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Royals fourth. MJ Melendez flies out to right field to Daulton Varsho. Bobby Witt Jr. homers to left field. Salvador Perez flies out to right field to Daulton Varsho. Ryan O'Hearn grounds out to first base, Josh Rojas to Christian Walker.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 left on. Royals 1, Diamondbacks 0.
Diamondbacks sixth. Daulton Varsho strikes out swinging. Jake McCarthy singles to shallow center field. Carson Kelly pops out to shallow right field to Nicky Lopez. Alek Thomas singles to shallow left field. Jake McCarthy to second. Geraldo Perdomo singles to shallow infield, advances to 2nd. Alek Thomas to third. Jake McCarthy scores. Josh Rojas grounds out to shallow right field to Nick Pratto.
1 run, 3 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Diamondbacks 1, Royals 1.
Diamondbacks seventh. Emmanuel Rivera grounds out to shallow infield, Josh Staumont to Salvador Perez to Nick Pratto. Ketel Marte singles to right field. Christian Walker singles to left field, advances to 2nd. Ketel Marte to third. Fielding error by MJ Melendez. Daulton Varsho walks. Jake McCarthy out on a sacrifice fly to deep left field to MJ Melendez. Daulton Varsho to second. Christian Walker to third. Ketel Marte scores. Carson Kelly flies out to Drew Waters.
1 run, 2 hits, 1 error, 2 left on. Diamondbacks 2, Royals 1.
Diamondbacks eighth. Alek Thomas doubles. Geraldo Perdomo called out on strikes. Josh Rojas walks. Emmanuel Rivera walks. Josh Rojas to second. Alek Thomas to third. Ketel Marte out on a sacrifice fly to left field to MJ Melendez. Alek Thomas scores. Christian Walker doubles to shallow infield. Emmanuel Rivera to third. Josh Rojas scores. Christian Walker to third. Emmanuel Rivera scores. Daulton Varsho flies out to shallow center field to Bobby Witt Jr..
3 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Diamondbacks 5, Royals 1.
Royals eighth. Nicky Lopez triples to deep right center field. Drew Waters strikes out swinging. MJ Melendez out on a sacrifice fly to deep left field to Jake McCarthy. Nicky Lopez scores. Bobby Witt Jr. triples to deep right center field. Salvador Perez singles to left center field. Bobby Witt Jr. scores. Michael Massey pinch-hitting for Brent Rooker. Michael Massey flies out to deep right center field to Daulton Varsho.
2 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Diamondbacks 5, Royals 3.
Diamondbacks ninth. Jake McCarthy walks. Carson Kelly walks. Jake McCarthy to second. Alek Thomas reaches on a fielder's choice to second base. Carson Kelly to second. Jake McCarthy out at home. Geraldo Perdomo lines out to center field to Michael A. Taylor. Josh Rojas singles to left field. Alek Thomas to second. Carson Kelly scores. Emmanuel Rivera doubles to deep right field. Josh Rojas to third. Alek Thomas scores. Ketel Marte lines out to center field to Michael A. Taylor.
2 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Diamondbacks 7, Royals 3.
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INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – The Indiana Department of Health on Monday released new COVID-19 data.
The data was collected through Sunday. The state’s tallies — shown in the timeframes of the previous week, previous month, previous year, and “All Time” — are being updated only on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
The department says 11,063 Hoosiers tested positive for COVID-19 in the previous week.
Also in the previous week, a total of 15 Hoosiers died, and no probable deaths were reported. The state has recorded 23,263 deaths and 1,008 probable deaths for “All Time” from the coronavirus.
The “All Time” count for Indiana shows 1,862,813 Hoosiers have tested positive for the virus, and a total of 20,671,204 tests have been administered.
The state says 749 Hoosiers were hospitalized Sunday with COVID-19.
IDOH says 10,028,277 vaccine doses have been given through Sunday in Indiana.
A total of 3,813,919 Hoosiers were fully vaccinated through Sunday. That’s about 54.9% of the total population.
According to the Regenstrief Institute, 1,661,222 Hoosiers are estimated to have recovered from the virus.
According to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, there have been more than 591,753,000 confirmed cases worldwide, with more than 6,439,000 deaths.
More information, including interactive graphs, can be found here.
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IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- WNC, a leading provider of investment, asset management and development services in the affordable housing industry, announced today it has closed WNC Institutional Tax Credit Fund 53, L.P. (Corp 53), a low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) fund totaling $153.4 million in equity.
Corp 53 raised the $153.4 million in equity from a total of nine institutional investors. The closure of the fund brings WNC's total equity raise since inception to more than $7 billion.
"WNC has spent more than five decades working alongside investment partners to provide safe, high quality, and affordable housing to families in need across the nation," said WNC Executive Vice President of Investor Relations Christine Cormier. "We are pleased to announce the closing of Fund 53 which raised significant equity that will further our mission to alleviate the affordable housing crisis in our country."
Equity from the fund will be used to construct and renovate more than 1,300 affordable housing units across 16 properties in Alaska, California, Connecticut, Florida, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Maine, Montana, Nevada, Texas and Washington DC. The properties include multifamily and senior housing in urban, suburban and rural areas. Some of the housing units are set aside for special populations including veterans; homeless, formerly homeless or at-risk of homelessness; and mobility, hearing and visually impaired residents.
Corp 53 welcomed three new investors and five new development partners. Included in the projects that will be funded by the fund are RFW Apartments and Junegrass Place. RFW, or Refuge for Women, Apartments in Lancaster, Kentucky, will provide affordable homes for 24 families with a special targeted population of women who have been the victims of sex trafficking, sexual exploitation or domestic abuse. Junegrass Place in Kalispell, Montana, will be comprised of two adjacent properties that will consist of 138 multifamily units and provide several community amenities, including a clubhouse, fitness center, playground, picnic area and walking paths.
The fund will create approximately 2,060 jobs and the aggregate economic impact is expected to generate more than $314 million in local income tax and other government revenue. Out of Corp 53's 1,300 units, 61% are located in difficult to develop areas and/or qualified census tracts and 46% are located in majority minority tracts.
WNC, founded in 1971 and headquartered in Irvine, Calif., is a national investor in affordable housing and community development initiatives. The firm has acquired approximately $15.2 billion of assets totaling in excess of 1,700 properties in 48 states, Washington D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. WNC's investor base exceeds 19,500 institutional and retail clients, including Fortune 500 companies, multinational banks, and insurance companies. Additional information is available at www.wncinc.com.
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Disturbing Trend Underscores Need for Vigilance to Protect Our Most Vulnerable
JACKSON, Miss., July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- New data indicates rates of COVID-19 cases and deaths in America's nursing homes rose substantially in June for the second month in a row, ending several months of decline from the peak of the initial Omicron wave in January 2022 and heightening concerns that a new surge is upon us.
The rate of nursing home resident deaths nationwide increased by more than 50% in the four-week period ending June 19, according to AARP's Nursing Home COVID-19 Dashboard, compared to the previous Dashboard release, with more than 750 resident deaths reported.
Here in Mississippi, resident deaths were up from 0.00 in the previous four-week period ending May 22, to five deaths (0.04), in the four-week period ending June 19. Since the beginning of the pandemic, more than 2,000 nursing home residents in Mississippi have died from COVID-19.
The number of COVID-19 cases among nursing home residents is 246, and the number of COVID-19 cases among nursing home staff is 302, according to the new report.
Furthermore, the rate of resident cases nationwide increased by 27%, compared to the previous four weeks, according to the Dashboard, while the rate of staff cases nationwide increased by 42% during the same reporting period.
Nursing home resident cases in Mississippi were up from a rate of 0.45 in the previous four- week period ending May 22, to 1.81 in the four-week period ending June 19. The rate of staff cases was up from 0.51 in the previous report to 2.22 in the current Dashboard.
"Our loved ones in nursing homes are among our most vulnerable," said Kimberly L. Campbell, Esq., State Director of AARP Mississippi, which serves more than 260,000 members age 50 and older in Mississippi. "Rising deaths and cases of COVID-19 among nursing home residents and staff nationally show that for their sakes, we must remain vigilant, and we must hold nursing homes accountable for providing high quality care and safe environments."
The latest data from the AARP COVID-19 Nursing Home Dashboard shows that as of June 19, approximately 67% of nursing home residents in Mississippi were fully vaccinated with at least one booster dose, a slight increase from mid-May. Among nursing home staff, 29.9% are fully vaccinated with at least one booster dose, a slight increase from mid-May.
The AARP Nursing Home COVID-19 Dashboard analyzes federally reported data in four-week periods going back to June 1, 2020. Using this data, the AARP Public Policy Institute, in collaboration with the Scripps Gerontology Center at Miami University in Ohio, created the Dashboard to provide snapshots of the virus' infiltration into nursing homes and impact on nursing home residents and staff, with the goal of identifying specific areas of concern at the national and state levels in a timely manner.
The full AARP Nursing Home COVID-19 Dashboard is available at www.aarp.org/nursinghomedashboard. Medicare.gov's Care Compare website now offers information about vaccination and booster rates within individual nursing homes and how they compare to state and national averages.
For more information on how coronavirus is impacting nursing homes and AARP's advocacy on this issue, visit www.aarp.org/nursinghomes.
AARP is the nation's largest nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to empowering people 50 and older to choose how they live as they age. With a nationwide presence and nearly 38 million members, AARP strengthens communities and advocates for what matters most to families: health security, financial stability and personal fulfillment. AARP also produces the nation's largest circulation publications: AARP The Magazine and AARP Bulletin. To learn more, visit www.aarp.org, www.aarp.org/espanol or follow @AARP, @AARPenEspanol and @AARPadvocates, @AliadosAdelante on social media.
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ROME (AP) — Premier Mario Draghi insisted Tuesday his government was able to keep working despite tensions with the 5-Star Movement, but he warned that it can’t function if coalition members make ultimatums.
Draghi briefed reporters after meeting with unions on the government’s latest efforts to mitigate the effects of soaring inflation and high energy costs on workers, families and industries.
The meeting came after 5-Star lawmakers abstained from voting on a government measure in the lower Chamber of Deputies on Monday, in a sign of a lack of support that prompted Draghi to go huddle with the Italian president. The measure comes before the Senate on Thursday, and questions abound about whether the 5-Stars will abstain in the upper chamber as well.
Draghi stressed: “I have said there is no government without the 5-Stars, and I have said there is no Draghi government other than the current one.”
The 5-Star leadership has been complaining for weeks about government priorities, demanding more generous financial relief for families and businesses slammed by high energy costs and continued funding of a guaranteed monthly salary for those unable to find work.
Draghi said the current government of national unity, which includes parties from the right, left and the populist 5-Stars, had handled the 5-Star “fibrillations” well and was able to still do its work and get things done.
“These fibrillations are important because they concern the existence of the government, but they become more important if the government, even if while existing, can’t do it’s work,” he said. He warned against any further threats down the line, insisting that “a government doesn’t work with ultimatums.”
The 5-Stars Movement, which was the biggest party in Parliament after the 2018 election, has seen its influence wane in the ensuing years amid poor showings in local and administrative elections, as well as expulsions and defections among lawmakers in Parliament.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Democratic U.S. Rep. Karen Bass and billionaire developer Rick Caruso breezed past a large field of rivals looking to be the next mayor of Los Angeles and advanced Tuesday to a runoff election in November.
An early tally of mail-in ballots showed Caruso with 41% and Bass with 38%. A candidate needed to top 50% to avoid a runoff.
A dozen names were on the ballot, though several candidates dropped out.
Bass, a favorite of the party’s progressive wing, and the Republican-turned-Democrat Caruso easily distanced themselves from the rest of the field. City Councilman Kevin de Leon, a former state Senate leader, was a distant third with 7%.
Bass, who was on then President-elect Joe Biden’s short list for vice president, would be the first woman mayor of Los Angeles and the second Black person to hold the office.
The race largely focused on homelessness and crime. More than 40,000 people live in trash-strewn homeless encampments and rusty RVs, and widely publicized smash-and-grab robberies and home invasions have unsettled residents.
Each candidate used their victory speeches to promise a better tomorrow while also taking shots at their opponent.
“Together we will make a city where you want to live because you feel safe, because the air you breathe is clean, and because people are no longer dying on our streets,” Bass said. “Not with empty promises from the past, but through a bold path forward.”
Caruso quoted Bass as saying that under her leadership homelessness would not be solved in her first term and that the most residents could count on would be “light at the end of the tunnel” after four years.
“Whoa. Whoa,” Caruso said. “Let me respond by saying this: The light at the end of the tunnel is shining bright tonight.”
Caruso, 63, who sits on the board of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and was endorsed by the police union, has positioned himself as a centrist outsider running against City Hall’s progressive establishment. He blames Bass, 68, and other longtime incumbents for sprawling homeless encampments that have spread into virtually every neighborhood and concerns about unsafe streets.
“This is a great night because so many people have gone to the voting booth, and they’ve sent a message: We are not helpless in the face of our problems,” Caruso said. “We will not allow this city to decline. We will no longer accept excuses.”
His strong performance is an unwelcome sign for Democrats defending their fragile majorities in Congress and in other races around the country.
The last time City Hall veered to the political right was in 1993, when voters turned to Republican businessman Richard Riordan to lead the city in the aftermath of the deadly 1992 riots that erupted after four white police officers were acquitted of assault in the beating of Black motorist Rodney King.
Los Angeles, however, is much changed since Riordan’s days. It’s more Latino, less white and more solidly Democratic. Only 13% of registered voters are Republicans.
Caruso’s estimated $4.3 billion fortune allowed him to run a seemingly nonstop display of TV and online ads. His campaign’s spending — over $40 million as of early this week, most of it his money — topped all other candidates combined.
“It’s hard to defeat a people-powered campaign … no matter how much money is spent, and it’s hard to defeat folks who are committed to a cause, not just a candidate,” Bass said. “All of us stood strong against an onslaught, a $45 million onslaught to be exact, spent by a billionaire.”
By comparison, Bass’ spending hit about $3.3 million, though both campaigns were also supported by ads from outside groups.
There was competition over celebrity endorsements, as is typical in Los Angeles. Earvin “Magic” Johnson backed Bass, while Caruso had Snoop Dogg and Gwyneth Paltrow behind him.
The race took a nasty turn recently.
Ads run by Bass and her allies depict Caruso as a West coast version of former President Donald Trump, who is dodging taxes, blowing a “right wing dog whistle” and lying about Bass’ record.
In advertising from Caruso and his supporters, Bass emerges as an ethically compromised charlatan who missed key votes in Congress and counts an indicted city councilman in her circle of friends.
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Associated Press writer Robert Jablon contributed to this report.
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Republican candidate’s ‘RINO hunting’ video removed by Facebook
Facebook on Monday removed a campaign video by a U.S. Senate candidate in Missouri for violating “policies prohibiting violence and incitement,” because the ad showed the Republican brandishing a shotgun and declaring that he was hunting RINOs, or Republicans in Name Only.
In the video, candidate Eric Greitens identifies himself as a Navy SEAL and says he’s going RINO hunting. “The RINO feeds on corruption and is marked by the stripes of cowardice,” he whispers outside a building before a tactical unit breaks through a door and throws what appear to be flash-bang grenades inside.
Greitens, a former Missouri governor who resigned in disgrace in 2018, enters through the smoke and says, “Join the MAGA crew. Get a RINO hunting permit. There’s no bagging limit, no tagging limit and it doesn’t expire until we save our country.”
The video comes at a time of renewed focus on gun violence and violence in politics following fatal mass shootings and threats to government officials. Two weeks ago, a man carrying a gun, a knife and zip ties was arrested near Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh’s house after threatening to kill the justice.
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Facebook wasn’t the only social media company that took action. Twitter said Greitens’ post violated its rules about abusive behavior but said it was leaving it up because it was in the “public’s interest” for the tweet to be viewable. The company’s move prevented the post from being shared any further.
Greitens’ campaign did not address the action taken by the two social media companies.
“If anyone doesn’t get the metaphor, they are either lying or dumb,” campaign manager Dylan Johnson said in a brief emailed statement.
The ad comes at a time when Greitens is trying to move past graphic allegations of domestic abuse, which were made in a sworn affidavit filed by his ex-wife in the former couple’s child custody dispute.
Greitens stepped aside as Missouri’s governor in 2018 amid a scandal involving accusations of blackmail, bondage and sexual assault. Sheena Greitens has alleged that, at that time, Eric Greitens was physically abusive and demonstrated such “unstable and coercive behavior” that steps were taken to limit his access to firearms, court documents state.
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Free document shredding and electronics recycling available at Comerica Bank's Livonia Operations Center
DETROIT, May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Comerica Bank encourages the public to bring paper documents and electronic devices for recycling to the Comerica Bank Livonia Operation Center (39200 W. Six Mile, Livonia 48152) on Saturday, June 11, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., for the return of its annual Shred Day.
Back for the first time since 2019, Comerica is partnering with Iron Mountain Incorporated and Information System Resources (ISR) to offer residents and business owners a way to securely dispose of sensitive paper documents, computers, keyboards, monitors and cellular devices through free shredding and electronics recycling.
"According to the Federal Trade Commission data released in February of this year, consumers reported losing more than $5.8 billion to fraud in 2021, and the number of victims continues to increase," said Scott Beckerman, Comerica Bank Senior Vice President & Director of Corporate Sustainability. "This research reinforces the importance of providing our community with a secured recycling opportunity to protect themselves and their businesses from identity theft and fraud."
At Comerica's 2019 Metro Detroit Shred Day, approximately 111,000 pounds of documents were shredded and 14,000 pounds of electronics and computer equipment were recycled, establishing a record for the largest single-site haul at Comerica's southeast Michigan Shred Day since 2008. Nearly 1,200 vehicles took advantage of the free service during the five-hour event.
"Not only does this initiative protect from fraud, it also positively impacts the environment and the communities around us," said Beckerman. "We appreciate the partnerships involved in supporting this outreach. As we work to contribute to a more secure and a sustainable future, we likewise want to make a positive impact in reducing food insecurity during this event. So, we also encourage people to bring a donation to Gleaners at Shred Day."
Since 2013, Shred Day in metro Detroit has led to securely destroying more than 350,000 pounds of paper, which then was turned into pulp and recycled. The process of recycling paper into new paper products generates 74% less air pollution and uses 50% less water than producing paper from traditional forest products.
ELECTRONICS RECYCLING
In addition to securely shredding sensitive documents, Information Systems Resources will be on site accepting small computer electronic devices and accessories. Computer equipment (e.g., CPUs, laptops, CRT monitors, LCD displays, all-in-ones, servers, switches, hubs, keyboards, mice, speakers, wireless internet cards, hard drives, optical drives, circuit boards, wires and cables) will be securely disposed and recycled.
For more information and a complete list of accepted and prohibited items, please visit www.comerica.com/ShredDay.
GIVE BACK TO GLEANERS
In addition to providing free recycling, Comerica Bank is also accepting non-perishable food donations during the one-day event to support Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan.
Gleaners provides food to more than 600 partner agencies, including schools, soup kitchens, food pantries, shelters, and others across the region, and supplements efforts of those partners by offering direct service drive-up grocery distributions. Every dollar donated provides three meals, and 94 cents of every donated dollar goes to food and food programs.
In 2019, generous guests donated more than 3,300 pounds of food and approximately $3,500 in cash to Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan, generating over 13,000 meals for those in need.
About Comerica Bank
Comerica Bank, a subsidiary of Comerica Incorporated, has served Michigan longer than any other bank with a continuous presence dating back over 172 years to its Detroit founding in 1849. It is the largest bank employer in metro Detroit and has more than 4,600 employees (FTE) statewide. With one of the largest banking center networks in Michigan, Comerica nurtures lifelong relationships with unwavering integrity and financial prudence. Comerica positively impacts the lives of Michigan residents by helping customers be successful, providing financial support that assists hundreds of charitable organizations, and actively participating in Detroit's downtown revitalization. Comerica Incorporated (NYSE: CMA) is a financial services company strategically aligned by three business segments: The Commercial Bank, The Retail Bank, and Wealth Management. Follow on Facebook: www.facebook.com/Comerica, Twitter: @ComericaBank and Instagram: @comerica_bank.
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan outlined a long-term preparedness plan for dealing with COVID-19 on Thursday, with a focus on treatments to keep people out of hospitals and keeping the state ready to respond to virus variants and a potential increase in cases.
Hogan said the state has nearly doubled its “Test to Treat” sites to nearly 90 locations over the last three months to make it easier for people to get tested for the virus.
The governor also said the state health department is preparing dozens more urgent care and ambulatory care locations to be ready to provide these services by the fall.
Maryland also is aiming to maximize treatments for COVID-19, Hogan said. While therapies are a relatively new tool, they are becoming more prevalent. Although the treatments are not cures, they have a high success rate in keeping people out of the hospital.
Officials also gave an update on the state’s preparations for vaccinations for children under 5. Pending federal approval, Maryland will have COVID-19 vaccines available for infants and toddlers as early as June 20.
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WYOMING, Mich. (AP) — Police on Wednesday identified a Wyoming woman and her two children who were allegedly shot and killed by her boyfriend who then killed himself.
Police said Liliana Landa-Sanchez, 33, and daughters, Joelin Hernandez-Landa, 13, and Ayzy Hernandez-Landa, 11, were found slain early Tuesday in their home in Wyoming, just southwest of Grand Rapids, The Grand Rapids Press reported.
Police said they believe that Oscar Moran-Hernandez, 43, shot the woman and her daughters.
Three other children, ages 2, 5, and 9, were in the house but not physically harmed, police said.
Landa-Sanchez and Moran-Hernandez were parents to the younger two children.
The killings were discovered around 4 a.m. Tuesday. Moran-Hernandez called a relative who showed up at the residence after he had killed himself, police said.
Public Safety Chief Kimberly Koster said Tuesday that the initial investigation showed the shootings likely stemmed from a domestic situation.
Police continue to investigate.
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Updated July 26, 2022 at 12:34 PM ET
A national Democratic group is spending money in a Michigan Republican primary, the latest instance of the party's controversial moves to elevate far-right GOP candidates that Democrats believe would be easier to beat in the fall.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on Monday released a new TV ad about John Gibbs, a Republican who's seeking to oust Michigan Rep. Peter Meijer, one of just 10 GOP members of the House who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump following the Capitol insurrection. Trump has endorsed Gibbs.
The DCCC ad says Gibbs, who has has baselessly questioned the results of the 2020 presidential election, was "handpicked by Trump to run for Congress," adding that Gibbs is "too conservative for West Michigan."
On its face, then, the ad is framed as an attack, but its messaging on Trump would likely appeal to Republican primary voters. As Politico notes, the spot "will also raise Gibbs' name ID in the district, especially given Gibbs' campaign has not been able to air its own TV ads."
The DCCC, which is focused on holding on to its narrow majority in the House, declined to comment.
Meijer's Grand Rapids-based district, which tilted left as a result of redistricting, is considered a toss up by the Cook Political Report, so it's a top target for Democrats.
"The DCCC boosting John Gibbs is clear evidence of who [House Speaker] Nancy Pelosi prefers in this race," Emily Taylor, Meijer's spokesperson, said in a statement. "We are confident that voters will see through Democrats' political games while Peter remains focused on the issues that matter most to the people he represents."
Part of a larger trend
The spending in Michigan, which holds its primaries on Tuesday, is not the first time Democratic groups have meddled in Republican primaries this year.
In California, a Democratic super PAC funded a TV ad criticizing Rep. David Valadao's GOP bona fides. Valadao, another of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump, narrowly finished ahead of a far-right challenger in June's primary.
Democrats have made similar moves in places such as Colorado, Maryland and Pennsylvania. In Pennsylvania, Doug Mastriano, who was the subject of ads paid for by Democratic gubernatorial nominee Josh Shapiro, is now the GOP nominee himself.
Some Democrats have criticized the high-risk, high-reward strategy, especially when the party boosts candidates who are viewed as a threat to democracy.
"This has to be done very carefully," Claire McCaskill, a former Democratic senator from Missouri, told NPR last month. In 2012, McCaskill's reelection campaign spent $1.7 million on ads during the GOP primary to highlight the conservative credentials of Todd Akin. McCaskill then ended up beating Akin in the general election.
Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger — another of the House Republicans who voted for Trump's impeachment, and now one of two GOP members on the select committee investigating the Capitol attack — on Tuesday blasted the moves.
"It's disgusting," he told CNN Tuesday morning. "You're going to have election deniers win [in November]. So while I think a certain number of Democrats truly understand that democracy is threatened, don't come to me after having spent money supporting an election denier in a primary, and then come to me and say, 'Where are all the good Republicans?' "
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The Weld County Coroner’s Office identified the man who was shot and killed during a pursuit by law enforcement last week as a 53-year-old Loveland man.
Douglas Weishaupl died following the altercation near Mead, according to a news release from the office.
About 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Weishaupl was traveling in a vehicle police started pursuing in Larimer County. Police in a news release said Weishaupl was “a known wanted fugitive.”
Online court records indicate he had warrants out for failing to appear in court for four cases: a Jefferson County case relating to charges of possessing burglary tools and aggravated motor vehicle theft in February, a Larimer County case for theft, traffic and drug charges in May 2021, a Larimer County case for a Class 1 drug misdemeanor in May 2021 and a Larimer County case for drug paraphernalia and driving under restraint in September 2021.
During the pursuit, according to police, Weishaupl fired multiple rounds at Larimer County deputies as the driver tried eluding deputies. Shortly after, the driver stopped and Weishaupl fled on foot to a field near Weld County Road 38 and the Interstate 25 Frontage road.
He was shot and killed. Police did not indicate in the initial release that law enforcement fired any weapons.
The 19th Judicial District Critical Incident Response Team, a multi-agency unit that investigates all shootings involving police, is investigating the incident under the leadership of the Greeley Police Department. Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact Greeley police Detective Fidel Sanchez at (970) 351-5394.
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Autopsies: 3 family members killed at Iowa state park campground were shot, stabbed and strangled
ANKENY, Iowa (AP) — Three family members killed during a shooting last month at an eastern Iowa state park were shot, stabbed and/or strangled, according to autopsy results released Thursday.
Tyler Schmidt, 42, died from a gunshot wound and “multiple sharp force injuries,” while his wife, 42-year-old Sarah Schmidt, died from multiple sharp force injuries, the Iowa Department of Public Safety said in a news release.
Their 6-year-old daughter, Lula Schmidt, died from a gunshot wound and strangulation, officials said. All three family members’ deaths have been ruled homicides.
The department confirmed Thursday that the killer was Anthony Sherwin, 23, of LaVista, Nebraska, who died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after the family was attacked early on the morning of July 22 in their tent at the Maquoketa Caves State Park campground.
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Which Samsung monitor is best?
Choosing a monitor for your computer is much the same as choosing a television for your living room — after all, a TV is just a special kind of monitor. As such, they have many of the same considerations, such as size and resolution. Narrowing your choices by brand can make shopping easier, and Samsung is among the best manufacturers.
Its best monitor is the Samsung 32-Inch QHD Computer Monitor, excellent for any high-level activity outside of the most extreme gaming needs.
What to know before you buy a Samsung monitor
How will it be used?
To avoid overspending, this is the most important question to ask before you start shopping for a Samsung monitor.
- Average use is essentially surfing the web, watching the occasional YouTube video and doing some bookkeeping. This user should buy the cheapest monitor they can find that they’re happy with.
- Non-creative professional use isn’t much different than average use, but your job might need to take advantage of better-than-usual specs.
- Creative professional use requires a monitor with a high resolution and plenty of ports but doesn’t need the extremes of hardcore gaming monitors.
- Gaming monitors offer the best of everything, but for staggeringly high costs. That doesn’t mean you should leap to the most expensive — compare your computer’s specs to your potential monitor to find the perfect fit.
Size
Monitor sizes are measured on a diagonal from one top corner to the opposite bottom corner. Even the cheapest Samsung monitors are relatively roomy at roughly 20-24 inches. Better monitors are usually 27-32 inches, while gaming monitors can be as wide as 50 inches.
What to look for in a quality Samsung monitor
Resolution
Resolution in monitors works just like in TVs and uses much of the same terminology.
- HD is 720p and is used in the cheapest Samsung monitors. This is more than enough for the average YouTube video and office work.
- Full HD is 1080p and is the average resolution of streaming content. Consider this the baseline if you plan on watching movies and TV shows or playing the average game.
- QHD is Samsung’s branding for the half step between full HD and true 4K resolution, at 1440p. Samsung’s best monitors typically offer this resolution.
- 4K, 2160p, is the highest resolution commonly available. Only the best Samsung monitors offer it, but prices are becoming more affordable as time goes on.
Refresh rate and response time
Refresh rate and response time are most important to gamers and creative professionals who work with video.
- Refresh rate is measured in hertz and is the fastest rate at which the image can be refreshed. The higher the refresh rate, the more frames per second can be displayed while gaming.
- Response time is measured in milliseconds and is the time it takes a monitor to change the image. The lower the better, with some gaming monitors having 1-millisecond response times.
How much you can expect to spend on a Samsung monitor
Samsung monitors typically cost $200-$2,000. Basic monitors for the average user shouldn’t cost more than $250. For up to $500 you can find mid-sized and high-quality monitors that are great for creative jobs and streaming. The best-of-the-best easily eclipse $2,000.
Samsung monitor FAQ
What is VESA and what does it mean to be VESA compatible?
A. VESA stands for Video Electronics Standards Association and it works to standardize much of the electronics industry. One of VESA’s most prominent standards is in mounting hardware. Thanks to VESA, it’s almost a guarantee that you can use the same mount with almost any monitor — including TVs.
Should I use an ultrawide monitor or two smaller monitors side-by-side?
A. Both styles are effective, leaving it mostly up to preference or budget constraints. Gamers should grab an ultra-wide monitor, as having a physical space between monitors will affect how their game looks. Professionals and the average user should be fine with separate monitors unless you plan on watching plenty of videos. That said, an ultra-wide monitor usually costs more than two smaller monitors of similar quality.
What’s the best Samsung monitor to buy?
Top Samsung monitor
Samsung 32-Inch QHD Computer Monitor
What you need to know: This is the perfect monitor for watching high-quality videos or working on creative projects.
What you’ll love: It offers QHD resolution and can display one billion colors. The stand is adjustable and can move the monitor into landscape or portrait orientation. It has an HDMI port and several USB-C ports. It also comes in 24- and 27-inch sizes.
What you should consider: There are no built-in speakers. Changing monitor settings can be complicated. It isn’t great for high-end gaming.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Samsung monitor for the money
Samsung 27-Inch Frameless Curved Gaming Monitor
What you need to know: This basic monitor is a great choice for everyday needs.
What you’ll love: It has full HD resolution and a 60-hertz refresh rate, making it a solid choice for watching videos and playing the occasional game. To preserve your eyes’ health, it uses special modes to reduce blue light emissions without limiting brightness.
What you should consider: Curved monitors can take some getting used to. There are no built-in speakers. The power button is on the back and hard to reach.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Samsung 49-Inch Odyssey Neo G9 Gaming Monitor
What you need to know: This gargantuan beast of a monitor is built for one thing — hardcore gaming.
What you’ll love: The 49-inch monitor can be digitally divided to act as two side-by-side 27-inch monitors. It packs in 4K resolution with a 240-hertz refresh rate to take advantage of high-end gaming PC specs. The included stand is fully adjustable and the monitor is compliant with VESA.
What you should consider: It’s expensive, and the curve is extreme, even for those who like curved monitors. A few purchasers reported an odd clicking sound on occasion.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A man who was among those injured in a weekend shooting in Lafayette has been arrested in connection with the incident.
Lafayette police said 21-year-old Kevon McCaster was taken into custody on two counts of murder and a count of aggravated battery upon his release from the hospital. He’s being held without bond at the Tippecanoe County Jail.
McCaster was among four people wounded during an exchange of gunfire inside an apartment. It happened as dozens of people gathered outside for a large block party. McCaster was involved in a fight that led to gunfire, police said.
Two people died inside the apartment. Police identified them as 33-year-old Tommy Marshall and 29-year-old Edward Roberson. Four other people, including McCaster, were injured in the exchange.
Officers were dispatched to the 3000 block of Phipps Court around 4:20 a.m. Sunday after reports of gunfire.
Police located numerous shell castings inside and outside the apartment. They said multiple apartments and vehicles were struck by the resulting gunfire.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Young people are following the news, but aren't too happy with what they're seeing.
Broadly speaking, that's the conclusion of a study released Wednesday showing 79% of young Americans say they get news daily. The survey of young people ages 16 to 40 — the older of which are known as millennials and the younger Generation Z — was conducted by Media Insight Project, a collaboration between The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and the American Press Institute.
The report pokes holes in the idea that young people aren't interested in news, a perception largely driven by statistics showing older audiences for television news and newspapers.
“They are more engaged in more ways than people give them credit for,” said Michael Bolden, CEO and executive director of the American Press Institute.
An estimated 71% of this age group gets news daily from social media. The social media diet is becoming more varied; Facebook doesn't dominate the way it used to. About a third or more get news each day from YouTube and Instagram, and about a quarter or more from TikTok, Snapchat and Twitter. Now, 40% say they get news from Facebook daily, compared with 57% of millennials who said that in a 2015 Media Insight Project survey.
Yet 45% also said they get news each day from traditional sources, like television or radio stations, newspapers and news websites.
The poll found that about a quarter of young people say they regularly pay for at least one news product, like print or digital magazines or newspapers, and a similar percentage have donated to at least one nonprofit news organization.
Only 32% say they enjoy following the news. That's a marked decrease from seven years ago, when 53% of millennials said that. Fewer young people now say they enjoy talking with family and friends about the news.
Other findings, such as people who say they feel worse the longer they spend online or who set time limits on their consumption, point to a weariness with the news, said Tom Rosenstiel, a University of Maryland journalism professor.
“I wasn't surprised by that,” Bolden said. “It has been a challenging news cycle, especially the last three years.”
About 9 in 10 young people say misinformation about issues and events is a problem, including about 6 in 10 who say it's a major problem. Most say they've been exposed to misinformation themselves.
Asked who they consider most responsible for its spread, young people pointed to social media companies and users, politicians and the media in equal measure.
That may surprise people in the media who believe they are fighting misinformation, and are not part of the problem, Bolden said. A significant number of people disagree.
“Whether that's accurate or not, the people in this business have to deal with that perception,” he said.
He suggested that it's important for news organizations to better explain what it is that they do and how coverage decisions are made, along with taking a step back to make clear how government functions, as well as holding leaders to account.
The percentage of people who say “news stories that seem to mostly create conflict rather than help address it” and “media outlets that pass on conspiracy theories and unsubstantiated rumors” are a major problem exceeded the number of people concerned about journalists putting too much opinion in their stories, the survey found.
That would seem to point a finger at cable news outlets that fill air time with debates on particular issues, often pitting people with extreme points of view. New CNN chief executive Chris Licht has recently called on his network to cool the overheated segments.
“There are people who have grown up in this world of political food-fight media, and this is the only world they know,” said Rosenstiel, who worked on the survey as Bolden's predecessor at the press institute. “They might have heard their parents talk about Walter Cronkite, but they haven't seen that.”
The topics people ages 16 to 40 say they most follow in the news? Celebrities, music and entertainment, at 49%, and food and cooking, at 48%, top the list. At least a third follow a wide range of other issues, including health and fitness, race and social justice, the environment, health care, education, politics and sports.
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The AP-NORC poll of 5,975 Americans ages 16-40 was conducted May 18-June 8, using a combined sample of interviews from NORC’s probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population, and interviews from opt-in online panels. The margin of sampling error for all respondents is plus or minus 1.7 percentage points. The AmeriSpeak panel is recruited randomly using address-based sampling methods, and respondents later were interviewed online or by phone.
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WASHINGTON — The Mega Millions jackpot up for grabs Friday night will now be the third largest prize in the game's history.
The lottery announced Thursday the sum had grown to an estimated $660 million, with a cash option of $376.9 million. Only two billion-dollar jackpots have ever been higher for Mega Millions. If won at that level, the jackpot would be the ninth largest prize for any lottery game in the country.
No one won last Tuesday's Mega Millions jackpot, which was an estimated $555 million. The winning numbers for Tuesday's drawing were 2-31-32-37-70 and Gold Mega Ball 25.
The Mega Millions jackpot has steadily grown since someone last won on April 15. There has been a consecutive 27 drawings without a match for all six numbers.
The prize money has quickly climbed in the last few weeks, but the odds of winning remain the same — a staggering one in 302.5 million.
If no one wins the life-changing prize, there's a chance it could eventually set a new record. In the game's 20-year history there have only ever been two billion-dollar jackpots.
In the chance that someone does match all six numbers, the lucky winner would have the option for an annuity option, which is paid out in 30 annual payments. However, most players chose the cash option.
Last year, a Mega Millions jackpot cracked the $1 billion mark for just the second time. A four-member suburban Detroit lottery club won that $1.05 billion jackpot and chose the lump sump, receiving $557 million after taxes.
The Mega Millions drawing is on Friday, July 22 at 11 p.m. ET.
What are the top 10 biggest Mega Millions jackpots?
- $1.537 billion - 10/23/2018
- $1.050 billion - 1/22/2021
- $660 million (est) - 7/22/2022
- $656 million - 3/30/2012
- $648 million - 12/17/2013
- $543 million - 7/24/2018
- $536 million - 7/8/2016
- $533 million - 3/30/2018
- $522 million - 6/7/2019
- $516 million - 5/21//2021
Mega Millions is played on Tuesdays and Fridays in 45 states as well as Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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Hua to bolster Nulogy's strategic vision with global GTM strategy and experience
TORONTO, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Nulogy, a leading provider of supply chain collaboration solutions, today announced the appointment of Rosemary Hua to the company's board of directors. As the newest appointee of the Board of Directors at Nulogy, Hua will be responsible for advising and guiding the strategic direction of the company.
As the Global Head of Industry GTM, Retail & CPG at Snowflake, Hua brings a wealth of executive experience in retail data and eCommerce to Nulogy's Board of Directors. She leads Snowflake's strategy in retail and consumer product goods, including go-to-market strategy and advising retail c-level officers on integrating into Snowflake's data cloud. Nulogy and Snowflake announced a partnership earlier this year through the Powered by Snowflake Partner Program.
As a member of the board of directors, Hua will bring direction to accelerating frictionless, sustainable product innovation for retail and eCommerce channels.
"Rosemary has always been a strong champion of data strategy and enablement in the consumer packaged goods industry," said Jason Tham, CEO, Nulogy. "I am excited to welcome her to Nulogy's board of directors, where I know her voice and experience will strengthen the company's path to digitally accelerating global supply chains."
"Nulogy and I share a far-reaching vision about the role that data and technology can play in helping consumer supply chains innovate products more sustainably while putting them in the hands of everyday people more quickly and efficiently," said Hua. "I look forward to working with Nulogy's current board members and executive team to help the company achieve that vision."
Prior to joining Snowflake in 2020, Hua held leadership roles at major global retail companies such as Walmart and Amazon, focusing on global data strategy and enablement as well as retail data analytics.
As a nonprofit entrepreneur, Hua also founded Empathy FX International, which built and maintains five school buildings in Ghana, and is interim CEO of nonprofit Revolution Robotics, which offers low-cost robotics kits and free app learning for students to have easier access to STEM education. She was named to Forbes Magazine's 30 Under 30 list in the category of Enterprise Technology in 2021.
Hua graduated from the Haas School of Business at University of California, Berkeley.
Nulogy, a leading supplier of digital supply chain solutions, enables consumer brands and their supplier communities to collaborate on a multi-enterprise platform to deliver with excellence to an ever-changing consumer market. The Nulogy Multi-Enterprise Supply Chain Business Network Platform optimizes contract manufacturing and co-packing operations, while empowering consumer brands and their external suppliers to accelerate network responsiveness and collaborate at the speed of today's market.
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Heard: Depp team of enablers shielded his drug, alcohol use
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Johnny Depp surrounded himself with an entourage of enablers to shield him from the consequences of his drug and alcohol use, his ex-wife Amber Heard testified Thursday.
Heard was back on the witness stand to defend herself against her ex-husband’s libel allegations.
Depp is suing Heard for libel over an op-ed she wrote in The Washington Post describing herself as “a public figure representing domestic abuse.” His lawyers say he was defamed by the 2018 article even though it never mentioned his name.
Heard told jurors about photos she took of Depp starting in 2013 in which he was passed out. She said she took the photos because Depp couldn’t remember what he’d done when he was drunk, and denied what had occurred while he was blacked out.
“He wouldn’t remember, or he would deny it. There was no one to back me up,” she said.
Heard has testified that she was physically and sexually assaulted on multiple occasions by Depp, typically when he was drunk or high on drugs. Depp has denied ever hitting her, but Heard’s lawyers have said his denials lack credibility in part because he can’t remember what he’s done when he blacks out.
Depp has said Heard greatly exaggerates his drinking, and that he tolerates his liquor well. Friends, family and employees of Depp have taken the stand and backed up his contention.
But Heard said that’s part of the problem: She said Depp has a team around him that cleans him up when he gets sick and enables him to go about his business without acknowledging the consequences of his drinking.
Heard is expected to be on the stand all day Thursday in Fairfax County Circuit Court.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. — A Minnesota lawmaker who's been a longtime critic of police on Tuesday defended his conduct during a traffic stop for his adult daughter that turned into a verbal confrontation between him and officers.
Police said that Rep. John Thompson, of St. Paul, arrived in another vehicle Sunday after they pulled over his daughter for expired license tabs and for swerving out of her lane.
St. Paul Police Chief Todd Axtell said in a Facebook post on Monday that Thompson “jumped out and immediately began interfering by yelling and questioning the traffic stop and identifying himself” as a state legislator.
The chief accused the lawmaker of attempting “to intimidate and bully police officers” who were just doing their jobs. He said it was “an absolute shame” that his offices had to “endure illegitimate claims of racism, that John Thompson is still serving in the Legislature."
In a statement Tuesday, Thompson, who is Black and has accused police before of racially profiling drivers, including himself, denied misusing his position and had some praise for police.
“As an elected official I certainly would not attempt to misuse, intimidate or bully police officers with my official position,” Thompson said. “I responded as any concerned father would, arriving at a chaotic scene to help deal with my frightened daughter, who was having a verifiable mental health episode.”
Thompson said the episode was triggered by the “large presence” of St. Paul police. But he also said the officers on the scene treated him “with the utmost respect” and did an “exemplary job” of deescalating the situation.
House Democrats expelled Thompson from their caucus last fall amid old domestic abuse accusations and questions about whether he really lived in his east side district. Those allegations, which he denied, surfaced after Thompson accused a St. Paul officer of racially profiling him during a traffic stop in which he was ticketed for driving on a suspended Wisconsin license.
Thompson rejected calls at the time from top Democrats, including Gov. Tim Walz, that he resign, and remained in office as an independent. He lost a bid in March for the Democratic endorsement in his district to former Liz Lee, a former staffer for U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar and then-U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, but has said he is running for reelection anyway.
Thompson became an activist after his friend, Philando Castile, was killed by a suburban police officer during a traffic stop in 2016. As a legislator, he has campaigned for a ban on pretextual stops for minor offenses and other police accountability measures, including a bill to speed up the release of police body camera videos.
The Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association urged Thompson to allow police to release body camera video of the Sunday's incident, which requires his consent under current state law.
Brian Peters, the association's executive director, said in a letter to Thompson on Tuesday that authorizing the release would corroborate his explanation for what happened.
“Another benefit would be to highlight the effectiveness of St. Paul’s police officers in de-escalation in a mental health situation, as you also noted in your statement,” Peters wrote.
Democratic House Speaker Melissa Hortman, of Brooklyn Park, declined to comment Tuesday on whether the incident warrants an ethics investigation. She told reporters that would be up to the House Ethics Committee, but that she hadn't heard of anyone planning to file a complaint.
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LONDON, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- International Game Technology PLC ("IGT") (NYSE: IGT) announced today the release of its 2021 Sustainability Report, which outlines the Company's demonstrated environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance. IGT's 15th annual Sustainability Report validates the Company's commitment to operating as an industry-leading sustainable business and illustrates its latest achievements in generating value for its stakeholders.
"IGT understood the vast importance of sustainability 15 years ago when we issued the Company's first Sustainability Report, and our 2021 Sustainability Report underscores the progress we have made since then," said Vince Sadusky, IGT CEO. "We are developing our sustainability plans to further integrate sustainability across the entire value chain and improve the ESG impact throughout our daily operations. Highlighted in our 2021 Sustainability Report, this plan outlines strategic goals that will drive our ESG performance, now and in the future."
The latest IGT Sustainability Report demonstrates the Company's drive to create value for its stakeholders, increase its corporate citizenship and enhance reporting on its activities through four key sustainability priorities: Valuing and Protecting Our People, Advancing Responsibility, Supporting Our Communities, and Fostering Sustainable Operations.
Highlights of the report include:
- Valuing and Protecting Our People: IGT values, respects and appreciates the contributions of all employees. The diversity of its workforce and their appreciation for a multicultural work environment contributes to IGT's understanding of global business needs and builds on IGT's meaningful relationships with customers and communities.
- Advancing Responsibility: IGT's commitment to advancing responsibility includes maintaining the integrity of games by ensuring its products and services are fully compliant with existing laws and the protection of all stakeholders' rights. The Company's approach to responsible gaming follows goals and commitments that aim to raise the standards of responsible gaming throughout the industry.
- Supporting Our Communities: IGT supports communities where it operates and where its employees live through corporate programs that align with the United Nations' sustainable development goals (SDGs). Community involvement and employee engagement initiatives embrace a breadth of causes through corporate giving, corporate sponsorships and employee-driven programs.
- Fostering Sustainable Operations: IGT's sustainability practices involve continual improvement of its environmental management systems and reduction of its impact on the environment.
The 2021 Sustainability Report is available online at IGT.com. For more information on IGT's global sustainability program, visit IGT.com, or follow IGT on LinkedIn.
About IGT
IGT (NYSE:IGT) is a global leader in gaming. We deliver entertaining and responsible gaming experiences for players across all channels and regulated segments, from Lotteries and Gaming Machines to Sports Betting and Digital. Leveraging a wealth of compelling content, substantial investment in innovation, player insights, operational expertise, and leading-edge technology, our solutions deliver unrivaled gaming experiences that engage players and drive growth. We have a well-established local presence and relationships with governments and regulators in more than 100 countries around the world, and create value by adhering to the highest standards of service, integrity, and responsibility. IGT has approximately 10,500 employees. For more information, please visit www.igt.com.
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VALENCIA, Calif. , June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Valencia Technologies Corporation, a privately held company, today announced that it has completed the world's first commercial implantation of eCoin® in Sarasota, FL. The surgery was performed by Dr. Kristie Greene, a leader in the female pelvic medicine space. eCoin® received premarket approval (PMA) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in March 2022, making it the first and only FDA approved implantable tibial neurostimulator indicated for the treatment of urge urinary incontinence (UUI).
"The first successful commercial implantation of eCoin marks the culmination of years of hard work by our team, representing a significant milestone for Valencia and the field of UUI treatment," said Stacy Chambliss, Chief Executive Officer. She added, "We believe more patients will be served with greater satisfaction using our eCoin solution compared to the existing treatment options for UUI."
Chief Commercial Officer, Jerry Schloffman, added, "As pioneers in implantable tibial neuromodulation, we embrace the responsibility that comes with being first. Working with innovators like Dr. Greene, we are committed to a patient-centric experience focused on quality and outcomes."
"When I learned about eCoin, I was excited to have an additional option particularly for those who were happy with percutaneous tibial nerve modulation, and for individuals who wanted to avoid general anesthesia with sacral neuromodulation surgery or patients not desiring intradetrusor Botox. Immediately, it seemed a natural fit for my practice," stated Dr Kristie Greene, a urogynecologist in Sarasota, Florida who performed the first post-FDA approval eCoin® implant procedures. "My patients were equally excited when they learned about eCoin. Furthermore, it became a more attractive option once they learned that it was done with local anesthesia only."
eCoin® is a coin-sized neurostimulator implanted subcutaneously in the lower leg during a minimally invasive, outpatient procedure utilizing local anesthetic. eCoin® is the first implantable tibial nerve stimulator approved by the FDA. The eCoin® device contains a primary battery and once programmed, automatically delivers intermittent stimulation to the tibial nerve to reduce UUI symptoms.
Physicians interested in offering eCoin® therapy to their patients may register for eCoin® Physician Certification online using the eCoin® physician website at professionals.eCoin.us Patients are encouraged to visit Valencia's patient website at www.eCoin.us for more information about this novel therapy for UUI.
Valencia Technologies Corporation ("Valencia") is a private medical technology company located in Valencia, California. The company designed and manufactured its eCoin® device for the treatment of urge urinary incontinence (UUI). Learn more about Valencia at www.valenciatechnologies.com or the eCoin® device at www.eCoin.us.
Statements made in this press release that relate to future plans, events, prospects or performance are forward-looking statements as defined under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as "planned," "expects," "believes," "anticipates," "designed," and similar words are intended to identify forward-looking statements. While these forward-looking statements are based on the current expectations and beliefs of management, such forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the expectations expressed in this press release. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. Except as required by law, Valencia undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect new information, changed circumstances or unanticipated events.
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MOSCOW (AP) — More than four months after she was arrested at a Moscow airport for cannabis possession, a Russian court has set the start date of the criminal trial of U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner for July 1.
The Phoenix Mercury star was also ordered to remain in custody for the duration of her criminal trial. She could face 10 years in prison if convicted on charges of large-scale transportation of drugs. Fewer than 1% of defendants in Russian criminal cases are acquitted, and unlike in the U.S., acquittals can be overturned.
On Monday, the court in the Moscow suburb of Khimki extended Griner’s detention for another six months after she appeared for a preliminary hearing held behind closed doors. Photos obtained by the AP showed her appearing in handcuffs. Griner had previously been ordered to remain in pretrial detention until July 2.
Griner’s detention and trial come at an extraordinarily low point in Moscow-Washington relations. She was arrested at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport less than a week before Russia sent troops into Ukraine, which aggravated already-high tensions with sweeping sanctions by the United States and Russia’s denunciation of U.S. weapon supplies to Ukraine.
Amid the tensions, Griner’s supporters had taken a low profile in hopes of a quiet resolution, until May, when the State Department reclassified her as wrongfully detained and shifted oversight of her case to its special presidential envoy for hostage affairs — effectively the U.S. government’s chief negotiator.
That move has drawn additional attention to Griner’s case, with supporters encouraging a prisoner swap like the one in April that brought home Marine veteran Trevor Reed in exchange for a Russian pilot convicted of drug trafficking conspiracy.
Russian news media have repeatedly raised speculation that she could be swapped for Russian arms trader Viktor Bout, nicknamed “The Merchant of Death,” who is serving a 25-year sentence on conviction of conspiracy to kill U.S. citizens and providing aid to a terrorist organization.
Russia has agitated for Bout’s release for years. But the discrepancy between Griner’s case — she allegedly was found in possession of vape cartridges containing cannabis oil — and Bout’s global dealings in deadly weapons could make such a swap unpalatable to the U.S.
Others have suggested that she could be traded in tandem with Paul Whelan, a former Marine and security director serving a 16-year sentence on an espionage conviction that the United States has repeatedly described as a set-up.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, asked Sunday on CNN whether a joint swap of Griner and Whelan for Bout was being considered, sidestepped the question.
“As a general proposition … I have got no higher priority than making sure that Americans who are being illegally detained in one way or another around the world come home,” he said. But “I can’t comment in any detail on what we’re doing, except to say this is an absolute priority.”
Any swap would apparently require Griner to first be convicted and sentenced, then apply for a presidential pardon, Maria Yarmush, a lawyer specializing in international civil affairs, told Kremlin-funded TV channel RT.
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The Cleveland Guardians and Boston Red Sox find themselves in similar spots with the trade deadline looming.
Both are within striking distance of an American League postseason spot. Both also benefit from the expanded playoffs, which adds a third wild card team to each league.
Yet, each club is hovering around the .500 mark and hasn’t really established much traction of late.
The Guardians gained some momentum with their 8-3 win on Tuesday and will look to maintain it Wednesday when the teams meet for the third contest of their four-game series.
Right-hander Cal Quantrill (7-5, 3.75 ERA) starts for Cleveland while the Red Sox will turn to righty Nathan Eovaldi (4-3, 4.30).
There’s a sense of urgency for both squads to realistically stay in the race.
The Red Sox have lost four of five since the All-Star Break, and the Guardians are 3-3.
The Aug. 2 deadline creates some anxious moments for players who possibly could be dealt.
Cleveland manager Terry Francona tries to be as honest as he can with his players who are part of trade speculation.
“If I feel like if somebody is feeling it, and if I know something isn’t going to happen, I’d tell ’em,” Francona said during his pregame radio segment on Tuesday. “What I don’t want to ever do is perjure myself and lie. But the guys are pretty good about it now because they’re so used to seeing stuff with social media. They’ve kind of come up through that. For guys like my age, it would probably throw me a little bit. But they’re kind of used to it.”
From the Red Sox perspective, players like outfielder Alex Verdugo are stressing they’re still very much in the postseason picture, even with the club’s struggles.
“We’re still (close) in the wild card, I believe,” Verdugo told reporters. “Hey, boys, let’s go. Let’s start now.”
For the Red Sox to make a serious push, they’ll need to get healthy.
Designated hitter J.D. Martinez played for the first time since the All-Star Break on Tuesday, going 0-for-3 with three strikeouts and being hit by a pitch.
For Quantrill, this will be his second start of the season against Boston. On June 24, the right-hander gave up two runs in five innings in a no-decision.
In his career, Quantrill is 0-1 with a 4.00 ERA in three starts against the Red Sox.
Eovaldi has gone 3-2 with a 3.47 ERA in his career against the Guardians, but he hasn’t beaten them in a while. The last time the 32-year-old won against Cleveland was on Aug. 13, 2015.
Getting on track is a more pressing concern for Eovaldi, who has struggled since returning from the injured list. In his last start, the veteran was tagged for nine runs in 2 2/3 innings.
Eovaldi went on the injured list on June 9 with lower-back inflammation. In two starts since being reinstated, he has yielded 12 earned runs in seven innings.
Quantrill, 27, will be appearing in his 100th MLB game, and he’s won three straight starts. For July, he is 3-1 with a 3.86 ERA.
— Field Level Media
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HONG KONG (AP) — Every few generations, Hong Kong transforms itself, evolving from a swampy fishing village to 19th century colonial port, to capitalist outpost and factory after China’s 1949 revolution, to 21st century financial center.
As the former British colony marks the 25th anniversary of its return to China, reeling from pandemic curbs that devastated business and a crackdown on its pro-democracy movement, Hong Kong leaders say it is time to transform again. They say the city should become a leader in technology that relies more on its ties with nearby Chinese factory cities than on global trade.
Chief Executive-elect John Lee’s government is under pressure to generate new sources of economic growth, looking beyond COVID outbreaks and anti-virus controls that have devastated tourism and business and uncertainty about the legal climate after a crackdown on the city’s pro-democracy movement.
In April, during his election campaign, Lee promised to “start a new chapter” for the city better known as one of Asia’s busiest ports and biggest stock markets and “strengthen its competitiveness” in technology and innovation as well as trade and finance.
Lee gave no details but pointed to the Greater Bay Area, a Chinese government initiative to link Hong Kong with neighboring mainland cities including the technology and finance hub of Shenzhen and the manufacturing powerhouses of Dongguan and Foshan.
“There are great opportunities in the Greater Bay Area that haven’t been realized yet,” said David Graham, executive director of the British Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong. “It is a big opportunity for Hong Kong, and it will be very hard to replicate in other cities like Singapore or Dubai.”
Adding to the urgency for Lee to roll out a long-term strategy, executives frustrated with Hong Kong’s travel controls are leaving the city, business groups say. Some companies are moving for good to Singapore, Bangkok, Dubai or other business centers.
“Hong Kong’s strength as a global connector has been greatly reduced,” said Joseph Armas, chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong. Executives have left for cities where “travel is feasible.”
Armas appealed to Lee for a “concrete roadmap” to revive Hong Kong, which remains, together with mainland China and Taiwan, one of the few places that still requires inbound travelers to serve mandatory quarantines.
For Michael Chan, who manages a fashion goods manufacturing business, the restrictions have extended what used to be one-week trips to factories in Bangladesh or China to a month or two, since it makes no sense to spend weeks in quarantine for a short work trip.
Chan has considered temporarily relocating to Singapore, whose controls are much less strict.
“When I meet government officials, I often have to meet them face to face and talk about things,” said Chan, a veteran of multiple quarantines. “It’s not like in the U.S. where I can just use Zoom for a video call.”
Hong Kong lost nearly 90,000 of its 7.5 million population in 2021, according to government figures. More than 100,000 people left in February and March of this year, during the city’s worst COVID wave.
The angst over Hong Kong’s travel controls “presents an opportunity for others to dip into our talent pool,” said Sally Wong, CEO of the Hong Kong Investment Funds Association.
Activists and foreign governments complain the ruling Communist Party is chipping away at the 50 years of autonomy Beijing promised after 1997. The freedoms afforded to Hong Kong and its leeway for self-governance had helped it keep its status as a center for Asian headquarters of global companies even as rent and other costs soared to record levels and levels of inequality grew ever wider.
Hong Kong still has a skilled workforce, an efficient port and a Western-style legal system considered to be impartial and reliable.
But its status as a global hub for trade and business center is waning.
One in 20 companies surveyed by the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong plan to move their global or regional headquarters out of Hong Kong, the chamber reported in January. It said half were uncertain about whether to go.
Some businesses are watching to see how law enforcement and the free flow of information and people that are crucial to commerce and finance might change. Two out of five companies surveyed said they worry they will lose free internet access, vital for a trading center that relies on the flow of information.
“There is a perception that foreign businesses are less welcome,” the report said. “More than half our respondents feel the government is ‘unconcerned’ or ‘dismissive’ about business concerns.”
Until now, Hong Kong has been largely free of the censorship on the mainland, where internet barriers known as the “Great Firewall” are used by the ruling party to block China’s public from seeing foreign websites run by news outfits, governments and human rights activists. But the territory’s leading pro-democracy newspaper, Apple Daily, was shut down during the crackdown and its publisher, Jimmy Lai, sentenced to prison.
Kurt Tong, a former U.S. consul general in Hong Kong who is managing partner of The Asia Group, a consulting firm, said that so far the city’s national security law, though used to stifle dissent, has not had much impact on business and finance.
But the effect of the law and Beijing’s overhaul of the territory’s political system bear watching, he said.
“People who care about the Hong Kong financial system need to think about that,” Tong said.
Hong Kong thrived as the trade gateway to China for decades, but it was eclipsed as the world’s busiest container port in 2000 by facilities in the Chinese mainland. Two decades later, with cargo volume barely 10% above its 2000 level, Hong Kong’s port ranks 8th in the world. Shanghai, Shenzhen and three other Chinese ports are bigger.
Hong Kong’s stock market, once Asia’s biggest outside Japan, also has grown steadily but has slipped behind regional rivals.
Companies traded in Hong Kong have a total market value of $5.4 trillion, compared with $8.2 trillion for the Shanghai Stock Exchange. Companies on China’s second exchange in Shenzhen are worth $6.2 trillion, according to the World Federation of Exchanges.
Tong is among those who believe Hong Kong’s recent setbacks are only temporary.
“The current status is that Hong Kong is a very significant global center, one of the most important in the world, and it plays a unique and critical role in linking the Chinese economy with the rest of the global economy and channeling finance in both directions,” said Tong.
The city is meanwhile nurturing its role as a center for innovation, setting up research centers that have helped incubate dozens of start-up companies.
A vice chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Rocky S. Tuan, pointed to medical and biotechnology research as one of the city’s less well-known strengths. Writing in the newspaper South China Morning Post, he said “Hong Kong offers access to capital, expertise, global regulatory recognition of its clinical trial data and a network of world-class universities.”
That could lend the city an edge over regional rivals.
“Other cities in the region, notably Singapore, perhaps will be more of an Asia hub or Southeast Asia hub,” said Tommy Wu of Oxford Economics. “Hong Kong’s business will be mainly focused on Greater China.”
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Erie County says a 911 dispatcher has been fired after hanging up on a call coming from inside the Tops store in Buffalo where prosecutors say a white gunman killed 10 Black people in a hate-based domestic terror attack.
The dispatcher had been placed on administrative leave, but the county was pushing for her firing. Last month, Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz said her actions were “inappropriate” and “unacceptable.”
According to a report by The Buffalo News, the dispatcher asked why the caller, a Tops employee, was whispering, before hanging up on her.
The dispatcher’s union, the Civil Service Employees Association, said Thursday it had ensured that disciplinary due process provisions were “followed fairly and appropriately here.”
The dispatcher told The Buffalo News late last month she was sorry about what the caller went through during the shooting, adding that more facts would come out at the hearing. A message was left Thursday at a possible phone number for her.
The 18-year-old white gunman accused in the mass killing pleaded not guilty Thursday to hate-motivated domestic terrorism and other charges. A prosecutor called the evidence against him overwhelming.
A lawyer entered the plea for Payton Gendron, 18, in the first case to make use of New York’s domestic terrorism hate crime law. Gendron didn’t speak during the brief hearing with a heavy security presence.
Witnesses, police and Gendron’s own writings and livestreamed video have incriminated him as the gunman who used an AR-style semi-automatic rifle on May 14 to target shoppers and employees of a Tops Friendly Market, and he surrendered at the crime scene after putting his rifle to his neck. Authorities said he chose the store because of its location in a predominantly Black neighborhood.
“There is overwhelming proof of the defendant’s guilt,” Assistant District Attorney John Fereleto said. “The defendant was caught at the scene of the crime with the weapon in his hands.”
Gendron has been held without bail since the shooting and is due back in court July 7.
He was charged with murder shortly after the attack. On Wednesday, a new indictment expanded the case to include the domestic terrorism charge, along with 10 counts of first-degree murder, 10 counts of second-degree murder as a hate crime, criminal possession of a weapon and three counts of attempted murder as a hate crime.
“When you hear the phrase ‘throw the book at’ someone, well, in this case right here, the defendant just got ‘War and Peace,’” District Attorney John Flynn said at a news conference after the arraignment.
The domestic terrorism hate crime charge — officially, domestic acts of terrorism motivated by hate in the first degree — was added to state law just two years ago, after a mass shooting targeting Mexicans at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas. The offense carries an automatic life sentence upon conviction.
Until now, no arrests or arraignments or arraignments under the law have been reported to the state Division of Criminal Justice Services, spokesperson Janine Kava said.
In Gendron’s case, the charge accuses him of killing at least five people “because of the perceived race and/or color” of his victims.
Outside court, Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown called Gendron “a racist, hate-filled outsider who came to our community with the stated intent to kill as many Black people as possible.”
Prosecutors said Gendron drove about three hours to Buffalo from his home in Conklin, New York, to target African Americans. Shortly before opening fire, he posted documents that outlined his white supremacist views and revealed he had been planning the attack for months.
Federal authorities also are investigating the possibility of hate crime charges against Gendron.
The slain victims ranged in age from 32 to 86. Three other people were wounded.
The bloodshed, followed 10 days later by a mass shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers inside an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, has renewed a national debate about gun control.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Houston Dynamo (9-16-6, 13th in the Western Conference) vs. Los Angeles FC (19-8-4, first in the Western Conference)
Los Angeles; Sunday, 10:30 p.m. EDT
FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: LAFC -402, Houston +879, Draw +517; over/under is 3.5 goals
BOTTOM LINE: Fafa Picault leads the Houston Dynamo into a matchup with Los Angeles FC after a two-goal showing against the New England Revolution.
LAFC is 12-8-3 against Western Conference teams. LAFC has a 1-6-3 record in games it scores a single goal.
The Dynamo are 6-11-6 against Western Conference opponents. The Dynamo are 10th in the Western Conference allowing only 49 goals.
The teams meet Sunday for the second time this season. The Dynamo won the last meeting 2-1.
TOP PERFORMERS: Christian Arango has 15 goals and four assists for LAFC. Kwadwo Opoku has three goals and one assist over the past 10 games.
Darwin Quintero has scored eight goals with two assists for the Dynamo. Picault has four goals over the last 10 games.
LAST 10 GAMES: LAFC: 5-4-1, averaging 1.9 goals, 5.3 shots on goal and 6.4 corner kicks per game while allowing 1.3 goals per game.
Dynamo: 2-6-2, averaging 1.2 goals, 3.9 shots on goal and 5.2 corner kicks per game while allowing two goals per game.
NOT EXPECTED TO PLAY: LAFC: Franco Escobar (injured).
Dynamo: Ethan Bartlow (injured), Daniel Steres (injured), Memo Rodriguez (injured), Hector Herrera (injured).
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.
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Biden administration plans to declare the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency
By MJ Lee, White House correspondent
The Biden administration plans to declare monkeypox a public health emergency as early as Thursday, a source familiar with the decision told CNN.
The announcement would come from the Department of Health and Human Services. With cases on the rise across the US, the administration has been criticized at times for its handling of the outbreak, and some have called on the government to declare a national emergency without delay.
Politico was first to report on the expected declaration.
Since the first US monkeypox case was identified in mid-May, more than 6,600 probable or confirmed cases have been detected in the United States. Cases have been identified in every state except Montana and Wyoming.
The declaration would follow the World Health Organization announcement last month that monkeypox is a public health emergency of international concern. WHO defines a public health emergency of international concern, or PHEIC, as “an extraordinary event” that constitutes a “public health risk to other States through the international spread of disease” and “to potentially require a coordinated international response.”
Some cities and states, including New York City, San Francisco, California, Illinois and New York, have already declared monkeypox an emergency, allowing them to free up funding and resources for their responses to the outbreak.
On Tuesday, President Joe Biden on Tuesday named Robert Fenton as the White House’s national monkeypox response coordinator. Fenton — a regional Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator who oversees Arizona, California, Hawaii and Nevada — will coordinate the federal government’s response to the outbreak. Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s director of the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, serves as the deputy coordinator.
The Biden administration has been heavily criticized by some public health experts for not moving faster to address the crisis.
One of the criticisms of the administration’s response, as CNN reported earlier Thursday, was that HHS waited more than three weeks after the first confirmed case of monkeypox in the US to order bulk stocks of the monkeypox vaccine, which the government owns and stores in Denmark, be bottled and sent to the US for distribution. The delay was in part out of concern that once those vaccines were taken out of bulk storage, they would lose years of shelf life.
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Pressure cookers that still fit a great budget
For fast and healthy cooking, pressure cookers are one of the best options available to most consumers. Pressure cookers offer significant versatility. The devices can cook anything from a pot roast to a batch of cinnamon rolls through simple instructions. However, several of the best models of pressure cookers can be pretty expensive and not affordable for some shoppers. Despite this, there are still several pressure cookers from trusted brands that fit any budget. Knowing which settings and abilities to prioritize can help save money without making significant compromises. If you already made up your mind about the type of pressure cooker you want, check out our review of the best stovetop pressure cookers for the best stovetop options, or our list of the best electric pressure cookers if you already decided you want an electric one.
Features to consider before buying
Generation of pressure cooker
Pressure cookers have gone through several different generations of development, with the original group using a weight to hold down a valve that releases steam. More modern pressure cookers can set precise temperatures and work easily to regulate timers and delayed cook settings.
Multifunctional abilities
The newest generation of pressure cookers provides users with several different cooking types and preset processes for specific meals. These pressure cookers can do more than just cook using pressure, with several allowing for searing, steaming, and slow cook. These pressure cookers usually have displays that allow for precise temperatures and timers.
Stovetop or electric
While most modern pressure cookers are electric, stovetop pressure cookers still serve a valuable role in the kitchen if chosen. On top of usually costing less, stovetop pressure cookers can function as an everyday cooking device with the lid removed to serve as a regular pot. The lack of modern settings and features are where electric pressure cookers serve as superior options.
Capacity
Another feature of pressure cookers to keep in mind is the capacity of food it can hold and still cook. Larger capacity pressure cookers work better for serving larger groups of people or entire families, while smaller capacity pressure cookers work well for individual meals or households with fewer people.
Price range
Pressure cooker prices range from $50 to over $200, depending on the capabilities and capacity. Generally speaking, you can buy a high-quality pressure cooker with decent capacity for $100 or less.
Best cheap pressure cooker
Top cheap pressure cooker
Instant Pot Duo 7-in-1 Electric Pressure Cooker
What you need to know: This is one of the best all-around pressure cookers available on the market from one of the best brands for the product.
What you’ll love: The pressure cooker comes with seven different cooking settings to help users make yogurt, desserts and more with ease. The device also has a free Instant Pot app, loaded with hundreds of recipes specifically designed for the pressure cooker.
What you should consider: Some users have experienced difficulty operating the device with some features that lack intuitive controls.
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Top cheap pressure cooker for the money
Presto 01370 8-Quart Stainless Steel Pressure Cooker
What you need to know: This is a classic stovetop pressure cooker designed for consistent temperature and cooking.
What you’ll love: The pressure cooker comes with a steaming basket for vegetables and rice. The device also has a quick cool pressure release to better regulate temperature and pressure while in use.
What you should consider: Some users report that the pressure seal is faulty and leaks heat making it less effective.
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Worth checking out
Yedi 9-in-1 Total Package Instant Programmable Pressure Cooker
What you need to know: This is a multi-faceted pressure cooker that offers several different features and great basic options.
What you’ll love: The pressure cooker comes with a steaming basket and steaming rack built to work for eggs and vegetables. The device also has 15 instant cooking programs for a variety of different food options.
What you should consider: At 6 quarts, the pressure cooker’s capacity is smaller than other options at the same price.
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Crock-Pot Pot 8-Quart Multi-Use XL Express Crock Programmable Slow Cooker with Manual Pressure
What you need to know: This is a great pressure cooker with a solid capacity and multifunction use.
What you’ll love: The pressure cooker comes with several different pre-programmed functions for desserts, yogurt and various types of meats. The device also has a keep warm feature to store large quantities of food while the rest is eaten.
What you should consider: The power cord on the pressure cooker is incredibly short and may require an extension cord to be used.
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Insignia 6-Quart Multi-Function Pressure Cooker Stainless Steel/Black
What you need to know: This is a multi-function pressure cooker that comes at an affordable price.
What you’ll love: The pressure cooker comes with multiple temperature controls and a nonstick cooking pot for easy cleaning. The device has a 24-hour cooking delay to time when to begin a meal.
What you should consider: The device is susceptible to damage if dropped compared to other, sturdier pressure cookers.
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Mueller 6 Quart Pressure Cooker 10 in 1
What you need to know: This is a high-quality pressure cooker with multiple functions and included recipes for beginners.
What you’ll love: The pressure cooker can also serve as a slow cooker and steaming features. The device comes with a steaming basket that allows users to cook multiple dishes at the same time.
What you should consider: Some users complain about the pot burning after extended use.
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What you need to know: This is another stovetop pressure cooker that comes in seven different sizes to allow for added capacity if required.
What you’ll love: The device comes with a cookbook for easy-to-make recipes. The thick sandwich bottom ensures even heating and cooking.
What you should consider: The valve is sensitive and can come loose easily, releasing pressure.
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Three-year Blue Zones Project initiative reports significant well-being gains
CORRY, Pa., May 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sharecare (Nasdaq: SHCR) and Blue Zones, LLC, announced today that Corry, Pennsylvania, has been designated a certified Blue Zones Community, marking the first Blue Zones Community in the Northeast and the only one in the state of Pennsylvania. Certification recognizes Corry's well-being transformation through the successful implementation of Blue Zones Project by Sharecare, a pioneering population health initiative that brings evidence-based best practices in built environment, policy, and social connection to participating communities.
Brought to Corry through the collaborative efforts of Highmark/AHN Saint Vincent; Corry Memorial Hospital, an affiliate of LECOM Health; and UPMC, the well-being improvement initiative focuses on optimizing surroundings to make healthy choices easier so people live longer, healthier, and happier lives.
"Corry has, and continues, to achieve incredible outcomes as a result of the long-term vision, coordination, and commitment of partners, organizations, and residents. The sponsor collaboration for the Corry Blue Zones Project serves as a healthcare industry breakthrough case for 'collectively accountable' community change and improvement," said Ben Leedle, CEO of Blue Zones and co-founder of Blue Zones Project. "It is remarkable that the local integrated health systems that compete on traditional care every day, came together as partners for the community. Along with Erie County leadership, they should all be commended for their collaboration, without which the project would have never been possible."
Since February 2019, local leaders, volunteers, and community organizations in Corry have worked together to achieve certification status, and according to the Sharecare Community Well-Being Index, Corry's investment in well-being is paying off. The city's overall 2022 Index score rose to 60 out of 100, a gain of more than six points since 2019. Each point increase in well-being for a population leads to an approximately 2% reduction in ER visits and hospital utilization, and to an approximately 1% reduction in total health care costs.
Over the same three-year period, Corry has shown improvement in purpose, social, financial, community, and physical well-being — the five core elements of individual well-being measured by Sharecare's Index. Sixty-two percent of Corry residents now report they are thriving compared to 45% in 2019, 15% fewer Corry residents report high cholesterol, and tobacco use declined by nearly 27%.
"Corry's jump in well-being establishes it as a best practice example for Pennsylvania and the nation of what a community can achieve when it sustains a focused commitment to well-being. The work of Blue Zones Project in Corry is playing a significant role in expanding the community's well-being culture and improving its health outcomes," said Michael Acker, Sharecare's senior vice president and general manager of community and urban services.
As a result of its efforts, Corry has made it easier for residents to move naturally, eat better, develop healthy social circles, and live with purpose. Highlights include:
- Nearly 4,000 individuals involved. More than 15% of Corry residents have taken the Blue Zones Project personal pledge for better well-being or participated in a Blue Zones Project activity, such as a walking group, plant-based cooking demonstration, or Purpose Workshop. Community residents volunteered more than 460 hours of their time. In 2022, Corry experienced 11% fewer health risks than expected if the community had followed state trends since 2019. The risk avoidance in the most conservative analysis equates to $4 million in avoided medical and lost productivity costs over five years.
- Better well-being on the job. Ten employers (Corry Counseling Services, D&E Machining, Ltd., Corry Memorial Hospital, YMCA of Corry, Corry Area School District, FurHaven Pet Products, Corry Fabrication, Tonnard Manufacturing, Hensa STMP, and Viking Plastics) have implemented policies that improve well-being, such as designating a quiet place for colleagues to downshift, establishing well-being committee and employee gardens, and encouraging microbreaks for staff to stretch and move.
- Better well-being at school. All three buildings within the Corry Area School District, impacting more than 1,850 students, have taken steps to become Blue Zones Project Approved. Improvements include the establishment of youth well-being ambassador groups (Beaver Blue Crews), water refill system installations at the primary and intermediate buildings, and Wellness Wednesday Healthy Tip of the Day education in morning announcements by the Beaver Blue Crew members.
- Healthier choices at restaurants. Sixteen new Blue Zones-inspired dishes have been added to adult and children's menus at Ploss' Lunch Box and The Juice Shop, providing more healthy options for customers.
- Healthier options at the grocery store. Healthy choices are easier for shoppers at Sander's Market, which has highlighted Blue Zones-inspired foods through store tours and cooking demonstrations, distributed healthy recipes, and created a Blue Zones checkout lane that prominently features items like fruit, nuts, and water rather than unhealthy alternatives.
- Thirteen new healthier community policies. Notable community improvements include finalizing the city's Active Transportation strategic plan and Rails to Trails Master Plan to enable more natural movement throughout the community, leading to a seven-point increase in Corry's WalkScore and a 12-point increase in the city's BikeScore. Research shows living in walkable and bikeable areas is linked to lower cardiovascular and chronic disease rates compared to less walkable neighborhoods.
- Blue Zones Project worked alongside the City of Corry as it adopted tobacco policies making city-owned property and city-sponsored events smoke-free, contributing to a nearly 27% reduction in tobacco use since 2019. Additionally, Corry residents now have better access to fresh produce thanks to policies and programs that support Corry's Farmer's Market and local food bank.
- Greater economic investment. The Corry community saw nearly $4 million in grant funding to support healthy city policies. Overall grant dollars awarded to the City of Corry increased 37% over the first three years of the project and Impact Corry saw a 2,880% increase from $31,000 (2018) to $892,859 (2020) through the use of Blue Zones Project data and grant application assistance.
"At LECOM Health's Corry Memorial Hospital, caring for the health and well-being of our community has been our mission for more than 125 years. As one of the three sponsors of the Blue Zones Project Corry, we have witnessed many people getting involved in the Blue Zones activities and working together to make the Corry area a better place to live a longer, happier, and healthier lifestyle," said Barb Nichols, president and CEO of Corry Memorial Hospital.
Next Steps
Community leaders and volunteers continue to champion the work of Blue Zones Project by developing a sustainability plan to further Corry's progress toward optimal health and well-being.
"It is clear the community has much to be proud of, and the vision and passion of its leaders will continue to drive meaningful change. Many of the programs initiated by Blue Zones Project will continue through the support of local partners, including community cooking classes, walking groups, trail support, community cleanups, and city beautification," said Jennifer Eberlein, community manager for Blue Zones Project Corry. "The strong collaborative nature of our community partners ensures Corry will remain engaged in this transformative work to improve the well-being of its citizens. Our community champions are truly dedicated to seeing this community thrive."
For more information and updates please visit corry.bluezonesproject.com or follow us on Facebook at facebook.com/bzpcorry.
About Blue Zones Project
Blue Zones Project® is a community-led well-being improvement initiative designed to make healthy choices easier through permanent changes to a city's environment, policy, and social networks. Blue Zones Project is based on research by Dan Buettner, a National Geographic Fellow and New York Times best-selling author who identified five cultures of the world—or blue zones —with the highest concentration of people living to 100 years or older. Blue Zones Project incorporates Buettner's findings and works with cities to implement policies and programs which will move a community toward optimal health and well-being. Currently, 71 communities across North America have joined Blue Zones Project, impacting more than 4.5 million citizens. The population health solution includes two Health Districts in California; 15 cities in Iowa; Albert Lea, Minnesota; the city of Fort Worth, Texas; Corry, Pennsylvania; Brevard, North Carolina; and communities in Southwest Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Wisconsin. Blue Zones Project is a partnership between Blue Zones, LLC, and Sharecare, Inc. For more information, visit bluezonesproject.com.
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — Lawmakers want to make changes to prevent any future baby formula shortages.
“This is not just a problem for some babies, it’s a problem for the vast majority of infants and their families,” Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) said.
Gillibrand worries this problem could threaten national security if left unchecked.
“National security cannot be full achieved without human security, which requires access to nutrition, clean water and basic necessities of life,” she added.
Gillibrand is now advancing legislation to increase domestic production and give the President the authority to allow certain baby formulas to be imported and sold in the U.S.
“We need more resources,” she told reporters. “The FDA has like six people who do this, which is absurd. We need a lot more people to do the work and we need to resource it.”
Some Republicans agree that a similar shortage can’t happen again and it’s time to give states the tools they need to solve future challenges.
“There’s no flexibility for the state and others to move to other types and there was no contingency plan by the administration, nor has there ever been,” Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) said.
She has not seen Gillibrand’s bill, but believes the priority should be securing domestic production.
“We need to make sure that if something were to happen and the F.D.A needs to close the facility, that we have the ability to create and make at alternate facilities,” Capito said.
Both Senators agree that taking the rights steps will also stop problems like hoarding and price gouging.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tony Sirico, who played the impeccably groomed mobster Paulie Walnuts in “The Sopranos” and brought his tough-guy swagger to films including “Goodfellas,” died Friday. He was 79.
Sirico died at an assisted living facility in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, said his manager, Bob McGowen. There was no immediate information on the cause of death.
A statement from Sirico’s family confirmed the death of Gennaro Anthony “Tony” Sirico “with great sadness, but with incredible pride, love and a whole lot of fond memories.”
McGowan, who represented Sirico for more than two decades, recalled him as “loyal and giving,” with a strong philanthropic streak. That included helping ex-soldiers’ causes, which hit home for the Army veteran, his manager said.
Steven Van Zandt, who played opposite Sirico as fellow mobster Silvio Dante on “The Sopranos,” saluted him on Twitter as “legendary.”
“A larger than life character on and off screen. Gonna miss you a lot my friend,” the actor and musician said.
Michael Imperioli, who portrayed Christopher Moltisanti on “The Sopranos,” called Sirico his “dear friend, colleague and partner in crime.”
“Tony was like no one else: he was as tough, as loyal and as big hearted as anyone i’ve ever known,” Imperioli said on Instagram.
Sirico was unconcerned about being cast in a string of bad guy roles, McGowan said, most prominently that of Peter Paul “Paulie Walnuts” Gualtieri in the 1999-2007 run of the acclaimed HBO drama starring James Gandolfini as mob boss Tony Soprano. (Gandolfini died in 2013 at age 51).
“He didn’t mind playing a mob guy, but he wouldn’t play an informant,” or as Sirico put it, a “snitch,” McGowan said.
Sirico, born July 29, 1942, in New York City, grew up in the Flatbush and Bensonhurst neighborhoods where he said “every guy was trying to prove himself. You either had to have a tattoo or a bullet hole.”
“I had both,” he told the Los Angeles Times in a 1990 interview, calling himself ”unstable” during that period of his life. He was arrested repeatedly for criminal offenses, he said, and was in prison twice. In his last stint behind bars, in the 1970s, he saw a performance by a group of ex-convicts and caught the acting bug.
“I watched ’em and I thought, ‘I can do that.’ I knew I wasn’t bad looking. And I knew I had the (guts) to stand up and (bull) people,” he told the Times. “You get a lot of practice in prison. I used to stand up in front of these cold-blooded murderers and kidnapers — and make ’em laugh.”
Sirico also was cast outside the gangster mold, playing police officers in the films “Dead Presidents” and “Deconstructing Harry.” Among his other credits were Woody Allen films including “Bullets over Broadway” and “Mighty Aphrodite,” and appearances on TV series including “Miami Vice” and voice roles on “Family Guy” and “American Dad!”
Sirico is survived by daughter Joanne Sirico Bello; son Richard Sirico; his brother, Robert Sirico, a priest; and other relatives.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Adge Pharmaceuticals ("Adge") continues to advance its rare disease programs in the Rett Syndrome and Osteogenesis imperfecta in support of the regulatory requirements of the US FDA to move its lead asset expeditiously to the clinic.
In preparation for launching of the clinical program in the Rett Syndrome, Dr. Kalev Kask, CEO and founder of Adge, will be attending the ASCEND 2022 Rett Syndrome National Summit held in Nashville on April 27-30, 2022.
As announced earlier (https://adgepharm.com/news/mar-22-2022/), Adge has secured a global license to RO269228, a clinical stage oral small molecule originally developed by Roche for osteoporosis. RO269228, also known as Elocalcitol, is a vitamin D analog which has demonstrated efficacy and safety in multiple Phase 2 clinical trials. Furthermore, its mechanism of actions are highly relevant to addressing pathogenesis of multiple rare diseases including Rett Syndrome and Osteogenesis imperfecta that Adge is targeting as priority indications.
Rett syndrome is a neurodevelopmental disorder that is caused by a mutation in the MECP2 gene and almost exclusively affects girls. It is characterized by normal early growth and development followed by a slowdown in development, slowed brain and head growth, loss of purposeful use of the hands, distinctive hand movements, problems with walking, seizures, autistic behavior and intellectual disability. Rett syndrome is the second most prevalent neurodevelopmental disorder in girls after Down syndrome affecting an estimated 1 in 9,000 to 10,000 females.
Osteogenesis imperfecta, also known as brittle bone disease, is a group of genetic diseases that primarily affect the bones. People with this condition have bones that fracture easily, often from mild trauma or with no apparent cause. Multiple fractures are common, and in severe cases, can occur even before birth. Osteogenesis imperfecta affects approximately 1 in 10,000 to 20,000 people worldwide. An estimated 25,000 to 50,000 people in the United States have the condition.
Adge Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of first-in-class therapies for orphan indications.
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NEW YORK, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Virgo PR, a leading US-based PR agency announced today the formation of a new practice area within its corporate group that is working with clients in Israel and specialized in Israeli technology companies.
The PR firm has extensive experience working with Israeli companies, including Corsight AI.
"We see Israeli technology companies as innovators, as companies that can benefit from entrepreneurial-minded public relations and digital PR efforts to expand their businesses. We work fast, understand the unique approach of Israeli companies, and plan to expand our Israel reach," said Mike Paffmann, CEO of Virgo PR.
More case studies of Virgo PRs work can be seen here - https://virgo-pr.com/case-studies/
About Virgo PR
Virgo PR offers its clients many services to drive growth, engagement, sales, and increase lead generation and conversions. Our team of professionals in all things PR and marketing can support brands in developing different strategies and campaigns that allow them to better understand their brand and industry and provide various services that drive knowledge through our expertise. We're able to execute worldwide integrated campaigns for our client's brands by playing on the strengths and constraints of any niche.
CONTACT: Mike Paffmann, mikep@virgo-pr.com
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- rhCollagen-based regenerative breast implants address $2.8 billion global breast implant market with revolutionary and potentially safer new product
- Regenerative breast implants for aesthetic and reconstructive procedures including postmastectomy for cancer patients
- The study is planned to be concluded within six months
REHOVOT, Israel, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CollPlant (Nasdaq: CLGN), a regenerative and aesthetics medicine company developing innovative technologies and products for tissue regeneration and organ manufacturing, today announced the initiation of a study in large animals for its 3D bioprinted regenerative breast implant program, addressing the $2.8 billion global breast implant market.
"This study is a quantum leap in the development of 3D bioprinted regenerative breast implants," said Yehiel Tal, CollPlant's Chief Executive Officer. "We believe that our regenerative breast implants will address safety challenges associated with silicone implants while also providing a more natural looking and feeling aesthetic result. Immediately following the conclusion of this study, we are planning to launch a second study with human size implants that mimic commercial products. These studies will advance us to the significant stage of human clinical trials."
CollPlant's bioprinted regenerative implants aim to overcome the challenges of existing breast procedures that use silicone implants or autologous fat transfer. According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, approximately 350,000 people have reported adverse events involving breast implants between 2009 and 2019. Reports range from autoimmune symptoms to breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma (BIA-ALCL). CollPlant's regenerative breast implants are comprised of the Company's proprietary plant-derived rhCollagen, an ideal building block for regenerative medicine implants attributed to better bio-functionality, superior homogeneity, and improved safety. The printed implant is intended to degrade over time while promoting natural tissue regeneration and integration with host tissue. 3D bioprinting technology enables scalable production of highly precise and repeatable constructs, which can be customized to the individual anatomy of patients. The implants are designed to withstand physiological loads and to provide what CollPlant believes is a safer, more natural, and long-lasting alternative to current breast reconstruction and augmentation procedures.
To date, CollPlant has successfully produced prototypes of 3D bioprinted implants designed to regenerate breast tissue and evaluated these in a series of preclinical studies. The Company is now approaching an important milestone with the launch of a large animal study that involves the implantation of reduced-size 3D bioprinted implants in a clinically relevant porcine animal model. The study, which is planned to be concluded within six months, will evaluate adipose tissue regeneration, tissue integration, vascularization of the implant, implant degradation rate, and host tissue response to the implant. The study will also include screening of compositions and optimization of the surgical procedure, which will serve as the basis for the design of a pivotal large study with human size implants.
In the product development process, CollPlant uses computational modeling tools that enable an optimal design of the implant in terms of geometry, materials, physical properties, and biological environment. The modeling takes into consideration the internal anatomy of the breast tissue and the behavior of an implant, post-implantation. The implant testing is rigorous and includes static and dynamic loading in order to mimic breast tissue behavior under different conditions and comply with the most stringent safety requirements.
About CollPlant
CollPlant is a regenerative and aesthetic medicine company focused on 3D bioprinting of tissues and organs, and medical aesthetics. The Company's products are based on its rhCollagen (recombinant human collagen) produced with CollPlant's proprietary plant based genetic engineering technology. These products address indications for the diverse fields of tissue repair, aesthetics, and organ manufacturing, and are ushering in a new era in regenerative and aesthetic medicine.
At the beginning of 2021, CollPlant entered into a development and global commercialization agreement for dermal and soft tissue fillers with Allergan, an AbbVie company, the global leader in the dermal filler market. Later in 2021, CollPlant entered a strategic co-development agreement with 3D Systems for a 3D bioprinted regenerative soft tissue matrix for use in breast reconstruction procedures in combination with an implant.
For more information about CollPlant, visit http://www.collplant.com
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Eran Rotem
Deputy CEO & CFO
Tel: + 972-73-2325600
Email: Eran@CollPlant.com
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WFO MIDLAND/ODESSA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, August 17, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
904 PM CDT Tue Aug 16 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM CDT/2 AM MDT/ WEDNESDAY...
* WHAT...Arroyo and small stream flooding caused by excessive
rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of southwest Texas, including the following
counties, Brewster, Culberson, Jeff Davis, Presidio and Reeves.
* WHEN...Until 300 AM CDT /200 AM MDT/.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
Rises in small streams and normally dry arroyos. Dangerous flows
over low-water crossings.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 904 PM CDT /804 PM MDT/, Doppler radar and automated rain
gauges indicated heavy rain due to thunderstorms. This is
causing arroyo and small stream flooding. Between 1 and 3
inches of rain have fallen.
- Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 2 inches are expected
over the area. This additional rain will result in minor
flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Alpine, Van Horn, Marfa, Kent, Fort Davis, Pine Springs,
Valentine, Plateau, McDonald Observatory, Bloys Camp, Davis
Mountains State Park, Balmorhea State Park, Camp Mitre Peak,
McKittrick Canyon, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Black
Mountain, Buffalo Trail Scout Camp and Lobo.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the
dangers of flooding.
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Moderated by the CEO of the Cutaneous Lymphoma Foundation, forum will spotlight real-world patient experience and lessons from healthcare and community outreach leaders
BEDMINSTER, N.J., June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kyowa Kirin, Inc., an affiliate of Kyowa Kirin Co., Ltd. (Kyowa Kirin, TSE: 4151) a global specialty pharmaceutical company, will host a virtual roundtable discussion, Challenging Disparities in Cancer Care — Lessons for Cutaneous Lymphomas and Other Patient Communities, on June 14, 2022, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. ET, ahead of National Black Family Cancer Awareness Week (June 16 – 22). During the event, panelists will discuss their firsthand experiences and best practices for how to overcome the barriers to diagnosis, treatment, and ongoing care often faced disproportionately by people of color living with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) and other forms of cancer or chronic disease.
"When it comes to cancer, the ability to secure a timely and accurate diagnosis and to remain engaged in treatment and disease management can be impacted by numerous factors," said Lauren Walrath, Vice President of Public Affairs, Kyowa Kirin North America (KKNA). "We know people of color may face additional challenges, particularly those living with rare cancers like CTCL that are less recognizable in people with darker skin tones. We are proud to host this roundtable discussion to explore lessons and solutions as part of our ongoing commitment to fostering health equity for patients from all backgrounds."
The moderated discussion will explore all aspects of patient experience and emerging strategies to address racial health inequities via research, education, community outreach, and care team engagement. This will be followed by a Q&A during which registered attendees will have the opportunity to submit questions. Registration for the event is free and can be made at https://bit.ly/3NpwgbU.
The roundtable panelists include:
- Susan Thornton, Chief Executive Officer, Cutaneous Lymphoma Foundation (Moderator): A leader and community advocate, Susan Thornton is committed to advancing understanding and support for all people affected by cutaneous lymphomas.
- Olenga Anabui, MBA, MPH, The Penn Center for Community Health Workers, IMPaCT Program: IMPaCT is a standardized, scalable program that centered on community health workers to improve health and equity. Through this and other initiatives, Olenga Anabui is committed to supporting people made disadvantaged by race and socioeconomic position to have full participation in life.
- Pierluigi Porcu, MD, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital: Dr. Porcu is focused on the treatment and research of rare cancers like CTCL. He advocates for the importance of diverse representation in clinical trials to address racial disparities in drug development and clinical care.
- Anita Larkin, MSN, CMSRN, RN, Chi Eta Phi Sorority, Inc.: Chi Eta Phi Sorority, Incorporated is a nonprofit organization of registered professional nurses representing many cultures and diverse ethnic backgrounds committed to supporting healthy communities of color through advocacy, collaboration, education, leadership, research, and service. Anita Larkin furthers this mission through her participation in their hallmark health outreach programs. Anita Larkin is also the Clinical Director of Surgical Oncology/Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplant at Methodist University Hospital in Memphis, TN, and a member of the Oncology Nursing Society.
"This event is a great opportunity to discuss the challenges that those living with rare and chronic diseases face every day, especially people of color," says Susan Thornton. "My hope is that this diverse panel surfaces solutions that empower patients, including the CTCL community."
National Black Family Cancer Awareness Week, observed June 16 – 22, 2022, was created by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Oncology Center of Excellence to, "increase cancer awareness in one of the most vulnerable segments of the US population." The initiative aims to marshal community-based stakeholders to build knowledge surrounding cancer clinical trial participation and minority population specimen donations to national genomic databases for cancer research.
Cutaneous T-cell Lymphoma is a rare form of blood cancer that first appears on the skin. It is often mistaken for more common skin conditions, such as eczema or psoriasis, which can delay an accurate diagnosis and treatment by years or even decades. African Americans are twice as likely to develop and present with CTCL compared to those of European or Asian descent. They are often diagnosed with CTCL at an earlier age and with more advanced disease, resulting in a significantly shorter overall survival. In 2020, KKNA established a grant program to identify and fund meaningful projects that can help diminish these disparities. To date, the Company has awarded over $200k dollars to university researchers and patient advocacy organizations in support of, community outreach, and educational programming focused on closing the gap in awareness and understanding of CTCL among African American communities.
Kyowa Kirin strives to create and deliver novel medicines with life-changing value. As a Japan-based global specialty pharmaceutical company with a more than 70-year heritage, the company applies cutting-edge science, including expertise in antibody research and engineering, to address the needs of patients across multiple therapeutic areas such as nephrology, oncology, immunology/allergy and neurology. Across its four regions – Japan, Asia Pacific, North America and EMEA/International – Kyowa Kirin focuses on its purpose, to make people smile, and is united by its shared values of commitment to life, teamwork, innovation and integrity.
Learn more about the Company at www.kyowakirin.com.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A federal judge is ordering Starbucks to reinstate seven employees in Memphis who were fired earlier this year after leading an effort to unionize their store.
In a decision issued Thursday, U.S. District Judge Sheryl Lipman agreed with the National Labor Relations Board, which had asked the court to intervene in May. The labor board said Starbucks violated U.S. labor law by interfering in workers’ right to organize.
Lipman’s decision requires Starbucks to offer to reinstate the employees within five days. Starbucks will also be required to post the court order in the Memphis store.
Starbucks said Thursday it strongly disagrees with the court order and will appeal. It will also request a stay of the opinion, which would delay the reinstatement of the employees while the appeal is considered.
The case has been among the most closely watched in the unionization effort at Starbucks. Since late last year, more than 220 U.S. Starbucks stores — including the Memphis store — have voted to unionize. Starbucks opposes the unionization effort.
Starbucks fired the seven employees in early February, citing safety. The Seattle coffee giant said the employees violated company policy by reopening a store after closing time and inviting non-employees — including a television crew — to come inside and move throughout the store.
“These individuals violated numerous policies and failed to maintain a secure work environment and safety standards,” the company said in a statement Thursday. “Interest in a union does not exempt partners from following policies that are in place to protect partners, our customers and the communities we serve.”
But the NLRB and the fired workers told the court that Starbucks had routinely tolerated off-duty employees and non-employees remaining in the store after hours to make drinks, collect belongings or assist each other.
“Such tolerance before union activity, but terminations resulting thereafter, supports an inference of discriminatory motive,” the judge wrote.
The NLRB had begun administrative proceedings against Starbucks, saying the company was unlawfully interfering in workers’ right to organize. But those proceedings can take so long that the NLRB asked the federal court for an immediate injunction requiring Starbucks to reinstate the workers.
“Today’s federal court decision ordering Starbucks to reinstate the seven unlawfully fired Starbucks workers in Memphis is a crucial step in ensuring that these workers, and all Starbucks workers, can freely exercise their right to join together to improve their working conditions and form a union,” the labor board’s General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo said in a statement. “Starbucks, and other employers, should take note that the NLRB will continue to vigorously protect workers’ right to organize without interference from their employer.”
One of the workers, Beto Sanchez, said he and his colleagues have suffered financial distress since they were fired, and he has had to work several jobs. Sanchez said he was so surprised after receiving a text about the favorable ruling that he dropped his phone.
“We’ve had a lot of tough moments, but we kept fighting each day,” Sanchez said. “It feels like all the hard work has paid off during all those months, and we’re just really happy.”
The NLRB has filed a separate federal court case in New York seeking the reinstatement of seven pro-union workers who were fired from a store in Buffalo. A decision in that case is pending.
The agency lost a similar case in Arizona in June, when a federal judge declined to order Starbucks to reinstate three workers.
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Updated August 18, 2022 at 2:29 PM ET
Deshaun Watson, the controversial Cleveland Browns quarterback accused by dozens of women of sexual misconduct and assault, will be suspended for 11 regular-season games, the NFL announced Thursday.
Watson must also undergo a behavioral treatment program and pay a fine of $5 million, which will be used to establish a fund to support non-profit organizations across the U.S. that work to combat sexual assault and help survivors. The Cleveland Browns and the NFL will each contribute $1 million to the fund.
Dozens of women have accused Watson of sexual misconduct during massage therapy sessions. In total, he faced 24 lawsuits; all but one of those suits has since settled.
In a statement, Watson apologized for "any pain this situation has caused" and said he would take responsibility for his actions.
But in a news conference Thursday, Watson said he would "continue to stand on his innocence."
"I have to do what's best for Deshaun Watson at the end of the day. I know what happened. I was in those situations," he said. "Just because settlements and things like that happen doesn't mean that a person is guilty for anything."
Asked for whom he was apologizing if he believed he was innocent, Watson responded: "For everyone that was affected about the situation. There was a lot of people that was triggered."
— Cleveland Browns (@Browns) August 18, 2022
A lengthy arbitration process between the NFL and its players' union had first resulted in a six-week suspension. But facing a wave of criticism that the punishment was too light, the NFL appealed the decision in pursuit of a longer suspension.
"Deshaun has committed to doing the hard work on himself that is necessary for his return to the NFL," the league's commissioner Roger Goodell said in a statement.
Watson's 11-game suspension will begin in Week 1 of the regular season, which begins next month. He will return to the field on Dec. 4, when the Browns play the Houston Texans, Watson's former team.
Read on for more about the accusations against Watson:
What is the deal with Deshaun Watson?
Here's the summary: Watson was an exciting young quarterback drafted in the first round in 2017 by the Houston Texans. As the Texans' starter, he helped lead the team to back-to-back playoff appearances in 2018 and 2019. His own performance peaked in 2020 with 33 touchdowns, just seven interceptions and a league-best 4,823 passing yards (though his team floundered at just 4-12 that season).
Then, in March 2021, a woman filed a lawsuit accusing Watson of sexually harassing her during a massage therapy session. Twenty-two more women filed subsequent lawsuits that spring, all accusing him of similar misconduct. (One lawsuit was dropped after a judge required the women to disclose their names.) Two additional suits were filed this summer.
Watson has denied all the claims.
The Texans chose to bench him for the 2021 season. During the off-season, he was traded to the Cleveland Browns even as the NFL's own investigation was ongoing. The 2022 preseason began earlier this month; the regular season begins in September.
What exactly is Watson accused of?
The lawsuits filed against Watson describe a strikingly similar pattern of behavior. Watson would hire a massage therapist for a massage session. The massages took place in a variety of locations, including spas, hotel rooms and Watson's home and office.
At some point during the massage, the lawsuits say, Watson would turn sexual: asking the women for sex, directing their hands to his groin, touching them with his penis. Two women say he orally penetrated them without their consent. Others say he ejaculated on them.
The number of massage therapists seen by Watson is much higher than the number represented by the lawsuits. The New York Times reported this summer that Watson had seen at least 66 massage therapists over a 17-month span from late 2019 to early 2021.
In addition to the 24 women who filed lawsuits, at least two filed criminal complaints. Other women hired by Watson during this period reported no issues during their sessions, and more than a dozen others filed statements of support for Watson.
"I never assaulted anyone," Watson said in June. "I never harassed anyone or I never disrespected anyone. I never forced anyone to do anything."
Where do things stand with the lawsuits? Were there any criminal charges?
There are no current criminal investigations against him. In March, a grand jury in Harris County, where Houston is located, declined to bring charges for nine criminal cases; a second grand jury in neighboring Brazoria County also declined charges in a tenth case.
In June, Watson agreed to settle 20 of the 24 suits against him. One of the lawsuits had also named the Texans as a defendant for enabling Watson's behavior, including by providing him with nondisclosure agreements for massage therapists to sign; the team reached a settlement in July that covered 30 total women. This month, three of the remaining lawsuits were settled.
That leaves one ongoing lawsuit. A trial is currently expected in the spring of 2023.
What's the story with the Browns signing him?
After the first grand jury declined to charge Watson, the Browns signed the quarterback to a lucrative five-year $230 million deal, structuring his contract to minimize lost pay in the case of a suspension this season (which is near certain).
The team reportedly did not speak to any of Watson's accusers before signing him.
The Browns have been without a steady franchise quarterback for decades. Their most recent hope, Baker Mayfield, helped the Browns return to the playoffs after a 17-year drought. But he had battled a shoulder injury and an apparently poor relationship with team officials, and the Browns traded him to the Carolina Panthers in July.
The acquisition of Watson was already controversial when the team signed him in March. (More than 2,000 people made donations to the Cleveland Rape Crisis Center as a way to charitably protest the signing.)
And the controversy hasn't let up over the months since: An HBO special that aired in May helped motivate two additional accusers to file lawsuits, and the Times investigation revealed that Watson's lawyer had been in regular contact with Harris County prosecutors in the months leading up to the grand juries.
As part of the suspension agreement, the Browns will contribute $1 million to the fund that will help support organizations that help survivors of sexual assault.
"I think in this country, and hopefully in the world, people deserve second chances, OK? I really think that. I struggle a little bit with, is he never supposed to play again? Is he never supposed to be part of society? Does he get no chance to rehabilitate himself?" said Jimmy Haslam, who owns the Browns with his wife Dee, in a news conference Thursday. "That's what we're going to do."
Will Watson play this season? How about in the future?
Yes, Watson will play this season. On Thursday, the NFL announced that it had reached an agreement with the NFL Players Association over Watson's punishment: He will be suspended for 11 regular-season games (along with the $5 million fine).
In other words, Watson will miss about two-thirds of the regular season.
The league and players union had agreed to use an arbitrator to decide on a punishment. This month, that arbitrator, a former federal judge, recommended a six-game suspension.
The NFL appealed that decision in an effort to suspend him for longer. League Commissioner Roger Goodell said the evidence called for a suspension of at least a year, calling Watson's conduct "predatory" and "egregious."
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The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Korematsu v. United States (1944), upheld a government program that required the exclusion of Japanese American citizens from areas along the West Coast on the premise, without benefit of any evidence, that they represented a threat to engage in sabotage and espionage on behalf of America’s enemy in World War II. The decision represented a swift plunge, as Justice Frank Murphy wrote in dissent, into “the ugly abyss of racism,” for it promoted the unsavory proposition that citizens could be punished for their ancestry.
The Court’s ruling in Korematsu was part of the larger failure of all three governing institutions—-executive, legislative and judicial—to honor and defend the Constitution, due process of law and equal protection. It thus represents a cautionary tale for a nation that might willingly scatter to the four winds fundamental democratic and legal principles, including the rule of law, on the predicate of expediency in service of values wholly foreign to our constitutional system.
A year after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, issued Executive Order No. 9066 authorizing the Secretary of War, Frank Knox, to establish military zones over which he would exercise power to control the presence, movement and exclusion of any person in the area. The order reflected the growing anti-Japanese hysteria, racism and demands from members of Congress and the press to remove Japanese American citizens from the coastal region. Roosevelt was persuaded by invocations of “military necessity” from defense officials, although the foundational report on which the claim was asserted, was subsequently determined to reflect the anti-Japanese racism of those who authored it, rather than any supportive facts or evidence. Within a month, Congress passed legislation supporting and enforcing the executive order, which brought the full force of governmental power to bear on the civil liberties of 110, 000 American citizens.
Fred Korematsu was convicted for violating the exclusion order, that is, for refusing to leave his home in California. Justice Hugo Black, who wrote for a 5-4 majority, began by addressing the charge of racism. He declared, in terms that introduced to constitutional doctrine and the law of equal protection the standard of “strict scrutiny,” to apply to any legal restrictions that curtailed the civil rights of a “single racial group.” Black said of such restrictions that “the courts must subject them to the most rigid scrutiny.” He wrote: “Pressing public necessity may sometimes justify the existence of such restrictions; racial antagonism never can.”
But Justice Black denied the actions of the army were grounded on racial prejudice. Casting the case into “the outlines of prejudice,” he wrote, “confuses the issue.” Korematsu was “not excluded from the Military Area because of hostility to him or his race. He was excluded because we are at war with the Japanese Empire.”
Having dismissed the charge of racism, Justice Black concluded that the “military authorities considered that the need or action was great, and time was short.” He added that the Court could “not now,” avail itself of the “calm perspective of hindsight” and say that the actions were “unjustified.” In the end, the majority believed the exclusion order met the test of reasonableness.
In a biting dissent, Justice Frank Murphy, who had established a reputation for defending civil rights and liberties before his appointment to the Court by President Roosevelt, asserted that the exclusion order crosses “the very brink of constitutional power,” and “falls into the ugly abyss of racism.” The exclusion of all persons with “Japanese blood in their veins” is based on the assumption that “all” persons of Japanese ancestry tend to inflict sabotage and espionage against the United States. Murphy wrote, icily: “It is difficult to believe that reason, logic or experience could be marshalled in support of such an assumption.”
Korematsu raised an issue of fundamental importance for the exercise of judicial power. What, exactly, is the role of the Court when hearing cases involving military and national security programs and actions? Should the Court apply the rational basis test, as it does in so many of the cases it hears? If the military actions involve racial classifications, as Korematsu did, should the Court truly, vigorously apply the standard of strict scrutiny, or does that plunge the Justices into the realm of policy making in an area in which they have no qualifications or credentials? Or should the Court apply the standard of judicial restraint and exhibit deference? If so, how much deference, particularly considering Justice Black’s reference to “the calm perspective of hindsight?’
These questions resonate in our time, and surely will endure throughout the ages. The Korematsu Court’s exploration of this issue is enlightening. We turn to that discussion next week, as well as America’s formal apology in 1988 to surviving members of the relocation program.
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Billy Horschel finally made a U.S. team as one of six players added Wednesday to a stacked American team that will try to win the Presidents Cup for the ninth straight time.
Captain Davis Love III took two other newcomers to team competition with Max Homa, a two-time winner on the PGA Tour last season and Cameron Young, a 25-year-old who nearly won two majors as a rookie.
The other picks went to three-time major champion Jordan Spieth, two-time major champion Collin Morikawa and Kevin Kisner, who thrives in match play and contended at Quail Hollow in the 2017 PGA Championship.
The Presidents Cup is Sept. 22-25 at Quail Hollow in Charlotte, North Carolina, and these matches would seem to be as lopsided as any since the event began in 1994 to give players from outside Europe a chance to play team competition like the Ryder Cup.
International captain Trevor Immelman filled out his 12-man team on Tuesday, picks that were delayed a week over uncertainty of who would leave the PGA Tour for Saudi-funded LIV Golf. Immelman lost four players who otherwise would have been on the team, including British Open champion Cameron Smith and Louis Oosthuizen.
Former Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama of Japan is the highest-ranked player on the International team at No. 16.
The Americans counter with nine players from the top 15 in the world, and no one ranked lower than Kisner at No. 26.
“These guys, this is their 12-man team that has never played together before,” Love said. “So they want to win for this team. So I don’t think we have to do too much messaging or motivation. Certainly you don’t want to be on a losing team ever. And we know we are up against it.
“Trevor is going to have a team that’s got a chip on their shoulder and that’s motivated and wants to prove that they can still be competitive. We have to be careful. Certainly these guys are not going to take it lying down.”
Horschel played in the Walker Cup when he was in college, renowned for his fiery matches with Rory McIlroy. But he never made it through qualifying or was picked for a Ryder Cup or Presidents Cup, usually a case of bad timing.
He won the FedEx Cup in 2014 with a runner-up finish and two wins. But the two wins came after the captain’s picks were decided. Horschel won the Dell Match Play a year ago but was outside the qualifying and was not selected as a Ryder Cup pick. He won the Memorial this year and finished 11th in the U.S. standings.
“I’ve been around Billy a lot over the years and I haven’t figured that out, how to rein him in. You ride his wave a little bit,” Love said. “He can certainly be over the top sometimes. But that’s what we want.”
Horschel is playing the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth this week, the European tour’s flagship event that he won last year.
Homa won his first PGA Tour title at Quail Hollow in the Wells Fargo Championship and made no secret that getting on the Presidents Cup was a chief goal this year.
The leading six qualifiers were Masters champion and world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, Patrick Cantlay, Xander Schauffele, PGA champion Justin Thomas, Sam Burns and Tony Finau. Thomas won his first PGA Championship at Quail Hollow in 2017.
Love went down the standings for all the picks except Kisner, who finished behind Tom Hoge and J.T. Poston, both of whom won this year, neither of whom have played in a cup. Kisner went 2-0-2 in the 2017 Presidents Cup at Liberty National.
“Kevin, again, adds some veteran leadership, a guy in the team room that everybody loves having around is really, really easy to pair,” Love said.
Cantlay, Schauffele, Thomas and Finau are the only four players from the 2019 team at Royal Melbourne that rallied on the final day to beat the International team.
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DENVER, June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Procare Solutions, the most widely used child care management software, and MarcoPolo Learning, the Emmy-nominated global developer of educational videos, games and digital platforms for educators and children ages 3-7, today announced a partnership that will provide high-quality educational resources through the Procare platform.
This partnership enables both teachers and parents to access MarcoPolo Learning's award-winning library of English, Spanish and Modified/ELL learning videos and educator resources that align with the school's early learning curricula. MarcoPolo's video library is the most comprehensive for early childhood educators with over 1,200 videos, educator guides and other classroom materials that bring curriculum to life.
"Educational content is being used by most early childhood educators to enhance learning and engagement, but not all content found online is safe and designed for young children. Our proprietary video library supports teachers by giving them access to high-quality curriculum-aligned content, educator guides, and innovative child-facing technology that allows classroom content to be shared with families," said Justin Hsu, CEO and Founder of MarcoPolo Learning. "By better supporting early childhood educators and young children, we can also positively affect teacher engagement and retention, as well as foster children's passion for lifelong learning."
"This partnership is another step forward in our mission to simplify child care operations and enhance children's learning with high-quality education," said JoAnn Kintzel, CEO of Procare Solutions. "Educators will now have the ability to access MarcoPolo Learning's videos, resources, activity ideas and family engagement suggestions easily through the Procare platform.
Integrating MarcoPolo Learning's program into the Procare Solutions platform helps solve some of the most common pain points for early childhood educators, and it provides institutional grade resources most commonly found in large school districts, national childcare providers and Head Start programs.
For more than 30 years, Procare Solutions has been the leading provider of child care management software, family engagement, integrated payment processing, technology and services. The company supports nearly 37,000 child care centers, preschools, daycares, afterschool programs, camps and related facilities with comprehensive software that has the power to manage every aspect of their business, enrich classroom and family interactions, and automate the payment process. Procare offers web-based, on-premises, and cloud hosting solutions and supports customers of all sizes from single-center operations to complex multinational enterprises. For more information, visit ProcareSoftware.com.
Based in New York with offices in London, MarcoPolo Learning is an award-winning developer of early childhood content and technology for schools and homes. MarcoPolo serves both schools and families with high quality curriculum-aligned content that drives curiosity and wonder about the world around them. Emmy-nominated for its highly engaging content that features a mix of real footage, CG and 2D animation that brings curriculum to life. MarcoPolo Learning is also the creator of The Polos, an animated STEM learning preschool TV series that reaches over 150 million households globally. For more information, visit MarcoPoloLearning.com.
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HONG KONG (AP) — The death of Queen Elizabeth II has sparked a wave of nostalgia and renewed interest in British memorabilia in Hong Kong, which for 156 years had lived under the British crown until its return to China in 1997.
So Tsz-him says he grew up with post boxes and coins bearing Elizabeth’s face. “I used to feel the queen was a God-like ever-lasting figure,” said So, who purchased a commemorative silver coin that had been issued to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee earlier this year.
For many in the Chinese city, emotions still linger toward British rule of Hong Kong.
Its return to China has upended lives amid a political turmoil brought on by waves of pro-democracy protests and Beijing’s clampdown that critics say has snuffed out Western-style freedoms and threatened its reputation as a global financial business hub.
“It was during the British colonial time when Hong Kong developed to become a metropolitan city where East meets West,” said Bryan Ong, an avid collector and seller of royal memorabilia.
“So I think there’s a sentimental feeling towards the queen, which was more than her as a ruler. It’s the feeling toward Hong Kong’s colonial past.”
Edward Ng, who was born and raised under British rule, spent nearly $140 on four silver coins as a keepsake at Ong’s shop, House of Men, one of several in the city that specializes in British memorabilia.
“The queen was an important figure for the Hong Kong people. I’ll miss her,” Ng said.
Ong bids on items from all over the world. Before the pandemic struck, he used to travel to Britain at least four times a year to bring goods back to his store.
His interest in collecting royal memorabilia and items from colonial Hong Kong began in 1997, when he was 17, and the Union Jack was lowered over the city for the last time.
He has since amassed an impressive personal collection of over 10,000 items. They include banknotes, military medals, stamps and royal portraits in The Museum Victoria City, which he also owns.
Over the past two years, demand for the queen’s memorabilia has gone up in Hong Kong, particularly after her 95th birthday last year and the Platinum Jubilee.
“I personally think that it’s the queen’s own charisma. She was an idol, an iconic global figure and many people just admire her,” Ong said.
“Moreover, she was part of Hong Kong’s history. Hong Kong’s older generations were under her rule and … she is part of their collective memory.”
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Program Supported by Target Recognizes New Orleans (LA), Irving (TX) and Central Falls (RI)
RENO, Nev., June 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the U.S. Conference of Mayors, in partnership with Target, announced the winners of this year's Police Reform and Racial Justice Grant Program: New Orleans (LA), Irving (TX), and Central Falls (RI). The program aims to identify, promote, and support police policies and practices that cities of all sizes are finding to be most effective in advancing the goal of justice for all residents.
In the second year of this competitive grant program, judges named one winner in each of the program's large (over 300,000), mid-sized (100,000 – 300,000) and small (under 100,000) population categories. The three winning cities will share in this year's total of $350,000 in grant funds.
Police Reform and Racial Justice Grant Winners
- Large City Award: New Orleans – Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD)
Currently operating out of the Police Department's 8th District, this initiative targets individuals who cycle in and out of the criminal legal system. Street-level client-centered handling of those involved in non-violent municipal offenses related to substance use, serious mental illness, and trauma has produced significant drops in police summons, arrests, and average time spent in jail. The $175,000 grant awarded will be applied to the City's goal of expanding LEAD services and taking the program city-wide. - Mid-Sized City Award: Irving, TX – Shop Talk
Developed by the Police Department in 2016 in the wake of the murder of five police officers, the Shop Talk program is an outreach initiative involving random, impromptu visits by officers to barbershops in the African American community and wide-ranging discussions of patrons' issues and concerns that improve community relations and develop trust. Supported by barbershop owners, the program now includes 30 shops and additional salons, 100 police officers, and a licensed clinical social worker to help barbers identify patrons who may be in need of mental health services. The $100,000 grant award will be applied to the expansion of the program into other minority communities and to creation of additional program events and enhancements. - Small City Award: Central Falls, RI – The Leading Ladies Initiative
Serving a city in which high percentages of children live in below-poverty-level families and attend schools with high dropout rates, The Central Falls Police Department engages community-minded women with diverse professional backgrounds to serve as mentors for underserved teenage girls, advising them on preparation for higher education, interviews, and obstacles likely to be encountered along the way. The experience includes mentors and girls shopping together for clothing appropriate for the workplace and having lunch or dinner in a local restaurant. The $75,000 grant will be applied to program expansion, the addition of boys, tutoring, and scholarships.
"At Target, we're proud to sponsor the Police Reform and Racial Justice Grant Program because we believe we all have a role to play in creating spaces where our team members, guests and communities feel safe," said Target's Laysha Ward. "This year's winners are proof of what can happen through partnership. By working together to achieve racial equity and social justice, we can move our communities and our country forward by offering opportunity, hope and progress for all Americans."
"We continue to be grateful for our partnership with Target as we recognize and support cities that are putting in the work to achieve greater racial justice and strengthen the trust between law enforcement and the communities they serve," said Tom Cochran, CEO and Executive Director of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. "There is no doubt that these grants will help mayors build on their efforts to create lasting change in their cities."
"On behalf of the City of New Orleans, it is an honor to have been selected as a winner of the U.S. Conference of Mayors' Police Reform and Racial Justice Grant Program," said Mayor LaToya Cantrell. "We are thrilled to receive this grant as we continue our focus on advancing community safety through proven initiatives that help those who have been overly incarcerated and possess underlying and unmet behavioral health needs. This client-centered approach and investment to our community will allow us to identify additional essential services through a racial equity lens and target the specific needs of some of our most vulnerable residents who are overrepresented in the carceral system. This grant will also afford us with an opportunity to expand our Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) program to better meet our people where they are. Thank you again for recognizing our hard work and the accomplishments of the New Orleans LEAD program."
"Shop Talk started with a very simple idea: to build relationships and trust between Irving Police and the African American community," said Irving Mayor Rick Stopfer. "Over the years, Officer Plunkett has worked to expand the program and truly develop meaningful connections. I am so proud of the positive impact Shop Talk has had and appreciate the recognition and USCM/Target Police Reform and Racial Justice Grant to continue growing the program in Irving."
"Our City's Leading Ladies Initiative, in partnership with our Central Falls Police Department, will connect dozens of high school students who are at-risk with powerful and inspiring one-on-one female mentors, many of whom are leaders of color, just like our students. From CEOs to statewide elected officials to police officers, this leadership development initiative will provide students with first-hand professional mentorship experience, while simultaneously instilling
necessary awareness and confidence to navigate racial and misogynistic hurdles they will likely face and overcome throughout their careers," said Central Falls Mayor Maria Rivera. "I want to
thank Target for the incredible funding that's making this initiative possible, and the U.S. Conference of Mayors for giving our City the platform to highlight this important work."
Summary descriptions of the winning programs, along with the balance of the 32 programs submitted by cities in this second round of the grant competition, have been posted on the Conference of Mayors website under the Center for Compassionate and Equitable Cities. The goal is to share with all mayors information on the approaches to police reform being taken or planned by their colleagues throughout the U.S.
Learn more about the partnership between Target and USCM, and the Police Reform and Racial Justice Grant program, in the announcement here.
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Current President and Chief Wellness Officer begins new role leading GENYOUth's mission of building healthier school communities and promoting the health and well-being of America's youth
NEW YORK, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GENYOUth, the national nonprofit organization that creates healthier school communities, today announced the appointment of Ann Marie Krautheim, M.A., R.D., L.D., to Chief Executive Officer by its Board of Directors, effective July 1, 2022. Krautheim, who joined GENYOUth in 2012 and has served as president and chief wellness officer for the past decade, succeeds Alexis Glick, the organization's first CEO. Krautheim will lead GENYOUth's strategic vision, partnerships, and programs in support of the organization's mission of creating healthier school communities and empowering youth to lead change. Her work in building partnerships with corporations, schools, professional sports leagues, education, government, health professional, and nutrition and fitness organizations has been instrumental in driving GENYOUth's growth from a start-up to a leading non-profit -- raising over $200 million to support and generate measurable results nationwide for youth and school wellness programs.
"On behalf of the GENYOUth Board of Directors, I am delighted to announce the appointment of Ann Marie Krautheim as our new CEO," said Barbara O'Brien, GENYOUth Board Chair; President & CEO, Dairy Management Inc.; and President & CEO, Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy. "Ann Marie has the vision and commitment to take GENYOUth's critical work to the next level. In particular, hunger and food insecurity are causes that are near and dear to the hearts of America's dairy farmers, and the ongoing work of GENYOUth to end student hunger is of growing importance," added O'Brien.
"The NFL is proud of our partnership with GENYOUth over the past decade, which continues to have an extraordinary impact on the well-being of millions of youth across the nation through Fuel Up to Play 60, the largest school-based health and wellness program in the country, and NFL FLAG-In-Schools. Ann Marie's leadership as CEO will further ensure that GENYOUth remains integral in our shared commitment to champion physical activity, sound nutrition and healthy lifestyles for children," said NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.
"I am honored to be named CEO of GENYOUth. GENYOUth has made great strides in our first decade with the incredible support of our founding partners, America's Dairy Farmers and the NFL, and additional purpose-minded partners who share our mission. As this is such a pivotal time for youth and schools, I am committed to continued action to ensure that students, particularly those in high-need communities, are nourished, active and supported," said Krautheim.
A registered dietitian, and the mother of two sons, Krautheim has a high regard for science, agriculture, food and fitness, and their connection to health and wellness among youth. An authority on child wellness, she serves on the boards of state and regional professional associations and is an advisory board member for YMCA Storer Camps. She has received numerous honors including the prestigious Anita Owen Award for Innovation in Nutrition Education from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Krautheim has been pivotal in generating grant funding support for GENYOUth's flagship program, Fuel Up to Play 60, which reaches 73,000 schools and over 38 million kids. She helped facilitate GENYOUth becoming a founding partner in former First Lady Michelle Obama's "Let's Move Active Schools" initiative. Krautheim has led GENYOUth's multi-tiered fundraising efforts and initiatives to End Student Hunger to increase access to and participation in school meals for the 30 million U.S. students who are reliant on school nutrition programs.
"Ann Marie has a deep expertise in critical areas of youth wellness, and a passion for youth leadership. Her vision and expertise will take GENYOUth into its next chapter of building healthier school communities," said Dr. David Satcher, 16th U.S. Surgeon General, and an Emeritus Member, GENYOUth Board of Directors.
"Edelman has been proud to advance the work GENYOUth is doing through its programs and initiatives to support healthier school communities nationwide, and to elevate the youth voice -- most especially in the challenging years of 2020 and 2021. Ann Marie was an integral part of that important journey as GENYOUth's President and Chief Wellness Officer, so in her new role as CEO, I am even more excited to see her leadership further GENYOUth's mission in serving our communities, and empowering our nation's youth to drive change," said Richard Edelman, Member, GENYOUth Board of Directors; CEO, Edelman; Chairman, Daniel J. Edelman Holdings.
"Ann Marie has a deep understanding of the urgent concerns -- and needs of school nutrition programs -- as we prepare to nourish students and address hunger in the coming school year. I appreciate her dedication in working to identify public-private partnerships that are helping schools, and producing measurable increases in school meal participation," said Manish P. Singh, Director of Food Services Division, Los Angeles Unified School District.
"I don't think it's possible to over-state the importance of cultivating the health and well-being of our next generation. As we emerge from the pandemic, serious challenges to child health remain -- caused by everything from ongoing food insecurity to rising income inequality. Ann Marie's important work leading GENYOUth will be beyond essential in serving the critical needs of our nation's most underserved youth," said Selwyn M. Vickers, M.D., FACS; Member, GENYOUth Board of Directors; James C. Lee Jr. Endowed Chair - Senior Vice President of Medicine and Dean, University of Alabama School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham.
For more information on GENYOUth, visit www.genyouthnow.org.
GENYOUth is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that creates healthier school communities. We convene a network of private and public partners, including Fortune 100 companies and foundations, to raise funds for youth wellness initiatives that give youth the inspiration, motivation, and programs to be healthy high-achieving students. GENYOUth's flagship program, Fuel Up to Play 60, enrolls over 73,000 U.S. schools, reaching over 38 million students. Our school nutrition grants increase access to healthy school meals among food insecure students. NFL FLAG-In-Schools is GENYOUth's fastest growing program with over 25,000 school communities reaching over 15 million students. AdVenture Capital brings out the entrepreneurial spirit and creativity of students with the support of corporate mentors to solve real world problems. And starting in 2021, GENYOUth is the official charitable partner of Taste of the NFL, a purpose-driven Super Bowl culinary experience that raises awareness and generates funds to fight hunger and food insecurity to support the organization's commitment to end student hunger.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Almost three months after Roe v. Wade was overturned, the landscape of abortion access is still shifting significantly in some states, sometimes very quickly.
Changing restrictions and litigation in neighboring Indiana and Ohio this week illustrate the whiplash for providers and patients navigating sudden changes in what is allowed where.
Sister clinics who just weeks ago were sending patients from Ohio, where most abortions were banned, to Indiana, where the procedure was allowed, have now flip-flopped roles after the two states’ access restrictions reversed, at least temporarily.
Here is a deeper look at the current state of the shifting national landscape:
WHAT CHANGED THIS WEEK?
An Ohio judge blocked enforcement on Wednesday of the state’s ban on most abortions after fetal cardiac activity is detected. The ban had been in effect since shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe on June 24. The judge’s action allows abortions to resume in pregnancies up to 20 weeks’ gestation for 14 days.
Then, on Thursday, a new Indiana law took effect that bans most abortions, marking its status as the first state in the nation to approve new abortion restrictions since the high court’s abortion ruling. Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb signed the ban into law Aug. 5.
Under the new law, abortions are permitted only in cases of rape and incest before 10-weeks post-fertilization; to protect the life and physical health of the patient; or if a fetus is diagnosed with a lethal anomaly. A doctor who performs an illegal abortion or who fails to file required reports must lose their medical license.
HOW IS THIS AFFECTING PROVIDERS?
All seven Indiana abortion clinics lost their licenses Thursday under the state’s new law, which allows abortions to only be performed in hospitals or outpatient surgical centers owned by hospitals. More than 98% of the state’s abortions were done by those clinics in 2021.
Abortion clinics in the state told The Associated Press they will remain open to refer patients out of state, including to neighboring Ohio.
“I thought that today would be the worst day,” Dr. Katie McHugh, a provider at the Indianapolis abortion clinic Women’s Med, told the AP on Thursday. “But I think the worst day was yesterday, knowing that the patients that we saw in the office yesterday were the last ones that we would see, and knowing how much it meant for all of us that were there — the staff, the physicians and the patients — that we were able to provide that care to the last moment.”
In Ohio, clinics were preparing for a high volume of patients coming in from surrounding states following the judge’s ruling — though they realize it could be short-lived.
“Well, I never expected to be a surge state,” said Iris Harvey, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio, using the new lingo of the field. “For 14 days, we might be.”
Ohio clinics that had been prohibited from performing most abortions will resume those services beginning Friday.
HOW IS THIS AFFECTING PATIENTS?
The shifting legal landscape has required patients in affected states to regroup, sometimes repeatedly. Kellie Copeland, executive director of Pro-Choice Ohio, an abortion rights advocacy group, said some have been unable to terminate their pregnancies.
Harvey said Planned Parenthood has set up a central location for abortion requests and hired additional staff, oftentimes social workers, to help people navigate various states’ laws as they change.
Lawyers were still reviewing whether patients traveling from Indiana to Ohio would be able to get anything but a surgical abortion. The two-pill regimen used in medication abortions would generally mean taking one pill in a permissive state and one in a restrictive state, the latter potentially breaking the law, providers said.
Anti-abortion groups continue to tout existing restrictions and the new ones being passed in the states in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling.
“Ohio is pro-life and this law was supported by the people,” said Margie Christie, president of the Right to Life Action Coalition of Ohio. “Women do not need abortion in Ohio. We have abundant resources for mothers and their children to thrive.
WHEN WILL THE LANDSCAPE SHIFT AGAIN?
With Indiana’s ban taking effect, the nation has 13 states with current bans on abortion at any point in pregnancy and one more, Georgia, with a ban on abortions after fetal cardiac activity can be detected — usually around six weeks, often before women realize they’re pregnant.
Though it had not yet been signed by the governor, a ban approved by West Virginia lawmakers Wednesday had already prompted the state’s only abortion clinic to close, pushing potentially more patients to neighboring Ohio. Arizona’s ban is scheduled to kick in Sept. 24, with legal cases and legislative action expected to continue to change the status of abortion access of some states.
Then, on Nov. 8, abortion-related measures will be on ballots in at least five states. In California, Michigan and Vermont, voters will be asked to protect the right to abortion. In Kentucky, the question is whether to amend the state constitution to declare that it does not include the right to abortion. And Montana voters will decide on a measure to require medical care for infants born alive after an attempted abortion.
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Reporter Geoff Mulvihill in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, contributed to this report. Arleigh Rodgers is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. Follow Arleigh Rodgers on Twitter: @arleighrodgers
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VENICE, Fla. (WFLA) – Gabby Petito’s family continues to seek answers from the parents of Brian Laundrie, and if they have their way, they’ll finally hear from them in a court of law.
The lawsuit against Chris and Roberta Laundrie claims they were aware their son had murdered Petito.
After a nationwide search, Petito’s body was found Sept. 19 at a campground near Grand Teton National Park in northwestern Wyoming. A coroner determined the cause of death was “blunt-force injuries to the head and neck, with manual strangulation.”
Brian Laundrie went missing during the search for Petito, and his partial remains were found on Oct. 20 in a Florida nature preserve.
The Petito family’s lawsuit now has an initial witness list, which includes Chris and Roberta Laundrie, law enforcement officers and others connected to the case. The initial witness list is routine, procedural, and far from a definitive list of names that would testify should the lawsuit reach a jury trial, but it does offer a glimpse into the strategy behind the lawsuit.
Plaintiff’s initial witness list
- Joseph Petito (Gabby Petito’s father)
- Nichole Schmidt (Gabby Petito’s mother)
- Tara Petito (Gabby Petito’s stepmother)
- James Schmidt (Gabby Petito’s stepfather)
- Christopher Laundrie (Brian Laundrie’s father)
- Roberta Laundrie (Brian Laundrie’s mother)
- Representatives of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (Names not specified)
- Representatives of the North Port Police Department (Names not specified)
“It’s a wish list,” Laundrie attorney Steven Bertolino said. “I’m sure [Petito and Schmidt attorney Pat Reilly] put every party on that list that [he] believes he needs testimony from to prove his case.”
The lawsuit filed earlier this year by Petito’s parents includes several significant allegations including claims that the Laundries sought to help their son flee the country and blocked communication with Petito’s family.
The Laundries, through their attorneys, have filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, claiming the allegations are “baseless.” The motion states “there are no more facts that could emerge that would bolster the plaintiff’s claim.”
Bertolino maintains his clients were following his legal guidance and exercising their constitutional right to remain silent while Petito was missing in September. In the motion to dismiss, they argue silence “is what most people would and should do” in a situation such as Petito’s disappearance.
Petito and Schmidt attorney Pat Reilly previously told WFLA that the argument for the lawsuit’s dismissal is “outrageous and ridiculous.”
Arguments for the motion to dismiss are scheduled to be heard in Sarasota County Circuit Court on Wednesday, June 22 at 1:30 p.m. in what will be the first court hearing in the Petito case. A ruling on the dismissal attempt is expected by mid-to-late summer.
Barring dismissal, a trial by jury has been set for the week of Aug. 14, 2023, at the South County Courthouse in Sarasota County, Florida.
Nichole Schmidt, Petito’s mother, has also filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Laundrie’s estate, accusing him of performing “intentional acts” that led to Petito’s death.
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‘Elvis': What We Know About the Cast and Characters
Director Baz Luhrmann's new film Elvis may be about Elvis Presley, but manager Col. Tom Parker, played by Tom Hanks, will guide the story.
Parker discovered Elvis in 1955 and steered his career for twenty years, using marketing strategies that he learned during his days as a carnival worker, "operating concessions, freak shows and even animal acts for a period of 10 years," according to Turner Classic Movies. The experience taught him about acts that could draw a crowd.
"He was my destiny," narrates Hanks as Parker in the Elvis trailer. "Now, I don't know nothing about music. But I could see in that girl's eyes, he was a taste of forbidden fruit. She could have eaten him alive!"
Hanks has won two Best Actor Academy Awards in his career, in 1994 (Philadelphia) and 1995 (Forrest Gump). However, Lisa Marie Presley sees a different Oscar favorite in the movie about her father.
“I do want to take a moment to let you know that I’ve seen Baz Luhrmann’s movie Elvis twice now. Let me tell you that it is nothing short of spectacular. Absolutely exquisite. Austin Butler channeled and embodied my father’s heart & soul beautifully,” Presley tweeted, before adding that if Butler doesn't win an Academy Award, "I will eat my own foot."
Luhrmann did extensive research for the movie and wrote the screenplay with Craig Pearce, Jeremy Doner and Sam Bromell. "[Luhrmann] goes into total immersion on his films, surrounding himself with excavations from the world he is creating, from drapes to wardrobe to photos," reported the NY Times. "He only chooses subjects he’s madly in love with, then fearlessly dives in."
It is a movie about music but Luhrmann will include the social and political climate of the time as a backdrop, depicting cultural shifts throughout the ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s. B.B. King, Little Richard, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe will be central to those storylines.
The King's songs will be featured, although diehard Elvis fans should prepare for a surprise treatment with a few of them. "You will hear the classics, you will see the story of Elvis, but we've translated that for a new generation," Luhrmann noted.
In the gallery below, we've highlighted what we know about each of the main cast members and the people they play. Elvis will be in theaters on June 24.
'Elvis': Cast and Characters
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JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — President Joe Biden met Friday with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the man he once pledged to shun for human rights violations, and shared a cordial fist bump as he tried to reset an important diplomatic relationship, bolster Mideast security and increase the global flow of oil.
It was the first encounter for the two leaders, and their chummy gesture was swiftly criticized. But Biden insisted that he did not shy away from pressing the crown prince on the kingdom’s abuses, particularly the 2018 murder of the U.S.-based writer Jamal Khashoggi, which U.S. intelligence believes was approved by the heir to the throne.
“I said, very straightforwardly, for an American president to be silent on an issue of human rights is inconsistent with who we are and who I am,” Biden said after the meeting. “I’ll always stand up for our values.”
Biden said Prince Mohammed claimed that he was “not personally responsible” for the death of Khashoggi, who wrote for The Washington Post. “I indicated I thought he was,” the president said he replied.
Though he brushed off any focus on the fist bump, it was described as “shameful” by Fred Ryan, the Post’s publisher.
“It projected a level of intimacy and comfort that delivers to MBS the unwarranted redemption he has been desperately seeking,” Ryan said, referring to the crown prince by his initials.
Biden had long refused to speak to Prince Mohammed. But concerns about human rights have been somewhat eclipsed by other challenges, including Iran’s nuclear ambitions and rising gas prices in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
At the same time, Saudi Arabia wants to strengthen its security relationship with the United States and secure investments to transform its economy into one less reliant on pumping oil.
For now, it appears the two leaders are taking incremental steps together. Biden announced that U.S. peacekeepers would leave the Red Sea island of Tiran by the end of the year, paving the way for Saudi Arabia to develop tourist attractions there.
Because of a complex diplomatic arrangement governing control of the strategically located island, America’s departure required Israel’s assent, and the deal was the latest reflection of warmer relations between the Israelis and Saudis.
The agreement followed an earlier announcement that the Saudis were ending strict limits on Israeli commercial flights over their territory.
Biden also said progress was being made on extending a cease-fire in Yemen, where Saudi Arabia had been battling Iran-backed militants for years, leading to a humanitarian crisis.
The United States played down expectations for any immediate increases in Saudi oil production, which could help alleviate high gas prices that are politically damaging to Biden back home. But after his meeting with the crown prince, Biden hinted that relief could be on the way, although “you won’t see that for another couple of weeks.”
The current OPEC+ agreement expires in September, opening the door to potentially higher production after that, although questions remain about how much excess capacity the Saudis have.
Biden’s nearly three hours at the royal palace were widely seen as a diplomatic victory for Prince Mohammed, who has tried to rehabilitate his image, draw investments to the kingdom for his reform plans and bolster the kingdom’s security relationship with the U.S.
The Saudis carefully controlled the visit, even trying to bar Post reporters from a briefing with government officials before relenting.
They also released a steady stream of photos and videos from private meetings that journalists were barred from attending. Biden was shown shaking hands with King Salman, the 86-year-old monarch who suffers from poor health, including two hospitalizations this year, while the crown prince looked on.
Afterward, reporters were only briefly allowed into a meeting that Biden and the crown prince held with their advisers. The two men sat across from each other, an arrangement that burnished the perception that they are counterparts. It’s an image that the crown prince has been eager to foster as he solidifies his path to the throne after sidelining, detaining and seizing the assets of royal rivals and critics.
Prince Mohammed’s rise to power has ushered with it a new era for the kingdom, one in which Saudi Arabia is more assertive on the world stage as it expands its relations with Russia and China. In addition, budding ties with Israel are not only underpinned by shared enmity with Iran, but also a possible hedge against the perception that the U.S. has increasingly disengaged from the region.
Biden has spent his first trip to the Middle East since taking office trying to convince people otherwise.
During an earlier stop in Israel, he said he was going to Saudi Arabia to “promote U.S. interests in a way that I think we have an opportunity to reassert what I think we made a mistake of walking away from: our influence in the Middle East.”
On Saturday, he’ll participate in a gathering of leaders from the Gulf Cooperation Council — Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates — before returning to Washington. The leaders of Mideast neighbors Egypt, Iraq and Jordan are also to attend, and Biden’s national security adviser said Biden would make a “major statement” on his vision for the Middle East.
The Saudi visit is one of the most delicate that Biden has faced on the international stage.
Any success in soothing relations could pay diplomatic dividends as the president seeks to ensure stability in the region. But it has also opened Biden, already floundering in public opinion polls at home, to deeper criticism that he is backtracking on his pledges to put human rights at the center of foreign policy. During his campaign for president, he had vowed to treat Saudi Arabia as a “pariah.”
“If we ever needed a visual reminder of the continuing grip oil-rich autocrats have on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, we got it today,” tweeted Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif. “One fist bump is worth a thousand words.”
Khashoggi’s fiancee, Hatice Cengiz, said that, with the visit to Saudi Arabia, Biden was backing down on human rights.
She told The Associated Press in an interview Thursday, “It’s heartbreaking and disappointing. And Biden will lose his moral authority by putting oil and expediency over principles and values.”
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Batrawy reported from Dubai, Knickmeyer from Sacramento, Calif., and Megerian from Washington.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Owl Rock, a division of Blue Owl Capital Inc. ("Blue Owl") (NYSE: OWL), today announced that certain of its funds have made an initial equity commitment to Amergin Asset Management ("Amergin"), a newly formed portfolio company created to invest in a leasing platform focused on railcar and aviation assets.
The capital will enable Amergin to build a diversified portfolio of assets, across rail and aviation. Amergin will be headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida and led by Mark McGreenery, a 35-year industry veteran who most recently served as the CEO of Infinity Transportation, a $2.2 billion AUM lessor of rail, aviation, and intermodal assets under the Global Atlantic umbrella. McGreenery was previously a Partner at Perella Weinberg where he was one of the key leaders for the Asset Based Value Fund from 2008-2016.
In addition, Amergin will be led by a senior management team made up of seasoned executives who previously worked with McGreenery and have over 100 years of combined experience.
"The transportation equipment leasing space is an attractive asset class, underpinned by long lived infrastructure-like assets that generate steady cash flows," said Craig Packer, co-founder of Blue Owl and the Chief Executive Officer of Owl Rock's business development companies. "With Mark and his experienced management team at the helm, Amergin has the opportunity to generate long duration, uncorrelated returns at scale. We are excited about the partnership and look forward to what he and the team will accomplish over the long run."
"We are excited to build this business with the investment from Owl Rock. This will enable Amergin to create a scaled portfolio of railcar and aircraft assets," said Mark McGreenery, CEO of Amergin. "Amergin's management team and I are excited to build a differentiated leasing platform that will drive real value for all our stakeholders."
About Owl Rock
Owl Rock, a division of Blue Owl Capital Inc. (NYSE: OWL), is a direct lending platform with approximately $44.8 billion of assets under management as of March 31, 2022. Owl Rock's platform provides multiple investment funds with management services, including public and private business development companies and other products. Owl Rock's platform includes teams of seasoned investment professionals with significant and diverse experience from some of the world's leading investment firms and financial institutions. Owl Rock's platform embodies a relationship-oriented approach to investing seeking to provide companies with sizeable commitments to facilitate transactions and support their growth needs with certainty, speed and transparency throughout the entire investment process. For more information, please visit www.owlrockbdcs.com.
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SAN DIEGO (Border Report) — A meeting with Border Patrol representatives didn’t go as expected for a group of advocates trying to save a public gathering spot along the San Diego-Tijuana border known as Friendship Park.
Advocates sought a 120-day delay for the proposed construction of two 30-foot walls to replace existing barriers on a bluff above the Pacific Ocean, but no compromise was reached.
The fencing there now, according to Border Patrol, is not safe for the public, migrants or the agents who patrol the area and that’s why the new structures are necessary.
It’s within these walls, in the so-called “enforcement zone,” that the public had been allowed to enter and meet family and friends who gather on the south side of the border wall.
Traditionally, Border Patrol agents open a gate for a couple of hours on weekends, so people can go in.
The practice was stopped as the pandemic began, and it has not resumed since.
Advocates, including a group that calls itself Friends of Friendship Park, worried the renovation project would not include a gate, essentially meaning an end to public access and a tradition that dates back several decades.
But it appears the Border Patrol and engineers behind the project have made a concession allowing for a gate.
“They have commented there will be a pedestrian gate but it will only open when it’s operationally feasible, and so, even though they have a gate it doesn’t necessarily mean it will be open to the public,” said Pedro Rios, director of the American Friends Service Committee and a member of Friends of Friendship Park.
Rios said he was involved in Wednesday evening’s meeting with Border Patrol representatives.
“Now they know it’s not only Friends of Friendship Park, there are many other stakeholders that would want to have an opinion about how Friendship Park should look like,” he said.
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the work includes replacing approximately 0.6 miles of deteriorated primary and secondary barrier located adjacent to Friendship Circle in Imperial Beach, California.
Rios stated they were hopeful Border Patrol would agree to postpone the project while more public input is generated and submitted.
“Input is absolutely important with any project impacting our region including border walls that bisect our communities,” said Rios. “They said they will take this up to the secretary of Homeland Security to consider it. … We don’t know what it actually means, they told us by next Friday they will provide us with an update on where that communication is.”
Rios expressed disappointment that Border Patrol was not more open to a stay in construction.
“They will proceed with the planned breaking ground by some time in August,” he said.
Added Rios: “It could be the end of decades for a unique area where thousands of families come to see their loved ones, many are immigrants, many are not, it’s a special place that is unique in that way.”
Border Report contacted CBP about Wednesday’s meeting with Rios and the others and about the status of the project and its timeline.
An agency spokesperson wrote the agency would stand by the following statement issued earlier this week:
“U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recognizes the value of having a safe meeting place for families and friends on both sides of the border. Upon completion of the San Diego Friendship Circle Project, including the replacement of a secondary barrier with a pedestrian gate in this area, we will identify opportunities to provide the public with access once it is operationally safe to do so. While these opportunities will continue to need to be based on other U.S. Border Patrol operational requirements, the replacement construction project will not be an impediment to potential opportunities for future access in this location. Upon completion of discussions with stakeholders and receipt of the schedule from the construction contractor, CBP will determine when construction will commence.”
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ROCKVILLE, Md., June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RegeneRx Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (OTCQB: RGRX) ("RegeneRx" or "Company"), a clinical-stage drug development company focused on tissue protection, repair, and regeneration, is reporting today that its U.S. joint venture (JV) partner and licensee, HLB Therapeutics (HLBT), is planning to expand its ophthalmic clinical development program with RGN-259 in two indications, Neurotrophic Keratopathy (NK) and Dry Eye Disease (DED), beginning in November of 2022. The trials will be sponsored by the U.S. JV, ReGenTree, LLC.
The following is information provided to RegeneRx by HLBT, with minor edits and insertion of bracketed clarifications by the Company:
According the HLBT, "Although we at ReGenTree had focused on dry eye clinical trials in recent years, we now plan to run both DED and NK clinical development program simultaneously. In the case of DED, for which ReGenTree conducted a pre-BLA meeting in February this year, we plan to apply for SPA (Special Protocol Assessment) to the FDA around this October. SPA is a program in which FDA specialists provide a sponsor (ReGenTree) with collaboration in setting up clinical protocols and statistical analysis plans. The agreed clinical trial design with FDA is binding and this program will give the sponsor and FDA a clear understanding [of relevant trial criteria] by participating together at this stage of the clinical trial protocol development."
"In addition, ReGenTree will start the two phase 3 trials for NK simultaneously [to meet the requirement of two independent phase 3 clinical trials necessary for FDA marketing approval]. ReGenTree will seek to confirm the efficacy observed in SEER-1 despite the very small number of subjects in that trial. Based on the results of the SEER-1 study, ReGenTree has developed a plan to enter into two phase 3 studies (SEER-2, SEER-3) simultaneously with 60 patients in each study. To this end, it plans to retain a contract research organization (CRO) very shortly and start recruitment of patients around this November."
"We are pleased HLBT is moving forward with both NK and DED clinical trials with RGN-259 as we believe our product candidate has significant potential as an important therapeutic modality for numerous ophthalmic disorders. Accelerating NK clinical development by simultaneously conducting two trials will speed up the process while also working with the FDA under an SPA to refine our approach to DED. I believe this strategy indicates that HLBT is fully committed to RGN-259's clinical development in the field of ophthalmology," stated J.J. Finkelstein, RegeneRx's president and chief executive.
RegeneRx is focused on the development of novel therapeutic peptides, including Thymosin beta 4 (Tβ4) and its constituent fragments, for tissue and organ protection, repair, and regeneration. RegeneRx currently has three drug candidates in clinical development for ophthalmic, cardiac/neuro and dermal indications, four active strategic licensing agreements in the U.S., China, and Pan Asia (Korea and Japan, among others), and the EU, and has patents and patent applications covering its products in many countries throughout the world.
RGN-259 is a sterile, preservative-free, eye drop developed to reduce damage and improve healing for various ophthalmic indications including dry eye syndrome and neurotrophic keratopathy. To date, over 1700 subjects have received RGN-259 indicating various degrees of efficacy in both DED and NK. RGN-259 has shown to be quick-acting, well-tolerated and does not have the documented side effects of other approved pharmaceutical products for these indications.
Any statements in this press release that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements made under the provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Any forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to be materially different from historical results or from any future results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements in this press release include but are not limited to statements from us, our partners, or within research published by third parties. There can be no assurance that positive results from any research or clinical trial by the Company, its collaborators, or independent parties in the U.S. or any other country will result in subsequent clinical confirmation or future value. There can also be no assurance that any of the Company's drug candidates will result in any approved products in the U.S. or any other country. Please view risks described in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), including those identified in the "Risk Factors" section of the annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, and subsequent quarterly reports filed on Form 10-Q, as well as other filings it makes with the SEC. Any forward-looking statements in this press release represent the Company's views only as of the date of this release and should not be relied upon as representing its views as of any subsequent date. The Company specifically disclaims any obligation to update this information, as a result of future events or otherwise, except as required by applicable law.
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TRUCKEE, Calif. (AP) — Chez Reavie holed a long chip shot for eagle on the par-5 sixth hole and took a three-point lead Friday in the Barracuda Championship.
Reavie had a 19-point round in the modified Stableford scoring system event at Tahoe Mountain Club, getting five points for the eagle and 14 for seven birdies. A point is deducted for bogey and three taken away for double bogey or worse.
“It’s actually 2 1/2 birdies, so if you can make an eagle, you can kind of leapfrog guys on the leaderboard,” Reavie said. “I hit an OK tee shot kind of up the right side, so I had a little further in. Had to hit a 5-wood, so I kind of favored toward the right bunker side, and I just missed the bunker and had to chip across the green and was fortunate to knock it in.”
Reavie played the back nine first in his morning round, making four birdies. He added birdies on Nos. 3 and 4, had the eagle on No. 6 and birdied No. 8 to take a 28-point total into the weekend in the event co-sanctioned by the European tour. He’s the only bogey-free player after 36 holes.
“I think really having control of the golf ball out here really helps you,” Reavie said. “You’ve got to be in the fairway. Once you get in the rough, with the greens being firm, you can’t really be aggressive with your irons, so you have to drive the ball in the fairway.”
The 40-year-old from Mesa, Arizona, has two PGA Tour victories, taking the 2008 Canadian Open and the 2019 Travelers Championship.
Mark Hubbard, tied for the first-round lead with Charley Hoffman with 13 points, was tied for second with Henrik Norlander at 25 points. Hubbard had a 12-point round, and Norlander a 14-pointer.
The 33-year-old Hubbard is winless on the PGA Tour. He was third last week in Kentucky in the Barbasol Championship, the first of two straight U.S. events co-sanctioned by the European tour.
“It was tough early, man, with the cold and the elevation,” Hubbard said. “It’s hard to know how far the ball is going, and it seemed like every pin on our front nine, the back nine, was front with water short, so you couldn’t really play with it. So it was just tough to get the ball close early. Once it heated up and started going another 10 percent, I started making some birdies.”
Norlander had seven birdies in a bogey-free round. The 35-year-old Swede, also winless on the PGA Tour, made a weekend cut for only the third time in his last 16 starts. He had missed five straight cuts.
“I’m very pleased,” Norlander said. “It’s, first of all, nice to not make travel arrangements on Friday afternoon. I’ve been sort of used to that lately. Just a lot better attitude this week. …
”There’s a lot of bad voices in there, I’m not going to lie. But I think the key for me is to like accept that and then move from there. When I get bad, I try to avoid those voices, but they’re there.”
Kevin Tway had 21 points. He birdied the first five holes in a 15-point day. Maverick McNealy and Martin Trainer followed at 19.
Hoffman had 15 after a two-point day.
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal jury on Friday convicted a former star of the St. Louis-based reality TV show “Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s” of arranging the shooting death of his nephew.
The jury deliberated about 17 hours over three days before reaching its verdict in the murder-for-hire case against James “Tim” Norman, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. He was charged with conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire, murder-for-hire and conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud.
Norman and his nephew, Andre Montgomery, both starred in the long-running OWN reality show about a popular soul-food business founded in the St. Louis area by Robbie Montgomery — Norman’s mother and Andre’s grandmother.
Prosecutors are not seeking the death penalty but Norman could be sentenced to up to life in prison. Sentencing is set for Dec. 15.
Federal prosecutors said Norman, 43, hired two people to kill the 21-year-old Montgomery on March 14, 2016, then tried to cash a $450,000 life insurance policy taken out on his nephew months earlier.
Defense attorney Michael Leonard said after the verdict that he and Norman were “extremely surprised and disappointed in the outcome” of the case. He said they plan to appeal and that Norman continues to be optimistic that he will eventually prevail.
Leonard said the testimony during the trial of two co-conspirators was shown to be “extremely non-credible.” And he said Norman testified well during the trial, noting he was not cross-examined.
U.S. Attorney Sayler Fleming said she was “very, very pleased” with the verdict but that her office would make no further statements until after the sentencing.
During closing arguments, Assistant U.S. Attorney Angie Danis said Norman was the architect of the plan to kill Montgomery.
“This plan doesn’t exist but for Tim Norman’s greed,” Danis said.
Leonard argued in his closing argument that the murder plot presented by prosecutors was a “made up theory.”
Prosecutors said Norman paid $10,000 to an exotic dancer, Terica Ellis, to lure his nephew to the site where he was shot and paid $5,000 to Travell Anthony Hill to shoot Montgomery.
Ellis and Hill both testified for the prosecution in the case. They have both pleaded guilty to participating in the scheme.
In testimony during the trial, Norman said he helped his nephew move to St. Louis about 18 months before he was killed and supported him financially because he was trying to watch out for Montgomery. He said he sought to be a “father figure” to his brother’s son.
Former Sweetie Pie’s employees and other character witnesses testified that Norman and his nephew had a close relationship.
Danis said all the testimony from the scheme’s co-conspirators was backed up in trial by texts, call records and location data.
She said Norman created “an image of being a mentor and a father figure to all these people, but it’s fiction.”
Leonard said during his closing argument that Ellis testified to get a shorter sentence and said Hill admitted he was a heavy drug user and that he was “hopped up on drugs that day.”
Norman testified Tuesday that he took out the life insurance policy on his nephew to give a longtime customer of the family restaurants, Waiel Rebhi Yaghnam, some business.
Yaghnam pleaded guilty in July to conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire and wire fraud in the case.
Montgomery left St. Louis after at least $220,000 in cash, jewelry and other items were stolen in a June 2015 burglary at Robbie Montgomery’s home.
Norman told jurors he and his mother hired a private investigator to find and confront his nephew about the robbery but he had no intention of hurting him.
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PHOENIX (AP) — The Republican Party’s embrace of Donald Trump’s election lies will be tested on Tuesday as voters in Arizona choose between candidates who say they wouldn’t have certified the results of the 2020 campaign and those who argue it’s time to move on.
The former president has endorsed and campaigned for a slate of contenders who support his falsehoods, most prominently former television news anchor Kari Lake in the race for governor. Lake, who says she would have refused to certify President Joe Biden’s narrow Arizona victory, faces Karrin Taylor Robson, a lawyer and businesswoman who says the GOP should focus on the future despite an election she has called “unfair.”
And in the race to oversee elections as secretary of state, Trump is also backing a state lawmaker who was at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 and claims the former president was cheated out of victory.
As the midterm primary season enters its final stretch this month, the Arizona races are poised to provide important clues about the GOP’s direction. Victories by Trump-backed candidates could provide the former president with allies who hold sway over the administration of elections as he considers another bid for the White House in 2024. Defeats, however, might suggest openness in the party to a different path forward.
“I think the majority of the people, and a lot of people that are supporters of Trump, they want to move on,” said former Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, who is backing Robson. “I mean, that was two years ago. Let’s go. Let’s move.”
Other closely watched races on Tuesday include the Republican contests for Michigan governor and Missouri senator. Voters in Kansas will be the first to weigh in on abortion rights since the U.S. Supreme Court revoked a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion. And two Republican House members from Washington state who voted to impeach Trump are facing primary challengers.
But the contests are especially salient in Arizona, a longtime Republican stronghold that has become more favorable to Democrats in recent years because of explosive growth in and around Phoenix. The primary and the fall election will provide insight into whether Biden’s success here in 2020 was a onetime event or the onset of a long-term shift away from the GOP.
With such high stakes, Arizona has been central to efforts by Trump and his allies to cast doubt on Biden’s victory with false claims of fraud.
Federal and state election officials and Trump’s own attorney general have said there is no credible evidence the election was tainted. The former president’s allegations of fraud were also roundly rejected by courts, including by judges Trump appointed. A hand recount led by Trump supporters in Arizona’s largest county found no proof of a stolen election and concluded Biden’s margin of victory was larger than the official count.
Though Trump is still the most popular figure inside the GOP, his efforts to influence primary elections this year have yielded mixed results. His preferred candidates in states such as Ohio and Pennsylvania prevailed in their primaries.
But in Georgia, another state that is central to Trump’s election lies, his handpicked candidate for governor was defeated by more than 50 percentage points. Georgia’s Republican secretary of state was also renominated over a Trump-backed primary rival.
The former president is hoping he’ll have more success in Arizona, where the incumbent governor, Doug Ducey, can’t run for reelection. That could give Trump a better opportunity than in Georgia to influence the winner.
Lake is well known in much of the state after anchoring the evening news in Phoenix for more than two decades. She’s now running as a fierce critic of the mainstream media, which she says is unfair to Republicans, and other enemies of Trump’s Make America Great Again Movement, including the McCain family.
A vocal supporter of Trump’s election lies, Lake says her campaign is “already detecting some stealing going on” in her own race, but she has repeatedly refused to provide any evidence for the claim.
Robson, whose housing developer husband is one of the state’s richest men, is largely self-financing her campaign. The GOP establishment, growing increasingly comfortable creating distance from Trump, has rallied around her over the past month with a series of endorsements from Ducey, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former Vice President Mike Pence.
The groundswell of establishment support for Robson has drawn national scrutiny to a race for what it says about the GOP base ahead of the crucial presidential primary in two years.
“Everyone wants to try to make this some kind of proxy for 2024,” said Christie, who ran for president in 2016. “Believe me, I’ve been through enough of these to know that 2024 will be decided by the people who step up to the plate and ’24 and how they perform or don’t perform at that time.”
Robson is running a largely old-school Republican campaign focused on cutting taxes and regulations, securing the border and advancing school choice.
On the Democratic side, Secretary of State Katie Hobbs is the front-runner against Marco Lopez, a former mayor of Nogales and border enforcement official during President Barack Obama’s administration.
As Arizona’s top elections official, Hobbs endeared herself to Democrats with an impassioned defense of the integrity of the 2020 election, a stance that has drawn death threats. However, she’s been weighed down by a discrimination case won by a Black policy adviser from Hobbs’ time in the Legislature.
In the Senate race, Trump is backing Blake Masters, a 35-year-old first-time candidate who has spent most of his career working for billionaire Peter Thiel, who is bankrolling his campaign. Masters is emphasizing cultural grievances that animate the right, including critical race theory and allegations of big tech censorship.
Until Trump’s endorsement, the race had no clear front-runner between Masters, businessman Jim Lamon and Attorney General Mark Brnovich, all of whom jockeyed for his support.
Lamon says Trump made a mistake in endorsing Masters and is digging into his own fortune to highlight Masters’ ties to technology firms and his writings as a college student supporting open borders. Lamon signed a certificate falsely stating that Trump had won Arizona in 2020 and that he was one of the state’s “duly elected and qualified” electors.
Trump soured on Brnovich and may have torpedoed his campaign when the attorney general’s election fraud investigation failed to produce criminal charges against election officials.
The eventual winner in the primary will take on incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly in the fall.
The Republican race for secretary of state includes Mark Finchem, a Trump-backed candidate who was at the Capitol on Jan. 6, and Shawnna Bolick, a state lawmaker who has pushed for legislation allowing the Legislature to overturn the will of the voters and decide which candidate gets the state’s 11 electoral votes for president. The GOP establishment has rallied around advertising executive Beau Lane, who says there were no widespread problems with the 2020 election.
Republican state House Speaker Rusty Bowers, who gave testimony to the House Jan. 6 committee about Trump’s pressure campaign following the 2020 election, faces a Trump-backed challenger in his bid to move up to the state Senate.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Zach Hrbacek rushed for 131 yards and a touchdown, backup quarterback Keegan Shoemaker led a second-half comeback and Sam Houston beat Texas A&M-Commerce 27-17 on Saturday night.
Sam Houston starting quarterback Jordan Yates threw an interception that was returned for a touchdown as Texas A&M-Commerce pulled within 10-7 in the third quarter. Sam Houston opted for Shoemaker on the next drive and he responded by leading three scoring drives.
Cody Chrest made a one-handed catch in the corner of the end zone to stretch the Sam Houston lead to 17-7. After TAMUC trimmed it to 17-10, Chris Hicks returned the ensuing kickoff 46 yards and Hrbacek scored five plays later.
Hrbacek set up the final score with 41 more yards on the ground, leading to a 46-yard field goal by Seth Morgan for Sam Houston (1-2).
Texas A&M-Commerce (1-2) managed just 84 yards of total offense in the first half and got its first offensive touchdown with 31 seconds left in the game.
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By BERNIE WILSON
AP Sports Writer
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The San Diego Padres are close to acquiring All-Star closer Josh Hader from the Milwaukee Brewers in exchange for recently benched closer Taylor Rogers and three other players, a person with knowledge of the blockbuster deal said Monday.
The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the deal between NL playoff contenders hasn’t been announced.
The NL Central-leading Brewers are sending one of the game’s top relievers west in exchange for Rogers, right-hander Dinelson Lamet, outfielder Esteury Ruiz and pitching prospect Robert Gasser.
The trade features the two big league saves leaders. Hader has 29 saves while Rogers has 28, though the Padres recently removed Rogers from the closer role after he blew consecutive saves in a series at Detroit. The Padres obtained Rogers from Minnesota on opening day.
The Brewers have a three-game lead over St. Louis in the NL Central, and the Padres have a 1 1/2-game lead over Philadelphia for the second NL wild card.
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Cubs first. Rafael Ortega called out on strikes. Seiya Suzuki singles to shallow left field. Willson Contreras singles to shallow center field. Seiya Suzuki to third. Ian Happ singles to shallow left field. Willson Contreras to second. Seiya Suzuki scores. Patrick Wisdom grounds out to shallow infield, Michael Chavis to Yoshi Tsutsugo. Ian Happ to second. Willson Contreras to third. Jonathan Villar walks. Jason Heyward pops out to second base to Cole Tucker.
1 run, 3 hits, 0 errors, 3 left on. Cubs 1, Pirates 0.
Cubs second. Alfonso Rivas lines out to center field to Bryan Reynolds. Nico Hoerner singles to right field. Rafael Ortega singles to center field. Nico Hoerner to third. Seiya Suzuki singles to shallow right field. Rafael Ortega to third. Nico Hoerner scores. Willson Contreras singles to shallow center field. Seiya Suzuki scores. Rafael Ortega scores. Ian Happ reaches on a fielder's choice to shallow infield. Willson Contreras to second. Fielding error by Kevin Newman. Patrick Wisdom walks. Ian Happ to second. Willson Contreras to third. Jonathan Villar reaches on a fielder's choice to second base. Patrick Wisdom to third. Ian Happ scores. Willson Contreras scores. Fielding error by Kevin Newman. Jason Heyward pops out to first base to Cole Tucker. Alfonso Rivas homers to right field. Jonathan Villar scores. Patrick Wisdom scores. Nico Hoerner singles to left field. Rafael Ortega reaches on a fielder's choice to shortstop. Nico Hoerner out at second.
8 runs, 6 hits, 2 errors, 2 left on. Cubs 9, Pirates 0.
Cubs fourth. Patrick Wisdom walks. Jonathan Villar reaches on a fielder's choice to shallow infield. Patrick Wisdom out at second. Jason Heyward hit by pitch. Jonathan Villar to second. Alfonso Rivas singles to shallow left field. Jason Heyward to third. Jonathan Villar scores. Nico Hoerner grounds out to shallow infield, Miguel Yajure to Yoshi Tsutsugo. Alfonso Rivas to second. Jason Heyward scores. Rafael Ortega grounds out to shallow right field, Cole Tucker to Yoshi Tsutsugo.
2 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 left on. Cubs 11, Pirates 0.
Cubs fifth. Seiya Suzuki doubles to deep right center field. Willson Contreras doubles to right field. Seiya Suzuki scores. Ian Happ doubles to shallow left field. Willson Contreras scores. Patrick Wisdom pops out to Yoshi Tsutsugo. Jonathan Villar singles to left field. Jason Heyward doubles to deep right field. Jonathan Villar to third. Ian Happ scores. Alfonso Rivas singles to center field. Jason Heyward to third. Jonathan Villar scores. Nico Hoerner singles to shallow center field. Alfonso Rivas to second. Jason Heyward scores. Rafael Ortega flies out to left field to Ben Gamel. Michael Hermosillo pinch-hitting for Seiya Suzuki. Michael Hermosillo grounds out to shortstop, Michael Chavis to Yoshi Tsutsugo.
5 runs, 7 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Cubs 16, Pirates 0.
Cubs seventh. Jonathan Villar grounds out to shallow infield, Cole Tucker to Yoshi Tsutsugo. Jason Heyward singles to shallow right field. Alfonso Rivas grounds out to shallow infield, Aaron Fletcher to Yoshi Tsutsugo. Jason Heyward to second. Nico Hoerner singles to shallow center field. Jason Heyward scores. Rafael Ortega grounds out to shallow infield to Andrew Knapp.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Cubs 17, Pirates 0.
Cubs eighth. Michael Hermosillo singles to center field. Willson Contreras walks. Michael Hermosillo to second. Ian Happ singles to shallow infield. Willson Contreras to second. Michael Hermosillo to third. Patrick Wisdom singles to shallow left field. Ian Happ to second. Willson Contreras to third. Michael Hermosillo scores. Jonathan Villar singles to right field. Patrick Wisdom to third. Ian Happ scores. Willson Contreras scores. Jason Heyward grounds out to shallow infield. Jonathan Villar out at second. Patrick Wisdom scores. Alfonso Rivas grounds out to shallow right field, Cole Tucker to Yoshi Tsutsugo.
4 runs, 4 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Cubs 21, Pirates 0.
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A European Central Bank poised to raise interest rates for the first time in 11 years vowed Wednesday to create an unspecified market backstop that could buffer member countries against financial turmoil like that seen during a debt crisis more than a decade ago.
Pressed by a government bond selloff, the bank’s governing council called an unscheduled meeting to address worrisome market shifts following the bank’s decision to hike rates in July and September.
ECB bond purchases and record low interest rates have kept borrowing costs low for businesses and governments. But those measures are coming to an end as the bank pivots to deal with record inflation of 8.1% in the 19 European Union countries using the euro currency.
The bank last week announced it will raise rates to cool rising prices but did not offer a specific measure to halt market turbulence caused by suddenly higher borrowing costs for more indebted EU countries, such as Italy and Spain.
Instead, the central bank simply said it would act if needed against “fragmentation,” or excessively high borrowing costs plaguing one part of the eurozone and not another. That is one complication of having one currency and central bank for 19 countries.
The unspecific pledge to act wasn’t enough to satisfy government bond markets, and the “spread,” or difference between what Italy pays for borrowing and what financially solid Germany pays, began to increase.
Those so-called spreads are a key fear index for the eurozone. Spreads widen when investors sell off Italian bonds, lowering their price and raising interest yields, which move opposite from price. Rising yields can reflect investor views that a country’s bonds carry more risk of loss.
The ECB said it would speed development of “a new anti-fragmentation instrument” that could be reviewed for approval by the governing council. Its statement didn’t say what that instrument would be.
The bank also said it could use money it gets from maturing bonds it holds to make new purchases and fight excessive borrowing costs if individual countries face market pressure.
The ECB already has an emergency bond-market backstop that could allow it to step in and buy the debt of a troubled country. That tool helped calm the 2010-2012 debt crisis after the bank announced it as part of then-President Mario Draghi’s promise to do “whatever it takes” to keep the eurozone from breaking up.
But that program, which never actually had to be used, can come with tough conditions for reform and governments may be reluctant to turn to it.
Holger Schmieding, chief economist at Berenberg bank, said the “situation today is different from the euro crisis a little more than a decade ago” because countries have improved growth prospects and the ECB has the bond-market backstop in its back pocket if needed. Current conditions “should not present an imminent risk even for fiscally challenged Italy,” he said.
A top ECB official, Isabel Schnabel, tried to calm market concerns Tuesday, saying the bank “will not tolerate” unjustified market rate increases.
“Our commitment to the euro is our anti-fragmentation tool,” she said in a speech at Paris’ Sorbonne University. “This commitment has no limits. And our track record of stepping in when needed backs up this commitment.”
Interest yields on Italy’s 10-year government bonds have risen from around 1.2% at the start of the year to 4.1% on Wednesday. The ECB’s pandemic support programs, including 1.7 trillion euros ($1.8 trillion) of bond purchases, helped keep government borrowing costs low across the eurozone. That program, however, came to an end in March, and markets are now looking at increases in interest rates from record low levels.
The ECB’s surprise meeting comes the same day that the U.S. Federal Reserve is expected to announce its largest interest rate hike since 1994. Europe’s bank has trailed the Fed and other central banks in raising rates to combat decades-high levels of inflation, including the Bank of England, which has hiked rates four times since December and will meet again Thursday.
But now the ECB has scheduled rate increases for July and September and indicated September’s increase might be a larger-than-usual half-percentage point.
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SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — North Macedonia got a boost from European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Thursday for the country’s hopes of eventually joining the European Union amid a dispute with Bulgaria.
“We want you in the EU,” von der Leyen said in the Macedonian language in an address to North Macedonia’s parliament.
Von der Leyen pledged her backing for a French proposal that will pave the way for accession talks for the tiny Balkan country and eliminate Bulgaria’s objections.
“Bilateral issues, such are history issues, are not conditions for accession,” von der Leyen told North Macedonia’s parliament in an address. “There can be no doubt that Macedonian is your language”
She added that that the French “proposal also respects your national identity,” and said that this is the time for North Macedonia to move forward.
The difficulty of selling the French compromise proposal was evident in the presence of thousands of protesters outside the parliament building who denounced it as a sellout. Even inside parliament, while most lawmakers stood respectfully and applauded von der Leyen, she was briefly interrupted by whistles and shouts.
The proposal, announced by French President Emmanuel Macron at the NATO summit in Madrid last month, envisages concessions from both sides. The government in North Macedonia would commit to changing its constitution to recognize a Bulgarian minority, protect minority rights and banish hate speech, as Bulgaria, an EU member since 2007, has demanded.
The ruling Social Democrats and Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski are backing the proposal as a reasonable compromise. The government believes the deal doesn’t endanger national interests or identity and unblocks the path for the country to join the EU.
But the center-right main opposition party, the VMRO-DPMNE, as well as others, disagree, saying the deal favors Bulgarian demands that question North Macedonia’s history, language, identity, culture and heritage and insists on changes in the deal, or a new one prepared by the Czech rotating EU presidency with the bloc’s input.
Political tensions in North Macedonia have been on the rise over the past 10 days, with several violent nightly protests.
Debate on the French proposal has begun with seemingly irreconcilable differences between the ruling leftist coalition and the center-right opposition.
Thursday’s protest outside Parliament, like the previous ones, has as its main slogan “Ultimatum-NO, Thanks.” The protesters are singing a national anthem and chanting “Never North, always Macedonia!” thus also calling into question the deal that North Macedonia reached with Greece in July 2018, ending a decades-old dispute over the country’s name and helping lift Greece’s objections to North Macedonia’s entering the EU and NATO.
Macron has stressed that the proposal doesn’t question the official existence of a Macedonian language, but he noted that, like all deals, it “rests on compromises and on a balance.”
North Macedonia has been a candidate for EU membership for 17 years. The country received the green light to begin accession talks in 2020, but no date for the start of the negotiations has been set.
Bulgaria has used its power as an EU member to block North Macedonia’s membership.
In Bulgaria, Prime Minister Kiril Petkov’s centrist government was toppled in a no-confidence vote on June 22. A junior governing partner quit the fragile four-party coalition, describing Petkov’s willingness to lift the veto of North Macedonia as a “national betrayal.”
Parliamentary debate is expected to last two days at least before the vote. But, while the ruling coalition, which just has a majority in parliament of 61 seats out of 120, can adopt it, it faces a major hurdle with the revision of the constitution to officially recognize a Bulgarian minority. This requires a two-thirds majority, or 80 votes. The VMRO-DPMNE coalition and a small leftist party, with 46 seats between them, have said they will never agree to change the constitution.
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Synopsys Design, Verification and IP Solutions Maximize Performance and Energy Efficiency for New Arm Cortex CPUs and Latest-Generation Arm GPUs
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Enabling mutual customers to deliver specialized compute, high performance and high efficiency for mobile applications including laptops, smartphones, gaming and augmented/virtual reality, Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced that its design, verification and IP solutions are optimized to deliver maximum performance-per-watt for the latest Arm®v9 architecture-based SoCs. Synopsys' leading EDA and IP solutions combined with the new Arm Immortalis™ and Mali™ GPUs and Arm Cortex®-A and Cortex-X CPUs address the specialized processing demands of high-performance computing applications, complementing the Arm Total Compute Solutions approach to SoC design. Early adopters of the new cores have successfully taped out multiple SoCs, achieving optimum power, performance and area (PPA) targets using Synopsys' solutions.
"The growing demand for specialized processing, enhanced security and AI capabilities is driving demand for Armv9 architecture-based processors," said Paul Williamson, SVP and GM, Client Line of Business, Arm. "The long-standing collaboration between Synopsys and Arm provides the foundation for our mutual customers to confidently develop next-generation mobile applications with sustained high performance and high efficiency required to deliver the ultimate user experiences."
Building on more than three decades of deep ecosystem collaboration, Synopsys and Arm continue to deepen and broaden collaboration activities, aligned with the principles of Arm Total Compute, to accelerate time-to-market through highly optimized and silicon-ready system design and implementation solutions. Synopsys QuickStart Implementation Kits (QIKs), tuned to extract maximum entitlement from the latest 5, 4 and 3nm process technologies, provide the most efficient path to realizing optimally scaled compute architectures for the most demanding end-user applications.
"The principles of Arm's Total Compute strategy are built on a solutions-focused approach to deliver optimized SoC designs, which aligns with Synopsys' end-to-end design, verification and IP solutions that enable design teams to achieve optimal PPA goals," said Sanjay Bali, vice president of Marketing and Strategy for the Silicon Realization Group at Synopsys. "As we continue deepening our relationship, we are together addressing the need for secure, specialized processing to optimize the digital experience on next-generation devices."
Supporting Synopsys Technologies
Key Synopsys technologies supporting the new Cortex-A715, Cortex-A510 and Cortex-X3 CPUs and Immortalis-G715, Mali-G715 and Mali-G615 gaming-optimized GPUs include:
- The Synopsys Digital Design Family, consisting of technology-fused products with shared best-in-class engines to provide a framework to achieve optimum PPA for Arm-based designs across all leading technology processes. Synopsys RTL Architect, Synopsys Fusion Compiler™, Synopsys DSO.ai™ and Synopsys Tweaker™ ECO products accelerate the development, implementation and signoff of power-optimized architectures for Arm cores. The family also includes Synopsys Silicon Lifecycle Management optimization software, which quickly finds the best configurations to maximize performance of the new Arm cores.
- The Synopsys Verification Family, which speeds software development, verification throughput and time-to-market for Arm-based designs. Early adopters of the latest Armv9 architecture are using the Synopsys Verification Family of products, including virtual prototyping with Arm Fast Models, simulation, hardware and software debug, verification IP for the latest Arm AMBA® interconnect, emulation and prototyping hardware to accelerate hardware-software bring-up and power and performance validation, resulting in shorter time-to-market.
- The silicon-proven Synopsys Interface IP products, which deliver the required performance, power efficiency, security and real-time connectivity for systems implementing the latest Arm processor cores. The broad Synopsys IP portfolio, consisting of controllers and PHYs, supports the latest protocols optimized for the rapid development of Arm-based SoCs.
Availability
Synopsys QuickStart Implementation Kits (QIKs) include implementation scripts and reference guides that enable early adopters of the newest Armv9 cores to accelerate time-to-market and achieve their demanding performance-per-Watt targets. These QIKs are available today by request through the Arm support hub or from Synopsys SolvNet.
About Synopsys
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) is the Silicon to Software™ partner for innovative companies developing the electronic products and software applications we rely on every day. As an S&P 500 company, Synopsys has a long history of being a global leader in electronic design automation (EDA) and semiconductor IP and offers the industry's broadest portfolio of application security testing tools and services. Whether you're a system-on-chip (SoC) designer creating advanced semiconductors, or a software developer writing more secure, high-quality code, Synopsys has the solutions needed to deliver innovative products. Learn more at www.synopsys.com.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Police in the Netherlands said Friday that two people have been killed and two seriously wounded in a shooting at a countryside home for people with disabilities on a farm near the city of Rotterdam.
Rotterdam police tweeted that “the suspect has been arrested and the firearm has been seized,” following the shootings at Molensingel, on the outskirts of Alblasserdam.
“The witnesses are being taken care of, help is being arranged for them,” police said.
Dutch media said a woman and a teenage girl were killed, and those wounded were a teenage boy and a young woman. The alleged shooter, a 38-year-old man, was known to police for minor disturbances but had no criminal record. The motive for the shooting remains unclear.
First responders and a number of helicopters were out at the scene. People were urged to stay away from the area.
The farm is a haven for young people and adults, mostly with disabilities or mental illness. It’s also shelter for teenagers and adults who are trying to get their lives back on track, according to its website.
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KILLEEN, Texas, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Venterra Realty recently acquired the Keystone Apartments, a community located in Killeen, Texas.
The 212-unit multi-family community offers modern one- and two-bedroom garden-style residences that range from 479 – 916 square feet in six unique floor plans. The apartments feature open concept layouts, private outdoor space, bay windows, vinyl wood flooring, eat-in kitchens, and outdoor storage closets.
Located in the Killeen-Temple market along Interstate-35, the area is strategically located between Austin and Dallas/Fort Worth and is within 180 of all 4 large Texas markets (Houston, Dallas/Fort Worth, San Antonio and Austin). Just minutes to I-14 the property is easily accessible to the area's major employer in Killeen, Fort Hood, a United States Army base that employs 37,000 active-duty military personnel and civilians.
Venterra will complete a unit upgrade program and implement its resident-focused programs such as the Live it. Love it. Guarantee.TM, the 48-Hour Maintenance Guarantee, and SMARTLEASING.
"We have seen excellent growth in the Killeen area, and are excited to expand our Texas portfolio with the addition of Keystone," said John Foresi, CEO of Venterra Realty. "Venterra has become known as a company that is committed to providing a market-class living experience, and we look forward to identifying opportunities to further enhance the standard of living at Keystone by implementing Venterra's customer-focused management platform," added Venterra Chairman, Andrew Stewart.
Founded in 2001, Venterra Realty owns and manages over 70 communities and more than 20,000 apartment units across 16 US cities that provide housing to over 38,000 people and 12,000 pets. The organization has completed approximately $8.0 billion in real estate transactions and currently manages a portfolio of multi-family real estate assets valued at approximately $4.0 billion. Venterra is committed to improving the lives of its residents by delivering industry-leading customer experience. Find out more about Venterra Realty and its award-winning company culture at Venterra.com.
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VANCOUVER, BC, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Alexco Resource Corp. (NYSE American: AXU) (TSX: AXU) ("Alexco" or the "Company") announced today that it obtained an interim order (the "Interim Order") from the Supreme Court of British Columbia (the "Court") on July 27, 2022, authorizing the holding of its special meeting (the "Meeting") and matters relating to the conduct of the Meeting. At the Meeting, shareholders, optionholders, restricted share unit ("RSU") holders, and deferred share unit ("DSU") holders of Alexco (collectively, the "Securityholders") will be asked to consider and, if deemed advisable, pass a special resolution (the "Arrangement Resolution") to approve an arrangement (the "Arrangement"), in accordance with the terms of the arrangement agreement entered into by the Company and Hecla Mining Company (NYSE: HL) ("Hecla") on July 4, 2022, as assigned and amended (the "Arrangement Agreement"), pursuant to which 1080980 B.C. Ltd. ("108") agreed to acquire all of the issued and outstanding Alexco Shares that it does not already own by way of a statutory plan of arrangement (the "Plan of Arrangement") under section 288 of the Business Corporations Act (British Columbia).
Alexco also announces that it executed an assignment and amendment agreement dated July 25, 2022 (the "Amending Agreement") with Hecla and 108 to amend the Arrangement Agreement, pursuant to which Hecla has assigned its obligations under the Arrangement Agreement, such that 108 will become the purchaser under the Plan of Arrangement. The Amending Agreement is available on SEDAR (www.sedar.com) under Alexco's issuer profile.
An Alexco information circular will be mailed on or before August 8, 2022 to Securityholders of record as of July 20, 2022. The Meeting will be held on August 30, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. (Vancouver time) at the offices of Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, 595 Burrard Street, Suite 2600, Vancouver, British Columbia, V7X 1L3. Assuming no adjournment or postponement to the Meeting, the cut-off time to vote by proxy will be 10:00 a.m. (Vancouver time) on August 26, 2022.
The proposed closing date of the Arrangement is September 7, 2022, subject to obtaining Court, Securityholder and regulatory approval and the satisfaction of conditions set forth in the Arrangement Agreement.
About Alexco
Alexco is the owner and operator of the historic Keno Hill Silver District in Canada's Yukon Territory, one of the highest-grade silver deposits in the world.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Thursday a tentative railway labor agreement has been reached, averting a potentially devastating strike before the pivotal midterm elections.
He said the tentative deal “will keep our critical rail system working and avoid disruption of our economy.”
The Democratic president believes unions built the middle class, but he also knew a rail worker strike could have badly damaged the nation’s economy. That left him in the awkward position of espousing the virtues of unionization in Detroit, a stalwart of the labor movement, while members of his administration went all-out to keep talks going in Washington between the railroads and unionized workers in hopes of averting a shutdown.
But after a long night, the talks succeeded and Biden announced Thursday that the parties had reached a tentative agreement to avoid a shutdown that would go to union members for a vote. He hailed the deal in a statement for avoiding a shutdown and as a win for all sides.
“These rail workers will get better pay, improved working conditions, and peace of mind around their health care costs: all hard-earned,” Biden said. “The agreement is also a victory for railway companies who will be able to retain and recruit more workers for an industry that will continue to be part of the backbone of the American economy for decades to come.”
It looked far more tenuous for the president just a day earlier.
United Auto Workers Local 598 member Ryan Buchalski introduced Biden at the Detroit auto show on Wednesday as “the most union- and labor-friendly president in American history” and someone who was “kickin’ ass for the working class.” Buchalski harked back to the pivotal sitdown strikes by autoworkers in the 1930s.
In the speech that followed, Biden recognized that he wouldn’t be in the White House without the support of unions such as the UAW and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, saying autoworkers “brung me to the dance.”
But back in Washington, officials in his administration at the Labor Department were in tense negotiations to prevent a strike — one of the most powerful sources of leverage that unions have to bring about change and improve working conditions.
Without the deal that was reached among the 12 unions, a stoppage could have begun as early as Friday that could halt shipments of food and fuel at a cost of $2 billion a day.
Far more was at stake than sick leave and salary bumps for 115,000 unionized railroad workers. The ramifications could extend to control of Congress and to the shipping network that keeps factories rolling, stocks the shelves of stores and stitches the U.S. together as an economic power.
That’s why White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, speaking aboard Air Force One as it jetted to Detroit on Wednesday, said a rail worker strike was “an unacceptable outcome for our economy and the American people.” The rail lines and their workers’ representatives “need to stay at the table, bargain in good faith to resolve outstanding issues, and come to an agreement,” she said.
Biden faced the same kind of predicament faced by Theodore Roosevelt in 1902 with coal and Harry Truman in 1952 with steel — how do you balance the needs of labor and business in doing what’s best for the nation? Railways were so important during World War I that Woodrow Wilson temporarily nationalized the industry to keep goods flowing and prevent strikes.
Inside the White House, aides don’t see a contradiction between Biden’s devotion to unions and his desire to avoid a strike. Union activism has surged under Biden, as seen in a 56% increase in petitions for union representation with the National Labor Relations Board so far this fiscal year.
One person familiar with the situation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss White House deliberations on the matter, said Biden’s mindset in approaching the debate was that he’s the president of the entire country, not just for organized labor.
With the economy still recovering from the supply chain disruptions of the pandemic, the president’s goal is to keep all parties so a deal could be finalized. The person said the White House saw a commitment to keep negotiating in good faith as the best way to avoid a shutdown while exercising the principles of collective bargaining that Biden holds dear.
Biden also knew a stoppage could worsen the dynamics that have contributed to soaring inflation and created a political headache for the party in power.
Eddie Vale, a Democratic political consultant and former AFL-CIO communications aide, said the White House pursued the correct approach at a perilous moment.
“No one wants a railroad strike, not the companies, not the workers, not the White House,” he said. “No one wants it this close to the election.”
Vale added that the sticking point in the talks was about “respect basically — sick leave and bereavement leave,” issues Biden has supported in speeches and with his policy proposals.
Sensing political opportunity, Senate Republicans moved Wednesday to pass a law to impose contract terms on the unions and railroad companies to avoid a shutdown. Democrats, who control both chambers in Congress, blocked it.
“If a strike occurs and paralyzes food, fertilizer and energy shipments nationwide, it will be because Democrats blocked this bill,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
The economic impact of a potential strike was not lost on members of the Business Roundtable, a Washington-based group that represents CEOs. It issued its quarterly outlook for the economy Wednesday.
“We’ve been experiencing a lot of headwinds from supply chain problems since the pandemic started and those problems would be geometrically magnified,” Josh Bolten, the group’s CEO, told reporters. “There are manufacturing plants around the country that likely have to shut down. … There are critical products to keep our water clean.”
The roundtable also had a meeting of its board of directors Wednesday. But Bolten said Lance Fritz, chair of the board’s international committee and the CEO of Union Pacific railroad, would miss it “because he’s working hard trying to bring the strike to a resolution.”
Back at the Labor Department, negotiators ordered Italian food as talks dragged into Wednesday night and the White House announced the agreement at 5:05 a.m. on Thursday.
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By ELENA BECATOROS, OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI and RICARDO MAZALAN
Associated Press
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of waging “total war,” seeking to inflict as much death and destruction as possible as in three months of conflict, as fighting raged Tuesday in the eastern Donbas region.
Russian forces have intensified efforts to encircle and capture Sievierodonetsk and neighboring cities, the only part of the Donbas’ Luhansk region that remains under Ukrainian government control, British military authorities said.
That battle is only one part of the Russian campaign to take the Donbas, which is now the Kremlin’s focus after its forces failed to overrun Kyiv in the early weeks of the war and were forced to withdraw and pursue more a limited objective. But its troops have become bogged down again in the eastern industrial heartland of coal mines and factories.
Russian forces have achieved “some localized successes” despite strong Ukrainian resistance along dug-in positions, the U.K. Defense Ministry said, but the fall of Sievierodonetsk and the area around it may cause logistical problems for the Russians.
“If the Donbas front line moves further west, this will extend Russian lines of communication and likely see its forces face further logistic resupply difficulties,” the ministry said.
On the eve of the three-month anniversary of the start of the war, Zelensky told Ukrainians that Russia is waging “total war, when the enemy tries to destroy as many people and infrastructure as possible.”
“Indeed, there has not been such a war on the European continent for 77 years,” he said in his address Thursday night.
He pointed to a missile attack that killed 87 people last week in the town of Desna, 55 kilometers (35 miles) north of Kyiv, one of the deadliest single strikes in the war.
“And it was only four missiles,” he said, noting the many hundreds of such strikes since the beginning of the war on Feb. 24.
In its effort to secure a victory in the Donbas, Moscow has withdrawn some forces from around Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv.
There, residents lined up for rations of tea, sugar, pasta and cereal, holding out plastic bags to receive cups of flour and other supplies.
Meanwhile, a Russian-installed official in Ukraine’s Kherson region said the pro-Kremlin administration will ask Moscow to set up a military base there.
“It is vitally important and will become a security guarantee for the region and its residents,” said Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of the administration.
Ukrainian officials have speculated Russia plans to stage a referendum in the region to declare its independence, similar to ones held years ago in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of the Donbas. Moscow recognized the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk republics two days before invading Ukraine, using that as a pretext to send troops to its ex-Soviet neighbor.
Instead, Stremousov said the region would ask the Kremlin to make it part of Russia. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said it is up to the people of Kherson to decide how and where they want to live.
Meeting in Tokyo with fellow leaders in the Indo-Pacific security coalition known as the Quad, President Joe Biden said Tuesday that Russia’s war in Ukraine had brought a “dark hour in our shared history.”
Global defense leaders on Monday agreed to send more advanced weapons to Ukraine, including a Harpoon launcher and missiles to protect its coast, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told reporters.
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Becatoros reported from Kramatorsk, Ukraine. Associated Press journalists Yuras Karmanau in Lviv, Andrea Rosa in Kharkiv, Danica Kirka in London and other AP staffers around the world contributed.
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MARLO ALLEVA: Frontal raise strengthens shoulders
Upper body strength can come from all angles Although it's normal to have your “go to,” more attainable movements, it’s good to throw in variation from time to time.
Our move today is a frontal raise. This exercise strengthens the shoulder muscles and also works the upper chest.
You will need a light hand weight for this move.
Whether standing or seated hold your chest tall, shoulders will be back and down, and holdyour core strong. Grip your weight in one hand, with your palm facing down, extending your arm down by your frontal thigh.
At this point you are ready to begin movement.
Proceed to raise your (extended) arm up and out from your body. Without locking the elbow continue to raise your arm to roughly shoulder level. Once you reach your fullest contraction slowly guide the weight back to the front side of your thigh.
Continue this motion for at least eight repetitions. If at anytime there is discomfort lower the amount of added weight.
Alternating sets from side to side, give yourself three sets of eight on each side.
This move is an added bonus to any upper body program to build strength and tone to the front of your chest and shoulders.
Marlo Alleva, a fitness coordinator at Fontaine-Gill YMCA, can be reached at faluuzpa@msn.com
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(The Hill) – New battle lines are emerging around the issue of interstate travel for abortion, as a confusing patchwork of state and federal rules materializes in the wake of the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade.
No state currently bans women from obtaining an out-of-state abortion. But conservative lawmakers in a handful of GOP-led states where abortion is banned or restricted have floated measures that would penalize those involved — even tangentially — in helping someone access the procedure in another state.
Other red state restrictions have already had a chilling effect on doctors prescribing abortion pills across state lines.
At the other end of the political spectrum, several blue states have taken steps to become abortion safe havens, saying they would refuse to cooperate with red-state investigations into cross-border abortion cases. Meanwhile, the Justice Department (DOJ), is digging in for a fight, vowing to draw on federal legal authority to protect women who seek an abortion in states where it is legal.
Court watchers say the high court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, authored by Justice Samuel Alito, will set in motion a new wave of abortion-related litigation.
“Alito suggested that Roe and Casey were unworkable and returning abortion laws to the states would help make them workable. But we’re seeing the very opposite,” said Rachel Rebouché, a Temple University School of Law. “We should expect even more conflict, not less.”
For nearly 50 years after Roe was decided, a constitutional right to abortion barred states from outlawing abortion before fetal viability. But since the Supreme Court toppled that landmark 1973 precedent last month, abortion is now banned in at least nine states, more bans and restrictions are expected soon and residents of less-permissive states who seek to terminate an unwanted pregnancy are increasingly looking beyond their state’s borders.
The dynamic has drawn attention from Republican lawmakers in states where abortion is restricted.
The Texas Freedom Caucus, a group of 11 far-right state lawmakers, plan to introduce legislation that would make it a felony for employers to pay for workers to obtain an abortion in a state where it’s legal or reimburse travel expenses. The group announced its proposal last week in a pugnacious letter to the to the Dallas office of the powerhouse law firm Sidley Austin.
“It has come to our attention that Sidley Austin has decided to reimburse the travel costs of employees who leave Texas to murder their unborn children,” the Texas Freedom Caucus letter states. “It also appears that Sidley has been complicit in illegal abortions that were performed in Texas before and after the Supreme Court’s ruling (overturing Roe). We are writing to inform you of the consequences that you and your colleagues will face for these actions.”
The group said its legislative proposal would also contain a bounty-style enforcement mechanism — based on Texas’s six-week abortion ban, S.B. 8 — that would incentivize private citizens to bring civil lawsuits against those suspected of helping to facilitate an out-of-state abortion on a Texas resident.
Arkansas State Sen. Jason Rapert (R), who heads the National Association of Christian Lawmakers, expressed interest in a similar measure in his home state that would target businesses engaged in what he called “abortion trafficking.”
“They’re trying to traffic individuals and basically put money into the coffers of the abortion industry and circumventing these abortion bans,” he told Arkansas-based ABC affiliate 40/29 News. “So for instance, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Bank of America and some other companies have said they’re going pay people to travel and get abortions. Well, what about the shareholders? We believe this is an illegal use of shareholders’ money.”
Similar proposals have been backed by lawmakers in South Carolina and Oklahoma. One such bill in Missouri failed to clear the 2022 legislative session. But its sponsor, Missouri state Rep. Mary Elizabeth Coleman (R), a special counsel at the conservative public interest firm the Thomas More Society, told The Washington Post that antiabortion activists and lawmakers in other states were interested in seeing such legislation signed into law.
Legal experts described the looming fight over abortion access as something of a tinderbox.
“The stakes are so high because people are going to try to get medical care any way they can, but anti-abortion people are going to try to stop them,” said David Cohen, a law professor at Drexel University. “We are now on the verge of seeing these very serious interstate and inter-jurisdictional conflicts because of the stakes.”
Some GOP abortion restrictions have already created a chilling effect in more-permissive states.
In Montana, where the state’s supreme court has held that Montana’s constitution protects abortion, Planned Parenthood is limiting access to medical abortion for out-of-state residents.
“The way abortion pills work is that there are two different sets of pills you take, spaced apart in time, and so the patient could wind up taking the second set of pills, or even the first set, in an anti-abortion state and risk legal issues,” Cohen said.
At the other end of the political spectrum, a number of blue states have taken steps to become safe havens for those traveling from out of state for abortions.
In the run-up to Roe’s demise, California and Connecticut passed laws that would shield abortion providers and patients from out-of-state prohibitions.
The California law, A.B. 1666, which was sponsored by Planned Parenthood California, renders any legal action brought against the right to abortion unenforceable in California courts.
“It puts up a legal shield for our doctors, providers and patients against attacks from the radical-right extremists who seek to strip women of their fundamental right,” said California Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan (D), the bill’s primary sponsor.
Democratic governors in seven other states have signed executive orders with other protections.
Some blue state measures codify a refusal to comply with subpoenas, investigations or records requests from conservative states. Other measures even allow providers to countersue if they’re targeted by out-of-state laws. Still other provisions would deny red-state requests to extradite those suspected of violating abortion bans.
The emerging legal landscape will likely lead to clashes between states that are novel and intense, experts said.
“Once these laws are tested, I think they’ll be wending their way back up to the Supreme Court as states seek to enforce conflicting laws,” said Naomi Cahn, a law professor at the University of Virginia.
Meanwhile the DOJ said it would aid in the fight to protect abortion access. In statement Tuesday announcing the creation of reproductive rights task force, the DOJ indicated that its legal strategy would take cross-border considerations into account.
The DOJ has also said it is prepared to take to action to make sure the abortion medication Mifepristone, which has deemed by the FDA to be safe and effective, would remain widely available. More than a dozen states, mostly in the South and Midwest, ban providers from prescribing abortion pills through telemedicine.
Medication abortion has become an increasingly common method for ending pregnancies, accounting for 54 percent of all abortions in 2020, according to the Guttmacher Institute.
The Supreme Court has not made clear how it might rule if a case challenging out-of-state penalties were to reach the high court. Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who signed onto Alito’s majority ruling, wrote a concurring opinion that offered some limited insights into his thinking on the issue.
“Some of the other abortion-related legal questions raised by today’s decision are not especially difficult as a constitutional matter,” Kavanaugh wrote. “For example, may a state bar a resident of that state from traveling to another state to obtain an abortion? In my view, the answer is no based on the constitutional right to interstate travel.”
But legal experts said Kavanaugh’s opinion raised more questions than it answered, and only amounted to the view of a single justice.
“He talks solely about the patient has a right to travel out of state. Well, that’s a nice thing for him to say. But does that mean that the patient’s friend has a right to drive them out of state? Does the patient’s mother has a right to buy them hotel room out of state for when they need to stay over?” Cohen said. “There are so many different permutations of what can happen here that it could go to the Supreme Court many different times.”
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LAKE ELSINORE, Calif., June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Geneva Financial (Geneva), a direct mortgage lender operating in 46 states, has announced the opening of a new branch in Lake Elsinore, California led by Branch Manager Brenda Hale. The opening of this new branch provides opportunities for local borrowers and buyers looking to navigate the current housing market.
"I have spent most of my adult life helping others achieve their financial goals." California Branch Manager Brenda Hale stated. "I am here to help everyday people who are the pulse of America. There is nothing more rewarding than knowing I made a positive impact in someone else's life."
Based out of Lake Elsinore, CA, Hale and her new branch proudly serve homebuyers throughout the state. The new branch will continue Geneva's exceptional service and extensive product offering through countless homebuyer and homeowner-focused products including Conventional, FHA, VA, USDA, Refinance, Reverse, Jumbo Loans, Condo Financing, and so much more.
With over 20 years of experience in the financial services, real estate, and mortgage industries, Hale and her team specialize in VA, DACA, self-employed, and first-time homebuyers. Hale prioritizes staying current with the latest loan programs and market trends to assist her clients. But more than anything, Brenda has a passion for helping people. From first-time homebuyers to seasoned investors, Brenda and her branch go above and beyond to help their clients achieve their dreams of homeownership!
Geneva Financial Home Loans is currently expanding in all markets and seeking branch managers and loan originators across the United States looking to advance their mortgage careers. For information on opportunities, visit www.GenevaFi.com/opportunity
Founded in 2007 by Aaron VanTrojen, Geneva Financial (NMLS 42056) is a direct mortgage lender headquartered in Chandler, Arizona with more than 130 branch locations in 46 states. Our mission at Geneva Financial is to approach every aspect of our business from the "inside-out". With a culture-forward mindset, we focus on our loan originators and support staff first to ensure an unbeatable experience for our customers.
Our Core Values were created as a daily reminder to operate with the inside-out approach in mind. Core Value #1 is the backbone of all our Core Values, our mission, and our brand vision: Home Loans Powered by Humans®. Learn more about Geneva Financial Home Loans at www.GenevaFi.com.
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~ Bollywood Meets Blockchain: Shemaroo is set to create new opportunities for industry & consumers ~
MUMBAI, India, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Shemaroo, one of India's leading Media & Entertainment players with 60 years of enriching history has created another milestone by entering the Web 3.0 space in partnership with leading blockchain technology company Seracle, thus leading the Web 3.0 initiatives in the media and entertainment industry. The rising demand for enhanced user experience and increasing advancements in connectivity are the key factors driving Web 3.0 market revenue growth and with this new partnership, Shemaroo has taken giant strides to create a strong foundation.
Since its inception, Shemaroo has fostered a culture of innovation and technology that has enabled the brand to stay ahead and cater to the evolving needs of the consumers. Web3 technology is expanding at a breakneck speed and is going to favourably impact the entertainment sector as well. Seracle is a Web 3.0 full stack infrastructure company, building decentralized applications globally. With their enterprise blockchain expertise, Shemaroo will be unleashing the value of intellectual properties to democratize creativity, ownership, and applications in the new frontier using Blockchain technology.
Hiren Gada, CEO - Shemaroo Entertainment, said, "Web 3.0 provides limitless opportunities, especially for the entertainment industry. Shemaroo's expansion into this space is a strategic decision and to be the innovator which will lead the transformation in the ever-evolving M&E industry. We are happy to partner with Seracle for our Web 3.0 expansions and keep the brand future-ready to capture this emerging space by creating a fresh alternative for our tech-savvy consumers."
Rahul Mishra, Head – Web 3.0 Initiatives, Shemaroo Entertainment, commented, "With this partnership, we look at cementing our position as the chosen entertainment platform at the national and global level and extend the value-added experience for consumers in the Web3.0, NFT, and Metaverse. With evolved virtual-reality experience, we aim to connect the traditional fandom with the Web3.0 ecosystem and uncap the huge growth potential for the brand."
Shrikant Bhalerao, CEO, Seracle, Web 3.0 Infrastructure, commented, "We are proud to partner with Shemaroo in realising their vision and business goals in the Web3.0 space. Web3.0, NFT, and Metaverse will open avenues for the entertainment sector – keeping up with the digital burst, elevating the individual experience in personalised entertainment content space. We are happy to be instrumental in levelling up the industry standards through this partnership."
As per recently published data, the global Web 3.0 market size will reach USD 81.5 Billion in 2030 with a compound annual growth rate of 43.7%. Another research data predicts the NFT transaction will rise from 24 million in 2022 to 40 million by 2027, globally. Web 3.0 and Blockchain market is projected to add USD 1.1 Trillion to India's GDP by 2032 and most certainly Media & entertainment industry will be a key player in driving this growth.
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Just two days before students were to begin summer break, a lone gunman clad in body armor entered a Texas elementary school classroom and opened fire, killing 19 children and two teachers, officials said, in the deadliest school shooting in almost a decade.
The violent act shook a nation still reeling from a mass shooting just 10 days ago. The siege in Uvalde, Texas, ended when law enforcement killed the 18-year-old gunman, officials said, and parents waited late into Tuesday night at a civic center to learn whether their children had survived, some having given DNA to help authorities identify victims, they told CNN.
Now, the city about 90 miles west of San Antonio and just east of the US-Mexican border finds itself on the long list of American communities devastated by mass shootings.
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So far, two 10-year-olds and a fourth-grade teacher have been named publicly by relatives as among the dead. Authorities have identified all the victims, whose remains have been removed from the murder scene, and notified their families, Texas Department of Public Safety Lt. Chris Olivarez said, telling CNN all those killed and hurt were in one classroom. Area hospitals treated at least 20 injured, they said Tuesday evening.
Tuesday's massacre is the second-deadliest school shooting since 2012, when 26 children and adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School. It is at least the 30th shooting at a K-12 school in 2022, according to a CNN tally.
The gunman in Uvalde is believed to have shot his grandmother -- who was hospitalized in critical condition Tuesday evening -- before driving to Robb Elementary to carry out to attack, per DPS.
Soon after, police got a 911 call about a vehicle that had crashed near the school and someone armed with a rifle heading inside, Olivarez told CNN in an interview Wednesday morning. The man was wearing a "tactical vest carrier with no ballistic panels," Olivarez said.
Police responded and engaged the shooter before he got into the building, Olivarez said. Officers met the gunman's fire, he said; two were shot and expected to live.
The shooter then got into the building, where he barricaded himself inside a classroom and opened fire on the children and two teachers, Olivarez said, calling the act "complete evil."
With the shooter barricaded inside, officers were at a disadvantage, Olivarez said.
"There was not sufficient manpower at that time, and their primary focus was to preserve any further loss of life," he told CNN. "They started breaking windows around the school and trying to rescue, evacuate children and teachers while that was going on."
A specialized tactical team arrived, forced its way into the classroom and shot the gunman dead, Olivarez said. One officer on the team was shot and injured and expected to survive.
President Joe Biden in a national address Tuesday night recalled the Sandy Hook shooting, which happened when he was vice president.
"I had hoped when I became President I would not have to do this again," he said. "How many scores of little children who witnessed what happened -- see their friends die as if they're in a battlefield, for God's sake. They'll live with it the rest of their lives."
Here are the latest developments:
• Shooter acted alone: The gunman, identified by officials as 18-year-old Salvador Ramos from Uvalde, did not have any assistance, said Pete Arredondo, chief of police for the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District.
• 'The school year's done,' superintendent says: The Uvalde school district canceled the rest of its school year, which was set to end Thursday, said its superintendent, Hal Harrell. Grief counseling and support for students will be available at the civic center starting at 10 a.m. Wednesday, the district said.
• US Customs and Border Protection agents responded to the scene: More than 20 CBP agents responded to the shooting and provided aid, a law enforcement official told CNN. One CBP agent was injured and is stable. CBP is the largest federal law enforcement agency in the Uvalde area.
• Reaction pours in from around the world: Pope Francis shared his condolences with the victims' families and called for stronger gun control, saying "such tragedies can never happen again." Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, whose country is at war, said via video conference: "This is terrible to have victims of shooters in peaceful time." Leaders of France, Germany and Spain also expressed condolences.
Community shattered by sudden tragedy
As the last day of school was drawing near, Robb Elementary students were celebrating with special themed dress days, including Tuesday's theme of "Footloose and Fancy." Students were encouraged to come dressed in nice outfits and show off their fun footwear, according to a post on the school's Facebook page.
But by Tuesday afternoon, shaken students were being bused to the civic center-turned-reunification site. As the evening stretched on, some parents began to learn their young children had not survived.
"We see people coming out just terrorized. They're crying one by one. They're being told that their child has passed on," state Sen. Roland Gutierrez told CNN Tuesday night from the site.
As news of the shooting broke in Uvalde, Robb Elementary parents were told students were being taken to the SSGT Willie de Leon Civic Center, according to a post on the school district's Facebook page. The civic center quickly became the epicenter for families looking for their children, and scenes of devastation began to play out as victims were identified.
Parents were asked for DNA swabs to confirm their relationships to their children and instructed to wait an hour for an answer, at least four families told CNN.
A father, who had just learned his child was dead, fought tears as several of his cousins embraced him. A few yards away, a grandmother who had just driven from San Antonio said she would not stop praying for her 10-year-old granddaughter as they waited for the DNA results.
Inside, city workers handed out pizza, snacks and water to families. Some parents waited in silence, while others sobbed quietly as a group of children sat on the floor playing with teddy bears. A group of local pastors and chaplains arrived and offered their support to the families.
By Tuesday night, some families had still not been reunited with their children and had no news, said Gutierrez, who represents Uvalde.
"We have people that still have not had their children identified," he told CNN Tuesday night. "Right now, they're still doing a DNA match."
In his address, Biden evoked his own experience as a parent who has lost children, saying there are now "parents who will never see their child again, never have them jump in bed and cuddle with them, parents who will never be the same. To lose a child is like having a piece of your soul ripped away."
Robb Elementary includes second through fourth grades and had 535 students in the 2020-21 school year, state data shows. About 90% of students are Hispanic, and about 81% are economically disadvantaged, according to the data. Uvalde County had a population of about 25,000 in the 2020 census.
Hours after the shooting, people in the neighborhood surrounding the school sat with their families outside their homes, some gathering with neighbors seeking to understand what occurred just blocks away.
Adela Martinez and her husband Paul Martinez, a former city council member, could sense the grief and sadness spreading through their town, they said.
"We are like a big family here. You can expect something like this (shooting) in big cities like New York but in Uvalde? If this happened here, now I believe it can happen anywhere," Adela Martinez said.
10-year-olds, teacher identified as victims
Two of the children killed have been identified publicly by their parents.
Ten-year-old Xavier Lopez's mother confirmed her son was killed and recalled her fourth grader's unforgettable smile. Xavier was days away from finishing elementary school, his mother told the Washington Post, and he "couldn't wait" to attend middle school.
Martinez had been at the school earlier Tuesday to cheer on Xavier during the honor roll ceremony, at which he got a certificate. She took a picture of her boy and told him she was proud of him and loved him, she said. Then, she hugged her "mama's boy" goodbye.
Elsewhere in the hours after the shooting, Angel Garza pleaded on Facebook for help finding his daughter, 10-year-old Amerie Jo Garza.
He followed up early Wednesday morning: "She's been found. My little love is now flying high with the angels above."
"Please don't take a second for granted," Garza wrote. "Hug your family. Tell them you love them."
Fourth-grade teacher Eva Mireles was also killed, her aunt, Lydia Martinez Delgado, told CNN.
Mireles had been an educator for 17 years and in her off time enjoyed running, hiking, biking and spending time with her family, according to her profile on the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District website.
What we know about the shooter
The shooter had one rifle when he entered the school, along with the tactical vest carrier, Olivarez said Wednesday.
"Typically those type of carriers are used by tactical teams, SWAT teams, where they can place magazines, extra ammunition inside those carriers and be able to move in a tactical formation," he said.
Just three days before Tuesday's massacre, a photo of two AR-15-style rifles appeared on an Instagram account tied to the 18-year-old shooter, who was a student at Uvalde High School.
Ramos had stopped attending school regularly, one of his former classmates told CNN. "He barely came to school," said the friend, who did not wish to be identified. Ramos had recently sent him a picture of an AR-15, a backpack with rounds of ammunition and several gun magazines, the friend added.
"I was like, 'Bro, why do you have this?' and he was like, 'Don't worry about it,'" the friend said. "He proceeded to text me, 'I look very different now. You wouldn't recognize me.'"
Ramos worked at a local Wendy's, the restaurant's manager, Adrian Mendes, confirmed to CNN.
Ramos "kept to himself mostly," said Mendes, an evening manager. He "didn't really socialize with the other employees. ... He just worked, got paid, and came in to get his check."
Communities that have endured shootings express solidarity
The victims' loved ones and community members grieving the loss of 21 Uvalde residents join a growing number of Americans whose lives have been ravaged by mass shootings -- and school shootings in particular. It's a "club that no one wants to be a part of," said Erica Lafferty, whose mother, Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung, was killed in the Sandy Hook shooting.
So far, there have been more mass shootings than days in 2022 -- including the racist attack at a Buffalo, New York, grocery store a little over a week ago that left 10 dead. At least 213 mass shootings had been recorded this year as of Tuesday, the 144th day of the year, according to the Gun Violence Archive. CNN and the archive define a mass shooting as one which four or more people were injured or killed, not including the shooter.
Parents of children who died in the Sandy Hook Elementary and Parkland, Florida, school shootings expressed support for the Uvalde community and aired frustrations about the shared language of loss that gun violence has created for so many families.
Fred Guttenberg's daughter Jaime was one of 17 people killed in the 2018 shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.
"I can't stop thinking about these families today who need to figure out how they're going to bury their children, who need to figure out how they are going to console their other children," he said. "And I can't stop thinking about this community that needs to figure out how they're all going to rally, how they're all going to take care of one another in this aftermath."
Nicole Hockley, whose son Dylan was killed at Sandy Hook, cofounded the Sandy Hook Promise Foundation, a nonprofit that works to prevent gun violence. Working on the nonprofit gave her a purpose after Dylan's death, she said, and she encouraged parents to know joy is still possible after their loss.
"It's possible, but it sure as heck isn't easy. I have a surviving son who I love with my whole life. He brings me joy," she said.
For Uvalde, there is now "an army of survivors" to support them, Guttenberg said, sharing as advice for those now in mourning the words of his rabbi at his daughter's funeral: "We don't move on, we move forward."
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Unarmed man dies in struggle with police; video shows lack of de-escalation
(AP) - A caller to 911 in Salt Lake City said a man had come into a brewery in his underwear, tried to steal beer and was running around in the street, posing a danger to himself and to drivers. Police tried to detain the man. Soon, Nykon Brandon was dead.
After the Salt Lake City Police Department on Friday released body-camera footage of the Aug. 14 fatal encounter and the 911 recording, activists on Saturday were asking why an unarmed person wound up dead and were accusing police of using disproportionate force.
“Stealing a beer does not equate to the death penalty,” said Lex Scott, founder of Black Lives Matter-Utah. “I don’t care if this man robbed 10 banks in one day. He didn’t deserve to die. He deserved to make it to court.”
The death of Brandon, who was 35, comes as the United States is still seeing uncounted numbers of police killings of unarmed people, many of whom were suffering a mental health crisis. Activists have called for reforms, saying rather than armed police who can often escalate situations, a better solution would be for special mental health crisis teams to respond.
Brandon’s Facebook page says he’d attended Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and worked for a firm that sells appliances, plumbing and hardware. Many people who posted on his page expressed shock and grief over his death.
The 911 caller said a man had come to Fisher Brewing, attacked a person at the door and was “running around crazy. Very erratic. He just jumped in and out of the road.”
“Definitely mental health issues,” the caller said. “So if you’ve got mental health resources, send them out.”
Instead, bodycam footage shows a police officer get out of his patrol car and order Brandon to stop. When he resists and puts up a fist and appears to reach for the officer’s holstered pistol, another officer pushes Brandon to the ground and the two officers try to pin him down. “Stop,” one of the officers says repeatedly as Brandon is on a gravel bed between the road and the sidewalk and continuing to push against the officers.
No de-escalation attempts by the police are visible or audible in the footage from nine body-worn cameras, even though an executive order signed by Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall two years ago requires all Salt Lake City Police Department officers to use de-escalation techniques before using force.
“De-escalation tactics are no longer suggested or preferred — they are mandatory prior to using force to effect an arrest unless it would be unreasonable to do so,” Mendenhall said in announcing the police reforms, which were prompted in part by the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police in 2020.
Salt Lake City Police Department spokesperson Brent Weisberg said of the Aug. 14 incident: “As the body-worn camera video shows, this is a situation that rapidly unfolded. It was a chaotic situation and our officers were required to make very fast decisions to get a situation under control that was very tense.”
Before Brandon walked into Fisher Brewing, he had been taken by South Salt Lake Police to a detox facility after they received a report of a man acting confused and scared at a park just after 1 p.m. on Aug. 14, KUTV reported.
Officers determined he was intoxicated, took him to the facility and cited him for public intoxication. But the facility is not a detention center and patients can leave at their will, KUTV reported.
The Salt Lake City Police Department officers encountered Brandon at 3:22 p.m. In the videos, he’s not heard speaking during his struggles with the officers, except for maybe a couple of words that are unclear.
A minute later, a third officer arrives. Video shows Brandon grabbing onto his holster and gun. They finally manage to cuff Brandon’s hands behind his back as he lies on the gravel belly down.
“We want to help you,” an officer says. “You’ve got to stop fighting with us.”
After a few seconds, Brandon stops moving. An officer taps Brandon on the shoulder with his gloved hand and asks “Can you hear me?” three times. Brandon does not respond.
“Get him in recovery,” an officer commands, and the others roll Brandon onto his side.
“Come on man,” an officer says. All the camera footage released by the police goes dark at that point.
Salt Lake City Police said in a press release that officers began to perform medical aid at 3:27 p.m. A minute later, they administered the first of multiple doses of Narcan and started performing chest compressions.
“At 4:16 p.m. SLCPD is notified that Mr. Brandon died. The exact time of death is unknown,” the news release said.
The police department said a thorough investigation was being conducted by an outside agency and that the department’s own internal affairs unit would conduct a separate investigation.
Rae Duckworth, operating chairperson for Black Lives Matter’s Utah chapters, wants to know why the released footage doesn’t show the officers trying to help Brandon.
“We don’t even have proof they actually administered aid. We don’t have proof that they actually administered Narcan,” Duckworth said.
Weisberg, the police spokesperson, said footage of the resuscitation efforts was not released out of consideration for Brandon’s family.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The Publix supermarket chain isn't offering the COVID-19 vaccine to children younger than 5.
The Florida-based chain hasn't explained its decision.
Publix has 1,288 stores in seven Southern states and was instrumental in distributing the vaccine when it was initially released.
It currently offers the vaccine to children 5 and older.
Florida is the only state that didn't pre-order the under-5 vaccine, and state Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo has recommended against vaccinating healthy children.
However, the Centers for Disease Control and Food and Drug Administration have signed off on the vaccines, saying they are safe and effective.
Other major pharmacies, including Walgreens and CVS, have already begun vaccinating young children.
A poll released by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 18% of parents of children under age 5 plan to get their kids vaccinated “right away.” A plurality, 38%, said they will “wait and see.” The poll found that 11% of parents would only vaccinate their children if required, and 27% said they would “definitely not” vaccinate their children.
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Shawn Mendes is pressing pause on his world tour. On Friday, the 23-year-old singer took to Instagram to reveal that he's postponing upcoming show dates to focus on his mental health.
"This breaks my heart to have to say this, but unfortunately I’m going to have to postpone the next three weeks of shows through Uncasville, CT until further notice. I’ve been touring since I was 15 and to be honest it’s always been difficult to be on the road away from friends and family," he wrote in an Instagram post. "After a few years off the road, I felt like I was ready to dive back in, but that decision was premature and unfortunately the toll of the road and the pressure has caught up to me and Ive hit a breaking point. After speaking with my team and health professionals, I need to take some time to heal and take care of myself and my mental health, first and foremost. As soon as there are more updates I promise I will let you know love you guys."
The 23-year-old singer kicked off his Wonder world tour in Portland, Oregon on June 27 with shows in the United States and Canada scheduled through October. The tour also includes a European leg which was scheduled to begin in May 2023.
"Portland i was smiling so much i thought my cheeks were gunna pop," he wrote on Instagram. "Thank you for having us."
The news comes after Mendes posted a lengthy Twitter message in April, in which he admitted that he's "afraid that if people know and see the truth they might think less of me."
"The truth, in current form is a 23 year old who constantly feels like he’s either flying or drowning. Maybe that’s just what it is to be in your 20’s idk, or maybe that’s just me," he wrote. "The truth is I really do wanna show up in the world as my 100% true honest unique self and not care what anyone thinks, sometimes I do."
"Sometimes I really don’t care what people think and I feel free. Most of the time it’s a struggle tho. That's the truth," he continued. "The truth is even with so much success I still find it hard to feel like I’m not failing. Hyper focused on what I don’t have, forgetting to see all that I do. The truth is I’m overwhelmed and overstimulated. Lol."
At the time, he concluded his message by assuring his fans that he was "OK."
“The truth is ALSO that I'm OK," he wrote. "I’m just tryna tell and be the truth. I like to think that maybe me saying this might resonate with some people."
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NEW YORK , Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As the crypto winter shows signs of slowing, companies are rushing to become compliant after a string of bankruptcies within the space. Regulatory compliance is critical to improving crypto's reputation among investors. It is also essential for mitigating liquidity risks, an issue that caused crypto giants Voyager Digital and Celsius to file for bankruptcy. Last week, Payments giant PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:PYPL) joined Coinbase Global's (NASDAQ:COIN) Travel Rule Universal Solution Technology (TRUST) network. The TRUST network, which was launched in February by 18 virtual asset providers, was created to "protect the security and privacy" of customers, while complying with the bank industry's Travel Rule. In the past, companies like Block Inc. (NYSE:SQ) (formerly Square Inc.) have rejected proposed FinCEN regulations, while companies like WonderFi Technologies Inc (TSX:WNDR) (OTCQB:WONDF) and CME Group (NASDAQ:CME) are focused on exceeding regulatory requirements.
WonderFi Technologies Inc (TSX:WNDR) (OTCQB:WONDF) is a technology company providing greater access to digital assets through centralized and decentralized platforms.
WonderFi has continued to make strategic acquisitions that have positioned the company as one of the largest combined digital currency companies in Canada. On July 4, the company closed the acquisition of Coinberry, one of Canada's leading crypto trading platforms with over $1 billion traded to date.
The acquisition of Coinberry makes WonderFi Technologies the first company in Canada, and one of the first globally, to own and operate more than one licensed,crypto asset trading platforms that is regulated by applicable securities commissions.
Coinberry brings with it over 225,000 users and $99.5 million of client assets under custody, giving WonderFi over half a billion dollars in approximate total client assets under custody as of the acquisition.
"This acquisition further solidifies WonderFi as a leader amongst crypto companies in Canada, and along with our acquisition of Bitbuy, establishes a great foundation for our expansion into global markets" said WonderFi CEO Ben Samaroo. "Further, as we've seen over the past few weeks, the crypto market downturn has had a massive impact on the viability of unregulated crypto trading platforms and WonderFi's value proposition as one of the few regulated crypto businesses makes us well positioned to continue our growth."
Earlier this month, WonderFi reported its Q3 2022 financial results, reporting revenues of $2.9 million, compared to $nil in the prior-year quarter. The increased revenue is due to the acquisition of Bitbuy, which was completed in July 2022. WonderFi also reported $356 million in total assets as of June 30, 2022, including $15 million in cash, $5.6 million in crypto assets and inventory and $187 million of Assets Under Custody for customers.
The company's operating expenses were $13.3 million for the three months ended June 30, 2022, compared to $705,000 in Q3 2021.
For more information about WonderFi Technologies Inc (TSX:WNDR) (OTCQB:WONDF), click here.
Financial Companies Launch New Products
Payments giant PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:PYPL) joined the Coinbase compliance initiative, the Travel Rule Universal Solution Technology (TRUST). This market-driven solution, which was introduced in February, enables crypto exchanges to deliver the data that is legally needed by the Travel Rule in a secure manner. In order to avoid any problems with US authorities, TRUST offers its members a variety of tools and features like evidence of ownership and thorough adherence to the Travel Rule. More recently, PayPal partnered with the National Philanthropic Trust (NPT) and Vanguard Charitable, to launch Grant Payments, a new product that allows sponsors of the Donor-Advised Fund (DAF), community foundations and other funders to make grants to charities quickly and electronically through PayPal. Grant payments will allow charities to receive grants soon after the grantor approves the funds. Funders and charities will have access to full details of available grants, including donor information where provided, via a PayPal dashboard. Eligible and participating charities have been vetted against PayPal's strict compliance standards.
In a shareholder letter released on August 9, Coinbase Global, Inc. (NASDAQ:COIN) said that the decline in crypto asset prices had a significant impact on its Q2 2022 financial results, which were in line with the outlook provided in May. Net revenue was $803 million, down 31% compared to Q1, due to lower transaction volume. Total operating expenses were $1.9 billion, up 8% compared to Q1. Net loss was $1.1 billion and was heavily impacted by non-cash items impairment charges. In the absence of non-cash impairment charges, the net loss would have been $647 million. Adjusted EBITDA was negative $151 million. Total trading volume fell to $217 billion, down 30% from the first quarter. On the other hand, the total spot crypto trading volume decreased by 3% sequentially, leading to a lower trading market share by volume.
On April 28, Block Inc. (NYSE:SQ) announced the launch of Square Loans in Canada, giving small businesses quick and easy access to funds and eliminating another major hassle associated with running a business. Using transaction data, Square Loans proactively delivers personalized offers to eligible sellers, providing them with a simple, paperless application process and delivering funds the next business day. Businesses have a clear, up-front loan fee, which is automatically repaid as a set percentage of daily card sales with Square – so sellers repay more when sales are strong and less during slower times. Loan fees never increase for the seller, so it's always clear how much they owe. In July, Block provided the Scotiabank Saddledome and McMahon Stadium with a full Point of Sale (POS) makeover. New in-stadium technology includes more than 350 Square Register and Square Terminal units to power sales and manage operations, which are integrated with Square for Restaurants and Square for Retail software.
On August 18, CME Group (NASDAQ:CME) announced plans to launch options on Ether futures on September 12, pending regulatory review. These new contracts offer a futures contract on one Ether, valued at 50 Ether per contract, and based on the CME CF Ether-Dollar benchmark rate, which serves as the daily benchmark rate for the US dollar price of Ether. These new contracts will also expand CME Group's existing suite of cryptocurrency options contracts, which includes Bitcoin options, as well as micro-sized Bitcoin and Ether options.
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Many of us are gravitating toward non-toxic, eco-friendly cleaning products to help keep our hands and homes germ-free. Castile soap is different from other soaps and detergents, and there’s a reason why this multipurpose cleaner has earned a place in houses nationwide.
A great way to get started with green cleaning is by grabbing a bottle of Castile soap because it covers 18 different household uses, according to Dr. Bronner’s website.
What is Castile soap made from?
Originally made from olive oil in the Castile region of Spain, Castile soap has been used for hundreds of years. It’s gone through some formula changes over the years, expanding to include a variety of vegetable oils. Today, many Castile soaps are created with coconut oil, which is now more economical than olive oil and more widely available.
While the term “soap” is often applied to cleansing bars or liquids, many are made primarily from synthetic surfactants that aren’t biodegradable. Castile soap is to consider it to be “true soap,” a product of reacting natural oils and fats with a base like sodium or potassium hydroxide. It’s naturally derived and easily biodegradable.
You can purchase Castile soap in a couple of ways, in a bar or liquid in a bottle, the latter being its most popular form. Dr. Bronner’s, one of the most popular brands of Castile soap, is made primarily of coconut, palm kernel, olive, hemp seed and jojoba oils, but oftentimes you’ll find other oils used in Castile soaps, such as avocado, almond and walnut.
What Is Castile Soap Used For?
Castile soap can be used for a mind-boggling amount of things around the house. It’s great to have in the shower to cleanse your hair and body. It can be used as an all-purpose cleaner around the house, from your kitchen countertops to tile floors to bathing your dog to washing fresh produce.
If you have a fruit fly infestation, you can use a small dish filled with apple cider vinegar and Castile soap solution. Got ants? A concoction of Castile soap and water can tackle that, too. You can even wash clothing with it, using it as a laundry detergent.
Outside, it can be used in the garden to get rid of tiny, soft-bodied mites or aphids. (Just be sure to research if it’s compatible with the plant you’d like to use it on as some plants are more sensitive than others.) However, it needs to be diluted before use since it’s very potent.
Another bonus: Castile soap is vegan-friendly due it to being made purely of vegetable oils rather than animal fats. And since each bottle is highly concentrated, you use less and reduce waste.
Dr. Bronner’s lavender liquid Castile soap is a popular scented option, though Dr. Bronner’s offers peppermint, almond and other options. Another popular brand is Quinn’s Castile soap, which can also be found on Amazon.
What is Castile soap not good for?
When used properly, Castile soap can help with the dirtiest of jobs, but there are a few things to keep in mind. It might leave a residue on shiny surfaces. It’s also not recommended for color-treated hair.
While it lasts a long time, it will eventually expire, so if you have a bottle stashed under your cabinet, keep an eye on its expiration date.
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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has been the target of many false claims in recent weeks in connection with funding it will receive from the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.
A tweet about the IRS recently went viral claiming Congress voted to make its members exempt from tax audits.
“In order to safeguard democracy, Congress has voted to exempt itself and its members from upcoming IRS audits,” the tweet from @ThatmattersNews said. As of Aug. 22, it had more than 18,000 likes and nearly 11,000 retweets.
VERIFY viewer Ron emailed us to ask if it was true.
THE QUESTION
Has Congress voted to make its members exempt from IRS audits?
THE SOURCES
- Internal Revenue Service
- Congress.gov
- @ThatmattersNews, a satirical Twitter account
THE ANSWER
No, Congress has not voted to make its members exempt from IRS audits. The tweet was satire.
WHAT WE FOUND
The viral tweet came from an account called News That Matters that is known for posting satirical content. After the post about congressional audits went viral, a different tweet was pinned to the top of the profile acknowledging the account is satire (satirical examples from the account here, here and here).
“REPORT A new study shows that a shocking number of American adults have trouble spelling the word ‘satire,’ let alone recognizing it,” the tweet said.
In a search of recent legislation, VERIFY could find no evidence to suggest Congress has passed a bill or is slated to vote on a bill that would make its members exempt from IRS audits.
An IRS spokesperson confirmed to VERIFY that the viral tweet is untrue, and “there is no such special exemption. All tax filers are treated equally under the tax law.”
Audits are determined ultimately on what is – or isn’t – included on the tax return. The IRS uses a number of processes to determine when to conduct an audit, including what information is on a person’s tax forms.
“The IRS has strong safeguards in place to ensure that audits are conducted only based on what is on the tax return – and not other factors,” the IRS spokesperson told VERIFY.
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League released a report which shows that hazardous air quality during the Weaver Fertilizer Plant fire was downplayed.
The report Winston-Salem Weaver Fertilizer Plant Fire - Analysis of Publicly Disseminated Air Quality Information During Facility Fire Incident highlights instances when local officials told the public that the air quality was okay and pollutants were just "irritants" when, in fact, levels of Particulate Matter 2.5 were in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's hazardous and very unhealthy categories.
It has been six months since the Weaver fertilizer plant fire which began on the evening of January 31. BREDL has recently received EPA air quality data through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) which show that hazardous air quality conditions were downplayed during this industrial incident. We are still waiting for information from a March 22, 2022 open records request with the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality.
The report compares official statements to the then current air quality data, specifically PM 2.5. This air quality data was available to the fire command center in real time but was not available to the general public.
Once EPA set up temporary air monitors around the perimeter of the fire, 29 hours into the incident, the PM 2.5 readings were well into the hazardous category. These air monitors became operational around midnight on Wednesday, February 2.
Five hours later during a press conference officials stated that "all levels have been in the acceptable range". While, in fact, PM 2.5 concentrations were as high as 9200 micrograms per cubic meter (ug/m3) at the temporary air monitor located at the Wake Forest University police station. EPA community action hazardous conditions start at a concentration of 500 ug/m3.
Mark Barker, author of the BREDL Report, said, "On the afternoon of February 2 a Wake Forest University alert stated that the EPA indicated air quality readings on and near campus posed no threat to individual health and was safe to breathe. However, the on campus EPA air quality data indicated hazardous and very unhealthy PM 2.5 levels."
PM 2.5 has long been associated with significant health effects especially impacting respiratory and heart conditions.
The community within a one-mile radius of the Weaver facility has a high prevalence of asthma and heart disease according to EPA's EJScreen tool.
Barker said, "Our analysis leads us to make several recommendations for local, state and federal officials during industrial incidents: be transparent in reporting air quality and associated health impacts, make air quality data available to the public, include an air quality expert in incident press briefings and statements, utilize EJScreen to identify vulnerable communities, and incorporate temporary air monitors into existing EPA current air quality maps."
The BREDL report is available online at www.bredl.org/reports.htm.
Contact: Mark Barker
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MINNEAPOLIS — A former Minneapolis police officer pleaded guilty Wednesday to a state charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in the killing of George Floyd.
As part of the plea deal, Thomas Lane will have a count of aiding and abetting second-degree unintentional murder dismissed. Lane, along with J. Alexander Kueng and Tou Thao, has already been convicted on federal counts of willfully violating Floyd’s rights during the May 2020 restraint that led to the Black man’s death.
The state is recommending a sentence for Lane of three years — which is below state sentencing guidelines — and has agreed to allow him to serve the time in a federal prison. He has not yet been sentenced in the federal case.
Attorney General Keith Ellison, whose office prosecuted the case, issued a statement saying he was pleased that Lane accepted responsibility for his role in Floyd’s death.
“His acknowledgment he did something wrong is an important step toward healing the wounds of the Floyd family, our community, and the nation,” Ellison said. “While accountability is not justice, this is a significant moment in this case and a necessary resolution on our continued journey to justice.”
Lane’s attorney, Earl Gray, said he and Lane would have no comment. Lane was not taken into custody and a presentence investigation was ordered. He is scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 21 on the state charge.
The hearing was streamed over Zoom for Floyd’s family members.
Lane’s former colleague, Derek Chauvin, pleaded guilty last year to a federal charge of violating Floyd’s civil rights and faces a federal sentence ranging from 20 to 25 years. Chauvin earlier was convicted of state charges of murder and manslaughter and sentenced to 22 1/2 years in the state case.
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The plea by Lane, who is white, comes during a week when the country is focused on the deaths of 10 Black people in Buffalo, New York, at the hands of an 18-year-old white man, who carried out the racist, livestreamed shooting Saturday in a supermarket.
Floyd, 46, died May 25, 2020, after Chauvin, who is white, pinned him to the ground with a knee on his neck, as Floyd repeatedly said he couldn’t breathe. Lane and Kueng helped to restrain Floyd, who was handcuffed. Lane held down Floyd’s legs and Kueng knelt on Floyd’s back. Thao kept bystanders from intervening during the 9 1/2-minute restraint.
Lane was convicted along with Kueng and Thao of federal charges in February, after a monthlong trial that focused on the officers’ training and the culture of the police department. All three were convicted of depriving Floyd of his right to medical care and Thao and Kueng were also convicted of failing to intervene to stop Chauvin during the killing, which was caught on video and sparked protests in Minneapolis and around the globe as part of a reckoning over racial injustice.
After their federal conviction, there was a question as to whether the state trial would proceed. At an April hearing in state court, prosecutors revealed that they had offered plea deals to all three men, but they were rejected. At the time Gray said it was hard for the defense to negotiate when the three still didn’t know what their federal sentences would be.
Thao’s attorney, Robert Paule, was in the courtroom for Lane’s plea hearing. When asked if his client would also take a plea deal, he replied “No comment.”
Kueng, who is Black, and Thao, who is Hmong American, are scheduled to go to trial in June on state charges.
Mohamed Ibrahim is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.
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Audience members are still encouraged to wear masks in theaters.
"Millions of people enjoyed the unique magic of Broadway by watching the 75th Tony Award Ceremony recently," Broadway League President Charlotte St. Martin said. "Millions more have experienced Broadway live in theatres in New York City and throughout the U.S. since we reopened last fall. We're thrilled to welcome even more of our passionate fans back to Broadway in the exciting 22-23 season that has just begun."
Audience masking protocols for August and beyond will be evaluated on a monthly basis, with St. Martin saying they will continue to monitor the science.
An announcement for August and forward will be made in mid-July.
The Broadway League is the national trade association for the Broadway industry, and its 700-plus members include theatre owners and operators, producers, presenters, and general managers in nearly 200 markets in North America and internationally.
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Florida teen Ashley Adirika has always dreamed of attending an Ivy League school. So in late fall, she applied to not just one -- but all eight of them.
On Ivy Day, the fateful spring day when the prestigious schools all announce their first-year admission decisions, Ashley opened eight tabs on her computer -- one for each's applicants portal. One acceptance letter popped up. Then another. And another.
Until she had them all: Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton and Yale.
It was a surreal moment for the 17-year-old, whose mother emigrated to the US from Nigeria three decades ago. Ashley was surrounded that day by family members -- including her four siblings -- who joined her in squealing in delight at each new acceptance letter.
"I just decided to shoot my shot at all of them and see if it would land. And I had no idea that I would get accepted into all of them," she says. "On Ivy Day, I remember crying a lot and just being extremely surprised."
Ashley, who graduated from Miami Beach Senior High School this month, joins an exclusive group: Since 2018, each Ivy League school has accepted less than 12% of its applicants. This year Yale accepted 4.5%, Columbia took 3.7% and Harvard accepted just 3.2%, the lowest number in the university's history.
Ashley also got accepted to seven other top-rated schools, including Stanford, Vanderbilt and Emory. She picked Harvard, where she plans to major in government this fall.
She's been a force on the debate team
Ashley says she was conflicted between Harvard and Yale, but it all came down to her career aspirations. Her goal is to learn how government works and how policies can help fix economic disparities in communities.
"Before the college application process, Yale was actually my top choice. But when I did further research for what I want to do specifically, which is explorations in policy and social policy and things of that nature, Harvard just had a better program," she says.
At her high school Ashley was on the debate team and served as a student council president.
The teenager has always been curious about how the world works, says Bess Rodriguez, debate coach at nearby Carol City Middle School, who recruited Ashley for the team when she was in the eighth grade.
She was such an immediate force on the team, the other students were scared of debating her, Rodriguez says.
"She was very smart and articulate. Some of the debate topics were so sophisticated, like should the US sell arms to Saudi Arabia. She dug into the material, she was always so well prepared," says Rodriguez, who also teaches English at the middle school.
"The other students would say, 'Oh no, we have to debate Ashley.' College debaters and local attorneys would come up to me and say, 'Wow, we can't believe she's in eighth grade. She should be an attorney.'"
Ashley continued with debate in high school, and plans to join the debate team at Harvard. And yes, she hopes to go to law school after she completes her undergraduate studies.
But what she'll do with her law degree remains up in the air, she says.
"I am really passionate about policy and using policy to empower communities. And so in the short term, for me, that looks like becoming a lawyer," she says. "But in the long term, I want to use that as a platform to do work in policy."
She started an organization to help young women
There's one thing Ashley's pretty sure about: She plans to continue making an impact beyond her campus.
As a high schooler, she started Our Story Our Worth, an organization that provides mentorship, confidence-building and sisterhood to girls and young women of color. Being part of the debate team, she says, taught her how to articulate herself when talking to members of the organization.
"When I was in elementary school, I had the privilege of being a part of a mentorship program for girls. I was mentored by women in college and they taught me important skills, instilled confidence into me and gave me the outlet I needed to express myself. I will never forget the sense of solace that their support gave me," she wrote on the organization's website.
"Unfortunately, as I ... continued into middle and high school, that sense of solace began to fade. There was a lack of programs available for girls, much less those of color."
Our Story Our Worth currently works with girls and young women in the Miami community, but Ashley hopes to expand it nationwide.
She credits her work ethic to the women in her life, including her mother, a single mom to five children.
"She has just instilled in me the value of education and working hard, as well as all of the strong women in my life, like my older sisters," she says. "For me, it's about making the most of the opportunities that I have at my fingertips and really just making sure that the sacrifices that have been made for me weren't done in vain."
At her high school graduation, Ashley gave a speech before the students received their diplomas. Wearing a sash with the words "Black Girl Magic," she highlighted the importance of preparation, punctuality and finding light even in dark times.
When she's not thinking of new ways to empower girls in her community, Ashley says she loves to play flag football and write in her journal. She also taps into her creative side by painting and writing music, she says.
As she prepares to report to her new home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in August, she's stashed all the acceptance letters and miniature flags she received from different schools in a keepsake box.
That way, she says, she'll always remember that big dreams do come true.
And the sweatshirts and hats she got from all the Ivy League universities she's not attending? She doled them out to her nieces and nephews. That way, she says, they'll have a visual reminder that they can do it, too.
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* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues.
* WHERE...Portions of southeast California and south central Nevada,
including the following counties, in southeast California, Inyo.
In south central Nevada, Esmeralda and Nye.
* WHEN...Until 345 PM PDT.
* IMPACTS...Significant flooding has been reported in Death Valley
National Park and all park roads are currently closed. In
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west of Death Valley National Park, are closed across the advisory
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Woman helps save sergeant’s life with EpiPen after he was stung by bees, police say
CLEVELAND (WOIO/Gray News) - Cleveland police are thanking a woman who helped save a sergeant’s life at a community event last weekend.
The Cleveland Police Fourth District said it was part of a back-to-school event on Aug. 20, where Sgt. Ray O’Connor was playing football with kids.
WOIO reports that O’Connor then told his partner, Officer Brooklyn Barnes, that he had been stung by two bees and was deathly allergic to them. O’Connor also said he didn’t bring his EpiPen.
According to police, within minutes, O’Connor fell to the ground and became unconscious. Barnes and another officer carried O’Connor to a nearby police cruiser and started rendering first aid.
Authorities said Tomika Johnson, a Cleveland resident, saw what was happening and ran home to grab her 10-year-old son’s EpiPen.
Barnes quickly took the EpiPen and administered it to O’Connor before transporting him to the nearest hospital.
Medical staff at the St. Vincent Hospital said the EpiPen and quick response by everyone saved the sergeant’s life.
On Wednesday, O’Connor got to thank Johnson for helping save his life. Police said they learned about her son’s 10th birthday this week and brought them birthday gifts along with a $100 gift card.
The law enforcement agency said Johnson and her son would be recognized at Cleveland’s Fourth District Awards Ceremony on Oct. 6 in receiving the city’s Citizen Award for their actions that day.
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Amber Alert issued for missing 15-year-old girl from Florida
(Gray News) - Officials in Florida issued an Amber Alert for a 15-year-old girl missing since Saturday.
Ashley Reyes-Hernandez was last seen in the area of the 100 block of Fourth Street in Jupiter, Florida. She was described as 5 feet, 4 inches tall and 162 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes, wearing a black hooded sweater, a black and yellow T-shirt, light blue jeans with rips and black high-top Adidas shoes.
The child may be in company of Oliver Ramos, a 5-foot-7 male with brown hair and brown eyes who was last seen wearing a white long-sleeve Hollister shirt with blue sleeves, light blue jeans with rips, black socks and black and gold sandals.
They may be traveling in a dark-colored minivan with tinted windows, no further description given.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Jupiter Police Department at 561-799-4445 or call 911.
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Almost half of the Earth's land surface must be protected to stop the biodiversity crisis, according to a new report published Friday in the journal Science.
The research found some 64 million square kilometers (24.7 million square miles) -- 44% of the Earth's land -- needs "conservation attention" to prevent major biodiversity losses.
"We must act fast, our models show that over 1.3 million square kilometers of this important land -- an area larger than South Africa -- is likely to have its habitat cleared for human uses by 2030, which would be devastating for wildlife," lead author Dr James R. Allan from the University of Amsterdam said in a news release.
The study, which used advanced data modeling and algorithmic projections to map optimal areas for conserving species and ecosystems was described by the authors as "a conservation plan for the planet."
The authors said those areas didn't necessarily have to be designated as protected areas, but other strategies could be used to conserve ecosystems including policies to control land use.
The new research also found that 1.87 billion people, roughly a quarter of the Earth's population, live in areas requiring conservation attention, mostly in developing countries in Africa, Central America and Asia.
Climate scientists and environmental groups are urging governments and corporations to do more to protect the planet, amid warnings the world is on track to miss its targets of keeping warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Scientists who wrote the new research say their findings could have important implications for policymakers negotiating global biodiversity targets, after governments failed to meet the previous goals to conserve at least 17% of global land area by 2020.
A coalition of 70 countries are expected to pledge to to protect 30% of their lands and oceans by 2030, in a draft global treaty due to be finalized in the third quarter of this year.
New $500 million fund for conservation
The report's release coincided with a major UN environment conference in Stockholm, where UN Secretary-General António Guterres called on world leaders to end a "suicidal war against nature."
He also warned that unless humanity acts now, "'we will not have a livable planet."
"We know what to do. And, increasingly, we have the tools to do it. But we still lack leadership and cooperation. So today, I appeal to leaders in all sectors: Lead us out of this mess," Guterres said.
To that end, Italy and Sweden announced their support for a new a new international fund that aims to invest at least $500 million in developing countries to aid in climate protection.
The Climate Investment Funds (CIF), one of the world's largest multilateral climate financing instruments, launched its "Nature, People, and Climate" (NPC) program at the Stockholm conference on Wednesday, Reuters reported.
The new program is expected to give indigenous people a bigger role in conserving local environment and tackling climate change.
"Nature-based solutions help reduce emissions, support communities adapting to a changing climate and protect biodiversity," Matilda Ernkrans, Sweden's international development minister, said in a statement.
Ramping up conservation and management efforts of natural parks, oceans and forests is pivotal to safeguarding biodiversity and maintaining balanced ecosystems which humans depend on and to limit the devastating effects of global warming.
But forests around the world are still being destroyed -- from expanding land for beef production in Brazil to setting illegal forest fires to grow palm oil in countries like Indonesia and Malaysia -- threatening wildlife and derailing climate goals as trees absorb about one-third of polluting emissions.
The new NPC program expects to invest in efforts to expand approaches like carbon storage, mangrove restoration and climate resilience in small island developing states, sub-Saharan Africa and forested countries around the globe, according to Reuters.
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The three-page document landed in email inboxes around the country early last week. For the first time in more than 10 months, the NCAA was officially weighing in on the most confusing topic in college sports.
The era of name, image and likeness (NIL) has been more gray area than black and white since going into effect in July 2021 with a cobbled-together and largely ambiguous interim policy as the only semblance of uniformity. What’s permissible? What isn’t? In many ways, schools and supporters were figuring it out as they went along.
Inside the walls of Nebraska’s compliance offices, staffers didn’t view the new guidelines distributed by the Division I Board of Directors as new at all but more of a reemphasis of existing rules. That’s a good thing for the Huskers as they continue to seek competitive advantages without running afoul of the NCAA.
“There’s nothing new in this document,” said Jamie Vaughn, Nebraska’s executive associate athletic director for compliance. “This could have been published last summer.”
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Vaughn spoke for an hour this week on the topic on NU’s in-house radio show, “Sports Nightly,” as part of what has been a constant push to educate others on the ever-shifting NIL landscape. That includes players, coaches and fans who want to participate.
Collectives too. If anything came from the recent NCAA guidelines, Vaughn said, it was a clear defining of collectives — a catch-all term for groups of varying sizes from a donor base that help athletes at a specific school monetize their NIL — as boosters.
And the longstanding rule for boosters still applies: They may not communicate with prospective student-athletes “for a recruiting purpose.”
“I think that’s really what’s become troublesome for most people is how this has crept into the recruiting space,” Vaughn said. “It was meant to be an opportunity for current athletes to make money off of their image, finally. But we work in a very competitive environment so it’s become a way to try to get an edge in recruiting.”
The guidelines are retroactive, with the short-staffed NCAA indicating it may take closer looks at the most “egregious” possible violations from the last 10 months.
Headlines indicate there would be no shortage of cases to explore. A billionaire Miami booster who announced a two-year, $800,000 deal with a men’s basketball transfer. Former NFL quarterback and Eastern Michigan star Charlie Batch offering transfer QB Caleb Williams $1 million to play at Eastern Michigan. A Texas collective paying Longhorn offensive linemen $50,000 each — mostly just for being offensive linemen. An energy bar CEO in Utah paying tuition for BYU’s 30-plus walk-ons.
Most schools and collectives including at Nebraska expressed no worry about the guidelines this week, said Opendorse official and NIL specialist Braly Keller. NIL deals are jobs, not pay-for-play agreements, and the scores of universities and collectives that use the Opendorse platform have been documenting proof of performance since the start.
Every part of the process — from pitch to payment — is timestamped within the operating system, including text chats. Husker athletes are among those asked to provide evidence of a job done. A photo at a speaking engagement. A video of a golf outing.
“Collectives and compliances offices for the most part are running toward the same goal,” Keller said. “They want to support student-athletes. They want to see their favorite athletes have success and they want to be sure it’s happening compliantly.”
When can a collective begin a dialogue with a prospective student-athlete who is a transfer or high schooler? Much remains left to interpretation, Vaughn said. There’s still a long-held belief, for example, that a booster can employ a prospect but not actively recruit them. A collective can lay out what a prospect might be able to earn at a school but can’t promise anything in exchange for a commitment.
“It’s what I’d call risky behavior,” Vaughn said. “But there’s a way to navigate it. What we’re trying to do at Nebraska — and what we try to do in every aspect of the compliance space – is not put our coaches or other people in the department at a disadvantage. We don’t want to be at a disadvantage but we want to do things the right way. Integrity is in the fabric of what we do at Nebraska. But you can get your toes up to the line and still have integrity.”
It’s in the interest of the schools to educate their boosters because NCAA guidelines say schools are responsible for their behavior. Vaughn, Nebraska Athletic Director Trev Alberts and others have been out in the community often to meet supporters for that reason.
Nebraska may soon have three collectives, Vaughn said, with one having recently completed paperwork and another “working to establish itself.” The most high profile is Athlete Branding and Marketing (ABM), which began operating last August and reported in April its 20-plus major members had raised almost $3.5 million for “NIL activities.” More than 90 Huskers — predominantly football and volleyball players — have made money through ABM-brokered deals. The company is also working to develop a financial support program for football walk-ons.
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Fayetteville Technical Community College graduates urged to continue learning
Fayetteville Technical Community College President Larry Keen encouraged the school’s graduates to continue learning as he presided over his final commencement May 13.
FTCC had so many graduates that it held two ceremonies that recognized nearly 1,900 graduates who received 3,650 certificates, diplomas or associate degrees, according to a statement released by the school.
“All of today’s graduates have earned distinction through their hard work and commitment to reaching their goals,” said Keen, who is retiring this year. “It takes all of us. You’ve got to learn more, and we’ve got to learn more. Let’s do it together, and we can all move forward.”
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Mike Nagowski, CEO of Cape Fear Valley Health, gave the keynote address during the morning commencement. Dr. Y. Sammy Choi, director of the Department of Research at Womack Army Medical Center, was the keynote speaker at the afternoon ceremony.
Nagowski spoke to graduates from five programs — Public Service, Engineering and Applied Technology, Allied Health Technologies, Nursing and Continuing Education. He talked about how the students persevered with their education during a pandemic, gaining tools that will serve them in future endeavors.
“Despite what was happening in the world, you adapted and overcame,” Nagowski said. “As with all situations, you get out of it what you put into it. It’s difficult when you’re going through it to know how it ends. When you come out on the other side, the experiences make you who you are and you’re stronger for it.”
Choi addressed graduates in the Arts and Humanities, Business, Math and Sciences, and Computer Information Technology programs. He recognized the community partnerships found at FTCC, including wellness projects with Cumberland County schools and military paramedic training he called the envy of Army bases across the country.
“Through these and other collaborations, I have learned firsthand of the incredible advantages of community colleges,” he said. “FTCC in particular has provided huge dividends for the region and state.”
Choi ended with a call for compassion.
“Forgive. Be kind. Be nice,” he said. “If we all do that, I promise, the world will change.”
Two students were presented with awards for academic achievement and community involvement. Kristen Woods received the N.C. Community College System Academic Excellence Award. Jenna Warnock received the Fayetteville Technical Community College President’s Award.
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Apple unveiled its new iPhone 14 lineup at a press event on Wednesday, along with three new Apple Watch models, an update to its popular AirPods product line and a feature that could save lives when cell service isn't available.
At a closely-watched event from its headquarters in Cupertino, California, Apple showed off four new smartphones, including a larger 6.7-inch iPhone 14 Plus model and an updated iPhone 14 Pro that rethinks the much-maligned notch. In typical Apple fashion, the devices also offer better battery life and camera features than the year prior.
The biggest surprise, however, may be the price: The iPhone 14 and 14 Plus will start at $799 and $899, respectively, the same starting price as last year's model. The iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max start at $999 and $1,099, respectively, also unchanged from the year prior. Analysts widely predicted Apple would hike the price of the premium models by $100.
"It is impressive that Apple has maintained year-on-year pricing parity on the new iPhone 14 devices in the US," said Leo Gebbie, Principal Analyst, Connected Devices at CCS Insight. "We had anticipated that inflation, increased production and component costs, and other expenses such as more expensive shipping would have led Apple to increase its retail pricing."
For Apple, the stakes are always high to convince customers to upgrade devices, and especially the iPhone, which remains its central product. That task is potentially made more difficult this year by broader economic jitters, including fears of a looming recession.
Throughout the event, Apple appeared to alternate between pitching its suite of products as tools for living our best lives and also for avoiding any number of ills that may befall customers in an uncertain world, ranging from car crashes to getting stranded in the wild.
Apple announced several new Apple Watch models, including a higher-end version that costs $799 and is designed to support the needs of a rarefied group of outdoor enthusiasts.
At the same time, it added an option for its watches to detect when a user has been in a car crash as well as a satellite connectivity feature for phones, which is intended to help people communicate when their cell service isn't working.
Here are the big highlights from the event:
The new iPhone 14 lineup
Apple unveiled four new smartphones, including the new iPhone 14 with a 6.1-inch screen and the iPhone 14 Plus with a larger 6.7-inch screen.
The new iPhone 14 features a 12 MP main camera with bigger pixels, a faster aperture and improved sensors. It also uses the same chip as last year's iPhone 13 Pro model (the A15), the first time it's repeated a chip in years.
For the first time, however, the new front camera has auto focus, allowing it to focus at multiple distances in low light for better individual and group selfies. It also has a new action mode that lets users keep videos stable while moving.
Apple's new Pro line features an always-on display and the ability to receive notifications and activities through what the company is calling "the dynamic island," the much polarizing notch at the top of the phone that is now considered a feature. The Pro line also comes with the first-ever 48 MP camera on iPhone.
In a notable shift, the iPhone 14 lineup also eliminates the need for a physical SIM card and instead uses a digital "e-SIM" card. Now, users can store multiple e-SIMs on the same device and have multiple cellular plans and phone numbers on the same phone.
It also prevents others from removing the physical SIM card if your iPhone is lost or stolen. Apple said all US models of iPhone will no longer have the SIM tray.
The iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro will come in five colors: midnight, starlight, blue, purple and red.
New Apple Watches
Apple unveiled three new smartwatches at the event: the Series 8, the SE and the Ultra.
At the high end, the new Ultra model is designed to help users track endurance training, scuba diving adventures and triatholons. The device gets about 36 hours on a single charge, is more water resistant and an enhanced compass that can work at night, in the ocean and other conditions.
At the low end, Apple updated the SE to be up to 20% faster than the prior version. It starts at $249 for GPS models and $299 for cellular models.
And in the middle is the Series 8 model, which starts at $399. Like prior versions of Apple's smartwatch, the Series 8 is intended to motivate users to stay active and fit.
Apple also emphasized the Watch's features for women's health, with revamped period cycle tracking tools that can predict ovulation. The tracking data is kept on each device and only accessible through a passcode or face ID, according to the company. Apple does not have key to encrypted data and so it cannot access it without your express permission.
The announcement comes as data security for women has become a major flashpoint in the wake of the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
New AirPods Pro 2
Apple showed off its latest generation of AirPods Pro, one of its bigger breakout products of recent years. The new AirPods Pro will have six hours of listening time with a single charge, better than the original version. Each headphone and the case itself are now equipped to make a noise to help you find it. And a light swipe up and down the headphone will increase or decrease volume.
AirPods Pro now comes with improved dynamic noise-cancellation technology, and can cancel out double the amount of noise compared to the original version. Meanwhile, a new adaptive transparency mode aims to reduce harsh environmental noise.
The AirPods Pro 2 cost $249 and hit stores on Friday.
Satellite connectivity for emergency situations
While Apple did not unveil any groundbreaking new hardware products, at least one new feature could prove to be a game changer for customers -- albeit in rare situations.
The new Emergency SOS via Satellite feature, which Apple said has been in the works for years, was designed and built specifically for iPhone 14 devices to connect to satellites when not near a terrestrial tower. By allowing users to point their device toward a satellite, which the phone will help locate, users will be able to send and receive information to get emergency help.
The company said it created a short text compression mechanism to condense messages that take about 15 seconds to send if a user has a clear view of the sky. (It may take a few minutes longer if something like foliage is in the way.)
Apple said local providers will be alerted to help call for help.
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Rich Strike's jockey Sonny Leon receives suspension for careless riding
Leon is expected to be in the clear to ride Rich Strike in the Preakness if the horse enters the event
Sonny Leon, the jockey who led Rich Strike to an improbable Kentucky Derby win as an 80-1 long shot, has been suspended for careless riding.
Leon’s suspension will last just four days and can have him riding again as soon as this Friday (he began serving the suspension on Monday). The decision to sideline Leon stems from a late April race at an Ohio track when it was determined that the horse he was riding, One Glamorous Gal, intentionally interfered with another horse during the race.
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Stewards at Ohio’s Thistledown Race Track described Leon’s late April actions as such: "deliberately and aggressively steered in towards the rail to block on-coming horses on the inside." One Glamorous Gal finished third, but the place was disqualified because of the violation and the horse officially finished sixth.
Leon’s suspension is his fifth since September. The five suspensions have resulted in 32 days of missed track time.
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Per the Associated Press, Leon’s suspension – originally eight days but reduced to four because he did not appeal – would not prevent him from riding Rich Strike at the Preakness later this month.
Rick Dawson, the horse’s owner, along with trainer Eric Reed, have not yet determined if they’ll enter Rich Strike. If so, Leon will be ready to ride. "Our job is to go where we need to be, but we don’t make those decisions," Jeff Perrin, Leon’s agent told the AP.
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SEATTLE — Sam Haggerty and Eugenio Suárez each hit a solo homer, George Kirby pitched into the seventh inning and the Seattle Mariners beat Atlanta 3-1 on Saturday night to snap the Braves’ eight-game winning streak.
It was another night of dominant pitching, and two big swings by the Mariners against Atlanta starter Max Fried proved to be the difference.
Haggerty hit the first pitch of the fifth inning out to left field for his fifth home run. Suárez followed an inning later, hitting a two-out shot to center for his 28th of the season. It was the first time this year Fried allowed multiple home runs in a start.
Julio Rodríguez lined a two-out RBI double in the seventh off reliever Jesse Chavez that didn’t stop rolling until it reached the wall in right-center field and scored Adam Frazier from first.
Seattle gained a game on Tampa Bay and didn’t lose ground to Toronto in the tight race for three American League wild cards.
Kirby (7-3) was outstanding in the 21st start of his rookie season and only some bad luck kept him from pitching deeper. He struck out six, didn’t walk a batter and over his past 11 starts has a 1.99 ERA.
Kirby shut out the Braves for six innings on two hits and retired 12 straight until Dansby Swanson’s base hit leading off the seventh. Austin Riley hit what appeared to be a double-play ball but it bounced off shortstop J.P. Crawford’s glove for an error, putting runners at first and third with no outs.
Andrés Muñoz took over and limited the damage to one run that scored on Matt Olson’s groundout. Erik Swanson retired the Braves in the eighth and Paul Sewald pitched the ninth for his 19th save.
Fried (13-6) made his first start in interleague play this season and had won his previous nine starts against AL teams. His final line was almost a mirror of Kirby’s, throwing six innings and striking out six, but the two home runs proved the difference. Over his previous 14 starts, Fried had allowed two total home runs
SMOKEY CONDITIONS
The game was played with the Puget Sound region engulfed in smoke from nearby wildfires. Conditions deteriorated on Friday but got significantly worse after a new fire broke out overnight about 65 miles northeast of Seattle. Ash was falling throughout the region during the day and air quality readings during the game were in the 170 range, which is considered unhealthy.
It also started affecting the play on the field. Atlanta right fielder Robbie Grossman briefly lost a popup in the sky before recovering in time to make the catch in the fifth inning. In the sixth, Suárez never saw a foul pop off the bat of Grossman that fell on the dirt in front of the Braves dugout.
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Braves: RHP Jake Odorizzi (5-5, 3.90 ERA) makes his fourth start this season against Seattle. Odorizzi is 1-1 with a 2.00 ERA in his previous three, all with Houston. He is 4-6 in 16 career starts against the Mariners.
Mariners: LHP Marco Gonzales (10-13, 3.98) makes his 28th start of the season looking to rebound from a loss in his last outing when he threw seven innings and allowed three runs to the Chicago White Sox.
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Training camp begins this week across the conference and, admittedly, the development would have prompted mild interest around Hotline HQ in past years.
We learned our lesson in 2021.
The Pac-12’s abysmal early-season showing, which included losses to Montana, Nevada, Northern Arizona, Utah State, BYU, San Diego State and Fresno State, underscored the significance of training camp as a tool for evaluation and positioning teams to win immediately.
Sure, there was a COVID-19 hangover last season resulting from limited practices and games during the prior 12 months. Stamina and physicality clearly were not up to standard when September ’21 arrived.
But COVID wasn’t the sole reason the conference underperformed a year ago.
We saw numerous instances of head coaches picking the wrong quarterback: Oregon State, Stanford, Utah, Arizona and Washington State all started the season with their best option on the bench.
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The situation this month is vulnerable to additional whiffs in judgment, with seven teams likely to have new starters.
Our preview of Pac-12 training camp begins there …
1. The QB carousel
That wasn’t a misprint: At least seven teams are expected to have new starting quarterbacks after an offseason in which the transfer portal loomed large.
USC is set with Caleb Williams, the Oklahoma transfer. So is Arizona with Jayden de Laura, who’s coming off an impressive rookie year for Washington State. The Cougars, in turn, have a replacement lined up in Cameron Ward, the talented transfer from Incarnate Word who will be playing in a familiar system.
The next level of quarterback security finds Oregon with Bo Nix, the former Auburn starter; Cal with Jack Plummer, who threw 492 career passes for Purdue; Arizona State, which found Florida’s Emory Jones late in the transfer cycle; and Washington, where Michael Penix Jr., the Indiana transfer, is our frontrunner for the job.
Meanwhile, Oregon State’s Chance Nolan and Colorado’s Brendon Lewis are returning starters who seemingly must cement their status this month to earn the starting spot.
That’s another way of saying only Stanford (Tanner McKee), UCLA (Dorian Thompson-Robinson) and Utah (Cam Rising) have returning starters and no competition.
Should be an interesting month.
2. The DC overhaul
Far less easy to assess than the quarterback competitions, but only slightly less significant, is the massive turnover at defensive coordinator.
Arizona hired Johnny Nansen, who spent the previous two years on UCLA’s staff.
The Bruins replaced Jerry Azzinaro, the source of deep fan frustration, with Bill McGovern.
Arizona State elevated Donnie Henderson to the post after Antonio Pierce escaped to the NFL.
New USC coach Lincoln Riley brought along his defensive guru from Oklahoma, Alex Grinch.
New Oregon coach Dan Lanning hired Tosh Lupoi, a veteran of several Pac-12 teams and one-time coordinator for Nick Saban.
In Seattle, Kalen DeBoer brought his defensive staff from Fresno State, including co-coordinator William Inge.
Oregon State promoted Trent Bray to the full-time coordinator prior to the LA Bowl, so he’s not completely new to the task.
And Washington State has hired Brian Ward to run the defense that head coach Jake Dickert oversaw last season.
All in all, just four teams (Stanford, Cal, Utah and Colorado) are starting 2022 with the same defensive coordinators they employed at the beginning of 2021.
The speed with which they install and ingrain their systems will be vital, and challenging. Starting defenses throughout the conference are stocked with newcomers and inexperienced returnees.
3. Off the edge
From our vantage point, the area of greatest intrigue this month (other than quarterback, of course) is the state of play at edge rusher.
Why? Because pocket pressure is essential, because the conference needs a flag-bearer off the edge following the departure of Oregon’s Kayvon Thibodeau, and because the existing pool of talent carries fascinating subplots.
Is Washington’s Zion Tupuola-Fetui fully recovered from the Achilles injury suffered in the spring of 2021? If so, he has All-American potential.
Will the Murphy twins, Gabriel and Grayson, have the desired impact on UCLA’s pressure generation after arriving from North Texas?
Will Van Fillinger become Utah’s next elite pocket crusher and fill the void left by Mike Tafua? What about Mohamoud Diabate, the Florida transfer, or Gabe Reid, the Stanford arrival?
Where is the pressure point on Oregon’s seemingly stellar front seven? Is Brandon Dorlus ready for the role? Or perhaps Justin Flowe?
Will any of USC’s edge options, which include ASU transfer Eric Gentry and former No. 1 recruit Korey Forman, materialize?
4. Top talent
Our final area of keen interest this month is not restricted by position, system or side of the ball.
It’s a broad search for talent … for Day 1 draft talent.
In its latest ranking of 2023 NFL Draft prospects, Pro Football Focus includes just three Pac-12 players in the top 32 slots: Stanford’s McKee (No. 17), USC receiver Jordan Addison (No. 25) and Oregon linebacker Noah Sewell (No. 30).
The situation will change many times over before April, but the Pac-12 seemingly has a paucity of elite players across all units.
Who’s the next Laviska Shenault or Rachaad White?
If breakout stars are to emerge, the first clues should appear this month.
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Pence says he didn’t leave office with classified material
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence said Friday that he didn’t take any classified information with him when he left office.
Pence made the comment during an interview with The Associated Press in Iowa a week and a half after the FBI seized classified and top secret information during a search at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.
Asked directly if he retained any classified information upon leaving office, Pence said, “No, not to my knowledge.”
The disclosure — which would typically be unremarkable for a former vice president — is notable given that FBI agents took 11 sets of classified records from his former boss’s estate on Aug. 8 while investigating potential violations of three different federal laws. Trump has claimed that the documents seized by agents were “all declassified” and argued that he would have turned them over if the Justice Department had asked.
But although Pence said he and his team complied with rules requiring the submission of classified material to the National Archives, the former vice president raised the possibility that the investigation was politically motivated and called on Attorney General Merrick Garland to disclose more details on what led authorities to conduct the search.
“The concern that millions of Americans felt is only going to be resolved with daylight,” he added. “I know that’s not customary in an investigation. But this is unprecedented action by the Justice Department, and I think it merits an unprecedented transparency.”
His comments come just days after he urged his fellow Republicans to stop lashing out at rank-and-file members of the FBI over the search of Mar-a-Lago. Speaking at a political breakfast in New Hampshire on Wednesday, he sought to tamp down on some of the increasing threats against the FBI by ardent Trump supporters who are angry that Trump’s home was searched.
“The Republican Party is the party of law and order,” Pence said Wednesday. “Our party stands with the men and women who stand on the thin blue line at the federal and state and local level, and these attacks on the FBI must stop.”
Pence was in Iowa on Friday as part of a two-day trip to the state, which is scheduled to host the 2024 leadoff Republican presidential caucuses. Pence said Friday that he would make a decision early next year about whether to run for the White House, a move that his aides have said will be independent of what Trump decides to do.
Having visited the Iowa State Fair on Friday afternoon, Pence also headlined a fundraiser earlier in the day for Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley and was scheduled to speak to a Christian conservative group and a northern Iowa county Republican party fundraiser before leaving Saturday.
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TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. (AP) — Roads on the south side of Joshua Tree National Park that were closed due to flash floods in southeastern California have reopened.
The park's south entrance as well as the Pinto and Cottonwood Canyon roads reopened Tuesday and the Cottonwood Visitor Center was expected to reopen Wednesday, the National Park Service said.
The southern portion of the vast desert park had to be evacuated on Monday when thunderstorms unleashed the floods.
South of Joshua Tree, operators of the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway announced that the attraction that rises on the flanks of Mount San Jacinto will remain closed through Aug. 14 for cleanup of flood debris.
Earlier flooding extensively damaged roads in Death Valley National Park and the Mojave National Preserve. Highway 190, a major route into Death Valley, will reopen no earlier than Aug. 17, according to the park service.
Isolated thunderstorms were expected in the region Wednesday afternoon and evening.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The Nobel Peace Prize auctioned off by Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov to raise money for Ukrainian child refugees sold Monday night for $103.5 million, shattering the old record for a Nobel.
A spokesperson for Heritage Auctions, which handled the sale, could not confirm the identity of the buyer but said the winning bid was made by proxy. The $103.5 million sale translates to $100 million Swiss francs, hinting that the buyer is from overseas.
“I was hoping that there was going to be an enormous amount of solidarity, but I was not expecting this to be such a huge amount,” Muratov said in an interview after bidding in the nearly 3-week auction ended on World Refugee Day.
Previously, the most ever paid for a Nobel Prize medal was $4.76 million in 2014, when James Watson, whose co-discovery of the structure of DNA earned him a Nobel Prize in 1962, sold his. Three years later, the family of his co-recipient, Francis Crick, received $2.27 million in bidding also run by Heritage Auctions.
Muratov, who was awarded the gold medal in October 2021, helped found the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta and was the publication’s editor-in-chief when it shut down in March amid the Kremlin’s clampdown on journalists and public dissent in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
It was Muratov’s idea to auction off his prize, having already announced he was donating the accompanying $500,000 cash award to charity.
Muratov has said the proceeds will go directly to UNICEF in its efforts to help children displaced by the war in Ukraine. Just minutes after bidding ended, UNICEF told the auction house it had already received the funds.
Online bids had begun June 1 to coincide with the International Children’s Day observance. Many bids came by telephone or online. The winning bid, tendered by telephone, catapulted the bidding from the low millions to astronomical levels.
Muratov had left Russia on Thursday to begin his trip to New York City, where live bidding began Monday evening.
Early Monday, the high bid was only $550,000. The purchase price had been expected to spiral upward — but not over $100 million.
“I can’t believe it. I’m awestruck. Personally, I’m flabbergasted. I’m stunned. I don’t really know what happened in there,” said Joshua Benesh, the chief strategy officer for Heritage Auctions.
“We knew that there was a tremendous groundswell of interest in the last couple of days by people who were moved by Dimitry’s story, by Dimitry’s act of generosity, that the global audience was listening tonight,” he said.
Muratov and Heritage officials said even those out of the bidding can still help by donating directly to UNICEF.
Muratov shared the Nobel Peace Prize last year with journalist Maria Ressa of the Philippines.
The two journalists, who each received their own medals, were honored for their battles to preserve free speech in their respective countries, despite coming under attack by harassment, their governments and even death threats.
Melted down, the 175 grams of 23-karat gold contained in Muratov’s medal would be worth about $10,000.
Muratov has been highly critical of Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and the war launched in February that has caused nearly 5 million Ukrainians to flee to other countries for safety, creating the largest humanitarian crisis in Europe since World War II.
Independent journalists in Russia have come under scrutiny by the Kremlin, if not outright targets of the government. Since Putin came into power more than two decades ago, nearly two dozen journalists have been killed, including at least four who had worked for Muratov’s newspaper.
In April, Muratov said he was attacked with red paint while aboard a Russian train.
Since its inception in 1901, there have been nearly 1,000 recipients of the Nobel Prizes honoring achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and the advancement of peace.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Another U.S. congressional delegation is visiting Taiwan as tensions with China remain high over its claims to the self-governed island.
A steady stream of U.S. visitors has come to meet with Taiwanese officials since U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited in early August. China in response has stepped up its military harassment of Taiwan, sending warships, warplanes and drones toward the island daily.
Led by Florida Democrat Stephanie Murphy, the delegation met Thursday with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, whose administration China has relentlessly sought to deprive of diplomatic recognition and participation in international organizations.
Referring to China’s military threats, Tsai said the delegation’s visit “conveys rock solid support for Taiwan from the U.S. Congress.”
“Taiwan will not bow to pressure or coercion,” Tsai said. “We will defend our democratic institutions and way of life. Taiwan will not back down.”
Murphy replied that Congress “should advocate for greater Taiwanese participation in international organizations.”
“Taiwan has shown itself to be a responsible member of the international community, especially in public health issues, and it deserves to participate in international fora when appropriate,” she said.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning on Thursday said China “strongly rejects and deplores” the congressional visit, saying it violates the U.S. commitment to the “one-China policy” that forbids formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan.
“We will continue to take strong measures to resolutely safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity,” Mao said at a daily briefing.
Under the U.S. system of separation of powers, the executive branch of government has no legal right to prevent members of Congress from visiting Taiwan. China has repeatedly refused to recognize that principle.
Mao also cautioned Japan not to allow a Taiwanese government official to attend an official funeral for ex-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. China strongly protested after Taiwanese Vice President Lai Ching-te paid his respects at Abe’s Tokyo residence following his assassination in July.
“Japan should … not provide the Taiwan independence force any platforms for political manipulation,” Mao said. Throughout his political career, Abe was a strong supporter of Taiwan, a Japanese colony for 50 years until the end of World War II which maintains close political, economic and social ties with Japan.
Murphy, who was born in Hanoi to Vietnamese parents, is among lawmakers who introduced a bill that would allow the U.S. to lend weapons to support Taiwan, similar to a bill that was passed to lend weapons to Ukraine. Last week, the Biden administration approved a $1 billion arms sale to Taiwan.
Murphy also said deepening economic relations with Taiwan was “one of the most important things Congress can do right now,” particularly by pushing for a “high-quality free trade agreement” between the sides. Negotiations are underway between the Biden and Tsai administrations on a trade pact.
The other American lawmakers visiting are Hawaii Democrat Kaiali’i Kahele and Republicans Scott Franklin of Florida, Joe Wilson of South Carolina, Andy Barr of Kentucky, Darrell Issa of California, Claudia Tenney of New York and Kat Cammack of Florida.
Pelosi was the highest-level member of the U.S. government to visit Taiwan in 25 years. China responded by holding extended military exercises that included firing missiles over the island and sending ships across the midline of the Taiwan Strait, which was long a buffer between the two sides. Some of the missiles landed in Japan’s exclusive economic zone.
China sees high-level foreign visits to the island as interference in its affairs and de facto recognition of Taiwanese sovereignty. China’s recent military drills were seen by some as a rehearsal of future military action against the island, which U.S. military leaders say could come within the next few years.
In Beijing on Wednesday, Mao said China’s opposition to defense cooperation between Washington and Taipei is “consistent and clear.”
“We will resolutely respond to acts that undermine China’s sovereignty and security and interfere in our internal affairs,” Mao told reporters at a daily briefing, without giving details.
Following Pelosi’s trip, a U.S. senator and another congressional delegation visited Taiwan, as well as officials from Japan and Palau. Governors from Arizona and Indiana made visits with a focus on semiconductors, an industry which Taiwanese companies dominate.
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By EVGENIY MALOLETKA and DEREK GATOPOULOS
CHERNIHIV, Ukraine (AP) — Danyk Rak enjoys riding his bike, playing soccer and quiet moments with the family’s short-legged dog and two white cats, Pushuna and Lizun.
But at age 12, his childhood has been abruptly cut short. His family’s home was destroyed and his mother seriously wounded as Russian forces bombarded Kyiv’s suburbs and surrounding towns in a failed effort to seize the capital.
Six months after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine, and with no end to the conflict in sight, The Associated Press revisited Danyk as well as a police officer and an Orthodox priest whose lives have been upended by war.
“I WANT TO BE AN AIR FORCE PILOT”
Tears come to Danyk’s eyes as his mother, Luda, recalls being pulled from the rubble, covered in blood, after shrapnel tore through her body and smashed her right foot.
Twenty-two weeks after she was wounded, she’s still waiting to have her foot amputated and to be fitted with a prosthetic. She keeps the piece of shrapnel surgeons removed during one of her many operations.
Danyk lives with his mother and grandmother in a house near Chernihiv, a town 140 kilometers (nearly 90 miles) north of Kyiv, where a piece of tarp covers the broken bedroom windows. He sells milk from the family’s cow that grazes in the nearby fields. A handwritten sign wrapped in clear plastic on the front gate reads: “Please buy milk to help my mother who is injured.”
“My mother needs surgery and that’s why I have to help her. I have to help my grandmother too because she has heart problems,” Danyk said.
Before schools reopen on Sept. 1, Danyk and his grandmother have been joining volunteers several days a week clearing the debris from buildings damaged and destroyed in the Russian bombardment outside Chernihiv. On the way, he stops at his old house, most of it smashed to the foundations.
“This was my bedroom,” he says, standing next to scorched mattress springs that protrude from the rubble of bricks and plaster.
Polite and soft spoken, Danyk says his father and stepfather are both fighting in the Ukrainian army.
“My father is a soldier, my uncles are soldiers and my grandfather was a soldier, too. My stepfather is a soldier and I will be a soldier,” he says with a look of determination. “I want to be an air force pilot.”
“THIS BRIDGE WAS THE ROAD FROM HELL”
Before the Russian withdrawal from Kyiv and surrounding areas on April 2, suburbs and towns near the city’s airport were pounded by rockets, artillery fire and aerial bombardment in an effort to break the Ukrainian defenses.
Entire city blocks of apartments were blackened by the shelling in Irpin, just 20 kilometers (12 miles) northwest of the capital, along a route where police Lt. Ruslan Huseinov patrolled daily.
Some of the most dramatic scenes from the early stages of the war were of the evacuation from Irpin underneath a destroyed highway bridge, where thousands escaped the relentless attacks.
Huseinov was there for 16 days, organizing crossings where the elderly were carried along muddy pathways in wheelbarrows.
Reconstruction work has begun on the bridge, where mangled concrete and iron bars hang over the river. Clothing and shoes from those who fled can still be seen tangled in the debris.
“This bridge was the road from hell,” says Huseinov, 34, standing next to an overturned white van still lodged into a slab of smashed concrete.
“We got people out of (Irpin) because conditions were terrible — with bombing and shelling,” he said. “People were really scared because many lost their children, members of their family, their brothers and sisters.”
Crosses made from construction wood are still nailed to the railings of the bridge to honor those lost and the effort to save civilians.
“The whole world witnessed our solidarity,” says Huseinov, who grew up in Germany and says he would never again take the good things in life for granted.
“In my mind, everything has changed: My values in life,” he said. “Now I understand what we have to lose.”
“BEFORE THE WAR, IT WAS ANOTHER LIFE”
The floor of the Church of Andrew the Apostle has been re-tiled and bullet holes in the walls plastered over and repainted — but the horror of what happened in March lies only a few yards away.
The largest mass grave in Bucha — a town outside Kyiv that has become synonymous with the brutality of the Russian attack — is behind the church.
“This grave contained 116 people, including 30 women, and two children,” said Father Andriy, who has conducted multiple burial services for civilians found shot dead or killed by shelling, some still only identified as a number while the effort to name all of Bucha’s victims continues.
Many of the bodies were found before the Russians pulled out of the Kyiv region, Father Andriy said.
“We couldn’t bury people in the cemetery because it’s on the outskirts of the city. They left people, dead people, lying in the street. Dead people were found still in their cars. They were trying to leave but the Russians shelled them,” said Father Andriy, wearing a large cross around his neck and a dark purple cassock.
“That situation lasted two weeks, and the local authorities began coming up with solutions (to help) relatives and loved ones. It was bad weather and wild animals were discovering the bodies. So something had to be done.”
He decided to carry out burial services in the church yard, many next to where the bodies had been discovered.
The experience , he said, has left people in the town badly shaken.
“I think that, neither myself or anyone who lives in Ukraine, who witnessed the war, can understand why this happened,” he said.
“Before the war, it was another life.”
“For now we are surviving on adrenaline,” he said. “But I’m worried that the aftermath will last decades. It will be hard to get past this and turn the page. Saying the word ‘forgive’ isn’t difficult. But to say it from your heart — for now , that’s not possible.”
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AP staffers Vasilisa Stepanenko and Roman Hrytsyna contributed.
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Derek Meyer will join Associated on August 1st as Chief Financial Officer
Bryan Carson will join Associated on July 18th as Chief Product and Marketing Officer
GREEN BAY, Wis., June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Associated Banc-Corp (NYSE: ASB) ("Associated") today announced two key appointments to its executive leadership team. Derek Meyer, 55, will join Associated as the Company's next Chief Financial Officer, effective August 1, 2022. He will succeed Christopher J. Del Moral-Niles, who announced his planned retirement from Associated earlier this year. In addition, Bryan Carson, 52, will assume the role of Chief Product and Marketing Officer, effective July 18, 2022.
Andrew Harmening, President and Chief Executive Officer, said, "Today's appointments are important steps in supporting our current growth strategy and will drive Associated forward on our path of value creation. Adding Derek and Bryan to our team will further bolster our ability to generate deposits and create liquidity, while helping us execute our multi-year digital transformation."
Finance
Meyer brings over 30 years' experience in banking including 21 years in finance and 12 years in retail and commercial roles. Most recently he served as Corporate Treasurer of Huntington Bank. During his 22-year tenure at Huntington, Meyer held various senior leadership roles and was responsible for crucial finance functions, including treasury, financial planning and analysis, stress testing, mergers and acquisition due diligence, regulatory matters and process and controls implementation. He was also instrumental in driving the bank's financial strategy, expanding revenue and positively impacting margins.
Harmening said, "Derek is a strategic financial leader with superb business acumen and a passion for team building. His superior track record of achievement across financial functions and deep understanding of the banking industry will be invaluable to our organization."
"I am honored to be appointed CFO at a time of significant opportunity for Associated," Meyer said. "I look forward to working with Andy, the executive leadership team, and the bank's talented finance team to help the Company execute its strategic and financial priorities focused on value-added growth, investments and commitments to all stakeholders."
Product and Marketing
Carson brings 30 years of experience in marketing, product development, pricing, analytics, and distribution within the financial services industry. Most recently he served as EVP of Deposit Products, Customer Segmentation, and Branch & ATM Distribution at Huntington Bank. Prior to that, he served as the bank's Chief Marketing Officer and SVP of Deposit Products & Pricing. Carson also held senior roles at JPMorgan Chase as Marketing Director and MBNA Corporation as Marketing, Product, and Analytics Department Manager.
Harmening continued, "Bryan will lead our product development, marketing and customer experience and insights teams. His leadership and oversight of the Company's commercial, consumer, and digital product strategies will help drive our digital transformation initiatives, identifying new pathways for deposit and liquidity generation. We are confident he will help us deploy innovative solutions and deliver a best-in-class service experience to our customers."
"I am excited to join Associated, a premier financial brand in the Midwest markets and beyond, with an innovative platform and incredible culture of customer service," Carson said. "I look forward to working with the team to drive product and marketing programs to support the Company's growth and evolution to a digital-focused banking leader."
ABOUT ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Associated Banc-Corp (NYSE: ASB) has total assets of $35 billion and is Wisconsin's largest bank holding company. Headquartered in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Associated is a leading Midwest banking franchise, offering a full range of financial products and services from more than 200 banking locations serving more than 100 communities throughout Wisconsin, Illinois and Minnesota, and loan production offices in Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, New York, Ohio and Texas. Associated Bank, N.A. is an Equal Housing Lender, Equal Opportunity Lender and Member FDIC. More information about Associated Banc-Corp is available at www.associatedbank.com.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
Statements made in this press release which are not purely historical are forward-looking statements, as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. This includes any statements regarding management's plans, objectives, or goals for future operations, products or services, and forecasts of its revenues, earnings, or other measures of performance. Such forward-looking statements may be identified by the use of words such as "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "plan," "estimate," "should," "will," "intend," "target," "outlook," "project," "guidance," or similar expressions. Forward-looking statements are based on current management expectations and, by their nature, are subject to risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements. Factors which may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in such forward-looking statements include those identified in the Company's most recent Form 10-K and subsequent SEC filings. Such factors are incorporated herein by reference.
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BERLIN (AP) — Finance ministers from the Group of Seven industrial powers on Friday pledged to impose a cap on the price of Russian oil in a bid to limit the Kremlin’s revenues and ability to fund its war in Ukraine, while also curtailing the war’s impact on energy prices and inflation.
The ministers said they would impose the cap by barring insurance or shipping companies from helping Russia sell oil at prices above the set limit.
The decision follows discussions at the group’s summit earlier this year and aims at solving one of the vexing problems with sanctions against Russia: Global oil prices have risen on fears of restricted supply, which has only fattened the Kremlin’s take.
Meanwhile, skyrocketing energy prices have fed inflation that is squeezing consumers in rich and poor countries alike and threatens to push Europe into recession.
In a statement issued by Germany, which chairs the G-7 this year, the ministers said they “confirm our joint political intention to finalize and implement a comprehensive prohibition of services which enable maritime transportation of Russian-origin crude oil and petroleum products globally.”
Providing those services “would only be allowed if the oil and petroleum products are purchased at or below a price (‘the price cap’) determined by the broad coalition of countries adhering to and implementing the price cap,” they added.
The statement did not give any proposed figure for a potential price cap and also did not specify when the G-7 aims to finalize the plan. It said that “we invite all countries to provide input on the price cap’s design and to implement this important measure,” calling for a “broad coalition in order to maximize effectiveness.”
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters at a Friday briefing that in the upcoming weeks the administration will announce the price cap level, coalition partners and guidance for market participants.
The G-7 is made up of the United States, Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Canada and Japan.
When they met in June in Germany, G-7 leaders agreed to explore a price cap but said the idea needed further discussion, a testimony to the complexity of implementing it.
The measure — pushed by U.S. President Joe Biden — could work because the service providers are mostly located in the European Union or the U.K. and thus within reach of sanctions. To be effective, however, it would have to involve as many importing countries as possible, in particular India where refiners have been snapping up cheap Russian oil shunned by Western traders.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak has said Russia will refuse to sell oil to countries or companies that observe the cap.
The U.S. has already blocked Russian oil imports, which were small in any case. The European Union has decided to impose a ban on the 90% of Russian oil that comes by sea, but that does not take effect until the end of the year.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that the G-7 had taken “a critical step forward” and that “today’s action will help deliver a major blow (to) Russian finances and will both hinder Russia’s ability to fight its unprovoked war in Ukraine and hasten the deterioration of the Russian economy.”
“We have already begun to see the impact of the price cap through Russia’s hurried attempts to negotiate bilateral oil trades at massive discounts,” Yellen said in a statement.
A senior U.S. Treasury official, insisting on anonymity to discuss the strategic thinking, said the caps would create a new baseline price for countries such as China and India that are not part of the coalition that purchase oil from Russia. Lower prices paid to Russia by these nations would accomplish the coalition’s goal, said the official, who added that Russia is aggressively trying to lock in long-term contracts now to limit the loss of potential oil revenues.
Friday’s G-7 statement said the group encourages other oil-producing countries to increase production in order to decrease volatility in energy markets.
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David McHugh reported from Frankfurt, Germany. Josh Boak in Washington contributed.
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