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Someone broke into a home less than a mile from the Denton County Courts Building and made off with a vehicle and $500, according to information from police.
At about 6:18 p.m., police were dispatched to a home in the 700 block of Woodford Lane in reference to a burglary call.
The caller said when he got home Wednesday afternoon, he saw both the back door and his bedroom door had been kicked in and his vehicle was gone. The report states he kept the spare keys to his vehicle in the bedroom.
He also told police a jar full of about $500 in spare change was missing from another bedroom.
Police took note of damage to the back door frame and bedroom door frame. The incident was under investigation as of Thursday.
Other reports
1800 block of North Elm Street — Two convenience stores were broken into Wednesday and robbed of thousands of dollars in merchandise by a group of three male suspects, according to a police report.
At about 3:58 a.m., Denton police officers were dispatched to a convenience store in the 1800 block of North Elm Street in reference to an alarm. When police arrived, the report states they found the door had been pried open.
Police cleared the store and did not find anyone inside. But the report states the area behind the checkout looked tampered with, as items were out of place and scattered on the ground.
The owner arrived and reviewed security footage of the incident. The footage showed three unknown males using a crowbar to pry open the front door.
The owner estimated there were about 65 units of cigarettes and vape merchandise, totaling $6,000, and $100 in cash missing from the store. The owner would like to press charges if the suspects can be identified.
At about 4:20 a.m., police were dispatched in reference to an alarm call at another convenience store in the 400 block of West Hickory Street.
The report states police found the register open and cash was missing. Security footage again showed three unknown males who used a crowbar to gain entry at the front door, according to the report.
The owner estimated a total loss of about $7,900, with various cigarette cartons, e-cigarette products, coin rolls and cash missing from the store.
Both incidents are under investigation.
3800 block of Camelot Street — A man sleeping in a stolen truck Wednesday sped off when police approached him, according to a police report, and later abandoned the vehicle.
At about 8:21 a.m., police were dispatched to the 3800 block of Camelot Street in reference to a welfare check. The caller said they saw a truck parked across the street that kept turning on and off.
When police arrived, the report states they approached the vehicle and found a man lying down in the driver’s seat. After police knocked a couple of times, the man woke up.
The report states police told him not to start the truck, but he tried to start it and was initially unsuccessful. They told him to exit the truck, but he successfully started the truck, put it in drive and fled at a high rate of speed, according to the report.
Police drove around the area and located the abandoned truck nearby. Inside the truck was a small baggy containing 1.6 grams of marijuana, according to the report.
The driver was not located Wednesday. Police contacted the truck’s owner, who said they would like to pursue charges for unauthorized use of vehicle if a suspect is identified.
Police are still investigating the incident.
Roundup
From 12:01 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. Wednesday, the Denton Police Department handled 398 service and officer-initiated calls and made four arrests.
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The United States Farm Bill is up for reauthorization.
The bill is the single largest investment Congress makes to the food and agriculture industry.
Three members of the House of Agriculture Committee held a listening session in Paso Robles Tuesday to discuss the bill.
Congress relies on local producers and consumers for insight on what needs to be improved and added to the bill.
"We want to make sure our AG production, our farmers and our ranchers in California and here on the Central Coast have all the resources and tools they need to prosper," said 24th District Representative Salud Carbajal.
The bill is reauthorized every five years. It expires next September, so Congress has one year to work on the reauthorization.
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Which Sceptre TV is best?
Sceptre TVs are known for their low cost and high value. Sceptre makes three styles of TVs and seven styles of monitors. While it does make 4K ultra-high-definition and Android TVs, most of its products use LED panels. This keeps costs down in a world where bigger names such as Samsung and Sony use organic LEDs and quantum LEDs for greater picture quality.
If you are looking for a Sceptre TV with HDMI ports to connect to your PlayStation and Xbox consoles in addition to watching your favorite shows, take a look at the Sceptre 50-Inch 4K UHD Ultra Slim LED TV.
What to know before you buy a Sceptre TV
Sceptre is a maker of budget TVs and appeals to those who want a good picture without paying a huge price for all the latest frills. When you choose Sceptre, you are looking to get the best viewing experience you can for the least money possible.
Don’t forget the picture is only half the story when it comes to watching television. A great picture isn’t as enjoyable unless you have great sound, too. Consider upgrading your Sceptre TV with a sound bar or speaker system.
Resolution
This is a tricky measurement that explains only a part of the viewing experience. Screen resolution is the sharpness of the picture displayed on the screen. The greater the number of tiny individual dots, called pixels, the sharper the picture. Resolution is usually expressed by two numbers, the horizontal width and the vertical height.
Screen size
This is the other part of how picture sharpness is defined. If two televisions have the same number of pixels, the smaller screen will display sharper images than the larger one.
Ports
Today’s viewers like to watch more than TV shows on their TVs. Input ports are built in so you can hook up your favorite devices, including cable boxes, sound bars and game consoles. Look for HDMI ports as well as USB ports and audio jacks so you can watch and listen without disturbing others.
What to look for in a quality Sceptre TV
Android TVs
If you stream content via services such as Netflix, Hulu, Disney+ or YouTube, you’ll find that Sceptre’s Android TVs come with Google Assistant built in. Just say “OK, Google” to find shows, check sports scores or even dim the lights in the room as you settle in with a bowl of popcorn. Also built into Sceptre’s Android TVs is Chromecast, the system that lets you display content from your phone, tablet, laptop or computer on your TV.
LED TVs
LED stands for light-emitting diodes, semiconductors that emit visible light when charged with an electric current. LEDs replaced the cathode ray tubes that characterized the bulky TVs and computer monitors people used for many years. Sceptre makes dozens of LED TVs in eight sizes, from 19 to 75 inches. All have brilliantly lit displays with a full array of colors.
4K/UHD TVs
UHD stands for Ultra High Definition and means the TV screen has at least 3,840 by 2,160 pixels, essentially double the prior standard of 1080p. The UHD name was created to replace the 4K label. These are Sceptre’s top TVs with its highest levels of resolution.
How much you can expect to spend on a Sceptre TV
Most cost $400-$700. Models in Sceptre’s budget line run $100-$400 and its biggest and best TVs go for $700-$2500.
Sceptre TV FAQ
Will my 4K TV play everything in 4K?
A. A TV can only play content at the level it was recorded. Your 4K TV will display 4K images of all video made to 4K standards.
How do I clean my Sceptre TV?
A. Always follow the manufacturer’s advice when it comes to cleaning electronic products. A good rule is to not use any cleaners or liquids, but gently wipe the screen with a soft microfiber cloth. You might also clean around the crevices and seams with canned compressed air,
What’s the best Sceptre TV to buy?
Top Sceptre TV
Sceptre 50-Inch 4K UHD Ultra-Slim LED TV
What you need to know: Reviewers agree that this 25-pound TV with 8 million pixels of brilliant color provides excellent viewing quality at a very affordable price, especially when compared to the big brands.
What you’ll love: The 3840p by 2160p picture resolution is enhanced by motion estimating and compensating technology. This TV has good speakers that provide crisp, clear sound and four HDMI ports so you can browse, stream and listen to all your favorite media.
What you should consider: It doesn’t have Wi-Fi built in.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Sceptre TV for the money
Sceptre 55-Inch 4K Ultra HD TV
What you need to know: This ultra-slim model delivers UHD images at 3840p by 2160p.
What you’ll love: You get bright, colorful detail with crisp, sharp contrast, a 178-degree viewing angle and surround sound capability. This 31-pound TV is ready to stand on a shelf or tabletop or be mounted on your wall.
What you should consider: This is not a Smart TV and does not have Bluetooth..
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: This smaller model is a great second or third TV in the kitchen or workshop.
What you’ll love: This compact, 12.5-pound TV is a great choice for small spaces. It has high contrast levels, an HDMI port for connecting external devices and is easy to set up.
What you should consider: It doesn’t support 4K viewing.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Atlanta shooting suspect has been charged with murder
ATLANTA (AP) — The suspect in a mass shooting in Atlanta that left one woman dead and four others wounded has been charged with one count of murder and four counts of aggravated assault, Fulton County Jail records show.
Deion Patterson was awaiting his first court appearance Thursday after police say he opened fire in the waiting room of an Atlanta medical practice Wednesday. Workers and others in a bustling commercial district took shelter for hours during the manhunt.
Authorities swarmed the city’s midtown neighborhood shortly after noon in search of the shooter. Patterson, 24, was captured in Cobb County, just northwest of Atlanta.
Atlanta Police Deputy Chief Charles Hampton Jr. declined to discuss any details of the investigation or a possible motive, saying, “Why he did what he did, all of that is still under investigation.”
Patterson had an appointment at a Northside Medical building and opened fire shortly after arriving in an attack that lasted about two minutes, law enforcement officials said at a news conference Wednesday night. Patterson then went to a Shell gas station and took a pickup truck that had been left running and unattended, authorities said.
A 39-year-old woman was pronounced dead at the scene of the shooting, Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum said.
The Fulton County medical examiner’s office identified her as Amy St. Pierre. St. Pierre worked with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the agency confirmed.
The CDC “is deeply saddened by the unexpected loss of a colleague killed today in the Midtown Atlanta shooting,” spokesperson Benjamin Haynes said in a statement. “Our hearts are with her family, friends, and colleagues as they remember her and grieve this tragic loss.”
The four wounded women — aged 25, 39, 56 and 71 — remained in critical but stable condition Wednesday night, according to Hampton, the deputy chief. Their names were not immediately released.
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CLEAR SKIES & SOCCER FIELDS | Wildlife Patrol Dog Hercules’ hard at work
Published: Aug. 17, 2022 at 3:01 PM EDT|Updated: 13 minutes ago
KANAWHA COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) - CRW Wildlife Patrol Dog Hercules took his skills off the airfield an onto the soccer field at Elk Elementary Center.
Hercules’ handler, Chris Keyser, takes him down to Coonskin Park every now and then to run geese off the soccer field where kids play.
CRW also says this benefits the airport. The school is close to the airport and geese frequent the area. Officials say they don’t want the geese flying anywhere near the airport, so Chris will go there with Hercules and have him run the geese off in the opposite direction of the airport.
The result? Clear skies and a clean soccer field.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Despite a growing recognition of the problem, the United States continues to see newspapers die at the rate of two per week, according to a report issued Wednesday on the state of local news.
Areas of the country that find themselves without a reliable source of local news tend to be poorer, older and less educated than those covered well, Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Media and Integrated Marketing Communications said.
The country had 6,377 newspapers at the end of May, down from 8,891 in 2005, the report said. While the pandemic didn’t quite cause the reckoning that some in the industry feared, 360 newspapers have shut down since the end of 2019, all but 24 of them weeklies serving small communities.
An estimated 75,000 journalists worked in newspapers in 2006, and now that’s down to 31,000, Northwestern said. Annual newspaper revenue slipped from $50 billion to $21 billion in the same period.
Even though philanthropists and politicians have been paying more attention to the issue, the factors that drove the collapse of the industry’s advertising model haven’t changed. Encouraging growth in the digital-only news sector in recent years hasn’t been enough to compensate for the overall trends, said Penelope Muse Abernathy, visiting professor at Medill and the report’s principal author.
Many of the digital-only sites are focused on single issues and are clustered in or close to big cities near the philanthropic money that provides much of their funding, the report said.
News “deserts” are growing: The report estimated that some 70 million Americans live in a county with either no local news organization or only one.
“What’s really at stake in that is our own democracy, as well as our social and societal cohesion,” Abernathy said.
True “daily” newspapers that are printed and distributed seven days a week are also dwindling; The report said 40 of the largest 100 newspapers in the country publish only- digital versions at least once a week. Inflation is likely to hasten a switch away from printed editions, said Tim Franklin, director of the Medill Local News Initiative.
Much of the industry churn is driven by the growth in newspaper chains, including new regional chains that have bought hundreds of newspapers in small or mid-sized markets, the report said.
Less than a third of the country’s 5,147 weekly newspapers and a dozen of 150 city and regional daily papers are now locally-owned and operated, Medill said.
Abernathy’s report pointed to a handful of “local heroes” to counter the pessimism that the raw numbers provide. One is Sharon Burton, publisher and editor of the Adair County Community Voice in Kentucky, where she pushes her staff toward aggressive journalism while also successfully lobbying to expand postal subsidies for rural newspapers.
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NEW YORK, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Apyx Medical Corporation (NASDAQ: APYX).
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Shareholders interested in acting as a lead plaintiff representing the class of wronged shareholders have until August 5, 2022 to petition the court. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
According to a filed complaint, Apyx Medical Corporation issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) a significant number of Apyx's Advanced Energy products were used for off-label indications; (2) such off-label uses led to an increase in the number of medical device reports filed by Apyx reporting serious adverse events; (3) as a result, the Company was reasonably likely to incur regulatory scrutiny; (4) as a result of the foregoing, the Company's financial results would be adversely impacted; and (5) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
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BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Two Australian police officers and a bystander were fatally shot Monday in an ambush at a remote property in Queensland state as officers were investigating reports of a missing person, police said.
At least two gunmen were reported to have opened fire as police arrived at the rural property in Wieambilla.
Queensland Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll confirmed the three deaths at a news briefing. She would not provide further details saying the search for the gunmen was still underway.
She said that four officers arrived at the property, two were shot dead along with a member of the public, one was grazed by a bullet and another escaped.
The gunmen remained on the run and were said to have taken police communication equipment, allowing them to track police movements as the search continued.
A police emergency declaration remained in place on Monday evening for the Wieambilla area, where residents were told to stay indoors until further notice.
Specialist police were also deployed.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese described “terrible scenes in Wieambilla and a heartbreaking day for the families and friends of the Queensland Police officers who have lost their lives in the line of duty.”
“My condolences to all who are grieving tonight – Australia mourns with you,” Albanese wrote on Twitter.
The area is sparsely populated and has several large properties and gas fields.
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Malachi Timberlake makes his debut as Pleasantville coach. The Greyhounds feature quarterback Samir Miller, wide receiver/wide receiver Xander Roberts-Bogin and defensive lineman Chris Wright. Penns Grove opened with a 48-14 win over Burlington City last Friday. The Red Devils finished 6-5 and reached the South Jersey Group I semifinals last season.
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Luzerne County has started updating its May 16 primary election results database to report the unofficial write-in tallies.
The database is on the main page at luzernecounty.org.
These results show county District Attorney Sam Sanguedolce has received the Democratic nomination with at least 785 write-in votes. No Democrats had appeared on the ballot, and Sanguedolce won the Republican nomination with no opposition.
In the Wilkes-Barre City Council District B race, Tony Brooks secured 280 Democratic write-in votes, which means he is set to receive the party’s nomination instead of Mark Shaffer, who appeared on the ballot and obtained 215 votes.
Brooks still has a pending court filing seeking the tallying of an unknown number of additional write-in votes in which voters did not shade in the accompanying ovals when they wrote in their selection.
Brooks ran unopposed on the Republican ballot and secured that nomination with 182 votes.
“My campaign proves that you can bring people together for the betterment of Wilkes-Barre,” Brooks said. “There are hundreds of people who want to work together for positive change in the city. I want to thank supporters from both parties that elected me.”
Write-in votes are determining nominees in the Hanover Area School Board race because no candidates appeared on the ballot for five open seats.
Five men ran as a team seeking the write-in nominations from both parties: Brian C. McDermott, Paul Holmgren, Jacob S. Hyder, Michael D. Mazur and Matthew Redick.
Based on the new write-in tally, here are those with the top five votes:
• Democrat — McDermott, 262; Holmgren, 255; Mazur, 243; Hyder, 218; and Redick, 201.
• Republican — McDermott, 339; Mazur, 318; Holmgren, 309; Hyder, 301; and Redick, 128. Another 188 voters cast write-in votes for “Matthew redick” with a lower-case letter in the last name.
Lucas Matthews received 100 write-in votes and another 34 were cast under “Luke Matthews.”
Candidates seeking credit for write-in votes cast under different variations of their name must file a court request in the county prothonotary’s office within five days after the primary results are certified. The county election board plans to certify the results on Monday.
McDermott said the victory is “very humbling.” The team owned up to the fact that their names did not appear on the ballot due to an error with the timely filing of paperwork and promised to not make such a mistake again, he said. The five then launched an aggressive write-in campaign.
“The entire team is elated with the results. We can’t believe that many people took the time to write us in,” McDermott said. “It’s awe-inspiring. We really appreciate it.”
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Biden to extend student loan pause as court battle drags on
President Biden announced Tuesday that his administration will extend the pause on federal student loan payments while the White House fights a legal battle to save his plan to cancel portions of the debt.
“It isn’t fair to ask tens of millions of borrowers eligible for relief to resume their student debt payments while the courts consider the lawsuit,” Biden said in a video posted on Twitter.
The Biden administration asked the Supreme Court to clear the way for the Education Department to forgive millions of student loans.
The moratorium was slated to expire Jan. 1, a date that Biden set before his debt cancellation plan stalled in the face of legal challenges from conservative opponents.
Now it will extend until 60 days after the lawsuit is resolved. If the lawsuit has not been resolved by June 30, payments would resume 60 days after that.
The Justice Department last week asked the Supreme Court to examine the issue and reinstate Biden’s debt cancellation plan.
The federal government plans to forgive up to $20,000 in student loan debt for millions of Americans. Here’s everything you need to know.
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The award honors the legacy of the first Black woman to charter a U.S. bank
This year's recipients are economically empowering their communities by providing resources and capital to help underserved entrepreneurs thrive
SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PYPL) today announced the recipients of the second annual Maggie Lena Walker Award. Named in honor of the first Black woman to charter a bank in the U.S. and serve as its president, the award seeks to celebrate the achievements of women from underrepresented groups in the U.S. who are economically empowering those in their community and creating a more inclusive world.
This year's awardees are focused on support for underserved entrepreneurs – whether that is through access to capital and resources or exposure to new customers. Black small businesses, which had been hardest hit during the pandemic, saw a significant rebound in 2021, with growth rates higher than pre-pandemic levels. The work of each of this year's recipients is helping to build an ecosystem of support to sustain and empower these businesses over the long term.
"Business ownership and wealth building are key to closing the racial wealth gap," said Dan Schulman, president and CEO, PayPal. "This year's PayPal Maggie Lena Walker Award awardees are providing guidance, capital, and resources to underserved entrepreneurs, continuing Walker's legacy of uplifting her community through economic opportunity. It is a privilege to recognize and celebrate these incredible women for their commitment and impact."
The award recipients were chosen by a Selection Committee whose members included senior leaders within the PayPal community, including Dan Schulman, PayPal president and CEO, and Liza Mickens, Walker's great-great-granddaughter and co-founder of Vote Equality.
2022 PayPal Maggie Lena Walker Award Recipients
Awardees will receive a cash award of up to $50,000 and access to resources and mentorship from the PayPal community to further their impact and vision. Awardees will also receive a unique piece of artwork commissioned by PayPal for the award by Washington, DC-based artist Jamilla Okubo.
Achievement Award
Connie Evans, president and CEO, Association for Enterprise Opportunity. Like Maggie Lena Walker, Connie Evans has had many firsts. In 1986, she was the founding president of the award-winning Women's Self-Employment Project, the first and largest urban microbusiness development organization in the U.S., and she was the first Black woman elected to serve on the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Under her leadership, the Association for Enterprise Opportunity (AEO) has expanded to represent more than 2,600 microbusiness development practitioners and advocates working to create economic opportunity for underserved entrepreneurs.
"Maggie Lena Walker saw the economic independence of her peers as an ethical imperative," said Connie Evans, president and CEO, AEO. "Similarly, I believe that economic freedom through business ownership is key to driving wealth and sustaining economic vibrancy for underserved communities. I am incredibly honored to receive this award, which recognizes the relevance of our work at AEO to advance financial inclusion and will continuously strive to live up to Maggie Lena Walker's legacy."
Emerging Leader Award
- Mandy Bowman, founder and CEO, Official Black Wall Street. Through her work with Official Black Wall Street, a digital platform and app to help consumers find, review, and support Black-owned businesses, Mandy Bowman has helped steer $1.7 million into Black-owned businesses. She has also partnered with Baker Botts to provide $10 million in legal services to these businesses to support their growth and is planning to expand offerings through in-person pop-up shops.
- Alethia Mendez, division president, Elevating Black Women Entrepreneurs, Grameen America. Alethia Mendez was one of the first employees at Grameen America, a national microfinance organization that works to ensure all women, regardless of race or income, have access to fair and affordable financial services. Since 2008, Grameen America has achieved significant milestones under Mendez's leadership, including reaching scale with more than 160,000 entrepreneurial women and disbursing $2.6 billion in microloans across 24 U.S. cities. In her current role leading the Elevate initiative, Mendez aims to empower 80,000 Black women entrepreneurs with $1.3 billion in loan capital by 2030.
- Diamond Walton, founder, Elpida Social Capital LLC. Diamond Walton is leveraging her decade of experience in nonprofits to help clients invest financial and social capital in historically marginalized communities. In addition to Elpida Social Capital, she launched the Black Student Debt Freedom Fund (BSDF) in 2020 to help pay off the student loan debt of Black graduates and her next initiative focuses on innovative ways to transfer wealth to close the racial wealth gap.
You can learn more about each of the winners and their work on the PayPal Newsroom.
This is the second year of the award, which was established in 2021 as part of PayPal's commitment to advance its mission of creating a more inclusive economy. In 2020, PayPal pledged $535 million to address economic inequality among Black and underserved businesses and communities in the U.S. Last year, PayPal committed $100 million to advance financial inclusion and economic empowerment of women and girls.
2022 PayPal Maggie Lena Walker Award Finalists
The Selection Committee has also named 12 award finalists to recognize their extraordinary work:
Achievement Award
- Jasmine Crowe-Houston, founder and CEO, Goodr
- Christal Jackson, founder and president, Mosaic Genius; founder, Head and Heart Philanthropy
- Tulaine Montgomery, co-CEO, New Profit
- Luz Urrutia, CEO, Accion Opportunity Fund
- Tanya Van Court, founder and CEO, Goalsetter
Emerging Leader Award
- Omi (Omilâdè) Bell, founder and CEO, Black Girl Ventures
- Gina Clayton-Johnson, executive director and founder, Essie Justice Group
- Laura Emiko-Soltis, executive director, Freedom University
- Daniela Fernandez, founder and CEO, Sustainable Ocean Alliance
- Jaycee Holmes, co-founder and director of curriculum and instruction, CodeHouse
- Arian Simone, co-founder and CEO, Fearless Fund
- Ashlee Wisdom, co-founder and CEO, Health in Her Hue
About PayPal
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Agnes Change & Chang Che, New York Times: “What China’s protesters are calling for”
Lily Kuo, Washington Post: “Rare protests against China’s ‘zero covid’ policy erupt across country”
Chris Buckley, New York Times: “With intimidation and surveillance, China tries to snuff out protests”
Jessie Yeung, CNN: “Rare protests are spreading across China. Here’s what you need to know”
South China Morning Post: “Chinese TV cuts maskless World Cup scenes as Covid anger mounts”
Lee Brown, New York Post: “Chinese state TV cuts shots of mask-free World Cup fans”
Chuck Buckley, Vivian Wang, Chang Che & Amy Chang Chien, New York Times: “After deadly blaze, surge of defiance against China’s covid policies”
Xinhua: “Beijing bans barricading gates for COVID-19 control”
Staff, The Guardian: “BBC says Chinese police assaulted and detained its reporter at Shanghai protest”
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian: “Xi unlikely to tolerate dissent as momentous protests shake China”
Isobel Cockerell, .Coda: “’They’re trying to kill us’: Uyghurs in Xinjiang suffer brutal Covid lockdown”
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Grace Huack, USA Today: “Migrant workers were deceived and died for Qatar’s World Cup. Thousands want compensation”
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Luke Chatten and Finn McGovern had one goal and an assist as Haddon Township used a strong second half to defeat Sterling 3-2 in Westmont.
Sterling (5-4-1) opened strong with goals from Victor John and Chris Licoma before Haddon Township (10-1) took over in the second half with three unanswered goals. Haddon Township won its seventh in a row and second over Sterling.
Graham Looram also scored one goal for Haddon Township while Cole Johnson made four saves.
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Five new models include company's first-ever stand-on zero-turn-radius mowers
WENDELL, N.C., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- KIOTI Tractor, a division of Daedong-USA, Inc., expands its turf care offerings this summer with five new zero-turn-radius (ZTR) mower models, including the company's first-ever stand-on ZTRs. These additions to the KIOTI lineup were designed to provide operators reliable performance without sacrificing comfort. The new models maximize uptime and serviceability, while still providing the comfort and ergonomics operators seek for all-day use.
Launching this summer, the ZXS Series includes two stand-on models featuring a comfortable ride and reliable performance and will be shipping soon to dealers across North America. Expanding KIOTI's seated ZTR offerings, three new additions to the company's ZXC Series will cut through the toughest turf with premium commercial-grade features and are available now at select dealers. All five of the new models feature 24-hp Kawasaki® engines combined with Hydro-Gear® transmissions for reliable, hardworking performance.
"KIOTI is proud to continue the expansion of our turf care product line, demonstrating our commitment to this important category for our dealers and our customers," said Peter Dong-Kyun Kim, president and CEO of Daedong-USA, Inc. KIOTI Tractor Division. "We're pleased to combine Kawasaki engines with our proven ZTR platform, while at the same time introducing an all-new stand-on architecture, launching exclusively with Kawasaki powerplants. These additions deliver customers five innovative mower models that offer the comfort they seek alongside the reliability their work demands."
ZXS Series Debut
Designed with precision in mind and built to tackle tough obstacles, the ZXS Series is KIOTI's debut line of stand-on ZTR mowers and includes two models: the ZXS48 and ZXS54. Customers can choose from 48- or 54-inch fabricated, reinforced steel decks with standard notch blades and adjustable drive levers. Plus, simple tool-less removal of the plush and comfortable operator pad reveals ample space and easy access to all serviceable components, such as transaxles, drive belt, battery, and fuses for painless maintenance and upkeep.
"Delivering operators all-day comfort and reliable performance, KIOTI's ZXS Series was designed with our end-users' needs top-of-mind," Kim continued. "We're eager to see these models arrive at dealerships and get to work."
ZXC Series Additions
Joining KIOTI's ZXC Series are three seated models: the ZXC48 LT, ZXC54 LT and ZXC60 LT. These premium commercial-grade mowers feature a large 12.5-gallon fuel capacity, requiring less frequent refueling and allowing for more uptime on the job. All ZXC models comfortably accommodate users of all statures with adjustable seats and drive lever positioning, providing a precise and responsive driving experience with optimized control connections and finely tuned linkages. Operators can choose from 48-, 54- or 60-inch mower decks, each with a fabricated, reinforced 10-gauge steel deck and standard notch blades to cut through the toughest turf.
To learn more about the new additions to KIOTI's turf care offerings, contact an authorized KIOTI Tractor dealer or visit www.KIOTI.com.
About KIOTI Tractor
For more than 35 years, KIOTI Tractor has been supplying tractors in the 22-110 horsepower range to the U.S. and Canadian markets. Today, the company offers a full line of compact tractors, utility vehicles and zero-turn-radius mowers for both residential and commercial use and is expanding into compact construction. Headquartered in Wendell, N.C. and with additional distribution centers in Texas and Canada, KIOTI is committed to providing equipment that is durable, reliable and easy to use. KIOTI customers benefit from an extensive and growing dealer network that's dedicated to superior customer service across North America. For more information on KIOTI or KIOTI products, please visit your authorized KIOTI Tractor dealer or www.KIOTI.com.
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Mexican soldiers clash with border residents after shooting
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican army soldiers have apparently clashed with residents of the rough border city of Nuevo Laredo. According to rights activist Raymundo Ramos, the residents were angry that soldiers had fired into a pickup truck early Sunday. Ramos said at least three people were killed. The Mexican army did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Videos of the incident posted on social media show residents scuffling with soldiers on a street near the bullet-ridden pickup truck. In a taped statement, Ramos said troops fired indiscriminately into moving vehicles in Nuevo Laredo, across the border from Laredo, Texas.
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'This is America's problem': Sheriffs across the nation to meet in Arizona to talk U.S.-Mexico border issues
PHOENIX - A group of sheriffs from Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, California, and all the other states will gather in Cochise County to tackle the border crisis in September.
The sheriffs will be addressing drugs coming across the U.S.-Mexico border, human smuggling, and a lack of resources. They also plan to discuss the Arizona Sheriff’s Association coming to a critical vote of "no confidence" in U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Chris Magnus as the organization insists he is not fit to lead due to a spike in illegal immigration.
Border patrol agents have a lot to tackle with migrant crossings, drugs, and other illegal activity, but recently, they’re noticing more U.S. citizens being recruited and helping the cartels finish the job.
"We do not have enough resources, enough agents, you know, to patrol the border. We do the best we can with what we have," said border agent Jesus Vasavilbasco.
Human trafficking, drug smuggling, and other illegal activity is a billion-dollar industry for Mexican cartels, so much so that they’re posting "help wanted" ads on social media to recruit Americans to do the job for them.
"Basically what it says is, a message saying, if you go to the border right now, we'll give you $4,000, $5,000 to go and pick up either migrants or pick up packages and then take them over to Phoenix and then somebody will meet you there and pay you off, and then you can do the exchange," Vasavilbasco said.
A U.S. citizen is now facing criminal charges after a border patrol agent stopped an SUV on SR-80, but the driver fled dragging the agent 15 feet. The driver and seven migrants inside were arrested and the agent is OK.
"We never know who we are going to encounter, either with migrants, and also with U.S. citizens at this point. The dangers are many. Not only are you working by yourself in the desert all the time, but also you're doing vehicle stops in remote areas such as this. The dangers are always present," Vasavilbasco said.
In Cochise County, Sheriff Mark Dannels says out of more than 600 people in his jail for border-related crimes, only around 40 are non-U.S. citizens.
He’s hosting the Southwest Border Sheriffs' Conference, a way to gather sheriffs from across all 50 states to share the issues they face every day.
"This is not Cochise County's problem. This is not the state of Arizona's problem. This is America's problem, and the challenges don't stop here in Cochise County, don't stop in Iowa," Dannels said. "Together, collectively, if we share each other, we have a strong voice to change how we police in this country."
Agents expect activity at the border to pick up even more as we head into cooler weather.
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- Migrants at Arizona border unhindered by shipping container wall
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Seventy-year-old Cassandra Gentry is looking forward to a hefty cost-of-living increase in her Social Security benefits — not for herself but to pay for haircuts for her two grandchildren and put food on the table.
The three live in a Washington apartment building that houses 50 “grandfamilies” — where grandparents take care of children who do not have parents present.
Gentry, who took in her grandkids to keep them in a safe environment, says the boost in benefits will help her make ends meet. “I never thought about contributing to Social Security when I was working, but now that’s what I depend on,” the communications retiree said. “I depend on my Social Security to care for these kids.”
Social Security’s cost of living adjustment, otherwise known as the COLA, for 2023 is expected to be around 9% or even higher, the highest in 40 years, analysts estimate. It will be announced Thursday morning.
It’s not just old people who will gain. About 4 million children receive benefits, and an untold number of others also will be helped because they’re being cared for by Social Security beneficiaries, sometimes their grandparents.
The impact will be immense, especially for low-income retirees like Gentry, who feels the painful sting of high food and energy costs as she cares for a growing 12-year-old granddaughter and 16-year-old grandson. “They eat everything,” she joked.
She said the financial boost “is going to help us, and it’s going to be a benefit because the cost of everything has gone up.”
High inflation remains a burden on the broader economy, which has caused the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates in hopes of cooling high prices.
But in many ways, inflation hits older Americans harder than the rest of the population. Medical costs are a big part of the burden.
Coupled with a decline in Medicare Part B premium, the Social Security COLA will put more money in the hands of the 70 million Americans who receive benefits, including the growing number of grandfamilies like Gentry’s. According to the U.S. Census, in 2020, there were about 2.4 million grandparents responsible their grandchildren.
That number has increased exponentially since the government has adopted a “kinship care” approach to child welfare, which centers on keeping kids in homes with their next of kin, as opposed to foster care.
And in turn, while Social Security is generally regarded as a program for older Americans, it also is the nation’s largest children’s support program.
Since the pandemic, Social Security has become even more important for children, as “COVID has taken a lot of parents,” said Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, a nonresident senior fellow at Brookings Metro, which is part of the Brookings Institution, and the CEO of Global Policy Solutions, a social change strategy firm.
The National Institutes of Health reported last October that at least 140,000 U.S. children under age 18 had lost a parent or guardian due to COVID.
Cummings says she estimates the actual number is much higher. “We should understand the increase in the COLA will have a positive net benefit on the entire household — not just older members of the family,” she said.
Gentry is an advocate for grandparents who raise their grandkids, and the building her family lives in is at capacity. She said many of the grandparents, who are African American and support each other in their tight-knit community, rely solely on Social Security for their income.
A study by Global Policy Solutions shows that African American children are in the greatest need of the added help from Social Security benefits.
Grandparent caregivers are 60% more likely to live in poverty than are grandparents not raising grandchildren, according to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.
The Child Tax Credit program, which was expanded during the pandemic, helped tens of millions of kids and their families, contributing to a 46% decline in child poverty since 2020, according to a September Census report.
But that program has ended and already there are indications t hat child poverty is increasing.
Nancy Altman, co-director of Social Security Works, an advocacy group, said “benefits in many other federal programs are eroding — but the COLA makes Social Security unique.”
“And for the children who receive Social Security benefits,” both directly and indirectly, “low-income kids benefit the most,” she said.
William Arnone, chief executive of the National Academy of Social Insurance, an advocacy organization for Social Security, said while the expected COLA is “generous, it is just a catch-up” for many older Americans who are often more impacted by price hikes caused by inflation, especially grandparents taking care of grandkids.
“With Social Security, all generations benefit,” Arnone said.
Gentry said she hopes more grandfamily communities like hers pop up around the country so residents can provide support for one another when resources are not readily available.
She said she’d also like to see more federal programs factor in grandparents like her when making policy determinations.
“I always say our grandparents are heroes, because we stepped in when nobody else would,” she said. “And we did the job.”
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The Jefferson County Board of Commissioners passed a new ordinance restricting the usage of air compression brakes in certain areas of Jefferson County following a public hearing during their May 23 meeting.
According to Ordinance 2022-05, the use of air compression brakes by vehicles or trucks will be prohibited in areas within Jefferson County, except under emergency circumstances, where their use is necessary to prevent an accident or injury.
Only one question was posed at the public hearing. Standing director of Road and Bridge, Mike Carter, expressed his concern that some of the vehicles in the department require air compression brakes in the winter, in order to avoid accidents.
“Emergencies are different situation,” County Commissioner Scott Hancock said, assuring Carter that the use of the brakes will be permitted when they are necessary to prevent injury to any person or property, especially in certain road conditions.
Jefferson County will prohibit the use of these brakes in approaches to the Menan-Lorenzo Highway intersection from 4000 East to U.S. 20, Yellowstone Highway from County Line Road to 200 North, Yellowstone Highway from 500 North to 600 North, County Line Road, from Yellowstone Highway to 4000 East, Lewisville Highway to State Highway 48, 4700 East from 50 North to 250 N and on Bassett Road, from County Line Road to 200 North.
The penalties for using the prohibited brake system will be subjected to a fine of $1,000 on their first offense. Repeat offenders within five years of the first will be subject to double the original fine.
“We don’t want people using the brakes on highways and causing disruption,” Hancock said. “We’re trying to be nice to our neighbors.”
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Qatar will drop most of its coronavirus restrictions beginning Nov. 1, just before it hosts the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
Qatar’s Health Ministry made the announcement Wednesday. In a statement, it said that PCR or rapid-antigen test results would not be required for those flying into the country.
It also dropped a requirement to register for the country’s Ehteraz contract-tracing app. However, it’s mandatory to use the app to enter health care facilities in Qatar.
The World Cup begins Nov. 20, when Qatar will face Ecuador.
Qatar expects 1.2 million visitors during the tournament.
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Detained WNBA star Brittney Griner has pleaded guilty to drug charges this morning in Russia, ESPN reports.
Appearing in a courtroom in Khimki, Griner told the judge that she brought hashish oil “inadvertently” while asking the court for mercy. Even though she entered a guilty plea, the trial will continue with the judge entering the full case file into public records. Unfortunately, that could still take weeks or even months to complete.
The Phoenix Mercury center stated that she accidentally packed the vape cartridges into her luggage and did not mean to break Russian law. She has been detained in the country since her arrest at a Moscow airport in February. She was charged with large-scale transportation of drugs, which carries a 10-year prison sentence if convicted.
Sources are saying that the guilty plea could be a strategic move that would help facilitate a prisoner swap for Griner’s safe return to the states, while also recognizing that there was no way she could be acquitted.
Next Steps
The U.S. government is now looking to work out a deal that would exchange Russian prisoners in U.S. custody for Griner and Paul Whelan, another American who has been detained in Russia since 2018. One noteworthy Russian prisoner that could be involved is arms dealer Viktor Bout. Bout is currently serving a 25-year sentence for supporting terrorism. However, there has been some concern within the Biden Administration about releasing the so-called “Merchant of Death.”
Experts say that an admission of guilt is pretty much necessary to work out any deal with Russian courts. Of course, there will be a complicated public reaction now that Griner has pleaded guilty. However, one source says that the overall thought is to get her home however possible and deal with the backlash when she returns.
We are praying for Griner’s safe return to the states, no matter how it happens.
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AUSTIN, Texas — With a record budget surplus providing the foundation, lowering our property taxes is the talk of Austin, especially among Republican lawmakers.
But State Rep. Craig Goldman says what that relief looks like remains an unanswered question.
“We’re all in favor of giving property tax cuts. We know that’s one of the biggest complaints our constituents talk about every single day with us. We feel it too. But we have to make it sustainable,” Goldman told us on Inside Texas Politics.
The Fort Worth Republican says there’s no point in giving Texans a property tax cut for one or two years only to have to raise it again a year or two after that.
And because many homeowners never even feel a property tax reduction, because their homes keep rising in value, Goldman says appraisal reform will likely be debated as well.
But he cautions that it’s still early in the process.
“We’re at the beginning of the session and so many bills have already been filed and people are like, oh my gosh look at this bill that’s been filed, you know, I can’t believe it, or go bill go - whereas you don’t know if it’s even going to get a hearing,” he said.
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Police: Man arrested after quadruple homicide in Idaho home
KELLOGG, Idaho (KMVT/Gray News) — Police arrested a man believed to be connected to a quadruple homicide inside of a home in Idaho, KMVT reports.
Idaho State Police say a 911 call revealed four people were killed inside a home at the 500 block of West Brown Avenue in Kellogg, Idaho.
The call came in at 7:20 p.m. on Sunday to the Shoshone County dispatch center.
Law enforcement arrived to find the bodies and detained a 31-year-old man believed to be connected to the crime.
The Kellogg Police Department requested Idaho State Police to investigate the homicides.
Police believe there is no additional threat to the community.
The names of the victims and the suspect have not yet been released.
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LONDON (AP) — The European Union is beefing up its code of practice on disinformation by enlisting more tech companies beyond Google, Twitter and Facebook parent Meta and adding measures to prevent online purveyors of fake news from profiting.
The EU’s executive Commission unveiled an update Thursday to its four-year-old voluntary code that, together with sweeping new rules in the pipeline for digital companies, will step up its efforts to fight the spread of false information in the 27-member bloc.
EU leaders are alarmed about disinformation flourishing on online platforms, notably involving the COVID-19 pandemic and Russian propaganda amid the war in Ukraine. The code shows Europe’s efforts to take a global lead in clamping down on fake news, while officials in the U.S. have done little to curb its spread.
Disinformation “is a growing problem in the EU, and we really have to take stronger measures,” Commission Vice President Vera Jourova told reporters in Brussels.
She said the update comes as Russia weaponizes disinformation as part of its war in Ukraine “but also when we see attacks on democracy more broadly.”
Companies that sign up to the EU code agree to commit to measures aimed at reducing disinformation. They will have to file regular reports on whether they’re living up to their promises, though there’s little in the way of punishment.
The code is, however, backed by the EU’s upcoming Digital Services Act, a wide-ranging overhaul of the bloc’s digital rulebook that includes requirements for tech giants to address “systemic risks” on their platforms, including the spread of disinformation, under the threat of big fines.
Some 33 online platforms, tech companies, and civil society groups have now signed up to the voluntary code, double the number from a year ago. The newest additions include Amazon-owned video game streaming service Twitch, video sharing platform Vimeo and audio-only social network Clubhouse.
Companies that previously signed up include Google, Facebook and Instagram parent Meta, Twitter, TikTok and Microsoft. Other big tech companies like Amazon and Apple are still absent. Also missing are apps like Telegram, a social media and messaging platform where Russian government disinformation is rampant.
Fact-checking and press freedom groups and ad-tech companies also have joined.
The code includes measures preventing ads from being shown next to fake news content so the material can’t be used to make money.
Producers of disinformation make big money, as do online platforms and the digital ad industry, and “the code will disrupt this financing model,” Jourova said.
There also are requirements for more transparency on political ads, such as adding labels; reducing manipulative techniques like automated bot accounts; and giving users tools to recognize and flag up false information so it can be taken down.
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By AARON BEARD
AP Basketball Writer
GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Aaliyah Boston had eight points, 14 rebounds and two blocks while reigning national champion South Carolina turned in its latest overwhelming defense-and-rebounding-first performance to beat UCLA 59-43 on Saturday in the Sweet 16 of the women’s NCAA Tournament.
Kamilla Cardoso added 10 points for the Gamecocks (35-0), the top overall tournament seed and the headliner in the Greenville 1 Region. It marked South Carolina’s 41st consecutive victory, securing the program’s sixth trip to the Elite Eight under Dawn Staley.
The Gamecocks will play for their fifth trip to the Final Four in Monday’s regional final against 2-seed Maryland in a rematch from the season’s opening week. South Carolina won that game 81-56.
It wasn’t an easy offensive operation for South Carolina, with UCLA sagging defensively to pack the paint in hopes of negating the Gamecocks’ size advantage behind Boston. But South Carolina dominated the glass from start to finish and used its length to turn every look into a difficult one for the fourth-seeded Bruins (27-10).
South Carolina won the first meeting with UCLA 73-64 in November, with the Bruins shooting 32% in that game. Things got worse this time, with UCLA going shooting 29% — including 3 for 18 from 3-point range.
South Carolina also finished with a 42-34 rebounding advantage that narrowed late with the outcome no longer in doubt.
Charisma Osborne scored 14 points to lead UCLA, which was in the Sweet 16 for the eighth time. The Bruins were trying to reach the regional finals for the first time since 2018 and only the third time in program history while pursuing their first Final Four appearance.
But in a sign of what was to come, the Bruins kept missing shots that they needed to position themselves for a stunning upset. Worse, they failed to grab even a few of those misses to keep possessions alive early, with South Carolina going on to finish with a 15-8 edge on the offensive glass.
Meanwhile, the Gamecocks were able to just keep grinding and relying on their length. They led 25-15 at halftime before finally breaking this open by matching their game-long point total in the third quarter.
That included a couple of way-too-familiar sequences for UCLA coach Cori Close. Twice the Gamecocks managed to lob a pass inside to the 6-foot-7 Cardoso, who used her long arms to reach over 6-2 fronting defender Christeen Iwuala and snag the ball for easy under-the-rim finishes in traffic.
Or there was Brea Beal (10 points) using her right hand to tap out a loose rebound over Gabriela Jaquez before securing it, then dumping it immediately inside to Victaria Saxton inside for a soft hook as the lead steadily grew.
It was all the same often-demoralizing sequences that has overwhelmed teams all season, this time coming with the home-state Gamecocks as the main draw here in the new double-regional format.
They drew loud cheers from the crowd just for making their way into the locker-room tunnel during the Notre Dame-Maryland game with their game to follow. The roars returned as each player who lingered to wrap up pregame shootaround came off the court — several waving two arms high in acknowledgement — in a mostly full arena.
The cheers were louder, of course, as the Gamecocks spent the final minutes closing out a win to advance again.
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Pence says he will take subpoena fight to Supreme Court if necessary
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Former Vice President Mike Pence said Wednesday that he will challenge a subpoena by the special counsel overseeing Trump investigations to compel his testimony before a grand jury — pursuing it to the Supreme Court if necessary.
Special counsel Jack Smith, appointed by the Justice Department, is investigating efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Trump spent the days before Jan. 6, 2021, aggressively pressuring Pence to reject the outcome, even though Pence had no power to do so. Pence was at the U.S. Capitol presiding over a joint session of Congress as Trump's supporters violently stormed the building that day.
“Let me first be clear: I’m going to fight the Biden DOJ subpoena for me to appear before the grand jury because I believe it’s unconstitutional and it’s unprecedented," Pence told reporters in Iowa, the state that will hold the first contest of the 2024 nominating sequence.
“Never before in American history has a vice president been summoned to appear in court to testify against the president with whom they serve," he said.
Pence said he was prepared to take the case “as far as it needs to go, if needs be to the Supreme Court of the United States.”
The posture marks an aggressive turn for Pence, who has been laying the groundwork for a likely presidential run. While it remains unclear whether Pence will succeed in delaying or limiting the scope of his testimony, the posture gives the former vice president a new opening to attack the Justice Department, which has become increasingly unpopular among conservatives, in part due to Trump's constant attacks.
Indeed, Pence repeatedly criticized the department Wednesday, complaining of a "two-tiered justice system that Republicans have been dealing with throughout the Biden administration.”
The Associated Press previously reported that Pence was ready to contest Smith's demand for his appearance on constitutional grounds. He argues that because he was serving in his role as president of the Senate on Jan. 6, he is protected under the Constitution’s “speech or debate” clause from being forced to testify. That provision is intended to protect members of Congress from questioning about official legislative acts.
A spokesman for Smith declined to comment. The Justice Department, which had earlier declined to comment on Pence’s subpoena, is expected to oppose the former vice president's efforts and make the case that his cooperation is essential.
Pence noted during an earlier stop in Minneapolis that he had written and spoken extensively about Trump's efforts to pressure him to overturn the results of the election — something he did not have power to do — and has repeatedly denounced Trump's efforts as "reckless" and “dangerous.”
“I have nothing to hide and I’m proud of what we accomplished. But for me, this is a moment where you have to decide where you stand, and I stand on the Constitution of the United States,” he said.
He added that he expects Trump to try to assert executive privilege to block his own testimony. "That’s not my fight. My fight is on the separation of powers,” Pence said.
Pence made his remarks after headlining events in Minneapolis and Cedar Rapids aimed at rallying conservative parents opposed to transgender-affirming policies in public schools. The events came as a federal appeals court was expected to hear oral arguments in St. Paul, Minnesota, in a case brought last summer by a national group representing parents of students in Linn-Mar Community School District in Marion, Iowa, near Cedar Rapids.
Parents Defending Education is trying to overturn a policy adopted by the school board last year allowing transgender students to request a gender support plan to begin socially transitioning at school without the permission of their parents. Pence’s advocacy group, Advancing American Freedom, has filed an amicus brief in the case, as have dozens of mostly conservative groups and several conservative states.
“Across the country, parents' rights are being trampled by a politically correct nanny state that’s ruining our schools and telling our parents that they have no role in their children’s most important decisions,” Pence said in Minneapolis, where he argued that parents must be informed of such decisions. “You do not craft a gender transition plan for my child without my knowledge or consent," he said.
Though Pence says he has yet to make a decision about 2024, he has visited leadoff Iowa several times since the 2020 election. And his Wednesday event had the look and feel of a campaign stop, held in a pizza restaurant where candidates commonly hold court with voters.
Pence is hoping to draw the support of social and religious conservatives in what could be a crowded primary contest that already includes Trump and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, who formally launched her campaign Wednesday.
To that end, Pence's advocacy group launched a new campaign last week on the schools issue, a flashpoint for many on the right, as Haley and other presidential prospects, including South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, prepare for their own visits to the state this month.
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LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Conservative Party has chosen Foreign Secretary Liz Truss as the party’s new leader, putting her in line to be confirmed as prime minister.
Truss’s selection was announced Monday in London after a leadership election in which only the 180,000 dues-paying members of the Conservative Party were allowed to vote.
Truss beat rival Rishi Sunak, the government’s former treasury chief, by promising to increase defense spending and cut taxes, while refusing to say how she would address the cost-of-living crisis.
Queen Elizabeth II is scheduled to formally name Truss as Britain’s prime minister on Tuesday.
The two-month leadership contest left Britain with a power vacuum at a time when consumers, workers and businesses were demanding government action to mitigate the impact of soaring food and energy prices. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has had no authority to make major policy decisions since July 7, when he announced his intention to resign.
Johnson was forced to resign after a series of ethics scandals that peaked in July when dozens of cabinet ministers and lower level officials resigned over his handling of allegations of sexual misconduct by a senior member of his government.
Under Britain’s parliamentary system of government, the center-right Conservative Party was allowed to hold an internal election to select a new party leader and prime minister, without going to the wider electorate. A new general election isn’t required until December 2024.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge on Friday rejected Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s bid to move or delay a trial over a misleading tweet about a potential buyout of the electric automaker, setting the stage for the mercurial billionaire to be thrust into a legal drama amid the turmoil of his Twitter takeover.
The decision by U.S. District Judge Edward Chen came during a hearing held in San Francisco federal court to go over the final details of a trial scheduled to begin Tuesday with jury selection.
Musk’s attorneys last week asked Chen to transfer the trial to a federal court in Texas, where Tesla moves its headquarters in 2021, arguing that negative coverage of Musk since his $44 billion purchase of Twitter in October had poisoned the jury pool in the San Francisco Bay Area.
But Chen brushed aside those concerns Friday, and expressed confidence that a panel of impartial jurors could be drawn from a region populated by millions of people. He also noted that a jury was pulled together for trial in the highly publicized criminal trial of former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes, whose transformation from a Silicon Valley star to accused swindler was the subject of an HBO documentary and book before those proceedings began in nearby San Jose, California.
Holmes, 38, is now facing more than 11 years in federal prison of being convicted of investor fraud and conspiracy.
Musk’s upcoming trial revolves around a civil lawsuit brought on behalf of Tesla shareholders who allege they were duped by a n Aug. 7, 2018 tweet in which he indicated he had lined up financing for a Tesla buyout — a deal that never materialized and resulted in a $ 40 million settlement with U.S. securities regulators.
Chen already has determined that Musk’s buyout tweet was false, leaving it to a jury to decide whether he acted recklessly by posting it and whether it caused financial harm to Tesla shareholders. After adjusting for two stock splits made since 2018, Tesla’s shares are now worth nearly six times more than at the time of Musk’s tweets about the bogus buyout.
Tesla’s stock was even worth even more before Musk decided to buy Twitter for a price that even he conceded was far more than the company was worth. Tesla’s shares, currently hovering around $120, have lost nearly half their value since Musk took control of Twitter, partially affecting investor concerns that he is spending too much time running privately held Twitter instead of focusing at the automaker responsible for most of his fame and wealth at a time it’s facing tougher competition.
Musk, 51, has said he will step down as Twitter’s CEO as soon as he can find a replacement, but has not set a timetable for handing off the reins. To help reduce Twitter’s losses and reduce the massive debt stemming from the purchase, Musk has laid off about half of that company’s staff and is facing allegations of refusing to pay the rent at some offices.
Media coverage of mass layoffs and other cutbacks at Twitter were one of the main reasons that Musk’s lawyer, Alex Spiro, argued for the trial to be moved or at least delayed until the backlash to the harsh measures died down.
But the lawyers representing Tesla shareholders in the case argued Musk only has himself to blame for any negative perceptions, largely because of his frequent activity on Twitter, the social media platform that he now owns and runs.
“For better or worse, Musk is a celebrity who garners attention from the media around the globe,” the shareholders’ attorneys wrote in their 19-page opposition to the transfer request. “His footprint on Twitter alone is partially to blame for that. If ‘negative’ attention was all that was required to disqualify a jury pool, Musk would effectively be untriable before a jury given his knack for attracting ’negative” coverage.”
After sifting through about 200 juror questionnaires submitted earlier this week, Spiro argued many of them were peppered with derogatory remarks about Musk that underscored how difficult it will be for him to get a fair trial.
Some of those unflattering remarks surfaced during Friday’s hearing as Chen pored through the questionnaires in preparation for Tuesday’s jury selection. The judge disqualified jurors who he said had variously described Musk as an “idiot” and a “buffoon.”
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GOLDEN GATE, Fla. — A giant tree-looking tower stands among a patch of trees in Collier County.
Although it’s disguised to look like a tree, behind its branches you’ll find something Mother Nature isn’t capable of growing: a cell phone tower.
“From right there. It looks like a real tree,” said Lovinsky Cantave.
People along Green Boulevard near Collier Boulevard in Golden Gate say they just can’t help but notice the 147-foot-tall tree. It’s nearly three times as tall as its neighbors.
“It ain’t no Christmas tree,” Michael ‘Slick’ Miller said. “If it is, we got the biggest one in town.”
It certainly does look like an artificial Christmas tree you’d find at the store. The branches are long and slender, giving you a look at the trunk of the tower.
However, Jean Dsinord didn’t even notice it, despite living right across the street.
“I wouldn’t even question it. I’m not even going to lie,” Dsinord said.
Some people on social media did, calling out the gargantuan, oversized and downright silly-looking piece of nature.
After all, it does stick out like a sore thumb.
“I think it’s cool,” Miller said.
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“They got to look at the glass half full somehow, some way,” Miller said.
He doesn’t just look at the glass half full, it’s overflowing. At the end of the day, they could’ve been stuck with just a metal pole sticking up in the air.
“Oh, definitely the tree. Hell yeah. Why not,” Miller said.
“To be honest, that is way better than regular phone towers,” Dsinord added.
The site is still under construction.
According to permits filed with Collier County, Verizon, T-Mobile and Dish Wireless are among the carriers that will have antennas here.
As for when they’ll be powered on, the companies didn’t respond with a date.
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ORLANDO, Fla. – It’s tax season and the Internal Revenue Service is offering people a chance to get face-to-face tax help on some upcoming Saturdays.
Taxpayer Assistance Centers are opening across the country on one Saturday each month through tax season from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. to offer in-person tax help. No appointment is needed.
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The TACs are also open during the week by appointment.
The IRS said the centers will be open on the following Saturdays:
- Feb. 11, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- March 11, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- April 8, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- May 13, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The IRS has a TAC in Maitland at 850 Trafalgar Court, near Interstate 4 and Maitland Boulevard.
The other TACs in Florida are located in Miami and Plantation.
People seeking help should have their current government-issued photo ID, Social Security cards for their household and any IRS letters, notices or related documents.
The IRS said if you are seeking standard income tax return preparation help, you should contact the following:
- Volunteer Income Tax Assistance or Tax Counseling for the Elderly at 1-800-906-9887
- AARP Tax Aide at 1-888-227-7669
You can also use IRS Free File to file your taxes online if you or your family made $73,000 or less in 2022.
There is also a Department of Defense program to file taxes if you are a member of the military that is free called MilTax.
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A frantic first half saw Inter race into a two-goal lead with only 15 minutes on the clock, Nicolo Barella opening the scoring and Martinez doubling the lead, but Arthur Cabral's penalty gave the Viola hope.
Jonathan Ikone curled home an equaliser on the hour mark before Martinez doubled his tally from the penalty spot, but Luka Jovic appeared to have snatched a point with time running out.
The drama was not over, however, as substitute Lorenzo Venuti saw his attempted clearance hit Mkhitaryan on the shin and bobble into the net in one stunning final twist.
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As the school year winds down and children gear up for an unforgettable summer, parents everywhere search for ideas to show their appreciation to teachers and staff. Whether they’re teaching a kindergartener to count to 100 or physics to a high school student, teachers deserve to be thanked for their hard work. This year, instead of the obligatory mug or an impersonal gift card, show your appreciation with a practical and thoughtful gift any teacher is sure to love.
BestReviews’ Jacob Palmer joins Olivia Horton to share BestReviews’ picks for the best end-of-year teacher gifts.
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If your teacher enjoys iced coffee to prepare for the classroom each morning, this 18-ounce bottle is the perfect way to say thanks. Since it’s designed with a straw, this bottle makes it effortless to chug or sip on throughout the day. Plus, it’s safe for the dishwasher.
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From traveling to relaxing for a few moments between classes, this neck pillow provides optimal support with three ergonomic points that fit multiple neck sizes. The memory foam uses five-second return technology to relieve pressure points and offer comfort, while the breathable cover is sweat-resistant and stays cool.
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Say goodbye to cold sandwiches for lunch every day, thanks to this electric lunch box. This 20-ounce pot uses the same technology as the beloved Crock-Pot slow cookers to warm up leftovers, soup, oatmeal and more. The outer lid prevents spills during transport, and the exterior remains cool to the touch.
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Show your appreciation with the trending Stanley Cup to keep any teacher hydrated all day long. While this large tumbler holds 30 ounces of your favorite drink, the bottom is tapered to fit into a cup holder. Its double-wall vacuum insulation also keeps drinks cold or hot for hours.
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This popular belt bag keeps keys, phones, ID cards and other valuables safe and within reach on the go. It comes in multiple colors to suit any style and features an adjustable band. Plus, the fabric is water-repellent.
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SAN FRANCISCO, April 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GI Partners, a leading alternative asset investment and management firm, announced today that Joyce Chow has joined the firm as a Principal in its real estate strategy. Ms. Chow will be responsible for origination and portfolio management for GI Partners Real Estate's platform activities.
GI Partners Real Estate's current portfolio comprises $18 billion across a broad spectrum of specialized property sectors. With sector specific investment platforms in technology and life sciences, industrial, multifamily, and student housing real estate, the firm has over 20 years of partnering with institutional investors and management teams in executing highly aligned investment strategies. Prior to joining GI Partners, Ms. Chow was a director in the real estate group at the Teacher Retirement System of Texas, where she managed a global portfolio of direct and fund investments.
"I am pleased to be joining GI Partners at a dynamic time for the firm, and for our industry," said Ms. Chow. "At a time when the real estate industry is undergoing extensive transformation to a more operator-focused model, I am excited to be at GI Partners, which has an impressive track record of building world-class real estate operating companies. I look forward to working with the team and contributing to the firm's ongoing success."
"We are delighted to welcome Joyce to the firm and continue to expand and invest in our Real Estate team," said John Saer, Managing Director and Head of Real Estate at GI Partners. "Joyce brings extensive experience structuring joint ventures and partnerships with operators and fund managers. Her background and unique perspective will be integral to our growth efforts."
About GI Partners
Founded in 2001, GI Partners is a private investment firm with over 125 employees and offices in San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Greenwich, and Scottsdale. The firm has raised over $32 billion in capital from leading institutional investors around the world to invest in private equity, real estate, and data infrastructure strategies. The private equity team invests primarily in companies in the healthcare, IT infrastructure, services, and software sectors. The real estate team focuses primarily on technology and life sciences properties as well as other specialized real estate sectors and strategies. The data infrastructure team invests primarily in hard asset infrastructure businesses underpinning the digital economy. For more information, please visit www.gipartners.com.
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Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) deflected questions about Rep. Marjorie Greene’s (R-Ga.) committee posts on Sunday, saying that it’s not up to him to decide panel assignments.
Greene was selected to sit on the House Homeland Security Committee and House Oversight and Accountability Committee on Tuesday after being stripped of her committee assignments by Democrats in 2021. When asked on Sunday if he would prefer to see someone else on these committees, McCaul declined to answer directly.
“I’m not the chair of that committee, and I’m not the Speaker either,” he told Martha Raddatz on ABC’s “This Week.”
McCaul said that, despite Greene’s past comments about conspiracy theories, including questioning the Sept. 11 attacks, the Georgia Republican has “matured.” He added that the senior members of Congress should educate her on how some of the conspiracy theories that she has spread are “not accurate.”
“I will tell you she has matured,” McCaul said. “I think she realizes she doesn’t know everything. And she wants to learn and become I think more of a team player.”
“I think it’s incumbent upon more senior members to try to — she’s a member of Congress — bring her in and try to educate her that these theories that she has are not accurate,” he added.
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WEDC survey finds quality of life and opportunities driving factors in state's high perception rankings
MADISON, Wis., May 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A new survey by the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) reveals that both in-state and out-of-state residents view Wisconsin as a good place to do business, raise a family, and enjoy a high quality of life.
While, perhaps unsurprisingly, four out of five Wisconsin residents and business owners surveyed said the Badger State is a good place to live and do business, the research also discovered that Wisconsin appeals strongly to out-of-state residents at levels that exceed other Midwest states. Study participants, both in the Midwest and nationally, ranked Wisconsin and Michigan as the most appealing Midwest states overall.
Among Midwest states, respondents ranked Wisconsin first for access to outdoor activities and post-secondary educational opportunities, second for access to health care and a sense of community, and third for cost of living.
In comparison to Michigan, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Ohio and Illinois, Wisconsin's relative perception ratings were above average in the following quality of life factors:
- Access to outdoor activities 22% higher than the average; ranked first and 13% higher than Michigan, which ranked second.
- Post-secondary education 18% higher than the average; ranked first.
- Access to health care 19% higher than the average; ranked second.
- Sense of community 9% higher than average; ranked second.
"One of the things we've all learned over the past few years is that community matters, opportunity matters, and quality of life matters – whether you're a small business owner, entrepreneur, employee, or even the CEO of a major corporation," said Missy Hughes, secretary and CEO of WEDC. "Inside and outside our state, people are discovering all that Wisconsin has to offer and, as they do, our appeal continues to grow."
Wisconsin businesses selected high quality of life for the workforce as a top business factor when determining a state's appeal. Wisconsin ranked nearly 25% higher than any other Midwest state in terms of quality-of-life factors, most notably access to outdoor activities.
"Wisconsin represents that rare intersection of business and pleasure," said Ben Popp, executive director of the American Birkebeiner Ski Foundation located in Hayward, Wisconsin. "Not only do residents benefit from tailored investments in community infrastructure, it's the perfect environment to cultivate a career while also tapping into individual passions and motivations. Running, biking, skiing – you name it, Wisconsin has it."
The online survey sampled:
- More than 2,700 Wisconsin business leaders who evaluated the state's business climate.
- More than 1,500 residents of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Missouri South Dakota and North Dakota, who rated their state's and other states' overall appeal.
- Roughly 1,000 residents nationwide who rated their perceptions of Midwest states.
The survey had a margin of error of 3 percentage points.
To learn more about WEDC, visit wedc.org.
About the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation
The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) leads economic development efforts for the state by advancing and maximizing opportunities in Wisconsin for businesses, communities and people to thrive in a globally competitive environment. Working with more than 600 regional and local partners, WEDC develops and delivers solutions representative of a highly responsive and coordinated economic development network. Visit wedc.org or follow WEDC on Twitter @WEDCNews to learn more.
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Starbucks Corp. has refused to negotiate in good faith at more than 100 newly unionized cafes, US labor board prosecutors alleged in a complaint.
The coffee chain has illegally “failed and refused” to collectively bargain fairly at 144 sites. Those include the first two cafes to unionize with Starbucks Workers United, the National Labor Relations Board’s Seattle regional director said. At those two locations, both in upstate New York, the agency alleges that Starbucks “bargained with no intention of reaching agreement” with the union, including by “insisting upon proposals that are predictably unacceptable to the union,” and “demeaning and otherwise undermining the union’s chosen representatives,” according to a filing Tuesday filing.
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Starbucks didn’t immediately respond to a Bloomberg inquiry regarding the complaint. The company has said repeatedly that it is negotiating fairly, and that the union is the one failing to do so. “We will continue to negotiate in good faith,” former chief executive officer Howard Schultz testified last month before a US Senate committee.
Complaints issued by NLRB prosecutors are considered by agency judges, whose rulings can be appealed to labor board members in Washington DC, and from there into federal court. Regional NLRB directors have issued more than 80 complaints against Starbucks, accusing the company of illegal anti-union tactics including threats, store shutdowns and terminations of dozens of activists. The company has said that all claims of anti-union activity are “categorically false.” The agency has the authority to order companies to change their behavior but not to issue punitive damages for violations.
Starbucks Workers United has prevailed in elections at 300 of the company’s roughly 9,000 corporate-run US cafes, starting with initial victories in late 2021. None of those locations has yet come close to securing a collective bargaining agreement with the company.
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On Friday Latto decided to take to social media to recount an instance where she was arrested for bringing a loaded gun to the airport in Los Angeles. Twitter wasn’t impressed.
The ‘Big Energy’ rhymer engaged in conversation on the social media network when a fan asked for more information about a couple bars she dropped on “Boom, Pt 2”, a new song from Melloo Buckzz that she features on. When one fan tweeted out “I got lok’ed up in da airport.. GODAMN forgot da gun,”, Latto quickly tweeted back “True story!!!”.
She went on to explain: “Went to LAX w a loaded glock 17 in my Birk got locked & let out in a few hours lmaooo booked a $75k jet to my show in Alabama & still made it on time! no cap in my rap TUH”.
While some fans were rocking with the explanation, others called Latto out for her ‘Ja Morant-esque’ behavior about the whole situation. For those that don’t know, Morant is an NBA superstar who was suspended by the league for detrimental conduct, stemming from several different situations involving Morant and firearms.
Whether the story is true or not, gun crimes can be serious legal matters. Especially in federally controlled areas, like airports. Thankfully Latto apparently didn’t encounter too much trouble because of this situation, but here’s to hoping that she moves a lil more smooth from here on out.
Check out the full exchange below, then keep scrolling to see what some folks thought about Latto’s latest gun story!
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Military recruitment lags despite reduced targets, record incentives to boost interest
The military touts a "recruit’s market" that should attract fresh blood into its ranks as each branch faces recruiting shortfalls following the coronavirus pandemic.
"In real estate, you talk about buyer's and seller's markets," Maj. Gen. Edward W. Thomas Jr., commander of the Air Force Recruiting Service, told Fox News Digital. "You know, this is a recruiting market right now. There are good opportunities to serve and good incentives to do so."
The military faced a drop-off in recruitment during the pandemic: Each branch met active component goals, but reserve numbers have fallen short each year. That shortage has now hit the Active component goals for the Army and Navy, with other branches just meeting their goals.
One significant factor that Thomas highlighted is the lack of engagement the military could pursue while schools remained remote in 2020 during nationwide lockdowns: A 2018 report by the Institute for Defense Analyses heavily focused on recruitment at the high school level, indicating the high value placed on that pipeline.
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"Really in the long term … it's declining eligibility, declining propensity or interest in serving and declining trust in government," Thomas said.
"Today, 77% of American youth aged 17 to 24 will not qualify to serve the United States military without a waiver, 77%," he continued. "That's based on a variety of different reasons, from weight to medical issues to academic issues to behavioral issues, mental health issues. It's a wide variety with 77% don't qualify without a waiver."
And Thomas admitted that the perception around the military withdrawal from Afghanistan may have impacted recruitment in the last six months, but stressed that he would not consider it "one of the primary drivers."
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The drop-off forced the military to reduce their goals, which they were able to do thanks to higher-than-usual retention.
"Back in 2020 and '21, we did reduce our recruiting goals slightly because retention was high," Thomas said. "We have not seen that in wanting to."
"What we saw when COVID hit, we had record high retention in the Air Force and I believe across the body," Thomas explained. "You know, frankly, it just wasn't a great time to transition out into the civil sector to be looking for a job. With all the uncertainty both in the market and people's personal lives with COVID, retention was high."
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Thomas argued that the job market continues to play a major factor in the recruitment equation. With the nation facing its highest level of employment in 50 years, the military faces "fierce" competition with the general job market. The rate of unemployment spiked early in the pandemic but has since then returned to around 3.5%
"It's good for the nation in general," he said. "It makes the battle for talent all that much more ferocious."
To try and compete with that healthy market, the military has offered larger-than-usual bonuses, including up to $50,000 for certain fields, such as special warfare. Other fields for "hard to fill jobs" have incentives ranging from $3000 to $6000. The main goal is to keep trying to attract the best of the best, including varsity athletes, candidates with multiple language proficiency or candidates with expertise in niche fields including crypto.
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Part of the problem may be due to the lack of understanding when it comes to the kinds of roles available in the military. In just the Air Force alone, Thomas noted that there are "about 130 enlisted career fields."
"Almost anything you can do in a major city, maybe other than being a stockbroker, you know, or a few select jobs you can pretty much do in the Air Force," he explained. "So all of the peripherals that we recruit for, we're recruiting for medical, for radiology technicians, for dental technicians … you name it."
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AHSAA baseball: Gordo wins defensive Game 1 vs. Houston Academy, inches closer to championship
OXFORD − Gordo's junior starting pitcher Will Whitley and its defense behind him heated up late in Game 1 of the AHSAA state championship at Choccolocco Park on Wednesday.
In the first inning, Whitley threw a walk to Houston Academy, and Gordo had a fielding error before allowing a one-run RBI double in the second inning.
In the last four innings, Whitley allowed just three singles in a 2-1 win, as Gordo moves one win away from its fifth state championship and first since 2017.
"We got bad pitch counts, and they took advantage of it, but we stayed, kept our composure," coach Johnathan Pate said. "Defensively, we played well. We got some big hits at big times. It was a very good ball game, well-played on both sides."
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Whitley was perfect in the final two innings, as sophomore third baseman Brady Jones made a few spectacular defensive plays in the seventh frame. Jones had the game-winning RBI with a fourth-inning double, scoring senior Brax Garrison.
Jones scored the first run for Gordo (33-5) on a two-out RBI single from Baylee Price in the third inning. Jones also drew a walk and batted 1-for-1.
Game 2 against Houston Academy (26-8) is Thursday at 10 a.m. at Jacksonville State's Ruby Abbott Field at Jim Case Stadium. Game 3, if necessary, will follow immediately afterwards.
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EINDHOVEN, Netherlands, March 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Signify (Euronext: LIGHT), the world leader in lighting, today announced the acquisition of Intelligent Lighting Controls, Inc. (ILC), a market-leading U.S. manufacturer of wired control systems, expanding its connected portfolio.
Intelligent Lighting Controls' sales are primarily focused on energy-saving control systems in applications such as healthcare, education, offices, and sporting venues. ILC, which was founded in 1990, will continue to be headquartered and maintain its manufacturing in Edina, Minnesota.
Going forward, ILC will sell its brand of wired control systems as part of Cooper Lighting Solutions, a business unit of Signify's Digital Solutions division. ILC's wired control systems expand the Cooper Lighting Solutions portfolio of energy-saving solutions, providing enhanced opportunities to sell a broad range of energy efficient LED lighting products in the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
"We are delighted to welcome Intelligent Lighting Controls to the Signify family. With ILC's talented team and proven track record, we are adding a well-established technology and competitive offering to fuel the uptake of energy-saving solutions in the attractive North American market," said Kraig Kasler, President of Cooper Lighting Solutions.
The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
For further information, please contact:
Cooper Lighting Solutions Communications
Karin Lehn
Tel: +1 919 451 7760
E-mail: karin.lehn@cooperlighting.com
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Abigail Levene
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E-mail: abigail.levene@signify.com
About Signify
Signify (Euronext: LIGHT) is the world leader in lighting for professionals and consumers and lighting for the Internet of Things. Our Philips products, Interact connected lighting systems and data-enabled services, deliver business value and transform life in homes, buildings and public spaces. In 2022, we had sales of EUR 7.5 billion, approximately 35,000 employees and a presence in over 70 countries. We unlock the extraordinary potential of light for brighter lives and a better world. We achieved carbon neutrality in our operations in 2020, have been in the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index since our IPO for six consecutive years and were named Industry Leader in 2017, 2018 and 2019. News from Signify is located at the Newsroom, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram. Information for investors can be found on the Investor Relations page.
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Black boxes from Nepal plane crash to be sent to Singapore
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — The flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorders recovered from the Jan. 15 plane crash in Nepal are being sent to Singapore for analysis to identify the cause of the crash that killed all 72 people on board. The twin-engine ATR 72-500 flown by Yeti Airlines crashed on its approach to the airport in the resort town of Pokhara in the Himalayan foothills. Some aviation experts say video taken from the ground of the plane’s last moments indicated it went into a stall, although it’s unclear why. It was carrying 68 passengers, including 15 foreign nationals, as well as four crew members.
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Henry L. Chambers Jr., University of Richmond
(THE CONVERSATION) As the 2022 midterm campaigns approach Election Day on Nov. 8, 2022, a federal probe into former President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents is testing an unwritten policy of the U.S. Justice Department.
Some legal analysts have suggested that the so-called 60-day rule requires federal prosecutors to delay public actions during the final stages of an election to avoid influencing the perceptions of a candidate – or tipping the scale for or against a political party.
This goal of political neutrality appears to be adhered to by Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray. Both have largely refrained from making public comments on ongoing federal and state probes into possible crimes that Trump may have committed during his time in the White House, including on his alleged role in the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol.
But political neutrality is open to interpretation.
In the run-up to the 2016 presidential election, the 60-day rule was apparently broken when then-FBI Director James Comey made a series of controversial public statements on Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server during her time as secretary of state.
Comey’s comments began over the course of the summer and fall of 2016 and didn’t end until the weekend before Election Day when he announced the end of the investigation. Clinton and her supporters claim that Comey’s controversial actions played a role in her loss and Trump’s election.
A rule, not a law
The 60-day rule is an interpretation of the Justice Department’s internal guidance to protect the federal agency’s reputation for political neutrality.
Every election season, the attorney general reissues the department’s Election Year Sensitivities memo to staff. Garland issued his memo on May 25, 2022.
“Law enforcement officers and prosecutors may never select the timing of public statements (attributed or not), investigative steps, criminal charges, or any other action in any matter or case for the purpose of affecting any election, or for the purpose of giving an advantage or disadvantage to any candidate or political party,” Garland’s 2022 memo explains.
Garland’s memo essentially reiterates the language from the department’s substantial internal policy manual on election season investigations.
But Garland’s memo does not suggest that a clear 60-day rule exists.
It merely suggests that actions taken closer to an election ought to be especially scrutinized to ensure that the Justice Department does not appear to purposely advantage a candidate or party.
Open to interpretation
Though very few legal scholars question the existence of the 60-day rule, the scope of the rule is a matter of dispute.
Former Attorney General Bill Barr has interpreted the rule narrowly. He has suggested the rule may apply only to activity that will harm a specific candidate.
Other legal observers have suggested the rule applies more broadly to investigations that might affect an overall election. That might include investigations of people connected to a candidate or situations where the candidate is only tangentially related.
Comey’s public comments
Though Comey may not have had any desire to affect the 2016 election’s outcome, he would later make an apology of sorts to Clinton in his book “A Higher Loyalty.”
“I have read she has felt anger toward me personally, and I’m sorry for that,” Comey writes. “I’m sorry that I couldn’t do a better job explaining to her and her supporters why I made the decisions I made.”
Apologetic or not, Comey and his actions during the 2016 presidential election caused both the FBI and the Justice Department to suffer a blow to their credibility. Following a broad 60-day rule might have saved the Justice Department and FBI from the appearance of political bias.
But in some situations, jettisoning the 60-day rule may be advisable.
If a federal investigation is particularly timely and is proceeding with no purpose of affecting an election, then it may be consistent with the underlying policy of the Justice Manual – even if doing so may be inconsistent with a broad interpretation of the 60-day rule.
At issue is the importance of an investigation and the danger of pausing it.
If the public trusts the DOJ to make the decisions about the investigation without political bias, then following the 60-day rule may not be necessary. If the public does not trust the DOJ, then following the rule may be imperative.
The investigation regarding the national security implications of classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago is an important test.
Though Trump often claims federal probes into his behavior are no more than political witch hunts, there is no indication the Justice Department is continuing the investigation with the purpose of hurting or helping specific candidates or a specific party.
Quite naturally, any lengthy investigation may bump up against a midterm or presidential election cycle. But if halting the investigation could damage national security, then continuing it through the election season may be necessary even if the investigation affects a number of elections.
The unintentional irony of the 60-day rule
The rule is designed to protect the Justice Department’s reputation of neutrality by keeping partisan politics away from its investigations.
Arguably, the way to do that is to ignore the election calendar and run an investigation as if the election calendar did not exist.
Once an investigation’s course has been altered by the election calendar, it has arguably been infused with politics, and in some of those cases, justice delayed may be justice denied.
With strict adherence to the rule, a candidate may be elected because voters did not have all the information about the candidate’s behavior and character – an omission that challenges the democratic ideal of an informed citizenry.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here: https://theconversation.com/the-justice-departments-dilemma-over-prosecuting-politicians-before-an-election-190608.
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Affamed to obtain sole commercialization rights upon regulatory approval in Mainland China to Galcanezumab, a monoclonal antibody that selectively binds to calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP). Target to address unmet medical needs for millions of Chinese migraine patients.
SHANGHAI, Jan. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- AffaMed Therapeutics ("AffaMed"), a global clinical stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to address critical unmet medical needs in neurological, psychiatric and ophthalmic disorders today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Eli Lilly and Company ("Eli Lilly") to obtain sole commercialization rights to import, market, promote, distribute and detail Galcanezumab once approved in Mainland China. A new drug application for Galcanezumab as a preventative treatment for episodic migraine in adults was submitted by Eli Lilly to China's National Medical Products Administration ("NMPA") in June 2022.
Migraine is a disabling, neurologic disease affecting almost one in every ten Chinese with an estimated 130 million prevalent cases, of which approximately two-thirds are women[1]. Despite its high prevalence, migraine remains under-recognized and under-treated in China. Building on its deep and long-standing scientific and commercial experience and insight in the Chinese migraine market, AffaMed views this collaboration with Eli Lilly as a critical opportunity to address the significant unmet need and to improve the quality of life for migraine patients in China.
"We are excited to reach this agreement with Eli Lilly to bring this innovative product to Chinese patients who are suffering from migraine with symptoms that dramatically impair their quality of life." Dr. Dayao Zhao, CEO of AffaMed commented: "This agreement further demonstrates AffaMed's aspiration to provide innovative treatments to Chinese patients and represents an important milestone in strengthening AffaMed's neurology pipeline."
In the Phase 3 PERSIST[2]Study, a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled pivotal trial designed to assess the efficacy and safety of Galcanezumab in patients with episodic migraine from China, India, and Russia, the least squares (LS) mean reduction from baseline in monthly MHDs over 3 months was significantly greater with Galcanezumab compared with placebo (-3.81 days vs. -1.99 days; p < 0.0001). Significantly greater mean proportions of patients with galcanezumab versus placebo had ≥ 50%, ≥ 75%, and 100% reductions from baseline in MHDs (all p < 0.0001).
About Migraine
Migraine is a severely disabling neurologic disease characterized by recurrent episodes of moderate to severe headache accompanied by other symptoms including nausea, sensitivity to light, and sensitivity to sound.[3],[4] The prevalence rate among the Chinese population is 9.3%, but with the prevalence rate observed in women at 12.8% more than double the prevalence rate observed in men at 5.8%.[1] It has been reported to be the second most disabling disease that affects daily activities among all diseases.[5]
About Galcanezumab
Galcanezumab is a monoclonal antibody that selectively binds to calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP). It is developed by Eli Lilly and was approved by the FDA in September 2018 for the preventive treatment of migraine in adults, and in June 2019 for the treatment of episodic cluster headache in adults. Galcanezumab (launched under the brand name Emgality® in the United States) is an innovative therapeutic approach for this neurologic disease and also the first and only medication approved by the US FDA to reduce the number of attacks for the treatment of episodic cluster headache. It is currently used for patients with migraine in 20 countries around the world.
About AffaMed Therapeutics
AffaMed Therapeutics is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing transformative pharmaceutical, digital and surgical products that address critical unmet medical needs in ophthalmological, neurological and psychiatric disorders for patients in Greater China and around the world. The leadership team at AffaMed Therapeutics has gained deep industry expertise and an extensive track record in high-quality discovery, clinical development, regulatory affairs, business development, manufacturing, and commercial operations at leading multi-national biopharmaceutical companies in China and globally.
Disclaimer
The product mentioned is currently an investigational drug in the mentioned indication, not yet approved in Mainland China. Affamed and Lilly do not recommend any unapproved drugs/indications for use.
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TOKYO (AP) — The Japanese yen has weakened, trading in recent weeks at 20-year lows of 130 yen to the U.S. dollar just when prices of oil and other goods are surging partly due to the war in Ukraine.
The yen's value against the U.S. dollar and other currencies has fallen mainly because interest rates remain ultra-low in Japan but are rising in the U.S. and other countries. So Japanese who have seen prices barely inch up for many years, or even drop due to deflation, are doubly feeling the ripple effects of rising global inflation.
The price of popular Umaibo, or “yummy stick,” snack bars recently increased for the first time in 42 years, from 10 yen (8 cents) to 12 yen (9 cents) each.
Popular 100-yen store chains Daiso and Can Do, the Japanese equivalents of American dollar stores, have yet to become 150-yen stores. But they are switching suppliers, mostly in China, where the yen used to buy more.
A cheap yen has historically been welcomed in export-driven Japan, boosting the overseas earnings of its manufacturers when they convert them into yen. Operating profit at Japan’s top automaker Toyota Motor Corp. got a hefty 610 billion yen ($4.7 billion) windfall from the favorable exchange rate.
These days, the weaker currency is a mixed blessing.
EARNING LESS
Tran Ha Van isn’t at all happy about what’s happening with the yen.
For the nearly 10 years she's lived in Japan almost all of her income has been in yen. Every two months, the Vietnamese technology professional sends money home to her parents, a retired electronic engineer and a housewife.
“What I send them has dropped considerably in value,” she said.
When Tran bought Vietnamese food recently for the lunar New Year, prices for everything had jumped. A gift of a personal computer for her parents, for instance, cost more on her credit card, she said.
Tran studied Japanese intensively in Vietnam, graduated from a Japanese university, then worked at a major IT services company in sales and operation management.
She plans to start her own business with the yen she has saved up, using her bicultural and bilingual skills to connect Vietnamese businesses, especially in high-tech, with opportunities in Japan.
The price she charges is set in yen and hasn't changed. But the cost of hiring free-lance Vietnamese engineers is now higher in yen, Tran said.
“For me, I tend to send money more from Japan to Vietnam than the other way around, so it’s inevitably a bigger minus if the yen falls,” she said.
GETAWAY HOMES
The news on the weakening yen hasn’t been all bad.
Interest is picking up, said Parker J. Allen, who runs a business finding bargain-priced homes in the countryside and suburban Tokyo for foreign buyers wanting a second home or office.
He's only completed a few deals so far, mostly involving executives at top-name American companies who want to live part-time in Japan. He helps bridge the gap between such people and traditional Japanese real estate agencies.
“Most of the time, you're buying it (the house) for free, and you are paying for the land. If that 30-plus-year-old house is in great condition, you are going to get a fantastic deal,” he said recently, showing one such home, with an elegant tatami-mat room overlooking a garden with rocks and trees.
Such deals include Japan’s plentiful vacated homes, called “akiya,” which number about 8.5 million nationwide, or 13% of all homes, according to a 2018 government study. Many once were occupied by families whose children moved away. As the parents age and pass on or move to assisted living facilities, the homes often sit abandoned.
The homes often need renovation, said Allen, an American who co-founded the real-estate consultancy Akiya & Inaka two years ago. “Inaka” means “countryside” in Japanese.
But for those with dollars buying the homes in yen, the added perk from the exchange rate buys more and adds up to quite a savings. The advantage likely is more than what Allen charges in his consultancy fee, which is 100,000 yen ($770) for the first three properties referred.
“There are great properties out there that aren’t that expensive. I think we are on the cusp of something huge. I think more people are going to realize what great things you can do in the Japanese countryside,” said Allen
GODZILLA INVESTMENT
The yen's eroding worth is attracting people to new forms of investment in a nation notorious for meticulously saving.
Instead of stashing all of their savings in yen in a low-yield bank account, or keeping it in cash, some are buying NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, which are created using the same technology as cryptocurrency.
Line, a service of South Korean internet company Naver Corp., has begun selling various NFTs, like those by popular manga and musical artists. In the lineup is an NFT of Godzilla versus Hedorah, a monster that looks like a gooey mop, a symbol of industrial pollution and contamination.
Line's offering targets core fans of the content, not investors. But some Godzilla offerings, which initially sold for 5,500 yen ($42) each, have already sold out and are soaring in price.
LURE FOR TOURISTS
The cheap yen normally would draw foreign tourists eager to take advantage of stronger spending power.
But Japan has kept its borders basically shut to foreign tourists during the pandemic. Once the country reopens, the economy could get a lift from the weak yen. In 2019, before the pandemic, 32 million people visited from overseas.
The government soon will let small numbers of foreign tourists visit as “an experiment.” Only visitors from the U.S., Thailand, Singapore and Australia will be welcome at first, and they must have a special visa, be triple-vaccinated and stick to specific schedules.
Kaori Inoue, who works in international promotion at the Hokkaido Tourism Organization, said she hopes to start inviting travel agency officials from abroad to drum up business. She is waiting for restrictions to ease further, and for more countries.
“Everything rests with the government. Once the changes kick in, the tourists are going to arrive in droves,” Inoue said.
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A new year offers new opportunities. A free event on Jan. 1 at the Riverside Theater, welcomes 2,450 people to join a launch of the largest collective meditation effort in Southeastern Wisconsin.
Meditation offers benefits beyond what might be considered a spiritual practice and is considered health care at this point. The Mayo clinic actually describes it as a type of Complimentary Medicine. It has the ability to produce deep relaxation and eliminate stress; physical change occurs in relation to one’s thoughts.
According to the CDC, meditation is the fastest growing health trend in America, studies have even suggested group meditation can reduce crime rates.
Traci Schwartz answered a few questions about the upcoming event. The event is free, but registration is required: meditatemilwaukee.com.
For folks new to mediation, how does it work?
Meditation isn’t stopping all thought; it’s choosing what to focus on. You choose to focus on your breath, on an object, thought, or activity, rather than all the thoughts flooding through your mind.
Meditation can be 30 seconds or 30 minutes. It’s a moment in time that you spend choosing where you put your focus…and then connecting to your breath. Those conscious breaths activate your relaxation response. This is why many people start meditating--to relax, to calm their busy, overactive mind and to alleviate anxiety. It is a way to self-regulate; it's about calming the chaos.
We can reset and restore in this process and then move forward from that place. Ideally, we would become more meditative in our everyday moments so we show up more harmoniously in life.
There are many different ways to meditate. A lot of people think it’s just sitting there quietly, which can be difficult!
That’s why we offer guided meditation at our Meditate Milwaukee events. A guide leads the participants through the meditation and into relaxation.
For someone who is interested in this event, what can they expect?
We will have live music setting the tone as everyone gets seated, the experience will start with an offering from an inspirational speaker.
Musicians will play again to open the heart, and then a meditation will be led by five different guides. The intention is to help you explore your feelings and reset, restore, and reconnect by sending love out to yourself and the community. It will conclude with more beautiful music.
So, no experience in this is needed. Just curiosity!
The energy of a roomful of folks can be pretty powerful. What would you like to accomplish with a gathering like this?
Research has also shown that meditating in a group amplifies the effect, so imagine the power of meditating together with over 2,000 people!
The body is stressed by anxious thinking and vice versa--anxious thinking creates stress in the body. It’s important to not let this develop in your being, because it eventually creates a physical and mental health burden.
We love our city and our community. We want to start off the year by connecting with one another and sending positive energy though the city and beyond.
Our vision is that Milwaukee will become known as “The City That Meditates Together”!
Other than capacity, is there a reason you chose the Riverside Theater?
When I shared our vision with Gary Witt of Pabst Theatre Group he felt aligned with our intention of coming together and has been extremely supportive in bringing this about for our community.
We also feel that the Riverside is an iconic landmark in our city and holding the 2023 Meditate Milwaukee kick-off event in this space will offer those who may not have had the opportunity to be in the space to experience it.
We also realize that sitting on the floor on a cushion is not comfortable for most people so we make sure to hold our events in a space that has chairs or seating.
How would you characterize New Year’s Days as significant to this event?
We know that people are often setting resolutions and attempting to make changes in their lives. We are looking to provide a space to really consider what that might look like for them and how they can be the best version of themselves, therefore, benefiting the entire community. We want to support setting intentions for creating new ways of being.
Meditation is universal; all are welcome. How can this event be described to someone who follows a specific religion?
Almost all forms of religion actually have some form of meditation practice. Meditation has been practiced for thousands of years.
Meditate Milwaukee aims to create an accessible form of this practice that does not conflict with religious principles. We seek to create an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds and philosophies to come together for a common goal of creating peace starting from within.
Meditation is the way out of the maze in our minds and the stress in our bodies.
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A week after authorities discovered a woman bound and beaten in a southwest Oregon home, the kidnapping suspect has died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, a CNN affiliate reports.
Benjamin Obadiah Foster, 36, died in a hospital after an hourslong standoff with law enforcement Tuesday evening in Grants Pass, Oregon, CNN affiliate KTVL reported, citing a police spokesperson.
The standoff concluded after authorities had surrounded the home -- under which they believed Foster was hiding -- and were trying to convince the suspect to surrender, KTVL reported.
In a statement Tuesday night, Grants Pass police said Foster was "in custody" after the standoff but provided no additional details. The department said it will hold a press conference Wednesday.
Foster was wanted on suspicion of attempted murder, kidnapping and assault after officers found a woman restrained and beaten until she was unconscious in a Grants Pass home on January 24, police said.
Prosecutors have accused Foster of torturing the woman with the intention of killing her, according to charging documents.
The victim was still hospitalized in critical condition as of Sunday, according to Grants Pass Police Chief Warren Hensman.
Foster knew his victim before the attack, Hensman told CNN, saying the two had a "prior relationship." He did not elaborate but said, "This was not a random attack."
The suspect had already fled by the time officers arrived at the scene last week, prompting a sweeping multi-day search for Foster which drew a flood of tips from the public and included federal, state and local agencies, police said.
As they searched for Foster, police warned he was "extremely dangerous" and potentially armed. Hensman said he was "definitely a threat to others," particularly those who might try to befriend him.
Investigators said Foster likely received help fleeing law enforcement. They also warned he could be may have been using dating apps to find potential new victims or lure people into aiding his escape.
Responding officers found 'disgusting scene'
When officers responded to a 911 call from a friend of the victim, they were confronted with "an absolutely disgusting scene," Hensman told CNN. The victim had been suffering the alleged abuses for a "protracted amount of time" before she was discovered, he said.
"This will stay stained in my memory for many years to come," the police chief said, describing images of the scene as "horrific."
At least two women who have had relationships with Foster have accused him of attacking and abusing them, according to Clark County court records from cases in Las Vegas.
In the first case, his ex-girlfriend testified that in 2017 Foster flew into a rage and strangled her after seeing that another man had texted her. Foster was charged with felony battery constituting domestic violence, the records show.
While that case was still pending, he was charged with felony assault, battery and kidnapping after his then-girlfriend told police that he had strangled her multiple times and kept her tied up for most of a two-week period, according to the documents.
The woman was finally able to escape by convincing Foster they needed to go shop for food and fleeing through a store, a Las Vegas police report said. When she reached a hospital, she had seven broken ribs, two black eyes and abrasions to her wrists and ankles from being tied up, the report said.
Foster accepted plea deals in both cases. In the first case, he was sentenced to a maximum of 30 months in prison but given credit for 729 days served.
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LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — A female journalist was crushed to death Sunday in Pakistan while covering a political march led by former Prime Minister Imran Khan, a senior police officer said.
Sadaf Naeem, 36, a television journalist with Channel 5 in Lahore, was crushed to death after she slipped from the container truck Khan was traveling in, said Salman Zafar, assistant superintendent in Kamuke, one of the towns on the march's path.
Khan’s convoy was making its way through Punjab province toward Islamabad on the march's third day. The demonstrators were challenging Khan's successor, Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif and his government, demanding snap elections. It was the practice of Khan's convoy team to invite a few journalists at a time onto the top of the truck to speak to Khan.
“Shocked & deeply saddened by the terrible accident that led to the death of Channel 5 reporter Sadaf Naeem during our March today," Khan said in a tweet. "I have no words to express my sorrow. My prayers & condolences go to the family at this tragic time. We have cancelled our March for today.”
Sharif also expressed his condolences to Naeem's bereaved family, announcing a roughly $20,000 donation to her relatives.
“Deeply saddened by the death of reporter Sadaf Naeem after falling from a long march container,” Sharif said in a tweet. “Cannot feel sad enough over this tragic incident. Heartfelt condolences to the family. Sadaf Naeem was a dynamic and hardworking reporter. We pray for patience for the family of the deceased.”
Naeem was the breadwinner for her family and had worked as a journalist for 12 years. Pakistani officials say they will bear the living costs and educational expenses of her two children, aged 17 and 21.
About 10,000 of Khan's supporters, many of them piled into hundreds of trucks and cars, left from Lahore on Friday.
The convoy’s journey, expected to be capped with an open-ended rally in Islamabad, could present a significant challenge to the new administration. The rally could potentially also turn violent if police move in to disperse Khan’s supporters.
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HERSHEY, Pa. — The old Friendly’s on Route 422 in Derry Township was demolished Tuesday to make way for a new Hershey chocolate factory.
The Friendlys closed in 2021, coming after the struggling ice cream restaurant chain filed for bankruptcy protection in 2011 and again in 2020.
“It’s pulling at my heart strings, a little bit, certainly,” said Todd Scott of the Hershey Company. “It’s an important part of the local community, but so is the Hershey Company, and we’re really proud that we can make this investment here in our hometown.”
Hershey Company staff said the 55-acre area surrounding the building would be built into a 250,000-square-foot facility to meet growing demand for their candies. The company says they are now the third-largest snacking brand in the U.S., ranked against candy, salty snacks, baked goods, cookies and more.
The project is part of Hershey’s $1 billion multi-year strategy to build and expand facilities. Earlier this year the company also opened a new fulfillment center in Annville, Lebanon County.
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- SCADAfence will integrate into the Honeywell Forge Cybersecurity+ suite providing expanded asset discovery, threat detection, and compliance management capabilities.
- SCADAfence extends Honeywell's OT cybersecurity portfolio to build upon its comprehensive professional services, managed security services, and software solutions.
CHARLOTTE, N.C., July 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Honeywell (Nasdaq: HON) today announced it has agreed to acquire SCADAfence, a leading provider of operational technology (OT) and Internet of Things (IoT) cybersecurity solutions for monitoring large-scale networks. SCADAfence brings proven capabilities in asset discovery, threat detection and security governance which are key to industrial and buildings management cybersecurity programs.
The OT cybersecurity industry is expected to grow to greater than $10 billion in the next several years. Particularly in the industrial sector, cyberattacks focused on OT systems can be a significant source of unplanned downtime, with estimates that unplanned downtime represents over a trillion dollars in lost revenue for the industrial and critical infrastructure sectors.[1]
"It is essential to protect and maintain the integrity of operational systems like process control equipment in manufacturing facilities. A simple breach in the OT environment has the potential to create safety and business continuity risk for organizations of all sizes. OT assets are inherently different than those in the IT environment as they are domain specific. Honeywell has been delivering and installing these systems for decades, which is why we launched our cybersecurity business more than twenty years ago. Adding SCADAfence's product portfolio will strengthen our capabilities and help our customers defend themselves against cyber security risks which are progressively increasing," said Kevin Dehoff, president and chief executive officer, Honeywell Connected Enterprise.
The SCADAfence product portfolio will integrate into the Honeywell Forge Cybersecurity+ suite within Honeywell Connected Enterprise, Honeywell's fast-growing software arm with strategic focus on digitalization, sustainability and OT cybersecurity SaaS offerings and solutions. This integration will enable Honeywell to provide an end-to-end enterprise OT cybersecurity solution to site managers, operations management and CISOs seeking enterprise security management and situational awareness. The acquisition strengthens existing capabilities in cybersecurity and bolsters Honeywell's high-growth OT cybersecurity portfolio, helping customers operate more securely, reliably and efficiently.
"SCADAfence is an ideal complement to Honeywell's OT cybersecurity portfolio and, when combined with the Honeywell Forge Cybersecurity+ suite, it enables us to provide an end-to-end solution with applicability to asset, site and enterprise across key Honeywell sectors," said Dehoff. "By enhancing our cybersecurity portfolio, we are accessing a growth engine and enabling our customers to operate their OT environments more securely and help to avoid disruption and possible catastrophic events."
"We are thrilled to join Honeywell as we work towards fulfilling our mission of empowering industrial organizations to operate securely, reliably and efficiently. This combination creates significant opportunity for growth, allowing us to combine our top-tier OT cybersecurity products with one of the world's leading companies in industrial software," said Elad Ben Meir, chief executive officer, SCADAfence. "With this acquisition, we are poised to deliver some of the most advanced OT security technology to Honeywell's broad customer base, bolstering the comprehensive Honeywell Forge Cybersecurity+ offering. We remain committed to proactively serving and supporting our customers across all verticals and geographies where we currently operate."
SCADAfence is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel and will expand Honeywell's Cybersecurity Center of Excellence in Tel Aviv. Honeywell has been implementing OT cybersecurity solutions for more than twenty years, delivering thousands of projects in over 130 countries with more than 500 employees worldwide focused specifically on OT cybersecurity.
The transaction is expected to close in the second half of 2023, subject to customary closing conditions, including receipt of certain regulatory approvals.
About Honeywell:
Honeywell (www.honeywell.com) is a technology company that delivers industry-specific solutions that include aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings and industry; and performance materials globally. Our technologies help aircraft, buildings, manufacturing plants, supply chains, and workers become more connected to make our world smarter, safer, and more sustainable. For more news and information on Honeywell, please visit www.honeywell.com/newsroom.
This release contains certain statements that may be deemed "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Forward-looking statements are those that address activities, events or developments that management intends, expects, projects, believes or anticipates will or may occur in the future. They are based on management's assumptions and assessments in light of past experience and trends, current economic and industry conditions, expected future developments and other relevant factors. They are not guarantees of future performance, and actual results, developments and business decisions may differ significantly from those envisaged by our forward-looking statements. We do not undertake to update or revise any of our forward-looking statements, except as required by applicable securities law. Our forward-looking statements are also subject to risks and uncertainties, including the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine conflict, that can affect our performance in both the near- and long-term. In addition, no assurance can be given that any plan, initiative, projection, goal commitment, expectation, or prospect set forth in this release can or will be achieved. Any forward-looking plans described herein are not final and may be modified or abandoned at any time. We identify the principal risks and uncertainties that affect our performance in our Form 10-K and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — By one common definition, the U.S. economy is on the cusp of a recession. Yet that definition isn’t the one that counts.
On Thursday, when the government estimates the gross domestic product for the April-June period, some economists think it may show that the economy shrank for a second straight quarter. That would meet a longstanding assumption for when a recession has begun.
But economists say that wouldn’t mean that a recession had started. During those same six months when the economy might have contracted, businesses and other employers added a prodigious 2.7 million jobs — more than were gained in most entire years before the pandemic. Wages are also rising at a healthy pace, with many employers still struggling to attract and retain enough workers.
The job market’s strength is a key reason why the Federal Reserve is expected to announce another hefty hike in its short-term interest rate on Wednesday, one day before the GDP report. Several Fed officials have cited the healthy job growth as evidence that the economy should be able to withstand higher rates and avoid a downturn. Many economists, though, are dubious of that assertion.
The Fed is also trying to combat raging inflation, which reached a 9.1% annual rate in June, the worst mark in nearly 41 years. Rapid price increases, particularly for such essentials as food, gas and rent, have eroded Americans’ incomes and led to much gloomier views of the economy among consumers.
The definition of recession that is most widely accepted is the one determined by the blandly named National Bureau of Economic Research, a nonprofit group of economists whose Business Cycle Dating Committee defines a recession as “a significant decline in economic activity that is spread across the economy and lasts more than a few months.” The committee assesses a wide range of factors before publicly declaring the death of an economic expansion and the birth of a recession — and it often does so well after the fact.
So if we’re not in a recession, what’s going on with the economy, which is sending frustratingly mixed signals? Here are some answers to those and other questions:
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IS THE ECONOMY SHRINKING — OR NOT?
It did in the first three months of the year, when GDP contracted 1.6% at an annual rate. Economists have forecast that on Thursday, the government will estimate that the economy managed to grow at an annual rate of just below 1% in the April-June quarter, according to data provider FactSet. If accurate, that forecast would indicate that the economy isn’t technically in recession by any definition.
Even if growth does go negative for a second straight quarter, Fed officials and Biden administration economists point to a lesser-known measure called “gross domestic income.”
GDP calculates the value of the nation’s output of goods and services by adding up spending by consumers, businesses and governments. By contrast, GDI, as the name implies, seeks to measure the same thing by assessing incomes.
Over time, the two measures should track each other. But they often diverge in the short run. In the first quarter, GDI grew 1.8% — much better than the 1.6% decline in GDP.
As part of its judgment of whether an economy is in recession, the NBER considers an average of the two measures. In the first quarter, the average was 0.2%, suggesting that the economy expanded slightly.
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WHAT ELSE DOES THE NBER MONITOR?
The NBER studies many other data points in determining recessions, including measures of income, employment, inflation-adjusted spending, retail sales and factory output. It puts greater weight on jobs and a gauge of inflation-adjusted income that excludes government support payments such as Social Security.
That gauge covers combined income from all workers, so it rises when the unemployed find a job or when existing workers receive a pay raise. The measure increased slightly in April and May after a flat reading in the first quarter of this year.
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BUT DON’T A LOT OF PEOPLE THINK A RECESSION IS COMING?
Yes, because many people now feel more financially burdened.
With wage gains trailing inflation for most people, higher prices for such essentials as gas, food, and rent have eroded Americans’ spending power,
On Monday, Walmart reported that higher gas and food costs have forced its shoppers to reduce their purchases of discretionary spending such as new clothing, a clear sign that consumer spending, a key driver of the economy, is weakening. The nation’s largest retailer, Walmart reduced its profit outlook and said it will have to discount more items like furniture and electronics.
And the Fed’s rate hikes have caused average mortgage rates to double from a year ago, to 5.5%, causing a sharp fall in home sales and construction.
Higher rates will also likely weigh on businesses’ willingness to invest in new buildings, machinery and other equipment. If companies reduce spending and investment, they’ll also start to slow hiring. Rising caution among companies about spending freely could lead eventually to layoffs. If the economy were to lose jobs and the public were to grow more fearful, consumers would further reduce spending.
The Fed’s rapid rate hikes have raised the likelihood of recession in the next two years to nearly 50%, Goldman Sachs economists have said. And Bank of America economists now forecast a “mild” recession later this year.
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WHAT ARE SOME SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING RECESSION?
The clearest signal that a recession is underway, economists say, would be a steady rise in job losses and a surge in unemployment. In the past, an increase in the unemployment rate of three-tenths of a percentage point, on average over the previous three months, has meant that a recession will soon follow.
Many economists monitor the number of people who seek unemployment benefits each week, which indicates whether layoffs are worsening. Last week, applications for jobless aid rose to 251,000, the highest level in eight months. While that is a potentially concerning sign, that is still a low level historically.
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ANY OTHER SIGNALS TO WATCH FOR?
Many economists also monitor changes in the interest payments, or yields, on different bonds for a recession signal known as an “inverted yield curve.” This occurs when the yield on the 10-year Treasury falls below the yield on a short-term Treasury, such as the 3-month T-bill. That is unusual. Normally, longer-term bonds pay investors a richer yield in exchange for tying up their money for a longer period.
Inverted yield curves generally mean that investors foresee a recession that will compel the Fed to slash rates. Inverted curves often predate recessions. Still, it can take 18 to 24 months for a downturn to arrive after the yield curve inverts.
For the past two weeks, the yield on the two-year Treasury has exceeded the 10-year yield, suggesting that markets expect a recession soon. Many analysts say, though, that comparing the 3-month yield to the 10-year has a better recession-forecasting track record. Those rates are not inverted now.
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WILL THE FED KEEP RAISING RATES EVEN AS THE ECONOMY SLOWS?
The economy’s flashing signals — slowing growth with strong hiring — have put the Fed in a tough spot. Jerome Powell is aiming for a “soft landing,” in which the economy weakens enough to slow hiring and wage growth without causing a recession and brings inflation back to the Fed’s 2% target.
But Powell has acknowledged that such an outcome has grown more difficult to achieve. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China’s COVID-19 lockdowns have driven up prices for energy food, and many manufactured parts in the U.S.
Powell has also indicated that if necessary, the Fed will keep raising rates even amid a weak economy if that’s what’s needed to tame inflation.
“Is there a risk that we would go too far?” Powell asked last month. “Certainly there’s a risk, but I wouldn’t agree that’s the biggest risk to the economy. The biggest mistake to make…would be to fail to restore price stability.”
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Gag order issued ahead of Texas AG Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial after ‘inflammatory’ remarks
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A top Texas Republican who will oversee Attorney General Ken Paxton ‘s impeachment trial issued a sweeping gag order Monday that scolded “inflammatory” public comments made by lawyers on both sides ahead of the historic September proceedings.
The order by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, the powerful leader of the state Senate, underscored how Paxton’s fight for his political survival over accusations of abuse of office has drawn some of Texas’ brashest and highest-profile legal figures.
The impact was swift: Houston attorney Tony Buzbee, Paxton’s lead attorney, canceled a news conference scheduled for Tuesday after the order was issued. The news conference had been announced in a statement that accused a “kangaroo court” in the Texas House of driving the impeachment.
“The court finds that individuals involved in the trial of impeachment will likely continue to make public prejudicial and inflammatory statements unless this order is issued,” Patrick wrote.
State senators who will serve as Paxton’s jury once his trial begins Sept. 5 were already barred from speaking publicly about the case under rules issued earlier this summer. But Patrick, a former Houston broadcaster and conservative talk radio host who will serve as the trial’s presiding officer, is now reining in attorneys on both sides.
The trial has no shortage of Texas legal star power. On one side is Buzbee, whose past clients include former Texas Gov. Rick Perry and women who accused NFL quarterback Deshaun Watson of sexual harassment and assault. On the other side is Dick DeGuerin and Rusty Hardin, who will present the case to impeach Paxton and combined have represented a long roster of celebrities and famous figures.
Paxton has been under FBI investigation for years over accusations by members of his own staff that he used his office to help a donor. He was separately indicted on securities fraud charges in 2015, though he has yet to stand trial.
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85-year-old man and mystery jogger help save family from house fire
SOUTH BRUNSWICK, N.J. (WABC) – A father is thanking two heroes for waking up his family when their house was on fire.
A New Jersey fire chief is also praising the 85-year-old neighbor and unknown passerby.
Kendall Park resident Santo Livio said he discovered the fire when he noticed a puff of smoke over one of the neighboring houses.
Before first responders arrived at the home, Livio said he saw a woman walking by.
“We both stopped, and she looks, and I look,” he said. “I said, ‘Is that a fire coming out of that house?’ She says, ‘It’s smoke,’ but she says, ‘It’s got to be a fire.’”
The smoke was coming from the home’s garage. Inside, a father and his four children were asleep, oblivious to the danger.
The mother, who works overnight, was not there.
Kendall Park Fire Chief Chris Perez said the smoke had not yet made it to the house, but was pouring out of the garage where it started.
Livio and the mystery walker jumped into action.
“She starts to run to the door and starts banging,” Livio said. “I run here, and I start hitting on the side of the house, the window, I said, ‘I’m going to go back and call 911. Police and fire engines start coming. At that point … the smoke turned to be a blaze.”
Fortunately, the homeowner and his children got out safely.
Perez said the home had smoke detectors, but they were not working.
The fire was eventually put out through the efforts of crews from three fire departments.
The fire marshal is investigating the cause.
The father, who did not want to be interviewed on camera, said his family is safe, and he is grateful for the first responders as well as Livio and the unknown woman who banged on his door.
“Well, I was happy to do that only in the sense that we are neighbors,” Livio said. “You know, we all say ‘hello’ to each other, good morning. I wish everybody would do that, honestly.”
Police said 50 firefighters responded to the blaze.
The mystery woman slipped away unnoticed in all the commotion.
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SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Joe Thornton’s career may be over. Or not.
The veteran center, who just completed his 24th season in the NHL and first with the Florida Panthers, said Wednesday that he has not decided whether to retire or continue playing.
“My wife was kind of asking me last night,” Thornton said. “And really, I have no plans. It’s kind of exciting that way. I came here to win a championship and we fell short of that. But I think the Florida Panthers are going to be good for a long time. It’s exciting around here now.”
The question is whether he’ll be part of that excitement going forward.
Thornton turns 43 on July 2. He was the second-oldest skater to appear in a game this season; New York Islanders defenseman Zdeno Chara turned 45 in March, and like Thornton just completed his 24th season in the league.
They were two of four players in the 40s who got into games this season. Buffalo goalie Craig Anderson was a month shy of turning 41 when he made his final appearance of the season, and Edmonton goalie Mike Smith turned 40 in March.
“I’ve been privileged to play this game for a long time,” Thornton said. “I don’t take anything for granted.”
Longtime San Jose Sharks running mate Patrick Marleau announced his retirement earlier this month after playing 23 seasons in the NHL. Marleau broke Gordie Howe’s games played record and retired having played 1,779 in the regular season during his career.
Thornton has played 1,714 games — sixth most in regular-season history — with San Jose, Boston, Toronto and now the Panthers. He recently joked he would let Marleau keep his place in the history books.
Thornton appeared in 34 games with the Panthers this season, scoring five goals and adding five assists.
“Everybody loves to be around him,” Panthers forward Anton Lundell said. “He’s a funny guy and he loves to work. You see how much he cares about the sport, how much he loves to play, and the biggest thing is how much he loves to be around the boys. He doesn’t really like to take any days off.”
For perspective, Lundell was born Oct. 3, 2001. One day later, Thornton started his fifth NHL season.
Thornton picked the Panthers last summer because he felt coming to Florida was his best hope to finally win what would be his first Stanley Cup championship. The Panthers won the Presidents’ Trophy, set team records for goals, wins and points and captured a playoff series for the first time since 1996 — but got swept out of the second round by the Tampa Bay Lightning.
“Kind of wish I’d played with him,” said Panthers interim coach Andrew Brunette, who played 16 NHL seasons before turning his attention to coaching. “But I got to coach him, and that was a great experience.”
Thornton played in only one playoff game with the Panthers, that being the series finale against the Lightning. He said he didn’t go through the traditional handshakes at the end of that game thinking it could be his final moments of his life as an active player.
“I never think ‘what-ifs,’ to be honest with you,” Thornton said. “I just try to live in the moment and go from there.”
But the Panthers will go into next season believing they are a contender again, and if he decides to go for a 25th season that could certainly appeal to Thornton.
“I think the world of Joe Thornton,” Panthers general manager Bill Zito said.
Thornton is 12th in regular-season history with 1,539 points. Most of the top 33 scorers in NHL history have already been enshrined in the Hockey Hall of Fame; the only ones who aren’t yet in are Thornton, Jaromir Jagr, Alex Ovechkin and Sidney Crosby, and that’s because none of those four players are yet eligible.
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It’s true — car crimes have been wild lately.
This is life in Bakersfield, Calif. — the insurance industry’s nightmare as the per capita car theft capital of America.
It is also the home district of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R- Calif.), who left the problems of his majority-White rural and suburban hometown to come to Washington and — what — tell us how to run our city?
“Two weeks ago, two 18-year-old carjackers crashed into two Capitol Police vehicles just yards away from this floor,” McCarthy said in a speech on the House floor last month, when he led the congressional charge to take control over local, D.C. politics.
Hello, pot. How about you leave the kettle alone?
In a sweeping rebuke of American democracy, the party of small government — joined by Democrats mortgaging their principles — enacted a big, fat, hostile takeover of the taxed but unrepresented people of D.C. on Wednesday night when they voted to overturn local legislation for the first time in more than 30 years.
Okay, then. You want to rule D.C.? I’m especially looking at you Democrats who were supposed to be the District’s biggest supporters in statehood. Roll your sleeves up, and let’s get to work.
Yo, Rep. Wiley Nickel! You came up here from North Carolina, but decided to vote on D.C.’s local legislation. So why don’t you also come over to the alleys of Georgetown to deal with the rat problem?
Congrats on your win, Rep. Nikki Budzinski! You’ve been in D.C. but a hot minute after your election by the good people of Illinois. But a couple months after landing here, your vote tells us you’re itching to run the city. Wanna get to work on fixing those streetlights out by Bancroft Elementary School?
Hey, Rep. Greg Landsman! Look at you, coming over to the big kids’ table in Washington after starting out on the Cincinnati City Council. But you voted like you want to U-turn right back into local politics. So let’s get cracking and get yourself over to the Wilson Building to work on that upcoming electric bike rebate program.
Go for it, Washingtonians. Call these folks about your potholes, parking passes and tree trimming!
Here’s the thing.
Before D.C. finally earned Home Rule in 1973, the District was governed by one of the least glamorous, low-end committees in Congress — the District Committee. Those members complained that they didn’t work so hard to make it to a national office only to be back to a city council seat, deciding on teacher salaries and student bus fares for teachers and students they’d never met. Nobody wanted this.
“The District has been starving to death politically for 70 years,” West Virginia Sen. Matthew Neely (D) said back in 1951, when he argued to get out of local politics and grant Home Rule to D.C. It took 22 years after that for us to be free of the whims of out-of-town politicos.
Yet on the 50-year anniversary of Home Rule, we’ve come full circle, and members of Congress are weirdly clamoring to take over running the District again.
It’s a big mess that began after D.C. tried to enact the first, comprehensive revision of its creaky criminal code in 100 years.
But a 275-page, complex and nuanced piece of legislation that addressed old timey laws that addressed steamboats, outhouses and livestock riding the railroad in D.C. was chopped into sound bites and catastrophized by the folks who score cheap points anytime they can scream “But crime!”
By folks who were not elected by the people they are trying to govern.
Let’s be clear — the fight over this is not about criminal codes, carjackings or public safety. (This column isn’t about the criminal code itself, but there’s plenty of reading that will show you it’s not radical or crazy, at least 4,000 pages of commentary about the revision process will show the soundbiters that most of it simply updates D.C.’s laws to look more like those across America.)
If reducing crime is what McCarthy cared about, he’d be working on ways to stop the escalating car thefts in his hometown and the alarming crime rate in his home county. Los Angeles Times columnist Anita Chabria dove into the state’s crime data to explore why “Violent Crime is Rising in Trump’s California.” That’s McCarthy’s California. (Violent crime in D.C., despite the GOP hysterics, is actually down by 8 percent this year.)
The real crime here is that politicians did something that should be unthinkable — ignore the District’s right to home rule — in the name of political gamesmanship.
This was a natural for Republicans, who love sucking down martinis and posing at gyms in D.C.’s ever-swankier neighborhoods, then calling the District a “crime-ridden hell hole.”
But then too many Democrats — headed by the chief Dem, President Biden — joined in, frightened of appearing soft on crime by allowing a thriving, vibrant city to govern itself.
Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) said it best outside the Capitol on Wednesday, as the disastrous vote was about to go down.
“Keep your hands off D.C.,” Holmes said. “You either support D.C. home rule or you don’t. There are no exceptions. And there is no middle ground on D.C.’s right to self-government.”
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Wisconsin governor, GOP leader meet for first time in years
Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos met in person for the first time in two years Thursday, as both sides are talking more about trying to work together in the coming legislative session
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos met in person for the first time in two years Thursday as both sides are talking more about trying to work together in the coming legislative session.
Evers and Vos met privately at the governor's residence for about an hour. Evers met last week with Republican Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu.
“It is a positive sign,” Vos said Friday of the meeting. He called it a “good first step."
Vos said he and Evers had a good dialogue on a number of topics, but he declined to discuss details. Britt Cudaback, a spokesperson for Evers, also called it a good meeting but declined to provide details. Evers on Tuesday said he had a good meeting with LeMahieu, but did not provide details about what they discussed.
LeMahieu said prior to his meeting that he hoped it would be the first in a series of regular get-togethers with the governor.
Republican lawmakers were used to meeting weekly with former Republican Gov. Scott Walker. But Evers has repeatedly said he does not need to meet that frequently with GOP leaders.
“The idea that somehow we have to meet weekly to resolve the issues facing Wisconsin, you know, my job is different than their job,” Evers said Tuesday. “They have their caucus and I have the people of Wisconsin. So I’ll continue to go around the state and listen to people and they can deal with their caucuses.”
Evers and Republicans had a contentious relationship over his first term, beginning with Republicans calling a lame duck session in 2018 before he took office to pass a number of bills limiting his power. The relationship worsened over the years as Republicans fired one of his Cabinet secretaries, refused to confirm dozens of his appointees and sued Evers repeatedly over his response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Republican lawmakers were infuriated in 2020 when Evers' staff secretly recorded a meeting about pandemic response efforts.
But after Evers' reelection win in November, he and Republicans have talked more about trying to build a better working relationship over the next four years.
Vos, in an interview Thursday, said he viewed the start of the new legislative session Jan. 3 as a chance to begin anew.
“If I held every grudge in this job, I’d be a pretty lonely, sad person,” Vos said. “So I guess I’m willing to hit the reset button.”
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FORT SMITH -- The School Board on Wednesday selected Susan Krafft to fill the vacant Zone 3 position following the resignation of Dee Blackwell.
Krafft is the executive director at the Babb Center for Career Services at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith and was previously the director of leadership and education programs for the Fort Smith Regional Chamber of Commerce from August 2018 to July 2021. She is expected to be sworn in at the board's meeting Monday.
Krafft said in her application she was raised in Fort Smith and feels an obligation and responsibility to give back to the community.
"I see so many wonderful things happening that we can build on. I see negative forces that are sometimes louder than the positive ones, and I want to be a positive voice for our district. But that doesn't mean we won't have tough conversations on improvements, barriers, challenges," she said. "I am prepared for that as well."
Krafft said she's honored to have been selected out of an impressive pool of applicants.
"My involvement in the community is something I am proud of and want to continue," she said. "I think it is important for people to find what they are passionate about and use their talents and skills toward a positive impact. This is definitely that opportunity for me and I hope to make the staff, teachers, parents and students of FSPS proud."
Blackwell joined the board in March 2020 as the representative for Zone 3. She was reelected last year after the zones were redrawn. Her term was set to expire in March 2024, but she resigned in June citing family health challenges.
Blackwell submitted a video that was shown at the board's meeting on June 20 saying she appreciates the other School Board members and knows they will go forward and do great things and continue the good work of the district.
"You are truly a great district, a model district, and the best is yet to come for you guys," she said.
The district had 12 eligible applicants for the Zone 3 position, with three ineligible due to not living within the zone boundary.
The other applicants were Aimee Arzoumanian, Sandra Gray, Holly Jennings, Brittany George, Shelli Henehan, Jeffrey Shaver, Evelyn Reese, Leonnel Kouemo, Ariel Bentley, Adam Kareus and Jeremy Wann.
The School Board was originally going to select the top four applicants and have them submit video responses to a few questions to be shared to the public through the district's Facebook page, then select a School Board member Monday. However, when each board member listed their top four choices, they found Krafft was the only applicant that everyone selected.
Board members Matt Blaylock, Talicia Richardson and Sandy Dixon had Krafft as their first choice, Davin Chitwood and Dalton Person had her as their second choice and Phil Whiteaker had her as his fourth choice.
Krafft's election was approved in a 5-1 vote, with Whiteaker against. He explained he wanted to do interviews with the top four applicants before making a selection.
Superintendent Terry Morawski said the Zone 3 position is up for reelection in 2024, and Krafft will have to run if she intends to continue being a board member.
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Leaders named for key Personal Products and Experience roles; promotions announced within Law and Internal Audit
ERIE, Pa., May 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Erie Insurance (NASDAQ: ERIE) today announced a series of new senior leadership appointments and promotions within the company's Personal Products, Experience, Law and Internal Audit areas.
Jon Bloom has been named senior vice president, Personal Products, effective May 16. Bloom succeeds Ruben Fechner, who retired in December. Bloom is currently ERIE's vice president of personal auto. In his 19 years at the company, Bloom has held several other positions, including working as an actuary, finance business partner for Personal Lines and director of the Enterprise Program Management Office.
Bloom holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Penn State University and a master's degree in applied statistics from Bowling Green State University. He is a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society (FCAS), a Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU), a Certified Insurance Counselor (CIC), a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and a Chartered Financial Analyst charter holder (CFA).
Sapan Patel will return to ERIE to become senior vice president, Experience, effective May 16. Prior to departing the company for another industry leadership role in 2019, Patel served as ERIE's vice president of Customer Care Operations & Strategy. Patel's previous roles outside of ERIE have included director of operations at Firstcomp Insurance Company, consultant at Xpress Capital, director of operations/consultant at CostFirst Corp. and vice president, insurance products at Cowbell Cyber.
Patel earned a bachelor's degree in actuary science and minor in mathematics from Bradley University and an MBA in operations from the University of Scranton. He also received his CPCU designation and Six Sigma Green Belt.
Jim Nealon has been promoted to senior vice president, Law, effective May 5. Nealon's promotion follows the appointment of Brian Bolash to executive vice president at the end of 2021. As SVP, Nealon will manage the legal staff and operational needs of the Law Division.
Nealon joined ERIE in 2010 as a senior claims attorney. In 2020, he was promoted to vice president and Corporate Law Officer. Nealon graduated from the University of Scranton with a bachelor's in political science and earned his juris doctorate at The Dickinson School of Law. Prior to joining ERIE, Nealon was in private practice, where he gained extensive civil litigation experience with an emphasis on insurance litigation.
Pam Pesta, vice president and Chief Internal Audit Officer, has been promoted to a corporate officer, effective May 5.
Pesta joined the company as the Internal Audit leader in 2018. For 15 years prior to joining ERIE, she held various leadership positions at Nationwide Insurance. Prior to Nationwide, Pesta spent seven years providing finance and accounting consulting services with Navigant Consulting and Arthur Andersen. Pesta holds a bachelor's degree in finance from Youngstown State University and an MBA from The Ohio State University. She is a Certified Internal Auditor, Certified Fraud Examiner and holds a certification in Risk Management Assurance.
According to A.M. Best Company, Erie Insurance Group, based in Erie, Pennsylvania, is the 12th largest homeowners insurer, 13th largest automobile insurer and 13th largest commercial lines insurer in the United States based on direct premiums written. Founded in 1925, Erie Insurance is a Fortune 500 company and the 16th largest property/casualty insurer in the United States based on total lines net premium written. Rated A+ (Superior) by A.M. Best, ERIE has more than 6 million policies in force and operates in 12 states and the District of Columbia. News releases and more information are available on ERIE's website at www.erieinsurance.com.
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Lizzo coming to Baltimore as part of the 'Special' tour
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Lizzo is coming to Baltimore!The singer announced she is coming to newly named CFG Bank Arena on May 9, 2023, as part of the "Special" tour.Lizzo is one of many big acts performing at the newly remodeled arena, including Bruce Springsteen and blink-182.Tickets for Lizzo's show go on sale on TicketMaster at 10 a.m. Friday.
BALTIMORE —
Lizzo is coming to Baltimore!
The singer announced she is coming to newly named CFG Bank Arena on May 9, 2023, as part of the "Special" tour.
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Lizzo is one of many big acts performing at the newly remodeled arena, including Bruce Springsteen and blink-182.
Tickets for Lizzo's show go on sale on TicketMaster at 10 a.m. Friday.
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A Calhoun County jury today found that there was insufficient evidence to convict Jeffrey Jamall Briskey of three counts of capital murder.
Instead, the jury found Briskey guilty of the “lesser included” charge of “felony murder during a robbery of any degree” and “felony murder during a burglary of the 1st or 2nd degree” for the 2017 shooting deaths of Travis Frost, 73, and Joshua Dylan Moody, 23, at a house on Rabbittown Road.
The jury reached a verdict around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, approximately 4 hours after deliberation began.
A separate proceeding for sentencing will take place to determine Briskey’s sentence.
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The day's earlier story on this case follows.
Attorneys for both the state and defense delivered their respective closing arguments Wednesday morning in the murder trial of Jeffrey Jamall Briskey. Jurors began deliberations Wednesday afternoon around 3:15.
Briskey is charged with three counts of capital murder for the 2017 shooting deaths of Travis Frost, 73, and Joshua Dylan Moody, 23, of Rabbittown, a rural area of Piedmont.
On the sixth full day of a seated jury, trial proceedings came to a close and District Attorney Brian McVeigh began with the prosecution’s closing statements.
“Put your thinking caps on and listen carefully to the attorneys,” Calhoun County Judge Debra Jones told the jury, which included four alternates besides the usual 12. Of the 12, seven were women, five were men; four were Black and eight were white.
McVeigh began Wednesday by explaining to the jury which capital offenses Briskey was being charged with, and what those actually meant.
— Capital murder with a robbery — McVeigh defined robbery as theft with the use of force. If a person commits felony murder and the special circumstance of a robbery is also committed during the act, then this charge applies.
— Capital murder with a burglary — McVeigh explained that burglary is entering or remaining unlawfully inside the dwelling of another person. He said typically robbery and burglary are intertwined and “bleed into one another.”
— Capital murder involving two or more persons — Because both Frost and Moody were killed during the event, this charge applies.
McVeigh said with any capital murder charge, there must be intent to commit that crime. A person must intend to commit the burglary/robbery and the murder for that charge to apply. However, a person can infer intent. McVeigh explained that if a person shoots someone, you can infer that the person “didn’t intend good things.”
McVeigh said Briskey and co-actor Rhimington Johnson entered the home on Rabbittown road with guns drawn at 4 a.m. July 23, 2017, according to the 911 call made by Frost’s widow, Patsy Frost.
Travis Frost saw the men inside the home, and fired a shot at them. Johnson and Briskey shot back. On account of that action, McVeigh noted, if any invitation had been extended to Briskey and Johnson, that invitation was no longer valid.
During co-defendant Sicondria Carter’s testimony Tuesday, she said Briskey had been drinking the whole day prior to the murders, consuming “bottles” of alcohol. However, McVeigh pointed out during his closing arguments that Briskey could be seen just before the murders on surveillance tapes at a gas station moving naturally with no signs of intoxication.
Defense attorney Fred Lawton began his closing arguments by writing large words on a white sheet of paper at the front of the courtroom — cat litter, confusion, contradiction and compromise. During his arguments, Lawton referenced the words confusion, contradiction and compromise, and eventually explained “cat litter” as a means of characterizing the state’s evidence.
Lawton doubled down on his previous contention that the state had not presented any physical evidence in the case that directly linked Briskey to causing the deaths of Frost or Moody. Lawton discounted the prosecution’s key witnesses, claiming each had “credibility issues.”
Carter, Johnson and another witness in the case, Miles Wilson, all had reasons to give self-serving statements, according to Lawton. He said Wilson was an “admitted heroin addict” and that Johnson had been on parole the night of the murders for a prior conviction involving an assault where he had shot the victim.
Lawton said Patsy Frost did not directly identify the intruders’ race, but rather stated in the 911 call that the voices she heard “sounded black.” Lawton said Patsy did not identify Briskey until he was in court, wearing jailhouse garb and surrounded by his attorneys.
He also questioned law enforcement’s motives for not testing several items of evidentiary value. Lawton said Patsy Frost was never given a photo lineup to identify Briskey or Johnson, while other witnesses were.
“Why did they not follow regular procedure?” Lawton asked the jury. “Why did law enforcement do this if they thought Mrs. Frost could identify Jeff Briskey?”
Lawton claimed the most “important piece of evidence” in the case was not even tested — the victims’ hands for DNA or their fingernail clippings.
“Mistakes were made,” Lawton said.
Directly following Lawton’s closing statements, Assistant District Attorney Lynn Hammond took the floor with the final arguments of the prosecution.
“The defense would have you believe that there is no evidence in this case,” Hammond said.
However, there is a difference between a lack of scientific evidence, and “good ol’-fashioned police work,” Hammond said. As a society, folks get caught up with DNA and in the science of a case and often forget there are more facts that shouldn’t be ignored, according to Hammond.
To dispute Lawton’s claims that Patsy was confused or mistaken, Hammond said Patsy was calm and collected, and corrected the dispatcher on several occasions during the 911 call. Patsy told the 911 dispatcher she was not in the closet, but in her bedroom, and corrected the street address when wrongly stated by the dispatcher, Hammond said. Patsy was of a clear frame-of-mind and had the “wherewithal” to correct the dispatcher, she said.
“Let’s call this what it really is,” Hammond said. “A home invasion.”
Hammond told the jury that Patsy stated she saw two armed men, “arms outstretched with firearms,” despite Johnson’s earlier testimony that the two were armed but entered the home with the guns in their holsters.
Hammond argued that “if they thought they were invited guests, would they have gone in with their handguns?”
Testimony was given that a frightened Patsy hid in the bedroom while the intruders attacked and murdered her husband and grandson. Patsy was on the phone with 911 nearly simultaneously as the events occurred, according to McVeigh. Hammond said Patsy said that she couldn’t defend her husband, so she burned into her mind every bit of information she could about the event.
Frost was beaten in the face and head, his hyoid bone was broken and he was shot in the head and stomach, Hammond stated in her closing arguments. She said the “unfortunate fact” was that Moody brought the two men into his grandparents’ home, as Moody originally met with the men for an alleged drug deal prior to arriving at the Frost home.
“Like any grandchild, you run to your grandparents for help,” Hammond said.
After all was said and done, it took a while for the court to tell members of the jury about the particular charges they could consider when deciding whether Briskey is guilty, with Jones reading instructions in two separate hour-and-a-half long sessions. Deliberation began after that.
Pizza was ordered for the jurors around 5:30 p.m.
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These seven ladies have officially snagged their golden apples.
On Sunday, Andy Cohen announced the new cast for the rebooted season 14 of "The Real Housewives of New York City" at BravoCon 2022.
The new "RHONY" cast includes fashion blogger and Scout the City owner Sai De Silva, model and philanthropist Ubah Hassan, home renovation and design firm owner Erin Dana Lichy, fashion industry veteran Jenna Lyons, influencer and activist Lizzy Savetsky, fashion publicist Jessel Taank and brand marketing and communications professional Brynn Whitfield.
No previous "RHONY" alums are returning. Production is set to begin this fall and season 14 will premiere in 2023.
Scroll down for more info on the seven new ladies joining "RHONY."
Bravo announced in March that they were recasting the series following season 13, which starred Ramona Singer, Luann de Lesseps, Sonja Morgan, Leah McSweeney and newcomer and first Black housewife in "RHONY" history, Eboni K. Williams.
"There are thousands of stories to tell here," Cohen said at the time. "This is the most multicultural, diverse, and energetic and exciting city in America: We are searching for a multicultural group of friends who really best reflect the most exciting city in the country. We're looking for a group of women who are real friends, and who are of diverse backgrounds, races and religions."
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Bravo is also currently casting a "Real Housewives of New York City" throwback series featuring some of the most beloved NYC housewives from years past. No casting decisions have been announced yet.
MEET THE CAST
Sai De Silva is an Afro-Latina, born and raised in New York. She is the creative director of Scout the City, which originated as a passion project blog and quickly evolved into an online lifestyle destination. Scout the City chronicles Sai's adventures of chic parenting from her home in Brooklyn where she resides with husband David Craig and their two children, London and Rio.
Ubah Hassan is a Somalian model and philanthropist who moved to New York and made it her home. At a young age, Ubah fled to Kenya with her dad and brother, but later moved to Canada where she was spotted by a photographer and was subsequently signed by a modeling agency. Ubah is also an entrepreneur and the founder of UBAHHOT, a hot sauce company she built from scratch.
Erin Dana Lichy is a funny, confident and candid New Yorker, raised in Manhattan as one of five children in a close-knit Israeli family. A born go-getter, Erin became a real estate agent at 19 and owns her own home renovation and design firm, Homegirl. Erin's husband is an attorney and owner of Lichy Law. The couple share three children together and live in Tribeca. Erin is super sociable, loves being around others and is always up for a good time.
Jenna Lyons is former President and Executive Creative Director of J.Crew Group, where she was widely recognized as the creative force behind the American retail chain's phenomenal rise from floundering catalogue chain to one of the most coveted fashion brands in the US. Jenna is now Co-Founder and CEO of direct-to-consumer beauty brand, LoveSeen, and resides in New York City with her son Beckett.
Lizzy Savetsky is a digital influencer, activist, mom of three and wife to plastic surgeon Dr. Ira Savetsky. Originally from Fort Worth, Texas, Savetsky moved to New York for college and, after a brief stint back in her home state, returned to the Big Apple. Lizzy uses her platform to express her style, educate others on her deep-rooted beliefs and hosts Instagram show "Bashert," where she is setting out to help Jewish singles find love.
Jessel Taank is an outgoing and unreserved fashion publicist and brand consultant, known for thinking outside the box. Jessel, who is of British-Indian descent, met her husband, financier Pavit Randhawa, after they were introduced by a friend at a bar. Romance didn't spark immediately and they remained close friends for years before they began to date. The two married in Mexico in 2014 and have twin boys.
Brynn Whitfield is a brand marketing and communications professional. A cheeky "trophy wife in training," Brynn has a penchant for interior design, fashion and hosting dinner parties from her (small but mighty) West Village apartment. Originally from a small town in the Midwest, Brynn was raised by her grandmother who taught her invaluable lessons about navigating life, owning her narrative as a bi-racial woman and the true meaning of hard work.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Cryptocurrency company Circle said Thursday that it will start issuing its first euro-denominated cryptocurrency, a stablecoin known as Euro Coin, later this month.
It would be the first stablecoin in euros — the world’s second-most-important reserve currency after the U.S. dollar — backed by a large player in the industry and could potentially become a major conduit for moving cryptocurrencies throughout Europe.
The stablecoin, meaning it’s backed by hard assets, is launching at a time of major declines in the value of cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, which has led crypto firms to fail and erase billions of dollars of digital wealth. That has led to calls for government regulation, which the European Union is getting close to approving.
Circle owns and operates USD Coin, the second-most-popular stablecoin in the industry, with more than $54 billion sitting in that coin. The most popular is Tether, which has a market capitalization over $70 billion.
Stablecoins have become an increasingly important part of the cryptocurrency market, acting as a bridge between traditional financial services like banks and those who want to invest or lend in bitcoin or ethereum. They are typically backed by hard assets, like cash, gold or safe government bonds and are typically priced as one coin for one unit of a particular type of currency.
USDC is backed 1-for-1 by cash and short-term Treasurys. The new Euro Coin will be backed entirely by euros held in euro-denominated bank accounts, Circle said.
The company is launching Euro Coin amid turmoil for cryptocurrencies. The third-largest stablecoin, Terra, collapsed in May in a matter of days. Terra was not backed by hard assets, like Tether or USDC are, and instead relied on an algorithm to keep its $1 value in check.
The firm Celsius, with more than $10 billion in deposits, effectively failed this week, and customer deposits have been locked up in the company’s accounts with no timetable on when, or if, customers will get their funds back.
Circle’s USDC has been a popular place for cryptocurrency investors to move their investments during the turmoil. The total number of USDC in circulation has increased from $49 billion at the beginning of May to more than $54 billion as of this week, according to Coinmarketcap.com. In the same time, Tether’s circulation has declined from $83 billion to roughly $71.5 billion.
“This is actually, in some ways, it’s a great time to be launching products,” Jeremy Allaire, the CEO and co-founder of Circle, said in an interview. “The market turmoil has been a really positive catalyst for USDC. It has been the flight to safety for crypto.”
Circle’s Euro Coin will be tradeable on some of major crypto exchanges, including Binance, starting on June 30.
The European Union has been working on regulations for cryptocurrencies and other crypto assets like stablecoins.
The bloc’s commissioner for financial services and stability, Mairead McGuinness, said Wednesday that the Terra crash and Celsius’ problems highlighted the need for crypto rules.
They’re also necessary to help enforce Western sanctions on Russia amid worries that cryptocurrencies could be used to evade them, she said.
The EU rules “will be the right tool to address the concerns on consumer protection, market integrity and financial stability,” she said.
The regulations include measures to tackle market manipulation and prevent money laundering, terrorist financing and other criminal activities. They also contain requirements to clearly spell out the risks and costs for consumers.
EU lawmakers have drafted proposed legislation that needs agreement from the bloc’s Parliament and 27 member countries, which is expected soon.
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AP Business Writer Kelvin Chan in London contributed to this report.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Razorback game week is here and that means lots of Hog fans near and far will be making their way to Fayetteville for Saturday’s season opener.
Razorbacks shops, hotels, restaurants and everything in between see a big boom in business once football season starts and this year is no exception.
“It’s off the hook crazy. Razorback fans are stoked, and it all starts Saturday,” said Robert Mann.
Robert Mann owns the Stadium Shoppe on Razorback. They sell any and everything Razorbacks. He says they’ve already seen the hype for football season.
“Last year we had record sales. Football was good, basketball, you know, we got really good there towards the end. Baseball went to Omaha, we had a really good sports season last year. This year’s football team looks like it’s going to be better,” he said.
Football season brings in the most people, which Mann says leads to the most sales.
“Last year we had some issues with the supply chain. This year my wife and I, my son, we sat down with our vendors and we ordered a ton of stuff, so we won’t run out of product this year like we did last year,” he said.
President and CEO of the Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce, Steve Clark says football season as a whole has a huge economic impact.
“We estimate that every person who comes to town to see the football games is going to spend $120 to $140 dollars per person. So, when you drive into that city limits… cha-ching, you know,” he said.
This football season, there will be six games played at Razorback Stadium since none will be played in Little Rock. So, this means there is an extra weekend that Hog fans will flock to Fayetteville. Clark says besides the direct economic impact, people are coming to our area for the first time which is a chance to try and attract them to move here.
“Getting them here is a chance to attract them to bring their business here or bring a portion of their business here and we see that happening. So, one more game, it’s just one more opportunity. And of course, we’ve got a really great home schedule, we play some powerhouse teams. It’s going to draw record crowds,” he said.
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KINGSTON — Facing millions in needed repairs and improvement — $3 million a year for 10 years, according to a consultant’s recommendation — the Wyoming Valley West School Board came to a consensus during a special work session Monday afternoon that a 2.5% tax increase should be put into the 2023-24 final budget.
At last week’s regular meeting, the agenda had included a final budget with no tax hike, but vice president Paul Keating urged that motion be tabled pending a report from SitelogIQ, which has been reviewing district facilities and prioritizing potential repairs. At Monday’s meeting, Keating gave some more details and urged some sort of tax increase to address the issue.
Keating said the final budget spending of $104.68 million includes substantial use of federal COVID-19 pandemic relief money, and that once those grants are spent the rest of the budget will be about $88 million. He noted the board has fixed what had been annual structural deficits, partly by closing the Schuyler Avenue Elementary building, and that the board could now pass a budget with no tax increase that would meet operating costs.
“We’ve solved our operating budget problem, but if we leave it at that we’ve done absolutely nothing for repairs and upgrades,” Keating said. The good news: the district has built up a fund balance of $5 million and two capitol bank accounts with about $2.7 million. But the state recommends school districts have a fund balance of about 8% of the total budget, so WVW is still several million short of having the advised reserves. And the money in the capitol accounts wouldn’t be enough to address even the most immediate work recommended by SitelogIQ.
“Some of these buildings are actually crumbling,” Keating said. While he would “never recommend” raising property taxes by the maximum allowed by state law — 5.9% this year — he believes a more modest raise would be wise. He suggested a 2.5% increase would raise about $779,388 in extra revenue. The millage would rise from 18.03 to 18.48075. A mill is a $1 tax for every $1,000 of assessed property value, and for the average property owner in the district a 2.5% increase would mean paying about $42 more per year.
Keating said the district must continue to look for places to cut spending, but that there weren’t a lot of options left. He also said the district could try to refinance existing debt to lower annual debt service payment, but that current rates are not favorable for such an effort.
With two members absent and one participating via phone, Board President Rick Kamus polled the board and all of those present said they didn’t like to raise taxes but that it does seem necessary for school repairs and maintenance. Board Member William Hardwick suggested the board consider bumping the increase up slightly, to 3%, because the need for capitol spending is so great.
Kamus said he would like the change to the budget to be advertised and posted on the website, even though there is no legal requirement to advertise changes between approving a proposed budget and a final budget. The board plans to set a special meeting for June 30 to vote on the final budget. State law requires school boards to approve final budgets by the last day of June.
Asked about the likely time of the meeting, Kamus said he will be out of town and participating via phone, so the time would be determined by Keating. Keating said he had to check his schedule but believes it could be held “mid-morning,” either 10 or 11 a.m.
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Hormel Foods announces free college tuition for team members
(ABC 6 News) – Hormel Foods announced a new opportunity open to eligible team members in the United States to earn their degree or complete non-degree programs for free.
Hormel Foods is partnering with Workforce Edge, a complete employee education management platform powered by Strategic Education, Inc., on this benefits expansion. This program is part of the extensive educational benefits offered to team members, including its tuition reimbursement program, which has allowed Hormel Foods team members in the United States to continue their education after joining the company.
This new program, which is open to all full-time Hormel Foods team members in the United States, provides them the opportunity to receive a company-funded associates, bachelor’s and master’s degree with Capella University and Strayer University, as well as discounts on tuition at hundreds of well-known colleges and universities throughout the United States.
The program offers a wide variety of educational opportunities in various fields of study including science, technology, engineering, math, business, fine and liberal arts, psychology, criminal justice and legal, including bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral programs.
The program also includes access to 50 + general education-level courses through Sophia Learning, which are ACE recommended for college credit and are designed to be transferred to many colleges and universities.
“Hormel Foods has long supported education as an important investment in our people,” said Katie Larson, senior vice president of human resources at Hormel Foods. “Our team members are the most important part of our company, and we are excited to be able to offer them even greater access to education. It’s an opportunity for us to continue to make a real difference and further invest in the lives and careers of our people.”
Through its Inspired Pathways program, the company provides community-college tuition while also furnishing free one-on-one college advising, financial aid support and career development opportunities. More than 1,200 students have utilized these benefits since the program’s inception in August 2020.
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Topics Include How to Overcome the Challenges of Reaching Large Patient Populations with Cell & Gene Therapies and Best Practices for Working with CDMOs
NEWARK, N.J., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BioCentriq, Inc.—a New Jersey-based, full-service, concept-to-clinic contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO)—announced today that two key members of its team will be featured panelists at the Cell & Gene Therapy Manufacturing & Commercialization US Conference, which takes place during Biotech Week in Boston on September 27-30, 2022.
The conference will bring together thought leaders from across the industry to provide specialized insight for companies looking to improve their manufacturing efficiency, cost, and quality by exploring different ways to accelerate bioprocessing, analytics, supply chain security, and commercialization strategies.
BioCentriq's Acting Head of Research & Development and Director of Manufacturing Science & Technology, Alex Klarer, will be participating in the plenary panel discussion, "Beyond Rare Diseases - Overcoming the Challenges of Expanding to Larger Patient Populations with Cell and Gene Therapies," which will be held on Wednesday, September 28 from 8:40am - 9:20am.
One of the panel's main goals will be to discuss how new technologies, manufacturing scalability, and process optimization can be utilized to reach larger patient populations. The panel will be moderated by Shashi Murthy, CTO and Co-Founder of Nanite, Inc., and fellow panelists include Armon Sharei, CEO & founder of SQZ Biotechnologies, USA and Stephane Berthier, VP and General Manager of Atara Biotherapeutics.
BioCentriq's Director of Business Development, Chathuranga DeSilva, Ph.D., will also be a panelist for the discussion on "Relationship Management - Best Practices for Working with CDMO and Suppliers," as part of the Cell & Gene Therapy – Partnering Track on Friday, September 30 from 2:00pm - 2:45pm.
"I'm thrilled to participate in this panel. As more therapy developers rely on CDMOs to manufacture their cell & gene therapies, it is important to discuss best practices, lessons learned, and future strategies so we can continuously improve outcomes. This will also help manage expectations for companies looking to tackle complex therapies and set realistic goals for their projects," said Chathuranga DeSilva, Ph.D.
The discussion will be about understanding CDMO capacities, timelines, and capabilities, as well as selection and qualification criteria and quality agreements with contract service providers and suppliers. The panel will also discuss setting expectations for tech transfers and strategies for transferring products from early development phase to CDMO for scale up and large-scale production. As part of this session, audience members will learn how to transfer their technologies to CDMOs and how to overcome the challenges associated with process technology differences. Other BioCentriq team members will also be in attendance and are available to meet with you to answer questions and discuss your project. Please click here to schedule a time to speak with our team members.
BioCentriq is a full-service, New Jersey-based CDMO for cell and gene therapy, focusing on all stages of process development and clinical manufacturing. The company specializes in autologous and allogeneic cell therapies as well as viral vector process development and manufacturing and has expertise in a variety of cell and vector types. For more information, visit BioCentriq.com.
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PALO ALTO, Calif., May 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Kodiak Sciences Inc. (Nasdaq: KOD), a biopharmaceutical company committed to researching, developing and commercializing transformative therapeutics to treat high prevalence retinal diseases, today reported business highlights and financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2023.
"We are on the cusp of four Phase 3 study readouts in major indications, starting with results of our GLEAM, GLIMMER and DAYLIGHT studies expected in July and our GLOW study in September. Following our successful pivotal study readout in retinal vein occlusion last year, we look forward to unmasking the primary endpoint data in these next four studies shortly," said Victor Perlroth, MD, Chief Executive Officer of Kodiak Sciences. "Our regulatory strategy for tarcocimab tedromer is built on meeting the primary endpoint in two studies in diabetic eye disease (our GLEAM and GLIMMER studies in diabetic macular edema) and then meeting the primary endpoint in a single study in each of the other major retinal vascular diseases."
Dr. Perlroth continued, "Durability clearly matters to the community of retina patients, physicians and payers, and especially so in diabetic eye disease where many patients are working age and require good vision to maintain their livelihood. One third of anti-VEGF treated diabetic patients discontinue treatment each year, and so the promise of the anti-VEGF mechanism is not realized. Three out of our four ongoing Phase 3 studies of tarcocimab tedromer (tarcocimab, KSI-301) are in diabetic eye disease and are exploring 6-month dosing, the longest treatment interval that has been studied by any intravitreal biologic. If successful, we believe tarcocimab can be an important medicine for the 37 million people living with diabetes in the U.S. who are at risk of developing diabetic eye disease and losing vision."
Recent Business Highlights
- Tarcocimab pivotal program: We continued our ongoing Phase 3 studies of tarcocimab towards their primary endpoint readouts. The tarcocimab clinical program explores the potential for 6-month durability in patients with diabetic eye disease through the GLEAM and GLIMMER Phase 3 studies in diabetic macular edema ("DME") and the GLOW Phase 3 study in non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy ("NPDR") without DME. The tarcocimab clinical program is also exploring the product's durability, efficacy and safety in retinal vein occlusion ("RVO") via the BEACON Phase 3 study and in wet age-related macular degeneration ("wet AMD") via the ongoing DAYLIGHT Phase 3 study. The BEACON study met its primary endpoint in 2022, and we expect to announce topline data for the four ongoing Phase 3 clinical studies in the third quarter of 2023. If successful, we expect to file a single Biologics Licensing Applications ("BLA") for tarcocimab in the four major retinal vascular disease indications, with the potential for flexible dosing regimens from every month to every 6 months.
- Clinical pipeline expansion: We expanded our development pipeline with the dosing of patients in the Phase 1 study of KSI-501, a first-in-class bispecific ABC designed to inhibit both VEGF-mediated angiogenesis and vascular permeability and IL-6-mediated inflammation. The Phase 1 study is an open-label, multiple ascending dose study and is initially enrolling patients with DME. The primary objectives of the Phase 1 study are to evaluate ocular and systemic safety, to establish a maximum tolerated dose and to explore bioactivity of KSI-501.
- Recent scientific presentations: We shared scientific presentations on our clinical and research pipeline programs at the ARVO 2023 Annual Meeting in April, including presentations on tarcocimab's nonclinical pharmacokinetics, distribution and excretion, and on KSI-501's molecular and biological characterization.
- Commercial Manufacturing: Our custom-built commercial scale manufacturing facility, Ursus, was commissioned as a cGMP facility in January 2023, and we began the manufacturing of commercial scale cGMP batches in the first quarter of 2023.
Expected Upcoming Events/Milestones
- Announce topline data for ongoing Phase 3 pivotal studies of tarcocimab:
First Quarter 2023 Financial Results
Cash Position
Kodiak ended the first quarter of 2023 with $421.2 million of cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities.
Net Loss
The net loss for the first quarter of 2023 was $70.8 million, or $1.35 per share on both a basic and diluted basis, as compared to a net loss of $95.7 million, or $1.83 per share on both a basic and diluted basis, for the first quarter of 2022. The net loss for the quarter ended March 31, 2023 included non-cash stock-based compensation of $26.0 million, as compared to $28.1 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2022.
R&D Expenses
Research and development (R&D) expenses were $56.5 million for the first quarter of 2023, as compared to $76.2 million for the first quarter of 2022. The R&D expenses for the first quarter of 2023 included non-cash stock-based compensation of $14.7 million, as compared to $16.0 million for the first quarter of 2022. The decrease in R&D expenses for the first quarter of 2023 was primarily driven by the maturation of the tarcocimab clinical program and the timing of manufacturing activities.
G&A Expenses
General and administrative (G&A) expenses were $18.1 million for the first quarter of 2023, as compared to $19.6 million for the first quarter of 2022. The G&A expenses for the first quarter of 2023 included non-cash stock-based compensation of $11.3 million, as compared to $12.1 million for the first quarter of 2022.
About tarcocimab tedromer (tarcocimab, KSI-301)
Tarcocimab is an investigational anti-VEGF therapy built on Kodiak's Antibody Biopolymer Conjugate ("ABC") Platform and is designed to maintain potent and effective drug levels in ocular tissues for longer than existing available agents. Kodiak's objective with tarcocimab is to enable earlier treatment and prevention of vision loss for patients with diabetic eye disease and to develop a new durability agent to improve outcomes for patients with retinal vascular diseases as a whole. The tarcocimab clinical program is designed to explore 6-month durability in patients with diabetic eye disease through the GLEAM and GLIMMER Phase 3 studies in diabetic macular edema ("DME") and the GLOW Phase 3 study in non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy ("NPDR") without DME. The tarcocimab clinical program is also exploring the product's durability, efficacy and safety in retinal vein occlusion ("RVO") via the BEACON Phase 3 study and in wet age-related macular degeneration ("wet AMD") via the DAYLIGHT Phase 3 study. The BEACON study met its primary endpoint in 2022, and four Phase 3 clinical studies are expected to announce topline data in 3Q2023. If successful, Kodiak plans to file a single Biologics Licensing Applications ("BLA") for tarcocimab in the four major retinal vascular disease indications. The global tarcocimab clinical program is being conducted at 150+ study sites in more than 10 countries. Kodiak is developing and owns global rights to tarcocimab.
About the GLEAM and GLIMMER Studies
The Phase 3 GLEAM and GLIMMER studies are global, multi-center, randomized pivotal studies designed to evaluate the durability, efficacy and safety of tarcocimab in patients with treatment-naïve diabetic macular edema ("DME"). In each study, patients are randomized 1:1 to receive either tarcocimab or aflibercept. The tarcocimab arm is treated with a proactive, individualized dosing regimen of every 8-, 12-, 16-, 20- or 24 weeks after three monthly loading doses. The aflibercept arm is treated with a fixed dosing regimen of every 8-weeks after five monthly loading doses, per its label. The primary endpoint for both studies is at year one. We expect to announce topline data from GLEAM and GLIMMER in July 2023. If successful, we expect that data from our GLEAM and GLIMMER studies will serve as the primary basis for regulatory approval of tarcocimab. Additional information about GLEAM (also called Study KS301P104) and GLIMMER (also called Study KS301P105) can be found on www.clinicaltrials.gov under Trial Identifiers NCT04611152 and NCT04603937, respectively (https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04611152 and https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04603937).
About the GLOW Study
The Phase 3 GLOW study is a global, multi-center, randomized pivotal superiority study designed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of tarcocimab in treatment-naïve patients with moderately severe to severe non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy ("NPDR"). Patients are randomized to receive either tarcocimab every six months after initiating doses given at baseline, 8 weeks and 20 weeks into the study, or to receive sham injections. The primary endpoint is at one year. Outcomes include changes in diabetic retinopathy severity, measured on a standardized photographic grading scale, and the rate of development of sight-threatening complications due to diabetic retinopathy. We believe tarcocimab has the potential to be the longest-interval intravitreal therapeutic option for patients with diabetic retinopathy. We expect to announce topline data from GLOW in September 2023. If successful, results from the study are intended to serve as the basis for the potential approval of tarcocimab in NPDR. Additional information about GLOW (also called Study KS301P106) can be found on www.clinicaltrials.gov under Trial Identifier NCT05066230 (https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT05066230).
About the DAYLIGHT Study
The Phase 3 DAYLIGHT study is a global, multi-center, randomized pivotal study designed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of high-frequency tarcocimab in patients with treatment-naïve wet age-related macular degeneration (wet "AMD"). Patients are randomized to receive either tarcocimab on a monthly dosing regimen or to receive standard-of-care aflibercept on a fixed dosing regimen of every 8-weeks after three monthly loading doses per its label. The primary endpoint is at year one. The DAYLIGHT study is intended to evaluate the safety and efficacy of tarcocimab in treating high need patients with wet AMD. We expect to announce topline data from DAYLIGHT in July 2023. If successful, results from the study are intended to serve as the basis for the potential approval of tarcocimab in wet AMD. Additional information about DAYLIGHT (also called Study KS301P107) can be found on www.clinicaltrials.gov under Trial Identifier NCT04964089 (https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT04964089).
About the BEACON Study
In the Phase 3 BEACON study, tarcocimab dosed every two months met the primary endpoint of non-inferior visual acuity gains compared to aflibercept dosed every month in patients with macular edema due to retinal vein occlusion ("RVO"). Tarcocimab is the first anti-VEGF therapy to achieve non-inferiority in visual acuity gains while doubling the treatment interval in patients with RVO. The BEACON study is a global, multi-center, randomized study designed to evaluate the durability, efficacy and safety of tarcocimab in 568 patients with treatment-naïve macular edema due to RVO, including both branch and central subtypes. Patients were randomized 1:1 to receive tarcocimab 5 mg or aflibercept 2 mg. Patients who received tarcocimab were treated with a proactive, fixed regimen which included two monthly loading doses followed by treatment every 8 weeks, and patients receiving aflibercept were treated monthly as per its label. In the study, tarcocimab was well tolerated with a low rate of intraocular inflammation and no new or unexpected safety signals. Results from the BEACON study are intended to serve as the basis for the potential approval of tarcocimab in RVO. Additional information about the BEACON study (also called Study KS301P103) can be found on www.clinicaltrials.gov under Trial Identifier NCT04592419 (https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT04592419).
About Ursus
Ursus is a commercial scale manufacturing facility dedicated to the manufacture of Kodiak's Antibody Biopolymer Conjugate ("ABC") medicines. Ursus was designed, built and commissioned in collaboration with Kodiak's long-term CDMO partner Lonza and is located in the IBEX Biopark of Lonza AG in Visp, Switzerland. Ursus is custom designed to fulfill the requirement of premium manufacturing of complex antibody conjugate biotherapeutics and is expected to have the capacity to supply over 10 million dose equivalents annually. Ursus achieved mechanical completion in the first half of 2022 and was commissioned as a cGMP facility in January 2023. Kodiak began the manufacturing of commercial scale cGMP batches in Ursus in the first quarter of 2023.
About KSI-501
Also built on Kodiak's ABC Platform, KSI-501 is an investigational, first-in-class bispecific ABC designed to inhibit two mechanisms implicated in retinal diseases: vascular endothelial growth factor ("VEGF") and interleukin-6 (IL-6). IL-6 is a pro-inflammatory cytokine and growth factor implicated in the pathophysiology of multiple retinal diseases and, in conditions for which anti-VEGF treatment is used, elevated levels of ocular IL-6 have been associated with poor anti-VEGF treatment response. KSI-501 is a trap-antibody fusion biopolymer conjugate designed to provide potent inhibition of (i) VEGF-mediated angiogenesis and vascular permeability through a soluble decoy receptor inhibiting the binding of VEGF-A and PLGF to their cognate receptors and (ii) IL-6 mediated inflammation through an antibody that binds soluble interleukin-6, inhibiting its binding to both soluble and membrane-bound IL-6 receptors. In cell-based assays, KSI-501 inhibits angiogenesis and also normalizes inner and outer blood retinal barriers; dual inhibition of VEGF and IL-6 by KSI-501 confers superior normalization of cell morphology and junctional biology compared to either anti-VEGF or anti-IL-6 monotherapy. We believe KSI-501 has the potential to become a new category of retinal medicines with greater therapeutic efficacy than existing therapies while also benefiting from the promising long-interval durability of Kodiak's ABC Platform. A Phase 1 study of KSI-501 is currently dosing patients in the United States to evaluate the safety, tolerability and bioactivity of KSI-501 in DME patients.
About Kodiak Sciences Inc.
Kodiak (Nasdaq: KOD) is a biopharmaceutical company committed to researching, developing and commercializing transformative therapeutics to treat high prevalence retinal diseases. We are focused on bringing new science to the design and manufacture of next generation retinal medicines to prevent and treat the leading causes of blindness globally. Our antibody biopolymer conjugate platform, or ABC Platform™, uses molecular engineering to merge the fields of antibody-based and chemistry-based therapies and is at the core of Kodiak's discovery engine. Kodiak's lead investigational medicine, tarcocimab tedromer, is a novel anti-VEGF antibody biopolymer conjugate being developed for the treatment of retinal vascular diseases including diabetic eye disease, the leading cause of blindness in working-age patients in the developed world, and wet age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in elderly patients in the developed world. The tarcocimab clinical program is designed to assess the product candidate's durability, efficacy and safety in major retinal vascular diseases in parallel, through the GLEAM and GLIMMER studies in diabetic macular edema, the BEACON study in retinal vein occlusion, the GLOW study in non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy and the DAYLIGHT study in wet age-related macular degeneration. Phase 3 data across the tarcocimab clinical program are expected in 3Q2023. Kodiak has leveraged its ABC Platform to build a pipeline of product candidates in various stages of development. KSI-501 is our dual inhibitor antibody biopolymer conjugate targeting both VEGF (VEGF-trap) and IL-6 (anti-IL-6 antibody) and is being investigated in a Phase 1 clinical study initially in patients with diabetic macular edema. We are expanding our early research pipeline to include ABC Platform based triplet inhibitors for multifactorial diseases. Kodiak is based in Palo Alto, CA. For more information, please visit www.kodiak.com.
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Forward-Looking Statements
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WASHINGTON – WNBA star Brittney Griner has begun serving her nine-year sentence for drug possession at a Russian penal colony, her lawyers and agent said Thursday.
Griner was transferred to a penal colony in Mordovia, about 350 kilometers (210 miles) east of Moscow, after a Russian court last month rejected her appeal of her sentence.
Her lawyers said they visited her earlier this week.
“Brittney is doing as well as could be expected and trying to stay strong as she adapts to a new environment,” her lawyers said in a statement.
The all-star center with the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury and two-time Olympic gold was detained in February when customs agents said they found vape canisters containing cannabis oil in her luggage at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport.
At her trial, Griner admitted to having the canisters in her luggage but testified she packed them inadvertently in her haste to make her flight and had no criminal intent. Her defense team presented written statements saying she had been prescribed cannabis to treat chronic pain.
She was convicted in August and sentenced to nine years in prison.
The Biden administration has been trying for months to negotiate the release of Griner and another American jailed in Russia, Michigan corporate security executive Paul Whelan, including through a possible prisoner swap with Moscow. Whelan was also sent to a penal colony in Mordovia after being convicted of espionage-related charges in 2020 and sentenced to 16 years in prison.
President Joe Biden told reporters last week that he hopes Russian President Vladimir Putin will be more willing to negotiate the release of Griner now that the U.S. midterm elections are over.
“My hope is that now that the election is over, that Mr. Putin will be able to discuss with us and be willing to talk more seriously about a prisoner exchange,” Biden said.
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Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation announces a new mobile recreation unit called Park & Play will bring free fun to neighborhood parks beginning on Monday, June 12 and continue through July 28.
Park & Play staff will bring fun and games for youth ages 5 and up. Morning and afternoon sessions will include a selection of sports, games, arts and crafts, fitness, nature and outdoor educational activities.
Superintendent of Recreation Patti Davis remarks “Park & Play is a blast from the past!” She continues “When I began with Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation, the Funmobile was a very popular program. We’re working to build Park & Play into a strong program that will supplement summer activities for youth in neighborhood parks.”
Park & Play is planned rain or shine unless severe weather occurs.
The schedule in June includes the following times and locations:
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These portable controlled environment farms offer an ingenious way for communities to grow ultra-clean and healthy food right where it is needed
CORONA, Calif., Nov. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Advanced Container Technologies, Inc (Ticker: ACTX), said that GrowPods – the company's unique Controlled Environment Farms – can help eliminate food deserts across the nation.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, in urban areas, a food desert is an area with no ready access to a store with fresh and nutritious food options within one mile. In rural America, a food desert is defined as 10 miles or more from the nearest market."
Unfortunately, food deserts are not few and far between. It's estimated there are more than 23 million people, more than half of them low-income, living in food deserts.
"Lack of access to healthy foods and consequent poor diet leads to higher levels of obesity and chronic conditions like diabetes and heart disease," Newsweek reported. It's not that food is not available, it's that healthy choices are scarce. "It's about overwhelming access to really-bad-for-you foods," says Mark Swanson, a social anthropologist at the University of Kentucky. "People tend to buy and eat what's available."
ACTX wants to change that. The company's GrowPods can produce about an acre of food in a transportable, scalable, automated system that yields ultra-clean crops, year-round, virtually anywhere.
GrowPods can be placed right in the middle of a food desert and provide a steady stream of healthy produce, year round.
There is often funding available from the USDA, faith-based groups, non-profit organizations, and local businesses.
According to The Guardian, communities across the US are using federal stimulus money to bring grocery stores and healthy food to food deserts, as the pandemic and rising costs put nutrition further out of reach for many.
In Toledo, Ohio, for example, local activists have urged the city to use $1m of the federal infrastructure funds to help attract healthy food to a low-income neighborhood.
Doug Heldoorn, CEO of ACTX, said GrowPods allow communities to grow fresh food locally, right where it's needed.
"GrowPods allow communities to cultivate ultra-healthy food, year-round," he said. "These highly-efficient systems are simple to operate and offer a real chance at improving health in hard-hit areas."
For information on GrowPods, call (951) 381-2555 or visit: www.AdvancedContainerTechnologies.com
This release contains forward-looking statements made under the "safe harbor" provisions of U.S. Securities Acts. Forward-Looking Statements involve risks and uncertainties, and actual results can differ. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. ACTX undertakes no duty to update information in this release except as required.
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Seaside Police joins Lights On program
SEASIDE, Calif. (KION-TV)- On Thursday afternoon, Seaside Police announced that they have joined the Lights On program.
Seaside Police said that the goal of the program is to give residents vouchers instead of tickets for vehicle light equipment issues.
The recipients can then redeem those vouchers for free repairs at any participating auto service provider.
Auto shops get reimbursed by emailing the invoices to the Lights On program. They will receive those reimbursement funds within a week.
According to Seaside Police, the program will go live in the very near future.
Currently, there are two participating auto shops that are participating in the program. Those shops are
Lavender Brothers Automotive located at 1965 Del Monte Blvd in Seaside.
Automotive Service Center of Seaside located at 1624 Del Monte Blvd in Seaside.
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More than 600 fake championship rings for professional and collegiate sports were confiscated by law enforcement agents last week during a raid of a South Carolina memorabilia store, officials said.
The haul seized from Kirk’s Collectibles had an estimated retail value of about $15 million and included phony rings for the Super Bowl, NBA Finals, World Series, Stanley Cup and unnamed NCAA sports, according to Shannon Wiley, a spokesperson for the South Carolina Secretary of State.
No arrests have been made in an investigation being conducted by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and no information has been provided about possible suspects.
“Whether it’s a fan losing their hard-earned money on a fake item they were led to believe was authentic, or small businesses losing vital sales, intellectual property theft is a real crime with real victims and real financial impacts,” said Ronnie Martinez, a special agent with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s investigative arm in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Federal, state and local officials raided Kirk’s Collectibles at an upstate mall on Feb. 8. The hoard includes 157 Super Bowl rings, 83 NBA Finals rings, 99 World Series rings, 29 Stanley Cup rings and 251 NCAA championship rings for unnamed sports, Wiley said. The shop also sells nonsports memorabilia, according to its website.
The confiscation is the highest-value seizure in the Secretary of State’s office’s history.
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Award Will Grant $100,000 Annually to Food System Changemakers in Honor of Plant-Based Visionary Greg Steltenpohl's Lifelong Mission
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Greg Steltenpohl Pragmatic Visionary Award, honoring natural products pioneer and plant-based visionary Greg Steltenpohl, is officially accepting entries for its first annual $100,000 grant for early-stage ventures in the food space. The founder of Odwalla and Califia Farms, who died in March 2021, devoted his life to changing the food system through business.
Each year, The Greg Steltenpohl Pragmatic Visionary Award will present a $100,000 annual prize to an early-stage food venture to enable or expand the accomplishments, reach and impact of their work. Interested entrepreneurs can submit their applications at pragmaticvisionaryaward.org. The deadline is November 30, 2022. Innovations in any capacity of the food system from "soil to soul" are eligible. Alongside the merit of the team and its strategy, plant-centric initiatives will be evaluated for their embodiment of four core entrepreneurial principles that Greg championed throughout his career: systems entrepreneurship, pragmatic vision, ethical leadership, and creative transformation.
"Our industry and world are better off because of Greg, and this Award seeks to encourage and support innovators, entrepreneurs, and change makers creating the more positive, plant-centric food system he dedicated his life to building," said Gary Hirshberg, co-founder of Stonyfield and a 30-year friend.
The Award will be presented annually in March at Natural Products Expo West and is hosted in collaboration with the Plant Futures Initiative, Greg's last entrepreneurial collaboration before his death. The Plant Futures Initiative is a non-profit social venture that connects college and graduate students with experiential learning opportunities with a network of innovative food and agricultural enterprises. It is dedicated to accelerating transitions to sustainable and healthy food systems and growing the future leadership needed to guide the way. Grant recipients will participate in a documentary case study to share and inspire others to implement ways of transforming the world of entrepreneurship, capitalism and culture.
For information on the award visit PragmaticVisionaryAward.org and PlantFuturesInitiative.org
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived at the White House on Wednesday afternoon, greeted by President Biden and first lady Jill Biden for the start of an unprecedented first trip to Washington since the Russia war began.
Zelensky pulled up in a black SUV, featuring an American flag and a Ukrainian flag, that let him out on the South Lawn entrance.
The Ukrainian president, who was wearing his signature green long-sleeve sweater, shook hands with the Bidens, and the three stood for a photograph for a few seconds in front of the South Lawn entrance. They then turned and entered the White House, where the president put his arm on Zelensky’s shoulder.
Upon entrance to the Oval Office, President Biden told Zelensky, “I’m delighted you could make the trip.”
During remarks at the top of a bilateral meeting between the two leaders, President Biden addressed Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying he was “escalating his assault on civilians” and that he was trying to “use winter as a weapon.”
Zelensky, who said he wanted to come to the U.S. sooner, said he offered “all my appreciations from my heart and from the heart of all Ukrainians.” He also thanked the president, Congress and “ordinary people” for the support from the U.S. toward Ukraine.
Zelensky then presented President Biden with a medal given to him from a Ukrainian soldier.
The bilateral meeting is expected to last for two hours and will be followed by a joint press conference at 4:30 p.m.
The White House notified reporters that Zelensky landed in the U.S. around 1 p.m.
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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
Moose Jaw 8 Victoria 3
Regina 6 Kelowna 5 (OT)
Wednesday's results
Saskatoon 5 Edmonton 1
Moose Jaw 5 Vancouver 4 (OT)
Seattle 3 Portland 1
Kamloops 9 Regina 3
Friday's results
Prince Albert at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Swift Current at Winnipeg, 7:05 p.m.
Saskatoon at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Calgary, 7 p.m.
Regina at Prince George, 7 p.m.
Victoria at Portland, 7 p.m.
Vancouver at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Lethbridge at Tri-City, 7:05 p.m.
Kelowna at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.
Saturday's games
Swift Current at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Prince Albert at Winnipeg, 7:05 p.m.
Moose Jaw at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Saskatoon at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Victoria at Seattle, 6:05 p.m.
Portland at Everett, 6:05 p.m.
Kelowna at Tri-City, 6:05 p.m.
Kamloops at Vancouver, 7 p.m.
Lethbridge at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.
Sunday's games
Moose Jaw at Calgary, 2 p.m.
Regina at Edmonton, 4 p.m.
Prince George at Vancouver, 4 p.m.
Kelowna at Everett, 4:05 p.m.
Tuesday's games
Brandon at Saskatoon, 7 p.m.
Swift Current at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Edmonton, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.
Kamloops at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.
Prince George at Everett, 7:05 p.m.
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Airport authorities find cocaine stashed in wheelchair… again
BALTIMORE (Gray News) – A man from New Jersey is accused of trying to move cocaine through the Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshal Airport by stashing the drugs in an electric wheelchair.
According to U.S. Custom and Border Protection, officers found 13 plastic-wrapped bricks that contained a white powdery substance inside the seat and back cushions of the chair.
Officers used field test kits and confirmed the substance was over 30 pounds of cocaine.
Gabriel Ruiz, who was returning from the Dominican Republic, was charged with felony narcotic importation and possession.
Ruiz is the second person accused of trying to stash cocaine in a wheelchair over the past several weeks.
Officers in Charlotte, North Carolina also discovered 23 pounds of cocaine hidden inside a wheelchair on May 31.
Both the Baltimore and Charlotte travelers had arrived from the Dominican Republic.
“Concealing dangerous drugs inside wheelchair seat cushions is unusual,” Thomas Heffernan, acting area port director for CBP’s area port of Baltimore, said. “Transnational criminal organizations work very hard to conceal their illicit drugs, but this cocaine seizure proves once again that Customs and Border Protection officers are up to the task of protecting our communities by finding the drug gangs’ creatively concealed contraband.”
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – On the eve of Thanksgiving, the Arkansas Foodbank said their warehouse is the emptiest it has been in a decade.
No other holiday is centered around food quite as much as Thanksgiving. Turkey, sweet potatoes, and cranberries are staples not every family can afford, and many rely on the Arkansas Foodbank to provide them.
This year, empty shelves reminded Sarah Riffle, Arkansas Foodbank Chief Development Officer, of why the Arkansas Foodbank exists.
“We step in when families have a short-term need,” Riffle stated.
Lately, Riffle, said the facility has been starved to supply its empty spaces. The problem has only grown as children get out of school and parents are trying to provide holiday meals for their families.
Typically, all the stock in the warehouse cycles out every six weeks. Lately, supply chain strain has forced that process to double to three weeks or four weeks.
“The food is moving much more quickly because there’s so much less of it available for us to access,” Riffle said.
The concerns continue to pile with lower donations from retail stores credited to inflation that has kept many of the people who used the service during the pandemic still dependent.
“During the COVID-19 pandemic, we were very fortunate to be the recipient of a lot of federal programs,” Riffle explained. “There were also a lot of federal programs for individuals. We saw the stimulus checks and the rent forgiveness. All of those federal programs are nonexistent now. So, we as an organization are trying to fill the gap.”
Donations normally account for 80% of the Arkansas Foodbank’s 24 million pounds of food they distribute in 33 counties each year.
The rest of what they need is purchased, but to afford that growing that percentage, the organization needs your help, so that empty shelves don’t result in empty tables.
Those who wish to donate or volunteer can go to ArkansasFoodbank.org.
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DALLAS and AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Financial Strategies Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: FXCO) ("FXCO")(the "Company")., a Special Purpose Acquisition Company led by CEO Alexander V. Schinzing, today announced the execution of a definitive business combination agreement with Austin Biosciences Corp. ("Austin Biosciences").
Upon closing of the transaction, Austin Biosciences will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company. Mr. Schinzing will serve as Chairman and Mr. Burgi-Krishnamurthy will serve as Chief Executive Officer of Austin Biosciences. The Company's common stock is expected to be listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the ticker symbol "ASTN."
Austin Biosciences Corporation Highlights
- Austin Biosciences is a preclinical pharmaceutical company with multiple, proprietary product candidates derived from an innovative nanotechnology-based approach to drug development. This approach strives to enhance the bioavailability, effectiveness and reduce the toxicity of crucial FDA licensed pharmaceutical API (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients). Austin Biosciences' product candidates seek to improve existing licensed product into safer and more effective drug therapies.
- Product candidates focus upon the development of improvements to existing FDA approved cancer treatment therapies to make them more bioavailable, less toxic and more soluble.
- Anticipated clinical applications: The current product pipeline focuses on improving existing approved pharmaceutical products belonging to the chemical group of Taxanes used in the treatment of various cancers, including breast, lung, prostate, gastric, head and neck, and ovarian cancer. Previous clinical data have shown that Taxanes have cytotoxic activity against breast, colorectal, lung, ovarian, prostate, liver, renal, gastric, and head and neck cancers and melanoma. Some of the Taxanes used in hormone-refractory prostate cancer treatment have shown to improve life expectancy and overall life quality.
- Preclinical Proof of Concept: Austin Biosciences has completed several key preclinical studies, including a maximum tolerated dose (MTD) study, a pharmacokinetics study, and biological activities in a breast tumor xenograft model, and in a pancreatic tumor xenograft model. Results show LBI-1103 vs. Taxotere® has significantly greater anti-tumor activity with potentially reduced toxicity.
- Issued patents. Proprietary product development know-how and trade secrets: Austin Biosciences maintains a very strong global intellectual property position in the United States, Japan, the European Union and other major international markets. The patent applications cover the LASSN™ nanotechnology platform and its drug development efforts. Austin Biosciences has additional patent applications pending that cover LASSN™ drugs that are in the development pipeline. Current coverage extends through 2039. Austin will continue to invent and protect new inventions which will expand and extend coverage beyond 2039. Current research will focus upon developing additional patents for large scale manufacturing processes.
Dr. Burgi-Krishnamurthy, CEO of Austin Biosciences: "The business combination of Financial Strategies Acquisition Corp. and Austin Biosciences allows us to advance the preclinical development of our platform technology, to add significant experience to the Austin Biosciences board of directors and to access high-quality institutional investors."
Alexander V. Schinzing, CEO of FXCO: "Austin Biosciences patent-protected technology is designed to improve therapies to treat cancer. The drug can cross the blood brain barrier and actively target cancer cells, reducing human suffering and saving lives. We are looking forward to becoming part of this exciting future."
Transaction Overview
Under the terms of the proposed transaction, Austin Biosciences's shareholders will receive an aggregate of 12.5 million shares of FXCO's Class A common stock (the "Class A Shares") in exchange for all of the capital stock of Austin Biosciences, with the valuation and allocation of shares subject to a fairness opinion and adjustment upon closing and as contemplated by the terms of the business combination agreement. Assuming that no FXCO shareholders elect to redeem their shares, the market capitalization of the combined companies will be approximately $166.3 million. Financial Strategies Acquisition Corp. estimates that the current shareholders of Austin Biosciences will own approximately 75% of the issued and outstanding shares of the combined companies at closing. The transaction has been approved by the respective board of directors of FXCO and Austin Biosciences and is subject to the approval of Austin Biosciences and FXCO shareholders and other customary conditions. The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of 2023.
Additional information about the transaction will be provided in a Current Report on Form 8-K that will contain an investor presentation to be filed by FXCO with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") and will be available at www.sec.gov. In addition, FXCO intends to file a registration statement on Form S-4 with the SEC, which will include a proxy statement/prospectus, and will file other documents regarding the proposed transaction with the SEC.
About Austin Biosciences
Austin Biosciences is a dynamic Texas-based pharmaceutical company, improving the potency and safety of existing FDA approved pharmaceutical products used for treatment of various cancers, including breast, lung, prostate, gastric, head and neck, and ovarian cancer. Their advanced R&D facilities in Texas foster a prime environment for scientists to create cutting-edge treatments. The Company expects to initiate a Phase 1 trial for its leading candidate Austin Biosciences-1103 in Q1, 2024 or earlier. Pre-clinical development is also underway for multiple product candidates in their pipeline. For more information, visit www.austinbio.tech.
About Financial Strategies Acquisition Corp.
Financial Strategies Acquisition Corp. is a blank check company formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses.
Important Information About the Merger and Where to Find It
A full description of the terms of the business combination will be provided in a registration statement on Form S-4 to be filed with the SEC by FXCO that will include a prospectus with respect to the Combined Company's securities to be issued in connection with the business combination and a proxy statement with respect to the shareholder meeting of FXCO to vote on the business combination. FXCO urges its investors, shareholders and other interested persons to read, when available, the preliminary proxy statement/ prospectus as well as other documents filed with the SEC because these documents will contain important information about FXCO, Austin Biosciences and the business combination. After the registration statement is declared effective, the definitive proxy statement/prospectus to be included in the registration statement will be mailed to shareholders of FXCO as of a record date to be established for voting on the proposed business combination. Once available, shareholders will also be able to obtain a copy of the Form S-4, including the proxy statement/prospectus, and other documents filed with the SEC without charge, by directing a request to: Financial Strategies Acquisition Corp., Attn: Secretary, c/o Celtic Asset & Equity Partners, 2626 Cole Ave Suite 300, Dallas, Texas, 75204. The preliminary and definitive proxy statement/prospectus to be included in the registration statement, once available, can also be obtained, without charge, at the SEC's website (www.sec.gov).
Participants in the Solicitation
FXCO and Austin Biosciences and their respective directors and executive officers may be considered participants in the solicitation of proxies with respect to the proposed business combination described in this press release under the rules of the SEC. Information about the directors and executive officers of FXCO is set forth in FXCO's final prospectus filed with the SEC pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act") and is available free of charge at the SEC's website at www.sec.gov or by directing a request to: Financial Strategies Acquisition Corp., Attn: Secretary, c/o Celtic Asset & Equity Partners, 2626 Cole Avenue Suite 300, Dallas, Texas, 75204. Information regarding the persons who may, under the rules of the SEC, be deemed participants in the solicitation of the FXCO shareholders in connection with the proposed business combination will be set forth in the registration statement containing the proxy statement/prospectus for the proposed business combination when it is filed with the SEC. These documents can be obtained free of charge from the sources indicated above.
Forward-Looking Statements
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Former Idaho lawmaker sentenced to 20 years in prison for rape
Published: Aug. 31, 2022 at 6:59 PM CDT|Updated: 56 minutes ago
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A former Idaho lawmaker convicted of raping a 19-year-old legislative intern has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the crime.
Fourth District Judge Michael Reardon sentenced Aaron von Ehlinger on Wednesday, saying he must serve at least eight years before he will be eligible for parole.
The judge said von Ehlinger failed to show empathy or remorse, and that it was clear he was not ready for sex offender treatment.
The Republican from Lewiston resigned from the Idaho House of Representatives last year after an ethics committee recommended that he be banned from the statehouse.
Von Ehlinger has maintained that the sex was consensual.
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This used to be the season of the World Series, fake cobweb decorations, and candidate debates.
The first two are holding strong, at least at my house. But the 2022 midterm elections have come up short on political debates. FiveThirtyEight, the political analysis website, says 58% of races for the U.S. Senate this year have had no debates. In many contests that have, there's been just one matchup where there used to be three.
Would-be governors are holding back too; a report on the governing website has concluded, "Numerous candidates for governor and other offices have decided that participating in debates is not in their own best interest."
Even when they do happen, candidates debates usually aren't real debates, so much as quiz shows without the relief of occasional commercials for headache remedies and walk-in tubs. Candidates prepare a supply of prefabricated zingers, which they launch in reply to almost any question, whether it applies or not. Post-debate news coverage highlights gaffes and awkward moments over policy differences.
Those who run for office can now reach the public directly on a whole range of platforms. They don't need pesky questions from impertinent reporters, or citizen forums where somebody asks, "So, do you believe in UFOs?"
And the public, for that matter, now has scores of options for what to watch or stream on a weekday night: cooking contests, dating shows, series about serial killers, supernatural events, or the party-filled lives of a superyacht crew in the Mediterranean. How can somberly dressed people talking about infrastructure projects and the tax code possibly compete when the FLOOR! IS! LAVA!!!!
Just as I began to wonder how candidates might be enticed back to the debate lecterns to dig into some budget priorities, I saw an unrelated story that might offer a clue.
Virgin Australia Airlines has launched a Middle Seat Lottery. Take a middle seat on one of their flights — one of those B or E seats that can feel as confining as Hannibal Lecter's straight jacket — and your name is entered in a lottery for prizes that include free flights and cruises, a helicopter pub crawl, and bungee jumping.
Instead of imploring or admonishing candidates that debates are good for democracy, maybe good government groups can just induce them to participate by saying, "Hey, wouldn't you like the chance to go bungee jumping?"
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NEW YORK, May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Aurinia Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: AUPH) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
Class Period: May 7, 2021 to February 25, 2022
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that Aurinia Pharmaceuticals Inc. made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Aurinia was experiencing declining revenues; (ii) Aurinia's 2022 sales outlook for the Company's only product which it offers for the treatment of adult patients with active lupus nephritis, LUPKYNIS, would fall well short of expectations; (iii) accordingly, the Company had significantly overstated LUPKYNIS's commercial prospects; (iv) as a result, the Company had overstated its financial position and/or prospects for 2022; and (v) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in Aurinia Pharmaceuticals Inc. you have until June 14, 2022 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
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BENTONVILLE -- Benton County and the cities of Cave Springs, Decatur, Gentry and Highfill have reached a preliminary agreement with Pafford Medical Services to provide emergency medical services to much of the western portion of the county, according to a county news release.
The agreement was necessary after the current provider, Northwest Health, decided to exercise an early termination of the contracts, citing financial reasons, according to the release.
The annual amount for the subsidy to Pafford Medical Services will be $1.51 million for four years with the amount being split proportionally between the county and the cities, according to the release.
"Pafford's good standing with other Arkansas cities and more than 55 years of experience in emergency medical services will put Benton County residents in good hands," County Judge Barry Moehring said in the release. "I have full confidence that there will be no interruption in service to our residents as Pafford takes command of this contract."
The preliminary agreement will now be considered by each of the participating city councils and the Benton County Quorum Court before being finalized.
"While we appreciate the level of high-quality patient care provided by Northwest, we look forward, with confidence, to partnering with Pafford Medical Services to ensure the same level of care and services are delivered to our citizens with no delay or lapse in coverage," Gentry Mayor Kevin Johnston said in the release.
The agreement calls for at least three ambulances to be on duty at all times. Additionally, the financial terms of the agreement provide for coverage of out-of-pocket costs for emergency ambulance service. Medicare, Medicaid and third-party insurers would continue to be billed for service, according to the release.
The out-of-pocket coverage is an additional benefit for the residents of western Benton County, potentially saving hundreds of dollars or more for those who use the service. The contract with Northwest Health does not include the benefit, according to the release.
Pafford Medical Services, based in Hope, will take over in January from Northwest Health, which is obligated to provide service until that time.
"I believe the service that we are currently receiving will be met or exceeded by Pafford Medical Services. The company's sole focus is providing emergency medical services," county Administrator of Public Safety Robert McGowen said in the release.
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WFO ALBANY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, February 4, 2023
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WIND CHILL WARNING
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648 PM EST Fri Feb 3 2023
...WIND CHILL WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM EST
SATURDAY...
* WHAT...Dangerously cold wind chills expected. Wind chills as
low as 25 to 35 below zero.
* WHERE...In Connecticut, Litchfield County. In New York,
Eastern Greene, Western Columbia and Eastern Dutchess Counties.
* WHEN...Until 10 AM EST Saturday.
* IMPACTS...The cold wind chills could can frostbite on exposed
skin in as little as 10 to 20 minutes.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...The lowest wind chills are expected tonight
into early Saturday morning. Wind gusts between 30 and 45 miles
per hour will continue this evening, which could result in
downed limbs and trees and isolated power outages. Winds will
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Avoid outside activities if possible. When outside, make sure you
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Between Kenny McIntosh and Jack Podlesny, top-ranked Georgia got all the important points it needed on a day where style points weren’t possible.
McIntosh rushed for a career-best 143 yards, including a crucial 9-yard score late in the third quarter, and the Bulldogs withstood Kentucky’s fourth-quarter rally Saturday for a 16-6 win and its second consecutive unbeaten season in the Southeastern Conference.
The Bulldogs (11-0, 8-0 SEC, No. 1 CFP) clinched the Eastern Division title last week and sought another perfect finish in league play. They came away as just the third SEC team since 1992 to post consecutive 8-0 league marks, following Alabama (2008-09) and Florida (1995-96).
Georgia’s success wasn’t easy in cold, windy conditions, and it settled for three Podlesny field goals before McIntosh’s TD provided a needed cushion.
“With these weather conditions, we’re going to play these kind of games like this,” coach Kirby Smart said. “But I’m really proud of when our guys’ backs are against the wall, how they come out fighting with what they do.
“Certainly, we could’ve played better, probably in the red area. They could have stopped some drives defensively; we gave them a couple of conversions on penalties. I have to give Kentucky a lot of credit for bouncing back and being a really physical football team.”
Georgia’s chance to pad the lead ended on downs at Kentucky’s 1. The Wildcats to made it interesting with a 99-yard drive that ended with Will Levis’ 8-yard touchdown pass to Barion Brown. Levis’ two-point conversion pass failed, and the chance to make it a one-score game died when Matt Ruffalo’s field goal hooked left after a low, rolling snap.
Kentucky (6-5, 3-5) then turned it over on downs and lost for the fifth time in seven games.
McIntosh rushed a career-high 19 times with a 26-yarder for the Bulldogs, who outgained Kentucky 365-297 and 247-89 on the ground.
“It was real big,” McIntosh said of his TD. “We had been driving the ball the whole field, but we knew that we needed to score on that drive to come out strong and get the ball rolling on the ground. We had preached during halftime that we needed to go out there and start stronger and be physical on the line of scrimmage.”
The senior back’s previous best was 90 yards on 16 attempts against Florida last month.
“Kenny ran the ball really well tonight,” Smart added. “Probably could’ve had more, but he had to share with some other guys.”
Georgia quarterback Stetson Bennett completed 13 of 19 for 116 yards with an interception.
Levis completed 20 of 31 for 206 yards with an interception for Kentucky, which dropped its 13th in row against Georgia.
The Wildcats had been picked to finish second behind Georgia in the East and were ranked as high as No. 7 in the AP Top 25 in late September before spiraling downward with painful division losses to South Carolina, No. 5 Tennessee and last week’s shocking 24-21 home loss to Vanderbilt that snapped the Commodores’ 26-game SEC losing streak.
‘DAWG DAY AFTERNOON
Georgia’s second-ranked scoring defense (11.6 points per game coming in) remained stingy in holding Kentucky to just 119 yards before halftime and scoreless through three quarters. Kentucky’s 99-yard TD drive after making a goal-line stand spoiled the Bulldogs’ shutout bid, but they limited the Wildcats to just 3 of 11 on third down and 1 of 3 on fourth.
POLL IMPLICATIONS
It wasn’t pretty, but Georgia should maintain its perch atop the AP Top 25 and College Football Playoff rankings.
THE TAKEAWAY
Georgia: Denied their usual offensive explosiveness by Kentucky’s stiff defense, the Bulldogs had to settle for whatever they could get. The numbers ended up decent, converting 6 of 12 third-down chances and edging the Wildcats in time of possession (30:02-29:58). Their stingy defense pitched a shutout for three quarters, highlighted by Kelee Ringo’s end-zone interception of Levis, and held off Kentucky’s last-ditch attempts to make it close.
Kentucky: With nowhere to go but up after an all-around disastrous performance against Vanderbilt, the Wildcats did everything they needed to do in slowing down Georgia and coming up with a couple of critical defensive stops. They still faced a 16-point hole, though Levis did his part with his arm and feet to get them on the board against a bullish ‘Dawgs defense.
“After a tough loss a week ago, getting them motivated to compete at a high level (was our priority),” coach Mark Stoops said. “It took a lot of digging and soul-searching and the competitive nature of our players to reinvest and commit and to put in that kind of effort. We came up short, but the effort, the preparation was there.”
UP NEXT
Georgia faces in-state rival Georgia Tech on Saturday.
Kentucky hosts in-state rival Louisville on Saturday, seeking its fourth consecutive series victory.
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Combined Heat and Power Generation with Propane is the Clean Solution
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The third annual National Summit on Combined Heat and Power convenes in Washington D.C. on Nov. 2 and 3 to debate how technology advances in combined heat and power (CHP) generation could replace diesel-fueled units by the end of the decade. CHP systems operate independently of the electric grid and produce significantly fewer emissions than diesel options.
A panel of experts led by Dr. Gokul Vishwanathan, Director of Research & Sustainability for the Propane Education & Research Council (PERC) will discuss how the tremendous growth in CHP generation driven by grid fragility along with decarbonization mandates are converging to create a sea change in both the prime and backup power generation industries.
"Extreme weather events, ozone pollution, and carbon emissions are re-wiring the power generation market," said PERC's Dr. Gokul Vishwanathan. "Average homeowners are now adding resiliency to their remodeling or new construction checklists, and because of climate change regulation and future tax credits, the clean energy solution for their backup power is going to be propane."
Relative to diesel, propane engines provide an excellent option in improving air quality, particularly by reducing NOx and particulate matter. CO2 emissions reduction can be significantly enabled using optimized propane engines as well. One example is the Siemens SG series lean burn engine that operates with a variable compression ratio of 25. It is an excellent example of how dedicated propane engines can provide an up to 13% reduction in CO2 emissions relative to diesel.
Renewable propane is another significant advancement. It is structurally and functionally identical to conventional propane and is produced from renewable feedstocks. The CHP panel will discuss how policymakers could make an impact in the uptake of renewable propane for power generation applications leading to a 50%-70% reduction in lifecycle CO2 emissions compared to conventional diesel.
As part of the Inflation Reduction Act, tax credits for CHP projects have increased from 10% to 30% for systems that are in service by the end of 2024, making now an attractive time to invest in CHP technology.
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LAS VEGAS, July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Century Communities, Inc. (NYSE: CCS), a top 10 national homebuilder and industry leader in online sales, announced it recently opened for sales at Homestead Ranch—the company's new gated community boasting luxury pool-sized homesites in northwest Las Vegas from the upper $700s. With a versatile lineup of all estate-sized single-story homes, floor plans at Homestead Ranch offer everything from optional pool houses and courtyards to detached casitas, multi-generational layouts and expansive garages.
Learn more and view available homes at www.CenturyCommunities.com/HomesteadLV.
"With generous homesites, lavish floor plans, and a charming rural location offering quick access to Mount Charleston, Homestead Ranch is an absolute gem," said Robb Beville, Nevada division president. "We've already sold a few homes of just 27 total, so now's the time for homebuyers to come out, tour our model, and find their best fit."
More About Homestead Ranch:
- 3 single-family floor plans
- 3 to 5 bedrooms, 3 to 5 bathrooms, 3- to 7-bay garage
- Homes up to 3,704 square feet
- Homesites up to 18,000 square feet
- Walk-in closets in every bedroom
- 42" birch kitchen cabinetry, granite or quartz countertops, stainless-steel appliances, 10' ceilings, free-standing soaking tubs, Century Home Connect® smart home package and more included
- Prime location with close proximity to I-95, 215, Mount Charleston, and Paiute Golf Resort
Sales Center:
8535 Nicholas James Avenue
Las Vegas, NV 89143
For more information or to schedule an appointment, call 702.936.3020.
DISCOVER THE FREEDOM OF ONLINE HOMEBUYING:
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How it works:
- Shop homes at CenturyCommunities.com
- Click "Buy Now" on any available home
- Fill out a quick Buy Online form
- Electronically submit an initial earnest money deposit
- Electronically sign a purchase contract via DocuSign®
Learn more about the Buy Online experience at www.CenturyCommunities.com/online-homebuying.
About Century Communities
Century Communities, Inc. (NYSE: CCS) is a top 10 national homebuilder, offering new homes under the Century Communities and Century Complete brands. Century is engaged in all aspects of homebuilding — including the acquisition, entitlement and development of land, along with the construction, innovative marketing and sale of quality homes designed to appeal to a wide range of homebuyers. The Colorado-based company operates in 17 states and over 45 markets across the U.S., and also offers title, insurance and lending services in select markets through its Parkway Title, IHL Home Insurance Agency, and Inspire Home Loans subsidiaries. To learn more about Century Communities, please visit www.centurycommunities.com.
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MADRID (AP) — The Spanish league filed another complaint to authorities on Thursday following racial insults aimed at Real Madrid forward Vinícius Júnior.
It was the seventh official complaint made by the league for insults against the Brazilian player, who is Black. The latest complaint came after someone called him a monkey during Madrid’s 0-0 draw at Real Betis on Sunday.
The complaint was made to a court in Seville to try to identify the person and take the appropriate legal measures against the individual. Betis is based in Seville.
Vinícius has been subjected to racist insults since he came to play in Spain five years ago, though very little has been done to punish fans.
Some of the league’s complaints have already been shelved by Spanish prosecutors.
Last month, Spain’s anti-violence commission proposed a fine of 4,000 euros ($4,200) and a 12-month ban from stadiums for a fan who called Vinícius a monkey in a league match against Mallorca.
Valladolid recently suspended 12 season ticket holders while investigating their alleged verbal abuse of Vinícius.
The first trial against a fan who racially insulted a player in Spain is expected to begin this year following remarks by an Espanyol supporter against Athletic Bilbao forward Iñaki Williams a few years ago.
Also, authorities have yet to find those responsible for hanging Vinícius’ effigy from a bridge in Madrid before the derby against Atletico Madrid last month.
The league has increased the number of overseers at matches to try to identify perpetrators of insults against players, especially when Vinícius plays.
In order to speed up the identification process, the league has set up a complaints channel through its website for fans who may have images or any information about the perpetrators.
The attacks against Vinícius increased after he began celebrating his goals by dancing. Some players have accused him of provoking them and opposing fans during games.
Betis forward Aitor Ruibal said after Sunday’s match against Madrid that “it was normal” for fans to insult Vinícius and for opposing players to try to foul him hard because of the way he plays. The Betis player received a lot of backlash for his comments and later said his words were taken out of context.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — The critique of UConn under coach Dan Hurley had been the program’s inability to win in March.
Consecutive first-round NCAA Tournament exits meant the Huskies were good, not great — certainly not anywhere in league with the UConn women’s program.
In perhaps the maddest March of all, Huskies proved they are elite again, putting in another dominating performance a few hours after the UConn women had a rare misstep.
Jordan Hawkins scored 20 points and UConn overwhelmed its fourth straight NCAA Tournament opponent, earning its first trip to the Final Four in nine years with an 82-54 blowout of Gonzaga on Saturday night.
“I think it becomes a little bit of a mental hurdle, especially like early rounds of the NCAA Tournament where you feel like maybe the burden of the history and tradition and first-round games, maybe even second-round games,” Hurley said. “The climb to get to this point has been real and it’s been more challenging than I thought.”
The Huskies (29-8) have felt right at home in their first extended March Madness run since winning the 2014 national championship, playing their best basketball of what had been an up-and-down season.
UConn controlled the usually efficient Bulldogs at both ends in the West Region final, building a 23-point lead early in the second half to waltz right into the final section of the bracket.
Those first-round exits are now well in the rearview mirror. So is that midseason funk.
These elite Huskies did what the UConn women couldn’t for once and are headed to Houston, where they will play Texas or Miami.
UConn has a pretty good track record once it gets this far, too: The Huskies are 8-1 all-time in Final Four games.
“We’ve got a lot to prove,” said Andre Jackson Jr., who had eight points, 10 assists and nine rebounds. “We still have a chip on our shoulder.”
The Bulldogs (31-6) didn’t have the same second-half magic they had in a last-second win over UCLA in the Elite Eight.
Gonzaga allowed UConn to go on a late run to lead by seven at halftime and fell completely apart after All-American Drew Timme went to the bench with his fourth foul early in the second half.
The Zags shot 33% from the field — 7 of 29 in the second half — and went 2 for 20 from 3 to stumble in their bid for a third Final Four since 2017.
“UConn was just terrific tonight and we didn’t have any answers, especially when kind of everything really didn’t bounce our way,” Gonzaga coach Mark Few said. “And we can’t absorb a game like that when our offense is as bad as it was tonight.”
Alex Karaban scored 12 points and Adama Sanogo had 10 points and 10 rebounds for UConn.
Timme had 12 points and 10 rebounds, receiving a warm ovation after being taken out of his final collegiate game with 1:50 left.
“I’m just so thankful that the program and the place took me for who I was,” said Timme, who shared a long embrace with Few when he exited. “They didn’t ask me to be anybody but myself.”
The Zags started off like they had a Vegas hangover, firing off two air-balled 3-pointers and a wild runner by Timme. Once Gonzaga shook out the cobwebs, the Bulldogs kept the Huskies bridled with defense, with hard hedges on screens and Timme sagging off Jackson to protect the lane.
UConn countered by getting the ball into the strong hands of Sanogo, the facilitator. The UConn big man picked apart Gonzaga’s double-teams for five first-half assists, including two for layups.
“We figured that out,” Hurley said. “That doesn’t work anymore.”
Karaban hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer to put the Huskies up 39-32 at halftime, and it got worse for Gonzaga to start the second half.
UConn pushed the lead to 12 and Timme picked up his third and fourth fouls in the opening 2 1/2 minutes — one on a charge, another on a box-out under the rim.
“We brought the team together and tried to keep positive thoughts and try to keep chipping away at that lead,” Gonzaga forward Anton Watson said. “But it’s hard when Drew goes out.”
The Huskies really got rolling when Timme took a seat, using their defense to get out in transition and set up 3-pointers. A 14-3 run put UConn up 60-37 and Few took the calculated gamble of bringing Timme back in.
It made little difference.
UConn kept up the pressure and kept making shots, looking an awful lot like the favorite to win it all.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Federal judges in Kentucky and Tennessee temporarily blocked portions of bans on gender-affirming care for transgender youth Wednesday, handing down the rulings shortly before the statutes were set to go into effect.
The ruling is similar to roadblocks that federal courts have thrown up against Republican-dominant states in their pursuit to prevent young people from receiving transgender health care.
In both Kentucky and Tennessee, the judges blocked portions of the law that would have banned transgender youth from accessing puberty blockers and hormone therapy. In the Tennessee case, the judge stopped short of also blocking the ban on gender-affirming surgeries for youth.
Meanwhile, the Kentucky case didn’t address surgeries, but U.S. District Judge David Hale, an Obama administration appointee, did side with seven transgender minors and their parents, who sued the state officials responsible for enforcing the provisions banning the use of puberty blockers and hormones. The plaintiffs contend the ban would violate their constitutional rights and interfere with parental rights to seek established medical treatment for their children.
The ruling blocked the “most egregious parts of Kentucky’s anti-trans law,” said Chris Hartman, executive director of the Fairness Campaign, a Kentucky-based LGBTQ+ advocacy group.
Hartman added that transgender children and their families were “living in fear” of the approaching date for the restrictions.
Kentucky’s Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron called Hale’s decision “misguided,” saying it “tramples the right” of state lawmakers to make public policy. The state’s legal chief promised that his office will continue doing “everything in our power” to defend the measure. The provisions dealing with puberty blockers and hormone therapy were supposed to go into effect Thursday.
In Tennessee, U.S. District Judge Eli Richardson, a Trump administration appointee, stressed that his ruling lined up with federal decisions blocking similar bans across the country but added that courts must “tread carefully” when preventing a law from being enforced.
“If Tennessee wishes to regulate access to certain medical procedures, it must do so in a manner that does not infringe on the rights conferred by the United States Constitution, which is of course supreme to all other laws of the land,” Richardson wrote.
The law, scheduled to go effect on July 1, would have banned Tennessee health care providers from providing hormone treatments or surgeries for transgender youth where the purpose is to allow the child to express a gender identity “inconsistent with the immutable characteristics of the reproductive system that define the minor as male or female.”
The law included a nine-month phase out period by March 31, 2024, for medical treatments and said no new treatments could be started. Health care providers who violated the law risked facing a $25,000 penalty and other disciplinary actions.
Tennessee’s Republican-dominant General Assembly, as well as some Democratic lawmakers, quickly advanced the ban after Nashville’s Vanderbilt University Medical Center was accused of opening its transgender health clinic because it was profitable. Videos surfaced of a doctor at the private hospital touting that gender-affirming procedures are “huge money makers.” Another video showed a staffer saying anyone with a religious objection should quit.
Republican leaders demanded an investigation into the hospital and used the incident to spur their political base ahead of the 2022 midterm elections
The political tension has also popped up in Kentucky, where Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear is running for a second term this year and is being challenged by Cameron, who is defending the gender-affirming care ban. The race has become one of the nation’s most closely watched campaigns in 2023.
Beshear originally vetoed the measure in March, saying it allows “too much government interference in personal healthcare issues” but the state’s GOP-dominated legislature overrode the veto.
To date, at least 20 states have enacted laws restricting or banning such treatments even though it’s been available in the United States for more than a decade and is endorsed by major medical associations. Most recently, North Carolina lawmakers finalized their own version of a gender-affirming care ban on Wednesday.
Yet, when challenged, federal courts have been quick to block them from going into effect. A federal judge struck down Arkansas’ ban as unconstitutional last week, and federal judges have temporarily blocked bans in Alabama and Indiana. Oklahoma has agreed to not enforce its ban while opponents seek a temporary court order blocking it. A federal judge has blocked Florida from enforcing its ban on three children who have challenged the law.
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This story has been corrected to show that Hale was an Obama administration appointee, not Trump.
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TOKYO (AP) — The appointment for the next head of Japan’s central bank won parliamentary approval Friday, challenging a new monetary leadership with steering the world’s third-largest economy through inflation and other looming risks.
The nomination of Kazuo Ueda and his deputies was approved by the upper house of parliament, a day after its approval in the lower house.
Ueda hails from a scholarly background unusual for a Bank of Japan governor. He has promised a smooth transition from his predecessor’s “Abenomics” — the ultra-loose monetary policies of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Until recently, the Japanese economy was stuck in deflation, a continuous spiraling down of prices, for decades. “Abenomics” policies centered around zero or negative interest rates were designed to combat deflation.
But Japan’s consumer inflation rate hit a 41-year high of 4% in December. The central bank has set a 2% inflation target, but recent data show prices are rising higher than that rate.
Ueda succeeds Haruhiko Kuroda, whose second five-year term ends April 8. Ueda is set to chair his first Bank of Japan policy meeting later in the month.
Under Kuroda, Japan has kept short-term interest rates at minus 0.1% and its target for the 10-year Japanese government bond yield at around zero.
Ueda, an economics expert with a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has so far indicated he won’t make any quick hike moves, stressing stability and continuity, while acknowledging the difficulty of his assignment.
Some analysts don’t expect Ueda to rush exiting the zero-interest policy of his predecessor. Ueda has been with the Bank of Japan’s policy board since 1998, and so was involved in shaping the recent monetary policies.
The U.S. Federal Reserve and the world’s other central banks have been raising interest rates to combat inflationary pressures. And that trend is expected to continue. Economists at Goldman Sachs expect the central bank to raise its benchmark short-term rate to about 5.6%, up from 4.6%, and above the 5.1% level the Fed penciled in late last year. ___
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Fort Worth-Based Firm Successfully Confirms Four Reorganization Plans During First Half of 2022
FORT WORTH, Texas, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The bankruptcy and reorganization team at Fort Worth's Forshey Prostok, LLP successfully confirmed four bankruptcy plans during the first half of 2022, continuing the Fort Worth-based bankruptcy and reorganization boutique's string of success in all areas of the reorganization practice.
"Because of the pandemic, many businesses faced severe financial difficulties in 2020 and 2021; but, thankfully, that wasn't the end of the story," says name partner Jeff P. Prostok, the firm's managing partner. "Thanks to a lot of hard work by my colleagues, many of these businesses are emerging from the bankruptcy process on a healthier financial footing, ready to serve their customers and support their communities."
Partner J. Robert Forshey and Of Counsel Matthew G. Maben represented Jack County Hospital District in its Chapter 9 bankruptcy case.
The Hospital operates the Faith Community Health System in Jack County, Texas, and the Faith Community Hospital in Jacksboro, Texas. The Debtor was organized under the Texas Constitution and Chapter 1079 of the Texas Special District Local Laws Code. As a municipality, the Hospital was required to file under Chapter 9 of the Bankruptcy Code.
The Forshey Prostok team assisted the Hospital with back-to-back Chapter 9 cases to allow the Hospital to take full advantage of pandemic-related financial relief available through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. The Hospital voluntarily dismissed its first Chapter 9 case so that it could apply for a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan that was not available to bankruptcy debtors. This allowed the Hospital to receive desperately needed funds during the most challenging period of the pandemic and permitted the Hospital to file its second Chapter 9 case with the financial wherewithal to successfully reorganize.
Ultimately, the team at Forshey Prostok assisted the Hospital in confirming a Plan of Adjustment providing for a restructuring of roughly $92 million in debt, thereby allowing the Hospital to continue delivering high-quality healthcare services to an underserved region.
Partners Jeff P. Prostok and Lynda L. Lankford and Associate Dylan T.F. Ross represented Flexible Funding Ltd. Liability Co. and Instapay Flexible, LLC in their jointly administered Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases.
Flexible and Instapay are privately held asset-based lending and factoring companies, primarily focused on the staffing and transportation industries. Immediately after filing the two Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases, the team at Forshey Prostok sought the expedited auction and sale of the Debtors' portfolio assets. After two successful competitive auctions, the Debtors sold the portfolio assets – at a premium – for more than $85 million. The expedited relief allowed the Debtors to close the two asset sales within the first seven weeks of the Debtors' bankruptcy cases, thereby preserving the portfolio value of the assets and permitting the Debtors to retire all of their senior secured debt.
Following the sales, Forshey Prostok successfully confirmed a Joint Plan of Liquidation for Flexible and Instapay that provides for the Debtors' substantive consolidation and the efficient liquidation of remaining assets to maximize distributions to creditors.
Partner Jeff P. Prostok and Associate Dylan T.F. Ross represented LWO Acquisitions Company LLC, d/b/a Circuitronics, Inc. in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy case. Circuitronics is a provider of specialized printed circuit board assembly and related electronic manufacturing services.
The COVID-19 pandemic severely impacted Circuitronics' business, which relied substantially on a customer that supplied media and sound equipment for large festivals and music venues that virtually shut down during the pandemic. Circuitronics was further hampered by an economically burdensome office lease that placed the duty to maintain an increasingly unstable building on Circuitronics.
In the bankruptcy case, the attorneys at Forshey Prostok first assisted the Debtor in rejecting the burdensome office lease, and then helped confirm a Plan of Liquidation providing for the sale of substantially all of the Circuitronics assets and payment of the majority of creditor claims in full. The sale allowed operations to continue post-bankruptcy, thereby preserving jobs and the going concern value of the business.
Partner Lynda L. Lankford represented Four New Millennium Group, Inc. (d/b/a Sneaky Pete's) in its successful reorganization under Chapter 11 (Subchapter V).
Sneaky Pete's operates the largest restaurant on the shores of Lake Lewisville and has been an institution and familiar gathering place for multiple generations of families and friends since its inception in 1989. During the pandemic, Sneaky Pete's was forced to shutter operations for an extended period, ultimately resulting in the landlord declaring that the lease had been terminated.
In the bankruptcy case, Sneaky Pete's attorneys successfully defeated the lease challenge, allowing Sneaky Pete's to continue operations and emerge from bankruptcy with a Plan of Reorganization providing for payment in full of all non-insider creditor claims.
About Forshey Prostok LLP
Forshey Prostok LLP provides extensive experience in all areas of bankruptcy law from its offices in Fort Worth, Dallas, and Houston. The firm's scope of representation includes handling complex business reorganizations, enforcing of creditor's rights, leading commercial and bankruptcy-related litigation, overseeing creditors' committees, directing workouts, and closing bankruptcy acquisitions. Forshey Prostok is ranked by the Chambers USA legal guide and received a Tier 1 ranking from Best Law Firms for bankruptcy and creditor/debtor rights. For more information, visit https://forsheyprostok.com/.
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WINNETKA, Ill. (AP) — A white woman charged with a hate crime following a confrontation where she told a group of Black men in 2020 that they couldn't be at a suburban Chicago beach has been sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to a lesser charge.
The felony hate crime charge Irene Donoshaytis had faced in Cook County was amended Wednesday to misdemeanor battery under a plea agreement. She pleaded guilty to the battery charge and was sentenced to one year of probation.
The Northfield, Illinois, woman's plea agreement includes a requirement that she attend an anti-racism class, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
Donoshaytis, then 65, was accused in August 2020 of aggressively confronting Otis Campbell and two other Black men who were riding bicycles near a pier along Lake Michigan in Winnetka, police said.
Campbell captured the interaction in a video that was uploaded to Twitter.
In the video, Donoshaytis complains to a Winnetka Park District employee that the three Black men didn’t belong in a certain area without a pass. The employee responds that the men were on public property and a beach pass wasn’t required.
Donoshaytis disagrees. She asks Campbell, “Are you crazy? What, you want to kill me? No? It feels like it.”
“Why would I want to kill you? Is it because I’m Black?” Campbell says.
“Yes,” Donoshaytis responds, nodding her head.
After that, Donoshaytis tries to knock the phone out of Campbell’s hands, and the recording shakes and stops. Campbell said she hit his arm twice.
Campbell said the woman confronted him just after he finished a 15-mile (24-kilometer) bike ride with his cousin and friend from the nearby suburb of Skokie, where Campbell says he grew up.
Campbell said Donoshaytis told them, “This is America. This is America. You can’t do this. I’m from Winnetka. You need to go back where you’re from.”
Donoshaytis’ attorney, Jeffrey Fagan, said in 2020 that Donoshaytis was a refugee from the Soviet Union who fled persecution there.
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LONDON (AP) — A mammoth three-year public inquiry into the U.K. government’s handling of the response to COVID-19 opened Tuesday by asking if some suffering and death could have been avoided with better planning — and whether Britain’s complex, protracted exit from the European Union distracted authorities from preparing for potential threats.
Lawyer Hugo Keith, who is counsel to the inquiry, said the coronavirus pandemic had brought “death and illness on an unprecedented scale” in modern Britain. He said that COVID-19 had been recorded as a cause of death for 226,977 people in the U.K.
“The key issue is whether that impact was inevitable,” Keith said. “Were those terrible consequences inexorable, or were they avoidable or capable of mitigation?”
A group of people who lost relatives to COVID-19 held pictures of their loved one outside the inquiry venue, an anonymous London office building. The first day of public hearings began with a 17-minute video in which people described the devastating impact of the pandemic on them and their loved ones.
Retired judge Heather Hallett, who is leading the inquiry, praised the families’ “dignified vigil.” She said the inquiry was taking place “on their behalf and on behalf of the millions who suffered and continue to suffer” because of COVID-19.
Britain’s pandemic death toll is one of the highest in Europe, and the decisions of then Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government have been endlessly debated. Johnson agreed in late 2021 to hold an inquiry after pressure from bereaved families.
The inquiry is due to hold hearings until 2026. It will investigate the U.K.’s preparedness for a pandemic, how the government responded and what lessons can be learned for the future.
Senior scientists and officials including Johnson are expected to appear as witnesses. Hallett, who has the power to summon evidence and question witnesses under oath, is currently in a legal battle with the government over her request to see an unedited trove of notebooks, diaries and WhatsApp messages between Johnson and other officials.
U.K. public inquiries are often thorough, but rarely quick. An inquiry into the 2003 Iraq war and its aftermath began in 2009 and issued its 2.6-million word report in 2016.
Hallett says she will release findings after each section, rather than waiting until hearings conclude.
Keith said the first section would look at whether British planning relied too heavily on the mistaken assumption a future pandemic would resemble influenza.
He said that at the start of the pandemic in March 2020, the government had said that “the United Kingdom was well prepared to respond in a way that offered substantial protection to the public.”
“Even at this stage, before hearing the evidence, it is apparent that we might not have been very well prepared at all,” he said.
Keith also said planning for Britain’s exit from the EU, which consumed government energies for years after voters backed Brexit in a 2016 referendum, distracted resources from work to prepare for potential pandemics.
“That departure required an enormous amount of planning and preparation, particularly to address what were likely to be the severe consequences of a no-deal exit on food and medicine supplies, travel and transport, business borders and so on,” he said.
“It is clear that such planning, from 2018 onwards, crowded out and prevented some or perhaps a majority of the improvements that central government itself understood were required to be made to resilience planning and preparedness.”
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BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets were mixed Tuesday after Wall Street sank under pressure from interest rate worries, Japanese wages rose and Australia's central bank hiked its benchmark lending rate.
Shanghai, Hong Kong and Seoul advanced. Tokyo and Sydney declined. Oil prices rose.
Wall Street sank for a second day Monday after unexpectedly strong U.S. data on hiring and wages dampened hopes the Federal Reserve might decide it has succeeded in cooling inflation and can wind down plans for more rate hikes.
Traders were looking ahead to a speech by Fed Chair Jerome Powell in Washington for possible clues about rate plans. Some are counting on a U.S. rate cut as early as late 2023 despite comments by Fed officials that they will stay elevated for an extended period.
Expectations for the Fed to reverse course are unrealistic, Clifford Bennett of ACY Securities said in a report.
“The mismatching of financial market pricing and economic reality is both stark and stretched,” Bennett said.
The Nikkei 225 in Tokyo lost less than 0.1% to 27,692.28 after the government reported wages rose 4.8% over a year earlier in December. That was close to a three-decade high as workers press for higher pay to keep pace with inflation.
The Shanghai Composite Index rose 0.2% to 3,244.55 and the Hang Seng in Hong Kong advanced 1% to 21,422.97. The Kospi in Seoul added 0.6% to 2,453.80.
Sydney's S&P-ASX 200 lost 0.5% to 7,599.70 after the Reserve Bank of Australia raised its benchmark rate by 0.25 percentage points to 3.35%. The RBA said more rate hikes are planned to bring down inflation that is at a 33-year high of 7.8% to its target range of 2% to 3%.
India's Sensex opened down 0.2% at 60,378.10. New Zealand and Singapore declined while Jakarta advanced.
On Wall Street, the benchmark S&P 500 index fell 0.6% to 4,111.08. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 0.1% to 33,891.02 and the Nasdaq composite tumbled 1% to 11,887.45.
The yield on the two-year Treasury, which tends to track expectations for the Fed, leaped by an unusually wide margin to 4.47% from Friday's 4.29% and the previous day's 4.1%.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which helps set rates for mortgages and other important loans, jumped to 3.64% from 3.52% late Friday.
The Fed and central banks in Europe and Asia are trying to extinguish inflation that is at multi-decade highs by cooling economic activity. Traders worry they might be willing to tip the global economy into recession to achieve that.
Friday’s employment data showed the U.S. economy added twice as many jobs as expected last month despite higher interest rates. That is good for workers but the Fed worries wage gains will push up inflation. That fuels fears the U.S. central bank might push rates higher.
On Wall Street, Tyson Foods fell 4.6% on Monday after it reported weaker profit and revenue for its latest quarter than analysts expected.
Dell Technologies dropped 3% after it said it will cut about 5% of its workforce. The company's vice chairman said in a message to employees that “market conditions continue to erode with an uncertain future.”
In energy markets, benchmark U.S. crude gained 75 to $74.86 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose 72 cents to $74.11 on Monday. Brent crude, the price basis for international oil trading, advanced 76 cents to $81.75 per barrel in London. It added $1.05 the previous session to $80.99.
The dollar fell to 132.27 Japanese yen from 132.67 yen. The euro rose to $1.0744 from $1.0728.
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The lawyer that already sued the San Francisco school district over its renaming of schools is now threatening another lawsuit after the school board voted to make two Muslim holy days into school holidays.
Paul Scott demanded the school board rescind the resolution recognizing Eid Al Fitr and Eid Al Adha in a letter to school board president Jenny Lam on Thursday.
While acknowledging the board’s “laudable objective of reducing discrimination against members of the Muslim community,” the letter argues the resolution violated the Brown Act because the notice did not make clear that the purpose of the August 9 hearing was to authorize two new school holidays based on their religious significance. The district did not immedietely respond to request for comment.
The resolution, which passed on August 9 and was authored by commissioner Matt Alexander, originated in 2021 when Sara Ouchene, a student at Raoul Wallenberg High School started a petition to have Eid Al Fitr and Eid Al Adha recognized as school holidays.
“We’re so happy to see this, it’s really wonderful to feel seen by the district,” said Wassim Hage, a case manager and community organizer with the Arab Resource and Organizing Center, who worked with students and the Muslim community to craft the resolution.
“Our culture and our traditions are recognized in the city of San Francisco,” he said.
The agenda item was listed as “Resolution to include the observance of Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha in the SFUSD Academic and Instructional Calendars.” Scott argued the term “observance” does not make it clear that the purpose of the resolution was to authorize two new holidays.
Additionally, the letter, which Scott provided to The Chronicle, argues that the resolution violates the Establishment Clause of the Constitution, which prevents the government from favoring any one religion over another.
“The resolution states explicitly that its purpose is to create two school holidays, based on their religious significance, for the benefit of the members of a specific religion.” the letter said. “There is no reference to any secular purpose (such as absenteeism) to justify the holiday.”
Scott requested a response to his letter by August 31, and wrote it was being sent in an effort to avoid unnecessary litigation. If the board does not take correction action, litigation is the logical next step, Scott wrote in an email to the Chronicle.
Emma Talley is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: emma.talley@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @EmmaT332
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- About 50% of consumers have tried generative AI; 44% of these don't usually trust it
- Biggest consumer concern in the US, UK, and France: loss of human connection
- Biggest consumer concern in Germany, India, and China: data privacy
- AI's #1 potential is faster customer service, say consumers in 5 out of 7 geographies
- To regain trust, brands and retailers can aim to meet consumer expectations and mediate their concerns
CHICAGO, July 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, global management consulting firm Kearney's internal consumer think tank, the Kearney Consumer Institute (KCI), released a new report on generative AI (GAI) and its relationship to consumer trust in coordination with its recent presentation at the Consumer Goods Forum in Kyoto, Japan. Based on a survey of 7,000 global consumers, Generative AI and Consumer Trust: Can AI Regenerate Consumer Trust in Brands? addresses consumer attitudes and concerns around burgeoning GAI-driven retail technology, including most/least trusted uses and how brands can best use the technology.
As brands and retailers struggle to figure out where they are in relation to AI and GAI-powered technologies, consumer responses to technological change are often far more complex and nuanced than they realize. KCI's research offers a suggested roadmap for how to begin thinking about AI in a more consumer-centric way.
"Our research has shown that consumers value honesty and consistency in a brand above all else," said the report's author Katie Thomas, who leads the Kearney Consumer Institute. "That said, half of them have at least experimented with generative AI. What does that mean for brands that use artificial intelligence? Where do conversational bots fall on the trust spectrum?"
The KCI has been exploring how brands can begin to address consumer trust in AI through three primary avenues—consumer benefit and brand fit, personalization and data, and human-to-AI connectivity. The report also shares consumer sentiment data and addresses themes such as:
- Consumers' varying levels of trust within digital, from the internet through social media to generative AI
- Top consumer use cases and levels of optimism/concern about AI
- Breakdown of consumers' concerns across geographies about AI vs. its perceived potential
- What brands need to do to manage sometimes conflicting consumer attitudes toward AI, including understanding its benefits, consumer trust busters, and areas to watch out for
To become thoughtful, intelligent users of GAI, brands need to assess consumers' expectations and concerns as they directly relate to the brand. AI is not a blanket solution.
"Consumers enjoy experimenting with newer AI tools and see their potential, but they also bring a healthy dose of skepticism, with concerns ranging from mis/disinformation to data privacy to human connection to job loss," added Thomas. "While we see a lot of potential for how brands can think about AI and use it to build trust, there are meaningful concerns, and consumers' contradictory feelings must be acknowledged."
To read the KCI report Generative AI and Consumer Trust: Can AI Regenerate Consumer Trust in Brands?, please visit this link.
About Kearney
Kearney is a leading global management consulting firm. For nearly 100 years, we have been the trusted advisor to C-suites, government bodies, and nonprofit organizations. Our people make us who we are. Driven to be the difference between a big idea and making it happen, we help our clients break through. www.kearney.com
About the Kearney Consumer Institute
The Kearney Consumer Institute (KCI) evaluates today's business challenges and opportunities through the eyes and experiences of consumers, advocating a consumer-first perspective. By leveraging consumer behavior data and insights, we generate conversation, and ultimately action, around how to address consumer needs with meaningful benefits. Through extensive consumer market research, we can help you identify the right opportunities by surfacing key consumer market insights and trends.
Using a consumer-first lens the KCI looks at today's consumer revolution not by thinking about consumers, but by thinking like consumers. Our consumer-centric approach includes simple, precise, plain-language conversations on topics like trends, consumer communities, convenience, loyalty, service, fair pricing, and product development and technologies.
U.S. Media contact:
Meir Kahtan, MKPR, mkahtan@rcn.com, +1 917-864-0800
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SHANGHAI, Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Shanghai Operation Robot Co.,Ltd announced the results of its initial clinical trial of ERCP (Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography) robot in biliary stent placement surgery. It is the first Robot-assisted human clinical trial of biliary stent placement surgery in the world. The surgery was conducted by Aopeng Medical.
The operation was performed by the team of Professor and Dr. Xiaofeng Zhang, vice president of Hangzhou First People's Hospital and director of the Center for Digestive Endoscopy. Dr. Zhang operated the robot outside the operating room (without wearing heavy lead), advanced the guidewire and balloon catheter in a precisely controlled manner and successfully completed the entire surgical procedure including the nipple cutter action, balloon stone removal, and accurate placement of bile duct stents.
Dr. Zhang highly values the precision performance of the ERCP robot from Shanghai Operation Robot, and the benefit for physicians in reducing radiation exposure during the surgery. This surgery was live-streamed at the meeting of the 15th Hangzhou International Symposium on Diagnosis and Treatment of Biliary and Pancreatic Diseases. Many experts in the audience watched the whole procedure and considered it a great success for robot-assisted ERCP surgery.
This trial verified the application of surgical robots in the field of natural orifice ERCP surgery and opened a new era of robotic surgery.
ERCP surgery is carried out under X-rays, so the physicians need to wear a 30-pound protective lead apron. They are suffering health risks from long-term radiation exposure and heavy lead weight. In addition, the variable orientation and opening position of the duodenal papilla requires a high level of guide wire operation and the doctors' cooperation with the assistant. Therefore, the training of a qualified ERCP doctor and an excellent ERCP team requires the accumulation of operating time and experience. These can be easily resolved by surgical robots. In robot-assisted ERCP surgery, the physician can perform the operation remotely behind the wall, away from X-ray exposure. Furthermore, the natural stability, accuracy, and flexibility of robots can effectively reduce the learning curve of ERCP surgery and bring a better outcome to patients.
The natural orifice ERCP flexible surgical robot from Shanghai Operation Robot has a modular design, which imitates the physician working with an assistant. Its small footprint enables easy and flexible movement in the operating room. The robot adopts the principle of master-slave operation, the operation of the master stick is exactly the same as that of traditional manual operation, which greatly shortens the learning time. By operating the left and right master stick together, the physician can manipulate the knob of the endoscope handle, the forceps lifter, the water and gas button, the water absorption button, the guide wire and catheter delivery, withdrawal, and instrument exchange. The robot also includes a closed-loop mechanism for the delivery of the guide wire and instrument, which avoids the risk of slippage or blockage during the movement of the guide wire and instrument. The resistance is reproduced in real-time during the master operation, so the physician possesses the actual feeling.
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Shop the Discover America's Best Organic Mattress Sale and Save up to $175 September 30 – October 11
CHICAGO, Sept. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Family owned-and-operated My Green Mattress is pleased to announce that their Kiwi Organic Mattress won Good Housekeeping's 2022 Parenting Award as a Fantastic First Mattress in the Superb Sleep Star category.
The Kiwi Mattress is GOTS and GOLS certified organic and free of harmful chemicals. The eco-friendly mattress is made to order with a pocketed coil innerspring and sustainable materials including organic Dunlop latex, organic wool and organic cotton for contouring support and breathability. The practice of button-tufting holds its filling materials together without the use of adhesives to ensure longevity. A button tufted mattress will last one and a half times longer than a traditional mattress, the only choice for eco-conscious consumers who are looking to minimize waste and strive for a cleaner, healthier planet.
The Kiwi Organic Mattress is the most affordable in the organic mattress industry. It is available in all standard sizes and in low-profile height for bunk beds. It is available two-sided so the mattress can be flipped.
During the company's Discover America's Best Organic Mattress Sale, customers can Save up to $175 on their full line of GOTS and GOLS certified organic mattresses for the whole family. My Green Mattress proudly handcrafts their full line of certified organic mattresses in the USA.
Each mattress comes with a risk-free 120-Night Sleep Trial, a 20-year warranty, and free shipping in the continental USA. The company is pleased to offer an additional $50 discount on every order to active US military and veterans. The family-owned and operated company is committed to donating 1% of their total sales to environmental organizations working to create a healthier planet for all through their partnership with 1% For The Planet.
In 2007, Tim Masters, a mattress craftsman, launched a nontoxic organic line of mattresses called My Green Mattress when his daughter Emily was diagnosed with eczema and allergies. Masters created the hypoallergenic Emily Organic Crib Mattress made with organic materials for her, and soon after he developed MyGreenMattress.com where customers across the country can purchase safe, healthy, and affordable mattresses for the entire family. For a virtual tour of the factory and additional information, please visit www.mygreenmattress.com.
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