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US-UK relations enter new chapter as new PM, king settle in
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden headed to the United Kingdom on Saturday to pay his respects to Queen Elizabeth II at a time of transition in US-UK relations, as both a new royal and a new prime minister are settling in.
The hawkish approach of Prime Minister Liz Truss to Russia and China puts her on the same page as Biden. But the rise of Truss, 47, who once called the US-UK relationship “special but not exclusive,” could mark a decidedly new chapter in the trans-Atlantic partnership on trade and more.
Of high concern for Biden officials in the early going of Truss’s premiership is her backing of legislation that would shred parts of the post-Brexit trading arrangements in Northern Ireland. Analysts say the move could cause deep strain between the UK and the European Union, and undermine peace in Northern Ireland. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the move “would not create a conducive environment” for crafting a long-awaited U.S.-UK trade deal coveted by Truss and her Conservative Party.
“She’s signaled that she’s willing to go to the mattresses on this and that’s going to cause a rift not just between the UK and EU, but the UK and the U.S.,” said Max Bergmann, director of the Europe program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington and a former senior State Department official in the Obama administration. “It’s one that’s going to keep the White House up at night.”
Biden and Truss had been set to meet Sunday, but the prime minister’s office said Saturday they would skip the weekend hello, opting instead for a meeting at the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, though Truss still planned to gather with other world leaders converging on London for the royal funeral. The White House confirmed the U.N. meeting just as the president boarded Air Force One.
The two close allies now find themselves in a period of political uncertainty on both sides of the Atlantic. Not unlike his fellow septuagenarian Biden, King Charles III faces questions from the public about whether his age will limit his ability to faithfully carry out the duties of the monarch.
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.
Truss finds herself, as Biden does, facing questions about whether she has what it takes to lift a country battered by stubborn inflation borne out of the coronavirus pandemic and exacerbated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine unleashing chaos on the global energy market.
All the while, Britain — and the rest of Europe — is carefully watching to see what the upcoming U.S. midterm elections will bring for the Democratic American president after he vowed upon taking office that “America is back” to being a full partner in the international community after four years of Republican Donald Trump pushing his “America First” worldview.
“It certainly is a time of change and transformation in the UK,” said Barbara A. Perry, presidential studies director at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. She added, “We don’t know what will happen in our midterms. We don’t know what will happen in 2024.”
Truss, a former accountant who was first elected to Parliament in 2010, hasn’t had much interaction with Biden. The U.S. president called her earlier this month to congratulate her. Truss, as foreign secretary, accompanied her predecessor, Boris Johnson, on a White House visit last year.
It’s been more than 75 years since Winston Churchill declared there was a “special relationship” between the two nations, a notion that leaders on both sides have repeatedly affirmed. Still, there have been bumps along the way.
Tony Blair was derisively branded by the British tabloids as George W. Bush’s “poodle” for backing the 2003 American-led invasion of Iraq. David Cameron and Barack Obama had a “bromance,” but Obama also had his frustrations with the Brits over defense spending and the UK’s handling of Libya following the 2011 ouster of Muammar Gaddafi.
Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan forged a close alliance in the midst of the Cold War, with the prime minister once telling students that the Republican president’s “really good sense of humor” helped their relationship. But there were difficulties too, such as when Thatcher and members of her Cabinet bristled at the Reagan administration’s initial neutrality in the Falklands War.
The White House wasn’t expecting Truss’s announcement in May, when she was foreign secretary, that the government would move forward with legislation that would rewrite parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol. The agreement was part of the UK’s 2020 Brexit withdrawal from the EU that was designed to avoid a hard north-south border with Ireland that might upset Northern Ireland’s fragile peace.
Now, in the first weeks of Truss’s premiership, Biden administration officials are carefully taking the measure of the new British leader. Analysts say there is some trepidation in the administration that undercutting the Northern Ireland protocol could plunge Europe into trade turmoil at a moment when Biden is working mightily to keep the West unified in confronting Russia over its aggression against Ukraine.
“Brexit could once again become the issue -- the issue that can make it difficult for all of Europe to work together at a time when it is critical for Europe to work together,” Bergmann said. “If you’re the Biden administration, this is not the time for the two of your closest partners getting into fights.”
To be certain, there were areas of friction between Biden and Johnson, who had a warm rapport with former President Donald Trump.
Biden staunchly opposed Brexit as a candidate and had expressed great concern over the future of Northern Ireland. Biden once even derided Johnson as a “physical and emotional clone” of Trump.
Johnson worked hard to overcome that impression, stressing his common ground with Biden on climate change, support for international institutions and most notably by making certain Britain was an early and generous member of the U.S.-led alliance providing economic and military assistance to Ukraine in the aftermath of the Russian invasion.
The former prime minister also unsuccessfully pressed Biden starting days into his administration to begin negotiations on a new U.S.-UK trade deal just as the U.K. regained control over its national trade policy weeks before Biden took office and following the end of a post-Brexit transition period.
But Biden largely kept focus on his domestic to-do list in the early going of his presidency—passing trillions in spending on coronavirus relief, infrastructure, and more—and put negotiations on trade deals on the back burner.
Elliot Abrams, chairman of the conservative foreign policy group Vandenberg Coalition, said that Truss needs Biden to make a new U.S.-UK trade deal a priority. Queen Elizabeth’s funeral won’t be the setting for tough bilateral conversations, but it still marks a moment for the two leaders’ to begin taking stock of each other.
Truss, who succeeded Johnson after he was forced to resign in the face of a string of scandals, has lagged in the opinion polls. She also won her election with a smaller margin than her recent predecessors and is looking for an early win.
“I think if I were (Truss), I want recognition of the leading role Britain’s played, far more than any other country outside the United States in supporting Ukraine,” said Abrams, who served in senior national security and foreign policy roles in the Trump, George W. Bush and Reagan administrations. “And I think I’d want some positive economic message to give the British people, which could be that the free trade agreement negotiations are starting.”
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SAN ANTONIO, Sept. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pursuant to Section 9-610 of the Uniform Commercial Code, GEMCAP SOLUTIONS, LLC, as servicer and attorney-in-fact for secured party GEMCAP HOLDINGS, LLC (the "Secured Party"), will hold a secured party public sale to the highest and best bidder for cash, with reserve, will be conducted telephonically by the Secured Party on Wednesday, September 28, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. Central Standard Time (the "Public Sale"). Qualified Bidders (defined below) may attend the Public Sale telephonically.
The Secured Party is conducting the Public Sale to foreclose the security interest held by the Secured Party in and to substantially all of the personal property assets of BEDFORD VENTURES, INC., a California corporation (the "Borrower"), including, without limitation, (i) inventory ("Inventory"), (ii) intellectual property, including, but not limited to the following trademarks and trade names: ACTIVE, ACTIVE COMPOSITE, ACTIVE RIDE SHOP, TRIANGLE DESIGN; the following domain name: www.activerideshop.com; and the Borrower's customer list (collectively, the "Intellectual Property"), (iii) accounts receivable, (iv) trade fixtures, and (v) equipment and machinery (collectively, the "Collateral").
The Secured Party is conducting the Public Sale to foreclose the lien and security interest held by the Secured Party in and to the Collateral. At the Public Sale, all of Borrower's right, title and interest in and to the Collateral will be sold "as is" and "where is" and the Secured Party shall make no representation or warranty, either express or implied, relating to title, use, quiet enjoyment, possession, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, completeness, condition or the like, all of which are hereby disclaimed, in the sale or disposition of the Collateral. In addition, the Collateral is being sold (i) free and clear of Secured Party's liens and any subordinate security interests, and (ii) without recourse to Secured Party, its attorneys and representatives. The Public Sale of the Collateral, if made, shall be to the highest and best bidder.
The Secured Party reserves the right to adjourn or cancel the Public Sale.
In order to participate in the bidding process, each person or entity (a "Potential Bidder") must deliver to the undersigned (i) an executed confidentiality agreement in form and substance acceptable to Secured Party, (ii) current financial statements of the Potential Bidder or other evidence acceptable to Secured Party that will show the financial ability of the Potential Bidder to purchase the Collateral, (iii) a completed and executed Asset Purchase Agreement in the form provided by Secured Party, and (iv) a deposit in an amount equal to ten percent of the bid amount which will be held in escrow. A Potential Bidder that complies with the foregoing requirements shall be deemed a "Qualified Bidder". Those Qualified Bidders participating at the Public Sale shall be provided with the telephone number and passcode to attend the Public Sale and shall be given the opportunity to bid on a competitive basis.
At the Public Sale, each of the Inventory and the Intellectual Property will be offered for sale in separate lots and the Collateral will be offered as a single lot. At the conclusion of the Public Sale, the successful bidder(s) must pay the final bid amount in full by a wire transfer of funds to the Secured Party. The Secured Party reserves the right to credit bid on any or all of the Collateral at the Public Sale. The Secured Party reserves the right to reject all bids, adjourn or cancel the Public Sale.
For further details regarding the Collateral, obtaining the confidentiality agreement and the form asset purchase agreement, and information regarding the Public Sale, you may contact GemCap Solutions, LLC, 9901 I.H. 10 West, Suite 800, San Antonio, TX 78230 Attn: David Ellis, or by telephone at (310) 494-1437.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of TuSimple Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: TSP): (i) pursuant and/or traceable to the offering documents issued in connection with the Company's initial public offering conducted on or about April 15, 2021 (the "IPO"); and/or (ii) between April 15, 2021 and August 1, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important October 31, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased TuSimple securities 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 TuSimple class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=8026 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 31, 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, the IPO documents were negligently prepared and, as a result, contained untrue statements of material fact or omitted to state other facts necessary to make the statements made not misleading and were not prepared in accordance with the rules and regulations governing their preparation. Additionally, the complaint alleges that, throughout the Class Period, defendants made materially false and misleading statements regarding TuSimple's business, operations, and prospects. Specifically, the IPO documents and defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) TuSimple's commitment to safety was significantly overstated and defendants concealed fundamental problems with the Company's technology; (2) TuSimple was rushing the testing of its autonomous driving technology in order to deliver driverless trucks to the market ahead of its more safety-conscious competitors; (3) there was a corporate culture within TuSimple that suppressed or ignored safety concerns in favor of unrealistically ambitious testing and delivery schedules; (4) the aforementioned conduct made accidents involving TuSimple's autonomous driving technology more likely; (5) the aforementioned conduct invited enhanced regulatory scrutiny and investigatory action toward TuSimple; and (6) as a result, defendants' 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 TuSimple class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=8026 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.
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The recent transfer of Venezuelan migrants to Martha's Vineyard resembles the "Reverse Freedom Rides" of 60 years ago, when white supremacist groups bused Black southerners to the North.
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The recent transfer of Venezuelan migrants to Martha's Vineyard resembles the "Reverse Freedom Rides" of 60 years ago, when white supremacist groups bused Black southerners to the North.
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Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, and new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our weekend show emphasizes interviews with writers, filmmakers, actors and musicians, and often includes excerpts from live in-studio concerts. This week:
Nina Totenberg looks back on her decades-long friendship with Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The NPR legal affairs correspondent met the future SCOTUS justice in the early '70s, when Totenberg interviewed Ruth Bader Ginsburg for a story about a decision pertaining to women's rights.
The Free Form Funky Freqs blend jazz, R&B, rock and a little space music: The Funky Freqs came up playing the post-Corea jazz-rock style known as free funk — music with fewer complicated melodies and more earthy grooving. Their new album is Hymn of the Third Galaxy.
From 'Dreamgirls' to 'Abbott Elementary,' Sheryl Lee Ralph forged her own path: Ralph won an Emmy for her role as a no-nonsense kindergarten teacher on Abbott Elementary. She says classroom management is about "letting [kids] know that boundaries are there for a reason."
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Nina Totenberg looks back on her decades-long friendship with Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The Free Form Funky Freqs blend jazz, R&B, rock and a little space music
From 'Dreamgirls' to 'Abbott Elementary,' Sheryl Lee Ralph forged her own path
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India held a day of mourning for Queen Elizabeth II. But her death has largely prompted indifference, or even anger, in the Commonwealth's biggest country.
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India held a day of mourning for Queen Elizabeth II. But her death has largely prompted indifference, or even anger, in the Commonwealth's biggest country.
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Scott Simon is one of America's most admired writers and broadcasters. He is the host of Weekend Edition Saturday and is one of the hosts of NPR's morning news podcast Up First. He has reported from all fifty states, five continents, and ten wars, from El Salvador to Sarajevo to Afghanistan and Iraq. His books have chronicled character and characters, in war and peace, sports and art, tragedy and comedy.
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BALTIMORE — A court hearing has been set for Monday in Baltimore to consider a request from prosecutors to vacate the 2000 murder conviction of Adnan Syed, whose case was chronicled in the hit podcast "Serial."
Baltimore Circuit Judge Melissa Phinn scheduled the hearing for 2 p.m., The Baltimore Sun reported.
The development comes after Baltimore prosecutors filed a motion Wednesday saying a lengthy investigation conducted with the defense had uncovered new evidence that could undermine the conviction of Syed.
Syed has served more than 20 years in prison for the strangling of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee, who was 18 when she was killed in 1999. Her body was found buried in a Baltimore park.
Syed, 42, has maintained his innocence for decades and captured the attention of millions in 2014 when the debut season of the "Serial" podcast focused on the case and raised doubts about some of the evidence, including cellphone tower data.
Prosecutors said in their motion that they weren't asserting that Syed is innocent but they lacked confidence "in the integrity of the conviction" and recommended he be released on his own recognizance or bail.
"We believe that keeping Mr. Syed detained as we continue to investigate the case with everything that we know now, when we do not have confidence in results of the first trial, would be unjust," State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby said.
According to a motion filed in the case, Maryland law says prosecutors generally have 30 days after a conviction is vacated to decide whether to drop the charges or to retry the case, the Sun reported.
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The South American country of Chile has become a center of lithium mining, which has boomed as demand for electric car batteries has risen. But what are the environmental costs?
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The South American country of Chile has become a center of lithium mining, which has boomed as demand for electric car batteries has risen. But what are the environmental costs?
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The recent transfer of Venezuelan migrants to Martha's Vineyard resembles the "Reverse Freedom Rides" of 60 years ago, when white supremacist groups bused Black southerners to the North.
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The recent transfer of Venezuelan migrants to Martha's Vineyard resembles the "Reverse Freedom Rides" of 60 years ago, when white supremacist groups bused Black southerners to the North.
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Delegate Sally Hudson on Virginia tax rebates
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - In the next few weeks, taxpayers in Virginia could soon be seeing some extra cash in the form of a tax rebate.
“A tax rebate is an opportunity for the state to send a check back to you for some of the taxes that you paid, that we didn’t spend on state investments,” Delegate Sally Hudson (D) said.
An individual who paid Virginia state taxes can receive up to $250, and those who filed jointly can receive up to $500.
“You can get up to the amount that you’ve paid in state taxes, so if a couple only owed $400 in state taxes, that couple could only get $400 back, but it’s a maximum $250 for an individual and $500 for a couple,” Hudson said.
The rebate comes after the Northam Administration found excess money in the state budget.
“Tax rebates were an important part of the budget package that came out this year, because we know how many people are struggling with the rising cost of living,” Hudson said.
If eligible, the money will come in the same form that your tax refund did, either via direct deposit or a check.
“If you don’t get yours right away, don’t worry, they will roll them out over the course of two or three weeks, so you should expect to see it in your mailbox by mid October,” Hudson said.
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Sarah Sanders released from hospital after cancer surgery
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Former White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, a Republican who is running for governor in Arkansas, was released from a hospital Saturday after undergoing surgery for thyroid cancer.
“Following successful surgery on Friday to remove her thyroid and surrounding lymph nodes and in consultation with her physician, Sarah was discharged from an Arkansas hospital—cancer free,” said Sanders spokesperson Judd Deere. “She will spend the remaining portion of her recovery at home.”
Deere told The Associated Press that Sanders, 40, plans to resume campaigning “soon,” but it was not known precisely when she would return.
Sanders said Friday when announcing the surgery that a biopsy earlier this month revealed she had thyroid cancer.
Dr. John R. Sims, a surgeon at CARTI Cancer Center in Little Rock who is one of Sanders’ doctors, said Sanders’ cancer was a stage 1 papillary thyroid carcinoma, the most common type of thyroid cancer and said she has an “excellent” prognosis.
Sims said Sanders will need adjuvant treatment with radioactive iodine and long-term continuing care.
Sanders, who served as former President Donald Trump’s spokeswoman until 2019, is running against Democratic nominee Chris Jones. She is the daughter of former Gov. Mike Huckabee.
Jones and his wife, Jerrilyn, on Friday issued a statement saying their family was thinking of Sanders and praying for her.
Sanders is heavily favored in the predominantly Republican state of Arkansas to win the office currently held by Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson, who is leaving office in January due to term limits.
She’s run primarily on national issues in the Arkansas race, promising to use the governor’s office to fight President Joe Biden and the “radical left.”
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- Five late-breaking presentations at TCT 2022 highlight the impact of Abbott's structural heart devices to repair or replace heart valves and close openings in the heart
- New data reinforce the safety and effectiveness of MitraClip™ for treating mitral regurgitation
- Results also demonstrate the benefits of Abbott's TriClip™ for tricuspid regurgitation, Amulet™ for stroke reduction in patients with atrial fibrillation and Portico™ for aortic stenosis
ABBOTT PARK, Ill., Sept. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Abbott (NYSE: ABT) today announced data from five late-breaking presentations showing the benefits of its minimally invasive devices in treating people with a range of structural heart diseases. Data include findings that reinforce the value of MitraClip™, the world's first and leading transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) device, to treat leaky valves in people with mitral regurgitation (MR).
The new data around Abbott's structural heart therapies were presented at the 34th Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) annual scientific symposium of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation in Boston (September 16-19, 2022). Results were also presented on TriClip™, the first therapy designed specifically for tricuspid heart valve repair; the Amplatzer™ Amulet™ Left Atrial Appendage Occluder, a minimally invasive option offering the most complete closure of the left atrial appendage (LAA) to reduce risk of stroke; and Portico™, a self-expanding transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) system.
Structural heart diseases such as valve disease or openings in the heart that require closure can impair how the heart moves blood through the body. New minimally invasive technology has changed how physicians approach patient care and limits the need for more complex or risky surgery.
MitraClip EXPAND G4 Post-Approval Study
Data presented from the prospective, multi-center, global real-world EXPAND G4 study support the safety and effectiveness of the MitraClip G4 system for treating MR. The study represents the largest report of 30-day core lab-assessed outcomes, which included more than 1,000 patients. The data confirm that MitraClip offers high success rates in terms of MR reduction, improvements in quality of life and low adverse event rates.
Key findings through 30 days include:
- Significant MR reduction to mild or less (≤ grade 1+ on a four-point scale) is achieved in 91% of patients, with lowest reported adverse event rates to date (1.3% all-cause mortality at 30 days)
- Clinical improvements including 83% of patients achieving New York Heart Association (NYHA) Functional Class I/II (a classification of functional limitations resulting from cardiac disease, with Class I/II meaning slight or no limitation of physical activity), an improvement of 52% from baseline of 31%; and an 18-point improvement in the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ) score (a self-assessment of social abilities, symptoms and quality of life), a 35% improvement from baseline score
- Multiple clip sizes enable tailoring the therapy to patients' mitral valve anatomy and expand the spectrum of TEER-suitable patients
"MitraClip therapy has fundamentally changed the way doctors treat mitral regurgitation, provides a valuable therapy option that does not require open-heart surgery, and goes beyond simply managing symptoms with medications," said Jason Rogers, M.D., professor of cardiovascular medicine and director of interventional cardiology and structural heart training programs at the University of California, Davis Medical Center. "These late-breaking data demonstrate and strengthen the evidence that Abbott's MitraClip system consistently reduces MR in a broad range of patients, while restoring proper function of the mitral valve and improving patients' quality of life."
The MitraClip system has been commercially available in the U.S. since 2013 and in Europe since 2008. With more than 150,000 patients treated worldwide, MitraClip is approved in more than 75 countries, spanning regions in Asia, Africa, Europe, the Americas and Australia.
"These results add to what's been proven through nearly two decades of clinical experience in transcatheter mitral repair – MitraClip provides long-term, significant mitral regurgitation reduction that changes and saves lives," said Michael Dale, senior vice president of Abbott's structural heart business. "Abbott was the first to offer a transcatheter mitral valve repair device that provides a minimally invasive treatment option for patients with MR who would otherwise go untreated, and we remain committed to addressing the unmet needs of people with structural heart conditions."
First Results from the TriClip TRILUMINATE Pivotal Trial
TRILUMINATE Pivotal is the first randomized, controlled clinical trial evaluating the safety and effectiveness of TEER with TriClip in 700 patients with severe TR in the U.S., Canada and Europe. The data from the roll-in cohort through 30 days show:
- High implant success rate (99%)
- At least a one-grade TR reduction in 91% of patients, with moderate or less residual TR achieved in 74%
- Patients achieving around a 17-point improvement in the KCCQ score, a 30% improvement from baseline score, which demonstrates a substantial improvement in their quality of life
Three-Year Outcomes from the Amulet IDE Study
The Amplatzer Amulet LAA Occluder with dual-seal technology (consisting of a lobe or piece to fill the cavity of the LAA and a disc to close off the opening into the LAA) is the first and only minimally invasive treatment option to offer immediate and complete dual-sealing closure of the LAA, reducing the risk of stroke and eliminating the need for blood-thinning medication. The prospective, international, multi-center Amulet IDE trial is the largest randomized LAA occlusion study to date consisting of more than 1,800 patients, and three-year outcomes demonstrate the safety and effectiveness of Amulet, with data showing:
- Device-related factors (device-related thrombosis or peri-device leak) more frequently preceded strokes in patients with Boston Scientific's Watchman‡ than those with Amulet
- Both cardiovascular and all-cause death trended higher in the Watchman device than the Amulet device
PREDICT-LAA Trial (Amulet)
Data were also presented from the PREDICT-LAA prospective, multi-center, randomized controlled trial that studied if the use of cardiac computed tomography-based computational models (high-resolution scans of patients' hearts generated by FEops HEARTguide‡) help in the planning of Amplatzer Amulet procedures. Key findings at three months include:
- Improved procedural efficiency and safety outcomes with the Amplatzer Amulet LAA Occluder were achieved when planned with HEARTguide
Portico CONFIDENCE Registry
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BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, Sept. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The St. Kitts and Nevis National Emergency Management Association has been closely monitoring Tropical Storm Fiona, and the storm has passed the Federation. As a result, Robert L. Bradshaw International Airport is once again open and operating at full capacity, as of 17 September at 12:00 p.m. AST.
"The Federation's main priority was the safety of our citizens and international guests, and we are watching closely and sending well-wishes to our neighbours as the storm continues to move," said Honourable Marsha Henderson, Minister of Tourism, International Transport, Civil Aviation, Urban Development, Employment, and Labour. "We thank our first responders and our tourism and business partners who together ensured our preparedness plans were put in place efficiently across the island. St. Kitts is open for business."
Stay up to date on revised travel and flights for St. Kitts at www.stkittstourism.kn or on our social media channels Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
About St. Kitts
Where the Atlantic meets the Caribbean, you will find the captivating island of St. Kitts, an exciting oasis that beguiles the senses. Once known as the gateway to the Caribbean, St. Kitts invites you to Awake Your Sense of Wander and journey the island of a thousand treasures. Wander the secluded beaches and rainforests that stretch for miles. Hear the pulsating sounds of nature as you explore via ziplines, mini speed boats, and jeep safaris. Take a leisurely ride on the Caribbean's only authentic scenic passenger train, hike to the rim of a dormant volcano, dive into an ancient shipwreck. Embrace the scents of a smoky, sizzling beach barbecue, and taste culinary delights fresh from the sea. Indulge your wanderlust in one-of-a-kind attractions such as the UNESCO recognized Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park. Ignite your sense of style with Caribbean flair and the pure artistry as you feel the fabrics of Caribelle Batik. The serene beauty of the tropical island allows your mind and spirit to wander. Let the sun warm your soul and the island to tempt your thirst for exploration. For more information about St. Kitts, visit www.stkittstourism.kn.
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"The world's biggest yoga protest" brought together hundreds of climate-justice practitioners to demand better business practices from the athleisure-wear giant.
VANCOUVER, BC, Sept. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On Saturday, September 17, roughly 100 yoga practitioners and concerned citizens gathered outside lululemon headquarters at 11:00 AM PST to participate in "Yoga for Coal-Free Fashion," billed as "the world's biggest yoga protest." The intention behind this 90-minute event was to urge lululemon to publicly commit to quit coal and transition to 100 percent renewable energy across its supply chain by 2030. Participants flowed through yoga poses, did breathing exercises, and blasted the brand for environmentally destructive actions that sharply contradict its yogic values.
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"We held this yoga protest today to remind lululemon that doing yoga is more than selling leggings. It's about aligning our values with what we practice – something that lululemon has failed to do with its sustainability plans," Eredene Batz, Digital Campaigner at Stand.earth said. "As a brand focused on health and wellness, lululemon's failure to stop using coal in its factories and cutting its toxic pollution is a letdown for its customers and the yoga community."
This week lululemon released a report showing it increased the climate pollution from manufacturing its products by a shocking 60% in just 12 months. lululemon's target of reducing its emissions intensity by 60% already falls short of the needs of the moment, but the report showed that in the last year lululemon's emissions intensity actually increased by as much as 9%. With 2030 rapidly approaching, lululemon now faces the enormous challenge of cutting its emissions intensity by more than half in just eight years if it plans to reach its target. Without a commitment to transition its supply chain to 100% renewable energy that is local and additional to the grid by 2030, lululemon's emissions will continue to rise.
"Just this week, lululemon reported the climate pollution from manufacturing its products jumped by over 60% in a single year. The reason is simple: lululemon's rapid growth is being fueled by an increased reliance on coal and other fossil fuels" said Gary Cook, Global Climate Campaign Director at Stand.earth. "CEO Calvin McDonald must follow the lead of companies like H&M, Puma and Apple who have committed to shift their factories off fossil fuel to 100% renewable electricity."
"lululemon's supply chain is polluting our air and climate," said Tina Pashumati James, a Senior Ashtanga yoga teacher and owner of Loka Yoga, who led the yoga class. "We're here to hold lululemon accountable for failing to commit to quit coal and switch to renewable energy by 2030 - and for betraying their staff, customers, the climate, impacted communities and violating their own values."
For more than a year, Stand.earth has called on lululemon — one of the biggest, most profitable, and fastest-growing sportswear brands in the world — to
address the impacts of its supply chain on climate change and the public health of local communities..its contributions to climate change. In February 2022, Stand.earth criticized the company's Team Canada Olympics gear for contributing to climate change and threatening the very future of winter sports (See photos). In November 2021, Stand.earth released an analysis revealing that despite lululemon's participation in fashion industry climate initiatives, and despite its commitment to reduce emissions in the coming decade, the company's supply chain emissions actually increased in 2020.
Stand.earth's Fossil-Free Fashion Scorecard, released in August 2021, benchmarked 47 top fashion companies on their efforts to tackle climate change. The report broadly failed the fashion industry on its efforts to address climate change, and gave lululemon a D– for failing to take meaningful action to work with suppliers to increase renewable energy use in its supply chain, phase out coal usage, or advocate for or sourcing renewable energy for its factories.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of 17 Education & Technology Group Inc. (NASDAQ: YQ) pursuant and/or traceable to the registration statement and related prospectus (collectively, the "Registration Statement") issued in connection with 17EdTech's December 2020 initial public offering (the "IPO"), of the important September 19, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline, in the securities class action commenced by the Firm.
SO WHAT: If you purchased 17EdTech 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 17EdTech class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=7395 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 19, 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, the IPO Registration Statement featured false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Defendant 17EdTech's K-12 Academic AST Services would end less than a year after the IPO; (2) as part of its ongoing regulatory efforts, Chinese authorities would imminently curtail and/or end 17EdTech's core business; and (3) as a result, Defendants' statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the 17EdTech class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=7395 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.
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Sarah Sanders released from hospital after cancer surgery
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Former White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, a Republican who is running for governor in Arkansas, was released from a hospital Saturday after undergoing surgery for thyroid cancer.
“Following successful surgery on Friday to remove her thyroid and surrounding lymph nodes and in consultation with her physician, Sarah was discharged from an Arkansas hospital—cancer free,” said Sanders spokesperson Judd Deere. “She will spend the remaining portion of her recovery at home.”
Deere told The Associated Press that Sanders, 40, plans to resume campaigning “soon,” but it was not known precisely when she would return.
Sanders said Friday when announcing the surgery that a biopsy earlier this month revealed she had thyroid cancer.
Dr. John R. Sims, a surgeon at CARTI Cancer Center in Little Rock who is one of Sanders’ doctors, said Sanders’ cancer was a stage 1 papillary thyroid carcinoma, the most common type of thyroid cancer and said she has an “excellent” prognosis.
Sims said Sanders will need adjuvant treatment with radioactive iodine and long-term continuing care.
Sanders, who served as former President Donald Trump’s spokeswoman until 2019, is running against Democratic nominee Chris Jones. She is the daughter of former Gov. Mike Huckabee.
Jones and his wife, Jerrilyn, on Friday issued a statement saying their family was thinking of Sanders and praying for her.
Sanders is heavily favored in the predominantly Republican state of Arkansas to win the office currently held by Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson, who is leaving office in January due to term limits.
She’s run primarily on national issues in the Arkansas race, promising to use the governor’s office to fight President Joe Biden and the “radical left.”
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The South American country of Chile has become a center of lithium mining, which has boomed as demand for electric car batteries has risen. But what are the environmental costs?
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The South American country of Chile has become a center of lithium mining, which has boomed as demand for electric car batteries has risen. But what are the environmental costs?
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County says 'no health and safety concerns' following landfill fire
Liz Shepard
Port Huron Times Herald
County officials said there are no health or safety concerns after a fire broke out at the Smiths Creek Landfill, 6779 Smiths Creek Road in Kimball Township Saturday.
"Kimball Township Fire Department, along with multiple community fire departments and site operators, are working to contain the fire. There are currently no health and safety concerns and the fire is being contained within the Smiths Creek Landfill," the county said in a press release.
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'It’s like Trick or Treating for adults': Mi New Favorite Snack Competition announces winners
All of Vantage Point smelled of sweet and savory snacks because of the Mi New Favorite Snack Competition Saturday.
The competition was a celebration of both Michigan small businesses and love for food. It was put on and sponsored by the Blue Water Chamber of Commerce, the Community Foundation of St. Clair County and All-Star Services.
“The turnout has been great, and the vendors have just been wonderful. I’m really looking forward to next year’s competition,” said Thelma Castillo, president of the Blue Water Chamber of Commerce.
According to the organizers, this is the largest snack competition in America.
All 20 finalists were Michigan-based small businesses. Out of those finalists, Beth Welser was the only one from St. Clair County. She is the owner of Dot’s Candy Bar in St. Clair and has plans to open her own store in the Wrigley Center.
She said she is proud to represent St. Clair County for the competition.
“It’s like trick or treating for adults,” she said. “This has been such a wonderful and positive experience.”
Welser said she loved seeing the faces of people who tried her snack, which was a peanut butter bar. She said it gave her a boost in confidence to see their reactions.
Lansing resident Nikki Thompson-Fraizer represented her business Sweet Encounters. She started her business as a way for her daughters, who have food allergies, to enjoy sweet treats. All of her products are peanut and gluten free.
Her snack in the competition was a caramel apple cream cheese bar.
“I think (the competition) is a great way to spread awareness of and support small businesses,” she said. “Kudos to the organizers.”
Litchfield resident, Stefen Schmelzer represented his farm, Ferry Farms, and brought 12 different kinds of sweet and savory beef jerky.
Schmelzer said the competition is a great way for Michigan businesses to receive new clients.
“It’s good to bring out Michigan companies because we need to support Michigan-based companies,” he said.
People in the community had the opportunity to come out and enjoy some snacks. For $10, people could receive a wristband that allowed them to try all 20 snacks for free. People who didn’t buy a wristband could buy the product straight from the vendor.
Port Huron Mayor Pro-Tem Sherry Archibald said she was happy to support the vendors. Although it was hard for her to choose, she said her favorite snack was either from Sweet Encounters or Pop City Popcorn.
“I’m not a big sweet eater,” she said. “I enjoyed sampling all the snacks, and it was hard to choose a favorite.”
Keith Kanter of Port Huron also said he glad to support the Michigan businesses. He said the competition was a great way to bring people to the Blue Water Area.
“I liked hearing the businesses stories,” he said. “This competition is really great for the Michigan local.”
He said the competition was a win-win for everyone involved.
First place went to Harrison Township resident, Andrew Chmielewski. He is the owner of Dave's Sweet Tooth and his snack was a milk chocolate toffee. Chmielewski won $30,000 and a distribution contract with All Star Services.
Second place went to Wyoming resident, Emme Eknam. She is the owner of Emme's Plantain Chips and her snack was masala plantain chips. She won $15,000.
Third place went to Whitmore Lake resident Jeff Dinser. He is the owner of Popside Snacks and his snack was freeze dried gummy worms. He won $5,000.
Judges based it off of taste, marketability, company story, branding and public engagement.
Contact McKenna Golat at mgolat@gannett.com or (810) 292-0122.
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NEW YORK — "The Phantom of the Opera" — Broadway's longest-running show — is scheduled to close in February 2023, the biggest victim yet of the post-pandemic softening in theater attendance in New York.
The musical — a fixture on Broadway since 1988, weathering recessions, war and cultural shifts — will play its final performance on Broadway on Feb. 18, a spokesperson told The Associated Press on Friday. The closing will come less than a month after its 35th anniversary.
It is a costly musical to sustain, with elaborate sets and costumes as well as a large cast and orchestra. Box office grosses have fluctuated since the show reopened after the pandemic — going as high as over $1 million a week but also dropping to around $850,000. Last week, it hit $867,997 and producers may have seen the writing on the wall.
Based on a novel by Gaston Leroux, "Phantom" tells the story of a deformed composer who haunts the Paris Opera House and falls madly in love with an innocent young soprano, Christine. Andrew Lloyd Webber's lavish songs include "Masquerade," ″Angel of Music," ″All I Ask of You" and "The Music of the Night."
The first production opened in London in 1986 and since then the show has been seen by more than 145 million people in 183 cities and performed in 17 languages over 70,000 performances. On Broadway alone, the musical has played more than 13,500 performances to 19 million people at The Majestic Theatre.
The closing of "Phantom" would mean the longest running show crown would go to "Chicago," which started in 1996. "The Lion King" is next, having begun performances in 1997.
Broadway took a pounding during the pandemic, with all theaters closed for more than 18 months. Breaking even usually requires a steady stream of tourists, especially to "Phantom."
The closure was first reported Friday by the New York Post.
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Move over, Jeff Bezos.
India's richest man, Gautam Adani, shot past the Amazon founder this week in the rankings of the world's wealthiest people.
According to lists maintained by Forbes and Bloomberg, Adani's fortune lies somewhere between $147 billion and $152 billion, putting him at No. 2 (Bloomberg) or No. 3 (Forbes) on the lists.
Bezos currently boasts around $147 billion in total net worth, placing him third (Bloomberg) or fourth (Forbes).
A shakeup in who ranks highest among the ultrarich saw several people cycle through the second position on Friday, according to The Washington Post.
Though Adani ranks ahead of Bezos in both lists, LVMH luxury goods magnate Bernard Arnault comes up second-richest in one tally and fourth in the other.
The Times of India reported that Adani increased his wealth this year by nearly $61 billion thanks to a series of deals that have seen the industrialist's portfolio expand into cement, airports, coal and more. Adani is the first Asian to make the top three in the list of richest people.
The top spot on both lists still belongs to Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.
In a report released earlier this year, Oxfam noted that the 10 richest men on Earth doubled their wealth during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic while the incomes of 99% of the global population suffered.
Amazon is among NPR's financial supporters.
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Bridgewater dominates NC Wesleyan, improves to 3-0
Published: Sep. 17, 2022 at 4:03 PM EDT|Updated: 31 minutes ago
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - The Bridgewater College football team remains undefeated in 2022.
The Eagles earned a 48-7 road win at N.C. Wesleyan Saturday afternoon in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Quarterback Jaylen Wood accounted for 161 total yards and two touchdowns for Bridgewater. Six different players found the end zone for BC in the victory.
Bridgewater improves to 3-0 overall. The Eagles have bye week next Saturday before hosting Hampden-Sydney to open ODAC play on October 1.
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Fire at Los Angeles strip mall kills 17 cats at pet hotel
Published: Sep. 17, 2022 at 4:00 PM EDT|Updated: 34 minutes ago
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Fire Department says 17 cats were killed at a pet hotel and a firefighter was injured when a blaze ripped through a strip mall where the facility is located.
More than 120 firefighters were dispatched to the blaze in the Palms neighborhood of Los Angeles after a passerby reported the fire around 5:45 a.m. Saturday.
The fire was confined to a few structures but heavy smoke poured through adjacent businesses including the pet hotel called Cat Place LA, where 17 cats perished and two were rescued.
The injured firefighter was being treated at a local hospital.
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Sheriff: 2 small planes collide mid-air near Denver, 3 dead
Published: Sep. 17, 2022 at 3:28 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
LONGMONT, Colo. (AP) — Colorado authorities say three people are dead after two small airplanes collided in mid-air near Denver.
The Boulder County Sheriff’s Office says two people were found dead in the wreckage of one of the planes and a third person was found dead in the second aircraft.
The collision happened just before 9 a.m. Saturday.
‘The National Transportation Safety Board says in a statement that it is investigating a collision between a Cessna 172 and a Sonex Xenos aircraft near Longmont, Colorado.
Longmont is about 30 miles north of Denver.
The identities of the victims have not been released.
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Woman’s body found buried under debris days after California mudslides
FOREST FALLS, Calif. (KCAL) - The body of a woman who was unaccounted for after a series of mudslides in California has been found.
Search and rescue teams sifted through several feet of mud and debris inside a home in Forest Falls, California, for several days until they found the body of Doris Jagiello, 62, underneath.
“We were waiting for it and we didn’t want it to happen. But we knew it was going to,” her neighbor, Olin Richey, said. “When you have boulders the size of cars being moved, there’s not much hope with that.
Jagiello is remembered as an accomplished artist, published poet, and beloved grandmother.
Richey said she was a kind-hearted woman and he feels for her family who she lived with.
“Thoughts and prayers go out to her and her family,” Richey said.
Jagiello’s son hugged search teams Wednesday, thanking them for looking for his mom.
The same mudslide that killed Jagiello swept a Jeep away and ripped a wall off the house of Richey’s family.
“That’s the worst of it. It took out the entire wall right there,” Richey said, gesturing to a collapsed part of the house.
On the other side of the wall is Richey’s room, where a wall caved in.
“If I would have been home at the time it would have seriously injured, if not killed me,” Richey said. “So, I’m counting my blessings.
Jagiello’s friends said they feel blessed to have known her. They described her to be sensitive and happy living in Forest Falls with her family.
Search teams were able to salvage a few of her things for them, including several of her paintings and one of her dogs, who was found alive two days after the flash flood.
Jagiello first went missing on Monday during the rainstorm that led to several mudslides and flooding throughout southern California.
Officials said they hope finding her will bring her family some closure.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Carvana Co. (NYSE: CVNA) between May 6, 2020 and June 24, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important October 3, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline in the securities class action commenced by the firm.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Carvana 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 Carvana class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=6457 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 3, 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, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Carvana faced serious, ongoing issues with documentation, registration, and title with many of its vehicles; (2) as a result, Carvana was issuing unusually frequent temporary plates; (3) as a result of the foregoing, Carvana was violating laws and regulations in many existing markets; (4) as a result of the foregoing, Carvana risked its ability to continue business and/or expand its business in existing markets; (5) as a result of the foregoing, Carvana was at an increased risk of governmental investigation and action; (6) Carvana was in discussion with state and local authorities regarding the above-stated business tactics and issues; (7) Carvana was facing imminent and ongoing regulatory actions including license suspensions, business cessation, and probation in several states and counties including in Arizona, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and North Carolina; and (8) as a result, defendants' statements about Carvana's business, operations, and prospects, were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the Carvana class action, go https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=6457 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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LAS VEGAS, Sept. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Shooting Sports Foundation® (NSSF®), the U.S. Concealed Carry Association (USSCA), the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and Bass Pro Shops distributed firearm safety and suicide prevention resources, including free gun locks, at a special Fall Outdoor Sports and Firearm Safety Event today to help prevent firearm accidents, thefts and misuse, and to bolster suicide prevention efforts across the city.
"Secure storage is the number one way to help prevent unauthorized access to firearms," said Joe Bartozzi, President and CEO of NSSF, The Firearm Industry Trade Association. "Since September is also Suicide Prevention Month, this is a great opportunity to talk about preventing access by at-risk individuals. We are grateful to USSCA, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, Bass Pro Shops and all our local partners for joining us in this effort to save lives."
NSSF has provided resources to support the local effort through its nationwide Project ChildSafe® initiative. Project ChildSafe encourages gun owners to secure their firearms when they're not in use with a gun lock, lock box or other device, to store ammunition separately, and to talk with their kids about gun safety. The program has also partnered with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department to make thousands of free gun locks available to residents.
"These locks and materials are available to everyone – no questions asked," said Sheriff Joseph Lombardo of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. "We want to encourage anyone who has a gun in their home to take the steps to store it securely and responsibly when not in use. It really can make our community safer and help save lives."
To support suicide prevention efforts, the local effort also offers a free resource for parents focused on teen mental health and firearm storage, developed through a partnership between NSSF and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
Today's event was organized largely by representatives of USCCA, as part of a larger "Project ChildSafe Las Vegas" community campaign, with support from several local vendors, including Homeland Personal Protection, At the Ready, The Gun Store, Sheepdog Armory, Las Vegas Office of Suicide Prevention, Clark County Fire Department, Intermountain Healthcare, Movinque BBQ and Kona Ice.
"When it comes to our children and people in our homes, we want to prevent any type of firearm, especially those that are loaded, from being accessible, stolen or misused. If these firearms are left unsecured and available, that's a tragedy waiting to happen, and it's so easily preventable," said Paul Martinez with USCCA.
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LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE, Calif., Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mother Earth Vinegar, best known for introducing organic apple cider vinegar with "the mother" in Costco, is launching the first and only organic apple cider vinegar superfood tea pods to retailers across the United States. These k-pods come in six delicious flavors: Snappy Ginger Lemon Savory, Apple Blueberry Of My Eye, It Takes Two To Apple Mango, My Main Squeeze Orange Peel Basil, Passion-ate About Green Tea and Sweet Dreams Are Chamomile Tea. The pods are a perfect organic blend of apple cider vinegar, dried fruit and herbs. These organic apple cider vinegar pods are kosher, caffeine-free, plant-based and recyclable. They also provide antioxidants and a natural boost of energy. All of the k-pods are Keurig 2.0 compatible.
"We listened to our health conscious customers. They want the health benefits they get when drinking organic apple cider vinegar – however, they did not enjoy the taste. We invented the organic apple cider vinegar superfood brews and teas with delicious taste, ease, and convenience in mind. The result is they taste like tea and not like vinegar," said Mother Earth Vinegar President Sandi Enriquez who has launched three national organic vinegar brands during her career.
By inventing unique products with delicious flavors, Mother Earth has re-envisioned what it means to be an organic vinegar company. Mother Earth Essentials Superfood Tea Pods have been featured in: POPSUGAR, Men's Health, and Insider. The success of Mother Earth organic vinegar has attracted retailers such as Costco US, Costco Canada, Costco Mexico, Publix, Kroger and Wegmans. A 12 pack of pods have a suggested retail price of $12.99. The complete line of Mother Earth products is available on Amazon and at motherearthvinegar.com.
Mother Earth Vinegar is an innovative organic vinegar brand on a mission to completely redefine how customers use and consume organic apple cider vinegar. Mother Earth offers: organic apple cider vinegar, organic red wine vinegar, organic white distilled vinegar, and organic superfood tea pods. For more information, visit motherearthvinegar.com and follow us on instagram @motherearthorganicvinegar.
Media Contact: Sandi Enriquez, sandie@getsaucedfoods.com
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NEW YORK, Sept. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: New York, N.Y., September 17, 2022. Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Abbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT) between February 19, 2021 and June 8, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important October 31, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Abbott 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 Abbott class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=8453 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 31, 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) according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA"), Abbott had "egregiously unsanitary" conditions at its Sturgis, Michigan facility which produced nearing half of Abbott's various forms of infant formula under the brands Similac, Alimentum, and EleCare; (2) as a result, Abbott's infant formula business was in dire jeopardy given the flagrant violations of federal and state health and safety regulations; (3) based on inspections by the FDA between 2019 and 2022, Abbott failed to establish process controls "designed to ensure that infant formula does not become adulterated due to the presence of microorganisms in the formula or in the processing environment" and Abbott also failed to "ensure that all surfaces that contacted infant formula were maintained to protect infant formula from being contaminated by any source"; (4) the unhygienic conditions of the Sturgis facility resulted in the recall of Abbott's infant formula and closure of the Sturgis facility; and (5) as a result, defendants' public statements about Abbott's business, operations, and prospects 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 Abbott class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=8453 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.
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Online shopping is king, so it’s time for the independent fashion boutique to capitalize on the craze for locally sourced products.
Cheyenne has its share of boutiques throughout downtown, the majority of which sell women’s apparel. They’re relatively spread out and difficult to find – unless a person takes the time to wander the streets on a given afternoon.
In essence, the Cheyenne Downtown Business Association events committee decided to pull seven of the shops together and bring them – and their models – to the streets.
On Sept. 22, head to the back parking lot behind the Paramount Cafe for The Fashion Experience: A Downtown Fashion Show and Boutique Crawl, featuring a full-length runway.
Stacy Koch, a member of the CDBA events committee, said the event was created to expose local businesses to residents that might not devote much time to downtown.
“The organization is looking at ways to bring the community downtown,” Koch said. “But my personal belief is that if you get out of your car and walk around downtown, you find the beauty that exists down here already.
“So getting people out of their car and finding a good reason to be downtown will help grow our downtown community and people spending money downtown will support all of our businesses.”
The back patio of the Paramount, referred to as “The Garden,” is usually dressed up in vegetation, outdoor tables on woven rugs and dim mood lighting. This space will be restructured for the fashion show, broken down and organized into a sea of chairs surrounding a catwalk stretching out into the parking lot.
On the catwalk, models who are selected and dressed by the different boutiques in town, will strut the runway showing off the offerings of local fashion outlets. After a 30-minute show, boutiques will return to their storefronts and offer special deals on their clothing until 9 p.m.
Alexis Drake, Little Moon Boutique, Luxury Lane Boutique, The One & Only Boutique, Legacy Brand Collective, The Emporium and Indigo Buffalo Turquoise will be featured in the show.
Koch’s hope is that this will bring some exposure to the participating businesses, and display what downtown has to offer. The business association plans to continue this series and promote downtown Cheyenne through varied community events.
The series wouldn’t just be limited to clothing.
“The goal is to turn this event into a series we do once a quarter,” Koch said. “We’ll feature a different industry each quarter. Some of the ideas we’ve tossed around are doing ‘a taste of Cheyenne,’ where we have all of our restaurants giving out know small bites to taste, getting people walking around downtown.”
The Downtown Fashion Show is free. Attendees can reserve a a four-person table for $100, which includes a bottle of wine.
Will Carpenter is the Wyoming Tribune Eagle’s Arts and Entertainment/Features Reporter. He can be reached by email at wcarpenter@wyomingnews.com or by phone at 307-633-3135. Follow him on Twitter @will_carp_.
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Suddenly, Seymour is taking the stage at the Historic Atlas Theatre.
It’s been a long time coming, but the main character of the cult-favorite musical Little Shop of Horrors is hardly the star of the show. That title would go to the 10-foot-tall, foul mouthed, carnivorous plant – a big, mean mother from outer space.
Little Shop of Horrors enjoys an odd history, first appearing as a comedy film of the same name in 1960. This variation of the story was largely ignored, though well received, and only regained prevalence when it was adapted into an off-Broadway production in 1982. The show, which featured a small cast and small musical accompaniment, played to equally small audiences.
The show’s popularity grew rapidly from being a community theater production to occupying some of the bigger stages in the U.S. and London – a place it, really, was never meant to be.
The 1986 film, which starred Rick Moranis; Ellen Greene, who played the lead role of Audrey in the original production; and Steve Martin, only increased its presence.
Little Shop is a worthy example of a diamond in the rough. Even today, replicating the original off-Broadway version of the stage play is the most intimate, and effective, way to present the off-kilter story.
Director and longtime Cheyenne Little Theater Players member Rory Mack is keeping this at the forefront of the cast and crew’s preparation for Sept. 23’s opening night. Those who expect a re-creation of the popular movie adaptation will be, hopefully, pleasantly surprised.
“People that are only familiar with the movie have a lot of surprises, because the ending is different,” Mack told the Wyoming Tribune Eagle at Thursday night’s rehearsal. “Some of the music is different. It’s a different experience.”
The Little Theatre production is an attempt to present the musical how it was originally intended.
“This is the 40th anniversary year of Little Shop of Horrors being off-Broadway,” Mack said. “It was off-off-Broadway – way off – and it played in a theater that seated about 100 people. That was their regular. They just they started selling it out and selling it out, so they moved it to a bigger theater that was about at 350 capacity and then kept selling that out.
“This is not designed to play to 1,000 people. This is designed to be an intimate, close show because the audience should feel claustrophobic.”
Simple stage
The stage is simple.
It features the storefront of the small, failing plant shop where the socially awkward Seymour works and lives in the skid row of an unnamed city. Mr. Mushnik, played by Jacob Smith, and co-lead Audrey, played by Kristen Kasper, are typically seen there with him.
More often, he’s caring for Audrey II, a mysterious plant that begins to draw business to the store.
Characters step through the single doorway of the shop, singing doo-wop inspired show tunes in the street, while background singers perform and interact with characters throughout the play. Graffitied brick walls stretch out into the audience, and sometimes characters maneuver between tables during numbers.
It’s an elevated performance. The cast manages not to dip into being silly – a difficult balance to strike.
“Even in the introduction to the script, it says, ‘These characters need to be sincere,’” Mack said. “It’s not a heavy handed parody or anything like that. These people need to live in a real world that they live in, yet they need to emulate the movies of the 1950s and ‘60s.”
Audrey
This is especially true when it comes to Audrey. It takes a big personality and a bigger voice to recreate the original character played by Greene, a difficult task for any actor.
After a stint in Washington, D.C., Cheyenne native Kristen Kasper returned not only to her hometown, but to the Little Theater. She landed the lead role of Audrey in her first production since she moved away in 2015.
“It’s hard to separate myself from her, because a lot of Audrey really is Ellen Greene,” Kasper said. “It’s kind of like bringing my own light and perspective to the role, but maintaining her innocence and her persona.”
The actors of Little Shop seem to share a perspective on this production – they’re all stepping into a bucket-list role. This applies to both Kasper and Marshall Brown, who will remain on-stage almost constantly as protagonist Seymour, as well as the inhuman star of the show.
Trevor Warren carries the same excitement as his co-leads. The funny part is, the audience won’t see his face, except for one scene in the performance. But he voices arguably the most important character in the show – Audrey II.
Audrey II
Audrey II is a strange role to play, and one of the only aspects of the CLTP production that will borrow more heavily from the movie than the original stage play. Warren, a resident of Fort Collins, Colorado, has been making the hour-long commute up to Cheyenne nearly every day for the past several weeks to lend his sonorous voice to the plant’s imposing presence.
“I’ve done theater for years and years and done nothing even close to this,” Warren said. “I warm up, generally, for about two, two and a half hours before the show. It’s a combination because (his voice) has to sit very, very low, but then he has to do the same thing when he’s on the other end and go way higher.”
Since Warren is voicing Audrey II, he’s tucked behind the curtains the entire time while puppeteers, Amanda Byzewski and William Blansfield, are controlling the increasingly large variations of the plant.
To prepare, Warren and the puppeteers would sit next to one another, repeating lines and sticking to one vocal inflection that the puppeteers simply have to trust Warren will hit the mark during every single show.
Though they’re still a week out from opening day, the pairs have rehearsed enough to be well in sync.
“It takes time to get used to it, but when the show comes and you start talking, you start seeing it come together,” Warren said. “It’s a lot. It’s very challenging. It’s a lot of work, but in the end it’s it’s incredibly rewarding.”
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Blue skies continue to grace us through the weekend
Things will remain dry overnight.
We’ve had a wonderful week so far and that’s not going to change this weekend, Let’s start off by taking a quick look at the tropics.
Tropical Storm Fiona is sitting just off the coast of Puerto Rico. Hurricane Warnings have been issued for Puerto Rico ahead of the storm’s arrival on Sunday. Fiona looks to be a little more organized today with intensification expected over the next few days. Right now, it looks like it will curve up away from the east coast and back off to sea, though we will be keeping a close eye on it as it is still too early to tell.
Overnight we will see mostly clear skies though we might see some fog building in some spots. Temperatures overnight will be in the mid 50s.
Tomorrow will be another dry day. Temperatures will be sitting in the mid to upper 70s. We’ll see mostly sunny skies once again, so it’ll be a perfect day to mow the lawn if you’ve been putting it off. Overnight temperatures will be sitting in the low 60s once again.
Taking a look ahead, things will remain dry though next week and into the weekend. We might see an overnight shower on Monday but it’s a very small chance.
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Fire at Los Angeles strip mall kills 17 cats at pet hotel
Published: Sep. 17, 2022 at 4:00 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Fire Department says 17 cats were killed at a pet hotel and a firefighter was injured when a blaze ripped through a strip mall where the facility is located.
More than 120 firefighters were dispatched to the blaze in the Palms neighborhood of Los Angeles after a passerby reported the fire around 5:45 a.m. Saturday.
The fire was confined to a few structures but heavy smoke poured through adjacent businesses including the pet hotel called Cat Place LA, where 17 cats perished and two were rescued.
The injured firefighter was being treated at a local hospital.
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Sheriff: 2 small planes collide mid-air near Denver, 3 dead
Published: Sep. 17, 2022 at 3:28 PM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
LONGMONT, Colo. (AP) — Colorado authorities say three people are dead after two small airplanes collided in mid-air near Denver.
The Boulder County Sheriff’s Office says two people were found dead in the wreckage of one of the planes and a third person was found dead in the second aircraft.
The collision happened just before 9 a.m. Saturday.
‘The National Transportation Safety Board says in a statement that it is investigating a collision between a Cessna 172 and a Sonex Xenos aircraft near Longmont, Colorado.
Longmont is about 30 miles north of Denver.
The identities of the victims have not been released.
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Woman’s body found buried under debris days after California mudslides
FOREST FALLS, Calif. (KCAL) - The body of a woman who was unaccounted for after a series of mudslides in California has been found.
Search and rescue teams sifted through several feet of mud and debris inside a home in Forest Falls, California, for several days until they found the body of Doris Jagiello, 62, underneath.
“We were waiting for it and we didn’t want it to happen. But we knew it was going to,” her neighbor, Olin Richey, said. “When you have boulders the size of cars being moved, there’s not much hope with that.
Jagiello is remembered as an accomplished artist, published poet, and beloved grandmother.
Richey said she was a kind-hearted woman and he feels for her family who she lived with.
“Thoughts and prayers go out to her and her family,” Richey said.
Jagiello’s son hugged search teams Wednesday, thanking them for looking for his mom.
The same mudslide that killed Jagiello swept a Jeep away and ripped a wall off the house of Richey’s family.
“That’s the worst of it. It took out the entire wall right there,” Richey said, gesturing to a collapsed part of the house.
On the other side of the wall is Richey’s room, where a wall caved in.
“If I would have been home at the time it would have seriously injured, if not killed me,” Richey said. “So, I’m counting my blessings.
Jagiello’s friends said they feel blessed to have known her. They described her to be sensitive and happy living in Forest Falls with her family.
Search teams were able to salvage a few of her things for them, including several of her paintings and one of her dogs, who was found alive two days after the flash flood.
Jagiello first went missing on Monday during the rainstorm that led to several mudslides and flooding throughout southern California.
Officials said they hope finding her will bring her family some closure.
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VSP respond to emergency plane landing on I-66
Published: Sep. 17, 2022 at 4:31 PM EDT|Updated: 34 minutes ago
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - Virginia State Police said they responded to a report of a small plane making an emergency landing on Interstate 66 near mile marker in Warren County around 10:43 a.m. Saturday morning.
A preliminary investigation showed an engine failure in the aircraft.
No one was injured.
The incident remains under investigation.
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Peter Gehle details the life in the minor league before unionization as the Major League Baseball Player's Association begins to represent all professional baseball players.
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Peter Gehle details the life in the minor league before unionization as the Major League Baseball Player's Association begins to represent all professional baseball players.
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The rising singer-songerwriter from Rochester, New York, talks about finding success after 40 in music, working with Billie Eilish's manager, and leaving behind a career as a public defender.
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The rising singer-songerwriter from Rochester, New York, talks about finding success after 40 in music, working with Billie Eilish's manager, and leaving behind a career as a public defender.
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Michel Martin is the weekend host of All Things Considered, where she draws on her deep reporting and interviewing experience to dig in to the week's news. Outside the studio, she has also hosted "Michel Martin: Going There," an ambitious live event series in collaboration with Member Stations.
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With Disney's live-action version of The Little Mermaid, a new generation of fans will have a new princess under the sea, played by African American actor Halle Bailey.
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With Disney's live-action version of The Little Mermaid, a new generation of fans will have a new princess under the sea, played by African American actor Halle Bailey.
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Chris Stirewalt, author of Broken News: Why the Media Rage Machine Divides America & How to Fight Back, says the country's leading news organizations have leaned into a model that fosters division.
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Chris Stirewalt, author of Broken News: Why the Media Rage Machine Divides America & How to Fight Back, says the country's leading news organizations have leaned into a model that fosters division.
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As NPR's Miami correspondent, Greg Allen reports on the diverse issues and developments tied to the Southeast. He covers everything from breaking news to economic and political stories to arts and environmental stories. He moved into this role in 2006, after four years as NPR's Midwest correspondent.
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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Denise Gilman, co-director of the Immigration Clinic at the University of Texas School of Law, about whether there was a legal basis to the actions.
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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Denise Gilman, co-director of the Immigration Clinic at the University of Texas School of Law, about whether there was a legal basis to the actions.
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Peter Gehle details the life in the minor league before unionization as the Major League Baseball Player's Association begins to represent all professional baseball players.
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Peter Gehle details the life in the minor league before unionization as the Major League Baseball Player's Association begins to represent all professional baseball players.
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The rising singer-songerwriter from Rochester, New York, talks about finding success after 40 in music, working with Billie Eilish's manager, and leaving behind a career as a public defender.
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The rising singer-songerwriter from Rochester, New York, talks about finding success after 40 in music, working with Billie Eilish's manager, and leaving behind a career as a public defender.
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Updated September 17, 2022 at 5:32 PM ET
HAVANA — Tropical Storm Fiona was expected to become a hurricane as it neared Puerto Rico on Saturday, threatening to dump up to 20 inches (51 centimeters) of rain as people braced for potential landslides, severe flooding and power outages.
The storm already lashed several eastern Caribbean islands, with one death reported in the French territory of Guadeloupe. Regional prefect Alexandre Rochatte said the body was found on a roadside after a home washed away in the capital of Basse-Terre. More than 20 other people were rescued amid heavy wind and rain that left 13,000 customers without power, with the storm tearing up roads, downing trees and destroying at least one bridge.
Fiona was centered 70 miles (115 kilometers) south of St. Croix late Saturday afternoon, with maximum sustained winds of 60 mph (95 kph). It was moving west at 9 mph (15 kph) on a path forecast to pass near or over Puerto Rico on Sunday night. Fiona was expected to become a hurricane before reaching Puerto Rico's southern coast.
"We are already starting to feel its effects," Puerto Rico Gov. Pedro Pierluisi said at a news conference in which the lights briefly went out as he spoke, prompting groans and laughs across the island. "We should not underestimate this storm."
Officials said the heavy rains anticipated would be dangerous because the island's soil is already saturated.
"We're not saying that the winds aren't dangerous, but we are preparing for a historic event in terms of rain," said Ernesto Morales, a forecaster with the National Weather Service in San Juan.
Many Puerto Ricans worried about serious power outages since the reconstruction of the island's power grid razed by Hurricane Maria in 2017 only recently began. The grid remains fragile and power outages occur daily, with some 37,000 customers already in the dark Saturday.
Luma, the company that operates the transmission and distribution of power on the island, said it flew in an extra 100 lineworkers ahead of the storm but warned of "significant" outages over the weekend.
Fiona was forecast to swipe past the Dominican Republic on Monday as a potential hurricane and then Haiti and the Turks and Caicos Islands with the threat of extreme rain.
Forecaster posted a hurricane watch for the U.S. Virgin Islands as well as the southern coast of the Dominican Republic from Cabo Engaño westward to Cabo Caucedo and for the northern coast from Cabo Engaño westward to Puerto Plata.
In Puerto Rico, authorities opened shelters and closed public beaches, casinos, theaters and museums as they urged people to remain indoors. Officials also transferred hundreds of endangered Puerto Rican parrots to their shelter.
"It's time to activate your emergency plan and contact and help your relatives, especially elderly adults who live alone," said Dr. Gloria Amador, who runs a nonprofit health organization in central Puerto Rico.
Pierluisi said $550 million in emergency funds were available to deal with the storm's aftermath along with enough food to feed 200,000 people for 20 days three times a day.
At least one cruise ship visit and several flights to the island were canceled, while authorities in the eastern Caribbean islands canceled school and prohibited people from practicing aquatic sports as Fiona battered the region.
On Guadeloupe, authorities said they recorded wind gusts of up to 74 mph (120 kph). They also said 9 inches (23 centimeters) of rain fell in three hours in the Gros Morne area.
Forecasters are monitoring two other systems
Fiona, which is the Atlantic hurricane season's sixth named storm, was predicted to bring 5 to 10 inches (13 to 25 centimeters) of rain in eastern and southern Puerto Rico, with as much as 20 inches (51 centimeters) in isolated spots. Rains of 4 to 8 inches (10 to 20 centimeters) were forecast for the Dominican Republic, with up to 12 inches (30 centimeters) in places. Life-threatening surf also was possible from Fiona's winds, forecasters said.
Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Lester in the eastern Pacific dissipated Saturday afternoon after making landfall to the south of Acapulco on Mexico's southwestern coast.
The cluster of storms was about 95 miles (155 kilometers) east-southeast of Acapulco, with maximum sustained winds of 30 mph (45 kph) late in the afternoon.
The hurricane center said Lester's remnants could drop from 8 to 12 inches (20 to 31 centimeters) of rain on the coasts of upper Guerrero state and Michoacan state, with isolated areas getting 16 inches (41 centimeters).
Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Madeline formed farther out in the Pacific, but forecasters predicted it would not pose any threat to land as it moved away from Mexico.
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NPR's Michel Martin speak with the filmmaker on his latest documentary, The U.S. and the Holocaust, which has its premiere on Sunday.
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NPR's Michel Martin speak with the filmmaker on his latest documentary, The U.S. and the Holocaust, which has its premiere on Sunday.
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Throughout her ballet career, Misty Copeland has worked to break racial barriers in the world of dance.
She is doing it again — this time with an after-school dance program for children of color.
The Be Bold initiative will "make ballet more accessible, affordable and fun," according to the program's website. It will be an affordable, 12-week extracurricular based in New York City for children ages 8-10.
The program will provide lessons on the basics of ballet, music and health as well as offer tutoring and mentoring. It will take place in Boys & Girls Club centers and similar community-based, child-serving sites.
Copeland herself dedicates part of her success to a free ballet class offered by the Boys & Girls Club. She would go on to become the first Black woman to be named principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre company.
During her time in ABT, she publicly spoke out against the racism of some dance critics who questioned her body type for being too "bulky" or "busty."
"I think it's just something maybe that I will never escape from," Copeland told NPR's Steve Inskeep in 2014.
"But my mission, my voice, my story, my message, is not for them. And I think it's more important to think of the people that I am influencing and helping to see a broader picture of what beauty is."
Copeland has also written several books exploring the experiences of dancers of color — including her own. A memoir about Copeland's friendship with Raven Wilkinson, her mentor and the first African American ballerina to tour the U.S., will be coming out in November.
Copeland also told the New York Times she is planning to return to the stage next year after going on a hiatus in December 2019.
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With Disney's live-action version of The Little Mermaid, a new generation of fans will have a new princess under the sea, played by African American actor Halle Bailey.
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With Disney's live-action version of The Little Mermaid, a new generation of fans will have a new princess under the sea, played by African American actor Halle Bailey.
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Chris Stirewalt, author of Broken News: Why the Media Rage Machine Divides America & How to Fight Back, says the country's leading news organizations have leaned into a model that fosters division.
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Chris Stirewalt, author of Broken News: Why the Media Rage Machine Divides America & How to Fight Back, says the country's leading news organizations have leaned into a model that fosters division.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis is defending the flights his state paid for this week from Texas. And he says more may be coming.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis is defending the flights his state paid for this week from Texas. And he says more may be coming.
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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Denise Gilman, co-director of the Immigration Clinic at the University of Texas School of Law, about whether there was a legal basis to the actions.
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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Denise Gilman, co-director of the Immigration Clinic at the University of Texas School of Law, about whether there was a legal basis to the actions.
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TAMPA, Fla., Sept. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The US FDA has granted an Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) approval for MagicTouch Sirolimus Coated Balloon (SCB) indicated for In-Stent Restenosis (ISR).
US FDA's IDE approval allows the MagicTouch SCB to be used in a pivotal clinical study to support safety and effectiveness of this combination product. The data generated from this IDE clinical study will support a pre-market approval (PMA) application in the USA.
MagicTouch SCB is the world's first Sirolimus-coated Balloon with extensive commercial usage in Europe, major markets of Asia and the Mid-Eastern markets. More than 100 thousand patients have been treated with MagicTouch SCB in these markets.
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MagicTouch SCB is a CE marked and commercially marketed Sirolimus coated balloon developed by Concept Medical, using proprietary Nanoluté Technology. MagicTouch SCB has been used in >50,000 patients in major global markets.
About Concept Medical Inc (CMI):
CMI is headquartered in Tampa, Florida and has operational offices in The Netherlands, Singapore and Brazil and manufacturing units in India. CMI specializes in developing drug-delivery systems and has unique and patented technology platforms that can be deployed to deliver any drug / pharmaceutical agent across the luminal surfaces of blood vessels.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Co-Diagnostics, Inc. (NASDAQ: CODX) between May 12, 2022 and August 11, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important October 17, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Co-Diagnostics 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 Co-Diagnostics class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=8137 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 17, 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, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) there was significant falloff in demand of Co-Diagnostics' Logix Smart™ COVID-19 Test as demand for the tests plummeted throughout the quarter ended June 30, 2022; and (2) as a result, defendants' positive statements about the demand for its Logix Smart™ COVID-19 Test lacked a reasonable basis. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
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Haunted house returns to Jewell Ridge Community Center
The haunted house brings to life the story of a long-dead witch.
JEWELL RIDGE, Va. (WVVA) - The Jewell Ridge Community Center is preparing to open up their popular haunted house attraction for another year of scares. This event has been a fall favorite for the community for many years, with this year bringing in new sights and sounds that hope to rattle even the most fearless.
The guides at the haunted house plan on playing up a local legend of a witch that locals claim is buried on a hill overlooking the community center. Guests may even see the witch as they journey through the corridors.
The Activities Coordinator at the Community Center says this attraction is not for the faint of heart. She says, in previous years, she’s seen grown adults run in terror from the creatures found within. She gave some hints about what guests to the house may see.
“Well... You may see a clown... or two. You may see and hear chainsaws. You may hear big saws. You just really don’t know what’s around the next corner. It’s very chilling at times.”
While this event may be scary, the cause behind the event is not. The money raised helps keep the community center open and providing activities for people who live in the area.
To those who dare enter, the haunted house will be open every Saturday in October and is ten dollars for everyone five and over.
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Henry Silva, known for many tough-guy roles, dies at 95
NEW YORK (AP) — Henry Silva, a prolific character actor best known for playing villains and tough guys in “The Manchurian Candidate,” “Ocean’s Eleven” and other films, has died at age 95.
Silva’s son Scott Silva told Variety that he died Wednesday of natural causes at the Motion Picture and Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California.
Silva was a New York City native who dropped out of school as a teenager, in the 1940s, and was accepted the following decade into the Actors Studio, where fellow students included Shelley Winters and Ben Gazzara. He went on to have a long and busy career in film and television, with hundreds of credits before retiring from acting in 2001.
He had a breakthrough role on stage and screen in the 1950s as a drug dealer in “A Hatful of Rain” and supporting parts in two of Frank Sinatra’s best known movies, both from the early 1960s: “Ocean’s Eleven,” the Las Vegas heist film that was a showcase for Sinatra, Dean Martin and other “Rat Pack” members; and “The Manchurian Candidate,” the Cold War thriller about brainwashing and the assassination of the president that starred Sinatra, Laurence Harvey and Janet Leigh. (In his last film appearance, Silva was cast in the “Ocean’s Eleven” remake from 2000 that starred George Clooney and Brad Pitt).
“Our hearts are broken at the loss of our dear friend Henry Silva, one of the nicest, kindest and most talented men I’ve had the pleasure of calling my friend,” Dean Martin’s daughter, Deana Martin, tweeted this week. “He was the last surviving star of the original Oceans 11 Movie.”
Silva was also seen on such television series as “Wagon Train” and “The F.B.I.” and in such film as Warren Beatty’s “Dick Tracy,” Jerry Lewis’ “Cinderfella” and “Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai,” in which he played a mobster in the 1999 release directed by one of his admirers, Jim Jarmusch.
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Henry Silva, known for many tough-guy roles, dies at 95
NEW YORK (AP) — Henry Silva, a prolific character actor best known for playing villains and tough guys in “The Manchurian Candidate,” “Ocean’s Eleven” and other films, has died at age 95.
Silva’s son Scott Silva told Variety that he died Wednesday of natural causes at the Motion Picture and Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California.
Silva was a New York City native who dropped out of school as a teenager, in the 1940s, and was accepted the following decade into the Actors Studio, where fellow students included Shelley Winters and Ben Gazzara. He went on to have a long and busy career in film and television, with hundreds of credits before retiring from acting in 2001.
He had a breakthrough role on stage and screen in the 1950s as a drug dealer in “A Hatful of Rain” and supporting parts in two of Frank Sinatra’s best known movies, both from the early 1960s: “Ocean’s Eleven,” the Las Vegas heist film that was a showcase for Sinatra, Dean Martin and other “Rat Pack” members; and “The Manchurian Candidate,” the Cold War thriller about brainwashing and the assassination of the president that starred Sinatra, Laurence Harvey and Janet Leigh. (In his last film appearance, Silva was cast in the “Ocean’s Eleven” remake from 2000 that starred George Clooney and Brad Pitt).
“Our hearts are broken at the loss of our dear friend Henry Silva, one of the nicest, kindest and most talented men I’ve had the pleasure of calling my friend,” Dean Martin’s daughter, Deana Martin, tweeted this week. “He was the last surviving star of the original Oceans 11 Movie.”
Silva was also seen on such television series as “Wagon Train” and “The F.B.I.” and in such film as Warren Beatty’s “Dick Tracy,” Jerry Lewis’ “Cinderfella” and “Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai,” in which he played a mobster in the 1999 release directed by one of his admirers, Jim Jarmusch.
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Constitution Week begins with ringing of bells across Harrisonburg and Rockingham
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - Saturday marks 235 years since the drafting of the U.S. Constitution.
At 4 o’clock Saturday afternoon bells around Harrisonburg and Rockingham County rang a little longer to commemorate Constitution Day.
“Every year make a purpose to make sure the Constitution Day the anniversary of the signing of the Constitution of the United States which is September 17, 1787, is remembered,” Chaz Haywood, clerk of court for Rockingham County said.
Haywood said the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Sons of the American Revolution keep the tradition alive every year to honor the Constitution.
This year, Haywood was in charge of manually making the bell in the Rockingham County Courthouse ring longer on Constitution Day.
“It was a 100-year clock. It’s made it far beyond 100 years. We’ve heard it ring; we heard that hammer hit that bell today and continue to tell everybody what time it is in Harrisonburg,” Haywood said.
United States Congress and Rockingham County have declared Sept 17-23 of every year as Constitution Week with recognitions and celebrations happening across the Commonwealth.
For more information on Constitution Week visit the Daughters of the American Revolution website and find the nearest chapter to you for all the celebrations and remembrances happening throughout the week.
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| 2022-09-17T23:37:52Z
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Open Doors ‘Food Truck Fest’ returns
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - Saturday Open Doors brought back its annual Food Truck Fest event.
The festival is the shelter’s biggest fundraising event of the year.
“We started back in 2015, and it’s grown every single year,” Graham Witt, chair of Open Doors board of directors said.
The event stopped after 2019, but Witt said they are excited to bring it back bigger and better after three years.
“The fair grounds really opened us up, we’ve got 10 food trucks, several drink booths as well,” Witt said.
He said they were just hoping to grow from the 2019 experience.
Witt said they are estimating around 2,000 people Saturday to enjoy the food and live music and money raised goes back to help the shelter.
“This fundraiser helps support our thermal shelter season,” Witt said. “Our goal is to become a year-round shelter, but at this time were struggling to find a temporary shelter.”
Harrisonburg has purchased property that is currently under renovation to become Open Doors’ permanent shelter. It is expected to be complete by the end of 2023.
“This will go to support six months of service throughout this winter starting in November and ending in April. We’ll have a thermal shelter season that will require this funding as well as plenty of donations to support our guests,” Witt said.
Witt said he hopes the fest brings awareness to Open Doors and what the shelter does.
“We know this is a community effort to support those experiencing homelessness, so we have the food truck scene here that supports Harrisonburg on a regular basis,” Witt said.
To learn more about Open Doors or to donate to the shelter visit its website.
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| 2022-09-17T23:37:58Z
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NEW YORK, Sept. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Coinbase Global, Inc. (NASDAQ: COIN) between April 14, 2021 and July 26, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important October 3, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Coinbase 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 Coinbase class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=8095 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 3, 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, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Coinbase custodially held crypto assets on behalf of its customers, which assets Coinbase knew or recklessly disregarded could qualify as the property of a bankruptcy estate, making those assets potentially subject to bankruptcy proceedings in which Coinbase's customers would be treated as the Company's general unsecured creditors; (2) Coinbase allowed Americans to trade digital assets that Coinbase knew or recklessly disregarded should have been registered as securities with the SEC; (3) the foregoing conduct subjected Coinbase to a heightened risk of regulatory and governmental scrutiny and enforcement action; and (4) as a result, defendants' 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 Coinbase class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=8095 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.
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Global bakery manufacturer and ingredients distributor unveils new consumer trends report and patent-pending non-sticky donut glaze
JACKSON, Mich., Sept. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Global bakery manufacturer and ingredients distributor Dawn Foods., today unveiled its new Global Bakery Trends Report and announced its latest product innovation, Dawn Exceptional Pak Perfect™ Non-Sticky Glaze at the International Baking Industry Exposition (IBIE).
"Our new Global Trends report and donut glaze are the latest examples of Dawn's commitment to providing industry-leading insights, high-quality products and innovative solutions to our customers," said Carrie Jones-Barber, CEO of Dawn Foods. "These offerings provide a greater understanding of consumer wants and needs and drive efficiencies for our customers. Dawn continues to inspire new ideas and fresh thinking to help bakeries succeed every day, and we look forward to demonstrating our industry leadership at IBIE."
What's Trending: Trends & Insights Impacting the Bakery Landscape
For the past three years, Dawn Foods' Global Market Research & Insights teams researched the most significant changes in consumer behavior, including fielding a global study to create first-of-its-kind proprietary research. The team interviewed more than 3,000 consumers and visited hundreds of bakeries, grocery stores and food service establishments globally to observe how these trends come to life.
Dawn's 2023 Global Trends include:
- Technology Transformation: Technology has forever changed the consumer eating experience, transforming how we choose, receive and consume food – whether it be via touch screen ordering or sharing food experiences virtually. This trend will only accelerate in the years to come – 57% of global consumers* plan to order more food online in 2023 than they have previously.
- Experience Exploration: Consumers seek foods that not only enhance their nostalgic memories but incorporate fresh and new flavor experiences from other cultures. For example, while 56% of global consumers* have tried American baked goods – like chocolate chip cookies and apple pie – 30% of consumers* actively plan to try traditional African baked goods.
- Daily Delights: Tied to the growing importance of mental wellness, consumers are finding ways to bring moments of joy into their daily routine with smaller-sized, high-quality sweet treats. This trend will continue in the years to come – 77% of global consumers* will continue eating sweet baked goods regularly moving forward.
- Mindfulness Matters: Acutely aware of how their choices affect their personal health, their community and their planet, consumers are looking for authenticity and want to make a positive impact on the world. When it comes to the environment, 71% of global consumers* are willing to pay a premium for sweet baked goods that are made sustainably.
Innovative Pak Perfect Non-Sticky Donut Glaze Delivers Breakthrough Solution for Bakers
Showcased at Dawn Foods' IBIE booth #1601, the patent-pending glaze technology allows for packaged yeast-raised donuts to stay non-sticky for up to five days.
"Dawn's latest donut innovation provides grocers and manufacturers with a solution that keeps yeast-raised donuts looking great while staying fresh, longer," said Roja Ergun, Director of R&D Wet Ingredients, Dawn Foods North America. "Our new donut glaze remains intact, non-sticky and greatly reduces waste and assists with the labor needs of bakeries."
Consumer feedback has also been positive—through Dawn Sensory Testing, 66% of consumers** noted they prefer Pak Perfect yeast-raised donuts over traditional glazed donuts.
Dawn Executives and Experts Take the Stage at IBIE
At IBIE, Dawn executives and team members will also participate in multiple panels, events and education sessions throughout the show, including:
- Sarah Hickey, Senior Director of Insights & Market Research: Fresh out of the Oven: Dawn's latest trends and insights impacting the bakery landscape. (Saturday, Sept. 17 – 1:30-2:30 p.m. PST and Tuesday, Sept. 20 – 9:45-10:45 a.m. PST).
- Alexis Gilbert, Senior Director, Global Brand and Communications: Breaking Through the Digital Noise – Strategies, Tactics and Tools to Get Your Bakery Noticed Online. (Saturday, Sept. 17 – 2:45-3:45 p.m. PST and Sunday, Sept. 18 – 9:45-10:45 a.m. PST)
- Paul Caske, Vice President, National Technical Sales and Randy McArthur, Technical Sales Representative: Tips and Tricks for Better Efficiency at Your Bakery. (Sunday, Sept. 18 – 8:30-9:30 a.m. PST)
- Felisa Stockwell, Vice President, Global People and Culture: How to Start Building your Diversity Initiative: Best Practices from Industry Peers. (Monday, Sept. 19 – 11 a.m. – noon PST)
- Dawn Foods, alongside The Society of Bakery Women, will host 'Donuts with Dawn,' a women's networking event on Tuesday, Sept. 20, from 9-9:45 a.m. PST at Dawn Foods booth #1601, with Carrie Jones-Barber, CEO of Dawn Foods speaking.
To learn more about Dawn's four new global trends, or to learn more about Dawn's donut glaze innovation, stop by the Dawn Foods IBIE Booth #1601 or visit DawnFoods.com/Trends.
About Dawn Food Products, Inc.
Dawn Foods is a global leader in bakery manufacturing and ingredients distribution. For more than 100 years, Dawn has been the partner of choice for inspiring bakery success every day and is committed to delighting its customers around the world with the partnership, insights, innovations, bakery products and expertise that empowers them to achieve their aspirations. Headquartered in Jackson, Michigan, Dawn Foods has more than 4,000 Team Members globally and provides high-quality bakery products to more than 50,000 customers located in more than 100 countries. For more information about the company, its products and culture, please visit www.dawnfoods.com.
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| 2022-09-17T23:38:12Z
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NEW YORK, Sept. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Coupang, Inc. (NYSE: CPNG) pursuant and/or traceable to the registration statement and related prospectus (collectively, the "Registration Statement") issued in connection with Coupang's March 2021 initial public offering (the "IPO") of the important October 25, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Coupang securities pursuant and/or traceable to the Registration Statement 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 Coupang class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=8383 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, the IPO Registration Statement featured false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Coupang was engaged in improper anti-competitive practices with its suppliers and other third parties in violation of applicable regulations, including: (a) pressuring suppliers to raise prices of products on competing e-commerce platforms to ensure Coupang's prices would be more competitive; (b) coercing suppliers into purchasing advertisements that would benefit Coupang financially; (c) forcing suppliers to shoulder all expenses from sales promotions; and (d) requesting wholesale rebates from suppliers without specifying any terms relating to rebate programs, all of which served to artificially maintain Coupang's lower prices and artificially inflate Coupang's historical revenues and market share; (2) Coupang had improperly adjusted search algorithms and manipulated product reviews on its marketplace platform to prioritize its own private-label branded products over those of other sellers and merchants, to the detriment of consumers, merchants, and suppliers; (3) unbeknownst to its Rocket WOW members (a customer loyalty program for the Company's most engaged and frequent customers), Coupang was selling products to non-member customers at lower prices than those offered to its Rocket WOW members; (4) Coupang subjected its workforce to extreme, unsafe, and unhealthy working conditions; (5) all of the above illicit practices exposed Coupang to a heightened, but undisclosed, risk of reputational and regulatory scrutiny that would harm Coupang's critical relationships with consumers, merchants, suppliers, and the workforce; and (6) Coupang's lower prices, historical revenues, competitive advantages, and growing market share were the result of systemic, improper, unethical, and/or illegal practices, and, thus, unsustainable. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the Coupang class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=8383 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.
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...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of western Laramie
County through 500 PM MDT...
At 407 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Federal, or 18 miles west of Cheyenne, moving northeast at 40 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Cheyenne, Hillsdale, Federal, Crystal Lake Reservoir, Crystal Lake
Campground, Granite Springs Reservoir, Ranchettes, Granite Springs
Campground, Warren AFB, Frontier Park, Whitaker, North Cheyenne,
Warren Af Base, South Greeley and Fox Farm-College.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
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This is a home for sale in the Sheridan area. Tracee Davis/For the Wyoming Tribune Eagle
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – As interest rates shoot up, some buyers are turning to a different, and slightly more risky type of mortgage.
Adjustable-rate mortgages, known as ARMs, have seen an uptick in popularity recently as home shoppers, eager to avoid soaring interest rates amid a torrid housing market, are turning to these loans in order to nab a cheaper rate.
“People are looking at ways to bring down their housing costs and their mortgage payments and with an adjustable-rate mortgage, it gives you the possibility of having a lower monthly payment initially, ” said J.C. de Ona, southeast division president of Centennial Bank.
One of the biggest risks for these types of mortgages is a homeowner’s monthly payment could change frequently, depending on various factors. There’s a chance that it could be lower if rates at the time are low, and there is also the possibility that a buyer’s monthly payment could jump.
“Whether the rate will go up and if the payment is going to go up is a concern for many,” said Diane Mastay, mortgage director with Tropical Credit Union. “But when you have five years or so of lower payments, a lot of things can change. Some people refinance. Others sell their properties. But there are limits in place on the adjustments.”
Nationally, the share of mortgage applications for ARMs has reached its highest level since 2007. An analysis from Zillow shows 12.6% of mortgage applications were for ARMs in June, and 12.2% of mortgage applications in July were for ARMs.
Here in south Florida, local lenders are also seeing an uptick among the buyers.
Tropical Financial Credit Union in Miramar, Florida, has seen a 25% to 30% uptick compared to the norm in buyers wanting to use ARMs to get a home, Mastay said.
Centennial Bank’s southeast division has seen about a 10% to 20% uptick over the past few months. Hamilton Home Loans, with divisions throughout Florida, has seen a 25% to 30% increase recently at their offices.
What's an ARM?
An adjustable rate mortgage has a fixed interest rate for a set period of time, usually anywhere from a year, three years, five years, seven years or 10 years, before the interest rate starts to change.
After the initial period ends, the interest rates changes based on the index (usually decided by the secured overnight financing rate) plus the margin, which is a fixed-interest rate that remains the same during the loan period. Some ARMs adjust the interest rate every year, while some adjust every six months.
The initial mortgage rate for an ARM is almost always lower than for a fixed mortgage. Currently, on average the rate for a 5/1 ARM is around 4.6%, while a fixed mortgage rate is a little over 6%, making the starting monthly payments for a home buyer more affordable.
Buyers might think of the 2008 housing crash when they hear about ARMs. Experts say the traditional adjustable rate mortgages some buyers are taking advantage of now are far different from the subprime lending that took place before the last housing crash.
Now, lending practices are stricter and lenders make sure that a buyer is qualified to buy a home.
There’s a few reasons why these loans are gaining in popularity among homebuyers, a main one being the rise in interest rates and higher cost of homes.
“Earlier this year, Frannie Mae and Freddie Mac made a change to loan level price adjustments for second homes and in Florida, we have quite a few second-home buyers. And adjustable rates became an affordable solution to help deliver a more affordable payment to some of those folks,” said Deanna Adinolfo-Rivera, senior vice president regional sales manager with Hamilton Home Loans. “And for some people, it gives them the shorter-term lower payment while they wait for a decline in rates and refinance to a fixed mortgage.”
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Campbell County’s chief elections officer has filed a complaint against Coal Country Conservatives Political Action Committee, calling on the Federal Elections Commission and the Wyoming secretary of state to undertake a “swift and robust investigation.”
The complaint, filed Friday by Campbell County Clerk Susan Saunders, names both the federal PAC and a Wyoming entity of the same name.
“It is my professional judgement the organization of these entities and their activities can, at best, be described as a scheme to thwart transparency in a way that is deceptive to the public and may be illegal,” Saunders wrote in the complaint.
Chief among Saunders’ concerns is a potentially improper campaign-finance relationship between the two organizations and a lack of disclosure on the part of both.
A voter guide with the disclaimer “paid for by Coal Country Conservatives Action Committee” was mailed to Wyoming residents and appeared as an advertisement in a local print magazine, according to attachments included with the clerk’s complaint. The guide supported one federal candidate — Harriet Hageman, who is running for Wyoming’s lone U.S. House seat — and more than 100 statewide, legislative, local and precinct candidates.
“The first question that needs to be answered is who engaged in the electioneering activities?” Saunders wrote. “Was it the Wyoming corporation exercising its First Amendment rights (CCCPac1), the federal PAC (CCCPac2) or some combination?”
How much either entity raised for or spent on the 2022 primary election is unclear, since neither filed a requisite campaign finance report with the federal government. The Federal Elections Commission sent the PAC a request for such a report in August but the PAC has failed to submit it. Meanwhile, its donors also remain unknown to the public.
Saunders cited the November general election and the expected resignation of Secretary of State Ed Buchanan at the end of this week as reasons for urgency.
“The need for a timely and complete investigation and resolution using all the tools at your disposal is paramount as the potential for continued activities by CCCPac presents a clear and present danger to the integrity of the 2022 general election and the rule of law in Campbell County,” Saunders wrote.
Coal Country Conservative Political Action Committee was incorporated in the state of Wyoming on May 18 as a domestic for-profit corporation, according to secretary of state records. A federal political action committee by the same name filed with the FEC on that same day, federal records indicate.
Both entities list Colleen McCabe as treasurer. Laura Cox is listed as the president of the PAC and the registered agent for the corporation.
Neither McCabe nor Cox responded to WyoFile’s requests for comment by press time.
Wyoming law does not require federal PACs to file contribution and expenditure reports with the state. The federal government, however, does require federal PACs to file such reports, including information about spending and fundraising.
“The failure to timely file a complete report may result in civil money penalties, an audit or legal enforcement action,” the FEC said in an August letter to the PAC after it did not file the required July report. As of press time, the PAC had not filed a report with the federal government.
“The civil money penalty calculation for late reports does not include a grace period and begins on the day following the due date for the report,” according to the letter. The filing deadline was July 15. The next one is Oct. 15.
While a federal PAC is not required to file with the state, the clerk is asking the state to clarify whether that statute relieves Coal Country Conservative PAC of all legal requirements under state law or just those associated with the single federal candidate.
“This question is relevant as the electioneering materials CCCPac distributed lists only one federal candidate and numerous statewide, legislative, local and precinct candidates,” Saunders wrote.
The federal PAC filed as nonconnected, which means it is not a separate segregated fund established by a corporation — such as the Wyoming entity — or labor organization.
“This seems dubious as the officers for both [organizations] are identical,” Saunders pointed out in the complaint.
In addition to being mailed and published in a magazine, the voter guide was distributed on the Campbell County “Courthouse steps on at least one day during the absentee voting period,” according to the complaint. It is illegal to distribute electioneering materials within 100 yards of an active polling place in Wyoming on Election Day, and within 100 feet all other days. The clerk requested that action cease. A voter also notified Campbell County elections staff, according to the complaint, that such materials were distributed at the individual’s church.
The voter guide directed residents to vote for certain candidates but offered no additional information, such as candidate platforms or how the candidates were selected.
In statewide races, it endorsed Brent Bien for governor, Chuck Gray for secretary of state, Curt Meier for treasurer and Brian Schroeder for superintendent of public instruction. For legislative races, the voter guide suggested Abby Angelos for House District 3, Reuben Tarver for House District 52, Roger Connett for Senate District 1 and Patricia Junek as a write-in candidate for Senate District 23. Additionally, it endorsed more than a dozen county and city candidates and over 100 candidates running for Republican party precinct positions.
Saunders is not seeking reelection. The candidate endorsed by the CCC PAC, Cindy Lovelace, won the primary contest for the clerk’s seat against the current chief deputy county clerk.
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The Wyoming Democratic Party is at risk of losing major party status if Democrats in the state don’t register and vote in the general election.
The Wyoming Secretary of State’s Office reported that out of the more than 182,000 votes cast in the primary election overall, only 4.5% were for Democratic candidates. Republican candidates received 94.4% of the vote, and nonpartisan votes cast were at 1.1%.
The lopsided numbers were the result of many Democrats “crossing over” and voting Republican to support incumbent U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney, who has taken a strong stance against former President Donald Trump and serves as vice-chair of the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Cheney lost to challenger Harriet Hageman by 63,709 votes.
Democrats need to meet the 10% threshold of total votes cast for any one of the offices of the statewide offices – U.S. House of Representatives, governor or secretary of state – in the general election, or else they will be considered a minor political party. Under state statute, a minor political party is a political organization that receives not less than 2% or more than 10% of the total votes cast in the same office elections.
If they received less than 2%, a representative from the Wyoming Secretary of State’s Election Division said the Democratic Party would need to petition to gain access as a provisional party.
Minor and provisional political parties must nominate through a convention, meaning only the Republican Party would be allowed to nominate candidates by primary election, if Democrats lost major party status. Laramie County Democratic Party Communications Director Lindsey Hanlon said it also impacts participation in debates. (Hanlon is also a member of the Wyoming Tribune Eagle’s editorial board.)
However, Democratic Party officials said they are not concerned.
“Historically speaking, Democratic candidates for governor, U.S. House or U.S. Senate have performed well above the 10% threshold outlined in Wyoming law,” WDP Communications Director David Martin told the Wyoming Tribune Eagle. “So, it’s not something we’re concerned about. We’re more concerned about issues such as quality education, making sure that public lands remain in public hands, things along those lines.”
Hanlon said she is confident that Democrats will gain the votes necessary to continue as a major party in the state, but she was distressed to see the low percentage of representation during the primary. She said she believes U.S. House candidate Lynnette GreyBull and governor candidate Terry Livingston are both fantastic candidates, and they will pull voters back to the Democratic Party.
The biggest issue she sees with voters remaining registered as Republicans is it makes it harder to send out mailers or keep track of Democratic rolls, Hanlon said. She recommends voters change their registration back to Democrat before the general election.
“It does make it harder to communicate with those voters,” she said. “For example, if we’re wanting to send out a reminder mailer, and we want to send it out to all Democrats – we’re going to end up missing any Democrat who’s currently registered as a Republican.”
Despite a low number of voters participating in the Democratic primary, the turnout of the voting age population in the state was one of the highest in the past four decades, according to the Wyoming Election Division. Close to 41% of the voting age population took part in the 2022 primary, and the last closest amount was 41.5% of the population in 1994.
It also has been a successful year in terms of the percentage of the voting age population that is registered to vote. On Aug. 16, there were 287,014 voters registered, which is the highest ever seen. It was also the highest amount in terms of voter turnout, with 182,232 filling out their ballot in the primary, or about 64%.
Jasmine Hall is the Wyoming Tribune Eagle’s state government reporter. She can be reached by email at jhall@wyomingnews.com or by phone at 307-633-3167. Follow her on Twitter @jasminerhphotos and on Instagram @jhrose25.
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Eliza Campbell had spent her entire life as a practicing member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
She was born in Utah, a state in which the majority of residents belong to the church, and attended Brigham Young University, a private institution owned and operated by the church.
"It's part of your whole professional network, your whole emotional community," she said. "Basically, it touches every facet of your life."
Then, two years ago, after nearly three decades, Campbell left the church.
She is one of a growing number of Americans who were raised Christian but are disaffiliating from the religion.
America's Christian majority is facing steep declines
Christianity remains the majority religion in the United States, as it has been since the country's founding, but it's on the decline.
A new study from the Pew Research Center shows that America's Christian majority has been shrinking for years, and if recent trends continue, Christians could make up less than half the U.S. population within a few decades.
The study found that Christians accounted for about 90% of the population 50 years ago, but as of 2020 that figure had slumped to about 64%.
"If recent trends in switching [changing one's religious affiliation] hold, we projected that Christians could make up between 35% and 46% of the U.S. population in 2070," said Stephanie Kramer, the senior researcher who led the study.
The study modeled four scenarios for how religious affiliation could change, and in every case it found a sharp drop in Christianity.
"Some scholars say that it's just an inevitable consequence of development for societies to secularize. Once there are strong secular institutions, once people's basic needs are met, there's less need for religion," Kramer said.
"Other people point out that affiliation really started to drop in the '90s. And it may not be a coincidence that this coincides with the rise of the religious right and more associations between Christianity and conservative political ideology."
For Campbell, conflict between the teachings of her faith and her own personal identity and values were at the core of her decision to leave.
"For me, especially, when I started to come out as queer, it became impossible for me to reconcile this church that was basically admitting that they wanted kids like me dead or suicidal," she said. "I decided I had to choose myself and choose my well-being."
"Religiously unaffiliated" could become the majority
Alongside Christian numbers in the U.S. trending down, the Pew study also found that the percentage of people who identify as "religiously unaffiliated" is rising and could one day become a majority.
"That's where the majority of the movement is going," Kramer said. "We don't see a lot of people leaving Christianity for a non-Christian religion."
Importantly, Kramer said, "religiously unaffiliated" is not synonymous with atheist, as the term also includes those who identify as "agnostic," "spiritual" or "nothing in particular."
In the four scenarios that Pew modeled, Americans who were religiously unaffiliated were projected to approach or overtake Christians in number by 2070. At the same time, the percentage of those following other religions was expected to double.
"I don't think it's surprising. I think it's a product of modern comforts. I think when life is good, when it's better, you know, religion is just not as important."
Tauha was not raised Christian. He spent most of his life as a devout Muslim but decided four years ago to leave his religion, and he now identifies as atheist.
Like Campbell, Tauha's process of turning away from his faith was not just a matter of changing his beliefs; it involved disconnecting with the religious community he had been involved with for his entire life.
"The process of leaving the faith, for me, was kind of torturous," he said. "[But] I look back on my experience and leaving the faith as something generally productive and positive. In fact, I'd say it remains the formative experience in my life [and] gave me a new sense of direction. So I look back on it fondly."
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America's Warrior Partnership's new study reveals at least 44 former service members take their own life each day by suicide or overdose
AUGUSTA, Ga., Sept. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, America's Warrior Partnership (AWP) released an interim summary report from the multi-year study Operation Deep Dive™ (OpDD). The report was created to develop a profile of former service members (FSM) most at risk for suicide, as well as inform the development of impactful suicide prevention strategies at the local, state and national levels. Researchers gathered state-provided death records and coordinated with the Department of Defense (DoD) to corroborate military affiliation and identify commonalities of the person, military service, and cause of death.
The research uncovered disparities between the state and federal data, finding that, across the eight states that participated in the study, the actual suicide rate was much higher, at 1.37 times the rate officially reported by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Approximately 24 FSMs between the ages of 18 and 64 die each day by suicide (as determined by coroner or medical examiner) instead of the 17 veterans per day reported by the VA.
Additionally, Operation Deep Dive™ found that the VA has not been accounting for Self-Injury Mortality (SIM), which are attributed predominately to overdose deaths. Separate of suicide, the rate of SIM among former service members is at least 20 per day. SIM is defined by accidents or undetermined deaths that are closely aligned with self-harm/suicidal behavior.
When suicide and SIM are combined, this brings the true rate of deaths among former servicemembers to at least 44 per day, or 2.4 times the rate the VA reports. The difference in the data is likely due to undercounting of FSM's deaths and the greater specificity of the decedent's demographics, military experience, and death details available to OpDD™.
"If we are going to make progress toward preventing former service member suicide, we need better data," said Jim Lorraine, President and CEO of AWP. "Inaccurate data leads to a misallocation of very valuable resources. Operation Deep Dive™ is designed to address this. The study results can help fix issues surrounding the one-size-fits-all approach, instead enabling a holistic solution that begins at the community level and addresses concerns around housing, employment, financial security, relationships, purpose, physical health, and mental well-being."
Other key findings of OpDD™ include:
- FSMs deaths were miscounted at a combined error rate of 25%, including 18% of FSMs not being recognized as FSMs.
- Every year served in the military equates to a 2% reduction in the probability of a FSM taking their own life.
- Those who served in the military less than 3 years had the greatest risk of suicide/SIM.
- Living with a partner decreased the odds of suicide by nearly 40%.
- Receiving a demotion during military service increases the odds of dying by suicide/SIM by 56%.
- Coast Guard FSMs were most likely to die from suicide, followed by Marine Corps, Army, Navy, and then Air Force FSMs respectively.
"We started Operation Deep Dive™ to end veteran's suicide by using data to develop an effective and targeted veteran suicide prevention strategy," said Cheree Tham, Chief of Programs and Initiatives at AWP. "By merging identified state death records with military service data and incorporating other individualized sources such as VA health care and benefits numbers, we can develop better tools and methods to prevent these heartbreaking incidents that shatter lives and communities."
America's Warrior Partnership contracted with the University of Alabama and partnered with Duke University to gather data from eight states: Alabama, Florida, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, and Oregon. This was measured against data available through the Department of Defense. Moving forward, Operation Deep Dive's™ research partner is Duke University.
The purpose of the study was to inform community suicide prevention programs that focus on veterans to determine who has the highest probability of taking their life by suicide or overdose.
The study was funded by Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation.
Former Service Member - Former Service Member encompasses everyone who served in the Active, National Guard, or Reserve forces but may not be eligible for US Department of Veterans Affairs services.
The interim summary report from Operation Deep Dive™ can be read in its entirety here: https://www.americaswarriorpartnership.org/deep-dive
America's Warrior Partnership is committed to partnering with communities to prevent veteran suicide. We fill the gaps between veteran service organizations by helping nonprofits connect with veterans, their families, and caregivers. Our programs bolster nonprofit efficacy, improving their results, and empowering their initiatives. Our ultimate goal is to increase the quality of veterans' lives, thus helping to end veteran suicide. https://www.americaswarriorpartnership.org
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NEW YORK, Sept. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Enochian BioSciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: ENOB) between January 17, 2018 and June 27, 2022, both dates inclusive, (the "Class Period"), including common stock issued by Enochian in a private placement offering on or about February 16, 2018, of the important September 26, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Enochian BioSciences 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 Enochian BioSciences class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=6517 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 26, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
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DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) co-founder and inventor, Serhat Gumrukcu, was engaged in a variety of frauds; (2) Gumrukcu was not a licensed doctor anywhere in the world; (3) as a result of the foregoing, Gumrukcu's purported contributions to Enochian lacked a reasonable basis; (4) as a result of the foregoing, Enochian had overstated its commercial prospects; (5) Gumrukcu had improperly diverted approximately $20 million from Enochian to entities he owned; and (6) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about Enochian's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the Enochian BioSciences class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=6517 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.
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ORANGE COUNTY, Calif., Sept. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As a tribute to its one-world symposium President and Owner of OC Fashion Week® in Orange County, California, Kathryn Marino announced an Official red-ribbon cutting ceremony for Opening Day as the Official launch of Fashion Travel Week® (FTW): The Art of Travel & Style presented by Celebrity Cruises. The project originated in 2010 as a travel incentive and support for fashion designers who love to travel abroad. In 2017, OC Fashion Week® was recognized as an international conduit in fashion industries abroad hosting exclusive runway, networking and access tours for designers and beauty purveyors groups to visit industry and fashion partners in Hong Kong, Greece, Virgin Islands and Australia. Now in it's full inception, FTW launches for all fashion designers, suppliers, influencers and e-commerce retailers to gather, meet, network and travel to destinations including Paris, Spain and Italy, immersing guests into dynamic and exclusive opportunities to network, keynote speakers, five-star entertainment and expand their getaways with international gateways for business and pleasure - from fine dining to fine discovering. Guest attendees are invited to set sail with designers from Around the World beginning July 2023 with highlights as its annual Red Carpet Awards, 4-minute networking for new and exciting innovations and announcements in the future for fashion abroad. "If Fashion is a language, Style is what we Speak" says Marino. It's Official @fashiontravelweek presented by @celebritycruises was announced Opening Day @ocfashionweek here's a look back @pennyfoskaris doing the honors of cutting the Red Ribbon with @crimson_vice featuring special guest @mskaylacardona from the hit #1 Netflix Show #SellingtheOC wearing collections by @annefontaine Featured Opening Day Designer @coral_castillo @cc.coral Model: @g.iuliaranno Photographer: @stevemanivongstudios
OC Fashion Week® executive producer Kathryn Marino is also celebrating her 10-year anniversary with OCFW® after launching its season this past Sept 6-10th with its finale at World Peace Lake in Aliso Viejo. Marino officially joined the production in 2012, the runway show was founded in 2005 by two students at FIDM who recruited Marino as their consultant.
"For the 10 year tribute, I am so excited to share that OC Fashion Week® recently joined CFDA Connects, an initiative of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, and participates at the Associate level."
CFDA CONNECTS is an initiative of the Council of Fashion Designers of America. Launched in 2021, CFDA CONNECTS recognizes, promotes, and provides business development support to select Regional Fashion Organizations (RFOs), their Fashion Weeks and the Designers based within these key US markets. "What this means is emerging designers will have more opportunities and access to resources and workshops to support their trade and I'm thrilled that we can offer this kind of unique support," says Marino.
"The CFDA is proud to count Orange County among our CFDA Connects regional fashion organization network. There is tremendous talent across America, and it is the mission of CFDA Connects to bring visibility and support to local designers" says Steven Kolb Chief Executive Officer, Council of Fashion Designers of America/CFDA Foundation, Inc.
Another OC Fashion Week® 10-year marked celebration at was the return of Coral Castillo, the first Orange County Designer to win the Emerging Designer Award. Since then, the designer's appearance on Bravo's Project Runway has earned her further retail respect for her craftsmanship.
"Coral Castillo's collection features an array of stunning pieces that are structured, yet feminine and although entirely done in black, somehow ethereal and light. Coral's designs show a love for texture and layers-dramatic shapes and draping portray a playful relationship with light and opacity" – Blythe Hill
Born in Mexico City, Coral found her passion for designing clothing at a very young age. Her mom was a dressmaker and Coral grew up with the exposure to fine fabrics and custom made clothing. In 2005, Coral started designing for selected clientele, without any guidance or training in fashion. Once she decided to pursue her passion she studied Fashion Design at The Art Institute of California – San Francisco.
Graduating with a Bachelor's of Fine Arts in Fashion Design, she received honors and was awarded best portfolio for fall 2012. In 2009, she won best overall effect for the Art Institute of California-San Francisco Fashion Show. Other awards include Best of Women's DayWear for Discarded to Divine 2009 and 2010, 1st place in a design competition for OC-Fashion Week in 2011, and in 2013 Coral was recognized as one of the best designers in Orange County. In 2019 Coral won the Moss Adams Fashion Innovator award. In 2018 Coral participated in a series called STITCHED and ended as the winner of Episode 5. Most recently, Coral was a finalist of PROJECT RUNWAY S19. Her work has been published in ELLE us, VOGUE Italia, VOGUE UK, WWD, APPAREL NEWS, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, and LOS ANGELES TIMES.
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Fashion Travel Week is a new travel events and tour group dedicated to its international community of fashion travelers, suppliers and influencers in the retail industries who endorse fashion tourism presented by Celebrity Cruises. The program is produced by OC Fashion Week® featuring a 3-destination tour and itinerary of runways, guest speakers, fashion travel tourism and 4-minute networking with luxury purveyors.
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Celebrity Cruises' iconic "X" is the mark of a fleet of 15 award-winning ships redefining luxury cruise travel with cool, contemporary design and accommodation; dining, spa, and entertainment experiences for modern tastes; and culturally rich and diverse destination experiences, all complemented by warm, personalized service. Celebrity has pioneered many industry firsts at sea, including: the first use of solar panels on a cruise ship; the first to eliminate use of plastic water bottles; the first American female Captain of a cruise ship; the first-ever all-female bridge and officer team sailing; the first West African woman to work on the bridge of a cruise ship; and one of the first legal same-sex weddings performed at sea. Driven by wanderlust and a passion for opening the world, Celebrity journeys to all seven continents, visiting nearly 300 destinations in more than 70 countries. Celebrity Cruises is one of five brands owned by the global cruise company Royal Caribbean Group.
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KABUL, Afghanistan – In the year since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, they have used their muscle to restrict the education and curiosity of girls. They've been banned from high school, told to cover up and stay home. But in one secret book club in Kabul, about a dozen teenagers are defying the Taliban to continue learning – and along the way have connected to a girl from a different time and place who was also forced to live her life in secret.
"She had hope. She was fighting. She was studying. She was resisting her fate," says Zahra. She's in the basement of a building on a side alley on the outskirts of Kabul where the book club met on a recent August day with two young volunteers who act as facilitators, steering the conversation and asking questions.
Zahra is speaking of Anne Frank.
The girls are reading and discussing the teenager's famous diary, which she began writing at age 13. And they are struck by the parallels: Just like them, Anne was only a kid – one who was starting to learn about the world – when she was forced into hiding because of a violent, oppressive government.
Another book club member summarizes the diary at a facilitator's urging: "In the beginning Anne has a good life, but after Hitler takes over, he places strict laws and regulations against Jews. They go into hiding. They can't make noise. They have to walk softly."
Four volunteers set up this weekly book club for teenage girls shortly after the Taliban took over Afghanistan in August last year.
(NPR is only using the first names of the girls to protect them from any Taliban reprisals for violating the education ban and not identifying the club's organizers, who fear the Taliban could shut down the book club and punish them for educating the girls.)
The origins of the secret book club
The girls in this book club come from a heart-wrenching cohort: Nearly all of them have survived suicide bombings over the past few years. Some were wounded; others suffered psychological harm. Some lost family. They lost friends. They all belong to a persecuted ethnic minority called Hazaras. Living under the Taliban's rule has added to their hardships..
The four volunteers are young men and women who have worked in education and community service for years. They hope the girls will be able to process the events of their own lives through reading and talking about the classics of Persian and Western literature, translated into Farsi.
"We come here, we talk about the books, and then we understand ourselves, our thoughts," says one of the young book club members, Arzou. "It is like, so amazing."
Some of the books are intended to show the girls how other minorities have survived persecution – or not – through personal stories of resistance and suffering, like Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl and The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.
Bringing a Jewish voice to Kabul
It is a remarkable effort in a culture and region where there have been no substantial Jewish communities for decades and where clerics have often maligned Jews, without evidence, as seeking to undermine Muslim communities and Islam itself.
But the Hazara volunteers who lead this book club understand the European Jewish experience differently: a minority that was once unspeakably persecuted as part of the Nazi effort to exterminate the Jewish people, with millions killed, but which has since thrived. They hope the girls will see that too.
Volunteers who facilitate the book club assigned Frank's diary to the girls in late July. They agreed to meet weeks later with NPR to talk about it.
The book, which has been translated into over 70 languages and sold some 30 million copies, was translated into Farsi by a 61-year-old Afghan refugee named Khalil Wedad who lives in the Netherlands.
Wedad said when he first came across the book in a class he attended on Dutch language and culture, he was taken by how Anne Frank's story of a girl in hiding resonated with the experience of many Afghans living through decades of war. He hoped that if he were to translate the book, Afghan girls would see themselves in her story.
Wedad told NPR that he was supported by the Anne Frank House, which oversaw the translation and paid for publishing about 1,500 copies.
"At first it may seem surprising that these girls relate so powerfully to Anne Frank, but for young people who experience terror and oppression who have to hide for their lives, there's somehow comfort to know they're not alone," says Doyle Stevick, executive director of the Anne Frank Center at the University of South Carolina. (The center is the official partner of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam).
"The diary helps us recall our common humanity no matter what our differences may be," Stevick says. "Anne's strong spirited determination not to give into despair has inspired people around the world."
In 2005, after the Farsi edition of the book was published, Wedad said he traveled back to Afghanistan and held small meetings with journalists and civil society activists to introduce the book. He even held readings with Afghan teenage girls.
Wedad said he hadn't heard about the secret book club but was pleased to learn that young Afghan women are finding meaning in Anne Frank's story. "It feels like his mission was kind of fulfilled," Wedad's son Khaled told NPR, translating for his dad, who does not speak English.
'I think Anne Frank is ... a friend for me.'
Arzou, one of the book club participants, said it was the first time they had read the firsthand account of a teenage girl living through extreme hardship. "I think Anne Frank is like, as a friend for me," she said.
"Something is in common with me and Anne Frank," Arzou says. "We are both the victims of war. I mean, Anne Frank is suffering from war and I am too. And Anne Frank cannot go to school, cannot, like go out very freely. And I have the same situation."
Like Anne Frank, Arzou says, "we are just in a dark place and there isn't any light," she says. "And we don't understand what would come after this."
Before the Taliban came to power, Arzou says her grades were so high that she expected to apply to colleges abroad to study computer science. That dream is over.
She's 17, but her hair is streaked with gray – a startling sight set against the pimples on her teenage face. She thinks the grays are because she holds in the suffering she's experienced.
But she says she's learning that other people, like the Jews of Europe, like Anne Frank, lived through worse.
"I found the Anne Frank situation more harder than us," Arzou says. "They cannot go out, and every minute they are thinking of being free, but in the end, they even die. So if I think of my situation. I am very grateful because I have these people that I can share my ideas with. We can gather together and talk about anything that we want."
Another girl, 17-year-old Masouma, wearing a lavender headscarf and purple robe, raises her hand to talk. She says she relates to how Anne Frank faced the real fear that she'd be killed even as she wrote about her typical teenage problems, including her crush on a teenage boy who shared their hiding place and her clashes with her mother.
"I loved the whole book. It was like a friend of mine telling me her pain, her stories. When she called her diary Kitty, I smiled and I imagined that I was Kitty, and that we are best friends," Masouma says smiling.
Masouma is referring to this moment in Frank's diary: "All I think about when I'm with friends is having a good time. I can't bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don't seem to be able to get any closer and that's the problem. Maybe it's my fault that we don't confide in each other. In any case, that's just how things are, and unfortunately they're not liable to change. This is why I've started the diary."
"To enhance the image of this long-awaited friend in my imagination, I don't want to jot down the facts in this diary the way most people would do, but I want the diary to be my friend, and I'm going to call this friend Kitty."
Masouma says she admires Anne Frank for trying to have a sense of perspective: She was sad because she couldn't go to school in hiding. But she knew it was worse out in the world. She wrote in her diary in 1942 about Jews being transported to camps: "We assume that most of them are being murdered. The English radio says they're being gassed. Perhaps that's the quickest way to die."
And she says, Anne Frank didn't give up on education. She tried to continue her education in secret, even taking a shorthand course by correspondence. Masouma is trying to keep up her education as well.
Despite the Taliban's ban on secondary education for girls, Masouma and other girls were sneaking into a high school that was secretly letting them attend the boys-only classes. They were ducking into the school gate in tiny numbers, hoping they wouldn't be noticed.
"But there were too many of us," Masouma says. She says the school principal feared local Taliban security forces would notice the girls coming in and out, and so they were told to go home. "The girls were all crying," Masouma recalls. "My sister is still traumatized and now she doesn't want to try to get an education."
Masouma and the other girls say they find comfort in Anne Frank's diary, even though they know how it ends. Anne Frank died of typhus in 1945 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after her family was betrayed and their hiding place revealed. She was 16.
Zahra, the young woman who described Anne Frank as resisting her fate, says knowing the end didn't depress her at all. "Nobody knows how long I will live, or when I will die," she shrugs. "The only thing you can do is leave something behind for the world that gives your life meaning."
Like Anne Frank, who left behind her diary, published in 1947.
"Right now, the Taliban are in power," Zahra says. "One day, they will be gone. Maybe people will forget what they did to girls like me."
She says that she wants to write a book as Anne Frank did so the world will know about the teenage girls of Afghanistan as well.
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AUCKLAND, New Zealand and NEW YORK, Sept. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Air New Zealand touched down at John F. Kennedy International Airport today, marking the first of its non-stop flights connecting the city of sails and the city that never sleeps.
Minister of Tourism for New Zealand Hon Stuart Nash, Chair Dame Therese Walsh and Air New Zealand Chief Executive Officer Greg Foran were onboard the inaugural flight, along with key tourism and travel partners. Foran says the introduction of a non-stop service between Auckland and New York connects his two favorite places.
"As one of the world's greatest cities, Air New Zealand is proud to add the Big Apple to its list of 29 international destinations. By adding greater access to the East Coast of the US, we're connecting our North American customers to the possibilities of 20 destinations within New Zealand as well as the Pacific and Australia, all within easy reach. This is terrific for our customers."
The airline's new international menu was debuted onboard NZ2, showcasing the best of New Zealand produce to the world. This features more choice in the air, so Premium customers can add the likes of seared salmon from Marlborough, free-range chicken from Waikato or bacon, and streamed green vegetables or fresh, crisp salads picked straight from orchards and fields in Gisborne, Waikato and the Manawatū.
As part of the new menu, Business Premier customers were welcomed to their dining experience with an amuse-bouche of New Zealand paua saucisson (abalone sausage) with herb cream and tomato.
Air New Zealand now serves seven destinations in North America – Chicago (from 31 October), Honolulu, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Vancouver and (after much anticipation), New York City.
The first flight from New York (JFK) to Auckland (AKL) departs at 21:55 ET with an estimated flight time of 17 and a half hours.
Flight schedule between Auckland and New York, effective 19 September 2022:
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9/17/22 NRSC Chair, Sen. Rick Scott, on the GOP’s odds of flipping the senate
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - Washington, DC – Gray Television White House correspondent and senior national editor Jon Decker interviewed Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), for the second episode of Gray TV’s Midterm Election Series, “Election 2022 Just the Facts,” airing Saturday, September 17 and Sunday, September 18.
Sen. Scott told Decker he was “100% certain” that Republicans would take the Senate in the midterms.
On why his prediction of GOP Senate chances differed from Leader Mitch McConnell’s, Scott said: “Just look at our candidates. I mean, look at them … These guys have great backgrounds. And they’re working hard. They’re running good races.”
When asked why the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has double the money the NRSC does, Scott answered: “Because we did the right thing. I tell people … what you have to do to win races, you can’t wait to define your opponent. So we invested early.”
On whether former President Donald Trump has given enough money to GOP Senate candidates, Scott said: “I want everybody that has any money to give us more money.”
And when questioned about Sen. Lindsay Graham’s abortion ban bill and whether legislation should remain on the state level or be a federal issue, Scott answered: “That’s a decision every senator’s going to get to make.”
Excerpts are below.
Sen. Rick Scott Highlights
On GOP Senate chances
Jon Decker, Gray TV White House Correspondent
Give me a sense about your optimism on a scale of one to 10, 10 being absolute certainty – how certain are you that Republicans will retake the Senate?
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), NRSC Chairman
“I’m 100% certain we’ll take the Senate. Now the question is, I think we’re at 52+ so we’ll see. I think we’re clearly going to be able to defend Ron Johnson’s lead. Now, you saw the polls yesterday. He’s up four. Even the Democrat poll, Marquette there has him up one. Doc Oz has cut the lead in half in Pennsylvania. So I think if people get to know Fetterman, we’re going to win there. If you look at North Carolina, Budd’s up showing the polls three. Then Herschel Walker’s already up in each of the two latest polls, three. And Adam Laxalt’s up. So I think that’s our 52, plus I think we’ve got a great opportunity in Arizona, Colorado, Washington, New Hampshire. So I think we’re going to have a breakthrough.
Jon Decker, Gray TV White House Correspondent
Mitch McConnell … does not share your optimism. Just a few weeks ago in Kentucky, he said, ‘I think there’s probably a greater likelihood that the House flips than the Senate.’ Why do you have a different viewpoint than your leader?
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), NRSC Chairman
Just look at our candidates. I mean, look at them. I mean you’ve got Mehmet Oz, a world-renowned heart surgeon, the top healthcare talk show host in the world. You look at Budd, a very successful congressman, North Carolina. You look at Herschel Walker, Heisman Trophy winner, successful business person. People in Georgia love him. You look at Adam Laxalt, he’s an Iraqi war veteran. He’s a successful state attorney general.
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), NRSC Chairman
You look at Blake Master, successful tech entrepreneur. Joe O’Dea started a construction company, successful. You look at Tiffany Smiley. You look at retired General Bolden. These guys have great backgrounds. And they’re working hard. They’re running good races. And let’s look at this” Biden’s numbers are under 40 in every one of those states. This is a referendum on Biden. That’s number 1. Number 2, is we’ve spent our money early, which means we’ve been able to define the Democrats. And they’re under 50 in all these states. Some of them are under 45 so that gives us a big opportunity.
Jon Decker, Gray TV White House Correspondent
The people that you’ve just praised so much, in many cases are trailing in their respective races. You mentioned Arizona, Masters is losing. You mentioned Pennsylvania, you have Dr. Oz losing in that state, trailing in every poll that I’ve seen. And I don’t think you can point to one poll in which he’s ahead. And yet you talk about how great your candidates are. And Mitch McConnell, getting back to him again, your leader, has spoken about candidate quality and why you’re having difficulty in some of these races. Do you take issue with that?
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), NRSC Chairman
Well first, let’s take Dr. Oz. He went through a tough primary. A lot of these guys went through tough primaries, right? So Mehmet went through a tough primary. He had a lot of attack ads against him. But now that he’s in the general election, he’s raised money. We’ve invested early. We’re defining Fetterman. He’s cut the lead way down. The last poll has Mehmet down four.
In Arizona…Blake Masters had a late primary. But let’s look at where Kelly is. Kelly is underwater. Eric Barlow, we beat him. So as long as we go out and define who Blake Masters is, I think he’s going to win.
On Sen. Lindsay Graham’s abortion bill and the Kansas abortion vote
Jon Decker, Gray TV White House Correspondent
Does that take you, Republicans, off message when you have a fellow senator that is in a high profile way introducing this type of legislation?
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), NRSC Chairman
I’m pro-life. I believe there ought to be reasonable restrictions and exceptions for rape, incest and life of the mother. And I think every campaign-
Jon Decker, Gray TV White House Correspondent
Should it be a state’s issue? Should states determine this or do you think, like Senator Graham has suggested it should be a federal issue?
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), NRSC Chairman
Well, that’s a decision every senator’s going to get to make. The Democrats have made abortion a significant issue, but they don’t want to talk about their position on abortion. Their position on abortion is, and it’s radical, they want to have abortion up to the moment a little baby’s born. They want to say a baby born alive, I can just sit on the side-
Jon Decker, Gray TV White House Correspondent
I don’t know if that’s necessarily true.
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), NRSC Chairman
That’s exactly how they voted. They all voted for that. They all voted to say a little baby born alive they’re just going to let starve to death over on the side. And they said, if you are a pro-life healthcare worker, you have to perform an abortion. That’s what they all voted to do. That’s not what the country is. The country is … reasonable restrictions and reasonable exceptions. So every candidate has talked about this. They’ve all taken that position. And there’ll be a decision whether this is done at the states or at the federal level. But I can tell you what I keep talking about is how radical the Democrats are. We all need compassion for what a woman’s going through. But we ought to say, what can we do to make sure we bring life into this country. More life. We love babies in…But what the Democrats have done is just radical and it’s wrong.
Jon Decker, Gray TV White House Correspondent
In Kansas over the summer, they had a referendum on the issue of abortion and were you surprised by the results on that referendum? And what does that tell you, Senator, in terms of the energy that Democrats have right now on this particular issue heading into the midterms?
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), NRSC Chairman
Well, here’s what Democrats are doing. First off, they-
Jon Decker, Gray TV White House Correspondent
Did their vote surprise you, first of all?
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), NRSC Chairman
I wasn’t following exactly what was going to happen in Kansas, but then I think every state has different beliefs about things.
Jon Decker, Gray TV White House Correspondent
It’s a red state. So that’s why I say that it’s surprising.
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), NRSC Chairman
But every state has their own beliefs about what should happen and that’s great. My state’s going to be different than some other state. We come up here to represent our states. But if you look at it, the Democrats have to talk about abortion. They can’t talk about inflation. They can’t talk about job growth. We lost 242,000 full-time jobs last month. Did you know that? 242,000 full-time jobs. We’re adding part-time jobs, right? Businesses that have to cut back and people that have to go back and get a second and third job. I mean, they can’t talk about the economy, they can’t talk about schools, they can’t talk about Afghanistan, they can’t talk about the border, they can’t talk about crime because it’s all bad issues for them. So there’s all they can talk about.
Jon Decker, Gray TV White House Correspondent
It’s Senator Graham actually talking about it. I wouldn’t even be asking this question if he didn’t introduce it this past week, this legislation. He’s the one that’s brought this issue again to the fore.
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), NRSC Chairman
No, Democrats have brought the issue to the fore.
Jon Decker, Gray TV White House Correspondent
Well he did, was introducing an issue that Senator McConnell said most of the conference is not interested in tackling abortion at the federal level. He says most of the conference, and maybe you disagree with the Senator, believes that should be tackled at the state level.
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), NRSC Chairman
So if you look at every, look at the Democrats who are running in Pennsylvania. That’s all they can talk about. That’s all they’re talking about. Because they can’t talk about the issues that matter. This has been talked about for months and stopped. Why is Ron Johnson already winning? … Why is Ted Budd winning? Why is Herschel Walker winning and why is Adam Laxalt still winning? And we’re within the march of there in Colorado. We’re down three to five points in Washington. I mean, look at Maggie Hassen, she’s been talking about these issues and her approval numbers are under 45. So we are going to win.
On money
Jon Decker, Gray TV White House Correspondent
Let’s talk about money … you, meaning the NRSC, is trailing your respective counterpart, the Democrats, as it relates to money, cash on hand. Why is that? They have double the amount of money you have right now.
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), NRSC Chairman
Because we did the right thing. I tell people when we got this job, what you have to do to win races, you can’t wait to define your opponent. So we invested early. We actually started defining our opponents back in 2021. We knew our target states. We started defining them then and we started investing significant dollars back in May. That’s why. You think somebody like Ron Johnson, who’s never been ahead in the poll before, in his two races before, he’s leading now because we defined the Democrats. So we’ve invested our money, we raised good money, and if you want to give more money you can text 55404, but we’ve invested and we’ve defined them. That’s why we’re doing well and we’ll continue to raise money. And we’re going to have our campaigns raise money. That’s why we’re in a good position. And look at Arizona, their election was late, their primary was late. And so we’re going to win.
On Donald Trump
Jon Decker, Gray TV White House Correspondent
Would you say that the former president is a leader of the Republican Party?
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), NRSC Chairman
What I’ve always said is the voters are the leaders of the Republican Party. In 2010, Republicans all across the country, none of them endorsed me. And guess what? I won because I talked to voters and I talked about the issue that was most important at the time. I had a seven-step plan at 700,000 jobs. And so that’s what I believe in. The voters in every one of these states is going to decide who their primary candidate is and the voters are going to decide who their next senator’s going to be and I believe they’re going to pick Republicans.
Jon Decker, Gray TV White House Correspondent
When was the last time you spoke to the former president about the upcoming midterms?
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), NRSC Chairman
I talk to him every two or three weeks.
Jon Decker, Gray TV White House Correspondent
And are you satisfied with the amount of money that he’s contributing, his political action committee is contributing to your Senate races around the country?
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), NRSC Chairman
I want everybody that has any money to give us more money.
Jon Decker, Gray TV Chief White House Correspondent
Okay, so-
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), NRSC Chairman
Everybody.
Jon Decker, Gray TV White House Correspondent
He’s raised an incredible amount of money from the political action committee. It seems like he’s hoarding it all. And do you want him to give more of that money to the candidates that you have competing in competitive races?
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), NRSC Chairman
That’s a choice he gets to make. Everybody-
Jon Decker, Gray TV White House Correspondent
But you must implore him when you speak to him. Mr. President, can you give some more to these tight races? We’re very close in Georgia, you might say to him. We’re very close.
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), NRSC Chairman
I told everybody that has money, anybody that had money in their campaign accounts and anything to help our candidates — Help the NRSC. Make sure we win.
On his responsibility if the GOP loses the Senate
Jon Decker, Gray TV White House Correspondent
You’ve been criticized in terms of running this organization, trying to raise money, recruit candidates. You’ve been criticized for taking time off on vacation in August to go to Italy. You’ve been criticized-
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), NRSC Chairman
Can you imagine? Celebrating my 50th wedding anniversary…
Jon Decker, Gray TV White House Correspondent
I’m just telling you why people would criticize.
Jon Decker, Gray TV White House Correspondent
You’ve been criticized for going to Iowa instead of other states in which there are very close Senate races. How do you respond to all this criticism? Is it tough being the person who heads this committee?
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), NRSC Chairman
I told people exactly what we’re going to do when I took the job and we’ve done it. I said we’re going to raise money. We’re going to invest early. We’re going to make significant investments in digital cause it’s going to pay off now. It’s going to pay off in the next five goals and cycle after that. I’ve said, we’re going to invest in Hispanic outreach. We have Hispanic outreach programs in nine competitive states. I said, we’re going to focus on election security. We’ve done all these things. We break relationships with the NRCC and the RNC and we are going to win.
Jon Decker, Gray TV White House Correspondent
You’re the conquering hero if you win. Absolutely. If you lose, are you the fall guy? Are you the fall guy if Republicans fail to take over the Senate?
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), NRSC Chairman
I don’t think anybody, any one person gets credit for winning and any one person is responsible for losing. Although we all want to win.
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), NRSC Chairman
So I always tell the candidates, when anybody I talk to, I said, ‘Here’s the deal, you have to win your race’. I said, ‘You have to raise money, you have to get volunteers, you have to build a team’. There could be support through the cavalry. There’s super PACs out there, there’s the NRC out there, but you have to make this happen on your own.
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), NRSC Chairman
I’m going to do everything I can and work hard. I do know that Biden helps us every day when he has a party for inflation in the day that inflation is 8.3%. That probably helps us a lot when he continues to leave the border open, that probably helps us a lot. Not good for the country. If you look at everything he’s doing when he says, ‘Oh, if you’re a construction worker, you’re going to pay off the debt of somebody going to an Ivy League school.’ That probably helps us win. It’s not good for the country, but Biden is basically our best advocate for why you do not want to vote for any Democrats right now.
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Defense seeks judge’s removal in Florida school shooter case
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - Attorneys for Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz asked for the judge in his murder case to remove herself on Friday, two days after she scolded them when they abruptly rested their case after calling only a fraction of their expected witnesses.
The Broward Public Defender’s Office said in a motion that Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer held a longstanding animosity toward lead defense lawyer Melisa McNeill.
The motion cited Florida’s Judicial Code of Conduct that states a judge shall disqualify himself or herself if the judge’s impartiality might reasonably be questioned, including but not limited to instances where the judge has a personal bias or prejudice concerning a party or a party’s lawyer. Defense attorneys said Scherer’s repeated improper and unjustified attacks on the defense counsel undermine the public’s confidence in the judicial system and have also caused Cruz to fear that he will not receive a fair trial.
Prosecutors said in a response that Scherer has been respectful to both sides.
Cruz’s attorneys had told the judge and prosecutors they would be calling 80 witnesses but surprisingly rested at the start of Wednesday’s court session after calling only about 25 of them.
There were 11 days of defense testimony overall, the last two spotlighting experts about how his birth mother’s heavy use of alcohol during pregnancy might have affected his brain’s development and led to his murdering 17 people at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School four years ago.
The sudden announcement by lead attorney McNeill led to a heated exchange between her and Scherer, who called the decision without warning to her or the prosecution “the most uncalled for, unprofessional way to try a case.”
The 12-member jury and 10 alternates were not present but were lining up outside the courtroom to enter. The sudden announcement also meant prosecutors weren’t ready to start their rebuttal case.
Scherer then accused Cruz’s attorneys of being inconsiderate to all involved, but especially the jurors for wasting their trip to court.
Cruz, 23, pleaded guilty last October to murdering 14 Stoneman Douglas students and three staff members on Feb. 14, 2018. His trial, now ending its second month, is only to determine whether he is to be sentenced to death or life without parole. For a death sentence, the jury must be unanimous.
After his attorneys rested, Cruz told Scherer he agreed with the decision.
Prosecutors said they will need more than a week to prepare their rebuttal case. The trial is now tentatively scheduled to resume Sept. 27 and conclude the week of Oct. 10.
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9/17/22 NRSC Chair, Sen. Rick Scott, on the GOP’s odds of flipping the senate
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - Washington, DC – Gray Television White House correspondent and senior national editor Jon Decker interviewed Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), for the second episode of Gray TV’s Midterm Election Series, “Election 2022 Just the Facts,” airing Saturday, September 17 and Sunday, September 18.
Sen. Scott told Decker he was “100% certain” that Republicans would take the Senate in the midterms.
On why his prediction of GOP Senate chances differed from Leader Mitch McConnell’s, Scott said: “Just look at our candidates. I mean, look at them … These guys have great backgrounds. And they’re working hard. They’re running good races.”
When asked why the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has double the money the NRSC does, Scott answered: “Because we did the right thing. I tell people … what you have to do to win races, you can’t wait to define your opponent. So we invested early.”
On whether former President Donald Trump has given enough money to GOP Senate candidates, Scott said: “I want everybody that has any money to give us more money.”
And when questioned about Sen. Lindsay Graham’s abortion ban bill and whether legislation should remain on the state level or be a federal issue, Scott answered: “That’s a decision every senator’s going to get to make.”
Excerpts are below.
Sen. Rick Scott Highlights
On GOP Senate chances
Jon Decker, Gray TV White House Correspondent
Give me a sense about your optimism on a scale of one to 10, 10 being absolute certainty – how certain are you that Republicans will retake the Senate?
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), NRSC Chairman
“I’m 100% certain we’ll take the Senate. Now the question is, I think we’re at 52+ so we’ll see. I think we’re clearly going to be able to defend Ron Johnson’s lead. Now, you saw the polls yesterday. He’s up four. Even the Democrat poll, Marquette there has him up one. Doc Oz has cut the lead in half in Pennsylvania. So I think if people get to know Fetterman, we’re going to win there. If you look at North Carolina, Budd’s up showing the polls three. Then Herschel Walker’s already up in each of the two latest polls, three. And Adam Laxalt’s up. So I think that’s our 52, plus I think we’ve got a great opportunity in Arizona, Colorado, Washington, New Hampshire. So I think we’re going to have a breakthrough.
Jon Decker, Gray TV White House Correspondent
Mitch McConnell … does not share your optimism. Just a few weeks ago in Kentucky, he said, ‘I think there’s probably a greater likelihood that the House flips than the Senate.’ Why do you have a different viewpoint than your leader?
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), NRSC Chairman
Just look at our candidates. I mean, look at them. I mean you’ve got Mehmet Oz, a world-renowned heart surgeon, the top healthcare talk show host in the world. You look at Budd, a very successful congressman, North Carolina. You look at Herschel Walker, Heisman Trophy winner, successful business person. People in Georgia love him. You look at Adam Laxalt, he’s an Iraqi war veteran. He’s a successful state attorney general.
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), NRSC Chairman
You look at Blake Master, successful tech entrepreneur. Joe O’Dea started a construction company, successful. You look at Tiffany Smiley. You look at retired General Bolden. These guys have great backgrounds. And they’re working hard. They’re running good races. And let’s look at this” Biden’s numbers are under 40 in every one of those states. This is a referendum on Biden. That’s number 1. Number 2, is we’ve spent our money early, which means we’ve been able to define the Democrats. And they’re under 50 in all these states. Some of them are under 45 so that gives us a big opportunity.
Jon Decker, Gray TV White House Correspondent
The people that you’ve just praised so much, in many cases are trailing in their respective races. You mentioned Arizona, Masters is losing. You mentioned Pennsylvania, you have Dr. Oz losing in that state, trailing in every poll that I’ve seen. And I don’t think you can point to one poll in which he’s ahead. And yet you talk about how great your candidates are. And Mitch McConnell, getting back to him again, your leader, has spoken about candidate quality and why you’re having difficulty in some of these races. Do you take issue with that?
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), NRSC Chairman
Well first, let’s take Dr. Oz. He went through a tough primary. A lot of these guys went through tough primaries, right? So Mehmet went through a tough primary. He had a lot of attack ads against him. But now that he’s in the general election, he’s raised money. We’ve invested early. We’re defining Fetterman. He’s cut the lead way down. The last poll has Mehmet down four.
In Arizona…Blake Masters had a late primary. But let’s look at where Kelly is. Kelly is underwater. Eric Barlow, we beat him. So as long as we go out and define who Blake Masters is, I think he’s going to win.
On Sen. Lindsay Graham’s abortion bill and the Kansas abortion vote
Jon Decker, Gray TV White House Correspondent
Does that take you, Republicans, off message when you have a fellow senator that is in a high profile way introducing this type of legislation?
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), NRSC Chairman
I’m pro-life. I believe there ought to be reasonable restrictions and exceptions for rape, incest and life of the mother. And I think every campaign-
Jon Decker, Gray TV White House Correspondent
Should it be a state’s issue? Should states determine this or do you think, like Senator Graham has suggested it should be a federal issue?
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), NRSC Chairman
Well, that’s a decision every senator’s going to get to make. The Democrats have made abortion a significant issue, but they don’t want to talk about their position on abortion. Their position on abortion is, and it’s radical, they want to have abortion up to the moment a little baby’s born. They want to say a baby born alive, I can just sit on the side-
Jon Decker, Gray TV White House Correspondent
I don’t know if that’s necessarily true.
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), NRSC Chairman
That’s exactly how they voted. They all voted for that. They all voted to say a little baby born alive they’re just going to let starve to death over on the side. And they said, if you are a pro-life healthcare worker, you have to perform an abortion. That’s what they all voted to do. That’s not what the country is. The country is … reasonable restrictions and reasonable exceptions. So every candidate has talked about this. They’ve all taken that position. And there’ll be a decision whether this is done at the states or at the federal level. But I can tell you what I keep talking about is how radical the Democrats are. We all need compassion for what a woman’s going through. But we ought to say, what can we do to make sure we bring life into this country. More life. We love babies in…But what the Democrats have done is just radical and it’s wrong.
Jon Decker, Gray TV White House Correspondent
In Kansas over the summer, they had a referendum on the issue of abortion and were you surprised by the results on that referendum? And what does that tell you, Senator, in terms of the energy that Democrats have right now on this particular issue heading into the midterms?
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), NRSC Chairman
Well, here’s what Democrats are doing. First off, they-
Jon Decker, Gray TV White House Correspondent
Did their vote surprise you, first of all?
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), NRSC Chairman
I wasn’t following exactly what was going to happen in Kansas, but then I think every state has different beliefs about things.
Jon Decker, Gray TV White House Correspondent
It’s a red state. So that’s why I say that it’s surprising.
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), NRSC Chairman
But every state has their own beliefs about what should happen and that’s great. My state’s going to be different than some other state. We come up here to represent our states. But if you look at it, the Democrats have to talk about abortion. They can’t talk about inflation. They can’t talk about job growth. We lost 242,000 full-time jobs last month. Did you know that? 242,000 full-time jobs. We’re adding part-time jobs, right? Businesses that have to cut back and people that have to go back and get a second and third job. I mean, they can’t talk about the economy, they can’t talk about schools, they can’t talk about Afghanistan, they can’t talk about the border, they can’t talk about crime because it’s all bad issues for them. So there’s all they can talk about.
Jon Decker, Gray TV White House Correspondent
It’s Senator Graham actually talking about it. I wouldn’t even be asking this question if he didn’t introduce it this past week, this legislation. He’s the one that’s brought this issue again to the fore.
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), NRSC Chairman
No, Democrats have brought the issue to the fore.
Jon Decker, Gray TV White House Correspondent
Well he did, was introducing an issue that Senator McConnell said most of the conference is not interested in tackling abortion at the federal level. He says most of the conference, and maybe you disagree with the Senator, believes that should be tackled at the state level.
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), NRSC Chairman
So if you look at every, look at the Democrats who are running in Pennsylvania. That’s all they can talk about. That’s all they’re talking about. Because they can’t talk about the issues that matter. This has been talked about for months and stopped. Why is Ron Johnson already winning? … Why is Ted Budd winning? Why is Herschel Walker winning and why is Adam Laxalt still winning? And we’re within the march of there in Colorado. We’re down three to five points in Washington. I mean, look at Maggie Hassen, she’s been talking about these issues and her approval numbers are under 45. So we are going to win.
On money
Jon Decker, Gray TV White House Correspondent
Let’s talk about money … you, meaning the NRSC, is trailing your respective counterpart, the Democrats, as it relates to money, cash on hand. Why is that? They have double the amount of money you have right now.
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), NRSC Chairman
Because we did the right thing. I tell people when we got this job, what you have to do to win races, you can’t wait to define your opponent. So we invested early. We actually started defining our opponents back in 2021. We knew our target states. We started defining them then and we started investing significant dollars back in May. That’s why. You think somebody like Ron Johnson, who’s never been ahead in the poll before, in his two races before, he’s leading now because we defined the Democrats. So we’ve invested our money, we raised good money, and if you want to give more money you can text 55404, but we’ve invested and we’ve defined them. That’s why we’re doing well and we’ll continue to raise money. And we’re going to have our campaigns raise money. That’s why we’re in a good position. And look at Arizona, their election was late, their primary was late. And so we’re going to win.
On Donald Trump
Jon Decker, Gray TV White House Correspondent
Would you say that the former president is a leader of the Republican Party?
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), NRSC Chairman
What I’ve always said is the voters are the leaders of the Republican Party. In 2010, Republicans all across the country, none of them endorsed me. And guess what? I won because I talked to voters and I talked about the issue that was most important at the time. I had a seven-step plan at 700,000 jobs. And so that’s what I believe in. The voters in every one of these states is going to decide who their primary candidate is and the voters are going to decide who their next senator’s going to be and I believe they’re going to pick Republicans.
Jon Decker, Gray TV White House Correspondent
When was the last time you spoke to the former president about the upcoming midterms?
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), NRSC Chairman
I talk to him every two or three weeks.
Jon Decker, Gray TV White House Correspondent
And are you satisfied with the amount of money that he’s contributing, his political action committee is contributing to your Senate races around the country?
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), NRSC Chairman
I want everybody that has any money to give us more money.
Jon Decker, Gray TV Chief White House Correspondent
Okay, so-
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), NRSC Chairman
Everybody.
Jon Decker, Gray TV White House Correspondent
He’s raised an incredible amount of money from the political action committee. It seems like he’s hoarding it all. And do you want him to give more of that money to the candidates that you have competing in competitive races?
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), NRSC Chairman
That’s a choice he gets to make. Everybody-
Jon Decker, Gray TV White House Correspondent
But you must implore him when you speak to him. Mr. President, can you give some more to these tight races? We’re very close in Georgia, you might say to him. We’re very close.
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), NRSC Chairman
I told everybody that has money, anybody that had money in their campaign accounts and anything to help our candidates — Help the NRSC. Make sure we win.
On his responsibility if the GOP loses the Senate
Jon Decker, Gray TV White House Correspondent
You’ve been criticized in terms of running this organization, trying to raise money, recruit candidates. You’ve been criticized for taking time off on vacation in August to go to Italy. You’ve been criticized-
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), NRSC Chairman
Can you imagine? Celebrating my 50th wedding anniversary…
Jon Decker, Gray TV White House Correspondent
I’m just telling you why people would criticize.
Jon Decker, Gray TV White House Correspondent
You’ve been criticized for going to Iowa instead of other states in which there are very close Senate races. How do you respond to all this criticism? Is it tough being the person who heads this committee?
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), NRSC Chairman
I told people exactly what we’re going to do when I took the job and we’ve done it. I said we’re going to raise money. We’re going to invest early. We’re going to make significant investments in digital cause it’s going to pay off now. It’s going to pay off in the next five goals and cycle after that. I’ve said, we’re going to invest in Hispanic outreach. We have Hispanic outreach programs in nine competitive states. I said, we’re going to focus on election security. We’ve done all these things. We break relationships with the NRCC and the RNC and we are going to win.
Jon Decker, Gray TV White House Correspondent
You’re the conquering hero if you win. Absolutely. If you lose, are you the fall guy? Are you the fall guy if Republicans fail to take over the Senate?
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), NRSC Chairman
I don’t think anybody, any one person gets credit for winning and any one person is responsible for losing. Although we all want to win.
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), NRSC Chairman
So I always tell the candidates, when anybody I talk to, I said, ‘Here’s the deal, you have to win your race’. I said, ‘You have to raise money, you have to get volunteers, you have to build a team’. There could be support through the cavalry. There’s super PACs out there, there’s the NRC out there, but you have to make this happen on your own.
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), NRSC Chairman
I’m going to do everything I can and work hard. I do know that Biden helps us every day when he has a party for inflation in the day that inflation is 8.3%. That probably helps us a lot when he continues to leave the border open, that probably helps us a lot. Not good for the country. If you look at everything he’s doing when he says, ‘Oh, if you’re a construction worker, you’re going to pay off the debt of somebody going to an Ivy League school.’ That probably helps us win. It’s not good for the country, but Biden is basically our best advocate for why you do not want to vote for any Democrats right now.
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Defense seeks judge’s removal in Florida school shooter case
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - Attorneys for Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz asked for the judge in his murder case to remove herself on Friday, two days after she scolded them when they abruptly rested their case after calling only a fraction of their expected witnesses.
The Broward Public Defender’s Office said in a motion that Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer held a longstanding animosity toward lead defense lawyer Melisa McNeill.
The motion cited Florida’s Judicial Code of Conduct that states a judge shall disqualify himself or herself if the judge’s impartiality might reasonably be questioned, including but not limited to instances where the judge has a personal bias or prejudice concerning a party or a party’s lawyer. Defense attorneys said Scherer’s repeated improper and unjustified attacks on the defense counsel undermine the public’s confidence in the judicial system and have also caused Cruz to fear that he will not receive a fair trial.
Prosecutors said in a response that Scherer has been respectful to both sides.
Cruz’s attorneys had told the judge and prosecutors they would be calling 80 witnesses but surprisingly rested at the start of Wednesday’s court session after calling only about 25 of them.
There were 11 days of defense testimony overall, the last two spotlighting experts about how his birth mother’s heavy use of alcohol during pregnancy might have affected his brain’s development and led to his murdering 17 people at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School four years ago.
The sudden announcement by lead attorney McNeill led to a heated exchange between her and Scherer, who called the decision without warning to her or the prosecution “the most uncalled for, unprofessional way to try a case.”
The 12-member jury and 10 alternates were not present but were lining up outside the courtroom to enter. The sudden announcement also meant prosecutors weren’t ready to start their rebuttal case.
Scherer then accused Cruz’s attorneys of being inconsiderate to all involved, but especially the jurors for wasting their trip to court.
Cruz, 23, pleaded guilty last October to murdering 14 Stoneman Douglas students and three staff members on Feb. 14, 2018. His trial, now ending its second month, is only to determine whether he is to be sentenced to death or life without parole. For a death sentence, the jury must be unanimous.
After his attorneys rested, Cruz told Scherer he agreed with the decision.
Prosecutors said they will need more than a week to prepare their rebuttal case. The trial is now tentatively scheduled to resume Sept. 27 and conclude the week of Oct. 10.
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JMU men’s soccer drops Sun Belt opener to Georgia State
Published: Sep. 17, 2022 at 10:50 PM EDT|Updated: 50 minutes ago
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - The James Madison men’s soccer team lost to Georgia State Saturday night in the Dukes’ first-ever Sun Belt match.
The Panthers defeated the Dukes, 3-1, at Sentara Park.
Tyler Clegg scored JMU’s only goal on a penalty kick in the 44th minute. Justin McLean scored a pair of goals in the second half to lift Georgia State to a road victory. GSU’ Simon Carlson scored the first goal of the match in the 8th minute.
James Madison drops to 2-4 overall (0-1 Sun Belt). The Dukes host Georgetown for a 7 p.m. start next Tuesday.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On 13 September at the Nasdaq Stock Exchange opening bell ceremony, founder William Martinez de Velasco celebrated the launch of the newly established PANAMERICAN-US CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (PANAMUS). www.panamus.org.
"International web of commerce is the lifeblood of economic opportunity, connected like the blood that unites us. Expanding connections between panamerican trade, economies, societies and cultures is a basic human need. As prosperity is defined by the community we belong to" William Martinez de Velasco, Chairman
Headquartered in New York City, the newly formed Panamerican-U.S. Chamber of Commerce is dedicated to strengthening the commercial relationships between United States and countries of the Americas. Representing a population of over 1 billion, PANAMUS mission is to promote mutually beneficial relationships at highest level.
Infrastructure for the People is a nonprofit foundation that owns the Panamerican-U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Its mission is to equitably foster cultural trade and economic growth. Creating sustainable economies, encouraging business opportunity knocks on every door.
CONTACT: william.martinez@infra4people.com
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UPDATE 4:34 p.m.: Hawaii police confirm that Duncan Mahi has been found and arrested in Hilo.
He was wanted in connection with the case of a Big Island teen, Mikella Dibena, who went missing on Friday, September 16.
The investigation is ongoing.
Hawaii Police "thank the community for their assistance" regarding the case.
Dibena was reported missing Friday, September 16 around 5:00 p.m. She was found safe in Hilo on Saturday, September 17 around 11:30 a.m.
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UPDATE 2:00 p.m.
Authorities are searching for a suspect in an alleged kidnapping after a Big Island teen went missing on Friday.
Duncan Kealoha Mahi, 52, is wanted for kidnapping and outstanding warrants. He was last seen in downtown Hilo around 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, September 17. He was seen driving a white Honda CRV, License #ZAE959.
He is considered armed and dangerous.
Mahi is described as 5'11, 215 pounds, brown hair/brown eyes, with tattoos on both arms.
If Mahi or the vehicle is seen, please call police immediately.
WAIKOLOA, Hawaii (KITV4) -- Officials are reporting that 15-year-old Mikella Debina was found safe on the Big Island Saturday, after she went missing Friday afternoon.
Debina was last seen around Anaeho'omalu Bay with her boyfriend Friday around 1:30 p.m. Hawaii Police pronounced the teen missing around 7:00 p.m. on Friday, September 16.
As Debina's cousin, Mahana Cumiford, told KITV4 Friday, Debina's boyfriend alleged that Debina may have been abducted from the beach by an older man.
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Klamath Union 10, Hidden Valley 8: A little luck and a strong defense lifted the Pelicans to a homecoming victory Friday night in their inaugural Big Sky Conference game.
Hidden Valley (1-2) had two chances to win in the final few minutes, but Sequoia Hall clanked a 27-yard field-goal attempt off the left upright with 3:15 left and then had a 36-yard field goal on the final play blocked.
Tony Ortiz kicked a 25-yard field goal in the first quarter and made a 26-yard touchdown reception on a pass from Lamar Cuellar midway through the third to give the Pelicans a 10-0 lead.
Klamath Union improved to 2-1, surpassing its victory total – one – in each of the previous two full seasons.
Henley 48, Ashland 19: Logan Whitlock rushed 10 times for 186 yards and two touchdowns and the visiting Hornets (3-0), ranked No. 5 in Class 4A, cruised to the non-conference victory against the Class 5A team.
Henley built a 27-0 lead midway through the second quarter.
Quarterback Shaw Stork completed 6 of 9 passes for 128 yards and two touchdowns and added 88 yards rushing on six attempts two more scores.
Owen Northcutt led the Henley defense with six tackles, including four solo. Mark Carpenter intercepted two passes.
Ashland's Jojo Harrower was 20-of-35 passing for 289 yards and three touchdowns, but also was picked off three times.
South Umpqua 41, Lakeview 0: The short-handed Honkers (1-2) were no match for the host Lancers (3-0), ranked No. 2 in the state in Class 3A, in Special District 3 game.
Lakeview struggled offensively, with Brandon Markus leading the way with just 27 yards on 15 carries and two receptions for 18 yards. Quarterback Benny Alves was 7 of 20 for 57 and was intercepted three times.
The first quarter was tight before a turnover and a conversion on third-and-25 swung momentum in the Lancers' favor.
Butte Valley 14, Dunsmuir 6: Kyler Hensley rushed 20 times for 103 yards and caught a 79-yard touchdown pass to lead the Bulldogs (1-2) to the victory.
Jordan Cynor passed for 88 yards and a touchdown and also rushed for a score to lead Butte Valley to a 14-0 halftime lead.
Joey Cilione had a rushing touchdown and led the Bulldogs with 11 solo tackles.
Burney 40, Tulelake 32: Quarterback Carson Crook rushed 14 times for 111 yards and three touchdowns and also passed for 59 yards and two scores to lead the visiting Raiders (3-1) to the victory.
Gio Loza led the Honkers (1-2) with 185 yards on 29 carries and scored three TDs. Sophomore QB Xavier Silva rushed 18 times for 102 yards and completed 7 of 11 passes for 75 yards but was intercepted twice.
Danny Garcia led Tulelake with 14 tackles, including 10 solo.
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Prep scoreboard for Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022 Sep 17, 2022 2 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 PREP SCOREBOARDVOLLEYBALLMazama at Sisters Tournament Bonanza 3, Hidden Valley JV 0 (25-16, 25-10, 25-20)Crosshill Christian 3, Chiloquin 2 (25-23, 25-18, 17-25, 20-25, 15-8)Chiloquin vs. Days CreekGIRLS SOCCERKlamath Union 3, Crook County 1Henley 2, Cottage Grove 0Brookings-Harbor 6, Lost River/Bonanza 0BOYS SOCCERBrookings-Harbor at Lost River/Bonanza Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Tags Scoreboard Prep Soccer Sport Harbor Lost River Tournament Henley Recommended for you Trending Now Criminal investigation underway in Klamath baseball hazing Police wrapping up criminal investigation into Klamath Falls Falcons sexual hazing complaint School district tells staff, teachers not to post on social media about sexual hazing investigation Oregon congressional candidate Alek Skarlatos joked about choking women 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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The theme for the Mazama Vikings was blackout at this event, from their jerseys to the crowd everything was set for their blackout night.
This included Marist Catholic, who Mazama left black and blue by the end of the game.
The theme for the Mazama Vikings was blackout at this event, from their jerseys to the crowd everything was set for their blackout night.
This included Marist Catholic, who Mazama left black and blue by the end of the game.
Mazama, who is ranked No.1 in state Class 4A coaches’ poll completely stunned the No.2 ranked Marist in blowout fashion, winning 42-7 at Viking field.
The offense would score 42 unanswered until Marist scored in the final minute of the game. Quarterback Tyson Van Gastel led the charge on offense, going 3-5, resulting in 49 yards and a touchdown. Van Gastel also ran for an impressive 153 yard and three touchdowns on 17 carries.
“We played some really good football today,” Van Gastel said. “This was a solid team win it feels great right now.”
Van Gastel had nothing but praise for his teammates, crediting them for getting to win tonight.
“I got to give it to our offensive line tonight, they made all the long plays and touchdown plays happen, wouldn’t have the night we had without them. The defense also deserves the credit, they are the one who got us this win.”
On the defensive side, defensive back Treyce Horton had an incredible night in turnovers. Horton had two interceptions, one of which resulting in a pick-six.
“I had a great night, I came into it very ready, credit to the coaches, did exactly what they asked of me.” Horton said. “This was a great team performance, and we will take this momentum going into league play.”
Head Coach Vic Lease knows his team had another amazing week.
“Its awesome when you go out there and play that well,” Lease said. “I am so proud of how we played, especially in a game when all eyes were on us.”
Lease believes his team made a statement win today and proved they are a tough team to beat.
“We made a statement today, it was a great team effort all around and we know how important preparation for our upcoming games will be, we need to prepare like champions each and every week.”
While the Vikings had an incredible start to their season with non-league play, league play starts for them next week when they travel to face North Bend and they know how challenging league play can be.
“We will do what we always do in league and every week, take it one week at a time. We know we have a big target on our backs going forward.”
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Big Blue and Rams pick up home wins
Bluefield State and Bluefield earn second wins
Published: Sep. 18, 2022 at 1:02 AM EDT|Updated: 10 minutes ago
BLUEFIELD, W.Va. (WVVA) - Both Bluefield schools made the most of their opportunities en route to home wins on Saturday.
The Big Blue snuck past the Central State Marauders, 27-23.
The Rams shut down the Union Bulldogs, 29-10.
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Homeowner kills intruder who attacked him, police say
KENOSHA, Wis. (WTMJ) - Police say a Wisconsin homeowner fought back against and killed an intruder who attacked him after forcing his way into his house.
Police responded to reports of someone damaging cars and attempting to enter several homes in a Kenosha neighborhood just before 7:30 p.m. Friday.
“The guy was going absolutely crazy. He was throwing rocks at cars, houses,” said Jayme Raddatz, who lives in the area.
Raddatz says his family was getting ready for a movie night when he heard a commotion. He went upstairs and saw his neighbor struggling with the intruder.
“He had his arm in, trying to open the door, and my neighbor was beating on his arm, screaming for help,” Raddatz said.
Surveillance footage from another neighbor shows a man with no shirt on walking back and forth and throwing things at cars.
Police say the suspect forced his way into another house blocks away, where he got into a physical fight with the homeowner, ultimately leading to the intruder’s death. Officers responded for the death investigation shortly after 9 p.m.
A neighbor who did not want to be identified says she never thought something like this would happen in her quiet neighborhood.
“It was very shocking. This is a wonderful neighborhood,” she said.
Police have not confirmed how the intruder died. The investigation is ongoing.
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KABUL, Afghanistan – In the year since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, they have used their muscle to restrict the education and curiosity of girls. They've been banned from high school, told to cover up and stay home. But in one secret book club in Kabul, about a dozen teenagers are defying the Taliban to continue learning – and along the way have connected to a girl from a different time and place who was also forced to live her life in secret.
"She had hope. She was fighting. She was studying. She was resisting her fate," says Zahra. She's in the basement of a building on a side alley on the outskirts of Kabul where the book club met on a recent August day with two young volunteers who act as facilitators, steering the conversation and asking questions.
Zahra is speaking of Anne Frank.
The girls are reading and discussing the teenager's famous diary, which she began writing at age 13. And they are struck by the parallels: Just like them, Anne was only a kid – one who was starting to learn about the world – when she was forced into hiding because of a violent, oppressive government.
Another book club member summarizes the diary at a facilitator's urging: "In the beginning Anne has a good life, but after Hitler takes over, he places strict laws and regulations against Jews. They go into hiding. They can't make noise. They have to walk softly."
Four volunteers set up this weekly book club for teenage girls shortly after the Taliban took over Afghanistan in August last year.
(NPR is only using the first names of the girls to protect them from any Taliban reprisals for violating the education ban and not identifying the club's organizers, who fear the Taliban could shut down the book club and punish them for educating the girls.)
The origins of the secret book club
The girls in this book club come from a heart-wrenching cohort: Nearly all of them have survived suicide bombings over the past few years. Some were wounded; others suffered psychological harm. Some lost family. They lost friends. They all belong to a persecuted ethnic minority called Hazaras. Living under the Taliban's rule has added to their hardships..
The four volunteers are young men and women who have worked in education and community service for years. They hope the girls will be able to process the events of their own lives through reading and talking about the classics of Persian and Western literature, translated into Farsi.
"We come here, we talk about the books, and then we understand ourselves, our thoughts," says one of the young book club members, Arzou. "It is like, so amazing."
Some of the books are intended to show the girls how other minorities have survived persecution – or not – through personal stories of resistance and suffering, like Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl and The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.
Bringing a Jewish voice to Kabul
It is a remarkable effort in a culture and region where there have been no substantial Jewish communities for decades and where clerics have often maligned Jews, without evidence, as seeking to undermine Muslim communities and Islam itself.
But the Hazara volunteers who lead this book club understand the European Jewish experience differently: a minority that was once unspeakably persecuted as part of the Nazi effort to exterminate the Jewish people, with millions killed, but which has since thrived. They hope the girls will see that too.
Volunteers who facilitate the book club assigned Frank's diary to the girls in late July. They agreed to meet weeks later with NPR to talk about it.
The book, which has been translated into over 70 languages and sold some 30 million copies, was translated into Farsi by a 61-year-old Afghan refugee named Khalil Wedad who lives in the Netherlands.
Wedad said when he first came across the book in a class he attended on Dutch language and culture, he was taken by how Anne Frank's story of a girl in hiding resonated with the experience of many Afghans living through decades of war. He hoped that if he were to translate the book, Afghan girls would see themselves in her story.
Wedad told NPR that he was supported by the Anne Frank House, which oversaw the translation and paid for publishing about 1,500 copies.
"At first it may seem surprising that these girls relate so powerfully to Anne Frank, but for young people who experience terror and oppression who have to hide for their lives, there's somehow comfort to know they're not alone," says Doyle Stevick, executive director of the Anne Frank Center at the University of South Carolina. (The center is the official partner of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam).
"The diary helps us recall our common humanity no matter what our differences may be," Stevick says. "Anne's strong spirited determination not to give into despair has inspired people around the world."
In 2005, after the Farsi edition of the book was published, Wedad said he traveled back to Afghanistan and held small meetings with journalists and civil society activists to introduce the book. He even held readings with Afghan teenage girls.
Wedad said he hadn't heard about the secret book club but was pleased to learn that young Afghan women are finding meaning in Anne Frank's story. "It feels like his mission was kind of fulfilled," Wedad's son Khaled told NPR, translating for his dad, who does not speak English.
'I think Anne Frank is ... a friend for me.'
Arzou, one of the book club participants, said it was the first time they had read the firsthand account of a teenage girl living through extreme hardship. "I think Anne Frank is like, as a friend for me," she said.
"Something is in common with me and Anne Frank," Arzou says. "We are both the victims of war. I mean, Anne Frank is suffering from war and I am too. And Anne Frank cannot go to school, cannot, like go out very freely. And I have the same situation."
Like Anne Frank, Arzou says, "we are just in a dark place and there isn't any light," she says. "And we don't understand what would come after this."
Before the Taliban came to power, Arzou says her grades were so high that she expected to apply to colleges abroad to study computer science. That dream is over.
She's 17, but her hair is streaked with gray – a startling sight set against the pimples on her teenage face. She thinks the grays are because she holds in the suffering she's experienced.
But she says she's learning that other people, like the Jews of Europe, like Anne Frank, lived through worse.
"I found the Anne Frank situation more harder than us," Arzou says. "They cannot go out, and every minute they are thinking of being free, but in the end, they even die. So if I think of my situation. I am very grateful because I have these people that I can share my ideas with. We can gather together and talk about anything that we want."
Another girl, 17-year-old Masouma, wearing a lavender headscarf and purple robe, raises her hand to talk. She says she relates to how Anne Frank faced the real fear that she'd be killed even as she wrote about her typical teenage problems, including her crush on a teenage boy who shared their hiding place and her clashes with her mother.
"I loved the whole book. It was like a friend of mine telling me her pain, her stories. When she called her diary Kitty, I smiled and I imagined that I was Kitty, and that we are best friends," Masouma says smiling.
Masouma is referring to this moment in Frank's diary: "All I think about when I'm with friends is having a good time. I can't bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don't seem to be able to get any closer and that's the problem. Maybe it's my fault that we don't confide in each other. In any case, that's just how things are, and unfortunately they're not liable to change. This is why I've started the diary."
"To enhance the image of this long-awaited friend in my imagination, I don't want to jot down the facts in this diary the way most people would do, but I want the diary to be my friend, and I'm going to call this friend Kitty."
Masouma says she admires Anne Frank for trying to have a sense of perspective: She was sad because she couldn't go to school in hiding. But she knew it was worse out in the world. She wrote in her diary in 1942 about Jews being transported to camps: "We assume that most of them are being murdered. The English radio says they're being gassed. Perhaps that's the quickest way to die."
And she says, Anne Frank didn't give up on education. She tried to continue her education in secret, even taking a shorthand course by correspondence. Masouma is trying to keep up her education as well.
Despite the Taliban's ban on secondary education for girls, Masouma and other girls were sneaking into a high school that was secretly letting them attend the boys-only classes. They were ducking into the school gate in tiny numbers, hoping they wouldn't be noticed.
"But there were too many of us," Masouma says. She says the school principal feared local Taliban security forces would notice the girls coming in and out, and so they were told to go home. "The girls were all crying," Masouma recalls. "My sister is still traumatized and now she doesn't want to try to get an education."
Masouma and the other girls say they find comfort in Anne Frank's diary, even though they know how it ends. Anne Frank died of typhus in 1945 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after her family was betrayed and their hiding place revealed. She was 16.
Zahra, the young woman who described Anne Frank as resisting her fate, says knowing the end didn't depress her at all. "Nobody knows how long I will live, or when I will die," she shrugs. "The only thing you can do is leave something behind for the world that gives your life meaning."
Like Anne Frank, who left behind her diary, published in 1947.
"Right now, the Taliban are in power," Zahra says. "One day, they will be gone. Maybe people will forget what they did to girls like me."
She says that she wants to write a book as Anne Frank did so the world will know about the teenage girls of Afghanistan as well.
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Truth in advertising; you love to see it.
If you've hung in with House of the Dragon up to this point, be assured that this week's ep is an unfailingly accurate representation of exactly what you've signed on for, and of what's to come. Namely:
Palace intrigue (read: secret doors, trysts, spies, rumors, scandal, lies). Explicit sexual pairings involving relatives who are closer to one another chromosomally than they are chronologically. The odd disembowelment. Bad wigs a-go-go.
That's House Targaryen for you, and that's what this show is, for now. Soon, but not very soon, it'll also be about all of that, plus a hell of a lot of dragons, which is something this episode does not do a good job of representing. In fact, the only dragon we see in action is one we've already added to our Dragon Watching Log Book: Daemon's dragon Caraxes, executing a fly-by jostling.
The prodigal jerk returns
But before that, we drop in on what will turn out to be the final date of Rhaenyra: The White-Blonde Ambition Tour. Only instead of Rhaenyra performing in a cone bra for the masses, it's a series of hopeful lords lining up in a humble, smoky throne room to plight their feeble, ill-fated troths.
(I first assumed that this was meant to be Storm's End, the seat of House Baratheon, given that that's Boremund Baratheon seated at Rhaenyra's side, walking her through the process. But as most of the suitors lined up before her are from Houses in the Riverlands — Frey, Mudd, Blackwood, etc. — I'd guess we're instead at Riverrun, the seat of House Tully.)
The elderly, pompous Lord Dondarrion of Blackhaven is blathering away about his castle's "deep, dry moat," like the shameless flirt he is.
Next up, Ser Squeaky Voiced Teen of House Simpsons. (Kidding: House Blackwood, technically.) He quavers out his pitch, and promptly gets trash-talked by a jerk from House Bracken. Which is a nice touch, as in the books, Blackwoods and Brackens have hated each other for generations. That hatred flares up anew in the throne room, and Ser Squeaky prevails, gutting Bracken like a river trout.
Rhaenyra's had enough of this sword-measuring contest, and cuts off the tour two months early. On her way back to King's Landing, her ship is overtaken by ol' Uncy Daemon, astride Caraxes, who gives her sails a love-tap as he passes by.
At the Iron Throne, a crowd gathers to watch Daemon's return. He's sporting a kicky new 'do — Jim Jarmusch by way of Johnny Bravo — and a crown of what seems to be bamboo and seashells. Now that he's conquered the Stepstones, they call him King of the Narrow Sea — but he promptly kneels before Viserys and gives up his crown. Don't feel too bad for him; that thing looks like he found it at a surf shop between the driftwood seagulls and the cage of hermit crabs.
Viserys welcomes him back. In the Red Keep's godswood courtyard, Viserys gets happily drunk and gassy and is thoughtlessly rude to his queen. Rhaenyra and Alicent get a moment together to admit how much they've missed each other, but not before Rheanyra also suggests that the queen's life of "squeezing out heirs" doesn't interest her. The hits just keep coming, but Alicent takes them all in stride; she's out here turning more cheeks than a plastic surgeon.
For now.
(Given Viserys's flatulence in the prior scene, there's a "squeezing out airs" joke to be made here, but let's us just soldier on, you and I.)
There follows a scene between Daemon and Rhaenyra in which Daemon urges his niece to see marriage as a political arrangement that leaves one free to pursue whatever pleasures one wishes. He doesn't quite waggle his eyebrows at her when he mentions "pleasures," but that's clearly the subtext. Then again, the guy's eyebrows are the same color as his skin, so maybe he does waggle them. Even in HD, it's impossible to say for sure.
Cut to: the Small Council. It seems that Corlys Velaryon is fixing to wed his daughter Laena (remember her? The 12-year-old in the white Harpo wig?) to the son of a Lord of the Free Cities, effectively turning his back on the Seven Kingdoms. (We get a nice quick shot of the perpetually worried Tyland Lannister looking worried, again, still, some more.)
Where did you sleep last night, and was she worth it?
In her bedchamber, Rhaenrya finds a bundle of old clothes and a diagram pointing out a secret door behind her bed. She outfits herself in pageboy drag, skulks through the catacombs and finds her way to Daemon, waiting for her in an inconspicuous hood and cloak that's hilariously conspicuous.
They make their way together into the narrow streets of King's Landing, which are alive with pyromancers and tightrope walkers and fortune tellers and drunks and peasants rutting away in alleys. It's exotic yet grimy: Cirque du Soleil meets Circus Circus.
They witness a playlet which lampoons the royal family, and the struggle for the Iron Throne, and Rhaenyra, mostly, rolls with it, even when the crowd boos the notion of naming a woman rightful heir.
This, by the way, is the showrunners telling us that she's possessed of the proper temperament to rule. A tyrant like GoT's Joffrey would order the players' heads on pikes, while a weaker ruler might sulk and stew that the people didn't love them enough. Rhaenyra, for her part, rolls her eyes and shrugs her shoulders, accepting that the common folk need their outlet. This, it seems to me, is the Goldilocks Response — it's just right.
Back at the Red Keep, Alicent tends to the growing number of Iron Throne ouchies that the king's steadily accruing, none of which seem to be healing well. She is then summoned to his bedchamber to lie back and think of Oldtown, as the king makes assiduous, dutiful, yeomanlike love to her.
This is offered in contrast to the presumptively more erotic goings-on between Daemon and Rhaenyra, who show up to a brothel, ditch their disguises and then proceed to ditch other items of clothing as well. After much to-ing and fro-ing, Daemon can't seem to coax his Caraxes out of the ol' Dragonpit, and abandons Rhaenyra, who makes her way back to the Red Keep. She's spotted by a street urchin, who skulks off to report this news to ... someone.
Rhaenyra invites Ser Criston Cole into her bedchamber, and there's a lot of nonsense involving the removal of his armor that plays like one of those montages in '80s action movies where the hero suits up for battle with extreme close-ups of weapons (LOCK! LOAD! SNAP! GUN! AFFIX! SNAP! ZIP! KNIFE! OTHER KNIFE! STILL ANOTHER KNIFE, FOR SOME REASON!). Only this one takes place in reverse.
This sex scene is offered up to us as one we're meant to see as more tender, more playful and even downright loving than that nasty business with Daemon. Plus a whole let less V.C. Andrews, for good measure.
The lair of the White Worm
Otto Hightower is summoned to the Red Keep gate, where "A messenger brings word from the White Worm."
Now: Book readers will know who the White Worm is, but the show doesn't come out and say it explicitly. Instead, here's what what we see:
1. The urchin reports to Otto what he saw.
2. The next morning, Daemon wakes up, hungover, in his old mistress Mysaria's place.
3. We learn that they are no longer together, and he speaks rudely to her.
4. While they are talking, the same urchin who saw Rhaenyra the night before and ratted her out to Otto shows up, and hands Mysaria some coins.
5. Not for nothing, but Mysaria's wearing white in this scene. Okay? Get it? People in the back?
Otto meets with Viserys in the king's bedchamber, where, I just now notice, the guy has hung some wildly explicit tapestries on every wall. Between his giant scale models that take up most of the room and the fact that he's given this really porny art pride of place, the show is painting a very specific picture of the king.
Viserys is that one creep in your college dorm who scored the only single on your floor when his roommate dropped out suddenly sophomore year. The guy who built models of German WWII aircraft. Fun-Takked Penthouse and Hustler centerfolds over his bed. Never went to class, but every so often you'd see him behind the dining hall hucking throwing stars at old mattresses. You know? That guy.
Otto stammers out the news that Rhaenrya was seen coupling with Daemon "in the bowels of a pleasure den" (Reader, I chuckled). The king refuses to believe it, and accuses Otto of scheming for the throne. Alicent overhears this ...
... and confronts Rhaenyra in the godswood. Rhaenyra denies the accusations and makes a great show of offense. (There's a nice bit of blocking here: As Alicent accuses Rhaenyra, she stands higher up on the hill leading to the weirwood tree, looking down at the princess. But as soon as Rhaenyra clocks that Alicent has no proof, and launches into her affronted denials, she climbs up the hill and turns on the queen, peering down at her. Seizing the high ground, morally and literally.)
Rhaenyra makes a choice here. She could simply say that she and Daemon didn't ... um, "couple," and she'd be telling the truth. But she goes further, swearing upon the memory of her mother that Daemon "never touched" her, which: lie. Snopes.com. Four Pinocchios.
The letter opener ... of DOOM
Daemon stumbles back to the Red Keep and is brought before the king, who confronts him with the White Worm's intel. Daemon, pointedly, doesn't deny that he and Rhaenyra had sex. He's not simply being a toxic lying creep, here; he wants Viserys to believe it, because he thinks it would make the king more receptive to his pitch to wed Rhaenrya.
The king ... very isn't. He exiles Daemon to the Vale, to rejoin his lawfully wedded wife. (Whom we haven't met yet, but likely will next week — she's the one Daemon referred to earlier as his "bronze bitch.") Real charmer, this guy.
Alicent, we learn, believes Rhaenyra, which convinces the king to summon his daughter to his porny, porny bedchamber. He shows her a dagger that once belonged to Aegon the Conqueror, which ties in to the prophecy he mentioned to her back in episode 1. It goes further, invoking the prophecy of The Prince That Was Promised. (Game of Thrones ended with Jon Snow being TPtwP, of course, but it's still possible that George R.R. Martin may go a different way in the books.)
Viserys orders Rheanyra to wed Laenor Velaryon, son of Corlys the Sea Snake (the kid who dracarysed all those archers in the Stepstones last week), thereby joining the Targaryen dragons to the Velaryons' vast fleet of ships. Rheanyra agrees but — still smarting from getting ratted out by Otto — insists that the king relieve his most trusted advisor of his duty.
Which the king does, removing Otto's Hand pin and giving him the Westerosi equivalent of a gold watch and sheet cake in the breakroom.
We end with Grand Maester Mellos entering Rhaenyra's bedchamber with a potion that will ensure she'll be able to fit into her wedding dress in next week's episode.
Parting Thoughts:
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Homeowner kills intruder who attacked him, police say
KENOSHA, Wis. (WTMJ) - Police say a Wisconsin homeowner fought back against and killed an intruder who attacked him after forcing his way into his house.
Police responded to reports of someone damaging cars and attempting to enter several homes in a Kenosha neighborhood just before 7:30 p.m. Friday.
“The guy was going absolutely crazy. He was throwing rocks at cars, houses,” said Jayme Raddatz, who lives in the area.
Raddatz says his family was getting ready for a movie night when he heard a commotion. He went upstairs and saw his neighbor struggling with the intruder.
“He had his arm in, trying to open the door, and my neighbor was beating on his arm, screaming for help,” Raddatz said.
Surveillance footage from another neighbor shows a man with no shirt on walking back and forth and throwing things at cars.
Police say the suspect forced his way into another house blocks away, where he got into a physical fight with the homeowner, ultimately leading to the intruder’s death. Officers responded for the death investigation shortly after 9 p.m.
A neighbor who did not want to be identified says she never thought something like this would happen in her quiet neighborhood.
“It was very shocking. This is a wonderful neighborhood,” she said.
Police have not confirmed how the intruder died. The investigation is ongoing.
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Leader in space exploration joins forces with agencies to increase access to space and expand commercial opportunities in respective countries
PARIS, Sept. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Voyager Space, a global leader in space exploration, and its operating company Nanoracks, today announced while at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) that the company has signed Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with the Colombian Space Agency, El Salvador Aerospace Institute, the Mexican Space Agency, the Guatemalan Association of Space Sciences and Engineering, and the Costa Rican startup Orbital Space Technologies. Nanoracks and Voyager signed an individual MoU with each agency, with the intent of opening up access to space and furthering commercial space opportunities within the respective countries.
"This is a momentous occasion, not only for our teams at Voyager and Nanoracks but also for the growing space economies of each and every one of these countries," said Jeffrey Manber, President of International and Space Stations at Voyager. "We look forward to working closely with the space agencies in Colombia, El Salvador, Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, and potentially more countries in the region to support their current space initiatives and work together to make future commercial space platforms accessible.
"This is a major initiative to help ensure that as we move towards commercial space stations, the doors are open for countries that are emerging space nations," says David Marsh, Vice President of Strategy at Nanoracks. "Nanoracks has been focused on making space accessible since day one, and we are proud to carry the legacy forward from the International Space Station to Starlab. We cannot wait to get to work with our friends from the Latin America region."
Colombian Space Agency
This agreement outlines support of projects and plans for the continued development of space activities in Colombia as well as participation in Starlab and George Washington Carver Science Park (GWCSP) planning efforts. By working together, the companies will support near term space activities in Colombia, grow cooperation with the space, commercial, and scientific communities within the country and continue to advance the future of space technologies and capabilities for Voyager and its portfolio companies.
"Not only is this agreement an essential step in supporting the development of Starlab and other future ISS experiments, it is also an opportunity in the new space age to be in the space with some of Colombia's key space initiatives, including our GreenSat CubeSat project, our Vision Agro program, and our Aprendiendo con Galileo program and education," said Pilar Zamora Acevedo, executive director at the Colombian Space Agency by private initiative. "We are eager to begin working closely with the Voyager and Nanoracks teams and help accelerate growth for our country in the space industry."
El Salvador Aerospace Institute (ESAI)
This agreement is to help expand space exploration activities in collaboration with businesses, institutions, non-governmental and government agencies within El Salvador, which includes the development of the STEAM framework of knowledge with social benefits for the Salvadoran economy and its citizens. This agreement also supports cooperation and collaboration with ESAI and Nanoracks for Starlab and the GWCSP.
"We are thrilled to have the opportunity to support efforts around Starlab and the GWCSP and to leverage the unique capabilities of Voyager, and its portfolio companies, to plan for future Salvadoran payloads, equipment, and astronauts," said Luis Alfaro, president and CEO of ESAI. "We look forward to sharing knowledge and collaborating on the future of commercial space activities within the North Triangle of Central America and beyond."
Mexican Space Agency
This agreement will explore projects and plans for future space activities in Mexico, including satellites, lunar payloads, and youth engagement efforts while building technical expertise and expanding the economic base of Mexico. Similar to the other MoUs, this agreement will also allow the Mexican Space Agency to participate in the development of Starlab and provide input for elements of the GWCSP.
"Signing this MoU with Voyager Space is essential in order to further the integration of Mexico to the international space community and promotes the effective development of space activities within our country," said Dr. Salvador Landeros Ayala, Director General of the Mexican Space Agency. "By joining forces, we will be able to execute on our joint objectives in a timely manner and change the course of our future in space for the better."
Guatemalan Association of Space Sciences and Engineering (AGICE)
This MoU is intended to support space activities in Guatemala with a specific focus on educational programs. In addition to collaborating on near-term support for the Association's objectives and programs, the AGICE will also have the opportunity to participate in Starlab and GWCSP.
"There is a growing need and interest in space from the Guatemalan community and we are eager to continue to build upon this momentum with Voyager," said Katherinne Herrera Jordan, president of AGICE. "Voyager and Nanoracks are making waves with the development of Starlab while simultaneously moving the future of commercial space forward. We welcome the chance to collaborate with them and extend our reach in the space industry."
Orbital Space Technologies
This agreement is with Costa Rica's first space startup and will support the development of additional capabilities and technologies within the growing space sector in Costa Rica, helping to launch new space initiatives and eventual ground station services in the region. The MoU also allows for the participation in Starlab and GWCSP.
"It's an exciting step for us to sign this agreement with Voyager and move forward in furthering the development of the space sector in Costa Rica and Central America," said Valeria Dittel, CEO of Orbital Space Technologies. "We are hopeful that this collaboration will reap massive benefits for our region, not only to establish ourselves as a strong force in the industry but also to support key initiatives such as access to microgravity experimentation in Latin America."
About Nanoracks
Nanoracks, powered by Voyager Space, is a global leader for providing commercial space services. Nanoracks owns and operates private hardware on the International Space Station and has launched over 1,300 research experiments, deployed over 300 small satellites, and installed the Bishop Airlock. Today, Nanoracks leverages over a decade of experience to develop new commercial space systems in direct response to customer needs. These space systems include converting commercial launch vehicle upper stages into functional secondary platforms, building new habitable space stations, supplying payload and crew airlock systems and services infrastructure, and more.
Follow @Nanoracks on Twitter to learn more or visit https://nanoracks.com.
About Voyager Space
Voyager Space is a space technology company with nearly 20 years of spaceflight heritage. Voyager's long-term mission is to create a vertically integrated NewSpace company capable of delivering any space mission humans can conceive. The firm's first-in-industry model is uniquely tailored to support the growth needs of commercial space companies by replacing traditional private capital models with a longer-term approach that provides permanent capital.
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This press release contains "forward-looking statements." All statements, other than statements of historical fact, including those with respect to Voyager Space, Inc.'s (the "Company's") mission statement and growth strategy, are "forward-looking statements." Although the Company's management believes that such forward-looking statements are reasonable, it cannot guarantee that such expectations are, or will be, correct. These forward-looking statements involve many risks and uncertainties, which could cause the Company's future results to differ materially from those anticipated. Potential risks and uncertainties include, among others, general economic conditions and conditions affecting the industries in which the Company operates; the uncertainty of regulatory requirements and approvals; and the ability to obtain necessary financing on acceptable terms or at all. Readers should not place any undue reliance on forward-looking statements since they involve these known and unknown uncertainties and other factors which are, in some cases, beyond the Company's control and which could, and likely will, materially affect actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements. Any forward-looking statement reflects the Company's current views with respect to future events and is subject to these and other risks, uncertainties and assumptions relating to operations, results of operations, growth strategy and liquidity. The Company assumes no obligation to publicly update or revise these forward-looking statements for any reason, or to update the reasons actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements, even if new information becomes available in the future.
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Daycare worker accused of slamming child into mattress, restricting breathing
WAUKESHA, Wis. (WTMJ) - A Wisconsin daycare center is being investigated, as one of its workers faces criminal charges over accusations that she abused an infant.
Heather Miller, a 48-year-old worker at a daycare center called The Lawrence School in Waukesha, appeared in court Thursday. She is charged with physical abuse of a child after accusations that she slammed a child into a mattress and made it hard for him to breathe.
“When I say that it’s awful, it seems to me to indicate that there’s so much awful that I don’t even know how to explain it,” said court commissioner David Herring.
A criminal complaint states the incident happened August 17 while Miller was a lead teacher in the daycare’s infant room.
An employee told police she witnessed Miller telling an infant he was disgusting. The witness claimed when Miller put the child down for a nap, she concealed his crib from a security camera, picked him up and slammed him face down into the crib. She then allegedly held him down to the point it sounded like the child struggled to breathe.
The witness says she ran to get help and told the facility director and assistant director what was going on, but nothing was done. The next week, the witness told the child’s mother he was not safe at the daycare center.
The parents of that child reported he was lethargic, fussy and unwell for two weeks, according to court records. They eventually took him to a children’s hospital, but a doctor did not find any injuries.
“People trust the most important thing that they have, the reason why they go to work every day, the reason why they do things in life, to places just like this to ensure that their loved ones are taken care of. When you abuse that trust, that is an aggravating factor,” Herring said.
In a criminal complaint, Miller and other staff members denied any wrongdoing or knowledge of the alleged incident.
Mother Renee Martinez does not know Miller but says she took her children to the daycare center until an incident happened in December 2018.
“I had found out from an employee that my son a couple weeks prior was left outside… alone and unattended, and he had just turned 3,” she said.
Martinez says she felt alone in her experience, but she is speaking publicly now to encourage others to come forward.
“Just speak up. If you see something wrong, speak up. Those are people’s children, and we just have to protect everybody’s children,” she said.
Police are still reviewing evidence related to the case. Three other daycare staff members may potentially face criminal charges.
If she’s convicted, Miller could face up to 16 years in prison.
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Daycare worker accused of slamming child into mattress, restricting breathing
WAUKESHA, Wis. (WTMJ) - A Wisconsin daycare center is being investigated, as one of its workers faces criminal charges over accusations that she abused an infant.
Heather Miller, a 48-year-old worker at a daycare center called The Lawrence School in Waukesha, appeared in court Thursday. She is charged with physical abuse of a child after accusations that she slammed a child into a mattress and made it hard for him to breathe.
“When I say that it’s awful, it seems to me to indicate that there’s so much awful that I don’t even know how to explain it,” said court commissioner David Herring.
A criminal complaint states the incident happened August 17 while Miller was a lead teacher in the daycare’s infant room.
An employee told police she witnessed Miller telling an infant he was disgusting. The witness claimed when Miller put the child down for a nap, she concealed his crib from a security camera, picked him up and slammed him face down into the crib. She then allegedly held him down to the point it sounded like the child struggled to breathe.
The witness says she ran to get help and told the facility director and assistant director what was going on, but nothing was done. The next week, the witness told the child’s mother he was not safe at the daycare center.
The parents of that child reported he was lethargic, fussy and unwell for two weeks, according to court records. They eventually took him to a children’s hospital, but a doctor did not find any injuries.
“People trust the most important thing that they have, the reason why they go to work every day, the reason why they do things in life, to places just like this to ensure that their loved ones are taken care of. When you abuse that trust, that is an aggravating factor,” Herring said.
In a criminal complaint, Miller and other staff members denied any wrongdoing or knowledge of the alleged incident.
Mother Renee Martinez does not know Miller but says she took her children to the daycare center until an incident happened in December 2018.
“I had found out from an employee that my son a couple weeks prior was left outside… alone and unattended, and he had just turned 3,” she said.
Martinez says she felt alone in her experience, but she is speaking publicly now to encourage others to come forward.
“Just speak up. If you see something wrong, speak up. Those are people’s children, and we just have to protect everybody’s children,” she said.
Police are still reviewing evidence related to the case. Three other daycare staff members may potentially face criminal charges.
If she’s convicted, Miller could face up to 16 years in prison.
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When she was 21 years old, Penny Wolin checked into a residential hotel in the heart of Hollywood.
The year was 1975 and the building was the St. Francis Hotel on Hollywood Boulevard — the same strip where movie legends have long immortalized their hand and footprints in wet cement.
The St. Francis was built in 1926, during the heyday of silent films, a place abuzz with the glitz and glamor of old Hollywood. But half a century later when Wolin arrived, the St. Francis was a very different place.
Its rooms were filled with people who felt like they didn't quite fit anywhere else. People whose dreams, as she put it, were bigger than their rooms.
"People stayed there either for the night or 30 years — and anywhere in between," Wolin told NPR.
So she got out a camera and single strobe light and a tape recorder, and for the next three weeks of her time there, Wolin strove to connect with the people who formed the community at the St. Francis, one by one.
Wolin grew up in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and remembers a time when she was a child and her dad would take her to the part of town that had residential hotels. He would always hold her hand a little tighter, she says, and that got her to wondering: Who lives in these buildings?
When she arrived at the St. Francis, she began to understand.
"It was people that needed a place to be, whether they were on their way up, or maybe on their way down," Wolin says.
Nearly 50 years since her stay, Wolin's photographs and the stories she heard have been turned into a book, Guest Register. Included are photos of everything from an American man in his 70s and his new French-born girlfriend, to the empty room that had belonged to a stuntman until he died the night before Wolin was due to photograph him.
Then there was the plumber-electrician who loved to wear lace.
"I would see this fellow that would leave in the morning, and he was a muscular plumber," Wolin recalls. "And then he would come back at the end of the day and go to his room and then another kind of person would emerge, which was a beautiful woman in a lace dress and high heels, and it was him. And he would leave."
As Wolin writes the book, he was well liked and respected by all who got to know him. So she wanted to know him, too.
Wolin also fondly remembers the orphan brothers from Nebraska, who had managed to stay together since ages three and five, and were now out exploring the world as young adults.
"It just warmed my heart," Wolin says. "They were just these great guys from Nebraska that said, 'Let's go to Hollywood.'"
For many of the residents of St. Francis, it was the myth of Hollywood that drew them to the city. Wolin says that idea is alive and well, and can still hold true. She describes Hollywood not just as a geographical location, but an existential place.
"And you can make something for yourself," she says. "You can become a photographer, a musician, all these things that you want to be, there's hope that you can be them. So Hollywood is built on hope."
St. Francis itself meant different things to different people, Wolin says. Like the woman who lived with her boyfriend and worked at Arby's and kept an immaculately clean room.
"So, for her, it's a place to stay for a short period of time," Wolin says. "[But] the fellow in the penthouse that had been there for probably decades, he understood the dynamics of where he was and had become comfortable with it. It was home, there was a home for people."
Then there was the man in room 540, who left Wolin a handwritten note that simply said: "There is a room for you here." It was a note that would sustain her for years to come.
"It became the mantra that no matter how bad things can be in the journey of finding your path ... if this is as bad as it gets, it's not so bad," Wolin says. "If there was room here for me, at the existential hotel, well, then I have a place to be in the world and people will look after me."
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HONOLULU (KITV)- It's time for the Aloha Festivals and the Aloha spirit and cash were flowing.
A little song, a little dance, a little tradition, and a lot of food and other vendors going on at the Aloha Festival's 68th block festival on Saturday.
"I got food. I got food. I got lumpia, I just finished off pancit and Lechon. We're having a good time at the annual Waikiki Hoolaulea. Whoo!! 2022 baby," said event attendee Arnold Alconcel.
The event lasted more than 5 hours on its first night back after a 2 year hiatus. "I came down here when Wakiki was absolutely dead during the pandemic. No one was on the street during the pandemic. Now look at it. There are people all over the street. It's wonderful," said Alconcel.
There are more than 50 vendors. Organizers hope nearly 80,000 people will attend. Which is not only good for vendors in tents, it's also good for the brick and mortar stores lining the streets. "I'm looking for a nice shirt and nice outfit to match my shorts," said attendee Luis Garces.
Other people are eyeing up the 16 food vendors whose cash registers are burning up with business. "I saw the pork, the chicken and the fish tacos," said attendee Carolyn Clark.
People also are getting their fill of other aspects of this block party. 5 stages of music, artists, craft vendors, toys for the kids, and smiles are all back.
"There needs to be more aloha in the world. There's too much crime and violence and hate in the world. We need more fun and family. And that's what this festival is about to me. The sharing of Aloha which is unique to Hawaii," said Alconcel.
Jefferson Tyler joined KITV after a lengthy stint in Reno, Nev. where he covered a variety of subjects. From wildfires to presidential elections, Jefferson takes pride in creating balanced stories that keep viewers’ attentions.
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J.K. Rowling, who rose to fame as the author of the Harry Potter series, is known for writing about magical subjects and fantasy worlds. But her latest book bears more than a passing resemblance to reality — and, critics say, not in a good way.
The Ink Black Heart is the sixth installment of Rowling's thriller series Cormoran Strike, which she penned under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. The 1,024-page tome started raising eyebrows as soon as it hit stores on Tuesday.
Observers noted that the plot appears to mirror Rowling's own experience of taking heat and losing fans for expressing transphobic views in recent years. Rowling has said publicly that the book was not based on her own life, even though some of the events that take place in the story did in fact happen to her as she was writing it.
"Although I have to say when it did happen to me, those who had already read the book in manuscript form were [like] – are you clairvoyant?" Rowling wrote in a Q&A on Galbraith's website. "I wasn't clairvoyant, I just – yeah, it was just one of those weird twists. Sometimes life imitates art more than one would like."
In the book, a popular artist gets harassed for her opinions
The book centers the story of Edie Ledwell, a popular cartoonist who, according to the official description, is "persecuted by a mysterious online figure" — and ultimately found dead — after her cartoon was criticized for being racist, ableist and transphobic (at least partly over a bit involving "a hermaphrodite worm," Rolling Stone reports).
"The book takes a clear aim at 'social justice warriors' and suggests that Ledwell was a victim of a masterfully plotted, politically fueled hate campaign against her," the magazine continues, adding that the character gets doxxed — with "photos of her home plastered on the Internet" — and faces threats of rape and death because of her opinions.
Parts of the story seem to mirror Rowling's experience
Rowling has made her own opinions known, particularly in regards to the transgender community, over the last several years.
She faced backlash in 2019 for publicly supporting Maya Forstater, a researcher who had lost her job over transphobic tweets. The following year, Rowling posted several controversial tweets, including one opinion piece that mocked the term "people who menstruate" ("I'm sure there used to be a word for those people," she tweeted. "Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?"), and published a long statement expressing her concerns with "the consequences of the current trans activism."
Rowling said in November that she's received death threats. She also publicly accused three activists of doxxing her when they posted photos of themselves holding pro-trans rights signs outside of her house in Scotland, "carefully positioning themselves to ensure that our address was visible," she said.
The activists, who had been demonstrating in honor of International Transgender Day of Remembrance, later deleted the photo and deactivated their accounts because of the amount of transphobic backlash they had received online. Scottish police later investigated the so-called doxxing and determined no crimes had been committed (notably, Rowling's home is a popular tourist attraction, as Them points out).
Critics say the book is self-serving and "beyond parody"
News of Rowling's book release has taken Twitter by storm, even prompting dueling hashtags – #IStandWithJKRowling and #ICantStandJKRowling.
Critics have decried the book as "hilariously self-persecuting" and "beyond parody," with some drawing attention to the real-world problems facing transgender people, deriding its length ("500 pages longer than Dune, 300 pages longer than Infinite Jest and 100 pages longer than the Bible," wrote one) and calling for people to boycott her work.
Lark Malakai Grey, co-host of the queer Harry Potter podcast "The Gayly Prophet" told NPR over email that he finds the situation "deeply embarrassing" for Rowling.
"She has published a 1,000-page self-insert fanfiction where she's the victim—it's the kind of behavior that you'd expect from a petulant teenager, not a grown adult with immense wealth and power," he added. "I have no idea what she expected, but seeing the internet fill with jokes about the book has been an absolute joy after all the harm she has caused my community over the past several years."
Rowling's transphobic comments have lost her many fans
Rowling's stance has alienated many in her fanbase — which includes a large number of LGBTQ people — as well as a slew of prominent Harry Potter cast members: Actors Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint are among those who have condemned her comments and expressed their support for the trans community.
Rowling was noticeably absent from the Harry Potter 20th anniversary special, a de facto reunion for much of the franchise's cast and crew that aired on New Year's Day 2022. She told Graham Norton's "Radio Show" podcast on Saturday that she was invited to participate in the special but chose not to come because she saw it as "about the films more than the books."
In that same interview, she stressed that she had written her new book before the events of the past year.
"I said to my husband, 'I think everyone is going to see this as a response to what happened to me,' but it genuinely wasn't," she said. "The first draft of the book was finished at the point certain things happened."
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Pac-12 scoreboard Sep 17, 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 PAC-12 SCOREBOARDOregon 41, BYU 20Oregon State 68, Montana State 28 USC 45, Fresno State 17Utah 35, San Diego State 7Arizona 31, North Dakota State 28Eastern Michigan XX, Arizona StateWashington 39, Michigan State 28Washington State 38, Colorado State 7Notre Dame 24, California 17Minnesota 49, Colorado 7UCLA 32, South Alabama 31 Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Tags Washington State Colorado Michigan Oregon Montana Scoreboard Xx Law San Diego Arizona North Dakota Recommended for you Trending Now Criminal investigation underway in Klamath baseball hazing Police wrapping up criminal investigation into Klamath Falls Falcons sexual hazing complaint School district tells staff, teachers not to post on social media about sexual hazing investigation Oregon congressional candidate Alek Skarlatos joked about choking women 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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Klamath Basin prep scoreboard for Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022 Sep 17, 2022 8 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 VOLLEYBALLBurns 2, Mazama 0 (25-18, 25-20)Bonanza 3, Hidden Valley JV 0 (25-16, 25-10, 25-20) Crosshill Christian 3, Chiloquin 2 (25-23, 25-18, 17-25, 20-25, 15-8)Days Creek 3, Chiloquin 0 (25-20, 25-13, 25-13)GIRLS SOCCERKlamath Union 3, Crook County 1Henley 2, Cottage Grove 0Brookings-Harbor 6, Lost River/Bonanza 0BOYS SOCCERLost River/Bonanza 3, Brookings-Harbor 1 Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Tags Scoreboard Prep Soccer Sport Harbor Lost River Tournament Henley Volleyball Mazama Crook County Boy Hydrography Klamath Basin Recommended for you Trending Now Criminal investigation underway in Klamath baseball hazing Police wrapping up criminal investigation into Klamath Falls Falcons sexual hazing complaint School district tells staff, teachers not to post on social media about sexual hazing investigation Oregon congressional candidate Alek Skarlatos joked about choking women 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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Second-half goals from Andrew Pasang and Brock Rideout and a dominant performance by the Oregon Tech defense helped the Owls run their unbeaten streak to 19 with a 2-0 Cascade Collegiate Conference victory Saturday at Northwest University in Kirkland, Wash.
The Owls (3-0-2, 2-0 CCC) did not allow a shot in the first half and limited the Eagles to one shot on goal in the win, completing a weekend sweep to open conference play.
“The boys were disciplined in our game plan to stifle the strengths that Northwest had and we kept our energy level high,” OIT coach Sean McManamon saud. “We had our grip on the game from the first whistle and start strong to put our stamp on the game. I am proud of the boys for the work they put in – it’s a massive start to conference play to earn six points on the road.”
Tech had seven corner kicks and 11 shots in the first half, but were unable to find the net. Things changed early in the second half, as Kevin Rodriguez found Pasang with a cross in the middle of the 57th minute, with Pasang heading home the go-ahead goal into the right corner of the net.
OIT doubled the lead in the 66th minute, as Rodriguez played a through-ball to Rideout, who hammered home his second goal of the weekend.
It was more than enough for Joel Witts, as the Owls goalkeeper needed to make just one save to post his 10th career shutout – No. 2 on the all-time OIT list.
The Owls finished with a 21-5 edge in total shots.
Tech returns home Friday to start a string of three consecutive home matches, hosting rival Southern Oregon at 2:30 p.m.
OIT 2, Evergreen 1: Brock Rideout converted from the penalty spot with just over a minute remaining to lift the Owls to the victory Friday in Olympia, Wash.
The host Geoducks (1-3, 0-1) took a one-goal lead into the break - despite a 9-4 OIT shot advantage - as Lucas Alcala scored off a Jax Buckley cross in the 24th minute.
OIT increased the offensive pressure in the second half, finally cracking Evergreen goalkeeper Colin Hauser in the 68th minute, as John Sarna played a ball to the top of the 6-yard box, where Cade O"Neill flicked home the equalizer. Tech kept the attack on and earned the penalty kick with 68 seconds left after a Nico Cutlip foul in the box.
The Owls held a commanding 25-10 edge in total shots, with Joel Witts making two saves to pick up his 19th career victory - establishing a school record. Hauser made 10 saves in the loss for the Geoducks.
WOMEN'S SOCCER
OIT 0, Northwest 0: Sydni Nakamura weathered 18 shots to post a clean sheet, but the Oregon Tech offense was unable to find the net, as the teams played to a draw Saturday to close the opening weekend of CCC play.
The Lady Owls (2-1-2, 1-0-1 CCC) return to the Klamath Basin with four points on the trip – playing even today against a NU side that remains unbeaten on the season.
Both teams had six shots in the opening 45 minutes – with OIT nearly taking the lead in the 41st minute, as a Shalynai Naputi ripped a shot off the crossbar.
The Eagles (5-0-2, 1-0-1) put the pressure on Tech in the final 45 minutes – holding a 12-5 edge in total shots – but Nakamura made two of her three saves during the half.
NU finished with an 18-11 edge in total shots and had all five corner kicks in the match.
Naputi led OIT with three shot attempts, with Ashley Hart adding two.
The Lady Owls return home to play three straight matches, beginning Friday with a matchup against rival Southern Oregon.
VOLLEYBALL
Bushnell 3, OIT 2: Despite big statistical nights for multiple Oregon Tech players, the Lady Owls were unable to hold a two-set lead, as Bushnell rallied for a 22-25, 18-25, 27-25, 26-24, 15-8 road win.
OIT (6-7, 3-4 CCC) held match-point at 24-22 in Set 3 – but the visiting Beacons battled back with a 5-1 run, capped by a Halle Neuman-Matty Ladd block, to extend the match. BU rallied to win Set 4 and controlled the final set to complete the comeback.
“It’s extremely disappointing because we had several opportunities to win the match and could not execute,” OIT coach Ken Murczek said. “We will need to regroup and get ready for the long trip to College of Idaho next Friday.”
Kaylin Talonen recorded her second-straight 20-kill match for the Owls, finishing the night with 20 kills and six digs. Setter Paige Tevelde had a career-high 53 assists, 12 digs and three blocks.
The Beacons (9-6, 4-3) opened the match on a 6-1 run, with Callie Wilkins recording two of the visitors 10 aces in the contest. Talonen answered for the Owls, recording three kills in a 12-4 run – as Tech held the lead the rest of the way to claim the set win. The momentum continued in Set 2, as Talonen had four kills in a 13-3 push that gave OIT a 18-10 lead – with the hosts taking a two-set lead.
Set 3 was tight, featuring 17 ties before BU used the late set heroics to stay alive. An Ashley Ripplinger kill gave OIT a 10-6 kill in Set 4, but the Beacons methodically clawed back, taking their first lead at 21-20. After Tech tied the score at 24-24, the Owls couldn’t close the match – as a hitting error and a BU ace forced Set 5.
The finale was all Bushnell, as the Beacons grabbed an 8-3 lead at the change-over. Tech cut the margin to 9-7 on a Savanna Sterck kill, but Halle Neuman ripped a pair of kills in a 4-point push that completed the comeback win – as BU held OIT to a .000 hitting percentage in the deciding set.
Molly Grace had 15 kills and three blocks, Kate Hicks posted nine kills and a career-high eight blocks, Ripplinger recorded eight kills, nine digs and three blocks, with Aubrey Kievit leading all players with 24 digs.
Neuman led BU with 19 kills, Jessica Northcutt had 13 kills and 13 digs, with Payton Jones logging five kills and a match-high 10 blocks.
Tech hits the road next weekend for matches Friday at College of Idaho and Saturday at No. 2 ranked Eastern Oregon.
Corban 3, OIT 0: Facing the No. 6 ranked team in the NAIA, the Lady Owls battled swing-for-swing for three sets, however, the visiting Warriors claimed a hard-fought 25-20, 25-20, 26-24 victory Friday at Danny Miles Court.
Kaylin Talonen posted a season-high 21 kills for the Lady Owls, but Corban rode three players with double-figure kills to the win.
Rylee Troutman had 18 kills, Avari Ridgway had 13 kills and 12 digs, with Makayla Roginski adding 11 kills for the Warriors (12-2, 5-1).
Ripplinger had 10 kills with a .529 attack percentage for the Owls, with Molly Grace adding eight kills. Courtney Isom recorded 23 assists and nine digs, with Aubrey Kievit posting a match-high 19 digs.
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