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The appointment of a special counsel to oversee the Justice Department probes into the discovery of classified documents at the home and former office of President Joe Biden has focused renewed attention on the role such prosecutors have played in modern American history.
On Thursday, Attorney General Merrick Garland tapped Robert Hur, a former U.S. attorney in Maryland, to oversee the department’s investigation into how several batches of documents marked as classified ended up at Biden’s Delaware home and at the offices of the president’s Washington think tank.
Two months ago, Garland appointed former Justice Department public corruption prosecutor Jack Smith to lead investigations into the retention of classified documents at former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago, as well as key aspects of a separate probe involving the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and efforts to undo the 2020 election.
A look at the origins of the special counsel, the position’s powers and what to expect as Hur pursues his work:
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WHAT EXACTLY IS A SPECIAL COUNSEL?
A special counsel is an attorney appointed to investigate, and possibly prosecute, a case in which the Justice Department perceives itself as having a conflict or where it’s deemed to be in the public interest to have someone outside the government come in and take responsibility for a matter.
According to the Code of Federal Regulations, a special counsel must have “a reputation for integrity and impartial decisionmaking,” as well as “an informed understanding of the criminal law and Department of Justice policies.”
Though they’re not subject to the day-to-day supervision of the Justice Department, special counsels must still comply with department regulations, policies and procedures. They also technically report to the attorney general — the one government official who can fire them.
The attorney general is entitled to seek explanations from a special counsel about any requested investigative or prosecutorial step, but under the regulations is also expected to give great weight to the special counsel’s views. In the event the attorney general rejects a move the special counsel wants to make, the Justice Department is to notify Congress at the end of the investigation.
WHAT POWERS DO THEY HAVE?
Special counsels are provided with a budget and can request a staff of attorneys, both inside and outside the department, if they need extra help.
In addition to the ability to bring indictments, special counsels are vested with bread-and-butter law enforcement tools such as the power to issue subpoenas and search warrants. Robert Mueller, a former FBI director who as special counsel in the Trump administration led the investigation into possible coordination between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign, issued more than 2,800 subpoenas and executed nearly 500 search-and-seizure warrants.
HOW DO INDEPENDENT COUNSELS DIFFER FROM SPECIAL COUNSELS?
The position of special counsel differs in key ways from the work of independent counsels, who used to operate outside the supervision of the Justice Department and who led significant investigations in the post-Watergate era into administrations of both political parties.
One such independent counsel was Lawrence E. Walsh, who during the Iran-Contra Affair in President Ronald Reagan’s second term was appointed to probe secret arms sales to Iran and the diversion of funds to rebel forces fighting the Nicaraguan government.
A decade later, independent counsel Ken Starr investigated fraudulent real estate deals involving a longtime associate of President Bill Clinton and first lady Hillary Clinton, delved into the removal of documents from the office of deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster after his suicide and assembled evidence of Clinton’s sexual encounters with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. As a result, Clinton was impeached by the U.S. House but survived a Senate trial.
But because of concerns over the cost and sprawling nature of such probes, Congress in 1999 permitted the provision governing independent counsels to expire.
The Justice Department then created new special counsel regulations, designing a position with intentionally less autonomy for circumstances in which the department feels it has a conflict of interest or wants to avoid becoming excessively entangled in politically sticky matters — like the current Trump-related probes.
Mueller was appointed in 2017 to investigate Russian election interference, a two-year probe that yielded criminal charges against 34 people, including several Trump associates, and three business entities. Mueller did not allege a criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia. Though Mueller reached no conclusion on whether Trump obstructed justice, he also did not exonerate him.
Weeks before then-Attorney General William Barr left office, he gave John Durham, then the top federal prosecutor in Connecticut, the title of special counsel to ensure that he could continue investigating the origins of the Russia probe under new Democratic Justice Department leadership.
WHO IS SPECIAL COUNSEL ROBERT HUR?
Hur served as the U.S. attorney in Maryland in the Trump administration and was a close ally of former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, a key figure in the Mueller investigation. He also worked as an adviser to FBI Director Christopher Wray in the Justice Department.
According to his biography at the University of Maryland, where he serves as a regent, Hur graduated from Harvard and then Stanford Law School, where he was executive editor of the law review.
Hur clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist, as well as for Judge Alex Kozinski of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
After working at the Justice Department, according to his bio, Hur went into private practice with Washington firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where he co-chairs a crisis management practice group and works on white-collar defense, investigations and national security.
Hur becomes the third special counsel currently in use by the Justice Department. In addition to Smith, Durham also remains at work investigating the origins of the FBI’s Trump-Russia probe.
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Associated Press writers Mike Balsamo, Eric Tucker and Zeke Miller contributed to this report.
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WFO PHOENIX Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, August 23, 2022
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Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Phoenix AZ
430 PM PDT Tue Aug 23 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of San Bernardino and
Riverside Counties through 515 PM PDT...
At 430 PM PDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 8
miles southwest of Twentynine Palms, moving north at 5 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Lost Horse-Keys Village.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
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Petersburg PORTA turned in a thorough domination of Concord Triopia/Meredosia-Chambersburg/Virginia Co-op 58-19 in Illinois girls basketball action on January 16.
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HAVANA (AP) — Two former beauty queens, Fabiola Valentín of Puerto Rico and Mariana Valera of Argentina, announced this week that they had secretly married.
The joint Instagram post spurred celebration in LGBTQ communities across Latin America, a region that has historically lagged on gay rights but has made small steps in recent years.
“After deciding to keep our relationship private, we’re opening the doors on this special day, 28/10/22,” Valentín and Valera said in their announcement posted Sunday.
The post includes a video montage of their relationship, including the two on vacations, at bars and on the beach at sunset. There is a view of gold and silver balloons reading “Marry me?” and the two together after the proposal.
The video ends with Valentín and Valera dressed in white kissing outside the courthouse in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Once barred in the U.S. territory, same-sex marriage became legal in Puerto Rico in 2015 after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled such bans unconstitutional. In 2020, new codes came into place on the island adding additional LGBTQ protections.
The two women met at the Miss Grand International competition in Thailand in 2020, where they represented their countries. They continued to post on social media together since.
The marriage announcement was met with a swell of celebration on social media, which the couple responded to with enthusiam.
“Thank you for all the love! We’re very happy and joyful,” wrote Valera. “I am sending you all back the love you are giving us.”
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SPRINGDALE -- Ozark Regional Transit and Razorback Transit have received a $180,000 federal grant for bus stop improvements through their Areas of Persistent Poverty grant application, it was announced Thursday.
The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Transit Administration announced Thursday it will award $20 million to 47 communities to help improve public transportation options in areas experiencing long-term economic distress.
Areas of Persistent Poverty are defined as a county or census tract with at least 20% of residents living in poverty, based on various historical census data over the last 30 years.
"Our grant funding, along with local funding sources, will be used to review and engineer the future development of the bus stops in Northwest Arkansas to make them more accessible for residents and provide ease of access to the public transit system," said Joel Gardner, executive director at Ozark Regional Transit.
Tim Conklin, executive director at the Northwest Arkansas Regional Planning Commission, said he's looking forward to working with Ozark Regional Transit and Razorback Transit to implement the design phase of the bus stop improvements.
"Today we have stops that have no sidewalks or shelters for existing users of the public transportation system, and this is one step closer to improving transit in Northwest Arkansas," Conklin said.
Olsson Engineering did a study of Ozark Regional Transit's 414 bus stops last year and found the vast majority need to be upgraded. Ozark Regional Transit officials said they don't have the needed money so they and the Northwest Arkansas Regional Planning Commission applied for a federal grant in February. Regional planners gave their blessing to apply for $540,000.
Fayetteville, Springdale and Rogers lent their support to the grant request, as did the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville and the state's congressional delegation. Bentonville didn't have any areas of persistent poverty.
Gardner said since the region didn't get the full amount requested, he plans to ask the cities to match the grant.
There are 341 stops in tracts that are eligible for the grant under the poverty guidelines. That's 59% of the stops in the region, according to Shawn Strate with Olsson, the engineering firm writing the grant application. Those numbers include stops inside on-demand transit zones with no fixed-route service.
Most stops are no more than a patch of bare ground and a sign, according to the Olsson study. Passenger amenities are limited, problems persist with accessibility for disabled people and other riders and few shelters exist for those waiting on buses.
Upgrading stops to a basic level of accessibility should be a primary goal, according to the study. The vast majority of stops don't comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act. While most stops do have a sidewalk nearby, only 14% have a concrete landing pad connected to the sidewalk.
For disabilities act compliance, a firm, stable surface -- typically a concrete pad at least 8 feet by 5 feet and aligned with the front door of the bus -- is required.
The landing pads allow wheelchair users to board a bus using a ramp or lift extending from the bus. For those able to walk to and from the stop, a concrete landing pad provides an unobstructed space free of tripping or other hazards and free of mud or other unstable surfaces.
The region could apply for additional grants to help cover construction costs, officials said. It would cost more than $3.6 million to bring all stops up to the recommended levels immediately, according to the study.
Investments from the poverty program can be used to support efforts to initiate transit service as well as improve service and modernize fleets, from procuring low- and no-emission buses to launching scheduling apps and improving bus stops.
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Does Kelly have the luck of the Irish?! In this never-before-seen clip, she and "Batman" star Colin Farrell bond over their Irish heritage and their love of animals.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — President Alberto Fernández of Argentina is objecting to allegations by a contestant in the local version of the reality show “Big Brother” that linked the head of state with corruption. The contestant did not provide evidence to support the allegations.
“If the slander against the nation’s president persists,” Fernández “has instructed me to initiate civil actions for damages against his honor,” Gregorio Dalbón, the president’s lawyer, wrote on Twitter Thursday morning. “We hope to avoid the wasteful and unnecessary legal action with a retraction.”
The wildly popular reality show suddenly took a political turn days after its premiere Monday in the Telefe network, a subsidiary of Paramount Global, after Walter Santiago, nicknamed “Alfa,” said he had repeatedly bribed the president.
“I know Alberto Fernández for 35 years,” Santiago, 60, said in a conversation with other members of the house where they all live together as part of the competition show. “I paid bribes to Fernández many times. I know him very well … there are many politicians who have clung on to power and have made a fortune with politics.”
Santiago, a car salesman, never specifies what the bribes were for or how much money was involved.
The president’s spokeswoman, Gabriela Cerruti, was the first to complain about Santiago’s words on Wednesday evening, writing on Twitter that the president does not remember ever meeting Santiago.
Fernández “has never been involved in corruption” and “has made transparency a central purpose of his participation in public service,” Cerruti wrote.
Cerruti also fired back against members of the opposition who quickly came out to criticize her for spending time talking about a reality television program when the country is mired in economic woes, including an annual inflation rate of 83 percent.
“I find it striking that people who on social media are always willing to give lessons about what should be done, think that we shouldn’t pay attention to what happens in a popular program,” Cerruti said.
In his introductory video to participate in “Big Brother,” Santiago said that “no one has ever been in charge of me nor told me what I had to do and in the house no one will tell me what I have to do.”
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Clara Burel 2023 Ladies Open Lausanne Odds
The field is getting smaller at the Ladies Open Lausanne, with Clara Burel in a quarterfinal against Ana Bogdan. Burel's odds are +650 to take home the trophy from Tennis Club du Stade-Lausanne.
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Burel at the 2023 Ladies Open Lausanne
- Next Round: Quarterfinals
- Tournament Dates: July 23-30
- Venue: Tennis Club du Stade-Lausanne
- Location: Lausanne, Switzerland
- Court Surface: Clay
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Burel's Next Match
Burel will face Bogdan in the quarterfinals on Friday, July 28 at 11:30 AM ET, after beating Emma Navarro in the last round 6-3, 6-2.
Burel is listed at +110 to win her next match versus Bogdan. Check out the latest odds for the entire field at BetMGM.
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Burel Stats
- Burel is coming off a 6-3, 6-2 victory over No. 53-ranked Navarro in the Round of 16 on Thursday.
- The 22-year-old Burel is 18-11 over the past 12 months and is still looking for her first tournament title.
- Burel has a record of 7-5 on clay over the last 12 months.
- Over the past 12 months (across all court surfaces), Burel has played 29 matches and 23.3 games per match.
- In her 12 matches on a clay surface over the past year, Burel has averaged 23.0 games.
- Burel has won 40.0% of her return games and 60.9% of her service games over the past 12 months.
- As far as serve/return winning percentages on clay over the past year, Burel has won 56.4% of her games on serve, and 39.3% on return.
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BENSALEM, Pa., June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Law Offices of Howard G. Smith announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Enservco Corporation ("Enservco" or the "Company") (NYSE: ENSV).
Class Period: May 13, 2021 – April 18, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: July 19, 2022
Investors suffering losses on their Enservco investments are encouraged to contact the Law Offices of Howard G. Smith to discuss their legal rights in this class action at 888-638-4847 or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants failed to disclose to investors that: (1) Enservco had defective disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting; (2) as a result, there were errors in Enservco's financial statements relating to, inter alia, its transactions with Cross River Partners and accounting for ERCs; (3) accordingly, the Company would need to restate certain of its financial statements and delay the filing of its 2021 annual report with the SEC; (4) the Company downplayed the true scope and severity of its financial reporting issues; (5) accordingly, the Company could not file its delayed 2021 annual report with the SEC within its initially represented timeline; and (6) as a result, Defendants' statements about its business, operations, and prospects, were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
To be a member of the class action you need not take any action at this time; you may retain counsel of your choice or take no action and remain an absent member of the class action. If you wish to learn more about this class action, or if you have any questions concerning this announcement or your rights or interests with respect to the pending class action lawsuit, please contact Howard G. Smith, Esquire, of Law Offices of Howard G. Smith, 3070 Bristol Pike, Suite 112, Bensalem, Pennsylvania 19020, by telephone at (215) 638-4847, toll-free at (888) 638-4847, or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com, or visit our website at www.howardsmithlaw.com.
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SINGAPORE, March 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Singapore-based Tech startup Metanoia Sensing has announced a new breath analyzer 'MetaNose' to help people monitor their fat (lipid) burning status. The device also provides insights into the users' metabolic health risk such as diabetic related conditions.
The MetaNose device has been launched on Indiegogo and has reached its funding goal within the first hour. (Indiegogo link: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/metanose-fat-burning-made-easy-breath-analyzer/)
It is common for people to have frustrations with various dieting methods and exercises since they are uncertain about which routines suit their body types. Human bodies, by nature, tend to conserve fats and burn carbohydrates for energy. MetaNose is able to tell you how and when your fat burning is activated and elevated. The non-invasive device is the best companion for individuals who are on ketogenic diet, exercising or simply trying to lose fat.
MetaNose is made of environmentally sustainable materials, including those for assembly and packaging. Recyclable materials are used to reduce the overall production cost while achieving high quality and producing less emission that is harmful to the planet.
The Science of MetaNose
MetaNose determines the metabolic condition of the user from a single breath, by utilizing a state-of-the-art Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) acetone sensor and a signal processing algorithm, which measure the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in exhaled breath and analyze the oxidative stress of lipid metabolism. The proprietary algorithm enables MetaNose to provide accurate information about blood glucose metabolism (burning of carbs) versus lipid metabolism (burning of fat) to personalize user experience toward different fitness goals and monitor the effectiveness of ketogenic diet and workout routines.
Dr Gui, the clinical collaborator from a Singaporean hospital group, said "Being a non-invasive method without the pricking of needles or the urine strips, MetaNose can provide an accurate and affordable solution to the market. The device also provides recommendations on diet, fasting, workout, overall fitness and health. This technology reflects the trend of point-of-care solutions, and it allows consumers to detect and monitor their own metabolic health from the comfort of their home."
For more information, please visit https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/metanose-fat-burning-made-easy-breath-analyzer/ or email the founder at dufang@metanose.ai.
About Metanoia Sensing
Metanoia Sensing is a deep-tech startup focusing on the development of portable breathalyzer for health and fitness monitoring. The founding team comes from National University of Singapore and have successfully developed and commercialized a breath testing platform for disease screening. Metanoia Sensing is devoted to bringing the state-of-the-art breath testing technology to consumers' home at the most affordable cost.
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Severe turbulence hurts 5 on United flight
Published: Dec. 19, 2022 at 11:10 AM CST|Updated: 43 minutes ago
HOUSTON (KTRK) - Severe turbulence injured two passengers and three crew members on a United Airlines flight on Monday.
Officials with the carrier said medical personnel were called to Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston to treat the patients.
No life-threatening injuries were reported.
United Airlines issued a statement saying they are grateful to their crew for keeping everyone on the flight as safe as possible considering the circumstances.
This comes one day after at least three-dozen people suffered turbulence-caused injuries on a Hawaiian Airlines flight on Sunday.
Eleven of those people were listed in serious condition, according to Honolulu emergency medical services.
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City of Bozeman leaders say they have had no ability to develop affordable housing, so they are working on solutions.
“It is definitely uncharted territory, would be the best way for us to describe it. But it's important,” says Bozeman City Manager Jeff Mihelich. “Creative and what we're doing with developers and builders to make that become a reality."
The city invested $5 million of American Rescue Plan dollars to build sewage infrastructure on the north side of town.
“What we are able to get back from the developer is a tract of land which we will be able to develop for affordable housing,” says Mihelich.
So, Rob Lateiner, the developer, committed 5 acres of that land to build affordable housing, about 100 units expected to fill the space on the newly annexed land. The development will be known as Turnrow.
“This area of town that's walkable to Billings Clinic to provide some more housing at the end of the day,” says Lateiner.
The city has called on developers to bring forward ideas. Lateiner says he approached the city about this project.
“Attainable housing is absolutely one of the most important things that our community needs right now,” says Lateiner.
Both the developer and the city agreed to keep these five acres affordable for the community.
“The land will be set aside with a covenant for affordable housing. And then we're going to work with the city and third parties to figure out how do we get it built,” says Lateiner.
While the city says it’s a unique approach, they plan to use methods like this in the future to bring more affordable housing to the city.
“We're using grant dollars, all those things are just creative ways for us to use the limited resources we have in the city to create affordable housing,” says Lateiner.
Construction on the development is expected to begin in 2024.
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WHL
All Times Local
Western Conference
B.C. Division
U.S. Division
Eastern Conference
East Division
Central Division
Note: Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.
Tuesday's results
Kamloops 5 Brandon 2
Winnipeg 3 Victoria 2
Wednesday's results
Red Deer 5 Calgary 2
Saskatoon 3 Lethbridge 2
Winnipeg 4 Vancouver 3
Brandon 3 Kelowna 0
Thursday's results
Regina at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.
Friday's games
Red Deer at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Brandon at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Prince Albert at Edmonton, 7 p.m.
Saskatoon at Calgary, 7 p.m.
Winnipeg at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Everett at Tri-City, 7:05 p.m.
Prince George at Vancouver, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday's games
Lethbridge at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Prince Albert at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Brandon at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Portland at Tri-City, 6:05 p.m.
Vancouver at Victoria, 6:05 p.m.
Spokane at Seattle, 6:05 p.m.
Prince George at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Winnipeg at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Sunday's games
Prince Albert at Calgary, 4 p.m.
Moose Jaw at Regina, 4 p.m.
Saskatoon at Edmonton, 4 p.m.
Kamloops at Vancouver, 4 p.m.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Tuesday appealed for national unity and tried to allay anger against the country’s rulers, even as the anti-government protests that have engulfed the country for weeks continued to spread to universities and high schools.
Raisi acknowledged that the Islamic Republic had “weaknesses and shortcomings,” but repeated the official line that the unrest sparked last month by the death of a woman in the custody of the country’s morality police was nothing short of a plot by Iran’s enemies.
“Today the country’s determination is aimed at cooperation to reduce people’s problems,” he told a parliament session. “Unity and national integrity are necessities that render our enemy hopeless.”
His claims echoed those of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who blamed the United States and Israel, the country’s adversaries, for inciting the unrest in his first remarks on the nationwide protests on Monday. It’s a familiar tactic for Iran’s leaders, who have been mistrustful of Western influence since the 1979 Islamic Revolution and commonly blame domestic problems on foreign enemies without offering evidence.
The protests, which emerged in response to the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after her arrest for allegedly violating the Islamic Republic’s strict dress code, have embroiled dozens of cities across the country and evolved into the most widespread challenge to Iran’s leadership in years. A series of festering crises have helped fuel public rage, including the country’s political repression, ailing economy and global isolation.
The scope of the ongoing unrest, the most sustained in over a decade, still remains unclear as witnesses report spontaneous gatherings across the country featuring small acts of defiance — such as protesters shouting slogans from rooftops, cutting their hair and burning their state-mandated headscarves.
The hardline Kayhan daily on Tuesday tried to downplay the scale of the movement, saying that “anti-revolutionaries,” or those opposed to the Islamic Republic, “are in the absolute minority, possibly 1%.”
But another hardline newspaper, the Jomhuri Eslami daily, cast doubt on government claims that foreign countries were to blame for the country’s turmoil.
“Neither foreign enemies nor domestic opposition can take cities into a state of riot without a background of discontent,” its editorial read. “The denial of this fact will not help.”
Iran’s security forces have sought to disperse demonstrations with tear gas, metal pellets, and in some cases live fire, rights groups say. Iran’s state TV reports that violent confrontations between protesters and the police have killed at least 41 people, but human rights groups say the number is much higher.
An escalating crackdown on the press, with dozens of journalists arrested in the last few weeks, has stifled most independent reporting on sensitive issues such as the deaths of protesters.
The recent disappearance and death of a 17-year-old girl in Tehran, however, has unleashed an outpouring of anger on Iranian social media.
Nika Shahkarami, who lived in the capital with her mother, vanished one night last month during the protests in Tehran, her uncle Kianoush Shakarami told the semiofficial Tasnim news agency. She was missing for a week before her lifeless body was found in a Tehran street and was returned to her family, Tasnim reported, adding relatives had not received official word on how she died.
Foreign activists allege she died in police custody, with hundreds circulating her photo and using her name as hashtag online for the protest movement. The prosecutor in the western Lorestan province, Dariush Shahoonvand, denied any wrongdoing by authorities and said was buried in a small village on Monday.
“Foreign enemies have tried to create a tense and anxious atmosphere after this incident,” he told the Hamshari daily, without elaborating on what happened.
As the new academic year began this week, demonstrations spread quickly to university campuses, long considered sanctuaries in times of turmoil. Videos on social media showed students expressing solidarity with peers who had been arrested and calling for the end of the Islamic Republic. Roiled by the unrest, many universities moved classes online this week.
The prestigious Sharif University of Technology in Tehran became a battlefield on Sunday as security forces surrounded the campus from all sides and fired tear gas at protesters who were holed up inside a parking lot, preventing them from leaving. The student union reported that police arrested hundreds of students, although many were later released.
In one video on Monday, students at Tarbiat Modares University in Tehran marched and chanted, “Jailed students must be freed!” In another, students streamed through Khayyam University in the conservative city of Mashhad, shouting, “Sharif University has become a jail! Evin Prison has become a university!” — referring to Iran’s notorious prison in Tehran.
Protests also appeared to grip gender-segregated high schools across Iran, where groups of young schoolgirls waved their hijabs and chanted “Woman! Life! Freedom!” in the city of Karaj west of the capital and in the Kurdish city of Sanandaj on Monday, according to widely shared footage.
The response by Iran’s security forces has sparked widespread condemnation. On Monday, President Joe Biden said his administration was “gravely concerned about reports of the intensifying violent crackdown on peaceful protesters in Iran, including students and women.”
The British foreign office summoned the Iranian ambassador in London.
“The violence leveled at protests in Iran by the security forces is truly shocking,” said British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly.
Security forces have rounded up an untold number of demonstrators, as well as artists who have voiced support for the protests. Local officials report at least 1,500 arrests.
Shervin Hajipour, an Iranian singer who emerged as something of a protest icon for his wildly popular song inspired by Amini’s death, was detained last week. His lawyer said he was released on bail Tuesday and rejoined his family in Iran’s northern city of Babolsar.
In his somber ballad, “For the sake of,” he sings of why Iranians are rising up in protest.
“For dancing in the streets,” he intones. “For my sister, for your sister, for our sisters.”
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Streaming service HBO Max will combine with Discovery Plus for US subscribers during the summer of 2023, Warner Bros. Discovery said Thursday, detailing the plans for a move that it has telegraphed ever since the company was formed by a megamerger earlier this year.
Latin America will get the mashed-up version of the services later in 2023. Some European markets where HBO Max is already operating will follow in early 2024, and the company will launch the combined offering in some new Asia Pacific and European markets later in 2024.
The company didn't specify any pricing changes as the two services meld. Warner Bros. Discovery added that it was exploring the possibility of launching a free, ad-supported streaming offering of some kind.
The plan to combine HBO Max and Discovery Plus is a "main priority," Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav said Thursday, in a discussion of the company's streaming strategy. The two services have 92 million subscribers collectively, and Warner Bros. Discovery said it anticipates adding more than 40 million more members by 2025. By comparison, Netflix, the world's biggest subscription streaming service, has nearly 221 million.
In April, Discovery and WarnerMedia closed their $43 billion megamerger to form the combined Warner Bros. Discovery. The deal united Hollywood powerhouse WarnerMedia -- home to streaming service HBO Max, the Warner Bros. movie studio and TV channels like HBO, CNN, TBS and more -- with Discovery, known for reality shows and unscripted programming on its cable networks and streaming service Discovery Plus.
HBO Max is known for prestige originals and a deep library of top movies. Discovery Plus, on the other hand, is known for unscripted programming at both the high end (like award-winning natural history documentaries) and the low (like Naked and Afraid and the wildly popular 90-Day Fiance).
But the companies' combination clouded the future shape of both HBO Max and Discovery Plus. Earlier this year, the new company's leadership was clear they wanted to combine the two services, but executives hadn't specified how or when until Thursday. Warner Bros. Discovery also said earlier it would consider intermediary steps like bundling the services in a discounted package before a full-fledged combination of the two.
Their combination comes at a time when streaming video has never been more popular -- and the competition around it never more fierce. In the last two years, media giants and tech heavyweights have launched their own rivals to Amazon Prime Video and Netflix, with services like Apple TV Plus, Disney Plus, HBO Max and Peacock rolling out. These so-called streaming wars also affect how many services you must use -- and pay for -- to watch your favorite shows and movies online.
The latest news comes after reports of an escalating number scuttled shows, movies and other projects. Most recently, the movie Batgirl had its release scrapped Tuesday, despite the fact that the film (with a reported $90 billion budget)the fact that the movie was already well into post-production. Earlier this year, Warner Bros. Discovery killed CNN Plus, a streaming service complement to the 24-hour news network, within about three weeks of its launch.
Collectively, those decisions and others have underscored an era of belt tightening under Zaslav.
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Body of man recovered from Fond du Lac River
Published: Sep. 27, 2022 at 11:22 AM CDT|Updated: 42 minutes ago
FOND DU LAC, Wis. (WBAY) - Rescue crews recovered the body of a man from the Fond du Lac River Tuesday morning.
The man was identified as Burton F. Holstein, 49, Fond du Lac.
At about 8:52 a.m., Police and Fire/Rescue were called to an area in the 500 block of Water Street for a report of a body in the river.
A preliminary investigation shows “no obvious signs of foul play,” police say.
An autopsy will be conducted by the Fond du Lac County Medical Examiner’s Office.
No other information was released.
If you have information, call Fond du Lac Police at 920-906-5555.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kliff Kingsbury is joining Lincoln Riley’s coaching staff at Southern California as a senior offensive analyst.
USC announced the addition Tuesday of Kingsbury, who was fired by the Arizona Cardinals in January after four seasons as their head coach.
Kingsbury went 28-37-1 at Arizona, making one playoff appearance. Before that, he spent six seasons as Texas Tech’s head coach and earned a reputation as one of football’s most innovative offensive minds.
Riley and Kingsbury were briefly teammates at Texas Tech when Riley walked onto Mike Leach’s Red Raiders roster during Kingsbury’s senior season in 2002.
Speaking after the Trojans’ latest spring practice Tuesday night, Riley said he reconnected with Kingsbury about a month ago. Kingsbury took a break to travel after his dismissal by the Cardinals, but Riley floated the idea of working together when Kingsbury visited Los Angeles.
“He thought about it for a little bit, and I think it just ended up being a great fit for both sides,” Riley said. “He’s got great familiarity with our offense. He’s got familiarity with a lot of people on our staff, so that made a lot of sense. His experience on the offensive side, to have another set of eyes, will be very helpful. … It’s always great to have another opinion and kind of an outside perspective that isn’t tied to one position.”
Between his two head coaching jobs, Kingsbury spent about one month at USC as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach under Clay Helton before the Cardinals surprisingly hired him for their top job in January 2019.
Kingsbury is rejoining USC at a time when the Trojans’ quarterback room is loaded with talent. Heisman Trophy winner Caleb Williams is returning for presumably his final college season, backed up by former four-star recruit Miller Moss and incoming freshman Malachi Nelson, who is widely considered one of the nation’s top quarterback prospects.
Before coaching Kyler Murray in Arizona, Kingsbury coached several top quarterbacks in college, including Patrick Mahomes, Johnny Manziel and Case Keenum.
The Trojans went 11-3 in Riley’s first year in an immediate rebound from several unimpressive seasons under Helton. They missed out on the College Football Playoff only when they lost the Pac-12 championship game to Utah, and they lost the Cotton Bowl on a late comeback by Tulane.
USC is wrapping up its spring practice this week, with the Trojans’ spring game scheduled for the Coliseum on Saturday.
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The New York Yankees face the Detroit Tigers in a spring training game on Friday, March 3, 2023 (3/3/23) at George M. Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, Florida.
Fans can watch the game, which starts at 6:35 p.m. ET, via MLB.tv, which costs $149.99 for the entire season or $24.99 per month.
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Here is the Yankees’ YES Network Spring Training TV schedule:
Sunday, February 26 - Atlanta, 1 p.m.**
Monday, February 27 - Detroit, 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday, March 1 - Washington, 1 p.m.
Saturday, March 4 - Tampa Bay, 1 p.m.
Monday, March 6 - Pittsburgh, 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday, March 8 - St. Louis, 1 p.m.
Thursday, March 9 - Boston, 1 p.m.
Saturday, March 11 - Philadelphia, 1 p.m.
Wednesday, March 15 - Philadelphia, 1 p.m.
Tuesday, March 21 - Detroit, 1 p.m.
Friday, March 24 - Minnesota, 1 p.m.
Sunday, March 26 - Toronto, 1 p.m.
Monday, March 27 - Tampa Bay, 1 p.m.
Here’s a recent MLB story from the AP:
The New York Yankees agreed to a $9.95 million, one-year contract with Gleyber Torres, avoiding an arbitration hearing with the infielder by reaching a deal at the midpoint of proposed salaries.
The team announced the deal on Sunday. The 26-year-old Torres hit .257 with 24 homers and 76 RBIs in 140 games for the AL East champions last year.
Torres had asked for a raise from $6.25 million to $10.2 million in arbitration, and the Yankees had offered the second baseman $9.7 million.
A two-time All-Star, Torres made his big league debut with New York. He is a .265 hitter with 98 homers and 310 RBIs in 576 career games.
He was New York’s last remaining player in arbitration. Nine Yankees agreed just before the exchange of proposed salaries on Jan. 13: right-handers Frankie Montas ($7.5 million), Clay Holmes ($3.3 million), Domingo Germán ($2.6 million), Jonathan Loáisiga ($2,262,500) and Michael King ($1.3 million), left-handers Wandy Peralta ($3.35 million) and left-hander Nestor Cortes ($3.2 million), and catchers Jose Trevino ($2.36 million) and Kyle Higashioka ($1,462,500).
Twenty-nine major leaguers remain scheduled for hearings from Monday through Feb. 17.
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RICHMOND (KRON) – The San Francisco Cheese Fest will be back — but no longer in the City By The Bay.
Rather the event will be held Sat., Oct. 22 at the Riggers Loft at 1325 Canal Boulevard in Richmond, returning from a “brief hiatus due to COVID.”
The festival “brings together a multitude of California Artisan Cheesemakers and local food producers who will be offering plentiful samples and give guests a chance to get up close and personal with the makers and mongers behind their favorite cheeses and specialties,” according to a press release, and involves “bountiful samples, beer and wine, and live music.”
The new location offers “the perfect sunset viewing of the San Francisco Bay with the city skyline just across the water,” the press release continued.
VIP tasting with Janet Fletcher, a food writer, is $50 from 5-6 p.m.
“Get a first-hand experience from a pairing expert on how to choose the right cheese for your wine and sip bubbles while tasting a variety of artisan cheeses,” the press release billed.
General admission, from 6-9 p.m., is $98.
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“Mingle with your favorite makers and fall in love with cheese all over again,” the press release continued.
The fest, returning for the seventh time, is sponsored by California Milk Advisory Board, Gourmet Foods International, Beehive Cheese, Bellwether Farms, Cowgirl Creamery, Cypress Grove, Laura Chenel, Marin French Cheese Co., Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Co., Sierra Nevada Cheese Co., Rustic Bakery, Dairy Connection, East Brother Beer, Food Luma, Lady & Larder, and Marin Cheese and UNFI. It’s also the primary fundraiser for the California Artisan Cheese Guild.
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
8-7-5-6
(eight, seven, five, six)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
8-7-5-6
(eight, seven, five, six)
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CANTON, Ohio, June 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- To foster greater focus in driving growth together with their distributor partners, The M. K. Morse Company has reorganized its North American salesforce into Industrial and Commercial divisions.
Philip Metz, named Vice President, Global Sales, will oversee the newly created Industrial and Commercial divisions, in addition to Morse's International and Specialty divisions. Philip has more than 40 years of sales leadership experience with a focus on global business. He has been part of the Morse team for more than 13 years.
"We have restructured our sales organization to provide added focus and deeper coverage to service the markets in which we participate," Metz said. "We anticipate that these initiatives will be of mutual benefit to Morse and our customers and will help to strengthen both our industrial and commercial relationships."
Jeff Carey will concentrate his efforts on industrial products as Director, Industrial Sales USA. Jeff has been in sales leadership at Morse for more than 9 years and has extensive experience in the global industrial manufacturing market.
"I am excited about the more focused approach that we will be executing in the market," Carey said. "This will allow us to have more intimate relationships with our distributor and end user partners."
James Reid has rejoined Morse as Director, Commercial Sales, USA and Canada. James previously spent 6 years at Morse as a Regional Sales Manager, and most recently worked in a variety of sales and leadership positions within the distribution channel.
"I could not be more excited to be back at Morse, which is unlike any other company in the world. Our culture and unwavering dedication to our customers brought me back; I cannot wait to jump in," Reid said. "The new sales structure will allow us to spend more time with our customers, the end users, and our own sales reps to provide world-class service. Our team is ready to get to work."
Andres Esguerra continues to lead the International division, and Kurt Penird will oversee the Specialty division as Director.
About The M. K. Morse Company
For 60 years, Morse has been manufacturing a wide range of innovative cutting solutions. Whether you need to drill holes, cut metal using power tools, or saw metal in a factory, Morse has the right blade for the job. As a second-generation family-owned business, we take pride in providing solutions for our customers. Our vision is to improve cutting solutions that transform ideas into reality. Available in more than 80 countries, nearly all Morse products are manufactured in Canton, OH, USA. For more information, visit mkmorse.com.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
4-9-5
(four, nine, five)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
4-9-5
(four, nine, five)
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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Glancy Prongay & Murray LLP ("GPM") announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Yext, Inc. ("Yext" or the "Company") (NYSE: YEXT).
Class Period: March 4, 2021 – March 8, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: August 16, 2022
If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff of the Yext lawsuit, you can submit your contact information at www.glancylaw.com/cases/yext-inc-1/. You can also contact Charles H. Linehan, of GPM at 310-201-9150, Toll-Free at 888-773-9224, or via email at shareholders@glancylaw.com to learn more about your rights.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants failed to disclose to investors that: (1) Yext's revenue and earnings were significantly deteriorating because of, inter alia, poor sales execution and performance, as well as COVID-19 related disruptions; (2) accordingly, Yext was unlikely to meet consensus estimates for its full year ("FY") fiscal 2022 financial results and fiscal 2023 outlook; and (3) as a result, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
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To be a member of the class action you need not take any action at this time; you may retain counsel of your choice or take no action and remain an absent member of the class action. If you wish to learn more about this class action, or if you have any questions concerning this announcement or your rights or interests with respect to the pending class action lawsuit, please contact Charles Linehan, Esquire, of GPM, 1925 Century Park East, Suite 2100, Los Angeles, California 90067 at 310-201-9150, Toll-Free at 888-773-9224, by email to shareholders@glancylaw.com, or visit our website at www.glancylaw.com. If you inquire by email please include your mailing address, telephone number and number of shares purchased.
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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:
The state of Oklahoma is banning abortion again and again and again. Two separate bills have made it through the state legislature this week. Both allow lawsuits against people involved in abortions in the style of a recent Texas law. Weeks ago, Republican Governor Kevin Stitt signed a different bill that makes abortion a felony. Oklahoma is not waiting for a Supreme Court ruling on abortion that's expected later this year. So how much do these and other bills around the country matter?
Mary Ziegler is watching all this. She is a professor and legal historian at Florida State University College of Law. Good morning.
MARY ZIEGLER: Hi, Steve. How are you?
INSKEEP: How, if at all, are these laws in multiple states changing the availability of abortion?
ZIEGLER: Well, they obviously have a chilling effect because many people who are listening to this don't understand. If you live in the state of Oklahoma, it would be perfectly reasonable for you to think that abortion was already criminal. And SB8-style bills, Texas-style bills, can likely go into effect immediately, and that's going to have an effect not only in the state where they're enacted but in neighboring states as well because we know that there have already been people traveling from state to state because of restrictions already on the books.
INSKEEP: I'm just thinking about the map here. If you were in Texas, if you were affected by the Texas law and you decided to go out of state, one of the obvious places to go would be Oklahoma, which doesn't seem so safe anymore.
ZIEGLER: Exactly, yeah. So we're - and we're going to see more and more of this as time goes on, especially if the Supreme Court does, as predicted, overrule Roe v. Wade. We're going to see really kind of entire regions out of business when it comes to abortion.
INSKEEP: In a practical sense, how does that affect women who are in that situation, given the current state of medical science, which is a little different than it was, I suppose, in 1972?
ZIEGLER: Well, it's different insofar as there's now medication abortion, and there are non-governmental organizations abroad that make abortion medication available or will mail it to you even in places where it's illegal. So at least for early abortions, self-managed medication abortion can be a safe option. With that said, there are going to be people who don't have internet access. There are going to be people who need to have abortions later in pregnancy. There are going to be people who have complications when they do have abortions, even with medication. So that's far from a perfect solution for people seeking abortions, but it's definitely a game changer compared to where we were in the '60s and '70s.
INSKEEP: Let's talk about the implications of a Supreme Court ruling. You mentioned that it's been widely predicted that Roe v. Wade will be overturned. We don't know that. We don't know precisely what the court will rule. We don't know if there is some nuance or subtlety here. But we do know that for many years, multiple states have had trigger laws on the books that would automatically ban abortion in the event of a Supreme Court ruling that made it possible. Now we have this new raft of laws that have been passed in recent months. How does the landscape change on the day after a Supreme Court ruling if it does in some way reduce or eliminate Roe v. Wade?
ZIEGLER: Well, if it reduces Roe v. Wade, then things get really complicated because we have both sort of zombie laws, pre-Roe bans and trigger laws. All of those need Roe v. Wade to be overturned to go into effect. And that would, of course, raise the question of what exactly just happened, right? Did the Supreme Court overrule Roe v. Wade, or did they just cut back? Is, you know, partially overruling Roe v. Wade enough? And the different laws have different mechanisms for determining that. Sometimes the attorney general needs to weigh in. Sometimes it's not even clear what would happen. So on the day after, there would be a lot of chaos. You would imagine, if the overruling is clear enough, that somewhere, you know, within weeks or, you know, in some cases a month after the overruling of Roe, all of those criminal laws would go into effect, and you would see essentially, you know, massive shutdowns of abortion clinics across large swaths of the South and Midwest.
INSKEEP: I guess we could also see massive lawsuits, given the nature of some of the laws being passed.
ZIEGLER: Yeah, absolutely. I mean, we - and we would see - we would even see lawsuits, as I mentioned, about, you know, figuring out whether Roe v. Wade was, in fact, gone entirely or not.
INSKEEP: Do you assume that that chaos is in our near future, that the Supreme Court is going to change the Roe v. Wade standard in some way?
ZIEGLER: Absolutely. Yeah. I mean, I would be shocked if Roe v. Wade is still the law of the land in a few years. I mean, I think it's really just a question of if it happens this year or in the next few years. I think there's really - I would be shocked if the Supreme Court saved abortion rights in the long term.
INSKEEP: Mary Ziegler is a professor at Florida State University College of Law, also attached to Harvard. Thank you so much.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Raging inflation has so scrambled the economy that it’s come to this: If Friday’s jobs report for August were to show a significant hiring slowdown, the Federal Reserve — and even the White House — would likely welcome it.
The government is expected to report that employers added 300,000 jobs last month, according to a survey of economists by the data provider FactSet. That would be down from a blockbuster gain of 528,000 in July and an average of about 440,000 over the past three months. The unemployment rate is expected to remain at 3.5%, FactSet says, matching a half-century low.
A weaker pace of hiring should help moderate wage increases and lift hopes that inflation pressures are starting to ease. That, in turn, would help the Fed make progress toward its goal of conquering high inflation, which is near a four-decade high.
Many companies pass along their higher labor costs to customers through price increases. Conversely, when wages rise more slowly, businesses have less need to raise prices.
Chair Jerome Powell and other Fed officials have increasingly stressed their determination to tame inflation even at the cost of damaging the economy. In a major speech in Jackson Hole, Wyoming last week, Powell underscored the Fed’s tight focus on curbing inflation and said he was prepared to continue raising short-term interest rates and keep them elevated to achieve that goal. He warned that the Fed’s inflation fight would likely cause pain for Americans in the form of a weaker economy and job losses.
The stock market has fallen every day since that speech as fears that the Fed may cause a recession have escalated.
Powell also said the job market is “clearly out of balance,” with demand for workers “substantially exceeding” the available supply. Indeed, the government reported this week that the number of available jobs rose in July to a near-record high, after three months of declines. There are roughly two open jobs for every unemployed worker, a sign that many companies are still desperate to hire and may keep raising wages to do so.
“I don’t think the Fed is rooting for a poor jobs report, but they are certainly not rooting for a repeat of July,” when hiring accelerated and wage increases were strong, said Gregory Daco, chief economist at Parthenon-EY. “They are going to want to see some moderation.”
The central bank has raised its short-term rate to a range of 2.25% to 2.5% this year, after the fastest series of increases since it began using its short-term rate to influence the economy in the early 1990s. It has projected that its key rate will reach a range of 3.25% to 3.5% by year’s end. Those rate hikes have made borrowing and spending steadily more expensive for individuals and businesses. The housing market, in particular, has been weakened by higher loan rates.
If Friday’s jobs report is another strong one, with substantial hiring and rapid wage growth, the Fed could opt to announce another sizable three-quarter-point hike when it meets later this month, after similar rate increases in June and July.
The jobs figures will also help fill out the economic backdrop as this fall’s congressional elections intensify. Republicans have pointed to high inflation to try to pummel Democrats in midterm campaigns. The Biden administration has pushed back and claimed credit for a robust pace of job growth.
Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, told reporters this week that “we’re expecting job numbers to cool off a bit.” The administration has been saying for months that it expects the economy to move to slower but still-steady growth after a swift economic rebound from the pandemic that came with a burst of inflation.
Wages are rising at the fastest pace in decades as employers scramble to fill jobs at a time when fewer Americans are working or seeking work in the aftermath of the pandemic. Average hourly pay jumped 5.2% in July from a year earlier. Still, that was less than the 5.6% year-over-year in March, which was the largest annual increase in 15 years of records outside of the spring of 2020, when the pandemic struck.
Higher wages aren’t necessarily inflationary if they are accompanied by greater efficiencies — if, for example, workers use machines or technology to produce more output. But worker efficiency, or productivity, has tumbled in the past year.
Loretta Mester, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, said Wednesday that “current wage increases are not consistent with inflation returning to our 2% goal” and that she thought with worker productivity so low, wage growth would have to slow to 3.5% or so to reduce inflation.
Yet some skeptics warn that the Fed may be focusing excessively on the strength of the job market when other indicators indicate that the economy is noticeably weakening. Consumer spending, for example, and manufacturing have slowed. The central bank might raise rates too far as a result, to the point where it causes a deeper recession than might be needed to conquer inflation.
“They run a risk of not realizing how much those rate hikes are restraining economic growth, if they’re just looking at the really strong employment gains,” said Jonathan Pingle, chief U.S. economist at Swiss bank UBS. “You could end up risking over tightening or moving too fast, too soon.”
The economic picture is highly uncertain, with the healthy pace of hiring and low unemployment at odds with the government’s estimate that the economy shrank in the first six months of this year, which is one informal definition of a recession.
Yet a related measure of the economy’s growth, which focuses on incomes, shows that it is still expanding, if at a weak pace.
So far, the Fed’s rate hikes have severely dented the housing market. With the average rate on a thirty-year mortgage reaching 5.66% last week — double the level of a year ago — sales of existing homes have fallen for six straight months.
Consumers have moderated their spending in the face of much higher prices, though they spent more in July even after adjusting for inflation. But companies’ investment in new equipment has slowed, indicating they have an increasingly cautious outlook on the economy.
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AP Writer Josh Boak contributed to this report.
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DALLAS, Feb. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Argent Trust Company, as Trustee of the Cross Timbers Royalty Trust (the "Trust") (NYSE:CRT), today declared a cash distribution to the holders of its units of beneficial interest of $0.114609 per unit, payable on March 14, 2023, to unitholders of record on February 28, 2023. The following table shows underlying oil and gas sales and average prices attributable to the current month and prior month distributions.
Prior Month Distribution
XTO Energy has advised the Trustee that out of period adjustments made by a remitter in the New Mexico Royalty Interest net profits interests had a significant impact on the gas sales volume and average price reported in the January 2023 distribution.
Excess Costs
XTO Energy has advised the Trustee that excess costs increased by $6,000 on properties underlying the Texas Working Interest net profits interests, primarily due to timing of receipts. However, these excess costs did not reduce net proceeds from the remaining conveyances. Underlying cumulative excess costs remaining on the Texas Working Interest net profits interests total $1,802,000, including accrued interest of $665,000.
XTO Energy has advised the Trustee that excess costs increased by $121,000 on properties underlying the Oklahoma Working Interest net profits interests, primarily due to drilling costs from the Hewitt Unit and timing of receipts. However, these excess costs did not reduce net proceeds from the remaining conveyances. Underlying cumulative excess costs remaining on the Oklahoma Working Interest net profits interests total $997,000, including accrued interest of $16,000.
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An injured San Luis Obispo County sheriff's deputy and the son of a man who was killed during an active shooter incident in Paso Robles in June 2020 have filed a wrongful death lawsuit.
Deputy Nicholas Dreyfus was shot in the face by Mason Lira in June 2020 when he responded to reports of an active shooter outside of the Paso Robles Police Department. Before shooting and injuring Dreyfus, Lira shot and killed James Watson at a nearby train station. These shootings lead to a two-day manhunt by law enforcement, ending in a shootout where Lira was shot and killed by law enforcement.
Investigators say Lira obtained the firearms and ammunition he used in the shootings when breaking into the Law Offices of Robert Bettencourt in San Luis Obispo.
Deputy Dreyfus, his wife Tyler Dreyfus, and Johnny Watson filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Bettencourt.
Dreyfus claims he suffered physical and psychological injuries after being shot in the face by Lira. His wife, Tyler, claims the injury has ultimately caused suffering in their marriage. The son of the man killed claims he suffered wrongful death damages as a result of his father's death.
All three claim the firearms obtained by Lira in Bettencourt's law office were a substantial factor in causing their injuries and damages. They claim Bettencourt could have prevented Lira's actions if he had properly locked up his firearms.
The lawsuit also claims that the officers inside the Paso Robles Police Department were not properly trained for an active shooter situation, causing them to call on outside resources for assistance.
KSBY News has reached out to Bettencourt for comment on this case.
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Norfolk Southern railroad delivered 27% higher 3Q profit
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Norfolk Southern hauled in 27% more third-quarter profit as the railroad increased shipping rates and reduced the number of delayed deliveries that shippers have been complaining about this year.
The Atlanta-based railroad said it earned $958 million, or $4.10 per share, up from $753 million, or $3.06 per share, a year ago. Those results included a charge of $117 million, or 28 cents per share, related to the raises the railroad offered to its employees. Earnings per share also got a 58 cent boost from a state tax law change.
But even with those one-time changes, Norfolk Southern’s results beat the $3.75 per share that analysts surveyed by FactSet were expecting.
The railroad said its average train speed improved to 19.1 mph (30.58 kilometers) during the third quarter, and the number of hours railcars spent waiting in terminals decreased to 25.9 hours. Both those measures are significantly better than the rest of the year as the railroad continued to hire more employees, although they still lag behind a year ago.
“We are confident our broad and continued service improvement will drive growth in the months ahead,” CEO Alan Shaw said.
Norfolk Southern said it the number of train crews it employs is at the highest level since last summer with 7,335 workers, and there are another 950 new conductors still in training.
The railroad’s revenue jumped 17% to $3.34 billion even though the number of shipments it hauled slipped 2%. That also beat Wall Street expectations. FactSet said analysts were expecting Norfolk Southern to report $3.19 billion revenue.
Norfolk Southern is one of the nation’s largest railroads, and it operates about 19,500 miles (31,382 kilometers) of track in 22 Eastern states and the District of Columbia.
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced Wednesday that it is making grants of more than a $1 billion as part of a sweeping national plan to improve math education over the next four years. Its goal: to help students succeed in school and land well-paying jobs when they graduate, given research that shows the connection between strong math skills and career success.
The foundation, which has long drawn controversy over its education work, said that to put more money into math, it will cut grants to other subjects like reading, writing, and the arts.
The increased focus on math comes after the pandemic “wreaked havoc” on learning in secondary schools, and widened gaps based on race in student performance, with math scores among Black students falling more sharply than declines among white students, according to Bob Hughes, director of the Gates Foundation’s elementary and education grant-making program.
The foundation made the switch because it sees better math instruction in earlier grades as a key to helping students succeed in school and beyond. Students who pass an introductory course on algebra by 9th grade are twice as likely to graduate from high school and go to college, Hughes said.
The problem, he said, is for many students, math is not presented as a crucial, captivating subject.
“Too many students don’t have access to math instruction in classrooms where they receive critical resources to help them see the joy in learning math and believe that they can become math people as they grow older,” he said.
The new plan is the second major shift in education funding Gates has made in recent years.
After spending hundreds of millions of dollars to promote common-core standards, a set of national educational goals for students at each grade level, the foundation in 2018 backtracked. Acknowledging criticism that the approach didn’t allow individual schools flexibility, Gates developed a new plan that created networks of schools facing similar challenges. Educators in each of those networks could test teaching and coursework innovations and make adaptations as they saw fit, rather than adhere to a set of nationwide standards.
In 2020, Gates held a more than $10 million competition to identify new approaches to teaching algebra. Those grants, and discussions Gates staff held over the past two years with teachers, parents, school administrators, curriculum experts, and others, helped formulate the foundation’s new approach.
Gates will provide grants to prepare teachers better for teaching math and to curriculum companies and nonprofits to develop higher-quality teaching materials. The foundation will also support research into math education and make grants to help high-school math courses prepare students for college and the workplace.
A big problem with math as it is taught today is that students learn in isolation and can feel crushed when they get the wrong answer to a problem, says Shalinee Sharma, co-founder of Zearn, an educational nonprofit and Gates grantee who, with Hughes, spoke with reporters this week. Zearn uses computer-based lessons that incorporate a lot of visuals to keep students interested and provides feedback on progress to help teachers tailor lessons for individual students. A new approach in which students work in teams to solve problems, she said, can turn all students into “math kids.”
“When all kids are ‘math kids,’ making mistakes will be OK,” she said. “It won’t be embarrassing. In fact, making mistakes will be considered normal and an essential part of math learning.”
Gates has committed to the approach for the next decade but has only made final spending plans for the next four years, when it will plow $1.1 billion into math. That’s the same amount it spent on its entire elementary and secondary education program for the past four years, during which only 40% was devoted to improving math instruction.
Initially the foundation will direct grants to assist students in California, Florida, New York, and Texas. The states were picked, Hughes said, because Gates has experience working with school districts in those states and because of their large share of the nation’s Black and Latino students.
As Gates “hunkers down” on math, it will end its support for language arts, such as reading and writing, Hughes said. The change in approach probably means the end of support, once current grants run their scheduled course, for many education nonprofits.
Gates Foundation officials are in touch with several foundations that might be willing to pick up some of the slack, Hughes said, citing ongoing discussions with the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies.
In recent years, many larger U.S. foundations have funneled money to improve civics education, said Amber Northern, senior vice president for research at the Fordham Institute, a conservative education think tank, citing the Carnegie Corporation and Hewlett Foundation as prominent examples. But, she said, there are relatively few foundations that devote significant sums to improve math education.
“Lots of foundations want to come together and leverage their impact by joining with other foundations,” she said. “This is an awareness call for other foundations to come on board.”
The Gates shift is not the first time American education experts have expressed a need to focus on math. In the late 1950s, after the launch of Sputnik, educators called for a new vigor in math instruction to keep up with the country’s Soviet adversaries during the Cold War, said Natalie Wexler, author of “The Knowledge Gap: The Hidden Cause of America’s Broken Education System — and How to Fix It.”
While math is important, Wexler said, only a small percentage of students go on to use math in their daily lives. But every student is a member of society and needs other skills to become positive contributors to society. For a democracy to function, she said, people need basic literacy, the ability to read newspaper articles critically, and knowledge of how public policy is made.
Math instruction is important, she said, but “the knowledge that goes into understanding a newspaper and following current events is going to be much more crucial in enabling those students to carry out their responsibilities as citizens.”
Hughes said other skills are important, but the foundation felt it could have the biggest impact focusing on math. If taught properly, he said, math courses can connect students to real-life problems in need of a solution and keep them engaged as students, and eventually citizens.
“When kids start to feel alienated in middle school, it’s frequently the math course that drives them away,” he said.
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Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson was unimpressive after coming off his 11-game suspension in 2022. But it seems he’s starting to regain the form he once had during Cleveland’s offseason program.
Reports out of the Browns offseason program on Tuesday noted Watson was sharp during Tuesday’s practice, particularly during red zone 7-on-7 drills. Head coach Kevin Stefanski didn’t want to put too much stock into that, though, and neither did receiver Amari Cooper.
“I mean, you have no pass rush, it’s really like pitch and catch out there,” Cooper said in his press conference. “Obviously, the DBs make plays sometimes. But it’s not a level playing field for them when we’re doing 7-on-7, so it should look like that every time.”
Still, Cooper said he’s noticed a difference between the way Watson’s practicing from last year to now.
“He looks in a bit of a better groove,” Cooper said. “Just having that long layoff, of course you’re going to lose some rhythm, some form of rhythm. But he looks like he’s really getting that back.”
The Browns went 3-3 in Watson’s six starts last year. But the quarterback completed just 58.2 percent of his passes for 1,102 yards with seven touchdowns and five interceptions. He also rushed for 175 yards with a TD.
We’ll see if Watson can translate the practice success to the field when games begin in the fall.
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Ambulance runs over, crushes woman during wellness check, officials say
PARMA HEIGHTS, Ohio (WOIO/Gray News) – An ambulance in Ohio accidentally ran over a woman whom first responders were called to check on, officials said.
The 68-year-old woman died at the scene.
According to Parma Heights police, the death happened at about 9 p.m. Saturday at the Ridgewood Apartments.
Paramedics initially received a call from a concerned neighbor that the 68-year-old woman may have fallen.
Police said first responders had to force themselves into the apartment, but they found the woman conscious and breathing.
The woman refused treatment from the Parma Heights Fire Department and refused to be taken to the hospital, police said.
As first responders were leaving the scene, the woman followed them outside of her apartment, walked up to the passenger side of the ambulance, and fell.
Police said the paramedics did not see the woman and pulled away in the ambulance. Sadly, the vehicle ran over the woman, and she died on the scene.
Police said there is no indication of recklessness or negligence from first responders involved.
The Parma Fire Department said while the death remains under investigation, it “would like to respectfully offer our prayers and condolences to the family of the deceased.”
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TOKYO (AP) — Top business leaders from Japan and South Korea announced Wednesday they will use a fund meant to underscore the two countries' burgeoning ties to strengthen their cooperation in energy, industry and other sectors.
Japan Business Federation, known as Keidanren, and its South Korean counterpart, the Federation of Korean Industry, announced a fund of 200 million yen ($1.5 million) in March. The money comes from an initial installment of 100 million yen ($750,000) from each side to complement efforts initiated by South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's government to resolve a historical dispute over Japanese brutality during its 1910-1945 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula.
The two groups selected specific areas of joint projects for the Future Partnership funds, focusing on youth exchanges and industrial cooperation, said Kendanren chair Masakazu Tokura and Federation of Korean Industry acting chair Kim Byong-joon Wednesday at a joint news conference in Tokyo. Areas of focus include semiconductor supply chain resiliency, energy security, maintaining the free and open international order, and climate change, among others.
“I'm extremely encouraged that the improvement of Japan-South Korea relations are now getting on the right track," Tokura said.
In March, Yoon announced a local fund to compensate South Koreans who were forced to work for Japanese companies during World War II. Though Yoon faces criticisms at home that he compromised too much, the fund effectively ended a bitter dispute triggered by the 2018 South Korean court rulings ordering two Japanese companies — Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Nippon Steel Corp. — to compensate the victims. Japan, however, had insisted all compensation issues were settled by a 1965 treaty that normalized relations.
Yoon followed his announcement with a trip to Japan, after which ties have been rapidly improving. Less than two months later, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida responded in kind with a trip to Seoul for a summit with Yoon. The quick thaw underscores their shared sense of urgency over growing military threats from China, North Korea and Russia and the need to strengthen their three-way united front with the United States.
A series of talks in defense, finance and trade have resumed since then and, Tokura said, the momentum is rising. He said that a free and open global order increasingly important, and economic security and semiconductor supply chain resilience are key.
South Korea’s “excellent companies” like Samsung and SK Hynix and renowned materials and equipment from Japan would go very well together, he said, adding that he hoped Japan and South Korea's cooperation would take root in East Asia as an example to follow.
Kim said a paradigm shift and creative solutions are needed “to overcome unprecedented global crisis" and that the two business groups will “overcome our common problems and walk toward the future.”
Tokura and Kim will each head an organizing committee for the fund. They said they will set up a panel of academic experts to work with the fund and will have their first meeting in early July in Seoul.
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Railroad CEO to testify in Congress about Ohio derailment
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The CEO of Norfolk Southern railroad will testify in Congress next week about last month’s fiery Ohio derailment and the precautions the railroad takes to prevent similar crashes.
The railroad said Wednesday that Alan Shaw had agreed to appear before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works next Thursday. He is likely to face tough questions about whether the railroad has been investing enough in safety as it slashed jobs and streamlined operations in recent years to rely on fewer, longer trains.
Already, several lawmakers have proposed a series of rail safety reforms in response to the Feb. 3 derailment that forced the evacuation of half the town of East Palestine, Ohio, near the Pennsylvania border because of concerns about the toxic chemicals that were on fire. The National Transportation Safety Board has said that an overheating bearing likely caused the derailment that sent 38 cars, including 11 carrying hazardous materials, off the tracks.
Shaw has said the railroad is committed to helping the town recover from this derailment, and Norfolk Southern has committed millions to that effort. But he has said that major safety reforms should wait until after the NTSB investigation is complete, which might take more than a year.
Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, told reporters on a call Wednesday that he wanted to hear Shaw commit to paying for both the short-term and long-term effects of the wreck. “We want to hear his commitment to make this community whole, to make this so that people can get back to their lives the way they were -- that means reimbursement for all the expenses,” Brown said.
Norfolk Southern said Shaw and other railroad officials “continue to engage in discussions with Members of Congress and other committees about additional requests to testify, while balancing his commitments to the remediation process and the community.”
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said earlier this week that Shaw needs to testify because Norfolk Southern is responsible for the derailment.
“The American people should hear from Norfolk Southern’s CEO precisely why they thought it was a good idea to spend years — years — lobbying to loosen regulations designed to prevent accidents like this,” Schumer said in a speech on the Senate floor. “And I especially want to hear why Norfolk Southern, after seeing a record $3.3B in profits last year, prioritized billions— billions — in stock buybacks instead of putting that money toward safety and towards their workers.”
The Federal Railroad Administration issued an advisory Tuesday urging railroads to reexamine how they use and maintain the networks of detectors they have installed along the tracks to spot overheating bearings before they fail. Regulators are expected to announce plans Wednesday afternoon to conduct additional inspections nationwide on tracks that carry large quantities of hazardous materials.
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VANCOUVER, BC, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Kootenay Silver Inc. (TSXV: KTN) (the "Company" or "Kootenay") announces the successful amendment to the option agreement for 100% of the Columba High-Grade silver project in Chihuahua State, Mexico. The Company has successfully amended the schedule on the final payment for the property due in November 2022. The amended agreement splits the final November 2022 payment into a series of payments due in August, November, December 2022 and January, April, and May of 2023. Payments range from US$215,000 (August 2022 and May 2023) to US$480,000 (November 2022) and US$430,000 (December 2022, January, and April 2023).
President and CEO James McDonald states "We are very pleased with the willingness of our option holder to amend the option agreement and look forward to announcing drill results from the 2022 program."
The company expects the first set of assay results from the 2022 drill program aimed at expanding on the numerous high-grade hits in multiple veins. Thus far drilling in the F and D veins have all hit veining as reported August 4th, 2022, with good widths seen in very large 75 to 100 meter step outs in the D Vein.
Results will be released once final assays are received and compiled. Assay turnaround time has been longer than anticipated.
A comprehensive list of drill results completed on the Columba Property since 2019 can be viewed here: Columba Drill Results.
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The Kootenay technical information in this news release has been prepared in accordance with the Canadian regulatory requirements set out in National Instrument 43-101 (Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects) and reviewed and approved on behalf of Kootenay by James McDonald, P.Geo, President, CEO & Director for Kootenay, a Qualified Person.
About Kootenay Silver Inc.
Kootenay Silver Inc. is an exploration company actively engaged in the discovery and development of mineral projects in the Sierra Madre Region of. Supported by one of the largest junior portfolios of silver assets in Mexico, Kootenay continues to provide its shareholders with significant leverage to silver prices. The Company remains focused on the expansion of its current silver resources, new discoveries and the near-term economic development of its priority silver projects located in prolific mining districts in Sonora, State and Chihuahua, State, Mexico, respectively.
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Forward-looking statements are necessarily based upon a number of factors and assumptions that, while considered reasonable by Kootenay as of the date of such statements, are inherently subject to significant business, economic and competitive uncertainties and contingencies. Many factors, known and unknown, could cause actual results to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. Except as otherwise required by law, Kootenay expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any such statements to reflect any change in Kootenay's expectations or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based.
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Helping customers accelerate hybrid infrastructure innovation for 90% faster mean-time-to-resolution (MTTR) and 15% reduction in infrastructure spend, through proactive and accurate capacity forecasting
PALO ALTO, Calif., May 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Virtana, a leading technology provider accelerating hybrid infrastructure innovation with artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps), announced today the release of Virtana CloudMonitor. This new product capability reduces the complexity of monitoring and managing hybrid IT environments across on-premises, colocation, and public cloud workloads. This offering further expands Virtana's leadership presence in a new segment defined by Gartner called Digital Platform Conductor (DPC) tools1. DPC tools are core to IT operations management (ITOM), a market Gartner estimates to be approximately $39 billion2.
Virtana CloudMonitor revolutionizes how businesses obtain an end-to-end SaaS-based global panoramic view of their hybrid infrastructure, enabling them to get the most out of their multi-vendor computing, networking, storage, cloud, virtual machines (VM), containers, databases, and more in hybrid and multi-cloud IT infrastructure environments.
With CloudMonitor, customers realize rapid improvements to mean-time-to-detect (MTTD), decreasing their mean-time-to-resolution (MTTR) by an average of 90%. CloudMonitor also helps organizations make better decisions about their infrastructure investments and ensure they have adequate capacity to support growth and performance without sacrificing IT budgets.
As more organizations adopt a hybrid infrastructure approach to their IT infrastructure, managing performance and capacity requirements in the silo of a specific workload is no longer feasible. IT leaders want a single platform that automatically discovers what is within their global estate, allowing them to gain accurate and real-time insights into the health of their overall environment.
Given the multiple vendors that IT leaders work with to develop their infrastructure, they also look to implement a streamlined IT operational model and reduce the number of tools they use to manage that infrastructure. In addition, organizations are focused on proactively planning capacity requirements that empower them to invest in what they need to accelerate business growth while staying within budget.
CloudMonitor addresses these needs by providing organizations with a global view of their estate, including the leading hyperscalers, and delivers insights as a part of the Virtana SaaS platform. With CloudMonitor, organizations can now stream data, including usage rates and alarm occurrences for applications, from multiple infrastructure types, eliminating individual data silos and simplifying how IT leaders monitor their hybrid environment.
With Virtana's unified CloudMonitor solution, IT leaders can:
- Detect which parts of their infrastructure support their mission-critical applications, thereby identifying their most critical infrastructure.
- Proactively plan for capacity needs and avoid overprovisioning hardware infrastructure by purchasing what they need, reducing infrastructure spend by approximately 15%.
- Provide centralized visibility and management of an organization's entire on-premises infrastructure.
- Reduce mean-time-to-detect (MTTD) by an average of 95%, empowering IT to discover and correct anomalies before they become issues.
- Up-level alarm occurrence data for each application and components related to an application.
- Enable faster mean-time-to-resolution (MTTR) by an average of 90%, so critical applications can stay available for longer periods of time.
"The extension of Virtana Infrastructure Performance Management (IPM) with CloudMonitor provides our customers with an unmatched solution that delivers a centralized, panoramic view of their hybrid, multi-vendor, and multi-cloud infrastructure. With CloudMonitor, our technology partners and channels can accelerate their as-a-service offerings as enterprise customers strive to innovate and succeed in highly complex multi-vendor and multi-cloud environments," said Kash Shaikh, President and CEO of Virtana.
Kash added, "CloudMonitor accelerates the rate businesses can innovate within their competitive industries and helps simplify and optimize their hybrid-platform environment. This new capability gives our customers unparalleled panoramic observability across on-premises and public clouds, making it easier than ever to get more from their existing infrastructure."
In addition to the release of CloudMonitor, Virtana continues to demonstrate its expertise in Kubernetes management. Virtana helps organizations more effectively manage Kubernetes with a suite of tools designed to provide visibility, control, and cost optimization over their Kubernetes and container environments. This allows businesses to optimize their hybrid cloud environments and achieve better performance, costs, reliability, and security.
Companies can experience CloudMonitor now through a 30-day trial of Virtana Platform at: virtana.com/request-ipm-trial/.
Virtana accelerates hybrid infrastructure innovation through deep-system data and centralized visibility. Its unified multi-cloud management solution, Virtana Platform, simplifies the optimization, migration, and monitoring of application workloads across public, private, and hybrid cloud environments. The cloud-agnostic SaaS platform allows enterprises to efficiently plan their cloud migrations and then right size workloads across their hybrid cloud infrastructure for performance, capacity, and cost—most customers see 25% cloud cost savings or more within the first 10 days of use. Get a free 14-day trial of Virtana's optimization solution at virtana.com/optimize-free-trial.
Virtana was named Coolest Cloud Company by CRN, Top Cloud Leader Reducing Public Cloud Costs by Business Insider, Best Company Culture by Comparably, and a Customer First company by Gartner.
For industry insight from Virtana, visit: Twitter | LinkedIn | Virtana #AccelerateHybridInnovation
1. Roger Williams, Dennis Smith, Colin Fletcher (November 2022), Gartner Market Guide for Digital Platform Conductor Tools.
2. Shailendra Upadhyay, Laurie Wurster (February 2023), Gartner Forecast Analysis: IT Operations Management Software, Worldwide.
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WFO PENDLETON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, August 22, 2022
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FIRE WEATHER WATCH
URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Pendleton OR
238 PM PDT Sat Aug 20 2022
...ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED ACROSS EASTERN
PORTIONS OF THE AREA SUNDAY EVENING THROUGH LATE MONDAY
AFTERNOON...
.A disturbance crossing the area Sunday night is expected to
result in isolated thunderstorms overnight becoming scattered
during the day on Monday. Abundant lightning is a
possibility...especially over the Blue Mountains and Wallowa
County.
...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY EVENING THROUGH
MONDAY EVENING FOR ABUNDANT LIGHTNING FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES
OR641, OR642, OR643, OR644, OR645, WA691, WA692, AND WA693...
The National Weather Service in Pendleton has issued a Fire
Weather Watch for abundant lightning, which is in effect from
Sunday evening through Monday evening.
* AFFECTED AREA...Fire Weather Zones 641 Lower Columbia Basin of
Oregon, 642 Southern Blue and Strawberry Mountains, 643
Northern Blue Mountains of Oregon, 644 Central Blue Mountains,
645 Wallowa District, 691 Lower Columbia Basin, 692 Blue
Mountains of Washington and 693 Southeast Washington Grande
Ronde Valley.
* IMPACTS...Lightning strikes may create new fire starts.
* THUNDERSTORMS...Storms will be possible from the Ochoco-John day
Highland northward into the Columbia Basin and eastward into the
Blue Mountains and Wallowa County. Individual cells may have
wetting rains but most are expected to have less than that.
* OUTFLOW WINDS...Erratic winds to 40 mph will be possible with
these storms.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Fire Weather Watch means that critical fire weather conditions
are forecast to occur. Listen for later forecasts and possible
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DOJ search of Pence’s office turns up no new classified documents
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department searched the office of former Vice President Mike Pence‘s Washington advocacy group for several hours Friday as part of its investigation into the discovery of sensitive documents at the homes and offices of current and former top U.S. officials.
Pence adviser Devin O’Malley said no additional documents with classified markings were discovered during a “thorough and unrestricted search” of the office of Advancing American Freedom, the nonprofit group launched by Pence in 2021. One binder — believed to be part of Pence’s 2020 debate preparations — “with approximately three previously redacted documents” was taken by agents.
The search, described as consensual after negotiations between Pence’s representatives and the Justice Department, comes one week after the FBI searched Pence’s Indiana home and discovered one additional document with classified markings. That was after lawyers hired by Pence last month discovered what aides have described as a “small number” of potentially sensitive documents they say were inadvertently transported to Pence’s home in boxes at the end of the Trump administration.
Pence had asked his lawyers to conduct the search after an outcry over the discovery of classified documents at President Joe Biden’s Delaware home and office. He’s said repeatedly he was unaware they were there.
The willingness of Pence and Biden to permit the FBI to search their homes and offices stands in contrast to former President Donald Trump, who is under federal investigation for own handling of classified information and whose refusal to cooperate with officials last year resulted in the Justice Department having to get an unprecedented warrant to inspect his Florida property.
It also comes after Pence, who is widely expected launch a campaign for president in the coming months, announced that he will fight a subpoena to appear before a grand jury in a separate investigation into efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Pence has described the subpoena as “unprecedented” and “unconstitutional” and argues that he is protected from being called to appear because he was acting in his capacity as president of the Senate when he presided over the certification of the vote on Jan. 6, 2021 — the day that a Trump-supporting mob violently stormed the Capitol building.
A Justice Department spokesman did not immediately return a call seeking comment on Friday’s search.
“The vice president has consistently cooperated with appropriate authorities, has been fully transparent, and looks forward to the imminent conclusion of this matter,” O’Malley said.
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A Trump-era holdover central to determining what direction the U.S. financial system is going may be poised to cause political problems for the White House, just as President Joe Biden was enjoying the slightest of improvements in the economy.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell once again this week opted for an interest rate hike amid his managing historic economic turmoil in the form of banking failures that sparked fears on the financial market.
The White House consistently uses one word to describe the Fed — independent.
Biden renominated Powell, a Republican, when he took office, which came in the face of opposition from most prominent progressive politicians.
Since then, officials have worked hard to create distance between Biden and Powell to hone in on the notion that the Fed is in fact a separate agency.
But some political watchers say there’s only so much distancing Biden can do when he takes to the campaign trail.
Find out more: Democrats, worried about job losses, push back on more Fed rate hikes
If financial markets are spooked by Powell’s moves and Americans continue to still face gorging prices on goods and higher rates than in recent years to borrow money for homes and cars.
The personal relationship between Biden and Powell is not something the White House advertises.
While Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Monday said he talked to Powell “often” during the weekend that Silicon Valley Bank collapsed and regulators were deciding how to handle it, it’s unclear how often Biden and Powell spoke.
Powell does meet weekly, however, with Treasury Sec. Janet Yellen.
Whenever press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is asked about Powell or movements by the Fed, she makes a point to separate him from the White House.
“First and foremost, the Fed is independent, and we do not comment on, interfere on their policies,” she said on Wednesday. “The president wants to make sure that we give…the Fed the space needed to make their decisions on monetary policy.”
Biden’s centrist politics were on display when he re-nominated Powell, as opposed to a Fed chair who would be more inclined to go easier on rate hikes. But Powell enjoyed broad bipartisan support and his nomination passed the Senate in an 80-19 vote.
Progressives like Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) didn’t support his nomination and have been constant Powell critics. Warren this week warned that millions of Americans could lose their jobs if the Fed doesn’t pause interest rate increases.
She teamed up with conservative Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) on a bill to require an independent inspector general, who would be appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate, to oversee Federal Reserve Board of Governors and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Warren blasts banking regulators: Warren takes center stage in banking fight after SVB collapse
Others have also been critical of the rate hike and raised questions over if enough is enough.
“While I think that the White House is right that their best move is to appoint good people and then have faith in their judgement, I don’t agree with Powell’s recent rate hikes, nor the reasoning behind them,” said Josh Bivens, research director at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank.
“I think lots of evidence is out there that disinflationary pressures are building while there are also lots of building risks to keeping unemployment low,” he said.
Biden is unlikely to break with Powell on policy
Despite some pressure on Biden to break with Powell, it would be shocking if the president did. The White House has time and time again stressed that Biden stands by Powell.
“The president still has confidence in Jerome Powell,” Jean-Pierre said on Wednesday, adding that the White House won’t interfere or get involved with his decisions.
The political pressure for Biden to step in on the Fed’s decisions is mostly coming from the left, and arrives when the president doesn’t yet have any serious challengers for the Democratic nomination in 2024.
Major risks: Silicon Valley Bank tripled loans to insiders in months before its collapse
“The president is an institutionalist who has been pivoting to the center on multiple issues and needs a recovering economy in 2024. The Fed is the ultimate centrist institution with massive power to impact the election year economy,” said Bruce Mehlman, former assistant secretary at the Commerce Department under President George W. Bush.
“The only risk of hugging it out with Powell is if he gets primaried from the left,” Mehlman said.
What can Biden do to slow down rate hikes?
There’s also not much Biden can do to oppose the Fed besides publicly speaking out against it.
Former President Donald Trump did just that when he said in 2019 that Powell is doing a bad job, he disagrees with him entirely, and he has the right to fire him.
While the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 allows a president to remove a Fed chair “for cause,” Powell pushed back on Trump at the time and said that the law is clear that he has been approved for a four-year term.
“I cannot imagine Biden would ever speak publicly about disagreements with Powell. ‘The Fed is independent’ has always been a strongly-held stance among executive branch policymakers, and, I don’t see any indication that the Biden admin believes this any less than predecessors,” Bivens said.
“The obvious exception is Trump and I think the contrast with Trump just adds one more reason why the Biden admin would be more likely to adopt a public stance that is protective of Fed independence,” he added.
Why is the Federal Reserve independent?
Other economists say that the White House’s strategy to stress that the Fed is independent is the smartest move.
“It’s a great strategy and it’s also one that is an institution,” said Ellen Hughes-Cromwick, a former chief economist at the Commerce Department under Obama and a fellow at the centrist Democratic think tank Third Way.
“The administration of any White House restrains their comments so that the Fed can exercise independence. It’s absolutely critical,” she said. “We really can’t have a Fed that’s got a White House breathing down their neck in every turn.”
While Powell has been the face of numerous monetary policy decisions while the U.S. has grappled with high inflation for months, another official could take some of the heat off of him.
Who will lead the inquiry? Six key players to watch in the banking crisis
Michael Barr, Federal Reserve vice chair of supervision, has been tasked with conducting an assessment of how the Fed ran oversight practices for Silicon Valley Bank.
Some more heat could be taken off of Powell over his move to raise interest rates because the Fed projected that rate increases will slow down this year. And, they projected that rates will drop in 2024, which would be good news for the president in an election year.
What can Biden do to reduce inflation?
The high prices of gas and other goods were a major talking point for Republicans in the midterm election and one of the reasons behind the president’s stubbornly low approval ratings over the last year.
Inflation will continue to haunt Biden politically if he doesn’t support steps to take it on, Hughes-Cromwick argued.
“The president has been on record, indicating that it’s so important for the Fed to achieve their mandate on inflation,” she said.
“I’m sure any White House would want to see those objectives achieved and that the Fed really has to be successful in that we cannot have five to six percent inflation for a long period of time without absolutely crippling the economy.”
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TUCSON, AZ — A recently published study from University of Arizona Health Sciences could provide insight into how to treat long COVID going forward.
According to the study, the most common symptoms found were fatigue, brain fog, and dizziness. The symptoms can vary, and so can the length of time the symptoms last. Long COVID could last for months, or even years.
The research team also reportedly found that long COVID was more common and severe in study participants that had COVID before the development of the 2021 Omicron variant.
“This is a very important first glimpse into the clinical complexities of long COVID. We now have an initial roadmap on how to better diagnose it, and we need to validate it in ongoing studies”, said Janko Nikolich, MD, PhD, the principal investigator of the study's research team in Arizona.
The study is part of a nationwide effort coordinated through the National Institutes of Health looking to develop a better understanding of why some people develop long-term symptoms after being infected with COVID-19. Perhaps more importantly, it also looks into how to detect, treat, and prevent long COVID.
“Americans living with long COVID want to understand what is happening with their bodies,” said Admiral Rachel L. Levine, MD, assistant secretary for health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services."
Nearly 10,000 adults participated in the study, with about 90% of them having been infected with COVID-19 before. The remaining people never had the virus.
The study data provided researchers with a way to identify a meaningful threshold to be able to find patients with long COVID. They also found that certain symptoms occurred together and defined four subgroups, or "clusters," that had a range of health impacts.
“This study is an important step toward defining long COVID beyond any one individual symptom,” said study author Leora Horwitz, MD, director of the Center for Healthcare Innovation and Delivery Science and co-principal investigator for the RECOVER Clinical Science Core at NYU Langone Health. “This research definition — which may evolve over time — will serve as a foundation for scientific discovery and treatment design.”
The researchers also discovered that those who took part in the study who were unvaccinated and had COVID-19 for the first time before the 2021 Omicron strain, or had reinfections, were more likely to have long COVID and more severe cases of long COVID.
“All patients suffering from long COVID deserve the attention and respect of the medical field, as well as care and treatment driven by their experiences," said David C. Goff, MD, PhD, director of the Division of Cardiovascular Sciences at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, part of NIH. "As treatments are developed, it will be important to consider the complete symptom profile.”
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All-NBA center Domantas Sabonis wasn’t a free agent this summer. And he won’t be for the next few summers, either.
Sabonis has agreed to a four-year contract extension with the Sacramento Kings, one that will keep him signed through the 2027-28 season, a person with knowledge of the talks confirmed Sunday.
The extension includes a raise on his salary for this coming season to nearly $31 million, and his salary for the four subsequent years will average about $47 million, said the person, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the team has not announced the signing.
The total value of the deal is about $217 million. ESPN first reported the agreement on Saturday night, and The Sacramento Bee subsequently confirmed it as well.
It was part of a big-spending start to free agency this summer: Counting free agent deals that have been struck, signings of this year’s rookie class and extensions, NBA teams have combined to hand out more than $3 billion in contract value since Friday night.
Sabonis would have been in line to hit the free agent market in the summer of 2024, but the Kings ensured that won’t be happening. He’s a huge part of the Kings’ current surge; the team made the playoffs this past season for the first time since 2006 and has the entirety of its starting five — Sabonis, De’Aaron Fox, Kevin Huerter, Harrison Barnes and Keegan Murray — coming back.
Sabonis is a three-time All-Star who averaged 19.1 points and a league-high 12.3 rebounds per game this past season, earning the All-NBA nod for the first time.
Utah was finalizing an extension for guard Jordan Clarkson on Sunday as well, a second person told the AP on condition of anonymity because it had not been signed. It will have a total value of $55 million over the next three years, the person said; Clarkson had opted into a contract that would have paid him $14.3 million this coming season and now will average about $18.3 million over three years.
Clarkson averaged a career-high 20.8 points for the Jazz this past season, and the extension will push his on-court earnings well past $100 million for his career.
Also Sunday:
— Miles Bridges signed his $7.9 million qualifying offer from Charlotte for this coming season, a source told AP after the agreement was first reported by ESPN. Bridges missed all of this past season after he was charged with domestic violence in the summer of 2022. He eventually pleaded no contest and is serving three years of probation. The NBA gave Bridges a 30-game suspension earlier this offseason, but added that because Bridges missed the entirety of 2022-23, 20 of those games are considered already served.
— Eric Gordon agreed to a contract with the Phoenix Suns, a source told AP after the agreement was first reported by The Athletic. Gordon is a career 37% shooter from 3-point range, and is entering his 16th NBA season.
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As death toll rises to 81, new accounts clash with official version of migrant disaster off Greece
MALAKASA, Greece (AP) — The number of confirmed victims from one of the worst migrant shipwrecks in the Mediterranean rose to 81 Monday after three more bodies were found off southern Greece, as more survivors claimed that the battered trawler had been under tow by another vessel just before it sank with hundreds of people aboard.
The new accounts raised further questions about the Greek coast guard’s response from the moment it located the ship until it went down. Officials in Athens have insisted that the metal fishing boat carrying migrants from Libya to Italy was at no point under tow, and only had a line briefly attached to it hours before it capsized and foundered.
The coast guard has also been widely criticized for not trying to rescue the migrants before their vessel sank. It argued that they refused any assistance and insisted on proceeding to Italy, adding that it would have been too dangerous to try and evacuate hundreds of unwilling people off an overcrowded ship. The full details of the incident remain unclear.
Ali Sheikhi, a Kurdish man from the war-scarred town of Kobani in northeast Syria, had hoped the vessel would take him to a better life in Europe. Then, he would eventually bring over his wife and three young sons.
Instead, the ship sank in international waters two hours after midnight on June 14. Only 104 survivors have been found so far, and 81 bodies recovered. But many accounts — backed by Sheikhi — say up to 750 people were on board.
He told Kurdish TV Rudaw that he and other relatives from Kobani, including a younger brother who died, had agreed to pay smugglers $4,000 each for the trip — a sum later raised to $4,500.
“We said ‘no problem,’ so long as the boat was big and in good shape,” he told Rudaw late Sunday, speaking by phone from a closed reception center near Athens where survivors have been moved. “They told us we should not bring any food or anything else because it is all available on the boat.”
The smugglers didn’t let anyone bring lifejackets, and threw whatever food the passengers had into the sea, he added, echoing accounts from other survivors. Sheikhi said he and his companions were directed to the ship’s hold — a deathtrap where hundreds, including women and children, are believed to have drowned — but got onto the deck after paying extra money to the smugglers.
By the time the ship sank, they had been five days at sea. Water ran out after a day and a half, and some passengers resorted to drinking seawater.
Crucially, Sheikhi said the trawler went down after its engine broke down and another vessel tried to tow it.
“In the pulling, (the trawler) sank,” he said. “We don’t know who it belonged to.” Similar claims have been made by other survivors in accounts posted on social media, and other survivors were anonymously quoted in Syrian media Monday saying the ship was being towed.
“One side went up and the people fell from there into the sea,” Sheikhi told Rudaw. “The people started to scream” in the dark. “Every person tried to hold on to the other and pull him under so he stayed above water. I thought then no one will survive.”
Greek authorities have insisted that the ship wobbled violently before sinking after an abrupt shift in position by many of its passengers.
A Greek navy frigate, with four other vessels and two aircraft continued to search the area Monday, and recovered three more bodies — the first found since Wednesday — that raised the confirmed toll to 81.
In the southern port of Kalamata, where survivors were initially taken, a court postponed for Tuesday a hearing for nine Egyptian alleged crew members of the trawler. The men face multiple charges including negligent manslaughter and people smuggling.
The court gave the suspects and their lawyers time to review the testimonies of nine Syrian and Pakistani survivors, provided over the weekend.
Meanwhile, passengers’ relatives who flew in from several European countries arrived at the migrant center in Malakasa, north of Athens, trying to track down people known to have been on the boat. About 20 people were allowed into a restricted area next to the facility: they spoke to relatives through the fence, passing them documents, snacks and soft drinks.
Zohaib Shamraiz, a Pakistani man living in Barcelona, didn’t know if his 40-year-old uncle, Nadeem Muhamm, was alive.
“I spoke to him five minutes before he got on the boat. I told him not to go. I was afraid. He said he had no choice,” Shamraiz told The Associated Press.
In their last conversation, Muhamm described being herded onto the ship with others by smugglers carrying swords, Shamraiz said. “He told me there were too many people but if the (passengers) didn’t get on the ship, they would kill them.”
Shamraiz traveled to Greece Monday attempting to trace his uncle and to provide a sample to crossmatch DNA retrieved from recovered bodies.
“I had to come to find” him, he said. His uncle is married and has three young children in Pakistan.
He is very poor and he was trying to help his family have a better life, Shamraiz said.
The other survivors, all men and youths, were from Egypt, Syria and the Palestinian territories.
Duccio Staderini, a senior official for Greece at the Doctors Without Frontiers (MSF) international charity, said smuggling networks were growing stronger due to migration “bottlenecks” resulting from Europe’s tight border policies.
“The smugglers, these criminal networks are emerging because of these bottlenecks,” he told The AP after visiting survivors in Malakasa. “And it’s getting worse and worse, and uglier and uglier.”
In a separate incident Monday, Greece’s coast guard said 68 people were rescued in the eastern Aegean Sea after the sailboat they were on sent a distress signal off the island of Leros. Another 40 migrants were rescued from a sailboat in distress northwest of Lesbos.
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Sarah El Deeb in Beirut, Lebanon, and Nicholas Paphitis, Costas Kantouris and Elena Becatoros in Athens contributed to this article.
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Two years after rallying behind Donald Trump as the GOP’s uncontested champion, Republicans on Capitol Hill are sounding a very different tune as the former president seeks the White House once again in 2024.
While a number of Trump’s staunchest supporters have already endorsed him, a long list of others is either expressing an openness to back another candidate, says it’s too early to endorse anyone or just wants to avoid the topic altogether.
The discord reflects a much broader debate among national Republicans about the direction of the party and the role Trump will play within it — a discussion that’s gained urgency after the GOP’s dispiriting performance in last week’s midterm elections. Some have blamed Trump for propping up unelectable candidates that cost Republicans the Senate and limited their gains in the House.
The GOP divisions also portray fierce frustrations within the party that Trump’s presidential announcement — which he delivered Tuesday night in a prime-time speech at Mar-a-Lago — came before the results of some midterm races are final. Some Republicans are concerned it will hurt the GOP’s chances in a Senate runoff election in Georgia, where voters will decide Dec. 6 whether Sen. Raphael Warnock (D) or Republican Herschel Walker will be in the upper chamber next year.
“I thought the timing was off. I mean, for many of us, we’re just still trying to figure out — we still have races that aren’t declared yet,” said Rep. David Schweikert (R-Ariz.), whose razor-thin victory in Arizona was called only Monday. “I thought that was a bit inappropriate.”
Others have been encouraged by last week’s strong reelection performance from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), who is eyeing a White House run of his own in 2024, and are waiting for more candidates to jump into the race.
“What’s nice is that the Republicans actually have a bench for once,” said Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.), who emphasized that she’s waiting for guidance from her constituents.
Still others simply declined to weigh in.
Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.), who came closer-than-expected to winning the New York governorship this cycle with the help of Trump’s endorsement, would not comment on the former president’s announcement.
Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) said his focus right now is “on the Speaker’s race in the House of Representatives and our rules package,” while Buddy Carter (R-Ga.) said his priorities are also elsewhere.
“Look, I am focused on Herschel Walker right now, and getting him elected in the Senate,” Carter said.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) also side-stepped questions of a Trump endorsement.
“You guys are crazy,” he told reporters.
Launching his presidency Tuesday night, Trump used his hour-plus speech to tout the achievements of his administration; hammer the track record of President Biden; blast the FBI for searching his Florida residence over the summer; and resurface his various gripes regarding China, including unfounded accusations that interference by Beijing cost him the 2020 election.
Returning the MAGA movement to power, he said, is the only way to salvage the country.
“We always have known that this was not the end. It was only the beginning of our fight to rescue the American dream,” Trump said.
The announcement was quickly hailed by Trump’s strongest supporters, who see him as Republicans’ best hope of winning the White House in 2024.
“I think President Biden has done a terrible job of leading this country,” said Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas), “and I look forward to President Trump doing a much better job.”
Trump’s early entrance in the 2024 contest is particularly prickly for McCarthy, who is vying to become Speaker next year but so far lacks the support from conservatives — including some of Trump’s closest allies — to win the gavel.
McCarthy has taken pains to remain in Trump’s good graces, even following last year’s attack on the Capitol, but has not endorsed the 45th president’s bid to become the 47th.
Putting pressure on the Republican leader, Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), a former head of the far-right Freedom Caucus who challenged McCarthy’s leadership bid this week, is already throwing his support behind Trump. Members of the GOP leadership team, including Rep. Elise Stefanik (N.Y.), are doing the same. And Jason Miller, a former senior adviser to Trump, warned last week that McCarthy’s failure to endorse the former president would cost him the Speakership.
“I do think that Kevin McCarthy needs to — if he wants to have a chance at being Speaker — he needs to be much more declarative that he is supporting President Trump,” Miller said. “It’s gonna be a MAGA-centric caucus for the Republicans in the House and even for the Senate. We need leadership to match.”
While Trump is the first Republican to officially throw his hat into the 2024 ring, other members of the party are expected to join him for what will likely be a competitive and contentious primary showcasing candidates from all corners of the increasingly fractured GOP. Some are becoming increasingly vocal about their wishes to move beyond Trump.
“I think we’ll have better choices,” former Vice President Mike Pence told The New York Times on Tuesday, before Trump’s announcement.
Pence himself is also eyeing a 2024 run, joining a long and growing list that also includes DeSantis, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) and Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.).
It’s a list that encompasses the anti-Trump wing of the party, MAGA-aligned figures and those who have tried to straddle that GOP divide that is becoming more pronounced.
Some Republicans on Capitol Hill are surveying the party’s roster before making picks for 2024.
“I’m not ready to make any type of endorsement, but I will say that in terms of the Republicans that I represent, I think they would be happy with President Trump, they would be happy with DeSantis. I also think that there’s other people like Nikki Haley, Mike Pompeo, that are good contenders,” Malliotakis told The Hill.
“We actually have a bench to choose from, and I’ll be going back to my district, talking to my constituents,” she added.
Schweikert said he is “looking forward to a really competitive presidential primary.” Pressed on who his favorite is in the race, the Arizona Republican said, “I want to see a bunch of people earn it.”
“It’s a meritocracy. Go battle for it,” he added.
Meanwhile, the former president’s closest congressional allies are sticking by him, lauding the much-anticipated announcement and expressing confidence in his chances of landing the White House for a second term.
“I thought it was a great announcement,” said Stefanik, the chair of the House GOP conference. “I think he’s in a really strong position to be the nominee.”
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), another loyal Trump supporter, echoed that message.
“I’m excited,” he said.
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Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — Former British Treasury chief Rishi Sunak was frontrunner Sunday in the Conservative Party’s race to replace Liz Truss as prime minister, as he garnered the public support of over 100 Tory lawmakers to forge ahead of his two main rivals — ousted former Prime Minister Boris Johnson and ex-Cabinet minister Penny Mordaunt.
But widespread uncertainty remained after British media reported that Sunak had held late-night talks with Johnson Saturday, and speculation mounted that the pair could strike a deal to unite the fractured governing party after it was left reeling from Truss’ rapid downfall.
The Conservative Party hastily ordered a contest that aims to finalize nominations Monday and install a new prime minister — its third this year — within a week.
Sunak, 42, confirmed Sunday he was running in the leadership race. He has the backing of at least 124 Conservative lawmakers, according to unofficial tallies by the BBC and Sky News. That’s well ahead of the 100 nominations required to qualify.
“There will be integrity, professionalism and accountability at every level of the government I lead and I will work day in and day out to get the job done,” Sunak said in a statement.
Mordaunt garnered about 24 lawmakers’ public support, while Johnson, who has not yet declared if he is running, has about 50 so far. Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg told the BBC Sunday he spoke to Johnson and that “clearly he’s going to stand” after Johnson flew back to London Saturday from his vacation in the Dominican Republic.
A possible return to power for Johnson, 58, who was forced out of office just weeks ago by a string of ethics scandals, has deeply divided the Conservatives and thrown unpredictability into the race. Supporters say he is a vote winner and has enough support from lawmakers, but many critics warn that another Johnson government would be catastrophic for the party and the country.
Northern Ireland minister Steve Baker, a former backer of Johnson and an influential politician within the Conservative Party, warned a Johnson comeback would be a “guaranteed disaster” because he still faces an investigation into whether he lied to Parliament while in office that could lead to his suspension as a lawmaker.
“This isn’t the time for Boris and his style,” Baker told Sky News on Sunday. “What we can’t do is have him as prime minister in circumstances where he’s bound to implode, taking down the whole government … and we just can’t do that again.”
But Johnson won the backing of several senior Conservatives, including Nadhim Zahawi, another former Treasury chief.
“He was contrite and honest about his mistakes. He’d learned from those mistakes how he could run No 10 and the country better,” Zahawi said.
Truss quit Thursday after a turbulent 45 days, conceding that she could not deliver on her botched tax-cutting economic package, which she was forced to abandon after it sparked fury within her party and weeks of turmoil in financial markets.
Sunak, who was Treasury chief from 2020 until this summer, steered Britain’s slumping economy through the coronavirus pandemic. He quit in July in protest against Johnson’s leadership. In the contest to replace Johnson, Sunak argued that climbing inflation must be controlled first, and called promises by Truss and other rivals to immediately slash taxes reckless “fairy tales.”
Tory voters backed Truss over Sunak, but he was proved right when Truss’ unfunded tax-cutting economic stimulus package triggered chaos in the markets in September.
Dozens among Britain’s 357 Conservative lawmakers have not yet publicly declared whom they are backing to replace Truss.
Mordaunt and Johnson — if he confirms he is running — have until Monday afternoon to garner 100 nominations. If all three meet that threshold, lawmakers will vote to knock out one and then hold an indicative vote on the final two. The party’s 172,000 members will then get to decide between the two finalists in an online vote. The new leader is due to be selected by Friday.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Even with the new spending restraints in the debt limit deal that cut borrowing by $1.5 trillion, the U.S. government’s deficits are still on course to keep climbing to record levels over the next few decades.
The projections are a sign that the two-year truce between President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., might be only a pause before a far more wrenching set of showdowns over the federal budget. The Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday that the agreement would reduce spending by $1.3 trillion and interest payments by $188 billion over 10 years. But that sum is too modest to fully offset the growing costs of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
Both Biden and McCarthy ruled out any cuts to Social Security and Medicare, two programs that benefit older voters, before their teams even began their budget talks. That omission reflects the politics around two popular programs as Democrats and Republicans prepare for next year’s presidential election.
It also means the agreement finalized on Sunday keeps the risk of ever-escalating debt on the table, setting up the possibility of another bruising battle when the debt limit needs to be raised again in 2025.
“You should think of this as one step,” said Marc Goldwein, senior vice president at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. “The question is, can they take the next step after that?”
Lawmakers know there are difficult choices ahead and that the only way through them likely involves some combination of deep spending cuts, broad tax hikes and major changes to the retirement income and health care programs that consume an ever-growing share of federal spending.
Mandatory spending — which includes Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid — already account for the majority of government spending. That category is equal in size to 14% of U.S. gross domestic product, and the CBO expects it will grow to 15.6% by 2023. By contrast, discretionary spending was 6.5% of gross domestic product last year and was already projected to fall to 6% within 10 years.
Goldwein said he’s optimistic that leaders in both parties will find ways to reduce the growth in spending for health care programs. Social Security will also face a reckoning as its trust fund will be unable to pay out full benefits within a decade.
But some budget experts saw the deal as more focused on optics than sustainability.
“This debt limit agreement is shaking out to be a political face-saving deal without much substance in terms of changing the U.S. debt trajectory,” said Romina Boccia, director of budget and entitlement policy at the libertarian Cato Institute.
The agreement, which still has to be approved by Congress, would hold discretionary spending essentially flat for the coming year, while allowing increases for military and veterans accounts. Spending growth would be capped at 1% for 2025, essentially a cut given the likely rate of inflation.
Some Democratic allies see the deal as problematic because it cedes ground to Republicans who want to use the debt limit fight as an opportunity to press their policy aims, despite the risk of a default.
“Looking forward, we must find a path to abolish the debt ceiling and end the absurd debt ceiling hostage-taking that Republicans engage in when they can use it as a bludgeon against a Democratic president,” said Sharon Parrott, president of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal think tank.
Other economic analysts took issue with GOP suggestions that the U.S. was already hamstrung by debt, even though investors continue, for the moment, to buy Treasury notes. While total federal debt — including money the government owes itself — exceeds $31 trillion, the U.S. economy possesses more than $143 trillion worth of non-financial assets in a sign that the current debt loads are manageable.
“It is simply not true that the United States is broke and on the verge of a debt and deficit crisis,” said Joe Brusuelas, chief economist at the consultancy RSM U.S.
But even if there isn’t an immediate reckoning over debt, there is a long-term problem that the talks purposefully ignored. The president challenged Republicans to shield Social Security and Medicare from cuts at his State of the Union address in February. GOP lawmakers jeered him for suggesting they would dare to cut the programs, leading Biden to declare, “We’ve got unanimity.”
Biden specifically hailed the bipartisan agreement on Sunday for protecting Social Security and Medicare, while saying the agreement that must pass the House and Senate would prevent a possibly catastrophic default that could occur on June 5.
“This is a deal that’s good news,” the president said, “for the American people.”
Yet House members received a specific briefing in March indicating that entitlement programs would drive up the debt. CBO director Phillip Swagel gave a presentation showing that publicly held debt would more than double to 195% of gross domestic product in 2053. The key challenge is that an aging population means that programs for older people have costs that exceed tax revenues.
Swagel provided 17 policy options for reducing the debt, six of which were tax hikes that could raise trillions of dollars over 10 years. Tax increases have been a nonstarter with Republicans, while Democrats have generally shied away from reductions to benefits.
His slide deck included this warning: “The longer action is delayed, the larger the policy changes would need to be.”
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No. 1 Georgia romps into playoff with 50-30 SEC win vs LSU
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia swatted away the field goal attempt, the ball spinning to a stop at its 4-yard line. The LSU players trudged off the field, thinking the play was over.
Christopher Smith knew better. He suddenly scooped it up and took off the other way, sprinting 96 yards for a touchdown that epitomized the Bulldogs program.
They were a step ahead of LSU on Saturday.
They’ve been a step ahead of everyone for two years now.
With all sorts of turmoil behind them in the rankings, Georgia headed to the College Football Playoff as the clear No. 1, dismantling the No. 11 Tigers 50-30 in the Southeastern Conference championship game Saturday.
Stetson Bennett’s threw a season-high four touchdown passes in another stellar postseason performance, while Smith’s heads-up play gave the Bulldogs an early spark.
“I’ve got good players around me. I’m not that bad at football, either,” Bennett said with a smile. “We’ve got a good team.”
Georgia (13-0, No. 1 CFP) also caught a big break when Smith deflected a pass that bounced off an LSU receiver’s helmet and wound up being picked off by the Bulldogs, setting up a score that contributed to a 35-10 lead by halftime.
LSU quarterback Jayden Daniels re-injured a sore right ankle late in the second quarter, giving way to Garrett Nussmeier in the second half.
The backup guiding the Tigers (9-4, No. 14 CFP) to three second-half touchdowns, but it wasn’t nearly enough.
Georgia accomplished something that not even last season’s national championship squad could could do — win its first SEC title since 2017. The Bulldogs were denied in this game a year ago by Alabama, before bouncing back to beat the Crimson Tide in the title game.
“I don’t want one kid to walk out of our program without an SEC championship ring in their careers,” coach Kirby Smart said. “That could’ve happened. They said enough is enough and got ‘em one tonight.”
Georgia heads into the playoff assured of a return trip to Atlanta for a de facto semifinal home game at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, just 75 miles from its Athens campus.
LSU’s outside hopes of crashing the four-team playoff field were wiped out a week ago by a stunning loss at Texas A&M, one of several upsets that will give the selection committee plenty to think about before its announcement Sunday.
Tennessee and Clemson also ruined their playoff hopes with losses late in the regular season, while No. 4 Southern California is presumably out after getting blown out by Utah in the Pac-12 title game Friday night.
Just as the SEC game was kicking off, No. 3 TCU lost to Kansas State in overtime for the Big 12 championship, further clouding a playoff picture that suddenly looks much more favorable for No. 5 Ohio State and No. 6 Alabama.
No matter who makes the elite field, Georgia is firmly focused on becoming the first repeat national title since Alabama in 2011-12, having won all but one game this season by double-digit margins.
“I’ve tried not to play attention to any of it,” Smart said of all the chaos. “It didn’t matter to me. That’s so far away.”
The Bulldogs showed they are more than just a bunch of talented athletes — this is a smart, well-coached group.
When Nazir Stackhouse burst through the middle of the line to block LSU’s 32-yard field goal attempt late in the first quarter, Smith knew what to do.
“That’s a scenario we go over a lot in practice,” he said.
He looked toward the sideline to see if it was OK to grab it.
“You’re not allowed to pick it up unless you can score with it,” Smart said.
Smith took care of the rest.
LSU coach Brian Kelly blamed himself and his staff for allowing the play to happen.
“Obviously, we did a poor job if coaching,” he said. “It’s our responsibility to have our guys alert in that situation. They were not alert.”
LSU quickly tied it up on Daniels’ 53-yard touchdown pass to Kayshon Boutte, only to have Bennett take control from there.
The sixth-year senior, a former walk-on who was offensive MVP of both Georgia playoffs wins a year ago, struck for four TD passes in a less than 15-minute span: 3 yards to Brock Bowers, 22 yards to Ladd McConkey, 14 yards to Darnell Washington and 3 yards to Dillon Bell.
Just like that, Georgia led 35-7.
“I was in a zone,” Bennett said.
It’s been that way for two years now.
THE TAKEAWAY
LSU: Kelly’s debut season turned a bit ugly the last two weeks, but the Tigers are on the right track. “We want to get back here next year. That’s our goal,” Kelly said. “Get back here and win it.”
Georgia: Win or lose in the SEC title game, the Bulldogs were assured of a spot in the playoff. But Smart continues to impress with his ability to keep the team motivated. While there were some huge defensive lapses in the second half, this game was never in doubt.
GOING FOR 2
When Georgia scored its final touchdown early in the fourth quarter for a 48-23 lead, Smart surprisingly called for a 2-point conversion.
The Bulldogs converted it with a trick play, but Smart insisted that he wasn’t trying to run up the score.
“The books says you go for 2 there,” he said.
When asked about the play, Kelly stumbled over his words a bit before finally saying, “I don’t get too caught up in what other teams are doing.”
INJURY REPORT
While Daniels went down for LSU, Georgia also lost a couple of players to injuries in the first half.
McConkey landed awkwardly making a catch along the sideline, inflaming a knee issue that’s been bothering him all year. Tight offensive tackle Warren McClendon sustained what appears to be a mild MCL sprain.
Neither returned after halftime.
UP NEXT
LSU: The Tigers get their postseason assignment Sunday, with the Citrus Bowl among the possibilities.
Georgia: The only question is who the Bulldogs will meet in the Peach Bowl on New Year’s Eve, with TCU, Ohio State and SEC rival Alabama all in the mix.
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Which Black and Decker toaster oven is best?
Toaster ovens come in a range of sizes with several possible cooking styles, all to either supplement or even replace not only a toaster but also a microwave, air fryer and even a standard oven. Black and Decker has options for all of the above, and for reasonable prices.
The best Black and Decker toaster oven is the Black and Decker TO3240XSBD Eight-Slice Extra-Wide Convection Countertop Toaster Oven. It’s among the biggest and most powerful Black and Decker offers.
What to know before you buy a Black and Decker toaster oven
Size
Even the smallest Black and Decker toaster ovens take up a good amount of counter space, so make sure you know exactly how much space you have to give before you start shopping. When checking, remember that toaster ovens require an inch or two of extra space all around for airflow and safety. And don’t forget to account for the space the door needs to open.
Most Black and Decker toaster ovens start with needing at least 1-by-1-by-1 feet of space.
Capacity
Most toaster ovens relate capacity in terms of how many slices of bread they can toast at once. The smallest Black and Decker toaster oven can cook four slices while the largest can cook eight.
Don’t get a larger-capacity oven than you need. The larger it is, the longer it takes to heat up, meaning you have to wait longer for your food and you’ll spend money on energy you didn’t need to burn.
What to look for in a quality Black and Decker toaster oven
Cooking functions
Black and Decker toaster ovens typically have several cooking functions to choose from.
- Toast: This is the base cooking function. Each side of your food is cooked at the same time by individual heating elements.
- Bake: Due to the way the heating elements are positioned for toasting, most Black and Decker toaster ovens can also bake foods like a standard oven.
- Broil: Some Black and Decker toaster ovens can broil by only turning the upper heating element on to maximum temperature.
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- Air frying: Air frying is similar to convection cooking in that it uses a fan to circulate hot air, but you’ll need some special equipment and the appropriate settings to take advantage of it.
Temperature range
Most Black and Decker toaster ovens have a maximum temperature of 450 degrees, but some larger and more powerful ones can reach 500. It may not seem like much of a difference, but some foods, such as certain meats, require higher temperatures to cook safely.
Controls
Most Black and Decker toaster ovens use knobs but a few use buttons. It’s typically a matter of preference, but knobs can offer more precise control.
How much you can expect to spend on a Black and Decker toaster oven
They can cost as little as $50 or as much as $150. Most cost no more than $100 but the largest models cost more.
Black and Decker toaster oven FAQ
Do I need a toaster oven if I have a regular oven, and vice versa?
A. If you can only have one, it depends on how many people you regularly need to feed and what you’re trying to cook. If you only cook for yourself and you don’t do much more than reheat or toast, you can get away with only a toaster oven. If you cook for a big family or you make large dishes such as whole birds, you’d be better off with a standard oven.
How do I clean a toaster oven?
A. First, make sure it’s completely cool and unplugged. If it has a crumb tray, remove and clean it. Then wipe the exterior and interior with a soft damp cloth soaked in a mixture of hot water and soap. Avoid cleaning it with anything rough — this can scratch it — and don’t get any water on electrical components. Let it dry completely before you plug it back in.
What’s the best Black and Decker toaster oven to buy?
Top Black and Decker toaster oven
Black and Decker TO3240XSBD Eight-Slice Extra-Wide Convection Countertop Toaster Oven
What you need to know: This toaster oven is big enough to replace your toaster, oven and microwave.
What you’ll love: It has a high enough capacity that it can fit a standard 9- by 13-inch casserole dish inside. It includes a baking pan, broil rack and a removable crumb tray for easier cleaning. The maximum temperature is 450 degrees and it has a timer.
What you should consider: A few consumers had issues with it not being able to reach its maximum temperature. Others found the crumb tray doesn’t catch everything.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Black and Decker toaster oven for the money
Black and Decker TO1313SBD Four-Slice Convection Oven
What you need to know: This is the perfect toaster oven for smaller kitchens.
What you’ll love: The compact design is still large enough to cook a 9-inch pizza. It has a maximum temperature of 450 degrees and a timer that goes up to 30 minutes. A baking pan and a broiling rack are included.
What you should consider: There’s no indicator light to show it’s finished preheating.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Worth checking out
Black and Decker CTO6335S Six-Slice Countertop Convection Toaster Oven
What you need to know: This is among Black and Decker’s most feature-rich models.
What you’ll love: It has a digital screen that displays all the necessary information, including time left and the temperature. It has several presets including pizza, potato and cookies. The capacity is large enough for a 12-inch pizza. There are two positions for your racks and trays.
What you should consider: A few purchasers reported that the control labels eventually wear off. Others reported it as being noisy.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
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The United States and more than 30 other "like-minded" countries are backing a proposed ban of Russian and Belarusian athletes from competing in international sports, according to a joint statement published on a UK government website on Monday.
The countries -- including the UK, Canada and most of Europe -- asked the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to reconsider its decision last month to create a pathway for Russian and Belarusian athletes to participate in next year's Paris Olympics as "neutral athletes."
But the statement on the UK government website says there is "no practical reason to move away from the exclusion regime for Russian and Belarusian athletes."
On previous recommendation from the IOC, Russian and Belarusian athletes are currently banned from competition by many sporting federations following Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Belarus' assistance in the attack.
"In Russia and Belarus sport and politics are closely intertwined," the joint statement said.
"We have strong concerns on how feasible it is for Russian and Belarusian Olympic athletes to compete as 'neutrals' -- under the IOC's conditions of no identification with their country -- when they are directly funded and supported by their states (unlike, for example, professional tennis players).
"The strong links and affiliations between Russian athletes and the Russian military are also of clear concern. Our collective approach throughout has therefore never been one of discrimination simply on the basis of nationality, but these strong concerns need to be dealt with by the IOC."
The statement is signed by sport and culture ministers from the US, Canada, UK, Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden.
In a statement sent to CNN on Tuesday, the IOC said it "appreciates the constructive questions with regard to the definition of the neutrality of athletes with a Russian or Belarusian passport, while noting that the explicit human rights concerns expressed by two special rapporteurs of the United Nations Human Rights Council have not been addressed in the statement."
The office of the high commission of Human Rights commended the IOC's move to allow Russian and Belarus athletes to compete as neutrals, urging the governing body to ensure "the non-discrimination of any athlete on the basis of their nationality."
In a recent questions and answers statement published to its website, the IOC said it "cannot speculate" about whether Russian and Belarusian athletes would compete at the Paris Olympics.
The IOC's intention to create a pathway for Russian and Belarusian athletes to return to competition has been met with criticism, including from Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina and former boxing champion Wladimir Klitschko.
Ukrainian presidential aide Mykhaylo Podolyak, meanwhile, called the IOC a "promoter of war, murder and destruction" in light of the announcement last month -- remarks the IOC rejected as "defamatory statements."
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Despite Travel Rebound Optimism, 58% of Businesses Have Outdated or No Travel and Expense Policies
SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Center, a software company helping businesses gain visibility into and manage employee spending, today released insights from its fourth annual Expense Management Trends survey, revealing that despite an uncertain economic environment, over a third of respondents (36%) plan to spend more than $250k annually on travel, with 16% expected to spend over $500k. Other findings include the need for updated expense management checks and balances, as businesses remain plagued by outdated processes that make cost control and budget compliance difficult in challenging economic times.
Corporate Travel Rebound Ahead In Spite Of Unsettled Macro Environment
A historically difficult cost to control, travel is typically the second highest business expense for companies behind payroll. Looking ahead, a 2022 poll from the Global Business Travel Association shows a rebound in domestic business travel compared to pre-pandemic levels, estimating an almost full recovery (63%) compared to 2019. Data from Center's research validates the rise in travel spend based on the following:
- Half of survey respondents (50%) expect business travel to increase in the next 1-3 years
- Just over one third (36%) are spending more than $250k per year on business travel
- 16% spend $500k or more per year on business travel
Outdated T&E Policies Create Complexity
Though business travel is on the rise, survey respondents believe they do not have clearly defined T&E policies. The lack of policies creates confusion about what counts as a business expense, what the spend guardrails are, and how to track expenses accurately. An increase in corporate travel and a precarious economic climate calls for more dynamic planning and refined employee expense controls. To effectively manage employee spend as the landscape for corporate travel continues to evolve, SMEs require more comprehensive T&E guidelines and user-friendly tools.
- Over half (58%) of respondents have either outdated T&E policies, or no T&E policies at all
- 44% book travel directly (outside of corporate booking tools)
- The #1 stated reason for not booking through a corporate tool is lack of knowledge regarding corporate tools and processes or not knowing they exist
Post-Pandemic Workforce Shines a Light on Inefficient Legacy Systems
According to the new research, most respondents (more than 50%) now work in a fully remote or hybrid environment and have issued more corporate cards over the last three years to accommodate the change. The shift to a more decentralized expense management process has resulted in ill-equipped or rigid systems, lack of automation and real-time visibility, and additional challenges, including:
- Inefficient management of expenses with roughly one-third (32%) relying on manual processes and manual reconciliation using spreadsheets and paper
- Dissatisfaction in current expense management tools (24%), with 37% describing the processes of reviewing and approving expenses as "complex"
- Time-intensive tasks, such as: employee time spent filling out expenses (40%), time spent creating/analyzing expense data and trends (31%), and credit card reconciliation (27%)
"After four consecutive years tracking the sentiment of SMEs related to expense management, it is notable to see renewed optimism in business travel as a top area of investment," said Naveen Singh, CEO of Center. "As businesses rethink and refresh their backend operations to accommodate the changing workplace, finance teams are increasingly leaning on technology and automation to help them keep track of spend across distributed workforces. Center remains committed to helping them be as nimble as possible as the way we work continues to evolve."
Download the full Expense Management Trends report here. To request a media interview with a Center executive, please contact Centercard@finnpartners.com.
About Center
Center is a software company helping businesses gain visibility into and manage employee spending. Our leadership shaped the first wave of spend management innovation, and created Center to deliver a more cost-effective and modern way to automate expense processing for mid-market companies. Center Expense, our core offering, is an integrated corporate card and expense solution used by small and medium-sized enterprises to save time, improve operations and compliance, and deliver real-time insights to finance teams for better decision making. Center is a privately held company headquartered in Bellevue, WA with team members nationwide. For more information, please visit getcenter.com.
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PARK RIDGE, Ill. (AP) — A suburban Chicago family is requesting criminal charges against an off-duty Chicago police sergeant who they say pinned their 14-year-old son down and pressed a knee to his back because he mistakenly thought the boy was trying to steal his son’s bicycle.
Park Ridge police, the Chicago Police Department and the Civilian Office of Police Accountability have all launched investigations into the July 1 incident in Park Ridge. No arrest or disciplinary action has been announced.
“As parents, we are heartbroken over the abuse of power and excessive force used against our son,” the boy’s mother, Nicole Nieves, said Wednesday at a news conference. “In a world where it already feels unsafe to go to the mall, to attend school, to enjoy a parade with family, the last thing we need is any reason to fear those who stand to protect us.”
The boy was out with friends Friday evening. Holding his bike, the boy was moving another bike that was blocking his path when the officer confronted him, said the family's attorney, Antonio Romanucci.
The officer grabbed the boy, pinned his arms behind his back on the sidewalk and put his knee on the boy’s back, according to video provided by Romanucci and the family, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. The boy’s friends pleaded with the officer to get off him, and eventually the boy was freed.
“This is a clear-cut case of racial profiling,” Romanucci said. “The off-duty officer is white and the boy was the only person of color in a group of teenagers."
The boy is Puerto Rican.
Park Ridge and Chicago police declined to comment on the case.
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AUSTIN, Texas, May 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Retention.com, the industry-leading Shopify e-commerce solution for increasing revenue, is excited to announce the launch of a new TV series: The Billion Dollar Challenge.
The Billion Dollar Challenge follows Retention.com founder Adam Robinson as he builds his SaaS company toward a billion-dollar valuation. The series offers an unprecedented look behind the curtain of bootstrapping a company and building with explosive growth.
Adam's journey with Retention.com started in 2019, quickly growing from nothing to $13MM ARR in three short years with only 6 full-time employees. Since the end of 2022, the company has exploded to over 50 employees and a $20MM ARR, just recently celebrating its first million-dollar week milestone.
Adam has not been shy about exposing the challenges he has faced as a bootstrapped entrepreneur. On his Work in Public podcast, he shares detailed financial information, sales decks, and more. Now with Billion Dollar Challenge, the cameras are following Adam from morning until night as he overcomes the personal, family, financial, and other life challenges faced by small entrepreneurs.
"Our customers, the lifeblood of Retention.com, are all in the same boat I am," said Adam. "They're entrepreneurs, building their life's work from the ground up. They face the most crucial challenges every day, whether it's making financial ends meet as they give to their business, balancing family and work, or riding the emotional roller coaster of failure and success."
"Overcoming our shared struggles is what gets me out of bed every morning," added Adam. "I hope you'll join me on this journey as we build success together."
Episode one of The Billion Dollar Challenge officially launched on Tuesday, May 23, 2023. New episodes will air every Tuesday at 9 am PST on Linkedin.
About Retention.com: E-commerce stores lose a total of $18 billion every year in potential revenue simply because shoppers leave before checking out. With Retention.com, shopping cart abandonment becomes a thing of the past. We enable email-based retargeting so that brands can re-engage lapsed audiences AND grow their email lists for the future. Learn more: Retention.com.
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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the remarks by a key Cabinet ally calling for a Palestinian village to be erased were inappropriate in a Twitter thread Sunday, after the U.S. demanded that he reject the statement.
In the thread, posted in English shortly after midnight, Netanyahu did not appear to condemn the remarks outright and implied that the ally, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, misspoke. Netanyahu thanked Smotrich for later walking the comments back and “making clear that his choice of words” was “inappropriate.” The bulk of the thread urged the international community to seek condemnations from the Palestinians over attacks against Israelis.
It appeared to be his first public response to Smotrich's remarks since they were made Wednesday.
Netanyahu's Twitter thread underlines how the Israeli leader has had to balance the ideologies of the far-right members of his government with the expectations of Israel's chief ally, the United States. Smotrich is the head of one of several ultranationalist parties that help make up Netanyahu’s government, its most right-wing ever.
Jewish settlers of the occupied West Bank last week rampaged through the Palestinian village of Hawara, where earlier in the day two Israeli brothers were killed in a Palestinian shooting attack. Later in the week, Smotrich said the village should be erased — by Israeli forces and not by private citizens.
Smotrich later backtracked, saying he didn’t mean for the village to be erased but for Israel to operate surgically within it against Palestinian militants. Still, his earlier comments sparked an international outcry. The U.S. called them repugnant and urged Netanyahu to “publicly and clearly reject and disavow them.” The United Nations and Middle East powerhouses Egypt and Saudi Arabia also condemned Smotrich's remarks.
In a Hebrew tweet posted around the same time, Netanyahu said even foreign diplomats make mistakes, an apparent reference to a report by Israeli Channel 12 that U.S. Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides made disparaging remarks about Smotrich ahead of his visit to Washington this week, saying he would “throw him off the plane,” if he could. A U.S. Embassy spokesperson denied he had made the remarks.
Smotrich, in a tweet Saturday, said he was “convinced that he didn't mean to incite to kill me when he said I must be thrown from the plane just as I didn't mean to harm innocents when I said Hawara must be erased.”
In his tweets, Netanyahu wrote that "it is important for all of us to work to tone down the rhetoric" amid a spiraling wave of violence between Israel and the Palestinians.
“That includes speaking out forcefully against inappropriate statements and even correcting our own statements when we misspeak or when our words are taken out of context,” he posted.
Netanyahu then blasted the Palestinian Authority for not condemning Palestinian attacks against Israelis, and the international community for not demanding condemnations from the Palestinians.
Israel has long claimed the international community has a double standard in its expectations from Israel and the Palestinians. Israel captured the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war, territories the Palestinians seek for their future state. Israel maintains a 55-year, open-ended occupation over Palestinians in the West Bank and a blockade, along with Egypt, of the Gaza Strip.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Mark Evans II feels honored to be at this week’s NFL’s annual scouting combine.
The former Arkansas-Pine Bluff offensive lineman just believes more players from historically Black colleges and universities deserve to be in Indianapolis.
Nearly three years after the NFL announced its support for enhanced diversity policies and just weeks after the second Legacy Bowl and HBCU combine wrapped up, Evans and Isaiah Land are the only HBCU participants among the 319 invitees. That’s half of last year’s total of four.
“I feel like they’re making progress, but I feel like it most definitely should be more than two,” he said Saturday. “I feel like there are a lot of good players out there and I feel like we should be represented more.”
Should combine officials ask, Evans has some suggestions: linebacker Jordan Lewis of Southern, Lewis’ college teammate and 2023 Legacy Bowl defensive MVP Jason Dumas and North Carolina Central offensive lineman Robert Mitchell.
It’s just a start — and he has more suggestions for next year’s combine, too.
For now, though, Evans must acknowledge one undeniable fact; two years after no HBCU players were drafted, he and Land look like the best hope of avoiding a repeat.
The 6-foot-2 1/2, 303-pound Texan is scheduled to work out Sunday with the offensive linemen before closing down the combine with Monday’s bench press.
But the edge rusher from Florida A&M certainly did his part this weekend. Land measured in at 6-foot-3 1/2, 236 pounds, was clocked in the 40-yard dash at 4.62 seconds, 13th in his position group and just .02 seconds behind former Alabama star Will Anderson Jr., one of the front-runners to be this year’s No. 1 overall pick.
“I try to put my best foot forward every time because I just want to give hope to those guys at the HBCU level, like you know you could make it to this point,” he said before Thursday’s workout. “You’ve just got to stay consistent, and you’ve got to have that underdog mentality.”
It’s a lesson Land, who is from Buffalo, New York, seems to have taken from one of today’s top HBCU ambassadors, Indianapolis Colts linebacker Shaquille Leonard. The three-time All-Pro beat the odds by becoming a second-round pick, the 2018 AP Defensive Rookie of the Year and despite an injury-filled 2022 season is still regarded as one of the league’s top playmakers.
Few gave him a chance when he started at South Carolina State. Today, he’s not only the face and voice of what can be achieved with grit and work, he repeatedly advocates for teams and scouts to keep HBCU prospects on their radar.
He’s not alone.
Washington Commanders general manager Martin Mayhew grew up in Tallahassee, Florida, and followed Land’s Rattlers, partially because they were local but primarily because Florida A&M was his mother’s alma mater. He’s been a fan ever since.
“I want to give some shoutout to my old (college) teammate Deion Sanders for shining a light on black colleges and HBCUs,” Mayhew said earlier this week. “Florida A&M was a school that I was very familiar with, I watched all their games when I was in high school. They (HBCUs) are getting more views on television. They’re much more visible than they were four or five years ago.”
So far, the numbers haven’t moved much.
Even with help from Sanders, the former Jackson State coach, and Leonard coupled with the NFL’s efforts, only four HBCU players were taken last year — the most in a single draft since 2019.
Fayetteville State cornerback Joshua Williams, the top HBCU selection last season at No. 135 overall (fourth round), made it pay off. He played in all 17 games, made 40 tackles, picked off one pass and earned a Super Bowl ring in his rookie season with the Kansas City Chiefs.
What else would help?
HBCUs have traditionally faced financial challenges with everything from athletic department budgets to educational support, and now face additional concerns in a college world with NIL deals and a transfer portal that makes it easier for Power Five schools to mine talent from smaller schools and conferences across the college landscape.
But Evans thinks he benefitted from some of the advantages Arkansas-Pine Bluff presented for him and another alum, four-time Pro Bowl left tackle Terron Armstead of the Miami Dolphins.
“I feel like I’m able to stand out,” Evans said. “When scouts came through, I was able to sit down with them and talk to each and every one of them and I felt that was really important for me to get that experience.”
Still, Evans believes more should be done and if he makes an NFL roster he has promised to help provide more exposure on HBCU schools and their players in hopes of restarting the pipeline to the NFL that was so productive in earlier decades.
Land hopes to be part of the solution, too, and he has a simple message for those still playing college football. Accept the challenge.
“I always had a chip on my shoulder when I went against bigger school guys because I just always feel like I’ve got something to prove,” he said. “That’s one of the main reasons why I stayed at FAMU was because I knew I could have gone to any other school, but I wanted to stick with them.”
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Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Wednesday that a gang kidnapped a busload of around 50 migrants in the country's north.
Some of them have been rescued, and National Guard troops are searching the area around the northern Mexican city of Matehuala.
"They have already found some," the president added at a news briefing.
"Originally, there were reports of 50," he said. "We hope to rescue them."
What we know about the kidnapped migrants
Media reports said, citing officials, that nine people were rescued after they fled, meaning around 40 were still missing.
Officials said the migrants were traveling north toward the US in a bus from the southern state of Chiapas when they were attacked.
Those who were rescued were from Venezuela and Honduras, according to reports citing authorities in the northeastern state of Nuevo Leon.
The gang demanded a ransom of $1,500 (€1,383) for each kidnapped person, said the National Confederation of Mexican Transporters.
Latest incident in string of abductions
"Unfortunately, there are gangs that engage in kidnapping," Lopez Obrador said
Gangs and drug cartels have long been active in the area where authorities are currently searching for the migrants.
In recent months, a string of such kidnappings has been reported, as gangs seem to increasingly charge migrants for fees to cross Mexico and then abduct them for ransom.
The National Institute of Migration has said that more than 2,100 migrants were kidnapped in Mexico last year.
Around 35 people, including tourists and migrants, were abducted last month in the country's northeast. They were later found in a desert area.
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Financial services risk and compliance expert Anderson will guide the credit union's risk and compliance teams, enhancing OnPoint's rigorous policies and practices.
PORTLAND, Ore., June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- OnPoint Community Credit Union has hired seasoned risk management expert Cirith Anderson to serve as Senior Vice President and Chief Risk Officer. She joins the Executive Team of Oregon's largest credit union with more than 480,000 members and $9.4 billion in assets.
Anderson comes to OnPoint with more than 25 years of experience in managing risk and compliance for regional and national financial institutions. She most recently served as Senior Vice President/Chief Compliance Officer at Umpqua Bank where she oversaw the design and execution of the financial institution's enterprise compliance risk policies and procedures.
"Cirith is a true expert in her field with a proven track record of managing risk," said Rob Stuart, President and Chief Executive Officer, OnPoint Community Credit Union. "We are fortunate to have her deep expertise and diverse experience on board as we work tirelessly to protect OnPoint's members, community and employees in a rapidly evolving risk environment."
In her new role, Anderson leads OnPoint's enterprise risk management infrastructure. Her primary responsibilities include identifying and mitigating current and future risks, monitoring and testing risk controls, and continuing to embed risk management as a primary component of OnPoint's workplace culture. As CRO, Anderson serves as OnPoint's chief regulatory and legislative liaison, as well as its expert on all related laws and regulations, and manager of regulatory examinations. Anderson maintains relationships with local and national regulators such as the State of Oregon and the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA).
"I have dedicated my career to building cultures of effective and consistent compliance that protect organizations and those they serve," said Anderson. "OnPoint has a strong foundation in risk management, and I look forward to continuing to evolve its infrastructure to protect OnPoint, its members and communities."
Anderson earned a Bachelor of Arts from Willamette University and will complete her Executive Master of Business Administration from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2023. She is a graduate of the Pacific Coast Banking School.
Anderson enjoys giving back to the community, serving as a small business and student mentor at Washington State University's Carson College of Business and Vice President for the Cascade Whippet Club. She volunteers at the Art on the Boulevard gallery in Vancouver and previously served on the fundraising committee for Minds Matter of Portland, Inc. Anderson lives in Vancouver, Washington and is an active outdoor enthusiast.
The OnPoint Executive Team is comprised of the following members:
- Rob Stuart, President/Chief Executive Officer
- Cirith Anderson, Senior Vice President/Chief Risk Officer
- Jim Armstrong, Senior Vice President/Chief Information Officer
- Tim Clevenger, Senior Vice President/Chief Marketing Officer
- Jackie Dunckley, Senior Vice President/Chief Talent Officer
- Jim Hunt, Senior Vice President/Chief Financial Officer
- Steve Leugers, Senior Vice President/Chief Credit Officer
- Tory McVay, Senior Vice President/Chief Retail Officer
Founded in 1932, OnPoint Community Credit Union is the largest credit union in Oregon, serving more than 480,000 members and with assets of $9.4 billion. OnPoint membership is available to anyone who lives or works in one of 28 Oregon counties (Benton, Clackamas, Clatsop, Columbia, Coos, Crook, Curry, Deschutes, Douglas, Gilliam, Hood River, Jackson, Jefferson, Josephine, Klamath, Lane, Lincoln, Linn, Marion, Morrow, Multnomah, Polk, Sherman, Tillamook, Wasco, Washington, Wheeler and Yamhill) and two Washington counties (Skamania and Clark) and their immediate family members. More information is available at www.onpointcu.com or 800-527-3932.
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Caught on camera: Deputies rescue puppy that was stuck in culvert
Published: Jul. 28, 2023 at 3:25 AM EDT|Updated: 19 minutes ago
ELK MOUND, Wis. (WEAU/Gray News) - A group of deputies came to the rescue of a puppy in Elk Mound, Wisconsin.
The Dunn County Sheriff’s Office said a deputy responded Wednesday just before noon to a call asking for help rescuing the puppy from a culvert.
After the first deputy on scene, Sam Miller, couldn’t get the puppy out with the tools he had, Sergeant Rich Day and trainee Deputy Adam Philips fetched a catch pole for him to use.
After a little bit of maneuvering, Miller was able to grab the puppy’s leg with the catch pole and pull it out to safety.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for AMC, MULN, PLUG, TOMZ, and LCID.
To see how InvestorsObserver's proprietary scoring system rates these stocks, view the InvestorsObserver's PriceWatch Alert by selecting the corresponding link.
- AMC: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=AMC&prnumber=080820225
- MULN: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=MULN&prnumber=080820225
- PLUG: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=PLUG&prnumber=080820225
- TOMZ: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=TOMZ&prnumber=080820225
- LCID: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=LCID&prnumber=080820225
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InvestorsObserver's PriceWatch Alerts are based on our proprietary scoring methodology. Each stock is evaluated based on short-term technical, long-term technical and fundamental factors. Each of those scores is then combined into an overall score that determines a stock's overall suitability for investment.
InvestorsObserver provides patented technology to some of the biggest names on Wall Street and creates world-class investing tools for the self-directed investor on Main Street. We have a wide range of tools to help investors make smarter decisions when investing in stocks or options.
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SMITHS FALLS, ON, July 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Canopy Growth Corporation ("Canopy Growth" or the "Company") (TSX: WEED) (NASDAQ: CGC) announced today that all conversions pursuant to the US$100,000,000 senior unsecured convertible debentures (the "Convertible Debentures"), sold to an institutional investor in February 2023, have been completed.
Since the beginning of fiscal 2023, Canopy Growth has completed numerous balance sheet actions to strengthen its financial position, while implementing a business transformation plan with the goal of improving profitability. In addition to today's announcement that preserves liquidity, the balance sheet actions completed by the Company to date include:
- Equitization of $263 million of the 4.25% Unsecured Notes due in July 2023;
- Paydown of USD$188 million (or 25% of the principal) of the senior secured term loan at $0.93 per dollar of debt;
- Refinanced $100 million of the 4.25% Unsecured Notes due in July 2023 held by Greenstar Canada Investment Limited Partnership, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Constellation Brands, Inc. ("CBI") in order to extend the maturity date to December 31, 2024; and
- Generated $81 million in cash proceeds during the most recent fiscal quarter from the disposition of five facilities with additional agreements in place to generate up to $150 million in total proceeds by September 30 of this year.
"Today's announcement underscores our continued commitment to deleveraging and strengthening Canopy Growth's financial position," said Judy Hong, Chief Financial Officer, Canopy Growth. "When paired with our ongoing cost reduction program in Canada which is on track to achieve $240-$310M in total savings by March 2024, we are well positioned to achieve improved profitability, enhance financial flexibility, and support long-term value creation."
The Company is also undertaking a review of additional strategic options to further improve liquidity and minimize cash burn.
Canopy Growth is a leading North American cannabis and CPG company dedicated to unleashing the power of cannabis to improve lives.
Through an unwavering commitment to our consumers, Canopy Growth delivers innovative products with a focus on premium and mainstream cannabis brands including Doja, 7ACRES, Tweed, and Deep Space. Our CPG portfolio features sugar-free sports hydration brand BioSteel, targeted 24-hour skincare and wellness solutions from This Works, gourmet wellness products by Martha Stewart CBD, and category defining vaporizer technology made in Germany by Storz & Bickel.
Canopy Growth has also established a comprehensive ecosystem to realize the opportunities presented by the U.S. THC market through its rights to Acreage Holdings, a vertically integrated multi-state cannabis operator with principal operations in densely populated states across the Northeast, as well as Wana Brands, a leading cannabis edible brand in North America, and Jetty Extracts, a California-based producer of high-quality cannabis extracts and pioneer of clean vape technology.
Beyond our world-class products, Canopy Growth is leading the industry forward through a commitment to social equity, responsible use, and community reinvestment—pioneering a future where cannabis is understood and welcomed for its potential to help achieve greater well-being and life enhancement.
For more information visit www.canopygrowth.com.
This news release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation. Often, but not always, forward-looking statements and information can be identified by the use of words such as "plans", "expects" or "does not expect", "is expected", "estimates", "intends", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate", or "believes", or variations of such words and phrases or state that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might" or "will" be taken, occur or be achieved. Forward-looking statements or information involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company or its subsidiaries to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements or information contained in this news release. Examples of such statements and uncertainties include statements with respect to the additional facility divestitures, the proceeds to be received by the Company from such divestitures, the timing of any additional facility divestitures, the Company's strategy focused on profitability; and expectations for other economic, business, and/or competitive factors.
Risks, uncertainties and other factors involved with forward-looking information could cause actual events, results, performance, prospects and opportunities to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information, including negative operating cash flow; uncertainty of additional financing; use of proceeds; volatility in the price of the Company's common shares; inherent uncertainty associated with projections; expectations regarding future investment, growth and expansion of operations; regulatory and licensing risks; changes in general economic, business and political conditions, including changes in the financial and stock markets and the impacts of increased rates of inflation; legal and regulatory risks inherent in the cannabis industry, including the global regulatory landscape and enforcement related to cannabis; additional dilution; political risks and risks relating to regulatory change; risks relating to anti-money laundering laws; compliance with extensive government regulation and the interpretation of various laws regulations and policies; public opinion and perception of the cannabis industry; and such other risks contained in the public filings of the Company filed with Canadian securities regulators and available under the Company's profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission through EDGAR at www.sec.gov/edgar, including under the heading "Risk Factors" in the Company's annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2023.
In respect of the forward-looking statements and information, the Company has provided such statements and information in reliance on certain assumptions that they believe are reasonable at this time. Although the Company believes that the assumptions and factors used in preparing the forward-looking information or forward-looking statements in this news release are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on such information and no assurance can be given that such events will occur in the disclosed time frames or at all. Should one or more of the foregoing risks or uncertainties materialize, or should assumptions underlying the forward-looking information prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those described herein as intended, planned, anticipated, believed, estimated or expected. Although the Company has attempted to identify important risks, uncertainties and factors which could cause actual results to differ materially, there may be others that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. The forward-looking information and forward-looking statements included in this news release are made as of the date of this news release and the Company does not undertake any obligation to publicly update such forward-looking information or forward-looking information to reflect new information, subsequent events or otherwise unless required by applicable securities laws.
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Suspension bridge collapse kills at least 133 in India
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MORBI, India (AP) – Military teams are searching for people missing after a 143-year-old pedestrian bridge collapsed into a river in the western Indian state of Gujarat on Sunday evening, killing at least 133 people.
As families mourned the dead, attention was turning Monday to the reasons for the colonial era bridge’s collapse, which plunged more than 100 people into the Machchu river.
Live video reports showed hundreds of people clinging to the broken structure and trying to make their way to safety.
The suspension bridge had reopened four days earlier after six months of repairs.
Officials said it was overloaded with tourists drawn to the attraction during the Hindu festival season.
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THIS ANNOUNCEMENT RELATES TO THE DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION RELATING TO SECURITIES SUBJECT TO THE EXCHANGE OFFERS AND CONCURRENT CASH TENDER OFFERS THAT QUALIFIED AS INSIDE INFORMATION WITHIN THE MEANING OF ARTICLE 7(1) OF REGULATION (EU) NO 596/2014 AS IT FORMS PART OF THE DOMESTIC LAW OF THE UNITED KINGDOM BY VIRTUE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) ACT 2018.
NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN OR INTO ANY JURISDICTION INTO WHICH SUCH DISTRIBUTION WOULD BE UNLAWFUL. THIS NOTICE IS FOR INFORMATION ONLY AND IS NOT AN OFFER TO EXCHANGE, PURCHASE OR SELL SECURITIES. THE EXCHANGE OFFERS AND CONCURRENT CASH TENDER OFFERS DISCUSSED BELOW ARE BEING MADE SOLELY PURSUANT TO THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT AND THE OFFER TO PURCHASE, RESPECTIVELY.
LONDON, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HSBC Holdings plc (the 'Company') announces today that it has amended the consideration and extended the expiration deadline for (i) its offers to exchange (the 'Exchange Offers' and each, an 'Exchange Offer') any and all validly tendered (and not validly withdrawn) and accepted notes of the series of Original Notes (as defined below) for corresponding series of Exchange Notes (as defined below) that will be registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the 'Securities Act'), pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form F-4 (File No. 333-266456) (together with the related prospectus dated 30 August 2022, the 'Registration Statement') relating to the Exchange Offers which was filed on 2 August 2022 with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the 'SEC') and which was declared effective on 24 August 2022, and the related letter of transmittal, copies of which may be obtained from the Exchange Agent; and (ii) its offers to purchase for cash the Original 7.35% Notes due 2032, the A Original 7.625% Notes due 2032 and the B Original 7.625% Notes due 2032 (the 'Cash Tender Notes'), up to a maximum aggregate principal amount of $70,000,000, solely to holders of such Cash Tender Notes that (1) are not 'qualified institutional buyers' as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act; and (2) hold an aggregate principal amount of less than $200,000 in the relevant series of the Cash Tender Notes, under the terms and conditions of the offer to purchase dated as of 2 August 2022, as amended on 30 August 2022 (the 'Offer to Purchase') and the related certification instruction letter, copies of which may be obtained from the Depositary and Information Agent (the 'Concurrent Cash Tender Offers').
Based on investor feedback received by the Dealer Manager and the Company, the Company is increasing the Participation Cash Incentive (as defined below) in relation to the Exchange Offers and the Cash Tender Notes Consideration (as defined below) in relation to the Concurrent Cash Tender Offers. Due to these amendments to the consideration payable by the Company in the Exchange Offers and the Concurrent Cash Tender Offers, the Company is also extending the expiration deadline in relation to the Exchange Offers and the Concurrent Cash Tender Offers.
The Exchange Offers
The Company has increased the Participation Cash Incentive and the Total Consideration for the Exchange Offers to the amounts set out in the table below. The Exchange Consideration per $1,000 principal amount of the applicable series of Original Notes validly tendered and accepted for exchange is unchanged and remains at $1,000 principal amount of the Exchange Notes of the corresponding series.
In exchange for each $1,000 principal amount of Original Notes of a series that is validly tendered prior to the New Expiration Deadline (as defined below) and not validly withdrawn prior to the New Expiration Deadline (as defined below) of the relevant Exchange Offer, holders will be eligible to receive the total consideration set out in the table above (the 'Total Consideration'), comprising $1,000 principal amount of Exchange Notes of the corresponding series (the 'Exchange Consideration') and the cash incentive specified in the table above (the 'Participation Cash Incentive').
The expiration deadline for the Exchange Offers, which was originally scheduled to take place at 11:59 p.m., New York City time, on 29 August 2022, has been extended until 11:59 p.m., New York City time, on 13 September 2022, unless further extended (the 'New Expiration Deadline').
Except as set forth in this announcement, all other terms of the Exchange Offers remain unchanged.
The Company was advised by Global Bondholder Services Corporation as the Exchange Agent and Information Agent that, as of 11:59 p.m., New York City time, on 29 August 2022 (which was the original expiration deadline), $70,278,000 aggregate principal amount of the Original 7.35% Notes due 2032, $101,614,000 aggregate principal amount of the A Original 7.625% Notes due 2032, $4,300,000 aggregate principal amount of the B Original 7.625% Notes due 2032, $155,177,000 aggregate principal amount of the Original Notes due 2036, $324,562,000 aggregate principal amount of the Original Notes due 2037 and $330,008,000 aggregate principal amount of the Original Notes due 2038 had been validly tendered and not validly withdrawn.
The Company intends to issue the Exchange Notes promptly after the New Expiration Deadline. In order to be exchanged, an Original Note must be validly tendered, not validly withdrawn and accepted prior to the relevant New Expiration Deadline for such series of Original Notes. The Company intends to exchange all Original Notes that are validly tendered and not validly withdrawn, subject to the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions of the Exchange Offers (see 'Conditions to the Exchange Offers' in the Registration Statement).
The terms and conditions of the Exchange Offers are described in the Registration Statement and the related letter of transmittal.
The Concurrent Cash Tender Offers
The Company has amended the consideration (the 'Cash Tender Notes Consideration') payable for each $1,000 principal amount of each series of Cash Tender Notes validly tendered and not validly withdrawn at or prior to the New Expiration Deadline and accepted by the Company, by decreasing the applicable Fixed Spread for each series of Cash Tender Notes (as set forth in the table below), which is used to determine the consideration payable for the Cash Tender Notes in accordance with the formula contained in the Offer to Purchase.
The Cash Tender Notes Consideration will be calculated at or around 11:00 a.m., New York City Time, on 13 September 2022, unless extended by the Company.
The expiration deadline for the Concurrent Cash Tender Offers, which was originally scheduled to take place at 11:59 p.m., New York City time, on 29 August 2022, has been extended until the New Expiration Deadline.
Except as set forth in this announcement, all other terms of the Concurrent Cash Tender Offers remain unchanged.
The Company was advised by Global Bondholder Services Corporation as the Depositary and Information Agent that, as of 11:59 p.m., New York City time, on 29 August 2022 (which was the original expiration deadline), $5,319,000 aggregate principal amount of the Original 7.35% Notes due 2032, $546,000 aggregate principal amount of the A Original 7.625% Notes due 2032 and $0 (nil) aggregate principal amount of the B Original 7.625% Notes due 2032 had been validly tendered and not validly withdrawn.
The terms and conditions of the Concurrent Cash Tender Offers are described in the Offer to Purchase and the related certification instruction letter.
For the avoidance of doubt, holders of Original Notes or Cash Tender Notes already validly tendered, and not validly withdrawn by the New Expiration Deadline, into either of the Exchange Offers or the Concurrent Cash Tender Offers, as applicable, shall be eligible to receive the increased Participation Cash Incentive or the Cash Tender Notes Consideration as calculated on the basis of the decreased Fixed Spread, respectively, with no need to resubmit their tenders.
Tenders of Original Notes tendered in the Exchange Offers or of Cash Tender Notes tendered in the Concurrent Cash Tender Offers, respectively, may be withdrawn at any time before the New Expiration Deadline.
Holders of Original Notes and/or Cash Tender Notes are advised to check with any bank, securities broker or other intermediary through which they hold Original Notes and/or Cash Tender Notes, as applicable, as to when such intermediary would need to receive instructions from a beneficial owner in order for that beneficial owner to be able to participate in, or withdraw their instruction to participate in, an Exchange Offer and/or a Cash Offer before the deadline specified herein, in the Registration Statement or in the Offer to Purchase, as applicable. The deadlines set by any such intermediary and The Depository Trust Company for the submission and withdrawal of tender instructions will be earlier than the relevant deadline specified herein, in the Registration Statement or in the Offer to Purchase, as applicable.
Holders should consult their own tax, accounting, financial and legal advisers regarding the suitability to themselves of the tax, accounting, financial or legal consequences of participating in the Exchange Offers or the Concurrent Cash Tender Offers.
Capitalised terms used in this announcement and not defined herein have the meanings given to them in the Registration Statement.
The Registration Statement, the letter of transmittal, the Offer to Purchase, each as updated as of the date hereof, and the related certification instruction letter are available at the following link: https://www.gbsc-usa.com/hsbc/.
HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. is serving as Dealer Manager in connection with the Exchange Offers and the Concurrent Cash Tender Offers. For additional information regarding the terms of the Exchange Offers and the Concurrent Cash Tender Offers, please contact: HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. at +1 (888) HSBC-4LM (toll-free) or +1 (212) 525-5552 (collect), Europe: +44 (0)20 7992 6237. Requests for the Registration Statement or the Offer to Purchase may be directed to Global Bondholder Services Corporation, which is acting as the Exchange Agent, Depositary and Information Agent for the Exchange Offers and the Concurrent Cash Tender Offers, at (212) 430-3774 or (855) 654-2014 (toll-free) or contact@gbsc-usa.com.
This announcement is released by HSBC Holdings plc and contains information that qualified as inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 as it forms part of the domestic law of the United Kingdom by virtue of the EUWA ("UK MAR"), encompassing information relating to Original Notes and Cash Tender Notes subject to the Exchange Offers and the Concurrent Cash Tender Offers described above. For the purposes of UK MAR, this announcement is made by Richard O'Connor, Global Head of Investor Relations, on behalf of HSBC Holdings plc.
This announcement is for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer to exchange, purchase or sell, or a solicitation of an offer to exchange, purchase or sell, any security. No offer, solicitation, sale or exchange will be made in any jurisdiction in which such an offer, exchange, solicitation, or sale would be unlawful. The Exchange Offers and the Concurrent Cash Tender Offers are only being made pursuant to the Registration Statement and the Offer to Purchase, respectively. Holders of the Original Notes are urged to carefully read the Registration Statement and the Offer to Purchase, as applicable, before making any decision with respect to the Exchange Offers or the Concurrent Cash Tender Offers.
United Kingdom. This announcement and any other documents or materials relating to the Exchange Offers or the Concurrent Cash Tender Offers are not being made and such documents and/or materials have not been approved by an authorised person for the purposes of section 21 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000. Accordingly, this announcement and such documents and/or materials are not being distributed to, and must not be passed on to, persons in the United Kingdom other than (i) to those persons who are within Article 43 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005 (the 'Financial Promotion Order'), including existing members or creditors of the Company, or (ii) to any other persons to whom it may otherwise lawfully be made (all such persons together being referred to as 'Relevant Persons') and the transactions contemplated by the Registration Statement or the Offer to Purchase will be available only to, and engaged in only with, Relevant Persons. Any person who is not a Relevant Person should not act on or rely on this announcement or any of its contents.
Belgium. Neither this announcement nor any other documents or materials relating to the Exchange Offers or the Concurrent Cash Tender Offers have been submitted to or will be notified to, and neither this announcement nor any other documents or materials relating to the Exchange Offers or the Concurrent Cash Tender Offers have been or will be approved by, the Belgian Financial Services and Markets Authority ('Autoriteit voor Financiële Diensten en Markten/Autorité des Services et Marchés Financiers'). The Exchange Offers and the Concurrent Cash Tender Offer may therefore not be made in Belgium by way of a public takeover bid (openbaar overnamebod/offre publique d'acquisition) as defined in Article 3 of the Belgian Law of 1 April 2007 on public takeover bids, as amended (the 'Belgian Takeover Law'), nor, with respect to the Exchange Offers, by way of an offer to the public as defined in Regulation (EU) 2017/1129, as amended, save in those circumstances where a private placement exemption is available.
The Exchange Offers and the Concurrent Cash Tender Offers are conducted exclusively under applicable private placement exemptions. The Exchange Offers and the Concurrent Cash Tender Offers may therefore not be advertised and the Exchange Offer and the Concurrent Cash Tender Offers will not be extended, and neither this announcement nor any other documents or materials relating to the Exchange Offers or the Concurrent Cash Tender Offers (including any memorandum, information circular, brochure or any similar documents) have been or shall be distributed or made available, directly or indirectly, to any person in Belgium other than (i) to 'qualified investors' within the meaning of Article 2(e) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1129, as amended and (ii) in any circumstances set out in Article 6, §4 of the Belgian Takeover Law or, with respect to the Exchange Offers, Article 1(4) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1129, as amended. The Registration Statement and the Offer to Purchase will be issued only for the personal use of the above-mentioned qualified investors and exclusively for the purpose of the Exchange Offers and Concurrent Cash Tender Offers, respectively. Accordingly, the information contained in the Registration Statement and the Offer to Purchase may not be used for any other purpose or disclosed to any other person in Belgium.
Italy. None of the Exchange Offers, the Concurrent Cash Tender Offers, this announcement or any other document or materials relating to the Exchange Offers or the Concurrent Cash Tender Offers have been or will be submitted to the clearance procedures of the Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa ('CONSOB') pursuant to Italian laws and regulations. The Exchange Offers and the Concurrent Cash Tender Offers are being carried out in the Republic of Italy as exempted offers pursuant to article 101-bis, paragraph 3-bis of the Legislative Decree No. 58 of 24 February 1998, as amended (the 'Financial Services Act') and article 35-bis, paragraph 4 of CONSOB Regulation No. 11971 of 14 May 1999, as amended. Holders or beneficial owners of the Original Notes or the Cash Tender Notes that are located in Italy can offer to exchange Original Notes pursuant to the Exchange Offers or can tender the Cash Tender Notes for purchase in the Concurrent Cash Tender Offers, respectively, through authorised persons (such as investment firms, banks or financial intermediaries permitted to conduct such activities in the Republic of Italy in accordance with the Financial Services Act, CONSOB Regulation No. 20307 of 15 February 2018, as amended from time to time, and Legislative Decree No. 385 of 1 September 1993, as amended) and in compliance with applicable laws and regulations or with requirements imposed by CONSOB or any other Italian authority.
Each intermediary must comply with the applicable laws and regulations concerning information duties vis-à-vis its clients in connection with the Exchange Offers and the Concurrent Cash Tender Offers.
Hong Kong. This announcement and any other documents or materials relating to the Concurrent Cash Tender Offers and/or the Cash Tender Notes is not being made in Hong Kong, by means of any document, other than (i) in circumstances which do not constitute an offer to the public within the meaning of the Companies (Winding Up and Miscellaneous Provisions) Ordinance (Cap. 32, Laws of Hong Kong) (the 'CWUMPO'), or (ii) to 'professional investors' as defined in the Securities and Futures Ordinance (Cap. 571, Laws of Hong Kong) (the 'SFO') and any rules made thereunder, or (iii) in other circumstances which do not result in the document being a 'prospectus' as defined in the CWUMPO.
The Exchange Notes have not been offered or sold and will not be offered or sold in Hong Kong, by means of any document, other than (a) to 'professional investors' as defined in the Securities and Futures Ordinance (Cap. 571) of Hong Kong and any rules made under that Ordinance; or (b) in other circumstances which do not result in the document being a 'prospectus' as defined in the CWUMPO or which do not constitute an offer to the public within the meaning of that Ordinance.
No invitation, advertisement or document relating to the Exchange Offers, the Concurrent Cash Tender Offers, the Exchange Notes and/or the Cash Tender Notes has been or will be issued, or has been or will be in the possession of any person for the purpose of issue (in each case whether in Hong Kong or elsewhere), which is directed at, or the contents of which are likely to be accessed or read by, the public in Hong Kong (except if permitted to do so under the securities laws of Hong Kong) other than with respect to the Exchange Offers, the Concurrent Cash Tender Offers, the Exchange Notes and/or the Cash Tender Notes which are or are intended to be disposed of only to persons outside Hong Kong or only to 'professional investors' as defined in the SFO and any rules made thereunder.
Canada
Concurrent Cash Tender Offers. Any offer or solicitation in Canada must be made through a dealer that is appropriately registered under the laws of the applicable province or territory of Canada, or pursuant to an exemption from that requirement. Where the Dealer Manager or any affiliate thereof is a registered dealer or able to rely on an exemption from the requirement to be registered in such jurisdiction, the Concurrent Cash Tender Offers shall be deemed to be made by such Dealer Manager, or such affiliate, on behalf of the relevant company in that jurisdiction.
Exchange Offers. The Exchange Offers and any solicitation in respect thereof, and the sale of the Exchange Notes, are not being made, directly or indirectly, in Canada or to holders of the Original Notes who are resident and/or located in any province or territory of Canada. The Registration Statement has not been filed with any securities commission or similar regulatory authority in Canada in connection with the Exchange Offers, and the Exchange Notes have not been, and will not be, qualified for sale under the securities laws of Canada or any province or territory thereof and no securities commission or similar regulatory authority in Canada has reviewed or in any way passed upon the Registration Statement, any other documents or materials relating to the Exchange Offers or the merits of the Exchange Notes and any representation to the contrary is an offence. Accordingly, Canadian holders of the Original Notes are hereby notified that, to the extent such holders of Original Notes are persons or entities resident and/or located in Canada, the Exchange Offers is not available to them and they may not accept the Exchange Offers. As such, any tenders of Original Notes received from such persons or entities shall be ineffective and void. No Exchange Notes may be offered, sold, delivered or exchanged, nor may copies of the Registration Statement or of any other document relating to the Exchange Notes and the Exchange Offers be distributed or made available in Canada. The Registration Statement and any other documents or offering materials relating to the Exchange Offers or the Exchange Notes may not be distributed in Canada and the Registration Statement does not constitute an offer or an invitation to participate in the Exchange Offers to any person resident in Canada.
France. This announcement and any other offering material relating to the Exchange Offers or the Concurrent Cash Tender Offers may not be distributed in the Republic of France except to qualified investors as defined in Article 2(e) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1129, as amended. Neither this announcement, nor any other such offering material has been or will be submitted for clearance to, nor approved by, the Autorité des Marchés Financiers.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
In this announcement the Company has made forward-looking statements. All statements other than statements of historical fact are, or may be deemed to be, forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements may be identified by the use of terms such as 'believes', 'expects', 'estimate', 'may', 'intends', 'plan', 'will', 'should', 'potential', 'reasonably possible' or 'anticipates' or the negative thereof or similar expressions, or by discussions of strategy. We have based the forward-looking statements on current expectations and projections about future events. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions about us, as described under 'Risk Factors' in the Registration Statement and in the Offer to Purchase. We undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. In light of these risks, uncertainties and assumptions, the forward-looking events discussed herein might not occur. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of their dates.
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HSBC Holdings plc
HSBC Holdings plc, the parent company of the HSBC Group, is headquartered in London. HSBC serves customers worldwide from offices in 63 countries and territories in our geographical regions: Europe, Asia, North America, Latin America, and Middle East and North Africa. With assets of US$2,985bn at 30 June 2022, HSBC is one of the world's largest banking and financial services organisations.
1 The '$' symbol refers to U.S. dollars.
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court's conservative majority on Thursday struck down affirmative action in college admissions, forcing institutions of higher education to look for new ways to achieve diverse student bodies.
The court overturned admissions plans at Harvard and the University of North Carolina, the nation's oldest private and public colleges, respectively.
The vote was 6-3 in the UNC case and 6-2 in the Harvard case, where Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson recused herself because she had been a member of an advisory governing board there.
Who voted to strike down affirmative action?
Justices appointed by Republican presidents voted to overturn affirmative action in college admissions. These are:
- Chief Justice John Roberts
- Samuel Alito
- Clarence Thomas
- Neil Gorsuch
- Brett Kavanaugh
- Amy Coney Barrett
Who voted to keep affirmative action?
Justices appointed by Democrat presidents voted to keep affirmative action. These include:
- Elena Kagan
- Sonia Sotomayor
- Ketanji Brown Jackson
Chief Justice John Roberts said that for too long universities have “concluded, wrongly, that the touchstone of an individual’s identity is not challenges bested, skills built, or lessons learned but the color of their skin. Our constitutional history does not tolerate that choice.”
Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in dissent that the decision “rolls back decades of precedent and momentous progress.”
In a separate dissent, Jackson — the court’s first Black female justice — called the decision “truly a tragedy for us all.”
Lower courts also had upheld the programs at both UNC and Harvard University, rejecting claims that the schools discriminated against white and Asian-American applicants.
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For more than an hour, former president Donald Trump sent forth a torrent of false and misleading claims during a CNN town hall. Here’s a roundup of some of the more notable ones, arranged by subject matter.
We have looked at these claims many times in detail, and as CNN moderator Kaitlan Collins noted, they have been repeatedly debunked.
Trump has claimed that in Philadelphia, there were more votes than voters. This falsehood is based on a misunderstanding of an incomplete voter registration database, which was missing numbers for some of the most populous counties in the state. “To put it simply, this so-called analysis was based on incomplete data,” said Pennsylvania’s Department of State, which labeled the claim “obvious misinformation.”
He also made the same claim about Detroit — more votes than there were voters. Detroiters cast 257,619 ballots in the Nov. 3 election. There are 506,305 registered voters in the city. Trump’s falsehood is based on a ridiculous misunderstanding: An affidavit filed in a Georgia election case that made this claim mixed up two states that started with “Mi.” The precincts were not in Wayne County, Mich., but in some of the reddest parts of Minnesota — Trump country.
As for Georgia, Trump appears to be referring to another one of his favorite falsehoods — that Republican poll watchers were ejected in Fulton County and that video showed suitcases of ballots had been hidden under tables — but it’s been repeatedly debunked.
First of all, there was no “water main break.” A urinal simply leaked in the State Farm Arena, where absentee and military ballots were counted in the state.
The Fact Checker investigated at the time, and the surveillance video — which comprises four security camera feeds — showed no irregularities, illegal behavior or evidence of malfeasance on the part of poll workers. The “boxes” have been repeatedly identified by election officials as the standard boxes used in Fulton County to transport and store ballots.
Additionally, the video doesn’t even prove Trump’s frequent assertion that GOP monitors were told to leave the counting room for poll workers to engage in illegal ballot counting. Georgia elections official Gabriel Sterling, a Republican, at the time said no formal announcement to clear the room was ever made. Sterling added that the full surveillance feed shows workers handling ballots that were stored and processed in full view of the news media and partisan monitors earlier in the evening.
“Even if you just look recently with the 51 intelligence agents, that made a 16-point difference.”
Trump is referring to a letter signed by more than 50 former senior intelligence officials, including five CIA chiefs, that said the release of the emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” Biden cited the letter in a presidential debate to dismiss allegations Trump made regarding the laptop. But there’s no evidence it made a difference in the election result.
Twitter briefly blocked users from sharing the New York Post story on Hunter Biden’s laptop — a decision officials later said was a mistake. We’ve previously examined a poll often cited by Trump allies that suggests telling the tale would have swayed the election. The poll was done by the Polling Company, a conservative pollster founded by Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, on behalf of the Media Research Center. Our analysis found that the poll conveniently supported a line that Republicans are pushing — that a lack of media coverage related to the Hunter Biden laptop made a difference in the presidential election.
But when you dig into the results, which are swayed by aggressively misleading questions, it shows that for all but a tiny percentage of Joe Biden voters, the story would not have made a difference — even if framed as a still-unproved scandal. The questions in the poll are similar to messages the Trump campaign used in the final weeks before the election — and it still fell short.
“The Constitution says that we’re supposed to have legal and well-maintained and well-looked-at elections.”
The Constitution has a number of provisions on elections, such as “The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof,” but it does not say what Trump claimed.
Jan. 6 attack
Trump continued to repeat previously debunked statements about the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by his supporters.
“January 6, it was the largest crowd I have ever spoken to. That was prior to the walk down to the Capitol building. I don’t think — and I have spoken to hundreds of thousands of people. I have never spoken to a crowd as large as this.”
Trump routinely exaggerates the size of crowds attending his rallies. At the time he claimed the crowd was about 250,000 people. The Associated Press estimated the crowd at Trump's rally on The Ellipse was about 10,000 people. The final report of the Jan. 6 select congressional committee quoted one official as saying the crowd was 30,000 to 35,000.
“Well, I offered them [Rep. Nancy Pelosi and District Mayor Muriel E. Bowser] National Guard. I said, we will give you soldiers. We will give you National Guard. We will give you whatever you want. … I offered them 10,000 soldiers. I said it could be 10,000. It could be more. But I offered them specifically 10,000 soldiers.”
This is false. The evidence shows Trump did not issue any formal request — so there was nothing for Pelosi or Bowser to heed. The Jan. 6 committee report says it found “no evidence” to support the claim that he ordered 10,000 troops.
Moreover, the committee said that when he referenced so many troops, it was not because he wanted to protect the Capitol. He “floated the idea of having 10,000 National Guardsmen deployed to protect him and his supporters from any supposed threats by left-wing counterprotesters,” the report says.
The report says that Trump brought up the issue on at least three occasions but in such vague and ambiguous ways that no senior official regarded his words as an order.
His presidential policies
Trump repeated a number of exaggerated claims about his presidential record.
“We were energy-independent.”
Trump often made this claim as president, basing the statement on the fact the United States exported more crude and refined products than it imported. (The United States still relied on other countries for its energy needs.) But he’s wrong to suggest that the situation has changed under Biden. In 2022, the United States imported about 8.32 million barrels per day of petroleum and exported about 9.58 million barrels per day of petroleum, according to the Energy Information Administration, making the U.S. still a net exporter.
“We had the greatest economy in the history of our country, probably the greatest economy in the history of the world.”
Trump made a variation of this claim almost every other day in the last two years of his presidency, even after the pandemic tanked the economy — about 500 times. It’s wrong. By just about any key measure in the modern era, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson and Bill Clinton presided over stronger economic growth than Trump. The gross domestic product grew at an annual rate of 2.3 percent in 2019, slipping from 2.9 percent in 2018 and 2.4 percent in 2017. But in 1997, 1998 and 1999, GDP grew 4.5 percent, 4.5 percent and 4.7 percent, respectively. Yet even that period paled in comparison with the postwar boom in the 1950s or the 1960s. Growth between 1962 and 1966 ranged from 4.4 percent to 6.6 percent. In 1950 and 1951, it was 8.7 percent and 8 percent, respectively. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate reached a low of 3.5 percent under Trump, but it dipped as low as 2.5 percent in 1953.
“I got you the biggest tax cuts in the history of our country, bigger than the Reagan cuts.”
Trump’s tax cut amounted to nearly 0.9 percent of the gross domestic product, meaning it was far smaller than President Ronald Reagan’s tax cut in 1981, which was 2.89 percent of GDP. Trump’s tax cut is the eighth largest tax cut — and even smaller than two tax cuts passed under Barack Obama. Trump’s tax cut was heavily tilted toward the wealthy and corporations.
“We got the biggest regulation and regulatory cuts.”
Trump may have grounds to brag about his efforts to peel back regulations, but his claim of the most or biggest regulation cuts cannot be easily verified and appears to be false. There is no reliable metric on which to judge this claim — or to compare him to previous presidents. Many experts say the most significant regulatory changes in U.S. history were the deregulation of airline, rail and trucking industries during the Carter administration, which are estimated to provide consumers with $70 billion in annual benefits. A detailed November 2020 report by the Penn Program on Regulation concluded that “without exception, each major claim we have uncovered by the President or other White House official about regulation turns out to be exaggerated, misleading, or downright untrue.” The report said that the Trump administration had not reduced the overall number of pages from the regulatory code book, and it completed far more regulatory actions than deregulatory ones once the full data were examined.
“I took in hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes from China.”
Through the end of his presidency, Trump-imposed tariffs garnered about $75 billion on products from China. But tariffs — essentially a tax — are generally paid by importers, such as U.S. companies, who in turn pass on most or all of the costs to consumers or producers who may use Chinese materials in their products. So, ultimately, Americans footed the bill for Trump’s tariffs, not the Chinese. Moreover, the China tariff revenue was reduced by $28 billion in payments the government made to farmers who lost business because China stopped buying U.S. soybeans, hogs, cotton and other products in response.
“We were going to make so much money from oil, we were going to start paying off [national] debt.”
The federal budget deficit soared under Trump and the United States was never close to paying off any debt.
Presidential papers
Trump reprised false talking points about the criminal investigation into whether he failed to return presidential documents he took to his estate in Florida.
“I had every right to under the Presidential Records Act. You have the Presidential Records Act. I was there and I took what I took and it gets declassified… it says you talk, you negotiate, you make a deal. It’s not criminal, by the way.”
As Collins noted, this is not what the PRA says. Under the PRA, a president has a lot of leeway to deem something a presidential paper while he is president. But the possibility of such give-and-take ended when the clock struck noon on Jan. 20, 2021. “Upon the conclusion of a President’s term of office, or if a President serves consecutive terms upon the conclusion of the last term, the Archivist of the United States shall assume responsibility for the custody, control, and preservation of, and access to, the Presidential records of that President,” the law says.
For all of Trump’s focus on the PRA, there is another law at play here — the Federal Records Act. The PRA does not have a criminal enforcement provision. But a 2012 ruling by Judge Amy Berman Jackson — rejecting a lawsuit by a conservative group that Clinton’s sock-drawer tapes should be part of the Archives — said that the FRA grants the National Archives and Records Administration the authority to initiate “action through the Attorney General for the recovery of records wrongfully removed and for other redress provided by law.”
In other words, NARA cannot act alone but must work with the Justice Department. That’s what NARA did when it concluded Trump had not returned all of the records sought by the agency. The case eventually moved beyond a possible failure to comply with the PRA — or even whether the documents Trump kept were classified. The FBI’s search warrant cited statutes related to three possible offenses, such as willfully retaining national defense information and destruction of evidence in a criminal investigation.
“Biden, on the other hand, he has 1,850 boxes. He had boxes sent to Chinatown, Chinatown, where they don’t speak even English in that Chinatown we’re talking about…. And nobody even knows where they are, 1,800…. Why is it that Biden had nine boxes in Chinatown? And he gets a lot of money from China.”
Biden in 2012 provided 1,850 boxes of files from his decades as a senator to the University of Delaware. The university has said that public access has been prohibited until “they have been properly processed and archived,” unless Biden gives his express consent. The files will be opened “two years after the donor retires from public life.” Contrary to Trump’s claim, in February the FBI searched the university documents. “Agents initially did not find classified information, but the material is still being reviewed,” The Washington Post reported.
After his term as vice president ended, Biden had a temporary office in Chinatown in the District. There is no evidence he has received money from China.
“The other thing, the vice president cannot declassify. He didn’t have the right to declassify.”
This is false. Under an executive order signed by President Barack Obama in 2009, the vice president has original classification authority. Trump has claimed that he declassified the documents he kept. Biden, while vice president, had the right to declassify material if he had classified the material in the first place.
“NARA has red-flagged a thing called the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights, because they consider them dangerous documents.”
Trump is exaggerating. NARA does not single out the founding documents. Instead, it offers a warning on every page of its online catalogue: “The Catalog and webpages contain some content that may be harmful or difficult to view. NARA’s records span the history of the United States, and it is our charge to preserve and make available these historical records. As a result, some of the materials presented here may reflect outdated, biased, offensive, and possibly violent views and opinions. In addition, some of the materials may relate to violent or graphic events and are preserved for their historical significance.”
Miscellaneous
“Millions and millions of people are coming here. They’re being released from prisons. They’re being released from mental institutions. And we have millions of people pouring into our country.”
Trump reprises a line from his 2015 campaign announcement speech, in which he falsely claimed that Mexico was “sending people that have lots of problems… They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.” He still has no evidence to back up these claims. CNN recently reported that his campaign failed to provide proof that leaders of unnamed South American countries are deliberately emptying mental institutions and sending patients as migrants.
“My poll numbers went up and they went up with the other fake charge, too, because what’s happening is they’re doing this for election interference.”
Trump falsely suggests E. Jean Carroll filed suit against him for defamation because he’s doing well in GOP presidential preference polls. She first filed suit against him in November 2019.
“If you look at Chicago, Chicago has the single toughest gun policies in the nation. They are so tough, you can’t breathe… All of those places are the worst and most dangerous places.”
This claim about the impact of Chicago’s gun laws on gun violence relies on outdated gun laws and shoddy data. The state of Illinois has tough gun laws, but several of the most restrictive laws, such as a ban on handguns and a gun registry, are no longer in use. And while the city may have high instances of gun violence, it does not have the highest rate of gun violence.
“We’ve given [to Ukraine] so far $171 billion. They’ve given — they, meaning European Union, which is approximately the same size, altogether, as our economy, they’ve given about 20.”
Trump often exaggerates U.S. military spending and shortchanges European contributions to global security. An April report by the Rand Corporation said: “Although U.S. military aid since the war began exceeds Europe’s (about $45 billion to $20 billion), Europe has provided more financial and humanitarian aid (about $40 billion to $30 billion).”
“When you have that policy, people don’t come. If a family hears they’re going to be separated, they love their family, they don’t come. So I know it sounds harsh, but if you remember, remember they said I was building prisons for children? It turned out that it was Obama that was building the prisons for the children.”
As president, Trump repeatedly sought to deflect criticism over his separation policy by noting that the Obama administration used cage enclosures to hold migrants before he did. The Obama administration never separated families systematically like Trump; there may have been some separation if there was suspicion that the children were being trafficked or a claimed parent-child relationship did not actually exist. A 2021 Justice Department Inspector General report documented that the separation policy was implemented after pressure from Trump for more dramatic action on the southern border. After the report was released, former deputy attorney general Rod J. Rosenstein issued a statement: “It was a failed policy that never should have been proposed or implemented. I wish we all had done better.”
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NORTH TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WIVB) — Questions of how police respond to active shooters have been brought to the forefront of conversation over the past two weeks — amplified now after the horrific shooting at the East Side Tops in Buffalo that took the lives of 10 people on May 14, as well as the shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas that killed 19 children and two adults.
Cities and towns in Western New York are now forced to answer the question for themselves: “How would we respond to an active shooter situation?”
Officials in North Tonawanda plan to help answer that question for their constituents. North Tonawanda Mayor Austin Tylec and Chief Keith Glass, of the North Tonawanda Police Department, joined News 4 at 4 Friday to discuss that plan.
The full interview can be seen above.
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Alabama vs. Maryland: Betting Trends, Record ATS, Home/Road Splits - Second Round
A spot in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament South Region bracket is on the line when the No. 1 seed Alabama Crimson Tide (30-5) meet the No. 8 seed Maryland Terrapins (22-12) on Saturday at TBA. Alabama has been installed as an 8.5-point favorite to win this second round matchup. The over/under for the matchup is 144.5.
Alabama vs. Maryland Odds & Info
- Date: Saturday, March 18, 2023
- Time: TBD
- Where: Birmingham, Alabama
- Venue: Legacy Arena at BJCC
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Alabama vs Maryland Betting Records & Stats
- The Crimson Tide have gone 20-12-0 ATS this season.
- Alabama has been at least a -375 moneyline favorite 19 times this season and won all of those games.
- The implied probability of a win from the Crimson Tide, based on the moneyline, is 78.9%.
- Maryland is 20-11-0 against the spread this season.
- The Terrapins have been listed as an underdog of +280 or more on two occasions this season and split those games.
- Maryland has an implied victory probability of 26.3% according to the moneyline set for this matchup.
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Additional Alabama vs Maryland Insights & Trends
- Alabama has a 4-6 record against the spread while going 8-2 overall in its past 10 contests.
- In their past 10 games, the Crimson Tide have hit the over five times.
- Maryland has gone 6-4 over its last 10 contests, with a 6-4 record against the spread during that span.
- In their past 10 contests, the Terrapins have hit the over five times.
- The Crimson Tide record 19.4 more points per game (82.6) than the Terrapins give up (63.2).
- Alabama is 17-9 against the spread and 26-3 overall when scoring more than 63.2 points.
- The Terrapins' 70.3 points per game are just 1.6 more points than the 68.7 the Crimson Tide give up to opponents.
- Maryland has put together a 12-4 ATS record and a 17-0 overall record in games it scores more than 68.7 points.
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Republican leaders on Wednesday nibbled away at the GOP opposition to their debt-ceiling bill, bringing the package a step closer to passing through the House this week.
Despite a series of last-minute changes to the legislation, however, a number of holdouts remain, setting the stage for a nail-biter of a vote when Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and his leadership team pull the trigger and bring the bill to the floor, perhaps as early as Wednesday afternoon.
The lingering opposition means the vote will come down to the wire — a test of McCarthy’s leadership powers where success hinges on the willingness of a slim and disorderly majority to reach a compromise and failure would dramatically weaken the Republicans’ hand heading into the debt-ceiling fight with President Biden.
A number of Midwestern Republicans, who had balked at the package over its elimination of tax credits for biofuels, reversed course after GOP leaders altered the bill in the Rules Committee in the wee hours of Wednesday morning.
The changes kept certain biofuel tax credits in place and appear to have brought those wary Republicans on board.
“We’re going to make sure everything’s agreed. But there’s five revisions to the biofuels tax credit; of those — we were able to get all of them in,” Rep. Zach Nunn (R-Iowa) said as he emerged from a closed-door meeting of the GOP conference in the Capitol basement.
“This is huge,” he added. “And it’s a massive sea change from where we were just 24 hours ago.”
The package appeared doomed on Tuesday, after a diverse group of Republican lawmakers lined up in opposition, sending GOP leaders scrambling to twist arms and win over the number of votes they’ll need to send the package to the Senate. With no Democrats expected to support the legislation, McCarthy can afford few defections from his conference.
But Republican leaders — after vowing to make no changes to the initial package — caved early Wednesday to amend the bill to satisfy the critics. Aside from the ethanol language, they also expedited the installation of new work requirements for federal benefits, pulling the implementation date from fiscal 2025 to fiscal 2024.
On Wednesday, leadership spun the biofuel tax credit and work requirements adjustments as “technical changes.”
“There were some technical changes to address, dates and alignment,” House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) said.
“There’s nothing of substance that was changed in the bill,” House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) said.
Still, it is unclear if GOP leaders have enough votes to pass the bill.
Rep. Tim Burchett (Tenn.), a third-term Republican who has never voted for a debt ceiling hike — even under former President Trump — said he’ll oppose it this time, as well. Burchett said he was scheduled to talk with GOP leadership on Tuesday about how to win his vote, but they stood him up.
“This morning, everybody’s asking about the new changes. Of course, how the hell am I supposed to get the changes? I haven’t met with anybody,” he said. “So I’m still a no.”
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), another holdout, has criticized the package for cuts to green energy subsidies like wind and solar, which affect her district, and for its failure to put a dent in the nation’s $32.4 trillion debt. Coming out of Wednesday’s meeting with GOP leaders, she said that position hasn’t changed.
“I told them where I am, and why I am where I am, and we’ll see what happens today,” Mace said. “I’m still leaning no.”
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), who has been pushing for stricter work requirements, on Wednesday morning said he had not yet reviewed the revisions made overnight, leaving leadership waiting to see how he will come down on the bill. He said he was upset that the changes arrived at 2 a.m., when most members were home asleep.
“I don’t do my best work at 2 in the morning anymore,” Gaetz said.
Earlier in the week, Gaetz said he would vote against the bill unless changes were made to work requirements. The original version of the bill would require able-bodied adult recipients younger than 56 years old who do not have dependents work, look for work or volunteer at least 20 hours a week beginning in 2025.
Gaetz, however, wanted 30-hour requirements to kick in at the beginning of 2024.
Overnight Tuesday, a manager’s amendment was released that moves up the implementation of work requirements for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) from fiscal 2025 to fiscal 2024.
Gaetz said that change was “something I wanted to see,” but he noted that he has not yet reviewed the revisions because they were made in the middle of the night.
And Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.), who last week called himself a “hard no” but said it was possible to get him on board if stronger work requirements were added, told The Hill Wednesday morning that he has made his decision on the legislation, but he would not disclose where he stands.
“I have made my decision on this bill,” Santos said. “I guess we’ll see it on my vote.”
He did, however, call the late-night changes “a positive step forward” and a “best efforts forward.”
“But again, we’ll see what happens on the big board today,” he added, referring to the board in the House chamber where members’ votes are recorded.
GOP leaders expressed confidence that they would round up the votes and would bring the bill to the floor as early as Wednesday.
“This bill’s gonna pass; I think it may be unanimous,” said Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.), referring to the GOP conference. “We expect today.”
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Fed official: SVB itself was main cause of bank’s failure
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s top financial regulator is asserting that Silicon Valley Bank’s own management was largely to blame for the bank’s failure earlier this month and says the Federal Reserve will review whether a 2018 law that weakened stricter bank rules also contributed to its collapse.
“SVB’s failure is a textbook case of mismanagement,” Michael Barr, the Fed’s vice chair for supervision, said in written testimony that will be delivered Tuesday at a hearing of the Senate Banking Committee.
Barr pointed to the bank’s “concentrated business model,” in which its customers were overwhelmingly venture capital and high-tech firms in Silicon Valley. He also contends that the bank failed to manage the risk of its bond holdings, which lost value as the Fed raised interest rates.
Silicon Valley was seized by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. on March 10 in the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history. Late Sunday, the FDIC said that First Citizens Bank, based in Raleigh, North Carolina, had agreed to buy about one third of Silicon Valley’s assets — about $72 billion — at a discount of about $16.5 billion. The FDIC said its deposit insurance fund would take a $20 billion hit from its rescue of SVB, a record amount, in part because it agreed to backstop all deposits at the bank, including those above a $250,000 cap.
The Senate Banking Committee will hold the first formal congressional hearing on the failures of Silicon Valley Bank and New York-based Signature Bank and the shortcomings of supervision and regulation, by the Fed and other agencies, that preceded them. The committee will also likely question Barr and other officials about the government’s response, including its emergency decision to insure all the deposits at both banks, even as the vast majority exceeded the $250,000 limit.
Martin Gruenberg, chairman of the FDIC, and Nellie Liang, the Treasury undersecretary for domestic finance, will also testify at the Senate hearing. On Wednesday, all three will testify to a House committee.
Gruenberg said in his prepared testimony that the FDIC, which insures bank deposits, will investigate and potentially impose financial penalties on executives and board members of the two failed banks. The FDIC can also seek to bar them from working in the financial industry again.
Members of Congress will surely use the hearings to stake out their positions on issues raised by the bank failures. These issues include whether the $250,000 limit on federal deposit insurance should be raised, a change that would require Congress’ approval.
Also sure to be debated will be whether the failures can be blamed, to some extent, on the 2018 softening of the stricter bank regulations that were enacted by the 2010 Dodd-Frank law.
The Fed will evaluate whether “higher levels of capital and liquidity would have forestalled the bank’s failure or provided further resilience to the bank,” Barr said.
The 2018 law exempted banks with assets between $100 billion to $250 billion — Silicon Valley’s size — from requirements that it maintain sufficient cash, or liquidity, to cover 30 days of withdrawals. It also meant that banks of that size were subject less often to so-called “stress tests,” which sought to evaluate how they would fare in a sharp recession or a financial meltdown.
Simon Johnson, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who co-wrote a book about the 2008-2009 financial crisis, said he believed the 2018 regulatory rollback “contributed to a big relaxation of supervision and fed into this lackadaisical attitude around Silicon Valley Bank.’’
The two bank failures, Johnson said, suggest that banks with $100 billion to $250 billion in assets can pose a risk to the entire financial system. The reduction of rules for banks of that size was based on the idea that they didn’t pose a systemic risk.
But Steven Kelly, senior research associate at the Yale program on financial stability, said he believed that Silicon Valley Bank’s business model was so flawed that requiring it to hold more liquidity wouldn’t have helped it withstand the lightning-fast bank run that toppled it. On Thursday, March 9, depositors — many of them operating swiftly, using smart phones — withdrew $42 billion, or 20% of its assets, in a single day.
“You’re never going to write liquidity regulations that are strict enough to prevent that, when there’s a run on a fundamentally unviable bank,” Kelly said.
In his prepared testimony, Barr also pledged that the Federal Reserve and other agencies would take whatever steps they deem necessary to protect depositors and the banking system. Regulators “are prepared to use all of our tools for any size institution, as needed, to keep the system safe and sound,” he said.
The Fed has come under harsh criticism by groups advocating tighter financial regulation for failing to adequately supervise Silicon Valley Bank and prevent its collapse, and Barr will likely face tough questioning by members of both parties.
Barr said he would ensure that the Fed “fully accounts for any supervisory or regulatory failings” in a previously announced review of the bank’s collapse.
He said officials at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, which directly supervised Silicon Valley Bank, had sent multiple warnings to the bank’s management about the risks it was taking, including its substantial holdings of Treasurys and other bonds that were steadily losing value as interest rates rose.
As recently as mid-February 2023, Barr says in his prepared testimony, Fed staffers told the central bank’s board of governors that rising rates were threatening the finances of some banks and highlighted, in particular, the risk-taking at Silicon Valley Bank.
“But, as it turned out,” Barr says, “the full extent of the bank’s vulnerability was not apparent until the unexpected bank run on March 9.”
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Hiker went missing in Olympic National Park in same week he had court date in domestic violence case
Jun 14, 2023, 5:41 PM
(KIRO 7)
We’re now learning that a hiker who disappeared in Olympic National Park for days late last week was missing while he was due in California court for a domestic violence case.
Two teams with Clallam County Search and Rescue went looking for 44-year-old Stanford University Professor Hunter Fraser on Thursday, June 8. He had left his car at the trailhead on Monday of that week, and Fraser planned to hike 40 miles over two nights. Before he went missing, he had last texted his family on Tuesday morning and was due back in Seattle by midday Wednesday.
On Saturday, June 10, the National Park Service reported that he had “self-rescued” with the assistance of other hikers, more than 50 miles away from where he was last seen at Camp Slab days prior. Case information provided by Santa Clara County Superior Court indicates that Fraser was due in court in California on Friday, June 9, the day before he resurfaced from his hike in Washington state. That case stems from an incident in July 2022, where Fraser allegedly threw his girlfriend to the ground and slammed a door into her, according to court documents obtained by the Stanford Daily.
The county district attorney initially charged Fraser with a misdemeanor but then raised that to a felony after seeing results from scans that showed the woman had broken two ribs. In an email to his lab at Stanford, Fraser later contended that the allegations levied against him “are untrue.”
In a statement Fraser issued to KIRO 7, he asserted that he had “every intention” of appearing in court leading up to his hike.
Seattle Police ‘cannot take action on damage to property’ after judge’s ruling
“I set out on a solo hike in Washington’s Olympic National Park on June 5th and planned to return to my family on June 7, with every intention of attending a court hearing in California on June 9,” he said, detailing how he had become “disoriented and lost” on the trail after hitting his head.
Fraser went on to say that before he went missing, “the June 9th court date was postponed by the judge at the request of the accuser.”
“As I have said before, I deny the allegations,” he continued. “I am eager for all the facts to come out in court.”
A campus group protesting Fraser’s continued employment with the university also published documents detailing a series of past trespassing incidents, including one where Fraser had gone into a closed area at the Foothills Nature Preserve and then ran away from a park ranger after vandalizing a sign and barrier.
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Advertising Demand Side Platform leader partners with Confiant
NEW YORK, June 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Confiant, the anti-malvertising leader, is proud to announce that MediaMath, a leading Demand Side Platform (DSP), has chosen the newly launched Confiant DSP Solution to protect MediaMath clients from ad security and ad quality violations to provide a superior and secure experience for their users.
As a leading DSP, MediaMath manages more than 3,500 active advertisers. Malicious, disruptive, and annoying or inappropriate ads degrade the user experience and drive adoption of ad blockers. MediaMath is committed to providing their audience with the safest, most secure, and quickest web experience, free of malicious advertising, scams, annoying or inappropriate content, and without exposure to threats that are commonly spread through the programmatic ad bidding process by threat actors. One in every 140 programmatic impressions had serious security or quality violations, a 104% increase in quality violations and nearly doubling security violations over both 2020 and 2021, reaching a three year peak per the 2023 MAQ Index. MediaMath selected the Confiant DSP solution to identify ad security, and quality violations so that MediaMath remains in control of what is served to end users through their platform.
"Confiant is pledged to elevating the industry's control capabilities and delivering exceptional end user experience by eliminating ad security, and quality violations," said Louis-David Mangin, CEO and Cofounder, Confiant, Inc. "We are thrilled to extend our protection to MediaMath and appreciate their trust in choosing us as their ad verification partner," concluded Mangin.
"MediaMath is proud to partner with industry leader Confiant to continue protecting our clients from disruptive and malicious advertising. We are committed to eradicating any instances of malware and optimizing user experience." - Sylvain Le Borgne, Chief Partnership Officer, MediaMath.
"MediaMath has a long-standing commitment to a secure advertising supply chain, and to protecting our exchange and publisher partners and the end user. By working with an industry leader like Confiant, we are able to ensure that our advertiser clients are able to maintain the best possible relationship with consumers through robust protection of the ad delivery process from quality concerns and the influence of malvertising and malware." - Justin Adler-Swanberg, Director of Marketplace Quality, MediaMath
Aside from the value that digital advertising delivers, the programmatic process introduces many risks related to security, and user experience. Confiant's technology actively monitors billions of ad impressions and trillions of ad auctions each month to detect and block malicious activity, and low-quality ads, providing a safeguard against cyber threats including malware, phishing, scams, as well as disruptive ads, and consent violations.
Confiant empowers and protects digital publishers and premium ad platforms with actionable data to ensure the digital ad ecosystem is safe and secure for everyone. Confiant's team of security engineers identify threat actors, malvertising, security, and quality issues in the ad ecosystem that affect enterprises, publishers, platforms and their customers.
About Confiant
Confiant is the cybersecurity leader in detecting and stopping Malvertising attacks. Having built hundreds of integrations directly into the web's ad tech infrastructure, Confiant has unparalleled visibility to the malware, scams, and fraud serving through ads today. Leveraging our security expertise, we deliver complete control over ads to publishers and ad platforms, also remediating quality issues, privacy violations, and mis-categorized ads. In publishing the industry's leading ad quality benchmark report and mapping the threat actors that use ads-as-an-attack-vector at Matrix.Confiant.com, Confiant is leading the charge in protecting users from criminals hijacking the ad tech supply chain. Trusted by customers like Microsoft, Paramount, and Magnite, we celebrate our 10th anniversary this year.
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BALTIMORE (AP) — Fifteen people were injured Saturday when a mass transit bus crashed with two cars before hitting a building in Baltimore, police said.
Baltimore police said officers responded to a Maryland Transit Administration bus crash at about 10:20 a.m.
A preliminary investigation showed that the bus crashed with a Lexus and a Nissan before coming to rest in a building.
Police said 15 people were injured. Two of the injuries are possibly life threatening, police said in a news release.
No further details were immediately released by police. The cause of the crash was under investigation.
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Video games have been a favorite pastime since the early ’80s. Between two-tone color schemes and simple graphics, these early titles focused heavily on enjoyment, longevity and storylines. There were plenty of video game consoles to choose from, so the selection of games was also huge.
Many of today’s most popular games take inspiration from successful franchises and developers of the ’90s — most of which don’t exist anymore. But while amazing developers can disappear just as fast as their rise to popularity, some game companies consistently release great titles.
Video game players are incredibly vocal about beloved franchises, new intellectual properties and changes to familiar mechanics. No year goes by without some corner of the fandom voicing their frustration about changes, and no video game or developer will ever be perfect. But there are games where the fallout is dramatically diminished and four companies that consistently give the players what they want.
In this article: Madden NFL 23, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II and Red Dead Redemption 2.
Electronic Arts
EA is split into several development divisions, and while shooter or driving departments are often hit-and-miss with their titles, EA Sports is one of the best. Under its belt, it has hugely popular titles, including FIFA, the Madden football series and several MMA games. The games are often praised for their authenticity, graphics and focus on realism.
Infinity Ward
Call of Duty is one of the longest-running and most-successful military simulation franchises, and developer Infinity Ward has been at the helm for most of the games. Founded 20 years ago in California, it is well-known for making games with incredible graphics and intuitive control schemes and isn’t afraid to try new elements.
Rockstar Games
Development giant Rockstar Games has had its fair share of criticism over the years, but most of its titles are critically acclaimed smash hits. Spanning long-running franchises like Red Dead Redemption and Grand Theft Auto, its games are jam-packed with intricate plots, exciting settings and a huge array of characters.
BioWare
When gamers talk about sci-fi or fantasy games, often the developer cited with the most significant roster is Canada-based BioWare. Responsible for epic journeys in the Mass Effect and Dragon Age franchises, players know that they’ll get highly-detailed characters, well-crafted plots and intuitive control systems.
Best video games by consistently great developers
EA Sports Rory McIlroy PGA Tour – PlayStation 4
EA’s golfing franchise spans a few decades and is widely considered the best representation of the outdoor game. Through stunning graphics and lifelike physics, any console player can transport themselves onto the driving range and compete against golfing legends to become the world leader in the PGA Tour.
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Only a few game developers have attempted to make a football game, but EA Sports is head and shoulders above the rest. And that’s not easy, as the sport is incredibly complex and fast-paced. However, EA has consistently released the most definitive football franchise for decades.
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II
The latest Modern Warfare game is a follow-up to the franchise reboot from 2019. While there are several games in the CoD series, the combat and everyday setting resonate with players. Infinity Ward has been responsible for developing 11 out of 19 Call of Duty games with most reaching multiplatinum status.
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Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare
Developed by Infinity Ward, this 13th installment in the Call of Duty series introduces players to a new outer-space setting with new game mechanics, weapons and equipment. It’s a stark departure from what CoD players are used to, but the title still remains a favorite. It sold almost 2 million copies in the first week.
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This Western-themed game from Rockstar is the sequel to its namesake and the third title in the franchise. It takes players on a truly wild ride through the Old West where they have to do anything to survive. With the help of fellow outlaws, the plot weaves an exciting arc that sees players returning for more.
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Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition
Not suitable for younger players, the GTA franchise has thrilled adults with wild antics, outlandish mechanics and over-the-top elements in somewhat accurate representations of real cities. Rockstar’s Definitive Edition includes Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, each with its own plot and characters as players fight to survive in a crime-ridden world.
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Mass Effect Legendary Edition – Xbox Series X
The Mass Effect franchise, developed by BioWare, is widely regarded as one of the best sci-fi series ever. The Legendary Edition includes the first three Mass Effect games as well as 40 pieces of downloadable content that include promo weapons, armor and packs. This edition is also remastered and optimized for 4K Ultra HD.
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Dragon Age: Inquisition – Game of the Year Edition
Arthurian legends come to life in Bioware’s hugely popular fantasy game filled with magical powers, vicious flying beasts and evil enemies. Together with your band of trusty friends, you must face tough choices on how you save your world from destruction. The GOTY edition includes the Jaws of Hakkon, The Descent and Trespasser downloadable content.
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Other developers worth considering
- Nintendo is well-known as the developer of The Legend of Zelda, and the series Breath of the Wild for the Nintendo Switch is an excellent choice.
- Few life simulation titles can beat developer Maxis and The Sims 4 franchise.
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SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – Crews have loaded up and hauled away the first pieces of the dismantled Caddo Confederate monument from outside the Caddo Parish Courthouse in downtown Shreveport.
A large flatbed truck arrived at the courthouse Thursday morning, and crews began loading pieces of the monument with a forklift, including the Confederate soldier that once stood atop the marble cenotaph.
The process began three weeks ago, about a month after the $782,000 contract with Florida-based Energy Products and Services Corp. was signed. The contract calls for the removal to be completed no later than December 31, 2022.
The marble and granite monument was erected between 1902 and 1906 on the grounds of the Caddo Parish Courthouse, which was built in 1926, where two previous courthouses stood. One of those original courthouses even served as the state capital of Louisiana during the Civil War.
The Confederate monument will be moved to private property at the Pleasant Hill Battlefield site in southern De Soto Parish, where what is considered the bloodiest battle of the Civil War west of the Mississippi was fought the day after the Battle of Mansfield.
It is not known yet when the monument will be reinstalled at its new home in De Soto Parish. Work on that site is also still underway.
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SFA vs. Texas State Women's Basketball Predictions & Picks - March 16
Published: Mar. 16, 2023 at 2:38 AM CDT|Updated: 3 hours ago
Thursday's contest at William R. Johnson Coliseum has the Stephen F. Austin Ladyjacks (26-6) matching up with the Texas State Bobcats (23-9) at 7:30 PM ET (on March 16). Our computer prediction projects a lopsided 72-59 win as our model heavily favors SFA.
The Ladyjacks enter this matchup following a 69-64 loss to Cal Baptist on Friday.
SFA vs. Texas State Game Info
- When: Thursday, March 16, 2023 at 7:30 PM ET
- Where: William R. Johnson Coliseum in Huntsville, Texas
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SFA vs. Texas State Score Prediction
- Prediction: SFA 72, Texas State 59
SFA Schedule Analysis
- When the Ladyjacks defeated the Boston College Eagles, the No. 98 team in our computer rankings, by a score of 67-53 on November 26, it was their best victory of the year so far.
- Against Quadrant 3 teams, the Ladyjacks are 8-3 (.727%) -- tied for the 23rd-most wins.
- SFA has tied for the 36th-most Quadrant 4 victories in the nation (14).
SFA 2022-23 Best Wins
- 67-53 over Boston College (No. 98) on November 26
- 79-64 on the road over Cal Baptist (No. 126) on January 12
- 75-60 at home over Arizona State (No. 141) on December 11
- 79-66 at home over Grand Canyon (No. 152) on February 11
- 68-63 at home over UTSA (No. 165) on November 7
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SFA Performance Insights
- The Ladyjacks are outscoring opponents by 15.9 points per game with a +508 scoring differential overall. They put up 76.1 points per game (26th in college basketball) and give up 60.2 per outing (74th in college basketball).
- SFA is posting 75.7 points per game this season in conference action, which is 0.4 fewer points per game than its overall average (76.1).
- Offensively, the Ladyjacks have played better at home this year, putting up 78.9 points per game, compared to 74.4 per game on the road.
- In 2022-23, SFA is ceding 59.2 points per game when playing at home. On the road, it is allowing 64.6.
- On the offensive side of the ball, the Ladyjacks have had a hard time putting the ball in the basket over their last 10 games, scoring 72.4 points per contest over that stretch compared to the 76.1 they've put up over the course of this season.
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WALNUT CREEK, Calif., June 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Heffernan Insurance Brokers, one of the largest full-service, independent insurance brokerage firms in the United States announced a partnership with TrustLayer, to allow customers to access TrustLayer's artificial intelligence (AI)-powered collaborative risk management platform.
TrustLayer will enable faster and more efficient proof of insurance verification and help Heffernan customers better manage their risk by using its innovative digital solution. Virtually every business struggles with insurance verification. For those who do it well, the administrative burden is high — with manual processes and millions of static documents changing hands across the U.S. Unfortunately, for those who don't manage these processes well, the risk is astronomical, with studies showing that 75 percent of vendors are underinsured. TrustLayer uses robotic process automation (RPA) and Artificial Intelligence to automate this process securely, so companies can automatically verify the insurance and licenses of their vendors, suppliers, borrowers, and tenants. Further TrustLayer is building connectivity to systems of record to allow for truly validating whether coverage is in force.
"Our focus at TrustLayer is to help relieve risk management pain points and reduce friction for businesses across the entire economy. This partnership with Heffernan Insurance Brokers will help reduce risk and create a more efficient verification process for them and their customers," said John Fohr, co-founder and CEO of TrustLayer. "Modern risk managers are pushing the industry forward with their innovative spirit. These are the forward-leaning professionals that we're building TrustLayer for. The Heffernan team certainly embodies that belief and I look forward to working with them as we drive innovation across the insurance industry and improve the risk transaction experience for all involved."
"We are very excited to be joining forces with TrustLayer" shares Zachary Medellin, Heffernan's AVP of Compliance Management. "Together, we are ushering in a new era of risk mitigation and insurance compliance management for our clients. This innovative collaboration, of TrustLayer's award winning SaaS and Heffernan's insurance expertise, will allow us to effectively and efficiently track the insurance compliance of our client's business partners to ensure all necessary standards are met. Our goal is to empower our clients with the freedom to invest their assets and time into what they do best while allowing us to safeguard their operations. We look forward to further supporting our clients with another strong risk transfer tool."
About Heffernan Insurance Brokers
Heffernan Insurance Brokers, formed in 1988, is one of the largest independent insurance brokerage firms in the United States. Heffernan provides insurance and financial services products to a range of businesses and individuals. Headquartered in Walnut Creek, Calif., Heffernan has offices in San Francisco, Petaluma, Menlo Park, Truckee, Bakersfield, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles and Irvine, CA; Phoenix, AZ; Portland, OR; Seattle and Olympia, WA; St. Louis, MO; and London UK.
Employee-owned, Heffernan Insurance Brokers was named the Top Mid-Sized Broker in the United States to work for in 2009 by Business Insurance Magazine. The firm has been among the Top Greater Bay Area Philanthropists since 2003.
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About TrustLayer
TrustLayer is an AI-powered collaborative risk management platform working to digitize the highly manual, error-prone, and paper-based process of insurance verification. With TrustLayer, companies can securely automate the verification of insurance, licenses, and compliance documents of their business partners (i.e., vendors, subcontractors, suppliers, borrowers, tenants, ridesharing, and franchisees) in an easy-to-use digital dashboard. TrustLayer is working with dozens of the largest brokers and carriers in the U.S. to build out a fully digital proof of insurance solution so companies will be able to validate in real-time that their business partners have the correct coverage. The company is backed by leading investors, including Craft Ventures, Abstract Ventures, Box Group, Propel Ventures, Sure Ventures and PruVen Capital, and has also received investments from more than 20 of the top 100 insurance brokers. To learn more, visit trustlayer.io, or follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The four parties that make up Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s ruling coalition are in tense talks over ways to rein in migration amid speculation the thorny issue could bring down the administration and force a general election.
“Everybody want to find a good, effective solution that also does justice to the fact that this is about human lives,” Finance Minister Sigrid Kaag, a member of the centrist D66 party, said.
The discussions have underscored ideological divisions in the coalition between the partner parties that do not support a strict crackdown on migration - D66 and fellow centrist party ChristenUnie, or Christian Union - and the two that favor tougher measures - Rutte’s conservative People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy and the Christian Democrats.
The coalition has tried for months to hash out a deal to reduce the flow of new migrants arriving in the country of nearly 18 million people. Proposals reportedly include creating two classes of asylum — a temporary one for people fleeing conflicts and a permanent one for people trying to escape persecution — and reducing the number of family members who are allowed to join asylum-seekers in the Netherlands.
“We’ve been working at this for a long time, and all the information is on the table. We have to look together to see if we can make something of it,” Justice Minister Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius, a member of Rutte’s party, said.
Last year, hundreds of asylum-seekers were forced to sleep outdoors in squalid conditions near an overcrowded reception center as the number of people arriving in the Netherlands outstripped the available beds. Dutch aid agencies provided assistance.
Just over 21,500 people from outside Europe sought asylum in the Netherlands in 2022, according to the country’s statistics office. Tens of thousands more moved to the Netherlands to work and study.
The numbers have put a strain on housing that already was in short supply in the densely populated country.
Rutte’s government has worked for a law that could compel municipalities to provide accommodations for newly arrived asylum-seekers, but the legislation has yet to pass through both houses of parliament.
The prime minister also has promoted European Union efforts to slow migration to the 27-nation bloc. Rutte visited Tunisia last month with his Italian counterpart and the president of the EU’s executive commission to offer more than 1 billion euros in financial aid to rescue the North African nation’s teetering economy and to stem migration from its shores to Europe.
Rutte’s coalition government, the fourth he has led, took office in January 2022 following the longest coalition negotiations in Dutch political history.
If the four-party coalition collapses, there likely would be an election for the 150-seat lower house of the Dutch parliament later this year amid a polarized and splintered political landscape. Rutte’s Cabinet would likely remain in office as a caretaker administration until a new government was formed.
During provincial elections earlier this year, a populist pro-farmer party put Rutte’s party into second place. The defeat was seen as a possible incentive for Rutte to do his utmost to hold together his coalition until its term ends in 2025.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn., April 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Landmark Recovery, an inpatient addiction treatment organization, today announces a refresh of their executive team. Landmark Recovery has big goals, including, saving 1 million lives in 100 years and to do that, they've installed an updated executive team that will increase efficiencies, provide unparalleled clinical and medical offerings, open more facilities and serve more people in need of addiction recovery than ever before. Among the executives are Matt Boyle, Chief Executive Officer, AJ Henry, Chief Operations Officer, Matthew DiGiacobbe, Chief Financial Officer, Dr. Jason Kirby, Chief Medical Officer, Justin Hartman, Chief Revenue Officer and H. Chris Kang, Chief Legal Officer.
Landmark Recovery has 14 open facilities with 18 facilities set to open by the end of 2024. With a slate of massive growth ahead, Landmark Recovery is announcing the executive team poised to lead the company of 1,115 employees.
"With this new team in place, we are refocused and reenergized to build the biggest, highest quality, and most impactful addiction treatment organization in the country," said Matt Boyle, CEO of Landmark Recovery. "We already have over 17,000 graduates, so I cannot wait to see the influence Landmark will have on improving the state of mental health and addiction just a few short years from now."
Landmark's Executive Team
Matt Boyle, co-founder and CEO of Landmark Recovery, started the company in 2016 with the goal of changing the face of addiction recovery in America. His aspirations for a new kind of behavioral health offering, addressing the underlying causes of substance use disorders and at a lower cost, has positioned Landmark as one of the fastest growing addiction recovery organizations in the United States.
AJ Henry, COO, oversees our operations, implementations, people management and clinical teams to shape the compassionate levels of substance use care offered at our facilities. Henry brings more than 15 years of leadership experience and a deep understanding of talent acquisition, business development and executive support. He plays an instrumental role in diversifying Landmark's business development strategies and making sure that our facilities are running at a high level of operational excellence. Henry originally joined Landmark in 2022 as the Chief People Officer.
Matthew DiGiacobbe, CFO is a seasoned financial executive with over a decade of leadership experience in building and managing large financial crimes programs at some of the world's most prominent financial institutions, including HSBC and UBS. As CFO, he oversees the finance and accounting teams to make sure Landmark is properly positioned for future growth. Most recently, he served as the Chief AML Officer at DriveWealth, a fintech company specializing in global retail brokerage. Matthew is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and holds a BS in Finance Management, a BS in Accounting, and a Graduate Degree in Strategic Leadership, all from Goldey Beacom College.
As CMO, Dr. Jason Kirby oversees Landmark's standards of care and compliance with regulatory policy while managing Landmark's best-in-class medical, telehealth and admissions teams. He is an expert in population health policy and dual board-certified in addiction medicine and family medicine. He is a fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM), serving on both its financial committee and level of care committee, and is a faculty member for ASAM's treatment of opioid use disorder courses. Additionally, he is President ASAM's Tennessee Chapter.
Justin Hartman, CRO, brings more than 10 years' experience managing customer acquisition and retention programs. Hartman's strategic vision ensures an effective end-to-end partner and patient experience. Hartman's team of marketing and development experts are dedicated to educating the nation on the impact of substance abuse and ensuring everyone has access to recovery.
H. Chris Kang serves as General Counsel for Landmark Recovery and its affiliates. In his role, he leads the teams responsible for Landmark's legal affairs and helps Landmark manage its insurance relationships, risk management, and real estate portfolio. Aside from his experiences as a lawyer, Kang brings almost a decade of experience as an entrepreneur and investor in the real estate, construction, and manufacturing industries to Landmark. Kang received his Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School where he graduated cum laude.
About Landmark Recovery
Landmark Recovery, founded in 2016, is an evidence-based addiction recovery organization offering individualized treatment including detox, residential, intensive outpatient, and partial hospitalization. Landmark serves communities in Kentucky, Indiana, Oklahoma, Ohio, Colorado, Tennessee, Virginia, Michigan and Nevada along with its sister company, Praxis by Landmark Recovery, that serves individuals with Medicaid. The Landmark of Louisville facility was named the No. 1 Addiction Treatment Center in Kentucky by Newsweek for 2021. For more information, please visit www.landmarkrecovery.com or call 866-504-8545.
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Legacy High School celebrated three more student-athletes who signed on to compete at the college level next year.
Drew Prado signed with UT-Permian Baseball, track runner Kylah Washington is heading to Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, and Clara Martinez is going to Dodge City Community College in Kansas on a cheerleading/academic scholarship during a ceremony held Monday at the LHS library.
Prado is a two-year letterwinner and two-year starter for the Rebels baseball team, which will be playing a best-of-three Class 6A bi-district playoff series against El Paso Americas Thursday and Saturday. He said he’s been dreaming of getting the opportunity to play college ball since he was a kid and while playing with the Midland Aces travel ball team, whose coaches are considered part of his family.
“I remember the coach had told us that sports will get harder and only a select few of us would get to play college sports,” he said. “We’re all great athletes and I’m just glad I’m getting an opportunity to continue playing this game.”
Prado, an outfielder, said that not only did he believe that UTPB had a good program but it was close to home where his family and LHS head coach Eric Garcia could come and watch him play.
“I could go farther away from home, but it just feels nice that all my loved ones can get to come and watch me,” he said. “I went to a UTPB camp in the fall, and I loved the campus, I loved the coaches, and it feels right.”
Prado added that there was an emotional moment with his family after he got offered from first-year Falcons coach Gabe Grinder.
“I went in the room and I told them and my little brother came in and it hit me and we started crying,” he said. “We realized that I was going to keep playing baseball and realize my dream.”
Garcia said Prado has been working hard for this moment.
“He really grew up last year as a first-year starter and was a leadoff hitter for us,” Garcia said. “Some of his best baseball was down the stretch for us during that playoff run. He led off for us in a bunch of big at-bats against some really good pitchers. He gave our team a spark a lot of times when he got up there and had really good at-bats and was really confident at the plate. We’re expecting more good at-bats going into these next couple of weeks in the playoffs.”
Washington is a former move-in from Frisco. She had a great season last year by winning the 100- and 200-meter races in the District 2-6A meet. Unfortunately, this year Washington missed most of the track season with stress fracture in one of her legs.
“I’ve always dreamed of signing with a college, so to actually be able to despite having an injury, it’s really special,” Washington said. “Having coaches who support me and also having teammates who support me is really special as well.”
LHS track coach Frank Maldonado told the gathered audience that he’s happy Washington is getting to compete at the next level and knows how much this means to her.
“She has a passion for track,” he said. “I’m glad that she’s getting to run at another place, take her talent to that place and to make that place successful just like she made our place successful and special. More than just a track athlete, she’s got all the intangibles; leadership and she works really hard.”
Washington said she ran the first meet of the season and she said he had the fracture then but didn’t know what it was at the time.
“Once we figured out what it was, I was out the entire season, which was really devastating for me,” she said. “One thing I’ve learned is to go to the training room and just maintain and take care of my body the best way that I can, just to prevent things like that and catch them early to where I’m able to run. I’m glad that I have that chance to try again.”
Washington said she expects to run the 100, 200 and probably the 400 relay.
“When I went and talked to the (HSU) coaches, I really feel that they care about the (athletes) and want to keep them healthy,” she said. “I know that I will become a better runner altogether.”
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Accenture, Adecco, Amazon, Generali, ISS, Marriott International, and Microsoft among leading businesses pledging to accelerate the economic integration of Ukrainian refugee women and other refugees
PARIS, June 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On the eve of World Refugee Day and as Europe faces its largest refugee crisis since World War II – including 4-5 million refugees, overwhelmingly women, from Ukraine – 41 leading companies have collectively announced ambitious commitments to provide over 250,000 Ukrainian refugee women and other refugees with jobs and training across Europe. Unveiled at today's Tent European Business Summit in Paris – organized by the Tent Partnership for Refugees (Tent) – this sets a new record as the most significant set of business commitments ever made to advance the economic integration of refugees.
This historic set of commitments comprises: leading brands including Hilton, Marriott International, and Teleperformance committing to hire 13,680 refugees into their workforce; the world's largest staffing agencies including Adecco, ManpowerGroup, and Randstad committing to connect 152,000 refugees to work; and major companies including Accenture, Generali, and Indeed committing to train more than 86,000 refugees. Also announced at the Summit was funding from Google.org, Google's philanthropy, to accelerate Tent's work in Poland, as well as new strategic partnerships with LinkedIn and Visa – including funding support – to grow Tent's professional mentorship initiatives for refugees in Europe.
Notably, the commitments being made will strengthen companies' workforces, fill labor gaps, and boost European economies – and generate over €2 billion in income for refugees across Europe each year.
"With no end in sight to the Russian invasion of Ukraine – and with the European Union welcoming millions of Ukrainians – it's imperative that refugees are offered longer-term inclusion and hope through integration into the labour market," said Margaritis Schinas, Vice President of the European Commission, who gave the keynote speech at the Summit. "The opening of the EU's borders to Ukrainians over a year ago showed Europe at its best. However, one year on, far too many refugees remain unemployed, despite our endemic skills shortages, their high levels of education, desire to earn a living, and legal right to work through the Temporary Protection Directive. This unprecedented show of support from businesses across the continent will be critical to enabling tens of thousands of Ukrainians to provide for themselves and their loved ones back in Ukraine."
"Ukrainian refugee women face many hurdles when finding jobs – from not knowing the local language to having to juggle childcare responsibilities. Businesses must do more to reduce these barriers, and help these incredible, strong, talented people enter the workforce," said Hamdi Ulukaya, founder and President of the Tent Partnership for Refugees and CEO and founder of Chobani. "The moment a refugee gets a job is the moment they stop being a refugee. I'm so proud that the companies stepping up today will help more than 250,000 Ukrainian women and other refugees across Europe stand on their own two feet, giving them a chance to live lives of dignity."
Brands committing to hire 13,680 Ukrainians and other refugees into their workforce over the next three years across Europe included:
Amazon will hire at least 5,000 refugees
Hilton will hire at least 1,500 refugees
Marriott International will hire at least 1,500 refugees
ISS will hire at least 1,000 refugees
Teleperformance will hire at least 500 refugees
Other brands making hiring commitments included Accenture, adidas, Blackstone, bp, Duni Group, ESS Group, FCC Medio Ambiente, Hempel, Hyatt, Ipsos, KFC, Kyndryl, L'Oréal Group, Menzies Aviation, Novartis, PepsiCo, Pfizer, QSRP, Starbucks EMEA, Suez, The Body Shop, and The Kraft Heinz Company.
"We know the diversity of our workforce makes us a stronger company, which is why we actively seek to hire people with different backgrounds, skill sets, and levels of experience. We understand the barriers that exist for refugees and other displaced people, and are committed to providing access to meaningful employment," said J. Ofori Agboka, Vice President of People eXperience and Technology (PXT) for Global Operations at Amazon and Tent Advisory Council member. "We're proud of the pledge we have made today, which reflects Amazon's ongoing commitment to support refugees globally."
Staffing agencies also made extraordinary commitments to connect refugees to work over the next three years, by including them in their contingent workforces as well as placing them in jobs with their clients across Europe. Their pledges totaled 152,000 and include:
Adecco will connect at least 50,000 refugees to work
Randstad will connect at least 40,000 refugees to work
EWL Group will connect at least 35,000 refugees to work
ManpowerGroup will connect at least 30,000 refugees to work
"Adecco has a long-standing commitment of supporting refugees in need. Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, we have helped more than 10,000 refugees connect to work but recognize the increasing need for companies like ours to do even more, given the sobering reality that many are expected to remain displaced for years to come," said Christophe Catoir, President of Adecco and co-host of the Tent European Business Summit. "It's inspiring to see dozens of companies from across Europe come together with such bold commitments at this crucial moment, and Adecco is incredibly proud to be at the forefront of this charge."
In addition, a number of major companies announced commitments to provide training – both directly as well as through partner organizations – over the next three years to help refugees develop in-demand technical skills such as IT, coding, and cyber security, as well as gain a better understanding of the European job market.
Accenture will provide training and support to an estimated 16,000 refugees
Indeed will provide training to at least 15,000 refugees
Cisco will provide training to at least 10,000 refugees
Microsoft will provide training to at least 5,000 refugees
Generali will provide training to least 5,000 refugees
"Refugees face so many challenges as they try to enter their new country's labour market for the first time or find work that is commensurate with their skills and background," said Lucy Murdoch, Managing Director - Corporate Citizenship, Accenture. "Training opportunities - whether they're focused on language, industry-specific skills, or learning labour market norms - are critical to help refugee candidates secure meaningful employment. Our pledge today builds on Accenture's ongoing commitment towards creating inclusive employment pathways for refugees and track record in upskilling marginalised populations all around the world to make substantive improvements to their lives and prepare them for sustainable futures."
Other companies committing to train refugees included Accor, Amazon, Hempel, Kyndryl, ManpowerGroup, Novartis, Randstad, Salesforce, Starbucks EMEA, and Unilever.
In light of these pan-European commitments, Tent will look to connect more companies regionally with refugee talent pools at scale – particularly in Poland, which hosts the largest Ukrainian refugee population at 1.5 million. To that end, also announced today was support from Google.org that will leverage Google's resources and technology know-how to bridge the gap between businesses and Ukrainian refugees in Poland.
Complementing its wider mission of connecting refugees to jobs, Tent's professional mentorship programs provide support to refugees from employees at participating companies who serve as mentors, offer one-to-one career guidance, and help them restart or advance their careers. To help reach thousands more Ukrainians and other refugee women, new strategic partnerships with LinkedIn and Visa to accelerate the growth of Tent's Refugee Women Mentorship Program in Europe were also announced at the Summit today – including funding.
A complete list of the commitments announced at the Summit can be found here.
APPENDIX: ADDITIONAL QUOTES
Gideon Maltz, CEO of the Tent Partnership for Refugees: "The European public's outpouring of support for Ukrainian refugees in the early days of Russia's invasion is now being matched by the business community making smart, strategic, and durable investments to integrate Ukrainian and other refugees into the labor market. Through these efforts, companies fill labor shortages and harness amazing talent, while refugees rebuild their lives and integrate in their communities. If Russia had hoped that the exodus of Ukrainians would destabilize Europe, today's summit shows that Europe will be stronger and more prosperous for embracing Ukrainians and other refugees."
Kelly T. Clements, Deputy High Commissioner of UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency: "Tent and its partners have powerfully demonstrated that there is an overwhelming support from businesses, customers and employees towards hiring refugees. Having a job puts refugees on the path to self-reliance, enabling them to support their families. Refugees are innovators, taxpayers, employees, consumers, investors and entrepreneurs. There is no better investment than helping refugees find work or gain the skills they need to enter the labour market. It simply makes good business sense. UNHCR urges more companies to step up and create decent work for refugees globally."
Anthony Capuano, President & CEO of Marriott International: "At Marriott International, we believe in being a force for good and making a positive and sustainable impact in the communities where we do business. Across Europe, this has included support for refugees from Ukraine since the start of the war. Our focus on creating job opportunities has already led to over 970 refugees hired across dozens of our hotels in the region. Marriott's goal to hire an additional 1,500 refugees in Europe builds on the work we're doing to promote opportunities for refugees in the U.S. and highlights our steadfast commitment to put people first and provide economic opportunity for refugees and underrepresented populations."
Laura Fuentes, Chief Human Resources Officer, Hilton & Tent Advisory Council member: "Hilton was founded with the purpose to spread the light and warmth of hospitality – to be a beacon of hope and engine of opportunity. Part of this commitment is to create career pathways for all," said "We are proud to continue our partnership with Tent to hire 1,500 refugees over the next three years at our hotels across Europe and embrace the contributions of this diverse and skilled talent pool among our workforces."
Jacob Aarup-Andersen, CEO of ISS and Tent European Business Summit Co-Host: "At ISS, we are proud of our diverse and inclusive culture, which embraces colleagues from around the world and led us to immediately commit to welcoming Ukrainian refugees into our workforce as soon as the war broke out. Through our partnership with the Tent Partnership for Refugees, local authorities, and other key partners, ISS is proud to have already hired hundreds of refugees in Europe since last spring. Our commitment today to hire at least 1,000 more refugees, including Ukrainian refugee women, builds on our relentless drive to make a true difference for people and societies through financial stability and a sense of belonging."
Paul Polman, Business Leader, Campaigner, Former CEO of Unilever, and Tent European Business Summit Co-Host: "When I joined Hamdi Ulukaya and the other distinguished business leaders as co-host of the Tent European Business Summit a few months ago, I could not have imagined the scale at which businesses would be stepping up for Ukrainians and other refugees today. I deeply commend the companies that have joined this crucial movement and I pay tribute to the many refugees who are rebuilding their lives, from Ukraine and other parts of the world. Their talent and tenacity is a tremendous asset for any company building a capable and determined workforce".
Dominika Bettman, GM of Microsoft Poland and Tent European Business Summit Co-Host: "The millions of Ukrainian refugees that Poland and the rest of Europe have welcomed since the start of the war are primarily women with childcare burdens. Many continue to face professional and social challenges as they strive to enter the local labour market. Training is a critical stepping stone for these willing and talented individuals as they seek to find work. Microsoft is proud to be a part of today's watershed moment with our commitment to work with our partners across Europe to train at least 5,000 Ukrainians until 2025."
Ian Bickley, CEO, The Body Shop: "It's critical that businesses across Europe join forces to provide refugees with opportunities to rebuild their lives. Here at The Body Shop, we've been growing our inclusive hiring practices across our markets for several years now providing jobs to people who desperately need economic stability and the kind of securities that many of us take for granted. We're really looking forward to welcoming more refugees to join our collective and we thank Tent for spearheading this essential work."
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With more and more refugees displaced for longer periods of time, businesses have a critical role to play in helping refugees integrate economically in their new communities. Tent was launched in 2016 by Hamdi Ulukaya, the CEO and founder of Chobani – a multibillion dollar food company in the U.S. – to mobilize global businesses to fill this gap by helping connect refugees to work. Today, Tent is a network of over 300 major companies committed to hiring, training, and mentoring refugees. Find out more at www.tent.org.
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A 16-year veteran of the Anne Arundel County Police Department was arrested last week and suspended with pay after allegedly assaulting his wife during an argument, according to court documents.
Cpl. Hans Hopple was charged with second-degree assault Wednesday, a misdemeanor that carries a maximum punishment of 10 years of incarceration.
Shortly before 11 p.m. Wednesday, officers responded to the 6200 block of Solomons Island Road in Tracys Landing for reports of a domestic assault.
Investigators met with Hopple’s wife, who said the couple had been arguing over “marital issues” when Hopple pushed her upper chest. She fell, hurt her hip and was later transported to the Anne Arundel Medical Center, according to charging documents.
Hopple was arrested that night and later released on his own recognizance.
Three children were in the house at the time of the alleged assault, police said.
His wife filed for divorce in circuit court Thursday.
Hopple was the second county police veteran arrested in March. About two weeks earlier, Det. Ian Preece of the Criminal Investigation Division was arrested on drunken driving charges after crashing into a sign near Ritchie Highway.
Preece, who was shot in the line of duty in 2020, has been with county police for 15 years.
Both he and Hopple were suspended with pay, pending an investigation by the Office of Professional Standards, police said.
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Chiefs top Bengals 23-20 on last-second kick for AFC title, will play Eagles in Super Bowl
Patrick Mahomes scrambled for a first down on his badly sprained right ankle, then was shoved late out of bounds by Joseph Ossai, giving Harrison Butker a chance to kick a 45-yard field goal with 3 seconds left that gave the Kansas City Chiefs a 23-20 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals in the AFC title game Sunday night.
The Chiefs finally managed to beat the Bengals after three straight losses, including a three-point overtime defeat in last year's conference championship game. Kansas City advanced to play the Philadelphia Eagles in their third Super Bowl in four years.
The Eagles and the Chiefs will face off in the National Football League championship in Super Bowl LVII on Feb. 12.
The Philadelphia Eagles earlier in the day easily beat the San Francisco 49ers 31-7 in Philadelphia. Super Bowl LVII will be played at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.
The Chiefs' Mahomes, who hurt his ankle against Jacksonville in the divisional round, threw for 326 yards and two touchdowns, even though he was missing three of his wide receivers to injuries by the fourth quarter.
Marquez Valdes-Scantling led the way with 116 yards and a touchdown, while Travis Kelce — bad back and all — had seven for 78 yards and a score.
Joe Burrow had 270 yards passing with a touchdown and two interceptions for Cincinnati. He was sacked five times.
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Finalist: Bernadette Michelle Chala
Chief Legal Officer
Arbonne
UCLA School of Law
Bernadette Chala started her career as a judicial law clerk, moving to private practice, and then began her career as general counsel to help steer her company through a strategic transaction. Upon successfully closing the transaction, she moved to Arbonne International where she became the chief legal officer and once again steered her company through a successful transaction.
Currently, Chala leads the legal, compliance, government relations and policy, and scientific affairs teams at Arbonne. She successfully converted Arbonne to a for-profit public benefit company and was part of a team that obtained B Corp recertification in 2023 - achieving one of the highest scores of any company in Arbonne’s industry at 119 points. Believing that every team can do its part to support Arbonne’s B-company philosophy, Chala spearheaded a project to ensure that all legal vendors demonstrated a commitment to DEI.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Charlbi Dean, the South African actor and model who had a breakout role in "Triangle of Sadness," which won this year's top prize at the Cannes Film Festival, has died at age 32.
Dean died Monday at a hospital in New York from a sudden unexpected illness, her representatives said Tuesday.
Dean also had a recurring role as the assassin Syonide on the DC Comics television series "Black Lightning," which aired on the CW from 2018 to 2021.
She was born Charlbi Dean Kriek in Cape Town, where she was also raised.
Dean began modeling as a child, making frequent appearances on fashion runways and magazine covers in the decades that followed.
She survived a near-fatal car accident in 2009.
She made her acting debut in the 2010 film "Spud," an adaptation of a popular South African novel about a boys' boarding school starring Troye Sivan and John Cleese. She reprised her role in a 2013 sequel.
In "Triangle of Sadness," the first English-language film from Swedish "Force Majeure" director Ruben Östlund, Dean and Harris Dickinson play a celebrity fashion-model couple on a cruise for the ultra-rich that descends into chaos. It also stars Woody Harrelson as the ship's captain.
The film won the Palme D'Or at Cannes in May and opens in the U.S. and most of Europe in October.
At the festival before the film won the award, Dean told The Associated Press, "For me, I'm like, I've already won. I'm already at Cannes with the movie. That's so unbelievable. Anything is just a cherry on top at this point for me, you know?"
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NEW YORK, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Ironnet, Inc. ("Ironnet" or the "Company") (NYSE: IRNT) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Ironnet investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud between September 15, 2021 and December 15, 2021. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
https://www.zlk.com/pslra-1/ironnet-inc-loss-submission-form?prid=28603&wire=4
IRNT investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (i) the Company had materially overstated its business and financial prospects; (ii) the Company was unable to predict the timing of significant customer opportunities which constituted a substantial portion of its publicly- issued FY 2022 financial guidance; (iii) the Company had not established effective disclosure controls and procedures to reasonably ensure its public disclosures were timely, accurate, complete, and not otherwise misleading; and (iv) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false, misleading, and/or lacked any reasonable basis in fact at all relevant times.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Ironnet during the relevant time frame, you have until June 21, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
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The US and Saudi Arabia usually try to keep their differences behind closed doors. But they broke out into the open this week over oil supplies and Ukraine.
Jackie Northam is NPR's International Affairs Correspondent. She is a veteran journalist who has spent three decades reporting on conflict, geopolitics, and life across the globe - from the mountains of Afghanistan and the desert sands of Saudi Arabia, to the gritty prison camp at Guantanamo Bay and the pristine beauty of the Arctic.
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by: Emily Erwin Posted: Mar 15, 2023 / 04:25 PM PDT Updated: Mar 15, 2023 / 04:25 PM PDT SHARE Enjoy free Italian ice at The Heavenly Freeze Dessert Shop all day on the first day of spring, Monday, MAch 20.
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Wondershare challenges creators to revamp their content using the vaporwave aesthetic featured in their new quarterly publication.
VANCOUVER, BC, Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As a leader in the digital-creativity software industry, Wondershare is thrilled to announce the launch of their quarterly Visual Trendbook. Every three months, the Visual Trendbook will feature inspirational design trends that stand above the rest for their carefully selected color schemes, fonts, effects, and layouts. Wondershare's mission with this publication is to help creators revamp their content and keep up with the latest trends in the worlds of design, fashion, visual art, pop culture, filmmaking and social media.
To keep creators in vogue, each volume of the Visual Trendbook will offer a set of curated tools including custom-built effect packs, stylized filters, transitions, and more. In addition to the Visual Trendbook, Wondershare has gone further to empower creators through the #CreatewithWondershare campaign designed to challenge creators to use the elements of the current trend to make their own video for the chance to win a creative fund of 200$ plus a collaboration with Wondershare as a creative ambassador.
"The Visual Trendbook is a page you will want to bookmark," said Shaan Jahagirdar, Chief Design Officer of Wondershare. "The design world consistently moves forward in the exploration and creative expression of new visual styles. This creative exploration transforms the world. The Visual Trendbook will both publish and archive the different styles and concepts that creators can use in their pursuit of novelty and style."
By popular vote, the first volume of the Visual Trendbook features the vaporwave aesthetic. Simply put, vaporwave is a style that reimagines the past through a modern lens. It started as a microgenre within electronic music but has expanded to visual art, fashion, interior design, and so much more. As a digital art movement, vaporwave draws from key elements from specific eras such as vintage fashion, 20th-century pop culture, early web design and glitch art, VHS tapes, retro gaming systems (such as Atari and Game Boy), anime, and more. Think '80s disco meets '90s punk on an early version of Microsoft Paint with 3D-rendered objects and utopian tropes.
Now, with the release of the Vaporwave Trendbook, creators have the inspiration they need for the #CreatewithWondershare challenge. All they have to do to enter is create a video using the vaporwave design pack from Wondershare, share the video on social media including the hashtag #CreatewithWondershare, and tag @Wondershare for a chance to win the $200 creative fund and become the next Wondershare Creative Ambassador.
"As a technology company, we have been playing with the idea of content creation tools since the days of CD-ROMs, floppy Pentium 100 computers, and 16-bit graphics," said Jahagirdar. "Decades later, we have transitioned into a fast and mobile world, especially regarding videography. However, our push for innovation and advanced technology doesn't mean we aren't nostalgic for our roots. So, really, vaporwave is right up our alley as a starting point for the Visual Trendbook."
To help creators bring their A-game to the challenge, Wondershare is offering a free trial of specific software from their versatile creative suite:
- Filmora — Filmora is a premier video editor for users at any skill level.
- FilmoraGo — Making video editing more accessible, FilmoraGo is a mobile video editor for making fun videos on the go.
- Filmstock — Filmstock library is packed with trendy effects, stock images, and music for all your video editing needs.
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — If the goal of swinging a bat is to hit the ball hard, then Oneil Cruz did it better than anyone.
The Pittsburgh Pirates rookie recorded the hardest-hit ball in the seven years that Major League Baseball has measured exit velocity, lashing a single that came off the bat at 122.4 mph in a 14-2 loss to Atlanta on Wednesday.
Cruz stepped in to face Braves starter Kyle Wright with one on and two outs in the third when he turned on a 91 mph fastball and smashed it off the 21-foot high Clemente Wall in right field.
New York Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton previously had the record for the hardest-hit ball, reaching 122.2 mph in 2017 and again last year. MLB began tracking the metric in 2015.
“At the moment, I didn’t even think I hit the ball that hard,” said the 23-year-old Cruz. “When I came into the dugout, some of my teammates shared with me that I hit it 122 (mph). I smiled but deep down inside I was like, ‘Wow, I really hit that ball hard.’ Now, finding out that I broke a record, it means a lot to me. That’s something positive to take away from today’s game.”
Cruz initially thought the ball would clear the fence. Instead, it caromed to Atlanta right fielder Ronald Acuña Jr. and Cruz had no shot at extra bases. Acuña might have had an outside shot to get Cruz at first if first baseman Matt Olson had been covering the bag.
“To be honest with you, I did think it was going to go out but I did notice that it was starting to go down and about to hit the fence, that’s when I started running even harder,” Cruz said. “But I did expect it to go out. I didn’t expect it to hit the wall and come right back.”
The Pirates are in the midst of a massive overhaul, one that is relying on the 6-foot-6 Cruz. He made a brief cameo at the end of last season before arriving in the majors to stay on June 20. He’s batting .199 with 10 homers and 30 RBIs.
Despite his early struggles, Cruz’s tools have impressed Atlanta manager Brian Snitker, who said he’s glad the ball hit the wall instead of going over it, where it might have hurt someone.
Cruz has been a StatCast darling since his debut. The shortstop made the hardest recorded assist by an infielder on July 14 when he fired the ball across the diamond at 97.8 mph.
“He’s got skills, my God,” Snitker said. “You start grading tools and it’s off the charts, you know, for a big guy. I mean, that’s going to be fun to watch.”
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A record number of people are dying from firearm injuries in the U.S., and new research suggests that shootings are becoming more lethal, too.
Most victims of fatal firearm injuries die at the scene of the shooting, before they can be treated in a health care setting. But that has become increasingly common over the past two decades.
About 57% of firearm fatalities in 2021 occurred at the scene of the shooting, up 9% since 1999, according to a research letter published Wednesday in the JAMA Surgery journal.
For this analysis, researchers used data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and excluded suicides and other self-inflicted firearm injuries.
Nearly 49,000 people died from firearm injuries in the U.S. in 2021, CDC data shows -- an unprecedented surge of about 23% over two years during the COVID-19 pandemic.
And a shift in the type of firearms that are being bought and used is a key factor making shootings more lethal, experts say.
"It's leaning more and more towards military-grade, higher velocity, higher lethality type of weapons," said Dr. Eric Fleegler, an emergency physician at Boston Children's Hospital.
"That includes larger magazine capacity so they can shoot more bullets, the ability to fire them at faster rates, and quite frankly, just bigger, faster bullets which cause more damage to a human body."
Federal data shows that handguns are the most common murder weapon, used in more than half of all homicides that involve firearms. But rifles, such as the AR-15, are becoming more frequently used.
Nearly 4% of firearm homicides in 2021 involved a rifle, killing 447 people, according to data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. That's more than twice as many deaths and nearly twice as common compared to firearm homicides in 2015.
Other external factors could also play a role in the location where a victim dies, such as increasing demand for ambulances that could affect emergency transportation options.
Still, experts say that more -- and better -- data on gun violence is needed.
In the CDC data, for example, definitions to help differentiate location of death were lacking and many were coded as "other" or "unknown."
And the true scope of America's gun epidemic is far broader than the deaths it causes, experts say.
"Deaths from firearm injuries are horrible tragedies, but they are unfortunately just the tip of the iceberg," said Fleegler, who has studied gun violence but was not involved in this research.
There are many others who suffer physically from gunshot wounds and a deep emotional toll on families and communities, he said, and more robust data is needed to understand that.
While there are more questions to be answered, experts say that this new research adds to evidence that an important step to reducing gun violence will involve addressing the types of guns that are available.
"It reiterates that maybe there should be a look at solutions which limit the magazine capacity and access to high-caliber weapons, as well," said Ari Davis, a policy advisor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Gun Violence Solutions.
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The alleged perpetrator of Saturday's mass shooting at a Buffalo supermarket livestreamed the racist attack online. Using a GoPro camera attached to a military-style helmet, the shooter streamed live on the site Twitch for around two minutes before the site took the livestream down. Since then, the video has been posted elsewhere on the internet.
Experts say platforms could be doing more to prevent livestreams of atrocities from gaining an audience online.
White supremacists have used social media platforms to publicize attacks in the past
Other white-supremacists have also used social media to publicize gruesome attacks, including the mass shooter in Christchurch, New Zealand in 2019.
Since the Christchurch shooting, social media companies have gotten better in some ways at combating videos of atrocities online, including stopping livestreams of attacks faster.
But violent videos like those of mass shootings are saved by some users and then reappear across the internet on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, and other platforms. Those reuploaded videos are harder for companies to take down, says NPR's Bobby Allyn.
On the site Streamable, the video of the Buffalo shooting was viewed more than 3 million times before it was removed, says Allyn.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said social media companies bear some responsibility when crimes like the Buffalo shooting happen.
"The social media platforms that profit from their existence need to be responsible for monitoring and having surveillance, knowing that they can be, in a sense, an accomplice to a crime like this, perhaps not legally but morally," Hochul said.
Allyn reports that social media companies usually are not held liable for what they don't police on their sites. Listen to his discussion on Morning Edition.
Experts say social media companies could do more
Social media companies used to take a mostly hands-off approach to moderating content on their sites, but now more than ever sites are trying to manage the societal problems their sites create, reports Allyn. Facebook, Twitter and other sites like them have teams of thousands working to moderate content and block violent media from reaching people.
For example Twitch, the site the Buffalo shooter livestreamed on, could make it harder for people to open accounts and instantly upload live videos. Other video-streaming sites like TikTok and YouTube require users to have a certain number of followers before they're able to stream live, reports Allyn.
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The Rolls-Royce Wraith bowed out of the U.S. after 2021, but the car remains on sale elsewhere. Now its production is coming to an end, and Rolls-Royce has a special version to close the chapter on the stunning coupe.
The automaker this week presented the Black Badge Wraith Black Arrow as the final Wraith. It’s limited to just 12 examples and confirmed to be the last V-12-powered coupe in the history of Rolls-Royce. The automaker’s future is electric, and that future starts later this year with the arrival of the Spectre coupe.
The Black Arrow name comes from the black arrows that were painted on the Thunderbolt land-speed record car of the 1930s, which ran a Rolls-Royce V-12 engine designed for aircraft. While the Thunderbolt was finished in polished aluminum, black arrows were applied to its streamliner body so measuring equipment could accurately spot the car against the white backdrop of the Bonneville Salt Flats where it made its attempts. Those attempts culminated in a record 357.497 mph in 1938.
The Black Badge Wraith Black Arrow stands out with its exterior paint fade, which is a first for Rolls-Royce. It starts with silver at the front and flows into black at the rear. Applying the paint is a complicated process, not least due to the glass-infused layer that is applied to the black section to help create the blur effect. Rolls-Royce said it spent about 18 months of research time to arrive at the correct look.
The designers then added bright yellow accents to provide some contrast, including on the struts mounted between the grille and engine. This extra detail helps draw the eye to the area behind the grille, where the V-12 lurks.
The yellow accents carry into the cabin, where an illuminated element resembling the shape of the Thunderbolt is also mounted in the center console. A drawing of the Wraith’s twin-turbo 6.6-liter V-12 also features on the dash above the glovebox.
Other unique touches include the door panels, which are made from 320 marquetry pieces that form a tactile surface, and the placement (by hand) of 2,117 fiber-optic lights in the headliner mimicking the Milky Way and its constellations as it all would have appeared over the Bonneville Salt Flats on the night of the Thunderbolt’s record run.
Rolls-Royce said all 12 build slots for the Black Badge Wraith Black Arrow are already sold out.
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NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ClaimsFiler, a FREE shareholder information service, reminds investors that they have until October 31, 2022 to file lead plaintiff applications in a securities class action lawsuit against Abbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT), if they purchased the Company's shares between February 19, 2021 to June 8, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). This action is pending in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
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Abbott and certain of its executives are charged with failing to disclose material information during the Class Period, violating federal securities laws.
On February 17, 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") announced that its inspection of the Company's Sturgis, Michigan facility, prompted by consumer complaints of infant illness, had yielded several positive contamination results for the Cronobacter sakazakii bacteria, linked to infant illnesses and death. On the same day, the Company, without mention of the FDA investigation, recalled certain infant formula products, including the popular brands Similac, Alimentum and EleCare, all manufactured in Sturgis. On this news, shares of Abbott declined by $3.79 per share, or 3.14%.
Then, on March 22, 2022, the FDA reported that, although not "final FDA determinations," its most recent inspection conducted between January 31, 2022 and March 18, 2022 revealed that the Company failed to establish process controls "designed to ensure that infant formula does not become adulterated due to the presence of microorganisms in the formula or in the processing environment" and failed to "ensure that all surfaces that contacted infant formula were maintained to protect infant formula from being contaminated by any source." On this news, shares of Abbott declined by an additional $4.97 per share, or 4%.
Finally, on June 8, 2022, it was reported that a whistleblower complaint identifying numerous serious examples of misconduct at Sturgis related to the above had been filed with the U.S. Occupational Safety & Health Administration ("OSHA") in February 2021, and that OSHA had delivered that complaint to Abbott Laboratories and the FDA during the same month. On this news, shares of Abbott declined by an additional 3.5%, further damaging investors.
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Microsoft is one of the most-loved stocks on Wall Street, but even the wildly positive views surrounding the software giant haven’t been able to keep up with a rally that has already topped 50% this year.
On Tuesday alone, Microsoft jumped as much as 6% after providing details on pricing for some artificial-intelligence services. The advance drove the stock to $364.44 — 3% above the average analyst price target of $353.60. That’s the most Microsoft has been above it since 2013, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
While 87% of the analysts tracked by Bloomberg continue to recommend buying the stock, the premium is the latest example of how the massive rally in big tech has taken prices to elevated levels.
In addition to Microsoft, Apple, Meta Platforms, and Netflix are all trading above their average targets. Tesla is nearly 20% above forecasts, the weakest expected return among all Nasdaq 100 Index members.
The tech-heavy gauge has a return potential of 2.2% overall by this measure, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. It has soared 45% this year.
Much of the rally has been fueled by investor excitement over AI, a technology that many of the megacaps are exposed to. The pricing that Microsoft detailed on Tuesday is seen as higher than expected, and analysts said it could support the company’s growth prospects going forward.
Whether AI has materialized as a concrete driver of earnings and revenue will be a key focus for this earnings season, especially as major stocks are trading at record levels and above their long-term average multiples.
The Nasdaq 100 is trading at 27 times estimated earnings, compared with its 10-year average of 20.8. Apple and Microsoft, the largest components of the index, are even pricier and are also above their long-term averages.
Microsoft will report its results next week alongside fellow megacaps Alphabet and Meta Platforms.
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K-State will have new Track and Field facility
MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) - The $12 million dollar project will open to athletes to begin training in December.
“When we announced our facilities master plan back in 2018, we anticipated transitioning the football indoor into a new track and field venue, and we feel like when it is completed, it will be a tremendous home for both training and competition,” Director of Athletics Gene Taylor said per a release. “I know our coaching staff and student-athletes will benefit greatly from this enhancement, and we look forward to hosting more meets in the future.”
Phase one has already been under way with the removal of the football turf playing field and will continue through the summer with upgraded lighting, paint and HVAC.
Phase two of the project will include a new exterior facade on the north end of the building as well as new locker rooms, team rooms and training rooms but there is no timetable on when that could be done.
According to Kansas State athletics, a new indoor track surface will be installed in the facility. The new 200-meter, 6-lane oval, permanent banked track will feature Mondo’s (new partner’s) Super X 720 surface, which provides the optimal blend of energy return, comfort, safety and durability for everything from daily training to the toughest competitions.
An 8-lane sprint straightaway, a pole vault lane, two long jump/triple jump lanes, throw areas, a four-lane warm-up straightaway and non-competition areas around the track also will be Mondo’s Super X 720 surface. The competition surfaces, as well as the warm-up lanes, will be in a shade of purple Mondo custom created for the program.
“This new facility will provide a huge lift to our program from not only a training and competition perspective, but also in recruiting,” Director of Track and Field Cliff Rovelto said per a release. “We are very appreciative of Gene (Taylor) and our administration for making this project a priority and know that it will be a facility we will all take great pride in.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — CBS and its former president, Leslie Moonves, will pay $30.5 million as part of an agreement with the New York attorney general's office to compensate the network's shareholders, as part of an insider trading investigation and for concealing sexual assault allegations against Moonves.
The broadcast giant is required to pay $22 million to shareholders and another $6 million for sexual harassment and assault programs. Moonves will have to pay $2.5 million, all of which will benefit stockholders who the New York attorney general said were kept in the dark about the allegations because network executives concealed the information.
At least one of those executives — one of the few privy to an internal investigation — sold millions in dollars of stock before the allegations against Moonves became public.
“As a publicly traded company, CBS failed its most basic duty to be honest and transparent with the public and investors. After trying to bury the truth to protect their fortunes, today CBS and Leslie Moonves are paying millions of dollars for their wrongdoing," Attorney General Letitia James said in a statement, calling attempts to mislead investors “reprehensible.”
A spokesperson for Paramount Global, which owns CBS, said it was “pleased to resolve this matter concerning events from 2018 with the New York Attorney General’s office, without any admission of liability or wrongdoing,” adding that the “matter involved alleged misconduct by CBS’s former CEO, who was terminated for cause in 2018, and does not relate in any way to the current company."
Moonves resigned from CBS on Sept. 9, 2018.
In a document outlining the findings of its investigation, the attorney general's office also outlined an alleged scheme by a Los Angeles police captain to try to cover up the allegations against Moonves.
The police captain, who was not named in the report, tipped off CBS that a woman had lodged a complaint against Moonves in the Los Angeles Police Department's Hollywood division.
The captain then met personally with Moonves and another CBS executive and fed them confidential information about the investigation. The captain also instructed the police officers investigating the complaint to “admonish” the woman not to go to the media with her allegations, according to the attorney general's office.
When the allegations ultimately became public anyway and Moonves resigned, the captain sent a note to a CBS contact saying, “We worked so hard to try to avoid this day.”
He also wrote a note to Moonves saying, “I’m deeply sorry that this has happened. I will always stand with, by and pledge my allegiance to you.”
The attorney general's office said it uncovered text messages between the police captain, CBS executives and Moonves that showed efforts to prevent the complaint from becoming public.
Withholding that information from shareholders, officials said, constituted insider trading and violated state laws meant to protect investors.
CBS is also required under the deal with the attorney general's office to reform its human resources practices around sexual harassment.
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This wasn't your dad's version of the Southwestern Athletic Conference.
SWAC opponents are putting up a fight this season, as the University of Arkansas-Little Rock Trojans discovered at the Jack Stephens Center in Little Rock on Sunday night.
A three-point attempt missed by sophomore Ken Evans of the SWAC's Jackson State Tigers left UALR with a 94-91 victory. Before that, the Trojans had to overcome a 19-point first-half deficit that Coach Darrell Walker said caught his team's attention.
"I would tell people you better be ready [for Jackson State]," Walker said. "You better quit thinking this is going to be an easy game because this is SWAC team."
UALR was led by senior guard Myron Gardner's 23 points. Sophomore guard D.J. Smith added 18. Senior guard Trace Young led Jackson State with 26 points.
As disappointed as he was by the loss, Coach Mo Williams said he hopes performances like Jackson State's displayed against UALR will begin to change minds.
"The SWAC is way underrated," Williams said. "We got some really good basketball teams in our league."
Another example of the SWAC's new twist came from a school less than an hour's drive from the UALR campus. On Nov. 7, Arkansas-Pine Bluff, also a SWAC member, lost its opener at TCU, 72-71.
When sophomore guard Jordan Jefferson hit a three-pointer with 16:03 left in the game, UALR was in front 49-47 and held its first lead in a game it had trailed by as many as 19 points.
UALR would never feel comfortable, not against an opponent that shot 50.7% from the floor and hit 44.8% of its three-point attempts.
"[Jackson State] executed well," D.J. Smith said. "We have to learn how to come out with more energy."
Though UALR never trailed after Jefferson gave it the lead, the Trojans never led by more than eight points. Their lead was 90-85 after Smith hit a putback with 22 seconds left.
UALR's lead was 94-88 after Smith hit two free throws with six seconds left, but with three seconds to play, Adams sunk a three-pointer, and UALR led by three points.
After a UALR turnover by Gardner, sophomore guard Ken Evans, Jr., had an open three-point shot from the corner, but it bounced out.
A foul on the floor by UALR freshman guard Chris Walker with one second to play left Jackson State with the long-shot hope a field goal after a missed free throw, which failed to materialize.
Jackson State senior forward Trace Young tried to make the first free throw but missed. He missed the second intentionally, but Gardner rebounded to secure UALR's win.
UALR managed to stay in range early, despite Jackson State's hot shooting start.
The visitors hit their first four three-point attempts. Three of those came from Young, and the final of that surge gave Jackson State a 12-5 lead with less than three minutes gone on the clock.
UALR was within 14-10 after an 18-footer from Gordon with 14:22 left in the first half.
Jackson State countered with a nine-point run over the following three minutes and led 23-10 after Adam's fast-break slam dunk at 11:15.
Jackson State's lead reached 38-19 after Young hit a 17-footer with four minutes left before halftime.
"We deserved to be down by 38-19," Walker said.
Reserve freshman forward Ethan Speaker was key to UALR's comeback. He scored seven of his game's 11 points to help put UALR within 41-37 at halftime.
"[Speaker] came out and gave us a good lift off the bench," Walker said. "We cut to four at halftime and knew if we came out and played well, we'd have a good chance to win the game."
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — For isolated communities at the top of the world, keeping the planet’s largest land predators — polar bears — out of town is key to coexistence.
That can mean patrolling for the animals by snowmobile or four-wheeler, shooing them away with spotlights or a revved engine, or hazing them with beanbag shotguns. In one Canadian town, polar bears that can’t be scared off are kept in an air-conditioned “bear jail” until they can be flown out onto the sea ice. Such bear patrols have long succeeded in reducing conflict.
But this week, a polar bear attack killed a mother and her 1-year-old son in Wales, a tiny, remote Alaska whaling village whose bear patrol had lapsed. The incident — the first fatal polar bear attack in Alaska in 30 years — underscored the risks of living alongside the creatures, which can weigh more than 1,700 pounds (771 kg).
While it’s not clear why the bear attacked, and while no patrol can prevent all troublesome encounters between bears and people, the mauling has renewed interest in such programs.
“There’s absolutely discussion now in Wales, saying, ‘Hey, maybe things have changed to the point that we need this, and how do we do that?’” said Susan Nedza, the chief administrator for the Bering Strait School District.
Polar bear attacks are extremely rare. But as climate change reduces the amount of Arctic ice, forcing the bears to spend more time on land, the number of encounters between people and bears is on the rise, researchers say. Raising awareness and improving ways to keep both bears and people safe has become imperative.
In northeastern Russia, patrollers have planted walrus carcasses far from villages to lure the bears away. The patrols were increased in 2019 when about 60 polar bears descended on Ryrkaypiy in Russia’s remote Chukotka region, forcing the cancellation of all public events.
In Arviat, a hamlet on the Hudson Bay in northern Canada, a bear patrol program was credited with dramatically reducing the number of bears killed in defense of life or property, from about eight per year before it began in 2010 to one per year afterward.
Another Hudson Bay town — Churchill, in northeastern Manitoba — has had a bear alert program for decades and has turned the animals into a tourist attraction. There, wildlife agents and police patrol by helicopter and by ground to protect trick-or-treaters on Halloween. Problem bears are captured and kept in an air-conditioned “bear jail” until the ice freezes up and they can be transported out to where they can find natural prey such as seals.
Another successful model is among the coastal communities of the North Slope, where Alaska meets the Arctic Ocean; tribes there have traditionally hunted the bears, along with whales and seals. It’s not uncommon to see dozens of bears on the outskirts of some of those villages, depending on the time of year and ice conditions.
In the early 1990s, scores of polar bears massed on the shore of Utqiagvik, formerly known as Barrow, the northernmost community in the U.S. The village elders gathered: The school year was approaching, and something had to be done.
On their advice, the town put together patrols to try to keep the polar bears out.
“We went on shifts, we used whatever we could use, a snow machine or a truck,” recalled Billy Adams, an employee of the North Slope Borough Department of Wildlife Management who still sometimes patrols for bears. “It’s all about keeping the people and the bears safe.”
The goal is to keep an eye out for bears, respond to reported sightings, and shoo them away as gently as possible. Sometimes that means just revving the engine of a snowmobile, truck or four-wheeler, or shining a spotlight at them; other times it can escalate to the use of beanbags or “cracker shells,” like firecrackers fired from a shotgun, to harass the bears, said Taqulik Hepa, director of the North Slope Borough Department of Wildlife Management in Alaska.
The North Slope has patrols on standby in case bears come close; three villages have active patrols now, Hepa said.
In Kaktovik in 2014, a patroller shooed away a polar bear that had gotten into the entryway of an 81-year-old woman’s home, where it was feeding on a drum of seal oil. The woman had hidden inside and was unharmed.
The North Slope Borough doesn’t maintain a budget for the program, but supports it by providing fuel or equipment. When available, grants from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service help offset the costs, which can include pay for patrollers.
Polar bears appear less frequently in Wales, a community that is the westernmost point on the North American mainland — just 50 miles (80 kilometers) from Russia across the Bering Strait. Wales is home to about 150 people, almost all of them Inupiat. It’s accessible by plane and boat, including barges that deliver household goods. Winter trails provide snowmobile access to other communities and subsistence hunting grounds.
Wales began a polar bear patrol in 2014 with the help of the World Wildlife Fund, which has supported the creation of several such programs in far northern communities across the globe. But the local program became inactive due to a confluence of factors — including the COVID-19 pandemic, the relative lack of bears and the recent death of its leader, Clyde Oxereok.
The community also has fewer financial resources than some of its counterparts in the North Slope, where the oil industry has buoyed the economy.
Even if a patrol had been active, though, it’s not clear it could have prevented Tuesday’s attack. It occurred early in the afternoon — not typically a risky time for bear encounters — and came amid a near whiteout, with extremely poor visibility.
Authorities investigating the mauling said they intend “to learn from this tragedy and determine what future measures we and our communities can take to prevent future fatal human-bear encounters,” according to a joint statement released Thursday by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game and the Alaska Nannut Co-management Council, which represents 15 Alaska Native tribes that have traditionally hunted polar bears.
Chrissy Friberg, a traveling optician from Washington state, spent a couple days in Wales just before the attack, holding a clinic for the villagers. She said people didn’t seem overly concerned about the risk of bears.
“We were outside, walking around,” she said. “There were no threats or warnings.”
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Johnson reported from Seattle.
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HOUSTON (AP) — A federal judge is set to again consider the fate of a program that prevents the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the United States as children.
U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen last year declared the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program illegal.
Last week, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said he should take another look at DACA following revisions adopted by the Biden administration in August that were created to improve its chances of surviving legal scrutiny.
Hanen has scheduled a hearing Friday to meet with attorneys and discuss the next steps in the decade-long legal fight.
Hanen will likely ask lawyers for more information on the new DACA regulation, according to Nina Perales, an attorney with the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund who will be representing DACA recipients at Friday’s hearing.
“It’s a safe bet the judge is going to call for more filings and more legal arguments because he now has to take up the question of the legality of the Biden administration regulation,” Perales said.
But a timetable for how quickly those arguments need to be made and when Hanen would issue a final ruling will remain unclear until Friday’s hearing, Perales said. The new regulation is set to take effect Oct. 31.
Several advocacy groups planned to attend the hearing and gather outside the federal courthouse on Friday.
Hanen last year declared DACA illegal after Texas and eight other Republican-leaning states filed a lawsuit claiming they are harmed financially, incurring hundreds of millions of dollars in health care, education and other costs, when immigrants are allowed to remain in the country illegally. They also argued that the White House overstepped its authority by granting immigration benefits that are for Congress to decide.
“Only Congress has the ability to write our nation’s immigration laws,” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Thursday in a statement.
Hanen found DACA had not been subjected to public notice and comment periods required under the federal Administrative Procedures Act. But he left the Obama-era program intact for those already benefiting from it, pending the appeal. There were 611,270 people enrolled in DACA at the end of March.
A three-judge panel of the New Orleans-based appeals court upheld Hanen’s initial finding but sent the case back to Hanen so he could review the impact of the federal government’s new DACA regulation.
The new rule’s 453 pages are largely technical and represent little substantive change from the 2012 memo that created DACA, but it was subject to public comments as part of a formal rule-making process.
But even if Hanen were to issue a positive ruling on the new DACA regulation, the judge might still decide the program is illegal because it was not created by Congress, Perales said.
“Which is why so many right now are calling on Congress to act,” she said.
After last week’s appeals court ruling, President Joe Biden and advocacy groups renewed their calls for Congress to pass permanent protections for “Dreamers,” which is what people protected by DACA are commonly called. Congress has failed multiple times to pass proposals called the DREAM Act to protect DACA recipients.
Whatever Hanen decides, DACA is expected to go to the Supreme Court for a third time. In 2016, the Supreme Court deadlocked 4-4 over an expanded DACA and a version of the program for parents of DACA recipients. In 2020, the high court ruled 5-4 that the Trump administration improperly ended DACA, allowing it to stay in place.
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