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Gov. Kate Brown has asked President Joe Biden to declare a federal emergency in Oregon due to extreme wildfire risks. It would make Oregon the first state to receive a presidential emergency declaration for wildfires.
Brown sent a letter requesting the federal aid to Biden on Sept. 9, as state officials warned of increased fire danger because of drought and high winds reaching up to 50 miles per hour in parts of the Illinois Valley, near the southwest coast, the lower Klamath Valley and the Cascade and Coast Ranges.
The state currently has 32 active wildfires that have burned more than 160,000 acres and caused nearly 2,500 people to evacuate.
“We still have several weeks of peak fire season ahead of us,” Brown wrote. The fire season is slated to go through October.
In her letter, Brown said she expected that the magnitude and severity of wildfires would be too much for state and local governments to handle on their own.
Fires burning in other Western states have spread critical staff and resources thin, Brown said, and Oregon needs direct federal assistance with emergency power generation, emergency
communications, evacuation support, mass care and debris removal.
Declaring a federal emergency “is critical to helping bolster our state’s response, and it presents an opportunity for Oregon to partner with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to bridge the gaps we know exist,” she wrote.
Much of Oregon has been under extreme drought conditions since March, and according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the West is in the worst drought in 1,200 years and the driest 22-year period on record.
Brown has issued six executive orders this summer increasing state aid for drought conditions in 17 counties.
She also has issued state emergency orders for four fires this summer in central and eastern Oregon, and has directed the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to execute an emergency operations plan and activate the State Emergency Coordination Center – essentially a command center coordinating interagency emergency responses to wildfires.
During the 2020 Labor Day fires that burned more than one million acres in a 72-hour period, Oregon got help from FEMA to provide public assistance for people in 20 counties.
“Oregon would be the first state ever to receive such a declaration for wildfire response, but unfortunately, certainly not the last to need this important assistance,” Brown said in a public statement about her letter.
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Because the hike happened days before the weather started cooling, even with a relatively early start the trek had been increasingly sweat-inducing as temperatures warmed. So, when our group of seven reached Badger Lake, lunch was temporarily postponed when five of us stripped down to our shorts, waded in and — ahh! — cooled off.
We’d stopped a short time earlier for snacks at nearby Woodpecker Lake before reaching Badger Lake, one of several beautiful mountain lakes in the aptly named Sky Lakes Wilderness Area. Woodpecker was tempting, but our destination was Badger.
In previous years Badger Lake was an easy-to-access lake. Until 2021 the trail to Badger was easily reached from Fourmile Lake and the Fourmile Lake Campground. Because the campground and area are still being cleared of dangerous trees, reaching Badger requires a longer hike.
Getting to the trailhead at the Rye Spur Horse Camp is challenging because of the lack of signage at a critical road junction. From Highway 140, the well-signed FS Road 3661 to Fourmile Lake ends at a gate just south of the lake and campground. For the second year a small crew is removing hazardous trees damaged by fires and a mountain pine beetle infestation. Just before the gated junction, we turned right on an unsigned gravel road that reaches the Rye Spur Horse Camp in about a mile.
From the trailhead we headed north on the Rye Spur Trail, which becomes the Long Lake Trail at the Twin Ponds-Rye Spur Trail junction. Using the current trailhead at the horse camp adds on more than two miles — two very pleasant miles — each way.
Earlier this summer the Long Lake Trail from near the junction had been impassible because of many downed trees. Anthony Benedetti, the Fremont-Winema National Forest’s wilderness technician, said it was cleared by firefighters to provide access to a nearby lightning-caused fire that, happily, was doused before it caused serious damage.
Past the recently cleared section the trail opens up, briefly paralleling the eastern corner of Fourmile Lake before gently winding uphill through a still beautiful forest to Woodpecker Lake. Woodpecker is a small, inviting lake, but for us swimmers the goal was Badger.
Badger didn’t disappoint. Along its eastern shore we found a trailside opening large enough to shed our day packs, kick back, enjoy the scenery and relax.
But most of us quickly immersed ourselves in the lake. It required some fancy foot work because the easy lake entry point was alive with tiny frogs that scurried hither and thither. Once in Badger’s delightfully cool waters, it was time to relax.
No one had to pester me or the others to jump in the lake, but it took some badgering to get us out.
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Yellow perch are an abundant invasive species in Oregon that is best targeted during football season. You can easily catch enough for a whole team if you find their spawning grounds.
Football is here, boys and girls! For the first time, you can stream both Monday Night Football (ESPN+) and Thursday Night Football (Amazon Prime) without having cable. This is a fantastic development, and huge for people like me who look forward to the National Football League (NFL) more than any other sport. Well, almost any other sport.
Though helmet-topped boys of fall take the field, other boys of fall attempt to play the field, chasing ladies around in hopes of swapping genetic material. As air temps plummet below 70 degrees and the sun spends a little less time heating this side of the earth every day, water temps eventually dip. Warm, summer waters drop ever closer to the 65 degrees Fahrenheit that will trigger the humble yellow perch, Perca flavescens, to rush in and spawn en masse.
Targeting might be illegal in football, but it’s essential in fishing, so here’s where to look.
Yellow perch will congregate in shallow, weedy areas for the next two months as they spawn and then attempt to guard their spawning grounds from would-be predators. As you look at your depth chart, you’ll note that just like in football, perch look to score in the red zone. In other words, perch try to find mates in water at a depth of less than 15 feet, the depths where red light is still visible. Much deeper, and you’ll be out of the red zone and into the orange or yellow zones — depths at which this species doesn’t score, err, spawn.
Despite not having traditional nests, all perch (but especially males hoping to spawn more than once) linger in the red zone long after scoring. Though this extended celebration would draw a personal foul on the field, it’s the norm with perch, and makes for a concentrated target within easy casting distance of every angler — even those poorly suited to play quarterback. Perch always bite readily, but they’re especially aggressive now as they defend their turf. Cooling water temps and physical exertion during the spawn increase a perch’s caloric usage and make them dive on any morsel of food like a loose ball.
Females spawn annually, but do not die after spawning unless very old or in poor health which means you don’t have to focus exclusively on the boys of fall; the ladies are here, too.
Gameplan
Perch are smaller fish with relatively large mouths. They are mid-level predators that will take lures, flies, jigs and bait, but tend to move slower than gamefish such as bass, pike and trout that make meals of perch from time to time. If you rip a lure through their spawning grounds, don’t expect the same explosive hit you’d get with a trout or salmon. Instead, you’ll have to work your lure, fly or jig more slowly or sit on bait and wait for the hit.
When weather conditions include extreme cold, rain or snow, football coaches will throw less often and focus on the ground game. Perch anglers should do the same. You can catch fall perch throwing large lures and deep bombs, but you’re better off running a dive (diving lure, that is), flinging a small jig or even fishing bait on the bottom.
You likely won’t have many highlights for your reel, but you will slowly, steadily catch a pile of fish that will move the chains (chain stringer, that is) or fill a bucket. And you should keep them if you like fish. Invasive in most of the Western United States, yellow perch are a rare combination for freshwater fish, in that they are fun to catch, easy to clean, plentiful and actually taste good. Furthermore, in today’s world, you can stream the game on your phone from the side of a stream. That way if your team flops, at least you can have a few fish flopping out of the water to redeem the day.
Though wings, bean dip and guacamole dominate game day celebrations, what’s stopping you from serving up fried fish? Leave your perch on the couch and chase some perch on the water.
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Sniper denied parole, 20 years after terrorizing D.C. area
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia has denied parole to convicted sniper killer Lee Boyd Malvo, ruling that he is still a risk to the community two decades after he and his partner terrorized the Washington, D.C., region with a series of random shootings.
Malvo was 17 when he and John Allen Muhammad shot and killed 10 people and wounded three others over a three-week span in October 2002. Multiple other victims were shot and killed across the country in the prior months as the duo made their way to the nation’s capital region from Washington state.
Malvo was convicted of capital murder in Virginia and sentenced to life in prison without parole. But a series of Supreme Court rulings and a change in Virginia law gave Malvo the opportunity to seek parole after serving nearly 20 years in custody.
The Virginia Parole Board rejected his request on Aug. 30, finding that Malvo remains a risk to the community and should serve more of his sentence before being released on parole, state records of Parole Board decisions for August show.
“Release at this time would diminish seriousness of crime; Serious nature and circumstances of your offense(s),” the Parole Board wrote.
Malvo’s accomplice, John Allen Muhammad, was executed in Virginia in 2009. Malvo, now 37, was sentenced to life without parole for the three Virginia killings. But after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that mandatory life sentences for juveniles are unconstitutional, two federal courts found that Malvo was entitled to new sentencing hearings. The Virginia legislature also passed a law in 2020 that gave juvenile offenders an opportunity to seek parole after serving 20 years.
Malvo was a 15-year-old from Jamaica who had been sent to live in Antigua when he met the much older Muhammad. Muhammad trained and indoctrinated Malvo, and in 2002 the pair embarked on a nationwide killing spree that ended with the 10 slayings in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia.
Trial testimony indicated the shootings were a plan for Muhammad to regain custody of his children by killing his ex-wife and making her death appear to be a result of random violence.
Malvo is serving his sentence at the super maximum-security Red Onion State Prison in Virginia.
Even if Malvo had been granted parole in Virginia, he also received a life prison sentence in Maryland for crimes in the neighboring state. Last month, Maryland’s highest court ruled that Malvo must be resentenced for his crimes there.
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LAUDERHILL, Fla., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This Saturday, September 17, the City of Lauderhill and the Lauderhill Community Redevelopment Agency will present its 3rd Annual Beer-B-Q, which kicks off at 6 pm and runs until Midnight. The free festival will include food trucks, raffle prizes, craft breweries, full bars, art vendors, lawn games, live music, and more. RSVP online to reserve your free ticket.
This weekend's event will feature musical performances by top-notch talent, including legendary R&B group Dru Hill ft. Sisqo, Nokio, Jazz, Scola, Tao, Smoke, & Black. Miami rap luminary JT Money of Poison Clan will also perform, and other featured artists will include Mike Smiff with Slip-N-Slide Records, Blade Martin accompanied by Sons of David Band, Gabbie Graham and Ronnie V.O.P.
Big Lip Bandit, Shelby Rushin, and DJ Sco will host the entertainment. The evening will be emceed by Chris Priester, "The Teacher," a professional comedian from our own Fort Lauderdale, Florida who also works as an elementary teacher. Don't let his day job fool you -- Priester "The Teacher" has headlined comedy clubs and opened for internationally known comedians including Tiffany Haddish, Marvin Dixon, and Ricky Smiley.
The 3rd Annual Beer-B-Q is also the battleground for the coveted "Lauderhill's Favorite BBQ" award. Visitors can taste local BBQ vendors' most mouthwatering dishes and vote for their favorites.
For serious BBQ and music fans, optional VIP tickets are available for purchase through September 15. VIP includes a commemorative Beer-B-Q T-Shirt, exclusive access to the VIP-Only Bar, one free adult beverage, and access to a premium VIP performance viewing area. VIP tickets are a great way to support the Lauderhill CRA and get the most out of Lauderhill's biggest party.
Visitors are encouraged to use public transportation or ride share (Lyft, Uber, etc.) to travel to and from the event. The designated rideshare drop-off area will be at 3944 NW 19th Street, Lauderhill FL 33311, steps away from the event.
The 3rd Annual Beer-B-Q runs from 6 pm to Midnight, this Saturday, September 17, 2022 at 1803 NW 38th Ave, Lauderhill, FL 33311. Get free tickets and purchase VIP at https://lauderhillcra.com/.
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Major tool manufacturer launches dynamic demolition tool line.
SPARKS, Md., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Crescent Tools, a premier hand tool brand, releases a new line of demolition products including Flat, Adjustable, and Indexing Pry Bars, Standard and Indexing Nail Pullers, Molding Bars, Wrecking Bars and several Specialty Demolition Tools. These wrecking and demolition tools deliver powerful innovation for easier access in tight spaces, minimized damage to finished areas, and added safety.
According to Ethan Bolderson, Product Manager, this line of demolition tools will make a huge impact on the jobsite.
"When designing these tools, we wanted to address four primary pain points: an inability to get the best leverage that often means having to use multiple pry tools on a single job; dull, unsharpened edges that make it difficult to pry between finished materials; a general lack of durability; and awkward ergonomics, resulting in heavy, uncomfortable prying tools that ultimately lower productivity," says Ethan Bolderson, Product Manager at Crescent Tools. "Each tool from our new Wrecking and Pry Bar lineup is designed to deliver better leverage, has sharp, ground edges to pry tight materials, provides double the durability of other pry tools, and has ergonomic, comfort grips. It's our way of always providing the highest quality and innovation for our core customers."
The new Crescent Wrecking and Pry Bar line is available as individual pieces. To view the full product offering and purchase in-store or online, please visit www.crescenttool.com.
About Crescent®
Crescent is a premier brand from Apex Tool Group, one of the largest hand tool manufacturers in the world. The product line includes Crescent® adjustable wrenches, mechanics hand tools, and power tool accessories, Crescent Wiss® snips, scissors, shears, knives and trade tools, Crescent Lufkin® measuring tapes, rules, wheels and chalk reels, Crescent Nicholson® files and saws, Crescent H.K. Porter® heavy-duty cutting products, and Crescent JOBOX® on-site, flammable liquid and truck storage products. Visit www.crescenttools.com for more info.
About Apex Tool Group
Apex Tool Group, LLC is one of the largest worldwide producers of hand and power tools, tool storage, drill chucks, chain, and electronic soldering products. Apex serves a multitude of global markets, including automotive, aerospace, electronics, energy, hardware, industrial, and consumer retail. For more information, visit www.apextoolgroup.com.
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Tool manufacturer carves out a perfect niche with newest pocket knife line.
SPARKS, Md., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Crescent Tools, a widely-recognized tool brand, releases a brand new line of Pocket Knives. The Crescent team will unveil three dynamic new pocket knives: the Hybrid Folding Utility Knife, Compact Folding Utility Knife, and the 2.5" Low Profile Frame Lock Knife. Both Utility Knives have a sturdy liner lock and feature a slide button release for quick blade change.
The Hybrid Folding Utility Knife features a first-to-market design that combines the comfort of an everyday carry (EDC) knife with the blade-changing functionality of a utility knife. A ball-bearing flipper tab makes for smooth, one-handed blade deployment.
The Compact Folding Utility Knife is truly compact, with a length of only three inches when closed, and an EDC-style pocket clip. The 2.5" Low Profile Frame Lock Knife features an ultra-slim design and a durable D2 steel drop point blade that is made to stay sharp even with heavy use.
"Ultimately, our team was looking to solve customers' pain points with current knives on the market," says Stephen Ragon, Product Manager at Crescent Tools. "Many knives—especially utility knives—are difficult to open, obtrusive to carry and too large for EDC convenience. Our solution was to develop smooth blade deployment, deep pocket carry capabilities, and a compact design for our knives."
The Crescent Pocket Knives are available as individual pieces. To view the full product offering and purchase in-store or online, please visit www.crescenttool.com
About Crescent®
Crescent is a premier brand from Apex Tool Group, one of the largest hand tool manufacturers in the world. The product line includes Crescent® adjustable wrenches, mechanics hand tools, and power tool accessories, Crescent Wiss® snips, scissors, shears, knives and trade tools, Crescent Lufkin® measuring tapes, rules, wheels and chalk reels, Crescent Nicholson® files and saws, Crescent H.K. Porter® heavy-duty cutting products, and Crescent JOBOX® on-site, flammable liquid and truck storage products. Visit www.crescenttools.com
About Apex Tool Group
Apex Tool Group, LLC is one of the largest worldwide producers of hand and power tools, tool storage, drill chucks, chain, and electronic soldering products. Apex serves a multitude of global markets, including automotive, aerospace, electronics, energy, hardware, industrial, and consumer retail. For more information, visit www.apextoolgroup.com
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ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Stacy Hauer of Johnson//Becker has been appointed co-lead counsel in the multi-district litigation/class action lawsuit alleging Abbott Nutrition sold baby formula that sickened newborns in multiple states.
Hauer and her fellow co-lead are backed by a 10-person steering committee; the team of a dozen attorneys is expected to represent hundreds of plaintiffs who allege that they were harmed by contaminated formula, as well as those consumers who bought the now recalled formula.
In February 2022, Abbott agreed to recall powdered formula products Similac, Ailmentum, and EleCare produced at its facility in Sturgis, Michigan. According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), those products had been linked to at least five illnesses in infants: four babies who contracted Cronobacter, a bacteria that can cause meningitis, and one who was exposed to salmonella. Two of the infants in those initial reports died.
A subsequent FDA inspection found Cronobacter on surfaces and a lack of quality control in the Abbott facility, leading to a halt in production and its temporary closure.
The law firm is also pursuing baby formula lawsuits against the manufacturers of Similac and Enfamil over a separate injury called necrotizing enterocolitis.
Hauer has an extensive background in science and medicine, including a Masters degree from the College of Pharmacy at the University of Minnesota, and has litigated complex cases involving numerous drug and medical device claims.
If your infant has been sickened by Similac, Alimentum, or EleCare; you should be aware that you may be entitled to holding the manufacturers of the defective baby formula accountable.
We offer a Free Case Evaluation. Please contact us at https://www.johnsonbecker.com/product-liability/baby-formula-lawsuit/ or by calling us at (800) 279-6386.
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Lori Van Dusen selected as top CEO in nation by leading industry publication
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LVW Advisors, a Rochester-based independent financial advisory firm, is thrilled to announce that CEO and Founder Lori Van Dusen has been named CEO of the Year for 2022 by RIA Intel, part of Institutional Investor, a leading international business-to-business publication. This year's awards are the first of their kind from RIA Intel.
Van Dusen, who founded the firm in 2011, helps oversee more than $2 billion of client assets under management. She is also deeply involved with several philanthropic and community organizations where she serves on the board of directors.
"I'm incredibly grateful to RIA Intel and Institutional Investor for choosing me for this wonderful recognition," Van Dusen said. "I truly appreciate such an affirmation of all the time and effort I have poured into this firm and my career. And it would never have happened if not for the hard-working advisors and other LVW staff who support me and our clients."
For its inaugural awards, RIA Intel chose to honor financial advisors, wealth management firms and industry leaders who are impacting the investment industry, clients and their employees in significant and innovative ways, according to the publication's website.
Lori began her career in 1987 with Shearson Lehman Brothers, which was later acquired by Citigroup Smith Barney. Having a natural penchant for the investment industry, by 2004, she had achieved the title of Managing Director. In a pioneering move, she assumed the role of co-lead of Convergent Wealth Advisors' Institutional Group in 2008, where she also served on the firm's Executive and Investment Committees, managing approximately $8 billion in assets for clients.
A recipient of numerous accolades, Lori was named to Barron's Financial Advisor Hall of Fame, which recognizes advisors who have appeared in 10 or more of Barron's annual Top 100 Advisor rankings. Additionally, Lori was ranked #1 in New York State on Forbes' 2022 Best-In-State Wealth Advisors list, and has been ranked on Forbes' 2022, 2021, 2020 and 2019 Top Wealth Advisors lists and Forbes' 2022, 2021, 2020 and 2019 Top Women Wealth Advisors lists. Please see our Disclosures page for important information about these awards.
View the entire list of this year's RIA Intel awards winners here: https://www.riaintel.com/article/b1zsn2y7p1tl3c/ria-intel-awards-the-winners
LVW Advisors is a Rochester, NY-based independent financial advisory firm serving wealthy families and nonprofit institutions nationwide. For more information and important disclosures regarding the above awards, visit lvwadvisors.com/disclosure.
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Open to All Families Interested in a College Prep Education
LAS VEGAS, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Meadows School will host its annual All-School Preview Day on October 12, 2022, at 4 p.m. on the school's 40-acre campus in Summerlin. This event is for families with preschool through high school aged children interested in enrolling for the 2023-24 school year.
The Meadows All-School Preview Day is held once a year. It is an open-house style event with select scheduled activities. Throughout the two-hour event, prospective families can expect to learn about The Meadows School's history, it's top-tier academic programs, robust athletics offerings, creative arts, and more. Faculty and staff from all of the school's four divisions (Beginning School, ages 3-5; Lower School, grades K-5; Middle School, grades 6-8; Upper School, grades 9-12) will be available to answer questions and showcase classrooms. Student ambassadors will offer campus tours and there will be a performance by Upper School students.
To attend The Meadows School Annual Preview Day, families can RSVP at www.themeadowsschool.org/preview.
The Meadows School is a non-profit, independent college preparatory day school located in Las Vegas, Nevada. With over 930 students in grades pre-k through twelfth, highly trained faculty work with students in all phases of their academic journey to help them push beyond their perceived limits. This, coupled with top-flight athletics and arts programs, allows The Meadows to provide students with the skill set they need to thrive in a rapidly changing world as citizens of a global society. To learn more about this comprehensive independent school, please visit www.themeadowsschool.org.
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Nationally Televised Special Airs on September 16 and is hosted by Kristen Bell
TAMPA, Fla., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Over the last 100 years, Shriners Children's has provided life-changing care to more than 1.5 million children. To celebrate that legacy, the nonprofit health care organization has partnered with Disney and ABC to create a 30-minute special featuring various patient stories and celebrity surprises called "Miracles, Magic & Milestones." The special will begin airing on Friday, September 16, the date when Shriners Children's opened its first location in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1922.
Hosted by Kristen Bell, the special will air on ABC stations throughout the nation. The show includes appearances by Derek Hough (Dancing with the Stars), Jay Bilas (ESPN), Jayson Tatum (Boston Celtics), and a special appearance by Shriners Children's own celebrity spokespatient, Alec, who co-hosts a portion of the show with Bell.
"The ability that Shriners Children's has to give everyone care, no matter what the insurance, no matter what the cost, that kind of thing is really important for me. It's the humanity behind it all," said Bell. "And, the fact that there are real people who pick up the phone for families when you need something, is important."
The fast-paced program features a number of inspiring Shriners Children's patient stories and looks back at how and why the members of the Shriners International fraternity created the health care organization in the early 1920s. It also covers a diversity of conditions the healthcare system specializes in, including cleft lip and palate, burns, and orthopedic conditions such as scoliosis, amputation and prosthetics, arm and hand differences, and limb-lengthening.
"This television event is our opportunity to share our story with the world – the story of how Shriners Children's has been a driving force in shaping pediatric specialty care for 100 years," said Jerry Gantt, chairman of the Board of Trustees. "Our hope is that by sharing our story with such a large audience, we can help more children in more places."
An important portion of the show highlights how the men of Shriners International saw a need to help children and families in the early part of the 20th century, and the bold steps they took to address it.
"To think what started a century ago not only stands today but has evolved to become one of the most respected healthcare networks in the world is beyond amazing," said Kenny Craven, Imperial Potentate. "It's not only a testament to the dedicated men and women who deliver world-class care in all our facilities across the continent but the countless Shriners themselves who continue to fuel our efforts. Without them, we simply wouldn't have the resources and capabilities available to our patients today. That mission and tireless commitment to supporting the health and well-being of every child requiring specialized medical care is the embodiment of selflessness."
In addition to ABC stations, the special will air multiple times on Freeform, National Geographic, and National Geographic Wild and will be available on streaming apps including Hulu.
About Shriners Children's Shriners Children's has been changing lives every day for 100 years through innovative pediatric specialty care, world-class research, and outstanding medical education. Our health care system provides care for children with orthopedic conditions, burns, spinal cord injuries, and cleft lip and palate. All care and services are provided regardless of the family's ability to pay. Since opening its first location in 1922, the health care system has treated more than 1.5 million children. To learn more, please visit shrinerschildrens.org.
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ST. LOUIS, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Spartech, a leading manufacturer of engineered thermoplastics and custom packaging solutions, announces Royalite® thermoplastic sheet provides permanent protection against electrostatic discharge (ESD). This product line features several material chemistries for manufacturing everything from shipping containers for sensitive software chips and aviation fuel caps to temporary floor material used during avionics assembly.
Spartech's most popular thermoplastic ESD sheet, Royalite® R63, is an ABS/PVC product that is both electrically conductive and fire rated. Containers made from Royalite® R63 thermoplastic sheet provide permanent static protection and the dimensional stability typical of ABS plastics required for today's robotic material handling systems. It is widely used for applications where dissipation of electrostatic charge is critical and provides excellent ESD protection to sensitive devices during manufacture, assembly and storage.
Royalite® R63 combines high stiffness and abrasion resistance with excellent thermoformability and meets the minimum static decay requirements outlined in MIL-B-81705C and NFPA Code 99 specifications. It is recognized under the component program of Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. with a classification of 94V-1 at 0.066".
In addition to Royalite® R63, other available options include Royalite® R632 thermoplastic ESD sheet which is both electrically conductive and UL® listed, Royalite® R64 conductive sheet is a high molecular weight high density polyethylene for excellent thermoformability, Royalite® R637 which is both an anti-static and high impact polystyrene sheet, Royalite® R607 is an internal anti-stat applied to PETG rolls, and Royalite® R608 which is a topical anti-stat applied to PETG rolls with many uses such as electronics packaging for controlling static build-up and where clarity needs to be maintained.
Royalite® is available in several thermoformable thermoplastic ESD material chemistries, depending upon the specific application, and can be specifically designed to comply with FDA Food Additive Regulation 21CFR177.1640 for rubber modified polystyrene. In most cases, using conventional plastic fabricating tools, it is possible to machine, saw, drill, rout and grind this rigid sheet material.
Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri with a unique innovation center and 17 manufacturing facilities located throughout the United States, Spartech is a leading plastics manufacturer of engineered thermoplastic materials and specialty packaging products. Meeting exact standards for everything from food packaging to aerospace and automotive applications, Spartech continues to make a world of difference with sustainable, diverse, reliable, and innovative products including UltraTuf®, Royalite®, Korad®, PreservaPak®, and Polycast® https://spartech.com
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PHOENIX, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Trinity Capital Inc. (Nasdaq: TRIN) ("Trinity Capital" or the "Company"), a leading provider of diversified financial solutions to growth stage companies, today announced that on September 15, 2022, its Board of Directors declared a cash dividend of $0.60 per share with respect to the quarter ending September 30, 2022, consisting of a regular quarterly dividend of $0.45 per share and a supplemental cash dividend of $0.15 per share. This dividend represents an increase of 5.3% over the dividend declared in the prior quarter.
The Company's Board of Directors previously expressed the intent to declare a supplemental cash dividend of $0.15 per share in the fourth quarter of 2022 for a total of supplemental cash dividends equal to $0.60 per share in 2022, subject to Board of Director approval.
This supplemental dividend will be paid out of Trinity Capital's undistributed taxable income (taxable income in excess of dividends paid) as of December 31, 2021.
The following are key dates for the regular and new supplemental dividend for the quarter ending June 30, 2022:
Summary of Second Quarter 2022 Regular and Supplemental Dividend:
The Company's objective is to distribute four quarterly dividends in an amount that approximates 90% to 100% of its taxable quarterly income or potential annual income for a particular year in order to qualify for tax treatment as a regulated investment company under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. In addition, during any particular year, the Company may pay additional supplemental dividends, so that the Company distributes approximately all its annual taxable income in the year it was earned, or it may spill over the excess taxable income into the coming year for future dividend payments.
Dividends are paid from taxable earnings and may include a return of capital and/or capital gains. The specific tax characteristics of the dividends will be reported to stockholders on Form 1099-DIV after the end of the calendar year and in the Company's periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
About Trinity Capital Inc.
Trinity Capital Inc. (Nasdaq: TRIN and TRINL), an internally managed business development company, is a leading provider of diversified financial solutions to growth-stage companies with institutional equity investors. Trinity Capital's investment objective is to generate current income and, to a lesser extent, capital appreciation through investments, including term loans and equipment financings and equity-related investments. Trinity Capital believes it is one of only a select group of specialty lenders that has the depth of knowledge, experience and track record in lending to growth stage companies. For more information, please visit the Company's website at www.trinitycap.com.
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DELRAY BEACH, Fla., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- UpHealth's Transformations Treatment Center has been ranked number six in Newsweek's list of America's Best Addiction Treatment Centers 2022, in Florida, up from a number eight ranking last year.
This prestigious award is presented annually by Newsweek and Statista Inc., the world-leading statistics portal and industry ranking provider. The America's Best Addiction Treatment Centers 2022 list highlights the nation's top facilities based on quality of service, reputation and accreditation relative to in-state competition.
"We're extremely pleased that the dedication and expertise of the skilled professionals at Transformations Treatment Center has been recognized again this year," said Sam Meckey, CEO of UpHealth, Inc. "Newsweek's ranking is among the most important industry recognitions in the country, and it serves as an important validation our program and its unique approach."
Transformations Treatment Center, in Delray Beach, is one of almost a thousand treatment centers in Florida. The rankings feature the top 330 inpatient/residential and long-term addiction treatment centers in the state. The Newsweek evaluation process was comprised of three criteria:
- Recommendations from Peers: Thousands of medical experts -- therapists, counselors, medical doctors, administration and staff working in addiction treatment facilities -- were invited to an online peer-to-peer survey.
- Quality Score: Participants were also asked to rank the quality dimensions which influence the quality of rehabilitation facilities.
- Accreditation Score: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) provides data for addiction treatment centers. Specifically, SAMSHA lists accreditations relevant to addiction treatment centers.
Said Lisa Fluxman, executive vice president of Transformations Treatment Center, "The hallmark of Transformations Treatment Center are our passionate staff who deeply care about the success and outcomes of our clients. We have created specialized and individualized programs for substance abuse and emotional health disorders. We're known for our excellent diagnostics, assessments and treatment planning and our relentless commitment to helping our patients get on the road to long-term recovery."
"The team at Transformations is immensely grateful for this recognition."
For more information on Newsweek's ranking of America's Best Addiction Treatment Centers 2022, see https://www.newsweek.com/rankings/americas-best-addiction-treatment-centers-2022/florida
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UpHealth is a global digital health company that delivers digital-first technology, infrastructure, and services to dramatically improve how healthcare is delivered and managed. UpHealth's solutions holistically enable clients to deliver on their affordability, access, quality, outcomes, and patient experience goals. UpHealth's technology platform helps its clients improve access, coordinate care teams, and achieve better patient outcomes at lower cost, with care management solutions, analytics, and telehealth tools that serve patients wherever they are, in their native language. Additionally, UpHealth's technology-enabled virtual care infrastructure and services improves access to quality primary and acute care, behavioral health, and pharmacy services. UpHealth's clients include health plans, global governments, healthcare providers and community-based organizations.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Parallaxes Capital Management ("Parallaxes") is an alternative asset manager and, since 2017, has raised four funds dedicated to Tax Receivable Agreements ("TRAs"). As the market leader in monetizing TRAs, Parallaxes is dedicated to increasing the visibility and transparency of TRAs which remain an often overlooked and misunderstood asset class. In the vein of creating greater visibility into the TRA ecosystem, Parallaxes is pleased to share a notable development in the market as Athlon Energy, Inc. ("Athlon") terminated its TRA.
Athlon disclosed that after having been acquired by Encana Corporation ("Encana"), Encana will be making an aggregate cash payment of approximately $25 million to TRA holders to satisfy obligations under the TRA. The Athlon TRA provided for the payment of 85% of the net cash tax savings realized from certain tax attributes, including savings from (i) increases in tax basis and certain other tax benefits related to exchanges of subsidiary units and (ii) payments under the TRA.
Parallaxes views TRAs, including the Athlon TRA, as a valuable tool to reduce certain moral hazard problems and informational asymmetry inherent in a company's public offering. TRAs help ensure that pre-IPO owners are economically aligned with new public shareholders and incentivize pre-IPO owners to pursue an IPO structure that provides the company with ongoing tax benefits. Parallaxes anticipates enhanced awareness and understanding of TRAs will drive increased market adoption.
Parallaxes Capital Management ("Parallaxes") is the premier investment firm focused exclusively on monetizing Tax Receivable Agreements ("TRAs"). Parallaxes offers private equity sponsors, co-investors and management team members solutions to achieve liquidity, diversification and optionality from their TRAs. Parallaxes was founded in 2017 and is comprised of experienced investment professionals from leading private equity and growth equity firms. To learn more, please visit www.plxcap.com
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Air National Guard’s first female F-35 pilot completes inaugural flight: ‘It’s exciting’
(Gray News) - A female pilot from Kentucky made history earlier this month by piloting an F-35 fighter jet for the Air National Guard.
According to the Air National Guard, 30-year-old 1st Lt. Kelsey Flannery marked her first flight as a Vermont Air National Guard member on Sept. 7.
“I really wanted to be on the leading edge,” Flannery said. “It’s exciting to get up there, go fast, and be able to employ weapons, so that was one of the more appealing parts of it.”
Officials said Flannery has been training for three years to pilot the F-35A Lightning II.
The 30-year-old daughter of an Air Force pilot said she always knew she wanted to fly for the military.
After considering active duty, Flannery said she learned about the opportunities in the Air National Guard and being selected by Vermont to fly the F-35 was “icing on the cake.”
Flannery said the topic of her being the first female in the Air National Guard to pilot an F-35 never came up throughout the three-year process of becoming the latest pilot in the 134th Fighter Squadron.
“There’s definitely been a trail blazed already. I’m really grateful to the women who have done that, but nobody has brought it up, and I feel very much like an equal here,” Flannery said. “People just treat me like a wingman, and it’s great as it allows me to focus more on flying.”
Capt. Jake Dubie, an instructor pilot in the 134th Fighter Squadron, said Flannery did great on her first flight in Vermont.
“Never had to worry about her up in the air,” he said. “She did an awesome job, so it was definitely a lot of fun.”
According to Dubie, the goals laid out for Flannery are to be the best fighter pilot she can be and be someone who can be trusted in the air.
Flannery said she is excited to be part of the 134th Fighter Squadron as it has a strong reputation in the fighter community and a history that dates back to World War II.
“The heritage here goes back so many decades, and it’s so important that we retain that heritage,” Flannery said.
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Ronceverte Kroger looks to once again lead district in annual peanut butter drive
BECKLEY, W.Va. (WVVA) - In 2021, the Ronceverte Kroger outperformed the 15 other stores in its regional division when it came to the annual “Spread the Love” peanut butter drive.
Every fall, jars of peanut butter are collected in Kroger stores across the Mid-Atlantic region and then donated to local food banks in partnership with Feeding America. This is the fourth year the drive has been held, and last year 272,000 jars were collected.
The Ronceverte store donated more than $10,000 in peanut butter in 2021. Store Leader Joseph Hanson says they hope to hang on to the top spot again this year.
“Every Associate is just super excited to be a part of this program, to engage our customers, again to engage with the community and just sell as much peanut butter as we can,” he said. “This year, our goal is $15,000, and we are super excited to get back in the contest and really make a difference in our communities.”
Libby Morgan has worked at Kroger for 40 years. She says the peanut butter drive is her favorite in-store event.
“I love doing the peanut butter drive. Everybody gets excited about it. All the customers do. I’ve had all great customers.”
In addition to employee participation, Hanson says his store wouldn’t be able to sell thousands of jars for the drive without community support.
“It’s always nice to see local residents just contribute to something that’s bigger than them if that makes sense. Just helping each other and helping the area, I think, for not only our associates but our customers as well.”
On Thursday morning alone, the store had sold nearly 500 jars.
The 2022 “Spead the Love” peanut butter drive kicked off on Wednesday, September 14, and concludes on October 11.
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Veteran NY judge named as arbiter in Trump Mar-a-Lago probe
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday appointed a veteran New York jurist to serve as an independent arbiter and review records seized during an FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida home last month.
In her order, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon refused a Justice Department request to lift her temporary prohibition on the department’s use of the roughly 100 classified records that were taken during the Aug. 8 search. She also granted the newly named special master, Raymond Dearie, access to the entire tranche of documents seized from the property even though the department had said the arbiter shouldn’t be permitted to inspect the batch of classified records.
The Justice Department is expected to contest the judge’s order to a federal appeals court. It had given Cannon until Thursday to put on hold her order barring the continued review of classified records, and said it would ask the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to intervene if she did not do so then.
A Justice Department spokesman did not immediately return a message Thursday evening.
The selection of Dearie, a former federal prosecutor who for years served as the chief judge of the federal court based in Brooklyn, came after both the Justice Department and Trump’s lawyers made clear that they would be satisfied with his appointment as a so-called special master.
In that role, Dearie will be responsible for reviewing the documents taken during the search of Mar-a-Lago and segregating out any that may be covered by claims of privilege. It is not clear how long the work will take but the special master process has already delayed the investigation, with Cannon directing the Justice Department to temporarily pause core aspects of its probe.
The Justice Department is investigating the hoarding of top-secret materials and other classified documents at the Florida property after Trump left office. The FBI says it recovered more than 11,000 documents from the home during its search, including roughly 100 with classification markings.
Trump’s lawyers had asked last month for a judge to name a special master to do an independent review of the records and segregate any that may be covered by claims of executive privilege or attorney-client privilege. The Justice Department argued the appointment was unnecessary, saying it had already done its own review and Trump had no right to raise executive privilege claims that ordinarily permit the president to withhold certain information from the public and Congress.
Cannon, a Trump appointee, disagreed and directed both sides to name potential candidates for the role. She also ordered the Justice Department to halt its review of the documents for investigative purposes until “further Court order” or until the special master completes their review.
The Trump team recommended either Dearie or a Florida lawyer for the job. The Justice Department said that, in addition to the two retired judges whose names it submitted, it would also be satisfied with a Dearie appointment.
Dearie served as the top federal prosecutor for the Eastern District of New York from 1982 to 1986, at which point he was appointed to the federal bench by then-President Ronald Reagan. He has also served on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which authorizes Justice Department wiretap applications in investigations involving suspected agents of a foreign power.
He took senior status in 2011, but the Justice Department has said he remains active and had indicated to officials that he was available for the position and could work expeditiously if appointed to it.
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Associated Press writers Michael Balsamo and Zeke Miller in Washington contributed to this report.
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Sniper denied parole, 20 years after terrorizing D.C. area
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia has denied parole to convicted sniper killer Lee Boyd Malvo, ruling that he is still a risk to the community two decades after he and his partner terrorized the Washington, D.C., region with a series of random shootings.
Malvo was 17 when he and John Allen Muhammad shot and killed 10 people and wounded three others over a three-week span in October 2002. Multiple other victims were shot and killed across the country in the prior months as the duo made their way to the nation’s capital region from Washington state.
Malvo was convicted of capital murder in Virginia and sentenced to life in prison without parole. But a series of Supreme Court rulings and a change in Virginia law gave Malvo the opportunity to seek parole after serving nearly 20 years in custody.
The Virginia Parole Board rejected his request on Aug. 30, finding that Malvo remains a risk to the community and should serve more of his sentence before being released on parole, state records of Parole Board decisions for August show.
“Release at this time would diminish seriousness of crime; Serious nature and circumstances of your offense(s),” the Parole Board wrote.
Malvo’s accomplice, John Allen Muhammad, was executed in Virginia in 2009. Malvo, now 37, was sentenced to life without parole for the three Virginia killings. But after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that mandatory life sentences for juveniles are unconstitutional, two federal courts found that Malvo was entitled to new sentencing hearings. The Virginia legislature also passed a law in 2020 that gave juvenile offenders an opportunity to seek parole after serving 20 years.
Malvo was a 15-year-old from Jamaica who had been sent to live in Antigua when he met the much older Muhammad. Muhammad trained and indoctrinated Malvo, and in 2002 the pair embarked on a nationwide killing spree that ended with the 10 slayings in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia.
Trial testimony indicated the shootings were a plan for Muhammad to regain custody of his children by killing his ex-wife and making her death appear to be a result of random violence.
Malvo is serving his sentence at the super maximum-security Red Onion State Prison in Virginia.
Even if Malvo had been granted parole in Virginia, he also received a life prison sentence in Maryland for crimes in the neighboring state. Last month, Maryland’s highest court ruled that Malvo must be resentenced for his crimes there.
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Seen here is an aerial view of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate on August 10, in Palm Beach, Florida. A Brooklyn-based federal judge was selected on September 15 to review the materials seized from Mar-a-Lago.
Seen here is an aerial view of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate on August 10, in Palm Beach, Florida. A Brooklyn-based federal judge was selected on September 15 to review the materials seized from Mar-a-Lago.
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A truck displaying pro-Trump flags is drives past Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, the home of former President Donald Trump, on August 9.
A Brooklyn-based federal judge was selected on Thursday to serve as an independent arbiter to review the materials seized in the FBI's search of former President Donald Trump's Florida home.
The special master will be Senior Judge Raymond Dearie, who was put forward as a possible candidate for the special master role by Trump, who had sued in court to obtain the review. The Justice Department also endorsed Dearie's appointment.
US District Judge Aileen Cannon also rejected the Justice Department's bid to revive its criminal investigation into classified documents seized at Mar-a-Lago last month. The denial sets the stage for the department's dispute with Trump over the search to move quickly to an appeals court and potentially the US Supreme Court.
Cannon gave the special master a deadline of November 30 to finish his review of potentially privileged documents. The schedule puts the review ending after the midterm congressional elections -- essentially guaranteeing the Mar-a-Lago investigation will move slowly for the next two months, unless a higher court steps in.
Appointed by Reagan, Dearie takes center stage
Dearie sits on the district court for the Eastern District of Brooklyn, where he has taken senior status -- meaning his workload has been lightened significantly as he nears the end of his time on the federal bench.
He was appointed as a judge by Ronald Reagan in 1986 and was for a time the chief judge of the Brooklyn-based district court. He also served a seven-year term, concluding in 2019, on the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
In his role as a FISA judge, Dearie was one of the judges who approved one of the Justice Department's request to surveil former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page, as part of the federal inquiry into Russia 2016 election interference.
The department's process for securing FISA warrants for Page was riddled with errors and sloppiness, a DOJ inspector general review later found. The IG's review pointed to omissions and mistakes in the FBI's court filings supporting the FISA applications, including in filings submitted to Dearie.
Trump has railed against how the FISA warrants against Page were obtained, making his recommendation of Dearie to review the Mar-a-Lago search notable. Legal observers across the ideological spectrum, including vocal Trump critics, also backed the choice.
More than 100 documents marked as classified seized
Trump filed the lawsuit seeking the special master two weeks after the Justice Department executed the search on his Florida residence and resort. Prosecutors are investigating at least three potential crimes: violations of the Espionage Act, illegal handling of government records and obstruction of justice.
During the search, according to court filings, investigators seized more than 100 documents marked as classified, which were obtained after Trump's representatives were served a subpoena in May demanding they return to the government all such documents. When the FBI traveled to Mar-a-Lago in June to collect the documents, one of his lawyers signed a certification asserting the subpoena had been complied with.
Trump, in his filings in the special master case, argued that his constitutional rights had teen trampled upon with the August 8 search, though Cannon herself had previously said she did not agree that the judicially authorized search amounted to a "callous disregard" of the former President's rights.
According to her order on September 5 initially granting Trump's request for a special master review, Cannon decided it was necessary to bolster public trust in the search and because Trump, as a former president, faced increased risks of reputational harm if an indictment was wrongfully brought against him.
Trump claimed on Hugh Hewitt's radio show Thursday that he declassified the government records that were taken to Mar-a-Lago, but that's not an argument that he's made in any legal setting.
This story has been updated with additional details.
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CUTE: Curious otter goes ‘ape’ over new friend
(CNN) – An otter was caught on camera going ape over a gibbon at a Chicago-area zoo.
Is it the beginning of a beautiful interspecies relationship?
The otters were being introduced to their new habitat at the Brookfield Zoo. It’s a habitat that’s home to small apes called gibbons. The gibbons live above in the treetops, while the otters are below in the water.
A 10-month-old pup went right up to Neubo, an 8-year-old male gibbon, and began sniffing his underarm area. He seemed especially intrigued by Neubo’s feet.
The curators of primates said this intermingling of species probably wouldn’t happen in the wild where other species represent a threat.
Otters are known as curious, intelligent and gregarious animals.
Tim Sullivan, the curator of primates at the Brookfield Zoo, witnessed the meeting.
“He was just kind of watching cautiously but was very comfortable with the otter kind of investigating him, smelling the hair on his chest,” Sullivan said.
Otters are tactile creatures. A different video showing them holding hands at the Vancouver Aquarium became a hit on the internet.
A couple of aquariums even put holes in their plexiglass so that otters and humans can do some interspecies handholding of their own.
For the otter and gibbon, it was a series of pecks, resembling kisses, that finally caused the gibbon to swing away. Apparently, he’s not that kind of swinger.
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FedEx to close stores, put off hiring as demand slumps
(AP) - FedEx said Thursday it is shuttering storefronts and corporate offices while putting off new hires in a belt-tightening drive brought on by drop-off in its global package delivery business.
The company based in Memphis, Tennessee, warned it will likely miss Wall Street’s profit target for its fiscal first quarter that ended Aug. 31. And it said it expects business conditions to further weaken in the current quarter amid weaker global volume.
Its stock fell more than 16% in after-hours trading following the announcement.
“Global volumes declined as macroeconomic trends significantly worsened later in the quarter, both internationally and in the U.S.,” FedEx CEO Raj Subramaniam said in a statement. “We are swiftly addressing these headwinds, but given the speed at which conditions shifted, first-quarter results are below our expectations.”
The company’s FedEx Express business was particularly hurt by challenges in Europe and weaker economic trends in Asia, which led to a roughly $500 million revenue shortfall for the segment. FedEx Ground revenue, meanwhile, came in about $300 million below the company’s forecasts.
High operating expenses were also a drag on the company’s results, FedEx said.
In response, it said it will cut costs by closing over 90 FedEx Office locations and five corporate offices, deferring new hires and operating fewer flights.
The company scrapped its forecast for its earnings in its current fiscal year that it had issued less than three months ago.
For the three months ended Aug. 31, FedEx now projects adjusted earnings per share of $3.44 and $23.2 billion in revenue. That’s below analysts’ consensus forecast of $5.14 adjusted earnings per share and $23.6 billion in revenue, according to FactSet.
Subramaniam noted that he remains confident FedEx will achieve its fiscal year 2025 financial targets.
For the current quarter, which ends in November, FedEx expects revenue to range between $23.5 billion and $24 billion, and adjusted earnings per share of at least $2.75. Wall Street analysts had expected adjusted earnings per share of $5.48 and $24.86 billion in revenue, according to FactSet.
The company still plans to buy back $1.5 billion of its common stock in fiscal 2023. It expects to buy back $1 billion of its common stock during the second quarter.
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US sends new military aid for Ukraine to boost momentum
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration announced Thursday it will send another $600 million in military aid to Ukraine, as the U.S. rushes more weapons to fuel Kyiv’s counteroffensive that has reclaimed large stretches of the embattled country and forced Russian troops to retreat.
The White House said it was the 21st time that the Defense Department has pulled weapons and other equipment off the shelves to deliver to Ukraine.
The package will include more of the same types of ammunition and equipment that have helped Ukrainian forces beat back the Russian forces in portions of the east and south.
“With admirable grit and determination, the people of Ukraine are defending their homeland and fighting for their future,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.
“The capabilities we are delivering are carefully calibrated to make the most difference on the battlefield and strengthen Ukraine’s hand at the negotiating table when the time is right,” he said in a statement.
The decision to move on new aid quickly — on the heels of a nearly $2.9 billion infusion of aid and financing support announced last week and more than $3 billion announced in late August — underscore the U.S. intent to ensure that Ukraine can sustain its stunning counterattack that was launched early this month.
That most recent funding included $2.2 billion in long-term military financing announced that Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced during a visit to Ukraine last week, and a $675 million weapons package announced by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in Europe that same day.
The $2.2 billion that Blinken announced in Kyiv is for Ukraine and 18 of its neighbors, including NATO members and regional security partners, that are potentially at risk of future Russian aggression, the U.S. said.
Moscow’s recent rout in northeast Ukraine was its largest military defeat since the withdrawal of Russian troops from areas near Kyiv more than five months ago.
The latest package of weapons systems brings the total amount of U.S. aid to Ukraine to nearly $15.9 billion since President Joe Biden took office.
U.S. officials watching the counteroffensive have been careful not to declare a premature victory, noting that Russia still has substantial troops and resources. And they are wary of what Russian President Vladimir Putin may do to turn the tide.
But U.S. leaders also have made clear that the precision weapons and rocket systems provided by the U.S. and allies — including the High-Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or HIMARS, and the High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile, or HARM — have been key to the dramatic shift in momentum.
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In the chaos of a squalid migrant camp in Del Rio, Texas, last year, Esther was desperate. Her 15-month-old son was sick and hungry.
There wasn't enough food in the camp, so she went back across the river to Mexico to buy some. When she tried to return to the camp on the Texas side of the river, Esther says, she was threatened by Border Patrol officers on horseback.
"There were horses, and the way they were talking to us, asking questions and riding up to us, telling us, 'Go back to Mexico. Go back to Mexico,'" she said by phone in Haitian Creole through an interpreter.
Photographs and video of Border Patrol agents on horseback trying to corral a crowd of Black migrants sparked outrage all the way up to the White House.
Nearly a year later, some of those Haitian migrants have found their way to safety in the United States — but thousands more have not. And advocates say no one has been held accountable for how they were treated by immigration authorities in the camp in Del Rio, or in the months since.
Esther is not the woman's real name, but NPR is using it because that's how she's identified in a lawsuit filed last year on behalf of a group of Haitian migrants who were in Del Rio. Like many of the migrants, Esther says she traveled there from Chile, where she'd been living with her husband and son.
She was among roughly 15,000 Haitian migrants who crossed the border illegally within a few days of each other last September and found themselves confined in a squalid camp on the banks of the Rio Grande.
Esther says she tried to get medical treatment for her son, who was suffering from fever and diarrhea, in the Del Rio camp. But she says medical staff there gave her only water and syrup that didn't seem to help.
The incident involving Border Patrol agents on horseback prompted an internal investigation by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
"Not everyone's going to like all the findings," said CBP commissioner Chris Magnus when he announced the findings at a news conference in July, "but the investigation was comprehensive and fair."
Investigators found no evidence that the agents on horseback struck any migrants with their horses' reins, "intentionally or otherwise." But their report concludes that some officers on horseback used "unnecessary" force and verbally abused the migrants.
"There is no justification for the actions of some of our personnel, including unprofessional and deeply offensive conduct," Magnus said at the time.
A disciplinary review board recommended action against four Border Patrol agents, Magnus said, although no details about their punishment have been announced.
But Haitian migrants and their advocates say that report is not credible, because investigators didn't talk to a key group of witnesses: the migrants themselves.
"I was shocked when I received word that the report was coming out and when I read the findings," said Nicole Phillips, the legal director of Haitian Bridge Alliance.
The organization, along with other advocacy groups including the Justice Action Center, is suing the Biden administration on behalf of Esther and other migrants.
CBP investigators included filings from that lawsuit as an exhibit in their 500-page report. But Phillips says they never contacted or interviewed the migrants directly.
Phillips says the official report contains some important inaccuracies. For example, she says, Border patrol agents did strike migrants with their horses' reins. She's also disappointed that investigators focused only on the incident with the horse patrols, while basically ignoring the squalid conditions in the camp.
"There was no investigation into that," she said. "The lack of food, the lack of water, the lack of medical care. And that's what's also really disappointing."
In the confusion at Del Rio, several thousand migrants were released directly into the United States. Thousands more were deported to Haiti, including two of Esther's sisters, who had also been in the camp.
Once Esther and her husband understood what was happening, they had to make a choice. They could still try to ask for asylum in the United States. But they didn't want to risk being deported to Haiti, where she said her life had been threatened because of her family's political connections.
"What we were thinking was we couldn't go back to Haiti because of the problems we knew were happening in Haiti," she said. "I didn't want to get deported, and that's why we chose to go back to Mexico."
Esther and her family decided to cross the river back into Mexico, where they received medical treatment for their son, as well as legal help. Months later, they were allowed into the United States to seek asylum. They're now in Florida, living with her husband's family.
But they know that many other Haitians weren't so lucky. The United States has deported more than 20,000 people back to Haiti since last September, though the pace of deportation flights has declined sharply since June.
"That was hard really because when you think about all the effort you made to get there and it's just gone," said a man who's identified as Jacques in the lawsuit against the Biden administration.
Jacques was also in Del Rio last year, hoping to apply for asylum. Instead he was deported back to Haiti. Now he's hiding in the countryside to avoid the gang that drove him to leave the country in the first place, and says he only travels at night to avoid attention.
"Day by day things are getting worse," he said by phone in Haitian Creole through an interpreter. "When you think things are getting better, things get worse. But, you know, we have to be resilient because there is nothing else we can do. We can just be cautious."
Jacques says he's just trying to survive until he can find a way to get out of Haiti again.
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Cheryl Notman, left, a member from Epsilon Chapter Alpha Delta Kappa, awards Rock Springs resident Saydee Willson a $500 scholarship check to help continue her studies in education.
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ROCK SPRINGS -- Members of Epsilon Chapter Alpha Delta Kappa, an honorary teachers’ organization, met Sept. 10, at the home of Joy Christain. Christain, Edna Larsen and Susan Magnuson served as hostesses for the regularly scheduled business meeting. The meeting marked the beginning of a new biennium with various members assuming new duties as officers and committee chairmen.
President Marguerite Russold conducted several items of business following the summer hiatus in meetings, including presenting Misty Walker with her badge after her recent initiation into the organization.
Members learned that Epsilon Chapter received the Seven Pearl status for the past year. Seven Pearl chapters must complete seven steps including timely completion of all forms, attendance at various state and regional functions, and initiating new members.
Mendi Maes explained the World Understanding project entitled Project C.H.E.A.R. The acronym stands for (Making a) Children’s Home with Education and Agriculture a Reality. Located in Babati, Tanzania, the international project will raise money to build dormitories, classrooms, a library and media center, a kitchen, and offices. There will be an area for gardening and fruit trees where children will learn skills to be self-sufficient.
Over the summer, the chapter scholarship was awarded to Saydee Willson. The scholarship, in the amount of five hundred dollars, will help Willson continue her education in the pursuit of an elementary education degree.
State President and Epsilon member Joy Christain discussed her theme of “Sharing the Joy of Alpha Delta Kappa.” Christain also explained her state altruistic project, which is raising money to help support the Giving Pack Program organized by students at Rock Springs High School. The program provides weekend meals and snacks to students whose families are in need. Christain also invited members to the fall training which will be held September 17th.
Christain and Magnuson also spoke about their trip to Hawaii this past summer to attend the Northwest/Southwest Regional Conference.
At the conclusion of the meeting, Mendi Maes won the raffle basket. The funds raised each month for the raffle are used to finance the chapter scholarship.
The next meeting will be held Oct. 1, at the home of Dena Lyon. Members will celebrate Founders’ Day at that time. Additional members present included Kari Lowinske, Mariah Castro, Paula Mahaffey, Janelle Parton, Alissa Ekdahl, Cheryl Notman, Amanda Buel, Candace Foster.
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In recent months, as the monkeypox virus swept through Europe, the Americas and parts of Asia, researchers discovered a puzzling trend: A large proportion of monkeypox cases have been occurring in people with HIV.
A new paper, published last week in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly, reviews 2,000 monkeypox cases in the first two months of the U.S. outbreak and finds that nearly 40% are in people with HIV. That tracks with what health authorities from the European CDC and the World Health Organization have reported – their data show that around 37-45% of reported cases have been identified in people living with HIV.
So why are there so many monkeypox patients with HIV? Health experts have an initial thought to answer that question and then three theories on key contributing factors – with a leading contender among them.
The first thing to consider, says a co-author of the paper, is that the current monkeypox outbreak is largely concentrated among the population of men who have sex with men – "gay, bisexual, same gender-loving," says Dr. John T. Brooks, chief medical officer for the CDC's monkeypox outbreak response. And that's the population that's already at risk for HIV.
But that alone doesn't explain the high rate, says Brooks. In the U.S., for example, 23% of men who have sex with men are estimated to be living with HIV – but among the 2,000 monkeypox patients whose data was analyzed in the study, 38% had HIV. "This fraction of [monkeypox cases in people with] HIV "is pretty extraordinary," he says.
Theory #1: Monkeypox is circulating in the same social and sexual networks where HIV spreads
What's likely the biggest contributing factor, say the researchers, has to do with sexual networks. Monkeypox, like HIV, spreads through sexual contact, and it's circulating among various networks of gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men.
But it's the networks, not necessarily the HIV status, that are critical. "I think it speaks more to the sexual network and less for the serostatus [of being HIV positive]," says Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, deputy coordinator for the White House monkeypox response and a study co-author, "This is the social and sexual network [where] we're seeing monkeypox infections happening."
Others agree. "The early spread of monkeypox was associated with ... cultural events – parties and celebrations that involved sexual networks" among gay and bisexual men, says Dr. Melanie Thompson, an HIV physician and researcher in Atlanta. People returning from parties abroad seeded early monkeypox cases in U.S., where monkeypox has continued to spread from person-to-person "almost exclusively" through sexual contact, according to the CDC.
"You only have to have sex, or be sexually active, with one person to get monkeypox," Thompson says, but the risk of getting monkeypox is currently magnified in the population of men who have sex with men, where more monkeypox is circulating than in the general population.
Another statistic noted by the researchers is that 41% of monkeypox patients in the study population had a recent history of other sexually transmitted infections, such as chlamydia, gonorrhea or syphilis. This is a significant finding, says Brooks: "It speaks to the fact that this is a population that is sexually active, and through close, intimate contact – in this case, what appears to be sexual contact – are at risk for acquiring monkeypox," Brooks says.
What it means is that monkeypox, HIV and sexually transmitted infections have overlapping risk factors, and doctors should look out for all of them, says Brooks: "If you diagnose someone with monkeypox, you should be screening for HIV as well as sexually transmitted infections. Conversely, among persons at risk for HIV and sexually transmitted infections who are seeking care, you need to think monkeypox and consider evaluating folks for that."
Theory #2: Maybe HIV's impact on the immune system leads to more infections?
It's an open question: "Is there something about having and living with HIV that increases your risk for acquiring monkeypox?" says Dr. Boghuma Titanji, an infectious diseases physician and a virologist at Emory University, noting that HIV changes the immune system in ways that could increase a person's risk of contracting any infections in general.
Many of the monkeypox patients with HIV patients with monkeypox in the CDC study have well-controlled infections – most had received HIV treatment in the past year and 82% were virally suppressed, meaning they had low to no detectable levels of HIV in their blood. That leads, leading to Titanji to wonder whether there's an elevated risk for HIV patients in general and not just those that aren't receiving treatments.
The study also found that 8% of monkeypox patients with HIV were hospitalized – somewhat higher than the 3% rate of hospitalization for those without HIV. Still, it's not clear from the data whether they were more likely to have severe cases or if their doctors were being cautious, says Brooks. "We have no signal whatsoever right now that people who have well-controlled HIV are doing any worse than any other person who was diagnosed with monkeypox," he says, "People with HIV [in the study] were generally receiving excellent care and doing well."
Still, monkeypox can be very dangerous for patients who have untreated HIV, Titanji says – who are often seriously immunocompromised and may also be more likely to delay care, especially if they lack access to health insurance or high-quality care.
Theory #3: HIV patients may see doctors more often so monkeypox cases are more readily identified
Another reason why HIV patients are overrepresented among monkeypox cases could be "detection bias," says Brooks. In other words, someone who's living with HIV and taking medications for it probably sees a doctor regularly – and their doctor may be clued in to look for monkeypox.
"This is the group of care providers who initially were willing to take care of people with HIV," says Thompson, "Whereas many providers, unfortunately, have been unwilling to see people with monkeypox, that seems not to be the case among HIV care providers. And so we see in this report that a very high proportion of people with HIV are actually linked to care," which may mean they're able to get tested and treated at the first sign of a suspicious rash.
Still, the fact that the high rates of HIV among monkeypox patients show up not just in the U.S., but "across the board" in patients in different health care systems in Europe and around the world, suggests there's a pattern that extends beyond detection bias, says Titanji.
Final note: Given these possible reasons, what's the next step?
Identifying the trend [of a high rate of monkeypox in the HIV positive population] is just "the tip of the iceberg. It raises a lot of questions," Titanji says.
Even though behavior seems to be the key cause, there's not enough information yet to figure out how much each factor contributes to the trend, Brooks and Thompson say.
Even so, knowing that monkeypox and HIV are linked in some way can help steer resources to where they could have the greatest impact. Daskalakis, with the White House response, says they're sharing monkeypox guidance and sending vaccines to HIV clinics through the federally funded Ryan White HIV/AIDS program, which he says provides medical care and support to around half of people living with HIV in the U.S. They're also working with funding and education to integrate monkeypox into the streams of care for HIV and STI's, "where it belongs," Daskalakis says.
Future findings will help refine the response. "We're going to learn more as we go along," says Daskalakis. Still, it could take a while to determine how much behavior, biology and bias are driving the trend, or whether there are other contributing factors yet to be considered.
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Dolores M Gunn 1932-Dolores Marcene Gunn (“Teed” or “Dee”) passed away peacefully on September 9th, 2022 in Surprise, Arizona just shy of what would have been her 90th birthday. Dolores was born in Burr Oak, Kansas on October 1, 1932 to Orville Scott and Marguerite Rouse Peters. Dolores graduated from Edgar, Nebraska in 1951, where she excelled as a Cheerleader. Shortly after High School she moved to Denver, Colorado. In Denver, Dolores reconnected with the love of her life, Billy Gunn, who was also from Edgar, Nebraska and the two were married on April 6th, 1952. Dolores eventually became a skilled bookkeeper, while Billy began his career with the Union Pacific Railroad. The railroad allowed them numerous travels and finally settling in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Dolores was an avid golfer, enjoyed playing cards, antiques, making quilts and laughing at funny stories while visiting with her grandchildren. Dolores seemed to be most comfortable on the golf course, whether it be in Cheyenne, Wyoming, Oakley, Kansas or Snow Birding in Arizona. She golfed in nine different states with her sister. Dolores was extremely proud of her grandchildren and great grandchildren, never hesitating to brag on them. She is survived by her daughters, Kelly Belden (Brad) and Kimberly Siler (Jimmy Dean); her sister Sharon Hauschild, five grandchildren: Scott, Jill, Austin, Casey and Caitlin; also four great-grandchildren: Clay, Logan, Emery, Ellie and numerous nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Billy; her son, Scotty; two brothers, Lamar and Lyndall; two step-brothers, Billy and Pete; and a step-sister Mary. Dolores will be laid to rest in Edgar, Nebraska next to her husband Billy and son Scotty. A grave side service will be scheduled in October or November. 2022
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Babysitter charged with murder after child in her care dies, authorities say
CORINTH, Miss. (WMC/Gray News) - Authorities in Mississippi say a babysitter has been arrested in the death of a 2-year-old boy.
According to the Alcorn County Sheriff’s Office, 23-year-old Makallie Durham is facing charges that include capital murder and felony child abuse.
WMC reports deputies were called to a home on County Road 380 in Corinth on Tuesday evening where a 2-year-old boy was found unresponsive and an injured 11-month-old girl.
The sheriff’s office said both children were taken to the Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. However, the boy died, and the girl remained hospitalized.
Investigators found that the two children were in the care of a babysitter, later identified as Durham.
Deputies said Durham also had a misdemeanor warrant out of Corinth.
The sheriff’s office didn’t immediately release the details of what led up to the child’s death that evening.
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Expect to see haze in the sky over the next few days
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - You may have noticed the sky was much more hazy, that’s all thanks to smoke that’s made its way eastward from wildfires out west.
Here’s a look at the current wildfires in the west:
Wildfire smoke in the upper levels of the atmosphere can get transported by the Jetstream. So with a ridge of high pressure setting up over the center of the U.S., that brings the smoke to the Great Lakes, the Ohio Valley and into the Mid-Atlantic.
It’s not going to be low enough where you could smell it, but the sky in the afternoon won’t be a very bright blue, and it will look more hazy. The smoke can also add some more vibrant colors at sunrise and sunset. At times, just looking more unique.
Here’s a look at the smoke forecast for the weekend. The haze should be more noticeable Friday and Saturday. It’s possible we may have some haze into next week. We’ll keep you updated.
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H.S. Volleyball Scoreboard: Thursday, September 15
Published: Sep. 15, 2022 at 9:31 PM EDT|Updated: 9 minutes ago
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - Highlights and scores from high school volleyball matches played Thursday, September 15.
H.S. Volleyball Scoreboard - Thursday, September 15
Spotswood 3, William Monroe 0
Turner Ashby 3, Riverheads 1
Wilson Memorial 3, Staunton 0
Fort Defiance 3, Waynesboro 0
Clarke County 3, Strasburg 0
Central 3, Rappahannock County 2
East Rockingham 3, Luray 2
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SHENZHEN, China, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- From September 15th, Geeetech's new 3D printer THUNDER with up to 300mm/s printing speed is ready for pre-order on Kickstarter. Super early birds will get a bottom price.
High Speed 3D Printing Up to 300mm/s
Most traditional FDM 3D printers limit the printing speed to 100mm/s, but Geeetech THUNDER allows users to print at the speed of 50-300mm/s with acceleration of 5000mm/s² for X-axis and 4000mm/s² for Y-axis. It saves 30%-70% printing time according to the model complexity. It pre-set 4 modes: Slow mode/Normal mode/Fast mode/Crazy mode. THUNDER also enables a User Mode which allows users to set and share their customized parameters.
Innovative Technologies for Achieving Fast Speed Printing
The excellent speed of Geeetech THUNDER is achieved by all-metal construction, X/Y-axis closed-loop control, advanced firmware algorithm, Y-axis damping mechanism, 5 cooling fans, dual CPU control and efficient extrusion system.
The all-metal design increases the weight and reduces the center of gravity of the machine, allowing fast speed and extreme acceleration. THUNDER adopted closed-loop driver. Compared with open-loop driver, closed-loop driver produces greater torque, monitor the printing process intelligently and response in real time,the print is not easy to dislocate. Combined with the dual CPU control, THUNDER is enabled to manage tasks effectively.
Geeetech THUNDER designed a Y-axis damping structure, which intelligently manages the speed changing and largely reduces the vibration rate of the printer, allowing smoother movement for hotbed.
To cope with high speed printing, THUNDER adopted dual-drive gear extruder, large volume nozzle and up to 70W heating rod. For strong cooling, THUNDER designed two high-volume cooling fans besides hotend fan and added two auxiliary part cooling fans to achieve single-layer high-speed printing. These 4 fans can be turned on at the same time to offer strongest cooling.
Price and Availability
The retail price of Geeetech THUNDER is $699. THUNDER has gone through thousands of tests and is currently in mass production. Users can find full specs of THUNDER here. After THUNDER Kickstarter campaign ends, Geeetech will start shipment by early November.
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SEOUL, South Korea, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- J INTS BIO announced the poster presentation of its novel, orally administered 4th generation EGFR-TKI 'JIN-A02' at the ESMO 2022, that showed high potency of JIN-A02 against both cis and trans isomers of C797S mutation. This year's edition of the European Society for Medical Oncology Congress (ESMO 2022) was held in Paris, France from 9th to 13th September.
Even though EGFR-TKI have improved treatment outcomes of patients with EGFR mutant NSCLC, resistance inevitably emerges with disease progression and often with CNS metastasis. C797S mutation is one of the most common on-target resistance mutation after the use of 3rd generation TKIs such as Osimertinib. 'JIN-A02' is a novel 4th generation EGFR-TKI, which is highly selective and potent against C797S double and triple mutations, with high BBB penetrance and intracranial efficacy.
The allelic context in which this C797S mutation is acquired, cis or trans isomers, have significant implications for treatment outcomes. This is especially so when C797S positive tumor are in cis form together with T790M mutation. In such situations, there are no available treatments.
J INTS BIO believes that JIN-A02 will be pivotal in the treatment of patients with EGFR mutant NSCLC harboring C797S double or triple mutations, regardless of allelic context. And the company is expecting the Phase I/IIa clinical study for JIN-A02 to start recruitment before the end of this year.
About J INTS BIO
J INTS BIO is a bio company specialized in developing innovative anti-cancer and orphan drugs to realize the goal of changing lives and improving health for patients around the world. J INTS BIO's teams have prior multi-year experience in multinational pharmaceutical companies and CROs and track records in medical, regulatory affairs, drug discovery and development.
About 'JIN-A02'
'JIN-A02' is a novel orally administered 4th Generation EGFR TKI targeting C797S mutations in NSCLC. Although 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Generation EGFR TKIs have been used with some success, recurrence occurs in most patients including 3rd Generation TKIs such as Osimertinib. Currently, there are no approved therapies for patients who developed EGFR C797S mutations due to the use of 3rd Generation EGFR TKIs and with the high propensity of these cancers to metastasize to the brain, there is an urgent need to develop an effective drug with high blood-brain barrier permeability. 'JIN-A02', a novel oral EGFR TKI, which is effective against C797S double and triple mutations and have a high brain penetrance, is therefore expected to become the most promising Best-in-Class 4th-generation EGFR TKI in NSCLC patients with limited or no viable treatment options.
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BEIJING, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- VNET Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: VNET) ("VNET" or the "Company"), a leading carrier- and cloud-neutral Internet data center services provider in China, today announced that Mr. Samuel Yuan-Ching Shen decided to resign from his positions as the Company's Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chairman of Retail IDC Business Group due to personal reasons, and he will remain with the Company as a senior advisor to the senior management. Mr. Jeff Dong, the Company's president, has been appointed to succeed Mr. Shen as the Company's Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately.
Mr. Josh Sheng Chen, Founder and Chairman of VNET, said, "I would like to thank Samuel for his contributions and dedication to our success throughout his tenure. His leadership has been instrumental in driving value and growth for VNET. We look forward to his ongoing guidance in his new role as our senior advisor.
"Meanwhile, I am pleased to welcome Jeff to the executive leadership team. We are confident that Jeff's extensive industry insight and deep investment expertise, acquired over a long and illustrious professional career, will continue to drive our dual-core growth strategy and fuel our ongoing commitment to achieving sustainable growth and long-term shareholder value."
Mr. Jeff Dong has served as president of the Company and chief executive officer of VNET Capital since June 2022. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Dong served as the head of the real assets investment department of Taiping Capital Asset Management, a subsidiary of China Taiping Insurance Group, from June 2020 to June 2022. Mr. Dong has extensive experience in real assets investment in infrastructure, TMT and new energy sectors. Mr. Dong's related experience spans more than 15 years, including over a decade serving in various roles at China Investment Corporation, a sovereign wealth fund of China. Mr. Dong received his Ph.D. from Manchester Business School.
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VNET Group, Inc. is a leading carrier- and cloud-neutral Internet data center services provider in China. VNET provides hosting and related services, including IDC services, cloud services, and business VPN services to improve the reliability, security, and speed of its customers' internet infrastructure. Customers may locate their servers and equipment in VNET's data centers and connect to China's internet backbone. VNET operates in more than 30 cities throughout China, servicing a diversified and loyal base of over 6,500 hosting and related enterprise customers that span numerous industries ranging from internet companies to government entities and blue-chip enterprises to small- to mid-sized enterprises.
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A federal judge in Florida has named Raymond Dearie as special master to review materials seized from former President Donald Trump's Mar-A-Lago estate, denying the Justice Department's request to block the process, in which the government cannot use the materials seized for their criminal investigation until the review is complete.
Dearie, a veteran federal judge, was a candidate proposed by Trump who the Justice Department did not object to. He holds senior status in the Eastern District of New York and was first appointed by Ronald Reagan.
Judge Aileen Cannon, who was appointed by Trump, directed Dearie to issue interim reports and recommendations "as appropriate" during the review, which she ordered to be complete by Nov. 30, closer to the timeline request by the Trump lawyers. The government wanted the review done by mid-October.
The Justice Department had previously stated that they didn't want the special master to have access to classified material, but Cannon has said that request is meritless. But she did say that the court would direct the special master to prioritize the "approximately 100 documents marked as classified."
Cannon also says she's unconvinced with the government's argument that the FBI's criminal investigation into the documents is intertwined with the intelligence community's assessment.
Cannon notes that Trump's team will bear the cost of the professional fees and expenses of the special master and any support staff or expert consultants who are engaged with the process. Trumps team had originally requested the cost be split between them and the government.
The Justice Department has said they will appeal the order for a special master.
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Babysitter charged with murder after child in her care dies, authorities say
CORINTH, Miss. (WMC/Gray News) - Authorities in Mississippi say a babysitter has been arrested in the death of a 2-year-old boy.
According to the Alcorn County Sheriff’s Office, 23-year-old Makallie Durham is facing charges that include capital murder and felony child abuse.
WMC reports deputies were called to a home on County Road 380 in Corinth on Tuesday evening where a 2-year-old boy was found unresponsive and an injured 11-month-old girl.
The sheriff’s office said both children were taken to the Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. However, the boy died, and the girl remained hospitalized.
Investigators found that the two children were in the care of a babysitter, later identified as Durham.
Deputies said Durham also had a misdemeanor warrant out of Corinth.
The sheriff’s office didn’t immediately release the details of what led up to the child’s death that evening.
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CUTE: Curious otter goes ‘ape’ over new friend
(CNN) – An otter was caught on camera going ape over a gibbon at a Chicago-area zoo.
Is it the beginning of a beautiful interspecies relationship?
The otters were being introduced to their new habitat at the Brookfield Zoo. It’s a habitat that’s home to small apes called gibbons. The gibbons live above in the treetops, while the otters are below in the water.
A 10-month-old pup went right up to Neubo, an 8-year-old male gibbon, and began sniffing his underarm area. He seemed especially intrigued by Neubo’s feet.
The curators of primates said this intermingling of species probably wouldn’t happen in the wild where other species represent a threat.
Otters are known as curious, intelligent and gregarious animals.
Tim Sullivan, the curator of primates at the Brookfield Zoo, witnessed the meeting.
“He was just kind of watching cautiously but was very comfortable with the otter kind of investigating him, smelling the hair on his chest,” Sullivan said.
Otters are tactile creatures. A different video showing them holding hands at the Vancouver Aquarium became a hit on the internet.
A couple of aquariums even put holes in their plexiglass so that otters and humans can do some interspecies handholding of their own.
For the otter and gibbon, it was a series of pecks, resembling kisses, that finally caused the gibbon to swing away. Apparently, he’s not that kind of swinger.
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US sends new military aid for Ukraine to boost momentum
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration announced Thursday it will send another $600 million in military aid to Ukraine, as the U.S. rushes more weapons to fuel Kyiv’s counteroffensive that has reclaimed large stretches of the embattled country and forced Russian troops to retreat.
The White House said it was the 21st time that the Defense Department has pulled weapons and other equipment off the shelves to deliver to Ukraine.
The package will include more of the same types of ammunition and equipment that have helped Ukrainian forces beat back the Russian forces in portions of the east and south.
“With admirable grit and determination, the people of Ukraine are defending their homeland and fighting for their future,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.
“The capabilities we are delivering are carefully calibrated to make the most difference on the battlefield and strengthen Ukraine’s hand at the negotiating table when the time is right,” he said in a statement.
The decision to move on new aid quickly — on the heels of a nearly $2.9 billion infusion of aid and financing support announced last week and more than $3 billion announced in late August — underscore the U.S. intent to ensure that Ukraine can sustain its stunning counterattack that was launched early this month.
That most recent funding included $2.2 billion in long-term military financing announced that Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced during a visit to Ukraine last week, and a $675 million weapons package announced by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in Europe that same day.
The $2.2 billion that Blinken announced in Kyiv is for Ukraine and 18 of its neighbors, including NATO members and regional security partners, that are potentially at risk of future Russian aggression, the U.S. said.
Moscow’s recent rout in northeast Ukraine was its largest military defeat since the withdrawal of Russian troops from areas near Kyiv more than five months ago.
The latest package of weapons systems brings the total amount of U.S. aid to Ukraine to nearly $15.9 billion since President Joe Biden took office.
U.S. officials watching the counteroffensive have been careful not to declare a premature victory, noting that Russia still has substantial troops and resources. And they are wary of what Russian President Vladimir Putin may do to turn the tide.
But U.S. leaders also have made clear that the precision weapons and rocket systems provided by the U.S. and allies — including the High-Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or HIMARS, and the High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile, or HARM — have been key to the dramatic shift in momentum.
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ST. LOUIS (KITV4) -- A Hawaii man appeared in a St. Louis courtroom on Wednesday, facing charges of child pornography and cyberstalking.
Prosecutors accuse 31-year-old Gerardo Montes of distributing child pornography online in December 2021. According to investigators, between Dec. 6, 2021 and Jan. 15, 2022, Montes tried to coerce nude photos from a 14-year-old Missouri girl by threatening to post nude photos of her that he had already obtained. He followed through on that threat when she refused to comply, investigators said.
On July 27, Montes was indicted in Missouri on one count of distributing child pornography, one count of attempted production of child pornography, and one count of cyberstalking. He was arrested in Honolulu on July 29 and flown to Missouri on Tuesday, Sept. 13. He pleaded “not guilty” to the charges on Wednesday.
In a detention motion, Assistant U.S. Attorney Kyle T. Bateman said, in addition to the alleged crimes committed against the Missouri teen, Montes is also accused of targeting a 17-year-old in Oklahoma, a 16-year-old in Texas, a 26-year-old in California, a 13-year-old in Hawaii, and other, as-yet-identified minors.
Montes targeted his victims online, in chat rooms or on message boards discussing suicide and depression. He also allegedly posed as a young girl in order to get other young girls to send him sexually explicit material, according to Bateman’s motion.
Matthew has been the digital content manager for KITV4 since September 2021. Matthew is a prolific writer, editor, and self-described "newsie" who's worked in television markets in Oklahoma, California, and Hawaii.
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FILE - In this Friday, Oct. 25, 2019, file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks about "News Tab" at the Paley Center, in New York. For years, Facebook has been in a defensive crouch amid a slew of privacy scandals, antitrust lawsuits and charges that it was letting hate speech and extremism destroy democracy. Early Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021, though, it abruptly pivoted to take the offensive in Australia, where it lowered the boom on publishers and the government with a sudden decision to block news on its platform across the entire country. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is facing another lawsuit: this time for the alleged "wrongful death" of a former employee in 2019.
The family of 70-year-old Rodney Medeiros -- who worked part-time as a security guard at Zuckerberg Ranch in Kilauea -- filed their pre-trial statement this week, giving details of the incident that led to Mederios' death.
They say Medeiros had chest pains when he was forced to walk from his remote beach post onto a steep trail during a storm on Zuckerberg's property.
The family also claims Zuckerberg failed to inform members when Medeiros was taken to the hospital.
The family is suing Zuckerberg for wrongful death, negligence, infliction of severe emotional distress, and punitive damages.
A Chan-Zuckerberg family spokesperson shared the following statement with KITV4 on September 15, 2022:
“Koolau Ranch extends our deepest sympathies to the family of Rodney Medeiros for their tragic loss. Unfortunately there are claims in this filing that simply aren’t true. When notified by employees of the security company that employed Mr. Medeiros that he was in need of assistance, Koolau Ranch personnel immediately called 911 and contacted county emergency personnel who dispatched an ambulance. The Ranch also sent its on-premises medic to the site to provide help. The on-site medic transported Mr. Medeiros, who was conscious and communicative, to the ambulance, which rushed Mr. Medeiros to Wilcox Hospital. One of the security managers from the Ranch went to the hospital to meet Mr. Medeiros and Mr. Medeiros’ cousin as soon as he heard about the incident. It is not accurate to claim that the security manager was told not to inform the family and in fact he was accompanied by a family member at the hospital.”
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Police find large cache of illegal weapons, drugs from cartel in federal bust
YAKIMA, Wash. (Gray News) - Authorities in Washington say they seized multiple illegal weapons and drugs from a cartel in Mexico in a recent bust.
The Yakima Police Department teamed up with the U.S. Homeland Security Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in serving federal search warrants on Sept. 9.
Authorities said while serving a search warrant, they found a large cache of weapons and seized 27 high-powered rifles, nine handguns, and two shotguns.
Special agents said they also found cash, methamphetamine and fentanyl during the operation with search warrants tied to an investigation into the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
Police said the cartel is attempting to operate in Yakama and stealing high-end late model vehicles for use in smuggling drugs throughout the U.S.
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Sun stay alive, beat Aces 105-76 in Game 3 of WNBA Finals
UNCASVILLE, Conn. (AP) — Alyssa Thomas had the first triple-double in WNBA Finals history, and the Connecticut Sun staved off elimination by beating the Las Vegas Aces 105-76 in Game 3 on Thursday night.
Thomas had 16 points, 15 rebounds and 11 assists for the Sun, who have now won all four of their elimination games in these playoffs, topping Dallas on the road in the first round and beating Chicago in Games 4 and 5 to close out that series.
Game 4 of this best-of-five series is Sunday in Connecticut.
Las Vegas got off to a fast start, scoring nine of the first 11 points and forcing Connecticut to call a timeout. That settled the Sun down and they took over, outscoring the Aces 32-10 the rest of the quarter, including 25 of the final 29 points. Connecticut made 14 of its 17 shots in the period and DeWanna Bonner was a big reason why.
She struggled in the first two games of the series, scoring five points total while missing 16 of her 18 shots. She had seven points in the opening 8 minutes on Thursday night and finished with 18. Jonquel Jones led the Sun with 20 points.
Jones, Bonner and Thomas helped Connecticut dominate inside as the Sun set a Finals record with 64 points in the paint while holding Las Vegas to 26.
Connecticut used that advantage to lead 53-34 with 1:44 left in the second quarter before the Aces closed the period by scoring the final nine points, including a buzzer-beating 3-pointer from Kelsey Plum from just inside half-court.
The Sun seized momentum back to start the third quarter, scoring the first five points. Las Vegas couldn’t get closer than six the rest of the game.
Jackie Young scored 22 points and A’ja Wilson added 19 for the Aces.
The victory thwarted Las Vegas’ first attempt at winning the franchise’s inaugural WNBA championship. The team had been in the Finals twice before and got swept in 2008 and 2020.
TRIPLE THREAT
Thomas now has two triple-doubles in her career — both this season. This was the third in WNBA playoff history. Chicago’s Courtney Vandersloot and Houston’s Sheryl Swoopes had the others.
TIP-INS
Former Aces president and coach Bill Laimbeer sat courtside. He took over the franchise when it moved to Las Vegas in 2018 before retiring at the end of last season. Laimbeer was instrumental in assembling the championship roster by drafting Wilson first in 2018 and getting Gray to come to the team last season as a free agent. ... Aces owner Mark Davis sat on the baseline. ... Had the Aces been able to complete the comeback, they would have broken the mark for biggest rally in WNBA Finals history. The New York Liberty came back from 18 down in 1999 against Houston when Teresa Weatherspoon hit a game-winning shot from half-court. Aces coach Becky Hammon was playing for the Liberty in that game.
HONORED
Wilson and Seattle’s Breanna Stewart were unanimous choices for the All-WNBA first team that was announced Thursday. Plum also was on the first team as well as Phoenix’s Skylar Diggins-Smith and Chicago’s Candace Parker. Thomas and Jones were on the second team along with New York’s Sabrina Ionescu, Los Angeles’s Nneka Ogwumike and Minnesota’s Sylvia Fowles.
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BROOMFIELD, Colo., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Gogo Inc. (NASDAQ: GOGO) ("Gogo" or the "Company"), the world's largest provider of broadband connectivity services for the business aviation market, today announced that it has agreed to repurchase 1,500,000 shares of Common Stock owned by affiliates of BlackRock, Inc. ("BlackRock"), in a private transaction, for an aggregate purchase price of $18,345,000, or $12.23 per share (the "Repurchase"). The closing of the Repurchase will take place on or before September 21, 2022. The Repurchase is expected to be funded with cash on hand.
Gogo today also announced that BlackRock inadvertently acquired beneficial ownership of more than 4.9% of Gogo's common stock ("Common Stock"), exceeding the threshold stipulated in Gogo's Section 382 Rights Agreement, dated September 23, 2020 (the "Plan"). On September 15, 2022, pursuant to the Plan and following approval by the Gogo Board of Directors, Gogo requested that BlackRock, as promptly as practicable, divest sufficient shares of Common Stock to take its beneficial ownership below 4.9% (the "Shareholder Rights Plan Request"). Following completion of such requested share divestiture, BlackRock shall be deemed not to be an "Acquiring Person" under the Plan. Based on information provided by BlackRock, Gogo estimates that after the closing of the Repurchase, BlackRock would need to divest another approximately 100,000 shares of Common Stock in order to divest enough shares of Common Stock so as to not be deemed an "Acquiring Person" under the Plan.
Gogo can provide no assurances as to the specific timing and amount of sales by BlackRock or that BlackRock will in fact divest sufficient shares of Common Stock so as to not be deemed an "Acquiring Person" under the Plan.
This press release is neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation of an offer to purchase any securities.
Gogo is the world's largest provider of broadband connectivity services for the business aviation market. We offer a customizable suite of smart cabin systems for highly integrated connectivity, inflight entertainment and voice solutions. Gogo's products and services are installed on thousands of business aircraft of all sizes and mission types from turboprops to the largest global jets, and are utilized by the largest fractional ownership operators, charter operators, corporate flight departments and individuals.
As of June 30, 2022, Gogo reported 2,893 business aircraft flying with Gogo's AVANCE L5 or L3 system installed, 6,654 aircraft flying with its ATG systems onboard, and 4,462 aircraft with narrowband satellite connectivity installed. Connect with us at business.gogoair.com.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the stock of Stitch Fix, Inc. (NASDAQ: SFIX) between December 8, 2020 and March 8, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important October 25, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Stitch Fix securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Stitch Fix class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=8552 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than October 25, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, throughout the Class Period, defendants made numerous false and misleading statements to investors concerning the synergy between the Company's Fix program (where the customer would receive a monthly box of items chosen by a personal stylist) and Freestyle programs (which allowed customers to shop the site for specific products, giving the customer more control over what items they received, but also removing the curation element that differentiated Stitch Fix from other e-retailers) and repeatedly denied claims that the Freestyle program could cannibalize the Company's legacy Fix business. Specifically, Stitch Fix repeatedly assured investors that the Company's Freestyle business was "an additive experience" and "complimentary" to the Fix business, that "the combination of those two things will allow us to address many more types of clients," and that "we see solid growth in both sides of the business." In truth, throughout the Class Period, Stitch Fix concealed the fact that these programs were not complementary or additive. Stitch Fix knew that the Freestyle program would be much preferred to the Company's original Fix model, and that the Freestyle program would inevitably cannibalize the Company's legacy Fix business. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the Stitch Fix class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=8552 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
No Class Has Been Certified. Until a class is certified, you are not represented by counsel unless you retain one. You may select counsel of your choice. You may also remain an absent class member and do nothing at this point. An investor's ability to share in any potential future recovery is not dependent upon serving as lead plaintiff.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of TG Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: TGTX) between January 15, 2020 and May 31, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important September 16, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased TG Therapeutics securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the TG Therapeutics class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=7662 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than September 16, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, throughout the Class Period, defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) clinical trials revealed significant concerns related to the benefit-risk ratio and overall survival data of Ublituximab (an investigational glycoengineered monoclonal antibody for the treatment of B-cell non-hodgkin lymphoma, chronic lymphocytic leukemia ("CLL"), and relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis) and Umbralisib (or UKONIQ, an oral inhibitor of PI3K-delta and CK1-epsilon for the treatment of CLL, marginal zone lymphoma, and follicular lymphoma); (2) accordingly, it was unlikely that TG Therapeutics would be able to obtain U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") approval of the marginal zone lymphoma ("MZL") and follicular lymphoma ("FL") (the "Umbralisib MZL/FL NDA"), the rolling submission of a Biologics License Application ("BLA") to the FDA for Ublituximab in combination with Umbralisib (together, "U2"), as a treatment for patients with CLL (the "U2 BLA"), the supplemental New Drug Application ("sNDA") for Umbralisib to add an indication for CLL and small lymphocytic lymphoma ("SLL") in combination with Ublituximab (the "U2 sNDA"), or the Ublituximab as a treatment for patients with relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis ("RMS") (the "Ublituximab RMS BLA") in their current forms; (3) as a result, TG Therapeutics had significantly overstated Ublituximab and Umbralisib's clinical and/or commercial prospects; and (4) therefore, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the TG Therapeutics class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=7662 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
No Class Has Been Certified. Until a class is certified, you are not represented by counsel unless you retain one. You may select counsel of your choice. You may also remain an absent class member and do nothing at this point. An investor's ability to share in any potential future recovery is not dependent upon serving as lead plaintiff.
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New Air Carrier For Two West Virginia Airports
Flying Public Can Expect Change This Fall
LEWISBURG, W.Va. (WVVA) -As the nation falls under the effects of the pilot shortage, SkyWest made the decision to pull out of thirty airports, including the Clarksburg and Lewisburg airports.
However, due to the efforts of Senator Manchin and Senator Capito, West Virginia will not be losing any access to the air.
The Department of Transportation has selected Contour Airlines to replace SkyWest at these locations, ensuring that West Virginia will have access to Essential Air Services for years to come. Since the airports fall under the Essential Air Services Program, the government will pay the new airline to operate in the area.
Brian Belcher, the Airport Director for the Greenbriar County Airport says having air travel available to the people of West Virginia is important to the well-being of the entire area.
“Besides people in-bound for tourism and all the other activities, it also gives the people living here in this whole region an easy way to get globally connected because when you get to the Charlotte hub, American has international flights, probably over 50 international flights a day, so it really gives us one... gives this community one-stop access to the world, and we think that’s going to be a big positive.”
Those flying can expect the Clarksburg and Lewisburg airports to switch to Contour Airlines on November first.
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Police find large cache of illegal weapons, drugs from cartel in federal bust
YAKIMA, Wash. (Gray News) - Authorities in Washington say they seized multiple illegal weapons and drugs from a cartel in Mexico in a recent bust.
The Yakima Police Department teamed up with the U.S. Homeland Security Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in serving federal search warrants on Sept. 9.
Authorities said while serving a search warrant, they found a large cache of weapons and seized 27 high-powered rifles, nine handguns, and two shotguns.
Special agents said they also found cash, methamphetamine and fentanyl during the operation with search warrants tied to an investigation into the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
Police said the cartel is attempting to operate in Yakama and stealing high-end late model vehicles for use in smuggling drugs throughout the U.S.
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The Princeton Health and Fitness Center Celebrates 25 Years
The Center Wants To Honor Those Who Brought the Idea to Life
PRINCETON, W.Va. (WVVA) -The Princeton Health and Fitness Center has been open now for 25 years.
To celebrate that fact, the center held an event to honor those who helped bring the idea to life.
Guests at the event enjoyed mingling in the festive atmosphere. However, the event was about more than cake and balloons. Chris Worley, the executive director at the Center, says the event was really a way to celebrate the people who brought forth this idea to help the community.
“This event, we wanted to bring in as many of the original planning committee members and original donors and, of course, current members, and … and everyone’s welcome as well, but we’re really here this evening to honor people 25 to 30 years ago that worked hard and... to plan for this facility here and... and those that donated to help make it possible.
Kirk Story, the former Associative Administrator at the Princeton Community Hospital and one of the minds behind the Health and Fitness Center, says that reason for the Center’s success is that it is an asset to the community.
“Well, I think it’s been a great asset... and it is a great asset... to the community. And it speaks to... the vision of hospital leadership back then. The vision and this initiative came and was a result of our annual strategic planning. We look at the needs of the community.”
Story says that he hopes the next 25 years will be just as successful as this one was.
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Sun stay alive, beat Aces 105-76 in Game 3 of WNBA Finals
UNCASVILLE, Conn. (AP) — Alyssa Thomas had the first triple-double in WNBA Finals history, and the Connecticut Sun staved off elimination by beating the Las Vegas Aces 105-76 in Game 3 on Thursday night.
Thomas had 16 points, 15 rebounds and 11 assists for the Sun, who have now won all four of their elimination games in these playoffs, topping Dallas on the road in the first round and beating Chicago in Games 4 and 5 to close out that series.
Game 4 of this best-of-five series is Sunday in Connecticut.
“We’ve been struggling offensively and we finally got a game back at home and my teammates were hitting shots,” Thomas said. “None of this would have been possible without them.”
Las Vegas got off to a fast start, scoring nine of the first 11 points and forcing Connecticut to call a timeout. That settled the Sun down and they took over, outscoring the Aces 32-10 the rest of the quarter, including 25 of the final 29 points. Connecticut made 14 of its 17 shots in the period and DeWanna Bonner was a big reason why.
She struggled in the first two games of the series, scoring five points total while missing 16 of her 18 shots. She had seven points in the opening 8 minutes on Thursday night and finished with 18.
“She was huge. She’s been here before. She’s won it. So, we lean on her,” Thomas said. “And she’s been struggling offensively, but we had nothing but faith in her and she came out and did her thing tonight.”
Jonquel Jones led the Sun with 20 points.
Jones, Bonner and Thomas helped Connecticut dominate inside as the Sun set a Finals record with 64 points in the paint while holding Las Vegas to 26.
“That’s a team that is very resilient. If you could encapsulate Connecticut it’s physical and very resilient,” Aces coach Becky Hammon said. “They are physical and resilient and we didn’t match that tonight in any category.”
Connecticut used that advantage to lead 53-34 with 1:44 left in the second quarter before the Aces closed the period by scoring the final nine points, including a buzzer-beating 3-pointer from Kelsey Plum from just inside half-court.
The Sun seized momentum back to start the third quarter, scoring the first five points. Las Vegas couldn’t get closer than six the rest of the game.
“Plain and simple our defense couldn’t stop them tonight,” Hammon said.
Jackie Young scored 22 points and A’ja Wilson added 19 for the Aces.
The victory thwarted Las Vegas’ first attempt at winning the franchise’s inaugural WNBA championship. The team had been in the Finals twice before and got swept in 2008 and 2020.
TRIPLE THREAT
Thomas now has two triple-doubles in her career — both this season. This was the third in WNBA playoff history. Chicago’s Courtney Vandersloot and Houston’s Sheryl Swoopes had the others.
TIP-INS
Former Aces president and coach Bill Laimbeer sat courtside. He took over the franchise when it moved to Las Vegas in 2018 before retiring at the end of last season. Laimbeer was instrumental in assembling the championship roster by drafting Wilson first in 2018 and getting Gray to come to the team last season as a free agent. ... Aces owner Mark Davis sat on the baseline. ... Had the Aces been able to complete the comeback, they would have broken the mark for biggest rally in WNBA Finals history. The New York Liberty came back from 18 down in 1999 against Houston when Teresa Weatherspoon hit a game-winning shot from half-court. Hammon played for the Liberty in that game.
HONORED
Wilson and Seattle’s Breanna Stewart were unanimous choices for the All-WNBA first team that was announced Thursday. Plum also was on the first team as well as Phoenix’s Skylar Diggins-Smith and Chicago’s Candace Parker. Thomas and Jones were on the second team along with New York’s Sabrina Ionescu, Los Angeles’s Nneka Ogwumike and Minnesota’s Sylvia Fowles.
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WAIPIO VALLEY (KITV4) -- All Big Island residents, county-permitted tour company operators, and those seeking to practice their Native Hawaiian traditional rights will be allowed in to Waipio Valley in covered 4-wheel drive vehicles starting on Monday.
Back in February, Hawaii County Mayor Mitch Roth closed Waipio Valley Road, except for limited access by Waipio Valley residents, farmers, property owners, and leaseholders. People have not been allowed to visit that area since then because of "the hazardous conditions of Waipio Valley Road."
But on Thursday, Roth signed the Mayor's Waipio Valley Road Emergency Rule No. 2 and Emergency Rule No. 1, creating more access opportunities for residents.
The updated rules forbid pedestrians, uncovered vehicles, including but not limited to ATVs, and horseback access. The rules go into effect on September 19.
Roth said: "Our administration has worked incredibly hard to ensure that we put the safety of our community at the forefront of all we do, and as such, have had to make some tough decisions, including closing the valley road to some of its most frequent patrons.
"That said, we have listened to the community, considered comments of the judge in litigation, and worked closely with the Department of Public Works and experts to explore options that would provide greater access while we plan and implement road repairs."
A virtual community meeting is scheduled for Friday, September 16 at 2:00 p.m. via Zoom to discuss the updated rules and hear from community members. Interested residents may access the meeting using this link.
The Office of the Mayor will begin issuing permits to licensed tour operators beginning on Monday, September 19.
Waipio Valley is located on the Hamakua Coast. It is a fertile valley surrounded by towering cliffs, and it is popular for sightseeing and hiking.
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CHEYENNE – After having several cases of feline panleukopenia, an infectious disease common in unvaccinated cats, the Cheyenne Animal Shelter announced Thursday it was ending the quarantine period and resuming normal operations.
After two weeks of monitoring and following the Shelter Outbreak Management Plan, the medical team cleared cats for adoption and scheduled owner surrender appointments are open, according to a news release.
“We are very excited to be opening up again for cat adoptions and appreciate the community's support through the quarantine,” spokesperson Niki Harrison said. The shelter received many item donations and help with cat intake diversion strategies.
“To celebrate the end of the quarantine time, all available cats will be part of an adoption promotion through the end of the month,” Harrison said.
Both adult cats and kittens will have adjusted fees through the end of September. Adult cats, 7 months and older, will have their adoption fees waived, while kittens can be adopted for $50. To adopt, visit the shelter during adoption hours of noon to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday. All available cats can be viewed online at cheyenneanimalshelter.org.
While feline panleukopenia is a common disease in cats, the best way to prevent the illness is by vaccinating pets. All pets that are old enough are vaccinated upon arrival at the Cheyenne Animal Shelter, but a majority of the cat population comes without any vaccination history and poses a threat for illness to spread.
The shelter is encouraging the community to take part in the low-cost vaccine clinic coming up on Oct. 1 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. – no registration is necessary. Prices and additional information can be found at cheyenneanimalshelter.org/calendar.
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Biden, S. African leader to discuss Ukraine, trade, climate
U.S. President Joe Biden and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa are set to meet Friday at the White House for talks on Russia’s war in Ukraine, climate issues, trade and more.
Ramaphosa is among African leaders who have maintained a neutral stance in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with South Africa abstaining from a United Nations vote condemning Russia’s actions and calling for a mediated settlement.
South Africa’s international relations minister, Naledi Pandor, said Ramaphosa would emphasize the need for dialogue to find an end to the conflict during his meeting with Biden and in separate talks with Vice President Kamala Harris.
Pandor added that the issue will be South Africa’s focus when it participates in the annual meeting of the U.N. General Assembly next week.
“We would want a process of diplomacy to be initiated between the two parties and we believe the U.N. must lead, the U.N secretary-general in particular,” Pandor said.
The White House meeting comes on the heels of U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to South Africa last month, in which he said the Biden administration sees Africa’s 54 nations as “equal partners” in tackling global problems.
But the administration has been disappointed that South Africa and much of the continent have declined to follow the U.S. in condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
During the Blinken visit, Pandor accused the U.S. and other Western powers of focusing on the Ukraine conflict to the detriment of crises around the globe.
“We should be equally concerned at what is happening to the people of Palestine, as we are with what is happening to the people of Ukraine,” she said.
The Biden administration, meanwhile, has sought to underscore that Russia’s blockade of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports has led to scarcities in grain, cooking oil and fertilizer — resulting in disproportionate impact on Africans.
South Africa’s neutral position is largely because of the support the Soviet Union gave during the Cold War era to Ramaphosa’s African National Congress in its fight to end apartheid, South Africa’s regime of repression against the Black majority that ended in 1994. South Africa is seen as a leader of the several African countries that will not side against Russia.
Despite the differences on the war in Ukraine, the Biden administration recognizes the importance of strengthening relations in Africa as China has spent decades entrenching itself in the continent’s natural resources markets. Improving relations with South Africa — one of the continent’s biggest economies — is central to the U.S. effort.
John Stremlau, an international relations expert at the University of the Witwatersrand, said the talks underscore that the U.S. sees South Africa as having the “potential to lead Africa in a constructive way” on trade and other issues.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the two leaders would also discuss climate change and opportunities to increase trade and investment. Harris and Ramaphosa will discuss global health security, space cooperation and other matters, when they meet over breakfast at the vice president’s residence, Jean-Pierre said.
South Africa’s ambitious efforts to transition from coal to cleaner energy are expected to be discussed during the leaders’ talks. The U.S., Britain, France and Germany announced a plan last year to provid e $8.5 billion in loans and grants over five years to help South Africa phase out coal.
Ramaphosa could also raise with Biden the failure of the United States and other wealthier nations to make good on a more than decades-old pledge — first made in 2009 and reaffirmed at the 2015 Paris climate talks — to spend $100 billion to help developing nations deal with climate change.
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Hacker claims to breach Uber, security researcher says
(AP) - Uber said Thursday that it reached out to law enforcement after a hacker apparently breached its network. A security engineer said the intruder had provided evidence of obtaining access to crucial cloud systems at the ride-hailing service.
There was no indication that Uber’s fleet of vehicles or its operation was in any way affected.
“It seems like they’ve compromised a lot of stuff,” said Sam Curry, an engineer with Yuga Labs who communicated with the hacker. That includes obtaining complete access to the Amazon and Google-hosted cloud environments where Uber stores its source code and customer data, he said.
Curry said he spoke to several Uber employees who said they were “working to lock down everything internally” to restrict the hacker’s access. That included the company’s Slack internal messaging network, he said.
He said there was no indication that the hacker had done any damage or was interested in anything more than publicity. “My gut feeling is that it seems like they are out to get as much attention as possible.”
The hacker had alerted Curry and other security researchers to the intrusion by using and an internal Uber account to comment on vulnerabilities they had previously identified on the company’s network through its bug-bounty program, which pays ethical hackers to identify vulnerabilities.
The hacker provided a Telegram account address and Curry and other researchers then engaged them in a separate conversation, sharing screenshots of various pages from Uber’s cloud providers to prove they broke in.
The Associated Press attempted to contact the hacker at the Telegram account where Curry and the other researchers chatted with them. But no one responded.
One screenshot posted on Twitter and confirmed by researchers shows a chat with the hacker in which they say they obtained the credentials of an administrative user and then used social engineering to access Uber’s internal network.
Uber said via email that it was “currently responding to a cybersecurity incident. We are in touch with law enforcement.” It said it would provide updates on its Uber Comms twitter feed.
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MANILA, Philippines, Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Binance, the world's largest blockchain ecosystem, recently partnered with the Cybercrime Investigation and Coordination Center (CICC) under the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), to share its insights and experiences in preventing cybercrime using blockchain forensics with the various law enforcement agencies.
The seminar was designed by Binance and conducted by the company's Asia Pacific Head of Intelligence and Investigations, Jarek Jacubcek. During the 2 days-long seminar, Jacubcek covered the technical aspects of interactions with and between exchanges, cryptocurrency tracing, common cybercrime activities, investigative techniques, prosecution of financial crimes, and forensics report development using open-source intelligence tools.
Jarek Jacubcek, a former member of the Garda, the Irish National Police, and Europol's Cybercrime Centre, joined the Binance team in May and is tasked to take down malicious activities in the crypto ecosystem with the help of law enforcement agencies across the region.
The seminar was also graced by the presence of CICC Usec. Alexander K. Ramos, CICC Deputy Director Mary Rose Magsaysay, and PCol. Armel Gongona, Deputy Director of Administration of the Philippine National Police (PNP) Anti-Cybercrime Group.
"We are here to increase the technical capacity of our law enforcement and to help the judicial system appreciate cryptocurrency and how it is used as digital evidence in the judicial system. We are doing this because we need the public reassured that our law enforcement system is catching up to high tech criminals. We welcome cryptocurrency transactions so that the public may be able to use it for their economic activities'' says Mary Rose Magsaysay, Deputy Executive Director, CICC.
Binance on Cybersecurity
Binance has a strict KYC policy that imposes a zero-tolerance approach to double registrations, anonymous identities, and obscure sources of money. Binance's KYC processes are compliant with AML/CFT rules in over 200 jurisdictions.
Binance does not allow users to trade on its platform without passing KYC checks that include country of residence and personal identification information. Jacubcek notes "Our primary objective over the past 18 months has been to assemble a globally recognized security and compliance team, consisting of more than 500 people from across the globe."
At the same time, Jacubcek notes that while exchanges like Binance do its share of ensuring that their platform is secure, users also need to take responsibility and cyber hygiene seriously.
''Cryptocurrency give users power. All of a sudden, people have ownership of the funds. They can send funds from one person to another. But with the power comes responsibility. So, people should be very careful about their sensitive data and their cryptocurrencies when they're making these transactions. With more education, consumers will appreciate the importance of personal data hygiene and better cybersecurity practices," says Jacubcek.
Aside from the recent training session held in Quezon City, Binance also delivered workshops for law enforcement agencies and banking professionals in Germany (BKA, LKA, prosecutors), Canada (mixed Law Enforcement audience), Italy (Guardia di Finanza), Paraguay (prosecutors) and Brazil (Brazilian Federal Police and Prosecutors) to help facilitate investigations of cybercrimes around the world.
To protect their users, Binance has one of the world's largest insurance funds called SAFU (secure asset fund for users) with holdings of $1 billion[1] held transparently in two separate wallets that are auditable by the public at any time. The funds can be used to payout to users should their accounts be subject to hacks.
[1] Based on January 2022 cryptocurrency prices
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Charming Changsha, center of culture and entertainment
Published: Sep. 16, 2022 at 12:31 AM EDT|Updated: 28 minutes ago
CHANGSHA, China, Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This is a report from China SCIO:
Spend a day exploring Changsha, and discover its wondrous mixture of splendid traditional culture and exciting modern entertainment.
Charming Changsha, center of culture and entertainment
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SINGAPORE, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In recent years, the cryptocurrency market has been especially prosperous with a series of cryptocurrency projects emerged, bringing rich investment opportunities and market risks to participants in the blockchain industry. KDA is also one of the emerging cryptocurrency projects, but unlike others, KDA is referred to as the next cryptocurrency project that can be benchmarked with BTC because of its simplicity and transaction cost-efficiency, better scalability than BTC, and the future circulation potential of 990 million tokens. With the joining of BITMAIN, the world's largest miner manufacturer, KDA may become a new opportunity for cryptocurrency investors.
HASHFROG, a diversified cryptocurrency investment platform, announced that it has reached a strategic cooperation with BITMAIN and ANTPOOL, and will jointly launch KDA cloud mining products to provide low-cost, flexible and efficient mining services for KDA participants around the world. On September 13, 2022, the three parties jointly held an online product launch and elaborated on the cooperation relationship as well as their expectations for the future of the KDA market. Representatives from Kadena development team and Kadena Mining Club community also participated in the press conference and expressed their interest and support.
It was introduced at the press conference that HASHFROG will adopt the ANTMINER KA3 (hereinafter referred to as KA3) that is newly developed by BITMAIN, with hashrate of 166 T and an energy efficiency ratio of 19 J / T, bringing KDA's mining efficiency into a new era of energy conservation and efficiency. KA3 adopts the latest design of BITMAIN's flagship product which is the 19 series miners and the leading air-cooled heat dissipation technology, so that miners can enjoy the top mining experience under Blake2s algorithm. Xmei Lin, the marketing director of BITMAIN, also announced at the press conference that BITMAIN would gift three KA3 miners to Kadena's development team to support the technical research of the development team. As a firm believer in the POW consensus mechanism, BITMAIN will continue to contribute to the POW ecology in the future and actively support the long-term development and ecological prosperity of outstanding POW projects such as Kadena.
ANTPOOL, the world's leading mining pool, sits at the crucial part of the mining industry chain providing pool services for a variety of cryptocurrencies. In this cooperation, ANTPOOL can provide HASHFROG with sufficient KDA mining pool resources and endorsement of security. So far ANTPOOL is the only mining pool that specialized in optimizing KDA's hashrate which allows KDA's high hashrate miner to give full play to its performance in the shortest possible time, technically guaranteeing the long-term stable operation of KDA miner, aiming at maximizing the mining revenue of customers. ANTPOOL has become the strongest guarantee for KDA's high-quality output by its advanced algorithm, simplicity, transparency, and efficiency of operation while reducing energy consumption at the same time.
As the platform providing KDA mining products in this cooperation, HASHFROG will divide the hashrate of KA3 miner exclusively supplied by BITMAIN into a minimum order size of 10t. Customers can flexibly choose the mining unit to purchase based on their own needs. Multiple mining cycle options such as 90 days, 120 days and 180 days are provided to improve the investment flexibility greatly. Management team from HASHFROG announced at the press conference that the platform will provide $1000000 worth of bonus benefits to users who purchase KDA mining products in this initial launch, and encourage users to actively engage in cloud mining. This large amount of welfare will further expand the return on mining output. HASHFROG, positioned as a diversified crypto service provider, will also launch mining services for a variety of cryptocurrencies in the future, with more crypto product launches planned on the platform around the end of October this year to provide investors with various asset allocation options.
HASHFROG is committed to build a safe and compliant blockchain infrastructure and produce innovative and diversified digital currency investment products. It is a one-stop platform that provides cloud mining service, extensive crypto-financial management, and flexible digital asset allocation solutions for global digital currency lovers. This strategic cooperation with BITMAIN and ANTPOOL on KDA marks that the three parties will deeply integrate miner, site and mining pool resources and continue to deepen and enrich ecological cooperation in mining as well as energy industry by increasing upstream and downstream value along the industry, and providing a solid guarantee for long-term investment of cryptocurrencies.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Purcell & Lefkowitz LLP, a class action law firm dedicated to representing shareholders nationwide, is investigating a potential breach of fiduciary duty claim involving the board of directors of Syros Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: SYRS).
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The Klamath County School District does not want teachers and staff commenting on social media about alleged hazing and sexual misconduct allegations brought against three students.
A 15-year-old student claims he was sexually taunted, violated and accosted by three of his teammates on the Klamath Falls Falcons baseball team at a hotel during an August tournament in Ephrata, Wash.
The alleged victim as well as three students being investigated are all KCSD high school students. They also play on local high school football and other local sports teams. The Falcons baseball team is not affiliated with the school district.
The school district has sent an email to staff warning them against any social media posts or comments on the allegations, which could lead to criminal charges.
“Please be mindful as employees, it is unprofessional to be commenting on this matter,” district’s email reads. “For certified employees making disparaging remarks about students could jeopardize your teaching certification.”
There has been a swirl of Facebook and other social media posts regarding the sexual hazing accusations, the potential for sexual assault or other charges and KCSD’s handing of the situation.
KCSD said Superintendent Glen Szymoniak wrote the email to staff after seeing inflammatory social media posts about students alleged to be involved in the incident.
“The motive of the email was to remind staff that all communications surrounding students need to be professional and confidential. We also have a lot of new teachers this year and the email was intended to remind them of their professional and ethical obligations under the law. Not adhering to that standard could put their license at risk with the Oregon Teacher Standards and Practices Commission,” the district said in a statement to the Herald & News.
“In addition, our highest priority is safety and confidentiality for the students involved. We wanted to convey that message to our staff,“ the statement continued.
The district stressed the email came directly from the superintendent and not any district employees who might have a connection to the students being investigated by the Ephrata Police Department in Washington.
Teachers can get in trouble with Oregon’s certification agency over social media behavior, according to Trent Danowski, deputy director and director of professional practices with the Oregon Teacher Standards and Practices Commission. The state board oversees the licensing and certification of public school teachers. Those certifications are required for many K-12 jobs.
“When an educator posts information to social media which has a direct and definitive nexus/connection to their professional educator duties, and may be considered unprofessional or unethical by the standards established by the Commission within Oregon Administrative Rule Chapter 584, Division 20, then the Commission has the authority to conduct an investigation of the educator for a potential violation of the Commission’s professional standards,” Danowksi told the Herald & News. “Most commonly, such investigations are started only after TSPC receives a report or information from the employing school district regarding the educator’s conduct.”
Teachers who run afoul of social media rules and are investigated by the state panel could have their certifications potentially suspended or revoked. Other teachers could face formal reprimands and probationary status, according to TSPC.
Like many employers, KCSD has social media policies for employees.
“Staff actions on social media websites, public websites and blogs, while on or off duty, which disrupt the school environment, are subject to disciplinary action up to and including dismissal,” according to KCSD’s district policy manual provided to the Herald & News by the school system.
The district has opted not to suspend or remove the three older teens (ages 17 to 18) from campuses or sports teams, including football, during the police investigation. The alleged victim goes to the same school and is a high school teammate with one of his alleged assailants.
The Ephrata police are conducting a criminal investigation into the alleged accosting of the 15-year-old at a Best Western hotel in August while the Falcons baseball team was at a tournament.
The Oregon team, which is made up of local players and coaches, forfeited its last game after the alleged hazing, which allegedly included the older teens trying to sexually humiliate and violate their younger teammate. A Falcons coach, who also works for the school district, called Washington police, the alleged victim said.
The alleged victim and his mother want sexual assault and other criminal charges brought against the three older teens. They are also upset with KCSD’s decisions to not remove the accused players from football and other sports teams or remove them from high school campuses.
“Legally, I think they should be charged with something,” the alleged victim said in an interview with the Herald & News.
The school district contends it is trying to do its best and balance various interests in a sensitive and contentious situation.
“We understand the community is concerned about the incident with the Klamath Falls Falcons baseball team. The district is deeply concerned about the incident as well. The team is not affiliated with or sponsored by the Klamath County School District but some students on that team attend our schools. The district is doing everything in its power to create and maintain a safe learning environment for the students involved and all students in our schools,” the district said in a statement.
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A mural depicts an image known as “Saint Javelina”— Virgin Mary cradling a US-made FGM-148 anti-tank weapon Javelin — on a living house wall in Kyiv, Ukraine, on June 6. These missiles are among the arms being sent by Western allies to Ukrainian forces to aid in their fight against the Russian invaders. Javelin is widely considered a symbol of Ukraine’s defense.
The U.S. Army is ordering 1,800 more Javelin anti-tank missiles to replenish supplies of a key weapon the Pentagon has sent to Ukraine in its fight against Russia.
The Pentagon on Tuesday, Sept. 13 awarded a new $311 million Javelin procurement from Raytheon Missiles and Defense and Lockheed Martin.
The American defense contractors produce the anti-tank weapon which has become a centerpiece of U.S. support for Ukrainian defense battling invading Russian forces.
“This award is a great example of our continued commitment to strengthening our domestic industrial base while supporting our allies and partners,” Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment William LaPlante said in a statement. “As we use various authorities to replenish our own stocks, industry can expect a strong, persistent demand signal.”
The Javelin contract is part of a federal Ukraine Supplemental appropriation. Congress has allocated $6 billion for the Biden administration and Pentagon to provide weapons, intelligence resources and other aid to Ukraine, according to a Sept. 9 U.S. Defense Department (DOD) disclosure.
Congress has also approved a $12.5 billion allocation for the U.S military to replenish weapons and missile stocks depleted by the sending of arms — including rockets, missiles and ammunition — to the Ukrainian war zone.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February, the U.S. has sent $14.5 billion worth of weapons and other aid to Kyiv.
“This award demonstrates the Army’s ability to use the new authorities given to us by Congress to acquire critical capabilities for our soldiers, allies, and partners rapidly and responsibly,” said Douglas Bush, the Army’s assistant secretary for acquisition, logistics and technology.
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The Christ the Redeemer statue is illuminated in red, blue and white, the colors of the flag of The United Kingdom, as a tribute to Queen Elizabeth II on her passing in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Sept. 8.
Christianity is on the decline in the U.S, according to new surveys from the Pew Research Center.
According to Pew, 63% of U.S. adults identify as Christian. That is down from 78% who identified as Christians in 2007 and 90% in 1972, according to the research group.
The decline in self-identified followers of Jesus Christ is transposed by a growing number of Americans who say they don’t have religious beliefs or identify as atheist or agnostic.
That latter group has grown from 16% in 2007 to 29% in the new Pew survey. In 1972, 5% of U.S. adults were in the no religion category.
Pew researchers say more kids are being raised in less religious homes resulting generational shifts away from organized religion and church going.
“Christians have experienced the opposite pattern” the Pew researchers write. “With each generation, progressively fewer adults retain the Christian identity they were raised with, which in turn means fewer parents are raising their children in Christian households.”
The study also said that Democratic political affiliations and those with mothers who are not religious are also prone to move away from Christian identities, some of which have links to conservative political beliefs.
The Pew study found 6% of American adults identify with Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism or another faith. It also noted that the majority of immigrants coming into the U.S. identify as Christian.
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Gov. Kate Brown has asked President Joe Biden to declare a federal emergency in Oregon due to extreme wildfire risks. It would make Oregon the first state to receive a presidential emergency declaration for wildfires.
Brown sent a letter requesting the federal aid to Biden on Sept. 9, as state officials warned of increased fire danger because of drought and high winds reaching up to 50 miles per hour in parts of the Illinois Valley, near the southwest coast, the lower Klamath Valley and the Cascade and Coast Ranges.
The state currently has 32 active wildfires that have burned more than 160,000 acres and caused nearly 2,500 people to evacuate.
“We still have several weeks of peak fire season ahead of us,” Brown wrote. The fire season is slated to go through October.
In her letter, Brown said she expected that the magnitude and severity of wildfires would be too much for state and local governments to handle on their own.
Fires burning in other Western states have spread critical staff and resources thin, Brown said, and Oregon needs direct federal assistance with emergency power generation, emergencycommunications, evacuation support, mass care and debris removal.
Declaring a federal emergency “is critical to helping bolster our state’s response, and it presents an opportunity for Oregon to partner with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to bridge the gaps we know exist,” she wrote.
Much of Oregon has been under extreme drought conditions since March, and according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the West is in the worst drought in 1,200 years and the driest 22-year period on record.
Brown has issued six executive orders this summer increasing state aid for drought conditions in 17 counties.
She also has issued state emergency orders for four fires this summer in central and eastern Oregon, and has directed the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to execute an emergency operations plan and activate the State Emergency Coordination Center – essentially a command center coordinating interagency emergency responses to wildfires.
During the 2020 Labor Day fires that burned more than one million acres in a 72-hour period, Oregon got help from FEMA to provide public assistance for people in 20 counties.
“Oregon would be the first state ever to receive such a declaration for wildfire response, but unfortunately, certainly not the last to need this important assistance,” Brown said in a public statement about her letter.
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Editor’s Note: This story is part of a project called Democracy Day, in which newsrooms across the country are shining a light on threats to democracy
For the clerks who handle elections in most Oregon counties, September and October are busy months.
There are ballots to proofread, print and ship, first to overseas or military voters and then to the rest of Oregon’s nearly 3 million voters; last-minute voter registrations or address changes to process; routine testing of election equipment. And, because clerks and their staff split their time between running elections and recording documents such as deeds and mortgages, a steady flow of non-election paperwork.
This year, that pre-election rush includes something new: a stream of letters and emails demanding copies of obscure election records and ordering county clerks and other officials who don’t supervise elections to retain records from the 2020 election because they may be sued.
County officials described an uptick in correspondence tied to election conspiracy theories, which has ebbed and flowed since the 2020 election nearly two years ago. The latest batch appear to be tied to a federal lawsuit filed by an Oregon woman last month, as well as national messaging spread at a weeklong conference in Missouri hosted by election conspiracy theorist and pillow company CEO Mike Lindell earlier in August.
Jeremy Gordon, a Polk County commissioner appointed last August, said the county received more emails, letters and calls about the 2020 election than any issue other than Covid.
“(Covid-related correspondence) was more constituent-based, though,” he said. “It didn’t seem to be coordinated outside of our jurisdiction. These were folks in our county asking about Covid issues. But since then, this is by far the highest volume of communication we’ve received from the public about a single issue.”
Ben Morris, a spokesman for the Secretary of State Shemia Fagan, said the state office that oversees elections fielded 205 public records requests stemming from election conspiracy theories in July and August. In some instances, people submitting records requests even included instructions telling them to copy and paste text.
“It’s clear that it’s being driven by some of these national actors like a campaign, which is unfortunate because the public records request system is there to make government transparent,” Morris said. “When you submit 10, 20, 30 duplicate requests and we’re legally required to respond to each and every one, it bogs the system down and it gets in the way of us responding to people who are doing this in good faith.”
A coordinated effort
For the past several weeks, election officials around the country have been inundated with requests for something called the “cast vote record,” essentially a very large spreadsheet that tracks how votes were tallied.
Election officials in Colorado tied the influx to a summit Lindell hosted in Springfield, Missouri, in August, during which he told hundreds of attendees and a crowd watching online to go to their county clerk’s office and ask for the record.
In Polk County, where Clerk Val Unger oversees a staff of two, those requests meant multiple meetings with the county’s legal counsel and IT staff, trying to figure out what was being requested, whether it was legal to provide and how to make that information available. The county settled on charging $30 for a flash drive with the cast vote record, the same solution it came to when other records requesters asked for images of every ballot cast in 2020.
So far, only three people have opted to pay the $30 for ballot images from the November 2020 election, Unger said.
She was surprised that the public records requests about the 2020 election continued this year and has no idea what might happen after this November’s election.
“I do know one thing,” she said. “I’m not going to be here. I’m retiring next year, I am not going to be here for 2024 and that is a direct result from the 2020 election.”
Letters tied to court case
In late August, Yamhill County Commissioner Casey Kulla started receiving letters from self-described “aggrieved citizens” ordering him to retain election records he never possessed.
Kulla, like county commissioners throughout Oregon, doesn’t directly oversee elections. He and two other members of the Yamhill County Board of Commissioners approve the entire county budget, including money for the independently elected clerk’s office, but that’s the extent of their involvement.
Still, he and other elected officials from around the state have received form letters ordering them to retain records relating to elections, including some requests that don’t apply to how Oregon runs elections. Oregon mails paper ballots to all voters, but the letters refer to voting machines and differences between Election Day and “absentee by mail” voting.
Election records, including ballots, are required by law to be stored for at least 22 months after each federal election.
Letters demanding they be retained are tied to a lawsuit from Jennifer Rae Gunter, a woman from The Dalles who previously filed two unsuccessful federal lawsuits against the North Wasco County School District, Gov. Kate Brown and Patrick Allen, director of the Oregon Health Authority, over mask mandates and other Covid policies.
Gunter is now suing the Secretary of State’s Office, and she filed a 35-page complaint Aug. 24 in the U.S. Court for the District of Oregon. The complaint, which Gunter submitted without an attorney, makes vague allegations of Chinese interference in the 2020 election, claims the federal government is improperly involved with state-run elections because the FBI and Department of Homeland Security help monitor threats to election security and criticizes a Fagan tweet about how county election officials have been buried in public records requests.
Gunter’s lawsuit asks that a federal judge order the state to immediately switch to only hand-counting ballots and that the federal government and state Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum investigate every allegation she made.
Gunter and other plaintiffs did not respond to emails sent to the addresses they provided with their letters to county election officials.
A secure system
Lawsuits like Gunter’s, the related records requests and a “misguided and misinformed” push to hand-count every ballot are part of a coordinated nationwide effort, said Paul Gronke, a Reed College political science professor and director of the college’s Elections & Voting Information Center.
“The move appears to be inspired by ongoing efforts to sow distrust in our election system, and with false claims that hand counts are somehow more accurate,” Gronke said.
Counties, especially large ones like Multnomah County, have hundreds of different ballot styles. Every voter will see statewide races, such as governor, labor commissioner and four statewide initiatives, on their ballots, but down-ballot races are based on geography.
Machines can quickly read a barcode, recognize a ballot style and tabulate the votes correctly. People are much slower and more prone to errors.
Instead, Oregon’s county election offices test machines and ballot styles before each election, and the public is welcome to observe in-person or through video. After each election, they hand-count a random sample of ballots and compare to results from the tabulation machines as part of their standard post-election audit.
“This is Statistics 101: you don’t need to test all of your blood to see if you have a disease — you take a sample,” Gronke said. “It’s the same thing with elections. You don’t need to count every ballot in a race that, for example, was decided 60-40 or 70-30.”
Morris, with the Secretary of State’s Office, said Oregon’s system of public post-election audits and voting by mail should make voters feel more confident in their elections.
“Our system is really built in a way that makes us positive that the results are accurate, because paper is paper, and you can actually physically look at the ballots that were cast and compare them to the results of the tally machines,” he said. “That’s something that doesn’t exist everywhere, but it’s a feature of vote by mail that really adds to its security.”
Voters with questions or concerns about elections can visit oregonvotes.gov or their county election official’s websites, look for news from trusted local news outlets or even go into their clerk’s offices and watch as machines are tested and ballots are counted, he said. Local clerks will soon share information about the machine testing, which is a scheduled event open to the public, and many elections offices offer tours.
“It’s not the most exciting thing in the world to go down to a county elections office, but anyone who does it and talks to the clerk walks away feeling really, really good about Oregon’s vote by mail system because once someone explains to you how this goes, it really demystifies it and clears up a lot of the myths that are floating around out there,” he said.
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ASHLAND, Ore. – A raucous crowd and a nationally-ranked opponent didn‘t faze Oregon Tech, as the Lady Owls pounded down 59 kills in rallying for a 22-25, 25-23, 26-24, 25-22 victory over No. 17 ranked Southern Oregon on Wednesday night.
The Owls (6-5, 3-2 CCC) ended Southern’s nine-match win streak, while winning back-to-back matches on the Raiders home floor for the first time in program history.
“Fantastic job tonight on the road to beat a ranked team,” OIT coach Ken Murczek said. “I am excited for the program, knowing the history between these two teams over the years. What a great start to playing three matches in four days against top competition.”
Nicole Reyes led the OIT attack with 15 kills, with Ashley Ripplinger adding 14 kills with a .440 hitting percentage. Molly Grace logged 11 kills, as Tech hit at a .316 clip for the evening.
The Raiders (10-2, 4-1) grabbed big leads in each of the first three sets – but were only able to close one of the sets out.
SOU had a 20-15 lead in Set 1, only to see the Owls scored 5-of-6 points – the last on a Reyes kill – to cut the margin to 21-20. However, a pair of OIT hitting errors and a Hannah Randall kill allowed the hosts to end the set.
Southern led 17-10 in Set 2, but watched Tech storm back – as Ripplinger powered down three kills in an 8-2 run to get the visitors back in the frame. Trailing 22-20, Kate Hicks earned a side out with a kill and Ripplinger added back-to-back kills – capping a 5-1 push to end the set.
OIT turned the tide in Set 3, as a 12-4 run, capped by a Kaylin Talonen kill, gave the Lady Owls a 24-21 lead. SOU battled back with three-straight points, but consecutive hitting errors by the Raiders handed Tech the set win.
Reyes gave OIT momentum in Set 4, recording three kills in a 9-2 run to open the frame. Southern rallied behind Hailey Van Well, logging four kills in a 16-9 run to even the set. Tied at 22-22, Tech ended the match on a 3-point run, as a Grace kill, a SOU hitting error and an Aubrey Kievit ace handed Tech the upset win.
Courtney Isom had 25 assists and Paige Tevelde had 23 assists to pace the Owls, with Kievit recording 23 digs and Kaley Whalen adding a career-high 17 digs.
Mylena Testoni had a match-high 19 kills to lead SOU, with Van Well adding 17 kills and three blocks.
The Owls return home this weekend for matches – Friday vs. Corban and Saturday vs. Bushnell.
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Prep football notebook: Top-ranked Mazama, Lost River to face No. 2 teams in polls STAFF REPORTS Sep 15, 2022 4 hrs ago Comments Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save It’s not that common to get a No. 1 vs. No. 2 matchup this early in the season.But there’ll be one Friday night and another Saturday, both involving teams from the Klamath Basin.On Friday night in Class 4A, top-ranked Mazama (2-0) will play host to No. 2 Marist Catholic (2-0). This will be the fourth time in the past five seasons the Vikings and Spartans have met.The last time was in the 4A Showcase final in the pandemic-shortened 2021 season, with the Vikings prevailing 27-21.The Vikings won at home 14-6 in 2018, and the Spartans did the same in 2019, 55-21.On Saturday in Class 1A (8-man), Lost River (2-0) will play at No. 2 St. Paul (2-0).St. Paul has won the past two meetings, beating the Raiders 54-46 at home in the COVID-shortened season and 36-24 on the road last year.HONK FOR LAKEVIEWLakeview reached the Class 2A state semifinals last year before moving up a classification this fall.The Honkers (1-1) will travel to No.2 South Umpqua (2-0) on Friday for their biggest test yet.Lakeview is coming off a 21-0 victory at Brookings-Harbor as Denver Johnson had two interceptions. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Tags Marist Sport Viking Semifinalist Final Meeting Attack Mazama Honker Lakeview Semifinal Spartan Lost River Team Notebook Recommended for you Trending Now Criminal investigation underway in Klamath baseball hazing Police wrapping up criminal investigation into Klamath Falls Falcons sexual hazing complaint Oregon congressional candidate Alek Skarlatos joked about choking women Police: Tractor, saddles, water stolen from elderly woman leads to marijuana raid Criminal investigation underway in Klamath Falls Falcons baseball hazing; school district scrutinized for response Latest e-Edition Klamath Falls Herald and News Read the latest edition of the Klamath Falls Herald and News.
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Biden, S. African leader to discuss Ukraine, trade, climate
U.S. President Joe Biden and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa are set to meet Friday at the White House for talks on Russia’s war in Ukraine, climate issues, trade and more.
Ramaphosa is among African leaders who have maintained a neutral stance in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with South Africa abstaining from a United Nations vote condemning Russia’s actions and calling for a mediated settlement.
South Africa’s international relations minister, Naledi Pandor, said Ramaphosa would emphasize the need for dialogue to find an end to the conflict during his meeting with Biden and in separate talks with Vice President Kamala Harris.
Pandor added that the issue will be South Africa’s focus when it participates in the annual meeting of the U.N. General Assembly next week.
“We would want a process of diplomacy to be initiated between the two parties and we believe the U.N. must lead, the U.N secretary-general in particular,” Pandor said.
The White House meeting comes on the heels of U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to South Africa last month, in which he said the Biden administration sees Africa’s 54 nations as “equal partners” in tackling global problems.
But the administration has been disappointed that South Africa and much of the continent have declined to follow the U.S. in condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
During the Blinken visit, Pandor accused the U.S. and other Western powers of focusing on the Ukraine conflict to the detriment of crises around the globe.
“We should be equally concerned at what is happening to the people of Palestine, as we are with what is happening to the people of Ukraine,” she said.
The Biden administration, meanwhile, has sought to underscore that Russia’s blockade of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports has led to scarcities in grain, cooking oil and fertilizer — resulting in disproportionate impact on Africans.
South Africa’s neutral position is largely because of the support the Soviet Union gave during the Cold War era to Ramaphosa’s African National Congress in its fight to end apartheid, South Africa’s regime of repression against the Black majority that ended in 1994. South Africa is seen as a leader of the several African countries that will not side against Russia.
Despite the differences on the war in Ukraine, the Biden administration recognizes the importance of strengthening relations in Africa as China has spent decades entrenching itself in the continent’s natural resources markets. Improving relations with South Africa — one of the continent’s biggest economies — is central to the U.S. effort.
John Stremlau, an international relations expert at the University of the Witwatersrand, said the talks underscore that the U.S. sees South Africa as having the “potential to lead Africa in a constructive way” on trade and other issues.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the two leaders would also discuss climate change and opportunities to increase trade and investment. Harris and Ramaphosa will discuss global health security, space cooperation and other matters, when they meet over breakfast at the vice president’s residence, Jean-Pierre said.
South Africa’s ambitious efforts to transition from coal to cleaner energy are expected to be discussed during the leaders’ talks. The U.S., Britain, France and Germany announced a plan last year to provid e $8.5 billion in loans and grants over five years to help South Africa phase out coal.
Ramaphosa could also raise with Biden the failure of the United States and other wealthier nations to make good on a more than decades-old pledge — first made in 2009 and reaffirmed at the 2015 Paris climate talks — to spend $100 billion to help developing nations deal with climate change.
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Magome reported from Johannesburg.
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Hacker claims to breach Uber, security researcher says
(AP) - Uber said Thursday that it reached out to law enforcement after a hacker apparently breached its network. A security engineer said the intruder had provided evidence of obtaining access to crucial cloud systems at the ride-hailing service.
There was no indication that Uber’s fleet of vehicles or its operation was in any way affected.
“It seems like they’ve compromised a lot of stuff,” said Sam Curry, an engineer with Yuga Labs who communicated with the hacker. That includes obtaining complete access to the Amazon and Google-hosted cloud environments where Uber stores its source code and customer data, he said.
Curry said he spoke to several Uber employees who said they were “working to lock down everything internally” to restrict the hacker’s access. That included the company’s Slack internal messaging network, he said.
He said there was no indication that the hacker had done any damage or was interested in anything more than publicity. “My gut feeling is that it seems like they are out to get as much attention as possible.”
The hacker had alerted Curry and other security researchers to the intrusion by using and an internal Uber account to comment on vulnerabilities they had previously identified on the company’s network through its bug-bounty program, which pays ethical hackers to identify vulnerabilities.
The hacker provided a Telegram account address and Curry and other researchers then engaged them in a separate conversation, sharing screenshots of various pages from Uber’s cloud providers to prove they broke in.
The Associated Press attempted to contact the hacker at the Telegram account where Curry and the other researchers chatted with them. But no one responded.
One screenshot posted on Twitter and confirmed by researchers shows a chat with the hacker in which they say they obtained the credentials of an administrative user and then used social engineering to access Uber’s internal network.
Uber said via email that it was “currently responding to a cybersecurity incident. We are in touch with law enforcement.” It said it would provide updates on its Uber Comms twitter feed.
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Charles’ history with US presidents: He’s met 10 of past 14
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hanging out with Richard Nixon’s daughter Tricia at a White House “supper-dance.” Swapping stories with Ronald Reagan about horseback riding. Bending the ears of Donald Trump and Joe Biden about climate change.
King Charles III, who became head of state following the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, has made the acquaintance of 10 of the 14 U.S. presidents who have held office since he was born in 1948.
He was just 10 when he checked off his first president in 1959. That was when Dwight Eisenhower visited the queen and her family at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, where she died on Sept. 8 after a 70-year-reign.
“I guess you can’t start too early,” said Barbara A Perry, director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. She noted that Charles’ grandson, Prince George, was a toddler when Kensington Palace released a photograph of him shaking hands with Barack Obama during the president’s trip to London in 2016.
Charles never met Harry Truman, Gerald Ford, Lyndon Johnson and John F. Kennedy, Perry said.
His encounters with U.S. presidents included what he recalled as an “amusing” weekend visit to Nixon White House in 1970 with his sister Anne, when the 20-year-old future king — one of the world’s most eligible bachelors — sensed there was an effort afoot to set him up.
“That was the time when they were trying to marry me off to Tricia Nixon,” he later recalled.
The king has chatted up presidents on his visits to the U.S. and met others when they traveled in the United Kingdom. He was in the company of Donald Trump, Obama, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush when he represented the British monarchy at the state funeral for former President George H.W. Bush in 2018 in Washington.
Charles met President Joe Biden last year at a climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland.
The royal has visited America about 20 times since that memorable first trip in the Nixon years, he told CNN last year.
The royal siblings had been invited to Washington by Nixon’s daughters and son-in-law, Tricia Nixon, Julie Nixon Eisenhower and her husband, David Eisenhower, grandson of President Eisenhower, for that three-day visit in July 1970.
The young VIPs had a packed schedule that included frolicking at the Camp David presidential retreat, a nighttime tour of Washington’s monuments, museum visits, a luncheon cruise down the Potomac River to George Washington’s estate at Mount Vernon, Virginia, a dance on the South Lawn for 700 guests, and a Washington Senators baseball game.
Charles and Nixon also met in the Oval Office. But if the president had his heart set a union between his family and the royals, it wasn’t meant to be.
In June 1971, less than a year after Charles’ visit, Tricia married longtime beau Edward Cox in the White House Rose Garden. A decade later, in July 1981, Charles married Lady Diana Spencer. They divorced in 1996.
Nixon, himself, had pushed for Charles to visit the U.S. for the perceived public relations bonanza, according to a January 1970 memo he sent his national security adviser, Henry Kissinger.
“I think this could do an enormous amount of good for U.S.-British relations,” Nixon said. He wrote that he’d been told that Charles “is the real gem” of the royal family and “makes an enormously favorable impression wherever he goes.”
Charles returned the praise in a thank-you note.
“The kindness shown to us at the White House was almost overwhelming and for that we are immensely grateful,” the prince wrote to Nixon. “Both my sister and I take back to Britain the most heartwarming evidence of what is known as the special relationship between our two countries and of the great hospitality shown to us by you and your family.”
Many of the former Prince of Wales’ conversations with recent U.S. presidents centered on his interest in tackling climate change. Charles has campaigned for the environment for 50 years, but he acknowledged after becoming king that his new role requires that he set aside his activism on that and other issues.
Charles, 73, and Biden, 79, discussed global cooperation on the climate crisis last year while both attended a summit in Glasgow, Scotland. They also met at Buckingham Palace in June 2021 at a reception the queen hosted before a world leaders’ summit in Cornwall.
Biden rejoined the 2015 Paris climate agreement after Trump as president withdrew the U.S. from the accord.
Biden and the king spoke on Wednesday, with Biden offering his condolences over the queen.
Trump has said that during his visit with Charles, the former prince “did most of the talking” and pressed him on climate during a scheduled 15-minute meeting that stretched to 90 minutes in 2019 at Charles’ residence in London.
During a three-day visit to Washington in 2011, Charles, an advocate of environmentally friendly farming, met with President Obama. In a speech, he praised Michelle Obama’s campaign against childhood obesity and hunger, and U.S. manufacturers’ efforts to produce healthier foods.
He criticized U.S. government subsidies for large-scale agriculture and encouraged increased business and government support for organic and environmentally friendly food production.
In his toast at a White House dinner in 2005, the future king told President George W. Bush that the world looks to the United States “for a lead on the most crucial issues that face our planet and, indeed, the lives of our grandchildren.
“Truly, the burdens of the world rest on your shoulders,” he said.
In the remarks, Charles also said the trip reminded him of his first visit to America, “when the media were busy trying to marry me off to Tricia Nixon.”
Visiting with Reagan in the Oval Office in 1981, the two discussed their interest in horseback riding as a steward brought tea. But it was not served the British way.
Of the experience, Reagan later wrote in his diary:
“The ushers brought him tea -- horror of horrors they served it our way with a tea bag in the cup. It finally dawned on me that he was just holding the cup and finally put it down on the table. I didn’t know what to do,” Reagan confessed.
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AP News Researcher Rhonda Shafner in New York contributed to this report.
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It was a gruesome discovery for Puna patrol officers, responding to an active burglary just before 5 a.m. Thursday at a vacant home under renovation in Hawaiian Shores: officers found the body of a woman in the backyard with multiple blunt-force injuries to her head and body.
Police also discovered a man in his mid-30s hiding behind a wall bordering the property. He was arrested for trespassing.
Officers are still investigating his involvement in the woman's death, which is classified as a second-degree murder. Her identity hasn't yet been released.
This latest homicide is causing fear among many residents in the rural community.
"It's become very unsafe. I don't feel comfortable walking," said Eileen O'Hara, president of the Hawaiian Shores Community Association. "I will not walk down there by myself anymore."
The Hawaii Police Department confirms its seen a big spike in calls and is more than 50 officers short on the Big Island. The problem is not being able to recruit new officers to fill vacant positions -- with only eight officers on duty at any given time patrolling the entire Puna district.
"People need to feel -- they deserve to feel -- safe in their homes and in their own communities," said Ashley Kierkiewicz, a member of the Hawaii County Council.
The Police Department says the number of applicants has dropped way down since before the pandemic despite increasing recruitment efforts. And those who do apply, aren't able to keep up with the demands of the job.
That's why the community is stepping up.
O'Hara of the Hawaiian Shores Community Association says the huge uptick in crime is fueled by drugs. The group started a new neighborhood watch in November and is meeting tonight about the problems plaguing Puna.
Members are also lobbying Hawaii county Mayor Mitch Roth to bring back the Weed-and-Seed program -- to help root out criminal activity.
"We have to get to the root -- the root causes of the crime and that is addressing poverty, making sure that there are resources to support mental health issues, substance abuse, because at the end of the day, we have a safe, healthy community when people are thriving," Kierkiewicz added.
The Big Island has seen a total of six murders so far this year -- four in Puna alone and two in Kona.
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Ranking officers at the Honolulu Police Training Academy have adopted an 'out with the old, and in with the new' approach to preparing recruits after experiencing high drop-out rates.
"They were very bad, and I take ownership of that as a major of training. Instead of sitting there and blaming people, we looked at it and we made adjustments," Honolulu Police Department Training Major Mike Lambert said.
Among the changes -- shifting focus towards mentoring recruits from the start, compared to the previous strategy, which Lambert explained, "what it used to be was more of a warrior mentality right, you just come in, you do your job, if you don't command the room, you die. It was literally that extreme."
Lambert and others tasked with training have made class time more interactive, instead of relying on PowerPoint presentations.
"We were able to actually lower our failure rate for test taking," Lambert said.
There is also more emphasis on how to properly respond to mental health crisis situations.
Meantime, HPD continues to grapple with an ongoing worker shortage.
"Currently the Honolulu Police Department is down approximately 349 positions out of 2,100 authorized sworn positions," state police union president Robert Cavaco said.
There are currently a few dozen recruits in training and many say they're enjoying the experience.
"We all became close from day one, we were taught how to become one family real quickly," senior recruit Nainoa Aiu-Fong said.
Aiu-Fong and 12 others from the 203rd recruit class are set to graduate from the academy Friday. Their group started with 19.
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In recent months, as the monkeypox virus swept through Europe, the Americas and parts of Asia, researchers discovered a puzzling trend: A large proportion of monkeypox cases have been occurring in people with HIV.
A new paper, published last week in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly, reviews 2,000 monkeypox cases in the first two months of the U.S. outbreak and finds that nearly 40% are in people with HIV. That tracks with what health authorities from the European CDC and the World Health Organization have reported – their data show that around 37-45% of reported cases have been identified in people living with HIV.
So why are there so many monkeypox patients with HIV? Health experts have an initial thought to answer that question and then three theories on key contributing factors – with a leading contender among them.
The first thing to consider, says a co-author of the paper, is that the current monkeypox outbreak is largely concentrated among the population of men who have sex with men – "gay, bisexual, same gender-loving," says Dr. John T. Brooks, chief medical officer for the CDC's monkeypox outbreak response. And that's the population that's already at risk for HIV.
But that alone doesn't explain the high rate, says Brooks. In the U.S., for example, 23% of men who have sex with men are estimated to be living with HIV – but among the 2,000 monkeypox patients whose data was analyzed in the study, 38% had HIV. "This fraction of [monkeypox cases in people with] HIV "is pretty extraordinary," he says.
Theory #1: Monkeypox is circulating in the same social and sexual networks where HIV spreads
What's likely the biggest contributing factor, say the researchers, has to do with sexual networks. Monkeypox, like HIV, spreads through sexual contact, and it's circulating among various networks of gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men.
But it's the networks, not necessarily the HIV status, that are critical. "I think it speaks more to the sexual network and less for the serostatus [of being HIV positive]," says Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, deputy coordinator for the White House monkeypox response and a study co-author, "This is the social and sexual network [where] we're seeing monkeypox infections happening."
Others agree. "The early spread of monkeypox was associated with ... cultural events – parties and celebrations that involved sexual networks" among gay and bisexual men, says Dr. Melanie Thompson, an HIV physician and researcher in Atlanta. People returning from parties abroad seeded early monkeypox cases in U.S., where monkeypox has continued to spread from person-to-person "almost exclusively" through sexual contact, according to the CDC.
"You only have to have sex, or be sexually active, with one person to get monkeypox," Thompson says, but the risk of getting monkeypox is currently magnified in the population of men who have sex with men, where more monkeypox is circulating than in the general population.
Another statistic noted by the researchers is that 41% of monkeypox patients in the study population had a recent history of other sexually transmitted infections, such as chlamydia, gonorrhea or syphilis. This is a significant finding, says Brooks: "It speaks to the fact that this is a population that is sexually active, and through close, intimate contact – in this case, what appears to be sexual contact – are at risk for acquiring monkeypox," Brooks says.
What it means is that monkeypox, HIV and sexually transmitted infections have overlapping risk factors, and doctors should look out for all of them, says Brooks: "If you diagnose someone with monkeypox, you should be screening for HIV as well as sexually transmitted infections. Conversely, among persons at risk for HIV and sexually transmitted infections who are seeking care, you need to think monkeypox and consider evaluating folks for that."
Theory #2: Maybe HIV's impact on the immune system leads to more infections?
It's an open question: "Is there something about having and living with HIV that increases your risk for acquiring monkeypox?" says Dr. Boghuma Titanji, an infectious diseases physician and a virologist at Emory University, noting that HIV changes the immune system in ways that could increase a person's risk of contracting any infections in general.
Many of the monkeypox patients with HIV patients with monkeypox in the CDC study have well-controlled infections – most had received HIV treatment in the past year and 82% were virally suppressed, meaning they had low to no detectable levels of HIV in their blood. That leads, leading to Titanji to wonder whether there's an elevated risk for HIV patients in general and not just those that aren't receiving treatments.
The study also found that 8% of monkeypox patients with HIV were hospitalized – somewhat higher than the 3% rate of hospitalization for those without HIV. Still, it's not clear from the data whether they were more likely to have severe cases or if their doctors were being cautious, says Brooks. "We have no signal whatsoever right now that people who have well-controlled HIV are doing any worse than any other person who was diagnosed with monkeypox," he says, "People with HIV [in the study] were generally receiving excellent care and doing well."
Still, monkeypox can be very dangerous for patients who have untreated HIV, Titanji says – who are often seriously immunocompromised and may also be more likely to delay care, especially if they lack access to health insurance or high-quality care.
Theory #3: HIV patients may see doctors more often so monkeypox cases are more readily identified
Another reason why HIV patients are overrepresented among monkeypox cases could be "detection bias," says Brooks. In other words, someone who's living with HIV and taking medications for it probably sees a doctor regularly – and their doctor may be clued in to look for monkeypox.
"This is the group of care providers who initially were willing to take care of people with HIV," says Thompson, "Whereas many providers, unfortunately, have been unwilling to see people with monkeypox, that seems not to be the case among HIV care providers. And so we see in this report that a very high proportion of people with HIV are actually linked to care," which may mean they're able to get tested and treated at the first sign of a suspicious rash.
Still, the fact that the high rates of HIV among monkeypox patients show up not just in the U.S., but "across the board" in patients in different health care systems in Europe and around the world, suggests there's a pattern that extends beyond detection bias, says Titanji.
Final note: Given these possible reasons, what's the next step?
Identifying the trend [of a high rate of monkeypox in the HIV positive population] is just "the tip of the iceberg. It raises a lot of questions," Titanji says.
Even though behavior seems to be the key cause, there's not enough information yet to figure out how much each factor contributes to the trend, Brooks and Thompson say.
Even so, knowing that monkeypox and HIV are linked in some way can help steer resources to where they could have the greatest impact. Daskalakis, with the White House response, says they're sharing monkeypox guidance and sending vaccines to HIV clinics through the federally funded Ryan White HIV/AIDS program, which he says provides medical care and support to around half of people living with HIV in the U.S. They're also working with funding and education to integrate monkeypox into the streams of care for HIV and STI's, "where it belongs," Daskalakis says.
Future findings will help refine the response. "We're going to learn more as we go along," says Daskalakis. Still, it could take a while to determine how much behavior, biology and bias are driving the trend, or whether there are other contributing factors yet to be considered.
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Investigators have now narrowed down what may have sparked the flame in a deadly ambulance fire last month to a portable oxygen tank and regulator.
Investigators determined it was an accident and still don't know the exact cause of the fire that killed 91-year-old Fred Kaneshiro while he was being transported to Adventist Health Castle hospital.
Paramedic Jeff Wilkinson was critically injured and is still recovering.
He told investigators he was using a breathing machine known as a CPAP that was connected to a main oxygen tank plugged into the wall.
But as they approached the hospital, Wilkinson disconnected the device to plug it into a portable oxygen cylinder.
"There was a sound described as a 'pop' followed by a bright flash of light that the back of the ambulance immediately filling with smoke and fire," said Dr. Jim Ireland, director of the Honolulu Emergency Services Department. "There are no preliminary findings that EMS personnel's actions in treating and transporting the patient based on routine industry practices contributed to the incident."
One Honolulu respiratory therapist says a lot can go wrong in an ambulance as personnel make split-second decisions.
"In an ambulance everything happens very quickly, " said Honolulu respiratory therapist Ed Morse. "You know it's life and death. You have to think on your feet constantly. The stress is very high."
Ireland says there were no external sources of combustion -- including portable defibrillators, lithium batteries and other electronic devices. And crews inspect their equipment every day.
"This was such an overwhelming fire it was beyond what I think a fire extinguishers capabilities are, but we are looking and reviewing all our policies and procedures to see if there is anything we can do differently if this were to happen again -- we hope it never does," he said.
A final report is not expected for several months, but the Honolulu City Council is set to discuss the safety of EMS ambulances next Monday.
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| 2022-09-16T06:01:27Z
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Sudan Archives' music celebrates digging. With infectious curiosity, her oddball collages of hip-hop, electronic and globally sourced folk bridge worlds and tramp through them, encouraging you to forge your own routes as well. Across two EPs and an album, the self-taught violinist, producer and songwriter has honed a distinct blend of layered vocals and instrumentation that both pleases the ear and challenges it to parse all the fusion. Her vibrant second album, Natural Brown Prom Queen, details her passages between her hometown of Cincinnati, her adopted city of Los Angeles and the many other locales, people and traditions that inform her idiosyncratic style. The record feels like a world tour of her brain, particular yet capacious — and always active.
Cosmopolitan music often leans heavily into the rush and the signifiers of jetsetting — accents, passports, landmarks, cuisines, runways — but Natural Brown Prom Queen's preoccupation is terroir, the distinct conditions that make a place unique. Sudan Archives doesn't just experience or consume global sounds; she interacts with them, her fingers sifting through the soil as she feels out every little element. "Suck out the honey," she implores on the steamy R&B track "Milk Me," capturing the intimacy and pleasure of her sourcing. Each encounter seems to clarify her own origins and path forward.
The album builds on the conviction of her debut, Athena, which bolstered her signature sound with heftier singing and breezy rapping. The cover of that globetrotting record, which pictured Sudan Archives and her violin as a Greek statue, captures the whimsy, audacity and confidence of her musical vision. Born Brittney Parks and nicknamed Sudan as a child, the artist is a Black Midwesterner with no direct ties to Sudan, South Sudan or Greece. She picked up the violin when a chance performance by Canadian fiddlers at her Ohio elementary school sparked an obsession. She learned to play by ear in various ensembles — something she references on the Natural Brown Prom Queen interlude "Do Your Thing (Refreshing Springs)" — and later became interested in the actual sounds of Sudan, which coincidentally has a culture of ceremonial and experimental violin music. She adopted her stage name after this tacit connection implored her to peruse the broader archive of African folk music. More links followed — many of them hyperlinks on YouTube — as she explored and embraced the string traditions of Estonia, Ghana and Russia. All this cultural gallivanting rules out any notion of "authenticity," a fraught term that, in the name of properly attributing sounds and styles to their sources, often conflates origination with originality and inspiration with extraction.
Natural Brown Prom Queen has little interest in proving Parks' legitimacy and is more driven by her intense curiosity. The acts of borrowing and interpolating are openly embedded in the music. On the closer, "513," she warps the hook of LL Cool J's "Going Back to Cali" into a homegoing reprise. Opener "Home Maker" is an ode to personal space that begins with a quicksilver suite that flickers between snatches of synth, trumpet, keys, harp and a breakbeat before settling into a pulsing R&B arrangement. "I'm a homemaker," Sudan Archives sings on the hook, celebrating her domicile and the many elements that comprise it. Her home is a waypoint rather than an enclosure, the space and its builder changing as people and ideas drift through.
That enthusiasm for both influence and confluence flavors the swaggering and saucy album, which finds the singer mulling relationships, her body and her desires over compositions that shimmer with textures and overtones. The songs, which often have multiple producers, practically glow with life, constantly changing direction and shape. "Ciara" wryly uses sun-soaked melodies to toast to a roughneck relative ("I got a cousin in Chicago / Who will smack you in your face") then empties into a sludgy bridge that shifts yet again into a gale of chill funk. The dewy vocals and production on slow jam "ChevyS10" liquefy, sublimate and freeze like water changing states. Noise rap and hyperpop often use volatility to disorient and dissociate, but as Sudan jaunts from Miami bass on "Freakalizer" to Irish jigs on "TDLY (Homegrown Land)" she sounds more grounded and clear-headed.
"Selfish Soul" melds choral harmonies, violin riffs and pounding drums into a folksy rap track, the busyness of the beat matching Sudan's fraught tales of styling her hair. The theme recalls other considerations of Black hair by women in soul music — India.Arie's "I Am Not My Hair" and Solange's "Don't Touch My Hair" — but Sudan's take on the subject emphasizes working for self-acceptance rather than deflecting outside gazes, subtly underscoring that individual autonomy is at the root of such songs even as they mention experiences relatable to any Black woman. "Copycat" approaches the subject differently, Sudan playfully addressing biters. Calling out plagiarists is standard rap stuff, but the song doubles as a metacommentary on the unappreciated omni-influence of Black women, Sudan asking how she can be both despised and Xeroxed. It's a worthwhile question. In a world with so much erasure of Black women's contributions, what can authenticity even look like for them?
Control comes up often on Natural Brown Prom Queen. On the title track, she alludes to her time in N2, a defunct teen-pop duo with her twin sister. She's said that rebelling against the direction of the group, which was put together by her late stepdad, resulted in her getting kicked out the house. Because of this history, the polyvalent music she makes as Sudan Archives is often read as antipop. But here she makes it clear that she rejected her lack of authority rather than the music she made. "I just want to have my t*****s out / T*****s out / T*****s out," she chants in the outro, again linking creative and bodily autonomy. Her music is less a rejection of pop and more an embrace of her uninhibited self. (Plus, her pop instincts are on full display in the composition of these and past songs. She is very capable of writing earworms and being an ethnomusicological nerd at the same damn time.)
When she's not explicitly talking about authority, she's exuding it in her cocksure rapping and singing, which anchors all the album's motion. She gushes with ideas and approaches to these bustling arrangements, hopscotching across drum patterns ("Yellow Brick Road"), bouncing off of basslines ("Copycat") and gliding over melodies ("Homesick"). Her violin appears on over half the songs, but it's less of a focal instrument, underscoring the growing sense that she is the lead. Her widening web of influences and collaborators (most notably multi-instrumentalist Ben Dickey, who is credited on nearly every song) affirms that she is the conductor through which all these currents flow.
It's fitting, then, that her journeys lead her back to Cincinnati on "#513." "Hollywood will make you hollow / I'm too rooted in my ways," she sings defiantly, setting the song up as a prodigal return. But the tinny song is not an ode to the rustbelt city or a homecoming in the typical sense of the word. Sudan Archives doesn't head home to settle old scores, reminisce on better days or restore herself. She goes simply because, in that moment, that's where she wants to be. That caprice captures the itinerant spirit of her music and the album's arch sense of home. In the world of Sudan Archives, home is anywhere, anyone and any sound that pushes you forward.
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HONOLULU – Medicare is the federal health care insurance program mainly for people 65 or older. The open enrollment period starts on October 15 and ends on December 7.
During the enrollment period, people can join, switch, or drop a Medicare plan for coverage that starts in January 2023.
The Hawaii State Health Insurance Assistant Program (SHIP) has been busy helping to answer questions from seniors, their families and caregivers.
Wanda Anae-Onishi, director of Hawaii SHIP, appeared on KITV4 Island News at 4 on Thursday for a live interview to talk about what's new regarding Medicare, and to answer some of the most frequently asked questions.
Hawaii SHIP is holding free virtual, phone, and in-person sessions to help seniors understand Medicare and the options available to them.
Hawaii SHIP’s certified counselors are providing one-on-one consultations, and plan comparison specialists are helping seniors find plans that best meet their healthcare needs.
For more information, call the Hawaii SHIP Helpline at 808-586-7299 or toll-free at 1-888-875-9229, or visit Hawaii SHIP's website.
A Medicare counselor will contact those who request an appointment within two to five business days.
Hawaii SHIP representatives will also be at Honpa Hongwanji Hawaii Betsuin on Oct. 21 and 28, and Nov. 10 and 18 from 10:00 a.m. till 2:00 p.m.
They will also be at Pearl City Public Library on Nov. 2 and Dec. 1 from 10:00 a.m. till 2:00 p.m.
Hawaii SHIP is federally funded by the Administration for Community Living, and is administered by the Hawaii Department of Health, Executive Office on Aging.
Marisa Yamane joined KITV4 in January 2022 as an anchor and executive producer. She is an award-winning veteran journalist, who’s spent most of her career in Hawaii. She’s a proud graduate of Iolani School and UCLA.
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| 2022-09-16T06:01:33Z
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President Joe Biden will be meeting with the wife of WNBA star Brittney Griner Friday, as the U.S. is continuing its negotiations to bring Griner home from a Russian prison, where she has spent the last seven months.
Biden will meet with Cherelle Griner and Elizabeth Whelan, the sister of Paul Whelan, a former Marine convicted of espionage in Russia who Biden has additionally requested to be released.
The president spoke with Cherelle Griner in July, shortly after Brittney Griner penned a letter to the president, in which she said she was "terrified I might be here forever."
The Biden administration considers the pair to be wrongfully detained, and in exchange for their commutations, has offered to free Viktor Bout, a notorious Russian arms dealer who was sentenced to 25 years in 2011.
"As we have said before, we believe that Russia is wrongfully detaining Brittney and Paul under intolerable circumstances," White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said. "And as you know, we have been directly engaged with the Russian government through appropriate channels."
Griner, 31, is a two-time Olympic gold medalist and plays for the Phoenix Mercury. Since 2014, she has also played for Russia's UMMC Ekaterinburg team during the WNBA offseason. She was arrested in February for possessing marijuana vape cartridges as she entered the country to prepare for the playoffs. In August, she was found guilty of the crime and sentenced to nine years.
Whelan, 52, also traveled to Russia openly for years, but was arrested in 2018 and convicted on espionage charges in a secret trial.
Jean-Pierre said she cannot share details about the Biden administration's negotiations with Russia due to security reasons, but did say Russia has not been responsive to their proposal.
"While I would love to say that the purpose of this meeting is to inform the families that the Russians have accepted our offer and we are bringing their loved ones home, that is not what we're seeing in these negotiations at this time," she said.
"The Russians should accept our offer," she added. "They should accept our offer today. We will keep working diligently until the day we get to share that good news."
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| 2022-09-16T06:30:06Z
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Rapper Mystikal to be arraigned on rape, other charges
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Grammy-nominated hip-hop performer Mystikal is scheduled for arraignment on charges accusing him of raping and choking a woman, and illegally possessing drugs at his Louisiana home.
Charges the performer will face during his arraignment Monday will include first-degree rape, which carries an automatic life sentence if Tyler is convicted.
“My client is innocent of all charges,” attorney Joel Pearce said in a text message Thursday. He said the rapper, whose given name is Michael Tyler, had a court order to protect him from the woman, and he is “the true victim.”
Pearce said he hopes he will be allowed to present evidence supporting bond for Tyler, who has been held without bond since the end of July. A judge denied bond on Aug. 4, but Pearce, who did not then represent the performer, said it was not a full bond hearing that would take evidence in Tyler’s favor.
Tyler was arrested July 31 on charges accusing him of choking and raping the woman at his home in Prairieville, an Ascension Parish community of about 33,000 near Baton Rouge.
A news release Wednesday from the district attorney’s office said Tyler was indicted last week on 10 counts including rape, domestic abuse battery by strangulation and false imprisonment. Investigators who searched his home found “evidence to corroborate the victim’s account of the rape along with a variety of illegal narcotics,” the statement said.
An Ascension Parish grand jury brought the charges in two indictments handed up Sept. 6, The Advocate reported.
District Attorney Ricky Babin said in an email that because they are part of an ongoing criminal matter, the indictments are not public records under state law.
Pearce represented Tyler on rape and kidnapping charges that prosecutors in northwest Louisiana dropped in December 2020. Those charges, brought in 2017, had kept him jailed nearly 18 months before he was released on $3 million bond.
Mystikal told The Associated Press in April 2021 that he now is proud of lyrics he can imagine rapping to God.
His 2000 hit “Shake (It Fast) earned a 2001 Grammy nomination for best rap solo. In 2003, his “Tarantula” was nominated for best rap album and the single “Bouncin’ Back” for best male rap solo.
He pleaded guilty to sexual battery later in 2003. He served six years in prison.
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| 2022-09-16T06:30:40Z
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STOCKHOLM, Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Nomination Committee for Mycronic's 2023 Annual General Meeting has been appointed in accordance with the instructions for the Nomination Committee as decided by the 2022 Annual General Meeting.
The Nomination Committee comprises:
Henrik Blomquist, Bure Equity
Patrik Jönsson, SEB Funds
Thomas Ehlin, The Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund
Patrik Tigerschiöld, Chairman
The Nomination Committee represents 47.1 percent of votes and shares as of 31 August, 2022. Shareholders who wish to submit proposals to the Nomination Committee are welcome to contact the Nomination Committee. In order for the Nomination Committee to be able to consider a proposal, it must be received well in advance of the Annual General Meeting.
Contact Nomination Committee:
Mycronic AB
Nomination Committee
Ann Borgström
Box 3141
183 03 Täby
Sweden
For additional information, please contact:
Patrik Tigerschiöld, Chairman
via Ann Borgström
Tel: +46 8 638 52 68
E-mail: ann.borgstrom@mycronic.com
Sven Chetkovich
Director Investor Relations
Tel: +46 70 558 39 19
E-mail: sven.chetkovich@mycronic.com
The information in this press release was published on September 16, 2022, at 08:00 a.m. CEST
About Mycronic
Mycronic is a Swedish high-tech company engaged in the development, manufacture and marketing of production equipment with high precision and flexibility requirements for the electronics industry. Mycronic's headquarters are located in Täby, north of Stockholm and the Group has subsidiaries in China, France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Singapore, South Korea, United Kingdom, United States and Vietnam. Mycronic is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm. www.mycronic.com
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| 2022-09-16T06:30:46Z
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SHANGHAI, Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On Sep. 13, 2022, Qidi Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Qidi") announced the completion of an angel round financing of RMB 100 million (14.44 million USD), with Joy Capital as the leading investor, Matrix Partners China and Meridian Capital as the co-investors, and Winsoul Capital as the financial advisor.
Founded in December, 2021, Qidi is a scientifically and technologically innovative enterprise that takes the 24/7 smart glasses as the core and aims at catering to the customers with its unique Vertical Integration Pattern. Starting from the full-link integration of underlying technologies such as hardware, software, and algorithm, and with cutting-edge products and up-to-date solutions, Qidi focuses on creating hands-free revolutionary smart glasses, which safeguards a trouble-free journey worldwide for the users.
New technical tipping point calling for product revolution
With the massive popularity of "metaverse" and the development of AR technology, smart glasses have once again come under the spotlight. Unlike Google Glass that transiently appeared a decade ago, or the last round of AR entrepreneurship mania, Qidi believes that an epoch-making revolution that could transform glasses from a mere "functional device" to "smart machine" has reached a tipping point.
In recent years, digital industries, such as 5G, artificial intelligence and big data, have witnessed a rapid development on the fundamental technologies. The displaying, interaction, algorithm, and computing power of smart glasses have also greatly changed compared with the era in which the product was first emerged.
One could expect that the human-computer interaction in Web 3.0 will be more multidimensional. As for the common digital products such as PC, mobile phone, and tablet, the real world is separated from the digital world by the screen. However, the smart AR glasses can shatter the barrier, and is expected to revolutionize the way we obtain information and our way of living, and inspire a boundless imagination. "This is probably the most imaginative and innovative product for individual users throughout the human history, and will revolutionize the way we interact with the digital world." Says the founder of Qidi.
Besides, the whole industry also sees smart glasses as a promising product, and expects them to be widely utilized in the next generation of human-computer interaction center and mobile terminals. At present, smart glasses have gained access to the market of some industries, yet there are still some gaps regarding the weight, battery life, and comfort of wearing between the existing products and the standard and positioning of the next generation of human-computer interaction center; therefore, in the field of product application, especially in the consumer market, there hasn't been a real sense of hot-sale products that have ever occurred, and a new "product revolution" is simply inevitable.
An optimal solution from Qidi: "Clever" glasses & Vertical Integration Pattern
A pair of ideal smart glasses that is suitable for long-time wearing often faces many challenges, such as the weight, comfort of wearing, battery life and heat dissipation, while in the meantime, as a daily-wear item, the glasses should be both high-tech and fashionable, which sets a higher bar on the design, quality, and custom-tailored uniqueness of the product. From the perspective of the working principle, the smart glasses are made of different units, such as acquisition unit, computing unit, and display unit, which delicately harness a series of key technologies on optics, displaying techniques, interaction, algorithm, and operating system. If we just adopt the key logic of "smart glasses" and the development model of supply chain technology integration, as well as mixing intelligent functions all in one, it'll easily turn the "smart glasses" into "a clumsy helmet."
The founder of Qidi stresses that the core is to figure out the fundamental logic of glasses and explore the irreplaceable role of glasses in our life. "The most distinctive feature of smart glasses is that they can perceive the environment and recognize everything from the first perspective, and provide instant feedback in front of the uses' eyes, while at the same time, the hands-free service that they provide can raise efficiency to a great extent." The guiding principle on Qidi's product development is to inject "intelligence" to the glasses – that is, with the users' daily needs being satisfied, the smart glasses are equipped with intelligence, which aims at the three basic properties that users concern the most, that are – flexibility, popularity, and fashion. Besides, the smart glasses have undergone in-depth innovation on the weight, battery life, and comfort of wearing, and dioptric adjustment is also available, which can truly realize a trouble-free journey worldwide for the users.
But how to make such an impeccable product? Qidi has come up with a vertical integration pattern, that is to perfectly match the top-level designs that suit the terminal ends with the basic operation system, drive system and algorithm, and maximize the energy efficiency of the scene circuit module, and fundamentally resolve the technological problems.
This requires the team to have the capability to develop new category hardware, to complete system construction, and to independently innovate core technologies, which is exactly the strength of Qidi's founding team. The key members in Qidi are from China's leading technology companies, such as Huawei and DJI, who have rich pioneering experiences in related industries. Besides the fact that this is a well-experienced and well-integrated team, it is also worth noted that the founder has successfully launched flagship products with a sales volume of over ten million, and has a deep understanding and pre-judgement of user needs, product development, and technology innovation.
"We have focused on making flagship phones all along, so the pursuit of high quality, elegant design and extreme user experience has become the gene of our team," says the founder of Qidi, "It's been more than ten years since we dealt with smart glasses. Based on our deep understanding of the core technologies, we believe that the tipping point of the relevant technologies is just around the corner. We hope to take on the role of China's technology innovator to explore a new definition of smart glasses, and make the perfect product that the users want, and ultimately take it as a lever to push forward a real smart society."
Investors' views
Liu Erhai, founder and managing partner of Joy Capital, says, "As the next-generation computing platform following personal computers and mobile phones, smart glasses are a promising product, but a bit technically difficult to make. Qidi team has been working in related fields for a long time, and mastered advanced technology and rich experience. I believe that their products will form an inseparable link in the metaverse ecosystem, and offer unprecedented and magical experiences for all users."
Wang Bingxing, director of Matrix Partners China, says, "At present, the global economies are facing more and more risks and uncertainties, but we still believe that groundbreaking technologies, innovative ideas, and new trend are the key to make a breakthrough. For the time being, wearable AR devices, such as smart glasses, are most likely to become the next-generation computing platform and interaction entrance, and all the future entertainment, education, work, and travel may be realized through these terminals. Qidi team has accumulated years of technical skills and R&D experiences in leading technology enterprises, and gained profound insight into consumer electronic products. They also have large-scale production experience and quality control ability. We are very optimistic about their future development, and look forward to seeing the innovative products made by them."
Ji Wei, founder and managing partner of Meridian Capital, says, "As the next-generation computing terminal to replace mobile phones, the terminal device of AR glasses and the upstream technology are maturing rapidly. Now is the right time to invest, and choosing Qidi is like taking a head start on the right racing track. We are very optimistic that Qidi team will become an important facilitator, or even a definer, on this long and bumpy track in the near future."
Liu Tianjie, Investment Director of Meridian Capital, says, "We are deeply impressed by Qidi team's outstanding industry background, R&D capabilities, and execution power. The team's huge success and experience in the development of many flagship mobile phone products is what AR device manufacturers can draw on, and sets an important basis for exploring the next-generation hot-sale smart devices. We hope that the funding will help Qidi to quicken their steps in making technological exploration and setting the scenes for making consumer AR products, and become a powerful driving force in the transformation of computing platforms."
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GOTHENBURG, Sweden, Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SKF announces the appointment of Henry Wang as President, China and Northeast Asia.
Henry is currently President of Alstom's operations in China and was previously CEO of KUKA in China. From 1997-2019, Henry held a number of roles in SKF, including as Head of Industrial Sales in China.
Henry has a Master of Business Administration from the University of Calgary and a Bachelor of Engineering from Shanghai Jiaotong University.
Rickard Gustafson, President and CEO, says: "Henry's leadership skills, experience and regional knowledge will help us accelerate our successful development across China and Northeast Asia."
Henry will join SKF on 8 October and replaces Patrick Tong, who, as previously announced, is retiring from SKF.
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Charles’ history with US presidents: He’s met 10 of past 14
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hanging out with Richard Nixon’s daughter Tricia at a White House “supper-dance.” Swapping stories with Ronald Reagan about horseback riding. Bending the ears of Donald Trump and Joe Biden about climate change.
King Charles III, who became head of state following the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, has made the acquaintance of 10 of the 14 U.S. presidents who have held office since he was born in 1948.
He was just 10 when he checked off his first president in 1959. That was when Dwight Eisenhower visited the queen and her family at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, where she died on Sept. 8 after a 70-year-reign.
“I guess you can’t start too early,” said Barbara A Perry, director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. She noted that Charles’ grandson, Prince George, was a toddler when Kensington Palace released a photograph of him shaking hands with Barack Obama during the president’s trip to London in 2016.
Charles never met Harry Truman, Gerald Ford, Lyndon Johnson and John F. Kennedy, Perry said.
His encounters with U.S. presidents included what he recalled as an “amusing” weekend visit to Nixon White House in 1970 with his sister Anne, when the 20-year-old future king — one of the world’s most eligible bachelors — sensed there was an effort afoot to set him up.
“That was the time when they were trying to marry me off to Tricia Nixon,” he later recalled.
The king has chatted up presidents on his visits to the U.S. and met others when they traveled in the United Kingdom. He was in the company of Donald Trump, Obama, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush when he represented the British monarchy at the state funeral for former President George H.W. Bush in 2018 in Washington.
Charles met President Joe Biden last year at a climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland.
The royal has visited America about 20 times since that memorable first trip in the Nixon years, he told CNN last year.
The royal siblings had been invited to Washington by Nixon’s daughters and son-in-law, Tricia Nixon, Julie Nixon Eisenhower and her husband, David Eisenhower, grandson of President Eisenhower, for that three-day visit in July 1970.
The young VIPs had a packed schedule that included frolicking at the Camp David presidential retreat, a nighttime tour of Washington’s monuments, museum visits, a luncheon cruise down the Potomac River to George Washington’s estate at Mount Vernon, Virginia, a dance on the South Lawn for 700 guests, and a Washington Senators baseball game.
Charles and Nixon also met in the Oval Office. But if the president had his heart set a union between his family and the royals, it wasn’t meant to be.
In June 1971, less than a year after Charles’ visit, Tricia married longtime beau Edward Cox in the White House Rose Garden. A decade later, in July 1981, Charles married Lady Diana Spencer. They divorced in 1996.
Nixon, himself, had pushed for Charles to visit the U.S. for the perceived public relations bonanza, according to a January 1970 memo he sent his national security adviser, Henry Kissinger.
“I think this could do an enormous amount of good for U.S.-British relations,” Nixon said. He wrote that he’d been told that Charles “is the real gem” of the royal family and “makes an enormously favorable impression wherever he goes.”
Charles returned the praise in a thank-you note.
“The kindness shown to us at the White House was almost overwhelming and for that we are immensely grateful,” the prince wrote to Nixon. “Both my sister and I take back to Britain the most heartwarming evidence of what is known as the special relationship between our two countries and of the great hospitality shown to us by you and your family.”
Many of the former Prince of Wales’ conversations with recent U.S. presidents centered on his interest in tackling climate change. Charles has campaigned for the environment for 50 years, but he acknowledged after becoming king that his new role requires that he set aside his activism on that and other issues.
Charles, 73, and Biden, 79, discussed global cooperation on the climate crisis last year while both attended a summit in Glasgow, Scotland. They also met at Buckingham Palace in June 2021 at a reception the queen hosted before a world leaders’ summit in Cornwall.
Biden rejoined the 2015 Paris climate agreement after Trump as president withdrew the U.S. from the accord.
Biden and the king spoke on Wednesday, with Biden offering his condolences over the queen.
Trump has said that during his visit with Charles, the former prince “did most of the talking” and pressed him on climate during a scheduled 15-minute meeting that stretched to 90 minutes in 2019 at Charles’ residence in London.
During a three-day visit to Washington in 2011, Charles, an advocate of environmentally friendly farming, met with President Obama. In a speech, he praised Michelle Obama’s campaign against childhood obesity and hunger, and U.S. manufacturers’ efforts to produce healthier foods.
He criticized U.S. government subsidies for large-scale agriculture and encouraged increased business and government support for organic and environmentally friendly food production.
In his toast at a White House dinner in 2005, the future king told President George W. Bush that the world looks to the United States “for a lead on the most crucial issues that face our planet and, indeed, the lives of our grandchildren.
“Truly, the burdens of the world rest on your shoulders,” he said.
In the remarks, Charles also said the trip reminded him of his first visit to America, “when the media were busy trying to marry me off to Tricia Nixon.”
Visiting with Reagan in the Oval Office in 1981, the two discussed their interest in horseback riding as a steward brought tea. But it was not served the British way.
Of the experience, Reagan later wrote in his diary:
“The ushers brought him tea -- horror of horrors they served it our way with a tea bag in the cup. It finally dawned on me that he was just holding the cup and finally put it down on the table. I didn’t know what to do,” Reagan confessed.
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AP News Researcher Rhonda Shafner in New York contributed to this report.
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Rapper Mystikal to be arraigned on rape, other charges
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Grammy-nominated hip-hop performer Mystikal is scheduled for arraignment on charges accusing him of raping and choking a woman, and illegally possessing drugs at his Louisiana home.
Charges the performer will face during his arraignment Monday will include first-degree rape, which carries an automatic life sentence if Tyler is convicted.
“My client is innocent of all charges,” attorney Joel Pearce said in a text message Thursday. He said the rapper, whose given name is Michael Tyler, had a court order to protect him from the woman, and he is “the true victim.”
Pearce said he hopes he will be allowed to present evidence supporting bond for Tyler, who has been held without bond since the end of July. A judge denied bond on Aug. 4, but Pearce, who did not then represent the performer, said it was not a full bond hearing that would take evidence in Tyler’s favor.
Tyler was arrested July 31 on charges accusing him of choking and raping the woman at his home in Prairieville, an Ascension Parish community of about 33,000 near Baton Rouge.
A news release Wednesday from the district attorney’s office said Tyler was indicted last week on 10 counts including rape, domestic abuse battery by strangulation and false imprisonment. Investigators who searched his home found “evidence to corroborate the victim’s account of the rape along with a variety of illegal narcotics,” the statement said.
An Ascension Parish grand jury brought the charges in two indictments handed up Sept. 6, The Advocate reported.
District Attorney Ricky Babin said in an email that because they are part of an ongoing criminal matter, the indictments are not public records under state law.
Pearce represented Tyler on rape and kidnapping charges that prosecutors in northwest Louisiana dropped in December 2020. Those charges, brought in 2017, had kept him jailed nearly 18 months before he was released on $3 million bond.
Mystikal told The Associated Press in April 2021 that he now is proud of lyrics he can imagine rapping to God.
His 2000 hit “Shake (It Fast) earned a 2001 Grammy nomination for best rap solo. In 2003, his “Tarantula” was nominated for best rap album and the single “Bouncin’ Back” for best male rap solo.
He pleaded guilty to sexual battery later in 2003. He served six years in prison.
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Ukrainian president: Mass grave found near recaptured city
IZIUM, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian authorities found a mass burial site near a recaptured northeastern city previously occupied by Russian forces, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced Thursday night.
The grave was discovered close to Izium in the Kharkiv region.
“The necessary procedures have already begun there. More information — clear, verifiable information — should be available tomorrow,” Zelenskyy said in his nightly televised address.
Associated Press journalists saw the site Thursday in a forest outside Izium. Amid the trees were hundreds of graves with simple wooden crosses, most of them marked only with numbers. A larger grave bore a marker saying it contained the bodies of 17 Ukrainian soldiers.
Investigators with metal detectors were scanning the site for any hidden explosives.
Oleg Kotenko, an official with the Ukrainian ministry tasked with reintegrating occupied territories, said videos that Russian soldiers posted on social media indicated there were likely more than 17 bodies in the grave.
“We haven’t counted them yet, but I think there are more than 25 or even 30,” he said.
Izium resident Sergei Gorodko said that among the hundreds buried in individual graves were dozens of adults and children killed in a Russian airstrike on an apartment building.
He said he pulled some of them out of the rubble “with my own hands.”
Zelenskyy invoked the names of other Ukrainian cities where authorities said retreating Russian troops left behind mass graves of civilians and evidence of possible war crimes.
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" Bucha, Mariupol, now, unfortunately, Izium. … Russia leaves death everywhere. And it must be held accountable for it. The world must bring Russia to real responsibility for this war,” he said in the address.
Sergei Bolvinov, a senior investigator for Ukrainian police in the eastern Kharkiv region, told British TV broadcaster Sky News that a pit containing more than 440 bodies was discovered near Izium after Kyiv’s forces swept in. He described the grave as “one of the largest burial sites in any one liberated city.”
Some of the people buried in the pit were shot. Others died from artillery fire, mines or airstrikes. Many of the bodies have not been identified yet, Bolvinov said.
Russian forces left Izium and other parts of the Kharkiv region last week amid a stunning Ukrainian counteroffensive. On Wednesday, Zelenskyy made a rare trip outside the capital to watch the national flag being raised over Izium’s city hall.
Deputy Interior Minister Yevhen Enin said Thursday night that other evidence found after Kyiv’s sweeping advance into the Kharkiv region included multiple “torture chambers” where both Ukrainian citizens and foreigners were detained “in completely inhuman conditions.”
“We have already come across the exhumation of individual bodies, not only with traces of a violent death, but also of torture — cut off ears, etc. This is just the beginning,” Enin said in an interview with Ukraine’s Radio NV.
He claimed that among those held at one of the sites were students from an unspecified Asian country who were captured at a Russian checkpoint as they tried to leave for Ukrainian-controlled territory.
Enin did not specify where the students were held, although he named the small cities of Balakliya and Volchansk as two locations where torture chambers were found. His account could not be independently verified.
“All these traces of war crimes are now carefully documented by us. And we know from the experience of Bucha that the worst crimes can only be exposed over time,” Enin said, in a reference to a Kyiv suburb where the bodies of hundreds of civilians were discovered following the Russian army’s withdrawal from the area in March.
Earlier Thursday, Zelenskyy said that during the five months the Russians occupied the region, they “only destroyed, only deprived, only took away.”
“They left behind devastated villages; in some of them there is not a single undamaged house. The occupiers turned schools into garbage dumps and churches — shattered, literally turned into toilets.”
In other developments Thursday, Zelenskyy worked to add political momentum to Ukraine’s recent military gains, while missile strikes that caused flooding near his hometown demonstrated Moscow’s determination to reclaim the battlefield advantage.
A week after the Ukrainian counteroffensive, Zelenskyy met with European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen during her third wartime visit to Kyiv. Von der Leyen publicly conveyed the wholehearted support of the 27-nation bloc and wore an outfit in Ukraine’s national colors.
“It’s absolutely vital and necessary to support Ukraine with the military equipment they need to defend themselves. And they have proven that they are able to do this, if they are well equipped,” she said.
Air raid sirens blared twice in Kyiv during von der Leyen’s meeting with Zelenskyy, a reminder that Russia has long-range weapons that can reach any location in Ukraine even though the capital has been spared attacks in recent weeks.
Ukrainian officials said Russian missiles late Wednesday struck a reservoir dam near Kryvyi Rih, Zelenskyy’s birthplace and the largest city in central Ukraine. The strikes flooded over 100 homes.
Russian military bloggers said the attack was intended to flood areas downstream where Ukrainian forces made inroads as part of their counteroffensive.
The head of the local government on Thursday reported a new attack on the dam and said emergency crews were working to prevent more water from escaping.
The first attack so close to his roots angered Zelenskyy, who said the strikes had no military value.
“In fact, hitting hundreds of thousands of ordinary civilians is another reason why Russia will lose,” he said.
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Hanna Arhirova in Kyiv and Joanna Koslowska in London contributed reporting.
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KIHEI, MAUI (KITV4) -- At least one humpback whale has made it's way into Hawaiian waters early this year.
Zach Schilling took video of a whale breaching about a mile off Cove Park in Kihei Wednesday morning.
Research ecologist with the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary, Marc Lammers, confirms this sighting was indeed the first.
"We don't know if this whale's going to stick around or if he's on his way potentially back to Alaska," Lammers explained. "It's hard to say. We would expect to start to see whales in a few weeks but this is a bit early."
Although it's hard to tell, Lammers said based on other reports it's likely a juvenile whale or one passing through from another location.
He said the last time Hawaii saw a whale this early was about five years ago.
Hawaii's whale season starts on November 15, but Lammers says we typically start see them by mid-October.
It then runs through April and early parts of May.
Lammers reminds everyone to use proper protocol when approaching whales.
"Just always keep an eye out during whale season because they are big animals and we want to make sure that all interactions with them are safe."
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Since joining KITV4 in 2016, Mika has also served as a multimedia journalist, weather, and traffic anchor.
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President Joe Biden criticized state Republican officials who have been sending migrants north this year to protest his administration's immigration policies, accusing them of "playing politics with human beings."
"Instead of working with us on solutions, Republicans are playing politics with human beings, using them as props. What they're doing is simply wrong. It's un-American, it's reckless and we have a process in place to manage migrants at the border. We're working to make sure it's safe and orderly and humane. Republican officials should not interfere with that process by waging these political stunts," Biden told attendees at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Gala on Thursday evening.
He added: "It's long overdue for Senate Republicans to come to the table and provide a pathway for citizenship for Dreamers, those in temporary status, farmworkers and essential workers. We need to modernise our laws so businesses get workers they need, and families don't have to wait decades to be brought back together. It's time to get it done."
Jean-Pierre accused the Florida and Texas governors of using migrants as "political pawns" and said their actions were "shameful ... reckless and just plain wrong."
"The fact that Fox News and not the Department of Homeland Security, the city or local (non-governmental organizations) were alerted about a plan to leave migrants, including children, on the side of a busy DC street makes clear that this is just a cruel, premeditated political stunt," Jean-Pierre told reporters at a White House briefing.
Two planes carrying migrants were sent by DeSantis to Martha's Vineyard on Wednesday night, his office said. Abbott says his state intentionally sent two buses of migrants to Harris' residence in the nation's capital and they arrived Thursday morning. An estimated 50 migrants arrived on Martha's Vineyard Wednesday on two planes, according to Massachusetts state Sen. Julian Cyr, a Democrat who represents the area. Dozens of migrants were left standing on the sidewalk and in the grass outside of the gated US Naval Observatory in Washington on Thursday morning.
The actions by the governors -- both fierce critics of the Biden administration -- are the latest series of moves by Republican governors to transport migrants to liberal cities and states to protest what they say are inadequate federal efforts on southern border security.
Jean-Pierre said the migrants were misled about where they were being taken and what would be provided upon their arrival, which she said was "deeply alarming."
"The children Gov. Abbott abandoned in Martha's Vineyard, the children that Gov. DeSantis abandoned as well, you know, deserve better. They deserve better than being left on the streets of DC or being left in Martha's Vineyard," Jean-Pierre said, erroneously attributing the migrants who were sent to Martha's Vineyard to Abbott.
Jean-Pierre said, "What they are doing is an illegal stunt, is a political stunt. And it's really just disrespectful to humanity. It doesn't afford them any dignity ... it is just cruel."
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A woman has been arrested and charged with calling in a false bomb threat last month to Boston Children's Hospital, which has been hit with a barrage of threats linked to its providing of gender-affirming care, US Attorney for Massachusetts Rachael Rollins said Thursday.
"Boston Children's Hospital has been subjected to a sustained harassment campaign based on the dissemination of information online regarding the services offered by the hospital's gender multi-specialty service, which, according to the hospital, provides individualized, safe, and affirmative care to gender-diverse and transgendered individuals and their families," Rollins said.
Catherine Leavy of Westfield, Massachusetts, was arrested Thursday by FBI agents at her home without incident and charged with one count of making a false telephonic bomb threat, said FBI Boston Special Agent in Charge Joseph Bonavolonta.
The hospital received a threatening phone call on August 30 which said, in part, "There is a bomb on the way to the hospital. You'd better evacuate everybody, you sickos," Rollins said.
The threat led to the hospital and surrounding areas being placed on lockdown and a bomb squad being dispatched, Rollins said, and it was determined "no explosive devices were located at the hospital."
Investigators were able to identify a cell phone account that made the call and linked it to Leavy "through court authorized search warrants and other techniques," according to Rollins. The telephone used to make the alleged threat was recovered when Leavy was arrested, she said.
While multiple threats have been called into the hospital, at this time Leavy is only being charged in connection with one call, Rollins said.
The 37-year-old appeared before a magistrate judge for an initial appearance Thursday afternoon, Rollins said, and will be held pending a detention hearing scheduled for Friday afternoon.
CNN has reached out to an attorney for Leavy for comment.
Boston Children's Hospital, which calls itself "home to the first pediatric and adolescent transgender health program in the United States," has said it faced a "large volume" of threats of violence for offering such care.
Gender-affirming care is medically necessary, evidence-based care using a multidisciplinary approach to help a person transition from their assigned gender -- the one they were designated at birth -- to their affirmed gender -- the gender by which they want to be known.
Major medical associations -- including the American Medical Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry -- agree gender-affirming care is clinically appropriate for children and adults.
Misinformation spread online has suggested Boston Children's performed gender-affirming genital surgeries on young children. The hospital says it provides overall care to children who identify as transgender or nonbinary, but surgeries are performed only on consenting adults.
Rollins would not comment on a motive for the alleged bomb threat but said, "Generally, health care providers who support and offer care to gender-diverse and transgendered individuals deserve to do so without fear."
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HEFEI, China, Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InfiRay Outdoor released the Thermal+ on August and will launch the Themal+'s products from early October .
At present, the only way to expand the night vision function for day scopes is to add a thermal imager in front of the daytime unit lens, that is, clip-on products. In this case, users will need to go hunting with at least a daytime optic and a thermal imager.
Thermal+ is another revolutionary innovation by InfiRay based on practical needs. It's based on the traditional optical path design, adding both a direct view channel and thermal imaging channel, making the original two beams of light share one optical channel to achieve seamless switching. Users can see the real view while seeing highlights by thermal imaging from daytime observation to night observation. In addition, Thermal+s image modes include thermal mode, AR highlight, and outline mode to satisfy various complex hunting observations.
If this Thermal+ become a reality, users don't need to change to a thermal imaginer when they hunt some targets which have similar color with surroundings. InfiRay Outdoor describes it in their press"When the target is hidden by the background environment, the see-through optics channel shows the normal view, while the thermal imaging channel highlights the target, helping users to discover the prey camouflaged in the background."
Get more information about Thermal+, please check the introduction video on their official channel:
https://www.youtube.com/c/InfiRayOutdoor
About InfiRay Outdoor:
InfiRay Outdoor is focused on the development of outdoor optoelectronic equipment, including thermal riflescope, handheld thermal monocular/binoculars, night vision riflescope, and other outdoor optical devices. Its sensor technology leads the industry. While the others were still staying at 17μm, InfiRay Outdoor has led the market with 12μm.
InfiRay Outdoor deeply understand the demands of customers for natural observation, hunting, etc. our products are designed to be ultra-clear, ultra-precision, ultra-reliable, powerful, and ergonomic to ensure a better experience for our users.
Based on excellent quality, reliability and experience, its products have been exported to more than 89 countries around the world.
InfiRay Outdoor, your trustworthy outdoor optoelectronic expert, helps you explore and discover new horizons!
The official website: https://www.infirayoutdoor.com
Email:infirayoutdoor@infiray.com
Tel : +86-400-998-3088
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JAKARTA, Indonesia, Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In May 2022, Changhong launched its new Android Smart TV G7N series in Indonesia. Following the launch, the series has been received enthusiastically in the market and by consumers.
With impressive sales, the series soon claimed the top spot on the smart TV product ranking of Indonesia's largest e-commerce platform Shopee. It also achieved outstanding sales on platforms such as Lazada, Tokopedia, Jd.ID, Akulaku and Blibli. Meanwhile, videos about user experiences of the series posted on TikTok by Indonesian celebrities and influencers have gained over 3 million views.
G7N is an intelligent voice TV product series developed by Changhong. It comes equipped with the Android 11 operating system and over 5,000 apps available for users to choose from. All television products in the series support 2.4G/5G dual WiFi bands, ensuring a more stable wireless signal and higher transmission speed. With HDR 10 video image decoding technology, the series delivers more realistic visual effects. By working with dbx-tv acoustic engineers, the G7N series also offers the best sound experience. The series comes in the most popular sizes in the Indonesian market -- 32", 40", and 43", while its bezel-less design allows for a larger screen.
Since its launch, the G7N series is currently a best seller in Indonesia, thanks to both consumers' recognition of the product and their trust in the Changhong brand.
Founded in 1958, Changhong is an integrated multinational conglomerate that brings together consumer electronics, core device development and manufacturing. The more-than-six-decades-old brand is valued in 2022 at approximately US$27 billion and has been named as one of the World's 500 Most Valuable Brands multiple times over the last ten years.
In 1998, Changhong became the first Chinese brand to enter the Indonesian market. With over 20 years of development in the market, Changhong now boasts a comprehensive manufacturing base on the archipelago, integrating production, warehousing, sales, logistics and after-sales services. The company sells TVs, air conditioners, refrigerators and freezers, through Indonesia's many mainstream online and offline channels. Changhong has been selected by Indonesian consumers as the most popular home appliance brand numerous times.
To meet consumer demand for smarter, high-end products, Changhong launched the CHiQ brand in 2014 and introduced it to the Indonesian market in 2021. The brand is dedicated to providing consumers with smarter home appliances and services to create a comfortable, environmentally friendly, smart and fun home environment. Today, the CHiQ brand has entered more than 30 countries and regions in Europe, Australia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and the Americas, and has expanded its presence on more than 40 e-commerce platforms, with product categories covering TVs, refrigerators, air conditioners, washing machines, monitors, portable air conditioners, batteries, and floor sweepers, among others.
Changhong plans to continue to grow its footprint in the Indonesian market, with more debuts of differentiated and intelligent products, along with ongoing enhancement in product quality and services, to provide Indonesian consumers with increasingly comprehensive and smart life solutions.
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BEIJING, Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit was held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, from Thursday to Friday. The summit attracted international attention as it took place at a special time. How to interpret the significance of Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to Central Asia? Why has the SCO become a model of successful regional cooperation? Global Times invited four experts from Russia and Central Asian countries to share their views.
Anton Bugayenko, chief expert of the Chinese and Asian studies program under the Institute of World Economy and Politics in Kazakhstan
Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to Central Asia comes as significant changes are taking place in the political environment and the socio-economic sphere of countries in the region. Central Asia and China are interested in joint development, and the current global turbulence has pushed both sides to cooperate closer with each other.
Kazakhstan is where President Xi Jinping first proposed the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) back in 2013. Kazakhstan's leadership is positive about the results of cooperation under the BRI. Kazakhstan has received notable dividends from participating in the BRI. In particular, it increased the diversification of the economy by shoring up the manufacturing industry. The diversification of Kazakh exports has also increased through the supply of non-oil goods to the Chinese market, from rolled steel and ore to agricultural products. With the help of Chinese investment, Kazakh authorities are addressing the development of less economically developed provinces.
Oleg Ivanov, deputy head of the International and National Security Department, Diplomatic Academy, Moscow.
The SCO promotes wide cooperation and security based on common interests and international law. Therefore, countries neighboring the SCO do not feel threatened when more countries join the organization. Willingness of more countries to join as members indicates that the organization is becoming more and more attractive and is growing.
The SCO is a vivid example of diversity of the international community, where different countries find common ground for mutually beneficial cooperation. The SCO summit is sure to be a clear evidence that evolving multipolar world has a non-Western strong pillar that the world community can rely on.
Sheradil Baktygulov, an independent political analyst based in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
International cooperation is based on multilateral institutions and the SCO is a model of successful regional cooperation. The SCO has managed to unite countries with different cultural and civilizational codes, and different foreign policy guidelines and models of national development. In a short historical period, the SCO has come a long way, becoming an integral element of the modern global political and economic world order.
The SCO makes all decisions on the consensus base. It doesn't matter how big a territory or economy of this or that country is. The matter is goodwill to mutually benefiting cooperation on a wide range of real world issues.
The SCO introduces the goodwill approaches. The human values, solid international legal base, good relations among countries, good relations among peoples represent some examples of goodwill approaches. Thus the SCO is providing new opportunities to all interested countries in mutually benefiting economic growth. And none of the member states dictates to another what should be done.
Farkhod Tolipov, director of the Non-Governmental Research Institution "Knowledge Caravan," Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
The SCO can make its important and tangible contribution to mitigating conflicts by, for example, strengthening peace and security in its own "zone of responsibility."
For example, two members of the SCO - India and Pakistan - are in cleavage and conflict over Kashmir. If SCO strategically manages to really contribute to mitigation of this territorial dispute, it would be a strong example for other countries and regions of dealing with conflict-prone issues.
Moreover, SCO is better positioned for realization of multiple projects on activation of cooperation in political, economic, trade, cultural-humanitarian and other spheres. From its inception, the SCO has served as a forum for mobilization of member-states for multi-faceted cooperation. We can argue that it helped to nurture and prepare environment for what is today called Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). In other words, Shanghai Spirit is on the background of BRI; and success of the latter will be linked to a great extent to the success and efficiency of the former.
Global Times: https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202209/1275267.shtml
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