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PARIS (AP) — The Latest on the French Open Grand Slam tennis tournament (all times local):
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7:55 p.m.
French Open champion Rafael Nadal says he needed multiple injections to dull the pain in his left foot before matches throughout the tournament. He says unless he can find another solution for the chronic problem he won’t be able to play at Wimbledon — and isn’t sure about his future in tennis.
Nadal said at his postmatch news conference after beating Casper Ruud in Sunday’s final that he received anesthetizing shots for nerves in the foot that left it feeling numb.
He said he did it because “Roland Garros is Roland Garros” — his favorite tournament and somewhere he now has won a record 14 titles.
The 36-year-old Spaniard said he will try some new treatments over the next week to see whether that might allow him to enter Wimbledon, where he has won two of his men’s-record 22 Grand Slam titles. Play begins at the All England Club on June 27.
Nadal added: “It’s obvious that I can’t keep competing with the foot asleep.”
If these new treatments do not work, Nadal said, then he will need to consider having surgery.
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6:50 p.m.
Rafael Nadal told TV rights holder Eurosport in an interview on court after the French Open final that he played the match with “no feeling in” his left foot after getting an “injection on the nerve.”
He has been dealing with chronic pain in that foot and has repeatedly said he could never be sure when he might be playing his last match at Roland Garros.
Nadal described that foot as being “asleep” on Sunday.
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5:31 p.m.
Rafael Nadal beat Casper Ruud 6-3, 6-3, 6-0 in the French Open final for his 14th championship at Roland Garros and 22nd Grand Slam title overall, adding to two records he already owned.
Nadal won the last 11 games after trailing 3-1 in the second set.
Nadal’s victory Sunday came two days after his 36th birthday and made him the oldest title winner in the history of the clay-court tournament.
The Spaniard’s first triumph here came in 2005 at age 19. No man or woman ever has won the singles trophy at any major event more than his 14 in Paris.
And no man has won more Grand Slam titles than Nadal.
He now is two ahead of rivals Roger Federer, who hasn’t played in almost a year after a series of knee operations, and Novak Djokovic, who missed the Australian Open in January because he is not vaccinated against COVID-19 and lost to Nadal at Roland Garros.
The eighth-seeded Ruud is a 23-year-old from Norway who was playing in his first Grand Slam final.
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4:54 p.m.
Rafael Nadal is one set away from a 14th French Open championship and 22nd Grand Slam title in all.
Nadal has grabbed the first two sets of Sunday’s final against Casper Ruud and leads 6-3, 6-3.
Ruud led 3-1 in the second set after Nadal double-faulted to get broken at love. But Nadal righted himself to claim the next five games.
The match is 1 hour, 42 minutes old and the clouds overhead at Court Philippe Chatrier have given way to a blue sky.
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4:01 p.m.
Rafael Nadal has taken the opening set of the French Open men’s final against Casper Ruud by a 6-3 score.
The match began with three consecutive breaks of serve. That put Nadal ahead 2-1. He would break again to lead 4-1.
It is cloudy and breezy but there has been none of the rain predicted in the forecast.
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3:12 p.m.
The French Open men’s singles final between Rafael Nadal and Casper Ruud has started under a cloudy sky and with the temperature at about 70 degrees Fahrenheit (20 Celsius).
There is rain in the forecast for Sunday. Court Philippe Chatrier has a retractable roof that is open to begin the match.
Nadal is seeking a 14th championship at Roland Garros and 22nd major trophy overall.
Ruud is playing in his first Grand Slam final.
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2:30 p.m.
French Tennis Federation president Gilles Moretton says this year’s French Open topped 300 million euros — about $320 million — in revenue, a record for the clay-court Grand Slam tournament.
Moretton said the last pre-pandemic Roland Garros with full attendance, in 2019, had 262 million euros in revenue, which is about $280 million.
The 2022 attendance was 613,500 spectators at the refurbished site, a jump from 519,000 three years ago. Crowds were limited by restrictions imposed in 2020 and 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Both Moretton and first-year tournament director Amelie Mauresmo said at Sunday’s news conference before the men’s singles final between Rafael Nadal and Casper Ruud that a full review of the 2022 event would be held soon.
Moretton praised Mauresmo’s work as head of the tournament.
Mauresmo said she was surprised by the “harsh comments” directed her way after she told reporters at a news conference Wednesday that only one of 10 night sessions during the French Open showcased women’s matches because she thinks men’s tennis currently has more “appeal.”
Mauresmo, who later apologized in a TV interview, referred Sunday to what she said about women’s tennis as “this clumsiness of mine.”
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1:30 p.m.
France’s Caroline Garcia and Kristina Mladenovic have earned their second women’s doubles championship at Roland Garros as a team with a 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 victory over the American pairing of singles runner-up Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula.
Sunday’s final came a day after the 18-year-old Gauff lost to Iga Swiatek in the singles title match.
Garcia and Mladenovic also won the French Open together in 2016. Mladenovic now owns six Grand Slam women’s doubles trophies in all, including four that she won with Timea Babos as her partner.
Gauff, who is from Florida, and Pegula, a 28-year-old from New York, were appearing in a major doubles event together for the first time.
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12:25 p.m.
Alexander Zverev says “it looks like” he tore “several lateral ligaments” in his right foot during his French Open semifinal against Rafael Nadal.
Zverev posted on Instagram a photo of himself standing in front of an airplane with a pair of crutches and with a walking boot on his lower right leg.
“Based on the first medical checks, it looks like I have torn several lateral ligaments in my right foot,” Zverev wrote. “I will be flying to Germany on Monday to make further examinations and to determine the best and quickest way for me to recover.”
The 25-year-old German hurt himself while chasing after a shot late in the second set against Nadal on Friday. Zverev crumpled to the ground, grabbed his right ankle and wailed in agony.
He was taken off the court in a wheelchair, then returned on crutches to say he was retiring from the match.
The third-seeded Zverev was appearing in the semifinals at Roland Garros for the second year in a row. He was the runner-up at the 2020 U.S. Open and won a gold medal in singles at the Tokyo Olympics last year.
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12 p.m.
Rafael Nadal and Casper Ruud will meet in the men’s singles final at Roland Garros on a cool, cloudy and breezy afternoon.
The temperature is around 70 degrees Fahrenheit (20 Celsius) and there is rain in the forecast. Court Philippe Chatrier has a retractable roof, which was closed for Nadal’s semifinal.
Also on Sunday’s schedule is the women’s doubles final, with singles runner-up Coco Gauff and her American partner, Jessica Pegula, facing France’s pair of Kristina Mladenovic and Caroline Garcia. That match has started.
Nadal is seeking his 14th championship at the French Open and 22nd Grand Slam title overall. Both of those totals would extend records he already owns.
Ruud is playing in a major final for the first time.
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13-year-old dies after Iredell County golf cart crash that killed man, 5-year-old
A 23-year-old is facing charges in connection with the crash.
IREDELL COUNTY, N.C. (WBTV) - A third person has died after a deadly golf cart crash that happened last week in Iredell County.
According to the North Carolina State Highway Patrol, 13-year-old Jada Marlowe, of Statesville, died Monday.
The teen was on a golf cart with four other family members on Fort Dobbs Road in Statesville when authorities say a 2009 Honda Accord crossed the center line and hit the golf cart.
Michael Marlowe, 39, and 5-year-old Bentley Marlowe died at the scene.
The driver of the Accord, 23-year-old Austin Ray Harmon, of Statesville, was arrested and charged with driving while impaired, two counts of felony death by vehicle and three counts of felony serious injury by vehicle, according to the highway patrol.
Additional charges against Harmon are pending the ongoing investigation and consultation with the Iredell County District Attorney’s Office, troopers said.
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(The Hill) – Sen. Joe Manchin’s decision to move ahead with a reconciliation deal — that doesn’t involve climate change — risks consigning the entire world to a warmer future, scientists, Democrats and advocates said Friday in reacting to the news.
Democratic senators for about a year have been negotiating with Manchin to try to get him on board with investments that would dramatically reduce U.S. contribution to climate change.
But on Friday, Manchin said he’s not interested in immediately moving forward with a deal that includes those investments.
Manchin told West Virginia radio host Hoppy Kercheval that the latest inflation data means it’s “not prudent” to make the investments in climate change — or raise taxes on the wealthy.
Manchin, relaying a discussion he’d had telling Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) of his decision, suggested he might be able to agree to a deal at a later date.
“I said, ‘Chuck, can we just wait until the inflation figures come out in July?’” he said. “I want climate. I want an energy policy.”
But those comments rang hollow with climate activists, who noted he has made similar remarks in the past.
“Joe Manchin is waving the fate of human survival over our heads like a bone to hungry dogs and it’s really quite frightening,” John Paul Mejia, a national spokesperson for Sunrise Movement, told The Hill.
Evergreen Action Executive Director Jamal Raad said in a statement that Manchin should not be considered a good-faith negotiator.
“Senator Manchin has lost all credibility and can no longer be trusted to prioritize the well-being of Americans and the planet over his own profiteering and political grandstanding,” Raad said.
Democrats, activists and scientists reacting to the news worried the inability of Congress to take meaningful reaction would consign the U.S. to more heatwaves, floods, droughts and intense storms.
With Republicans seemingly poised to win back the House majority this fall, Manchin’s decision felt like a death blow to the hopes of taking action on climate with Democrats in the White House and in charge of both chambers of Congress.
“Every ton matters,” said Dan Lashof, the U.S. director of the World Resources Institute, referring to tons of carbon emissions.
“Whether or not this bill gets done has a material impact on total emissions from the U.S. and that affects the magnitude of climate change that we will face,” he said.
Those who have studied the climate-saving potential of the Democrats’ climate bill agree that not passing it would likely lead to more emissions and a warmer planet.
Princeton professor Jesse Jenkins, who has modeled the potential emissions cuts of the legislation under consideration, told The Hill that based on what had been reported thus far, a climate deal would have probably cut emissions between 800 million and 1 billion metric tons in 2030. That’s the equivalent of taking between 172 million and 215 million cars off the roads for a year.
“We’re losing two thirds to three-quarters of the progress we were hoping to make by 2030,” he said.
Robbie Orvis, senior director of energy policy design at the think tank Energy Innovation: Policy and Technology, also said the emerging bill could have cut emissions as much as by 1 billion tons.
“The probability of being able to hit the 2030 target is much lower now, so I think that implies that there will be more emissions, certainly, and that translates to higher warming,” Orivs said, referring to President Biden’s goal of cutting emissions in half by the end of the decade.
“Every amount that we continue to increase the global temperature brings more extreme storm events,” he said, adding that without action “we’re going to continue to worsen the impacts of climate change, and it’s going to contribute to worsening extreme weather events and … ultimately human suffering and death.”
Biden pledged “strong executive action” on climate change in reaction to Manchin’s move.
But observers say it will be very difficult to reach the same goals without legislative action.
“Sure there’s probably a way to get there if you assume a whole bunch of things go right and are defensible in court, but it certainly makes it much, much harder,” Orvis said.
Some on Friday argued that the rest of the world may be less inclined to take bold action without the U.S.
“The U.S. is THE largest historical all-time emitter, and for that reason occupies a special role. We can’t expect other countries to act meaningfully if we fail to,” said climatologist Michael Mann in an email to The Hill.
Jenkins added that not passing the bill is also expected to stifle technological innovation, hampering the global transition to clean energy.
David Victor, a professor at the University of California, San Diego, took a slightly different view, arguing that a major climate deal has been unlikely since the get-go and that at least now the public can move ahead with some clarity.
“I think what you’re going to see is a lot more action in the states [and] a lot more action … sector-by-sector,” Victor said.
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Raad said the inflation report was just a convenient excuse for Manchin to back out of talks.
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Underlying replacement cost profit, which excludes one-time items and fluctuations in the value of inventories, jumped to $8.15 billion from $3.32 billion in the same period last year, BP said Tuesday. The company also announced plans to reward shareholders, buying back another $2.5 billion of stock.
Soaring earnings at British energy companies are fueling calls for the government to expand a tax on their windfall profits as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak struggles to close an estimated 40 billion-pound ($46 billion) hole in the budget. BP rival Shell last week said third-quarter earnings more than doubled to $9.45 billion.
U.S. President Joe Biden also has floated the possibility of a windfall tax if energy companies don’t boost domestic production, accusing them Monday of “war profiteering.”
It comes as oil companies around the world are seeing earnings surge, with Saudi’s Aramco on Tuesday reporting a $42.4 billion profit, it’s second-highest quarterly earnings ever. Last week, Texas-based Exxon Mobil broke records with $19.66 billion in profits in the three months to September and California-based Chevron got close to its peak from last quarter with $11.23 billion.
For BP, it is plowing some of the profits from high oil and natural gas prices into renewable energy as it tries to eliminate net carbon emissions by 2050. During the third quarter, the company bought Archaea Energy, which produces natural gas from landfills and other waste sites across the U.S. and agreed to buy 40.5% of the Asian Renewable Energy Hub, which plans to develop wind and solar power projects in Western Australia.
“This quarter’s results reflect us continuing to perform while transforming,” Chief Executive Bernard Looney said in a statement.
Britain in May imposed an additional 25% tax on profits earned from oil and gas extraction in the U.K. The temporary tax is designed to raise about 5 billion pounds through the end of 2025. The new tax cost BP $778 million in the third quarter, the company said.
The pressure on the U.K. government is likely to increase for a higher windfall tax.
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SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — Bill Cosby will again be facing sex abuse allegations Wednesday as attorneys give opening statements in a civil trial that’s one of the last remaining legal claims against the comedian.
Lawyers for 64-year-old Judy Huth will outline the evidence they plan to present that Cosby forced her to perform a sex act at the Playboy Mansion in 1975 when she was 16 years old. The case will hinge on the testimony of Huth, bolstered by photos and other archival exhibits to place the incident in time.
Cosby’s attorneys, who say no sexual abuse happened, are likely to emphasize that the burden of proving the nearly 50-year-old case lies entirely with the plaintiffs. They have acknowledged that Cosby took Huth to the Playboy Mansion, as a photo from the visit shows, but say they believe she was not a minor when it happened.
The trial is one of the last cases Cosby, 85, faces after a Pennsylvania appeals court threw out his criminal sexual assault conviction and freed him from prison 11 months ago. Several other lawsuits alleging sexual misconduct were settled by his insurer against his will.
Cosby will not testify after the judge ruled that he could assert his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination. And he has no plans to leave his Pennsylvania home to attend the trial, which is taking place at a small courthouse in Santa Monica. Cosby’s representatives say glaucoma has left him blind and made travel too difficult.
The Associated Press does not normally name people who say they have been sexually abused, unless they come forward publicly, as Huth has.
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WASHINGTON – Marjorie Taylor Greene took her seat directly behind Republican House leader Kevin McCarthy, a proximity to power for the firebrand congresswoman that did not go unnoticed, as he unveiled the House GOP's midterm election agenda in Pennsylvania.
Days later, she appeared on stage warming up the crowd for Donald Trump, when the former president rallied voters in Michigan to cast ballots for Republicans, including for control of Congress.
Once shunned as a political pariah for her extremist rhetoric, the Georgia congresswoman who spent her first term in the House stripped of institutional power by Democrats is being celebrated by Republicans and welcomed into the GOP fold. If Republicans win the House majority in the November election, Greene is poised to become an influential player shaping the GOP agenda, an agitator with clout.
“No. 1, we need to impeach Joe Biden. No. 2, We need to impeach Secretary Mayorkas. And No. 3, we should impeach Merrick Garland,” Greene told The Associated Press outside the U.S. Capitol. Alejandro Mayorkas is the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and Garland the attorney general.
Scolding the media for having been “wrong about me" from the start, she said those who know better “take me very seriously.”
“I’m going to be a strong legislator and I’ll be a very involved member of Congress,” she predicted. “I know how to work inside, and I know how to work outside. And I’m looking forward to doing that.”
This is the outlook for the Republican Party in the Trump era, the normalizing of once fringe figures into the highest ranks of political power. It’s a sign of the GOP’s rightward drift that Greene’s association with extremists and nationalists, violent rhetoric and remarks about Jewish people have found a home in elected office. Her ascent brings into focus the challenge ahead for McCarthy, whose GOP ranks are filling with far-right political stars with the potential to play an oversized role in setting the policies, priorities and tone of the new Congress.
“I’ve said for a long time there’s a battle for the heart and soul of the Republican Party,” said Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, the No. 2 Democrat in the House, at a briefing ahead of the midterm elections.
When the congresswoman says outlandish things — as she did at the Trump rally earlier this month claiming "Democrats want Republicans dead, and they've already started the killings" — few Republican leaders dare a public or private rebuke of such incendiary language. In this case, she was exaggerating two local incidents involving politics, one that ended tragically in a fatality.
Greene’s political currency stretches beyond her massive social media following and her ability to rake in sizable sums from donors. Her proximity to Trump makes her a force that cannot be ignored by what's left of her mainstream GOP colleagues.
McCarthy’s allowance for Greene to sit front and center with leadership for the campaign rollout was not by accident but design. The Republican lawmakers in attendance celebrated her presence, calling it a sign of the GOP’s “big tent” that welcomes all comers. But Greene's arrival also signaled a stark normalizing of the most extreme elements in the Republican Party.
Longtime political strategist Rick Wilson, a former Republican who left the party in the Trump era, calls Greene’s brand of politics “government by trolling” that marks a dangerous new era for the GOP and will make it difficult to govern. McCarthy is in line to become House speaker if Republicans regain the majority.
“No matter what the trolling part of the Republican caucus does, you can't ever satisfy them,” said Wilson, now at the Lincoln Project.
With the departure of the last vestiges of the anti-Trump wing of the House GOP — Liz Cheney defeated by a primary opponent and Adam Kinzinger deciding to step down rather than seek reelection — “that’s it,” Wilson said.
Greene swept onto the national stage in the 2020 election, catapulted forward even before she took office. As the lawmaker-elect from northwest Georgia, she attended a key organizing meeting at the Trump White House as lawmakers laid plans to object to the certification of Joe Biden’s election on Jan. 6, 2021. When she arrived to be sworn into Congress, she wore a “Trump Won” face mask.
Democrats moved swiftly and unequivocally to reprimand Greene, voting to strip her of congressional committee assignments over her incendiary rhetoric, including trafficking in volatile conspiracy theories. Greene drew rebuke from her own party a few months later for comparing mandatory COVID-19 face masks to the treatment of Jewish people by Nazi Germany.
While some have tried to compare Greene to outspoken far-left lawmakers, it became clear even to Republican leaders that Greene stood in a category of her own.
At that time, McCarthy called her comments about the Holocaust “wrong” and “appalling.” Greene later apologized.
In many ways, Greene's arrival in the House traces the arc of the Republican Party's rightward evolution from the Newt Gingrich revolution that brought conservatives to power in the 1994 election, to the “tea party” Republicans that regained the House majority in 2010.
Jack Kingston, a former Republican congressman who rose during those earlier eras, said McCarthy was smart in welcoming Greene to unfurl the House GOP's "Commitment to America” last month.
“He’s got to work with her, and he knows that," Kingston said.
“Getting Marjorie Taylor Greene on board is very important,” he said. “If you don’t bring everybody in the tent, they’re going to find their own niche.”
In the interview, Greene said she is certain she will be reinstated on her congressional committees if Republicans win the majority, eyeing the House Oversight panel, and is talking to leadership about other opportunities in the new Congress.
Not only does Greene want to impeach Biden and Cabinet officials, she is eager to conduct investigations, including into the origins of COVID-19.
Last month, Greene unveiled legislation that is another priority — her bill to prohibit some gender reassignment procedures on minors — flanked by a dozen Republican lawmakers and leaders in the conservative movement. Many of them praised the congresswoman for her work.
“I want to thank Marjorie Taylor Greene — who is soon to get her full legislative powers back, by the way,” said Matt Schlapp, chairman of the Conservative Political Action Committee, who hugged her afterward.
“If this is the type of thing that you’re going to have the courage to do, I think that’s something everybody needs to understand,” Schlapp said.
McCarthy and Greene appear to have come to an understanding that they need each other. The leader needs Greene to come into the GOP fold rather than throw rocks from outside. She needs McCarthy’s blessing to regain committee assignments, enabling her to participate more fully in Congress and put her imprint on legislation.
At the Pennsylvania event McCarthy batted away questions about his ability to govern if Republicans win the majority.
“Name me one person in the conference that is opposed to this,” he said afterward of their platform. “Is that a difference? Yes.”
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Collaboration with University of Wisconsin Professors Krishanu Saha (PI) and Christian Captini (co-PI) to discover novel and improved GD2 CAR designs to treat solid tumors and validate them in vivo
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Through this partnership, Ginkgo will collaborate with the University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers Professor Krishanu Saha, Ph.D., as principal investigator (PI) and Dr. Christian Capitini, M.D. as co-PI. Professor Saha's lab focuses on developing the next-generation cell engineering techniques to advance human therapeutics, and Dr. Capitini is a pediatric oncologist who has extensive clinical experience with CAR T-cell therapies, including serving as a site PI for the clinical trial that led to the first FDA approval of a CAR T-cell therapy. The two have collaborated on the development of a GD2 CAR T-cell therapeutic candidate for the treatment of neuroblastoma, a type of cancer generally affecting young children, using a non-viral, site-specific integration method developed by Professor Saha and published in the Journal for the Immunotherapy of Cancer: Production and characterization of virus-free, CRISPR-CAR T cells capable of inducing solid tumor regression.
Under this collaboration, Ginkgo will use its pooled CAR screening platform to design and characterize novel intracellular signaling domains that prevent the exhaustion of T-cells in the GD2 solid tumor context. Any novel designs will be validated in high throughput in vitro screens and in in vivo murine models. In addition, Ginkgo and WARF plan to collaborate on the development of a pooled in vivo screening platform to advance novel CAR discovery further.
"Ginkgo's high throughput screening method has proven successful in enabling massively parallel testing of CAR designs, and has already led to the discovery of new intracellular domains (ICD) combinations," said Krishanu Saha, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "By partnering with Ginkgo, we aim to unlock the potential to transform patient outcomes and reimagine the future of solid tumor cancer treatment."
CAR T-cell therapies show tremendous promise for the treatment of cancer. However, their use has thus far largely been limited to targeting blood cancers because they have failed to show consistent efficacy in treating solid tumors, which represent approximately 90% of adult human cancers. Part of the challenge when applying CAR T-cell therapies to solid tumors is T-cell exhaustion, a state of dysfunction arising from excessive antigen stimulation in the immunosuppressive environment of a solid tumor.
WARF and Ginkgo hope to work towards solving this challenge by utilizing Ginkgo's high-throughput combinatorial CAR discovery platform. As a platform technology company, Ginkgo can leverage its full stack of mammalian cell engineering expertise and capabilities to enable the high throughput screening of CAR T-cells to help discover and optimize future next-generation therapeutic candidates for its partners.
"WARF is delighted to see this important collaboration," says Erik Iverson, WARF CEO. "We know these alliances between our university researchers and leading biotech industry partners have the potential to result in benefits that positively impact human health."
"This collaboration represents a fantastic opportunity to demonstrate the potential value of pooled CAR screening approaches directly in the context of devastating diseases like early childhood cancers," said Narendra Maheshri, Head of Mammalian Engineering at Ginkgo. "It's especially exciting to work with pioneers like Professors Saha and Capitini, who have pushed R&D boundaries in the laboratory and whose approach is thoroughly grounded in the translation of their findings for clinical impact."
About Ginkgo Bioworks
Ginkgo Bioworks is the leading horizontal platform for cell programming, providing flexible, end-to-end services that solve challenges for organizations across diverse markets, from food and agriculture to pharmaceuticals to industrial and specialty chemicals. Ginkgo's biosecurity and public health unit, Concentric by Ginkgo, is building global infrastructure for biosecurity to empower governments, communities, and public health leaders to prevent, detect and respond to a wide variety of biological threats. For more information, visit ginkgobioworks.com and concentricbyginkgo.com, read our blog, or follow us on social media channels such as Twitter (@Ginkgo and @ConcentricByGBW), Instagram (@GinkgoBioworks and @ConcentricByGinkgo), or LinkedIn.
About WARF
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) helps steward the cycle of research, discovery, commercialization and investment for the University of Wisconsin-Madison and provides annual support to the university to advance research and innovation. Founded in 1925 as an independent, nonprofit foundation, WARF manages more than 2,000 patents and an investment portfolio as it funds university research, obtains patents for campus discoveries and licenses inventions to industry. For more information, visit warf.org and view WARF's Cycle of Innovation.
Forward-Looking Statements of Ginkgo Bioworks
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws, including statements regarding the capabilities and potential success of the partnership and Ginkgo's cell programming platform. These forward-looking statements generally are identified by the words "believe," "can," "project," "potential," "expect," "anticipate," "estimate," "intend," "strategy," "future," "opportunity," "plan," "may," "should," "will," "would," "will be," "will continue," "will likely result," and similar expressions. Forward-looking statements are predictions, projections and other statements about future events that are based on current expectations and assumptions and, as a result, are subject to risks and uncertainties. Many factors could cause actual future events to differ materially from the forward-looking statements in this press release, including but not limited to: (i) volatility in the price of Ginkgo's securities due to a variety of factors, including changes in the competitive and highly regulated industries in which Ginkgo operates and plans to operate, variations in performance across competitors, and changes in laws and regulations affecting Ginkgo's business, (ii) the ability to implement business plans, forecasts, and other expectations, and to identify and realize additional business opportunities, (iii) the risk of downturns in demand for products using synthetic biology, (iv) the unpredictability of the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic and the demand for COVID-19 testing and the commercial viability of our COVID-19 testing business, (v) changes to the biosecurity industry, including due to advancements in technology, emerging competition and evolution in industry demands, standards and regulations, (vi) our ability to realize the expected benefits of merger and acquisition transactions, (vii) the outcome of any legal proceedings against Ginkgo, including as a result of recent acquisitions, (viii) our ability to realize the expected benefits from and the success of our Foundry platform programs, (ix) our ability to successfully develop engineered cells, bioprocesses, data packages or other deliverables, and (x) the product development or commercialization success of our customers. The foregoing list of factors is not exhaustive. You should carefully consider the foregoing factors and the other risks and uncertainties described in the "Risk Factors" section of Ginkgo's annual report on Form 10-K filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on March 13, 2023 and other documents filed by Ginkgo from time to time with the SEC. These filings identify and address other important risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events and results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made. Readers are cautioned not to put undue reliance on forward-looking statements, and Ginkgo assumes no obligation and does not intend to update or revise these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. Ginkgo does not give any assurance that it will achieve its expectations.
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MIDLAND, Texas (AP) _ Viper Energy Partners LP (VNOM) on Monday reported third-quarter net income of $79.3 million.
The Midland, Texas-based company said it had net income of $1.06 per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring gains, were 98 cents per share.
The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of seven analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 40 cents per share.
The oil and gas company posted revenue of $221.6 million in the period, which also topped Street forecasts. Seven analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $213.7 million.
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87% of consumers go to Amazon when they are ready to make a purchase
NEW YORK, Sept. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Feedvisor, the "AI-first" optimization and intelligence platform for brands and retailers on Amazon, Walmart, and e-marketplaces, today released the findings of its 2022 Amazon Consumer Behavior Report. The report, which is based on a survey of over 2,000 consumers, explores the changing behaviors and trends shaping e-commerce. The survey reveals how consumers are using Amazon to shop for products and services, and what influences their spending habits in these uncertain, challenging times.
"One of the leading forces influencing consumer behavior today is the current economic climate," said Dani Nadel, President and COO, Feedvisor. "Surging energy prices, elevated food costs, and continuing supply constraints remain top concerns facing consumers, creating a tension between a desire to purchase what they want and a need to compromise due to budgetary pressures," says Nadel. "Brands and retailers increasingly need to adapt to earn their business, especially as consumers are more willing to trade down and try new brands in exchange for increased value."
Some key findings from Feedvisor's 2022 Amazon Consumer Behavior Report are below:
Despite Inflation and other economic pressures, consumers are shopping more frequently, but their decisions are more influenced by price and budget realities.
- Nearly 50% of respondents reported an increase in online purchases when compared to in-store, with Amazon being their first stop.
- One of the report's most compelling findings is that purchasing motivation is largely influenced by inflation, with 54% of shoppers stating this is a key factor in their decisions. Consumers are also making decisions based on where the deals and discounts are (45%) and their budget constraints (33%).
In choosing products today, consumer focus is on price and value, rather than familiarity with the brand.
- The survey reveals that for 66% of consumers, they remain open to purchasing private labels vs brand names, with about half of them saying it depends on the product.
Advancements in technology are enhancing the retail experience and being leveraged to facilitate the buyer journey.
Consumers expect to be able to shop in-the-moment, with 52% of consumers having made a purchase from social media in the past 6 months.
- Influencers are now an integral part of brand strategies; For example, 37% of consumers have made a purchase after seeing Amazon influencers talk about or recommend them.
Memberships and subscriptions are on the rise with Amazon Prime memberships at an all-time high, up 20% since 2019, yet most consumers have more than one membership beside Prime as they seek to exploit greater deals and discounts.
- Popular additional memberships include Walmart+ (35%), Costco (30%) and Target Circle (25%).
Consumers simply want to click instead of think, making advertising, especially on Amazon, a key driver of engagement and sales:
- Sponsored ads are still a key driver for product sales, as 38% of consumers find them helpful, up 7% year over year
- 70% of shoppers said they purchase the first product listed on the Amazon search results page.
- Amazon continues to be the first place consumers look for product information, with 75% of consumers saying they check prices and product reviews on Amazon before making a purchase.
Additionally, as summer is nearing the transition to fall holiday shopping is already underway.
- As many as 15% of consumers used Prime Day to kick off their gift purchases, while almost half of consumers are planning on beginning in October and November.
- Despite earlier holiday shopping, consumers still view the holidays as the best time to score deals: 58% of consumers say they shop for deals and discounts during Black Friday and Cyber Monday and 38% of consumers say they wait to make a big purchase until one of these events.
To see the full "2022 Amazon Consumer Behavior Report," please visit feedvisor.com.
Feedvisor is the "AI-first" optimization and intelligence platform for brands and large sellers on Amazon, Walmart, and e-marketplaces. Feedvisor's platform and team of experts offer best-in-class advertising campaign optimization, patented pricing technology, brand and content management, and data-backed intelligence to drive demand profit, and revenue growth. For more information about Feedvisor, visit feedvisor.com.
This survey was commissioned by Feedvisor and conducted by Zogby Analytics. It was distributed online from July 13–16, 2022, among a sample of 2,014 U.S. adults who have purchased a product on Amazon within the last 6 months. Results from the full survey have a margin of error of plus or minus 2.2 percentage points. All numbers have been rounded to the nearest percent.
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Baltimore police confirm officers are on the scene of a mass shooting
BALTIMORE (AP) - Emergency personnel and the acting police commissioner were at the scene of a mass shooting in Baltimore early Sunday morning, police said.
The Baltimore Police Department confirmed there has been a mass shooting in the 800 block of Gretna Avenue. The number of victims was not immediately provided.
Acting Commissioner Richard Worley was at the scene of the shooting, police said.
There were multiple fatalities and dozens of people injured in the Brooklyn Homes area of South Baltimore and a large police and emergency medical response in the area, WBFF-TV reported.
A press conference with additional details was planned for later in the morning at the intersection of 6th Street and Audrey Avenue, police said.
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How to Watch the Yankees vs. Dodgers Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for June 3
Gleyber Torres and the New York Yankees will hit the field at Dodger Stadium against the Los Angeles Dodgers and Freddie Freeman on Saturday.
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Yankees vs. Dodgers Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Saturday, June 3, 2023
- Time: 7:15 PM ET
- TV Channel: FOX
- Location: Los Angeles, California
- Venue: Dodger Stadium
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Yankees Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Yankees average 1.5 home runs per game to rank fourth in MLB play with 90 total home runs.
- New York ranks ninth in baseball with a .422 slugging percentage.
- The Yankees have the 22nd-ranked batting average in the league (.238).
- New York scores the 10th-most runs in baseball (277 total, 4.7 per game).
- The Yankees are 23rd in baseball with a .308 on-base percentage.
- The Yankees' 8.4 strikeouts per game rank 16th in the majors.
- New York's pitching staff is ninth in MLB with a collective 9.1 strikeouts per nine innings.
- New York has a 3.72 team ERA that ranks seventh across all MLB pitching staffs.
- Yankees pitchers combine for the No. 6 WHIP in the majors (1.233).
Dodgers Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Dodgers rank second in Major League Baseball with 100 home runs.
- Los Angeles ranks second in the majors with a .466 team slugging percentage.
- The Dodgers rank 19th in MLB with a .245 team batting average.
- Los Angeles has scored the third-most runs in baseball this season with 327.
- The Dodgers have an on-base percentage of .332 this season, which ranks fourth in the league.
- The Dodgers rank 19th in MLB in strikeouts per game with an average of 8.8 whiffs per contest.
- Los Angeles strikes out 8.4 batters per nine innings as a pitching staff, 23rd in MLB.
- Los Angeles has pitched to a 4.45 ERA this season, which ranks 20th in baseball.
- The Dodgers have a combined WHIP of just 1.256 as a pitching staff, which is the seventh-best in baseball this season.
Yankees Probable Starting Pitcher
- Gerrit Cole (6-0 with a 2.93 ERA and 79 strikeouts in 73 2/3 innings pitched) makes the start for the Yankees, his 13th of the season.
- In his last appearance on Sunday against the San Diego Padres, the righty went six innings, allowing five earned runs while surrendering four hits.
- Cole has collected seven quality starts this year.
- Cole will look to prolong a 13-game streak of lasting five or more innings (he's averaging 6.1 innings per outing).
Dodgers Probable Starting Pitcher
- Michael Grove (0-1) will take to the mound for the Dodgers and make his fifth start of the season.
- The right-hander's last appearance was on Thursday, April 20, when he threw three innings, giving up two earned runs while allowing five hits against the Chicago Cubs.
- Grove has started four games this season, and he's lasted five or more innings one time. He averages 4 innings per appearance.
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Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson would accept an eight-game suspension and $5 million fine to avoid missing the entire season, a person familiar with his defense told The Associated Press on Thursday.
Watson, who is facing a potential year-long ban for sexual misconduct, would agree to a lesser penalty in a settlement, said the person who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case.
The biggest question is whether the NFL would make this compromise.
A settlement has always been possible, but it’s not clear if the sides are in active discussions.
The league is seeking a minimum suspension of 17 games, a significant fine over $5 million and wants Watson to be required to undergo evaluation and treatment as determined by medical experts before he could be reinstated.
An independent arbitrator suspended Watson, accused of lewd sexual behavior during massage appointments with two dozen women while he played for the Houston Texans, six games for violating the league’s personal conduct policy on Aug. 1.
The league felt the punishment wasn’t enough and appealed retired federal judge Sue L. Robinson’s ruling two days later.
Asked Tuesday at the owner’s meetings why the appeal was filed, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said: “Because we’ve seen the evidence.”
“She (Robinson) was very clear about the evidence. She reinforced the evidence, that there was multiple violations here and they were egregious, and that it was predatory behavior,” Goodell added.
“Those were always things we felt was really important for us to address and in a way that’s responsible.”
Watson’s case now rests with Peter C. Harvey, a former New Jersey Attorney General appointed last week by Goodell to handle the league’s appeal. Harvey’s decision could come at any time.
Harvey’s decision “will be binding,” per the collective bargaining agreement. However, the NFL Players Association could try to challenge his ruling in federal court. A settlement would avoid that.
Meanwhile, Watson is scheduled to make his debut for the Browns on Friday night in their exhibition opener at Jacksonville. The three-time Pro Bowler has continued to practice during his high-profile case, which has brought renewed criticism of the league’s handling of player discipline.
The Browns, who have spent years looking for a franchise QB, traded three first-round draft picks to Houston in March for Watson and then signed him to a five-year, $230 million contract.
Cleveland’s plan all along has been to play Jacoby Brissett, who has made 37 career starts, while Watson serves a suspension. However, that could change if Watson is out much longer or for the entire 2022 season.
One possible option for the Browns could be Jimmy Garoppolo, who has been supplanted as San Francisco’s starter by Trey Lance and is expected to be either traded or waived this month by the 49ers.
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Biotech Company from California Seeks to Advance Technology that Synthesizes Pure Proteins from DNA in Microgravity Through the International Space Station National Laboratory
BOSTON, Feb. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Machine Bio, Inc., a biotechnology startup from Claremont, CA, has been selected to receive up to $500,000 in grant funding through the Technology in Space Prize in partnership with the MassChallenge startup accelerator program. The Technology in Space Prize is an annual award opportunity from the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space, Inc. (CASIS) and Boeing [NYSE: BA] for qualified startup companies interested in leveraging the International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory for research and technology development (R&D). Machine Bio seeks to validate proprietary technology for the synthesis of protein from a DNA template in a single step onboard the space station. The project was announced last night at the MassChallenge awards dinner in Boston.
The ISS and future space-based laboratories provide a valuable platform for drug discovery and development research and use-inspired science. However, methods for the production of pure proteins needed for drug discovery research require the cultivation of large volumes of cells and time-consuming purification steps that are slow and labor intensive. These methods are inefficient on Earth and infeasible for a space-based laboratory, so currently, proteins are produced on Earth and then launched to space. This makes it difficult to do iterative research, which is crucial to the drug development process.
Machine Bio has designed a cell-free technology that promises to cut the cost and production time for the synthesis of pure proteins. The company's technology produces protein faster than traditional methods, using less labor and less space. Machine Bio seeks to utilize the ISS National Lab to validate the technology's function in microgravity. In doing so, this may allow the company to advance its technology readiness level, bringing it closer to commercialization. The ability to quickly manufacture pure protein in space would be a significant advancement for biomedical research in low Earth orbit and will be crucial for studies on future spaceflight missions farther from Earth.
In-space production applications is a strategic focus area for the ISS National Lab. Applied research and development in this area demonstrates space-based manufacturing and production to enable new business growth and capital investment and to create scalable and sustainable market opportunities.
This marks the eighth time CASIS and Boeing have partnered to fund research for startups through the Technology in Space Prize in collaboration with the MassChallenge startup accelerator. Since its inception, the Technology in Space Prize has provided $9.7 million in funding to 30 startups for R&D sponsored by the ISS National Lab. Many of these investigations have already launched to station.
For example, biotechnology startup MicroQuin, a 2018 awardee of the Technology in Space Prize, launched an investigation to better understand the onset and progression of cancer. The project used 3D cell culture to examine cell signaling pathways involved in tumorigenesis (the process by which normal cells transform into cancer cells). MicroQuin also tested how cancer cells responded to a new cancer therapeutic the company has developed.
Other examples include LambdaVision, which took advantage of microgravity conditions to improve the manufacturing process for the company's artificial retina, and RevBio (formerly LaunchPad Medical), which utilized the ISS to test an injectable bone adhesive to accelerate bone repair. Many startups awarded the Technology in Space Prize have gone on to obtain additional funding from outside sources to advance their research. In fact, subsequent to being awarded the Technology in Space Prize, the awardees as a group have raised more than 30 times the funding provided through the prize.
Grants awarded through the Technology in Space Prize provide seed funding and assist with hardware costs for a flight project using ISS National Lab flight and crew time allocation. To learn more about applying for the Technology in Space Prize, view entry information on the MassChallenge webpage.
The ISS National Lab is managed by CASIS through a Cooperative Agreement with NASA. Final award of any grant money is contingent upon acceptance of legal terms and conditions between Machine Bio, CASIS, and Boeing.
To learn more about the ISS National Lab, including current research announcements to propose projects that leverage the orbiting platform, please visit www.ISSNationalLab.org.
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About the International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory:
The International Space Station (ISS) is a one-of-a-kind laboratory that enables research and technology development not possible on Earth. As a public service enterprise, the ISS National Lab allows researchers to leverage this multiuser facility to improve life on Earth, mature space-based business models, advance science literacy in the future workforce, and expand a sustainable and scalable market in low Earth orbit. Through this orbiting national laboratory, research resources on the ISS are available to support non-NASA science, technology and education initiatives from U.S. government agencies, academic institutions, and the private sector. The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space, Inc. (CASIS) manages the ISS National Lab, under Cooperative Agreement with NASA, facilitating access to its permanent microgravity research environment, a powerful vantage point in low Earth orbit, and the extreme and varied conditions of space. To learn more about the ISS National Lab, visit www.ISSNationalLab.org.
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(The Hill) – A federal judge in Texas struck down a key provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that requires insurers and employers to cover preventive services for free, including cancer screenings and HIV drugs.
The ruling by Judge Reed O’Connor of U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas — who previously struck down the entire ObamaCare law before it was upheld by the Supreme Court — applies nationwide.
It immediately jeopardizes access to treatment for the approximately 100 million Americans who use free preventive services annually, and it leaves the door open for insurers to impose deductibles and copays for potentially life-saving screening tests.
The ACA requires insurers to cover, without cost-sharing, more than 100 preventive health services recommended by the U.S Preventive Services Task Force. Cost sharing will likely deter patients — particularly those of limited means — from scheduling mammograms, colonoscopies and other procedures.
O’Connor ruled that the panel itself is unconstitutional because its members, which include 16 volunteer scientists and medical professionals, are not appointed by the president or confirmed by the Senate, yet its recommendations are binding.
O’Connor’s decision was not unexpected. He ruled last year the preventive services mandate was unconstitutional, but at the time waited to decide on the scope of remedy.
O’Connor also invalidated ObamaCare’s HIV treatment mandate, saying it violated the Religious Freedom Restoration Act by forcing the plaintiff, a Christian employer and well-known GOP donor, to pay for insurance that covers HIV prevention drugs.
The company’s owner argued HIV drugs, known as PrEP, promote homosexual behavior that conflicts with their faith and personal values.
PrEP reduces the risk of getting HIV by 99% when taken as recommended, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There are two pills approved for use as PrEP: Truvada and Descovy. The drugs are also recommended for monogamous partners of people with HIV and people who share needles and other drug paraphernalia.
The lawsuit was led by Jonathan Mitchell, the architect of Texas’s six-week abortion law that offers a $10,000 bounty to private citizens who successfully sue abortion providers.
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Abandoned newborn dies after being found in vacant home, police say
FALMOUTH, Ky. (WXIX/Gray News) – An abandoned infant was found not breathing inside a vacant home in Kentucky earlier this month, according to the Falmouth Police Department.
Officers were called around 7:30 p.m. March 1 to respond to reports of an abandoned newborn.
Police said the baby was taken to the hospital where it was pronounced dead.
Falmouth Police Chief Marty Hart said officers found the newborn after the mother of the baby boy had gone to a nearby hospital and reported a miscarriage.
Nurses grew suspicious and called the police.
Hart said police are awaiting the preliminary autopsy report to determine if the infant was stillborn or was born alive.
Neighbors said crews had been working to repair the home but hadn’t seen anyone in the house otherwise.
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ALIQUIPPA, Pa., Jan. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- PGT Trucking Inc., a multi-service transportation firm offering flatbed, dedicated, international and specialized services, announces the purchase of their first Nikola Tre battery-electric vehicle (BEV) semi-truck, becoming the first flatbed trucking company to actively grow its fleet with zero-emissions equipment. PGT will immediately utilize the Nikola Tre BEV on a select customer account, primarily operating on local, dedicated routes.
"Our customers have expressed a need for sustainable shipping solutions, and we are working to align ourselves with their green energy commitments. With the purchase of the Nikola Tre BEV, PGT is prepared to meet these demands," stated Gregg Troian, PGT Trucking President. "PGT will continue to revolutionize the industry through the Future of Flatbed®, utilizing innovative technology and zero-emissions equipment to provide progressive transportation services for our customers, enhanced lifestyle benefits for our drivers and sustainable shipping methods for the environment."
PGT's new Research and Development Department, led by Laurence Cox, Vice President, Sustainability, has been tasked with analyzing and applying the company's green fleet solutions, identifying additional short-haul usages for the battery-electric truck and exploring new initiatives to support its operation across multiple platforms.
Previously, PGT signed a letter of intent to lease 100 Nikola Tre fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV) trucks, and PGT's R&D Department will help prepare for the full integration of these units into PGT's fleet, which are anticipated to arrive later this year. With the addition of the new zero-emissions equipment, PGT is on track to reach its sustainability goal, reducing carbon emissions from its company-owned fleet by 35% by the year 2025.
"This is a tangible example of how PGT is shaping the Future of Flatbed in the transportation sector, solidifying our commitment to our customers' sustainability goals," stated Cox. "We are excited to put our Nikola Tre BEV to work, further refining the application of this advanced equipment through our R&D department."
PGT's Future of Flatbed Fleet, which consists of the company's most elite drivers, will be the first to drive the Nikola Tre BEV, working with PGT's R&D Department, dedicated partners and customer representatives to haul flatbed loads in real world scenarios. The drivers were selected during an extensive application process and prepared for their roles by receiving advanced training on the equipment, attending product development meetings and participating in pilot programs.
"PGT's decision to place a Nikola Tre BEV immediately into operation is telling of their commitment to drive forward their ambitious corporate sustainability initiatives today," said Nikola Corporation, President and CEO, Michael Lohscheller. "We are extremely proud to partner with another well-respected industry leader by providing progressive zero-emission transportation solutions that are intended to improve safety, reduce costs and CO2 emissions, and improve overall total cost of ownership."
PGT Trucking, Inc. is a multi-service transportation firm offering flatbed, dedicated, international and specialized services. PGT is the leader in progressive freight transportation and fleet evolution, exceeding customer expectations with a strong focus on the Future of Flatbed®. At PGT Trucking, "Safety is Everyone's Job – All the Time." Visit www.pgttrucking.com.
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Paul DeJong Player Prop Bets: Cardinals vs. White Sox - July 9
Published: Jul. 9, 2023 at 6:30 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
Paul DeJong -- with a slugging percentage of .212 in his past 10 games (including no home runs) -- will be in action for the St. Louis Cardinals against the Chicago White Sox, with Lucas Giolito on the hill, on July 9 at 2:10 PM ET.
In his last appearance, he went 1-for-4 with an RBI against the White Sox.
Paul DeJong Game Info & Props vs. the White Sox
- Game Day: Sunday, July 9, 2023
- Game Time: 2:10 PM ET
- Stadium: Guaranteed Rate Field
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- White Sox Starter: Lucas Giolito
- TV Channel: NBCS-CHI
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -133)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +425)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +210)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +160)
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Paul DeJong At The Plate
- DeJong is hitting .226 with eight doubles, 12 home runs and 18 walks.
- DeJong has gotten a hit in 35 of 62 games this year (56.5%), with more than one hit on 13 occasions (21.0%).
- He has hit a long ball in 19.4% of his games this season, and 5% of his plate appearances.
- DeJong has had at least one RBI in 27.4% of his games this year (17 of 62), with more than one RBI seven times (11.3%). He has also accounted for three or more of his team's runs in two contests.
- He has scored at least once 24 times this year (38.7%), including five games with multiple runs (8.1%).
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White Sox Pitching Rankings
- The White Sox pitching staff leads the league with a collective 9.8 strikeouts per nine innings.
- The White Sox's 4.56 team ERA ranks 24th among all MLB pitching staffs.
- White Sox pitchers combine to allow 124 total home runs at a rate of 1.4 per game (fourth-most in baseball).
- The White Sox will send Giolito (6-5) to the mound for his 19th start of the season. He is 6-5 with a 3.50 ERA and 112 strikeouts in 105 1/3 innings pitched.
- The right-hander's last time out was on Wednesday against the Toronto Blue Jays, when he threw six innings, surrendering two earned runs while giving up four hits.
- This season, the 28-year-old ranks 28th in ERA (3.50), 30th in WHIP (1.168), and 20th in K/9 (9.6) among pitchers who qualify.
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Tips and tools for grooming your face and body hair
As the weather grows warmer, more and more people are shedding their “winter coats.” Starting spring out with a fresh shave can help reduce sweat, improve hygiene and make you feel more prepared to take on outdoor activities.
Manscaping rituals and routines can differ from person to person. However, there are some consistent rules that everybody can follow. You can personalize your tools to your preferences for anything from full shaves to simple trims. Here are some tools to make the process easier and more efficient.
In this article: Braun Series 9 Electric Razor, Gillette Style Beard Trimmer and Philips Norelco Multigroom 5000 Series
What is manscaping, and how do you do it?
Simply put, manscaping refers to the act of cutting down or removing facial or body hair. Men choose to trim or shave their body hair for many reasons, including hygiene, comfort and appearance. Some men prefer to take professional services, such as waxing or shaving, but others prefer to personalize their grooming routine from the comfort of their homes.
Manscaping for spring can look slightly different from typical processes, as you’re probably removing a lot of hair that grew during the winter. Once you’ve done the initial cut or shave, some upkeep is required.
Here are some common tools used for manscaping and their main purposes:
- Electric razors: Electric razors can vary from providing basic shaves to exchangeable blades that specialize in cutting facial hair or narrow areas of space. These are an excellent choice for those wanting something more versatile and user-friendly.
- Hair clippers: As the name suggests, hair clippers remove portions of your hair quickly and efficiently. Many hair clippers arrive with combs and accessories so that users can customize the device to their preference.
- Beard trimmers: For those hoping to reduce facial hair, consider purchasing a beard trimmer. They provide a variety of cuts and can be safely operated daily.
- Tweezers: Tweezers are small tools designed to pluck out hair one or two at a time. These are typically a more affordable option and specialized for quick touch-ups.
Best manscaping products
The Braun Electric Razor has built-in SyncroSonic technology that effortlessly removes hair from wet or dry skin. The sharp blades handle both thick and thin hair without snagging or causing any irritation. It has a lithium battery and no cord, so users don’t have to worry about hassles in maneuvering the device.
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Oster Professional Classic 76 Hair Clippers
With a powerful motor and interchangeable blades, the vintage Oster Classic is a durable hair clipper that will last you several years. The lightweight body won’t overheat and fits comfortably into the palm of your hand.
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Philips Norelco Multigroom All-in-One 7000 Series
The innovative Phillips Norelco model stands out for its large assortment of blades and heads, making 23 accessories in total. Each head has reinforced guards and is available in multiple lengths, ensuring smooth shaving for each area of your face.
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These tweezers offer a flat base for you to place fingers, making it easier to pinch and un-pinch the pair. It’s crafted with a coppery-pink coat, so it offers both practicality and fashion at the same time.
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The handheld Gillette device is the quintessential beard trimmer for all ages and skin types. Thanks to the waterproof construction, you can use it in the shower and in front of the bathroom mirror.
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Remington MB4700 Smart Beard Trimmer
This is a more modern version of a typical beard trimmer with an LED screen and memory settings. The surface is smooth and washable so that it won’t collect any annoying strands or debris.
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Remington All-in-One Grooming Kit
The Remington model offers eight hair-clipper combs and 14 varying settings. It’s easy to clean, self-sharping and arrives with a travel-friendly storage porch.
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The Arc5 electric razor has been upgraded with faster speeds and a more powerful motor so groomers can enjoy a cleaner shave. The razor also automatically senses the thickness of your hair and adjusts its density to match it.
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The BabylissPro hair clipper stands out for its lightweight build and one-hand operation. Built with an X-grip blade, it cuts faster and has several interchangeable attachments you can switch between based on your hair type.
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Philips Norelco Shaver 9000 Prestige
For those wanting to treat themselves to a luxurious electric shaver, consider the Phillips 9000 Prestige. The formidable tool has handy features like the LED number display and NanoTech blades.
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Philips Norelco Multigroom 5000 Series
This well-rounded tool provides accessories to trim the hair on your face, head and body. It includes a nose and ear trimmer, adjustable guards, hair guards, stubble guards, a cleaning brush and a charging cable.
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Braun Electric Shaver, Series 6
This traditional yet effective electric shaver gently removes hair in multiple areas of your face and neck. The easy handle and built-in safety features make this an excellent starter for beginners or younger users.
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Revlon Mini Hair Removal Tweezer Set
This on-the-go travel set arrives with two different types of tweezers to suit your grooming needs. It’s made with stainless steel, so users don’t have to worry about losing quality during transportation.
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The Art of Shaving Sandalwood Shaving Cream
This luxurious Sandalwood shaving cream protects against razor burn and irritation. It hydrates and moisturizes at the same time, so you can enjoy silky smooth skin after finishing your shave.
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Worth checking out
- The Splintertweeze is tailored to remove pesky ingrown hairs that may appear after your initial shave.
- Check out the Wahl Deluxe Hair and Trimming Kit for a comprehensive set of grooming products.
- Try combining your products with the Marlowe M. Blend Shave Cream, which works best for sensitive skin types.
- Sometimes, all you need is a basic all-in-one trimmer to handle your manscaping needs quickly and efficiently.
- Some beard trimmers, like the Braun Beard Trimmer BT3221, come with varying blade sizes, making them an excellent choice for those with different hair lengths on their head.
- Along with the line of Gillette razors, the company sells shaving creams, exfoliating bars and blade refills.
- Finishing off your manscaping routine with a moisturizing post-shave balm can leave you feeling cool and refreshed.
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The move accelerates the company's growth as the leading alternative to SIEM
- Hunters is the first partner to offer an end-to-end security operations platform for companies looking to leverage Databricks as their security data lake.
- Hunters helps customers move beyond SIEM and consolidate their data in a modern, cloud-based data lake for better cost and security outcomes.
- Hunters powers security operations in world leading organizations, including: Netgear, Booking.com, Upwork and Gong.
NEWTON, Mass., March 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Cybersecurity company Hunters is excited to announce the integration of its SOC (Security Operations Center) Platform with the Databricks Lakehouse. For the first time, Databricks customers will be able to stand up a security data lake for security operations (data ingestion, detection, investigation and response) in just a few clicks using Hunters SOC Platform.
Hunters SOC Platform is a modern, cloud-native alternative to SIEM that ingests, normalizes and analyzes data from all security and IT sources, including endpoint telemetry, network traffic, identity, and cloud infrastructure. With the built-in integration capabilities, Hunters makes it easy for security teams to ingest security data: No need to engineer, deploy and maintain ingestion pipelines. The platform delivers Detection Engineering as a Service, eliminating the repetitive security engineering work for all the common security use cases and removing the need to set up and maintain detection rules, so security teams can focus on the use cases that are unique to their organization. The platform also automates cross-correlation and investigation to significantly reduce mean time to respond (MTTR) and containment of threats.
The Databricks Lakehouse is a cloud-native data platform that combines the benefits of data lakes and data warehouses as a unified solution for all major data workloads. With its powerful analytics and machine learning capabilities, the Databricks Lakehouse provides a single platform for managing, processing, and analyzing large volumes of data.
"Hunters and Databricks are the perfect match for advanced detection on a lakehouse architecture and we're just getting started. This integration opens the flood gates to future advanced detection pipelines using ML/AI capabilities in the Databricks Lakehouse," said Fermín Serna, Chief Security Officer at Databricks.
Security data lakes have brought with them a paradigm shift in security operations. They support the ingestion of massive volumes and variety of data, at the speed of cloud, and allow security platforms to run advanced analytics including AI/ML on top of them with reduced complexity and at a predictable cost. Security operations shouldn't live in a silo, but rather be where the rest of the organization's data resides.
The security market has been conditioned to expect that more data means more people, time, and costs to address threats. Hunters shifts that paradigm by leveraging the leading modern data platforms and their powerful scale and cost efficiencies: they provide unlimited data ingestion and storage at a predictable cost, leveraging a pricing model that is based on compute and not storage. Security teams shouldn't be forced to make the hard decision of what data to store and for how long, but rather have it all readily available without taxing the security budget.
"We are thrilled to announce this integration with the Databricks Lakehouse and our enhanced partnership with Databricks," said Uri May, CEO and Co-founder of Hunters. "At Hunters, we're committed to the premise that data storage and analytics should be decoupled. Cybersecurity is a big data problem, and yet security teams shouldn't be spending their time working on data engineering problems like ingestion and preparing the data for security analytics. By integrating with leading data-focused technologies like the Databricks Lakehouse, we are enabling our customers to gain deeper insights into their organization's security and respond to threats more quickly and effectively, bringing their security data lake of choice."
To learn more about Hunters SOC Platform and Databricks, visit www.hunters.security.
About Hunters
Hunters delivers a Security Operations Center (SOC) Platform that empowers security teams to automatically identify and respond to security incidents across their entire attack surface. The platform enables vendor-agnostic data ingestion and normalization at a predictable cost, and its built-in detection engineering, data correlation, and automatic investigation help teams overcome volume, complexity, and false positives. Hunters mitigates real threats faster and more reliably than SIEMs, ultimately reducing customers' overall security risk. Enterprises like Booking.com, Netgear and Cimpress leverage Hunters SOC Platform to empower their security teams.
Hunters is backed by leading VCs and strategic investors including Stripes, YL Ventures, DTCP, Cisco Investments, Bessemer Venture Partners, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), Microsoft's venture fund M12, Blumberg Capital, Snowflake, Databricks, and Okta.
Learn more about Hunters at www.hunters.security.
DISCLAIMER: These forward-looking statements reflect Hunters' views at the time such statements were made with respect to future events and are not a guarantee of future performance or developments.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Medtronic plc ("Medtronic" or the "Company") (NYSE: MDT) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Medtronic investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of persons and entities who purchased or otherwise acquired Medtronic common stock between June 8, 2019, and May 25, 2022, inclusive. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
MDT investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (1) Medtronic's product quality control systems were inadequate; (2) Medtronic had failed to comply with numerous regulations regarding risk assessment, corrective and preventive action, complaint handling, device recalls, and reporting of adverse events; (3) these failures increased the risk of regulatory investigation and action; (4) as a result of the Company's misconduct, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration would delay the approval of additional Medtronic MiniMed devices, including the MiniMed 780G; (5) these delays in product approvals, as well as the Company's need to improve its quality control systems, would negatively affect the Company's financial performance and cause Medtronic to fall further behind its competitors; and (6) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects lacked a reasonable basis.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Medtronic during the relevant time frame, you have until November 7, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
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Juan Monteverde, founder and managing partner of the class action firm Monteverde & Associates PC (the "M&A Class Action Firm"), a national securities firm rated Top 50 in the 2018-2021 ISS Securities Class Action Services Report and headquartered at the Empire State Building in New York City, is investigating CarLotz, Inc. (LOTZ), relating to its proposed merger with Shift Technologies, Inc. Under the terms of the agreement, LOTZ shareholders are expected to receive 0.692158 shares of Shift per share they own, with LOTZ shareholders owning approximately 47.1% of the combined company. Click here for more information: https://www.monteverdelaw.com/case/carlotz-inc. It is free and there is no cost or obligation to you.
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CHENEY, Kan. (KSNW) — When you step into the home of Bruce Mooberry, you’re immediately surrounded by military memorabilia. From shiny medals to pristine pictures covering the walls, and from a vintage bottle of wine given at a veterans’ reunion to a Lego set of an aircraft carrier he and his grandson built, Mooberry’s home in and of itself is a tribute to all things veteran.
Mooberry himself has an extensive military family background: his father was a naval aviator during WWII and the Korean War, while his father-in-law served in the European Theatre during WWII. In 1967, Mooberry himself would find himself on a helicopter on his way to his first duty station after enlisting in the Navy.
“They flew me in on a helicopter over in Vietnam. It was out at sea, and they brought me onboard ship, and I was lost, as big as that ship was,” Mooberry said with a hearty laugh. “I drew probably one of the best duty stations you could draw: the USS Enterprise.”
With 6,000 sailors and roughly 50 aircraft resting atop her flight deck, the USS Enterprise was actually the eighth ship in U.S. Naval history to bear that name. During Vietnam, the ship sailed across the South China Sea. Mooberry says flight operations would last 24/7 while the ship lay in wait off the coast of North Vietnam.
“You couldn’t see land, but at night, if you went up on the O-12 level, you could see bombs flashing,” Mooberry said.
On the ship, Mooberry would serve as a pipefitter tending to a maze the size of four football fields.
“Mainly to keep the main drain system and the firefighting, fire/water system running, and to make sure the pumps were running,” Mooberry said.
On the morning of January 14, 1969, the USS Enterprise was conducting flight operations off the coast of Oahu, Hawaii. At 8:18 a.m. that day, an exhaust from a machine used to start aircraft on deck blew right into a nearby rocket.
“I was just headed back to the chow line, about 7 o’clock in the morning, and then about 8 o’clock is when it hit,” Mooberry said. “The spider rockets overheated, and it blew up and shot a plane up front, and then, it was just kinda like dominos. They all started going off.”
Within seconds, Mooberry and the rest of the crew jumped into action.
“We saw a lot of smoke, you know, but I was down on the second deck, and the whole of O-3 level is where the fire started, what blew up, so that’s four decks above us, so, I just you know, smelled smoke, and saw a little bit of smoke,” Mooberry said. “Saw a lot of injured guys come through our, our place going to sick bay and hangar bay.”
The entire crew successfully put out the fire in four hours.
“It took all the personnel, all the personnel aboard the ship, to get that fire out,” Mooberry said. “Everyone, whether you were air wing, whether you were ship’s company, took us all to put the fire out.”
The explosion and resulting fire injured more than 300 sailors and killed 28 more.
“The ones that were killed were up on the flight deck, or the ones sleeping right below on the O-3 level when the bombs blew up,” Mooberry said. “It blew holes, you know, the size of a, oh, you couldn’t drive a car in ’em, but a big hole, two big holes, three big holes, I guess total in the flight deck.”
Mooberry served for four years on the ship.
Today, he’s a member of the USS Enterprise Association and is in charge of organizing yearly reunions to honor the more than a quarter of a million sailors who served aboard the longest-serving combat ship.
“I’ve been to 14 reunions,” Mooberry said. “We were the flagship when we were over in Vietnam, and to serve on a ship like that, is something that a lot of people, sailors dream about, but I was one of the lucky ones that got to do it. So, I was really fascinated with it.”
Mooberry would serve for 20 more years in the U.S. Army Reserves, received the Citizen Soldier Award twice, and would lead his firefighting team in the Reserves to a championship victory in the 1980s.
As for the USS Enterprise, the ship was decommissioned in 2017 and is currently docked in Chesapeake Bay.
A ninth and final USS Enterprise is expected to go into service in 2028.
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DALLAS, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc. (NYSE: AHT) ("Ashford Trust" or the "Company") today announced details for the release of its results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2022.
Ashford Trust plans to issue its earnings release for the third quarter after the market closes on Tuesday, November 1, 2022, and will host a conference call on Wednesday, November 2, 2022, at 11:00 a.m. ET. The number to call for this interactive teleconference is (201) 389-0920. A replay of the conference call will be available through Wednesday, November 9, 2022, by dialing (412) 317-6671 and entering the confirmation number, 13732686.
The live broadcast of Ashford Trust's quarterly conference call will be available online at the Company's website, www.ahtreit.com, on Wednesday, November 2, 2022, beginning at 11:00 a.m. ET. The online replay will follow shortly after the call and continue for approximately one year.
Ashford Hospitality Trust is a real estate investment trust (REIT) focused on investing predominantly in upper upscale, full-service hotels.
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Robert Bowers carried out the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history when he killed 11 people and injured seven others by storming a Pittsburgh synagogue and shooting everyone he could find. On that, everyone agrees.
Even though Bowers’ defense acknowledged at the outset of his federal trial Tuesday that he was the gunman, they hope to spare the suburban truck driver from a possible death sentence over the Oct. 27, 2018, massacre at the Tree of Life synagogue.
Bowers “shot every person he saw” that day in the building, his lead lawyer, Judy Clarke, said in her opening statement. But she questioned whether Bowers had acted out of hatred, as prosecutors contend, or an irrational belief that he needed to kill Jews to save others from the genocide he claimed they were enabling by helping immigrants come to the U.S.
“He had what to us is this unthinkable, nonsensical, irrational thought: that by killing Jews, he would attain his goal,” Clarke said. “There is no making sense of this senseless act. Mr. Bowers caused extraordinary harm to many, many people.”
Prosecutors — who rejected Bowers’ offer to plead guilty in exchange for taking the death penalty off the table — opened their case by describing the terror he sowed as he moved through the synagogue, opening fire indiscriminately.
Jurors heard a 911 call played by Tree of Life Rabbi and attack survivor Jeffrey Myers, who took shelter in the first minutes of the attack.
“I hear people screaming,” he said on the call, his voice shaky and urgent. “The person is still shooting.”
On the witness stand, Myers testified that he was in front of the congregation at the start of the service and, after hearing gunfire in the lobby, urged worshippers to flee if they were able — and told those who were elderly and frail to lie down or hide.
He wiped away tears as prosecutor Eric Olshan asked him about a portion of the 911 recording in which he could be heard whispering.
“I was praying,” Myers explained, adding after a long pause: “I expected to die.”
He said he was trying to decide whether to make a last phone call or video for his wife, but decided that leaving such a legacy “wouldn’t be fair to her.” Instead, he stayed on the line with 911 and prayed an ancient Jewish profession of faith.
“I thought about the history of my people, how we’ve been persecuted and hunted and slaughtered for centuries, and how all of them must have felt the moments before their death, and what did they do,” Myers testified.
He said he knew some of his congregants had been killed, and “I asked God to forgive me because I couldn’t save them.”
Prosecutors say Bowers made incriminating statements to investigators and left an online trail of antisemitic statements that they say shows the attack was motivated by religious hatred. Police shot Bowers three times before he surrendered.
“The depths of the defendant’s malice and hate can only be proven in the broken bodies” of the victims and “his hateful words,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Soo C. Song told the 12 jurors and six alternates hearing the case.
Song described in detail how worshippers from three congregations who shared the synagogue — Dor Hadash, New Light and the Tree of Life — arrived that Sabbath to pray and socialize in what should have been a safe place.
As she spoke, some of the survivors in the somber courtroom dabbed tears. Bowers, seated at the defense table, showed no reaction.
The jury also heard a 911 call from congregant Bernice Simon, who reported “we’re being attacked!” and that her husband, Sylvan Simon, had been shot. Bernice Simon was shot while still on the line — her last, labored breaths clearly audible.
“Bernice, are you still with me?” Shannon Basa-Sabol, the dispatcher who took the call, asked in the recording, There was no answer. Neither of the Simons survived.
In a filing earlier this year, prosecutors said Bowers “harbored deep, murderous animosity towards all Jewish people.” They said he also expressed hatred for HIAS, founded as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, a nonprofit humanitarian group that helps refugees and asylum seekers.
Prosecutors wrote in a court filing that Bowers had nearly 400 followers on his Gab social media account “to whom he promoted his antisemitic views and calls to violence against Jews.”
In the long run-up to the trial, Bowers’ lawyers did little to cast doubt on whether he was the gunman and instead focused on trying to save his life. As an indication that the trial’s guilt-or-innocence phase would be almost a foregone conclusion, they spent little time during jury selection asking how potential jurors would reach a verdict.
Instead, they focused on the penalty phase and how jurors would decide whether to impose the death penalty in a case of a man charged with hate-motivated killings in a house of worship. The defense lawyers, who recently said Bowers has schizophrenia and brain impairments, probed whether potential jurors could consider factors such as mental illness or a difficult childhood.
The families of those killed are divided over whether the government should pursue the death penalty, but most have voiced support for it.
The three congregations have spoken out against antisemitism and other forms of bigotry since the attack. The Tree of Life congregation also is working with partners on plans to overhaul its current structure, which still stands but has been closed since the shootings, by creating a complex that would house a sanctuary, museum, memorial and center for fighting antisemitism.
The death penalty trial, which is being presided over by Judge Robert Colville, is proceeding three years after now-President Joe Biden said during his 2020 campaign that he would work to end capital punishment at the federal level and in states that still use it. His attorney general, Merrick Garland, has temporarily paused executions to review policies and procedures, but federal prosecutors continue to vigorously work to uphold death sentences that have been issued and, in some cases, to pursue new death sentences at trial.
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Associated Press reporter Michael Rubinkam in northeastern Pennsylvania contributed to this report.
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Spyware's threat to democracies Published December 18, 2022 at 2:06 PM PST Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 5:51 NPR's Michel Martin speaks with political scientist Ronald Deibert about the increased use of spyware among autocratic and democratic governments to track and thwart dissent. Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.kvpr.org/2022-12-18/spywares-threat-to-democracies | 2022-12-18 23:53:09 | 0 | https://www.kvpr.org/2022-12-18/spywares-threat-to-democracies |
Deadpool 3 is currently in production and Ryan Reynolds is adding a special superhero to its cast. In a hilarious new video shared to Reynolds' Instagram on Tuesday, the actor revealed that Hugh Jackman, aka Wolverine, would be gracing the our screens for the third installment in the Deadpool saga.
The video sees a forlorn Reynolds, who apologizes for not attending Disney's D23 conference earlier this month. Debating over how to appease the franchise's fans -- and top the last two Deadpool movies -- Reynolds said he had to do some serious soul-searching before making the big announcement.
"Hey, everyone, we’re extremely sad to have missed D23, but we’ve been working very hard on the next Deadpool film for a good long while now," Reynolds says in the video. "I’ve had to really search my soul on this one. His first appearance in the MCU obviously needs to feel special. We need to stay true to the character, find new depth, motivation, meaning. Every Deadpool needs to stand out and stand apart. It’s been an incredible challenge that has forced me to reach down deep inside. And I…I have nothing. Yeah, just completely empty up here. And terrifying. But we did have one idea."
It's then that the X-Men actor walks by, cluing fans in on what Reynolds has up his sleeve.
"Hey, Hugh, you want to play Wolverine one more time?" he asks as Jackman walks past in the background.
"Yeah, sure, Ryan," Jackman nonchalantly replies. The video ends with Whitney Houston’s "I Will Always Love You" -- dubbed in the video as "I will always love Hugh."
A "Coming Hughn" teaser then flashes across the screen before the Deadpool logo appears, this time sliced up by Wolverine’s claws. In the video, Reynolds also included a release date for the highly anticipated film, informing fans that Deadpool 3 is slated to hit theaters Sept. 6 2024.
"Hard keeping my mouth sewn shut about this one. ⚔️," he captioned the clip.
Reynolds followed up the announcement with a second video featuring Jackman, in which they claimed they would answer some fan questions. "Quick explainer video that tackles… 1) Timeline questions 2) Logan canon 3) MCU FAQ 4) Whether we can do this all day or not.
However, they didn't actually settle much beyond the timing of the character's death, which was shown in the final 2017 installment of the Wolverine trilogy. "Logan takes place in 2029. Totally separate thing. Logan died in Logan," Reynolds said. "Not touching that."
"What actually happens in our film," the Deadpool star continued -- except that music drowned out what he and Jackman went on to say, keeping fans just as clueless to the plot as before.
Deadpool's entrance into the Marvel Cinematic Universe was confirmed last January. In an interview with Collider, Marvel Studio President Kevin Feige confirmed a third Reynolds-led Deadpool flick, something that had been uncertain following 20th Century Fox's sale to Disney.
In addition to confirming the movie, Feige noted that it will maintain its R-rating, though other MCU films are rated PG-13.
Sisters Lizzie Molyneux-Logelin and Wendy Molyneux are behind the script with Reynolds overseeing, Feige noted at the time.
"It will be rated R and we are working on a script right now, and Ryan’s overseeing a script right now," he shared. "Again, a very different type of character in the MCU, and Ryan is a force of nature, which is just awesome to see him bring that character to life."
Deadpool first premiered in 2016 and was followed by Deadpool 2 two years later.
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(THE CONVERSATION) Each year, about 3,400 U.S. infants die suddenly and unexpectedly while sleeping, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. On Oct. 12, 2022, SciLine interviewed Dr. Rachel Moon, professor of pediatrics at the University of Virginia and the chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Task Force on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Moon discussed the best ways for babies to sleep safely and the recent media reports heralding a study on “the cause” of SIDS.
Below are some highlights from the discussion. Answers have been edited for brevity and clarity.
What is SIDS?
Rachel Moon: It stands for sudden infant death syndrome, and it is a term that describes when babies die suddenly and unexpectedly. It has been superseded by a more comprehensive term called sudden and unexpected infant death, which encompasses SIDS and then other sleep-related deaths (such as accidental suffocation) and deaths that occur when a baby is sleeping or in a sleep environment.
What exactly causes these babies to die?
Rachel Moon: Ultimately what happens is that, for most babies, there is a lack of arousal. They can’t wake up to respond when they are not getting enough oxygen or there’s too much carbon dioxide in their system. This is not something that you can see in a lab test or blood test or any kind of test. We only find out when the baby has died.
What is the safest way for babies to sleep, and why?
Rachel Moon: We want every baby to sleep on their back on a surface that is firm and flat, which means not inclined, and safety-approved. So, ideally a crib, a bassinet, a playpen or another product that is approved by the CPSC, the Consumer Product Safety Commission. And then nothing should be in that area but the baby. We also want babies to be in a smoke-free environment and ideally to get as much human milk, breast milk, as possible.
What sleeping situations are dangerous for babies?
Rachel Moon: Babies should never, ever, ever sleep on couches, sofas or stuffed armchairs.
What is known about the safety of letting a baby nap in a sling or baby carrier?
Rachel Moon: The thing that we worry about is that when a baby is in that kind of device, the baby’s body position can be such that it blocks their airway or that their face is up against something that can obstruct their airway.
So it’s fine for the baby to be in a carrier or a sling, but we recommend that the baby be upright so that the head and neck are straight and that the airway is straight. And then we also recommend that the baby’s head and neck be above the top of the carrier so that you can always see the baby’s face and that there’s no obstruction of the nose and the mouth.
What is known about the safety of letting a baby nap in a car seat?
Rachel Moon: If you are traveling, a car seat is absolutely the safest place for your baby to be. However, when you get to where you’re going, then it is best if you take the baby out of the car seat and then put the baby on a flat, firm surface.
When babies are at an incline, it’s actually harder for them to keep their airway straight. Their heads are really big and heavy for the size of their bodies. And so it takes a lot more work when they are at an angle than if they’re flat on their back. They can develop muscle fatigue, and that can actually be dangerous for them. … There is actually some really compelling biomechanical data that led to the CPSC, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, restricting and hopefully banning inclined sleep products such as rockers and similar products.
What is the evidence on the safety of ‘co-sleeping,’ where babies sleep in bed with their parents?
Rachel Moon: The safest place for your baby to sleep is in a crib or bassinet or another safety-approved device that is next to your bed. We know that babies who sleep in the same bed as their parents are at higher risk for death.
We recommend for the space to be right next to your bed because that makes it easy for you to turn and pick up the baby or comfort the baby or bring the baby into bed for feeding. If you do bring the baby into the bed for feeding, that’s fine. But when you or the baby gets ready to fall asleep, then just move the baby back into the crib.
What should parents and other caregivers know about the recent headlines claiming a study had found ‘the cause’ of SIDS?
Rachel Moon: These researchers – they looked at dried blood samples. And these are the tests that are done on your baby when your baby is born to look for genetic diseases.
They took these dried blood samples and looked for a particular chemical that’s in the body called butyrylcholinesterase. And they found it to be at a different level in babies who died from SIDS than babies who did not die from SIDS … While I think it’s an interesting result, and while it may lead to other tests and other studies, at this point, it is not the be-all and end-all.
We don’t have a test that can diagnose who is going to die from SIDS and who’s not. And so you still have to follow the safe sleep guidelines.
Watch the full interview to hear about how to prevent SIDS.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
1-2-0
(one, two, zero)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
1-2-0
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Survey finds 60% of covered entities and 72% of their vendors believe today's third-party risk management practices are not effective: new guidance provides a consistent set of practices to reduce cyber risk for the health industry
FRISCO, Texas, July 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Health 3rd Party Trust (Health3PT) Initiative today announced the release of the Health3PT Recommended Practices & Implementation Guide, a key deliverable in its mission to solve the third party cyber risk problem in the healthcare industry. The Health3PT Recommended Practices & Implementation Guide is the result of collaboration among a council representing the nation's leading healthcare organizations and provides an instructional framework of actionable steps organizations can take to ensure due diligence and due care throughout the healthcare ecosystem—while improving effectiveness, reducing inefficiencies, and leading the way for standardization in Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM).
There is a wide range of TPRM practices adopted across the healthcare industry. Many of these are decades old and adopted from processes used by other industries, making them ill-equipped to meet the modern challenges presented by adopting new technology innovations such as cloud and AI in the healthcare industry and the ensuing cyber threats that follow. These numerous and outdated TPRM approaches result in inconsistent and unclear risk management outcomes, as evidenced by vendor-related security events and breaches of PHI and other sensitive Information by business associates.
An industry survey conducted by Health3PT confirms the challenges facing current healthcare TPRM processes and reveals that both covered entities and vendors are overwhelmed. Sixty-eight percent of covered entities and 79% of vendors believe the current TPRM process is inefficient. Vendors experience audit fatigue from the sheer volume and variability of proprietary security questionnaires they receive from their customers, and covered entities can't keep pace with the volume of questionnaire responses they receive. The legacy process is a resource and productivity drain for the healthcare industry, and neither covered entities (60%) nor vendors (72%) see the status quo as an effective process to prevent data breaches.
The survey found the aspects of TPRM that covered entities are most dissatisfied with are: Keeping pace with the volume of security assessments they receive (50%); Getting vendors to address and fix identified information security deficiencies (48%); Excessive turnaround time for assessments (43%); and Receiving transparent assurances from vendors to satisfy the request the first time (38%).
"The average cost of a healthcare data breach is around $10 million, including significant judgments that have been recently levied against organizations for violations of HIPAA and PHI privacy rules," said John Houston, VP Information Security and Privacy, UPMC. "Our experience is that 90% of breaches within healthcare involve a third party or a vendor that has a provider's data. At the end of the day, we're all spending a lot of money on third-party risk management, and we're not necessarily sure that we're getting our value out of the money spent."
The aspects of TPRM that vendors are most dissatisfied with are: Customers unwilling to accept third-party validated assessments and certifications in lieu of proprietary control questionnaires (47%); Handling the variability of questionnaires and audits (39%); and The resources and time required to meet compliance requirements (27%).
"Smaller organizations are challenged with staffing and affordability. What can we do with the number of people we have within a reasonable budget? So, the fewer questionnaires, the better," said Glen Braden, Principal, CFO, and CIO, Attest Health Care Advisors. "We embraced the HITRUST standard years ago, and we expect our clients to accept it as well because we don't have the staff to answer hundreds of separate questionnaires. At the end of the day, it's about providing reasonable assurance. But we have to be able to do it in a manner that is affordable, that can scale, and responds to the needs of our customers."
The survey was conducted in coordination with the Health3PT Third Party Risk Virtual Summit, an industry-wide virtual event held on June 7, 2023. Over 400 experts in the healthcare third-party risk management community across covered entities and vendor organizations participated in panel discussions to transparently share their concerns on the inadequacies of current healthcare TPRM practices and work toward new, innovative solutions.
Organizations that implement the recommended practices will meet both the spirit and the letter of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule requirements regarding the provision of 'satisfactory assurances' from their third parties as well as help qualify for potential mitigations from regulatory fines and penalties.
Six recommended practices are addressed in the Health3PT Recommended Practices & Implementation Guide:
- Concise contract language tying financial terms to a vendor's transparency, assurance, and collaboration on security matters
- Risk tiering strategy that drives the frequency of reviews, the extent of due diligence, and the urgency of remediation
- Appropriate, reliable, and consistent assurances about the vendor's security capabilities
- Follow-up through to closure of identified gaps and corrective action plans
- Recurring updates of assurance of the vendor's security capabilities
- Metrics and reporting on organization-wide vendor risks
At the summit, Health3PT also announced the availability of its Vendor Directory. Over 70 organizations have submitted applications to be qualified and listed in the first release of the directory. The tool makes it easy for healthcare organizations to identify trustworthy vendors that meet their information risk management requirements based on their HITRUST certification status to streamline the vendor selection and contracting process. The directory is now available at health3pt.org/vendor-directory.
To date, over 150 organizations have joined Health3PT. The Initiative is dedicated to bringing standards, credible assurance models, and automated workflows to solve the third-party risk management problem and advance the mission to safeguard sensitive information.
Download the Health3PT Recommended Practices & Implementation Guide and the Health3PT "The State of Healthcare Third Party Cyber Risk Management" Survey: https://health3pt.org/resources
Access the Health3PT Vendor Directory: https://health3pt.org/vendor-directory
Register to attend the Health3PT Vendor Risk Management Summit, October 2, 2023 in Grapevine, TX: https://info.health3pt.org/health3pt-summit-registration-october
To join the Health3PT Initiative and for more details, visit: https://health3pt.org
About the Health3PT Initiative
Representing leaders from healthcare providers, payers, and services, the Health3PT Initiative strives to share best practices in managing third-party risk to deliver on their organizations' mission of safeguarding sensitive information. By driving collaboration with industry and government, the Health3PT Initiative is enabling a standardized approach that organizations can adopt to effectively and efficiently manage third-party risk within their organization and to protect the entire third-party ecosystem. Health3PT is supported by HITRUST, the industry-recognized risk and compliance standards and certification body, and CORL Technologies, the healthcare third-party risk management services and solutions provider.
Contacts
Leslie Kesselring
Kesselring Communications for Health3PT
leslie@kesscomm.com
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Don't pour out your cups of ambition just yet, we still might get that long-rumored 9 to 5 sequel!
ET's Nischelle Turner spoke with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin at the Los Angeles premiere of their new film, 80 For Brady, on Tuesday, and the pair dished on the possibility of reuniting with Dolly Parton for a follow-up to their 1980 workplace comedy.
"We always are holding that secret little sequel," Tomlin teased, giving it "50-50" odds. "We're trying to make it happen before one of us checks out, so we hope we pull it off."
"We haven't been able to get a script that we were satisfied with," Fonda admitted. If you don't have the script, you can't start."
The trio had a mini reunion on the series finale of Fonda and Tomlin's Netflix comedy, Grace and Frankie, last year. However, Parton's brief appearance as an angel wasn't nearly enough for fans -- the actresses themselves included!
"Dolly is so much fun to be with," Fonda raved. "She has such a great sense of humor and such a deep soul. She's very smart and very, very generous and kind and she loves her fans so much. I don't know I've, I've really- I love her and admire here and respect her very much."
In the meantime, Fonda and Tomlin will be teaming up yet again for a new dark comedy, Moving On, in which they play estranged friends who reunite at an old pal's funeral and plot to take revenge on her widower.
"I'd done a couple of movies with Paul Weitz and I just loved him, and so we were sitting on the set of Grace and Frankie, and I said, 'I'm gonna call Paul and tell him to write a movie for us,'" Tomlin recalled of how the project came together. "I mean, 80 For Brady was a thing of the future, and we were gonna have to wrap up Grace and Frankie soon and I don't want to have to leave you just abruptly."
Summing it up simply, she added, "We've been friends for a long time and we like to work together."
80 For Brady is in theaters Feb. 3.
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On the day our state is scheduled to be visited by the most vile, corrupt, incorrigible and contemptible human being this country has ever voted into public office, I thought it would be appropriate to remind the Star’s readers of the shrewd quote delivered by U.S. Representative and Vice Chair of the U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, Liz Cheney, during the hearing on July 21 when she quoted Ronald Reagan’s most ardent ally, Margaret Thatcher: “Let it never be said that the dedication of those who love freedom is less than the determination of those who would destroy it.”
Tim Kennedy
Oro Valley
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PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On November 21, 22, and 23, 2022, Crossroads Treatment Center's (CTC/Crossroads) Community Health Program hosted its first-holiday giveaway, consisting of 45 gift baskets, which included a 10-pound turkey and an array of traditional "sides" found at traditional Thanksgiving dinners. The program was held at the Center's clinics located at 504 South Street, 2820 West Girard Avenue, and 2307 North Broad Street. The recipients of the baskets were selected community residents and patients enrolled in CTC's Community Health Program.
The Community Health Program was created in Philadelphia, as a part of Governor Tom Wolf's "Centers of Excellence" initiative, in 2016, and is aimed at addressing the state's rising crisis related to the use of opioids and other legal and illegal drugs. The governor's position is that "Centers of Excellence have proved themselves to be a critical part of our efforts to improve treatment for people suffering with opioid use disorders. It is critical that we continue to do everything we can to combat this epidemic and, with these centers, individuals suffering from OUD (opioid use disorders) have access to treatment in their communities for the whole person, instead of just the disease."
Structured in keeping with the University of Pennsylvania's IMPaCT (Individualized Management for Patient-Centered Targets) model, the Community Health Program identifies how patients may be impacted by the social determinants of health in their neighborhoods and works to resolve such issues. Additionally, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania Health System have partnered with Philadelphia community members and health system leadership to develop a dynamic, evidence-based, nationally recognized model.
Part of that process demanded that CTC create Community Health Professionals, comprised of members of its management staff, charged with engaging the company's most vulnerable patients by assisting them in eliminating obstacles that currently prevent them from getting the treatment they require and deserve.
As Jessica Pointer, the manager for CTC's program, commented, "The Community Health Professionals canvass our communities, attend meetings and programs, and partner with organizations to connect patients to resources of which they may not be aware. They have a special ability to bring information to people and places where it is needed most. Our program is driven by those "frontline agents of change."
Working well beyond the treatment standards, the team is empowered to close previously unaddressed gaps, customizing courses of treatment based on the specific needs and requirements of the individual client. As a result, they are able to refer clients to resources and connective services that ensure that their journey towards recovery will be as free as possible from impediments. This is especially significant when attempting to improve the outcomes for high-risk clients.
Crossroads is committed to helping people to recover from their addictions and to regain control of their lives. In that regard, CTC closed out this week's holiday celebrations by having staff and managers volunteer to assist at ODAAT's Reverend Henry T. Wells and Chief Rooney Thanksgiving Day Community Dinner. The dinner is an annual event, now in its 23rd year, and was held at the ODAAT AFCOM Center, located at 2432 W. Lehigh Avenue. Featured at the event were master of ceremonies Evangelist Chip Mitchell, a special performance by Soldiers for Recovery, and a host of civic-minded, socially conscious, supporters and volunteers.
For additional information, please contact A. Bruce Crawley, at 267-243-2500 or abcrawley@m3mpr.com.
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Hard-line conservatives are fuming over the debt deal compromise being negotiated between Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and the White House — and they’re warning about collapsing GOP support.
Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.) said he was “concerned about rumors” he was hearing about a deal that would raise the debt ceiling higher than what House Republicans proposed without getting more concessions in return.
He offered a stark prediction of the consequences.
“If that were true, that would absolutely collapse the Republican majority for this debt ceiling increase,” Good said, adding the rumors he has heard mean the deal would be “less than desirable, I believe, to the majority of Republicans.”
Multiple lawmakers on Thursday told The Hill they’d seen proposals from the negotiations to raise the debt ceiling up to $4 trillion, which they expect would stretch beyond the 2024 elections.
Reports in the New York Times and Washington Post Thursday night said negotiators were getting closer to a deal that would limit spending more on domestic discretionary spending than defense. They also said negotiators were working out a partial clawback of an $80 billion boost to the IRS for enforcement, in order to prevent deeper limitations on the domestic side.
A source familiar with the negotiation told The Hill that there is no agreement yet on top line spending levels, nor is there one on a one- or two-year extension of the debt limit. The deal cannot come together, the source said, until there is an agreement on non-defense discretionary spending versus defense spending.
But another source familiar with the negotiations said the two sides are “making progress,” though IRS issues are still being negotiated. The White House wants to make sure customer service and enforcement priorities are protected, “even if there is a small haircut or funding is moved around.”
White House spokesperson Michael Kikukaws said in a statement that Biden is “fighting hard” for IRS funding.
Raising the debt limit by up to $4 trillion would be significantly higher than the $1.5 trillion figure that Republicans paired with around $4.8 trillion in deficit reductions over 10 years in a bill they passed in April.
When Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) saw those figures, he was not happy.
“It’s idiotic to accept anything less,” than the House GOP bill, said Norman, who saw a list of what negotiators could be considering from Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.).
“From what I’ve seen, watering it down is just not the answer,” Norman .
“He doesn’t have the 218 [majority] unless he gets Democrats,” Norman said, referring to McCarthy. “If he gets Democrats, that’s a telltale sign.”
The party’s right flank had lined up behind the GOP debt limit bill in April, with McCarthy winning support from some members who had never before voted for a debt limit increase. But while most Republicans saw that bill as a starting point for negotiations with Biden and expected compromise, many now insist that the GOP “hold the line” behind the bill and resist significant compromise.
As negotiators signal they are inching closer to a deal, some Republicans are starting to get more direct with their criticism of leadership.
“There’s no reason for us to be here having discussions or negotiations,” Good said, calling on the Senate to take up the House GOP bill.
McCarthy noted on Thursday that any compromise will not please everyone.
“I don’t think everybody is going to be happy at the end of the day,” McCarthy told reporters. “That’s not how this system works.”
And Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.), one of McCarthy’s deputies in negotiations with the White House, brushed off worries from conservatives based on the rumors.
“I would love to know the contours of the deal that everybody knows,” McHenry told reporters when asked Thursday about discontent among conservatives. “Everybody’s trying to do a fine job of figuring out the finer details of this. But nothing’s done, and we’re in a sensitive phase with sensitive issues that remain.”
Those in the right flank do not expect measures to block President Biden’s student loan forgiveness or to rescind a major boost to IRS funds — both of which were in the House GOP debt limit bill — to be in a debt limit compromise.
“What I’m hearing is that they punted student loans. What I’m hearing is that they’re not engaging and making the changes necessary to the Inflation Reduction Act, which has basically got a $1.2 trillion price tag. What I’m hearing is that they’re not talking about getting rid of the IRS,” Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) said.
And Roy is underwhelmed with what he thinks might be in it.
“What I’m hearing is you got work requirements and some spending cuts,” he said. “You want to come sell that to me while also increasing the debt ceiling by another 4 trillion? … That certainly doesn’t get me excited.”
Thirty-five members of the hard-line House Freedom Caucus and their allies wrote a letter to McCarthy Thursday expressing their displeasure with where they see a deal going and suggesting that McCarthy add more demands like border security measures to debt talks — something the Speaker has previously rejected.
That letter could represent a baseline number of members who will not vote for a compromise deal.
The prevailing wisdom among Republicans is that McCarthy will have to win support of the overwhelming majority of Republicans in order to keep the support of his conference.
The fact that any member has the ability to call a “motion to vacate the chair” to force a vote on removing McCarthy hangs over the Speaker’s head — though right-wingers repeatedly insist they are not talking about using that option.
McCarthy’s problems in securing a compromise may not stop in the House.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) threatened Thursday morning to use procedural moves to slow down passage of any debt bill in the Senate if it does not have “substantial” spending cuts.
“I will use every procedural tool at my disposal to impede a debt-ceiling deal that doesn’t contain substantial spending and budgetary reforms. I fear things are moving in that direction. If they do, that proposal will not face smooth sailing in the Senate,” Lee tweeted.
Mike Lillis and Brett Samuels contributed.
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WASHINGTON — House Republicans flailed through a second day of multiple balloting Wednesday, unable to elect Rep. Kevin McCarthy as House speaker or to come up with a new strategy to end the political chaos that has tarnished the start of their new majority.
For a fifth time, Republicans nominated McCarthy as their speaker as the House plunged deeper into disarray. That came moments after the fourth vote showed 20 conservative holdouts still refusing to support him, unchanged from the previous time around. He fell far short of the 218 votes typically needed to win the gavel.
“Let cooler, more rational heads prevail,” said Rep. Warren Davidson, R-Ohio, a conservative aligned with the far-right Freedom Caucus who nevertheless nominated McCarthy.
The California Republican vowed to keep fighting despite losing in multiple rounds of voting that threw the new majority into tumult a day earlier. Animated private discussions broke out on the chamber floor between McCarthy supporters and detractors searching for an endgame.
The House gaveled in at noon, and a McCarthy ally quickly re-nominated him for the job with a rousing speech designed to peel off detractors.
“Sure, it looks messy,” said Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis. But democracy is messy, he said. “The American people are in charge.”
McCarthy himself entered the chamber saying, “We’ll have another vote.”
But the dynamic proved no different from Day One, as Democrats re-upped their leader, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, for speaker, and a right-flank leader from the Freedom Caucus twice offered a challenge to McCarthy — nominating Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., in another history making moment. Both Jeffries and Donalds are Black.
“This country needs leadership,” said Rep. Chip Roy, the Texas Republican noting the first time in history two Black Americans were nominated for the high office, and lawmakers from both parties rose to applaud.
It was the first time in 100 years that a nominee for House speaker could not take the gavel on the first vote, but McCarthy appeared undeterred. Instead, he vowed to fight to the finish, encouraged, he said, by former President Donald Trump to end the disarray and pull the Republican Party together.
Early Wednesday, Trump publicly urged Republicans to vote for McCarthy: “CLOSE THE DEAL, TAKE THE VICTORY,” he wrote on his social media site. He added: “REPUBLICANS, DO NOT TURN A GREAT TRIUMPH INTO A GIANT & EMBARRASSING DEFEAT.”
The House tried again on Wednesday after Tuesday’s stalemate essentially forced all other business to a standstill, waiting on Republicans to elect a speaker.
“Today, is that the day I wanted to have? No,” McCarthy told reporters late Tuesday at the Capitol after a series of closed-door meetings. Asked if he would drop out, McCarthy said, “It’s not going to happen.”
President Joe Biden, departing the White House for a bipartisan event in Kentucky with Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell, said “the rest of the world is looking” at the scene on the House floor.
“I just think it’s really embarrassing it’s taking so long,” Biden said. “I have no idea” who will prevail.
The disorganized start to the new Congress pointed to difficulties ahead with Republicans now in control of the House.
Tensions flared among the new House majority as their campaign promises stalled out. Without a speaker, the House cannot fully form — swearing in its members, naming its committee chairmen, engaging in floor proceedings and launching investigations of the Biden administration.
Not since 1923 has a speaker’s election gone to multiple ballots, and the longest and most grueling fight for the gavel started in late 1855 and dragged out for two months, with 133 ballots, during debates over slavery in the run-up to the Civil War.
“Kevin McCarthy is not going to be a speaker,” declared Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., one of the holdouts.
A new generation of conservative Republicans, many aligned with Trump’s Make America Great Again agenda, want to upend business as usual in Washington, and were committed to stopping McCarthy’s rise without concessions to their priorities.
As the spectacle of voting dragged on, McCarthy’s backers implored the holdouts to fall in line for the California Republican.
“We all came here to get things done,” the second-ranking Republican, Rep. Steve Scalise, said in a speech nominating McCarthy for the vote and urging his colleagues to drop their protest.
Railing against Democratic President Joe Biden’s agenda, Scalise, himself a possible GOP compromise choice, said, “We can’t start fixing those problems until we elect Kevin McCarthy our next speaker.”
The standoff over McCarthy has been building since Republicans won the House majority in the midterm elections. While the Senate remains in Democratic hands, barely, House Republicans are eager to confront Biden after two years of the Democrats controlling both houses of Congress. The conservative Freedom Caucus led the opposition to McCarthy, believing he’s neither conservative enough nor tough enough to battle Democrats.
To win support, McCarthy has already agreed to many of the demands of the Freedom Caucus, who have been agitating for rules changes and other concessions that give rank-and-file members more influence in the legislative process. He has been here before, having bowed out of the speakers race in 2015 when he failed to win over conservatives.
“Everything’s on the table,” said ally Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C. — except, he said, having McCarthy step aside. “Not at all. That is not on the table.”
Democrats enthusiastically nominated Jeffries, who is taking over as party leader, as their choice for speaker. He won the most votes overall, 212.
If McCarthy could win 213 votes, and then persuade the remaining naysayers to simply vote present, he would be able to lower the threshold required under the rules to have the majority.
It’s a strategy former House speakers, including outgoing Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Republican Speaker John Boehner had used when they confronted opposition, winning the gavel with fewer than 218 votes.
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Man shot by Ludlow police dies in the hospital
Police in VT shoot and kill armed suspect after high-speed chase
A man shot by a police officer in the Vermont town of Ludlow last month has died, state police said Tuesday.
Michael Mills, 36, who was shot Aug. 15, died Aug. 25 at a New Hampshire hospital, state police announced. They did not say why there was a delay in announcing his death. An autopsy determined that Mills died of a gunshot wound to the head.
SHOOTING IN BURLINGTON'S CITY HALL PARK IN VERMONT LEAVES 1 MAN DEAD
The shot was fired by Ludlow Police Officer Zachary Paul, 21, who joined the department in July after graduating from the Vermont Police Academy. The shooting followed a series of events, including a vehicle pursuit that ended when Mills hit a tree. When officers tried to get him out of the car, one officer yelled, "Gun." Mills was shot once in the head.
A handgun was found in the car. Mills did not appear to have fired a round during the encounter, but a subsequent examination of the gun indicated that it might have malfunctioned, police said.
Once the state police investigation has been completed, the case will be turned over to the offices of the Vermont attorney general and the Orange County state’s attorney, which will each determine whether the shooting was justified.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 23 points, had a season-high 13 assists and rebounded his intentionally missed shot with a second left for his fourth-triple double of the season as the NBA-leading Milwaukee Bucks beat the Washington Wizards 117-111 on Sunday night.
Jevon Carter added 20 points while shooting 6 of 10 from beyond the arc, and Jrue Holiday scored 19 in Milwaukee’s victory a night after a home loss to Philadelphia snapped a 16-game win streak.
It was just about over when Antetokounmpo dribbled to the basket and lightly tossed the ball off the backboard to himself for his 10th rebound.
“I was thinking about scoring the ball, but I feel like in those situations it’s best to kind of keep the ball,” Antetokounmpo said. “But yeah, I just try to play the game smart and kind of stole one.”
The Bucks made 22 of their 49 attempts beyond the arc, the most allowed by the Wizards this season, while moving 1 1/2 games in front of Boston for first in the Eastern Conference.
“We feel like we’ve got a lot of depth,” said Milwaukee coach Mike Budenholzer, who had six players hit multiple 3s. “We’ve got a lot of guys that are good shooters that can get hot from the 3-point line. So that’s part of a good team and being able to play on back-to-backs and make it through the season and be prepared for the playoffs.”
Bradley Beal scored 33 points for the Wizards, who remain 10th in the East and in line for the final play-in tournament spot. Kristaps Porzingis added 24 points and 14 rebounds for Washington, which lost for the second time at home in two nights.
“I’m happy with how hard we played and the product we’re giving our fans,” Porzingis said after Washington overcame an early 17-point deficit to make the game competitive. “Even though we had these two tough losses, I think it’s something positive we can take from these games.”
The Wizards gradually whittled away at the Bucks’ 11-point halftime lead and finally went in front following a during a run that stretched across the late third and early fourth quarter.
The Bucks responded by making five consecutive baskets, including two 3s each from Carter and Grayson Allen to retake the lead. Then Allen and Joe Ingles hit from beyond the arc again during another 12-4, game-sealing stretch.
“It was just taking the ones that was there,” Carter said. “It felt like when I was bringing it down, they just kept backing up, so I just was going to be aggressive in taking the shot.”
TIP-INS
Bucks: Rested forward Khris Middleton (right knee) after he played 27 minutes in Saturday’s loss to Philadelphia. … Had two baskets before halftime that were originally called 2-pointers upgraded to 3-pointers following video review.
Wizards: Sat F Kyle Kuzma after he injured his right knee in a collision in Saturday’s overtime loss to Toronto. “We’ve just got to give it a day or two to calm down,” said Wizards coach Wes Unseld Jr. … Unseld challenged Porzingis’ foul on Antetokounmpo with 8:19 to play in the third quarter, but it was upheld.
GORAN PLACES
The Bucks signed 14-year veteran Goran Dragic on Saturday as their third point guard, and on Sunday Budenholzer weighed in.
“To get someone of Goran’s quality, we feel very, very fortunate,” Budenholzer said. “It doesn’t have anything to do with the (regular season) schedule. It’s the playoffs and having your best team, and your deepest team. And to have as much coverage as possible for every scenario.”
The 36-year-old Dragic averaged 15.4 minutes, 6.7 points and 2.7 assists in 51 games before the Chicago Bulls waived him on Tuesday.
UP NEXT
Bucks: Visit Orlando on Tuesday
Wizards: Visit Detroit on Tuesday
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LEXINGTON, Mass., July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Curis, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRIS), a biotechnology company focused on the development of innovative therapeutics for the treatment of cancer, today announced that on July 5, 2022, the independent Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors of Curis approved the grant of inducement stock options to purchase a total of 873,750 shares of Curis common stock to sixteen new employees, with a grant date of July 5, 2022 (the "Q3 2022 Inducement Grants").
Each of the Q3 2022 Inducement Grants has an exercise price per share equal to the closing price of the Company's common stock on July 5, 2022. Each stock option has a 10 year term and vests over four years, with 25% of the original number of shares underlying the award vesting on the first anniversary of the employee's date of hire and an additional 6.25% of the original number of shares underlying the award vesting on each successive three-month period thereafter, subject to the employee's continued service with the Company through the respective vesting dates. Each stock option was granted as an inducement equity award outside of the Company's Fourth Amended and Restated 2010 Stock Incentive Plan and was made as an inducement material to the employee's acceptance of employment with the Company.
Curis is a biotechnology company focused on the development of innovative therapeutics for the treatment of cancer. In 2015, Curis entered into a collaboration with Aurigene in the areas of immuno-oncology and precision oncology. As part of this collaboration, Curis has exclusive licenses to oral small molecule antagonists of immune checkpoints including the VISTA/PDL1 antagonist CA-170, and the TIM3/PDL1 antagonist CA-327, as well as the IRAK4 kinase inhibitor, emavusertib (CA-4948). Emavusertib is currently undergoing testing in the Phase 1/2 TakeAim Lymphoma trial, in patients with hematologic malignancies, such as non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and other B cell malignancies, both as a monotherapy and in combination with BTK inhibitor ibrutinib, and the Phase 1/2 TakeAim Leukemia trial in patients with acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndrome, for which it has received Orphan Drug Designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The FDA has placed a partial clinical hold on the TakeAim Leukemia and TakeAim Lymphoma trials during which no new patients will be enrolled, and current study participants benefiting from treatment may continue to be treated with emavusertib at doses of 300mg BID or lower. In addition, Curis is engaged in a collaboration with ImmuNext for development of CI-8993, a monoclonal anti-VISTA antibody, which is currently undergoing testing in a Phase 1 trial in patients with solid tumors. Curis is also party to a collaboration with Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, under which Genentech and Roche are commercializing Erivedge® for the treatment of advanced basal cell carcinoma. For more information, visit Curis's website at www.curis.com.
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A USDA-approved genetically-modified tomato hasn’t hit store shelves yet but is already causing quite a stir. Developed by a team of scientists, the juicy veggies are being touted by nutrition experts as being even better than red varieties. In a nutshell, researchers combined snapdragon genes with tomato cell DNA to create a new variety of tomato that’s technically a genetically modified organism (GMO). By doing this, the scientists added a compound called anthocyanins, a group of deep red, purple and blue plant pigments that are part of a class called flavonoids, known for their antioxidant capabilities.
The tomatoes were approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in September 2022, after more than 15 years of development by researchers at Norfolk Plant Sciences. Expected to hit shelves sometime this year, the purple tomatoes feel, smell and taste just like regular red tomatoes — only they’re a different color, inside and out.
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The @USDA_APHIS found that the tomato is unlikely to pose an increased plant pest risk compared to other cultivated tomatoes, & has approved it for planting in the US.
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Nutritional Value of Purple Tomatoes
From ketchup to chili, tomatoes are a staple ingredient in a variety of recipes. When it comes to purple tomatoes, research has shown that they have the same positive health benefits as their red counterparts, but they also have a longer shelf life — possibly up to double that of red tomatoes. Similar to red varieties, purple tomatoes contain calcium, vitamins C & K, folate, beta-carotene and potassium, plus the additional high levels of anthocyanin.
Red tomatoes are naturally high in lycopene, which studies have shown is linked with a decrease in rates of cancer and cardiovascular disease. Purple tomatoes still contain lycopene, as well as added antioxidants in the form of anthocyanins. Basically, in addition to normal nutritional benefits of a red tomato, consumers get the added dose of what you’d find in a serving of blueberries, blackcurrants, acai or pomegranates.
While there aren’t any studies out yet on how humans have benefitted from consuming purple tomatoes, one study done on mice found it drastically extended their life span.
MORE: These easy stuffed tomatoes are a low-carb alternative to cheeseburgers
What To Know About GMOs
Any animal, plant or microbe with lab-altered DNA is considered to be a genetically modified organism, and they’ve been in the food supply for the past two decades. Studied by the FDA and approved as safe for consumption. The FDA claims GMOs, also known as bioengineered foods, aren’t affected in ways that would increase the risk of cancer for either humans or animals. Commonly found U.S.-grown GMOs include corn and soybeans. Oftentimes the GMO is created to resist insect pests or to tolerate herbicides used to kill surrounding weeds.
How To Eat Purple Tomatoes
Health experts routinely recommend eating fruits and vegetables in an array of colors, and purple tomatoes undoubtedly add a jolt of color to any plate. Adding them to your diet is easy. Just swap in purple tomatoes in lieu of red varieties in any recipe that normally calls for them, like marinara bases or tossed on top of salads. Slice them into sandwiches or build a margarita pizza with them. The sky’s the limit.
Would you get excited to try a purple tomato when it hits the shelves? If it feels like too much of a leap, you can always get the same purple-hued fix from eggplants, purple potatoes, red cabbage and more.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Argo Group International Holdings, Ltd. ("Argo" or the "Company") (NYSE: ARGO) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Argo investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of investors that purchased or otherwise acquired Argo common stock between February 13, 2018 and August 9, 2022. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
ARGO investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (1) Argo's reserves were wholly inadequate and its underwriting standards were not prudent as was represented; (ii) Argo had dramatically changed its underwriting policies on certain U.S. construction contracts as far back as 2018; and (iii) these policies were underwritten outside of the Company's "core" business including in certain states and for certain exposures that were far riskier than investors understood and that the Company no longer would service moving forward.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Argo during the relevant time frame, you have until December 20, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Airbnb, Inc. (NASDAQ: ABNB) today announced that the company's third quarter 2022 financial results will be released after market close on Tuesday, November 1, 2022. The company's shareholder letter will be made available on the Airbnb Investor Relations website at https://investors.airbnb.com.
Airbnb will host an audio webcast to discuss its results at 1:30 p.m. PT / 4:30 p.m. ET the same day. The link to the webcast will be made available on the Investor Relations website at https://investors.airbnb.com.
Interested parties can register for the call in advance by visiting https://conferencingportals.com/event/UxGWzHKK. After registering, instructions will be shared on how to join the call.
Following the call, a replay of the webcast will be available on the Airbnb Investor Relations website. A telephonic replay will be also available for three weeks following the call at (800) 770-2030 using conference ID: 24053.
About Airbnb
Airbnb was born in 2007 when two Hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 4 million Hosts who have welcomed more than 1 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, Hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.
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Livent Releases Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2022 Results
Published: Feb. 14, 2023 at 4:05 PM EST|Updated: 3 hours ago
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
-- Strong Fourth Quarter Caps Record Financial Performance in 2022 --
-- Capacity Expansions Expected to Drive 20% Higher Sales Volumes in 2023 --
-- 50% Adjusted EBITDA(1) Growth at Midpoint of 2023 Guidance --
Livent Corporation (NYSE: LTHM) today reported results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2022.
Fourth quarter revenue was $219.4 million, down 5% and up 79% from the third quarter of 2022 and the prior year's quarter, respectively. Reported GAAP net income was $82.7 million, compared to $77.6 million and $7.5 million in the previous quarter and the prior year's quarter, respectively, or 39 cents per diluted share. Adjusted EBITDA was $107.6 million, 3% below the previous quarter and nearly four times higher than the prior year's quarter, and adjusted earnings per diluted share were 40 cents. Continued strength in lithium market conditions and customer demand resulted in higher sequential volumes, the impact of which was partially offset by a less favorable customer mix.
For the full year, Livent reported revenue of $813.2 million, nearly double 2021 results. GAAP net income was $273.5 million, or $1.36 per diluted share, compared to $0.6 million in 2021. Full year Adjusted EBITDA was $366.7 million, over five times higher than the prior year, and adjusted earnings per share were $1.40 per diluted share. This significant improvement was a result of higher average realized prices across all lithium products.
"Livent had another strong performance in the fourth quarter and finished the full year 2022 with record financial results," said Paul Graves, president and chief executive officer of Livent. "We expect to generate higher profitability in 2023 as we build on this performance. This is driven by further expected increases in average realized pricing across our lithium products, as well as higher sales volumes with the first phase of our Argentina expansion coming online during the year."
Capacity Expansion
The Company remains on schedule to deliver its announced capacity expansions. The first 10,000 metric ton expansion of lithium carbonate in Argentina is substantially complete and in the process of starting up, with commercial volumes expected in the second half of 2023. Livent is also on track to add its second 10,000 metric ton expansion of lithium carbonate in Argentina by the end of 2023, with first production from this second expansion expected in early 2024. At year-end 2023, the Company expects nameplate lithium carbonate capacity to be double that of 2022, approaching 40,000 metric tons.
Outside of Argentina, the Company continues to qualify product with customers at its new 5,000 metric ton lithium hydroxide line in Bessemer City and will deliver commercial volumes in 2023. Livent remains the largest producer of lithium hydroxide in the United States with a combined 15,000 metric tons in domestic capacity. Construction has also begun on a 15,000 metric ton lithium hydroxide facility at a new location in the province of Zhejiang, China with first commercial volumes expected in 2024. At year-end 2023, Livent expects to have a total of 45,000 metric tons of global lithium hydroxide capacity, inclusive of the new facility.
The development of Nemaska Lithium, an integrated lithium hydroxide project located in Québec, Canada in which Livent is a 50% owner, continues to advance. A feasibility study is being finalized and is expected to be published in the first half of 2023. Livent continues to provide significant technical and commercial expertise to Nemaska Lithium and has been appointed to engage in sales and marketing efforts on its behalf. Livent expects that Nemaska Lithium will be in a position to announce initial customer agreements in the first half of 2023 and commercial sales are expected to begin in 2025.
Guidance and Outlook (1)
Livent expects a meaningful improvement in 2023 financial performance following record 2022 results. For the full year, Livent projects revenue to be in the range of $1,000 million to $1,100 million and Adjusted EBITDA to be in the range of $510 million to $580 million, representing growth of roughly 30% and 50%, respectively, at the midpoints versus the prior year. This guidance is based on 20% higher total volumes sold on an LCE (2) basis versus 2022. Additionally, the company expects to achieve higher average realized pricing across its portfolio of lithium products, partially offset by higher anticipated costs.
The table below provides additional estimates for select financial items:
Supplemental Information
In this press release, Livent uses the financial measures Adjusted EBITDA, Diluted adjusted after-tax earnings per share, Adjusted tax rate, and Adjusted cash from operations. These terms are not calculated in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). Definitions of these terms, as well as a reconciliation to the most directly comparable financial measure calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP, are provided on our website: ir.livent.com. Such reconciliations are also set forth in the financial tables that accompany this press release.
About Livent
For nearly eight decades, Livent has partnered with its customers to safely and sustainably use lithium to power the world. Livent is one of only a small number of companies with the capability, reputation, and know-how to produce high-quality finished lithium compounds that are helping meet the growing demand for lithium. The Company has one of the broadest product portfolios in the industry, powering demand for green energy, modern mobility, the mobile economy, and specialized innovations, including light alloys and lubricants. Livent has a combined workforce of approximately 1,350 full-time, part-time, temporary, and contract employees and operates manufacturing sites in the United States, England, China and Argentina. For more information, visit Livent.com.
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Such forward-looking statements are based on our current views and assumptions regarding future events, future business conditions and the outlook for the Company based on currently available information. There are important factors that could cause Livent's actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements to differ materially from the results, level of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements, including a decline in the growth in demand for electric vehicles using high performance lithium compounds; constraints for EV assemblies and lithium-ion battery manufacturing such as restrictions on access to semiconductor chips and availability of other raw materials could indirectly impact lithium demand; increased supply chain disruptions in the electric vehicle manufacturing industry; risks relating to Livent's capacity expansion efforts and current production; not having established proven or probable mineral reserves, as defined by the Securities and Exchange Commission; difficulty integrating future acquisitions; the success of Livent's research and development efforts; volatility in the price for performance lithium compounds or other battery materials, and the risk that increasing prices become demand destructive in our key end markets (as the principal driver of our higher guidance range is higher expected realized pricing); adverse global economic and weather conditions that may result in adverse impact on supply chains and customer demand, including a global recession or regional recessions; competition; the potential development and adoption of battery technologies that do not rely on performance lithium compounds as an input or that require a lesser amount of performance lithium compounds; quarterly and annual fluctuations of our operating results; liquidity and access to credit; the conditional conversion feature of the 2025 Notes; the lack of sufficient cash flow from our business to pay our debt; risks inherent in international operations and sales, including political, financial and operational risks specific to Argentina, China and other countries where Livent has active operations; the effects of war, such as the conflict in Ukraine; physical risks to our operations and those of our suppliers, including natural disasters, epidemics, pandemics and other catastrophic events; the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences; reduced customer demand, or delays in growth of customer demand, for higher performance lithium compounds; customer concentration and the delay or loss of, or significant reduction in orders from, large customers; failure to satisfy customer and government quality standards; increases in the price of energy and raw materials or broader global inflationary pressures; employee attraction and retention; union relations; cybersecurity breaches; our ability to protect our intellectual property rights; risks related to our business partners not operating in accordance with their business plans and failing to fulfill their obligations; risks related to whether the information in our feasibility studies is current; ESG risks, including events outside our control that could prevent us from achieving our sustainability goals; not having established proven or probable mineral reserves, as defined by the Securities and Exchange Commission; legal and regulatory proceedings; including any shareholder lawsuits; compliance with environmental, health and safety laws; changes in tax laws; risks related to ownership of our common stock, including price fluctuations and lack of dividends; as well as the other factors described under the caption entitled "Risk Factors" in Livent's 2021 Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 28, 2022 and our subsequent Forms 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Although Livent believes the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, Livent cannot guarantee future results, level of activity, performance or achievements. Moreover, neither Livent nor any other person assumes responsibility for the accuracy and completeness of any of these forward-looking statements. Livent is under no duty to update any of these forward-looking statements after the date of this news release to conform its prior statements to actual results or revised expectations.
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Lithium Carbonate Equivalents.
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LISBON, Portugal (AP) — The head of a lay committee looking into historic child sex abuse in the Portuguese Catholic Church said Tuesday the problem in the past had been “widespread” and on some occasions reached “truly endemic” proportions.
Pedro Strecht, a psychiatrist who heads Portugal's Independent Committee for the Study of Child Abuse in the Catholic Church, said his panel has compiled a list of 424 alleged victims. Before the committee started its work in January, senior church officials had claimed that only a handful of cases had occurred.
The panel, which was created by the Portuguese Bishops Conference, is looking into alleged abuse cases from 1950 to the present involving minors aged two to 17. It is due to publish a report on Jan. 31.
Information obtained so far indicates that “a significant number” of Catholic Church priests and members allegedly have committed sex abuses since 1950, Strecht told a news conference in Lisbon, adding that “the problem not only existed, it also became widespread.”
He said the further back in time his panel went, it found “serious situations that lasted for decades (and) in some places reached truly endemic proportions.”
The victims were both boys and girls, although most were boys, he said.
Some alleged abusers were named by more than one victim, and hundreds of abusers have been identified, Strecht said. The alleged abuse includes indecent exposure, penetration and images of abuse.
The statute of limitations has expired on most of the allegations. Apart from those, 17 complaints have been forwarded to the Portuguese attorney general’s office and another 30 may still be sent, Strecht said.
The panel is not publishing the names of the victims, the identities of the alleged abusers, or the places the abuses allegedly happened. However, its final report will include a separate — and confidential — annex of all the names of church members reported to the committee that will be sent to the Portuguese Bishops Conference and to the police.
Strecht said the panel had no information about any abuses committed by foreign priests.
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Plaza and sculpture are tributes to those who feed the world; anchors outdoor meeting space at global headquarters
AUSTIN, Minn., Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hormel Foods Corporation (NYSE: HRL), a Fortune 500 global branded food company, unveiled "The Inspired People Plaza" at its global headquarters in Austin, Minn.
The centerpiece of the plaza is a 1-ton, 25-foot-tall fork sculpture created by Artist Gordon Huether. The statue is clad with nearly 20,000 forks, representing and donated by Hormel Foods team members worldwide. It is located on the front lawn of 1 Hormel Place and serves as the anchor of the new outdoor plaza. The plaza's name is a nod to the company's purpose statement, Inspired People. Inspired Food.™
The sculpture is rich with meaning, including being emblematic of the 131-year-old Hormel Foods Corporation. "Food is at the center of all we do and who we are. Food has the power to change lives, lift up communities and bring people together. Our team of 20,000 inspired people donated the forks to create this visionary work of art, representing the power that food has to make a difference in the world. This sculpture is dedicated to them and to the community of Austin, our hometown since 1891," said Jim Snee, chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer, Hormel Foods.
The project had its genesis nearly two years ago. Deanna Brady, executive vice president of Refrigerated Foods, was one of the company leaders interested in finding a way to honor the part food plays in nourishing bodies, and also minds and spirits. "It can transform lives, build communities and change the world," she said.
"When you think about the special moments in our lives, food is there. There is incredible power in it – the sharing, the creating, the sitting down and talking. We're honored to be part of that," Brady said.
Armed with a purpose, the team began its search for an artist to bring the vision to life. The search brought them to Napa, Calif., and the studio of Gordon Huether. For 40 years, Huether has produced multimedia works of art, especially large, public installations that spotlight cities, regions, companies, universities and more. His wife and business partner, Darcy Huether, was born in Austin, Minn., and several of her relatives previously worked for Hormel Foods. For her, it was a sign the partnership was meant to be.
"To me, it speaks a lot about the values of Hormel Foods that art is important to life, and about their vision in wanting to create a major public artwork to brand their headquarters and embody the company ethos," Gordon Huether said.
Once the design was determined, the call went out for team members to send in all manner of forks "for a future surprise." Nearly 20,000 forks cover the surface of the sculpture, one for every Hormel Foods global team member.
The 2,000-pound, 25-foot-tall fork sculpture was transported from Napa to Austin on an 18-wheel truck.
The sculpture and the Inspired People Plaza was dedicated at a company event on Thursday, Sept. 15, on the front lawn of the Hormel Foods world headquarters.
Hormel Foods Corporation, based in Austin, Minn., is a global branded food company with over $11 billion in annual revenue across more than 80 countries worldwide. Its brands include Planters®, SKIPPY®, SPAM®, Hormel® Natural Choice®, Applegate®, Justin's®, WHOLLY®, Hormel® Black Label®, Columbus®, Jennie-O® and more than 30 other beloved brands. The company is a member of the S&P 500 Index and the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats, was named on the "Global 2000 World's Best Employers" list by Forbes magazine for three years, is one of Fortune magazine's most admired companies, has appeared on the "100 Best Corporate Citizens" list by 3BL Media 13 times, and has received numerous other awards and accolades for its corporate responsibility and community service efforts. The company lives by its purpose statement — Inspired People. Inspired Food.™ — to bring some of the world's most trusted and iconic brands to tables across the globe. For more information, visit www.hormelfoods.com and http://csr.hormelfoods.com/.
Based in Napa, California, Gordon Huether Studio specializes in large-scale, site-specific permanent art installations. Huether has received hundreds of private and public art commissions during his 30+ year career. While Huether's original core skills were in glass design, the award-winning artist has extensive experience working with many other media including steel, repurposed salvaged materials, resins, and composite materials in a wide variety of interior and exterior settings. His public installations can be seen across the United States and internationally. His fine artwork has been exhibited at museums and galleries and is included in private collections. For more information, visit www.gordonhuether.com.
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VANCOUVER, BC, Oct. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Mobilum Technologies Inc. (the "Company") (CSE: MBLM) (OTC: MBLMF) (FRA: C0B), a technology-driven company making digital assets and cryptocurrencies accessible through traditional finance and payment infrastructure, and the first solution provider of Fiat-to-Dex Tokens rails, has filed its financial results for the second quarter ending August 31, 2022. For further information on the results, please see Mobilum Technologies Financial Statements and Management Discussion and Analysis as posted on SEDAR on October 31, 2022.
Second Quarter 2022 Highlights Include:
- Ended the second quarter as of August 31, 2022 with a cash balance of $2.02 million.
- Q2 revenues for the 3-months ending August 31, 2022 reached $787,735, increasing to 5.43 times over Q1 revenues.
- Net operating loss for the three-month period was $177,413, presenting a 93% reduction in operating loss versus the previous quarter.
Corporate Update:
Mobilum is a diversified payment services company whose mandate is to introduce innovative solutions to the crytpo industry including traditional finance companies entering this market. In May of 2022, Mobilum announced a new project with Binance and in July Mobilum, with a banking partner, launched its Virtual International Bank Account Number (vIBAN) solution.
Mobilum continues to add to its offerings. The Mobilum team projects launching a new non-custodial wallet combined with prepaid payment features this upcoming quarter. This program was sponsored in part by a global credit card provider.
In addition to new product developments, Mobilum continues to build traction on its core products such as its onramp services. The Onramp business is a competitive market and is very much subject to the ebbs and flows of the general crypto market. Mobilum continues to attract new onramping clients and is positioned to gain as transactional volumes increase.
Market Update:
The current price of Bitcoin remains in the low $20K pricing and testing its lowest point in 2022 as of September 21 of $18,547.40. Though Mobilum itself is not directly impacted by crypto pricing, it does reflect the general health of the market and the general opinion that transaction volumes increase when prices increase. It is believed that the crypto market is mirroring global economic conditions where in a response to increasing global inflation concerns, central banks around the world are increasing interest rates. As a result, there are increasing concerns of global economic contraction sparking recession concerns in key markets such as Europe. If so, this may further impact crypto markets. Mobilum as an innovative payment services provider, continues to build its product offering and to forge relationships with leaders in the payments industry, as such management feels it is equipped to respond and even thrive during such conditions.
"There is much more to accomplish, but it is a step in the right direction. We are happy with what the team has been able to achieve in relatively short time since the new board and new management coming on. Revenues are heading in the right direction. Given the softening of crypto industry over this same time period, our successes support our model of working with global leaders to create innovative payments solutions.", said Mobilum Technologies CEO Steven LaBella.
About Mobilum Technologies Inc.
Mobilum Technologies Inc. (CSE:MBLM) (OTC:MBLMF) (FRA:C0B) is a technology-driven Digital Service Provider (DSP) with a mission to make digital assets and cryptocurrencies accessible through traditional finance and payment infrastructure and digital asset management technologies, providing solutions for Exchanges, Wallets and Cryptocurrency Businesses, NFTs marketplaces, Protocols, Decentralized Applications and Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, Metaverse and Play-to-Earn games, and Traditional Finance Institutions (Banks, Hedge Funds, Insurance and Fintech companies) opening its doors to digital assets space. Our goal is to allow consumers around the world to convert fiat-to-crypto and crypto-to-fiat with Mobilum's on-ramp and off-ramp solutions. Mobilum has offices in Canada, Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, and the United States. For further information go to www.mobilum.com.
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Which oral irrigator is best?
The dentist tells you to floss, but it’s difficult, time consuming and messy, so you don’t do it as often as you should. The solution is to ditch the floss and get an oral irrigator. Also called water flossers, oral irrigators come in many versions with different levels of capacity, pressure and pulsing speed.
If you’re looking for an oral irrigator with a professional-level design, try the Waterpik WP-662 Professional Water Flosser. Its advanced pressure control system has 10 settings and a 22-ounce reservoir that delivers more than 90 seconds of irrigation.
What to know before you buy an oral irrigator
An oral irrigator is an electronic device that directs small jets of water into your mouth through a specialized tip. The water sits in a small reservoir and the electric motor pumps it out. The force of the water washes away food, plaque and bacteria in those hard-to-reach areas between your teeth and gums.
Types of oral irrigators
Countertop water flossers: These are oral irrigators with power cords that plug into one of your bathroom’s electric outlets. They have reservoir tanks that hold enough water for 60 seconds or more of flossing time.
Countertop flossers have several ways to adjust the pressure and control the flow to tailor the experience to suit you. These are a good choice for families because each gets their own interchangeable tip.
Portable water flossers: Also called travel flossers, portable units are cordless and powered by batteries that may be rechargeable or replaceable. Because they’re driven by batteries, portable water flossers can’t deliver the pressure and pulsing levels of corded countertop irrigators.
Another factor to consider is that the water tank of a portable water flosser is built into the unit itself. This means the hand-held unit is much larger than a countertop water flosser — about as big as a large flashlight. Hand-held flossers have lower water capacities, less pressure and shorter run times before you need to refill them.
What to look for in a quality oral irrigator
Reservoir capacity
All oral irrigators use tanks to hold the water used to clean between the teeth and gums. The larger the water reservoir, the longer the time you have to clean your teeth before the water supply runs out and you have to stop and refill it again. Dentists recommend you floss for at least one minute a day.
Tips
The tips of most oral irrigators are interchangeable. This allows different family members to each have their own tip to use with the same base unit. There are also many types of tips designed to perform particular functions.
- Classic jet tips are for everyday use.
- Orthodontic tips are for use with braces and other orthodontics.
- Implant denture tips are for fixed bridges and dentures.
- Plaque seeker tips are for use in any areas where you have had dental work.
- Pik Pocket tips are for use with periodontal pockets.
- Toothbrush tips are for general use.
- Tongue cleaner tips are for fresher breath.
How much you can expect to spend on an oral irrigator
There are many water flossers available for between $25 and $50, but none of them are brand names recommended by the American Dental Association. Most brand-name irrigators cost between $50 and $100.
Oral irrigator FAQ
How do I clean my oral irrigator tips?
A. After removing the tip, soak it in white vinegar or hydrogen peroxide for 5 to 10 minutes. Rinse the tip thoroughly under warm running water and reinstall it.
Do I need to replace my water flosser tips?
A. Tap water in your home contains mineral deposits that build up over time. These deposits can clog your jets and reduce their ability to deliver the amount of water you need to your teeth and gums. It’s a good idea to replace your tips every 6 to 12 months.
What are the best oral irrigators to buy?
Top oral irrigator
Waterpik WP-662 Professional Water Flosser
What you need to know: The advanced design of this oral irrigator makes it a professional-level product.
What you’ll love: The pressure control system has 10 settings and a 22-ounce reservoir that delivers more than 90 seconds of irrigation. Choose from floss mode and hydro pulse massage mode. Its built-in timer and pacer pause briefly at 30 seconds and 60 seconds to help track flossing time. This model includes an orthodontic, implant, periodontal and toothbrush tip along with three classic tips.
What you should consider: Some people say this is a noisy product.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top oral irrigator for the money
Waterpik Nano Plus Water Flosser WP-320
What you need to know: This compact water flosser delivers full-size performance in a condensed design that’s ideal for home or travel.
What you’ll love: This model’s five pressure control settings range from 10 to 80 psi. The tank holds 15 ounces of water and delivers 60 seconds of irrigation at 1,400 pulses per minute. This unit includes four tips for use by different family members.
What you should consider: This water flosser doesn’t come with a travel case, making it less travel-friendly than you would expect.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Panasonic Cordless Water Flosser EW2A
What you need to know: This compact cordless water flosser charges in its own docking stand.
What you’ll love: This travel-friendly product has three pressure settings for everyday cleaning, deep targeted cleaning and low-speed pulsing for people with sensitive gums. At the max setting, it pulses up to 1,500 times per minute. This irrigator is 100% waterproof and the water tank is dishwasher safe for easy cleaning.
What you should consider: Some Panasonic loyalists said this product didn’t live up to their expectations for performance and durability.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — A federal appeals court has reversed an unprecedented ruling in Nevada that struck down a longstanding U.S. deportation law as racist and unconstitutional.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said Monday in its long-awaited decision that Section 1326 of the Immigration and Nationality Act — which makes it a crime to return to the U.S. after deportation, removal or denied entry — ”is facially neutral as to race.”
The ruling is a blow for advocates who had hoped to see major changes to the nation’s immigration system after U.S. District Judge Miranda Du had thrown out an illegal reentry charge more than two years ago against a Mexican immigrant. Du said she dismissed the case on the grounds that Section 1326 had violated Gustavo Carrillo-Lopez's constitutional rights and is discriminatory against Latinos.
“We are deeply disappointed in the Ninth Circuit’s decision to uphold Section 1326, a discriminatory law that continues to fuel the mass incarceration of Black and brown people, waste government resources, and tear families apart,” said Sirine Shebaya, executive director of the National Immigration Project.
An attorney for Gustavo-Carrillo said she, too, was disappointed by the court's ruling but declined to say whether she plans on appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court.
“We intend to seek further review on this very important constitutional issue,” Amy Cleary said in a statement to The Associated Press.
Du's ruling in August 2021 was the first of its kind since Congress made it a crime almost a century ago to return to the U.S. after deportation under the Undesirable Aliens Act of 1929. The Justice Department quickly appealed and continued to pursue Section 1326 cases across the country, because Du's order did not include an injunction on the statute.
The U.S. government previously conceded that the 1929 law was based on racism but argued in December before a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit that later revisions — like Section 1326 — made it constitutional.
“That statute, as enacted in 1952 and amended since, is constitutional under equal protection principles,” a Justice Department attorney told the judges. “And the district court in this case is the only one in the country to conclude otherwise.”
The Justice Department declined Monday to comment on the appellate court's ruling.
In her ruling, Du wrote that the 1952 revision failed to “cleanse” the 1929 law’s “racist, nativist roots,” adding that amendments to Section 1326 over the years “have simply made the provision more punitive and broadened its reach.”
Between October 2021 and September 2022, the federal government’s fiscal year, 96% of people charged under Section 1326 were from Mexico, Central America, South America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean islands.
Section 1326, along with its misdemeanor counterpart Section 1325, are among the most prosecuted charges by the federal government. Section 1325 criminalizes unauthorized entry into the U.S.
Prosecutions hit record numbers in the 2019 budget year, when nearly 90,000 people were charged under Section 1325 and nearly 25,500 under Section 1326. The number of cases has fallen since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the Justice Department continues to prosecute tens of thousands of people annually for illegal reentry. | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/9th-circuit-reverses-judge-s-ruling-striking-down-18113245.php | 2023-05-22 22:48:50 | 0 | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/9th-circuit-reverses-judge-s-ruling-striking-down-18113245.php |
Baltimore non-profit teams with Amazon, giving away thousands of free shoes
Baltimore non-profit teams with Amazon, giving away thousands of free shoes
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Baltimore non-profit teams with Amazon, giving away thousands of free shoes
A new pair of shoes can bring joy to anyone, and a local non-profit made that joy a reality for thousands on Sunday.Chasing Your Dreams teamed up with Amazon to hand out 3,000 pairs of free shoes in downtown Baltimore.The non-profit is run by the owners of HoodFellas Bistro on Calvert Street.The line wrapped around the block outside the restaurant as Baltimoreans came by to grab a free pair of kicks.To learn more about Chasing Your Dreams, visit their website.
BALTIMORE —
A new pair of shoes can bring joy to anyone, and a local non-profit made that joy a reality for thousands on Sunday.
Chasing Your Dreams teamed up with Amazon to hand out 3,000 pairs of free shoes in downtown Baltimore.
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The non-profit is run by the owners of HoodFellas Bistro on Calvert Street.
The line wrapped around the block outside the restaurant as Baltimoreans came by to grab a free pair of kicks.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Seeking a valid U.S. passport for that 2023 trip? Buckle up, wishful traveler, for a very different journey before you step anywhere near an airport.
A much-feared backup of U.S passport applications has smashed into a wall of government bureaucracy as worldwide travel rebounds toward record pre-pandemic levels — with too few humans to handle the load. The result, say aspiring travelers in the U.S. and around the world, is a maddening pre-travel purgatory defined, at best, by costly uncertainty.
With family dreams and big money on the line, passport seekers describe a slow-motion agony of waiting, worrying, holding the line, refreshing the screen, complaining to Congress, paying extra fees and following incorrect directions. Some applicants are buying additional plane tickets to snag in-process passports where they sit — in other cities — in time to make the flights they booked in the first place.
So grim is the outlook that U.S. officials aren’t even denying the problem or predicting when it will ease. They’re blaming the epic wait times on lingering pandemic -related staffing shortages and a pause of online processing this year. That’s left the passport agency flooded with a record-busting 500,000 applications a week. The deluge is on-track to top last year’s 22 million passports issued, the State Department says.
Stories from applicants and interviews by The Associated Press depict a system of crisis management, in which the agencies are prioritizing urgent cases such as applicants traveling for reasons of “life or death” and those whose travel is only a few days off. For everyone else, the options are few and expensive.
So, 2023 traveler, if you still need a valid U.S. passport, prepare for an unplanned excursion into the nightmare zone.
‘PLENTY OF TIME’ TO ‘WE’LL STILL BE OK’ TO BIG PROBLEMS
It was early March when Dallas-area florist Ginger Collier applied for four passports ahead of a family vacation at the end of June. The clerk, she said, estimated wait times at eight to 11 weeks. They’d have their passports a month before they needed them. “Plenty of time,” Collier recalled thinking.
Then the State Department upped the wait time for a regular passport to as much as 13 weeks. “We’ll still be okay,” she thought.
At T-minus two weeks to travel, this was her assessment: “I can’t sleep.” This after months of calling, holding, pressing refresh on a website, trying her member of Congress — and stressing as the departure date loomed. Failure to obtain the family’s passports would mean losing $4,000, she said, as well as the chance to meet one of her sons in Italy after a study-abroad semester.
“My nerves are shot, because I may not be able to get to him,” she said. She calls the toll-free number every day, holds for as much as 90 minutes to be told — at best — that she might be able to get a required appointment at passport offices in other states.
“I can’t afford four more plane tickets anywhere in the United States to get a passport when I applied in plenty of time,” she said. “How about they just process my passports?”
THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT HAS A CULPRIT: COVID
By March, concerned travelers began asking for answers and then demanding help, including from their representatives in the House and Senate, who widely reported at hearings this year that they were receiving more complaints from constituents on passport delays than any other issue.
The U.S. secretary of state had an answer, of a sort.
“With COVID, the bottom basically dropped out of the system,” Antony Blinken told a House subcommittee March 23. When demand for travel all but disappeared during the pandemic, he said, the government let contractors go and reassigned staff that had been dedicated to handling passports.
Around the same time, the government also halted an online renewal system “to make sure that we can fine tune it and improve it,” Blinken said. He said the department is hiring agents as quickly as possible, opening more appointments and trying to address the crisis in other ways.
Passport applicants lit up social media groups, toll-free numbers and lawmakers’ phone lines with questions, appeals for advice and cries for help. Facebook and WhatsApp groups bristled with reports of bewilderment and fury. Reddit published eye-watering diaries, some more than 1,000 words long, of application dates, deposits submitted, contacts made, time on hold, money spent and appeals for advice.
It was 1952 when a law required, for the first time, passports for every U.S. traveler abroad, even in peacetime. Now, passports are processed at centers around the country and printed at secure facilities in Washington, D.C. and Mississippi, according to the Government Printing Office.
But the number of Americans holding valid U.S. passports has grown at roughly 10% faster than the population over the past three decades, according to Jay Zagorsky, an economist at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business.
After passport delays derailed his own plans to travel to London earlier this year, Zagorsky found that the number of U.S. passports per American has soared from about three per 100 people in 1989 to nearly 46 per 100 people in 2022. Americans, it turns out, are on the move.
“As a society gets richer,” says Zagorsky, “the people in that society say, ‘I want to visit the rest of the world.’”
FOR AMERICANS AND OTHERS ABROAD, IT’S NO PICNIC EITHER
At U.S. consulates overseas, the quest for U.S. visas and passports isn’t much brighter.
On a day in June, people in New Delhi could expect to wait 451 days for a visa interview, according to the website. Those in Sao Paulo could plan on waiting more than 600 days. Aspiring travelers in Mexico City were waiting about 750 days; in Bogota, Colombia, it was 801 days.
In Israel, the need is especially acute. More than 200,000 people with citizenship in both countries live in Israel. It’s one appointment per person, even for newborns, who must have both parents involved in the process, before traveling to the United States.
Batsheva Gutterman started looking for three appointments immediately after she had a baby in December, with an eye toward attending a family celebration in July, in Raleigh, N.C.
Her quest for three passports stretched from January to June, days before travel. And it only resolved after Gutterman payed a small fee to join a WhatsApp group that alerted her to new appointments, which stay available for only a few seconds. She ultimately got three appointments on three consecutive days — bureaucracy embodied.
“We had to drive the entire family with three small children, an hour-and-a-half to Tel Aviv three days in a row, taking off work and school,” she said. “This makes me incredibly uneasy having a baby in Israel as an American citizen, knowing there is no way I can fly with that baby until we get lucky with an appointment.”
Recently, there appeared to be some progress. The wait for an appointment for a renewed U.S. passport stood at 360 days on June 8. On July 2, the wait was down to 90 days, according to the web site.
FRUSTRATING TALES EMERGE FROM THE TRENCHES
Back in the U.S., Marni Larsen of Holladay, Utah, stood in line in Los Angeles, California, on June 14, in hopes of snagging her son’s passport. That way, she hoped, the pair could meet the rest of their family, who had already left as scheduled for Europe, for a long-planned vacation.
She’d applied for her son’s passport two months earlier and spent weeks checking for updates online or through a frustrating call system. As the mid-June vacation loomed, Larsen reached out to Sen. Mitt Romney ’s office, where one of four people he says is assigned full-time to passport issues were able to track down the document in New Orleans.
It was supposed to be shipped to Los Angeles, where she got an appointment to retrieve it. That meant Larsen had to buy new tickets for herself and her son to Los Angeles and reroute their trip from there to Rome. All on a bet that her son’s passport was indeed shipped as promised.
“We are just waiting in this massive line of tons of people,” Larsen said. “It’s just been a nightmare.”
They succeeded. But not everyone has been so lucky.
Miranda Richter applied in person to renew passports for herself and her husband, as well as apply a new one on Feb. 9 for a trip with their neighbors to Croatia on June 6. She ended up canceling, losing more than $1,000.
Her timeline went like this: Passports for her husband and daughter arrived in 11 weeks, while Richter’s photo was rejected. On May 4, she sent in a new one via priority mail. Then she paid a rush fee of $79, which was never charged to her credit card. Between May 30 and June 2, four days before travel, Richter and her husband spent more than 12 hours on the national passport line while also calling their congressman, senators and third-party couriers.
Finally, she showed up in person at the federal building in downtown Houston, 30 minutes before the passport office opened. Richter said there were at least 100 people in line.
“The security guard asked when is my appointment, and I burst out in tears,” she recalls. She couldn’t get one. “It didn’t work.”
FINALLY: A HAPPY ENDING
“I just got my passports!” Ginger Collier texts.
She ended up showing up at the passport office in Dallas with her daughter-in-law at 6:30 a.m. and being sorted into groups and lined up against walls. Finally they were called to a window, where the agent was “super nice” and pulled all four of the family’s applications — paperwork that had been sitting in the office since March 17. More than seven hours later, the two left the office with directions to pick up their passports the next day.
They did — with four days to spare.
“What a ridiculous process,” Collier says. Nevertheless, the reunion with her son in Italy was sweet. She texted last week: “It was the best hug ever!”
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Kellman reported from Tel Aviv, Israel, Santana reported from Washington, and Koenig reported from Dallas. Follow Kellman on Twitter at https://twitter.com/APLaurie Kellman, Santana at https://twitter.com/russkygal and Koenig at https://twitter.com/airlinewriter. | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/ap-us-news/ap-the-wait-for-us-passports-is-creating-travel-purgatory-and-snarling-summer-plans/ | 2023-07-03 13:33:39 | 0 | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/ap-us-news/ap-the-wait-for-us-passports-is-creating-travel-purgatory-and-snarling-summer-plans/ |
FALL BRANCH, Tenn. (WJHL) — Julia Moore walks the same halls she walked through as a student herself — but this time as a teacher.
“I can connect with the students,” she said.”‘I’ve sat where you sat; I’ve been a student here as well.'”
The first-grade teacher has spent the last 13 years teaching young pupils to set the stage for the rest of their academic careers.
“Teaching for me is something I was just kind of drawn to,” Moore said. “Growing up, I had some great teachers. I actually attended school here at Fall Branch and still live in the community. It’s a special place for me. It’s been a blessing to be able to come back here and be a teacher.”
Moore has also taught kindergarten and RTI courses.
“The students are a blessing to me, and I learn as much as they do every day,” she said.
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Among the declared presidential candidates, two big names are expected to soon jump into the race for the GOP presidential nomination: former VP Mike Pence and former N.J. Gov. Chris Christie.
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Among the declared presidential candidates, two big names are expected to soon jump into the race for the GOP presidential nomination: former VP Mike Pence and former N.J. Gov. Chris Christie.
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Carlsbad native, longtime Farmington coach inducted to NM Hall of Honor
A Carlsbad native and Farmington Municipal Schools coach will be inducted to the New Mexico High School Coaches Association Hall of Honor in July.
Roy Johnson was a two-time state wrestling champion at Carlsbad High School and is an assistant softball coach at Piedra Vista High School in Farmington, according to a news release from Farmington Municipal Schools (FMS).
He has coached for nearly 50 years, according to the release.
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He was inducted into the New Mexico Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2009 and was awarded the New Mexico High School Coaches Association (NMHSCA) Wrestling Coach of the Year in 1998 while at Farmington High School, per the NMHSCA website.
As an assistant softball coach at Piedra Vista this past season, Johnson was the pitching coach that guided the Panthers to the 5A state championship where Piedra Vista lost to the Carlsbad Cavegirls May 13.
Johnson’s induction into the NMHSCA Hall of Honor is scheduled for July 22 in Albuquerque.
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“This is a great honor. I’m thrilled to be inducted and that my coaching work and reaching kids’ lives are being recognized. I thank my family for standing behind me. If you are going to be a coach you need the support of family and administrators and I’ve had that,” he said in the news release.
In order to be inducted into the Hall of Honor, an inductee must have been successful in coaching in New Mexico and be a member of the NMHSCA for 20 years, noted the organization’s website.
Carlsbad Mayor Dale Janway welcomed Johnson’s impending induction. He said Carlsbad High School often excels at softball and wrestling.
“Coach Johnson has really done a great job representing our community and the entire state. Congratulations to Coach Johnson and to his family on a job well done,” he said.
Mike Smith can be reached at 575-628-5546 or by email at MSmith@currentargus.com or @ArgusMichae on Twitter. | https://www.currentargus.com/story/sports/high-school/2023/05/31/carlsbad-native-farmington-coach-roy-johnson-inducted-into-hall-of-fame-carlsbad-cavemen-wrestling/70268377007/ | 2023-05-31 12:19:01 | 0 | https://www.currentargus.com/story/sports/high-school/2023/05/31/carlsbad-native-farmington-coach-roy-johnson-inducted-into-hall-of-fame-carlsbad-cavemen-wrestling/70268377007/ |
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus is bringing back compulsory mask-wearing in indoor areas for everyone age 12 and over amid a surge of COVID-19 infections.
The government said Wednesday the infection spike is in line with a global trend that’s mainly owed to the BA.4 and BA.5 variants of the coronavirus.
According to Health Ministry figures, 19,503 people tested positive from a total of 147,623 samples between June 25 to July 5 out of a population of approximately 916,000. The numbers don’t include the approximately 250,000 people in the breakaway Turkish Cypriot north of the ethically divided island nation.
The measures take effect on Friday. The government said mask wearing isn’t compulsory at home, for family members inside a vehicle, during meals, athletes, cooks during grilling and for people with ailments and deformities that make it difficult for them to wear a face mask.
The government warned that compliance checks will be in effect and any individual or business violating the order could face a fine of 300 euros ($305).
Health officials have said the high infection rate hasn’t so far resulted in an parallel surge of serious symptoms requiring intensive hospital treatment.
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Wyoming defamation lawsuit against Alec Baldwin is dismissed
CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a defamation lawsuit over online harassment filed against actor Alec Baldwin by the family of a Marine who was killed in Afghanistan, saying the Wyoming court did not have jurisdiction over the case.
An attorney for the family said the case would be refiled elsewhere, the Casper Star-Tribune reported Wednesday.
The sisters and widow of Lance Cpl. Rylee McCollum alleged Baldwin subjected them to online harassment after he posted and commented on a photo shared online by one of McCollum’s sisters, Roice McCollum, who had been in Washington during the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection.
Baldwin had donated $5,000 to the family after learning of the death of Rylee McCollum in a bombing at the airport in Kabul in August 2021, just weeks before his daughter was born. Baldwin had contacted Roice McCollum via Instagram, according to the lawsuit.
In January 2022, Baldwin saw that Roice McCollum posted a nearly year-old picture of demonstrators from former President Donald Trump’s rally taken on the day Congress counted the Electoral College votes from the 2020 presidential election, the complaint stated.
Baldwin sent her a private message and confirmed she had organized the fundraiser for her brother, the lawsuit said. She responded that her participation in the protest was “perfectly legal,” according to court documents.
Baldwin told Roice McCollum he would share her photo with his 2.4 million Instagram followers and wrote: “Good luck,” according to the lawsuit.
Roice McCollum said in the lawsuit that she received hundreds of hateful messages in response to his post. The complaint, which also names her sister Cheyenne McCollum and Rylee’s wife, Jiennah McCollum, as plaintiffs, sought $25 million in damages.
Baldwin asked for the case to be dismissed, saying he was expressing his political opinion, that he had not been in Wyoming and that claims by Cheyenne and Jiennah McCollum should be dismissed because he did not make any statements about them.
U.S. District Judge Nancy Freudenthal said Wednesday that the case could not be brought in Wyoming because Baldwin made the posts from New York and because they were not directed specifically at a Wyoming audience. Her decision did not address the veracity of the allegations in the complaint.
“We are pleased with this victory,” said Baldwin’s attorney Luke Nikas. “This is a significant step toward the complete dismissal of the lawsuit, which seeks to punish Mr. Baldwin for expressing his political opinion.”
Dennis Postiglione, an attorney for the McCollums, said that the case would probably be refiled in New York, where Baldwin lives, or in California, where he works.
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(KTLA) — Guests of Universal Studios will get to live out the beloved post-apocalyptic video game (and HBO series) “The Last of Us” in real life this Halloween season.
The theme park announced Thursday that the award-winning game set in an America ravaged by a deadly fungus will come to life in a brand-new haunted house for Halloween Horror Nights beginning on Sept. 7.
“The world inside the game offers a multitude of suspenseful and horrifying opportunities to provide guests with a one-of-a-kind experience that can only be found at Halloween Horror Nights,” said John Murdy, executive producer of Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood.
The brand-new haunted house will be at both Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Orlando in Florida.
The brand-new haunted house announcement comes as the video game is set to celebrate its 10th anniversary this year. The successful video game series was also turned into an HBO series with the same name which premiered earlier this year.
Tickets for Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood are now on sale and can be purchased online.
Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights is a yearly event held at the park’s several locations and features a variety of different themed haunted houses, rides and live entertainment each year. “The Last of Us” now joins several other horror brands who have partnered with the event, including “Tales from the Crypt,” “A Nightmare on Elm Street” and “Friday the 13th.” | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/the-last-of-us-haunted-house-coming-to-universal-studios/ | 2023-06-16 04:15:59 | 0 | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/the-last-of-us-haunted-house-coming-to-universal-studios/ |
Live updates: Isaiah Bowser and UCF in an early shootout with Malik Cunningham, Louisville
Friday nights are usually reserved for high school football, but the UCF Knights are taking over to exact some revenge.
UCF welcomes the Louisville Cardinals to the Bounce House on Friday night. The Cardinals won their meeting in 2021 on a late interception returned for a touchdown. That game also saw quarterback Dillon Gabriel leave early with a broken clavicle, ending his season.
Gabriel is now at Oklahoma. Replacing him in Orlando this season is John Rhys Plumlee, a transfer from Ole Miss who threw for five touchdowns in his UCF debut against South Carolina State.
Louisville is coming off a 31-7 loss to Syracuse.
Follow updates from Daytona Beach News-Journal reporter Chris Boyle down below.
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8 p.m. | Isaiah Bowser runs for TD; UCF, Louisville tied
UCF needed very little time to respond from Louisville's opening touchdown.
John Rhys Plumlee and Javon Baker connected for two key third-down conversions, and Isaiah Bowser punched in a 2-yard touchdown run to tie the score at 7.
Bowser, who now has three TDs on the young season, was one of five UCF starters who left last year's game with Louisville injured.
Ryan O'Keefe had the drive's most explosive play, breaking loose for a 27-yard run.
7:45 p.m. | Tiyon Evans gives Louisville quick 7-0 lead over UCF
Malik Cunningham and Louisville's offense methodically marched down the field and sucked the life out of the Bounce House on the game's opening drive.
The Cardinals capped off a 10-play, 75-yard drive with Tiyon Evans' 7-yard TD run up the gut.
Cunningham, who struggled in last week's loss at Syracuse, looked as dangerous as he did a year ago against UCF. He went 3 of 3 for 45 yards, and rushed for 26 yards to erase a potentially troublesome offensive pass interference call.
UCF will receive the ball with just over 10 minutes left in the opening quarter for its first drive, down 7-0.
7 p.m. | Stephen Martin announced as starting WR for UCF
UCF's announced starting lineup features an interesting switch at wide receiver.
Stephen Martin, a 6-foot-5, 210-pound redshirt sophomore, joins Ryan O'Keefe and Javon Baker in the receiving corps. That would leave out Kobe Hudson, one of the Knights' more high-profile additions from the transfer portal.
Hudson, a 6-foot-1, 200-pound junior, led Auburn in 2021 with 44 catches for 580 yards and four touchdowns. He was held without a catch in last week's win over South Carolina State.
Martin played seven games last season, logging one reception for 14 yards.
6 p.m. | Rain passes as UCF, Louisville warm up
Teams are on the field for early warmups and, thankfully, afternoon showers in East Orlando have temporarily subsided.
UCF will be without wide receiver Amari Johnson (ankle) for the second straight game. There are no changes to the Knights' depth chart from their 56-10 opening victory over South Carolina State.
As for Louisville, 247Sports reported that senior nose tackle Jermayne Lole is expected to miss the remainder of the season with an elbow injury. Lole, a 6-foot-2, 320 pound Arizona State transfer, did not play at all in 2021 due to a triceps injury.
In three previous seasons for the Sun Devils, Lole totaled 123 tackles (20 for loss), 11 sacks, and eight pass breakups.
Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m. with temperatures in the mid-70s and just a 20% chance of precipitation after 8, according to AccuWeather.
Where and when will the UCF Knights play Louisville Cardinals?
Where: FBC Mortgage Stadium, Orlando
When: 7:30 pm ET
How can I watch UCF Knights vs. Louisville Cardinals on TV, streaming?
TV: ESPN2
Live stream: ESPN+, WatchESPN app
How can I listen to UCF Knights vs. Louisville Cardinals on radio?
Radio: 96.9 The Game
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What's the latest betting line for UCF Knights vs. Louisville Cardinals?
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By LEON YIN and AARON SANKIN/The Markup
A couple of years into the pandemic, Shirley Neville had finally had enough of her shoddy internet service.
“It was just a headache,” said Neville, who lives in a middle-class neighborhood in New Orleans whose residents are almost all Black or Latino. “When I was getting ready to use my tablet for a meeting, it was cutting off and not coming on.”
Neville said she was willing to pay more to be able to Zoom without interruption, so she called AT&T to upgrade her connection. She said she was told there was nothing the company could do.
In her area, AT&T only offers download speeds of 1 megabit per second or less, trapping her in a digital Stone Age. Her internet is so slow that it doesn’t meet for group video calls; doesn’t come close to , currently 25 Mbps; and is worlds below in the U.S., which average 167 Mbps.
“In my neighborhood, it’s terrible,” Neville said.
But that’s not the case in other parts of New Orleans. AT&T offers residents of the mostly white, upper-income neighborhood of Lakeview internet speeds almost 400 times faster than Neville’s—for the same price: $55 a month.
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The Markup gathered and analyzed more than 800,000 internet service offers from AT&T, Verizon, Earthlink, and CenturyLink in 38 cities across America and found that all four routinely offered fast base speeds at or above 200 Mbps in some neighborhoods for the same price as connections below 25 Mbps in others.
The neighborhoods offered the worst deals had lower median incomes in nine out of 10 cities in the analysis. In two-thirds of the cities where The Markup had enough data to compare, the providers gave the worst offers to the least white neighborhoods.
These providers also disproportionately gave the worst offers to formerly redlined areas in every one of the 22 cities examined where were available. These are areas a since-disbanded agency created by the federal government in the 1930s had deemed “hazardous” for financial institutions to invest in, often because the residents were Black or poor. Redlining was outlawed in 1968.
By failing to price according to service speed, these companies are demanding some customers pay dramatically higher unit prices for advertised download speed than others. CenturyLink, which showed the most extreme disparities, offered some customers service of 200 Mbps, amounting to as little as $0.25 per Mbps, but offered others living in the same city only 0.5 Mbps for the same price—a unit price of $100 per Mbps, or 400 times as much.
Residents of neighborhoods offered the worst deals aren’t just being ripped off; they’re denied the ability to participate in remote learning, well-paying remote jobs, and even family connection and recreation—ubiquitous elements of modern life.
“It isn’t just about the provision of a better service. It’s about access to the tools people need to fully participate in our democratic system,” said Chad Marlow, senior policy counsel at the ACLU. “That is a far bigger deal and that’s what really worries me about what you’re finding.”
Christopher Lewis, president and CEO of the nonprofit Public Knowledge, which works to expand internet access, said The Markup’s analysis shows how far behind the federal government is when it comes to holding internet providers to account. “Nowhere have we seen either the FCC nor the Congress, who ultimately has authority as well, study competition in the marketplace and pricing to see if consumers are being price gouged or if those service offerings make sense.”
None of the providers denied charging the same fee for vastly different internet speeds to different neighborhoods in the same cities. But they said their intentions were not to discriminate against communities of color and that there were other factors to consider.
The industry group USTelecom, speaking on behalf of Verizon, said the cost of maintaining the antiquated equipment used for slow speed service plays a role in its price.
“Fiber can be hundreds of times faster than legacy broadband—but that doesn’t mean that legacy networks cost hundreds of times less,” USTelecom senior vice president Marie Johnson said in an email. “Operating and maintaining legacy technologies can be more expensive, especially as legacy network components are discontinued by equipment manufacturers.”
AT&T spokesperson Jim Greer said in an emailed statement that The Markup’s analysis is “fundamentally flawed” because it “clearly ignored our participation in the federal Affordable Connectivity Program and our low-cost Access by AT&T service offerings.” The Affordable Connectivity Program was launched in 2021 and pays up to $30 a month for internet for low-income residents, or $75 on tribal lands.
“Any suggestion that we discriminate in providing internet access is blatantly wrong,” he said, adding that AT&T plans on spending $48 billion on service upgrades over the next two years.
looking at 30 major cities found only about a third of eligible households had signed up for the federal subsidy, however, and to help cover cellphone bills, which also qualify, rather than home internet costs. Connectivity advocates told The Markup that it’s hard to get people to jump through the bureaucratic hoops needed to sign up for the program when service is slow.
Greer declined to say how many or what percentage of AT&T’s internet customers are signed up for either the ACP or the company’s own low-cost program for low-income residents.
In a letter to the FCC, its high-speed internet deployments are driven by “household density, not median incomes.” But when The Markup ran a statistical test controlling for density, it still found AT&T disproportionately offered slower speeds to lower-income areas in three out of four of the 20 cities where it investigated their service.
“We do not engage in discriminatory practices like redlining and find the accusation offensive,” Mark Molzen, a spokesperson for CenturyLink’s parent company, Lumen, wrote in an email.” He said that The Markup’s analysis is “deeply flawed” without specifying how. He did not respond to requests for clarification.
EarthLink, which doesn’t own internet infrastructure in the examined cities but rather rents capacity from other providers, did not provide an official comment despite repeated requests.
Internet prices are not regulated by the federal government because unlike telephone service, internet service is not considered a utility. As a result, providers can make their own decisions about where they provide service and how much to charge. The FCC declined a request to comment on the findings.
The investigation is based on service offers collected from the companies’ own websites, which contain service lookup tools that list all available plans for specific addresses, using pioneered by researchers at Princeton University. The Markup analyzed price and speed for nearly 850,000 offers for addresses in the largest city in 38 states where these providers operate.
Las Vegas is one city where large swaths of CenturyLink’s offers were for slow service. Almost half didn’t meet the current federal definition of broadband. These fell disproportionately on Las Vegas’s lower-income and least white areas.
Las Vegas councilwoman Olivia Diaz said that in the summer of 2020, she approached families where children had stopped showing up to virtual lessons the previous school year to find out what went wrong.
City schools were preparing to begin their second school year marked by COVID-19 lockdowns.
“We kept hearing there were multiple children trying to connect in the household, but they weren’t able to,” said Diaz, who represents a district that’s predominantly Latino and on the lower end of the city’s income spectrum.
More than 80% of CenturyLink’s internet offers in her district were for service slower than 25 Mbps. Education advocacy group Common Sense Media recommends at least 200 Mbps download speeds for a household to reliably conduct multiple, simultaneous video conferencing sessions.
“I think it’s unfair knowing that it is slow service that we’re paying for that is not commensurate with the faster speeds that they have in the other parts of the city that are paying the same price,” Diaz said. “It just breaks my heart to know we’re not getting the best bang for our buck.”
Diaz said city officials have asked CenturyLink to expand high-speed service in her district, but the company declined, citing the prohibitive cost of deploying new infrastructure in the area. CenturyLink did not respond to emails asking about this request.
Some officials told The Markup they’ve been yelling for years about bad service for high prices.
“If I was paying $6 a month,” Joshua Edmonds, Detroit’s director of digital inclusion, “well you get what you’re paying for.” But he objects to people being asked to pay premium rates for bad service. “What I pay versus what I get doesn’t really make sense.”
In a 2018 report, Bill Callahan, who runs the online accessibility organization Connect Your Community, to describe charging internet customers the same rate for differing levels of service. He said The Markup’s findings show how much of America’s internet market is based on the “basic unfairness” of internet service providers deciding to deprioritize investing in new, high-speed infrastructure in marginalized areas.
“They’ve made a decision that those neighborhoods are going to be treated differently,” said Callahan. “The core reason for that is they think they don’t have enough money in those neighborhoods to sustain the kind of market they want.”
The FCC is under a provision of the 2021 infrastructure bill aimed at “preventing digital discrimination of access based on income level, race, ethnicity, color, religion, or national origin.”
A coalition of 39 groups led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Center for Accessible Technology to take aggressive action rectifying broadband inequality by examining the socioeconomics of the neighborhoods getting the slowest speeds and the prices they pay—regardless of whether the companies intended to discriminate.
AT&T insisted in filings with the agency that the standard for discrimination should be explicit, deliberate efforts to avoid building infrastructure in areas that are populated by people of color or lower-income residents.
It also asked for subsidies to build high-speed internet in lower-income neighborhoods because, as AT&T asserted in its letter to the FCC, “most or all deficiencies in broadband access appear to result not from invidious discrimination, but from ordinary business-case challenges in the absence of subsidy programs.”
Advocates say that’s just not true. “There are very few places in the country where it is not economically feasible to deploy broadband,” said Brian Thorn, who served as a senior researcher for the Communication Workers of America, a union representing telecom employees, which has been vocal on the issue and to the FCC. (The CWA is the parent union of The NewsGuild-CWA, which represents employees at The Markup and The Associated Press.) He said members are tired of seeing their employers make inequitable infrastructure deployment decisions.
“We would hear from members all the time that they’re out laying lines on one side of the neighborhood and not on the other,” he said.
In a letter to the FCC, that “broadband users are experiencing discriminatory impacts of deployment that are no different than the impacts of past redlining policies in housing, banking, and other venues of economic activity.”
The term “redlining” derives from efforts by the federal government to stem the tide of foreclosures during the Great Depression by drawing up maps, with the help of real estate agents, to identify areas that were safe for mortgage lending. Predominantly white neighborhoods were consistently rated better than less-white neighborhoods, which were shaded in red. Echoes of these maps still reverberate today in things like and .
explaining why one part of Kansas City, Missouri, was redlined cited “Negro encroachment from the north.” In that same area, AT&T offered only slow service to every single address The Markup examined.
Across Kansas City, AT&T offered the worst deals to 68% of addresses in redlined areas, compared to just 12% of addresses in areas that had been rated “best” or “desirable.”
Redlining maps frequently tracked neatly with the disparities The Markup found.
Addresses in redlined areas of 15 cities from Portland to Atlanta were offered the worst deals at least twice as often as areas rated “best” or “desirable.” Minneapolis, which is served by CenturyLink, displayed one of the most striking disparities: Formerly redlined addresses were offered the worst deals almost eight times as often as formerly better-rated areas.
Pamela Jackson-Walters, a 68-year-old longtime resident of Detroit’s Hope Village, said she needs the internet to work on her dissertation in organizational leadership at University of Phoenix online and to virtually attend church services. The slow speeds AT&T offered were a constant annoyance.
“They still haven’t installed the high-speed internet over here,” she said. “How do we get it? Are we too poor of a neighborhood to have the better service?”
Hope Village has a per capita income of just over $11,000 and is almost entirely Black.
To add insult to injury, last fall, AT&T internet service across Hope Village went down for 45 days before being restored. This summer, Jackson-Walters’s internet went down again, this time for four weeks, she said.
Jeff Jones, another longtime Hope Village resident, noted a bitter irony amid all the service problems. “To add to the insult, I can look out my bedroom window literally, maybe 150 yards, is the AT&T service facility,” he said with a weary laugh. “I’m like, please help me! You’re right there! How can you ignore this problem that is just right in front of your face?”
Until The Markup told Hope Village residents its findings about AT&T’s pricing practices in Detroit, they didn’t know that lower-income areas were more often asked to pay the same price for slower internet.
“That’s the big piece,” said Angela Siefer, the executive director of the National Digital Inclusion Alliance, which advocates for broadband access. “Folks don’t know that they’re being screwed.”
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BROOKLYN, N.Y., July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Science and technology nonprofit First Street Foundation and Compass Inc., today announced a partnership to integrate Risk Factor - property specific, climate risk intelligence - into Compass listings. Risk Factor was designed to improve the agent and client experience by enhancing the understanding of property climate risk for homes across the United States. Compass, the largest residential real estate brokerage in the country, will integrate climate risk analytics as part of the home buying and selling process for both agents and clients.
Using the Compass platform, Compass agents will be able to view property-specific, climate-adjusted data to understand the 30-year risk profile for more than 140 million homes covered by RiskFactor.com The partnership provides Compass agents with valuable information while working with homebuyers and sellers who are interested in better understanding the impact of environmental changes when making long-term purchasing decisions.
"Compass exists to help our agents grow their businesses, serve more clients, and stand out as trusted, professional, advisors in real estate transactions," said Joseph Sirosh, Chief Technology Officer at Compass. "Integrating Risk Factor will give our agents access to insight from the world's leading climate modelers, allowing them to factor-in potential environmental risks when advising their clients. We're excited to be able to provide yet another tool that assists our agents and their clients in navigating the ever-changing housing market."
Compass selected Risk Factor after a thorough market search to find an accurate and intelligent physical climate risk provider in direct response to agent and client requests. The integration will initially include Flood Factor and Fire Factor data for all properties on Compass.com and will be added to with subsequent Risk Factor data launches.
"We applaud Compass for integrating physical climate risk data for both agents and clients" said Matthew Eby, Founder and CEO of First Street Foundation "This integration will engender trust and place Compass at the forefront of the industry as it confronts the challenges of a changing climate."
First Street Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) research and technology group working to define America's climate risk. The Foundation uses transparent, peer-reviewed methodologies to calculate the past, present, and future climate risk of individual homes and commercial properties across the United States. The Foundation's data addresses an asymmetry of information in the U.S., empowering Americans to protect themselves from increasing climate risk.
Founded in 2012, Compass is the largest residential real estate brokerage in the United States. The technology-enabled brokerage provides an end-to-end platform that empowers its residential real estate agents to deliver exceptional service to seller and buyer clients. The platform includes an integrated suite of cloud-based software for customer relationship management, marketing, client service, brokerage services and other critical functionality, all custom-built for the real estate industry. Compass agents utilize the platform to grow their business, save time and manage their business more effectively. For more information on how Compass empowers real estate agents, one of the largest groups of small business owners in the country, please visit www.compass.com.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The Golden Globes carpet typically glitters with crystal-studded gowns in pastel hues, but it looked different in January 2018: The ballgowns were black, and the night’s key accessory was a pin that read “Time’s Up.” Onstage, Oprah Winfrey brought guests to their feet with a warning to powerful abusers: “Their time is up!”
Five years later, Time’s Up — the now-embattled anti-harassment organization founded with fanfare during the early days of the #MeToo reckoning against sexual misconduct — is ceasing operations, at least in its current form.
A year after pledging a “major reset” following a scandal involving its leaders’ dealings with then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo amid sexual harassment allegations, the group tells The Associated Press that Time’s Up is shifting remaining funds to the independently administered Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund, and stopping other operations.
The decision, which board chair Gabrielle Sulzberger said takes effect by the end of January, caps a tumultuous period for an organization that made a splashy public entrance on Jan. 1, 2018, with newspaper ads running an open letter signed by hundreds of prominent Hollywood movie stars, producers and agents.
Following the highly visible show of support days later at the Globes, donations large and small flowed into a GoFundMe to the tune of $24 million, earmarked for the nascent Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund. The following months saw the formation of the rest of Time’s Up, which promised a house-cleaning of an industry rocked by the stunning allegations against mogul Harvey Weinstein.
By January 2023, Time’s Up looked very different after a radical house-cleaning of its own — sparked by a damaging internal report — with only a skeleton crew and three remaining board members. Remaining funds now total about $1.7 million, Sulzberger said; the millions from the early donations already went to the legal fund.
“It was not an easy decision, but the board was unanimous that it’s the right decision and the most impactful way we get to move forward,” Sulzberger told the AP.
She and the remaining board members — Colleen DeCourcy and Ashley Judd, the actor and one of the most powerful early Weinstein accusers — will step down as Time’s Up Now and the Time’s Up Foundation, the two groups that formed what is commonly known as Time’s Up, shut down.
“Very simply, the Legal Defense Fund really reflects who we were not only at our inception but really at our core,” Sulzberger said. “We really just decided that at the end of the day, we needed to go back to our roots. (The fund) was the first initiative that we formed and funded, and remains at the heart of everything we stood for.”
The fund is administered by the National Women’s Law Center in Washington and provides legal and administrative help to workers, most of them identifying as low-income and 40% as people of color. Time’s Up Now and the Time’s Up Foundation had focused on policy and advocacy work.
Uma Iyer, vice president of marketing and communications at the law center, says the fund has helped connect more than 4,700 workers with legal services, and funded or committed funding to 350 cases out of just over 500 that applied.
Employment and civil rights lawyer Debra Katz, long among the nation’s most prominent attorneys dealing with sexual harassment cases, called the fund a crucial resource for survivors and their advocates.
“They understand these issues and they’ve always been completely survivor-centric and respectful of survivors,” Katz said of the National Women’s Law Center, with which she’s worked for decades.
But Katz, who represented key Cuomo accuser Charlotte Bennett, was highly critical of the Time’s Up organization, specifically former CEO Tina Tchen and former board chair Roberta Kaplan’s dealings with the Cuomo administration. Both resigned in August 2021 amid uproar over revelations they had offered advice after Cuomo was accused of misconduct and that Tchen initially discouraged other Time’s Up leaders from commenting publicly on allegations by accuser Lindsey Boylan.
“You cannot backchannel to corporations and entities and believe you were providing strategic advice when you’re also suing those entities because they’ve engaged in serious wrongdoing,” Katz said. “That’s what they attempted to do. It just erodes trust with survivors.”
Current Time’s Up leaders take pains to point out that the organization was instrumental in the fight for legislation increasing protections for workers, including extending the statute of limitations on rape in 15 states, and working toward achieving pay equity in women’s soccer. The group also worked on issues involving working families impacted by COVID-19, such as emergency sick leave.
“I have two adult daughters, and the kinds of issues that I faced as a young woman in the workplace, I feel Time’s Up has made a huge difference in moving that needle,” Sulzberger said.
Despite early fundraising success, Time’s Up was plagued by issues from the start, often accused of being too aligned with Hollywood’s rich and powerful — a theme of the early #MeToo movement overall. The group had leadership problems, too. In February 2019, CEO Lisa Borders resigned over sexual harassment allegations against her son. A bit more than two years later came Tchen’s and Kaplan’s departures.
Announcing its “reset” in November 2021, the organization made public a report prepared by an outside consultant that listed numerous deficiencies. Among them: confusion over purpose and mission, ineffective communication internally and externally, the appearance of being politically partisan, and seeming too connected with Hollywood.
Part of the problem, the report said, was how fast the organization grew, ramping up “like a jet plane to a rocket ship overnight.”
The staff was reduced to a skeleton crew and the few remaining board members spent a year, according to Sulzberger, listening to the group’s many stakeholders before making a decision.
Katz said it would be wrong to see the travails of Time’s Up — or any organization, for that matter — as a sign of weakness of the overall #MeToo movement. Quite the opposite, she said: It shows the movement’s resilience.
“As movements progress and become more mature they go through phases. But if anything, this shows the power of this movement because victims of sexual violence came forward and said, ‘We’re not going to countenance this (conflict) within our organization,’” Katz said. “It shows the power of individuals demanding clarity in their organizations and leaders.” | https://who13.com/news/national-news/ap-us-news/ap-times-up-to-halt-operations-shift-resources-to-legal-fund/ | 2023-01-22 12:27:40 | 0 | https://who13.com/news/national-news/ap-us-news/ap-times-up-to-halt-operations-shift-resources-to-legal-fund/ |
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Q: A lot of my friends and I are VERY upset that “Dancing with the Stars” moved from ABC to Disney+. There are so many shows that do not provide us with wholesome entertainment while “DWTS” did.
A: Then you will be pleased to learn that the show will be back on ABC in the fall, with simulcasts on Disney+ and next-day telecasts on Hulu. Several reports noted this will give ABC an unscripted program to fill time if the writers strike delays production of scripted shows for the fall.
There will be changes in the show. To the delight of many of my readers, Tyra Banks will no longer host. Alfonso Ribeiro, who co-hosted in Banks’ last season, will be back as host along with Julianne Hough. Judges are Carrie Ann Inaba, Bruno Tonioli and Julianne’s brother, Derek Hough. (Longtime judge Len Goodman stepped down from the show last year and passed away in April.)
Q: At the conclusion of “Modern Family,” there was no reference to the fact that the families had been the subject of a documentary. I expected the documentary maker would be revealed, the way “The Office” did. It seemed like a huge loose end.
A: When the long-running sitcom ended in 2020, co-creator Christopher Lloyd told EW.com that the show did not want to reveal the documentary crew. “Obviously, we started out in our pilot having that person be a character,” he said, but the show felt that would take the audience out of the family stories. “And then having lived in a mockumentary form without literally a crew for 250 episodes, it felt like it might’ve been too meta or too cute to maybe do that for us. … We were just using (the documentary) as a technique more than a sort of an actual reality.”
Q: I am wondering if “Only Murders in the Building” on Hulu is likely to be renewed.
A: The comedy-mystery starring Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez has a third season on the way. And during his tour with Short, Martin said the new season arrives on Aug. 8. Look for Meryl Streep and Paul Rudd in the cast.
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Deciding which presidential candidate to support could be a challenge for many black conservatives.
They can vote for Barack Obama — the man who could be the first African-American president of the United States — or choose to support John McCain, the Republican candidate who shares many of their same political views.
What issues are most important to black conservatives? Are those issues going to matter when they head for the voting booth?
For answers, Farai Chideya speaks with blogger Michael D. Cobb Bowen of Cobb, Kevin Ross of the blog 3 Brothers and A Sister, and Christopher Bracey, a law professor at George Washington University.
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Intruder breaches base of Air Force One, shot fired
WASHINGTON (AP) - An intruder breached the home of Air Force One, one of the nation’s most sensitive military bases, and a resident opened fire on the trespasser, Joint Base Andrews said in a statement late Monday.
During the incident, which occurred at about 11:30 a.m. Monday, “a man gained unauthorized access to a JBA housing area,” Joint Base Andrews said in a statement posted to Twitter. “A resident discharged a firearm, security forces arrived on scene to apprehend the intruder and law enforcement is investigating the incident.”
Joint Base Andrews is home to the fleet of blue and white presidential aircraft, including Air Force One, Marine One and the “doomsday” 747 aircraft that can serve as the nation’s airborne nuclear command and control centers if needed.
The Air Force said late Monday it did not have anything to add beyond the Andrews statement about Monday’s intrusion.
It’s not the first time the base’s security has been breached; in February 2021 a man got through the military checkpoint onto the installation, then through additional fenced secure areas to gain access to the flight line and climb into a C-40, which is the military’s 737-equivalent aircraft used to fly government officials.
That intruder was apprehended because the “mouse ears” cap he was wearing struck an observant airman as odd.
An inspector general’s investigation found three main security failings, starting with “human error” by a gate security guard who allowed the man to drive onto the base even though he had no credentials that authorized his access. Hours later, the man walked undetected onto the flight line by slipping through a fence designed to restrict entry. Finally, he walked onto and off a parked airplane without being challenged, even though he was not wearing a required badge authorizing access to the restricted area.
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A hiker in Arizona died and five others were rescued Monday after getting lost on trails and suffering heat exhaustion as triple-digit temperatures gripped the region, officials said.
A man in his 20s was pronounced dead after being taken to a local hospital, according to Maricopa County Sheriff's Office spokesperson Monica Bretado.
Five others who were part of the hiking group were treated at the Spur Cross Trailhead, a hiking area about 40 miles north of Phoenix, officials said.
"The hikers had run out of water and had gotten lost on the trails. It is important to plan your hike, hike the plan, bring plenty of water, and know how to identify heat exhaustion," the Scottsdale Fire Department said in a tweet Monday.
Temperatures in Phoenix reached 109 degrees Monday, which is six degrees above average, according to the National Weather Service.
Extreme heat has been suffocating several states in the West since last week, subjecting millions to excessive heat alerts and warnings. The heat prompted officials in California and Nevada to urge residents to conserve power. The scorching temperatures come against the backdrop of multiple deadly wildfires raging in California.
In Arizona, 111 people have died from heat-related complications this year in Maricopa County as of last week, according to a report from the county's public health department.
The report shows 38% of the deaths have been in people 50 to 64 years old, and 80% of the deaths occurred outdoors.
Excessive heat has killed more people than any other extreme weather event in the US. Heat deaths have outpaced hurricane deaths by more than 15-to-1 over the past decade, according to data tracked by the National Weather Service.
The impacts of human-driven climate change have been making extreme weather events more deadly and more common.
In July, a 22-year-old hiker died due to possible dehydration and exposure after running out of water in a South Dakota national park, officials said.
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By DOUG FERGUSON
AP Golf Writer
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Will Zalatoris had the most money and the best world ranking of anyone without a PGA Tour victory. He changed that Sunday by winning the FedEx St. Jude Championship without making birdie in a three-hole playoff.
Heartache in two previous playoff losses this year — one in a major — turned into relief for Zalatoris after a wild finish in the TPC Southwind. It ended when he took a penalty drop from the rocks that frame the par-3 11th green and holed a 7-foot bogey putt to beat Sepp Straka.
Zalatoris moves into the top 10 in the world for the first time and takes the No. 1 spot in the FedEx Cup, assuring him a reasonable shot at the $18 million prize in two weeks.
He was clutch even if he was scrambling. It stated with a 10-foot par save on the 18th in regulation for a 4-under 66 to post at 15-under 265.
Straka, already a winner this year in the Honda Classic, narrowly missed a 20-foot birdie putt for the win on the 18th for a 67.
Both made par on the 18th on the first extra hole. Then, as Straka said after the loss, “It can get a little crazy” on a course like, and a closing hole like No. 18.
Zalatoris went right off the tee, off the cart path and a few feet from a boundary fence, leaving him no choice but to chip out. Straka barely cleared the water on the left, but was just inside the hazard line. He chose to take a penalty drop and hit into 7 feet. Zalatoris hit his third to just inside 15 feet and made the par. Straka matched him and they went to the 11th.
Zalatoris watched his tee shot hit the bank and then the rocks, and then the ball bounced seven times before coming to rest next to the lip of grass. He was in trouble, even if the ball was dry. But then Staka went right, took one bounce off the slope, one off the rocks and into the water.
Straka went into a back bunker and blasted out to 4 feet. Zalatoris studied his options on how to get off the rocks before wisely deciding to go to the drop zone. He hit his wedge to 7 feet and raised both arms over his head when the putt dropped.
“To see that decision pay off was pretty cool,” Zalatoris said.
He won $2.7 million from his first PGA Tour postseason event, and it takes the sting out of playoff losses at Torrey Pines and at Southern Hills in the PGA Championship. Zalatoris also missed a 15-foot putt on the final hole of the U.S. Open that would have forced a playoff.
Straka, who played bogey-free over the final 13 holes in regulation, moves to No. 8 in the standings and is assured his first trip to the Tour Championship at East Lake.
Lucas Glover came away with a consolation prize. The former U.S. Open champion came into the FedEx Cup playoffs at No. 121, knowing that only the top 70 advance to the next tournament.
Glover closed with a 66 and wound up in a tie for third. Not only was he among four players who moved into the top 70, he now is at No. 34 and has a good chance of being part of the top 30 who go to the Tour Championship to play for the $18 million first prize.
Also moving into the top 70 were Adam Scott, Andrew Putnam and Wyndham Clark, who had reason to think he had thrown away his chances when he played a four-hole stretch in 4-over par and had to save par on the 18th for a 72. He finished at No. 70 by three points.
Meanwhile, No. 1 in the world stays with Masters champion Scottie Scheffler, who missed the cut and spent Sunday playing Pine Valley for the first time.
British Open champion Cameron Smith could have replaced him by winning, and he arrived at the TPC Southwind two shots out of the lead. And then he was four shots back without hitting a shot. Smith was given a two-shot penalty when rules officials realized upon review that when Smith took a penalty drop in the third round, the ball was still touching the red hazard line.
They checked with Smith, who confirmed it was touching the line. He birdied the first hole, made only one other birdie, shot 70 and tied for 13th. Smith declined interview requests.
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A 30-year-old Kenosha man is facing numerous criminal charges for allegedly possessing and delivering drugs and maintaining a drug trafficking place.
Jeffrey J. Salituro was charged Monday in Kenosha County Circuit Court with felonies of possession with intent to deliver THC of over 2,500 grams, possession with intent to deliver psilocybin of more than 100 grams, possession of narcotic drugs and maintaining a drug trafficking place. He’s also facing misdemeanors of possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Salituro made his initial appearance at Intake Court Monday where Court Commissioner imposed a $5,000 cash bond. Salituro posted the bond Tuesday, according to court records, and is scheduled for a preliminary hearing Aug. 12.
In late July Kenosha Police received tips from a concerned area resident in regards to alleged drug dealing occurring at a residence in the 4000 block of Seventh Avenue, according to the criminal complaint. Salituro was identified as a primary resident
Members of the department’s special investigations unit conducted surveillance of the residence in question and reportedly witnessed multiple people enter the residence and then drive away with drugs.
Investigators later reportedly found drug paraphernalia in his garbage that was collected.
On Thursday investigators executed a search warrant on the residence. Inside the residence they reportedly found the following: 3.9 pounds of leafy marijuana; 1.75 pounds of a THC product; 130 grams of mushrooms; 3.5 grams of fentanyl; more than $4,000 in cash; Adderall and Vyvanse pills and a digital scale and smoking devices. Ten guns and ammunition for the guns were also found inside the two-story residence.
After his arrest Salituro was questioned by investigator and reportedly admitted to selling drugs.
“Jeffrey stated he knew police contact was coming because he knew people were stopped leaving his house, however it didn’t deter him,” according to the complaint. “Jeffrey stated it is his belief that mushrooms and marijuana come from ground so he’s O.K. with it.”
Three months after pleading guilty to drug dealing charges and still with three months until his sentencing, one of the Huffhines brothers was arrested after being accused of driving while inebriated.
On Tuesday, Racine Police Department officers, Kenosha Police Department officers and FBI Milwaukee Area Safe Streets Task Force reported that they executed a search warrant on Thurston Avenue.
A crash early Sunday morning involving a wrong-way car on Interstate 90 in northern Illinois left seven people dead, including five children, authorities said.
A man was arrested after a boy shot a girl in the leg, and the incident remains under investigation, Poynette Police Chief Adam Rogge said at a news conference on Tuesday. | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/kenosha-man-facing-numerous-felonies-for-alleged-drug-trafficking-operating/article_2b0d43c0-1812-11ed-bbc6-f7946f2b3abc.html | 2022-08-09 23:20:44 | 1 | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/kenosha-man-facing-numerous-felonies-for-alleged-drug-trafficking-operating/article_2b0d43c0-1812-11ed-bbc6-f7946f2b3abc.html |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Maine can’t exclude religious schools from a program that offers tuition aid for private education, a decision that could ease religious organizations’ access to taxpayer money.
The 6-3 outcome could fuel a renewed push for school choice programs in some of the 18 states that have so far not directed taxpayer money to private, religious education. The most immediate effect of the court’s ruling beyond Maine probably will be felt next door in Vermont, which has a similar program.
The decision is the latest in a line of rulings from the Supreme Court that have favored religion-based discrimination claims. The court is separately weighing the case of a football coach who says he has a First Amendment right to pray at midfield immediately after games.
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for a conservative majority that the Maine program violates the Constitution’s protections for religious freedoms.
“Maine’s ‘nonsectarian’ requirement for its otherwise generally available tuition assistance payments violates the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment. Regardless of how the benefit and restriction are described, the program operates to identify and exclude otherwise eligible schools on the basis of their religious exercise,” Roberts wrote.
The court’s three liberal justices dissented. “This Court continues to dismantle the wall of separation between church and state that the Framers fought to build,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote.
Justice Stephen Breyer noted in a separate dissent that Maine “wishes to provide children within the State with a secular, public education. This wish embodies, in significant part, the constitutional need to avoid spending public money to support what is essentially the teaching and practice of religion.”
But Roberts wrote that states are not obligated to subsidize private education. Once they do, however, they can’t cut out religious schools, he wrote, echoing his opinion in a similar case from two years ago. “Maine chose to allow some parents to direct state tuition payments to private schools; that decision was not ‘forced upon’ it,” Roberts wrote, quoting from Sotomayor’s dissent.
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey said during a Tuesday radio appearance that he was not surprised by the court’s decision, but he felt it was not consistent with his reading of the Constitution.
Frey also said the court’s ruling will require a reevaluation of how it applies to state law.
Until now, Maine’s exclusion of religious schools has been upheld, Frey said during the appearance on Maine Public. “Frankly, it is concerning, even though we saw it coming.”
The ideological split in Tuesday’s decision also was evident during arguments in December, when the conservative justices seemed largely unpersuaded by Maine’s position that the state is willing to pay for the rough equivalent of a public education, but not religious inculcation.
In largely rural Maine, the state allows families who live in towns that don’t have public schools to receive public tuition dollars to send their children to the public or private school of their choosing. The program has excluded religious schools.
Students who live in a district with public schools or in a district that contracts with another public system are ineligible for the tuition program.
Parents who challenged the program argued that the exclusion of religious schools violates their religious rights under the Constitution. Teacher unions and school boards said states can impose limits on public money for private education without running afoul of religious freedoms.
Michael Bindas, a lawyer for the libertarian Institute for Justice who argued for the parents at the high court, said the court made clear Tuesday that “there is no basis for this notion that the government is able to single out and exclude religious options.”
Rachel Laser, president and CEO of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, sharply criticized the court for “forcing taxpayers to fund religious education” and cloaking “this assault on our Constitution in the language of non-discrimination.”
In the Maine case, parents sued in federal court to be able to use state aid to send their children to Christian schools in Bangor and Waterville. The schools in question, Bangor Christian School and Temple Academy, are uncertain whether they would accept public funds, according to court filings.
The Bangor school said it would not hire teachers or admit students who are transgender. Both schools said they do not hire gay or lesbian teachers, according to court records.
In 2020, the high court ruled 5-4 that states must give religious schools the same access to public funding that other private schools receive, preserving a Montana scholarship program that had largely benefited students at religious institutions.
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But even after that ruling, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the Maine program, holding that the state was not violating anyone’s constitutional rights by refusing to allow taxpayer money to be used for religious instruction. The three-judge panel included retired Justice David Souter, who occasionally hears cases in the appeals court.
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BATANG KALI, Malaysia — Rescuers on Saturday found the bodies of a woman and two children, raising the death toll from a landslide on an unlicensed campground in Malaysia to 24 with nine others still missing.
Selangor state fire chief Norazam Khamis told reporters the bodies of a mother and son were found buried under a meter (3 feet) of mud and debris. The body of a little girl was discovered later. He said there was hope of finding survivors if they clung on to piles or branches or rocks with pockets of air but that chances were slim.
Authorities said 94 people were sleeping at the camp site on an organic farm early Friday when the dirt tumbled from a road about 30 meters (100 feet) above them and covered about 1 hectare (3 acres). Most were families enjoying a short vacation during the yearend school break.
The 24 victims included seven children and 13 women. Authorities were still carrying out autopsies and waiting for next of kin to identify the victims.
A mother and her toddler daughter were found Friday hugging each other in a heart-rending scene, rescuers said. Seven people were hospitalized and dozens more, including three Singaporeans, were rescued unharmed.
Wearing helmets and carrying shovels and other equipment, rescuers worked in teams Saturday to comb through debris as deep as 8 meters (26 feet). Excavators were deployed to clear mud and fallen trees and rescue dogs were sent to sniff out possible signs of life and cadavers. Officials said an estimated 450,000 cubic meters (nearly 16 million cubic feet) of debris — enough to fill 180 Olympic-sized swimming pools — hit the campsite.
Norazam said rescuers were treading carefully as underground water streams may trigger further landslides.
Authorities have said the landowners did not have a license to run a campground. Officials are unable to pinpoint the exact cause of the landslide, which came without warning, but believed it could be due to underground water movement while the yearend monsoon rains made the soil unstable.
Survivors recounting their ordeal told local media they heard a thunderous noise and felt the earth move before soil collapsed on their tents. The government has ordered all campsites nationwide that are near rivers, waterfalls and hillsides to be shut for a week to assess their safety.
The campsite in Batang Kali, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) north of Kuala Lumpur, is a popular recreational site for locals to pitch or rent tents from the farm. But authorities said it has been running illegally for the past two years. It has permission to run the farm but no license to operate camping activities. If found guilty, the operator faces up to three years in prison and a fine.
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Great efforts have been made to close the gender pay gap. But not all fields of work are created equally.
Alexandra Light, who has been doing ballet since she was two years old, says even the dance world is dominated by men at the top.
“A lot of people on the outside of the dance world still don’t realize," she said. "In the industry, it’s still very much a boys’ game."
Tracey Rockett, who teaches management practice at Texas Christian University, said she can point to any number of studies that show the wide gulf between women and management. That gulf persists even in fields dominated by women.
“In public schools, for instance, men make up the minority of teachers, but to keep them, very often, they will be offered promotion opportunities much earlier than women are,” Rockett said, “You see that in the restaurant industry, in education, in healthcare, and in dance.”
According to the Dance Data Project, among the largest 150 ballet companies in America, a quarter of works produced last year were choreographed by women.
Light is a principal dancer. She’s at the front of the room, but she knows the hurdles in reaching a position where she’s at the front for good.
“You know, there's a choreographic workshop, and you don't sign up for that because you're like, ‘Well, I need to, I need to dance,’” Light said.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, women quit the workforce in larger numbers. They reported larger rates of burnout while taking on the extra burden of child care. At companies where women often take the lead on efforts of diversity and equity, they typically don’t get additional pay or substantial recognition.
But Rockett sees hope in Light’s generation.
"That is one thing we are seeing in particular with Gen Z. They will leave, and they will leave without a backup job. They will leave without a plan. If they're dissatisfied, they're going to take off,” Rockett said.
“I think a lot of dancers sort of face it at some point that, you know, there’s a lot of problems with our career. Like, we love dance so much, but there’s a lot of work to be done,” Light said, “Even when I was a little kid, I loved choreographing. I would go with my best friend. We would go down to the dance studio together and bring my boombox. As I got into my professional career, it completely waned.”
Light took the path she was steered to take, but she has plans to go beyond that path.
“I have goals for where I want to be in the future, but I’m really proud of where I am now,” Light said. | https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/national/two-americas/disparities-persist-in-traditionally-female-dominated-fields | 2023-01-24 20:08:53 | 1 | https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/national/two-americas/disparities-persist-in-traditionally-female-dominated-fields |
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The family of the late country music matriarch Naomi Judd is reflecting on her legacy ahead of an 11-city tour that will give fans a chance to say goodbye and rejoice in the music that became the soundtrack of their lives.
Daughters Wynonna Judd and Ashley Judd remembered their mother in outtakes from interviews with The Associated Press as a beautiful, talented, smart and colorfully complex woman, who had highs and lows, and was honest about her mental health journey.
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Actor and humanitarian Ashley Judd has dedicated her life to social justice issues, becoming a Goodwill Ambassador for UNFPA and was a key leader in the Time’s Up organization. Her mother also used her platform to speak about her mental illness and was a tireless supporter of animal rescue. The two seemed cut from the same cloth.
“I definitely think our advocacy was mutual and reciprocal,” Ashley Judd said. “I know that after a lot of my more public forums, she would both say to me directly and to her friends, and then it would get back to me through her friends, that she was enthralled by my audacity.”
But Judd said they both knew how trauma could affect their own mental health.
“She did have a very tender soul. And so one of the phrases that we used with each other is you can’t unsee what you’ve seen,” said Judd. “So she had to be very cautious with herself in terms of stepping into certain traumatic spaces. And yet it was very important for her to do the advocacy that she could. She wanted to help ameliorate and alleviate the suffering of the folks who also walked with mental illness. And she had no compunction about reducing stigma and shame.”
While the mother-daughter relationship was difficult because of The Judds’ success and constant touring, Ashley Judd said in later years, they repaired the bond between them.
“Mom and I had a pretty glorious redo starting in 2006 when I was given the gift of coming into recovery. And for all the time that she and I missed while I was growing up, we had the gift of so much time together in these subsequent 17 years,” Judd said.
After Ashley Judd shattered her leg hiking in a Congolese rainfores t last year, her mother was by her side for numerous medical appointments, as well as joining her at a cabin in the Great Smoky Mountains after Judd recovered.
“We had a beautiful time together and as I was able to say to her at the end, all is forgiven a long time ago,” said Judd. “And that redemption narrative is strong for us.”
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Their debut in the early ’80s with Grammy-winning songs like “ Mama, He’s Crazy ” and “Why Not Me” turned their lives around in a heartbeat and fans identified with their down-home charm and rootsy background.
“Before hair extensions and veneers and shiny pretty clothes that are new, we were two girls from eastern Kentucky who did not have a clue about anything show business,” said Wynonna Judd. “And I think they got to know us when we were the most raw. And when you’re that new to the scene and you’re that naïve, I think they saw the vulnerability in me. I was 17 and a half when we signed with RCA. It was like winning the lottery.”
Unfortunately, the duo’s career was shortened when Naomi Judd retired in the early ’90s due to her contracting Hepatitis C. But in recent years, recognition of their impact has grown, culminating with their induction this year into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Wynonna Judd said fans have grown nostalgic for music that gives them fond memories.
“I think people want something real. I think they want something that they can remember,” said Wynonna Judd. ”I find myself going back to the past because we want something that reminds us that there’s still hope. ‘ Love Can Build a Bridge ’ reminds us that love can build a bridge. And they believe us when we sing it together because we’re mother and daughter. And even through our dysfunction, there is a sense of unity from two very different women.”
In the months since her mother’s death, Wynonna Judd has been reaching out and seeking help, but also giving herself time to be alone with her grief. That includes sitting with her pet pigs and more than two dozen cats that live with her.
“I do things that make me feel alive a lot of the time, and then I’ll call my grief counselor and say, ‘I’m really struggling today to understand how she could leave me knowing this tour is happening and she’s not here to help me with this tour.’ And we’ll talk about that,” said Judd. “So reaching out is absolutely key, and I’m better at it today than I was because I come from the martyr background of ‘I’m going to be fine.’ And I don’t agree with that anymore. And so I have my people to reach out to.”
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian authorities rejected a price cap on the country's oil set by Ukraine’s Western supporters and threatened Saturday to stop supplying the nations that endorsed it.
Australia, Britain, Canada, Japan, the United States and the 27-nation European Union agreed Friday to cap what they would pay for Russian oil at $60-per-barrel. The limit is set to take effect Monday, along with an EU embargo on Russian oil shipped by sea.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia needed to analyze the situation before deciding on a specific response but that it would not accept the price ceiling. Russia's permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, warned that the cap's European backers would come to rue their decision.
“From this year, Europe will live without Russian oil," Ulyanov tweeted. "Moscow has already made it clear that it will not supply oil to those countries that support anti-market price caps. Wait, very soon the EU will accuse Russia of using oil as a weapon.”
The office of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, meanwhile, called Saturday for a lower price cap, saying the one adopted by the EU and the Group of Seven leading economies didn't go far enough.
“It would be necessary to lower it to $30 in order to destroy the enemy’s economy faster,” Andriy Yermak, the head of Zelenskyy’s office, wrote on Telegram, staking out a position also favored by Poland — a leading critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine.
Under Friday's agreements, insurance companies and other firms needed to ship oil would only be able to deal with Russian crude if the oil is priced at or below the cap. Most insurers are located in the EU and the United Kingdom and could be required to observe the ceiling.
Russia’s crude has already been selling for around $60 a barrel, a deep discount from international benchmark Brent, which closed Friday at $85.42 per barrel.
The Russian Embassy in Washington insisted that Russian oil "will continue to be in demand" and criticized the price limit as “reshaping the basic principles of the functioning of free markets.” A post on the embassy's Telegram channel predicted the per-barrel cap would lead to “a widespread increase in uncertainty and higher costs for consumers of raw materials.”
“What happens in China will help shape whether the price cap has any teeth,” said Jim Burkhard, an oil markets analyst with IHS Markit. He said dampened demand from China means most Russian crude exports are already selling below $60.
The price cap aims to put an economic squeeze on Russia and further crimp its ability to finance a war that has killed an untold number of civilians and fighters, driven millions of Ukrainians from their homes and weighed on the world economy for more than nine months.
The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported that since Friday Russia's forces had fired five missiles, carried out 27 airstrikes and launched 44 shelling attacks against Ukraine's military positions and civilian infrastructure.
Kyrylo Tymoshenko, the deputy head of the president's office, said the attacks killed one civilian and wounded four others in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region. According to the U.K. Defense Ministry, Russian forces “continue to invest a large element of their overall military effort and firepower” around the small Donestsk city of Bakhmut, which they have spent weeks trying to capture.
In southern Ukraine's Kherson province, whose capital city of the same name was liberated by Ukrainian forces three weeks ago following a Russian retreat, Gov. Yaroslav Yanushkevich said evacuations of civilians stuck in Russian-held territory across the Dnieper River would resume temporarily.
Russian forces pulled back to the river's eastern bank last month. Yanushkevich said a ban on crossing the waterway would be lifted during daylight hours for three days for Ukrainian citizens who "did not have time to leave the temporarily occupied territory.” His announcement cited a “possible intensification of hostilities in this area.”
Kherson is one of four regions that Putin illegally annexed in September and vowed to defend as Russian territory. From their new positions, Russian troops have regularly shelled Kherson city and nearby infrastructure in recent days, leaving many residents without power. Running water remained unavailable in much of the city — and one resident was seen scooping up water from a dirty puddle.
The city continued to suffer heavy shelling Saturday that left many residents disoriented, toppled power lines and dumped torn-off tree branches on the roads.
“When we start to repair (electricity networks), the shelling starts immediately,” said Oleksandr Kravchenko, who is in charge of high-voltage networks in Kherson. “We just repair electric lines and on the next day we have to repair lines again.”
Ukrainian authorities also reported intense fighting in Luhansk and Russian shelling of northeastern Ukraine's Kharkiv region, which Russia's soldiers mostly withdrew from in September.
The mayor of the city of Kharkiv, which remained under Ukrainian control during Russia's occupation of other parts of the region, said some 500 apartment buildings were damaged beyond repair, and nearly 220 schools and kindergartens were damaged or destroyed. He estimated the cost of the damage at $9 billion.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu met Saturday in Minsk with the president and defense minister of Belarus, which hosts Russian troops and artillery. Belarus has said its own forces are not taking part in the war, but Ukrainian officials have frequently expressed concern that they could be be induced to cross the border into northern Ukraine.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said at the meeting that his troops and Russian forces train in coordination. “We ready ourselves as one grouping, one army. Everyone knows it. We were not hiding it,” he was quoted as saying by the news agency Interfax.
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Inna Varenytsia in Kherson, Ukraine, and Frank Bajak in Boston contributed to this report.
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ChristianaCare set to purchase closed Jennersville Hospital in Chester County
WEST GROVE, Pa. - ChristianaCare has announced it will purchase the Jennersville Hospital campus in West Grove, which closed in December leaving the community with limited access to close emergency medical services.
On Wednesday, ChristianaCare announced they will purchase the shuttered hospital from Tower Health, with the official closing within the next 30 to 60 days.
Tower Health closed the Jennersville and Brandywine Hospitals due to financial trouble and a failed deal with a new buyer. This left Chester County Hospital as the only option for residents in the county.
Local leaders expressed concern that the closures would be devastating to the community and Chester County Hospital considered setting up a modular emergency room in its parking lot to help keep up with the demand previously covered by the other two hospitals.
The new hospital will be called ChristianaCare West Grove Campus, according to the company.
"At ChristianaCare, we recognize that the closing of Jennersville Hospital represented a loss of access to important health care services in the surrounding community," said President and CEO Janice E. Nevin, M.D., MPH. "ChristianaCare already serves many members of the Southern Chester County community in our hospitals and practices. We look forward to working with community leaders, listening and evaluating needs, and re-establishing the right mix of health care services at this location."
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FREMONT, Calif., April 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- ASUS today announced four new GeForce RTX™ graphics cards: the ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4070, TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070, ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 4070 and Dual White GeForce RTX 4070. The GeForce RTX 4070 GPU includes all the advancements of the NVIDIA® Ada Lovelace architecture, including the new standards in gaming such as DLSS 3 neural rendering and real-time ray-tracing technologies. Starting at $599, the GeForce RTX 4070 runs most modern games at over 100 frames per second at 1440p resolution.
ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4070
The ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4070 is 3.12 slots thick and 338.9 mm long, providing increased surface area on its MaxContact heatsink for airflow while utilizing the new cyberpunk design and ultra-rigid structure of its larger siblings. A 16-pin power connector ensures compatibility with the latest 12VHPWR PSU standard, and an adapter is included to ensure compatibility with other power supply. These cards also feature three new 11-blade Axial-tech fans which can push 31% more air volume and 56.3% more static pressure than its predecessors on the ROG Strix GeForce RTX 3080. A massive vented backplate ensures airflow, and 0 dB technology keeps the cards silent under lighter workloads.
The ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4070 also includes performance and quiet modes with a Dual BIOS switch, two FanConnect II headers, ARGB tail-lights compatible with Aura Sync, and ASUS Auto-Extreme manufacturing quality.
Performance and reliability meet in the TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070
ASUS also offers a TUF Gaming variant of the GeForce RTX 4070, complete with the same powerful GPU as the Strix version, with a slightly thicker heatsink and shorter card design. A wide vent on the high-strength aluminum backplate improves airflow compared to previous-generation models. The card measures at 3.15 slots, 301 mm length, and includes new 11-blade Axial-Tech fans.
The TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 also offers the Dual BIOS switch and a redesigned ARGB TUF logo, alongside the military-grade capacitors and Auto-Extreme manufacturing quality.
Create the perfect build with all-new black and white Dual GeForce RTX 4070 GPUs
For the first time since the release of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 40 Series family of graphics cards, the ASUS Dual cards are back in the mix. Now available in the standard black color tone and a new white version the ASUS Dual cards have been redesigned with a new look for the 40 Series, evoking retro-futuristic style elements, including a semi-transparent view onto the heatsink at the top of the card.
The ASUS Dual cards include an all-aluminum backplate, 11-blade Axial-tech fans, and a Dual BIOS switch. The Dual GeForce RTX 4070 has two fans, giving the card a total length of just 267.1 mm, offering much greater compatibility with compact systems. Featuring a single 8-pin PCIe power connector, the Dual GeForce RTX 4070 can be easily deployed into an existing build.
AVAILABILITY & PRICING
The TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 OC and the Dual GeForce RTX 4070 (OC and non-OC versions) are available now in North America at Newegg and the ASUS Eshop for $649 and $599, respectively.
The ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4070 and Dual White GeForce RTX 4070 (OC and non-OC versions) will be available in April 2023. Please contact your local ASUS representative for more information.
For more information, please visit: https://www.asus.com/us/site/Graphics-Cards/GeForce-RTX-40-Series/
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MADISON, Wis., Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The US education system is enduring a teacher shortage crisis. Post-pandemic burnout, comparatively low pay, and difficulty managing the educational and emotional needs of students are some reasons teachers are leaving the profession.
The teacher shortage is forcing full-time teachers to surrender prep time to cover classes, and principals are being pulled from their responsibilities to teach. However, pooling existing resources doesn't even scratch the surface. Many states are granting emergency substitute teaching licenses to fill the void. One school district in Illinois employs 100 daily substitute teachers in a school system of 450 full-time teachers.
One of the unsung heroes within a school are the substitute coordinators. They are responsible for providing incoming subs with the information and tools they need. With 1:1 device programs as the new norm, substitute teachers are often required to use a tablet or laptop for student communication and to access lesson plans. Managing this technology has placed an additional burden on sub coordinators and IT teams alike. Due to the influx of daily subs, sub coordinators are under stress when checking in teachers for the day, and substitute teachers are frazzled before they even step foot in a classroom.
One innovative way schools are improving conditions is by using a smart locker to automate the substitute teacher check in/check out processes. Here's how it works: a FUYL TowerTM Smart Locker, powered by LocknCharge Cloud, stores fully-charged devices and other teaching materials in individually-lockable bays. The substitute teacher is assigned a bay and a PIN number, allowing them to quickly access items inside without assistance.
Because sub coordinators start early in the morning and are typically gone before the end of the school day, a smart locker provides a secure location for teachers to return and charge devices without oversight.
This approach also benefits IT teams who spend less time locating and replacing missing devices. Tower activity is logged in the LocknCharge Cloud portal to show when and by who a bay was accessed.
With droves of new full-time teachers entering the district mid-year, smart lockers are also being used to automate new teacher onboarding. The result is a reduction in stress and less wasted time throughout the school system.
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The U.S. Department of Defense is set to change the name of Texas’ Fort Hood, America’s largest active-duty armored military post, to pay homage to a four-star Hispanic general instead of its original namesake, a Confederate general.
The new name will honor Gen. Richard Cavazos, the first Hispanic four-star general in Texas.
Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin announced the pending change in a memo to top Pentagon officials and agreed to a recommendation that the base be called Fort Cavazos. That name was previously recommended by the Naming Commission, which Congress created to suggest new names or removal of names and symbols that commemorate Confederate figures.
Federal officials have until Jan. 1, 2024, to finalize the transition. The change is part of a broader movement from the commission to have the DOD rename 1,111 installations and facilities. Eight other military bases that derive their names from Confederate figures also are slated to have their names changed.
“The names of these installations and facilities should inspire all those who call them home, fully reflect the history and the values of the United States, and commemorate the best of the republic that we are all sworn to protect,” Austin said in the memo.
Fort Hood houses around 40,000 soldiers. It was permanently established in 1950 and was named after Gen. John Bell Hood, who spearheaded the Confederate Army’s Texas brigade at the time of the Civil War. The fort is in Bell County, where 26.5 percent of residents are Hispanic.
With a combat record that included the nation’s second-highest medal for valor both in the Korean conflict and Vietnam War, Cavazos blazed a trail for generations of other Hispanic general officers. Colin Powell, who became the first African American chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and then secretary of state, also considered him a mentor and role model.
Born during the Great Depression, Cavazos grew up on King ranch, where his father worked as a cowhand. From an early age, he showed devotion to the Army by enrolling in the ROTC program at what is now Texas Tech University immediately after high school.
The first act that got him noticed was during the Korean War, when he returned to a raging battlefield five times to retrieve his fellow wounded soldiers, according to the Naming Commission. For his actions, he earned the Distinguished Service Cross, the nation’s second-highest military honor for valor.
Years later, he returned to his original ROTC program, but as a professor of military science. But that wasn’t the end of his time on the battlefield. In the Vietnam War, Cavazos frequently led the front of his infantry battalion. His actions in Vietnam earned him another service cross.
Cavazos died at age 88 in 2017 in San Antonio.
Disclosure: Texas Tech University has been a financial supporter of the Texas Tribune. Financial supporters play no role in the Tribune’s journalism.
Express-News staff writer Sig Christenson contributed to this report.
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NEW YORK (AP) — At the end of “The Searchers,” one of John Wayne’s most renowned Westerns, a kidnapped girl has been rescued and a family reunited. As the closing music swells, Wayne's character looks around at his kin — people who have other people to lean on — and then walks off toward the dusty West Texas horizon, lonesome and alone.
It's a classic example of a fundamental American tall tale — that of a nation built on notions of individualism, a male-dominated story filled with loners and “rugged individualists” who suck it up, do what needs to be done, ride off into the sunset and like it that way.
In reality, loneliness in America can be deadly. This month, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared it an American epidemic, saying that it takes as deadly a toll as smoking upon the population of the United States. “Millions of people in America are struggling in the shadows," he said, “and that’s not right.”
He cited some potent forces: the gradual withering of longstanding institutions, decreased engagement with churches, the fraying bonds of extended families. When you add recent stressors — the rise of social media and virtual life, post-9/11 polarization and the way COVID-19 interrupted existence — the challenge becomes even more stark.
People are lonely the world over. But as far back as the early 19th century, when the word “loneliness” began to be used in its current context in American life, some were already asking the question: Do the contours of American society — that emphasis on individualism, that spreading out with impunity over a vast, sometimes outsized landscape — encourage isolation and alienation?
Or is that, like other chunks of the American story, a premise built on myths?
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Alexis de Tocqueville, watching the country as an outsider while writing “Democracy in America” in the mid-1800s, wondered whether, “as social conditions become more equal,” Americans and people like them would be inclined to reject the trappings of deep community that had pervaded Old World aristocracies for centuries.
“They acquire the habit of always considering themselves as standing alone, and they are apt to imagine that their whole destiny is in their own hands,” he wrote. “Thus not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it ... throws him back forever upon himself alone, and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within the solitude of his own heart.”
This has been a recurring thread in how Americans perceive themselves. In the age before democracy, for better and for worse, “People weren’t lonely. They were tied up in a web of connections. And in many countries that’s more true than it was in the United States,” says Colin Woodard, director of the Nationhood Lab at the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy.
“There’s this idea that going out into those vast spaces and connecting with the wilderness and escaping the past was precisely what made us Americans," Woodard says.
Yet many frontier myths skip over how important community has been in the settling and growth of the nation. Some of the biggest stories of cooperation — the rise of municipal organizations and trade unions, the New Deal programs that helped drag many Americans out of the Depression in the 1930s, war efforts from the Civil War to World War II — sometimes get lost in the fervor for character-driven stories of individualism.
Those omissions continue. Fueled in part by pandemic distrust, a latter-day strain of individual-over-community sentiment often paired with invocations of liberty and freedom occupies a significant chunk of the national conversation these days — to the point where advocacy about community thinking is sometimes met with accusations of socialism.
Let's not consign Americans to be the heirs of a built-in loneliness gene, though. A new generation is insisting that mental health be part of the national conversation, and many voices — among them women and people of color — are increasingly offering new alternatives to the old myths.
What's more, the very place where the discussion about loneliness is being held today — in the office of the surgeon general, a presidential appointee — suggests that other paths are possible.
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The ways Americans perceive themselves as solitary (whether or not it's true) can be seen in their art.
One of the nation's early art movements, the mid-19th-century Hudson River School, made people tiny parts of outsized landscapes, implying both that the land dwarfed humans and that they were being summoned to tame it. From that, you can draw a line straight to Hollywood and director John Ford's Westerns, which used vast landscapes to isolate and motivate humans for the purposes of telling big stories. Same with music, where both the blues and the “ high lonesome sound ” helped shape later genres.
In the suburbs, Betty Friedan's groundbreaking “ The Feminine Mystique " helped give voice to a generation of lonely women. In the city, Edward Hopper's work — like the iconic " Nighthawks ” — channeled urban loneliness. At around the same time, the emergence of film noir — crime and decay in the American city its frequent subject — helped shape the figure of the lonely man alone in a crowd who might be a protagonist, might be an antagonist, might be both.
Today, loneliness plays out on streaming TV all the time in the forms of shows like “Severance,” “Shrinking,” “Beef” and, most prominently, the earnest “Ted Lasso,” a show about an American in Britain who — despite being known and celebrated by many — is consistently and obviously lonely.
In March, the show's creator and star, Jason Sudeikis, appeared with his cast at the White House to talk about the issue that the show is, in its final season, more about than ever: mental health. “We all know someone who has, or have been that someone ourselves actually, that’s struggled, that’s felt isolated, that’s felt anxious, that has felt alone,” Sudeikis said.
Solitude and isolation do not automatically equal loneliness. But they all live in the same part of town. During the pandemic, Murthy’s report found, people tightened their groups of friends and cut time spent with them. According to the report, Americans spent 20 minutes a day with friends in 2020 — down from an hour daily two decades ago. Granted, that was during peak COVID. The trend, though, is clear — particularly among young people ages 15 to 24.
Perhaps many Americans are alone in a crowd, awash in a sea of voices both physical and virtual yet by themselves much of the time, seeking community but suspicious of it. Some of the modernizing forces that stitched the United States together in the first place — commerce, communication, roads — are, in their current forms, part of what isolates people today. There's a lot of space between the general store and Amazon deliveries to your door, between mailing a letter and navigating virtual worlds, between roads that connect towns and freeways that overrun them.
And if Americans can figure out more about what connects and what alienates, some answers to the loneliness epidemic might reveal themselves.
“We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately," Benjamin Franklin, not incidentally the country's first postmaster general, said under very different circumstances. Or perhaps it's put better by the American poet Amanda Gorman, one of the country's most insightful young voices. This is from her poem “ The Miracle of Morning,” written in 2020 during the early part of the pandemic.
“While we might feel small, separate, and all alone,
our people have never been more closely tethered.
Because the question isn’t if we can weather this unknown,
but how we will weather this unknown together.”
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The U.S. Energy Department said Wednesday it has a new strategy to meet the goal of vastly expanding offshore wind energy to address climate change.
The Biden administration wants to build 30 gigawatts of offshore wind energy by 2030 — enough to power more than 10 million homes. The turbines would be anchored to the seafloor. It wants to deploy another 15 gigawatts of floating wind turbines by 2035, enough to power 5 million homes. The first commercial scale offshore wind project in the United States is currently under construction off the coast of Massachusetts.
Capturing the power of strong wind does not contribute to climate change and can enable the shutdown of power plants that operate on combustion and do pollute, reducing the emissions that are causing the climate to change.
With its Offshore Wind Energy Strategy, DOE lays out a plan for supporting offshore wind development to meet the 2030 targets. It was released during an offshore wind energy conference in Baltimore held by the Business Network for Offshore Wind.
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm promised in a statement that offshore wind "will create tens of thousands of good-paying, union jobs and revitalize coastal communities.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — The Washington Post has fired Felicia Sonmez, who triggered a vigorous online debate this week over social media policy and public treatment of colleagues after she criticized a fellow reporter for retweeting an offensive joke.
The Post said Friday it would not comment on personnel issues. But a copy of a termination letter sent Thursday, accusing her of “insubordination, maligning your coworkers online and violating the Post’s standards on workplace collegiality and inclusivity” was published on the Mediaite website and quoted in other news accounts.
The outspoken political writer, whose second stint at the Post began in 2018, has not commented about the action.
The incident began when Sonmez tweeted a screen shot of an offensive joke that a colleague, Dave Weigel, had sent out on Twitter, adding the comment: “Fantastic to work at a news outlet where retweets like this are allowed.” The Post suspended Weigel for a month for his retweet, according to published reports.
That prompted another reporter, Jose Del Real, to criticize Sonmez online. While saying Weigel had been wrong, Del Real called for compassion. “Rallying the Internet to attack him for a mistake he made doesn’t actually solve anything,” he wrote.
That led to a contentious back-and-forth, with Sonmez accusing Del Real of attacking her.
As an online debate widened and drew in more people, Post executive editor Sally Buzbee sent out two memos calling on staff members to show respect for each other. The second, on Tuesday, was more stern: Buzbee wrote that “we do not tolerate colleagues attacking colleagues either face to face or online.”
As it consumed more attention, a handful of Post employees tweeted their support of the newspaper as a good place to work. Sonmez noted that those people were among the newspaper’s best-paid stars, and suggested there has been a longstanding double standard in how social media policy is applied to them.
She also retweeted a screen shot that said Del Real had blocked her on Twitter, adding the comment, “So I hear the Washington Post is a collegial workplace.”
While it was consuming attention, another Post reporter, Lisa Rein, tweeted to Sonmez: “please stop.”
Sonmez, who worked in the early 2010s, left and rejoined, sued the Post and its top editors last year, charging discrimination in barring her from covering stories related to sexual assault after she had previously gone public as an assault victim herself.
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TORONTO, Jan. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Manulife and the World Economic Forum ("the Forum"), announced the launch of two Innovation Challenges in 2023 through UpLink, the Forum's open innovation platform. The partnership was announced at the Forum's Annual Meeting in Davos and aims to engage ecopreneurs and partners to help them scale new and innovative ideas and ventures.
The two UpLink Innovation Challenges will unlock solutions that stem from, and are aimed at, forests, to galvanize an ecopreneur revolution that will help to safeguard nature, climate, livelihoods, and the well-being of people. Full project details, including eligibility criteria and timelines, can be found on the challenge page here.
The Sustainable Forest Economy Challenge will aim to source innovative solutions across the value chain from the sustainable management of forests to the production and utilization of wood. A climate smart forest economy approach is critical to protect, maintain, manage, restore, and regrow forests. Applicants can begin applying today through March 1st, 2023.
The Forests and Trees Improving Human Health and Well-being Challenge will aim to surface innovations fostering improved interlinkages between planetary and human health. Details for this challenge will be made public later this year.
Biodiversity is degrading faster than at any time in history1, driving poor environmental, economic, and human health outcomes. This includes the loss of forests, which is destabilizing natural systems. Sustainably managed forests and farms are a critical part of reversing harmful environmental impacts; they sequester carbon, regulate global temperatures and freshwater flows, recharge groundwater, anchor fertile soil, act as flood barriers, and have been shown to enhance mental and physical health. Through this project, Manulife furthers its ongoing commitment to continue scaling nature-based climate solutions and investments in sustainable forestry and farmland to help combat nature loss, because collective action is needed to sustain our societies and economies.
"Our environment is key to human health and wellbeing, and as a global life insurer and asset manager, we see firsthand how damaged ecosystems put livelihoods and economies at risk," said Roy Gori, President and CEO, Manulife. "Given our position as one of the world's largest sustainable timberland and farmland investment managers2, we can support and scale innovative solutions, which are urgently needed in response to the rapid degradation of nature and biodiversity. We are very excited to launch this project with the World Economic Forum and UpLink and want to hear from passionate, big thinkers who can help us address and reverse nature loss."
"Innovation is not a nice-to-have, but an essential ingredient in achieving the United Nations' 2030 Sustainable Development Goals," said John Dutton, Head of UpLink and Member of the Executive Committee for the World Economic Forum. "We're proud to join forces with Manulife to source and scale the innovative solutions that will strengthen sustainable forestry, improve wellbeing, and promote nature-based solutions to climate change. This commitment will help to shine a light on the often-overlooked purpose-driven entrepreneurs whose solutions are so urgently needed, giving them the visibility, resources, and expertise they need to tackle the world's biggest challenges head on."
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Like the 1t.org pledge, this partnership with Uplink aligns to Manulife's recently announced Impact Agenda, which aims to build business to better the world by making decisions about the future of the firm's business, rooted in the belief that collective actions drive meaningful change. To learn more about Manulife's Impact Agenda, and to track progress against its goals, visit manulife.com/impact.
About Manulife
Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services provider, helping people make their decisions easier and lives better. With our global headquarters in Toronto, Canada, we provide financial advice and insurance, operating as Manulife across Canada, Asia, and Europe, and primarily as John Hancock in the United States. Through Manulife Investment Management, the global brand for our Global Wealth and Asset Management segment, we serve individuals, institutions, and retirement plan members worldwide. At the end of 2021, we had more than 38,000 employees, over 119,000 agents, and thousands of distribution partners, serving over 33 million customers. We trade as 'MFC' on the Toronto, New York, and the Philippine stock exchanges and under '945' in Hong Kong. Not all offerings are available in all jurisdictions. For additional information, please visit manulife.com.
About UpLink
UpLink is the open innovation platform of the World Economic Forum, designed to unlock an 'entrepreneur revolution' for people and planet by supporting start-ups with innovative solutions for the world's most pressing issues, as outlined by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Launched at the World Economic Forum's 2020 Annual Meeting in Davos in partnership with Deloitte and Salesforce, UpLink builds bridges between entrepreneurs and the investors, experts and partners who can help scale their ventures. UpLink crowdsources new innovations through a competition framework known as innovation challenges. UpLink has now run more than 43 challenges and identified over 350 entrepreneurs with innovative solutions across critical SDG areas including health, food, freshwater, ocean, plastics, education, climate and more. For more information, visit https://uplink.weforum.org
About 1t.org
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Tech Tuesday: Silicon Assurance
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - Happy Tech Tuesday. I’m Melanie Moron with UF Innovate, and today I am joined by Raj Dutta with Silicon Assurance and he’s going to give us an inside scoop on hardware technologies. Raj, thanks so much for joining us today.
Thank you for having me, Melanie.
So what is Silicon Assurance?
Silicon Assurance, we develop technologies which are going to look into the design of a chip that goes into your phone, your laptops. And with our technology, we’ll be able to say whether this chip is secure or not.
And why work with hardware technologies?
Cybersecurity is what our people know about, and the foundation behind any software is the hardware and no one is thinking about the hardware. But that was fine couple of years ago. But recently, in the last 10 years, we have been seeing a lot of attacks that are happening which are leveraging the hardware. We feel that a strong foundation is necessary to make sure that the whole system and the cybersecurity solutions are developed correctly
And what two products does Silicon Assurance offer?
So right now we have two products called Analyz-N and Analyz-P. So one of the product is going to look into the chip design and tell where the issues are in the chip. The other one is going to protect the chip. So one is about identifying the issues. The second is about preventing the issues.
And why build here in Gainesville and how has being here in Gainesville helped your research?
So my company’s an offspring from the University of Florida. So my co-founders are professors at UF. And I work very closely with the technologies that are coming out of UF. And that is why being in Gainesville has helped me tremendously because I can directly contact and work with the students and the faculties at the University of Florida.
And what advice would you give to those who work with hardware technologies?
Well, the first thing is since people are spending so much money to buy an iPhone or a laptop or desktop, is to go and tell your company that you want to make sure that the products you’re giving us and we’re spending so much money to purchase are secure, right? If the customer doesn’t demand that their products should be secure, then the company’s not going to spend money on securing the devices. And that will be my advice, that people should be aware that security is necessary for the devices and the systems you’re purchasing. And you should demand that from the customer so that companies like us can help you to secure your systems.
And the main thing I’ll say is everyone wants to protect their identities, their bank accounts. And if you are not careful with what systems are trying to protect them and if security of the systems are not being considered carefully by the companies who are developing them, then everything breaks loose. So we have to be careful, we have to demand for that, and people deserve to have secure systems
Well, Raj, thanks so much for joining us today. And that’s it for today’s Tech Tuesday. We’ll see you next week.
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LONDON (AP) — Northern Ireland’s political deadlock deepened Friday when the U.K. government delayed calling an early election for the Belfast-based Assembly after a deadline to restore the mothballed administration expired.
The limbo means more uncertainty and delays to government decision-making at a time when many people in Northern Ireland are struggling with soaring food and energy prices.
A deadline for the Northern Ireland Assembly to elect a governing executive passed at midnight Thursday amid a dispute over post-Brexit trade rules. Under the rules of Northern Ireland’s power-sharing politics, a new election must be held within 12 weeks. Civil servants will keep essential services running in the meantime.
U.K. Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris had been expected to announce a mid-December poll date. Instead, he said he was holding talks with the main political parties.
“I hear when parties say they really do not want an election at all,” he said. But he added that under the political rules he had “limited options.”
“I am still going to be calling an election,” Heaton-Harris said.
“This is a really serious situation,” he added. “As of a minute past midnight last night there are no longer ministers in office in the Northern Ireland Executive. I will take limited but necessary steps to ensure that public services do continue to run and to protect the public finances, but there is a limit to what (I) can do.”
Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly met Thursday but failed to elect a speaker, the first step toward restoring a government that has been on ice since an election in May. Attempts to nominate a speaker were blocked by the biggest British unionist body, the Democratic Unionist Party, as part of its protest over post-Brexit customs checks that unionists see as undermining Northern Ireland’s British identity.
The crisis comes at a time of change in Northern Ireland, a part of the U.K. with two main communities: mostly Protestant unionists who consider themselves British and largely Roman Catholic nationalists who see themselves as Irish.
In May’s election, Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein — which seeks Northern Ireland’s union with Ireland — for the first time became the largest party in the 90-seat assembly, entitling it to fill the post of first minister. The DUP came second.
Sinn Fein’s leader in Northern Ireland, Michelle O’Neill, accused the U.K. government of “doing a bizarre U-turn” and leaving people in limbo.
“We have a situation tonight where people just don’t know what’s going to happen next,” O’Neill said. “That’s not acceptable.”
Northern Ireland is the only part of the U.K. that shares a border with a European Union member — Ireland. When Britain left the bloc in 2020, the two sides agreed to keep the Irish border free of customs posts and other checks because an open border is a key pillar of the peace process that ended decades of violence in Northern Ireland.
Instead, there are checks on some goods entering Northern Ireland from the rest of the U.K.
That solution has spiraled into a political crisis, with unionist politicians refusing to form a government, claiming that the checks as undermining their British identity. The DUP wants the Brexit protocol scrapped, but most other parties in Northern Ireland want to keep it, with tweaks to ease the burden on businesses.
The U.K. and the European Union so far have held so far fruitless negotiations about finding a solution.
DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson said Northern Ireland does not need a “polarizing election.”
“If the secretary of state wants to hold an election, then he should tell us and we will prepare for that election,” Donaldson said. “But if not, then let’s focus on what really needs to be done, which is to find a solution that restores Northern Ireland’s place within the United Kingdom.” | https://pix11.com/ap-international/ap-uk-delays-calling-n-ireland-election-amid-brexit-impasse/ | 2022-10-29 11:55:00 | 1 | https://pix11.com/ap-international/ap-uk-delays-calling-n-ireland-election-amid-brexit-impasse/ |
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The world’s first space tourist wants to go back — only this time, he’s signed up for a spin around the moon aboard Elon Musk’s Starship.
For Dennis Tito, 82, it’s a chance to relive the joy of his trip to the International Space Station, now that he’s retired with time on his hands. He isn’t interested in hopping on a 10-minute flight to the edge of space or repeating what he did 21 years ago. “Been there, done that.”
His weeklong moonshot — its date to be determined and years in the future — will bring him within 125 miles (200 kilometers) of the lunar far side. He’ll have company: his wife, Akiko, and 10 others willing to shell out big bucks for the ride.
Tito won’t say how much he’s paying; his Russian station flight cost $20 million.
The couple recognize there’s a lot of testing and development still ahead for Starship, a shiny, bullet-shaped behemoth that’s yet to even attempt to reach space.
“We have to keep healthy for as many years as it’s going to take for SpaceX to complete this vehicle,” Tito said in an interview this week with The Associated Press. “I might be sitting in a rocking chair, not doing any good exercise, if it wasn’t for this mission.”
Tito is actually the second billionaire to make a Starship reservation for a flight around the moon. Japanese fashion tycoon Yusaku Maezawa announced in 2018 he was buying an entire flight so he could take eight or so others with him, preferably artists. The two men both flew to the space station, from Kazakhstan atop Russian rockets, 20 years apart.
Tito kicked off space tourism in 2001, becoming the first person to pay his own way to space and antagonizing NASA in the process. The U.S. space agency didn’t want a sightseer hanging around while the station was being built. But the Russian Space Agency needed the cash and, with the help of U.S.-based Space Adventures, launched a string of wealthy clients to the station through the 2000s and, just a year ago, Maezawa.
Well-heeled customers are sampling briefer tastes of space with Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket company. Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic expects to take paying passengers next year.
Starship has yet to launch atop a Super Heavy booster from the southern tip of Texas, near the Mexican border. At 394 feet (120 meters) and 17 million pounds (7.7 million kilograms) of liftoff thrust, it’s the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built. NASA already has contracted for a Starship to land its astronauts on the moon in 2025 or so, in the first lunar touchdown since Apollo.
Tito said the couple’s contract with SpaceX, signed in August 2021 and announced Wednesday, includes an option for a flight within five years from now. Tito would be 87 by then and he wanted an out in case his health falters.
“But if I stayed in good health, I’d wait 10 years,” he said.
Tito’s wife, 57, said she needed no persuading. The Los Angeles residents are both pilots and understand the risks. They share Musk’s vision of a spacefaring future and believe a married couple flying together to the moon will inspire others to do the same.
Tito, who sold his investment company Wilshire Associates almost two years ago, said he doesn’t feel guilty splurging on spaceflight versus spending the money here on Earth.
“We’re retired and now it’s time to reap the rewards of all the hard work,” he said.
Tito expects he’ll also shatter preconceived notions about age, much as John Glenn’s space shuttle flight did in 1998. The first American to orbit the Earth still holds the record as the oldest person in orbit.
“He was only 77. He was just a young man,” Tito said. “I might end up being 10 years older than him,”
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TxDOT has introduced a number of highway closures for June. Please plan forward if you happen to use those routes.
From Sunday, June 4 to Monday, June 19, there might be alternating eastbound mainlane closures from Bandera Road (SH 16) to IH-10 for transportable concrete visitors barrier set up. The closure will happen weekdays from 9 p.m. to five a.m., with nightly alternating mainlane closures. One lane will stay open all the time, except for on weekends. There might be a an identical closure going on from IH-10 to Bandera Road (SH 16) all the way through the similar period of time.
From Sunday, June 4 to Monday, June 19, there can also be alternating eastbound and westbound frontage highway closures from Bandera Road (SH 16) to IH-10 for transportable concrete visitors barrier set up. The closure will happen weekdays from 9 p.m. to five a.m., with nightly alternating frontage highway closures. One lane will stay open all the time, except for on weekends.
From Sunday, June 4 to Monday, June 19, the westbound to eastbound turnaround at Loop 1604 and La Cantera Parkway/John Peace Boulevard might be closed for bridge building. Only one turnaround might be closed at each and every course, with the closure going on handiest all the way through weekdays from 9 p.m. to five a.m.
From Sunday, June 4 to Monday, June 19, the Loop 1604 and Bandera Road (SH 16) intersection might be totally closed for bridge building – concrete rail demolition. Only one intersection might be closed at a time, with the closure going on handiest all the way through weekdays from 9 p.m. to five a.m.
From Sunday, June 4 to Monday, June 19, there might be a number of complete intersection closures (each instructions, together with turnarounds) for bridge building – concrete rail demolition. The intersection closures will happen from 9 p.m. to five a.m. all the way through weekdays, with just one intersection to be closed at a time. The affected intersections are Loop 1604 and Hausman Road, Loop 1604 and Kyle Seale Parkway, and Loop 1604 and La Cantera Parkway.
From Sunday, June 4 to Monday, June 19, there might be a number of frontage highway complete closures for bridge building. The closures will happen from 8 p.m. to five a.m. all the way through weekdays, with just one complete frontage lane closure to happen in keeping with course. The affected roads are the eastbound frontage highway lane from John Peace Boulevard/La Cantera Parkway to IH-10 for eastbound direct connector bridge building and the westbound frontage highway lane from IH-10 to John Peace Boulevard/La Cantera Parkway for westbound collector distributor bridge building.
From Sunday, June 4 to Monday, June 19, the eastbound mainlane front ramp after La Cantera Parkway might be closed for eastbound direct connector bridge building, and the eastbound I-10 mainlane go out ramp to westbound Loop 1604 might be closed for westbound collector distributor bridge building. Both closures will happen from 9 p.m. to five a.m. all the way through weekdays, except for on weekends.
From Monday, June 5 to Monday, June 19, there might be alternating frontage highway lane closures for visitors barrier, sidewalk building, beam placement, and bridge building from Bandera Road (SH 16) to IH-10 and from IH-10 to Bandera Road (SH 16). The closures will happen from 9 a.m. to three p.m. all the way through weekdays, with day by day alternating frontage highway closures. One lane will stay open all the time, except for on weekends.
From Monday, June 5 to Monday, June 19, there might be a number of turnaround closures for bridge widening. The closures will happen from 9 a.m. to three p.m. all the way through weekdays, with just one turnaround to be closed at a time. The affected turnarounds are the eastbound to westbound turnaround closures at Loop 1604 and Kyle Seale Parkway, the westbound to eastbound turnaround closures at Loop 1604 and Kyle Seale Parkway, the westbound to eastbound turnaround closures at Loop 1604 and Babcock Road, the westbound to eastbound turnaround closures at Loop 1604 and Chase Hill Boulevard/Brennan Avenue, the eastbound to westbound turnaround closures at Loop 1604 and Chase Hill Boulevard/Brennan Avenue, the westbound to eastbound turnaround closures at Loop 1604 and La Cantera Parkway, the eastbound to westbound turnaround closures at Loop 1604 and La Cantera Parkway, the eastbound to westbound turnaround closures at Loop 1604 and Hausman Road, and the westbound to eastbound turnaround closures at Loop 1604 and Hausman Road.
From Sunday, June 4 to Friday, June 9, there might be alternating mainlane and frontage highway closures for barrier surroundings, striping, and electric paintings. The closures will happen from 9 p.m. to five a.m. all the way through weekdays, except for on weekends.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — It’s a beloved rom-com trope: an irresponsible, irreverent and seemingly irredeemable man falls in love with a woman, setting him on the path to finally get his act together.
But in “No Hard Feelings,” which hits theaters Friday, director Gene Stupnitsky sought to subvert those gendered expectations, with Jennifer Lawrence instead playing his dirtbag protagonist.
“We always described her as someone who cuts corners, who is lazy, doesn’t have great nutrition, likes to smoke pot and drink and doesn’t take anything too seriously,” he said of the character he and co-writer, John Phillips, created. “A guy doing it, that is well-trodden territory. It’s not very interesting.”
“No Hard Feelings” follows Lawrence’s Maddie as she conspires with the parents of an awkward 19-year-old (Andrew Barth Feldman) to have sex with him before he leaves for college in exchange for a car. He’s left in the dark about the scheme, leaving Maddie to try to seduce the shy brainiac more than a decade her junior.
Lawrence said the “messy and chaotic” character’s appeal were one of the things that drew her to the film. “She was just so determined and there was no way to really stop her from achieving what she was going to achieve.”
The film is based on an actual Craigslist post the producers stumbled upon years ago. In the film a similar message becomes the catalyst for Maddie — desperate to continue working as a Uber driver as a last-ditch effort to keep the house her late mother left her — to respond.
Stupnitsky said the post, in addition to being very funny, was ripe for exploring a host of timely topics.
“Helicopter parents are a real thing. And I think sex workers were in the news a lot. And just all these ideas were coming together, you know, class differences, all of it,” Stupnitsky, an Emmy-nominated writer on “The Office” who directed 2019’s “Good Boys” and co-wrote the R-rated Cameron Diaz comedy “Bad Teacher,” said. “It’s more just asking questions and bringing up these different ideas. I don’t even know how I feel about everything, but I think my favorite comedies usually go someplace deeper.”
Although not quite a romcom, the film employs many of the genre’s cliches, including raunchy humor, awkward date scenarios and even some nudity, although not in the way audiences might expect.
“I didn’t have any reservations,” Lawrence said laughing when asked about her feelings toward nude scenes, something she was candidly reluctant about when her role in the 2018 thriller, “Red Sparrow” required it. “Once you do it, then that’s done.”
Flurries of surprise and anticipation for the Oscar winner’s raunchy comedy debut abounded after the first “No Hard Feelings” trailer dropped, betraying a subtle assumption that perhaps this kind of movie would be beneath her.
“I don’t know,” she said of why people might not expect her to do a comedy. “You go about it the same way. It wouldn’t be funny if you were like, ‘I’m gonna make a joke now.’ You have to really believe what you’re saying, so the process is the same.”
Lawrence has long wanted to do a comedy and has received no shortage of scripts, but said she found none of them funny enough — that is until Stupnitsky handed her this one.
“I’ve known her socially over the years and I know how funny she is, and I know how much she loves comedy,” Stupnitsky said. “She’s done satire and comedy dramas, but a pure, straight up R-rated comedy, I just selfishly wanted her for myself.” | https://cw33.com/news/ap-top-headlines/in-no-hard-feelings-jennifer-lawrence-relishes-playing-a-messy-and-chaotic-character/ | 2023-06-25 03:59:36 | 0 | https://cw33.com/news/ap-top-headlines/in-no-hard-feelings-jennifer-lawrence-relishes-playing-a-messy-and-chaotic-character/ |
N. Korea fires more missiles as US flies bombers over South
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has added to its recent barrage of weapons demonstrations by launching four ballistic missiles into the sea while the United States sent two supersonic bombers over South Korea in a dueling display of military might. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff says the four short-range missiles fired Saturday flew about 80 miles toward the country’s western sea. North Korea has test-fired more than 30 missiles this week, including an intercontinental ballistic missile on Thursday that triggered evacuation alerts in northern Japan. It also flew large numbers of warplanes inside its territory in an angry reaction to a massive combined aerial exercise between the United States and South Korea. It included two B-1B bombers for the first time since 2017.
Biden stumps on job growth, as voters dread inflation
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has notched an envious record on jobs, with 10.3 million gained during his tenure. But voters in Tuesday’s midterm elections are far more focused on inflation hovering near 40-year highs. Biden is asking voters to look beyond the current financial pain. He says that what matters are the job gains that he believes his policies are fostering. The government reported Friday that employers added 261,000 jobs in October as the unemployment rate bumped up to 3.7%. Biden says, “America is reasserting itself.” But he adds: “We also know folks are still struggling with inflation. It’s our number one priority.”
Biden's alliance with the left has worked, but will it last?
WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden wasn't the first choice of progressives for the White House in 2020. And he wasn’t their second or third, either. But liberal Democrats have nonetheless emerged as the president’s most loyal allies in Congress. They've worked together to help pass a COVID-19 relief package, a historic investment in infrastructure and billions of dollars to combat climate change. But this alliance could soon be put to the test. Democrats are bracing for losses in Tuesday’s elections that could cost them control of Congress. That outcome is certain to fuel questions about the party’s direction as Biden eyes another run for the White House.
Power blackouts across Ukraine amid Russian shelling
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s state electricity operator has announced regular scheduled blackouts in Kyiv and seven other regions of the country in the aftermath of Russia’s devastating strikes on energy infrastructure. The move Saturday comes as Russian forces continue to pound Ukrainian cities and villages with missiles and drones. The attacks are inflicting damage on civilian sites in a war that is nearing its nine-month mark. Russia has denied drones it used in Ukraine came from Iran. But the Islamic Republic's foreign minister on Saturday for the first time acknowledged supplying Moscow with “a limited number” of drones before the invasion.
Prison-like center puts focus on UK's response to migrants
LONDON (AP) — Behind wire fences in southeast England, children wave their arms and chant “freedom” to grab the attention of people on the other side. A young girl throws a bottle with a message inside that reads, “Please help us.” The children are among thousands of people being held at a dangerously overcrowded processing center for migrants who recently crossed the English Channel in small boats. The situation there has reignited a heated debate about the U.K. government’s treatment of asylum-seekers. Details about prison-like conditions also have put a spotlight on wider problems in Britain’s asylum system, which is struggling to cope with a record number of Channel crossings and trying to clear a huge application backlog.
Private school vouchers open faith options for kids of color
MILWAUKEE (AP) — School choice — allowing taxpayer money to pay for private school tuition instead of only financing public schools — has become another front in the partisan battles over education this election season. But low-income parents in urban neighborhoods say such programs are the only way their children can afford to attend faith-based institutions. In Milwaukee, where voucher programs were introduced three decades ago, parents in some African American and Latino neighborhoods see faith-based schools teaching values in ways struggling public schools are often too overwhelmed to do.
Medicare enrollees warned about deceptive marketing schemes
WASHINGTON (AP) — With Medicare’s open enrollment underway, health experts are warning older adults about an uptick in misleading marketing tactics that might lead some to sign up for Medicare Advantage plans that don’t cover their doctors or prescriptions and drive up their out-of-pocket costs. Democrats on the Senate Finance committee released an investigation this week that revealed several states have reported an increase in complaints around deceptive marketing schemes in 2021. People who are enrolling in Medicare Advantage should ask brokers or agents how doctors, prescriptions and services, including dental or vision care, are covered by the plans they are selling.
1 dead, dozens hurt as tornadoes hit Texas and Oklahoma
POWDERLY, Texas (AP) — Authorities in Oklahoma say at least one person has died as tornadoes ravaged areas of that state and neighboring Texas, leaving some people trapped and dozens of homes in ruins. The twisters Friday destroyed large portions of the town of Idabel in McCurtain County, Oklahoma, flattening a church, restaurant and medical center. Officials confirm at least one death in that county. Meanwhile, 50 homes were reported damaged or destroyed in Lamar County, Texas, where at least two dozen people are reported injured, two critically.
Iran acknowledges sending drones to Russia for first time
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s foreign minister has acknowledged for the first time that his country has supplied Russia with drones, insisting the transfer came before Moscow’s war on Ukraine. The comments on Saturday by Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian come after months of confusing messaging from Iran about the weapons shipment, as Russia sends the drones slamming into Ukrainian energy infrastructure and civilian targets. Previously Iranian officials had denied arming Russia in its war on Ukraine. Even so, Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard has vaguely boasted of providing drones to the world’s top powers. Amirabdollahian told reporters: “We gave a limited number of drones to Russia months before the Ukraine war." He said Iran remained committed to stopping the conflict.
Astros aim to close out World Series over Phillies in Game 6
HOUSTON (AP) — Dusty Baker has been here before. It’s hard not to think of the last time the Astros’ manager was up 3-2 in the Fall Classic as he leads the team back to Houston Saturday night for Game 6 of the World Series against the Philadelphia Phillies needing just one win for a championship. In 2002, Baker’s San Francisco Giants entered Game 6 against the Anaheim Angels up by the same margin. The Giants squandered a five-run lead in a 6-5 loss in the sixth game before the Angels won the title with a 4-1 win in Game 7. Twenty years later in his third trip to the World Series, Baker is still looking for that elusive championship after a quarter-century as a major league manager. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/ap-news-summary-at-10-31-a-m-edt/article_6b31f9a7-3a9a-5960-86dd-8ce17524f55e.html | 2022-11-05 14:57:27 | 0 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/ap-news-summary-at-10-31-a-m-edt/article_6b31f9a7-3a9a-5960-86dd-8ce17524f55e.html |
LAFAYETTE, Tippecanoe County — Michael Barnett, who had been accused of abandoning his adopted daughter, was found not guilty by a jury.
Barnett had been facing a series of neglect charges along with his ex-wife Kristine.
The former couple was charged in 2019 with neglect of a dependent for allegedly leaving their daughter, Natalia, in an apartment. They adopted the girl in 2010.
Michael and Kristine said they weren't guilty of child neglect and that Natalia was lying about how old she was. Their attorney argued that the 8-year-old girl they adopted was actually a young-looking adult woman with a form of dwarfism.
"Through a series of scientific and medical tests, it was determined that this person was not a minor child at 6 years of age but may have been as old as 20 to 22 years of age," the attorney said in a 2019 interview.
Kristine Barnett is facing trial in February of next year.
Natalia Barnett claims she was abandoned in a Tippecanoe County apartment when she was 8 years old.
Natalia and her new adoptive parents defended accusations that she pretended to be a little girl to get adopted. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/crime/tippecanoe-county-man-found-not-guilty-of-abandoning-adopted-daughter-michael-kristine-barnett-indiana-natalia/531-9fd43d96-f825-4dfa-8cca-a7c23e166071 | 2022-10-27 21:51:10 | 1 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/crime/tippecanoe-county-man-found-not-guilty-of-abandoning-adopted-daughter-michael-kristine-barnett-indiana-natalia/531-9fd43d96-f825-4dfa-8cca-a7c23e166071 |
BATON ROUGE, La. (WVLA/WMGB) — Popeyes is jumping on board a recent TikTok meal trend by creating its version of the “girl dinner.”
According to People.com, it is “a minimal-effort meal trend.”
Popeyes’ take on this new TikTok trend is equally simple. Under its “Girl Dinner” tab, the fried chicken chain is offering a variety of individually ordered sides – minus the chicken:
- Mashed Potatoes with Cajun Gravy
- Homestyle Mac & Cheese
- Coleslaw
- Cajun Fries
- Red Beans and Rice
- Biscuits
The #girldinner trend took off with a post by Olivia Maher, who said on TikTok in May, “A girl just came on here and said how, like, in medieval times peasants had to eat nothing but bread and cheese and how awful that was, and she was like, ‘That’s my ideal meal.’”
She continued by showing a spread of cheese, bread, cornichons and grapes. “I call this ‘girl dinner’ or ‘medieval peasant.’”
Popeyes says the “Girl Dinner” menu is designed “to offer guests options packed with robust Cajun flavors that are made with the same slow, time-honored, homemade traditions of Southern cooking that the brand started in 1972.”
As of Friday, #girldinner had garnered more than 236 million views on TikTok. | https://www.pahomepage.com/uncategorized/popeyes-offers-its-take-on-girl-dinner-tiktok-trend/ | 2023-07-21 16:06:18 | 0 | https://www.pahomepage.com/uncategorized/popeyes-offers-its-take-on-girl-dinner-tiktok-trend/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — For decades, the week in May when television executives revealed what new shows were coming and which old ones were going spoke to the power and influence that ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox had over popular culture.
This past week offered more evidence of how that is diminishing, draped in confusion about the future wrought by the Hollywood writers strike.
The week of schedule presentations, known as “upfronts” because networks are looking for millions of dollars in advertising commitments, have long been star-studded, news-making events.
Johnny Carson announced the end of his late-night run at an NBC upfront. So convinced they had a hit, ABC showed advertisers the entire pilot episode of “Modern Family” one year (the same strategy didn’t work as well when NBC tried it with “Joey”). CBS rewarded advertisers with the Who in a private Carnegie Hall concert.
This year the stars stayed home, unwilling to cross picket lines of striking writers outside Manhattan venues. That meant no Jimmy Kimmel, whose annual routine skewering his own industry is always anticipated. He’s been doing it since 2002, with a few years off due to the pandemic and his son’s illness.
Instead, networks tried to excite advertisers with sports and news stars. Michael Strahan tossed autographed balls into the audience with Rob Gronkowski, Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez at Fox’s event, and kibitzed with fellow “Good Morning America” host George Stephanopoulos at ABC’s.
“With the writers strike and everything, there wasn’t a whole lot of excitement about the upfronts this year,” said Alan Wolk, co-founder of TV(R)EV, a media consulting business.
Television’s biggest mystery is when viewers will be able to see new mysteries on television.
Networks tried different strategies to deal with uncertainties caused by the strike. Generally, television programs begin preparing new episodes for the fall starting in about a month, but there have been no contract talks since members of the Writers Guild for America went on strike May 2.
CBS and NBC released fall schedules as usual, knowing that shifting gears is a possibility.
“It creates some buzz, it creates some hope,” Wolk said.
Fox, however, didn’t bother announcing a schedule. ABC, where an executive privately said it would be “miraculous” if the strike was settled in time to allow business as usual, released a fall schedule that relies almost exclusively on unscripted programming. Reruns of the popular comedy “Abbott Elementary” was the only exception.
NBC has an entire season of episodes of “Found,” a new missing persons drama starring Shanola Hampton, already filmed in advance and ready to debut Thursdays in the fall, and recorded some new episodes of “Quantum Leap.”
But very few new or returning broadcast shows have done the same. If the strike lasts into the summer, look for CBS, for example, to offer expanded versions of shows like “Survivor,” “The Amazing Race” and “Big Brother,” prime-time versions of game shows like “The Price is Right” or “Let’s Make a Deal,” and reruns of scripted shows from previous years.
“It’s not lost on me that with the strike underway, all eyes are on unscripted,” said Allison Wallach, president of unscripted programming on Fox. Fox has two new game shows, hosted by Jamie Foxx and David Spade, on the docket.
Across the networks, executives put off deciding whether to reject pilots of several proposed new shows or order a full season of episodes, calls that are usually made by May. The future of some current programs — “American Auto,” “Grand Crew” and “Young Rock” on NBC, for example — are up in the air, too.
If the strike lasts through summer, the idea of new shows for television’s traditional midseason would be in jeopardy, one executive said.
There are some in the television industry who see ABC’s fall schedule as a sign of things to come for broadcast networks.
With television viewers, and media conglomerates, increasingly turning their attention to streaming services, the future for broadcast TV may lie in schedules consisting primarily of live sports, reality games like “The Bachelor,” game shows or news programming.
An ABC executive pushed against that notion, saying scripted series will always be in the mix, and noting that one of the network’s big moves this spring was to pick up the drama “9-1-1” after it had been canceled by Fox.
Still, it was hard not to miss the increasing amount of time spent in upfront presentations touting new programming being created for streaming services Peacock and Disney+.
And perhaps the biggest development in upfronts week had nothing to do with the broadcast networks at all. It was the virtual presentation by Netflix, a first. Netflix had never needed to tout their wares to advertisers before but now they do, since it now offers a lower-cost subscription that contains advertising.
Since that option was introduced last fall, more than one-quarter of new subscribers have chosen it, said Greg Peters, co-CEO of Netflix.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Myeloid Therapeutics, Inc. ("Myeloid"), a clinical stage mRNA-immunotherapy company harnessing the power of myeloid and innate biology to engineer novel therapies that elicit a broad immune response for cancer and autoimmune diseases, today announced that it has expanded its Board of Directors with the appointments of industry leaders Stanley Frankel, M.D., FACP and Brett Kaplan, M.D.
"We are privileged to welcome Stan and Brett to the Myeloid Board of Directors. Stan is a highly accomplished drug developer, executive and board member who led the development and commercialization of several key cell-therapies that form the basis for the field today. Brett is an experienced financial and operational leader, with an impressive deal sheet of more than $1 billion in transactions across Initial Public Offerings, strategic alliances and collaborations," said Daniel Getts, Ph.D., CEO of Myeloid. "Stan and Brett's proven track records strengthens our Board, and we look forward to their contributions as we progress Myeloid's deep pipeline of clinical and discovery stage assets."
Stanley Frankel, M.D., FACP - Dr. Frankel joins the Myeloid Board of Directors as a hematologist-oncologist with over 20 years of industry experience, including the research, clinical development, and commercialization of immuno-oncology and cellular therapies. He served as Corporate Vice-President Immuno-Oncology at Celgene where he oversaw the clinical development collaborations for the Medimmune/AstraZeneca alliance for durvalumab, and Celgene's alliances with BeiGene for tislelizumab and with Juno Therapeutics for development of cell-based therapies. He served as Senior Vice-President, Global Drug Development for Cell Therapy at BMS following the acquisition of Celgene to oversee the filing and development of Breyanzi® (lisocabtagene maraleucel) and Abecma® (idecabtagene vicleucel). Previously, he oversaw T-cell engager bispecific antibody development as Vice President, Clinical Development at Micromet, including development of Blincyto® (blinatumomab). He is Chief Medical Officer at Cytovia Therapeutics and a Non-Executive Director at Precision Biosciences. He serves on the Scientific Advisory Board at Sutro Biopharma, Immunai, and Minerva Biotechnologies. Dr. Frankel is also an Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University, New York. Dr. Frankel is a graduate of Harvard College and Northwestern University Medical School.
"I am pleased to join the Board of Directors of Myeloid to help guide the company as they advance their portfolio of next generation immunotherapies," said Dr. Frankel. "The myeloid targeting, RNA-based technologies have now advanced to the clinic and the in vivo cell programming technologies that continue to be explored offer great therapeutic potential."
Brett Kaplan, M.D. – Dr. Kaplan currently serves as the Chief Financial and Corporate Development Officer of Chroma Medicine Inc. He most recently served as Audit Committee Chair and Board member of Compass Therapeutics. Prior to joining Chroma, Dr. Kaplan was the Chief Financial Officer of Prevail Therapeutics, which was acquired by Eli Lilly in January 2021 for up to $1.04 billion. While at Prevail Therapeutics, Dr. Kaplan guided the company through cross-over and IPO financings, raising $175 million. Previously, Dr. Kaplan was Managing Director at Evercore where he spent eight years focused on biopharma M&A and equity financings. Prior to Evercore, he was an Equity Research Analyst at Cowen, where he covered large cap pharmaceuticals. Earlier in his career, Dr. Kaplan held senior positions at Cubist and Lilly focused on corporate and business development. He holds an MBBCh and an MBA from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa.
"I'm very pleased to become a director of Myeloid, whose promising science and differentiated corporate strategy offer a compelling opportunity to improve the lives of patients with cancer and autoimmune disorders," said Dr. Kaplan. "Myeloid is at an exciting stage with a clinical pipeline and multiple platform technologies that I believe can deliver high impact for patients with cancer, and significant value for partners and investors. I look forward to working with the Board and the leadership team to build Myeloid for the future."
About Myeloid Therapeutics
Myeloid Therapeutics is a clinical stage mRNA-immunotherapy company harnessing the power of myeloid cell biology to engineer new therapeutic alternatives for patients with cancer and autoimmune diseases. Integrating the fields of RNA biology, immunology, and medicine, the Company's proprietary platform provides clinical solutions that match therapeutic modalities to disease conditions, including use of autologous cell therapies, in vivo cell programming using mRNA, RNA-based gene-editing using RetroT™ and multi-targeted biologics. Myeloid is advancing a broad portfolio of clinical and preclinical candidates designed to enable full immune system responses. Myeloid has entered into strategic partnerships with Prime Medicine and Acuitas and is supported by well-known biotechnology investors. Myeloid is headquartered in Boston, MA. For more information, visit https://www.myeloidtx.com/.
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By JAKE BLEIBERG
Associated Press
UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Facing massive public pressure, Uvalde’s top school official has recommended the firing of the school district police chief who has been blamed for the botched law enforcement response to the elementary school shooting nearly two months ago that killed two teachers and 19 students.
The South Texas city’s school board announced Wednesday that it will consider firing Chief Pete Arredondo at a special meeting Saturday. Arredondo has been accused by state officials of making several critical mistakes during the May 24 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School.
School officials have previously resisted calls to fire Arredondo. The announcement comes two days after a meeting where the school board members were lambasted for more than three hours by members of the public, who accused them of not implementing basic security at Robb, of not being transparent about what happened and of failing to hold Arredondo to account for his actions.
Confronted with parents’ vociferous demands to fire Arredondo and warnings that his job would be next, Superintendent Hal Harrell said Monday that the police chief was a contract employee who could not be fired at will. The agenda for Saturday’s meeting includes the board discussing the potential firing with its lawyer.
Arredondo, who has been on leave from the district since June 22, has faced blistering criticism since the massacre, most notably for not ordering officers to immediately breach the classroom where an 18-year-old gunman carried out the attack. If fired, Arredondo would become the first officer ousted from his job following the deadliest Texas school shooting in history.
Although nearly 400 officers from various agencies were involved in the police response that took more than an hour to confront and kill the shooter, Arredondo is one of only two known to have faced discipline. His attorney did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The move to potentially fire the chief follows the release of a damning 80-page report by a Texas House committee that blamed all levels of law enforcement for a slow and chaotic response. The report found that 376 law enforcement officers massed at the school, with more than half coming from state and federal agencies, but that they “failed to adhere to their active shooter training, and they failed to prioritize saving innocent lives over their own safety.”
According to the committee, Arredondo told lawmakers he didn’t consider himself the on-scene commander in charge and that his priority was to protect children in other classrooms. The committee report called that decision a “terrible, tragic mistake.”
Body camera footage released by the Uvalde officials shows Arredondo in the hallway trying multiple sets of keys on other classroom doors, but not the one where the massacre took place. The classroom door could not be locked from the inside, but there is no indication officers tried to open the door while the gunman was inside.
“Our thought was: ‘If he comes out, you know, you eliminate the threat,’ correct?” Arredondo told the committee, according to the report. “And just the thought of other children being in other classrooms, my thought was: ‘We can’t let him come back out. If he comes back out, we take him out, or we eliminate the threat.’”
Arredondo, 50, grew up in Uvalde and spent much of his nearly 30-year career in law enforcement in the city. He took the head police job at the school district in 2020 and was sworn in as a member of the City Council in a closed-door ceremony May 31. He resigned from his council seat July 2.
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Associated Press writer Paul J. Weber in Austin, Texas, contributed to this report.
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The spelling of the police chief’s last name has been corrected in several places in the story.
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PRAGUE (AP) — The heads of nine European NATO members on Sunday issued a joint statement backing a path to membership for Ukraine in the U.S.-led security alliance, and calling on all 30 NATO nations to ramp up military aid for Kyiv.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made a surprise move Friday to apply for fast-track NATO membership, in response to Russia’s annexation of four regions of Ukraine.
NATO membership needs approval from all 30 members and Ukraine is unlikely to join anytime soon. Being a country already at war complicates the request.
The nine NATO countries in Central and Eastern Europe fearful that Russia could target them next if it isn’t stopped in Ukraine urged a response to the annexation.
The leaders of Czechia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania and Slovakia published a statement on their websites Sunday saying: “We support Ukraine in its defense against Russia’s invasion, demand (that Russia) immediately withdraw from all the occupied territories and encourage all allies to substantially increase their military aid to Ukraine.”
It said the leaders “firmly stood behind the 2008 Bucharest NATO Summit decision concerning Ukraine’s future membership.” At the 2008 summit, NATO members welcomed Ukraine and Georgia’s aspirations to join, but declined to provide a clear timeline for the two countries’ possible ascension. Sunday’s letter didn’t mention a timeline, either.
Asked Friday about Zelenskyy’s application for accelerated NATO membership, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said the application process in Brussels “should be taken up at a different time.”
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg was noncommittal when asked about Zelenskyy’s appeal to join.
Dmitry Medvedev, deputy head of Russia’s Security Council chaired by Putin, derided the move, saying that Zelenskyy’s request amounts to “begging NATO to accelerate the start of World War III.”
Spurred into action by security concerns over Russia’s invasion, Finland and Sweden officially applied to join NATO in May using an accelerated procedure. Most member countries have already ratified their applications and the two Nordic nations are on track to join in record time.
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By The Associated Press
An adviser to the mayor of Mariupol said on Tuesday that workers removing rubble from a collapsed apartment building in the devastated Ukrainian city found about 200 corpses in the building’s basement.
Petro Andryushchenko said on Telegram that the bodies were decomposing and that the stench permeated the neighborhood. It’s not clear when they were discovered and the report could not be independently verified.
Perched on the Sea of Azov, Mariupol was relentlessly pounded during a monthslong siege that finally ended last week after some 2,500 Ukrainian fighters abandoned a steel plant where they had made their last stand in the strategic port city.
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KEY DEVELOPMENTS IN THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR:
— After 3 months, Russia still bogged down in Ukraine war
— 200 bodies found in Mariupol as war rages in Ukraine’s east
— AP-NORC poll: US economy, not punishing Russia, is top priority
— Pentagon says more high-tech weapons going to Ukraine
— After 3 months of war, life in Russia has profoundly changed
Follow AP’s coverage of the war in Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine
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OTHER DEVELOPMENTS:
BRUSSELS — A European Union plan to suspend all tariffs on imports from Ukraine for one year cleared the final political hurdle on Tuesday when EU finance ministers endorsed the move.
Meant to help the Ukrainian economy battered by Russia’s invasion, the removal of the EU duties will apply to Ukrainian industrial products, including steel, and to farm goods such as fruits and vegetables.
The EU has already scrapped most of its tariffs on Ukrainian products as a result of a 2016 free-trade agreement. Ukrainian exports to the EU were worth 24.1 billion euros ($25.8 billion) last year, with the main goods being metals, agricultural products and machinery.
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Two top Russian security officials vowed on Tuesday that Moscow will achieve all the goals set for the “military operation” in Ukraine, appearing to address the fact that the invasion, expected by many to be a blitzkrieg, has entered its fourth month this week.
The secretary of Russia’s Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, said in an interview published Tuesday that the Russian government “is not chasing deadlines.”
“Nazism must either be 100% eradicated, or it will raise its head in a few years, and in an even uglier form,” he said in a response to a question about the war dragging on.
Russia has falsely called the war a campaign to “denazify” Ukraine — a country with a democratically elected Jewish president who wants closer ties with the West.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said at a meeting of security officials that Russia is deliberately slowing down its offensive by arranging cease-fires and humanitarian corridors “in order to avoid casualties among the civilians.”
AP’s reporting on the ground found that the Russian forces have repeatedly hit civilian targets, such as hospitals, schools and venues where civilians were sheltering.
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PARIS — A Ukrainian government minister pushed Tuesday for a quick decision on eventual Ukrainian membership in the European Union, even as France warns that it could be decades before Ukraine joins the bloc.
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Olga Stefanishyna met with French Europe Minister Clement Beaune Tuesday in Paris and argued that Ukraine has made deep and difficult reforms aimed at improving its chances at EU membership.
“As politicians, we must find a way for Ukraine to truly become part of this family, both economically and politically,” she told reporters.
The European Commission aims to deliver a first opinion in June on Ukraine’s request to become a member. But the process usually takes many years, and French President Emmanuel Macron has said it could be decades.
In the meantime France is proposing an interim arrangement that would allow more political cooperation with Ukraine and other potential EU members.
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DAVOS, Switzerland — European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says Russia can be reintegrated into the orbit of European nations if it finds its way back to “democracy, the rule of law, the respect for the international rules-based order.”
Von der Leyen spoke at the World Economic Forum’s annual gathering Tuesday. Insisting on the historical and cultural links between Europe and Russia, the head of the EU’s executive arm said reconciliation is “certainly a distant dream and hope.
“But this also says that our standing up against this brutal invasion is standing up against the leadership in Russia. It is the Russian people who are the ones who decide about the future of their country. They have it in their hands.”
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ANKARA, Turkey — The leader of a Turkish nationalist party that is allied with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey should consider leaving NATO if “circumstances become inextricable” and Turkey is forced to approve Sweden and Finland membership.
Devlet Bahceli, the leader of the Nationalist Action Party, said in a speech to his party’s legislators on Tuesday that Turkey isn’t without alternatives and could be part of a possible security alliance that could be made up of Turkic-speaking states and Muslim nations.
“Turkey is not without options. Turkey is not helpless. Leaving NATO should be put on the agenda as an alternative option if the circumstances become inextricable,” Bahceli said. “We did not exist with NATO, and we will not perish without NATO.”
Turkey is objecting to Sweden’s and Finland’s historic bid to join the alliance, citing as reasons their perceived support to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, and other groups that Turkey considers to be terrorists.
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ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu says a delegation made up of officials from Sweden and Finland are expected to arrive in Turkey later on Tuesday to discuss Ankara’s objection to their membership in NATO.
Cavusoglu told a group of journalists traveling with him on a two-day visit to the Palestinian territories and Israel that the delegation would meet with Presidential Spokesman Ibrahim Kalin and Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister Sedat Onal on Wednesday.
Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto also confirmed the meeting.
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A Russian-installed official in Ukraine’s Kherson region says the region’s pro-Kremlin administration will ask Moscow to set up a military base there.
“There should be a Russian military base in the Kherson region,” deputy head of the Russia-installed administration in Kherson Kirill Stremousov was quoted as saying by the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti. “We will be asking for it, the entire population is interested in it. It is vitally important and will become a security guarantee for the region and its residents.”
Russian forces took control of the Kherson region in southeastern Ukraine early on in the war and installed its own administration there. Ukrainian officials have speculated that Russia plans to stage a referendum in the region to declare its independence, similar to the ones that took place in eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions in 2014. Moscow recognized the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk republics two days before invading Ukraine and used it as a pretext to send troops to its ex-Soviet neighbor.
Stremousov denied such plans earlier this month and said the region will ask the Kremlin to make it part of Russia instead. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said it is up to the people of Kherson to decide how and where they want to live.
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LONDON — British military authorities say Russian forces have intensified efforts to encircle and capture Severodonetsk and neighboring cities, the only part of the Luhansk region that remains under Ukrainian government control.
The U.K. defense ministry, in a briefing posted Tuesday morning, says the northern and southern arms of the Russian operation are currently separated by about 25 kilometers (15 miles) of Ukrainian-held territory.
The ministry says Russian forces have achieved “some localized successes” despite strong resistance from Ukrainian troops that occupy well dug-in defensive positions.
The ministry says the battle for Severodonetsk is only one part of the Russian campaign to take the larger Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, and the fall of the city may cause logistical problems for the Kremlin.
“If the Donbas front line moves further west, this will extend Russian lines of communication and likely see its forces face further logistic resupply difficulties,” the ministry said.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Russian shelling of a residential building in Sievierodonetsk killed four people, Ukrainian governor of the Luhansk region Serhiy Haidai said Tuesday. He didn’t specify when the shelling took place.
The Russian forces in recent weeks have been trying — so far unsuccessfully — to take control of Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk in the region, subjecting both cities to intensive shelling.
The most recent round of shelling, Haidai said, damaged six houses in each of the two cities.
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MANILA, Philippines — Outgoing Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte sharply criticized Russian leader Vladimir Putin for the killings of innocent civilians in Ukraine, saying while the two of them have been tagged as killers, “I kill criminals, I don’t kill children and the elderly.”
Duterte, who openly calls Putin an idol and a friend, voiced his rebuke for the first time over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in remarks aired Tuesday where he blamed the three-month old war for the spike in global oil prices that has battered many countries, including the Philippines.
While stressing he was not condemning the Russian president, Duterte disagreed with Putin’s labeling of the invasion as a “special military operation,” and said it was really a full-scale war waged against “a sovereign nation.”
Addressing Putin “as a friend” and the Russian Embassy in Manila, Duterte urged them to stop bombing and firing artillery rounds on residential areas and allow innocent civilians to safely evacuate before launching a bombardment.
“I’m on the way out and I don’t know how to solve the problem,” Duterte said. “You have to solve the war between Ukraine and Russia before we can talk of even returning to normalcy.”
Duterte, who steps down on June 30 when his turbulent six-year term ends, has presided over a brutal anti-drugs crackdown that has left more than 6,000 mostly petty suspects dead.
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UNITED NATIONS — The United States and Britain are accusing Russia of spreading disinformation online and manipulating public opinion about the war in Ukraine and vehemently rejecting Russian claims that the West is aiming to control all information flows and define what is true or not true.
Britain’s deputy ambassador James Roscoe told a U.N. Security Council meeting on the use of digital technologies in maintaining peace that Russia has conducted cyber-attacks and used “an online troll factory to spread disinformation and manipulate public opinion about their war.”
U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield said the Russian government “continues to shut down, restrict and degrade internet connectivity, censor content, spread disinformation online, and intimidate and arrest journalists for reporting the truth about its invasion.”
Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia accused countries that call themselves a “community of democracies” of building “a cyber-totalitarianism” and along with technology giants like Meta of shutting down Russian TV channels, expelling Russian journalists and blocking access to Russian websites.
Nebenzia again accused Western governments and media of fabricating the story of the Russian military killing civilians in Bucha near Kyiv. He claimed the civilians died from injuries caused by artillery projectiles fired from outdated hardware used by the Ukrainian army.
Britain’s Roscoe countered Russia’s claims of a “staged provocation” and suggestion that the Ukrainians were responsible for the civilian deaths after retaking the town, saying satellite images prove the bodies were there for several weeks when Russia controlled Bucha.
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Luhansk Gov. Serhiy Haidai says police are continuing daily evacuations due to the war with Russia and the number of those willing to leave is increasing.
Haidai posted a video Monday on Facebook taken from a vehicle that he said was traveling along a highway near Sievierodonetsk. The vehicle is racing down the road, dodging debris, mounds of earth, barricades and destroyed vehicles as shells explode in the fields just yards away.
A photo in the post shows about a dozen civilians and their luggage packed tightly inside what appears to be the back of a vehicle.
Haidai wrote that people “are agreeing to the risk because what is happening in the cities is much worse.”
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KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia is waging “total war” on his country, and that includes inflicting as many casualties and as much infrastructure destruction as possible.
Zelenskyy made the comments in his nightly address Monday, the eve of the three-month anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In it, he noted that since Feb. 24, the Russian army has launched 1,474 missile strikes on Ukraine, using 2,275 different missiles. He said the vast majority hit civilian targets. There have been more than 3,000 Russian airstrikes over that period.
“Indeed, there has not been such a war on the European continent for 77 years,” he said.
Zelenskyy said an attack on the town of Desna, 55 kilometers (34 miles) north of Kyiv, resulted in 87 deaths.
The Russians have now concentrated their forces on Donbas cities like Bakhmut, Popasnaya and Sievierodonetsk, Zelenskyy said.
He called on Ukrainians who are not on the battlefield to help in whatever way they can and said his own task was working to increase international pressure on Russia. “The absolute priority is weapons and ammunition for Ukraine.”
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