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Tech-enabled lender is the first and only non-QM financing partner to U.S. real estate investors to achieve this milestone
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kiavi,a leading provider of financing to real estate investors (REIs), today announced it surpassed 50,000 funded bridge and fix-and-flip loans since its inception in 2013. Citing property data powered by ATTOM, Kiavi is the first and only non-QM lender to real estate investors to achieve this milestone.
"We are thrilled to reach this major milestone. Our customers have always been the heartbeat of our business and we are honored that they consistently turn to Kiavi for fast, simple, and reliable fix-and-flip financing," said Michael Bourque, Chief Executive Officer, Kiavi. "To us, this milestone is more than a number. We're truly privileged to support so many customers' important work of revitalizing aged homes across the nation," he added.
Kiavi's bridge and fix-and-flip loans provide short-term financing to REIs who purchase and rehab investment properties. The company has rapidly become one of the top destinations for REIs looking to buy, renovate, and sell a home due in part to its data and technology platform. Kiavi uses data from its 50,000 fix-and-flip transactions to power its machine-learning models, which help its customers make smart investment decisions. This platform also enables borrowers to close much faster than traditional financing options by eliminating time-consuming and extraneous elements of the lending process.
"It's humbling to be the only lender in our space to fund 50,000 bridge and fix-and-flip loans," said Stephanie Casper, Chief Revenue Officer, Kiavi. "This milestone is a testament to Kiavi's leading data models and technology platform, as well as our team's unwavering commitment to our customers. We remain dedicated to putting Kiavi's data and capital to work to help each and every one of our customers live better through real estate," she added.
Over the past nine years, Kiavi has helped investors unlock more than $4.1 billion in real estate value by funding more than $12.3 billion in fix-and-flip loans. About 82% of Kiavi's transactions are with repeat customers, and 95% of Kiavi's funded loans have successful exits. The company offers fix-and-flip loans as well as rental property loans in 32 states.
Kiavi was recently recognized on Inc. magazine's 2022 Best Workplaces list and won for the fifth consecutive year the 2022 HousingWire Tech100 Real Estate award, recognizing the most innovative technology companies in the housing economy.
About Kiavi
Kiavi uses the power of data and technology to bring lending for real estate investors into the digital age. Through Kiavi's digital platform, real estate investors are empowered to make smarter decisions, gain access to funding faster, and scale their business. Founded in 2013 Kiavi, formerly known as LendingHome, has grown to become one of the largest lenders to real estate investors in the United States. The company is committed to helping customers revitalize approximately $25 trillion worth of aged U.S. housing stock and provide move-in ready homes and rental housing for millions of Americans across the country. For more information, visit www.kiavi.com. NMLS ID #1125207
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Columbia High School, pictured in a 2022 file photo, and Caldwell High School both went into lockdown Wednesday after hoax calls were made to law enforcement.
Columbia and Caldwell high schools went into lockdown on Wednesday, after a series of false active shooter calls went into law enforcement agencies throughout the state, Idaho Press reporters Carolyn Komatsoulis and Sydney Kidd write.
“We have no reports of actual incidents there,” Carmen Boeger, Nampa Police Community Engagement Coordinator, said of Columbia High School.
According to Canyon County Public Information Officer Joe Decker, law enforcement responded to the calls immediately.
“There was an immediate and robust response by law enforcement in each of these areas, and several schools have gone into lockdown as a precaution,” Decker said. “At this time, it appears that this is a hoax and no verified attacks or injuries have been discovered.”
The Nampa Police Department responded to the scene at Columbia High School and the Idaho State Police helped with some traffic control around the school, Boeger said.
The Ada County Sheriff’s Office also received a false school shooting report at Capital High School in Boise but it was determined to be a hoax before any law enforcement was sent, according to ACSO Public Information Officer Patrick Orr.
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Fall is known for some of the year’s most popular holidays, cooler temperatures and beautiful foliage. Still, for some, it’s all about the drinks that seem to taste best during the season — many incorporate pumpkin, spices and other flavors that make it feel like autumn has arrived. Whether you love coffee, tea or something else, there is likely a fall beverage for you.
In this video
BestReviews’ own Branson Stowell talks with Gary Gelfand and shares some of his favorite fall drink recipes, including a seasonal favorite: pumpkin spice coffee.
Pumpkin spice coffee
“Pumpkin spice latte is kind of the seminal drink when you think of fall,” Stowell said. However, they’re often high in calories and sugar. Luckily, there are healthier ways to enjoy a warm pumpkin spice beverage.
To make a healthy alternative to the pumpkin spice latte, you’ll start by making coffee or espresso. The Aeropress is a great choice when making coffee for your pumpkin spice beverage, as it only takes around a minute to brew a cup. This device is easy to use, doesn’t require electricity and gives your coffee an excellent flavor and aroma.
Many Aeropress coffee makers are made from durable, lightweight plastic, making them easy to take on the go. They usually only cost around $30-$50, and some include a small tote bag.
You’ll also need to heat 2 cups of milk in a saucepan with half a cup of pumpkin puree, half a tablespoon of vanilla, maple syrup or another sweetener and two pinches of pumpkin pie spices. Froth or whisk the mixture on the stovetop until it reduces. This should take around five minutes.
Fill your cup around a third of the way full with coffee and top it off with the milk mixture. You can add more of the mixture to your cup to enhance the pumpkin flavor. The remaining pumpkin spice blend can be stored in your fridge and used later. When reusing your pumpkin spice mix, it is often best to warm it up on the stove.
Chai tea
Chai is an excellent tea for the fall season. This drink is a mixture of black tea and various spices. According to the National Institutes of Health, the black tea used in chai may help prevent cardiovascular disease. It can be made in large batches or using a concentrate.
“The very first and most important ingredient is the product, which is the tea infuser here. I like these ones that can hang off the edge of a pot,” Stowell said. Use a pestle and mortar to grind up some cardamom pods. Steeping a spice mixture of cardamom, peppercorns, cloves and nutmeg will enhance your chai’s flavor. Still, if you’re looking for something quick, you may want to try a pre-made chai mix like those made by Blue Lotus.
Chai tea can also be combined with milk and mixed with a milk frother to make a chai latte with a creamy texture. These lattes are popular at Starbucks, but you can save time and money making them at home.
Apple cider bourbon
This drink is ideal for parties and tailgating events. It can be made in large batches or as individual cocktails. There are a variety of spices that mix well with bourbon to give it a fall flavor.
To make apple cider bourbon, you’ll want to mix two parts bourbon, one part apple cider and one part sweet red vermouth over ice. Add a squirt of lemon juice and a dash of bitters, mix the drink and then pour it into a cocktail glass. “You can add a rosemary sprig or a little apple slice to garnish,” Stowell said.
When choosing bourbon for your drink, it’s best to use one aged for at least four years. Generally, the bourbon’s flavor becomes more robust the longer it ages. Still, you can save money buying a newer bourbon, and the cocktail will still have a great fall flavor.
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South Florida vs. Marquette Women's Basketball Predictions & Picks - NCAA Tournament First Round
Published: Mar. 13, 2023 at 6:39 PM CDT|Updated: 55 minutes ago
Friday's game features the Marquette Golden Eagles (21-10) and the South Florida Bulls (26-6) squaring off at Colonial Life Arena in what is expected to be a tight matchup, with a projected 64-62 win for Marquette according to our computer prediction. Tipoff is at 11:30 AM ET on March 17.
Their last time out, the Bulls lost 65-53 to Wichita State on Tuesday.
South Florida vs. Marquette Game Info
- When: Friday, March 17, 2023 at 11:30 AM ET
- Where: Colonial Life Arena in Columbia, South Carolina
- How to Watch on TV: ESPN2
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South Florida vs. Marquette Score Prediction
- Prediction: Marquette 64, South Florida 63
South Florida Schedule Analysis
- When the Bulls took down the Texas Longhorns (No. 15 in the AP's Top 25) on December 2 by a score of 70-65, it was their best win of the season so far.
- Against Quadrant 1 teams, the Bulls are 4-4 (.500%) -- tied for the 31st-most wins.
- South Florida has six wins versus Quadrant 2 teams, tied for the 20th-most in the country.
- When facing Quadrant 3 teams, the Bulls are 9-1 (.900%) -- tied for the 13th-most victories.
South Florida 2022-23 Best Wins
- 70-65 on the road over Texas (No. 15/AP Poll) on December 2
- 67-59 at home over Alabama (No. 43) on November 16
- 66-65 over Arkansas (No. 49) on December 21
- 67-62 on the road over Memphis (No. 62) on January 28
- 58-45 at home over Memphis (No. 62) on January 11
Marquette Schedule Analysis
- In their best win of the season, the Golden Eagles took down the No. 7 UConn Huskies, 59-52, on February 8.
- The Golden Eagles have four Quadrant 1 wins, tied for the 31st-most in the nation. But they also have 10 Quadrant 1 losses, tied for the 24th-most.
- Marquette has six wins against Quadrant 2 teams, tied for the 20th-most in the country.
- The Bulls have the most Quadrant 3 wins in the country according to the RPI (nine).
Marquette 2022-23 Best Wins
- 59-52 at home over UConn (No. 7/AP Poll) on February 8
- 68-61 over Texas (No. 15/AP Poll) on November 19
- 70-66 over Gonzaga (No. 16/AP Poll) on November 20
- 61-38 at home over St. John's (NY) (No. 55) on February 18
- 57-47 over St. John's (NY) (No. 55) on March 4
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South Florida Performance Insights
- The Bulls' +375 scoring differential (outscoring opponents by 11.7 points per game) is a result of scoring 71 points per game (70th in college basketball) while giving up 59.3 per outing (58th in college basketball).
- South Florida is averaging 72.7 points per game this year in conference contests, which is 1.7 more points per game than its overall average (71).
- Offensively, the Bulls have played better in home games this year, averaging 75.3 points per game, compared to 69.8 per game away from home.
- South Florida is giving up 56.7 points per game this year when playing at home, which is 1.8 fewer points than it is allowing when playing on the road (58.5).
- The Bulls' offense has been improved over their last 10 games, scoring 73.6 points per contest compared to the 71 they've averaged this season.
Marquette Performance Insights
- The Golden Eagles outscore opponents by 7.1 points per game (posting 65 points per game, 181st in college basketball, and conceding 57.9 per outing, 36th in college basketball) and have a +219 scoring differential.
- Marquette has averaged 1 fewer points in Big East play (64) than overall (65).
- The Golden Eagles are putting up more points at home (68.9 per game) than on the road (60.8).
- At home, Marquette concedes 52.8 points per game. On the road, it concedes 63.
- The Golden Eagles are averaging 60.1 points per game over their last 10 games, which is 4.9 fewer points than their average for the season (65).
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Deoleo reaffirms unparalleled commitments to raise industry standards and launches new levels of verified sustainability in its products
DALLAS, May 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Deoleo, the global leader in olive oil, today resolidified its commitment to raising industry standards with a major step forward in the company's sustainability strategy. Years in the making, the company is launching new SKUs of the Bertolli and Carapelli brands that offer sustainability assurances to consumers nationwide.
Arriving to U.S. grocers this summer, the new SKUs will include sustainably sourced versions of Bertolli and Carapelli extra virgin olive oils — "Bertolli Sustainably Sourced" and "Carapelli Original Sustainable" respectively. Deoleo will also introduce a new QR code technology in partnership with IBM that provides consumers additional layers of process traceability in the journey of "Carapelli 100% ITALIAN" from tree to table. Other SKUs currently have a similar QR code that focuses on educating consumers on the company's sustainability initiatives.
These initiatives protect the authenticity and quality of Deoleo's products, bringing to life a small part of the company's much larger sustainability approach and dovetailing other recently launched milestones such as the launch of Bertolli Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil in 100 percent recycled plastic bottles in the U.S. last year.
"As the world's largest olive oil company, we have a responsibility to our heritage, our industry and most importantly, our consumers to deliver sustainability. We will continue to drive toward this goal through a holistic approach that addresses every step of the process. The sustainability conversation is multifaceted, and while these new SKUs are significant, they represent a small part of our global vision," shares Thierry Moyroud, CEO of Deoleo North America.
At the heart of Deoleo's sustainability strategy, established in 2019, are four areas of action materialized through its brands and under the theme of "Caring for What Cares for You":
- Sustainable Production: Deoleo is committed to responsible farming to ensure the highest quality olives possible and to preserve olive farming for generations to come. In 2018, in collaboration with Intertek, a leading total quality assurance provider, Deoleo established the industry's first-ever Sustainability Protocol for extra virgin olive oil products. To date, 70 olive oil mills and nearly 680,000 acres of olive groves across Italy, Spain, Tunisia and Argentina have received certification, advancing more than 40,000 farmers into a new era of olive farming.
- Recycled plastic bottles: Deoleo continues to transition to 100 percent recycled plastic (rPET). In 2022, Bertolli Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil became the first global brand to launch olive oil packaged in 100% rPET in the U.S. Now, the company is rolling out a series of additional initiatives to reduce the consumption of resources in its packaging, including optimizing the weight of its plastic packaging up to 10 percent, which will generate a total reduction of approximately 110 tons of plastic each year globally.
- Transparency and Traceability: Deoleo is reinforcing its commitment to transparency by empowering consumers with knowledge. Later this summer, the new IBM Food Trust technology, a blockchain-backed QR code, will launch with the "Carapelli 100% ITALIAN" SKU, enabling consumers to trace the journey of their olive oil and verify its origin and quality.
- Greener Factories: Deoleo continues to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through various measures. Initiatives include investments in energy-efficient and low-carbon technologies as well as energy consumption audits and viability studies. PreZero, an international waste and recycling management leader, has already deemed Deoleo's Tavernelle and Alcolea plants "Zero waste plants'' and in 2023, the Alcolea plant will further receive photovoltaic panels to generate even more clean energy. Such steps demonstrate the company's aim to maintain and strengthen zero waste certification which aligns to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
"Deoleo's purpose in 'Caring for What Cares for You' is clear," says Moyroud. "Our framework is built upon the value that action speaks volumes. To that end, we will remain laser focused on delivering tangible innovation and initiatives that don't solely respond to market trends, but rather transform sustainability of the entire olive oil category worldwide."
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For more information about Deoleo's sustainability initiatives, visit deoleo.com/en/sustainability.
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About Deoleo
Deoleo is a Spanish multinational food company and the global powerhouse behind the best-selling olive oils in the world. With a global presence in more than 60 countries and 5 continents, Deoleo has factories in Spain and Italy as well as commercial offices in 15 countries. Deoleo's portfolio consists of global leading brands such as Bertolli, the best-selling brand worldwide, Carapelli, as well as Spanish brands Carbonell, Hojiblanca and Koipe.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles cellphone store owner who stole some $25 million from wireless carriers by illegally unlocking phones was sentenced Monday to 10 years in federal prison.
Argishti Khudaverdyan, 44, of Burbank, also was ordered to pay nearly $28.5 million in restitution, according to a statement from the U.S. attorney's office.
Khudaverdyan owned a T-Mobile retail store in the Eagle Rock neighborhood. In a years-long scheme, he unlocked hundreds of thousands of cellphones on T-Mobile, Sprint, AT&T and other phone networks, prosecutors said.
Unlocking phones allowed the phones to be switched to another carrier or be sold on the black market, authorities said.
Khudaverdyan also removed blocks that carriers placed in the case of lost or stolen phones, prosecutors said.
To unlock the phones, Khudaverdyan used phishing emails and other methods to trick T-Mobile employees into providing their information. He and others stole credentials from more than 50 employees nationwide, authorities said.
In August, Khudaverdyan was convicted of 14 felonies including wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, money laundering, conspiracy and illegally accessing a computer without authorization.
A co-defendant, Alen Gharehbagloo, 43, of La Cañada Flintridge pleaded guilty in July to wire fraud and other charges. He will be sentenced in February. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Los-Angeles-man-gets-10-years-for-25M-cellphone-17649572.php | 2022-12-13 02:35:33 | 1 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Los-Angeles-man-gets-10-years-for-25M-cellphone-17649572.php |
Superstar rapper Megan Thee Stallion is making history as the first Black woman to grace the cover of Forbes 30 under 30.
This is the second time she's landed on the Forbes 30 under 30 list.
The 27-year-old earned an estimated $13 million this year.
In 2020, she collaborated with Cardi B to get nearly 2 billion streams on Spotify and YouTube.
She's also partnered with other big music stars such as Beyonce, Nicki Minaj, BTS, and Dua Lipa.
Before she was "Megan Thee Stallion," she was Megan Pete.
In 2016, she was studying nursing while creating hip-hop videos on YouTube.
Billion dollar brands including Nike, Revlon, and Popeyes are now lining up to work with her.
Now she has a world tour ahead, a Netflix deal, and a documentary being made by Time Inc.
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On paper, the project looks promising — a 54,000-square foot museum honoring the legacy of some of New Mexico’s most valiant soldiers.
They were the Navajo Code Talkers, U.S. Marines who conveyed military orders, maneuvers and plans in their own language, confounding the Japanese during World War II and helping American forces achieve victory in the Pacific.
Their efforts helped turn the tide of the war, the late Roy Hawthorne, a Navajo Marine veteran who served as a Code Talker on various South Pacific islands, told The New Mexican in 2013.
“When the Navajos arrived with their code, it was a whole new ball game,” he recalled, noting how their contributions changed the shape of the war — and tribal soldiers’ sense of themselves. “The face of the Navajo changed: Instead of us losing, we were winning.”
But creating a place to remember the Code Talkers — almost all have died in the 70-plus years since the war’s conclusion — on a patch of ground in McKinley County near the Arizona border still requires tens of millions for completion, and proponents worry bureaucratic and turf issues could keep the facility from becoming a reality.
Though late state Sen. John Pinto, a Code Talker from Gallup, secured more than $1 million in executive and legislative capital outlay funds to get the museum started in 2019, the remaining $46 million needed to make it a reality has not been appropriated by either state, federal Navajo Nation or private sources, the entities most likely to fund it.
At a meeting last week of the Legislature’s Indian Affairs Committee, some lawmakers expressed worries — and frustration — about a loss in momentum and uncertainty about who will ramrod the museum to reality.
“The question I have is where is the funding coming from? Whose project is it?” said Rep. Patty Lundstrom, D-Gallup, who sits on the Indian Affairs Committee.
Lundstrom, chairwoman of the influential House Appropriations and Finance Committee, said after Monday’s hearing the museum is an “absolutely important project from my perspective. People often forget how important the Navajo Code Talkers were to winning World War II.”
But she and other members of the committee said they think it’s more appropriate to seek federal funding for the project since the museum would, in its own way, serve as a memorial to the Code Talkers and thus be akin to a federal monument to U.S. military history.
Rep. Anthony Allison, D-Fruitland, said “the significance of the Navajo Code Talkers is very exceptional, so therefore it should be treated with the same respect as given to the Lincoln Memorial … [and] national landmarks.” He said he has brought up the issue of federal funding with several of the state’s congressional delegates.
Rep. D. Wonda Johnson, D-Crownpoint, said the Legislature could be part of a multi-body financial source — along with the feds and the Navajo Nation — for the project.
However, Johnson also cautioned: “As state legislators, we can give so much, but I don’t think we can commit to $45 million. So a combined resource from different entities and initiatives would be my recommendation.”
Regan Hawthorne, the son of the late Roy Hawthorne who also sits on the board of the nonprofit Navajo Code Talkers Museum, Inc., wants to keep the organization as autonomous as possible. Toward that end, he said his board will be seeking private and corporate funding to start the initial construction phase for the museum come spring.
“We will probably not approach any one governmental entity to construct the museum,” he said.
Hawthorne added he believes his organization will have to raise at least $50 million, but perhaps just $5 million by the spring to get the project going. He said he sees the museum as being in the 35,000-square-foot range.
“We are looking for major donors; we are looking for the bulk of the startup money that includes development on the site,” he said.
Board members of the museum, including descendants of the Code Talkers, are committed to making that happen, Hawthorne said, but he said while some board members want to seek federal or local funding, “the conflicting message there is we would like to remain separate of any governmental influence and control.”
Louis Grachos, executive director of SITE Santa Fe, an art museum in Santa Fe, said a privately driven approach can work when it comes to raising money for a capital campaign.
“It’s actually wise for them to give it a shot because, in my history, I have found most major capital projects begin with a handful of individuals with passion who really want to make it happen,” he said.
The key, Grachos added, is to articulate a clear, long-term vision of what the museum can be, then find “one or two individuals who have a really deep belief in the vision and will certainly have the input in terms of helping shape a campaign.”
Once that’s done, he said, museum officials can look for matching capital funds from other donors — and, if need be, state and federal entities.
Initial plans paid for with money the state appropriated in 2019 include five separate galleries ranging from 3,000 to 5,000 square feet. They would focus on Navajo culture and history, the years leading up to World War II, the start of the Code Talkers program, the use of the code in combat and the legacy of the 400 Marines who served in those units.
Derek Meier, senior project manager for Wilson & Company, the Albuquerque engineering firm that did the preliminary planning study on the museum, said it remains a challenge to pin down an actual cost for the project “and with inflation it’s probably going to get higher.”
He said at this time his company is not under contract to do any further work on the project. He said museum leaders “have to work that out still as to who will carry forward the design.”
That was another concern lawmakers have about the project — who’s running it? Legislators said there is confusion over who should actually take control of the museum.
Sen. George Muñoz, D-Gallup, said it’s tough to tell who’s in charge — the state, the Navajo Nation or the museum group.
“I know there’s way too many hands in the kitty over there,” he said.
Though Paulson Chaco, chief of staff of the Navajo Nation, took part in last week’s presentation to the Legislature, he did not respond to a phone call and email seeking comment. Johnson said Chaco made it clear he “was going to go back to the Navajo Nation and request support” for the museum.
She said there remains “some confusion about physical agents ... who is really at the helm of this.”
Pinto, a Democrat and one of the longest-serving legislators in New Mexico history, had long wanted to build a Navajo Code Talkers Museum and Visitors Center. He died in May 2019, just months after securing the initial investment in his dream project.
Most of the Code Talkers hailed from the Four Corners region that encompasses the Navajo Nation. Their accomplishments were heralded because, before the Navajos’ arrival, the Japanese had proved adept at breaking all American codes regarding troop movements in the South Pacific.
As Roy Hawthorne said in 2013, the Japanese would often intercept American radio transmissions to say, “Thank you very much for the information. We will be waiting for you.” And they would be waiting, he added.
But as the Diné language was unwritten — and few non-Navajos knew it — code strategists decided to create a 200-plus-word code using Diné words and translated by trained Navajo Marines. The Japanese were baffled — as was anyone else listening in. Navajos not versed in the code didn’t know what was going on either, Roy Hawthorne said.
Regan Hawthorne insisted the project is moving forward and has land to build on near Tse Bonito, plus access to water. He said his museum group is working on putting together a more specific proposal and cost estimate to send to potential donors “whether they be private or governmental.”
He said he believes there is a broad group of potential donors who will contribute to highlighting the legacy of the men who used their language to help defeat the Japanese.
“This Indigenous language … brought such a superior code-breaking force to their knees,” he said. “Consider all of that, together with national pride, and people whose parents and grandparents served this country in World War II who are now in a position to help finance something that brings attention to this kind of legacy.” | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/theres-only-one-thing-the-navajo-code-talkers-museum-needs-money/article_f4bfa44e-01f9-11ed-8cf1-0b578b10fa75.html | 2022-07-18 06:57:06 | 1 | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/theres-only-one-thing-the-navajo-code-talkers-museum-needs-money/article_f4bfa44e-01f9-11ed-8cf1-0b578b10fa75.html |
The criticism of Becky Daggett in a recent letter to the editor is entirely misplaced. What has society come to when our elected officials, who take an oath to uphold the law, get criticized for doing just that, upholding the law! She in no way violated her oath of office as a city councilperson; maybe people should actually read the oath before jumping to wild conclusions.
Becky took an oath to uphold the law and that is exactly what she did because per Arizona revised statutes, she was required by law to resign from the city council. If a citizen doesn’t like the law, I would suggest that is would be more appropriate to contact your state legislators and seek a change, as opposed to placing blame where it simply doesn’t belong.
Becky was asked by members of the community (and Council) to run for mayor, and I believe that she should be applauded for her willingness to step up and serve the citizens of Flagstaff as our mayor.
She has an incredibly long track record of public service and contributions to this community, such as serving as a board member with High Country Humane, Flagstaff Arts Council, Theatrikos Theatre Company, and was previously Communications Director for the Flagstaff Family Food Center, Outreach Coordinator for the Grand Canyon Trust, and the list goes on and on.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota Democratic leaders are meeting over Zoom on Thursday evening to discuss the chaos that broke out during a weekend convention to endorse a candidate for a Minneapolis City Council race.
Ken Martin, chair of the state Democratic Party organization, has said he will use the meeting to propose a bylaw change “to ban individuals engaged in violent assaults” from the party and “take immediate action to remove" those involved in Saturday's disruption.
Video circulating on social media shows that the disturbance began after supporters of incumbent Aisha Chughtai took the stage to seek delegates’ backing for the Ward 10 City Council seat. That sparked an uproar among backers of her challenger, Nasri Warsame. Some jumped on stage, shouting, banging on tables and waving signs. At least two people were injured, and the convention broke up with no endorsement.
Martin has said on Twitter that it was “clear that the conflict was instigated" by Warsame supporters.
Both candidates are Democrats in an overwhelmingly Democratic city when campaigns for party backing are often heated. Warsame, a political newcomer, is a Somali immigrant.
Chughtai is a longtime activist who managed U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar's 2018 campaign. She is the daughter of Pakistani immigrants and has support from some prominent Somali American politicians, including Omar and state Sen. Zaynab Mohamed, and other Muslims, including Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison.
Chughtai has endorsements from a long list of progressive and labor groups, including the Democratic Socialists of America. Warsame has campaigned on a law-and-order message.
He said at a news conference Wednesday: “I do not condone violence. I do not condone intimidation or harassment of any sort.”
Warsame’s campaign manager, Abshir Omar, said Warsame’s supporters were victims — not perpetrators. Omar said Warsame’s supporters — who are primarily Black, Muslim and immigrants — have been the target of racism.
Chughtai released a statement saying the video does not match the Warsame campaign's version of events.
“Campaigns that are winning and have the support of the people don’t violently disrupt the process,” she said. "As a campaign and as a movement, we’re on the path to a safer, more just Minneapolis and we look forward to continuing to share that vision with the people of Ward 10.” | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/politics/article/minnesota-democrats-hold-emergency-meeting-in-18107260.php | 2023-05-18 21:04:27 | 1 | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/politics/article/minnesota-democrats-hold-emergency-meeting-in-18107260.php |
WFO EL PASO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, July 26, 2022
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445 PM MDT Tue Jul 26 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of west central
Hudspeth County through 515 PM MDT...
At 444 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 14
miles northeast of Acala, moving west at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
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This storm will remain over mainly rural areas of west central
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PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 3157 10571 3146 10567 3141 10584 3157 10593
TIME...MOT...LOC 2244Z 072DEG 9KT 3149 10575
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (WBRC) - DCH Regional Medical Center is changing where many people will enter the building as major renovations are set to get underway.
The changes start Monday, January 2nd.
DCH is demolishing the parking deck in front of the South entrance of the hospital. After that demolition, a new parking deck will be built in its place.
The south lobby entrance will also close because of the projects. A new drop off and temporary entrance called the West Vestibule replaces the south lobby entrance. It opens Monday morning as a construction crew prepares the parking deck for demolition and replacement.
“By the time we reopen, we’ll have a new south lobby, with new flooring, new lighting, etcetera. And we’ll have this new drop off area and a new south entrance and a four-level parking deck with approximately 200 extra parking spaces,” said DCH Spokesman Andy North.
It’s expected to take two years to complete the $30 million project.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — As Hurricane Ian pummeled Florida, flamingos at a botanical park in St. Petersburg took shelter in a bathroom.
Sunken Gardens took to its Twitter account Wednesday to give let animal lovers know that the pink feathered birds were doing fine as they rode out the storm.
“We're hunkered down! Our animals are safe w/staff on site to see them through the storm," the park said. "The flamingos are having a hurricane party in the bathroom; eating, drinking, & dancing. Stay safe out there!”
🦩🌀We're hunkered down! Our animals are safe w/staff on site to see them through the storm.
The flamingos are having a hurricane party in the bathroom; eating, drinking, & dancing. 😉Stay safe out there! pic.twitter.com/ejCuuRUdma
— SunkenGardens (@SunkenGardens) September 28, 2022
This isn't the first time Floridians have seen flamingos huddled together for safety in a bathroom during a hurricane.
Wildlife photographer Ron Magill took a picture of flamingos inside a bathroom 30 years ago as they sought shelter from Hurricane Andrew, The Washington Post reported.
Of the countless images I have captured in my life, none is more iconic than this one. I can't believe it has been 30 years since Hurricane Andrew devastated South Florida. I'll never forget capturing this image of the zoos flamingos huddled in the ladies restroom for protection. pic.twitter.com/iACXIBivSm
— Ron Magill (@RonMagill) August 24, 2022
Hurricane Ian slammed into the state's southwest coast on Wednesday as a Category 4, with it bringing 150 mph winds, storm surges, and mass destruction.
Rescue and recovery efforts are underway as the state deals with the storm's aftermath, as officials conduct searches of residences.
On Friday, officials said 21 people have died, but they caution that the death toll is preliminary.
Areas that saw significant damage included Fort Myers Beach and Sanibel Island.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel launched targeted airstrikes in densely populated areas of the Gaza Strip early Tuesday, killing three senior commanders of the Islamic Jihad militant group in their homes and at least 10 civilians, Palestinian health officials said. Two of the commanders’ wives, several of their children and civilian neighbors — including a hospital director, his wife and son — were among the dead.
The attacks set the stage for what is likely to be a new round of fighting a week after an exchange of fire between Israel and Islamic Jihad. Tuesday’s airstrikes targeted an apartment and house in Gaza City and a third house in the southern town of Rafah. The Palestinian Health Ministry said 20 people were wounded.
Israel also targeted Islamic Jihad training sites before the airstrikes halted at daybreak. After an hourslong lull, the military said it struck a vehicle carrying anti-tank guided missiles to a launchpad in enclave’s southern city of Khan Younis. Two people were killed in that attack, the Palestinian Health Ministry said, without providing their identities. No militant group immediately claimed the two as members.
At midday, tens of thousands of people rushed into the streets for two giant funerals, with at least 10 bodies carried on stretchers in a mass procession in Gaza City. Children’s coffins were carried next to those of their parents.
Such targeted killings are rare, and in the past, Palestinian militant groups have retaliated with intense barrages of rocket fire.
In a prime-time televised address, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the country would need to be patient in the coming days and that he had instructed the army “to prepare for every possible scenario of escalation,” including the likelihood that this could be on multiple fronts. “Tonight I say to our enemies, every escalation by you will be answered with an overwhelming response,” he said.
In anticipation of rocket fire, the Israeli military advised residents of communities within 25 miles (40 kilometers) of Gaza to stay close to designated bomb shelters. Israel’s Home Front command ordered the closure of schools, beaches and highways in cities and towns in southern Israel, and limited public gatherings. Defense Minister Yoav Gallant approved the call-up of reserves.
The Israeli military alleged that the three militants it targeted had been responsible for recent rocket fire toward Israel. It identified them as Khalil Bahtini, the Islamic Jihad commander for northern Gaza Strip; Tareq Izzeldeen, the group’s intermediary between its Gaza and West Bank members; and Jehad Ghanam, the secretary of the Islamic Jihad’s military council.
Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, Israel’s chief military spokesman, described the three militants as “a source of instability.” He alleged that Izzeldeen, for instance, had been trying to establish a rocket-manufacturing operation in the West Bank.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said the 13 killed in the predawn strikes included four women and four children. That included Bahtini’s wife and 4-year-old daughter and Izzeldeen’s two young children. In the southern city of Rafah, Ghanam and his 62-year-old wife were killed in their home, according to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights in Gaza.
Other uninvolved civilians who happened to live nearby were also killed. The strike on Izzeldeen’s home killed three members of a family living upstairs — Jamal Khaswan, a prominent local dentist and chairman of Al-Wafaa Hospital, his wife and his 19-year-old son, Yousef, who was studying to be a dentist like his father, the rights group reported. Russian diplomats in the West Bank said Khaswan had Russian citizenship. A widely shared video showed their distraught young daughter, Miral, arriving alone at Gaza’s main hospital and crying out for her father.
A simultaneous airstrike on Bahtini’s home in eastern Gaza City killed two teenage sisters living in the apartment next door, the rights group said.
“Dania’s blood was on her desk and bed. Eman was covered in debris,” said their cousin, Ihab Adas. She said the sisters had gone to sleep shortly after Dania’s fiancée left the apartment. “The girls’ room was destroyed,” she added.
Hagari expressed regret over the civilian casualties, but said they were impossible to avoid because Islamic Jihad operates inside residential areas.
From Israel’s perspective, Hagari added, the operation was over. But he said it would react to further attacks by Islamic Jihad or any other militant group. “We have achieved our goals,” he said. “Now the ball is on the other side.”
The Israeli airstrikes drew condemnation from the Palestinian Authority, Jordan and Egypt, which often mediates between Israel and Palestinian militant groups in Gaza. The Arab League denounced the airstrikes as “atrocious.” The European Union said it was “gravely concerned.” France issued a stronger statement, saying it “condemns all attacks that target civilians, and specifically those … in which several Palestinian civilians were killed.”
Palestinian militants in Gaza vowed revenge. Dawood Shahab, an Islamic Jihad official, said there would be a “unified Palestinian response” to the strikes at a time and place of the group’s choosing.
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh warned that Israel will “pay the price” for the killings. “Assassinating the leaders with a treacherous operation will not bring security to the occupier, but rather more resistance,” said Haniyeh.
Islamic Jihad and Hamas are both Iranian-backed groups that oppose Israel’s existence and possess large arsenals of rockets and other weapons. Over the past year, the larger and more powerful Hamas has stayed mostly on the sidelines, while allowing Islamic Jihad to carry out attacks.
Islamic Jihad bombarded Israel with over 100 rockets last week after one of its senior members in the West Bank died from an 87-day hunger strike while in Israeli custody. The Israeli military responded with airstrikes and the exchange of fire ended with a fragile cease-fire.
Hagari said Israel had been planning the operation for the past week following Islamic Jihad’s rocket fire but waited until Tuesday for what he said were the right conditions.
If Hamas joins the fighting, it would likely trigger an even heavier Israeli response. Two years ago, Israel and Hamas fought a brief war that killed over 250 Palestinians and 13 people in Israel.
The sudden airstrikes come at a time of heightened tensions between Israel and Palestinians, particularly in the occupied West Bank, where Israel has been conducting near-daily raids for months to detain suspected Palestinian militants, including many from Islamic Jihad. Israel says the raids in the West Bank are meant to dismantle militant networks and thwart future attacks.
The Palestinians see the attacks as further entrenchment of Israel’s 56-year, open-ended occupation of lands they seek for a future state. So far, 105 Palestinians, about half of them affiliated with militant groups, have been killed by Israeli fire in the West Bank and east Jerusalem since the start of 2023, according to an Associated Press tally. At least 20 people have been killed in Palestinian attacks in Israel.
Tuesday’s airstrikes recalled Israel’s similar targeted attacks that killed Islamic Jihad commanders in Gaza in the summer of 2022. The surprise strikes set off a three-day blitz that led to the deaths of the militant group’s two top commanders and other militants. Some two dozen Palestinian civilians — who have paid a high price over the years in Israeli attacks on Gaza — were also killed.
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(CNN) — Bulgari has apologized for listing Taiwan and China separately on some of its websites, after Chinese social media users accused the luxury jeweler of treating the island as an independent country.
The outcry, which was later fueled by Chinese state media, saw netizens threatening to boycott the Italian brand’s products as screenshots of the websites’ dropdown menus circulated online.
In a statement published to the Twitter-like platform Weibo on Tuesday, Bulgari said it “respects China’s position on sovereignty and territorial integrity, as always and unswervingly.” The apology blamed “management negligence” for having “mislabeled” locations on its websites.
The statement did little to quell the outrage, with two related hashtags — one of which has now racked up 800 million views — appearing in Weibo’s top 10 trending topics. “Don’t make such low-level mistakes next time,” read one comment responding directly to Bulgari’s post. “Taiwan is an inalienable part of China.”
State-owned tabloid Global Times claimed that Bulgari’s apology was “not accepted by many in China.” The Communist Party mouthpiece People’s Daily meanwhile questioned why the brand had not published similar statements to its English-language accounts on Twitter and Instagram.
“Is this apology ‘exclusively’ for mainland China?” the newspaper’s Weibo account asked, describing the brand’s response as “full of the desire to survive.” Many users’ responses to the post concurred, with one reading: “Not posting it on the internet outside China shows that they only care about money and don’t realize their mistakes.”
Social media users also called on the company’s celebrity ambassadors — including actors Liu Yifei and Shu Qi, who is from Taiwan, and the model Liu Wen — to issue statements or sever ties with the brand.
The ruling Communist Party has long claimed Taiwan as its own territory, despite having never controlled the self-governing democracy. Bulgari has 18 boutiques on the island, according to company’s Chinese-language website, which lists the outlets alongside its locations in Hong Kong, Macao and mainland China.
China’s luxury consumers are of growing importance to Bulgari and its parent company, LVMH, which earned 26% of its revenue from Asian markets in 2022. Speaking to state-owned newspaper China Daily in 2021, then-president of Bulgari’s Greater China division, Kolia Neveux, said that the jeweler’s “focus on the Chinese market and the deep understanding of Chinese cultural identity” had helped it “obtain extraordinary growth in China in the past 20 years.”
The company is not the first to be accused of undermining China’s territorial claims. In 2019, Versace apologized for a T-shirt that appeared to list Hong Kong and Macao as countries, rather than cities. Coach and the LVMH-owned label Givenchy followed suit the next day, after social media users discovered similar designs that also neglected to identify Hong Kong as part of China, while also implying Taiwan’s independence. | https://www.channel3000.com/lifestyle/bulgari-apologizes-for-taiwan-listing-amid-chinese-social-media-uproar/article_3d1d38ec-397c-5603-8cee-a4c00152ed17.html | 2023-07-12 08:52:46 | 0 | https://www.channel3000.com/lifestyle/bulgari-apologizes-for-taiwan-listing-amid-chinese-social-media-uproar/article_3d1d38ec-397c-5603-8cee-a4c00152ed17.html |
2 Colorado deputies have been fired and indicted for the fatal shooting of a 22-year-old armed with a knife who called 911 for help
By Jeremy Harlan and Chris Boyette, CNN
Two Colorado deputies have been indicted and fired following investigations into the June fatal police shooting of Christian Glass, a 22-year-old man who was armed with a knife and had called 911 for roadside assistance, officials and family attorneys say.
A grand jury Wednesday delivered an indictment against Clear Creek County Sheriff’s deputies Andrew Buen, 29, and Kyle Gould, 36, according to Fifth Judicial District Attorney Heidi McCollum’s office.
Buen is charged with 2nd degree murder, official misconduct and reckless endangerment, while Gould is charged with criminally negligent homicide and reckless endangerment, according to online court records.
The charges stem from the killing of Glass, who was shot in the early morning of June 11 — more than an hour after police first arrived — and pronounced dead on scene, according to the sheriff’s office. The autopsy report showed Glass’ injuries were fatal and included five gunshot wounds to the torso and one to his right arm.
The Clear Creek County Sheriff’s Office received a “motorist assist” call on June 10 at 11:21 p.m. for what appeared to be a vehicle accident, the office said, but said its driver, Glass, “immediately became argumentative and uncooperative with the Deputies and had armed himself with a knife.”
The family of Glass have disputed this characterization, saying in September that their son didn’t carry weapons and the knives were rock tools used for carving rocks as a form of art.
Bond for Buen was set at $50,000 and for Gould set at $2,500. No attorney is listed for either, and both men are listed as in custody at the Gilpin County Detention Facility, according to online records.
CNN is working to obtain copies of the indictments.
Following the indictment, both deputies were fired, according to a statement from the Clear Creek County Sheriff’s Office.
The statement called the indictment “part of a painful but necessary process,” and “policy and procedural failures” were found in an ongoing internal investigation parallel to the criminal investigation.
“While the investigation is still underway, preliminary findings show there were policy and procedural failures, and the initial news release about the shooting, based on the information available at the time of the incident, does not reflect the entirety of what happened on that terrible night,” the statement said.
A statement from Glass’ family attorneys said, “Nothing will bring Christian back to his family,” but noted they were relieved by the charges.
“However, justice for Christian will require all those involved being held accountable. Christian’s death is a stain on every officer who was present and failed to prevent the escalation and unnecessary uses of force,” the statement said.
Encounter seen on body camera video
In 911 call audio released by Glass’ family in September, he tells the dispatcher, “I have a weapon on me. I will throw them out the window as soon as an officer gets here” and continues to describe having two knives, a hammer and a rubber mallet.
Body camera video of the incident released by the family shows Glass offering to throw the weapons out of the car and a responding officer telling him not to do so.
“He actually offered to throw his rock knives and his tools out of the window so they wouldn’t be worried. But they told him no and he obeyed,” Glass’ mother, Sally Glass, said at a news conference in September.
In the body camera video, responding deputies can be heard asking Glass to exit the vehicle several times.
One responding officer asks Glass if he had taken any drugs, to which Glass responds “I smoked, I’ve been …” before becoming distracted by an officer placing what attorneys for the family said were tack strips behind his car, the video shows.
The autopsy report released by attorneys for the Glass family stated that Glass had both THC and amphetamine in his system.
Deputies were able to break out the car’s windows and remove one of the knives, but Glass re-armed himself with a rock and a second knife, according to the sheriff’s office. In the video, deputies can be heard repeatedly asking Glass to drop the knife.
Deputies deployed bean bags and a taser “with negative results” before Glass “eventually tried to stab an officer,” according to the sheriff’s office.
Body camera video shows law enforcement then shot Glass with a stun gun before he can be seen twisting and then seemingly thrusting a knife toward an officer before police fired multiple gun shots. The video then shows Glass apparently stabbing himself.
The body camera video released by the attorneys for the family has been edited to blur Glass’ body.
“The only thing we have edited from the videos is after Christian is removed from the car. We blur the screen where his body is on the ground and medical treatment is being provided to his body. We felt it wasn’t appropriate to have Christian’s naked body out there in the world,” attorney Siddhartha Rathod said.
CNN has requested an unedited copy of the body camera footage from the Clear Creek County Sheriff’s Office.
In a statement in September, Glass’ family and attorneys said he was having a mental health episode.
“There was no need to threaten him with force; to draw guns; to break his car window; to fire beanbag rounds from a close distance; to tase him; to shoot him dead. From beginning to end, the officers on scene acted unconscionably and inhumanely,” Glass’ parents and attorneys said.
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The head Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee says he is worried about a flurry of “extreme right-wing amendments” attached to the House version of the annual defense bill as lawmakers prepare to debate and vote on the legislation this month.
Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) told The Washington Post he was concerned about GOP measures on “abortion, guns, the border, and social policy and equity issues.”
“We’ll just have to wait and see what amendments are made in order when the bill is debated on the House floor,” he said. “Depending on which amendments pass, I will make an evaluation on whether I support the final bill.”
Smith voted for the initial $874 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) bill, which passed out of the committee in late June on a 58-1 bipartisan vote, but only after hours of fighting over amendments on culture war issues.
Democrats and Republicans on the committee clashed for hours over amendments targeting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs at the Pentagon. Smith vowed after the vote to continue the fight on the House floor.
The amendments that passed include a ban on the Defense Department funding drag shows, the elimination of the Pentagon’s chief diversity officer and a prohibition on critical race theory at military academies. Critical race theory is an academic framework evaluating U.S. history through the lens of racism.
The House Appropriations Committee, which funds the priorities listed in the Armed Services defense bill, also included several amendments to limit the Pentagon’s use of clean energy and ban a new Defense Department policy reimbursing travel costs for servicemembers who travel to get an abortion, among a wide range of others that infuriated Democrats.
Lawmakers this week are returning for a three-week blitz before the August recess, with spending bills on the list of priorities. A vote on the NDAA is expected to come later this month.
Hundreds of amendments to the NDAA are being offered by the full House, some of which target cultural issues.
Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) introduced an amendment to ban funding for sustainable building materials, while Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-Wis.) offered one to block the Defense Department from “discriminating against or granting preferential treatment” to a person or group based on race.
Several more amendments from other lawmakers take aim at diversity efforts, including the prohibition of funds for DEI programs.
The amendments are setting up another contentious showdown on culture wars. Democrats are likely to object to the provisions, while Republicans will try to muscle through the votes with control of the House.
Democrats are offering their counter to the GOP, including amendments that would reverse those amendments that passed the Armed Services Committee last month, such as the elimination of the chief diversity officer position.
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New nasal spray to reverse fentanyl and other opioid overdoses gets FDA approval
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health regulators on Monday approved a new easy-to-use version of a medication to reverse overdoses caused by fentanyl and other opioids driving the nation’s drug crisis.
Opvee is similar to naloxone, the life-saving drug that has been used for decades to quickly counter overdoses of heroin, fentanyl and prescription painkillers. Both work by blocking the effects of opioids in the brain, which can restore normal breathing and blood pressure in people who have recently overdosed.
The Food and Drug Administration endorsed Opvee, a nasal spray update of the drug nalmefene, which was first approved as an injection in the mid-1990s but later removed from the market due to low sales. Naloxone comes as both a nasal spray and injection.
It’s not immediately clear how the new drug will be used differently compared to naloxone, and some experts see potential downsides to its longer-acting effect. The drug will be available via prescription and is approved for patients 12 and older.
In studies funded by the federal government, Opvee achieved similar recovery results to Narcan, the leading brand of naloxone nasal spray.
Opvee was developed by Opiant Pharmaceuticals, which was recently acquired by rival Indivior, maker of several medications for opioid addiction. Indivior expects to launch Opvee in October at the earliest.
As the opioid epidemic has shifted to fentanyl and other synthetic opioids, researchers in the pharmaceutical industry and the U.S. government saw a new role for the drug.
Because fentanyl stays in the body longer than heroin and other opioids, some people may require multiple doses of naloxone over several hours to fully reverse an overdose.
Scientists at the National Institutes of Health worked with pharmaceutical researchers on a nasal spray version of nalmefene that would quickly resuscitate users, while also protecting them from relapse. Testing and development was funded by more than $18 million in grants from the U.S. government’s Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority and the NIH, which also helped design the studies.
“The whole aim of this was to have a medication that would last longer but also reach into the brain very rapidly,” said Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Still, some experts see potential downsides.
A side effect of all opioid reversal drugs is that they create intense withdrawal symptoms including nausea, diarrhea, muscle cramps and anxiety. With naloxone, those symptoms might last 30 to 40 minutes.
Dr. Lewis Nelson of Rutgers University says those problems can last six hours or more with nalmefene, requiring extra treatment and management by health professionals.
“The risk of long-lasting withdrawal is very real and we try to avoid it,” said Nelson, an emergency medicine physician and former adviser to the FDA on opioids.
Nelson said it’s easy enough to give a second or third dose of naloxone if it wears off.
“We’re not suffering from a naloxone shortage where we need to use an alternative,” he said. “We have plenty of it and it works perfectly well.”
The FDA approval comes as drug overdose deaths inched up slightly last year after two big leaps during the pandemic. More than 109,000 fatal overdoses were recorded in 2022, according to the latest figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
More than two-thirds of those deaths were linked to fentanyl and other synthetic opioids, which have largely replaced heroin and prescription opioids.
Naloxone has long been at the center of government efforts to fight the overdose crisis at the federal and local levels. Police, firefighters and other first responders routinely carry the drug. And officials in all 50 states have given orders to pharmacists to sell or dispense the drug without a prescription to anyone who wants it.
In the latest federal push, the FDA recently approved Narcan to be sold over the counter. The change will allow the new version of the drug to be stocked in grocery stores, vending machines and other retail locations. The nasal spray — which includes updated instructions for regular users — is expected to launch this summer. Emergent Biosolutions hasn’t yet announced a price for the over-the-counter version.
Indivior said it is still considering what to charge for its drug. It will compete in the same market as naloxone, where most buyers are local governments and community groups that distribute to first responders and those at risk of overdose. Indivior has told investors that Opvee could eventually generate annual sales between $150 million to $250 million.
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CHICAGO (AP) — The image of gunmen in a row firing in unison into the chest of a condemned prisoner may conjure up a bygone, less enlightened era.
But the idea of using firing squads is making a comeback. Idaho lawmakers passed a bill this week seeking to add the state to the list of those authorizing firing squads, currently Mississippi, Utah, Oklahoma and South Carolina.
Fresh interest comes as states scramble for alternatives to lethal injections after pharmaceuticals barred the use of their drugs.
Some, including a few Supreme Court justices, view firing squads as less cruel than lethal injections despite the violence involved in riddling bodies with bullets. Others say it’s not cut-and-dry, or that there are other factors to consider.
Here is a look at the status of firing squads in the United States:
WHEN WAS THE LAST EXECUTION BY FIRING SQUAD?
Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed at Utah State Prison on June 18, 2010, for killing an attorney during a courthouse escape attempt.
Gardner sat in a chair, sandbags around him and a target pinned over his heart. Five prison staffers drawn from a pool of volunteers fired from 25 feet (about 8 meters) away with .30-caliber rifles. Gardner was pronounced dead two minutes later.
A blank cartridge was loaded into one rifle without anyone knowing which. That’s partly done to enable those bothered later by their participation to believe they may not have fired a fatal bullet.
Utah is the only state to have used firing squads in the last 50 years, according to the Washington, D.C.-based Death Penalty Information Center.
WHAT HAS CAUSED THE LETHAL DRUG SCARCITY?
Under Idaho’s bill, firing squads would be used only if executioners can’t obtain the drugs required for lethal injections.
As lethal injection became the primary execution method in the 2000s, drug companies began barring use of their drugs, saying they were meant to save lives, not take them.
States have found it difficult to obtain the cocktail of drugs they long relied on, such as sodium thiopental, pancuronium bromide and potassium chloride.
Some states have switched to more accessible drugs such as pentobarbital or midazolam, both of which, critics say, can cause excruciating pain.
Other states have turned to alternatives, with some either reauthorizing the use of electric chairs and gas chambers or at least considering doing so. That’s where firing squads come in.
ARE THEY MORE HUMANE?
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is among those who say they probably are.
That idea is based on expectations that bullets will strike the heart, rupturing it and causing immediate unconsciousness as the inmate quickly bleeds to death.
“In addition to being near instant, death by shooting may also be comparatively painless,” Sotomayor wrote in a 2017 dissent.
Her comments were in the case of an Alabama inmate who asked to be executed by firing squad. A Supreme Court majority refused to hear his appeal.
Sotomayor agreed in her dissent that lethal drugs can mask intense pain by paralyzing inmates while they are still sentient.
“What cruel irony that the method that appears most humane may turn out to be our most cruel experiment yet,” she wrote.
IS THERE A COUNTER-ARGUMENT TO THAT?
In a 2019 federal case, prosecutors submitted statements from anesthesiologist Joseph Antognini, who said painless deaths by firing squads are not guaranteed.
Inmates could remain conscious for up to 10 seconds after being shot depending on where bullets strike, Antognini said, and those seconds could be “severely painful, especially related to shattering of bone and damage to the spinal cord.”
Others note that killings by firing squad are visibly violent and bloody compared with lethal injections, potentially traumatizing victims’ relatives and other witnesses as well as executioners and staffers who clean up afterward.
ARE FIRING SQUADS MORE RELIABLE?
If reliability means the condemned are more likely to die as intended, then one could make that argument.
An Amherst College political science and law professor, Austin Sarat, studied 8,776 executions in the U.S. between 1890 and 2010 and found that 276 of them were botched, or 3.15% of the time.
The executions that went wrong included 7.12% of all lethal injections — in one notorious 2014 case in Oklahoma, Clayton Locket writhed and clenched his teeth after midazolam was administered — as well as 3.12% of hangings and 1.92% of electrocutions.
By contrast, not a single one of the 34 firing squad executions was found to have been botched, according to Sarat, who has called for an end to capital punishment.
The Death Penalty Information Center, however, has identified at least one firing squad execution that reportedly went awry: In 1879, in Utah territory, riflemen missed Wallace Wilkerson’s heart and it took 27 minutes for him to die.
WERE FIRING SQUADS EVER IN WIDE USE?
They have never been a predominant method of carrying out civilian death sentences and are more closely associated with the military, including the execution of Civil War deserters.
From colonial days through 2002, more than 15,000 people were put to death, according to data compiled by death penalty researchers M. Watt Espy and John Ortiz Smykla. Just 143 were by firing squad, compared with 9,322 by hanging and 4,426 by electrocution.
HAS THE SUPREME COURT WEIGHED IN?
High court rulings have required inmates who oppose an existing execution method to offer an alternative. They must prove both that the alternative is “significantly” less painful and that the infrastructure exists to implement the alternative method in practice.
That has led to the incongruous spectacle of inmate attorneys bringing multiple cases in which they argue the merits of firing squads.
In 2019 the Supreme Court ruled in Bucklew v. Precythe that some pain does not automatically mean a method of execution constitutes “cruel and unusual” punishment, which is prohibited by the Eighth Amendment.
The Constitution “does not guarantee a prisoner a painless death — something that, of course, isn’t guaranteed to many people,” Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote for the 5-4 majority.
Key factors in deciding whether a method is “cruel and unusual” include whether it adds extra pain “beyond what’s needed to effectuate a death sentence,” Gorsuch said.
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15-year-old with master’s degree prepares for law school
BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (WLOX/Gray News) – A 15-year-old from Mississippi who has excelled in school is preparing to start the next chapter of his education in law school.
From an early age, James “Jimmy” Chilimigras showed signs of high-level intelligence.
“We always knew he was bright, but I don’t think we expected he would accomplish so much, so fast,” Erin Chilimigras told WLOX.
He was talking in full sentences at 2 years old and graduated from high school at the age of 12.
Now the teen has a bachelor’s and master’s degree in accounting from Western Governors University.
“When I did well at something, we kept moving up, so it wasn’t easy,” Jimmy said. “My parents did a good job keeping me challenged.”
The teen said he likes learning and challenging himself – his parents supporting him along the way.
“Everyone has their smart areas and their trials, too,” John Chilimigras said. “He loves reading, but he had trouble with reading and reading comprehension. We had to have some outside help to help him diagnose and when they worked through a plan of figuring out how his mind worked.”
Last year at age 14, he took the Law School Entrance Exam, scoring 174. He reportedly holds the highest score in Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana.
“I’m going to law school in August. That’s going to be in person, so that’s interesting. I’m really looking forward to it, actually,” Jimmy said.
Jimmy will make his final decision on where he will be attending law school in May.
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Too perfect? Scores of 10 are everywhere in NCAA gymnastics
Trinity Thomas spent her entire childhood and most of her teens chasing perfection. No wonder the moment the University of Florida gymnast finally caught it is etched so vividly in her memory.
The second Thomas stuck her uneven bars dismount during the Gators’ meet against LSU back in 2020, the sophomore was mobbed by her teammates. It wasn’t until the videoboard flashed 10.00 — a perfect score — that she fully grasped what had just happened.
After years and years of training, thousands of practices and countless meets, judges had watched Thomas float from bar to bar and couldn’t nitpick a single thing.
“It was so loud you could feel it like in your body,” Thomas said. “Like, it shook the O-Dome. It was an absolutely incredible feeling.”
The feeling hasn’t gotten old for Thomas as the 10s have piled up. The 2022 NCAA all-around champion now has 27, a staggering total that’s one short of the career record shared by Kentucky’s Jenny Hansen and UCLA’s Jamie Dantzscher.
A right leg injury could hinder Thomas’ bid for history when the NCAA championships begin in Fort Worth, Texas, on Thursday. Thomas is more focused on helping the Gators bring home their fourth national title.
Besides, at the rate 10s are being thrown around at the collegiate level, Thomas is well aware the record may not last that long: Nearly 50 years after Nadia Comaneci’s name became ubiquitous with perfection at the 1976 Olympics and two decades after the sport’s governing body at the elite level abandoned the 10-point system, the 10 is having a moment.
Judges have awarded 79 perfect 10s heading into the national championships, up from 71 a year ago and more than triple the average handed out per season from 2010-19.
While those across the NCAA spectrum all believe the overall level of competition has spiked along with the rise in 10s, there’s also a concern the 10 could lose a bit of its magic if given too often.
“I’m all for the 10,” California co-head coach Justin Howell said. “I think that it’s good for our sport. I hope we don’t get to a place where it is diluted.”
The current NCAA code is aligned closely with one used by the USA Gymnastics development program in part because it is trying to create a level playing field in search of parity.
Routines in college meets also are generally shorter and considerably “easier” than in elite gymnastics in an effort to protect the health of the athletes, most of whom compete a dozen times or more in a span of three months. Shorter routines also mean less time to make mistakes and fewer chances for points deductions.
Throw in the uptick in incoming talent — the 2021 name, image and likeness rules allowed stars like 2020 Olympic champion Suni Lee to compete collegiately — and the overall skill level in the NCAA has never been higher.
While nationals will be littered with blue-bloods like defending champion Oklahoma, UCLA and Florida, there is a real sense that programs with a lower profile are closing in fast.
“I think that’s why you’ve seen so much growth in the popularity of the sport is that it is so competitive,” first-year UCLA coach Janelle McDonald said. “I think a lot of clubs are doing a good job preparing the athletes for college gymnastics. It makes it fun to watch and fun to be on the floor competing.”
However, there are concerns, particularly on an event like the balance beam, that execution has been emphasized so much that difficulty has been taken out of the equation, leading to an avalanche of possibly inflated scores.
Kathy Johnson Clarke, a two-time Olympic medalist turned TV analyst, thinks beam is an event going “backwards” because the competition is so tight, coaches are unwilling to let their athletes take chances.
“It’s like, ‘Don’t do more than you need to, get up there and do a perfect routine because they’re throwing out 10s,’” Johnson Clarke said.
Johnson Clarke doesn’t have an issue with the strategy or the athletes but with the system itself.
“The code needs to be streamlined, condensed and transparent so everybody is on the same page,” said Johnson Clarke, who is working on a proposal that give the entire process an overhaul. “They need to choose. What’s most important? Technical mastery? Amplitude? Pick five things.”
The Associated Press talked to several coaches who occasionally work as judges at other levels of the sport. They believe judges are doing their best to award the proper scores within the framework they’re working within.
Some within the NCAA community have suggested changing the nature of the competition in an effort to create some separation.
Currently, six gymnasts compete in each event at college meets, with the lowest score being dropped and the five highest added together to create the team score. One model would drop the number of participants to five, with every routine counting.
It would certainly create more pressure, but could also limit opportunities.
“They will get less chances, do we want that?” Johnson Clark said. “We’ve got to think all of the things that it would trigger, all the things it would change and that makes gymnastics a little bit less exciting.”
Howell said he believes there are small, incremental steps the NCAA could take, like restoring the middle line on the vault mat so that judges have a better idea of where an athlete is landing their dismount.
“That should be logical, I think,” he said. “The lines are there now to kind of show everybody, ‘That was really crooked, you should take a deduction.’”
For gymnasts who have grown up with the idea that perfection is impossible and that every routine could be improved no matter how well done, accepting a 10 takes some getting used to.
Cal sophomore Mya Lauzon received the first 10 of her life at a meet in March. She knew her performance on beam was good, though that didn’t stop her from mulling every minor flaw as she awaited the score. She said she was “kind of surprised” when the 10 popped up.
“I mean, it was still a special feeling,” she said. “I just thought I could have done that a little bit better, especially because previously in the season I have done that dismount with a more stuck, stuck landing. Like in the judge’s eyes that could have been a perfect 10 but me, I know I could have done something better than that.”
Florida sophomore Leanne Wong, a three-time world championship medalist and a 2020 Olympic alternate, has four 10s since joining the Gators. And no, they don’t all feel the same.
“Not all of my 10s are equal but I feel like a routine that should be awarded for a 10 should be given a 10,” Wong said. “But sometimes judges don’t catch everything. So I feel like everything happened so fast (that) sometimes they make mistakes, too. But I mean, it’s all part of the sport.”
The human element is part of any judged competition, one of the reasons Howell and co-head coach Liz Crandall Howell urge their athletes to ignore the scores in general.
“You can pay attention to the feeling you get when you get that 10 and it feels great,” Howell said. “But next weekend you could do it even better or not so good and get the same score or a (lower) score or a better score.”
UCLA sophomore Jordan Chiles, a 2020 Olympic silver medalist and three-time world championship medalist, thinks the uptick in 10s is “crazy.” Chiles wonders if the human element expands beyond what the judges see with their eyes, hinting that a program’s reputation may play a factor.
“It could be what color (leotard) you are wearing, at the same time it could be what school you represent,” said Chiles, who has received seven 10s so far in her college career. “So it’s really, really hard to talk about.”
Pressed to expand on what she meant, Chiles laughed.
“I don’t really want to say like, truly what I’m thinking right now because people are going to come after me for it,” she said.
Like nearly everything else in the sport, Chiles is trying to find the right balance. Having your name aligned with perfection is an incredible feeling, no matter the circumstances.
It’s also part of what makes competing at the NCAA level unique. Whether there are too many 10s being given out is beyond the athletes’ control. Her advice: don’t think too deeply about it and just enjoy it.
“If you get a 10, you get a 10,” Chiles said. “Good for you. Have fun with it. Celebrate.”
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Urges Company to Actively Pursue Strategic Alternatives and Sale of the Company
NEW YORK, Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Owl Creek Asset Management, L.P. ("Owl Creek"), on behalf of its affiliated investment funds, today sent a letter to the Cano Health, Inc. ("Cano or the "Company") (NYSE: CANO) Board of Directors strongly encouraging the Company to pursue strategic alternatives by engaging with investment bankers and other advisors to pursue a sale to a strategic buyer.
The full text of the letter follows:
Dr. Marlow Hernandez
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
Cano Health, Inc.
9725 NW 117th Avenue
Miami, Florida 33178
Dear Dr. Hernandez and other members of the Board of Directors:
I write on behalf of investment funds managed by Owl Creek Asset Management, L.P. ("Owl Creek" or "we"), which, as of August 19, 2022, own 8,685,171 shares of Cano Health, Inc., representing 3.745% percent of the Class A equity of the Company, to share concerns we have with the Company's current trajectory.
While we believe in the Company's business model and management's ability to execute the post "de-SPAC" business plan, the past year's roller coaster of accounting issues has shaken our confidence. We feel that Cano's continued growth will require a larger and stronger vertically integrated partner with access to the capital needed to execute the Company's business plan. So, we were encouraged to hear on the second quarter earnings call that you are "open to considering all strategic alternatives to accelerate value creation."
We strongly encourage you to actively pursue these strategic alternatives by engaging with investment bankers and other advisors to pursue a sale of the Company to a strategic buyer.
Owl Creek participated in the private placement that took place concurrently with your de-SPAC transaction, and since then has acquired significantly more shares in the secondary market. We did so because we saw -- and continue to see -- an enormous opportunity to generate considerable economic value by delivering superior healthcare more efficiently. Your investor day quantified this opportunity as we learned that that the cohort of MA patients among the 26,000 members that joined in the first half of 2019 saw three-year medical costs decline at a 3% compounded annual rate, versus an expected 10% increase. Cano has exceeded the guidance outlined in the March 4, 2021 investor presentation in terms of membership, revenue, and adjusted EBITDA, even excluding the contribution from Direct Contracting Entities ("DCE"). Including DCE, which we believe to be an enormous opportunity both financially and strategically, Cano is close to achieving its 2023 targets a year early. We believe that these results validate our view on the market opportunity and the Company's ability to capture a meaningful portion of it.
Unfortunately, Cano has consistently traded at a discount to its peers due to its SPAC heritage, its hybrid model (owned and operated medical centers along with affiliates), and heavy concentration in the South Florida market. One could argue for some discount due to one or more of these factors, but the valuation discrepancy between Cano and peers is highly punitive. Clearly the recent back and forth on the EBITDA moving from one year to the next also is not helping and will foreclose any thoughts of share sales at reasonable prices to fund growth. The best-known company in the owned and operated medical center segment, and the first to go public, Oak Street Health Inc. ("Oak Street"), has an enterprise value that is nearly 3.2 times the high end of its 2022 revenue guidance of $2.145 billion. One of the leaders in the affiliate space, agilon health inc. ("agilon"), also has an enterprise value more than three times the high end of its 2022 revenue guide of $2.635 billion. Despite Cano guiding to $2.85 billion to $2.90 billion of revenue for the year -- which is higher than both Oak Street and agilon -- the Company trades at under 1.3x the low end of the revenue guide.
With the Company needing capital to compete with its peers and achieve the growth available in current and new markets, its depressed valuation leaves two choices: sacrifice growth or sell equity at highly dilutive levels. Both are unattractive options in our view.
Given the persistent and wide gap between where Cano shares trade and the valuation of comparable companies, we believe there is ample room to come to terms with a strategic buyer that maximizes value for shareholders and provides the Company a platform for future growth. The industry is ripe for consolidation with large health care companies looking to grow.
Recent transactions support this assertion and the willingness of buyers to pay a meaningful premium to where Cano's stock has traded for much of this year. For example, as recently as July, Amazon.com Inc. ("Amazon") announced that it was buying 1Life Healthcare Inc. (better known as "One Medical") for $3.9 billion. Amazon is paying well over three times this year's expected revenue of One Medical, in line with where both Oak Street and agilon are valued. As we know from One Medical's merger proxy filing dated August 9, 2022, there was interest from another company besides Amazon referred to as "Party A" in the proxy. It is widely speculated that Party A is CVS Health Corporation ("CVS"), which has been very vocal in its interest in primary care-centric value-based care (VBC) providers. In fact, CVS has stated since late last year that they have well over $10 billion in capital to deploy towards strategic initiatives with VBC at the top of the list. When asked on their first quarter earnings call on May 4, 2022, as to why they have yet to announce a deal, CVS CFO Shawn Guertin said, "We've evaluated a range of assets in and around the care delivery space. I'll remind you most of these assets aren't up for sale. And so that dialogue starts a process." They may have started the process with One Medical, but Amazon finished it. On their second quarter earnings call on August 3, 2022, CVS CEO Karen Lynch, in response to the first question specifically referencing the One Medical deal, stated, "we can't be in primary care without M&A." CVS and the other managed care companies are clearly prime candidates with which to discuss alternatives. CVS has also been named as a suitor for Signify Health and it was reported late yesterday that Amazon, UnitedHealth Group and Option Care Health are interested in the home-health-services provider. If Cano had an enterprise value equal to three times this year's expected revenue like Oak Street Health and agilon do, or one similar to what Amazon is paying for One Medical, that would increase the valuation by more than $4.5 billion, equating to a share price of approximately $14.
Owl Creek invested in Cano because we saw the massive opportunity in which primary care providers can bend the medical cost curve through preventive medicine and disease management delivering better clinical care more cost effectively. Your management team has achieved strong growth in membership, medical centers, and geographic markets to date; however, we believe that maximization of the Company's long-term potential will require a strategic transaction with a well-funded entity. Such a transaction would not only result in meaningful appreciation in the current share price, but also improve patient health by delivering primary care medical service to as many people as possible.
We look forward to your response and hearing about your proactive efforts in pursuing a strategic suitor for this highly valuable and attractive asset.
Sincerely,
Jeffrey A. Altman
Owl Creek Asset Management, L.P.
About Owl Creek Asset Management, L.P.
Owl Creek Asset Management, L.P. is an investment advisory firm based in New York. It primarily employs an event-driven and fundamental value long/short investment strategy in equity and debt markets across the globe. The firm was founded in 2001 and is registered as an investment adviser with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Billionaire Twitter owner Elon Musk is again sounding warning bells on the dangers of artificial intelligence to humanity — and claiming that a popular chatbot has a liberal bias that he plans to counter with his own AI creation.
Musk told Fox News host Tucker Carlson in a segment aired Monday night that he plans to create an alternative to the popular AI chatbot ChatGPT that he is calling “TruthGPT,” which will be a “maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe.”
The idea, Musk said, is that an AI that wants to understand humanity is less likely to destroy it.
Musk also said he’s worried that ChatGPT “is being trained to be politically correct.”
In the first of a two-part interview with Carlson, Musk also advocated for the regulation of artificial intelligence, saying he’s a “big fan.” He called AI “more dangerous” than cars or rockets and said it has the potential to destroy humanity.
Separately, Musk has incorporated a new business called X.AI Corp,, according to a Nevada business filing. The website of the Nevada secretary of state’s office says the business was formed on March 9 and lists Musk as its director and his longtime adviser, Jared Birchall, as secretary.
Musk has for many years expressed strong opinions about artificial intelligence and has dismissed other tech leaders, including Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates, for having what he has described as a “limited” understanding of the field.
Musk was an early investor in OpenAI — the startup behind ChatGPT — and co-chaired its board upon its 2015 founding as a nonprofit AI research lab. But Musk only lasted there for a few years, resigning from the board in early 2018 in a move that the San Francisco startup tied to Tesla’s work on building automated driving systems. “As Tesla continues to become more focused on AI, this will eliminate a potential future conflict for Elon,” OpenAI said in a February 2018 blog post.
“I came up with the name and the concept,” Musk told Carlson, lamenting that OpenAI is now closely allied with Microsoft and is no longer a nonprofit.
Musk elaborated on his departure in 2019, saying it was also related to his need to focus on engineering problems at Tesla and some differences of opinion with OpenAI’s leaders. It was “just better to part ways on good terms,” he said.
“Tesla was competing for some of same people as OpenAI & I didn’t agree with some of what OpenAI team wanted to do,” Musk tweeted, without specifying.
But there have been questions surrounding the quality of Tesla’s AI systems. U.S. safety regulators last month announced an investigation into a fatal crash involving a Tesla suspected of using an automated driving system when it ran into a parked firetruck in California.
The firetruck probe is part of a larger investigation by the agency into multiple instances of Teslas using the automaker’s Autopilot system crashing into parked emergency vehicles that are tending to other crashes. NHTSA has become more aggressive in pursuing safety problems with Teslas in the past year, announcing multiple recalls and investigations.
In the year after Musk resigned from the board, OpenAI was still far away from working on ChatGPT but publicly unveiled the first generation of its GPT system, on which ChatGPT is founded, and began a major shift to incorporate itself as a for-profit business.
By 2020, Musk was tweeting that “OpenAI should be more open” while noting that he had “no control & only very limited insight” into it.
At times, he has been complementary. In the days after the Nov. 30 release of ChatGPT, Musk tweeted to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman that it is “scary good” and complained that news media wasn’t widely covering it because “ChatGPT is not a far left cause.”
Since then, however, Musk has repeatedly highlighted examples that he says show left-wing bias or censorship. Like other chatbots, ChatGPT has filters that try to prevent it from spewing out toxic or offensive answers. | https://cbs4indy.com/business/ap-business/elon-musk-says-hell-create-truthgpt-to-counter-ai-bias/ | 2023-04-18 10:16:28 | 0 | https://cbs4indy.com/business/ap-business/elon-musk-says-hell-create-truthgpt-to-counter-ai-bias/ |
NEW YORK, NY, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Globally-leading social marketing software, Dash Hudson, is pleased to announce the findings of an exclusive study conducted with NielsenIQ Omnishopper data.
In this study, Dash Hudson utilized data provided by NielsenIQ to evaluate the top beauty brands on TikTok and benchmark how those with a high Entertainment Score performed in their first six months of joining TikTok. The Entertainment Score – a patented Dash Hudson technology – takes a scientific approach to calculating how well a TikTok is entertaining a brand's audience. This tool eliminates the need for marketers to lean on basic metrics, such as likes and views, to hypothesize what types of video content best resonate with their audience.
The study uncovered a significant correlation between entertainment-based content on TikTok and omni-channel sales growth. According to Dash Hudson, brands that leverage entertainment as a content strategy grow at a rate 34% faster than those who approach the platform with a traditional marketing mindset. Specifically, beauty brands with an Entertainment Score of 5 or above grew by an average of 51% in their first six months of joining TikTok. Conversely, brands with an Entertainment Score below 5 grew an average of just 17% – a 34% difference.
Dash Hudson's Co-founder and CEO, Thomas Rankin, calls these findings significant, as they prove the company's theory that entertainment drives sales.
"Today's announcement of Dash Hudson and NielsenIQ's findings highlight an important milestone in the progression of the social media marketing industry," says Rankin. "As consumers continue to gravitate toward video-centric channels, brands are met with the transformative opportunity to leverage the power of social entertainment. We're thrilled to lead our industry in providing marketers with the solidifying data required to understand how entertainment positively impacts the bottom line."
To learn more about this new era and the mastery of short-form video, download Dash Hudson's latest Global Digital Insights Report: The Renaissance of Content and Commerce by clicking here.
Discover how Dash Hudson is propelling today's top brands into the future of social entertainment by requesting a demo today.
*Dash Hudson calculation based on data reported by NielsenIQ through its Syndicated Omnishopper database for the Total U.S. Market, according to the NielsenIQ standard product hierarchy. Copyright © 2022, Nielsen Consumer LLC.
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Reports: Rally car driver Ken Block dies in snowmobile accident
(Gray News) - A Utah sheriff’s office reports that rally car driver Ken Block died from his injuries after a snowmobile flipped and landed on top of him.
According to a release from the Wasatch County Sheriff’s Office, a snowmobile accident was reported at about 2 p.m. Monday near Mill Hollow, Utah.
Authorities say 55-year-old Kenneth Block “was riding a snowmobile on a steep slope when the snowmobile upended, landing on top of him.” He was pronounced dead from his injuries at the scene.
Block had been riding with a group but was alone at the time of the accident, according to the sheriff’s office.
The Utah Medical Examiner’s Office will determine Block’s cause of death.
Block was a pro rally driver and the co-founder of Hoonigan, a motor racing team, and DC Shoes, which specializes in footwear for action sports. He won five X Games medals in rallycross.
Hoonigan released a statement confirming Block’s death.
“Ken was a visionary, a pioneer and an icon. And most importantly, a father and husband. He will be incredibly missed,” read the statement in part.
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Security presence has increased significantly this year at the California Mid-State Fair.
Mid-State Fair CEO Colleen Bojorquez says the number of citations given to underage drinkers at the mid-state fair is higher than in years past.
"That's I think because we're more actively looking for underage drinking in particular," said Bojorquez.
The California Mid-State Fair is working with multiple agencies including the Paso Robles Police Department, Highway Patrol, the Probation Department, and the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Department to ensure safety throughout the duration of the event.
"They're all on grounds. We have people looking for not only underage drinkers, but also people handing off drinks," said Bojorquez.
The crackdown this year was motivated by rising health concerns in the community.
"We always try to crack down a little bit, but it's also about health. I mean that's been a big thing for the last couple of years and we wanna make sure we're doing everything we can," said Bojorquez.
The Budweiser fair vendors by the frontier stage say they have not had problems this year.
"No, not so far this year, but I'm not sure about anywhere else," said Kahli Kitchen, Budweiser Fair Server.
Over at the Silo Bar servers say underage drinkers are not as much of a problem due to the older crowd.
"...but I did get two underage drinkers ID'd two nights ago," said Lori Charmley, Silo Bar Server.
Vendors have noticed the increased security and police presence but say they have not had very many incidents so far this year.
"I definitely feel like I've seen a lot more law enforcement," said Kitchen.
"We haven't had any trouble here so we really haven't needed them, but we see them standing out on the midway," said Charmley.
If an underage drinker, or someone providing alcohol to a person who is underage, is caught they will receive a citation and hundreds of dollars in fines. | https://www.ksby.com/news/local-news/under-age-drinking-citations-on-the-rise-this-year-at-the-ca-mid-state-fair | 2022-07-26 17:33:02 | 0 | https://www.ksby.com/news/local-news/under-age-drinking-citations-on-the-rise-this-year-at-the-ca-mid-state-fair |
Florida K-9 receives final radio sign-off as he retires after 8 years of service
HERNANDO COUNTY, Fla. - Hernando County Sheriff’s Office in Florida posted footage on October 28 described as showing the final radio sign-off for one of its K-9 officers, Justice, as the dog retired after eight years of service.
In the footage, Justice is seen in shot as a dispatcher recounts his achievements during what is described as a "very successful career".
"Justice has had 215 apprehensions," the speaker says, adding that he located 18.5 kilograms of marijuana, 695 grams of meth, 3.2 kilograms of hashish, three grams of heroin, 132.1 grams of cocaine, 41.3 grams of opioids, and 24.8 grams of ecstasy.
MORE NEWS: Brevard County Sheriff's Office K-9 gives birth to 10 puppies
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And what kind of fragile democracy is that? The populist, run amok, devil may care kind that I refer to as a d-mock-racy, the one that ignores the Constitution, common sense, and human life? Or the equal outcomes redistribution big D emocracy that has all the ear markings of a Socialist autocracy? Or the kinder gentler common sense movement of years long past? I actually think our “democracy” is at a high water mark with the re- establishment of our constitutional Republic system.
The Democratic party and the civil rights movement of the 1950s, 1960s and maybe some of the 1970s was certainly just and so it had wide support of Americans but absolute power corruptions absolutely and so we end up here in the Trump era.
The Supreme Court (correctly applying the Constitution) is the final limit on how far our legislative and executive branches can go. Past courts were too progressive and contrary to all the conspiracy/corporate/ political hyperbole, middle American worked slowly (through their representatives) to restore balance to the system. Why it had to be the Donald at the helm at the proper moment in time I don’t know but it is high time the progressives in the Democratic Party accept their part in our Constitutional Republic, and where it is today.
We do indeed get the leaders we deserve.
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- First randomized clinical investigation with a digital therapy (DTx) to address the psychological symptom burden in pulmonary fibrosis (PF) patients
- First patient enrolled in US pivotal study; readout expected Q4 2023
- Supports development of a strong holistic portfolio in rare lung disease
STOCKHOLM, Dec. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vicore Pharma Holding AB (publ) ("Vicore"), a pioneer in the development of angiotensin II type 2 receptor agonists (ATRAGs), today launched the pivotal phase of COMPANION, the first clinical investigation of a digital cognitive behavioral therapy (dCBT) for patients with pulmonary fibrosis.
Patients with pulmonary fibrosis (PF) are given a poor prognosis, during which dyspnea, fatigue and cough gradually worsen. In a preceding study, it was shown that 63% of PF patients report treatable levels of anxiety1. Vicore's digital Cognitive Behavioral Therapy has the advantage of being accessible 24/7 and can be personalized to meet the patient's individual needs and schedule.
"Continuous access is important when providing psychological support for patients who have anxiety about leaving their homes due to the risk of infection or limitations due to their disease," says Dr. Josh Solomon, MD of National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado and CIinical Investigator of the study.
The COMPANION study2 is a fully digitalized, randomized, controlled parallel-group clinical investigation to evaluate the impact of the digital therapy Almee™ on the psychological symptom burden in adults diagnosed with PF. Patients enrolled in the investigation will be randomized to Almee™ or a treatment-as-usual control group, for nine weeks. Outcomes will be patient- and clinician-reported measures of anxiety using validated questionnaires.
The COMPANION study, enrolling 250 patients across the US, is scheduled to complete in Q4 2023. Provided the result is positive, Almee™ will be submitted for FDA clearance as a prescription medical device to be launched in 2024 with the intention to treat the anxiety symptoms in patients with pulmonary fibrosis.
"Almee™ is an integral part of the Vicore development strategy for holistic and personalized treatment for rare lung disease and it addresses a clear unmet need in the PF population. This decentralized clinical investigation also gives us an opportunity to rethink the traditional clinical trial model while keeping the patient in focus," says Jessica Shull, Director of Digital Therapeutics at Vicore.
For further information, please contact:
Carl-Johan Dalsgaard, CEO
Phone: +46 70 975 98 63
E-mail: carl-johan.dalsgaard@vicorepharma.com
This information was submitted for publication on December 5, 2022 at 08:15 CET.
- Vicore data on file
- NCT05330312
About AlmeeTM, Vicore's digital therapeutic in pulmonary fibrosis (PF)
AlmeeTM (an investigational medical device pending FDA clearance) is a digital therapeutic (DTx) based on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) created to address the psychological impact of living with PF. Vicore is collaborating with Alex Therapeutics for the development of this medical device product.
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AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Best Place for Working Parents®, a community of business leaders that assesses whether businesses are family-friendly, has honored 360training, a leading online regulatory training provider, as one of this year's best places for working parents.
The Best Place for Working Parents® offers a competitive designation that recognizes innovation across the top 10 research-backed family-friendly workplace policies. These businesses prove that "family-friendly is business-friendly."
The Best Place for Working Parents recognizes that organizations that promote family-friendly policies are more competitive and innovative in their industries and attract top candidates. In this post-COVID era, employees had to balance work, eldercare, and parenting demands. 360training listened to their needs and created new ways to support them. These policies help working families and increase the company's bottom line. For 360training, they include:
- Unlimited paid time off
- Remote working
- Flexible hours
- Employer-covered medical, dental, and vision plans
- Life insurance
- Short and long-term disability insurance
- 401k matching
- Employee assistance counseling
- Pet insurance
"As we strive to perpetually improve, our policies have always prioritized people first." Tom Anderson, CEO of 360training, elaborates, "We are proud of the environment we have created where team members can be successful and have access to quality benefits and resources. When our employees thrive, they are empowered to create a safe, healthy environment for the communities they serve—which is our mission."
Ryan Linders, CMO at 360training, adds, "As a parent of four young kids, I'm driven by the culture we've created that allows flexibility to focus on family, all while maintaining a fast-paced and rewarding work atmosphere. We work and play hard, giving us quality time and flexible hours to maintain a healthy work-life balance."
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FILE — People shop at an Apple Store in Beijing, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. Apple disclosed serious security vulnerabilities Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022 for iPhones, iPads and Macs. The software flaws could potentially allow attackers to take complete control of these devices, Apple said. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple disclosed serious security vulnerabilities for iPhones, iPads and Macs that could potentially allow attackers to take complete control of these devices.
The company said it is "aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited."
Apple released two security reports about the issue on Wednesday, although they didn't receive wide attention outside of tech publications.
Security experts have advised users to update affected devices — the iPhones6S and later models; several models of the iPad, including the 5th generation and later, all iPad Pro models and the iPad Air 2; and Mac computers running MacOS Monterey. It also affects some iPod models.
Apple's explanation of the vulnerability means a hacker could get "full admin access to the device" so that they can "execute any code as if they are you, the user," said Rachel Tobac, CEO of SocialProof Security.
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida state representative was tricked into reading several raunchy fake names during a House Civil Justice Subcommittee hearing on Monday.
Republican Chairman Will Robinson was holding the public testimony portion of fellow GOP state Rep. Tiffany Esposito’s bill on residential tenancies when he began to read off the names of citizens who were opposed to the bill.
Seemingly without notice, Robinson began reading off the provocative names.
“Anita D—,” Robinson said, pausing to scan the room as the woman next to him covered a grin, “is an opponent.”
“Holden His—- is also an opponent,” he continued, again scanning the room for an opponent. “Waives in opposition.”
The lighthearted gaffe was quick to circulate on social media where some wondered if the gag would remain in court records for the rest of time.
“This is forever in the Florida records, right?…….right?” one user wrote.
The next day, Robinson invited the two to stop by the next meeting.
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Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee wasn’t the only celebration to captivate the world last weekend -- Saturday was also the first birthday of Lilibet Diana, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's second child.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex recently returned to the U.K. for the Jubilee, staying at their old home in Frogmore Cottage, where they recently renewed a lease. The queen also met her great-grandaughter for the first time on Thursday.
A source close to the family tells ET that Meghan and Harry celebrated their daughter's big day at Frogmore with several relatives, including Princess Anne's children, Zara Tindall and Peter Phillips, along with their spouses and children.
The source added that Peter has been very close to Prince William and Prince Harry ever since Princess Diana's death in 1997, when the queen asked Peter to join the boys in Balmoral.
Though the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge did not attend Lilibet's party, ET previously reported that their absence was "no intended slight." Several members of the royal family -- including Will and Kate -- all traveled to different parts of the U.K. on Saturday to visit those celebrating the Jubilee. The source was adamant the events were not planned to avoid Lilibet's birthday at home.
The party on Saturday was an opportunity for the young children who are close in age to spend some time together, the source noted, adding that it was low-key and relaxed with birthday cake for all the kids to enjoy.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Jim McKee is standing at the end of a line that snakes through five aisles of fiction inside the Books-A-Million store in Florida’s capital city.
He is smiling because in a matter of minutes, the book he’s holding will be signed by its author, Ron DeSantis, the Republican governor who McKee believes should be the nation’s next president. But as a former Donald Trump loyalist, the 44-year-old Tallahassee attorney almost whispers when he first says it out loud.
“Personally, I’d rather see DeSantis win the Republican primary than Trump,” McKee says softly, having to repeat himself to be heard. His voice soon grows louder.
“Trump has upset so many people,” McKee says. “DeSantis is more palatable. He has a good story to tell.”
Indeed, conversations throughout Tallahassee’s book stores, conference rooms, state house offices and sports bars reveal that DeSantis’ allies are gaining confidence as Trump’s legal woes mount. The former president faces a possible indictment in New York over his role in a hush money scheme during the 2016 campaign to prevent porn actor Stormy Daniels from going public about an extramarital sexual encounter, which he denies.
The optimism around DeSantis comes even as an unlikely collection of establishment-minded Republican officials and Make America Great Again influencers raise concerns about the Florida governor’s readiness for the national stage. DeSantis has stumbled at times under the weight of intensifying national scrutiny as he builds out his political organization and introduces himself to voters in key primary states.
DeSantis' allies privately scoffed at recent reports of anonymous concerns over the direction of his campaign, noting there is no campaign. The 44-year-old governor isn't expected to launch his White House bid for at least two more months. And the first presidential primary contest is roughly 10 months away.
For now, DeSantis’ team, headquartered here on the front edge of Florida’s Panhandle, believes he holds a position of strength among Republican voters. And as Trump fights to undermine DeSantis, his strongest Republican rival, the Florida governor’s growing coalition is eager to highlight the contrast between the two men.
On one side stands Trump, a twice-impeached former president carrying a new level of turmoil into the 2024 presidential contest. On the other is DeSantis, a big-state governor coming off a commanding reelection, who is a far more disciplined messenger and hyperfocused on enacting conservative policies.
“Of all the things that Donald Trump has done and accomplished in his life, it’s just constant chaos. And I think the American people are just tired of it,” said Florida state Rep. Spencer Roach, a former Trump supporter who thinks DeSantis would be “a very formidable presidential candidate.”
Most voters have only just begun to analyze the differences between the dueling Republican stars as the 2024 presidential election season opens under a cloud of unprecedented scandal.
A former president has never been arrested, but prosecutors in New York, Georgia and Washington are leading criminal probes of Trump’s behavior on multiple fronts that could potentially produce indictments in the coming days, weeks or months.
The politics are murky at best.
Should Trump be charged, DeSantis supporters concede that Trump would likely benefit politically — in the short term, at least — as the GOP base rushes to defend their former leader from what they see as a weaponized justice system. But in the long term, DeSantis’ team believes primary voters will view Trump’s legal challenges as an acute reminder of his extraordinary baggage that could lead to another Republican disappointment in 2024.
Meanwhile, Trump is using his mounting legal challenges as a cudgel to force Republican rivals to line up the GOP behind him. It's the same playbook he employed successfully last summer after the FBI raided his Florida estate to seize classified documents and during special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.
DeSantis condemned the New York prosecutor's potential indictment over the last week under intense pressure from MAGA influencers and after other White House prospects had offered their own criticism.
“I hope it doesn’t come to where you end up seeing this going forward,” DeSantis said in an interview with Piers Morgan, without mentioning Trump by name. “People see that as weaponizing the justice system. So I think it’s fundamentally wrong to do that."
And while DeSantis sprinkled a few jabs at Trump and his leadership style throughout the same interview, such remarks are mild in comparison to Trump’s scorched-earth broadsides against him.
Last week alone, the former president seized on DeSantis’ votes as a congressman to cut Social Security and Medicare and attacked his record as Florida governor on violent crime, public health and education. Trump also shared a photo suggesting impropriety when DeSantis was a teacher two decades ago, despite no evidence of that.
At a rally over the weekend in Waco, Texas, Trump said DeSantis was “dropping like a rock.”
In an effort to combat the perception that his numbers might be slipping, DeSantis’ allies quietly distributed polling conducted last week in Iowa and New Hampshire by the Republican firm Public Opinion Strategies that suggests vulnerability for Trump.
Meanwhile, DeSantis is only just beginning to navigate the intense national scrutiny that comes with being a top-tier presidential prospect.
DeSantis’ recent reference to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as “a territorial dispute ” — a statement he has since walked back — sowed doubt among some would-be supporters about whether he’s ready for prime time. There are also consistent concerns that he doesn’t have the charisma necessary to connect with voters on a personal level.
“I have heard that there is concern out there that he doesn’t have the ability to go the distance because of his interpersonal skills,” said New York-based Republican donor Eric Levine, a fierce Trump critic. “If it’s a race between him and Trump, I’m a Ron DeSantis guy. But I don’t know if I’m with either of them right now.”
At Thursday’s book signing in Tallahassee, the Florida governor made little effort to speak to people who had waited in the long line — aside from an obligatory “Hey, how are you?” — as he signed their books. Most of the one-on-one interactions were silent and spanned less than 10 seconds as he scribbled his name on the inside cover.
DeSantis' staff wouldn't allow pictures.
At the same event, DeSantis did not answer when asked by an Associated Press reporter whether Trump was being treated fairly by prosecutors.
His decision to ignore the mainstream press, just as he often ignores Trump's attacks, is not new. In fact, his allies praise the approach as an example of the discipline that makes him a better presidential contender than Trump.
Yet it carries risks.
By not engaging more directly with the former president in particular, DeSantis is adopting a similar playbook as Trump’s 2016 Republican rivals — including former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz — who ignored Trump for much of that campaign. Each ultimately went on the attack more directly, but by that time, Trump had built an insurmountable lead.
“DeSantis will not shrink from the fight. That’s not how he’s operated in Florida politics to this point,” said Matt Caldwell, a former state representative who shared the statewide ballot with DeSantis in 2018 as a candidate for state agriculture commissioner. “One could argue that he’s got the upper hand, so he’s only engaging when he has to.”
Instead of 2016, Caldwell likened Trump’s challenges in 2024 to the 1996 presidential election when President Bill Clinton faced serious allegations of sexual impropriety that nearly sank his reelection.
“At end of the day, this is just a hubbub about money and sex, which isn’t a whole lot different from 1996,” Caldwell said. “I don’t like this, and I didn’t like ’96. But Bill Clinton won reelection.”
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Associated Press writer Jill Colvin in Waco, Texas, contributed to this report. | https://www.wsls.com/news/politics/2023/03/27/desantis-team-welcomes-contrast-with-trump-chaos-candidacy/ | 2023-03-27 11:58:49 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/politics/2023/03/27/desantis-team-welcomes-contrast-with-trump-chaos-candidacy/ |
Google co-founder Larry Page in 2010 teamed up with self-driving car pioneer Sebastian Thrun to form Kittyhawk (initially Zee.Aero), a startup company with the aim of developing affordable, efficient, fully autonomous aircraft that could be used to transfer passengers across major cities in minutes, instead of hours the same traffic-filled routes would take by car.
Despite some successful test flights with various prototypes over the years, Kittyhawk announced on Wednesday via social media it is winding down. It also said it is evaluating what will happen next, suggesting the company or perhaps its employees will have a new focus at a later date.
We have made the decision to wind down Kittyhawk. We’re still working on the details of what’s next.
— Kittyhawk (@kittyhawkcorp) September 21, 2022
Kittyhawk’s main focus was the Heaviside, a model resembling a conventional aeroplane but with rotating propellers to enable vertical take off and landing (VTOL). It was powered by electric motors to help keep noise levels low, and prototypes were able to reach speeds of 180 mph and cover 100 miles on a charge. The company also demonstrated a prototype that could take off, fly, and land autonomously.
Kittyhawk also developed a single-seat, VTOL multicopter called the Flyer, which had manual controls. However, at a weight of just 250 lb, it fell into a category of aircraft that doesn’t require a pilot’s license, meaning it could be flown by just about anyone. However, the company abandoned plans for the Flyer in 2020.
Kittyhawk also had a model called the Cora, which was similar to the Heaviside. However, the Cora in 2019 was transferred to a joint venture between Boeing and another startup called Wisk Aero, and its development is ongoing. A spokesperson for Boeing told CNBC that Kittyhawk’s decision to wind down won’t affect Wisk Aero’s operations.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Lottery officials on Thursday raised the Mega Millions grand prize to $660 million, giving players a shot at what would be the nation’s ninth largest jackpot.
The jackpot for Friday night’s drawing has grown so large because there hasn’t been a winner in three months. Those 27 consecutive drawings without anyone matching all six numbers has allowed the jackpot to gradually grow from its $20 million starting point in April.
Even as the big prize has increased, the odds of winning all that money have remained the same — a staggering one in 302.5 million.
The highlighted pre-tax $660 million prize is for a winner who takes an annuity option, paid out in 30 annual payments. Most players choose the cash option, which for Friday’s drawing would be $376.9 million.
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Moon Landrieu, who faced down segregationists as a young Louisiana state legislator in the 1960s, integrated the New Orleans city government during his transformative years as mayor in the ‘70s, and became the patriarch of a Democratic political dynasty, died Monday at his family home in New Orleans. He was 92.
His death was confirmed by his daughter, Madeleine Landrieu. He recently had a heart attack.
Mr. Landrieu was also the father of Mary Landrieu, a former three-term US senator from Louisiana, and Mitch Landrieu, a former New Orleans mayor currently serving under President Biden as senior adviser for the implementation of last year’s $1.2 trillion legislation to upgrade the nation’s infrastructure.
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The elder Landrieu had been the first in his family to enter politics — his parents “had no political power, no money, no nothing,” he once said — and he was appointed by President Carter to serve as Housing and Urban Development secretary from 1979 to 1981. But his legacy rested chiefly on his political career in Louisiana during and after the civil rights movement.
“Despite continuing bitter resistance,” the historian Arnold R. Hirsh once wrote, Mr. Landrieu “saw and brought the future to New Orleans.”
Mr. Landrieu first held elective office as a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, where he was elected in 1960 amid roiling racial tensions. Six years earlier, the US Supreme Court had outlawed racial segregation in public schools with its landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education. Many white parents and politicians intensely resisted the ruling, however, and schools across the South remained unintegrated.
Although he was one of the most junior members of the legislature — he was 29 when he took office — Mr. Landrieu challenged efforts by Democratic Governor Jimmie H. Davis and his segregationist supporters to thwart the integration of the New Orleans public schools. On at least one occasion, Mr. Landrieu was the sole legislator to vote against the governor’s segregation measures. He was said to have received death threats.
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After a court ordered that integration proceed, federal marshals were dispatched to escort 6-year-old Ruby Bridges to first grade at the city's William Frantz Public School on Nov. 14, 1960, as she became one of the first Black students to integrate an elementary school in the South. She endured jeers and threats as she made her way to school in a scene depicted in Norman Rockwell's painting "The Problem We All Live With."
From 1966 to 1970, Mr. Landrieu served as an at-large member of the New Orleans City Council, where he continued his efforts on behalf of racial equality. His wish, he told the Southern Oral History Program, was to “break down every vestige of racial and religious prejudice in this city.”
After the passage of the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964, he pushed through a measure that provided further protections against discrimination in public accommodations in New Orleans. Decades before the modern movement to strip Confederate symbols from public places, he successfully argued for the Confederate flag to be removed from the council chambers.
In 1970, with a reported 90 percent of the Black vote as well as the support of many liberal whites, he was elected New Orleans mayor. One of his chief campaign pledges had been to bring more African Americans into the local government and civil service.
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"The people who were Black who worked in City Hall were workers on the mop and broom level," said Norman C. Francis, a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom who served for nearly five decades as president of Xavier University of Louisiana, the only historically Black and Catholic university in the United States. "Moon let it be known that we were going to change that."
Among other appointments, Mr. Landrieu named as chief administrative officer Terrence R. Duvernay, an African American who later served as deputy HUD secretary in the Clinton administration. When Mr. Landrieu took office in 1970, fewer than 20 percent of city civil service jobs were held by African Americans. By the time he left eight years later, the figure was 43 percent, according to Hirsch’s 1992 volume “Creole New Orleans: Race and Americanization.”
“He showed great political courage, moral vision, [and] great fortitude in pushing back against those who were against the future,” Lawrence N. Powell, a professor emeritus of southern history and race relations at Tulane University in New Orleans, said in an interview.
By his account, Mr. Landrieu did not do enough to bring Black Americans into the “mainstream of economic life,” although he sought to award more government contracts to minority-owned businesses.
His tenure was not without controversy. The Superdome, the stadium that remade the skyline of New Orleans, opened under his leadership in 1975 at a cost of more than $160 million and amid a cloud of questions about its financing, management, and construction.
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Some historical preservations opposed Mr. Landrieu’s renovation of the French Market in New Orleans’s French Quarter. But that project, as well as the construction of the river promenade known as the Moon Walk, helped draw tourists to the city.
Decades after leaving office, Mr. Landrieu retained wide respect for his efforts to improve race relations in the city. He used “every inch of his body to change New Orleans with respect to civil rights,” Francis said.
Mitch Landrieu, who served as mayor from 2010 to 2018 and was the first white person to hold the office since his father’s term, presided over the dismantlement of the city’s Confederate monuments. He drew national attention in 2017 with a speech on the matter.
"These monuments purposefully celebrate a fictional, sanitized Confederacy," Mitch Landrieu declared, "ignoring the death, ignoring the enslavement and the terror that it actually stood for."
He later described the speech as "the culmination of not only my work but my father's work."
Maurice Edwin Landrieu, the younger of two sons, was born in New Orleans on July 23, 1930. His father was employed by the city as what Mr. Landrieu described as a “blue-collar worker.” His mother ran a corner grocery story and later became a real estate agent.
Mr. Landrieu was nicknamed “Moon” as a boy and legally changed his name in 1969 to be listed as “Moon Landrieu” on electoral ballots.
He was a gifted athlete and pitched for the baseball team at Loyola University in New Orleans, where he received a bachelor's degree in business administration in 1952 and a law degree in 1954.
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He served in the Army before establishing a law practice in 1957. He found an early political mentor in New Orleans Mayor deLesseps S. "Chep" Morrison.
In addition to his legal practice, Mr. Landrieu invested in real estate development projects in New Orleans. During Senate hearings over his nomination as HUD secretary, he faced questions about possible conflicts of interest with his government work but was easily confirmed. Among his priorities as HUD secretary was the revitalization of inner cities.
Mr. Landrieu served for nearly a decade as a judge on the Louisiana Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal until his retirement in 2000.
In the years after he left public office, Louisiana has turned increasingly Republican. Mary Landrieu, who rose to national prominence as a spokeswoman for her state in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, was defeated by Republican Representative Bill Cassidy in a runoff in 2014.
In addition to his daughters Mary and Madeleine and his son Mitch, Mr. Landrieu leaves his wife of nearly seven decades, the former Verna Marie Satterlee of New Orleans; six other children, Mark, Michelle,, Martin, and Maurice Landrieu Jr., all of New Orleans, Melanie Cook of Mandeville, La., and Melinda Seiter of Mobile, Ala.; 37 grandchildren; and 15 great-grandchildren.
Mr. Landrieu once reflected as mayor on his early years in public office and the forces he had overcome in pursuing his work on behalf of civil rights, beginning with his service in the legislature.
"I never thought that I would get elected again," he said, recalling his stand against the school segregationists, "but I didn't care."
“It was one of those crises of conscience . . . when a man has to decide what he is going to do with himself,” he observed. “I thought about it . . . and prayed over it, and just decided that I wasn’t going to sell myself over it. If that is what I had to do to stay in public office, I just wasn’t going to do it. I just did what I had to do.” | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/09/05/metro/moon-landrieu-new-orleans-mayor-who-led-civil-rights-dies-92/ | 2022-09-05 20:55:36 | 0 | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/09/05/metro/moon-landrieu-new-orleans-mayor-who-led-civil-rights-dies-92/ |
Newborn surrendered to hospital under Daniel’s Law, officials say
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (WHNS/Gray News) - South Carolina officials said a newborn baby was surrendered safely to a hospital on Monday under Daniel’s Law.
The Department of Social Services said the baby boy was left at Spartanburg Regional Medical Center and accepted under the Safe Haven for Abandoned Babies Act.
The newborn was born on Feb. 19 and weighed 7 pounds, 10 ounces at the time of his birth, according to officials.
WHNS reports the Spartanburg County Department of Social Services took custody of the infant upon discharge from the hospital and placed him in a licensed foster home.
A permanency planning hearing for the baby will be held on April 3 at 2 p.m. at the Spartanburg County Family Court.
Those interested in the hearing can contact the Spartanburg Family Court at 864-596-2588 or the Spartanburg County Department of Social Services at 864-596-3001.
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Which gray duvet covers are best?
Gray is classic, clean and easily adapts to nearly any decor style, making it an excellent bedding color. Whether you are searching for a high-quality duvet cover that is attractive and easy to maintain or have stained your expensive comforter and need a quick fix, a duvet cover is a great bedding choice. They often last decades if you select a natural fabric and easily stow away in a linen closet when they are not in use.
A top pick is the Pure Parima Egyptian Cotton Gray Duvet Cover.
What to know before you buy a gray duvet cover
Purpose of a duvet cover
Duvet covers are convenient because they are typically less expensive than comforters, which makes it easier to invest in high-quality fabrics. They are easy to clean and don’t require a lot of storage space, so they’re an excellent solution if you enjoy changing your decor regularly.
Compact
Your gray duvet cover will effortlessly reduce to the size of two or three folded sheets. It will also conveniently fit into most washers and dryers. Regardless of its compact size, it will make a significant impact on your bedding and decor.
Shades of gray
A good starting point for shade selection is to consider the color of the comforter or duvet you will be covering. While most duvets are neutrals, comforters tend to feature darker colors and prints.
Even if your duvet cover claims to be ultra-thick material that can hide nearly any comforter, textiles carry subtractive color properties and inevitably alter the shade of your bedding if you place a darker color under a lighter one. Therefore, you should select a cover that is darker than whatever you are putting inside of it.
What to look for in a quality gray duvet cover
Included items
Most of the time, you will find a cover that includes two matching pillow shams. The size of the shams will depend on the size of your cover.
Natural fabrics
Natural fabrics can keep you warm in the winter and cool in the summer. Cotton, linen and bamboo are moisture-wicking and breathable, so they draw sweat away from your body and to the surface of the fabric. In turn, they cool you down.
Because natural fabrics are also insulating, they keep you warm. Natural fibers last longer than synthetics, so they are a better investment in the long run.
Certification
As you shop, look out for a “Standard 100 by Oeko-Tex” certification. This universal textile standard ensures your bedding has remained free of anything that could be harmful to humans throughout its processing journey.
Machine-washable
While it is not uncommon to find a machine washable cover, some sets might surprise you with instructions such as “hand wash only” or “dry clean only.” Generally, it is ideal to find a cover that is machine washable to ensure that it remains affordable and easy to maintain.
How much you can expect to spend on a gray duvet cover
A synthetic cover will cost between $50-$100, while a cover made from all-natural fibers should run between $100-$350.
Gray duvet cover FAQ
How often should you wash your duvet cover?
A. Wash it weekly with your sheets, especially if you have pets.
How often should you wash your duvet or comforter?
A. Unless you spill something onto your bedding and it soaks through your cover, it is a good idea to wash it every six months.
What are the best gray duvet covers to buy?
Top gray duvet cover
Egyptian Cotton Gray Duvet Cover by the Pure Parima Store
What you need to know: This ultra-soft cover is moisture-wicking, cooling and high-quality.
What you’ll love: Made of certified Egyptian cotton with a 400-thread count, it’s available in king or queen size and boasts nine color options, with two shades of gray. It includes two pillow shams and secures your comforter or duvet with four inner ties and a hidden zipper. It’s machine washable.
What you should consider: While this is the best gray duvet cover, it is quite costly because it is Egyptian cotton.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top gray duvet cover for the money
Simple & Opulence Linen Gray Duvet Cover
What you need to know: This linen gray duvet cover is Oeko-Tex certified, will get softer with every wash and should last years and years.
What you’ll love: It’s available in 13 colors, three of them shades of gray, in twin, full, queen and king size. The set comes with two pillow shams and secures your duvet or comforter with its four inner ties and hidden-button closure. It’s machine washable.
What you should consider: This cover can be ironed, but is supposed to have a wrinkled look because it is linen.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
S Victory Symbol Linen Gray Duvet Cover
What you need to know: This cover is Standard 100 by Oeko-Tex certified, organic, breathable and will not pill.
What you’ll love: It includes two pillow shams and is available in twin, full, queen, king and California king. Select from 14 colors, though just one shade of grey. It boasts four inner ties and button closure and is machine washable.
What you should consider: While linen is not as soft as some other fabrics, it lasts years longer than most and gets softer with every wash.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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By OMAR FARUK
Associated Press
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The president of Somaliland says five people were killed in opposition protests over fears of a delayed election, hours after police confirmed shooting demonstrators and accused them of not following officers’ instructions.
In comments late Thursday, President Muse Bihi Abdi said the five were killed in the capital, Hargeisa, and the towns of Burao and Erigavo in Somaliland, the northern region that separated from Somalia three decades ago and seeks recognition as an independent country. He said almost 100 others were wounded, most of them members of security forces.
The president blamed opposition groups for the unrest and said unauthorized protests would not be tolerated. The Somaliland government had allowed the protests to occur in six regions but in limited areas, which the opposition parties opposed.
Thursday’s events prompted the United States, the European Union and others to issue a joint statement expressing concern over “excessive use of force” and urging all sides to hold dialogue for a roadmap on elections.
Opposition leader Abdirahman Mohamed Irro said protests will continue until the presidential election is held on Nov 13.
Hundreds of people took part in Thursday’s protests after talks between the government and opposition failed and the opposition accused authorities of trying to delay the election.
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Vrabel, Henry part of what helped Titans land 3-time All-Pro DeAndre Hopkins
DeAndre Hopkins has had a good relationship with Mike Vrabel since their Houston days
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — DeAndre Hopkins has had a good relationship with Mike Vrabel since their Houston days, a man who was one of the first to congratulate the three-time All-Pro receiver on being traded to Arizona and also the first to call him out for not making a catch for the Cardinals.
"I appreciate that right away because that's how he was in Houston with me," Hopkins said Tuesday, a day after signing his two-year deal with the Titans.
Hopkins also is friends with three-time Pro Bowl running back Derrick Henry. Now they're all together with the Tennessee Titans, and Hopkins believes he can be one of the pieces they need to win in the AFC South again.
Why?
Well, Hopkins watched the Titans come three minutes away from winning a third straight division title with a quarterback sign days before the regular-season finale.
“That right there kind of woke my eyes up to see that they’re only a couple of pieces away from where they want to be,” Hopkins said.
The Titans certainly hope Hopkins helps fill their biggest offseason need as veterans reported to camp Tuesday ahead of Wednesday's first full practice.
Even at the age of 31, Hopkins easily should help the Titans take a big step toward improving a passing game that ranked 30th in the NFL last season, averaging a mere 171.4 yards per game. Only four NFL teams scored fewer points per game in 2022 than Tennessee’s 17.5 points a game.
The five-time Pro Bowler would have led Tennessee last season despite being limited to only nine games by a six-game suspension to start the season and missing the final two with a knee injury. He finished with 64 catches for 717 yards, and his three touchdown receptions would have tied for third on Tennessee.
Hopkins still ranked fourth among all NFL players in averaging 7.1 catches per game.
Vrabel said he made clear to Hopkins not to waste the Titans' time if he wasn't interested in joining Tennessee as a free agent.
The Titans were the first NFL team Hopkins visited after Arizona cut him for salary cap savings in late May. During Hopkins' seven seasons in Houston (2013-19), Vrabel started coaching Texans' linebackers in 2014 and was defensive coordinator in 2017 before the Titans hired him in 2018 as their head coach.
Hopkins also is reunited with offensive coordinator Tim Kelly, his coordinator in Houston in 2019 when the receiver had 104 catches for 1,165 yards and seven TDs. Passing game coordinator Charles London also was in Houston coaching running backs between 2014 and 2017.
Vrabel said Hopkins has always built a strong trust factor with his quarterbacks, which he expects will happen with Ryan Tannehill.
“He’s strong with the football,” Vrabel said. "Contested catches we know how many of those there are in this league, so those are things that we’ll have to continue to work on and continue to make a strength of his.”
No one in the NFL has more catches since 2013 than Hopkins with 853 in his 10 seasons. Hopkins also has at least one catch in each of his 145 regular-season games played.
Only Julio Jones (11,472) has more yards receiving since 2013 in the NFL than Hopkins, and Jones was Tennessee's attempt at upgrading its receiving group in 2021 before being released in 2022. Since 2013, Hopkins' 71 TD catches rank fourth behind Davante Adams, Mike Evans and Antonio Brown.
Hopkins said Henry played a big role in him choosing Tennessee. Hopkins played with Arian Foster in Houston and wanted to be a part of this offense with Henry.
“Derrick Henry is definitely by far one of the best running backs that I would be able to have a chance to play with,” Hopkins said.
NOTES: Vrabel said Hopkins will miss a couple of days early in camp for a commitment he told them about earlier. ... The Titans start camp with CB Caleb Farley and Dillon Radunz, the top two draft picks of 2021, on the physically unable to perform list. They reported last weekend along with rookies. OLB Harold Landry III, who tore an ACL on Aug. 31, will be available starting Wednesday.
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For more Permian Basin weather…check here on https://www.yourbasin.com/weather/forecast/. Meteorologist Ryan DePhillips highlight the below-freezing temperatures for some across The Basin as because conditions are dry with light winds and clear skies, temperatures have plummeted this morning from yesterday afternoon. However, southerly winds will warm things up big time this afternoon as temperatures will eventually reach the high 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s. Those southerly winds will eventually pick up even more tomorrow with near-record-high temperatures for many. Skies will remain mostly clear of clouds with dry air lingering despite a cooldown this weekend.
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SEATTLE — Seattle Prep is facing two lawsuits by attorney Darrell Cochran who is representing two women who allege they were sexually abused when they were students.
"Both of these women at the time were very good athletes at Seattle Prep,” Cochran said.
The lawsuit, filed last week, names the women by initials only and claims that two decades ago, when they were minors, the school failed to protect them from a coach who was also a teacher at Seattle Prep. KING 5 is not naming him because he has not been criminally charged.
"During his time, in the early 2000s in particular, he was grooming a number of young female athletes, student athletes at Seattle prep, and sexually abusing them,” said Cochran.
The coach helped lead the school's varsity softball team, and eventually became Seattle Prep's athletic director. Records show he regularly received positive performance evaluations from the school, but the lawsuit alleges that Seattle Prep “willfully turned a blind eye” to what was happening off the field. The school denies that allegation.
"We know that there were faculty, there were staff people, there were fellow coaches within Seattle Prep who had concerns,” said Cochran.
Some of those concerns are listed in an investigation completed by the state's Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction. Within OSPI’s report are portions of a letter from a former student that was sent to the president of the school's Board of Trustees in September of 2020, claiming the coach used "grooming techniques" and "emotional manipulation" that made the "transition to sexual advances seamless." The report also states that the coach spent time with female students on campus, occasionally in his office with the door closed, and off campus accompanying students on shopping trips and to dinners.
OSPI revoked the teacher's Washington education certificate in December of 2021. That means he cannot teach in the state.
The lawsuit states that the school “knew or should have known” that he was a sexual predator.
A spokesperson for Seattle Prep issued the following statement:
"The safety and well-being of our students at Seattle Prep is of paramount importance. Seattle Prep has a zero-tolerance policy regarding sexual misconduct and has long-established prevention, protection, and reporting protocols in place. Seattle Prep is currently addressing two claims of sexual misconduct dating back to circumstances alleged to have occurred two decades ago. Seattle Prep disputes that the administration had any knowledge of inappropriate conduct at the time. In fact, one of the plaintiffs has acknowledged that a sexual relationship did not occur until after she had graduated and was no longer a student. Seattle Prep will assert all of its legal defenses to these claims. However, Seattle Prep will approach these claims with respect and compassion for the plaintiffs." | https://www.king5.com/article/news/crime/seattle-prep-teacher-allegations/281-ee7970a5-f4ee-4e24-bae5-2c264afc3590 | 2022-06-24 01:37:22 | 1 | https://www.king5.com/article/news/crime/seattle-prep-teacher-allegations/281-ee7970a5-f4ee-4e24-bae5-2c264afc3590 |
Exlog Global, a risk solution partner to Safeture, has signed a new agreement with a large US-based engineering company to integrate Safeture's platform as part of a global travel risk program. This program enables the client to protect what matters most - their people.
LUND, Sweden, Oct. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This deal reflects the pivot and new appetite for organizations to look at organizational risk differently and another success for the joint Safeture and Exlog offerings in the American market. Exlog is a veteran-owned risk management company that enables organizations and individuals to operate safely and effectively at home and around the globe.
Using the Safeture platform, integrated with the Exlog Global Response Center team, the client can maintain global awareness and communicate with their people regardless of location. The agreement, over three years, shows that the commitment to protecting people remains essential for organizations, and they prefer to use Safeture's world-leading technology.
For additional information, visit safeture.com or contact:
Safeture CEO Magnus Hultman: +46 706 00 81 66. Magnus.hultman@safeture.com
About Safeture AB
Safeture (founded in 2009) is a Software as a Service (SaaS) company based in Sweden. The company offers a complete platform to manage employee safety and risk/crisis management. Through world-leading technology and innovative solutions, Safeture helps more than 4 000 companies and organizations to protect what matters most - their employees. The Safeture share is listed on NASDAQ First North Growth Market Stockholm (ticker: SFTR). Erik Penser Bank AB is the Certified Adviser. Ph: +46 8-463 83 00 E-mail: certifiedadviser@penser.se
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NEW YORK (AP) _ Omnicom Group Inc. (OMC) on Tuesday reported third-quarter earnings of $364.5 million.
On a per-share basis, the New York-based company said it had profit of $1.77.
The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of four analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.64 per share.
The advertising company posted revenue of $3.44 billion in the period, also beating Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $3.34 billion.
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Best known for his series of mystery novels about Louisiana cop Dave Robicheaux, crime writer James Lee Burke moves westward in his latest novel, Rain Gods, to the dry landscape of Texas.
Burke's protagonist, a 70-year-old widower and reformed drunk named Hackberry Holland, is a character the author introduced in his 1971 book Lay Down My Sword and Shield.
Burke tells Linda Wertheimer that he wrote the new novel because he felt he "owed Hackberry an amends. ... His story wasn't quite over yet."
Hackberry belongs to a family, which — though fictional — is based closely on the author's own. The novel is set in the present and "deals with the violence that is ongoing on the Texas-New Mexican-Mexico frontier," Burke says.
Opposite Hackberry is a psychopathic religious demagogue named Preacher Jack Collins, who Burke describes as "the most intriguing antagonist or villain I think I've written about."
For Burke, wide Texas vistas were the ideal setting for a story of atavistic violence.
"There's something about the American Southwest that's enchanting. It's magical. It's the correspondent of the Mideast, and it's almost Biblical, the landscape is," Burke says. "It's the perfect place to use as the backdrop for a Biblical story."
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A former UCLA student who stormed the U.S. Capitol while waving a flag promoting a far-right extremist movement was sentenced on Wednesday to three years and six months in prison for his role in a mob’s attack on the building.
U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden also sentenced Christian Secor, 24, of Costa Mesa, California, to three years of supervised release after his prison term, court records show.
Secor was a follower of “America First” movement leader Nicholas Fuentes, “a public figure known for making racist statements, celebrating fascism, and promoting white supremacy,” a prosecutor wrote in a court filing. Fuentes spread false information about the 2020 presidential election and used Twitter to champion the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021, the filing says.
Fuentes, a livestreaming internet personality whose supporters are known as “Groypers,” was outside the Capitol on Jan. 6 but hasn’t been accused of entering the building that day or been charged with any riot-related crimes. In 2017, Fuentes was a Boston University student when he attended a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that erupted in violence.
Secor entered the Capitol while carrying a blue flag with the white letters “AF” and wearing a hat bearing the same “AF” emblem. At UCLA, Secor was president of America First Bruins.
Secor had access to a privately manufactured “ghost gun” and other weapons, “all while supporting political violence,” wrote Kimberly Paschall, an assistant U.S. attorney. The night before his arrest, Secor and an associate exchanged text messages regarding “ultra secret” “future operations,” the prosecutor said.
“Secor’s history of adhering to extremist ideology and easy access to weapons, including firearms, warrants serious consideration when fashioning an appropriate sentence,” Paschall wrote.
After entering the Capitol through the Senate Wing door, Secor walked through the office suite of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and once in the Rotunda, Secor joined other rioters in pushing against doors and overpowering three police officers, according to a court filing that accompanied his guilty plea. Entering the Senate chamber, Secor sat in a chair that Vice President Mike Pence had occupied about 30 minutes earlier.
After the riot, Secor tweeted a message that said, “It was Trump supporters you losers, and you should be proud. One day accomplished more for conservativism than the last 30 years.”
Prosecutors recommended sentencing Secor to four years and nine months in prison followed by three years of supervised release.
Defense lawyer Brandi Harden said Secor, then 22, flew from Newport Beach, California, to Washington “upon the urging of” then-President Donald Trump because Secor wanted to protest the results of the 2020 election that Democrat Joe Biden won.
“Christian’s involvement in the January 6th protest was not pre-meditated,” the lawyer wrote. “At the time of his trip to Washington D.C., he had become disillusioned by the hysteria about a stolen election coming from social media and news channels.”
Harden said Secor’s participation in the riot was “minimal, short lived, and included no violence.”
“He joined the crowd without a plan and without any understanding of what was about to unfold,” Harden wrote in a court filing.
Secor was arrested in February 2021. He pleaded guilty in May to a felony count of obstructing an official proceeding, the joint session of Congress for certifying Biden’s victory.
The court’s probation department calculated a sentencing guideline range of 51 months to 63 months of imprisonment for Secor.
Harden asked the judge to sentence Secor to two years of supervised probation, 75 hours of community service and home detention instead of incarceration.
UCLA suspended Secor after the riot. He began working for a family-owned vacation rental business after his arrest, according to Harden.
The FBI has linked other Capitol riot defendants to the “America First” movement, including California resident Brandon Scott Cavanaugh.
“Groypers believe they are defending against the demographic and cultural changes that are destroying the ‘true America,’ a white, Christian nation,” an FBI wrote in a court filing for Cavanaugh’s case.
Approximately 900 people have been charged with federal crimes stemming from the Jan. 6 attack. More than 400 of them have pleaded guilty, mostly to misdemeanor offenses, and nearly 300 have been sentenced.
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NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — Lydia Ko never won more in one day than on Sunday in the CME Group Tour Championship, where she claimed the richest prize in women's golf at $2 million with a victory that allowed her to win LPGA player of the year.
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Ko outlasted Leona Maguire of Ireland in the final round, seizing control with a 7-foot birdie putt on the 16th hole and closing with 2-under 70 for a two-shot victory.
Unflappable in a strong but occasional wind, Ko wiped away tears when she tapped in for par on the final at Tiburon Golf Club.
“There was a lot of things on the line today,” Ko said. “I really wanted to play the best golf I can. I knew it would be a tough battle, especially with how tough the conditions were.”
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The $2 million prize took her season earnings to just over $4.3 million, leaving her $591 short of the Lorena Ochoa's record for single-season earnings set in 2007. Ko clinched the points-based award for LPGA player of the year for the second time, and she won the Vare Trophy for the second straight year for having the lowest scoring average.
Player of the year and the Vare Trophy are each worth one point, along with the victory, giving her 25 points toward the 27 points needed for the LPGA Hall of Fame.
The 25-year-old Kiwi, tied with Maguire at the start of the final round, took her first lead with a birdie on the par-3 eighth hole. Ko still led by one shot when she hit her tee shot just short of the flag on the par-3 16th and made the 7-foot birdie putt.
Ko two-putted from 25 feet for birdie on the par-5 17th to keep her lead at two shots going to the final hole, and she played it safe from there.
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Ko finished at 17-under 271 and won the LPGA Tour finale for the second time. Her first title in the CME Group Tour Championship was in 2014 when she was 17 and already becoming a dominant figure in women's golf.
Ko is on the verge of the LPGA Hall of Fame at age 25, a testament to how good she has been for so long.
“I'm glad the photo I won in 2014 with my glasses can be updated,” Ko said.
She ends the year with three victories — her first multiple-win season since 2016 — and had nine other finishes in the top five.
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Maguire's hopes began to fade when she hit a fairway metal so thin on the par-5 14th that it didn't cross the hazard. She took a penalty drop, still couldn't get to the green into the strong wind and had to get up-and-down with a wedge to salvage bogey.
Ko, however, hit her second shot off the side of a hill and into the hazard, and she also made bogey to keep the lead at one shot.
Maguire shot 72 to finish second. That was worth $550,000 from the $7 million purse. Anna Nordqvist had a 67 to finish third.
Ko heads into the offseason with plans to get married. “This is my last tournament as a single lady,” she said with a laugh at the trophy presentation.
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She now has 19 career victories — the first one was 10 years ago in Canada when she was a 15-year-old amateur, making her the youngest to win an LPGA Tour event.
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In partnership with Kim Petras, this new collection embraces individuality, true colors and living out loud
LOS ANGELES, May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EyeBuyDirect, the leading online retailer for prescription eyewear, today launched its newest collection, Pride for All. With fifteen new styles of colorful and expressive eyewear, the collection is a celebration of individuality and true colors, with self-expression at the heart of each style.
Pride for All, a partnership with Kim Petras, the unapologetic pop icon known for living out loud, features beautiful, stylish frames that champion personal style and, more importantly inclusivity.
"EyeBuyDirect is all about celebrating individuality and diversity, and I think that's so important," said Kim Petras. "They support the LGBTQ community and are such a cool brand. They have so many different frames to choose from so everyone can express themselves how they want to."
EyeBuyDirect is donating 100% of frame sales from the Pride for All collection (up to $50,000) from May 17 - June 30, 2022 to support The Trevor Project, the world's largest suicide prevention and mental health organization focused on ending suicide among LGBTQ youth through crisis counseling, educational resources, advocacy, and more.
The product line is made up of EyeBuyDirect's beloved rainbow frames representing the colors of the Pride flag, along with all-new frame colors, each representing a different flag in the LGBTQ+ community. Ranging from $19-$80, this vibrant collection was created to inspire everyone to show up as they are and color their world for all to see.
"The new Pride for All collection celebrates the confidence you feel when expressing your true self," said Jim Merk, Brand Director at EyeBuyDirect. "We're incredibly proud to launch this line with Kim Petras, who truly embodies her individuality and inspires so many along the way. We are especially proud to also support The Trevor Project with this collection and the important work they do for youth in the LGBTQ community."
For additional information about EyeBuyDirect or to shop the Pride for All collection, please visit: https://www.eyebuydirect.com/.
About EyeBuyDirect
EyeBuyDirect is the best place to buy eyewear online. Our goal is to make quality eye care accessible to everyone. Established in 2006, EyeBuyDirect is reframing the eyewear game by making it easier to find quality eyeglasses and sunglasses. Offering over 3,000 affordable and stylish frames, EyeBuyDirect owns the entire process: from frames design and craftsmanship to eyeglasses manufacturing. We offer convenient innovations such as, 2-day delivery and a Virtual Try-On feature allowing customers to find the perfect style of eyewear for their face shape. For every order placed, a pair of glasses is donated to the most underserved communities worldwide through our Buy 1 Give 1 program.
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Funds Raised Will Support Military Members, Veterans and Their Families
DALLAS, Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- After its July fundraising campaign, Texas de Brazil announced today that the family-owned Brazilian steakhouse brand has raised over $47,000 to support the American Red Cross Service to the Armed Forces as they continue to help build strong military members, veterans and families.
The campaign promoted in Texas de Brazil restaurants nationwide and on various digital platforms raised over $37,000 paired with a corporate donation from the company of $10,000.
"We proudly support the American Red Cross programs that serve our military heroes and their families. These men and women endure countless sacrifices and it's our honor to give back and provide an opportunity for others to help raise funds that go directly to those who protect our freedoms," says Salim Asrawi, president of Texas de Brazil.
"Texas de Brazil and their customers have had an amazing impact on the American Red Cross mission year after year, and we are so happy with the continued success of this campaign. The Red Cross is incredibly grateful for their support that allows us to deliver real hope and care for our military veterans and their families." said Kathryn Cox, Chief Development Officer (Interim), American Red Cross North Texas Region. "We want to sincerely thank Texas de Brazil staff members, customers, and leadership for their collaboration and support. Thanks to you, we can look to the future with hope and readiness to assist our armed forces."
The American Red Cross works on behalf of the American public to ensure that our military personnel get help whenever and wherever they need it. Every day they provide 24/7 global emergency communication services and other support in military and veteran health care facilities across the country and around the world.
Texas de Brazil is an authentic Brazilian-American steakhouse featuring a continuous dining experience that blends the unique culture of Brazil with the generous hospitality of Texas. The menu features a vast selection of grilled meats, a 50-item salad area, an award-winning wine list and a la carte dessert selections. Founded as a family-owned business in 1998, Texas de Brazil now has locations in 20 states along with 12 international locations. For more information, visit texasdebrazil.com.
The American Red Cross shelters, feeds and provides comfort to victims of disasters; supplies about 40% of the nation's blood; teaches skills that save lives; distributes international humanitarian aid; and supports veterans, military members and their families. The Red Cross is a nonprofit organization that depends on volunteers and the generosity of the American public to deliver its mission. For more information, please visit American Red Cross or CruzRojaAmericana.org, or follow us on Twitter at @RedCrossNTX.
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Council race in Michigan town settled by two pieces of paper
Rogers City, Mich. — The election to fill a city council seat in a Michigan town was settled by drawing two pieces of paper from a bowl, days after a 616-616 tie.
The new council member in Rogers City: Timeen Adair, whose paper said “elected.”
Brittany VanderWall's paper said “not elected.” There were hugs by the pair Monday — and no hard feelings, The Alpena News reported.
"I told people, either way, Rogers City wins,” VanderWall said before the drawing.
Adair said the Election Day tie meant the northern Michigan town, population 2,800, should be satisfied with both candidates.
"The people have spoken, and they said, ‘Eh, either one,’” Adair said.
VanderWall is already looking ahead to the next election.
“Congrats,” she told Adair. “Do good work. I’ll see you in two years.” | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/11/16/council-race-in-michigan-town-settled-by-two-pieces-of-paper/69653957007/ | 2022-11-16 17:35:17 | 1 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/11/16/council-race-in-michigan-town-settled-by-two-pieces-of-paper/69653957007/ |
Federal prosecutors have asked a judge to sentence disgraced Theranos CE0 Elizabeth Holmes to 15 years in prison, arguing she deserves a lengthy prison term because her massive scheme duped investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars by falsely convincing them her company had developed a revolutionary blood testing device.
Calling the case “one of the most substantial white collar offenses Silicon Valley or any other District has seen,” prosecutors vehemently rejected defense attorneys’ characterization that Holmes had been unfairly victimized, in part by media coverage.
Holmes is set to appear for sentencing on Nov. 18 in federal court in San Jose, California, nearly a year after she was convicted of three felony counts of wire fraud and one felony count of conspiracy to commit fraud. She faces up to 20 years in prison for each count.
“She repeatedly chose lies, hype and the prospect of billions of dollars over patient safety and fair dealing with investors,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert S. Leach wrote in a 46-page brief filed Friday. “Elizabeth Holmes’ crimes were not failing, they were lying — lying in the most serious context, where everyone needed her to tell the truth.”
Holmes’ attorneys filed an 82-page document late Thursday calling for a lenient sentence of no more than 18 months, saying her reputation was permanently destroyed, turning her into a “caricature to be mocked and vilified.”
Besides asking that Holmes receive a lengthy prison sentence, prosecutors called for the 38-year-old pay $803,840,309 in restitution for her role in the yearslong scheme that turned her into one of the most widely respected and immensely wealthy entrepreneurs in the Silicon Valley and the United States.
“She preyed on hopes of her investors that a young, dynamic entrepreneur had changed healthcare. She leveraged the credibility of her illustrious board,” Leach wrote. “And, through her deceit, she attained spectacular fame, adoration, and billions of dollars of wealth.”
Leach also pointed to how, after Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou exposed the scheme, Holmes “attacked him, along with his sources” and desperately tried to pin the blame on others.
“At trial, she blamed her COO (and longtime boyfriend), her board, her scientists, her business partners, her investors, her marketing firm, her attorneys, the media — everyone, that is, but herself,” Leach wrote.
The company’s former chief operating officer, 57-year-old Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, was convicted on 12 felony counts of investor and patient fraud in July during separate trial. He is scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 7.
And Leach wrote that the health of actual patients was put into jeopardy by what Holmes had done.
“As money was drying up, she went to market with an unproven and unreliable medical device,” he wrote. “When her lead assay developer quit as Theranos launched, she chillingly told the scientist: ‘she has a promise to deliver to the customer, she doesn’t have much of a choice but to go ahead with the launch.’”
Holmes’ attorneys have argued that if U.S. District Judge Edward Davila does decide to send her to prison, she deserves a lenient sentence because she poses no danger to the public and has no prior criminal history. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/ap-prosecutors-push-15-year-sentence-for-theranos-ceo-holmes/ | 2022-11-13 18:53:34 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/ap-prosecutors-push-15-year-sentence-for-theranos-ceo-holmes/ |
In Georgia's primary, one of the people everyone is talking about isn't on the ballot. Former President Trump has endorsed thirteen candidates there.
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In Georgia's primary, one of the people everyone is talking about isn't on the ballot. Former President Trump has endorsed thirteen candidates there.
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ONTARIO, Calif., Dec. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The accolades keep rolling in for Ontario International Airport (ONT), the gateway for choice for millions of Southern California air travelers and now, for the fifth straight year, the fastest-growing airport in the United States, according to a leading industry publication.
The ranking is based on a survey of frequent travelers by Global Traveler, a magazine geared to business and luxury fliers who travel extensively in the U.S. and abroad, and comes as ONT is poised to reach its highest annual passenger volumes since 2008. Ontario is on track to serve a quarter of a million more passengers this year than the 5.6 million recorded during the last pre-pandemic year of 2019, making it one of the fastest-recovering airports in the U.S.
Being a member of Global Traveler's five-time club puts ONT in rarified air and underscores the airport's emergence as one of the industry's great success stories since its return to local ownership six years ago. Ontario also is one of the Top 10 cargo airports in North America and a major economic driver in Southern California, generating $3.8 billion in activity, supporting 27,800 jobs and serving as the hub for a global supply chain network that generates $17.8 billion in economic output.
"We've committed to establishing Ontario International as a premier aviation gateway, and are thrilled with the response we've received from the community and region we serve. Being recognized as the fastest-growing airport in the U.S. is something we're very proud of, but what matters most is being able to offer our travelers a safe, convenient airport experience they won't get anywhere else," said Alan D. Wapner, president of the Ontario International Airport Authority (OIAA) Board of Commissioners.
Atif Elkadi, OIAA chief executive officer, noted that 10 million Southern Californians live or work closer to ONT than any other airport.
"We appreciate the trust our community has put in us and recognize the responsibility that comes with that to grow the right way. As we look ahead to 2023 and beyond, that partnership with the community and the region will allow us to add more flights, more destinations and enhanced customer-experience amenities that matter to travelers from across the Inland Empire and Southern California," Elkadi said.
The GT survey results, which rank airports, airlines, hotels and other travel-related products and services, were reported in the 2022 Reader Tested Survey, published in its December edition.
Ontario International Airport (ONT) is the fastest growing airport in the United States, according to Global Traveler, a leading publication for frequent fliers. Located in the Inland Empire, ONT is approximately 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles in the center of Southern California. It is a full-service airport which offers nonstop commercial jet service to more than two dozen major airports in the U.S., Mexico, Central America and Taiwan. More information is available at www.flyOntario.com. Follow @flyONT on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram
The OIAA was formed in August 2012 by a Joint Powers Agreement between the City of Ontario and the County of San Bernardino to provide overall direction for the management, operations, development and marketing of ONT for the benefit of the Southern California economy and the residents of the airport's four-county catchment area. OIAA Commissioners are Ontario Mayor Pro Tem Alan D. Wapner (President), Retired Riverside Mayor Ronald O. Loveridge (Vice President), Ontario City Council Member Jim W. Bowman (Secretary), San Bernardino County Supervisor Curt Hagman (Commissioner) and retired business executive Julia Gouw (Commissioner).
OIAA Media Contact:
Steve Lambert, (909) 841-7527 slambert@flyontario.com
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WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, November 11, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
729 PM CST Fri Nov 11 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southwestern Nueces
and central Kleberg Counties through 800 PM CST...
At 728 PM CST, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 11
miles east of Kingsville Naval Air Station, or 14 miles east of
Kingsville, moving southeast at 25 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph and half inch hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Kingsville, Bishop and Kingsville Naval Air Station.
This includes US Highway 77 between mile markers 682 and 696.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 2729 9762 2728 9762 2730 9763 2749 9791
2765 9780 2747 9732 2725 9748 2725 9750
2724 9749 2724 9750 2723 9752 2723 9754
TIME...MOT...LOC 0128Z 302DEG 23KT 2746 9763
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
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WFO HOUSTON/GALVESTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, December 11, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD WARNING
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Flood Warning
National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
241 PM CST Sun Dec 11 2022
...FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by runoff from last nights rainfall is
occurring.
* WHERE...A portion of southeast Texas, including the following
county, Walker.
* WHEN...Until 600 PM CST.
* IMPACTS...Flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying
and flood-prone locations is imminent or occurring. Streams
continue to rise due to excess runoff from earlier rainfall.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 238 PM CST, The West Fork of the San Jacinto River at
Highway 30 remains out of its banks. Flooding is possible in
the warned area.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
mainly rural areas of Southwestern Walker County
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
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ROME (AP) — Film director Paul Haggis was detained on Sunday for investigation of allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman in southern Italy, Italian news media said, quoting local prosecutors.
The Canadian-born, Oscar-winning Haggis, 69, has been in Italy for a film festival that begins on Tuesday in Ostuni, a tourist town in Puglia, the region that forms the “heel” of the Italian peninsula.
The news agency LaPresse and several other Italian media carried a written statement from prosecutors in the nearby city of Brindisi that they were investigating allegations a “young foreign woman” was forced to have “non-consensual” sexual relations over two days.
Haggis’s attorney, Priya Chaudhry, said that although he could not discuss the evidence under Italian law, “I am confident that all allegations will be dismissed against Mr. Haggis. He is totally innocent, and willing to fully cooperate with the authorities so the truth comes out quickly.”
Prosecutors Antonio Negro and Livia Orlando, who are conducting the investigation, said in the statement that the woman was “forced to seek medical care” following the sexual relations. After a couple of days “of non-consensual relations, the woman was accompanied by the man” to Brindisi airport on Sunday and “was left there at dawn despite (her) precarious physical and psychological conditions.”
The Brindisi prosecutors’ office was closed on Sunday.
The prosecutors said airport staff and police noticed her “obvious confused state” and ” and after lending initial treatment, took her to Brindisi’s police headquarters, where officers accompanied her to a local hospital for examination.
Police at headquarters’ operations room said they weren’t authorized to give out information about the case, including whether Haggis was being held at the police station or at a hotel or other lodging.
Haggis is a director, producer and screenwriter. He won an Oscar in 2006 for best original screenplay for “Crash.”
Prosecutors also were quoted as saying that the woman “formalized her complaint and cited circumstances which were subsequently looked into for confirmation by investigators.” They didn’t cite her nationality or age. | https://www.kark.com/news/national-news/oscar-winning-director-paul-haggis-detained-in-italy-in-sex-assault-case-reports-say/ | 2022-06-20 11:57:39 | 1 | https://www.kark.com/news/national-news/oscar-winning-director-paul-haggis-detained-in-italy-in-sex-assault-case-reports-say/ |
TX Lake Charles LA Zone Forecast for Sunday, June 19, 2022
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303 FPUS54 KLCH 200819
ZFPLCH
Zone Forecast Product
National Weather Service Lake Charles LA
319 AM CDT Mon Jun 20 2022
TXZ180-202215-
Tyler-
Including the cities of Town Bluff, Fred, Hillister, Ivanhoe,
Spurger, Warren, and Woodville
319 AM CDT Mon Jun 20 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. East winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 107.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming southwest after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. Northwest winds
around 5 mph, becoming east around 5 mph in the afternoon. Heat
index values up to 105.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs around 100. Heat index values up to 110.
$$
TXZ201-202215-
Hardin-
Including the cities of Lumberton and Silsbee
319 AM CDT Mon Jun 20 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. East winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 107.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Humid with lows in the mid 70s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph, becoming east after
midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Humid with highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph in the evening, becoming light and variable.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. North winds around
5 mph, becoming southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs around 100. Heat index values up to 110.
$$
TXZ215-202215-
Jefferson-
Including the cities of Beaumont, Sabine Pass,
and Sea Rim State Park
319 AM CDT Mon Jun 20 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. East winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming southeast 10 to 15 mph this afternoon. Heat index values
up to 107.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Humid with lows in the upper 70s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Humid with highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Humid with lows in the mid 70s.
South winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming southwest around 5 mph after
midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. North winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the
upper 70s. Highs 96 to 102. Heat index values up to 110.
$$
TXZ216-202215-
Orange-
Including the cities of Orange, Vidor, and Bridge City
319 AM CDT Mon Jun 20 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. East winds around
5 mph, becoming southeast 10 to 15 mph this afternoon. Heat index
values up to 107.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Humid with lows in the upper 70s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Humid with highs in the mid 90s. Temperature
falling to around 90 in the afternoon. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Humid with lows in the mid 70s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming west after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. North winds around
5 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the
upper 70s. Highs around 100. Heat index values up to 110.
$$
TXZ259-202215-
Northern Jasper-
Including the cities of Holly Springs, Jasper, Kirbyville,
Magnolia Springs, Mt. Union, and Roganville
319 AM CDT Mon Jun 20 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. East winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 106.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming southwest after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. Northwest winds
around 5 mph, becoming east around 5 mph in the afternoon. Heat
index values up to 105.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs around 100. Heat index values up to 110.
$$
TXZ260-202215-
Northern Newton-
Including the cities of Burkeville, Farrsville, Jamestown,
Newton, Wiergate, Bleakwood, and Call
319 AM CDT Mon Jun 20 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming southwest after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. Northwest winds
around 5 mph, becoming east around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs around 100. Heat index values up to 110.
$$
TXZ261-202215-
Southern Jasper-
Including the cities of Gist, Buna, and Evadale
319 AM CDT Mon Jun 20 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. East winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 107.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Humid with lows in the mid 70s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph, becoming east after
midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Humid with highs in the mid 90s. Temperature
falling to around 90 in the afternoon. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Humid with lows in the mid 70s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming west after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. North winds around
5 mph, becoming southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs around 100. Heat index values up to 110.
$$
TXZ262-202215-
Southern Newton-
Including the city of Deweyville
319 AM CDT Mon Jun 20 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. East winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 106.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Humid with lows in the mid 70s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming southeast after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Humid with highs in the mid 90s. Temperature
falling to around 90 in the afternoon. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Humid with lows in the mid 70s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph in the evening, becoming light and
variable.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. North winds around
5 mph, becoming southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs around 100. Heat index values up to 110.
$$
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April 6, 1939—June 21, 2022
Lawrence George Otter, age 83, passed away at his residence on Tuesday, June 21, 2022 surrounded by his loving family.
Born on April 6, 1939, he was the son of the late Daniel and Elizabeth (VanDommelen) Otter.
On December 3, 1966, Lawrence was united in marriage to Alice Goetzinger. Their union was blessed with 55 years of marriage and four beautiful children.
Lawrence was employed as a Tool and Die Maker for Ladish Tri-Clover until his retirement in 2001.
From 1963 until 1965, he proudly served his country in the U.S. Army.
Lawrence was a member of St. Peter’s Catholic Church and was a member and former President of Kenosha Wheelmen. He also enjoyed attending the Tri-Clover Stink Club.
He was an avid cycling enthusiast. Lawrence raced locally around the United States including British Guiana. He also rode on the U.S. Army Cycling Team. Some of Lawrence’s favorite hobbies included spending time at the Great Lakes Dragaway as a participant and spectator as well as watching the Indy 500. He loved spending time boating and waterskiing and was a proud owner of a 1950 Mercury “Mercillac”. In his spare time, he enjoyed watching any show on TV that included auto restoration.
He will be dearly missed by his loving wife, Alice Otter; his children, Kim (Donny) Mason, Larry (Laura) Otter, Scott (Cindy) Otter, Kristie (Brian) Carpenter and man’s best friend, Buddy; his grandchildren, Crystal Monroe, Jessica Mason, Samantha Mason, Corey Otter, Abigail Otter, Bailee Carpenter, Sydney Carpenter, Sadie Carpenter and Zac Carpenter; his great-grandchildren, Wyatt Hitchcock and Jackson Monroe.
In addition to his parents, Lawrence was preceded in death by his brother, Donald Otter and his sister, Judi Otter.
Funeral services honoring Lawrence’s life will be held on Monday, June 27, 2022. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10:00 a.m. at St. Peter’s Catholic Church, 2224 30th Ave. Entombment with full military honors will follow in Sunset Ridge Memorial Park. A visitation for Lawrence will be held on Sunday, June 26, 2022 from 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. at the Piasecki Funeral Home.
Piasecki Funeral Home & Cremation Services
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LAKELAND, Fla., April 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- What if you had the option to pause your mortgage payment and put that money towards something else?
That's exactly what farmers can do with the AgAmerica Pivot™ program and new, interactive interest-only calculator that will help them determine their savings by switching to an interest-only product.
The problem: Farmers face pressure to increase crop yield to feed a growing population:
- By 2050, the world will need more than 50 percent more food, but cropland is only estimated to increase by 13 percent worldwide during that time.
While consumers are feeling the pinch at the grocery store, farmers are feeling the pressure to increase productivity during one of the highest inflationary markets since the late 1980s. To increase productivity, farmers need more cash on hand to invest in their operation. But, as anyone who has purchased a new home in the past two years might know, it's been a particularly hostile environment for refinancing or purchasing new land due to rising rates. This problem is particularly concerning as global food demand increases, but agricultural land diminishes.
Interest-only payment options could be one way to help farmers continue to grow their operation and increase productivity despite external economic pressures.
"We know it is a difficult financial environment—interest rates and inflation are high. We want to provide a solution that uses the equity in the owner's land to put more money in their pocket that they could either put to work or use to pay off less flexible debt. Farmers need more financing options in a volatile market—this way they only pay for the interest on the loan until interest rates decrease."
--Brian Philpot, CEO AgAmerica Lending
- Frees up cash flow
- Invest in upgrades
- Scale operations
- One married couple used the AgAmerica Pivot program to invest $8 million back into their regenerative vineyard in the heart of wine country.
- A first-generation farmer was able to take full ownership of his farm with a combination of the AgAmerica Pivot program and traditional loan products.
- A dairy farmer experienced periods of low milk prices and needed to pivot his business. He used the AgAmerica Pivot program to keep overhead low while he stood up a cow-calf operation until he was able to refinance to more conventional terms.
- The AgAmerica Pivot program helped save a 6th generation farm on the precipice of bankruptcy.
Farmers can access an interactive calculator to see how much money they will save with an interest-only loan.
AgAmerica is finding solutions to support farmers, who face increasing adversity and demand for productivity to feed a growing population.
As a trusted financial lender for farmers, ranchers, and landowners across the nation, AgAmerica provides financial resources and counseling to help sustain the future of agriculture and keep farmland in the hands of farmers.
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Vertex Software, the leader in 3D industrial visualization software, is teaming up with John Deere to drive Industry 4.0 initiatives
MOLINE, Ill., July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Vertex Software, Inc., a pioneer in 3D manufacturing visualization and cloud collaboration technology, announces that they have been selected as a supplier to Deere & Company, a leading global manufacturer of agricultural, forestry, and other heavy equipment and an Industry 4.0 innovator.
John Deere employees will use Vertex to access the state of the factory, service needs for equipment, forecast planning, and gather information about how equipment functions in real time. They can access the content on any computing device in seconds, including tablets, laptops, and smartphones.
By pushing 3D information data beyond the engineering department, Vertex's purpose-built software will support John Deere's Industry 4.0 initiatives, including Smart Connected Factory programs, by delivering real-time, actionable 3D data across manufacturing and business operations.
The Vertex 3D Platform dramatically reduces the time, cost, and effort needed to use 3D visualizations across the manufacturing value chain. The platform will help John Deere build and deploy fit-for-purpose apps that deliver decision-making systems with rich, interactive 3D content.
The sheer size and sensitive nature of CAD data, the cost of 3D hardware and software, and the number of data formats and software systems have made it nearly impossible to use 3D product data beyond engineering.
Now, Vertex makes it possible to engage customers, employees, suppliers, and partners with 3D data wherever they are on whatever devices they use. Vertex extends the reach of 3D data to reduce supply chain bottlenecks, accelerate time-to-market, and increase sales by providing easy access to viewable 3D information that enhances productivity and reduces expenses.
"For the first time, manufacturers have a truly effective way to leverage their 3D data assets beyond engineering," says Dan Murray, CEO & Founder of Vertex Software. "We're like Netflix for CAD. You can now reach everyone, everywhere, instantly with 3D."
Vertex Software offers cloud-based 3D solutions that enable manufacturers to unleash the full potential of their CAD and PLM investment. Vertex solutions drive customer satisfaction, grow market share, engage suppliers and partners, and energize employees with secure, cost-effective cloud-based solutions that eliminate the use of large data files. Vertex customers include industry-leading manufacturers, with several listed in the Fortune 500. Learn more at vertexvis.com.
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Couple longing for grandchild sues son, his wife in India
NEW DELHI (AP) — A retired Indian couple is suing their son and daughter-in-law, demanding that they produce a grandchild within a year or pay them 50 million rupees ($675,000).
Sanjeev Ranjan Prasad, a 61-year-old retired government officer, said it was an emotional and sensitive issue for him and his wife, Sadhana Prasad, and they cannot wait any longer. His son, a pilot, was married six years ago.
“We want a grandson or a granddaughter within a year or compensation, because I have spent my life’s earnings on my son’s education,” Prasad told reporters on Thursday.
Prasad said he spent 3.5 million rupees ($47,300) for his son’s pilot training in the United States.
“The main issue is that at this age we need a grandchild, but these people (my son and daughter-in-law) have an attitude that they don’t think about us,’’ Prasad said.
“We got him married in the hope we would have the pleasure of becoming grandparents. It has been six years since their marriage,” Prasad said. “It feels as if despite having everything we have nothing.”
The court accepted their petition and scheduled it for a hearing on Monday in Haridwar, a city in northern Uttarakhand state, media reports said.
The son and daughter-in-law could not be reached for comment.
Prasad said he and his wife love children.
“We are not getting love and affection from where we want it the most,” he said. “I feel very unlucky.”
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TITUS, Jane Marlene, 92, of Springfield, passed away May 10, 2023 in Springfield Regional Medical Center. She was born June 22, 1930 in Springfield the daughter of the late Cecil and Mildred (Shade) Hanselman. Jane worked as an office manager at Mader Electric for a number of years. Survivors include four children, Chris Titus, Mark & Debbie Titus, Marline & Jack Palmer and Troy (Penny McBlane-Ake) Titus; eight grandchildren, Jason (Stacy) and Matthew (Natasha Ridenour) Titus, Amber (Ryan) Durant, Chloe (Arnie) Richardson, Sydney Palmer, Taylor Titus, Erika Portman, Jessica Hall; several great grandchildren and her longtime caretaker, Brenda Patterson. She was preceded in death by her parents and a daughter-in-law, Debbie Titus. A Graveside Service will be held at 12:30 pm on Monday, May 15, 2023 in Ferncliff Cemetery. In lieu of flowers memorial donations can be made to the Clark County Animal Welfare League. Arrangements by CONROY FUNERAL HOME. | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/obituaries/titus-jane/6JWCRYBPTFFTJFZHT7LPJ3SCHQ/ | 2023-05-14 05:51:58 | 1 | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/obituaries/titus-jane/6JWCRYBPTFFTJFZHT7LPJ3SCHQ/ |
Some states could tax Biden’s student loan debt relief
By STEVE KARNOWSKI and COLLIN BINKLEY
Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan could lift crushing debt burdens from millions of borrowers, but the tax man may demand a cut of the relief in some states.
That’s because some states tax forgiven debt as income, which means borrowers who are still paying down student loans could owe taxes on as much as $10,000 or even $20,000 that was taken off their bill. In Mississippi, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Arkansas and North Carolina, forgiven student loans will be subject to state income taxes unless they change their laws to conform with a federal tax exemption for student loans, according to a tally by the Tax Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank.
That dismays Cathy Newman, a Louisiana State University graduate who just took a job teaching freshman biology at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. She figures she could end up owing a few hundred dollars of money that she could have kept had she stayed in Louisiana.
Newman said she can come up with the cash because she has a good job, but she knows of a lot of other borrowers who will still be stuck in difficult financial positions even with their loans forgiven.
“If they stay in the state, they could end up with a pretty hefty tax burden if things don’t change,” Newman said. “I won’t be happy if I have to do it. I can do it. But a lot of people can’t.”
More than 40 million Americans could see their student loan debt cut or eliminated under the forgiveness plan Biden announced late last month. The president is erasing $10,000 in federal student loan debt for individuals with incomes below $125,000 a year, or households that earn less than $250,000. He’s canceling an additional $10,000 for those who also used federal Pell Grants to pay for college. But it only applies to those whose loans were paid out before July 1, which leaves out current high school seniors and students who will follow them.
Although having $10,000 or $20,000 in loan payments eliminated will be a boon over the long term to borrowers who qualify, those in the affected states might be required to declare that as income. Depending on a state’s tax rates, the taxpayer’s other income and the deductions and exemptions they’re able to claim, that could add up to several hundred extra tax dollars that they’ll owe.
Spokespeople for tax agencies in several states — including Virginia, Idaho, New York, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Kentucky — told The Associated Press that their states definitely won’t tax student loans forgiven under Biden’s program. Revenue officials in a few other states said they needed to do more research to know.
Newman, 38, went into debt to pay for graduate school. She had already set herself up for relief under the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, though that requires five more years of teaching on top of the five she already taught at the University of Louisiana Monroe. Biden’s program would cut $10,000 off her debt load when it takes effect, but under existing Mississippi tax law, the relief won’t come free.
“It’s not a huge burden for me, but it could be for a lot of other people, which is what I’m worried about, especially if it’s unexpected, and I think a lot of people don’t realize that,” Newman said.
Any relief in states that would tax the forgiven debt would have to come from their Legislatures. Leaders of the Minnesota Legislature and Democratic Gov. Tim Walz have indicated in recent media interviews that there’s broad support for a fix, which could come during the 2023 session, or even earlier on the remote chance of a special session.
In Wisconsin, Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ administration plans to propose a fix in the state budget next year, but that would have to be approved by the Republican-controlled Legislature. And Evers needs to get reelected in November before he can formally make that request. Republican legislative leaders and Evers’ GOP challenger, Tim Michels, did not reply to messages seeking comment on the student loan tax issue.
However, in Mississippi, the chairman of the state Senate committee in charge of taxes said he’s willing to take a look when the Legislature convenes next year. Republican state Sen. Josh Harkins, of Brandon, said he needs to learn more about what his state’s tax laws say on debt forgiveness.
“I’m sure people will want to look at adjusting that or making some changes in the law, but a lot of factors have to be considered,” Harkins said, noting that Mississippi enacted its biggest-ever tax cut earlier this year and adding that he wants to gauge the impact of inflation before making big tax policy decisions. “This all just hit in the last week.”
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Twitter suspended the accounts of several journalists who cover the social media platform, the latest battle over what can and cannot be said on the site since billionaire Elon Musk took control of it.
Accounts of reporters with The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, Voice of America and other publications, went dark Thursday.
The company hasn’t explained to the journalists why it took down the accounts and made their profiles and past tweets disappear. But Musk took to Twitter on Thursday night to accuse journalists of sharing private information about his whereabouts that he described as “basically assassination coordinates.” He provided no evidence for that claim.
The sudden suspension of news reporters followed Musk’s decision Wednesday to permanently ban an account that automatically tracked the flights of his private jet using publicly available data. That also led Twitter to change its rules for all users to prohibit the sharing of another person’s current location without their consent.
Several of the reporters suspended Thursday night had been writing about the new policy and Musk's rationale for imposing it, which involved his allegations about a stalking incident he said affected his family on Tuesday night in Los Angeles.
The official account for Mastodon, a decentralized social network billed as an alternative to Twitter, was also banned. The reason was unclear, though it had tweeted about the jet tracking account.
“Same doxxing rules apply to ‘journalists’ as to everyone else," Musk tweeted Thursday. He later added: “Criticizing me all day long is totally fine, but doxxing my real-time location and endangering my family is not.”
“Doxxing” refers to disclosing online someone’s identity, address, or other personal details.
The Washington Post’s executive editor, Sally Buzbee, called for technology reporter Drew Harwell’s Twitter account to be reinstated immediately. The suspension “directly undermines Elon Musk’s claim that he intends to run Twitter as a platform dedicated to free speech,” Buzbee wrote. “Harwell was banished without warning, process or explanation, following the publication of his accurate reporting about Musk.”
CNN said in a statement that “the impulsive and unjustified suspension of a number of reporters, including CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan, is concerning but not surprising.”
“Twitter’s increasing instability and volatility should be of incredible concern for everyone who uses Twitter,” CNN's statement added. “We have asked Twitter for an explanation, and we will reevaluate our relationship based on that response.”
Another suspended journalist, Matt Binder of the technology news outlet Mashable, said he was banned Thursday night immediately after sharing a screenshot that O’Sullivan had posted before his own suspension.
The screenshot showed a statement from the Los Angeles Police Department sent earlier Thursday to multiple media outlets, including The Associated Press, about how it was in touch with Musk's representatives about the alleged stalking incident, but that no crime report had yet been filed.
“I did not share any location data, as per Twitter’s new terms. Nor did I share any links to ElonJet or other location tracking accounts,” Binder said in an email. “I have been highly critical of Musk but never broke any of Twitter’s listed policies.”
Binder said a message he received while trying to access his Twitter account showed that his suspension was permanent. But Musk later suggested the penalty would last a week in response to a question about his suspension of former ESPN and MSNBC host Keith Olbermann.
Late Thursday, Musk briefly joined a Twitter Spaces conference chat hosted by journalist Kate Notopoulos of Buzzfeed. He reiterated his claims that the journalists Twitter banned were “doxxing" him when they were reporting on the jet tracking accounts being banned.
“There is not special treatment for journalists,” Musk said, after being asked by the Post’s Drew Harwell if he had a connection between the stalking incident and posting of real-time information.
“You dox, you get suspended, end of story,” he added, before abruptly signing out. The Spaces ended abruptly shortly after 9 p.m. Pacific time.
“Sorry it appears the Space cut out, screen went suddenly blank on my end and everyone got booted,” host Notopoulos tweeted at 9:14 p.m. Pacific.
Another suspended reporter, Steve Herman of Voice of America, said he assumes he was banned “because I was tweeting about other journalists being suspended for tweeting about accounts being booted that had linked to the Elon Jet feed.”
The suspensions come as Musk makes major changes to content moderation on Twitter. He has tried, through the release of selected company documents dubbed as “The Twitter Files,” to claim the platform suppressed right-wing voices under its previous leaders.
He has promised to let free speech reign and has reinstated high-profile accounts that previously broke Twitter's rules against hateful conduct or harmful misinformation, but also has said he would suppress negativity and hate by depriving some accounts of “freedom of reach.”
The nonprofit Committee to Protect Journalists, which defends journalists around the world, said Thursday night it was concerned about the suspensions.
"If confirmed as retaliation for their work, this would be a serious violation of journalists’ right to report the news without fear of reprisal,” the group said.
European Union Commissioner Vera Jourova, who heads up the 27-nation bloc’s work on values and transparency, also weighed in.
“News about arbitrary suspension of journalists on Twitter is worrying,” she tweeted. Existing EU media rules and new digital regulations taking effect next year require “respect of media freedom and fundamental rights."
Jourova said, “@elonmusk should be aware of that. There are red lines. And sanctions, soon.”
The Germany government added more criticism. The Foreign Ministry tweeted that it's “got a problem” with not being able to follow the suspended accounts and added that “press freedom must not be switched on and off at will.”
Spokesman Christofer Burger said the ministry opened an account on Mastodon “to ensure we remain reachable." | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/dec/16/twitter-suspends-journalists-who-wrote-about-owner-elon-musk/ | 2022-12-16 13:49:50 | 1 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/dec/16/twitter-suspends-journalists-who-wrote-about-owner-elon-musk/ |
Huge blow for Boris Johnson as senior UK government ministers Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid resign
By Ivana Kottasová, CNN
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was dealt a huge blow on Tuesday when two of his top ministers announced their resignations, saying they could no longer work for a government mired in scandal.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid both announced they were quitting in letters posted to Twitter within minutes of each other on Tuesday evening.
The most immediate controversy facing Johnson is Downing Street’s handling of last week’s resignation of deputy chief whip Chris Pincher, who stepped down from his post last Thursday amid allegations he had groped two guests at a private dinner the night before. While he did not admit the allegations directly, Pincher said in a letter to Johnson that “last night I drank far too much” and “embarrassed myself and other people.”
“The public rightly expect government to be conducted properly, competently and seriously,” Sunak said in his resignation letter. “I recognise this may be my last ministerial job, but I believe these standards are worth fighting for and that is why I am resigning.”
“In preparation for our proposed joint speech on the economy next week, it has become clear to me that our approaches are fundamentally too different,” Sunak added in the letter. “I am sad to be leaving Government but I have reluctantly come to the conclusion that we cannot continue like this.”
Javid wrote that “it has been an enormous privilege to serve in this role, but I regret that I can no longer continue in good conscience.” Javid added that the vote of confidence in the prime minister last month “was a moment for humility, grip and new direction.”
“I regret to say, however, that it is clear to me that this situation will not change under your leadership — and you have therefore lost my confidence too,” Javid wrote.
This is a breaking story.
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California nonprofit challenges claims made by Measure 2 opponents
Measure 2 is on the November ballot in North Dakota to legalize cannabis.
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A nonprofit in California is pushing back against claims that legalizing cannabis will increase crime, teen use and traffic deaths.
Diane Goldstein is the Executive Director of the Law Enforcement Action Partnership, and a former police officer. She says they feel this isn’t a Democrat or Republican issue. The group advocates for criminal justice and drug policy reforms and it’s full of current and former law enforcement professionals, judges and attorneys.
“We need to, as law enforcement professionals, recognize that we always have input with legislators, but we need to take a step back and see what our constituents and the people that we serve want in this matter. People are tired of the war on drugs and we’ve known this for years and law enforcement and legislators quite frankly are not doing their job because they’re ignoring what the people want. In the United States, isn’t that what their role is? To listen to their constituents?” Goldstein said.
She questions whether the cost of arresting someone for cannabis is worth the resources.
“You have clerks that have to run paperwork to the courts. You have court officers, you have judges, you have corrections officials. I don’t know if North Dakota actually really knows how much marijuana enforcement costs them but I’m gonna say it’s more than they think about,” Goldstein said.
Fargo Police Chief David Zibolski disagrees and says cannabis should not be treated like alcohol.
“Even when you talk about it being for only 21 and older, well, just like any other prescription medication that adults bring into their homes, kids have access to it,” Zibolski said.
Goldstein says the responsibility is on adults to make sure the drug isn’t getting to the wrong hands.
“We as adults have a responsibility, if we’re going to, whether it’s drink alcohol or smoke tobacco or have marijuana in our house, to keep them away from our kids. Some of this is about parenting as well. The kids are alright. We’re arresting them less, they’re committing less crimes, smoking less pot. In fact, they’re kinda boring, aren’t they?” Goldstein said.
Goldstein adds people view drug use from a morality lens and understands the concern for cannabis legalization.
Zibolski adds legalizing cannabis will “greatly strain our law enforcement resources and exacerbate an already existing issue with addiction.” | https://www.kvrr.com/2022/10/27/california-nonprofit-challenges-claims-made-by-measure-2-opponents/ | 2022-10-28 05:14:50 | 1 | https://www.kvrr.com/2022/10/27/california-nonprofit-challenges-claims-made-by-measure-2-opponents/ |
Four dead in wreck involving 18-wheeler, DPS releases names
Published: Jul. 24, 2023 at 1:33 PM CDT|Updated: 5 minutes ago
PARIS, Texas (KXII) - A two-vehicle wreck involving an 18-wheeler claims the life of four people, DPS confirms.
According to myParisTexas.com, the crash happened Friday morning on US Hwy 271 N.
Reports show an 18-wheeler failed to yield the right-of-way to an SUV, causing the SUV to go under the trailer of the 18-wheeler.
DPS confirmed the deceased as 48-year old Mary K Cooper, of Hugo, OK, 61-year old Janet K Carter, of Durant, OK, 18-year old Koolasha U Green, of Hugo, OK, and a 16-year old male of Hugo, OK.
All occupants were wearing seatbelts.
The crash is still under investigation.
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XENIA, Ohio (WDTN) – Police have a suspect in custody after he engaged officers in a standoff that lasted half an hour.
According to the Xenia Police Division, officers responded to East Richard Drive in Xenia around 9:40 p.m. on Saturday, July 9. The neighbor who called the officers said they got into an argument with the suspect, Joseph Hollon. According to the neighbor, Hollon then brandished a firearm and threatened the neighbor.
Officers made several attempts to contact Hollon, who was hiding in his backyard refusing to come out. Due to the nature of the threat, SWAT was called to the scene. The Xenia Police Division said the Greene County Sheriff’s Office was also on the scene.
After approximately 30 minutes of giving verbal commands, Hollon surrendered to the assisting Greene County Sheriff’s Office units and the SWAT response was canceled.
According to a release, Joseph Hollon has been formally charged with aggravated menacing and obstructing official business. | https://www.wdtn.com/news/crime/xenia-man-charged-after-brief-standoff/ | 2022-07-11 20:07:55 | 0 | https://www.wdtn.com/news/crime/xenia-man-charged-after-brief-standoff/ |
MLB Probable Starting Pitchers Tonight: Friday, April 28
Who are the probable pitchers lined up to take the ball on Friday? Below, we list every starting pitching matchup for the day, which includes Marcus Stroman toeing the rubber for the Cubs, and Jesus Luzardo getting the call for the Marlins.
Keep reading to find the pitching matchups for every game on the docket for April 28.
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Today's Probable Starting Pitchers
Royals at Twins Probable Pitchers
The Kansas City Royals will send Jordan Lyles (0-4) to the hill as they take on the Twins, who will look to Pablo Lopez (1-2) when the teams face off on Friday.
Vegas Odds for Royals at Twins
- MIN Odds to Win: -275
- KC Odds to Win: +225
- Total: 7.5 runs
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Cubs at Marlins Probable Pitchers
The Chicago Cubs will send Stroman (2-2) to the bump as they play the Marlins, who will give the start to Luzardo (2-1) for the matchup between the clubs on Friday.
Vegas Odds for Cubs at Marlins
- MIA Odds to Win: -110
- CHC Odds to Win: -110
- Total: 7.5 runs
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Orioles at Tigers Probable Pitchers
The Baltimore Orioles will send Grayson Rodriguez (0-0) to the bump as they take on the Tigers, who will counter with Eduardo Rodriguez (1-2) when the clubs play on Friday.
Vegas Odds for Orioles at Tigers
- BAL Odds to Win: -135
- DET Odds to Win: +110
- Total: 7.5 runs
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Pirates at Nationals Probable Pitchers
The Pittsburgh Pirates will send Rich Hill (2-2) to the mound as they face the Nationals, who will look to Chad Kuhl (0-1) when the teams play Friday.
Vegas Odds for Pirates at Nationals
- PIT Odds to Win: -140
- WSH Odds to Win: +115
- Total: 8.5 runs
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Mariners at Blue Jays Probable Pitchers
The Seattle Mariners will send Luis Castillo (2-0) to the mound as they play the Blue Jays, who will look to Alek Manoah (1-1) when the clubs face off on Friday.
Vegas Odds for Mariners at Blue Jays
- TOR Odds to Win: -115
- SEA Odds to Win: -105
- Total: 9 runs
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- Game Time: 7:07 PM ET
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Guardians at Red Sox Probable Pitchers
The Cleveland Guardians will send Shane Bieber (1-1) to the hill as they face the Red Sox, who will look to Nick Pivetta (1-1) when the clubs meet on Friday.
Vegas Odds for Guardians at Red Sox
- CLE Odds to Win: -135
- BOS Odds to Win: +115
- Total: 8.5 runs
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Braves at Mets Probable Pitchers
The Atlanta Braves will send Max Fried (1-0) to the mound as they play the Mets, who will hand the ball to David Peterson (1-3) when the teams meet Friday.
Vegas Odds for Braves at Mets
- ATL Odds to Win: -140
- NYM Odds to Win: +115
- Total: 7.5 runs
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Rays at White Sox Probable Pitchers
The Tampa Bay Rays will send Zach Eflin (3-0) to the mound as they take on the White Sox, who will hand the ball to Lucas Giolito (1-2) when the teams play Friday.
Vegas Odds for Rays at White Sox
- TB Odds to Win: -150
- CHW Odds to Win: +125
- Total: 8.5 runs
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Yankees at Rangers Probable Pitchers
The New York Yankees will send Clarke Schmidt (0-2) to the mound as they play the Rangers, who will look to Jacob deGrom (2-0) when the teams meet Friday.
Vegas Odds for Yankees at Rangers
- TEX Odds to Win: -210
- NYY Odds to Win: +170
- Total: 7 runs
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Angels at Brewers Probable Pitchers
The Los Angeles Angels will send Tyler Anderson (1-0) to the mound as they play the Brewers, who will look to Wade Miley (3-1) when the clubs play Friday.
Vegas Odds for Angels at Brewers
- MIL Odds to Win: -135
- LAA Odds to Win: +110
- Total: 9 runs
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Phillies at Astros Probable Pitchers
The Philadelphia Phillies will send Aaron Nola (1-2) to the hill as they take on the Astros, who will hand the ball to Framber Valdez (2-2) when the clubs face off on Friday.
Vegas Odds for Phillies at Astros
- HOU Odds to Win: -155
- PHI Odds to Win: +125
- Total: 7.5 runs
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Diamondbacks at Rockies Probable Pitchers
The Arizona Diamondbacks will send Merrill Kelly (1-3) to the bump as they take on the Rockies, who will give the start to Kyle Freeland (2-2) for the matchup between the clubs on Friday.
Vegas Odds for Diamondbacks at Rockies
- ARI Odds to Win: -125
- COL Odds to Win: +105
- Total: 11 runs
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Reds at Athletics Probable Pitchers
The Cincinnati Reds will send Luis Cessa (0-3) to the hill as they face the Athletics, who will counter with Kyle Muller (0-2) when the teams meet Friday.
Vegas Odds for Reds at Athletics
- OAK Odds to Win: -110
- CIN Odds to Win: -110
- Total: 8.5 runs
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Cardinals at Dodgers Probable Pitchers
The St. Louis Cardinals will send Jack Flaherty (2-2) to the hill as they play the Dodgers, who will give the start to Dustin May (2-1) for the matchup between the clubs on Friday.
Vegas Odds for Cardinals at Dodgers
- LAD Odds to Win: -145
- STL Odds to Win: +120
- Total: 8.5 runs
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Costa Mesa Auto-Defect Law Firm Brings the Fight to the Backyard of Orange County's Kia and Hyundai
COSTA MESA, Calif., Sept. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MLG Attorneys at Law has filed a national class action lawsuit against Kia and Hyundai for a defect exposed by a trending TikTok challenge. The case, Stephanie McQuarrie, et al. v. Kia America, Inc. and Hyundai Motor America (Case No. 8:22-cv-01721), was filed today in federal court in Orange County, California.
"It's time to centralize the fight with Kia and Hyundai," said Jonathan Michaels, founder of MLG Attorneys at Law. "We filed the class action in federal court in Orange County to bring it to the doorstep of these two massive auto manufacturers."
The lawsuit alleges that cars manufactured between 2011 and 2021 by Orange County-headquartered car makers Kia and Hyundai were made without an "engine immobilizer." According to the complaint, engine immobilizers are critical, yet inexpensive anti-theft devices that prevent cars from being hot-wired, which have been used by virtually every car manufacturer over the last twenty years – except Kia and Hyundai. The first patent for an engine immobilizer was granted in 1919.
The absence of engine immobilizers in Kia and Hyundai vehicles reached sensational heights in July 2022 when the "Kia Challenge" was posted on the burgeoning social media platform, TikTok. The video demonstrates how Kias and Hyundais can be started with a simple USB cord and screwdriver. Since its posting, scores of Kias and Hyundais have been stolen across the country, with disturbing joy riding videos being posted in their wake.
The damage to consumers has been substantial. Chicago reported a 767 percent increase in car thefts in July 2022 compared with the same time-period last year, and in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Kias and Hyundais now account for nearly 67 percent of all stolen cars.
"The wrath of car thefts is likely to destroy the secondary market for Kias and Hyundais," says Michaels. "Now that the defect has been so widely publicized, it is unlikely the thefts will stop anytime soon."
The class action lawsuit seeks monetary damages against the automakers, as well as initiation of a nationwide recall. Further information can be found at www.mlgaplc.com/tiktok
About MLG Attorneys at Law
Located in Orange County, California, MLG is a leading firm for protecting consumers from automotive defects. The firm has litigated cases against nearly every major automotive manufacturer in the world, and has been involved in numerous class actions against automakers for malfeasance. Follow MLG on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
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It is a great time to be a makeup and skincare enthusiast. The Ulta 21 Days of Beauty Sale is underway, which means there will be new discounts and surprise steals to shop every single day for three weeks. If you're looking for more great deals on some of these same products, Sephora's Oh Snap! Sale is happening. It's a win-win situation for us all. However, there's just one problem: these discounts are only here for one day.
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STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP FORMED TO UNIFY AI-POWERED BUSINESS PROCESS DISCOVERY WITH AI-POWERED ROBOTIC AND BUSINESS PROCESS AUTOMATION
AUBURN, Calif., Oct. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HuLoop Automation (HuLoop), a fast-growing provider of AI-powered intelligent automation, announced today that it has formed a strategic partnership with KYP.ai (KYP), a highly innovative, data-driven business process discovery solution provider headquartered in Cologne, Germany. The partnership will help joint customers to discover business process productivity improvement opportunities with a proven solution that helps clients realize those intelligent automation gains.
HuLoop has been expanding its product portfolio to become an enterprise-wide, no-code hyperautomation platform, with capabilities like Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Business Process Automation (BPA), Intelligent Document Processing (IDP), Intelligent Data Automation (IDA), and Software Test Automation (STA). The company positions itself as a one-stop-shop for enterprises looking for an array of intelligent automation capabilities necessary to drive profitable revenue growth, improved customer service, increased productivity, and cost reductions. These ambitions are more important now than ever due to economic uncertainty, inflation, post-pandemic work-from-home, etc.
KYP.ai offers an innovative Task Mining and Process Intelligence solution that provides a holistic view of an organizations' people, processes, and technologies. This includes understanding what applications they are using, how much time they spend in each application, and importantly, what happens in between applications. Key deliverables from KYP include automated process capture of current business processes, work-from-home versus in-office performance analytics, and productivity bench marketing, and more. The platform recommends processes and tasks that are ideal candidates to be automated and it creates an automation pipeline with return-on-investment calculations exposed.
"Enterprises have always been forced to stitch together advanced automation capabilities from a variety of disparate solution providers," said Todd P. Michaud, HuLoop's President & CEO, who added, "this has proven costly and slow. Our partnership with KYP allows us to provide a complete, innovative, and commercially friendly diagnostic and prescriptive Intelligent Automation solution for our clients."
"HuLoop and KYP are both innovative companies seeking to solve age-old challenges with next generation approaches," said Dr. Adam Bujak, CEO and Co-founder at KYP.ai. "By working together, clients can use our solution to identify user actions across & in between systems, see how complex work really gets done, and identify best-practices and ideal automation opportunities, then they can use HuLoop's hyperautomation platform to operationalize and realize those benefits."
Based in Auburn, California, HuLoop offers an AI-Powered, No-Code Intelligent Automation Platform. The platform offers next generation hyperautomation innovation across five solution areas; 1.) business process automation (BPA), 2.) robotic process automation (RPA), 3.) intelligent document processing (IDP), 4.) software test automation (TA) and 5.) intelligent data automation (IDA). HuLoop delivers revenue growth, cost savings, and productivity gains across it's prestigious customer base. Learn more at www.huloop.ai and follow HuLoop on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.
KYP.ai is a Transformation Mining Company fuelling digital change, helping customers to rapidly understand their abstract processes and how these balance with people and technology dimensions. The company's plug-and-play cloud SaaS solution serves as a data backbone, supporting insights into process automation potential and execution success, and delivering automatically generated, data-driven recommendations. KYP.ai has offices in New York and Cologne Germany.
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The son of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos and the daughter of outgoing President Rodrigo Duterte are the new leaders of the Philippines, an alliance that ushers in six years of governance that has some human rights activists concerned about the course their country may take with the pair in power.
Here is a look at the new president and vice president of the Philippines, who ran in separate races for their posts.
FERDINAND MARCOS JR.
A former provincial governor, congressman and senator, the 64-year-old son who goes by his childhood nickname “Bongbong” has managed to return his family to the presidency 36 years after the “People Power” revolt ousted his father and sent him into exile for filching billions and mass human rights abuses.
His mother, Imelda Marcos, twice unsuccessfully attempted to retake the seat of power after returning with her children to the Philippines from exile in the United States, where her husband died in 1989.
Marcos Jr. has defended his father’s legacy and steadfastly refuses to apologize for or acknowledge the atrocities and plunder during the dictatorship. Married to a lawyer, with whom he has three sons, he has stayed away from controversies, including a past tax conviction and the Marcos family’s refusal to pay a huge estate tax. Throughout his campaign, he tenaciously stuck to a battle cry of national unity. He denies accusations that he financed a yearslong social media campaign that harnessed online trolls to smear opponents and whitewash the Marcos family’s checkered history, daring critics to “show me one.”
SARA DUTERTE
Sara Duterte, 43, is the outgoing mayor of Davao City, which was her father's constituency before he was elected president in 2016.
A lawyer and reserve officer in the Philippine army, Duterte has carved out her own political career and, although at times supportive of her father, is considered more levelheaded and pragmatic.
Duterte's party originally wanted her to succeed him, but she chose instead to run for vice-president.
A mother of three, she has been the longtime mayor of Davao, an economically vibrant city where the elder Duterte first carved a political name with his populist rhetoric and often bloody approach against criminality, especially the widespread trafficking and use of illegal drugs, before he rose to the presidency in 2016. | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Marcos-Duterte-new-Philippines-president-and-17161497.php | 2022-05-10 12:05:39 | 1 | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Marcos-Duterte-new-Philippines-president-and-17161497.php |
Oro, Inc., marks 10th anniversary with global digital commerce event
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif., July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Oro, Inc., the pioneering ecommerce leader behind OroCommerce, the No.1 open source B2B digital commerce platform, today announced the eagerly awaited return of its flagship digital commerce event, OroVibe. The landmark celebration will be held in Paris on Thursday, October 6 2022 — and for the first time will be followed next year with a North American OroVibe event to mark the Oro's ecosystem rapid global expansion.
The eagerly awaited gatherings come as Oro marks its 10th anniversary, and will celebrate Oro's fast-growing community while giving hundreds of today's top B2B, B2C, and B2X merchants an opportunity to learn more about Oro's industry-leading solutions. OroVibe will feature a packed agenda including keynotes and panels where attendees will learn about new and improved Oro features and the latest B2B trends and digital commerce strategies. Oro customers will also be invited to take the stage and share their experiences and digitization stories — all while networking with eCommerce thought leaders and B2B peers from around the world.
This year's OroVibe will also host the 2022 Oro Brilliance Awards, celebrating the most innovative and successful B2B leaders from a range of industries. The prestigious awards will honor the most creative and effective deployments of Oro's digital commerce solutions, and also recognize the partnerships and collaborations that unlocked value for B2B merchants and their customers over the past year.
Later next year, Oro will also host the first-ever North American OroVibe event, marking the company's rapid expansion in the United States and the broader region. Like its European counterpart, the U.S. OroVibe will bring together top B2B and eCommerce leaders from around the world, and will honor Oro's customers, partners, and the continent's thriving B2B eCommerce sector.
"We're celebrating Oro's 10th anniversary this year, and there's no better way to do that than by bringing back OroVibe," said Yoav Kutner, Oro CEO and co-founder. "Digital merchants have faced big challenges in recent years, and OroVibe is a space where B2B eCommerce leaders can come together to get inspired, build relationships, and share new strategies for success. We're looking forward to reconnecting with our entire ecosystem — including valued customers, trusted partners, and friends from across a wide range of industries."
OroVibe will be held at Verso in Paris on Thursday, October 6 2022. Full details about the inaugural U.S. OroVibe will be published later in the year. Register now to reserve your spot.
About Oro, Inc.
Oro, Inc. offers a suite of open-source commerce applications: OroCommerce, the B2B eCommerce platform purpose-built for manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers and brands; OroMarketplace, the analyst-recognized marketplace management platform for all business use cases; OroCRM, the industry's most flexible multi-channel CRM solution; and OroPlatform, a streamlined solution for developers of custom business applications. Oro's founders previously founded Magento and have deep experience in the eCommerce industry. They include Yoav Kutner, CEO; Dima Soroka, Chief Technology Officer; and Roy Rubin, director of Oro's advisory board. For more information on OroCommerce, visit https://oroinc.com/b2b-ecommerce/.
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Paul Reed is back in the Sixers’ rotation, but will his opportunity be short-lived?
The Sixers officially signed Dewayne Dedmon off the buyout market Tuesday to compete for the backup center position behind Joel Embiid.
Paul Reed did not have a big conversation with coach Doc Rivers about his reinsertion into the 76ers’ rotation as backup center. But the third-year big man has gotten increased opportunity in the last week, including when he scored six points on 3-of-5 shooting and added three rebounds, three blocks, and two steals Monday in his team’s rout of the Houston Rockets.
“I told [Rivers] I’m staying ready despite the adversity I was facing,” Reed said after the game. “I guess he respected that. … I love to compete. It can get frustrating and it’s a lot of pressure, but I feel like, a dude like me, pressure always brings the best out of me.”
» READ MORE: Can Dewayne Dedmon solve the Sixers’ dilemma behind Joel Embiid?
Rivers said recently it was time to shift playing time to Reed, after Montrezl Harrell had been the backup center for the bulk of the last two months. But Harrell got pulled mid-shift in a Feb. 5 loss at the New York Knicks after recording a minus-15 in three minutes. Reed was then the backup in Friday’s rematch against the Knicks, a 119-108 Sixers win.
Reed’s playing-time window could be short-lived, however, after the Sixers signed more traditional center Dewayne Dedmon off the buyout market Tuesday to compete for the spot behind MVP contender Joel Embiid. In the meantime, Reed has aimed to remind why he has been a tantalizing young player and fan favorite because of his ranginess, rebounding, and activity on both ends of the floor.
Consistency in the game’s nuances has always been where Reed most needed to grow. He said he has been working on when and on which side to set screens to give the ballhandler the best driving lane, along with defensive coverages and “making sure I’m in the right places.”
“Just little things like that make a big difference when I’m out there on the court,” Reed said.
Reed also likes the potential of sharing the court with trade-deadline acquisition Jalen McDaniels, another rangy defender who has played with Reed in the second unit the last two games.
“It definitely makes it difficult for the opposing team to do anything, for real,” Reed said. “… I think it’s a big addition.”
Korkmaz remains away from team
Reserve swingman Furkan Korkmaz remains away from the Sixers for personal reasons.
Korkmaz has traveled back home to Turkey, which is dealing with the devastating aftermath following the earthquakes in the country and nearby Syria on Feb. 6. As of Tuesday, the death toll had risen to more than 41,000.
» READ MORE: Expect a defensive battle to go under the total when Sixers meet Cavs Wednesday night
Starting forward P.J. Tucker, meanwhile, is listed as probable to play Wednesday against the Cleveland Cavaliers, after leaving Monday’s win over the Rockets in the first half with right calf tightness. Rivers said after the game that keeping Tucker off the floor was mostly precautionary. | https://www.inquirer.com/sixers/sixers-paul-reed-furkan-korkmaz-dewayne-dedmon-20230215.html | 2023-02-15 21:07:56 | 1 | https://www.inquirer.com/sixers/sixers-paul-reed-furkan-korkmaz-dewayne-dedmon-20230215.html |
Chiefs Odds to Make Playoffs and Win Super Bowl
Published: Jul. 13, 2023 at 4:32 AM CDT|Updated: 52 minutes ago
As of December 31, the Kansas City Chiefs' odds to win the Super Bowl (+600) lead the NFL.
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Chiefs Super Bowl Odds
- Odds to Win the AFC West: -165
- Odds to Win the Super Bowl: +600
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Kansas City Betting Insights
- Kansas City won seven games against the spread last season, failing to cover 10 times.
- Chiefs games hit the over eight out of 17 times last season.
- Kansas City sported the 11th-ranked defense last year (328.2 yards allowed per game), and it was better offensively, ranking best with 413.6 yards per game.
- The Chiefs posted seven wins at home last year and seven on the road.
- Kansas City won once as an underdog (1-1) a year ago, and went 13-2 as the favored team.
Chiefs Impact Players
- Patrick Mahomes II passed for 5,250 yards (308.8 per game), completing 67.1% of his passes, with 41 touchdowns and 12 interceptions in 17 games last year.
- Mahomes also rushed for 358 yards and four TDs.
- Travis Kelce had 110 catches for 1,338 yards (78.7 per game) and 12 touchdowns in 17 games.
- In 17 games a season ago, Jerick McKinnon rushed for 291 yards (17.1 per game) and one TD.
- Isiah Pacheco ran for 830 yards (48.8 per game) and five touchdowns in 17 games.
- Nick Bolton compiled two interceptions to go with 180 tackles, 9.0 TFL, two sacks, and three passes defended in 17 games last year.
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BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Tens of thousands of people marched through the Serbian capital, Belgrade, and blocked a key bridge Friday in the second large protest since two mass shootings that rattled the Balkan country and killed 17 people, including many children.
Protesters gathered in front of the Parliament building before filing by the government’s headquarters and onto a highway bridge spanning the Sava River, where evening commuters had to turn their vehicles around to avoid getting stuck. At the head of the column was a black banner reading “Serbia Against Violence.”
As the demonstrators passed the government buildings, many chanted slogans decrying Serbia’s populist president, Aleksandar Vucic, whom they blame for creating an atmosphere of hopelessness and division in the country that they say indirectly led to the mass shootings.
“We’re here to express a certain kind of rebellion against everything that currently surrounds us, but primarily the violence that occurred in the last … days, and that is all around us in the past years,” Belgrade resident Nevena Matic said.
Pro-government media criticized the bridge blockade, with the Novosti daily newspaper reporting that “harassment has begun, hooligans have blocked the bridge.”
But opposition politician Srdjan Milivojevic told television station N1 that “this is a battle for survival.” He said, “If the president does not understand his people, it’s time he resigned.”
Police did not intervene. As night fell and the crowd started to disperse, organizers promised to hold more protests unless their demands are met.
Ahead of the protest, Vucic, who holds nearly all the levers of power, said it amounted to “violence in politics” and the “harassment” of citizens. But he said police wouldn’t get involved “unless people’s lives are in danger.”
“What gives them the right to block other people’s normal lives?” said Vucic, who accused opposition leaders of “abusing the tragedy” following the shootings that deeply rattled the nation and triggered calls for change.
“They are harassing citizens and not allowing them to travel,” Vucic insisted. “But we don’t like to beat protesters, like France and Germany do.”
The rally came nearly a week after an earlier protest in Belgrade that also drew thousands and demonstrations in smaller towns and cities around the country. At that protest, demonstrators demanded the resignations of government ministers and the withdrawal of broadcast licenses for two private TV stations which are close to the state and promote violence. They often host convicted war criminals and crime figures on their programs.
The two shootings happened within two days of each other and left 17 people dead and 21 wounded. On May 3, a 13-year-old boy used his father’s gun to open fire at his school in central Belgrade. The next day, a 20-year-old man randomly fired at people in a rural area south of the capital.
Opposition parties have accused Vucic’s populist government of fueling intolerance and hate speech while taking hold of all institutions. Vucic has denied this. He has called his own rally for May 26 in Belgrade that he said would be the “biggest ever.”
“We do not organize spontaneous rallies in order to play with people’s emotions,” Vucic insisted. “Ours will be a rally of unity, when we will announce important political decisions.”
Vucic also told reporters that citizens had handed in more than 9,000 weapons since police announced a one-month amnesty for people to surrender unregistered guns and ammunition or face possible prison sentences after that period.
Serbia is estimated to be among the top countries in Europe when it comes to the number of guns per capita, many of them left over from the wars in the 1990s. Other anti-gun measures after the shootings include a ban on new gun licenses, stricter controls on gun owners and shooting ranges, and tougher punishments for the illegal possession of weapons. | https://www.wivb.com/news/world/serbias-populist-leader-denounces-planned-belgrade-bridge-blockade-after-shootings/ | 2023-05-12 22:13:57 | 0 | https://www.wivb.com/news/world/serbias-populist-leader-denounces-planned-belgrade-bridge-blockade-after-shootings/ |
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A disbarred Chinese human rights lawyer has been forced to move 13 times in two months as part of a pattern of harassment against him and three other prominent rights advocates in Beijing that is further squeezing the country’s battered civil rights community.
Wang Quanzhang said he is now living in a borrowed apartment in the suburbs where the power is frequently cut off, while another lawyer left Beijing entirely in hopes of ending the harassment. His colleague Bao Longjun said he is still in the apartment he owns, but has been barred from leaving it multiple times by unidentified groups of men who loiter outside his door. Bao said a fourth lawyer was detained along with his wife.
All four are prominent members of a group known as the 709 lawyers, after the date — July 9, 2015 — when a crackdown on independent legal advocacy began in which hundreds were arrested. Such advocates are a rare source of help for people facing political charges, or trying to access benefits denied by often unaccountable bureaucracies.
Their work has ranged from defending members of Falun Gong, a religious movement opposed to China’s government that Beijing bans as an “evil cult,” to helping people lobby for increases to their pensions.
All four men were disbarred after their 2015 arrests, but after being released from prison they continued do similar work that doesn’t require a law license.
Yaqiu Wang, senior China researcher at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement that the lawyers’ ordeals coincided with a series of high-profile visits by foreign dignitaries. French President Emmanuel Macron visited Beijing in early April, followed by Germany’s foreign minister, and most recently U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
The meetings, she wrote, were intended to “signal China is open for business and engagement again. But the petty and inhumane treatment of human rights lawyers and their families show that, the authorities only want to double down on repressing the Chinese civil society.”
Beijing’s police department did not respond to a faxed request for comment.
In mid-April, disbarred rights lawyer Yu Wensheng and his wife were detained by Beijing police while on their way to the European Union Delegation, said Bao Longjun, another one of the four advocates.
Around the same time, two other rights lawyers were sentenced to more than 10 years in prison on charges of “subverting state power.”
Bao and Wang Quanzhang faced more bewildering situations.
Groups of men began hanging out in front of Bao’s and Wang’s doors, and told them they were not allowed to go outside.
The men did not say who say who they were or why they were there. The lawyers believe they are informal contractors for the police, a practice widely used by local Chinese governments to apply extralegal pressure to people they view as troublesome.
More pressure came via Wang’s landlord. Around the time that the men appears, the landlord told Wang that his lease was no longer valid and his family had to move. Initially, they refused, but after a few days the apartment’s electricity, water and gas were cut off.
Fellow disbarred rights lawyer Li Heping and his family left Beijing after similar pressure, according to Wang and Sophie Luo, an activist based in the U.S. Li declined an interview.
Bao was not forced out of his home, which he owns. He says groups of men in plain clothes come and go intermittently, sometimes confining him to his house.
Bao said the harassment is intended to pressure advocates to leave Beijing. He said that authorities likely hope the advocates will return to their hometowns, where they will be another local government’s problem.
Wang and his wife, Li Wenzu, are still in Beijing, after a month and a half during which the couple has moved from apartment to hotel to apartment 13 times.
They’ve been followed to each location by groups of men in plain clothes who loiter nearby, unnerving landlords and neighbors.
At times, Wang said, hotels have asked him to leave the same day he’s checked in. The longest they’ve managed to stay in one place was a hotel that allowed them to stay for nine days. The couple eventually sent their 10-year-old son to live with relatives.
For the last week, the couple has been living an apartment in suburban Beijing owned by a friend, where the electricity is frequently cut off.
The first time, Wang said, he was able to restore it by flipping a switch in a fuse box outside the apartment; on later occasions, he found a bicycle lock on the fuse box, or more complex damage that required an electrician to repair.
AP journalists saw seven men hanging around the courtyard of the apartment building on Tuesday.
To cope with blackouts, the couple have installed a solar panel to charge their phones, and stockpiled drinking water, rice and instant noodles.
Wang was measured in describing his ordeal, though clearly frustrated.
“Of course, I hope I can live a peaceful life,” he said. For now, “I’m just living one day at a time.”
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Associated Press reporter Dake Kang and photojournalist Han Guan Ng contributed to this report from Beijing. | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/ap-international/chinese-human-rights-lawyer-chased-out-of-13-homes-in-2-months-as-pressure-rises-on-legal-advocates/ | 2023-06-23 05:25:07 | 1 | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/ap-international/chinese-human-rights-lawyer-chased-out-of-13-homes-in-2-months-as-pressure-rises-on-legal-advocates/ |
Now comes the Supreme Court holding that the Constitution does not say that there is a right to abortion. The surprise to me is that this is such a surprise to many.
The question then is the perennial one for every person: Will we find repentance? I hope so. Pray ...
If you have a mind to.
Nik Sandman, Lincoln | https://journalstar.com/opinion/letters/letter-court-ruling-isnt-any-surprise/article_ee4407db-37d1-5470-8929-b1b8b03b17ec.html | 2022-08-07 05:11:20 | 1 | https://journalstar.com/opinion/letters/letter-court-ruling-isnt-any-surprise/article_ee4407db-37d1-5470-8929-b1b8b03b17ec.html |
Wix joins Meta, Microsoft, Tesla, Shopify, and other market leaders to further advance React Native and open source community
NEW YORK, Oct. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wix.com Ltd. (NASDAQ: WIX), a leading global SaaS platform to create, manage and grow an online presence, today announced that the company is now an official partner of React Native (RN), an open-source user interface (UI) software framework. As a React Native Partner, Wix takes on greater responsibility to promote open source programming and further the efforts of the RN framework and community.
"It's an honor to be a part of the group that influences and shapes the future of open source. Wix has always supported the open source community but will now take a more proactive role in improving and advancing its efforts," said Aviran Mordo, VP of Engineering at Wix. "We look forward to sharing our expertise and experience with the global community and providing our developers, and the developer community as a whole, with advanced tools to build native cross-platform mobile apps."
Being an early adopter, Wix has one of the largest RN codebases in the world while contributing more than 30 different RN open source projects that enhances the RN ecosystem, including Detox (testing framework), RN UILib, RN Navigation, RN Calendars, RN Notifications, and more. Additionally, the Wix Owner App, used by Wix users to manage and grow their business or community, was created using RN.
RN bridges the gap between programming languages to build cross-platform mobile applications. With the framework and React, an open-source front-end JavaScript library, developers can create UI components alongside native platform capabilities for apps on Android, Android TV, iOS, macOS, tvOS, Web, Windows, and UWP. Furthermore, the framework enables developers to use the same codebase for iOS and Android.
React Native Partners, which now includes Wix, are significantly invested in the framework and demonstrate ownership. Informed by their use of RN, they push for improvements to the core and/or the ecosystem around it. Additionally, Partners view RN as a product; they understand the trade-offs that the project makes as well as future plans and goals. In a collaborative effort, Partners shape the vision for RN to make it the best way to build applications.
RN is used by both advanced developers and React beginners, and thousands of apps are using RN, from established Fortune 500 companies to startups.
More information about Wix being a React Native Partner can be found here: https://www.wix.engineering/post/wix-engineering-now-an-official-react-native-partner
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(The Hill) — Former President Donald Trump’s resistance to turning over what now appears to be a much larger tranche of documents than previously known could strengthen a potential case from the Justice Department against him and renews questions over whether the delay harmed national security.
A letter released by the National Archives on Tuesday indicates that an initial batch of 15 boxes of documents taken from Mar-a-Lago in January included 100 classified documents totaling 700 pages.
And reporting from The New York Times late Monday indicates that the government has recovered at least 300 classified documents from Trump since he left office.
Both offer insight into the volume of documents Trump took with him as he left office.
But the letter from the National Archives also shows the resistance Trump’s team had to any members of the intelligence community reviewing the documents so they could begin to assess whether there was damage done to any national security partners or methods.
“The volume of the documents and the length of the dispute, I think, makes the case stronger for the government that Donald Trump’s retention of these documents was willful,” said Barbara McQuade, a former U.S. attorney, noting that the charges being weighed by the government require showing intent.
“When you have 300 of them, and you retain them for over a year after repeated requests, and they come down a few times, and you still have them — it seems that the case has become much stronger. And I think it becomes much more difficult for the Justice Department to simply say, ‘We’ve got documents back. We’re going to declare victory and go home,’” she added.
“And charging him is not an easy decision. But man, at some point, how do you decline to charge him when his conduct has been so egregious?”
The letter from the National Archives indicates that Trump’s legal team was aware as early as April that the FBI was eager to obtain the documents so that they could do a damage assessment to determine whether there was any fallout related to their mishandling.
“Access to the materials is not only necessary for purposes of our ongoing criminal investigation, but the Executive Branch must also conduct an assessment of the potential damage resulting from the apparent manner in which these materials were stored and transported and take any necessary remedial steps,” Debra Steidel Wall, acting archivist of the United States, wrote in relaying a message from the Justice Department’s National Security Division.
The exchange revealed that among the materials were those at “the highest levels of classification, including Special Access Program (SAP) materials.” That can include documents that may only be viewed by those with a need to know.
Ryan Goodman, co-director of the Reiss Center on Law and Security at New York University School of Law, said those details could also be of use if the Justice Department decides to proceed with charges under the Espionage Act, one of the statutes listed on the initial warrant to search Trump’s property.
“It very significantly adds to the espionage charge because one of the elements of proving that crime is that the individual has reason to know that it’s the type of material that could injure the United States if released. And the Department of Justice’s National Security Division is clearly informing Trump that it is the kind of material that could have exceptional damage to U.S. national security,” he said.
“It absolutely goes to his knowledge and willfulness.”
There are practical reasons the FBI and the broader intelligence community would want to review the documents.
“It isn’t just that we’re worried that something’s going to happen to these documents, but if they have been disclosed to people who shouldn’t have them, you need to do a damage assessment,” said McQuade, the former U.S. attorney.
“You do a damage assessment to find out have sources been compromised, if people’s lives could be in danger. If we’ve got a source in Russia who’s sharing information with the U.S. government, that person’s life could be in danger. So you have to assess who’s had access to this, and then you go and look on channels and find out has his information dried up,” she said.
The National Archives ultimately waited a month before distributing the documents to the FBI to disseminate to other intelligence agencies.
Kel McClanahan, executive director of National Security Counselors, a nonprofit law firm specializing in national security law, said the delay shows a federal government seeking to carefully balance protecting the intelligence community with the sensitivities of dealing with a former president.
“The accepted viewpoint in the intelligence community is that every day that classified information remains in the wild, there’s an incrementally greater chance that it will be used by someone to hurt the United States,” he said.
Several experts were surprised that Archives and the Justice Department had moved so slowly in recovering the documents and sharing them with the appropriate agencies.
“This is really sensitive stuff. And the idea that they’re sitting around in the basement of a club, with civilians who are walking around – nongovernment employees – with access to them is really disturbing,” McQuade said. “And then it wasn’t until August that they finally used the search warrant. If anything, I would like to have seen them be a little more assertive in getting these government secrets back months ago.”
“It’s a truly remarkable picture of two agencies who desperately wanted to peacefully resolve this hostage situation without pulling the trigger on the nuclear option and a person who just said, ‘Go to hell,’” McClanahan said.
The Trump team has since filed a motion that would once again delay the FBI from accessing the materials collected from Mar-a-Lago, this time asking a judge to assign a special master to the case who would review the evidence to determine whether it contains any privileged information.
A filter team at the Justice Department composed of prosecutors not associated with the case is currently doing a similar undertaking to determine whether any of Trump’s personal belongings were taken during the search.
Goodman said the filing makes weak claims, asserting that some of the documents taken may be protected by executive privilege.
“[That] makes no sense under law, because if it is, in fact, subject to executive privilege, that means it’s a government document, and hence, should be held by the government in the Archives. So that’s why it’s a very, very bad legal argument with no validity to it,” he said.
“The motion is a confession to having material you should not have in your house.”
The judge assigned to the case on Tuesday also seemed to question their legal argument, issuing an order directing Trump’s team to file an additional brief expanding on its legal rationale for the request.
Meanwhile, the letter from Archives came into the public domain after John Solomon, one of Trump’s representatives to the National Archives and a former columnist with The Hill, released it on his conservative news site, Just The News. Archives confirmed its authenticity Tuesday afternoon.
Observers have questioned the decision to publish a letter that shows not only the breadth of classified information held by Trump but also publicizes the extent the Trump team sought to block the FBI’s work.
“This letter was a truly remarkable self-own by a team known by self-owns,” McClanahan said.
“Every single piece of evidence that shows that DOJ tried literally everything they could to get these records back short of the search warrant punctures another hole in the theory that they were just on a witch hunt. They went above and beyond to accommodate an unreasonable individual.” | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/trump-defiance-of-doj-on-classified-docs-comes-into-sharper-focus/ | 2022-08-24 13:59:13 | 0 | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/trump-defiance-of-doj-on-classified-docs-comes-into-sharper-focus/ |
DETROIT (AP) — Mike Berent has spent more than 27 years rushing into burning houses in Detroit, pulling people to safety and ensuring his fellow firefighters get out alive.
But as the 52-year-old Detroit Fire Department lieutenant approaches mandatory retirement at age 60, he says one thing is clear: He will need to keep working to make ends meet.
“I’m trying to put as much money away as a I can,” said Berent, who also works in sales. “A second job affords you to have a little bit of extra.”
Thousands of city employees and retirees lost big on July 18, 2013, when a state-appointed manager made Detroit the largest U.S. city to file for bankruptcy.
A decade later, the Motor City has risen from the ashes of insolvency, with balanced budgets, revenue increases and millions of dollars socked away. But Berent and others who spent years on Detroit’s payroll say they can’t help but feel left behind.
“You become a firefighter because that’s your passion and you’ll make a decent living. You would retire with a good pension,” said Berent, who told The Associated Press that his monthly pension payments will be more than $1,000 lower than expected due to the bankruptcy.
Berent’s city-funded healthcare also ends with retirement, five years before he’s eligible for Medicare.
“I don’t see us ever getting healthcare back,” he said. “It’s going to have to come out of our pensions.”
The architect of the bankruptcy filing was Kevyn Orr, a lawyer hired by then-Gov. Rick Snyder in 2013 to fix Detroit’s budget deficit and its underfunded pensions, healthcare costs and bond payments.
Detroit exited bankruptcy in December 2014 with about $7 billion in debt restructured or wiped out and $1.7 billion set aside to improve city services. Businesses, foundations and the state donated more than $800 million to soften the pension cuts and preclude the sale of city-owned art.
The pension cuts were necessary, Orr insisted.
“I’ve read about the pain, the very real pain,” he told the AP. “But the alternatives of what was going to happen — just on the math — would have been significantly worse.”
In 2013, Detroit had some 21,000 retired workers who were owed benefits, with underfunded obligations of about $3.5 billion for pensions and $5.7 billion for retiree health coverage.
In the months before the bankruptcy, state-backed bond money helped the city meet payroll for its 10,000 employees.
“Those problems were well on their way years or decades before we got there,” Orr said.
Daniel Varner, the president and chief executive of Goodwill Industries of Greater Detroit, which provides on-the-job training and skilled labor to businesses, called the bankruptcy filing “heartbreaking.”
“In some ways, it represented the failure of all of us who had been working so hard to achieve the (city’s) renaissance,” Varner said. “On the flip side … maybe this is the fresh start? I think we’ve been making great progress.”
The city, which was subject to state oversight and a state-monitored spending plan for years after the bankruptcy filing, has reported nine consecutive years of balanced budgets and strong cash surpluses.
Mike Duggan was elected mayor and took office in 2014. Hoping to slow the exodus of people and businesses from Detroit — its population plummeted from about 1.8 million in 1950 to below 700,000 in 2013 — and increase the tax base, Duggan’s administration began pushing improvements to city services and quality of life.
More than 24,000 abandoned houses and other vacant structures were demolished, mostly using federal funds. Thousands more were renovated and put on the market to attract or keep families in Detroit.
“Very little of our recovery had anything to do with the bankruptcy,” Duggan said Tuesday, pointing to business developments and neighborhood improvement projects. “The economic development strategy is what’s driving it.”
Jay Aho and his wife, Tanya, have seen improvements in their eastside neighborhood. Along nearby Sylvester Street, about half a dozen vacant homes have been torn down and just one ramshackle house remains, with peeling siding, sagging roof and surrounded by waist-high weeds, trees and a thriving rose bush. Rabbits, deer and pheasants have started to appear in the grass and weed-filled vacant lots.
“We benefit from having lots of open space, beautiful surroundings,” said Jay Aho, 49.
Born in southwest Detroit, 32-year-old Arielle Kyer also sees improvements.
“There were no parks like what there are now,” she said at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new splash pad attended by Duggan. “Everything is different.”
Downtown, boutique hotels and upscale restaurants have sprung up, and a 685-foot (208-meter) skyscraper under construction is expected to host a hotel, a restaurant, shops, offices and residential units.
Corktown, a neighborhood just east of downtown, got a boost in 2018 when Ford Motor Co. bought and began renovating the hulking Michigan Central train station, which for years was a symbol of the city’s blight. The building will be part of a campus focusing on autonomous vehicles.
Ford’s move has attracted other investment, according to Aaron Black, the general manager of the nearby $75 million Godfrey Hotel, which is scheduled to open this year and whose owners also are developing homes in the neighborhood.
“The (city’s) brand may have been dented, ”Black said. “The brand may have been tarnished, but Detroit is head and shoulders above a lot of other competitive cities.”
Some warn against too much optimism.
Detroit’s two pension systems have been making monthly payments to retirees without any contributions from the city for the past decade. That is set to change next year when the city will be required to resume contributions from a city-created fund that now stands at about $470 million.
Detroit’s Chief Financial Officer Jay Rising says both pension systems are better funded than a decade ago. But Leonard Gilroy, senior managing director of the Washington-based Reason Foundation’s Pension Integrity Project, says his data shows the systems’ funding levels near where they were in 2013.
“It’s a big moment for the city that presents daunting future fiscal challenges to avoid further deterioration of the pensions,” Gilroy said. “They are getting the keys back to fund their pension system, which would be a huge responsibility if these plans were fully funded, and is that much more of a challenge given their fragile, underfunded state.” | https://www.fox16.com/news/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/ap-10-years-since-bankruptcy-detroits-finances-are-better-but-city-workers-and-retirees-feel-burned/ | 2023-07-17 20:52:43 | 0 | https://www.fox16.com/news/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/ap-10-years-since-bankruptcy-detroits-finances-are-better-but-city-workers-and-retirees-feel-burned/ |
El Salvador’s congress has voted to approve yet another extension of emergency rules allowing police to round up suspected members of street gangs.
The vote late Wednesday was widely expected, and marks the 12th such one-month extension granted to President Nayib Bukele since the measure was first approved on March 27, 2022.
The crackdown has resulted in over 65,000 arrests and thousands of alleged rights abuses, but remains popular in a country where gangs once demanded protection payments with impunity.
Opinion polls suggest that about 9 out of 10 Salvadorans approve of the government’s anti-crime strategy.
The extension came on the same day the government sent 2,000 more suspects to a huge new prison built especially for gang members Wednesday, and the justice minister vowed that “they will never return” to the streets.
The government announced the mass inmate transfer with a slickly produced video posted on social media. It showed prisoners forced to run barefoot and handcuffed down stairways and over bare ground, clad only in regulation white shorts. They were then forced to sit with their legs locked in closely clumped groups in cells.
In his Twitter account Thursday, Bukele mocked social media comments about the prisoners being paraded shoeless and shirtless during the prison transfer.
“What, are the saying the darned dictatorship didn’t give the prisoners tuxedos? Shoeless? Right now we’ll take money away from the children’s hospitals to buy them shoes! What brand do you think they would like?” Bukele wrote.
Gustavo Villatoro, the government’s minister for justice and peace, said Wednesday the suspected gang members would never return to the streets, even though about 57,000 of those arrested are still awaiting formal charges or a trial.
“They are never going to return to the communities, the neighborhoods, the barrios, the cities of our beloved El Salvador,” Villatoro said.
Only about 3,500 people swept up in the crackdown have been released so far.
Human rights groups say that there have been many instances of prisoner abuses and that innocent people have been swept up in police raids.
The local rights group Cristosal documented 3,344 cases of human rights abuses in the first 11 months of the state of emergency. Most of the abuses involved arbitrary arrest; relatives claim young men are rounded up based on their appearance, or because they live in low-income neighborhoods.
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Jennifer Sepulveda used to drop off her 14-year-old son, Jorden, at the local mall on a Friday or Saturday night, where he would catch a movie with his friends and then hang out afterwards at the food court or elsewhere.
Not anymore.
Starting April 18, Garden State Plaza in Paramus, New Jersey — the second largest mall in the state — is requiring anyone under 18 years old to be accompanied by a chaperone at least 21 or older on Fridays and Saturdays after 5 p.m.
The move, according to the mall, follows “an increase in disruptive behavior by a small minority of younger visitors.” That included a reported brawl in the food court last year and a fight in March that brought swarms of policemen to the center but ended up being a smaller altercation than initially reported.
Sepulveda of Passaic, New Jersey said she was fine with the new policy.
“On Friday and Saturdays, it’s just been a madhouse,” she said on a recent Friday night while shopping for Mother’s Day gifts with Jorden and her 4-month-old daughter.
Jorden, on the other hand, was disappointed. Although he acknowledged the frequent mall fights, he lamented, “It was the main place to go and roam around and hang out with my friends, and I am sad.”
Requiring an adult chaperone at malls, at least for certain times of the day, is not new. Mall of America, the nation’s largest shopping mall, imposed a chaperone policy back in 1996 and has been increasingly tightening it as recently as 2020 when it mandated that teens be accompanied by adults after 3 p.m. daily.
But experts say Garden State Plaza joins a growing number of shopping centers, amusement parks and even a few restaurants that have implemented similar policies in the last few months ahead of the summer season. And they all cite increased incidents of bad behavior among teens as the reason, some of it inspired by social media like TikTok.
Even a Chik-fil-A franchise in southeast Pennsylvania caused a stir with its social media post earlier this year that announced its policy of banning kids under 16 without an adult chaperone, citing unruly behavior.
Violent crime arrests among youth had actually been on the decline for years, falling to a new low in 2020, according to the latest federal data. The number of youth homicide victims, however, increased 30% from 2019 to 2020 –- the biggest one-year increase since at least 1980, the report found. In the years since 2020, authorities in some areas report a rise in crime among youth, including New York, Washington, D.C. and Colorado.
Many praise chaperone policies as a way to reduce disruptions to business and create a safer shopping environment. But some critics say the new parental controls hurt teens’ independence and social development already curbed by pandemic-induced lockdowns.
Shopping malls, hanging out at amusement parks, grabbing a shake at a fast-food joint and watching a movie at a local theater with friends are still long considered the rites of passage to adulthood even as many teens shift to online games and social media. So the question is: What other public spaces can teens congregate to get away from their tablets and phones — as well as their parents?
“We have to allow spaces for young people to be independent and develop socially beyond the context of the virtual digital environment,” said Jake Bjorseth, who runs trndsttrs, an agency helping retailers and brands understand and reach the Gen Z population.
Bjorseth noted the pandemic only further hampered social development for Gen Zers. He called the new chaperone measures too extreme and said they could backfire on malls and other traditional physical hangouts by helping to accelerate the shift to online that parents wanted to avoid.
Jorden said he only spends half his free time with his friends at Garden State Plaza and other shopping centers; the rest of the time he plays online games. He said the new policy at the mall will likely push him to another mall that has no chaperone policy — or even more online.
Marshal Cohen, chief industry adviser at market research firm Circana, noted the policies aren’t just about enhancing safety but adjusting to post-pandemic times, with teens markedly pulling back on purchases compared with other age groups.
Adults ages 55 and older spent 5% more in 2022 compared to the previous year, with the other age groups combined spending 2% lower, according data from Circana. Meanwhile, spending by those in the 18- to 24-year old category fell by 8%.
Cohen said the restrictions will help boost spending among adults who must now accompany kids but they will also likely reduce the number of trips by teens, so the overall financial impact is unclear.
At Garden State Plaza on a recent Friday night, the chaperone policy was clearly being enforced, with security guards stationed at each entrance and checking IDs of young shoppers they suspected were under 18 and who were not accompanied by an adult chaperone. Some were turned away. A cluster of policemen were also at the gates.
Meanwhile, several amusement parks with chaperone policies are generally requiring teens 15 years old or younger to be accompanied with adult chaperones after 3 p.m. or 4 p.m. every day. The largest group has been amusement park operator Cedar Fair Entertainment Co., which recently implemented adult chaperone policies for at least eight of its 13 parks including Worlds of Fun in Kansas City, Missouri, and King Dominion in Doswell, Virginia.
“Over the past two years, we have seen increasing incidents of unruly and inappropriate behavior across our industry and at other major entertainment venues,” said Gary Rhodes, a spokesman for Cedar Fair in a statement. “We believe these changes will help ensure that our parks continue to provide a safe and positive environment.”
At Worlds of Fun, for example, a fight involving more than 100 teenagers broke out during the park’s opening weekend in early April.
Lauren Stansbury, 14, of Raytown, Missouri, was leaving Worlds of Fun, just before 4 p.m. on a recent Saturday with her cousin. Both are season pass holders.
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“I don’t really like it,” she said, noting that it’s hard to find a parent with time to chaperone. “I think that maybe they should just better their search type thing, like the way that they look for weapons and stuff.”
Some businesses say the new rules have been effective.
The Mall in Columbia, Maryland instituted a chaperone policy at the end of March after a rise in disruptive teen behavior over the past eight months, according senior general manager Mary Williams. She said that the weekend scene has turned into a pleasant family atmosphere because of it.
Noah Peters, district manager at three Capital 8 Theater locations in Missouri and Illinois, said that the chaperone policy implemented in Missouri in October 2021 requires teens under 17 to be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian after 6 p.m. And despite some outcry, it has been a “huge success,” citing anywhere from a 80% to 90% reduction in disruptive episodes.
“The reality is that the amount of money we lose turning those without a chaperone away pales to the amount we were losing providing refunds night after night to frustrated guests whose movie going experience was marred by the noise and disruptions,” Peters said.
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CEO of Integrity awarded for his outstanding efforts to build and support a diverse workforce by Comparably, a widely respected company reputation platform
DALLAS, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Integrity Marketing Group, LLC ("Integrity"), a leading distributor of life and health insurance, and provider of wealth management and retirement planning solutions, today announced Co-Founder and CEO Bryan W. Adams has won a 2022 "Best CEO for Diversity" award from Comparably, a well-respected organization that recognizes top-ranked CEOs and companies. Integrity joins the ranks of other noteworthy award winners in the large employer category, which has included Adobe, Microsoft, ADP, IBM, Uber and Hubspot, among others.
Derived from 15 million ratings across 70,000 companies, the list of "Best CEOs for Diversity" is unique from other awards because it is based on anonymous feedback from Integrity's nearly 6,000 employees.
"I am honored to receive this award because it reinforces and validates our ongoing efforts to build a culture that puts people first in everything we do," said Bryan W. Adams. "We work with incredible people who understand that diverse voices lead to better decision making and greater innovation. Integrity is an organization that proactively seeks and creates opportunities to celebrate and activate our core values of Integrity, Respect, Family, Service and Partnership. We are constantly working to make Integrity one of the best places in the country for talented people to build exceptional careers."
Integrity offers every eligible employee an ownership stake in the company from day one through their innovative and generous Integrity Employee Ownership Plan. The company also provides many employee-culture focused events throughout the year, including Women's Month, Diwali and Juneteenth celebrations, among others.
"At Integrity, we pride ourselves on building a culture that acknowledges the broad diversity of our employees — it's part of our winning strategy," shared Rachelle McReynolds, Chief HR Officer and VP of People & Culture. "It wouldn't be possible without Bryan's enthusiastic support and personal championship of these efforts. As a leader, he is passionate about creating an environment that includes the unique perspectives and potential of all Integrity team members, and he consistently demonstrates this commitment not only in word, but in action."
"Bryan is incredibly well deserving of this award — I am continuously impressed by the lengths he will go to build a strong employee culture," stated Steve Young, Chairman of Integrity's Board of Directors. "His knowledge of the industry and how his employees fit into its larger picture have shaped his vision. By putting his team and his people first, Bryan has created a culture that supports and invigorates Integrity's mission to serve the life, wealth and health needs of more Americans. His efforts are paving the way for other companies in this field to establish best practices that will surely become the industry standard."
For more information about Integrity's workplace culture, visit www.integritymarketing.com/Culture.
Integrity, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is a leading distributor of life and health insurance, and provider of innovative solutions for wealth management and retirement planning. Through its partner network, Integrity helps millions of Americans protect their life, health and wealth with a commitment to meet them wherever they are — in person, over the phone and online. Integrity's cutting-edge technology helps streamline the insurance and financial planning experience for all stakeholders. In addition, Integrity develops products with carrier partners and markets them through its distribution network of agencies, brokerages and RIAs throughout the nation. Integrity's nearly 6,000 employees work with more than 450,000 agents and advisors who serve over 10 million clients annually. In 2022, Integrity will help carriers place more than $12 billion in new sales and oversee more than $20 billion of assets under management and advisement through its RIA and broker-dealer platforms. For more information, visit www.integritymarketing.com.
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From NPR's Books We Love list, we hear reviews for several mystery and sci-fi books including "Nona the Ninth," "Birds of Maine," and "The Daughter of Doctor Moreau."
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TOKYO, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sony Group Corporation announced today that it has filed its Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. A copy of this document is available on the Sony Group Corporation Investor Relations website at https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/IR/library/sec.html
In addition, shareholders of Sony may receive a printed copy of Sony's complete audited financial statements, free of charge, by visiting https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/IR/library/ar/request.html
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A 47-year-old Little Rock man linked to a 2017 home invasion where two people were shot and the fatal attempted ambush of an off-duty police officer one month later accepted a 25-year no-parole sentence on Friday.
In exchange for the 25-year term imposed by Circuit Judge Karen Whatley, Kevin Lamont Pitts pleaded guilty to manslaughter, aggravated robbery, aggravated residential burglary, committing a terroristic act, two counts of first-degree battery and three counts of aggravated robbery for the two attacks about 2½ years apart.
One of the links is the gun, deputy prosecutor Scott Duncan told the judge. Duncan said the same weapon was used in the January 2017 home-invasion robbery on Shadybrook Drive where husband and wife Latoria and Kwesi Montaque were shot that was used in the February 2017 robbery attempt on North Rodney Parham Road where Gregory Childers was killed trying to rob an off-duty Little Rock officer transporting state revenue funds.
Duncan said Pitts, represented by attorneys Leslie Borgognoni and Camille Wright, could not qualify for parole as the result of a 1996 conviction for aggravated robbery, which means Pitts will not be eligible for early release until he is 68, given credit for time served since his arrest in July 2019.
The 1996 case involved Pitts' participation at age 19 in the October 1995 armed holdup of a Little Rock convenience store on Cantrell Road that drew him a 12-year sentence. His co-defendant was sentenced to 10 years.
According to police, the Montaque home was the subject of a pre-dawn raid that began when Latoria Montaque was accosted by a gunman when she was starting her car.
When she started to go back inside, Montaque heard someone yell her name and when she turned back she saw a stranger rushing towards her, just as she was shot in the left hand.
Montaque ran inside and locked the front door, screaming for her sleeping husband, Kwesi Montaque, as she heard glass breaking and more gunshots.
The shooter broke out a window to get inside the house while Latoria Montaque climbed out a bathroom window to escape the home and ran to a neighbor's house to call for help. Kwesi Montaque, awakened by his wife's screams and gunshots, found an armed man in the living room. The robber demanded his money, guns, car keys and any drugs in the house.
Kwesi Montaque said he was trying to give the robber what he wanted but that when the assailant turned away from him he went for the robber's gun. In the ensuing struggle, the .45-caliber pistol fired several times, wounding Montaque in the right shoulder.
The robber got his gun back and left with Montaque's keys, wallet and cellphone, taking Latoria Montaque's 2012 Lexus with him.
Investigators found the car about 11 hours later on Cobb Street with Pitts' blood on the steering wheel. His blood was also found at the couple's home on the broken window that the intruder used to get inside the house.
About a month later and 6 miles from the Shadybrook home, a shirt covered in Pitts' blood was found in the passenger seat of a stolen sport utility vehicle that 44-year-old Gregory Lamont Childress had used to launch an attack on Angela Everett, an off-duty police detective who was transporting state monies while in uniform from the state revenue office in the Ashley Square shopping center to a bank.
She was walking to her unmarked police car with the money when a Chevrolet Tahoe raced up, suddenly stopping to release a masked gunman. The robber demanded Everett give up the money, leading to a shootout that killed the robber, who turned out to be Childress. He had fired his .45-caliber pistol six times during the exchange of gunfire.
The sports utility vehicle raced down Reservoir Road, with police finding the Tahoe abandoned about a half-mile away with the bloody shirt inside.
Pitts was already a robbery suspect so detectives had him under surveillance with a tracker device on his car, and that tracker showed that his vehicle had been across the street from the shopping center and then in the center parking lot at the same time as the attack on Everett.
Childress was on parole at the time from a 40-year-prison sentence for aggravated robbery he received at trial in September 1997 at age 25. He and his older brother, Jeff Childress Jr., had participated in the January 1995 carjacking of a Little Rock man on South Oak Street. The brothers were arrested 30 minutes later. Jeff Childress pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of robbery and was sentenced to five years of probation.
Gregory Childress had been in trouble before that, court records show. In August 1990, an 18-year-old Childress and Malcolm Eugene Hodges, also 18, were involved in firing a sawed-off shotgun from their car through the windshield of a second vehicle, with the broken glass injuring a 4-year-old girl. Both teenagers received probation after pleading guilty to second-degree battery and aggravated assault a couple of months later. A 16-year-old boy was also charged but his record has been expunged.
In May 1993, Childress' brother, 17-year-old Durrell Ray Childress, shot and killed an off-duty Little Rock police officer, 62-year-old Henry Callanan, while trying to rob Callanan at a McDonald's on West Roosevelt Road. Callanan was taking the restaurant's cash to the bank. Durrell Childress was convicted of capital murder and aggravated robbery, receiving a life sentence from a Pulaski County jury the next year.
In September 2020, Durrell Childress' sentence was converted to a 20-year prison term after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that barred no-parole life sentences for juvenile offenders. The reduced sentence made Childress immediately eligible for release. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/apr/15/little-rock-man-sentenced-to-25-years-for-home/ | 2023-04-15 09:34:57 | 1 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/apr/15/little-rock-man-sentenced-to-25-years-for-home/ |
Buckingham Palace said Thursday that Queen Elizabeth II is under medical supervision because doctors are “concerned for Her Majesty’s health,” as members of her family traveled to be with the 96-year-old monarch in Scotland.
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The announcement comes a day after the queen canceled a meeting of her Privy Council and was told to rest. On Tuesday, she presided over the ceremonial handover power to new Prime Minister Liz Truss at her summer residence in Scotland at Balmoral Castle.
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Ben Affleck’s Dunkin’ ad reportedly now a Super Bowl commercial with Jennifer Lopez
Posted/updated on: February 7, 2023 at 5:02 pmAs reported last month, Oscar winner and director Ben Affleck showed his love for Dunkin' by shooting a commercial at one of its Massachusetts locations. But now it appears the commercial has a famous co-star: his wife, Jennifer Lopez.
J.Lo was spotted thanking staffers when the commercial shoot wrapped and chatting with Ben through the drive-thru window when he was "working" there. But Entertainment Tonight now reports his wife's actually in the spot, and the famous couple's ad is bound for the big game.
A source says, "Ben's Dunkin' commercial was initially supposed to be a regular commercial and campaign, but things changed and now it will be a commercial during the Super Bowl." The spy added, "The commercial is funny and cute. It shows Ben working at Dunkin' in his free time because he loves it so much. Then Jen pulls up to the drive-thru and asks him, 'What are you doing here? Is this what you do all day?' They're both very excited about it."
For the record, Dunkin' demurred on the details, with Jill Nelson, the company's chief marketing officer, telling ET, "Dunkin' is airing its first-ever Super Bowl ad this year, but you'll have to tune in on Sunday to see what's 'Ben' brewing."
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VANCOUVER, BC, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Alexco Resource Corp. (NYSE American: AXU) (TSX: AXU) ("Alexco" or the "Company") announced today that it has filed and mailed the management information circular dated July 28, 2022 (the "Circular") and related meeting materials (collectively, the "Meeting Materials") for its special meeting (the "Meeting") of shareholders (the "Shareholders"), optionholders, restricted share unit holders, and deferred share unit holders of Alexco (collectively, the "Securityholders") to be held on August 30, 2022, at 10:00 am (Pacific Time) (the "Meeting") in connection with the proposed business combination with Hecla Mining Company (NYSE: HL) ("Hecla"), announced on July 5, 2022.
The Meeting Materials contain important information regarding the Transaction, how Securityholders can attend and vote at the Meeting, that the Transaction is in the best interests of the Company and is fair to Shareholders, and the background that led to the Transaction and the reasons for the unanimous determinations of the special committee of independent Alexco directors (the "Special Committee") and the board of directors of Alexco (the "Board"). The Meeting Materials have been filed by the Company on SEDAR and EDGAR and are available under the Company's profile at www.sedar.com and on EDGAR at www.sec.gov. The Meeting Materials are also available on the Company's website at Alexco - Investors - Special Meeting of Shareholders (https://alexcoresource.com/investors/special-meeting-of-shareholders/).
At the Meeting, Securityholders will be asked to consider and, if deemed advisable, pass a special resolution (the "Arrangement Resolution") to approve an arrangement (the "Arrangement"), in accordance with the terms of an arrangement agreement entered into by the Company and Hecla on July 4, 2022, as assigned and amended (the "Arrangement Agreement") pursuant to which 1080980 B.C. Ltd. ("108"), a subsidiary of Hecla, will acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Alexco (the "Alexco Shares") that it does not already own by way of a statutory plan of arrangement.
Board Recommendation
The Board unanimously recommends that Securityholders vote FOR the Arrangement resolution.
Pursuant to the terms of the interim order (the "Interim Order") obtained on July 27, 2022 from the British Columbia Supreme Court (the "Court"), Securityholders of record at the close of business on July 20, 2022 will be entitled to receive notice of, attend and vote at the Meeting. Securityholders should carefully review all of the Meeting Materials as they contain important information concerning the Transaction and the rights and entitlements of Securityholders thereunder.
Pursuant to the terms of the Interim Order, for the Arrangement to become effective, the Arrangement Resolution will require approval of at least (i) 66⅔% of the votes cast by Shareholders present in person or represented by proxy and entitled to vote at the Meeting; (ii) 66⅔% of the votes cast by Securityholders, voting together as a single class, present in person or represented by proxy at the Meeting; and (iii) a majority of the votes cast by Shareholders other than votes attached to Alexco Shares required to be excluded pursuant to Multilateral Instrument 61-101 – Protection of Minority Securityholders in Special Transactions. The Circular regarding the Arrangement has been filed with regulatory authorities and mailed to the Securityholders in accordance with applicable securities laws.
The proposed closing date of the Arrangement is September 7, 2022, subject to obtaining Court, Securityholder and regulatory approval and the satisfaction of conditions set forth in Arrangement Agreement.
Transaction Details
Under the terms of the Arrangement, Shareholders will receive 0.116 common shares in the capital of Hecla (each common share, a "Hecla Share") for each Alexco Share held (the "Consideration") pursuant to the Plan of Arrangement. In addition, to enable Alexco to maintain operations prior to completion of the Arrangement, Hecla has provided Alexco with a US$30 million convertible secured loan facility, of which US$20 million has been drawn as of the date of this release and has purchased, through an affiliate, 8,984,100 Alexco Shares at C$0.50 per Alexco Share, having an aggregate value of C$4,492,050, resulting in 9.9% of Alexco Shares being held by Hecla or its affiliates.
Reasons for the Arrangement
In evaluating and unanimously approving the Arrangement, the Special Committee and the Board gave careful consideration to the current position and condition and the expected and potential future position and condition of the business of the Company, and all terms of the Arrangement Agreement, including the conditions precedent, representations and warranties and deal protection provisions. The Special Committee and the Board considered a number of factors including, among others, the following:
- Premium. The Consideration to be received by Shareholders pursuant to the Arrangement represents a premium of 12% on a spot basis to the July 1, 2022 closing price, and 24% premium using the trailing 5-day volume weighted average trading price on the NYSE American for Alexco Shares and the NYSE for Hecla Shares as of market close on July 1, 2022.
- Liquidity. Based on the immediate financing requirements, the business, operations, financial condition and prospects of the Company, as well as the current and prospective environment in which the Company operates, including macroeconomic conditions in Canada and globally, there is a significant risk that the Alexco shares could continue to trade below US$0.417, the closing price as at July 1, 2022, over the short to medium term. The Consideration provides Shareholders with immediate liquidity at a price that may not be available in the absence of the Arrangement.
- Strengths and Strategic Fit. If the Arrangement is completed, it is expected that Shareholders will benefit from:
(i) the consolidation of the assets of Alexco and Hecla;
(ii) jurisdictional and project risk diversification; and
(iii) enhanced capital markets profile, financing capacity and access to capital.
- Shareholders will also be able to continue to participate in the potential upside from any exploration and development success related to the properties of Alexco, as well as the other properties of Hecla. It is expected that Shareholders will hold approximately 3% of the Hecla Shares on an outstanding undiluted basis upon completion of the Arrangement.
- Process. The Arrangement with Hecla resulted from discussions that began months ago. During that time, the management, and financial advisors of Alexco communicated with several other parties regarding potential transactions. Confidentiality agreements were entered into with seven potential acquirors or merger partners. Discussions were held with each. The Arrangement is the most attractive of those alternatives. All potential acquirors or merger partners expressed the view that existing silver purchase agreement between Wheaton Precious Metals Corp. and Alexco and certain of its subsidiaries (the "Wheaton Stream Agreement") would require amendment to ensure the financial viability of Alexco's conventional mining and milling of silver-lead-zinc ore from certain deposits in the Keno Hill District in Yukon, Canada (the "Keno Hill Project"). Of all of the parties the Company approached, only Hecla was successful in negotiating satisfactory arrangements with Wheaton with respect to the Wheaton Stream Agreement.
- Business and Industry Risks. The business, operations, assets, financial condition, operating results and prospects of Alexco are subject to significant uncertainty, including risks associated with Wheaton's silver purchase streaming rights on its Keno Hill Project, risks associated with a negative working capital position, and risks associated with obtaining the required financing on acceptable terms or at all. The Special Committee concluded that the Company immediately required additional financing and of the financing alternatives, the Arrangement provided a more favourable outcome to the Company and its stakeholders than any other option that was reasonably available. Further, the Special Committee determined that the Consideration under the Arrangement is more favourable to Shareholders than continuing with Alexco's current business plan in light of these risks and uncertainties.
Shareholder Questions and Voting Assistance
For any questions or assistance with voting, shareholders can contact Laurel Hill Advisory Group at 1-877-452-7184 (toll-free in North America), 1-416-304-0211 (calls outside North America) or by email at assistance@laurelhill.com.
About Alexco
Alexco is a Canadian primary silver company that owns and operates the majority of the historic Keno Hill Silver District, in Canada's Yukon Territory, one of the highest-grade silver mines in the world.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This news release contains forward-looking statements, which relate to future events or future performance. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, included herein are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements herein include, without limitation, statements regarding the Meeting; statements with respect to the consummation and timing of the transaction; approval by Securityholders; the satisfaction of the conditions precedent to the transaction; the Consideration to be received by Shareholders; the expected benefits of the Arrangement; Shareholders' estimated shareholdings in Hecla following the completion of the Arrangement, and timing, receipt and anticipated effects of Court, regulatory and other consents and approvals. Such forward-looking statements reflect management's current beliefs and are based on assumptions made by and information currently available to the Company, including assumptions as to the ability of Alexco and Hecla to receive, in a timely manner and on satisfactory terms, the necessary regulatory, Court, securityholder and other third party approvals; the satisfaction of the conditions to closing of the Arrangement in a timely manner and completion of the Arrangement on the expected terms; the expected adherence to the terms of the Arrangement Agreement and agreements related to the Arrangement Agreement; the adequacy of our and Hecla's financial resources; favourable equity and debt capital markets; and stability in financial capital markets. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause our actual results, performance or achievements, or other future events, to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These risks, uncertainties and other factors include, among others: the risk that the Arrangement may not close when planned or at all or on the terms and conditions set forth in the Arrangement Agreement; the failure of the Company and Hecla to obtain the necessary regulatory, Court, securityholder, and other third-party approvals, or to otherwise satisfy the conditions to the completion of the Arrangement, in a timely manner, or at all, may result in the Arrangement not being completed on the proposed terms, or at all; changes in laws, regulations and government practices; if a third party makes a Superior Proposal (as defined in the Arrangement Agreement), the Arrangement may not be completed and the Company may be required to pay the Termination Fee (as defined in the Arrangement Agreement); if the Arrangement is not completed, and the Company continues as an independent entity, there are risks that the announcement of the Arrangement and the dedication of substantial resources of the Company to the completion of the Arrangement could have an impact on the Company's current business relationships and could have a material adverse effect on the current and future operations, financial condition and prospects of the Company; future prices of silver, gold, lead, zinc and other commodities; market competition; and the geopolitical, economic, permitting legal climate that Alexco and Hecla operate in; and the additional risks and uncertainties identified in Alexco's filings with Canadian securities regulators on SEDAR in Canada (available at www.sedar.com) and with the SEC on EDGAR (available at www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml). These forward-looking statements are made as of the date hereof and, except as required under applicable securities legislation, the Company does not assume any obligation to update or revise them to reflect new events or circumstances.
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If everything works out, NASA's mighty new Space Launch System could finally blast off for the first time from Florida's Kennedy Space Center as soon as Friday, Sept. 27.
The space agency has repaired a leak that scrubbed the Sept. 3 launch and is now working to test that the issue is resolved with a propellant loading demonstration by Sept. 21 to be ready for a launch attempt on the 27th.
"Over the weekend, Artemis I teams completed repair work to the area of a hydrogen leak," read an NASA said on Monday. "The demonstration will allow teams to confirm the hydrogen leak has been repaired, evaluate updated propellant loading procedures designed to reduce thermal and pressure-related stress on the system, conduct a kickstart bleed test, and evaluate pre-pressurization procedures."
The space agency also still needs to get special permission from the US Space Force, which oversees rocket launches from Florida. NASA is required to have the batteries rechecked on the SLS rocket's flight termination system, which destroys the rocket if it veers off course to prevent a threat to the public. This has to happen every 25 days, and Sept. 27 is outside that window.
The problem for NASA is that checking the batteries requires rolling SLS all the way back to the Vehicle Assembly Building or VAB. This could add several days to the process and SLS is only certified to make the trip from its hangar to the launch pad so many time, according to Eric Berger of Ars Technica.
"So if they were to roll back to VAB this month and then back to the pad, they would have just one roundtrip left," Berger wrote on Twitter.
All this means the Artemis I mission managers would prefer to fix the propellant leak, pass a tanking test and blast off with the blessing of the Space Force without having to move the rocket at all.
During a press call Thursday, Jim Free, NASA's associate administrator for exploration systems development, confirmed the agency has requested a waiver from the Space Force that would allow SLS to stay put.
If the waiver is granted and the tanking demonstration goes well, the launch could move forward on Sept. 27 with a possible backup date of Oct. 2.
The long-awaited debut of SLS, the Orion crew capsule and the first major Artemis program mission was scrubbed twice earlier, first on Aug. 29 due to engine issues and then on Sept. 3 because of the leak.
The mission will see SLS send an uncrewed Orion on a weeks-long flight around the far side of the moon and back for a high speed reentry into Earth's atmosphere followed by a splashdown landing.
Artemis 1 is designed to pave the way for the first crewed Orion mission in 2024 and eventually for the return of NASA astronauts to the surface of the moon and then on to Mars in the 2030s.
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Dodgers fan tries to propose on field, gets tackled by security
LOS ANGELES (Gray News/TMX) - A Dodgers fan tried to make Opening Day extra special. It certainly will be unforgettable.
Video shows a man on the field at Dodger Stadium during Los Angeles’ game Thursday with the Arizona Diamondbacks. He is seen on one knee with a ring, apparently proposing to someone.
Then a security guard runs into view at top speed and tackles him to the ground.
“That dude got leveled!” says one onlooker in the footage.
The video was shared on Twitter by user @THEDieselMendez.
Other security guards rushed over to help handcuff the man, who offered little resistance. They got him to his feet and took him off the field, to cheers from the crowd.
It wasn’t clear from the video if his partner said “yes” or even if he held on to the ring, and he will likely face some charges. At least his team won - the Dodgers took the game 8-2.
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NORTH DAKOTA (KXNET) — North Dakota’s Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has a new initiative known as “Restoring Promises.”
Its goal? To help inmates bring back some hope in their lives.
The purpose of the Restoring Promises initiative is to show young residents ages 18-25 a sense of community and a new way of living.
Department Director Dave Krabbenhoft says it is all about renewing hope in their daily lives within the prison walls.
“Really focused on changing the culture inside of a prison, bringing humanity, dignity and respect into prison,” Krabbenhoft said.
He said the hope is to also lower the number of inmates returning.
“Recidivism rates, meaning people returning to prison, we hope that that’s got a great effect on people when they return to their communities, that they’ll be better neighbors, which is our vision and mission. Better neighbors for North Dakota, a safer North Dakota,” said Krabbenhoft.
Krabbenhoft said there are 35 mentees and 15 mentors currently in the pods.
KX had the chance to speak with an inmate who DOCR says is a talented mentor.
“I am a father, a brother, a son, a comic, I love to have a good time joking around. I write a lot, poetry, stories, music,” said Benjamin Billups.
Billups is what we could call a Jack of all trades.
He said that since the initiative began, it is no longer CO’s versus inmates.
As a mentor, he is able to work hand in hand with them, becoming a family.
“I’ve done a lot of time, especially in this place and before it was always us against the CO’s, inmates against the CO’s, convict code, if you got a problem, settle it with your hands instead of your words like an adult and now, we’re more focused on self-accountability and working through problems in a non-physical way,” said Billups.
So we asked…how does this initiative make you feel?
“A sense of community, a sense of normalcy, like you can wake up in the morning and some days I forget that I’m even incarcerated ’cause it’s just so normal. Everyday things we have, we are cooking in the back, making fried rice, and fried chicken, and pizza and stuff it feels like home,” Billups said.
He said, “It allows me to give something positive back to a community I helped destroy.”
Once released, Billups says he plans to start a non-profit home for re-offenders to help keep them out of prison.
Billups says in prison, programs end but initiatives stay forever. That is what makes Restoring Promises so special.
“It really is something that I think that could transform the whole prison,” Krabbenhoft said.
Wednesday, the initiative works in Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Massachusetts, North Dakota and South Carolina, with plans to expand to three more states by 2024. | https://www.kxnet.com/news/state-news/new-state-penitentiary-initiative-aims-to-change-lives-behind-bars/ | 2022-06-08 23:17:16 | 0 | https://www.kxnet.com/news/state-news/new-state-penitentiary-initiative-aims-to-change-lives-behind-bars/ |
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