES THE WHITE HOUSE SAY?
White House National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson, said that “we don’t think cuts are advisable at this moment given market uncertainty — and we’ve made that clear."
She noted that ”prices have come down significantly since last year, more than $1.50 per gallon from their peak last summer" and that "we will continue to work with all producers and consumers to ensure energy markets support economic growth and lower prices for American consumers.”
The initial White House response was milder than in October, when cuts came on the eve of U.S. midterm elections where soaring gas prices were a major issue. President Joe Biden vowed at the time that there would be “consequences,” and Democratic lawmakers called for freezing cooperation with the Saudis.
Caroline Bain, chief commodities economist at Capital Economics, said the cutback shows "the group's support for Russia and flies in the face of the Biden administration’s efforts to lower oil prices.”
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U.S. aims to expand its access to military bases in the Philippines. FBI searches Biden's vacation home for classified data. Republicans hold their first hearing of the new Congress about the border.
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MONTPELIER, Ind. (WANE) – A motorcycle ride was organized Sunday to support a Montpelier family and help with funeral costs for a great-grandfather and grandson who were killed on June 2 when a woman crashed her car into their home.
The community is seeking justice for Jerry “Jake” Michael, 74, and Jenson Reynolds, 5. Two others – a nearly 2-year-old girl, and the father of the children, Jerod Reynolds – were hospitalized for injuries. Brandi S. Bare, the woman driving drunk, initially had a bond of $5,000, and the judge later changed that to $50,000.
Family, friends and supporters gathered Sunday afternoon at Baldwin Park- known as the airplane park- on South Rockefeller Avenue in Montpelier. The event organized on Facebook includes a short motorcycle ride as well as a raffle, food, and games.
The event was organized by Big Brad’s Fireworks, Black Pistons Indiana, and Skulls of Honor Indiana.
Daniel Kanedy, President of Skulls of Honor Indiana explained he knows how much the family needs support and wants other families to not be afraid to as for help.
“It’s because growing up, I have seen the community needed help and nobody was doing it so now that is what we do,” said Kanedy. “We have some family members that have been through some tragedy and they needed help so we started doing it, number one is don’t be afraid to ask, we will help, that’s all we do, all your local clubs, that’s what we do,” Kanedy explained. “They are here to help, I guess that’s really it knowing that you are not here by yourself. We will help you do it,” said Kanedy. | https://cbs4indy.com/news/biker-clubs-organize-event-to-support-montpelier-boy-granddad/ | 2022-06-27 01:25:50 | 0 | https://cbs4indy.com/news/biker-clubs-organize-event-to-support-montpelier-boy-granddad/ |
How to Watch the South Carolina vs. Norfolk State Game: Women's Basketball Streaming & TV Channel Info for the NCAA Tournament First Round
Published: Mar. 17, 2023 at 7:11 AM CDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
The No. 16 Norfolk State Spartanettes (26-6) are looking to advance to the second round of the NCAA Tournament when they take on the top-seeded South Carolina Gamecocks (32-0) on Friday. This 1-16 matchup in the N/A Region bracket is scheduled for 2:00 PM.
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South Carolina Women's Basketball Game Live Stream & TV Channel Info
- When: Friday, March 17, 2023 at 2:00 PM ET
- Where: Colonial Life Arena in Columbia, South Carolina
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South Carolina vs. Norfolk State Scoring Comparison
- The Spartanettes put up an average of 62.3 points per game, 11.2 more points than the 51.1 the Gamecocks give up.
- Norfolk State has put together a 17-3 record in games it scores more than 51.1 points.
- South Carolina has a 22-0 record when its opponents score fewer than 62.3 points.
- The Gamecocks score 81.4 points per game, 31.4 more points than the 50 the Spartanettes give up.
- South Carolina has a 29-0 record when scoring more than 50 points.
- Norfolk State has a 23-5 record when giving up fewer than 81.4 points.
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VAN WERT, Ohio (AP) — Vandalism freed thousands of mink at a rural northwest Ohio farm, leaving an estimated 10,000 of the small carnivorous mammals unaccounted for Tuesday evening, the local sheriff said.
So many minks were killed crossing a nearby road that a plow was brought in to help clear the carcasses away, said Van Wert County Sheriff Thomas Riggenbach.
The property owner initially estimated 25,000 to 40,000 mink were released from their cages at Lion Farms, Riggenbach said. But he said employees at the farm were able to corral many of the ones that remained on the property, which is less than 15 miles from the Indiana state line.
He declined to discuss any potential motive for the overnight vandalism or say whether any suspect has been identified as his office investigates.
A farm manager told WANE-TV that someone left a spray-painted message of the letters "ALF" and the phrase "we'll be back."
A group known as the Animal Liberation Front had previously claimed credit for releasing a much smaller number of mink at the farm in a previous incident years ago, the Times Bulletin in Van Wert reported.
Calls to a phone number listed for the farm were unanswered Tuesday, and it wasn't accepting messages.
The sheriff's office initially warned residents in the area to be cautious with poultry flocks, small pets and koi ponds that the mink might attack, but it later said the freed mink are considered domesticated and likely lack the skills to survive in the wild.
The sheriff urged people who spot them not to approach them, and to contact the farm or trappers for recapturing. He said residents who want to hunt or trap mink must make sure they understand what related rules and exemptions apply in their area. | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/some-10000-mink-loose-missing-after-vandalism-at-ohio-farm/S3H45BVMWJAXRCYHNLSYV3PA4E/ | 2022-11-16 03:18:17 | 0 | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/some-10000-mink-loose-missing-after-vandalism-at-ohio-farm/S3H45BVMWJAXRCYHNLSYV3PA4E/ |
Parents ‘outraged’ after students find their teacher in online porn
LAKE HAVASU CITY, Ariz. (Arizona’s Family/Gray News) - An incident involving a former middle school teacher in Arizona has parents upset after what they say their kids saw online.
Arizona’s Family reports students at Thunderbolt Middle School found their teacher’s online account that contained pornographic content, which appeared to be filmed in her eighth-grade classroom.
“That was my friend’s daughter’s desk. And she is mortified over the situation,” said Kristina Minor, a student’s mother. “She [the teacher] doesn’t care knowing students have seen her everything and on students’ desks.”
Minor said she has also seen the teacher’s explicit content online.
“She [the teacher] uses her school yearbook photo on OnlyFans,” Minor said.
Currently, the Lake Havasu Police Department said no charges have been filed.
However, parents say they remain disgusted at the situation.
“I am absolutely outraged. Our kids shouldn’t have been exposed to this,” said Alea Bilski, a student’s mother.
“I’m a taxpayer. I am not paying these teachers to film pornography. They’re being paid to teach our kids, and set higher standards for them,” Minor added.
Parents of students at Thunderbolt Middle School said the Lake Havasu Unified School District sent the following message to them regarding the incident:
“It has come to our attention that students have been airdropping explicit material. The images did not happen during the school day and the person depicted no longer works for LHUSD. Please remove all images from your child’s phone and talk with them about the appropriate use of technology.”
According to Arizona Family, parents said they also received an email that the former teacher’s husband, who worked at an elementary school in the same district, was also fired. He reportedly appeared in some of the material.
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SOUTH WHITTIER, Calif. (KTLA) — Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said the crash that injured 25 law enforcement recruits in South Whittier on Wednesday morning was not an accident.
“(Investigators) went through an exhaustive interview process with everyone involved, with the video surveillance statements from the recruits, the physical evidence they had, and what they got from the suspect himself. And they were able to form the opinion that this was a deliberate act,” Villanueva told NewsNation.
The driver, Nicholas Joseph Gutierrez, 22, was originally arrested for “attempted murder of a peace officer.” However, the sheriff’s department said he was released from custody Thursday evening under California penal code 849(B)(1), due to insufficient grounds to file charges.
“Due to the extreme complexity of the investigation, which includes ongoing interviews, video surveillance review, and additional evidence needed to be analyzed, homicide investigators have released Mr. Gutierrez from the Sheriff’s Department custody today at approximately 9:55 p.m.,” authorities said in an updated news release Thursday. “Homicide investigators, along with California Highway Patrol investigators, will continue to pursue all evidence relevant to this matter until a thorough investigation is complete.”
Gutierrez had marijuana in the SUV and may have been intoxicated at the time of the South Whittier crash, although he passed a field sobriety test, sources told the Los Angeles Times.
Security camera video obtained by KTLA shows the SUV veering into the opposite lanes of travel and directly into a group of 75 recruits from the STARS Center Academy who were jogging around 6:30 a.m. The vehicle stopped after hitting a light pole.
A total of 25 recruits were injured, five of them critically.
The recruits immediately rendered aid to their injured colleagues while they waited for paramedics to arrive.
“The driver still had (his foot) on the accelerator, so my boyfriend had to break the glass or the window open to try to get him to stop,” one woman told KTLA. “Unfortunately, he wasn’t able to. But they were able to open the door and get the driver out and detain him.”
Authorities are still trying to determine why Gutierrez swerved into the recruits.
A reporter with Nexstar’s KTLA attempted to get answers from Gutierrez directly upon his return home on Thursday night, though he did not reply.
As of Thursday evening, seven recruits were still recovering or receiving treatment in the hospital, including two who remain in critical condition, according to Sheriff Villanueva.
“It was a bedlam, chaos, you know, there were bodies everywhere, bones sticking out and bleeding profusely. It was a pretty traumatic scene,” said Villanueva during a Thursday appearance on NewsNation’s “Dan Abrams Live.” “In fact, the paramedics that were there had never seen something of that scale. It was almost like an airplane accident, but everyone was alive, thankfully.” | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/crash-that-injured-25-law-enforcement-recruits-was-deliberate-act-sheriff-says-driver-released-from-custody/ | 2022-11-18 22:59:27 | 0 | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/crash-that-injured-25-law-enforcement-recruits-was-deliberate-act-sheriff-says-driver-released-from-custody/ |
CINCINNATI, Oct. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- When Home Helpers Home Care® was founded 25 years ago, in-home care wasn't a commonly used service. Few knew there were options to bring needed care and assistance with daily living into the home. Proud to have brought the industry into the mainstream, Home Helpers Home Care® has now provided more than 100 million hours of care and has had a remarkable impact on clients and their families all across the country.
The Home Care Association of America's (HCAOA) most recent report, Home Care at a Crossroads, showed that, among adults 65+ who are receiving care, 69 percent have long-term physical conditions, 39 percent have memory problems and 21 percent have emotional or health issues.
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Musicians, venues hope for meaningful change with help of Sacramento Music Census
The City of Sacramento launched the Sacramento Music Census this week with the goal of helping those in the local music scene.
The census, which was created in partnership with Austin, Texas-based music consultant Sound Music Cities, is open to fill out for anyone in the greater Sacramento area ages 18 and older who is involved in the music industry, including musicians and music venues.
The City of Sacramento’s creative economy manager Megan Van Voorhis said the results of the census will help identify improvements in policies relating to entertainment licensing, event permits and industry resources.
“A big part of this is us making sure that we have the beat on what’s going on in the creative community,” Van Voorhis said. “This can directly impact some of the investments we’re making with the American Rescue Plan Act dollars for the for-profit creative community, so this information can inform that and what we do strategically to help folks grow.”
Mason Durst, lead singer of the Sacramento-based musical act Band of Coyotes, told KCRA 3 that he just filled out the survey online.
After the COVID-19 pandemic put a pause on their performances, Durst said he is thrilled to get more opportunities to play now, but he added that the band is still running into roadblocks at some local venues.
“There are still a few venues that I know are having a harder time getting their licensing permit put together,” Durst said. “There are a few things that are preventing them from having as many live shows, so that’s definitely a struggle. But as a band it just kind of points me to look outside of town a little bit more to find some opportunities that are allowing us to come out and play.”
Durst said something he wants to see in the Sacramento region is more all-day music festivals so Band of Coyotes can perform locally on a frequent basis. He would like to see a “Do-It-Yourself” set up within the music industry with support for the city and also larger vendors.
Venues are also hoping the Sacramento Music Census helps them. Jim Cornett, Owner of Harlow’s, said they are seeing a 20% drop off on all their shows with tickets sold, which means not everyone is coming out to the performances. He also said certain musical acts have been canceling shows.
This year alone, Cornett said there have been more than 20 cancellations. He wants the census to lead to creative solutions that will help his bottom line and create a more vibrant music scene in Sacramento.
“I hope the city sees the clear picture of what this town is and what it can be, and how they can support us through that,” Cornett said. “If they see what comes out of this census, they’ll have a better chance to help us grow and help the smaller venues get up to where they need to be.”
Crest Theatre assistant general manager Aaron Pifer-Foote said he hopes the city takes the Sacramento Music Census seriously, and he wants it to address his main concerns, which include more patron parking and space for bands to load and unload their equipment.
"After the paper is filled out, where do we go from here? Is there actually some substantive change that's going to happen? Or is just going to be shoved in a drawer somewhere?” Pifer-Foote said.
According to the City of Sacramento, the census takes about 10-20 minutes to fill out. Respondents will remain anonymous. You can take the survey here. | https://www.kcra.com/article/sacramento-music-census-musicians-venues-live-shows/41593488 | 2022-10-12 06:16:46 | 0 | https://www.kcra.com/article/sacramento-music-census-musicians-venues-live-shows/41593488 |
Detroit mass shooting suspect had military past, fired into neighbor's home during party after parking dispute
Detroit police say suspect with ‘military background’ fired from first and second floors into house across the street
The police chief in Detroit, Michigan, provided an update Monday regarding a mass shooting involving a suspect with a military background who fired dozens of rounds from his home into a neighbor’s house having a late-night birthday party across the street following an apparent parking dispute.
At a press conference on Monday, Detroit Police Chief James White said the shooting unfolded at approximately 2:30 a.m. Sunday when a suspect with a military background fired multiple rounds from both the first and second floor of his home into the house across the street.
The suspect unleashed a barrage of bullets while a birthday party was still happening. Authorities said preliminary investigation shows the suspect grew angry that an SUV belonging to one of the party goers was blocking his own driveway.
Instead of calling police to defuse the situation, the suspect chose to "take matters into his own hands," essentially "shooting up the home," White said.
Two people have died, and six others were wounded in the incident. White identified the deceased victims as a 39-year-old woman and 38-year-old man. The surviving victims are in their 30s, except for one who is age 19.
White said officers who responded to calls about the shooting entered the suspect’s home legally because they had information he fired from inside the residence.
The two victims were died attempted to self-transport to the hospital, but they crashed their vehicle nearby and were ultimately transported to the hospital, where they died, police said.
They found the suspect had "strategically placed military weapons throughout his home in case he was engaged," White said. Ultimately, officers located the suspect in the dark, and he gave himself up. He was taken into custody without incident, and 11 weapons were recovered from the home.
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HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — A woman is reunited with the roller skates she owned as a teen 40 years later.
Renée Forrestall of Canada thought it was unusual that she found a pair of skates online that looked just like her old ones.
Once she got her foot in one of the skates, she knew she found a good fit.
"It's like a Cinderella and the slipper moment. It was very strange. It was like the perfect fit. I couldn't believe it. And they felt good. It wasn't even like the new ones that I had. It was like they were broken into my foot,” Forrestall said.
She then asked the seller where he got the skates
“As he's telling me, I flip back the tongue and there's my name. And I was like, ‘what?!’ I thought, I couldn't even believe it. I thought ‘who? How?’ I said, ‘this is me! These were mine,” Forrestall exclaimed.
She said she doesn’t think this was a coincidence.
"The universe works in mysterious ways, you know? And i think things come around for a reason,” Forrestall said. | https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/world/woman-buys-roller-skates-40-years-after-she-owned-them-as-a-teen | 2022-05-31 15:37:42 | 0 | https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/world/woman-buys-roller-skates-40-years-after-she-owned-them-as-a-teen |
LYSAKER, Norway, Oct. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Akastor ASA invites investors and analysts to a webcast presentation of third quarter 2022 financial results on Thursday 27 October.
Date and time:
Thursday 27 October 2022 at 15:00 CET
Presenters:
Akastor - Karl Erik Kjelstad, CEO and Øyvind Paaske, CFO
HMH - M.A. «Pete» Miller, Jr., Chairman & CEO and Thomas McGee, CFO
Link to webcast:
https://channel.royalcast.com/landingpage/hegnarmedia/20221027_7/
Questions can be submitted throughout the streaming event.
The presentation material will be published at www.akastor.com and www.newsweb.no at 07:00 CET on 27 October.
For further information, please contact:
Øyvind Paaske
Chief Financial Officer
Mob: +47 917 59 705
E-mail: oyvind.paaske@akastor.com
This information is subject to the disclosure requirements pursuant to section 5 -12 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act.
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