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Mauzy residents continue to speak out against proposed truck stop
MAUZY, Va. (WHSV) - Several people in Mauzy are voicing their opposition to a proposed truck stop that would be built on a 31-acre property just off of Interstate 81 at exit 257. The Rockingham County Board of Supervisors will consider the proposal on Wednesday afternoon.
Gas City LLC based in Leesburg is requesting a rezoning of the property to rezone the property from A-2 General Agriculture to BX Business Interchange. The County’s planning commission narrowly recommended approval of the project with a 3-2 vote earlier in August.
Since the proposal was first brought forward a number of Mauzy residents have been urging supervisors to vote no on the truck stop proposal. They cite a number of problems including environmental concerns.
“The main issue for us is that this site that has no public water or sewer is not compatible with a project of this size and scale,” said Watt Bradshaw who lives downstream from the property.
Bradshaw is part of a fourth-generation family farm along Smith Creek. He is concerned that water runoff from the truck stop would contaminate groundwater and the creek.
“Our farm has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars improving the stream as have many of my neighbors and we wouldn’t want that to be jeopardized by needed projects like this,” said Bradshaw.
Bradshaw is not alone in his concerns. Alliance For The Shenandoah Valley, a local conservation group, recently sent a letter to the county’s supervisors urging them to deny the project. It said that the area’s karst topography makes it likely that runoff from the truck stop could pollute the groundwater.
“Underground is kind of like Swiss cheese. So you see a lot of sinkholes in areas that are karst, you see a lot of caves and springs. So it’s a sign that there’s a connection between the surface water and the groundwater,” said Kate Wofford, Executive Director of Alliance For the Shenandoah Valley.
Wofford said that Smith Creek is an important tributary to the North Fork of the Shenandoah River and said that the truck stop could contaminate the creek.
“It’s a creek that’s important to the community. It’s an important source of drinking water and it’s a risky place to put a development of this scale that’s not on public sewer and water,” she said.
Those in opposition also point out that the project would go against Rockingham County’s Comprehensive Plan.
“Rockingham County’s comp plan is very clear that the county wants to maintain agriculture through locating development in areas where there are existing towns, where there is existing public sewer and water,” said Wofford.
Watt Bradshaw said that the amount of water the truck stop plaza would require would be overwhelming to the area’s groundwater because of the lack of public water and sewer.
“The usage of the water that this project would have could be as much as 300 houses and they would never allow 300 houses to go into a site like this without public water and sewer,” he said.
Theresa Kehm lives directly across from the property and is worried that the truck stop could have a devastating impact on her property.
“We had to drill a 750-foot well to get three gallons a minute and we’re just very much concerned that with there being no public water that when they start drilling for their well or multiple wells, that they will run ours dry,” said Kehm. “Essentially it would make our property absolutely worthless.”
Kehm and her husband moved to the area from the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania 22 years ago. She said they left the Poconos because of problems due to overdevelopment and would hate to see the same thing happen in Rockingham County.
“There are some many small towns where the streets are just lined with what were lovely little businesses and they’re now rundown, vacated properties, and amongst that, you have mega businesses,” she said. “It’s heartbreaking to go back and look at that and know what it once was and it’s also heartbreaking to think that if this county doesn’t get that problem under control we will have the same problems here.”
Residents also worry about traffic problems that the truck stop could bring.
“This exit at certain times of the day is completely jammed up. Cars are backed down to I-81 and in the morning they’re backed up on 259 all the way around the corner above the stop light so we think that traffic is a major issue,” said Bradshaw.
WHSV spoke briefly with Gurcharan Leil, the owner of Gas City LLC on Tuesday.
Leil said that the truck stop will be a good neighbor to the people of Mauzy and claimed the stormwater management system that would be installed on the property would prevent any runoff problems. He added that the truck stop would also have a state-of-the-art water and oil separator when draining runoff.
The Rockingham County Board of Supervisors will meet on Tuesday at 6 p.m. at the Rockingham County Government Center.
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Record-setting wildfire in New Mexico declared contained
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — More than four grueling months and $300 million later, the federal government has declared the largest wildfire in New Mexico’s recorded history 100% contained, a notable milestone but just another step in what local residents and officials say will be a long journey toward recovery.
The blaze was sparked in the spring by two errant prescribed fires conducted by the U.S. Forest Service. More than 530 square miles (1,373 square kilometers) of the Rocky Mountain foothills burned, hundreds of homes were destroyed, livelihoods were lost and drinking water supplies were contaminated.
Local officials say there are years of work ahead of them to restore the landscape and protect against post-fire flooding.
San Miguel County Manager Joy Ansley and her team have been working nonstop since the first plumes of smoke began rising from the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. They helped coordinate the evacuation of thousands of people from small mountain villages and worked with the state and the city of Las Vegas as flames approached.
With the summer rainy season in full swing, Ansley said parts of northern New Mexico are flooding on a weekly basis.
“It’s going to be a long process and just because the fire is contained, we’re certainly not out of the woods,” she said Tuesday.
In addition to costs related to fighting the fire, federal emergency managers have paid out more than $4.5 million in aid to affected individuals and households and $6.7 million in low-interest loans for smalls businesses.
While more than 1,200 applications for individual assistance have been vetted, the Federal Emergency Management Agency would not say how many total applications have been received or denied.
Some residents have voiced frustrations about denials over a lack of having a street address for their rural properties. Others have complained that federal officials don’t understand rural life in northern New Mexico and how fallout from the fire has affected them.
New Mexico’s major disaster declaration has been expanded to include flooding, mudflows and debris flows directly related to the wildfires. Dasha Castillo, a spokesperson for FEMA, said residents who already applied for wildfire disaster assistance just need to update their original application to include flooding or other damage.
Castillo encouraged people to contact FEMA if they applied and haven’t heard back.
Legislation is pending in Congress that would authorize full compensation for New Mexico residents and business owners for losses caused by the massive wildfire, but there’s uncertainty about the ultimate price tag.
The scar left behind by the wildfire includes some areas that were reduced to ash and others where the severity was less intense. More than 400 firefighters are still assigned to the blaze and have been busy repairing hundreds of miles of fire lines cut to corral the flames, digging trenches to control erosion and removing fallen trees and other debris.
The U.S. Forest Service said helicopters will distribute about 138 tons (125 metric tonnes) of seed and 5,440 tons (4,935 metric tonnes) of mulch. So far, about 4 square miles (10 square kilometers) have been seeded.
No hot spots have been reported for more than a month, but given the history of how the blaze started officials wanted to be confident when declaring containment, said Stefan La-Sky, a fire information officer with the U.S. Forest Service.
“We don’t take that number lightly,” he said of the designation.
New Mexico marked an early start to what has been a devastating wildfire season across the U.S. with a deadly fire in Ruidoso and then the blaze near Las Vegas.
In all, federal fire officials report more than 9,372 square miles (24,273 square kilometers) have burned since the start of the year to outpace the 10-year average, and predictions for more warm, dry weather mean some areas will see above-normal wildfire activity into the fall.
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Valley college students head back to class
WEYERS CAVE, Va. (WHSV) - Many Shenandoah Valley students are headed back to class this week and that includes students in higher education.
James Madison University and Mary Baldwin University start back Wednesday, Aug. 24, and Eastern Mennonite University will be return next week.
Blue Ridge Community College and Bridgewater College started on Tuesday, Aug. 23.
John Downey, president of Blue Ridge Community College, said the campus as a whole has grown.
“We’re up about 10% in enrollment over last year at this time, so we’re really excited about that,” he said.
Downey said his class is full, and many faculty numbers are in the same position.
“They’re seeing fuller classes than in the past, both in career and technical education and in the programs we offer from aviation maintenance to manufacturing and in transfer education,” he said.
Of all programs, Downey said transfer education has grown the most.
“I think people are seeing the cost-effectiveness of starting out at a community college and then transferring to a university,” he said.
The first week of class is Welcome Week for BRCC, and Downey said there are many exciting things going on. Most of all, he’s enjoyed seeing the students.
“It’s great to interact with the students. We’ve had a lot of food on campus: hot dogs and pizza; a lot of music and a lot of fun activities in our recreation center. Just acclimating the students back to the world on a college campus and interacting with them is always the most fun,” he said.
Downey said more students also chose to return in person.
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Virginia Realtors: Housing prices soar, sales drop
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - According to a report by the Virginia Realtors Group, there was a nearly 26% drop in homes sold last month compared to July 2021.
It says this is the biggest decrease in sales in more than seven years.
This follows national trends, as across the US, the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Census Bureau report that newly-built home sales dropped by nearly 12.6% in July compared to the previous month.
“It’s likely driven by the fact that interest rates are higher than they were, and so a lot of buyers are potentially pulling back because of that. It’s likely also because of a lack of options out there, and the lack of inventory,” Chief Economist for the Virginia Realtors Ryan Price said.
The average interest rate for a 30-year, fixed mortgage was above 5% for the whole month of July.
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Titans of the Los Angeles tech scene gathered for the reveal of Vody's groundbreaking new offering and a panel conversation featuring Vody head of research SEAN WILNER, former AWS AI executive IAN SWANSON, March Capital partner JULIA KLEIN, and BotNot founder ALEX SHAMIR on the impact of machine learning on business revenue.
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vody, the AI company offering a suite of tools allowing machine learning engineers to optimize their models to double the revenue impact of their work, hosted LA Tech Week's marquee machine learning event on August 17. Influential individuals in the VC, tech, and other business sectors gathered at Elephante in Santa Monica for a product reveal and related panel discussion on how the latest trends in machine learning are boosting business revenue.
Vody founder Stephanie Horbaczewski, who formerly founded and sold LA-based Stylehaul to international media company RTL Group for $150 million, kicked off the evening's festivities with the exciting announcement of Vody's new offerings. The company revealed a suite of tools, designed by machine learning engineers for machine learning engineers, which include multimodal learning and domain adaptation. These services will help ML engineers to increase revenue, reduce opex, and maximize their productivity. Horbaczweski also announced that the company has begun its first proof-of-concept with a major retailer, which is expected to result in an eight to nine-figure revenue lift for the retailer.
Horbaczewski's comments were followed by a panel moderated by BotNot co-founder Alex Shamir and featuring Ian Swanson, former AWS AI executive and advisor to Vody, Julia Klein, a partner at March Capital leading investments in enterprise AI and data infrastructure, and Sean Wilner, Head of Research for Vody. The event's 100-person crowd included attendees from Microsoft, Snapchat, Tesla, Sequoia, Morgan Stanley, Visio, HP, Forbes, and more.
"Vody was thrilled to be invited by a16z and LA Tech Week to serve as host to the machine learning community," said Horbaczewski. "In addition to the game-changing suite of tools we offer ML teams, part of our aim as a company is to foster community around machine learning and serve as the go-to resource for ML developments. This event marked the official launch of those efforts, and we couldn't be more excited to emerge as a leader in LA's ML scene."
For more information about Vody, visit Vody.com.
Using cutting-edge research, Vody makes the latest optimization techniques available as a simple API call from existing model development pipelines. The company offers platform-agnostic, fixed-cost, server-less solutions to accelerate model development and supercharge performance. Its groundbreaking domain adaptation and multimodal representation routines enable clients to better understand and utilize their unstructured data and improve their ML pipeline's performance and adaptability. https://vody.com/
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Additions to executive team strengthen global leadership and position Company for strategic long-term growth
First-ever product launch of long-acting amubarvimab/romlusevimab combination therapy for COVID-19 in China advances Brii Bio from clinical development to commercial stage biotechnology company
On track to advance clinical programs in HBV, CNS, HIV and MDR/XDR, and deliver key data read-outs in 2022
Ample funds to support operations through 2025
Company to host conference call today at 8:30 PM HKT / 8:30 AM ET
DURHAM, N.C. and BEIJING, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Brii Biosciences Limited ("Brii Bio," "we," or the "Company", stock code: 2137.HK) a multi-national company developing innovative therapies for diseases with significant unmet medical needs and large public health burdens, today announced a corporate update and reported its interim results for the six months ended June 30, 2022.
Zhi Hong, Ph.D., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Brii Bio stated: "The first half of 2022 marked an important time for Brii Bio as we achieved a number of significant corporate, clinical development and regulatory milestones. We further built up our leadership team with recent additions of a Chief Business Officer, Chief Technology Officer, Chief People Officer, and CNS Disease Therapy Area Head. We believe that our strong global executives and talented team will drive the Company's long-term growth. Recently we commercially launched our COVID-19 combination therapy in China, which also ushered the Company into an exciting new phase of growth as a commercial-stage organization. Moving forward, we have set clear strategic priorities for the organization of our R&D teams; in China, we will further strengthen our leadership position in developing HBV functional curative therapies, while in the U.S., our team will focus on advancing our highly differentiated anti-depression programs. We will continue to invest in and accelerate our pipeline for China and global markets through internal discovery and strategic partnerships."
Brii Bio's pipeline spans all phases of clinical development. As of the date of this announcement, the Company has over 10 innovative product candidates undergoing clinical development. Brii Bio and its partners' current programs are designed to address HBV, COVID-19, HIV, MDR/XDR gram-negative and NTM infections, as well as PPD/MDD or other anxiety and depressive disorders.
2022 Interim and Recent Corporate Developments
- We recently expanded our diverse global executive team with the additions of Dr. Susannah Cantrell as Chief Business Officer, Dr. Eleanor (Ellee) de Groot as our Chief Technology Officer, and Dr. Aleksandar Skuban as our CNS Disease Therapy Area Head. Also, Ms. Karen D. Neuendorff was appointed as Chief People Officer early this year. Each of these accomplished industry executives boasts a strong track record of success leading international teams.
- In July, we announced our plan to exercise the option to acquire exclusive development and commercialization rights for VIR-3434 in Greater China (Mainland China, Hong Kong, the Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China and Taiwan) as part of our broader collaboration with Vir Biotechnology, Inc. ("Vir", Nasdaq: VIR). VIR-3434 grows the Company's leading clinical pipeline of therapeutic candidates for hepatitis B virus (HBV) and expands its set of potential combination treatment options to explore as part of its effort to develop a functional cure for HBV.
- Brii Bio was added to the MSCI China Small Cap Index in May 2022. The MSCI China Small Cap Index is an equity index compiled by MSCI Inc., a leading provider of critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community. The index is designed to measure the performance of the China market's small-cap segment and is widely recognized by the international financial community as a benchmark for global institutional investors seeking to optimize their investment portfolios.
- We sponsored the 20/20 Mom Annual Forum, Maternal Mental Health Now, 35th Annual Postpartum Support International Conference and the 2022 Black Maternal & Mental Health Summit. Our participation in these events help the Company foster relationships with patients, their caregivers, and the disease-specific nonprofit groups that support them. We believe this is an important step to ensure patient voices are understood across every function, from R&D to commercialization.
2022 Interim Pipeline Highlights and Upcoming Data Readouts
Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) Functional Cure Program (China team core project)
We are progressing multiple combination studies for the treatment of HBV led by our team in China and our partner Vir Biotechnology ("Vir," Nasdaq: VIR).
BRII-179 (VBI-2601) and BRII-835 (VIR-2218) (therapeutic vaccine and siRNA) Combination
- In February 2022, we completed the enrollment of 90 patients from the Asia-Pacific region in our Phase 2 multi-regional clinical trial (MRCT) combination study of BRII-179 (VBI-2601)/BRII-835 (VIR-2218).
- Patients are expected to complete treatment in the Phase 2 MRCT combination therapy study in the third quarter of 2022, with interim topline data expected by the end of 2022.
- If positive results are achieved in the combination study, we plan to initiate a pre- Investigational New Drug ("pre-IND") discussion with China's Center for Drug Evaluation ("CDE") in 2023 for a pivotal study with our combination BRII-179 (VBI-2601)/BRII-835 (VIR-2218) therapy.
BRII-179 (VBI-2601) and PEG-IFN-α Combination
- A two-part Phase 2a/2b combination study with BRII-179 (VBI-2601) in HBV patients receiving pegylated interferon alfa ("PEG-IFN-α") and nucleotide/nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTI) treatment is currently recruiting patients in China.
- Patient enrollment for part one of the Phase 2 study (Phase 2a with approximately 120 patients) is expected to be complete in the fourth quarter of 2022 with interim topline results expected in the first half of 2023.
BRII-835 (VIR-2218)
- In March 2022, we presented findings from the Phase 2 China study on the safety and antiviral activity of BRII-835 (VIR-2218) administered on top of nucleos(t)ide analog therapy at the 2022 Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL) conference. The dose-dependent reduction in serum HBsAg observed in both HBeAg- and HBeAg+ Chinese chronic HBV patients in this trial after two doses of BRII-835 (VIR-2218) is consistent with previous findings demonstrated in other racial/ethnic groups.
- Our partner, Vir Biotechnology presented data at the International Liver Congress in June 2022, showing longer treatment duration of monthly BRII-835 (VIR-2218) results in deeper and more sustained reductions in hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) in participants with chronic hepatitis B infection.
- Additional data from the Phase 2 study of BRII-835 (VIR-2218) in combination with PEG-IFN-α led by Vir is expected in 2022.
BRII-877 (VIR-3434) (Study conducted by Vir)
- Data from a Phase 1 monotherapy study led by Vir were presented at the International Liver Congress in June 2022 demonstrating the dose-dependent durability of HBsAg reductions following administration of a single dose of BRII-877 (VIR-3434).
- In virally suppressed participants with HBsAg of less than 3,000 IU/mL, a single 6 mg to 75 mg dose of BRII-877 (VIR-3434) resulted in rapid HBsAg reductions of greater than 1 log10 IU/mL in most participants. Single doses of BRII-877 (VIR-3434) showed no clinically significant safety signals; all adverse events (AEs) were Grade 1 or 2. These data support the potential for BRII-877 (VIR-3434) to provide a meaningful role in the functional cure of chronic HBV infection.
- In July 2022, we announced that the Company exercised its option to in-license BRII-877 (VIR-3434) for exclusive development and commercialization rights in Greater China as part of its broader collaboration with Vir.
- We plan to request a pre-IND meeting with China's CDE for a Phase 1 study of BRII-877 (VIR-3434) by the end of 2022.
BRII-835 (VIR-2218) and BRII-877 (VIR-3434) (siRNA and antibody combination conducted by Vir)
- Our partner, Vir, shared encouraging data from Part A of its Phase 2 MARCH study in April 2022, which suggests that BRII-835 (VIR-2218) and BRII-877 (VIR-3434) are additive in reducing HBsAg, with no drug-related safety signals reported to date.
- Additional data from the first cohort (Part A) of the Phase 2 MARCH study evaluating safety, pharmacokinetics and HBsAg suppression of BRII-835 (VIR-2218) and BRII-877 (VIR-3434) combination is expected later this year.
- Part B of the Phase 2 MARCH trial initiated in the second quarter of 2022 is to evaluate additional cohorts to determine dose, length of treatment, and evaluate triple cocktails with PEG-IFN-α, when BRII-877 (VIR-3434) is given every 4 weeks.
COVID-19 Program (Internally discovered. China team core project)
- We completed a Phase 2 study of amubarvimab/romlusevimab combination therapy (formerly BRII-196 and BRII-198 combination therapy) led by Prof. Nanshan Zhong as the lead principal investigator. Data demonstrated that the combination therapy is generally safe and well-tolerated in both severe and non-severe Chinese patients with COVID-19. Favorable efficacy profiles were observed, consistent with the results observed in the ACTIV-2 study.
- As COVID-19 continues to evolve, we completed a neutralization activity evaluation on Omicron variants using live virus and pseudo Virus-Like Particles (VLPs) expressing the full-length spike protein of Omicron subvariants and available authentic Omicron viruses. The testing data from multiple independent laboratories demonstrate that the Company's long-acting amubarvimab/romlusevimab combination retains neutralizing activity against all previous variants of concern (VOC) and Omicron subvariants, including the following commonly identified ones, B.1.1.7 (Alpha), B.1.351 (Beta), P.1 (Gamma), B.1.429 (Epsilon), B.1.617.2 (Delta), AY.4.2 (Delta Plus), C.37 (Lambda), B.1.621 (Mu), B.1.1.529 (Omicron), as well as Omicron subvariants BA.1.1, BA.2 , BA.2.12.1 and BA.4/5.
- The long-acting amubarvimab/romlusevimab combination therapy was added to the COVID-19 Diagnosis and Treatment Guidelines (9th Pilot Edition) in March 2022 by the National Health Commission of China.
- The long-acting amubarvimab/romlusevimab combination therapy was commercially launched in China in July 2022 following the completion of the GMP compliance inspections.
- We announced strategic partnerships with Sinopharm and CR Pharma in March and July 2022, respectively, to advance the commercialization of our long-acting COVID-19 neutralization antibody therapy in China.
- The U.S. FDA is currently reviewing Brii Bio's Emergency Use Authorization application for the amubarvimab/romlusevimab combination.
- A randomized, double-blind and placebo-controlled Phase 2 study is under planning by the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, aiming at evaluating the level of enhanced SARS-CoV-2 specific immunity after single infusion of monoclonal neutralizing antibody (mAb) therapy, the amubarvimab/romlusevimab combination in immunocompromised population.
Central Nervous System Disease Program (Internally discovered. U.S. team core project)
BRII-296
- We are investigating the use of BRII-296 in patients with severe postpartum depression (PPD) or those at high risk of developing PPD. As there is currently no approved therapy to prevent PPD, we believe BRII-296 has the potential to shift the paradigm of PPD treatment and prevention.
- Our Phase 1 SAD study for BRII-296 is ongoing and we expect to complete enrollment in the third quarter of 2022. The initial safety, tolerability and PK data will be shared at a scientific conference in the second half of this year.
- We have requested a Type C meeting with FDA to align with our clinical development plan for both PPD treatment and prevention. We aim to start the PPD treatment study before the end of 2022.
BRII-297
- We are conducting early IND-enabling studies with BRII-297 targeting various anxiety and depressive disorders.
- We aim to initiate the Phase 1 study in the fourth quarter of 2022.
HIV Program (Internally discovered. U.S. team core project)
BRII-778
- We completed the final clinical study report for our BRII-778 Phase 1 single ascending dose/multiple ascending dose trial (SAD/MAD) in June 2022.
- Safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetic (PK) data from this study will be presented at the IDWeek Conference in October 2022.
BRII-732
- We completed our Phase 1 SAD/MAD study of BRII-732 in May 2022 with plans to present safety, tolerability, and PK data at the IDWeek Conference in October 2022.
- We have received an initial response from the U.S. FDA outlining the requirements for release of clinical hold and further clarification is ongoing. We are working closely with the Agency to align on our understanding of the safety signal identified in the islatravir-related studies. Our aim is to lift the clinical hold as soon as we can in 2022 and proceed with the development of our once-weekly oral combination of BRII-732 and BRII-778.
MDR/XDR Gram-negative Infections Program (China team core project)
We are developing our MDR/XDR therapies in collaboration with our partner Qpex as part of their global development plan. We retain responsibility for the development and regulatory activities in Greater China, while Qpex is responsible for all development and regulatory activities outside Greater China.
BRII-636 (OMNIvance®)
- In early 2022, our partner, Qpex, announced that BRII-636 (INN: xeruborbactam) in combination with a non-disclosed beta-lactam intravenous antibiotic received Qualified Infectious Disease Product (QIDP) designation by the U.S. FDA.
- Qpex has completed enrollment in a first-in-human Phase 1 study and a drug-drug interaction study. The results are expected to be shared in the fourth quarter of 2022 at a scientific conference.
- We will submit an IND application to China's NMPA in due course.
BRII-672 (ORAvance™)
- Qpex announced in early 2022 that BRII-672 in combination with a non-disclosed oral beta-lactam antibiotic received QIDP designation by the U.S. FDA, and its Phase 1 study is progressing and on track to be completed.
- We will submit an IND application to China's NMPA in due course.
BRII-693 (QPX-9003)
- Qpex announced in early 2022 that BRII-693 received QIDP designation by the U.S. FDA.
- Enrollment in the first-in-human Phase 1 clinical study has been completed, including a cohort of Chinese subjects. Qpex expects to share topline data in the fourth quarter of 2022.
- We will submit an IND application with China's NMPA in due course.
MDR/XDR Mycobacterium Tuberculosis (TB) and Non-tuberculosis Mycobacteria (NTM) Program (China team core project)
Our partner, AN2, is developing epetraborole as a once-daily, orally administered treatment for patients with chronic non-tuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) lung disease in the U.S., with an initial focus on treatment-refractory Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) lung disease.
BRII-658 (epetraborole)
- In June 2022, AN2 initiated patient screening for the pivotal Phase 2/3 clinical trial for treatment-refractory MAC lung disease.
- AN2 has completed the enrollment for a Phase 1 bridging study in Japan, and topline data is pending.
2022 Interim Financial Results
- Other Income was RMB38.2 million for the six months ended June 30, 2022, representing a decrease of RMB8.1 million, or 17.4%, compared with RMB46.3 million for the six months ended June 20, 2021. The decrease was mainly due to the decreased income recognized from confirmed PRC government grants of RMB17.8 million. The decrease was partially offset by the increase in bank interest income of RMB9.7 million attributable to the increased bank and cash balances after our initial public offering.
- Research and development expenses were RMB258.5 million for the six months ended June 30, 2022, representing an increase of RMB100.9 million, or 64.0%, compared with RMB157.6 million for the six months ended June 30, 2021. The increase was primarily due to the increase in third party contracting fees, as well as employee costs, for our continuous development in clinical trials.
- Administrative expenses were RMB95.5 million for the six months ended June 30, 2022, representing an increase of RMB27.5 million, or 40.4%, compared with RMB68.0 million for the six months ended June 30, 2021. The increase was primarily attributable to the increase in employee headcount.
- We established a streamlined commercial team to better support the launch and distribution of our amubarvimab/romlusevimab combination therapy. As a result, we started to incur selling and marketing expenses, which primarily comprise employee-related costs and prelaunch activity expenses associated with product commercialization.
- Total comprehensive expense for the six months ended June 30, 2022 was RMB217.7 million, representing a decrease of RMB2,703.8 million, or 92.5%, compared with RMB2,921.5 million for the six months ended June 30, 2021. The decrease was primarily due to the decrease in fair value loss on financial liabilities at FVTPL.
Conference Call Information
A live conference call will be hosted on August 24, 2022, at 8:30 PM Hong Kong time (August 24, 2022, at 8:30 AM U.S. Eastern Time). Participants must register in advance of the conference call. Registration link please click here.
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About Our Programs
HBV (Licensed from VBI Vaccines Inc. (VBI) and Vir Biotechnology, Inc. (Vir). China team core project)
To treat HBV, we are currently developing BRII-179 (VBI-2601), an HBV-specific B cell and T cell immunotherapeutic vaccine candidate, BRII-835 (VIR-2218), an investigational HBV-targeting siRNA, which has the potential to stimulate an effective immune response and has shown direct antiviral activity against HBV, and the newly in-licensed BRII-877 (VIR-3434), an investigational subcutaneously administered HBV-neutralizing monoclonal antibody. We hold exclusive rights in Greater China to develop and commercialize BRII-179 (VBI-2601), BRII-835 (VIR-2218) and BRII-877 (VIR-3434).
BRII-179 (VBI-2601) is a novel recombinant protein-based HBV immunotherapeutic candidate that builds upon the 3-antigen conformation of VBI's prophylactic HBV vaccine candidate, with a Th-1 enhancing adjuvant to induce both B-cell and T-cell immune responses.
BRII-835 (VIR-2218) is an investigational subcutaneously administered HBV-targeting siRNA that has the potential to stimulate an effective immune response and have direct antiviral activity against HBV. It is the first siRNA in the clinic to include Enhanced Stabilization Chemistry Plus technology to enhance stability and minimize off-target activity, which potentially can result in an increased therapeutic index.
BRII-877 (VIR-3434) is an investigational subcutaneously administered HBV-neutralizing monoclonal antibody designed to block entry of all 10 genotypes of HBV into hepatocytes and also to reduce the level of virions and subviral particles in the blood. BRII-877 (VIR-3434), which incorporates Xencor's Xtend™ and other Fc technologies, has been engineered to potentially function as a T cell vaccine against HBV in infected patients, as well as to have an extended half-life.
COVID-19 (Discovered in collaboration with Tsinghua University and Third People's Hospital of Shenzhen through our subsidiary, TSB Therapeutics Ltd (Beijing) Co. Limited. China team core project)
Amubarvimab and romlusevimab are non-competing SARS-CoV-2 monoclonal neutralizing antibodies derived from convalesced COVID-19 patients. They have been specifically engineered to reduce the risk of antibody-dependent enhancement and prolong the plasma half-lives for potentially more durable treatment effect.
Approved by the China's NMPA in December 2021, our long-acting amubarvimab/romlusevimab cocktail therapy is approved to be administered by intravenous infusion in two sequential doses for the treatment in adults and pediatric patients (age 12-17 weighing at least 40 kg) of mild- and normal-type COVID-19 at high risk for progression to severe disease, including hospitalization or death. The indication of pediatric patients (age 12-17 weighing at least 40 kg) is under a conditional approval. In March 2022, the National Health Commission of China included the amubarvimab/romlusevimab combination in its COVID-19 Diagnosis and Treatment Guidelines (9th Edition) for the treatment of COVID-19. The live virus testing data as well as pseudovirus testing data from multiple independent labs have demonstrated that the long-acting amubarvimab/romlusevimab combination retains activity against major SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern, including the following commonly identified variants, B.1.1.7 (Alpha), B.1.351 (Beta), P.1 (Gamma), B.1.429 (Epsilon), B.1.617.2 (Delta), AY.4.2 (Delta Plus), C.37 (Lambda), B.1.621 (Mu), B.1.1.529 (Omicron), as well as Omicron subvariants BA.1.1, BA.2 , BA.2.12.1 and BA.4/5.
Postpartum Depression (PPD)/Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)/Other depressive disorders (Internally discovered. U.S team core project)
We are developing BRII-296 and BRII-297 to address the challenges associated with current treatments for PPD, MDD, and other anxiety or depressive disorders. We are doing this by leveraging insight gained from, and applied drug formulation know-how utilized in developing long-acting therapies, where drug administration convenience and patient compliance are critical to potential treatment success.
BRII-296 is our novel and single treatment option for the treatment and prevention of PPD. It acts as a gamma-aminobutyric acid A (GABAa) receptor positive allosteric modulator. BRII-296 is in clinical Phase 1 study.
BRII-297 is a new chemical entity discovered internally. BRII-297 is under development for treatment of various anxiety and depression disorders.
HIV (Internally discovered. U.S team core project)
We are developing BRII-778 and BRII-732 as a once-weekly single-tablet combination therapy that will offer a more discreet, convenient, and non-invasive maintenance therapy for HIV patients.
BRII-778 is an extended-release formulation of an FDA-approved NNRTI, Edurant (rilpivirine hydrochloride). Edurant, an instant-release formulation of rilpivirine, has exhibited antiviral activity against a broad panel of HIV's most common strains. BRII-778, like all NNRTIs, binds to the NNRTI binding site, a flexible allosteric pocket located at a site adjacent to the DNA polymerizing processing site, resulting in conformational changes, and altered function of reverse transcriptase.
BRII-732 is a new chemical entity (NCE) that is metabolized upon oral administration into EFdA or islatravir. EFdA functions not only as a potent chain-terminator like other NRTIs, but also as a potent HIV reverse transcriptase translocation inhibitor (NRTTI), with high binding affinity to the active site of RT, that inhibits HIV reverse transcriptase by blocking translocation of nascently synthesized strand(s) for the next nucleotide incorporation.
Multidrug- and Extensively Drug-Resistant (MDR/XDR) Gram-negative Infections (licensed from Qpex Biopharma, Inc. (Qpex). China team core project)
We are developing our MDR/XDR therapies in collaboration with our partner Qpex as part of their global development plan. We retain responsibility for the development and regulatory activities in Greater China, while Qpex is responsible for all development and regulatory activities outside Greater China. Qpex is progressing BRII-636, BRII-672, and BRII-693 in parallel with a goal of moving each to global Phase 3 studies when we are expected to join with China as part of the global studies. BRII-636, BRII-672, and BRII-693 candidates all obtained QIDP designation from the U.S. FDA, which may receive incentives in the future. We are collaborating with Qpex to progress OMNIvance® (BRII-636, a broad spectrum BLI, in combination with an IV β-lactam antibiotic), ORAvanceTM (BRII-672, a broad spectrum oral BLI in combination with an oral β -lactam antibiotic)and BRII-693 (a novel synthetic IV lipopeptide antibiotic) for the treatment of bacterial infections, for which there are critical needs for new antibiotics treatments.
BRII-636 (BLI of OMNIvance®) is a novel cyclic boronic acid derived broad-spectrum inhibitor designed to cover all major SBLs and MBLs to restore the bacterial activity of multiple carbapenems and cephalosporins. It is administered by the IV route.
BRII-672 (BLI of ORAvanceTM) is a prodrug of BRII-636 that can be administered orally to deliver BRII-636 into the bloodstream. These agents were discovered by our partner Qpex as part of their expertise in BLIs, using the boron atom as a part of its pharmacophore.
BRII-693 (QPX-9003) is a novel synthetic lipopeptide, which has emerged as a development candidate based on a combination of increased in vitro and in vivo potency, and an improved safety profile compared to currently available polymyxins. BRII-693 has the potential to represent a significant advancement in the polymyxin class of hospital (IV) antibiotics.
MDR/XDR Mycobacterium Tuberculosis (TB) and Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) Program (licensed from AN2 Therapeutics, Inc. (AN2). China team core project)
We are developing epetraborole (BRII-658) in MDR/XDR TB and NTM with AN2. Epetraborole (BRII-658) is a novel antibiotic that has shown potent and broad-spectrum activity against mycobacteria and other bacterial pathogens in Phase 1b trials. AN2 is conducting a pivotal Phase 2/3 clinical trials of epetraborole (BRII-658) for the treatment of treatment-refractory Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) lung disease. We hold a license to develop, manufacture, and commercialize epetraborole (BRII-658) in Greater China.
BRII-658 (epetraborole) is an antibiotic with a novel mechanism of action. It is a boron-containing, orally available, small molecule inhibitor of mycobacterial leucyl-tRNA synthetase, or LeuRS, an enzyme that inhibits protein synthesis.
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About Brii Bio
Brii Biosciences Limited ("Brii Bio", stock code: 2137.HK) is a biotechnology company based in China and the United States committed to advancing therapies for significant infectious diseases, such as hepatitis B, COVID-19, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, multi-drug resistant (MDR) or extensive drug resistant (XDR) gram-negative infections, and other illnesses, such as central nervous system (CNS) diseases, which have significant public health burdens in China and worldwide. For more information, visit www.briibio.com.
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Veteran Advertising and Branding Executive to Lead and Implement Allen Media Group's Multicultural Advertising and Branding Initiatives
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Byron Allen's Allen Media Group (AMG) proudly announces the hiring of Michele Ghee to the position of President of Multicultural Advertising. In this newly-created role, Ghee will help AMG's senior advertising and marketing executives to strategically work with brands for significant partnerships with the AMG portfolio, including theGrio digital, broadcast, and television network platforms, as well as the HBCU GO streaming app and the global HBCU GO sports network. Ghee is based at the AMG offices in New York City.
Ghee comes to AMG from her most recent position as CEO of Ebony and Jet, and has managed more than a billion dollars in revenue for some of the world's largest media companies while holding senior executive positions at The Weather Channel, CNN, A&E, The History Channel and BET Networks. While at BET Networks, Ghee created and ran the first and only network for Black women: BET Her. Ghee has received numerous honors such as the Multichannel News Wonder Women award, the She Runs It Working Mother of the Year award, the ADCOLOR Change Agent award, and the American Advertising Federation Mosaic Role Model of the Year award. Ghee has authored three books – STRATECHIC: LIFE AND CAREER WINNING STRATEGIES FOR WOMEN, STRATECHIC 2.0: HER PLAN. HER POWER, HER PURPOSE and SUCCESS ON YOUR TERMS. Ghee received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Golden Gate University, from which she later received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters.
"I believe Michele Ghee is an excellent sales executive and a great addition to the Allen Media Group family as President of Multicultural Advertising, where she will be valuable in helping to lead our multicultural advertising and other strategic branding initiatives," said Byron Allen, Founder/Chairman/CEO of Allen Media Group. "Michele will play a vital role in helping Allen Media Group continue its expansion of advertising revenue, and execute on the large number of branding and marketing opportunities in front of us."
"I look forward to contributing to Byron Allen's legacy of economic inclusion for communities of color by working with brands for meaningful partnerships," said Michele Ghee, AMG's President of Multicultural Advertising. "Holding the marketplace accountable to a 15 percent investment commitment for Black-owned media is a very important ongoing campaign. In addition, I truly appreciate Byron Allen's unwavering commitment to America's Historically Black Colleges and Universities now featured regularly on HBCU GO, the HBCU GO sports network, and theGrio platforms."
About Allen Media Group
Chairman and CEO Byron Allen founded Allen Media Group/Entertainment Studios in 1993. Headquartered in Los Angeles, it has offices in New York, Chicago, Atlanta, and Charleston, SC. Allen Media Group owns 27 ABC-NBC-CBS-FOX network affiliate broadcast television stations in 21 U.S. markets and twelve 24-hour HD television networks serving nearly 220 million subscribers: THE WEATHER CHANNEL, THE WEATHER CHANNEL EN ESPAÑOL, PETS.TV, COMEDY.TV, RECIPE.TV, CARS.TV, ES.TV, MYDESTINATION.TV, JUSTICE CENTRAL.TV, THEGRIO, THIS TV, and PATTRN. Allen Media Group also owns the streaming platforms HBCU GO, SPORTS.TV, THEGRIO, THE WEATHER CHANNEL STREAMING APP and LOCAL NOW--the free-streaming AVOD service powered by THE WEATHER CHANNEL and content partners, which delivers real-time, hyper-local news, weather, traffic, sports, and lifestyle information. Allen Media Group also produces, distributes, and sells advertising for 68 television programs, making it one of the largest independent producers/distributors of first-run syndicated television programming for broadcast television stations. Allen Media Group International Television continues to extend its corporate branding and content around the globe. It currently has active license agreements and programming in South Africa, The United Arab Emirates, Australia, The Bahamas, Canada and New Zealand. With a library of over 5,000 hours of owned content across multiple genres, Allen Media Group provides video content to broadcast television stations, cable television networks, mobile devices, and multimedia digital. Our mission is to provide excellent programming to our viewers, online users, and Fortune 500 advertising partners.
Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures is a full-service, theatrical motion picture distribution company specializing in wide release commercial content. ESMP released 2017's highest-grossing independent movie, the shark thriller 47 METERS DOWN, which grossed over $44.3 million. In 2018, ESMP also released the critically-acclaimed and commercially successful Western HOSTILES, the historic mystery-thriller CHAPPAQUIDDICK and the sequel to 47 METERS DOWN, 47 METERS DOWN: UNCAGED. The digital distribution unit of Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures, Freestyle Digital Media, is a premiere multi-platform distributor with direct partnerships across all major cable, digital and streaming platforms. Capitalizing on a robust infrastructure, proven track record and a veteran sales team, Freestyle Digital Media is a true home for independent films.
In 2016, Allen Media Group purchased The Grio, a highly-rated digital video-centric news community platform devoted to providing African-Americans with compelling stories and perspectives currently underrepresented in existing national news outlets. The Grio features aggregated and original video packages, news articles and opinion pieces on topics that include breaking news, politics, health, business and entertainment. Originally launched in 2009, the platform was then purchased by NBC News in 2010. The digital platform remains focused on curating exciting digital content and currently has more than 100 million annual visitors.
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The Wistar Institute, West Philadelphia Skills Initiative, Iovance Biotherapeutics, PIDC, and The Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia Launch Recruitment for the Pilot Program on August 23
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Partners in Greater Philadelphia's life sciences ecosystem are collaborating to create a new workforce development training model to connect biotech jobs with a wider range of Philadelphians, including residents from disadvantaged communities. In a field that often requires PhDs or master's degrees for most roles, the program – "Biomedical Technician Training Program: Aseptic Manufacturing" – will create opportunities for Philadelphians with at least a high school equivalency. The initiative is one way the region is working together to meet the talent needs in its rapidly growing cell and gene therapy sector.
Recruitment begins August 23 for the 22-week paid program, which will include class- and lab-based training provided by The Wistar Institute and professional development from University City District's West Philadelphia Skills Initiative, culminating in a 10-week externship at Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc., a late-stage biotechnology company developing novel T cell-based cancer immunotherapies, whose cell therapy manufacturing center is located at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Program participants will gain the skills needed to be considered for employment as associate aseptic manufacturing technicians – jobs starting at $23/hour – at the conclusion of the program in March 2023. Associate aseptic manufacturing technicians are responsible for maintaining a sterile lab environment, assembling sterile products, stocking supplies, and documenting processes of biomedical manufacturers in supporting the creation of cell therapies.
The foundations of this model are familiar to The Wistar Institute, which has been successfully operating its Biomedical Technician Training (BTT) Program for over 20 years. "This expansion of our proven program is perfectly aligned with one of the pillars of our strategic plan, BOLD Science // GLOBAL Impact (https://boldscience.wistar.org), to create a diverse, inclusive life science talent pipeline. Wistar's collaborations with public and private partners create a new paradigm for workforce development to support the continued growth of the Philadelphia life sciences industry," said Dr. Dario Altieri, president and CEO of The Wistar Institute.
For the West Philadelphia Skills Initiative, which has extensive experience developing training programs with healthcare organizations, the entry into life sciences is an exciting evolution. "What we're hoping to do is to become an exemplar of how you can do workforce equitably, inclusively, collaboratively, in a way that helps Philadelphians connect to high-quality jobs and supports the cell and gene therapy industry," said Cait Garozzo, Managing Director at the West Philadelphia Skills Initiative.
"Iovance is proud to be a part of the vibrant, diverse Greater Philadelphia community and rapidly growing cell therapy hub. We are committed to promoting inclusivity, equity and diversity at Iovance and within the life sciences industry. We are excited to help introduce a wider range of Philadelphians to career options in biotech and hope this new program can serve as a model to our industry peers to increase inclusivity in the biotech workforce and its career development opportunities," said Tracy Winton, Senior Vice President, Human Resources, Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc.
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VANCOUVER, BC, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Galiano Gold Inc. ("Galiano" or "the Company") (TSX: GAU) (NYSE American: GAU) announces the release of its 2021 Sustainability Report (the "Report"), which marks its continuous progress on environmental, social and governance topics and outlines its vision for sustainability going forward.
In 2021, Galiano further expanded its sustainability efforts to include an assessment of internal governance processes and increased transparency on engagement with stakeholders on material sustainability issues over the medium and long-term.
The Report has been prepared in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative ("GRI") Core Option. It details our efforts to sustain progress by putting in place the policies, systems, and processes to move towards a more responsible and sustainable business model and highlights the achievements in 2021 in line with our business strategy.
2021 Sustainability Report Highlights:
- Zero significant environmental incidents
- Zero fatalities and no operational downtime during the pandemic
- 0.21 Total Recordable Injury Frequency Rate and 0.10 Lost Time Injury Rate
- Completion of the International Cyanide Management Code (ICMC) Certification
- Completion of third-party occupational health & safety and security audits and the human rights impact assessment
- Commencement of the implementation of improvement measures following the Climate Change Vulnerability Risk Assessment
- Workforce Development Plan (recruitment & training) nearing completion
- Efficacy of malaria reduction program reviewed to identify the ways program can be further improved
- Risk Management System reviewed and updated
- Completed the construction of the Esaase Community Hospital
- Agreement with the Volta River Authority on the future provision of solar power for up to 20% of our energy needs at the mine site
- US$304.2m in-country procurement spend supporting 337 Ghanaian businesses
Todd Romaine, EVP Sustainability and Investor Relations, commented: "2021 was a transformational year for Galiano as we put in place enhanced strategies and plans that provide the foundation for our long-term success.
I am proud to report that we made significant improvements in health and safety performance and reduced both our LTIFR by 50% and TRIFR by over 20% compared to 2020.
Our climate change adaptation plan is progressing well with the identified improvement actions already under implementation. We are already implementing a number of key projects that will reduce our carbon footprint, including the signing of an agreement with the Volta River Authority on the provision of solar power for up to 20% of our energy needs at the mine site.
Our program efforts on human rights initiatives continue to align with national laws and international norms. An independent third-party audit was conducted in 2021 and subsequent to this, an action log was developed to address areas of improvement that align with evolving best practices.
With a sustainable business model grounded in stewarding the Asanko Gold Mine, we strive for operational excellence while reducing emissions, mitigating risks responsibly, and giving back to the local Ghanaian economy.
To view or download a copy of the Report and the GRI register please see the Sustainability section of the Galiano Gold website at https://www.galianogold.com/sustainability/reports-and-publications/default.aspx.
About Galiano Gold Inc.
Galiano is focused on creating a sustainable business capable of long-term value creation for its stakeholders through organic production growth, exploration, and disciplined deployment of its financial resources. The company currently operates and manages the Asanko Gold Mine, located in Ghana, West Africa which is jointly owned with Gold Fields Ltd. The Company is strongly committed to the highest standards for environmental management, social responsibility, and health and safety for its employees and neighbouring communities. For more information, please visit www.galianogold.com.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements and information contained in this news release constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of applicable U.S. securities laws and "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws, which we refer to collectively as "forward-looking statements". Forward-looking statements are statements and information regarding possible events, conditions or results of operations that are based upon assumptions about future conditions and courses of action. All statements and information other than statements of historical fact may be forward looking statements. In some cases, forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of words such as "seek", "expect", "anticipate", "budget", "plan", "estimate", "continue", "forecast", "intend", "believe", "predict", "potential", "target", "may", "could", "would", "might", "will" and similar words or phrases (including negative variations) suggesting future outcomes or statements regarding an outlook.
Forward-looking statements in this news release include, but are not limited to: statements relating to the Company's sustainability strategy; statements regarding the strategic priorities and goals, targets, commitments and plans and expectations regarding those goals, targets, commitments and plans; and statements regarding the Company's future plans and goals in the areas of sustainable and economic development, governance, people, health, safety, security, internal and external audits, environment and community development, including the Company's future strategic, operational and sustainability objectives, goals and performance targets, as well as the Company's ability to implement such plans and ability to generate the desired results therefrom. Such forward-looking statements are based on a number of material factors and assumptions, including, but not limited to: the Company and Gold Fields Ltd. will agree on the manner in which the joint venture ("JV") will operate the Asanko Gold Mine (the "AGM"), including agreement on development plans and capital expenditures; the global financial markets and general economic conditions will be stable and prosperous in the future; the ability of the JV and the Company to comply with applicable governmental regulations and standards; the mining laws, tax laws and other laws in Ghana applicable to the AGM and the JV will not change, and there will be no imposition of additional exchange controls in Ghana; the success of the JV and the Company in implementing its development strategies and achieving its business objectives; the JV will have sufficient working capital necessary to sustain its operations on an ongoing basis and the Company will continue to have sufficient working capital to fund its operations and contributions to the JV; and the key personnel of the Company and the JV will continue their employment.
The foregoing list of assumptions cannot be considered exhaustive.
Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking statements. The Company believes the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, but no assurance can be given that these expectations will prove to be correct and you are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements contained herein. Some of the risks and other factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements contained in this news release, include, but are not limited to: risks associated with the Company ceasing its mining operations during 2022; actual production, costs, returns and other economic and financial performance may vary from the Company's estimates in response to a variety of factors, many of which are not within the Company's control; the Company's operations are subject to continuously evolving legislation, compliance with which may be difficult, uneconomic or require significant expenditures; the Company may be unsuccessful in attracting and retaining key personnel; labour disruptions could adversely affect the Company's operations; the Company's business is subject to risks associated with operating in a foreign country; the Company's operations are subject to environmental hazards and compliance with applicable environmental laws and regulations; the effects of climate change or extreme weather events may cause prolonged disruption to the delivery of essential commodities which could negatively affect production efficiency; the Company's operations and workforce are exposed to health and safety risks; unexpected costs and delays related to, or the failure of the Company to obtain, necessary permits could impede the Company's operations; the Company's properties may be subject to claims by various community stakeholders; risks related to limited access to infrastructure and water; the Company's primary asset is held through a JV, which exposes the Company to risks inherent to joint ventures, including disagreements with its JV partner and similar risks; risks related to information systems security threats; and the risk factors described under the heading "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Information Form.
Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results or events to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements, you are cautioned that this list is not exhaustive and there may be other factors that the Company has not identified. Furthermore, the Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements included in, or incorporated by reference in, this news release if these beliefs, estimates and opinions or other circumstances should change, except as otherwise required by applicable law.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Moore Kuehn, PLLC, a securities law firm located on Wall Street, is investigating whether certain officers and directors of Lottery.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: LTRY) breached their fiduciary duties to shareholders.
According to a federal securities lawsuit, Lottery.com insiders caused the company to make false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company lacked adequate internal accounting controls; (ii) the Company lacked adequate internal controls over financial reporting, including but not limited to those pertaining to revenue recognition and the reporting of cash; (iii) the Company was not in compliance with state and federal laws governing the sale of lottery tickets; and (iv) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
On July 6, 2022, Lottery.com disclosed that an internal investigation, conducted by independent counsel, had uncovered "instances of non-compliance with state and federal laws concerning the state in which tickets are procured as well as order fulfillment" and "issues pertaining to the Company's internal accounting controls." Accordingly, on June 30, 2022, the Board terminated the Company's President, Treasurer, and Chief Financial Officer Ryan Dickinson.
If you own LTRY please contact Justin Kuehn, Esq. by email at jkuehn@moorekuehn.com or telephone at (212) 709-8245. There is no cost to you. Moore Kuehn is a New York-based law firm with attorneys representing investors and consumers. Please visit http://www.moorekuehn.com/practice/new-york-shareholder-derivative-litigation/
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DALLAS, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NexPoint Advisors, L.P., investment adviser to the NexPoint Diversified Real Estate Trust ("NXDT" and together with affiliated entities "NexPoint"), today announced the extension of the offering period for its previously announced offer to purchase Shares of Beneficial Interest (the "Shares") of United Development Funding IV ("UDFI" or the "Company") at a price of $1.10 per Share upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase and in the related Assignment Form for the offer (which together constitute the "Offer" and the "Tender Offer Documents"). The Offer, which was scheduled to expire at 12:00 midnight, Eastern Time, at the end of the day on August 23, 2022, is now scheduled to expire at 12:00 midnight, Eastern Time, at the end of the day on September 23, 2022, unless the Offer is extended or earlier terminated. The Tender Offer Documents are available at www.UDFITenderOffer.com, or from the information agent for the Offer, as discussed below.
As previously announced on December 14, 2020, the Offer is conditioned upon, among other things, the satisfaction or waiver of the following conditions: (i) there shall not have been threatened, instituted, or pending any action or proceeding before any court or any governmental or administrative agency (a) challenging the acquisition of shares pursuant to the Offer or otherwise relating in any manner to the Offer, or (b) in the sole judgment of NexPoint, otherwise materially adversely affecting the Company; (ii) NexPoint shall have received all required governmental approvals, if any, for the Offer; (iii) NexPoint shall have had the opportunity to conduct sufficient due diligence to determine whether the offered price per share is reasonable given the current financial condition and results of operations of UDFI; (iv) the Board of Trustees of UDFI shall have waived in writing the ownership limitations set forth in Article VII of the Declaration of Trust of UDFI as such limitations would otherwise apply to the Offer; and (v) NexPoint shall have received satisfactory evidence that UDFI has continued to qualify as a real estate investment trust ("REIT") under federal tax laws and thereby to avoid any entity-level federal income or excise tax.
NXDT has recently completed its conversion from an investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 into a real estate investment trust ("REIT"). In connection with that conversion, NXDT dropped down certain of its investments to a single-member, wholly owned limited liability company subsidiary, NexPoint Real Estate Opportunities ("NREO"), which heretofore has been reflected as a portfolio company of NXDT in its SEC filings. NexPoint Advisors, L.P., external adviser to NXDT and NREO, continues to have investment and voting power over the UDF IV Common Shares. Accordingly, NexPoint continues to beneficially own the UDF IV Common Shares it had previously reported to the SEC on its last Schedule 13D.
On January 8, 2021, UDFI announced that it had reduced the percentage of outstanding Shares that a shareholder may own from 9.8% to 5.0%. The Company took such action in an effort to frustrate the Offer. It also announced it amended the Company's bylaws to require that certain legal actions could be brought on behalf of or against UDFI only in certain courts in Maryland. NexPoint is reviewing these actions and their legality under applicable law.
Shareholders should read the Offer to Purchase and the related materials carefully because they contain important information. Shareholders may obtain a free copy of the Offer to Purchase and the Assignment Form from D.F. King & Co., Inc., the information agent for the Offer (the "Information Agent"), by calling toll-free at (800) 331-7543. THE OFFER WILL EXPIRE AT 12:00 MIDNIGHT, EASTERN TIME, AT THE END OF THE DAY ON SEPTEMBER 23, 2022, UNLESS THE OFFER IS EXTENDED OR EARLIER TERMINATED.
About the NexPoint Diversified Real Estate Trust (NXDT)
The NexPoint Diversified Real Estate Trust (NYSE: NXDT), formerly the NexPoint Strategic Opportunities Fund (NYSE:NHF), is a diversified REIT that formerly operated as a closed-end fund. The name change became effective on November 8, 2021. On August 28, 2020, shareholders approved the conversion from a closed-end management investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the "1940 Act") and amended NXDT's fundamental investment policies and restrictions to permit NXDT to operate as a diversified REIT. NXDT completed the repositioning of its investment portfolio sufficient to achieve REIT tax status and operated during its 2021 taxable year, and continues to operate, so that it qualifies for taxation as a REIT. NXDT has also realigned its portfolio so that it is no longer an "investment company" under the 1940 Act. On July 1, 2022, NXDT received an order from the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") declaring that NXDT has ceased to be an investment company and that its registration under the 1940 Act is no longer in effect (the "Deregistration Order").
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PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Wilsonville Foot Health Center, led by Dr. Stephen Fekete, has partnered with Unity MSK and is now part of the Northwest Extremity Specialists (NES) group in Portland, Oregon.
Unity MSK, a management services company providing support to orthopedic and podiatry practices across the United States, partnered with Northwest Extremity Specialists, the largest podiatry practice in Oregon, in February of 2021. Unity MSK and NES also added Portland-based Tigard Orthopedics and Fracture Clinic as an initial expansion into the orthopedic specialty area in June.
"I am excited to partner with Northwest Extremity Specialists and Unity MSK to provide access to great podiatric care in the Portland metro area. I am happy to add this additional location in Wilsonville to the high-quality network of podiatry clinics that NES has built over the years," said Dr. Stephen Fekete, who has been practicing podiatry in Portland for 34 years.
"We are excited to take this step to partner with Dr. Fekete and add another great podiatrist, as well as an additional location to the services offered within the Northwest Extremity Specialists family," said Dr. Thomas Melillo, a lead partner physician with NES.
NES also recently welcomed Dr. Lacey Lockhart to their growing team of professionals. Dr. Lockhart earned her degree in podiatric medicine at California School of Podiatric Medicine at Samuel Merritt University and completed her 3-year surgical training residency at Legacy Health Foot and Ankle Reconstructive Surgery Program in Portland, Oregon.
"We are very excited to have Dr. Lacey Beth Lockhart join Northwest Extremity Specialists in our Wilsonville, Sherwood, and Newberg locations. Dr. Lockhart brings a tremendous wealth of knowledge and skill within the specialty of podiatric medicine, as well as many years of experience treating patients in the greater Portland area. She will certainly contribute to NES' growing network of centers and physicians in providing the highest quality care to the communities we serve," commented Dr. Clifford Mah, NES Physician Leader.
The Wilsonville Foot Health Center, located at 29756 Town Center Loop W, Wilsonville, OR 97070, will remain in that location but will change its name to Northwest Extremity Specialists in the near future.
Formed in 2015, Northwest Extremity Specialists offers state-of-the-art podiatry and orthopedics care. NES has been providing medical and surgical treatment of the foot and ankle for 25 years and just recently added orthopedics with the Tigard Orthopedic and Fracture Clinic. NES' providers offer full-service podiatric and orthopedic care from 15 locations throughout the Portland metropolitan area. For more information, visit www.nespecialists.com.
Unity MSK is a national platform providing support services to practices offering the full continuum of musculoskeletal care. Unity MSK's scalable, best-in-class support promotes robust practice growth while allowing physicians to focus on providing the highest-quality clinical treatment for patients. Unity MSK is led by a team of executives and administrative support specialists with extensive clinical support experience. For more information, visit www.unitymsk.com. For further inquiries, please call Unity MSK at 800-990-1301. If interested in discussing physician partnership opportunities, please contact Ryan Pahler at rpahler@unitymsk.com.
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DALLAS, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "At PCI, our stated company vision for the last 25 years has been to earn a spot on Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For®, so this is a very big deal for us!" says Drew Clancy, CEO of PCI notthebigcompany.
This honor is first and foremost a tribute to our Associates' ingenuity and hard work. Happy, engaged Associates contribute at a much higher level. They are more innovative. They take better care of Clients. And, not only do they thrive in their professional lives, they also show up as better spouses, parents, and friends.
Happy Associates = Happy Clients = Happy Organization. At PCI, that is the formula for success.
"There are three things that make PCI's culture unique," Drew states. "First, we are a values-driven company. For us, this means we seek to hire people who share our values and make decisions that are consistent with our values. Second, we are crazy about learning and development. Our goal every day is to 'get better at getting better.' Third, we are big believers in servant leadership."
PCI is a servant leadership organization and empowering people to do their best work is what servant leadership is all about. This is what the leaders at PCI are challenged to do every day. Leadership is not about having all the answers. Instead, the leader's job is to serve, support, and remove obstacles so frontline Associates can do their very best. "Just as we have been inspired by great companies, we aspire to inspire other organizations to follow this path." Drew says.
PCI has also been ranked #3 in Best Workplaces in Texas™ 2022 (Small and Medium) by Fortune and #1 for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) practices by Top Workplaces in 2021 (under 500 employees). "DEI is not a 'program,' but rather an integral part of how we do our work," explains Drew. "Like everything else we do, our DEI initiatives are grounded in our values and creating a high-trust environment."
PCI partners with academic institutions and service organizations to engage their alumni and members. Our Inside Sales Associates update contact records and collect stories, which are used to create directories and Oral History Projects. We also sell alumni gear, collect donations and memberships for our partners.
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BERWYN, Pa., Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RM LAW, P.C. announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of all persons or entities that purchased MINISO Group Holding Limited. ("MINISO" or the "Company") (NYSE: MNSO) pursuant or traceable to the Company's October 2020 initial public offering ("IPO").
MINISO shareholders may, no later than October 17, 2022, move the Court for appointment as a lead plaintiff of the Class. If you purchased shares of MINISO and would like to learn more about these claims or if you wish to discuss these matters and have any questions concerning this announcement or your rights, contact Richard A. Maniskas, Esquire toll-free at (844) 291-9299 or to sign up online, click here.
The class action lawsuit alleges that the IPO's Registration Statement was false and/or misleading and/or failed to disclose that: (i) defendants and other undisclosed related parties owned and controlled a much larger amount of MINISO stores than previously stated; (ii) as a result, MINISO concealed its true costs; (iii) MINISO did not represent its true business model; (iv) defendants, including MINISO and its Chairman, engaged in planned unusual and unclear transactions; (v) as a result of at least one of these transactions, MINISO is at risk of breaching contracts with PRC authorities; and (vi) MINISO would imminently and drastically drop its franchise fees.
On July 26, 2022, market researcher Blue Orca Capital published a report on MINISO, which alleged several issues with the Company, including that (i) MINISO's stores are secretly owned by Company executives or insiders closely connected to the chairman, and (ii) overwhelming evidence shows that MINISO misleads the market about its core business. Blue Orca explained, "[o]ur suspicion is that MINISO realized early in the pre-IPO process that a brick-and-mortar retailer would be far less attractive to investors than an asset-light franchise business, so we think that [MINISO] simply lied about these stores." Blue Orca added its belief "that the chairman siphoned hundreds of millions from the public company through opaque Caribbean jurisdictions as the middleman in a crooked headquarters deal." Blue Orca further concluded that "[i]ndependent evidence, including archived disclosures on MINISO's Chinese website, reports in Chinese media and interviews with former employees, indicate that MINISO is a brand in serious peril," noting that "MINISO lowered its franchising fee by 63% over the past two years in a desperate effort to attract franchisees." On this news, MINISO's ADS price fell nearly 15%.
As of July 27, 2022, MINISO ADSs closed at $5.66 per ADS, representing more than a 70% decline from the $20.00 IPO price.
If you are a member of the class, you may, no later than October 17, 2022, request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff of the class. A lead plaintiff is a representative party that acts on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation. In order to be appointed lead plaintiff, the Court must determine that the class member's claim is typical of the claims of other class members, and that the class member will adequately represent the class. Under certain circumstances, one or more class members may together serve as "lead plaintiff." Your ability to share in any recovery is not, however, affected by the decision whether or not to serve as a lead plaintiff. You may retain RM LAW, P.C. or other counsel of your choice, to serve as your counsel in this action.
For more information regarding this, please contact RM LAW, P.C. (Richard A. Maniskas, Esquire) toll-free at (844) 291-9299 or by email at rm@maniskas.com or click here. For more information about class action cases in general or to learn more about RM LAW, P.C. please visit our website by clicking here.
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BERWYN, Pa., Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RM LAW, P.C. announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of all persons or entities that purchased Uber Technologies, Inc. ("Uber" or the "Company") (NYSE: UBER) securities during the period from May 31, 2019 through July 8, 2022 inclusive (the "Class Period").
Uber shareholders may, no later than October 17, 2022, move the Court for appointment as a lead plaintiff of the Class. If you purchased shares of Uber and would like to learn more about these claims or if you wish to discuss these matters and have any questions concerning this announcement or your rights, contact Richard A. Maniskas, Esquire toll-free at (844) 291-9299 or to sign up online, click here.
According to the complaint, during the class period, defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Uber had defective disclosure controls and procedures; (ii) Uber concealed and/or downplayed the full scope and severity of its prior misconduct, including, inter alia, the extent to which it secretly lobbied government officials and politicians to bypass legal and regulatory requirements, as well as knowingly risked the safety of Uber drivers, to fuel the Company's global growth; (iii) as a result, Uber's present global footprint and market share is in significant part the byproduct of previously undisclosed, unsustainable, and illegal business practices; (iv) all the foregoing, once revealed, was likely to negatively impact Uber's reputation, as well as subject the Company to a heightened risk of governmental and regulatory scrutiny and enforcement action; and (v) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
On July 10, 2022, news reports announced the discovery of 124,000 internal Uber records spanning from 2013 – 2017, which were leaked to The Guardian and shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and other news outlets. These files revealed, among other things, how Uber secretly met with various government officials and politicians to skirt laws and regulations around the world, as well as risked Uber drivers' safety, to advance the Company's growth, and how all the foregoing conduct was known to, and in fact encouraged by, the Company's top management. On this news, Company's stock price fell $1.15 per share or over 5%, to close at $21.19 per share on July 11, 2022.
If you are a member of the class, you may, no later than October 17, 2022, request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff of the class. A lead plaintiff is a representative party that acts on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation. In order to be appointed lead plaintiff, the Court must determine that the class member's claim is typical of the claims of other class members, and that the class member will adequately represent the class. Under certain circumstances, one or more class members may together serve as "lead plaintiff." Your ability to share in any recovery is not, however, affected by the decision whether or not to serve as a lead plaintiff. You may retain RM LAW, P.C. or other counsel of your choice, to serve as your counsel in this action.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Weiss Law, a national shareholders' rights law firm, is investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty and violations of the federal securities laws by the Board of Directors and certain Company officers of Lottery.com Inc. (NASDAQ: LTRY) ("Lottery.com" or the "Company") relating to: (i) an admitted lack of adequate internal controls and procedures over financial reporting, including the failure to report entry into to a line of credit, failure to properly recognize revenue and the reporting of cash, and the inability to continue as a going concern; and (ii) noncompliance with state and federal laws governing the sale of lottery tickets.
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A superyacht once belonging to a Russian billionaire went to auction Tuesday in the British territory of Gibraltar. The vessel, estimated to have a value in the tens of millions of dollars, was seized in March as part of Western sanctions against Russia following the invasion of Ukraine.
Gibraltar's Admiralty Marshal was tasked with appraising and selling the yacht, which received 63 bids, according to court documents. Its official appraised value is "a confidential matter which cannot be disclosed," although outside estimates reportedly place it anywhere from $42 million to $75 million. Details about who ultimately purchases the vessel and for what price will be made public when the transaction is complete.
Measuring 236 feet long and weighing over 1,600 tons, the Axioma is a sight to behold. It can accommodate 12 guests in six cabins — along with a 20-person crew in 12 other rooms — and features a gymnasium, full-service spa, infinity pool and luxury cinema, as stated on the Howe Robinson Partners auction site.
The cost to charter the Axioma for a week runs an average of roughly $500,000, not including other operating costs, according to Yacht Charter Fleet.
The former owner of the ship is Dmitrievich Pumpyansky, once Russia's largest steel pipe manufacturer and currently worth $2 billion, according to Forbes. Unfortunately for Pumpyansky, he was sanctioned by Britain and the European Union after the invasion.
Other superyachts owned by Russian oligarchs have been detained as a result of the sanctions, but the Axioma is the first to be sold off, the Guardian reported.
Despite calls for the proceeds of the sale to benefit Ukraine, the funds will instead be paid to JP Morgan Chase. According to the Guardian, the international bank had a loan agreement with Pumpyansky's holding company, Pyrene Investments.
However, the sanctions against Russia prevented JP Morgan Chase from accepting payments from the holding company, breaching the agreement, and the bank filed a legal claim to have the vessel seized and sold at auction.
Other superyachts belonging to Russian elites have been detained all over the world — including the Amadea, which was seized in Fiji at the request of the United States in May. That $300 million yacht belonged to Suleiman Kerimov, a Russian gold producer worth over $12 billion, according to Forbes.
The fate of the Amadea is uncertain, however; it, too, could be sold to the highest bidder, which would be in line with President Biden's aims to hold Russian oligarchs accountable for their role in the invasion and, potentially, use the proceeds to aid Ukraine.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Democrat and longtime politician Charlie Crist has won the primary for governor in Florida and will face Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis in November, according to a race call by The Associated Press.
Crist served as Florida's Republican governor more than a decade ago and is now a Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
The primary for governor has highlighted a split within the Democratic party in the state. Crist's challenger, Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, hammered him over his record as governor and for switching his stance on issues like abortion and criminal justice.
Crist outraised Fried and has run as a moderate by casting himself as the person most likely to beat DeSantis in November. He has tried to court unaffiliated voters and disaffected Republicans and has earned endorsements from top Democratic-leaning groups like the state's teachers' union.
When it comes to winning elections, Crist has a mixed record. He left the Republican party in 2010 to run as an independent against Marco Rubio for the U.S. Senate. He made another run for governor as a Democrat in 2014 but lost by about a percentage point to Republican Rick Scott — now a U.S. Senator.
Now that the dust has settled on the Democratic primary, Crist will face DeSantis in November.
The powerful governor is rumored to be considering a presidential run in 2024. He's raised his national profile and has more than $100 million in the bank. DeSantis has become known for his battles over education, including how teachers talk to students about race, history and LGBTQ people. He's pushed new laws that restrict how conversations around those subjects take place in public school classrooms and even businesses.
If he's to win in November, Crist will have to sway some of the nearly 4 million unaffiliated Florida voters. Registered Republicans now outnumber registered Democrats in the state, but statewide races have often been close. DeSantis, himself, won by about a single percentage point in 2018.
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AIEA, Hawaii (KITV4) -- An Aiea woman who's nearly 90 years old keeps working six or seven days a week, and loves it. Connie Asentista says her job keeps her Aging Well.
You might say Astentista's job sucks. But that's a good thing; she sells Kirby vacuums. She is the owner of A's Kirby Sales & Service at Harbor Court in Aiea.
"It keeps me alive, I know what's going on in the world. I don't want to be idle," Connie said.
Connie bought this franchise in 1999.
"My husband said, 'This is hard work for you.' I said, 'Nothing like trying!'" she recalled.
And try, she did. She became an award winning salesperson. Now at 88-years-old, she still shows up for work at least 40 hours per week.
"Shouldn't you be hanging out with the kids and grandkids?," KITV4's Diane Ako asked.
"Oh, no. I have to show them good example," she answered without missing a beat.
Michael Astentista, her son, is full of admiration for her.
"She's here to make sure I'm settled for the rest of my life- not only mentally and in business, but strong in my faith," Michael said.
Love of family and God rounds out her 18 hour days. There is a "time to pray, time to play, time to work. Work six days a week. Sundays are fantastic! We all go the beach," she laughed.
Michael added, "I'm very thankful for her for being my support and a fan of mine 1,000%."
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A health worker draws the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine as she prepares to administer the spring booster also known as fourth jab to a person at a vaccination clinic.
Moderna submitted its application to the US Food and Drug Administration for emergency use authorization of its updated Covid-19 vaccine booster for use in people age 18 and older the company said in a news release on Tuesday.
This updated formulation is a bivalent vaccine that will combine the original vaccine with one that targets Omicron sublineages BA.4 and BA.5, and would be administered as a 50 microgram dose.
The company says a phase 2/3 clinical trial on these boosters is now underway. The data they have submitted to the FDA comes from experiments in mice as well as data from humans using a different booster which was updated to protect against the BA.1 strain of Omicron.
"We have worked closely with the FDA to ensure that Americans will have access to Moderna's updated, bivalent booster, which, if authorized, may offer higher, broader, and more durable protection against Covid-19 compared ot the currently authorized booster," said Stephane Bancel, Chief Executive Officer of Moderna.
The announcement comes one day after Pfizer and BioNTech said they submitted their application to the US Food and Drug Administration for emergency use authorization of their bivalent Covid-19 booster for use in people age 12 and older.
When could shots be available?
White House Covid-19 Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha said recently the updated boosters should be available to the public early- to mid-September, but it is ultimately up to the FDA as to when the shot will get the greenlight.
"FDA will be using the totality of the available evidence to authorize the fall bivalent boosters," FDA spokesperson Abigail Capobianco said in a statement emailed to CNN last week. "There are data on many millions of individuals who have received the prototype component as a booster. As for the BA.4/5 component, a combination of nonclinical data obtained in mice, data from prior variant vaccines (including those to beta, delta, and omicron BA.1), along with our extensive knowledge of the safety and efficacy of the mRNA platforms will be used for this decision-making."
The booster dose "elicited potent neutralizing antibody responses against the Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 in all participants regardless of prior infection," according to data previously released by Moderna in June.
The FDA will now evaluate Moderna's data, but hasn't said whether it will convene its vaccine advisers before making a decision on authorization. Such a step could push back when shots can be administered.
Production of the updated shots is already underway. The US government has purchased 105 million bivalent Covid-19 vaccine booster doses from Pfizer, and another 66 million updated shots from Moderna. | https://www.kitv.com/news/coronavirus/moderna-seeks-fda-authorization-for-updated-covid-19-booster/article_69266dbc-5377-5b8c-8aaa-dd725fdb6809.html | 2022-08-24T00:12:19Z |
Bubbling cauldrons of noodle soup, flaky flatbreads, kaleidoscopic desserts -- when it comes to street food, Asia delivers big on variety and flavor.
This vast region sprawls across equatorial tropics and mountain ranges, volcanic islands and frenetic megacities, so it's no surprise that diversity abounds.
Yet there are many similarities, too. With centuries of migration and trade, many recipes have traversed borders only to become a local specialty thousands of miles from their places of origin.
To celebrate the region's bottomless culinary talent and passion for food, we've rounded up 50 must-try, much-loved street foods and beverages in Asia in alphabetical order.
Of course, this list is far from exhaustive -- it's just a small sampling of the region's wonderful food traditions and where to find them.
While the Middle East and Central Asia are part of the Asian continent, we didn't include these sub-regions because even by themselves there's already such a broad depth of dishes to try, including these 20.
Let's dig in.
Achcharu, Sri Lanka
Pickles get a Sri Lankan twist with achcharu -- sweet, sour and spicy pickled fruits and vegetables that make a perfect street-food snack.
Seasoned with local spices, chili, turmeric, sugar and salt, the offerings will differ depending on the region and seasons -- it might be Ceylon olives (veralu), wood apple, pineapple, ambarella, mango, jackfruit or eggplant.
Asam laksa, Malaysia
Sometimes, a big, delicious bowl of soup just hits the spot. Sate cravings with a local specialty: asam laksa.
Thought to have originated on the coast, the fish-based soup has a sour, tamarind flavor that's surprisingly refreshing even on hot, humid mornings.
A typical bowl arrives brimming with rice noodles, vegetables, shredded fish and coriander and with a side of Malaysian shrimp paste.
Banh mi, Vietnam
The French may have introduced baguettes to Vietnam, but the country's famed banh mi is a uniquely Vietnamese creation.
Like many foods on this list, the ingredients will vary from north to south and east to west.
Still, a classic combination includes pork, pickled vegetables, coriander, chili and a healthy smear of pâté sandwiched by a crispy, fluffy baguette.
Bubble tea, Taiwan
No trip to Taiwan would be complete without at least one bubble tea. Also known as boba or pearl milk tea, this famous Taiwanese export has garnered a worldwide following.
Invented in Taiwan in the 1980s, the classic recipe calls for rich, silky, shaken green or black tea with sizable black tapioca balls, which require a special straw to drink.
These days, many imaginative flavors (Oreo! Sweet potato! Matcha! Kumquat!) just beg to be sampled, and many vendors let diners customize elements like sugar and ice.
Bun kebab, Pakistan
How can you go wrong with a kebab patty between two seared buns?
Easy to find at roadside stalls all over Karachi and Lahore, these delectable Pakistani burgers often come with a potato-lentil patty, although chicken, mutton, beef and chickpea varieties are also common.
Depending on the vendor and region, your bun kebab may also come topped with red onions, tomatoes, raita (a spiced yogurt dip) and tamarind chutney.
Cheong fun, Hong Kong
Meaning "intestine noodles", cheong fun is a staple street snack and dim sum favorite. But contrary to the name, the dish doesn't actually feature entrails. (The moniker refers to the tubular shape.)
A thin and translucent rice roll is steamed and folded, then filled with char siu (Chinese barbecued pork), dried shrimp, beef or vegetables.
A few sauces -- soy, hoisin, peanut and chili -- and a crown of sesame seeds complete this must-try dish.
Chili crab, Singapore
You can find chili crab in many hawker centers and specialty restaurants these days but this iconic dish got its start on the streets of 1950s Singapore in a pushcart.
It is messy in all the best ways -- and if you don't get your hands dirty cracking mud crab legs, then you're not doing it right.
After excavating the crab meat, scoop up the rich chili-tomato sauce with buttery fried mantou buns.
Crab omelets, Thailand
After you've had a kai jeow pu (a Thai crab omelet), it's hard to understand why all egg dishes don't taste this good.
Crab and eggs are a match made in heaven -- and the crispy edges, fluffy texture and a drizzle of sweet chili sauce takes this wok-cooked dish to the next level.
Curry fish balls, Hong Kong
Fish balls -- ping-pong-sized spheres of shredded and pounded fish -- are among the most beloved street snacks in Hong Kong.
One quintessential variety, curry fish balls, will definitely inspire cravings long after the first bite.
Simmered in curry sauce, garlic, ginger, sugar and chili, these street snacks are known for their rich, robust flavor.
Enjoy them on bamboo skewers or in a cup while exploring the city's vibrant neighborhoods.
Ema datshi, Bhutan
You can't go to Bhutan without embracing the country's penchant for all things cheesy, spicy and fresh.
Another local favorite is ema datshi, which just so happens to be the country's national dish.
This spicy stew, meaning "chili and cheese", showcases Bhutan's glorious local cheese and produce.
Though it's everywhere, you'll never get bored: ema datshi comes in many variations, though most are very spicy and served with onion, garlic and red rice.
Egg waffles, Hong Kong
An easy, one-handed snack, gai daan jai (egg waffles, egg puffs or eggettes) is the ideal street food.
A light, slightly sweet batter requires a special waffle maker with round cells to create a puff-like appearance, crispy exterior and airy interior.
Experimentation is part of the fun: Enjoy it plain, with fresh fruit, or rolled into a cone and covered with ice cream, syrup and bananas. Some vendors even go the savory route, serving flavors like salted egg yolk and seaweed.
Falooda, Pakistan
As delicious as it is photogenic, falooda will keep you cool during Pakistan's scorching summers.
Akin to an ice cream sundae, this milk-based drink is made up of ice cream or kulfa (a dense, gelato-like ice cream), milk, condensed milk, jelly cubes, noodles, basil seeds and sometimes rose water syrup to achieve a bright, rosy pink hue.
A crown of crushed pistachios and dried fruit add more texture, so this dessert is at once smooth and crunchy and both sweet and cooling.
Fuchka, Bangladesh
A little bit sweet, a little sour, a little spicy, fuchka (a Bangladeshi version of what's known as panipuri, gol gappa, gupchup, among other monikers in India) is one of the most ubiquitous street foods in Bangladesh.
The crispy, hollow spheres commonly come with a filling of mashed potatoes and chickpeas, mixed with freshly chopped onions, cucumber, lime, coriander and green chillies in a chaat masala blend.
Before serving, vendors often grate boiled eggs on top as a garnish. Usually, you'll also receive a small cup of tamarind water sauce to pour inside the shells to enhance that sweet, tangy and spicy flavor that tantalizes all of your taste buds.
Gado gado, Indonesia
Healthy and hearty, gado gado (meaning "mix-mix") tosses together a garden of vegetables and tasty ingredients in a thick, peanutty sauce.
While the recipe varies depending on the vendor, it's common to see green beans, cabbage, carrots, bean sprouts, lettuce, tofu, cucumbers, tempeh, potatoes, a hard-boiled egg, and sides of lontong (rice cakes) and prawn crackers.
Getuk, Indonesia
It's impossible to walk by this eye-catching, brightly-hued dessert without stopping for a sample.
There are countless variations of getuk (or gethuk) on offer, from cassava (a nutty, starchy root vegetable) with coconut to yam, potato, banana, taro or cheese.
Halo-halo, Philippines
A mountain of crushed ice and condensed milk with a rainbow of toppings, halo-halo (also haluhalo, meaning "mixed" in Tagalog) is the perfect antidote to the Philippines' hot and humid summers.
While it varies across the country, the long list of ingredients may include the likes of cubed yam, taro, coconut flakes, tapioca pearls, flan, sweetened beans, plantain, jackfruit, coconut jelly, nuts, sago, cheese, ice cream, ube (purple yam), toasted rice...the list goes on.
The crunchy, crispy, chewy, creamy textures are just as diverse, making this one dish that lives up to its name.
Hoppers, Sri Lanka
Wake up and smell the appa (also called aapa or appam) in Sri Lanka!
Thought to have originated over in southern India 2,000 years ago, appa, or hoppers, are made from fermented rice flour and coconut milk batter cooked like a crêpe in a small wok.
This method creates a bowl-like shape that's slightly thicker and spongier at the bottom while staying crispy on the edges.
Plain hoppers and egg hoppers (a plain hopper with a soft-boiled egg in the middle) typically come with chutney, coconut sambal and often a range of curry dishes.
Iced coffee, Vietnam
Served by street vendors and cafes alike, cà phê, as it's known in Vietnam, can be enjoyed many ways -- drink it black, with condensed milk, a touch of sugar or mixed with coconut milk.
Sit down and make new friends on a plastic stool or keep exploring with your chilled refreshment in hand.
Jalebi, India
Don't be surprised if you have to wait in line for jalebi, a bright orange funnel cake dipped in simple syrup and often spiced with saffron.
Best enjoyed fresh from the fryer or chilled, these concentric swirls of deep-fried fermented batter taste crispy, juicy and exceptionally sweet, while a side of rabri (a condensed milk dish) or curd can help cut through the sugar.
And thanks to their versatility, jalebi make for a delicious breakfast, accompaniment to chai (tea) or after-dinner treat.
Jianbing, China
Chinese street food vendors have mastered breakfast with this crepe-like creation.
Perfect for on-the-go snacking, vendors fry the pancake then fill it with a variety of savory flavors -- think eggs, spring onions, radishes, chili sauce and sausage or chicken.
The best part? The crispy bao cui, or fried crackers. Having originated in northeastern China, jiangbing have spread across the country with different variations depending on the region.
Jiaozi, China
Dumpling fans will love Chinese jiaozi.
Whether steamed, boiled or pan-fried to perfection, these delightful crescent-shaped morsels are most commonly filled with minced pork, ginger, scallions and Chinese cabbage, though many combinations exist.
Kavaabu, Maldives
In the Maldives capital Male, look for a popular street food called kavaabu (or kavab).
Essentially a deep-fried fish fritter, kavaabu has a super crispy exterior encasing a delicious combination of smoked tuna, shredded coconut, peppers, onions, lentils, ginger, rice and curry leaves.
Kaya toast, Singapore/Malaysia
Can't decide between a sweet or savory breakfast? Enter kaya toast: a charcoal-kissed breakfast sandwich that's nothing short of a daily ritual in both Singapore and Malaysia.
It's insanely delicious thanks to the kaya -- an aromatic jam made from coconut milk, eggs, sugar and pandan.
Enjoy it with soft-boiled eggs for dipping or eating separately with a dash of dark soya sauce, and a cup of thick kopi (Nanyang coffee) or milk tea will complete this quintessential experience.
Kerak telor, Indonesia
If you think you know omelets, think again.
Cooked over charcoal, kerak telor (meaning "egg crust") is a traditional Betawi dish that bursts with flavor and texture thanks to ingredients like duck eggs, glutinous rice, grated coconut, fried shallots, dried shrimp and Indonesian spices.
Khao jee, Laos
It looks simple -- a grilled sticky rice patty on a stick -- but there's more to this street food staple than meets the eye.
Thanks to a thin egg coating and a light char from the grill, khao jee has a radiant golden hue, a sweet and nutty flavor, and a delightfully chewy texture.
As a happy coincidence, another fantastic street food shares the same name: khao jee pâté (a Lao-style baguette sandwich, similar to a Vietnamese banh mi) filled with pork liver pâté, pickled carrots, cucumber, papaya and a local chili paste called jeow bong.
Khao soi, Thailand
A staple in Northern Thailand, khao soi -- curry noodle soup topped with deep-fried egg noodles -- hits the spot.
Vendors ladle gorgeously golden bowls of hearty, creamy, chili-laced coconut broth over a bed of egg noodles with chicken legs or beef.
On the side, you will often find mustard greens, freshly chopped shallots, lime wedges and chili paste.
Khuushuur, Mongolia
Exploring the Mongolian steppes will surely work up an appetite, but luckily khuushuur, Mongolia's beloved street snack, provides a hearty, filling meal.
Enjoy the large, deep-fried meat pastry (usually filled with minced mutton or beef, onion and garlic) with a cup of Mongolian tea.
Kimbap, South Korea
Kimbap, or gimbap, seems like it was designed to be portable.
Not unlike Japan's makizushi (rolled sushi), these rice rolls wrapped in seaweed sheets are cut into easy-to-devour slices that hawkers fill with a wide assortment of ingredients.
Spinach, lotus root, eggs, cucumbers, bulgogi and crab sticks all make regular appearances, as do pickled daikon radish, kimchi and roasted sesame seeds.
Kuih cincin, Brunei
In Brunei, kuih cincin (meaning "ring cakes") makes for a delicious after-dinner treat.
This photogenic, cookie-like dessert is easily identifiable thanks to its flower-like appearance. It tastes as good as it looks, with a sweet, nutty flavor and a satisfying crunch.
Kwek kwek, Philippines
Next time you're in the Philippines, try kwek kwek -- deep-fried quail eggs. They owe their radiant orange hue to annatto powder in the batter.
Slightly peppery, sweet and nutty, the citrus-hued powder comes from the prickly fruits of the achiote tree, though some vendors use orange food coloring for a similar effect.
After a bath in the orange batter, the hard-boiled eggs dive into the deep fryer before landing on a plate with a sour and spicy dipping sauce.
Laping, Tibet, China
A summer specialty in Tibet, laping (or laphing) is a spicy noodle dish that's served chilled.
The soup explodes with flavors and textures thanks in part to thick, jelly-like noodles made from mung beans and a fiery sauce made with lots of red pepper.
Lahpet thoke, Myanmar
Tea leaf salad, known locally as lahpet thoke, has an earthy, sour and slightly bitter taste, owing to the star ingredient: fermented or pickled Assam tea leaves.
The tea leaves are then mixed with cabbage, tomatoes, beans, roasted nuts, toasted seeds, dried shrimp and fried garlic for a salad that's loaded with textures and aromas.
Lort cha, Cambodia
Nothing hits the spot like a stir-fried noodle dish, and Cambodia's go-to variety is no exception.
Typically prepared in street carts and markets, lort cha features short and squat rice pin noodles tossed with spring onions, Chinese broccoli, crunchy bean sprouts, chives, garlic and beef then topped with a fried egg and a special sauce.
Generous lashings of Cambodian fermented red chili paste enhance the spice level, which vendors are all too happy to dial up for you.
Mohinga, Myanmar
Snag a seat at a street food stall bright and early -- or really, any time of day -- to enjoy a steaming bowl of mohinga (fish noodle soup).
The country's de facto national dish combines a beautiful balance of fresh catfish and lemongrass, toasted rice, ginger, garlic and springy rice noodles cooked to order with a range of optional toppings.
Top it off with a hard-boiled egg, fried onions, cilantro and a squeeze or two of lime for a rich yet bright meal.
Momos, Nepal
If you've tried just one food from Nepal, it's most likely momos.
Region to region, family to family, no two recipes will be identical.
Generally speaking, these delicate dumplings enclose different types of minced meat -- buffalo, chicken, mutton, yak, or pork -- with seasonings, like cabbage, onion, spring onion, ginger, garlic, tamarind, coriander and spices.
Nam khao, Laos
While nam khao (crispy rice salad) can also be found in Thailand, the bright and refreshing dish is thought to have originated in Vientiane, the Laos capital.
It's a balancing act of brilliant flavors, aromas and textures starring crispy deep-fried rice balls made with a base of red curry paste, coconut flakes and egg.
The fried rice is then crumbled up and mixed with sausage, tempura, peanuts, onion, chili and more, and served with fresh lettuce leaves.
Nasi lemak, Malaysia
For Asian food lovers, nasi lemak needs no introduction.
It's Malaysia's national dish for a good reason: this delicious spread tantalizes taste buds with a bed of coconut rice topped with salty anchovies, roasted peanuts, boiled eggs, cucumbers, and sambal served hot and steamy in a fragrant banana leaf.
Variations abound, with some vendors adding fried chicken or a side of curry, fish or fried eggs.
Pho, Vietnam
Few street foods can compete with the international fame of pho.
Roadside stalls and cafes serve up bowl after bowl of this hearty noodle soup, which is known for its aromatic and nuanced broth, springy rice noodles and tender protein (usually beef or chicken).
It's typically served alongside a selection of fresh garnishes, like herbs, bean sprouts, lime, chili sauce and chili slices so you can tailor the noodle soup to your liking.
Rojak, Malaysia/Indonesia/Singapore
Rojak (or rujak), which originated in Java, Indonesia, can be found all over Malaysia and Singapore, too.
The tangy and spicy salad embodies the Southeast Asian sunshine, bringing together a jumbled mix of fresh fruit like pineapple and mangoes, jicama (a root vegetable), bean sprouts, cucumbers, fried tofu, and other additions -- all tossed in a thick, sweet and spicy dressing (almost like the consistency of caramel or mole sauce) and a sprinkle of crushed peanuts.
Roti prata, Southeast Asia
It's always a good time for some roti prata.
Tracing its roots to India, this golden-brown, flaky flatbread is a staple in Singapore, Malaysia and many other countries in Southeast Asia.
Available in abundance at hawker centers, food courts, coffee shops and restaurants, ghee-flavored roti prata is perfect in its traditional iteration of plain or egg with fish or mutton curry, but can also serve as the canvas for dozens of creative and modern combinations -- think flatbread with fish or mutton curry, ham, egg, cheese, chocolate, bananas, ice cream or even durian.
Rou jia mo, China
Take a dense, chewy mo (bun), add a mountain of pork belly braised in soy sauce, rock sugar, herbs, plus a dozen or so spices (think cardamom, Sichuan peppercorns, cloves, bay leaf, and star anise), and you've got yourself a rou jia mo (also known as a Chinese hamburger).
It's said that the bread dates to the Qin dynasty followed by the meat in the Zhou dynasty, so this recipe has obviously stood the test of time.
Sai krok Isan, Thailand
Sai krok Isan -- short and plump pork sausage -- is one of the most commonly devoured street foods in northeastern Thailand.
Sour and garlicky, it's usually made from pork, sticky rice and garlic, then hung up to ferment and dry.
Herbs and spices vary from vendor to vendor, while condiments like ginger, chillies and cabbage typically round out the perfect bite.
Salt & pepper fried chicken, Taiwan
Taiwan's multitude of street foods are famous for their flavors and textures -- and salt and pepper fried chicken, also known as popcorn chicken, is a case in point.
Coated in sweet potato flour then double-fried to add crunch and lock in moisture, this street food is easy to eat while wandering through the island's famous night markets.
Sofuto kurimu, Japan
Smooth, creamy and available in a rainbow of flavors, Japanese sofuto kurimu (or soft cream, which is akin to soft serve) is in a league of its own.
Made with fresh cream and milk, sofuto kurimu has an impossibly silky texture that melts in your mouth. Try a classic chocolate and vanilla swirl, or try special regional flavors like charcoal, ube (purple sweet potato), matcha, red bean, melon, sesame, wasabi or even squid ink depending on the locale.
Stinky tofu, Taiwan
The pungent aroma that stinky tofu (chou dou fu) is known for comes from the fermentation process.
Essentially, vendors soak bean curd in brine, then let it ferment for hours, days, weeks or months at a time.
Once it's ready, street food hawkers stew, braise, steam, grill, or deep-fry the tofu then dress it up with tasty additions like pickled cabbage, chili sauce or garlic sauce.
Takoyaki, Japan
Springy, chewy, salty, juicy... there's much to love about Japan's famous takoyaki (octopus balls), which hail from Osaka.
To make takoyaki ("tako" means octopus and "yaki" means roast), vendors whip up the batter, pour it into a special iron and evenly disperse the fillings (diced octopus, spring onion, tempura flakes).
To ensure they cook evenly and form perfect spheres, cooks skillfully turn them over one by one with a bamboo skewer. Once ready, a drizzle of Japanese mayonnaise, takoyaki sauce, seaweed flakes and bonito (fish flakes) adds texture and flavor.
Tteokbokki, South Korea
The humble rice cake is a much-loved comfort food in South Korea -- and it's easy to see why.
Tteokbokki, meaning "stir-fried rice cakes," are incredibly versatile; the most famous variation stars spicy red chili paste and fish cakes, but rice cakes can also be prepared with a milder soy sauce-based dressing, with cheese, or in various soups and hot pots.
Vada pav, India
You can't go far in Mumbai without encountering the spiced aroma of a masala chai or the sound of a bubbling fryer.
For a surefire crowd-pleaser, it's hard to go wrong with vada pav -- deep-fried spiced potatoes with tamarind paste, chili pepper and various chutneys on a fluffy pav (or bun).
Xiao long bao, China
Nothing really compares to your very first xiao long bao (meaning "little basket buns").
One of the most delicious dishes on Earth, these tiny bite-sized soup dumplings are a Shanghainese specialty.
Each delicate, carefully folded parcel contains piping hot broth and a ball of ground pork.
Order at least a half-dozen more than you think you want -- they won't go uneaten -- and enjoy it with a dipping sauce made of vinegar, soy sauces and fresh ginger.
Yakitori, Japan
In Japan, you'll find no shortage of shichirin (small charcoal grills) sizzling up squid, fish, quail eggs and mushrooms, but one specialty stands out: yakitori, or grilled chicken ("yaki" meaning grilled or cooked over direct heat, "tori" meaning bird) skewers.
And we're not just talking about wings: typical menus typically include chicken thighs, breasts, kidneys, gizzards, skins, livers and hearts cooked slowly over binchotan (white charcoal), then sprinkled in salt or glazed with a soy-based sauce called "tare."
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Witness: Desperate R. Kelly offered $1M for return of video
CHICAGO (AP) — A former merchandizing agent for R. Kelly testified Tuesday that the singer offered him $1 million to find a VHS tape featuring Kelly as prosecutors sought persuade jurors that Kelly was desperate to recover the missing recording, knowing it could land him in legal peril if it fell into the hands of law enforcement.
Based in part on that recording, which prosecutors say shows the R&B star sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl, Kelly faces charges that include production of child pornography. He is also accused of fixing his 2008 state child pornography trial by threatening witnesses and endeavoring to conceal video evidence.
Charles Freeman testified Tuesday that Kelly reached out to him in 2001 to ask him to hunt down the recording. Freeman, a 52-year-old from Kansas City, also explained how he pressured Kelly and his associates for years to pay him the full $1 million after Freeman found and returned the tape.
Freeman told jurors he didn’t know the contents of the video until after he retrieved it from a home in Atlanta in 2001 and then slipped it into a VHS player at a friend’s home later that day.
“I observed Robert Kelly with a young lady having sex,” he said.
When a prosecutor asked Freeman, who testified Tuesday under an immunity agreement, why it took him nearly two decades to turn the recording over to police that and other recordings of child phonography tied to Kelly, Freeman responded: “Because the police wasn’t going to pay me a million dollars.”
Kelly, 55, is already serving a 30-year prison sentence imposed by a federal judge in New York in June for his 2021 convictions on racketeering and sex trafficking charges. If convicted in Chicago, he could see years added to that sentence.
At his 2008 trial, at which Kelly was ultimately acquitted, state prosecutors described Kelly lugging a duffel bag full of his homemade child pornography tapes everywhere he went. Despite Kelly’s efforts in the 1990s to keep them close, some leaked out or were stolen by disgruntled workers or friends, prosecutors said.
After acquitting Kelly in 2008, some jurors told reporters they had no choice but to find Kelly not guilty because the girl — who then was in her 20s — did not take the witness stand to confirm it was her in the video. Last week, she did testify at the federal trail in Chicago, saying she was the minor in the video and Kelly was the adult man.
But actually getting the $1 million Freeman said he was promised by Kelly became an all-consuming task that lasted years, he told jurors.
Soon after Freeman found the video, he met with two Kelly associates in 2001 at a Kansas City hotel expecting to receive the full payment, Freeman testified. When he walked into a room and saw two brown bags full of cash, he told jurors he knew right away it wasn’t enough.
“That ain’t no million dollars,” he recalled telling Kelly’s people.
Freeman said he ended up leaving with one paper bag stuffed with $75,000 in cash after being assured he’d eventually get the full $1 million. Even after turning over the tape and getting partial payment, Freeman retained enormous leverage over Kelly, including the possibility that he could go public with what he knew.
Freeman described himself stalking Kelly at concerts to demand he pay the balance of the $1 million, threatening to go public with what he knew and filing lawsuits to squeeze Kelly to pay. He said each threat and lawsuit typically led to Kelly associates throwing more money at Freeman, sometimes literally.
Another time at R. Kelly’s suburban Chicago home, Freeman said a Kelly associate and now co-defendant at the ongoing trial, Derrel McDavid, told Freeman to take off all his clothes and get into Kelly’s swimming pool so he could be sure Freeman wasn’t wearing a recording device for law enforcement.
“I ain’t getting in no pool naked,” Freeman recalled telling McDavid. Freeman said he eventually did take off his shirt to show he wasn’t wearing a wire.
Later, as he pulled out of a parking lot, McDavid gave Freeman another installment, tossing a brown bag with $100,000 in ten bundles of $10,000 through Freeman’s open car window.
McDavid and another Kelly associate, Milton Brown, are on trial with Kelly. McDavid is accused of helping Kelly fix the 2008 trial, while Brown is charged with receiving child pornography. Like Kelly, they also have denied wrongdoing.
Freeman testified that in late 2003 or early 2004, McDavid approached him again about recovering yet another tape that had gone missing from Kelly’s collection. He said he told McDavid, “If I gotta recover another tape, you gotta pay me another million dollars.”
Freeman is expected to take the stand again Wednesday, when defense attorneys will have their chance to cross-examine him.
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CHEYENNE – Brenda Lyttle of Cheyenne has announced that she will be running as an independent candidate for the House District 8 seat in the Wyoming Legislature.
Lyttle has gathered the required number of signatures from registered voters in HD 8 and has received confirmation of her candidacy from the Wyoming Secretary of State’s office. She will be on the Nov. 8 general election ballot.
“I met many wonderful people in House District 8 as I gathered signatures for my petition to run for office. Thank you to all the voters who shared their knowledge, kindness and signed my election petition," she said in a statement. "I look forward to representing those voters and all the residents of House District 8 as a member of the Wyoming Legislature.”
Lyttle will be running as an independent candidate, which means she will not be affiliated with either the Republican or Democratic party.
“I chose to run as an independent in a highly Republican district because I was disheartened by the stance of the Wyoming Republican Party," she said. "I also see labels being placed upon members of both parties, and I wanted to avoid being labeled. Running as an independent is right for me, and I believe it is right for many voters.”
She stated the issues of education funding and Medicaid expansion led her to running for office.
"I have been an LCCC trustee for 16 years. My husband is a former superintendent of schools for Laramie County School District 1. My two daughters and two stepchildren attended and graduated from the excellent schools in LCSD1. I have seen the magic that education can bring and how education can build a future for our Wyoming families. I feel strongly that our education system is a gem of this state, and we need to treat it that way.”
Lyttle stated she is also a strong supporter of Medicaid expansion because of her practice in debt relief. She said she talks to many people who are in financial crisis, and more than half of those are because of medical bills.
She said many don't have insurance through their work or cannot afford insurance on their own.
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Lyttle has developed a platform on these and other issues that can be found on her website, brendalyttle.com.
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CHEYENNE – Six more Wyoming residents have died from the COVID-19 coronavirus, bringing the state’s pandemic death toll to 1,877. Two of them were from Laramie County.
The Wyoming Department of Health reported Tuesday that four of the newly reported deaths happened earlier this month, while two were in July. They included:
An older adult Laramie County man died last month. He was not hospitalized and had health conditions known to put patients at higher risk of severe illness.
An adult Laramie County woman died earlier this month. She was hospitalized and was not known to have health conditions known to put patients at higher risk of severe illness.
An older adult Campbell County man died earlier this month. He was hospitalized and had health conditions known to put patients at higher risk of severe illness.
An older adult Carbon County woman died earlier this month. She was not hospitalized and had health conditions known to put patients at higher risk of severe illness.
An older adult Fremont County woman died earlier this month. She was not hospitalized and had health conditions known to put patients at higher risk of severe illness.
An adult Natrona County man died last month. He was not hospitalized and had health conditions known to put patients at higher risk of severe illness.
A total of 304 Laramie County residents have died during the coronavirus pandemic, which has claimed more than 1 million lives nationwide. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/local_news/6-more-wyoming-residents-succumb-to-covid-19-2-from-laramie-county/article_f3bc4d42-232b-11ed-979c-136d35f51f1d.html | 2022-08-24T00:23:21Z |
CHEYENNE – Caitlin Garcia was named Cheyenne Frontier Days Lady-In-Waiting 2023 after a selection process including submitting a written application, an accomplishment book, a horsemanship skills demonstration and an interview.
She is the daughter of Cesar and Denise Garcia. She is a 2017 graduate of Cheyenne's Central High School. After high school, she was a full-time student at Laramie County Community College, where she achieved her associates degrees in animal science, equine science and equine training. Currently, she is attending the University of Wyoming, where she is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in animal and veterinary sciences.
Garcia's first time in the CFD Arena was at the age of 8, competing in junior barrel racing. She represented CFD across Wyoming and surrounding states for five years as a Dandy. The accomplishments she is most proud of include: Reserve National Champion Veterinary Science Team, Top 20 National Veterinary Science Individual, and multiple local, regional and national wins showing horses in versatility ranch horse competitions and horsemanship.
“It is a true honor to be selected as the 2023 lady-in-waiting! I am beyond grateful for the opportunity to represent Cheyenne Frontier Days rodeo and the western way of life," Garcia said in a news release. "To become my own childhood hero is an indescribable feeling! To know I have been chosen to represent the 3,000+ volunteers who are Cheyenne Frontier Days and continue the legacy of Cheyenne Frontier Days royalty is truly humbling. I hope to make each person proud and fill the boots of those who rode before me."
She will work with Miss Frontier Jordan Johnson in 2023 to represent Cheyenne Frontier Days. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/local_news/cfd-general-committee-names-caitlin-garcia-2023-lady-in-waiting/article_48428a0c-2304-11ed-a2de-c3b487781b7a.html | 2022-08-24T00:23:27Z |
CASPER – A week after one of the most discussed elections in Wyoming’s history, a panel of lawmakers will consider changes to the state’s voting system.
The Legislature’s Joint Corporations, Elections and Political Subdivisions Committee will discuss a ranked-choice voting system and whether to implement special elections if one of the state’s top elected officials departs.
The committee will also consider two other important issues in Wyoming: housing and liquor licenses. The meeting, which is open to the public and will be streamed online, will take place in Casper on Thursday and Friday.
Election reform
As has become the norm over the last couple of years, the Corporations Committee will consider election reform legislation. That includes implementing a ranked-choice voting system similar to the one used last week in Alaska’s primary.
Ranked-choice usually work like this: The number of votes a candidate gets are determined by how many residents rank the candidate in the top spot. If no one candidate gets more than 50% of the vote, it will trigger the lowest vote-getter to be cut.
Then, on every ballot that had the lowest vote-getter ranked first, the No. 2 candidate will move into the No. 1 spot and earns more votes. This process continues until one candidate achieves a majority.
As the bill is currently written, it would permit voters to rank any candidate “without regard to political party affiliation.”
In other words, a voter could rank a Republican first and a Democrat second and not be bound by party.
But the current bill draft will likely be workshopped extensively, said Sen. Cale Case, R-Lander, and Rep. Dan Zwonitzer, R-Cheyenne.
For example, it’s possible that a ranked-choice system could exist within partisan primaries, so voters would only be able to rank Democrats or Republicans, depending on their registration.
Ranked-choice opponents often point to the recent New York City mayoral race as an example of why Wyoming should not implement it – getting the results took days, as opposed to hours.
“I think [favorability for] ranked choice has dimmed a little bit,” Case said.
The committee will also be reviewing a bill that would trigger a special election if there’s a vacancy in some of the state’s elected offices.
As it stands, the state Republican or Democratic central committee (depending on the politician being replaced) is responsible for nominating three candidates. The governor then picks one of those three.
Case suspects the state GOP will lobby against this bill.
“They’ll come down with steel-toed boots,” he said.
In recent years, the state party and a large portion of its central committee has become increasingly hard-line and MAGA-minded, putting the group at odds with more traditional, big tent Republicans.
The central committee passed over Megan Degenfelder when choosing nominees for schools superintendent earlier this year, although she had administrative experience in the Wyoming Department of Education.
Instead, the group nominated three far-right candidates, including the eventual appointee, Brian Schroeder. Voters, however, picked Degenfelder in last week’s primary.
Sen. John Barrasso, who has since been reelected, also first assumed office through the nomination process.
Housing
As Wyoming grapples with housing shortages and rising prices, the committee will begin to look at remedies. The committee does not have any bill drafts slated on housing, but the group will review some memos from the Legislative Service Office, including one on housing trust funds.
Housing trust funds are earmarked pools of money for addressing community housing needs, which could include anything from affordable housing developments to home restoration projects.
Wyoming only has one such trust fund – located in Jackson. It is one of three states that does not have a state-run trust fund.
Zwonitzer said that the committee will mainly be asking questions about housing and listening to stakeholders.
“What is the government’s role? Can we be doing anything, and should we be doing anything?” Zwonitzer asked. “A lot of people want action on cheap housing and affordable housing.”
The Legislative Service Office, however, wrote that there may be some constitutional barriers to implementing a state-funded housing trust. The Wyoming Constitution currently has “prohibitions against the State or its political subdivisions loaning or giving credit or making donations to people or entities in certain situations, as well as a prohibition against legislative appropriations for charitable or industrial purposes unless the recipient is under the control of the State,” the LSO wrote.
Constitutional amendments are notoriously hard to pass in Wyoming.
“I’m always skeptical of the government getting involved in markets that, by and large, work pretty darn well,” said Case, who’s a libertarian-leaning Republican and an economist.
Liquor licenses
The committee will tackle the liquor license landscape in Wyoming this week, as well. The focus of the liquor license discussion will likely center around “tavern and entertainment liquor licenses.”
As it stands, venues that serve food and liquor must make at least 60% of the revenue off of food to satisfy the requirements of the liquor license.
The proposed bill would allow venues that don’t serve food – like arcades, for one – to serve alcohol while still collecting 60% of their revenue from the “entertainment” and no more than 40% from alcohol.
“Whether that 40% is the right number, I’m not sure,” Zwonitzer said.
Zwonitzer said he has concerns – and believes others do, as well – over how broad the term “entertainment” could be construed. He expects the committee to try to define it in statute.
One of the main pushes behind this bill was the advent of indoor sport simulation venues, like the SandTrap in Casper, where patrons can go play virtual golf.
“What if the other part of our business is not food? What if the other part of our business is video games?” Case explained.
If the tavern and entertainment bill passed, it would join a long list of different types of liquor licenses in the state covering everything from golf courses to airports.
“We just keep marching toward liquor freedom,” Zwonitzer said. “Every session, we have another [liquor license bill]. It never ends.” | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/local_news/committee-to-address-liquor-laws-election-reform/article_c826923c-233a-11ed-ae88-138d51085f6d.html | 2022-08-24T00:23:33Z |
Anne Heche laid to rest at historic Hollywood cemetery
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Anne Heche has been laid to rest at a storied Los Angeles cemetery alongside many Hollywood luminaries, her family said Tuesday.
Heche was cremated and her ashes were placed in a mausoleum at Hollywood Forever Cemetery nearly two weeks after she was declared dead at a hospital from injuries suffered in a fiery car crash.
In a statement to The Associated Press, Heche’s son Homer Laffoon said he and her other son Atlas Tupper “are convinced our Mom would love the site we have chosen for her; it’s beautiful, serene and she will be among her Hollywood peers.”
The cemetery has in recent years become a cultural hub for film screenings, musical performances and festivals.
Laffoon went to see the band My Morning Jacket there after his mother’s death, with tickets bought before she died. He loved the vibrancy of the location, and took it as a sign that her grave should be there.
“Hollywood Forever is a living place,” Laffoon’s statement said.
A small private memorial will be held once Heche’s headstone is etched.
“She was our Mom, but the kindness and the outpouring of the past few days reminded us that she also belongs to her fans, to the entertainment community, and now, to the ages,” the statement said.
Founded in 1899 and located near the Paramount Pictures lot, the cemetery is home to the graves and tombs of actors including Judy Garland and Douglas Fairbanks, and of musicians including Chris Cornell and Johnny Ramone.
Heche’s spot in the mausoleum in the cemetery’s Garden of Legends is near that of Mickey Rooney, and faces a lake where Burt Reynolds’ remains were recently relocated.
Heche, 53, was among the biggest film stars of the late 1990s, starring opposite actors including Johnny Depp and Harrison Ford, and had worked consistently in movies and television for more than three decades. But personal turmoil, which she described in a memoir and interviews, often followed her.
On Aug. 5, her car jumped a curb and smashed into a West Los Angeles home. Both the car and the home burst into flames. She was declared brain dead on Aug. 11, and was kept alive on life support for three more days so her organs could be donated.
Her death was ruled an accident, and the cause were inhalation injuries and burns, according to the Los Angeles County coroner.
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‘I have a lot of emotions’: Mother speaks out after son killed in hit-and-run crash
LAS VEGAS (KVVU/Gray News) - Nearly two weeks after losing her son in a deadly hit-and-run crash, a mother is speaking out.
Tyteauna Smith is remembering her son, Jamall Anderson, but also talking about the changes she wants to see in her neighborhood after the tragic crash.
Las Vegas police said the incident happened on Aug. 13 at about 5:20 p.m. when they were called about a collision involving a vehicle and a bicyclist.
KVVU reports a juvenile on his bike entered the path of a U-Haul box heading towards an exit at an apartment complex. The juvenile fell to the ground and was run over by the truck.
Authorities said the driver of the U-Haul truck, later identified as 21-year-old Michael Burdick, checked on the bicyclist but then left the scene.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department was able to locate Burdick and arrest him on hit-and-run charges.
Smith said the family had recently moved to Las Vegas from California. A memorial with “slow down” signs, candles, balloons and toys is now at the spot where her Jamall was killed.
“I have a lot of emotions because I just lost my mama five months ago and now I lost my baby. I lost my heart and now I lost my soul,” Smith said.
She shared a poster with Jamall’s photo and an outfit of his.
“This was the outfit he was supposed to wear that night, his pajamas. I never got to put it on my baby,” she said.
Smith said a neighbor who lives at the apartment complex called 911. She also shared that the U-Haul driver was spotted earlier, narrowly missing a different child hours before the crash.
“They need to put more slow down signs where children play. The office is just not doing enough,” Smith said.
Jamall’s mother said her son loved basketball and football and his favorite meal was McDonald’s.
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Record-setting wildfire in New Mexico declared contained
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — More than four grueling months and $300 million later, the federal government has declared the largest wildfire in New Mexico’s recorded history 100% contained, a notable milestone but just another step in what local residents and officials say will be a long journey toward recovery.
The blaze was sparked in the spring by two errant prescribed fires conducted by the U.S. Forest Service. More than 530 square miles (1,373 square kilometers) of the Rocky Mountain foothills burned, hundreds of homes were destroyed, livelihoods were lost and drinking water supplies were contaminated.
Local officials say there are years of work ahead of them to restore the landscape and protect against post-fire flooding.
San Miguel County Manager Joy Ansley and her team have been working nonstop since the first plumes of smoke began rising from the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. They helped coordinate the evacuation of thousands of people from small mountain villages and worked with the state and the city of Las Vegas as flames approached.
With the summer rainy season in full swing, Ansley said parts of northern New Mexico are flooding on a weekly basis.
“It’s going to be a long process and just because the fire is contained, we’re certainly not out of the woods,” she said Tuesday.
In addition to costs related to fighting the fire, federal emergency managers have paid out more than $4.5 million in aid to affected individuals and households and $6.7 million in low-interest loans for smalls businesses.
While more than 1,200 applications for individual assistance have been vetted, the Federal Emergency Management Agency would not say how many total applications have been received or denied.
Some residents have voiced frustrations about denials over a lack of having a street address for their rural properties. Others have complained that federal officials don’t understand rural life in northern New Mexico and how fallout from the fire has affected them.
New Mexico’s major disaster declaration has been expanded to include flooding, mudflows and debris flows directly related to the wildfires. Dasha Castillo, a spokesperson for FEMA, said residents who already applied for wildfire disaster assistance just need to update their original application to include flooding or other damage.
Castillo encouraged people to contact FEMA if they applied and haven’t heard back.
Legislation is pending in Congress that would authorize full compensation for New Mexico residents and business owners for losses caused by the massive wildfire, but there’s uncertainty about the ultimate price tag.
The scar left behind by the wildfire includes some areas that were reduced to ash and others where the severity was less intense. More than 400 firefighters are still assigned to the blaze and have been busy repairing hundreds of miles of fire lines cut to corral the flames, digging trenches to control erosion and removing fallen trees and other debris.
The U.S. Forest Service said helicopters will distribute about 138 tons (125 metric tonnes) of seed and 5,440 tons (4,935 metric tonnes) of mulch. So far, about 4 square miles (10 square kilometers) have been seeded.
No hot spots have been reported for more than a month, but given the history of how the blaze started officials wanted to be confident when declaring containment, said Stefan La-Sky, a fire information officer with the U.S. Forest Service.
“We don’t take that number lightly,” he said of the designation.
New Mexico marked an early start to what has been a devastating wildfire season across the U.S. with a deadly fire in Ruidoso and then the blaze near Las Vegas.
In all, federal fire officials report more than 9,372 square miles (24,273 square kilometers) have burned since the start of the year to outpace the 10-year average, and predictions for more warm, dry weather mean some areas will see above-normal wildfire activity into the fall.
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Witness: Desperate R. Kelly offered $1M for return of video
CHICAGO (AP) — A former merchandizing agent for R. Kelly testified Tuesday that the singer offered him $1 million to find a VHS tape featuring Kelly as prosecutors sought persuade jurors that Kelly was desperate to recover the missing recording, knowing it could land him in legal peril if it fell into the hands of law enforcement.
Based in part on that recording, which prosecutors say shows the R&B star sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl, Kelly faces charges that include production of child pornography. He is also accused of fixing his 2008 state child pornography trial by threatening witnesses and endeavoring to conceal video evidence.
Charles Freeman testified Tuesday that Kelly reached out to him in 2001 to ask him to hunt down the recording. Freeman, a 52-year-old from Kansas City, also explained how he pressured Kelly and his associates for years to pay him the full $1 million after Freeman found and returned the tape.
Freeman told jurors he didn’t know the contents of the video until after he retrieved it from a home in Atlanta in 2001 and then slipped it into a VHS player at a friend’s home later that day.
“I observed Robert Kelly with a young lady having sex,” he said.
When a prosecutor asked Freeman, who testified Tuesday under an immunity agreement, why it took him nearly two decades to turn the recording over to police that and other recordings of child phonography tied to Kelly, Freeman responded: “Because the police wasn’t going to pay me a million dollars.”
Kelly, 55, is already serving a 30-year prison sentence imposed by a federal judge in New York in June for his 2021 convictions on racketeering and sex trafficking charges. If convicted in Chicago, he could see years added to that sentence.
At his 2008 trial, at which Kelly was ultimately acquitted, state prosecutors described Kelly lugging a duffel bag full of his homemade child pornography tapes everywhere he went. Despite Kelly’s efforts in the 1990s to keep them close, some leaked out or were stolen by disgruntled workers or friends, prosecutors said.
After acquitting Kelly in 2008, some jurors told reporters they had no choice but to find Kelly not guilty because the girl — who then was in her 20s — did not take the witness stand to confirm it was her in the video. Last week, she did testify at the federal trail in Chicago, saying she was the minor in the video and Kelly was the adult man.
But actually getting the $1 million Freeman said he was promised by Kelly became an all-consuming task that lasted years, he told jurors.
Soon after Freeman found the video, he met with two Kelly associates in 2001 at a Kansas City hotel expecting to receive the full payment, Freeman testified. When he walked into a room and saw two brown bags full of cash, he told jurors he knew right away it wasn’t enough.
“That ain’t no million dollars,” he recalled telling Kelly’s people.
Freeman said he ended up leaving with one paper bag stuffed with $75,000 in cash after being assured he’d eventually get the full $1 million. Even after turning over the tape and getting partial payment, Freeman retained enormous leverage over Kelly, including the possibility that he could go public with what he knew.
Freeman described himself stalking Kelly at concerts to demand he pay the balance of the $1 million, threatening to go public with what he knew and filing lawsuits to squeeze Kelly to pay. He said each threat and lawsuit typically led to Kelly associates throwing more money at Freeman, sometimes literally.
Another time at R. Kelly’s suburban Chicago home, Freeman said a Kelly associate and now co-defendant at the ongoing trial, Derrel McDavid, told Freeman to take off all his clothes and get into Kelly’s swimming pool so he could be sure Freeman wasn’t wearing a recording device for law enforcement.
“I ain’t getting in no pool naked,” Freeman recalled telling McDavid. Freeman said he eventually did take off his shirt to show he wasn’t wearing a wire.
Later, as he pulled out of a parking lot, McDavid gave Freeman another installment, tossing a brown bag with $100,000 in ten bundles of $10,000 through Freeman’s open car window.
McDavid and another Kelly associate, Milton Brown, are on trial with Kelly. McDavid is accused of helping Kelly fix the 2008 trial, while Brown is charged with receiving child pornography. Like Kelly, they also have denied wrongdoing.
Freeman testified that in late 2003 or early 2004, McDavid approached him again about recovering yet another tape that had gone missing from Kelly’s collection. He said he told McDavid, “If I gotta recover another tape, you gotta pay me another million dollars.”
Freeman is expected to take the stand again Wednesday, when defense attorneys will have their chance to cross-examine him.
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61-year-old mail carrier attacked by dogs dies from injuries in hospital
INTERLACHEN, Fla. (WCJB/Gray News) – A postal worker died in the hospital after she was attacked by several dogs, according to authorities.
The Putnam County Sheriff’s Department said the unidentified 61-year-old woman was attacked by the dogs on Aug. 21 in Interlachen, Florida, after her vehicle broke down.
Responding deputies said they found the woman on the ground with severe bleeding. Five dogs were located inside a fence at a nearby home.
Deputies said they were told by witnesses that the woman screamed for help. When the witnesses went outside, they saw the woman on the ground while being attacked by the dogs.
The witnesses reportedly tried to help the woman by pulling the dogs off, with one neighbor shooting a rifle into the ground to try to scare the animals off.
The deputies at the scene said they applied first aid to the victim until rescue units arrived. The woman was then taken to a nearby hospital before being airlifted to a trauma center in Gainesville where she was listed in critical condition.
Animal Control officers later arrived at the scene and took the five dogs into custody.
WCJB reports the woman died overnight while she was in the hospital.
Bonnie Mccomiskey, who lives near the area where the attack occurred, told WCJB that the same dogs had attacked her daughter’s vehicle before this incident.
“I called the sheriff’s department. They knew there were some aggressive dogs out there. They sent somebody out, and the dogs remain there,” Bonnie Mccomiskey said.
Her other daughter, Chelsea Mccomiskey, said she also had a scare from the dogs in 2021.
“I don’t really mind animals, but he was coming closer, barking, growling and running after us,” Chelsea Mccomiskey said. “If it weren’t for my sister and me that we ran into the woods, we would’ve gotten torn up.”
The sheriff’s department said dog owners should do their best to keep their pets in a secured area.
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61-year-old mail carrier attacked by dogs dies from injuries in hospital
INTERLACHEN, Fla. (WCJB/Gray News) – A postal worker died in the hospital after she was attacked by several dogs, according to authorities.
The Putnam County Sheriff’s Department said the unidentified 61-year-old woman was attacked by the dogs on Aug. 21 in Interlachen, Florida, after her vehicle broke down.
Responding deputies said they found the woman on the ground with severe bleeding. Five dogs were located inside a fence at a nearby home.
Deputies said they were told by witnesses that the woman screamed for help. When the witnesses went outside, they saw the woman on the ground while being attacked by the dogs.
The witnesses reportedly tried to help the woman by pulling the dogs off, with one neighbor shooting a rifle into the ground to try to scare the animals off.
The deputies at the scene said they applied first aid to the victim until rescue units arrived. The woman was then taken to a nearby hospital before being airlifted to a trauma center in Gainesville where she was listed in critical condition.
Animal Control officers later arrived at the scene and took the five dogs into custody.
WCJB reports the woman died overnight while she was in the hospital.
Bonnie Mccomiskey, who lives near the area where the attack occurred, told WCJB that the same dogs had attacked her daughter’s vehicle before this incident.
“I called the sheriff’s department. They knew there were some aggressive dogs out there. They sent somebody out, and the dogs remain there,” Bonnie Mccomiskey said.
Her other daughter, Chelsea Mccomiskey, said she also had a scare from the dogs in 2021.
“I don’t really mind animals, but he was coming closer, barking, growling and running after us,” Chelsea Mccomiskey said. “If it weren’t for my sister and me that we ran into the woods, we would’ve gotten torn up.”
The sheriff’s department said dog owners should do their best to keep their pets in a secured area.
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Multiple injuries in Rockingham Co. crash
Published: Aug. 23, 2022 at 9:22 PM EDT|Updated: 14 minutes ago
ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, Va. (WHSV) - Virginia State Police are investigating a crash which left multiple people injured on Tuesday night.
According to a VSP spokesperson, the crash involved one vehicle.
Several first responders and at least two medical helicopters responded to the area of Orebaugh Road in Timberville just after 7 p.m.
Police have yet to confirm the severity of injuries, who was involved or what led to the crash.
This is a developing story. Stay with WHSV News for updates.
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Snoop Dogg releases new children’s animated series on YouTube
(CNN) - Snoop Dogg is entering the world of children’s programming with a new animated kids’ series.
“Doggyland - Kids Songs & Nursery Rhymes” launched on YouTube and YouTube Kids.
Snoop Dogg partnered with Claude Brooks, the Emmy-nominated producer and creator of the children’s franchise “Hip Hop Harry,” and singer/songwriter October London on the project.
The series features a colorful cast of dogs who use song, dance and rap to help teach social, emotional and cognitive skills aimed at toddlers to 8-year-old kids.
The rapper voices the main character, Bow Wizzle, who is the adult mentor to the rest of the cast.
Snoop Dogg said as a father, grandfather and longtime youth football coach, it’s always been important to him to build positive and educational environments for all children.
New episodes are planned to be released every Tuesday.
The series also has an accompanying album available on all streaming platforms.
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The Acer Chromebook Vero 514 features a chassis made with 30% PCR plastic and 90% recycled paper packaging
Editor's Summary
- The Acer Chromebook Vero 514 builds on Acer's Earthion mission and embraces the spirit of sustainability that leverages recycled and recyclable materials, packaging mostly made from recycled paper, and supports easier upgrades, repairs and recycling
- Delivers first-rate performance powered by the latest 12th Gen Intel® Core™ processors and features a 14-inch Full HD touchscreen display with 100% sRGB color range and 300 nits brightness
- Durable MIL-STD 810H design and 10-hour battery supporting fast-charging
- Acer Chromebook Enterprise Vero 514 is available with the business capabilities of ChromeOS unlocked
TAIPEI, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Acer unveiled today the new Acer Chromebook Vero 514 – the first Chromebook in its line of eco-conscious Vero devices that reflects the company's commitment to sustainability by offering consumers and commercial customers more options that allow them to reduce their ecological footprint. The new Acer Chromebook Vero 514 (CBV514-1H/T) features a thoughtful design that takes the entire product lifespan into consideration, since it is easy to upgrade, repair, disassemble and recycle. It also uses recycled materials in most areas of the product including 30% post-consumer recycled (PCR) plastic in the chassis and 50% PCR plastic in the keycaps, 100% ocean-bound plastics on the touchpad surface and 90% recycled paper packaging.
"The simplicity, security and speed of Chromebooks are the ideal complements to our Vero line's focus on delivering powerful devices that keep an eye on the environment," said James Lin, General Manager, Notebooks, IT Products Business, Acer Inc. "The new Acer Chromebook Vero 514 is the next step in embodying our Earthion mission by developing eco-friendlier products that have a positive ecological impact on our customers' businesses, homes and schools."
Reduce, Reuse and Recycle
The new Acer Chromebook Vero 514 broadly integrates the use of PCR plastic with 30% in its chassis and screen bezel, and 50% in the keycaps and speakers. In addition, the Chromebook contributes to the reduction of plastic waste in the ocean as it uses ocean-bound plastics in its internal fan housing and on its OceanGlass™ touchpad, which provides a sleek, glass-like texture and responsive tactile feeling.
The new Chromebook was especially designed for an extended product lifespan to minimize environmental impact. Making repairs and upgrades to the memory and storage are now simplified with the use of standard screws on the bottom cover. The unique exterior features a paint-free chassis with a cobblestone gray finish and a display panel which is 99% recyclable. The Acer Chromebook Vero 514 has a life-extending impact-resistant exterior that meets MIL-STD 810H[1] testing standards, a reinforced design that protects it from drops as high as 122 cm (48 inches).
Acer Chromebook Vero 514 Delivers Strong Performance
Powered by the latest 12th Gen Intel® Core™ processors and featuring Intel® Iris® Xe graphics[2], the Acer Chromebook Vero 514 tackles collaboration, productivity and entertainment needs. The fast-charging battery keeps customers powered longer throughout the day as the Chromebook can charge up to 50% of its 10-hour battery life[3] in just 30 minutes.
The 14-inch full HD anti-glare Corning Gorilla Glass display – available on the touchscreen option – boasts 300 nits brightness and a wide 100% sRGB color range, providing a more vibrant and compelling viewing experience. The Acer Chromebook Vero 514 sports a thin bezel design that delivers an impressive 88% screen-to-body ratio. The full HD flare-reducing webcam and DTS audio with Smart Amplifier provides high-quality video conferencing on the new Chromebook.
Designed for creating and connecting, the Acer Chromebook Vero 514 features fast and reliable Wi-Fi 6E and connects to a range of devices and displays. It also provides charging capabilities through its port selection, including two USB Type-C, USB 3.2 Type-A and HDMI.
Acer Chromebook Enterprise Vero 514
The Acer Chromebook Enterprise Vero 514 equips enterprise users with various ChromeOS business capabilities, empowering employees at green-minded organizations, call centers, healthcare organizations and other businesses with greater operating efficiency and productivity. The Chromebook Enterprise Vero 514 ships with the business capabilities of ChromeOS unlocked, including advanced security, reporting and insights, scalable cloud-based management and zero-touch enrollment.
Recyclable Packaging Further Reduces Environmental Impact
The packaging uses recyclable material to help minimize environmental waste. The box is made from 90% recycled paper, while the notebook bag and keyboard sheet are made from 100% recycled plastic. The adapter sleeve is made from paper, instead of using the traditional plastic bag. Once the Chromebook is set up for use, the device's inner packaging can be transformed into a multi-purpose triangular laptop stand or be used for other household or office functions[4].
Full line of Eco-Minded Acer Vero products
The new Acer Chromebook Vero 514 is the latest addition to Acer's Vero line which includes Aspire Vero laptops, Veriton Vero All-In-One, Vero monitors, Vero projector, and Vero branded accessories, including a mouse and keyboard.
Acer Earthion
The Vero lineup of products was initiated under the Earthion initiative, Acer's mission to leverage its strengths, supply chain partners, customers and employees to develop innovative and integrated solutions to help tackle environmental issues for a more sustainable future. Earthion's objectives include Acer's RE100 commitment to source 100% renewable energy by 2035, more eco-friendly product designs, and the reduction of Acer's supply chain carbon footprint.
Pricing and Availability
The Acer Chromebook Vero 514 (CBV514-1H/T) laptop will be available in the United States in October, starting at USD 499.99; in EMEA in November starting at EUR 599.
Exact specifications, prices, and availability will vary by region. To learn more about availability, product specifications and prices in specific markets, please contact your nearest Acer office via www.acer.com.
About Acer
Founded in 1976, Acer is one of the world's top ICT companies with a presence in more than 160 countries. As Acer evolves with the industry and changing lifestyles, it is focused on enabling a world where hardware, software and services will fuse with one another, creating ecosystems and opening up new possibilities for consumers and businesses alike. Acer's 7,500 employees are dedicated to the research, design, marketing, sale, and support of products and solutions that break barriers between people and technology.
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- Acer calls on more partners and suppliers to join its Earthion mission and amplify the positive impacts on the environment
- Acer extends CDP Supply Chain [1] to three tiers of suppliers
- Innovations in smart city solutions to help lower carbon footprint and promote sustainable living
- Expanding the program to form daily green habits with the Acer 21-Day Challenge
- Acer Chromebook Vero 514 is the latest addition to the Vero line of eco-conscious devices that includes laptops, desktops, monitors, projectors, accessories
TAIPEI, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As environmental issues are becoming increasingly pressing, Acer is urging more partners and suppliers to join forces in reducing harmful impacts to the environment and save valuable resources by transitioning toward a circular economy. With the growing number of natural disasters around the world triggered by climate change, constructive and collective action is needed to address the pressing issues.
Concerted actions are necessary as they can greatly amplify the positive impacts made to the environment. According to the Thomson Reuters Foundation[2], efforts in climate and nature issues in 2022 will need to be redoubled to slash carbon pollution accumulated from this decade, in a bid to maintain the 1.5 degrees Celsius warming ceiling and minimize the harmful impact of climate-change to the planet and its inhabitants. Understanding the urgency of the matter, Acer calls for more businesses to join the green movement and shares the progress of its environmental sustainability efforts, accomplished together with its partners, suppliers, and Acer employees on Acer Green Day with the hopes of inspiring others to do their part for the Earth.
Acer began incorporating sustainability practices in its operations more than a decade ago. Since 2008, the company has introduced the CDP Supply Chain for carbon disclosure reporting to pinpoint risks and identify opportunities across its supply chain, and extended coverage to three tiers of suppliers beginning this year. In 2013, Acer began to significantly increase the recycled content of its notebook PC packaging. In 2017, Acer launched Project Humanity to unite all employees worldwide in creating a sustainability framework for eco-friendly initiatives and instill a green philosophy within the company culture, with over 70% employees worldwide taking part[3].
With a commitment to environmental, social, and governance (ESG), Acer launched the Earthion program in 2021 and began working closely with suppliers and partners to bring eco-friendly initiatives into its supply chain ecosystem, with its primary focus on energy, product design, packaging design, production, logistics, and recycling. From product design to manufacturing, Acer is well aware of the environmental impacts behind these processes. The driving force behind Earthion is each member's belief that its mutual collaboration can effectively create a positive impact on the environment.
As a manifestation of such efforts, Acer's Vero line of eco-conscious devices was launched in 2021 to offer consumers greener options. Vero products intend to incorporate eco-friendly and recycled materials and are designed to extend their lifespans to reduce material consumption and reduce overall waste.
Responsible Manufacturing and Logistics Systems
To combat the impact of manufacturing processes on the environment, Acer has stepped up its collaboration with partners Compal and Quanta to enhance their waste management systems. From reducing the use of plastic bags in the production line, to incorporating changes toward sustainability to suppliers' manufacturing system, Acer is working together with its partners and suppliers to create more responsible manufacturing and logistics processes.
The elimination of excess security tape used in the pallet packing process was one of the changes made to help reduce unrecyclable waste in its logistics system. After careful assessment and testing to verify package security levels, Acer was able to remove unnecessary security tapes from its monitor shipments, which is expected to save about 5,500 km of tape in 2023, approximately the distance from London to New York.
Developing a carbon accounting system for Acer's transportation activities was another critical step taken toward its green policy, especially as the freight transportation and logistics industries contribute to nearly 10%[4] of global greenhouse gas emissions. The system provides a unified approach to measure and report Acer's greenhouse gas emissions from transportation and will eventually be implemented worldwide.
Vero Line of Eco-Conscious Devices
Acer launched the Vero line beginning with the Aspire Vero laptop, it's first "green" focused laptop built with 30% post-consumer recycled (PCR) plastic in the chassis and 50% PCR plastic in the keyboard caps to reduce pollution from the production of virgin plastic and waste. The device was also designed to simplify the process of repairs or upgrades to extend their lifespan, without compromising computing performance and quality.
Today's announcement of the Acer Chromebook Vero 514 marks the newest addition to the Vero portfolio, which has expanded to include commercial laptops, monitors, projectors, desktops, accessories, and more, pushing the envelope of the adoption of recycled materials in its product portfolio.
The Aspire Vero's packaging as well has been reimagined from the ground up in accordance with a design system that covers multiple product lines, device sizes and packing components. A recipient of the Red Dot Brands & Communication Design awards for packaging design, the outer box is made from 80-85% recycled paper pulp, and plastic bagging is reduced by using paper sleeves instead for adapter protection. Furthermore, the laptop bag and the sheet between the keyboard is made with 100% recycled PET (polyethylene terephthalate). The remaining packaging is 100% recyclable, and its inner partition is even reusable: With just a few extra steps, users can turn it into an adjustable notebook stand.
Striking a balance between sustainability, use of recycled materials and product durability has always been a challenge. Acer has worked diligently with its designers and partners, including Golden Arrow, Shin Shin, Sun Young, Quanta and Wistron, to find innovative ways to implement more eco-friendly materials without sacrificing durability and sturdiness. As Acer moves closer toward its goal of incorporating up to 30% PCR plastic content across its core products by 2025, it continues to search for new and greener materials for future product development.
Smart City Solutions Helping to Save Resources
Aligned with its mission to develop more eco-friendly product designs, Acer has been working on smart city solutions that reduce the waste of resources and create more efficient and sustainable lifestyles. Across several cities, Acer has implemented a smart roadside parking and EV charging solution, which helps drivers find spaces to effectively cut idle time on the road and energy consumption, thereby reducing traffic and lowering their carbon emission. Acer has also developed smart solutions to conserve water, monitor air quality, and improve the overall conditions of our surroundings.
Goal: Source 100% Renewable Energy by 2035
The Acer Group joined the RE100 initiative in 2021 and has pledged to source 100% renewable energy by 2035. On top of launching the "Earthion" platform and adopting the CDP's global disclosure system, Acer operations have begun utilizing green energy as early as 2011, with some locations even installing solar panels to generate their own power. As of 2020 year-end, Acer offices in over 30 countries worldwide use 100% renewable energy, while 45% of energy used by the Acer Group is renewable.
Acer believes sustainability is a global effort that will need all hands on deck to make a real difference. Not only does Acer aim to provide consumers the opportunity to choose products that are more environmentally friendly, but it also wants to empower businesses to join its journey in transitioning to a low-carbon and circular economy.
On Acer Green Day, Acer also kicked off its "21-Day Challenge" as part of its Earthion mission to encourage its employees to take green actions daily and make them a habit. That challenge has now expanded to include the employees of Acer's partners and suppliers, as well as consumers. Consumers can take part via Instagram at #Acer21DayChallenge, which follows several hero influencers telling their stories about reducing/reusing/recycling and activities which integrate eco-friendly actions into their lifestyles. For more information of Acer Green Day, please visit https://www.acer.com/earthion.
About Acer
Founded in 1976, Acer is one of the world's top ICT companies with a presence in more than 160 countries. As Acer evolves with the industry and changing lifestyles, it is focused on enabling a world where hardware, software and services will fuse with one another, creating ecosystems and opening up new possibilities for consumers and businesses alike. Acer's 7,500 employees are dedicated to the research, design, marketing, sale, and support of products and solutions that break barriers between people and technology. Please visit www.acer.com for more information.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif., Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The California Lawyers Association (CLA) is proud to announce the names of the lawyers, judges, and legal organizations who will be recognized for their outstanding contributions to the legal profession in California.
The honorees will be recognized at the opening reception of CLA's Annual Meeting at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel on Thursday, September 15, 2022. The awards include legacy awards that were once given by the State Bar of California, the regulatory body for attorneys.
"CLA was pleased to take responsibility for these awards after we became the voluntary statewide bar association in 2018," said CLA's CEO and Executive Director CLA Oyango A. Snell. "CLA is honored and excited to acknowledge these passionate and dedicated award winners who have gone above and beyond to help society's most vulnerable, make our esteemed profession more equitable, and promote justice and high ethical standards."
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Bobbi Tillmon will receive the Aranda Access to Justice Award. Co-sponsored by the Judicial Council, CLA, and the California Judges Association, in association with the California Commission on Access to Justice, the award honors a judge who has demonstrated a long-term commitment to improving access to our courts and who has significantly improved access for low- and moderate-income Californians. This award will be presented on November 17, 2022 at the Judicial Council of California.
Southwestern Law School Dean Susan Westerberg Prager will receive the Bernard E. Witkin Medal. The award recognizes those who, through a career of extraordinary service, have made significant contributions to the quality of justice and legal scholarship in California.
Lawyers Club of San Diego and DTO Law will each receive Diversity Awards for their efforts to promote diversity in the legal profession or among peers.
Mark L. Tuft, a litigation partner with Cooper, White & Cooper in San Francisco, will receive the Harry B. Sondheim Professional Responsibility Award. The award recognizes a member's outstanding long-term contribution to the advancement of attorney professional standards in California.
Deeva Shah, an associate at Keker, Van Nest & Peters, will receive the Jack Berman Award of Achievement. The award honors a young lawyer (first eight years of active State Bar membership) who has provided outstanding service to the legal profession and public, as well as dedication to issues of concern to new and young lawyers.
California Rural Legal Assistance Executive Director José R. Padilla will receive the Loren Miller Legal Services Award. The award honors an attorney who has demonstrated long-term commitment to legal services and who has personally engaged in significant work extending legal services to the poor. The award is co-presented with the California Commission on Access to Justice and the Legal Aid Association of California.
Tristan E.H. Higgins, a San Diego lawyer, speaker, and diversity and inclusion expert, will receive the California Lawyers Foundation Distinguished Leadership Award.
Legal Education Access Pipeline Inc. (LEAP), a diversity pipeline fellowship program, will receive the California Lawyers Foundation Heather L. Rosing Pathway Partner Award.
"I am humbled and awed by the accomplishments of our award winners," said CLA President Jeremy M. Evans. "They provide excellent examples for the rest of us to follow. We look forward to celebrating with the award winners and all conference and gala attendees soon."
CLA is celebrating the "best of the legal profession" at its Annual Meeting on September 15–17, 2022 and hosting a first-ever black-tie Gala in partnership with the California Judges Association on September 17, 2022, benefitting both the California Lawyers Foundation and the California Judges Foundation.
Established in 2018, California Lawyers Association is the statewide voluntary bar association for all California attorneys. CLA's mission is to promote excellence, diversity, and inclusion in the legal profession and fairness in the administration of justice and the rule of law. Visit us at www.calawyers.org to learn more about CLA or follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn, or Twitter.
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AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The trial law firms Carpenter & Zuckerman (CZ Law) and Ellzey & Associates have won a $212K jury verdict against Austin's Yellow Rose Adult Entertainment Club for multiple Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) violations against two dancers from 2017 through 2020. The case was tried in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas.
U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman, like 50 other federal judges, ruled that the two dancers were employees of the defendant, the Yellow Rose - a point which the Yellow Rose unsuccessfully tried to dispute. Trial lawyers John Kristensen of CZ Law and Jarrett Ellzey of Ellzey & Associates successfully proved to jurors that the Yellow Rose failed to pay the dancers minimum wage as required by law, knew or showed reckless disregard for its conduct which was prohibited by the FLSA, required and/or coerced the dancers to pay Yellow Rose portions of their own tip monies and required and/or coerced the dancers to pay fees or fines to the Yellow Rose for the business' own benefit.
"The Yellow Rose took up to $250 a shift from the dancers in direct violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act," said Ellzey. "The jury rightfully held the Yellow Rose accountable for its illegal practices."
Through the trial, it was revealed that the Yellow Rose forced the two dancers to pay other Yellow Rose employees, such as DJs and managers, as well as the Yellow Rose itself, a "daily license fee" or "house fee" upon arrival to work. Once they finished their shifts, the dancers would again be required to pay DJs and managers of the Yellow Rose, who controlled their ability to leave through "bye-bye" slips which required a DJ and manager's signature before the dancers' shifts could formally end.
"Too often, adult entertainment clubs will utilize unscrupulous tactics to carry out wage theft against the very dancers who bring people to their businesses in the first place," said Kristensen. "The jury's ruling against the Yellow Rose sends the message that this illegal behavior will not be tolerated."
The Yellow Rose must pay the dancers a total of $212K in wage theft damages. CZ Law and Ellzey & Associates will be filing to double the damages as liquidated.
The California law firm of Carpenter & Zuckerman is dedicated to fighting for the rights of the injured. CZ Law is dedicated to helping clients recover the compensation they deserve for their injuries. For more information or to schedule a free consultation, visit www.cz.law today.
Ellzey & Associates, PLLC is a Texas law firm that aggressively advocates their clients' interests in a wide range of legal disputes, including labor, consumer, and catastrophic personal injury cases. Ellzey & Associates is based in Houston, Texas, and represents clients nationwide.
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CHICAGO, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On Saturday, August 27, 2022, the National Alliance for Hispanic Health, Healthy Americas Foundation, and the Chicago Hispanic Health Coalition will celebrate their 16th annual ¡Vive tu vida! Get Up! Get Moving!® event in Chicago. The event includes free health screenings, COVID-19 tests and vaccines and boosters, cooking demonstrations, health and wellness activities for the whole family, and referrals to community health services. Walkaround Elmo from Sesame Street® will be on hand to greet kids and families, while free Sesame Street in Communities resources are distributed. The 2022 event series is sponsored nationally by the Siemens Foundation.
"Prevenir es curar. Food is medicine. Vive tu vida! Get Up! Get Moving! embraces this. Physical activity is not only important among adults, but also in children. This event stresses the importance of healthy living, good nutrition, and decreasing chronic illnesses such as obesity and diabetes. Keep your heart healthy, keep YOURSELF healthy!" said Esther Sciammarella, CEO of the Chicago Hispanic Health Coalition.
"Reducing health disparities requires a multi-faceted approach, including continuous preventative care and early detection. We're honored to provide our CLINITEST® Rapid COVID-19 Antigen Self-Test to the local health fair participants as part of this effort," said Dave Pacitti, President, Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.; Head of the Americas, Siemens Healthineers; and member of the Siemens Foundation Board of Directors. "We're committed to advancing health equity by promoting primary healthcare, diagnostic screening, workforce training for the healthcare sector, and capital loan support for community clinics, and thrilled to support ¡Vive tu vida! Get Up! Get Moving!® in Chicago," concluded David Etzwiler, CEO of Siemens Foundation.
"It is especially important that communities have access to health screenings, given the millions of important screenings that were missed or delayed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic." said Dr. Jane Delgado, President and CEO of the National Alliance for Hispanic Health, the nation's leading Hispanic health advocacy group. "We also celebrate the 16th year of ¡Vive tu vida! Get Up! Get Moving!® in Chicago with the Chicago Hispanic Health Coalition as well all the efforts to support individuals and families have the best health possible."
In addition, the event will feature the All of Us Research Program, a historic effort to gather data from one million or more people living in the US to accelerate research and improve health.
What: ¡Vive tu vida! Get Up! Get Moving!® event featuring:
- Free Health Screenings: HIV/STI, mammograms, dental screenings for children, COVID-19 vaccines, Monkeypox tests
- Fitness: Zumba
- Healthy snacks: produce giveaway and nutrition education
- Family fun: Live music, raffles and much more!
- Science: Featuring the All of Us Research Program
Where: McKinley Park Fieldhouse, 2210 W Pershing Rd., Chicago, IL 60609
When: Saturday, August 27, 2022 from 10:00am to 2:00pm
Cost: FREE!
To find a ¡Vive tu vida! Get Up! Get Moving!® event in your city, please visit www.healthyamericas.org/get-up-get-moving. To learn more about the All of Us Research Program, please visit www.JoinAllofUs.org/juntos.
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ROCKVILLE, Md. and SUZHOU, China, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Innovent Biologics, Inc. ("Innovent") (HKEX: 01801), a world-class biopharmaceutical company that develops, manufactures, and commercializes high-quality medicines for the treatment of oncology, autoimmune, metabolic, ophthalmology and other major diseases, announced that the first patient dosing in Australia for its proprietary PD-1/IL-2 bispecific antibody fusion protein (R&D code: IBI363) in Phase I clinical trial for the treatment of patients with advanced solid tumors or lymphomas. It is first candidate drug to conduct clinical trial in Australia in Innovent's pipeline.
The study (NCT05290597) is an open-label, multi-center Phase I study evaluating the safety, tolerability, and preliminary efficacy of IBI363 in subjects with advanced solid tumors or lymphoma, and to determine the recommended Phase 2 dose (RP2D).
Interleukin 2 (IL-2), a cytokine secreted mainly by antigen-activated CD4 + T cells , is vital for maintaining CD4 + regulatory T cell (Treg) level, CD4 + T cell differentiation, and maintaining CD8 + T cell and natural killer cell activity. IL-2 was the first cytokine to be discovered and identified as playing a pivotal role in T-cell growth and expansion. Aldesleukin (IL-2) was approved by U.S. Food and Drug Administration for metastatic renal cell carcinoma and metastatic melanoma in the early 1990s, but it has not been widely used in clinic due to poor selectivity, narrow therapeutic window, and side effects.
IBI363, potential First-in-Class candidate drug, was independently developed by Innovent. Its active ingredient is PD-1/IL-2 bispecific antibody fusion protein. The IL-2 arm of IBI363 has been engineered to maximize efficacy and reduce toxicity, whereas the PD-1 binding arm achieves PD-1 blockade and selective IL-2 delivery. Therefore, IBI363 has both functions of simultaneously blocking PD-1/PD-L1 pathway and activating IL-2 pathway, allowing more precise and efficient targeting and activation of tumor specific T cells. IBI363 not only showed promising anti-tumor activity in a variety of tumor-bearing pharmacological models, but also exhibited prominent antitumor efficacy in PD-1 resistant and metastatic models; meanwhile, IBI363 demonstrated a good safety profile in preclinical in vivo models.
Dr. Morteza Aghmesheh, Southern Medical Day Care Centre Located in New South Wales, Australia, stated: "Wild type IL-2 is clinically validated as monotherapy, but limited by toxicity and low response rate due to poor selectivity. IBI363, a novel PD-1/IL-2 bispecific molecule, designed to selectively activates PD-1 positive T cells by cis-activating IL-2, but not PD-1 negative bystanders or naïve T cells, with the potential to significantly decrease toxicity related to IL-2 and potentially overcome immunotherapy resistance. We look forward to the positive results in the safety/tolerability and efficacy of IBI363 in the clinic."
Dr. Hui Zhou, Senior Vice President of Innovent, stated: "Most patients will develop primary or secondary resistance after treatments of immune checkpoint inhibitors. At present, treatment options are limited upon progression after immunotherapy, and there is a huge unmet clinical needs. IBI363, developed by scientists at Innovent Academy, can enhance anti-tumor immune response by reversing T cell exhaustion, improving the efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitors especially for patients with resistance to immunotherapy or "cold tumors", while minimizing IL -2 related side effects. We are pleased that the first patient dose of IBI363 has been completed in Australia. In parallel, the IND for IBI363 has been approved by NMPA in China. We are looking forward to the positive results of IBI363 in patients with advanced solid tumors or lymphoma. IBI363 is our first molecule to initiate clinical study in Australia, which marks a solid step of Innovent's global innovation strategy. The company will also accelerate the development of more innovative molecules with high global potential, taking advantage of cross-regional R & D and clinical resources, adhering to the long-term development strategy of "driven by innovation, developed through globalization" with an aim to benefit cancer patients worldwide."
About IBI363
IBI363, potential First-in-Class candidate drug, was self-developed by Innovent. Its active ingredient is PD-1/IL-2 bispecific antibody fusion protein, which simultaneously blocks PD-1/PD-L1 pathway and activates IL-2 pathway to stimulate T cell activation and proliferation, thus killing tumor cells and inhibiting tumor growth. Currently, Phase 1 studies of IBI363 are conducted in China and Australia (NCT05460767, NCT05290597) to assess the safety, tolerability, and preliminary efficacy of IBI363 in subjects with advanced solid tumors or lymphoma, and to determine the recommended Phase 2 dose (RP2D).
About Innovent
Inspired by the spirit of "Start with Integrity, Succeed through Action," Innovent's mission is to develop, manufacture and commercialize high-quality biopharmaceutical products that are affordable to ordinary people. Established in 2011, Innovent is committed to developing, manufacturing and commercializing high-quality innovative medicines for the treatment of oncology, autoimmune, metabolic, ophthalmology and other major diseases. On October 31, 2018, Innovent was listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited with the stock code: 01801. HK.
Since its inception, Innovent has developed a fully integrated multi-functional platform that includes R&D, CMC (Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls), clinical development and commercialization capabilities. Leveraging the platform, the company has built a robust pipeline of 34 valuable assets in the fields of cancer, autoimmune, metabolic, ophthalmology and other major therapeutic areas, with 7 products approved for marketing in China – TYVYT® (sintilimab injection), BYVASDA® (bevacizumab biosimilar injection), SULINNO® (adalimumab biosimilar injection), HALPRYZA® (rituximab biosimilar injection), Pemazyre® (pemigatinib oral inhibitor), olverembatinib (BCR-ABL TKI) and Cyramza® (ramucirumab), 3 assets under NMPA NDA review, 4 assets in Phase 3 or pivotal clinical trials, and an additional 20 molecules in clinical studies.
Innovent has built an international team with advanced talent in high-end biological drug development and commercialization, including many global experts. The company has also entered into strategic collaborations with Eli Lilly and Company, Sanofi, Adimab, Incyte, MD Anderson Cancer Center, and other international partners. Innovent strives to work with many collaborators to help advance China's biopharmaceutical industry, improve drug availability and enhance the quality of the patients' lives. For more information, please visit: www.innoventbio.com.
Note:
TYVYT® (Sintilimab Injection) is not an approved product in the United States.
BYVASDA® (bevacizumab biosimilar injection), HALPRYZA® (rituximab biosimilar injection), and SULINNO® (adalimumab biosimilar injection) are not approved products in the United States.
TYVYT® (sintilimab injection, Innovent)
BYVASDA® (bevacizumab biosimilar injection, Innovent)
HALPRYZA® (rituximab biosimilar injection, Innovent)
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Pemazyre® (pemigatinib oral inhibitor, Incyte Corporation). Pemazyre® was discovered by Incyte Corporation and licensed to Innovent for development and commercialization in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.
CYRAMZA® (ramucirumab, Eli Lilly). Cyramza® was discovered by Eli Lilly and licensed to Innovent for commercialization in Mainland China.
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Latiya will join as the 21st hero and a special in-game event will occur to celebrate her arrival
SEOUL, South Korea, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Knight-errant and magical master of joust Latiya is now available to play in Nexon's MMORPG Vindictus, earning her place as the 21st hero in the game. Latiya grew up in a dangerous jungle and became the world's greatest hunter, yet her desire to become a knight overtook that ambition. With her large lance and mystic chain hook, she hurtles through the battlefield to joust against her adversaries without a need for a horse.
Exclusive Weapon
Her exclusive weapon, the lance, embodies her love of knights. She carved her first one from wood. When she later discovered friendly jousting competitions around the kingdom of Delshire, Latiya was already well-versed in carrying her lance. She now wields the metal lance of Roland, a knight who saved her as a child. Her lance attack strikes even more solidly against those she marked with explosive results.
Latiya is not only strong enough to swing lances around with one hand, but she can also summon the magical Kuja chain hook with the other. The Kuja chain hook from her tribe allows her to quickly navigate the environment to both elude and chase down prey. It allows Latiya to walk the path between a merciful defender and a merciless hunter.
Exclusive Equipment
Latiya's armor sets include "Eusi Kuja" and "Stout Heart." "Eusi Kuja" is the name of her tribe, the Black Claws, and is designed to combine the best techniques of dodging and deflecting damage. Just like how Latiya herself learned to mix the best traditions of hunters and knights. The tribal detailing on the more armored elements further compliments this bridging of two worlds into a unique and beautiful ensemble.
Stout Heart, named after her sister Lua's suggestion, is a set of medieval full plate armor. The solid, interlocking plates with unique black leopard skin had jousting fans cheering for her as the "Panther Knight" whenever they watched her compete. Latiya's friend Marie further decorated the armor with symbols of Latiya's tribe.
Skills
As a piercing starlight knight, Latiya has special skills to defeat her enemies. Her first skill, "Lion's Rage" imbues her lance with magic and performs a swing, an upward slash and finally a thrust. Additional inputs after using the skill can alter the attacks that combo out from the skill. "Snake Coil" unleashes the Kuja chain hook to attack nearby prey. This covers a large area and landing a successful hit can restore stamina with Kuja's Strength.
"Light of Kuja" is a counterattack that can follow certain other moves, this allows Latiya to both dodge attacks and land some of her own at the same time. Successfully striking someone can lead to a further strike combo. Evading an enemy's strike at the precise moment can also create an even more powerful combo attack.
Finally, "Panther Pounce" unleashes a flurry of furious strikes, with the Kuja and the lance working in harmony. If Latiya hits her first strike onto the enemy, she has a chance to instantly kill them.
Special Event
Latiya's Celebratory Package Event is now open until Tuesday, Sept. 20 to welcome Latiya to Vindictus. Items available include "Latiya's Outfit Set Destiny Box," "Title: The First Latiya," and "Unlimited Inner Armor Pass (30 days)" filled with all kinds of outfits for Latiya to wear. Details on these event outfits and stats can be found here.
More information about Latiya's debut in Vindictus can be found on the official website.
Vindictus is an action MMORPG that launched in 2010, making 2022 its twelfth year of service. The game takes place in a desolate land teeming with wild beasts and features fast-paced, brutal combat which gives players the ability to weaponize objects in their environment.
About NEXON Co. Ltd. NEXON Co., Ltd. ("Nexon") (3659.TO) is a worldwide leader in free-to-play online and mobile games. Founded in Korea in 1994, Nexon developed one of the world's first graphics-based massively multiplayer online games. Nexon also pioneered the concept of microtransactions and the free-to-play business model, setting a new standard in which play is free, and users have the option to purchase in-game items to enhance their experience. Nexon currently services nearly 100 titles in more than 190 countries. The Company is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and its shares are listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
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SHANGHAI, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ZTO Express (Cayman) Inc. (NYSE: ZTO and SEHK: 2057), a leading and fast-growing express delivery company in China ("ZTO" or the "Company"), today announced clarifications to errors contained in a filing. The Company had submitted a current report on Form 6-K to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on August 24, which contained erroneous references to a proposed offering. The Company would like to clarify that it currently has no intention to conduct any offering of its securities. The Company remains committed to true and timely disclosure in compliance with the applicable rules and regulations, and will keep shareholders informed of material developments in the future, including any potential financing plan.
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ZTO Express (Cayman) Inc. (NYSE: ZTO and SEHK:2057) ("ZTO" or the "Company") is a leading and fast-growing express delivery company in China. ZTO provides express delivery service as well as other value-added logistics services through its extensive and reliable nationwide network coverage in China.
ZTO operates a highly scalable network partner model, which the Company believes is best suited to support the significant growth of e-commerce in China. The Company leverages its network partners to provide pickup and last-mile delivery services, while controlling the mission-critical line-haul transportation and sorting network within the express delivery service value chain.
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Mullin wins US Senate GOP runoff in deep-red Oklahoma
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — U.S. Rep. Markwayne Mullin won Tuesday’s GOP primary runoff for one of Oklahoma’s U.S. Senate seats, making him a likely favorite to win the seat U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe is leaving early after nearly 30 years in office.
Mullin, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, defeated former Speaker of the Oklahoma House and banking executive T.W. Shannon after the two advanced from a 13-candidate Republican primary field in June. Because Inhofe is retiring early, Mullin will serve the remaining four years left on Inhofe’s term.
Mullin, who topped the primary field with nearly 44% of the vote, earned former President Donald Trump’s endorsement shortly after the primary.
Mullin and Shannon were both seeking to replace Inhofe, a fixture in Republican politics in Oklahoma since the 1960s who has held the U.S. Senate seat since being elected in 1994.
Mullin will be heavily favored in November’s general election against former Democratic U.S. Rep. Kendra Horn, along with an independent and a Libertarian. Oklahoma hasn’t elected a Democrat to the U.S. Senate in more than 30 years.
In a state where nearly 10% of the population identifies as American Indian, both Mullin and Shannon are members of Native American tribes — Mullin a Cherokee citizen and Shannon, who is also African American, a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation.
Campaign finance reports show that Mullin raised about $3.6 million, which is nearly three times the $1.3 million that Shannon reported he raised.
In campaign ads and on the stump, both men touted their positions on hot-button issues and vowed to fight President Joe Biden’s policy agenda. Shannon launched an anti-abortion ad in which he labeled Planned Parenthood the “true face of white supremacy,” while Mullin in an ad featuring two of his own children and a montage of transgender collegiate swimmer Lia Thomas, said: “Democrats can’t even tell us what a woman is.”
Also on Tuesday, in the Democratic primary runoff for Oklahoma’s other U.S. Senate seat, cybersecurity expert Madison Horn defeated Jason Bollinger, an Oklahoma City attorney. Horn, who is not related to Kendra Horn, will face incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. James Lankford, who will be the heavy favorite in November, along with a Republican and an independent.
In the race for an open U.S. House seat in eastern Oklahoma, Republicans Josh Brecheen, a former state senator from Coalgate, and state Rep. Avery Frix, of Muskogee, face off in the GOP runoff after emerging as the top two candidates in June’s 14-candidate primary. The winner will face Democrat Naomi Andrews, of Tulsa, and independent Ben Robinson, of Muskogee, in November.
Also on the ballot Tuesday will be Republican primary runoffs for several statewide offices, including state superintendent of public instruction, state treasurer, labor commissioner and corporation commissioner.
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Dinosaur tracks dating from around 113 million years ago were revealed at Dinosaur Valley State Park in Texas due to severe drought conditions that have dried up a river, the park said in a statement on August 22.
Dinosaur tracks dating from around 113 million years ago are pictured here.
Dinosaur Valley State Park
Dinosaur tracks dating from around 113 million years ago were revealed at Dinosaur Valley State Park in Texas due to severe drought conditions that have dried up a river, the park said in a statement on August 22.
Dinosaur Valley State Park
Tracks of a 60-foot dinosaur have been discovered on a dried-out riverbed at Dinosaur Valley State Park in Texas.
"Most tracks that have recently been uncovered and discovered at different parts of the river in the park belong to Acrocanthosaurus. This was a dinosaur that would stand, as an adult, about 15 feet tall and (weigh) close to seven tons," park spokesperson Stephanie Salinas Garcia told CNN in an email.
The other species that left tracks behind at the park in Glen Rose, Texas, was Sauroposeidon, which would be about 60 feet tall and weigh about 44 tons as an adult, Garcia added.
This summer's excessive drought has caused a river in the park to dry out completely in most spots, revealing the tracks -- the latest long-hidden secret recently exposed as bodies of water have dried up due to drought conditions across the globe.
More than 60% of Texas was experiencing drought last week in two of the most intense categories, according to the US Drought Monitor. The state also recently has experienced heat waves that pushed temperatures into the triple digits, leaving millions under excessive heat alerts.
The human-caused climate crisis, too, has increased the potential for more frequent dramatic swings in periods of drought and high precipitation, such as flash flooding this week in the Dallas area.
Under normal weather conditions, the dinosaur tracks found in the riverbed are under the water and filled with sediment, which makes them less visible, Garcia explained.
"Being able to find these discoveries and experience new dinosaur tracks is always an exciting time at the park!" Garcia added.
Meanwhile, the tracks are expected to be buried again as rain is forecast, said Garcia, who added the process helps protect the tracks from natural weathering and erosion.
"While these newer dinosaur tracks were visible for a brief amount of time, it brought about the wonder and excitement about finding new dinosaur tracks at the park," Garcia said. "Dinosaur Valley State Park will continue to protect these 113-million year-old tracks not only for present, but future generations."
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Twitter is exceptionally vulnerable to exploitation by foreign governments in ways that threaten US national security, and may even have foreign spies currently active on its payroll, according to Peiter "Mudge" Zatko, the whistleblower at the center of a massive public disclosure effort reported Tuesday by CNN and The Washington Post.
A combination of weak cybersecurity controls and poor judgment has repeatedly exposed Twitter to numerous foreign intelligence risks, according to Zatko, who was Twitter's head of security from November 2020 until he was fired in January.
From taking money from untrusted Chinese sources to proposing the company give into Russian censorship and surveillance demands, Twitter execs including now-CEO Parag Agrawal have knowingly put Twitter users and employees at risk in the pursuit of short-term growth, Zatko alleges.
CNN sought comment from Twitter on more than 50 distinct questions in response to the overall disclosure, along with specific questions on the allegations outlined in this story. Twitter did not respond to CNN's questions on foreign intelligence risks, but a company spokesperson has said Zatko's allegations overall are "riddled with inconsistencies and inaccuracies, and lacks important context."
The national security allegations are part of an explosive, nearly 200-page disclosure to Congress, the Justice Department and federal regulators that accuses Twitter's leadership of covering up critical company vulnerabilities and defrauding the public. Zatko, a longtime cybersecurity expert who has held senior roles at Google, Stripe and the Defense Department, submitted his disclosure to authorities last month after what he described as months of trying unsuccessfully to sound the alarm inside Twitter about the dangers it faced. While the disclosure to Congress is edited to omit sensitive details pertaining to the national security claims, a more comprehensive version with supporting documents has been delivered to the Senate Intelligence Committee and to DOJ's national security division, according to the disclosure.
Among its accusations, the whistleblower disclosure claims the US government provided specific evidence to Twitter shortly before Zatko's firing that at least one of its employees, perhaps more, were working for another government's intelligence service. The disclosure does not say whether Twitter acted on the US government tip or whether the tip was credible.
The whistleblower disclosure could further inflame bipartisan concerns in Washington about foreign adversaries and the cybersecurity threat they pose to Americans. In recent years, policymakers have worried about authoritarian governments siphoning US citizens' data from hacked or pliable companies; leveraging tech platforms to subtly influence or sow disinformation among US voters; or exploiting unauthorized access to gather intel on human rights critics and other perceived threats to non-democratic regimes.
Twitter's alleged flaws could potentially open the door to all three possibilities.
In response to the disclosure, the Senate Intelligence Committee's top Republican, Marco Rubio, vowed to look further into the allegations.
"Twitter has a long track record of making really bad decisions on everything from censorship to security practices. That's a huge concern given the company's ability to influence the national discourse and global events," Rubio said. "We're treating the complaint with the seriousness it deserves and look forward to learning more."
In the months before Russia invaded Ukraine, Agrawal — then Twitter's chief technology officer — seemed prepared to make significant concessions to the Kremlin, according to Zatko's disclosure.
Agrawal proposed to Zatko that Twitter comply with Russian demands that could result in broad-based censorship or surveillance, Zatko alleges, recalling an interaction he had with Agrawal at the time. The disclosure does not provide details about exactly what Agrawal suggested. But last summer Russia passed a law pressuring tech platforms to open local offices in the country or face potential advertising bans, a move western security experts have said could give Russia greater leverage over US tech companies.
Agrawal's suggestion was framed as a way to grow users in Russia, the disclosure says, and while the idea was ultimately discarded, Zatko still saw it as an alarming sign of how far Twitter was willing to go in pursuit of growth, according to the disclosure.
"The fact that Twitter's current CEO even suggested Twitter become complicit with the Putin regime is cause for concern about Twitter's effects on U.S. national security," Zatko's disclosure says.
Twitter is also in a compromised position in China, the disclosure to Congress claims. The company has allegedly accepted funding from unnamed "Chinese entities" who now have access to information that could ultimately unmask people in China who are illegally circumventing government censorship to view and use Twitter.
"Twitter executives knew that accepting Chinese money risked endangering users in China," the disclosure says. "Mr. Zatko was told that Twitter was too dependent upon the revenue stream at this point to do anything other than attempt to increase it."
Zatko's 80-page disclosure outlining his allegations, along with nearly two dozen additional supporting documents, is becoming public just two weeks after a former Twitter manager was convicted of spying for Saudi Arabia. The former employee had allegedly abused his access to Twitter data to collect information on suspected Saudi dissidents, including their phone numbers and email addresses, and allegedly fed that information to the Saudi government.
That security breach, first uncovered in 2019, underscores the gravity of Zatko's allegations, which describe Twitter as an extremely porous organization with alarmingly lax cybersecurity controls compared to its corporate peers. In order to do their jobs, roughly half of Twitter employees have excessive permissions granting access to live user data and the active Twitter product, according to the disclosure, a practice Zatko says is a significant departure from the standards of other major tech companies where access is tightly controlled and employees largely work in special sandboxes isolated from the consumer-facing product. "Every engineer" at the company, Zatko alleges, "has a full copy of Twitter's proprietary source code on their laptop."
Twitter has told CNN its handling of source code does not fall outside of industry practices, and that Twitter's engineering and product teams are authorized to access the company's live platform if they have a specific business justification for doing so.
The company also said it uses automated checks to ensure laptops running outdated software cannot access the production environment, and that employees may only make changes to Twitter's live product after the code meets certain record-keeping and review requirements.
The disclosure alleges Twitter has trouble reducing its cybersecurity risks because it can't control, and often doesn't know, what employees may be doing on their work computers. Data Zatko disclosed from Twitter's internal cybersecurity dashboards shows that four in 10 employee devices — representing thousands of laptops — do not have basic protections enabled, such as firewalls and automatic software updates. Employees are also able to install third-party software on their computers with few technical restrictions, the disclosure says, which on multiple occasions has allegedly resulted in employees installing unauthorized spyware on their devices at the behest of outside organizations.
In its responses to CNN, Twitter said employees use devices overseen by other IT and security teams with the power to prevent a device from connecting to sensitive internal systems if it is running outdated software.
Twitter has internal security tools that are tested by the company regularly, and every two years by external auditors, according to a person familiar with Zatko's tenure at the company. The person added that some of Zatko's statistics surrounding device security lacked credibility and were derived by a small team that did not properly account for Twitter's existing security procedures.
John Tye, founder of Whistleblower Aid and Zatko's lawyer, told CNN "we absolutely stand by the contents of Mudge's disclosure."
Undue access and limited oversight of employee conduct creates opportunities for insider threats such as the Saudi operative, but the Saudi government wasn't the only one to seek greater access to Twitter's internal systems, Zatko alleges.
The Indian government has successfully "forced" Twitter to hire agents working on its behalf, the disclosure says, "who (because of Twitter's basic architectural flaws) would have access to vast amounts of Twitter sensitive data." Twitter has withheld that fact from its public transparency reports, the disclosure adds.
In the past year, the Indian government has pushed to expand its control over social media within its borders, clashing with Twitter over content removals, forcing tech platforms to hire legal and law enforcement liaisons in the country and even conducting raids on Twitter's local offices. The person familiar with Zatko's tenure said the Indian government agents the disclosure refers to were in fact the legal and law enforcement liaisons required under Indian law.
Many tech platforms are global enterprises, and in some cases, as with Russia's attempt to force tech companies to open local headquarters, their employees can become unwitting points of leverage for governments wanting to exert pressure on the companies. Corporate and user data stored on, or accessible by, employee computers can be at risk of being accessed or seized by local authorities. The employees themselves, or their families, may be at risk of being threatened or coerced.
But Twitter's unique cybersecurity vulnerabilities has meant that its local offices have become particularly sensitive targets, Zatko alleges. India, Nigeria and Russia have all "sought, with varying success, to force Twitter to hire local [full-time employees] that could be used as leverage," the disclosure says.
Twitter's business practices don't just undermine the United States' interests but those of all democratic nations, the disclosure alleges, citing the company's handling of a Nigerian government decision to block Twitter for months last year over a presidential tweet that was widely interpreted as a threat against some Nigerian citizens and subsequently removed by Twitter.
Nigeria lifted its ban on Twitter in January, after the government said the social media platform had agreed to all of its conditions. The conditions include adhering to Nigerian laws on "prohibited publication."
Despite Twitter's claims to have been in negotiations with Nigeria after it suspended the company, those talks never actually occurred, Zatko alleges. Twitter's alleged misrepresentations about engaging the Nigerian government not only harmed the company's investors, the disclosure says, but it also gave Nigerian officials cover to demand far greater concessions from Twitter than the company otherwise would have given.
The concessions, according to Zatko's disclosure, have "harmed free expression rights and democratic accountability for Nigerian citizens."
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KAUAI COUNTY, Hawaii (KITV4) -- It's not every day you see the Vice President of the United States on a beach surrounded by Secret Service at Hanalei Bay on Kauai.
"There were actually people on the pier with guns and they were watching her with binoculars," says 8th grader Welina Dudoit Wong.
And while some might just be happy for chance for a quick handshake or a picture, Wong and fellow Kanuikapono Charter School 8th grader Bea Kaaumoana had a message.
"The important thing about it was delivering that message and letting her know that the keiki of Oahu do need help with their families and their water," Kaaumoana says.
Throughout Vice President Kamala Harris' vacation on the Garden Isle, groups like the Oahu Water Protectors have held up signs near her Kalihiwai Ridge vacation home, urging more action on the Red Hill water crisis.
But in the end it was the two local 8th graders who mustered up the courage and walk across the sand and seize the moment and take those concerns directly to Harris.
After asking the Veep about Red Hill, Harris replied to Kaaumoana and Wong "I agree with you, we need to handle that, it's a very big issue." She stopped to take a picture, before encouraging the girls to "continue to active and lead."
Both Bea and Welina taking that advice to heart - the students say they're both hoping to continued to grow as leaders in the Native Hawaiian community.
The students say they've been getting a lot of attention: "All of our family has been congratulating us for like going up to her and being brave," Bea says.
And while it's a moment both say they'll never forget, they also say they're not afraid to hold the Vice President accountable
"It was a privilege to talk to her, but I hope that this time they keep to their promises and they do want to help the Hawaiian people," Welina says.
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Mullin wins US Senate GOP runoff in deep-red Oklahoma
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — U.S. Rep. Markwayne Mullin won Tuesday’s GOP primary runoff for one of Oklahoma’s U.S. Senate seats, making him a likely favorite to win the seat U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe is leaving early after nearly 30 years in office.
Mullin, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, defeated former Speaker of the Oklahoma House and banking executive T.W. Shannon after the two advanced from a 13-candidate Republican primary field in June. Because Inhofe is retiring early, Mullin will serve the remaining four years left on Inhofe’s term.
“Thank you for giving our family this opportunity,” Mullin, 45, said at a watch party in Tulsa, surrounded by his wife and six children. “It’s not just me you’re electing. It’s a family affair.”
Mullin, who topped the primary field with nearly 44% of the vote, earned former President Donald Trump’s endorsement shortly after the primary.
Mullin and Shannon were both seeking to replace Inhofe, a fixture in Republican politics in Oklahoma since the 1960s who has held the U.S. Senate seat since being elected in 1994.
Mullin will be heavily favored in November’s general election against former Democratic U.S. Rep. Kendra Horn, along with an independent and a Libertarian. Oklahoma hasn’t elected a Democrat to the U.S. Senate in more than 30 years.
In a state where nearly 10% of the population identifies as American Indian, both Mullin and Shannon are members of Native American tribes — Mullin a Cherokee citizen and Shannon, who is also African American, a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation.
“I never knew I was special for being Cherokee until I went to Washington, D.C.,” Mullin told reporters during a campaign stop Tuesday in Norman, “because where I’m from everybody’s Indian or wants to be, right?”
If elected in November, Mullin will be the first enrolled Native American tribal member in the U.S. Senate since former Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell left the Senate in 2005, according to U.S. Senate records.
Campaign finance reports show that Mullin raised about $3.6 million, which is nearly three times the $1.3 million that Shannon reported he raised.
In campaign ads and on the stump, both men touted their positions on hot-button issues and vowed to fight President Joe Biden’s policy agenda. Shannon launched an anti-abortion ad in which he labeled Planned Parenthood the “true face of white supremacy,” while Mullin in an ad featuring two of his own children and a montage of transgender collegiate swimmer Lia Thomas, said: “Democrats can’t even tell us what a woman is.”
Also on Tuesday, in the Democratic primary runoff for Oklahoma’s other U.S. Senate seat, cybersecurity expert Madison Horn defeated Jason Bollinger, an Oklahoma City attorney. Horn, who is not related to Kendra Horn, will face incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. James Lankford, who will be the heavy favorite in November, along with a Republican and an independent.
In the race for an open U.S. House seat in eastern Oklahoma, Republicans Josh Brecheen, a former state senator from Coalgate, and state Rep. Avery Frix, of Muskogee, faced off in the GOP runoff after emerging as the top two candidates in June’s 14-candidate primary. The winner will face Democrat Naomi Andrews, of Tulsa, and independent Ben Robinson, of Muskogee, in November.
Also on the ballot Tuesday were Republican primary runoffs for several statewide offices, including state superintendent of public instruction, state treasurer, labor commissioner and corporation commissioner.
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Snoop Dogg releases new children’s animated series on YouTube
(CNN) - Snoop Dogg is entering the world of children’s programming with a new animated kids’ series.
“Doggyland - Kids Songs & Nursery Rhymes” launched on YouTube and YouTube Kids.
Snoop Dogg partnered with Claude Brooks, the Emmy-nominated producer and creator of the children’s franchise “Hip Hop Harry,” and singer/songwriter October London on the project.
The series features a colorful cast of dogs who use song, dance and rap to help teach social, emotional and cognitive skills aimed at toddlers to 8-year-old kids.
The rapper voices the main character, Bow Wizzle, who is the adult mentor to the rest of the cast.
Snoop Dogg said as a father, grandfather and longtime youth football coach, it’s always been important to him to build positive and educational environments for all children.
New episodes are planned to be released every Tuesday.
The series also has an accompanying album available on all streaming platforms.
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Harrisonburg City Council explores possible uses for ARPA funding
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - Harrisonburg City Council discussed how people living in the Friendly City want money from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) to be spent during their Tuesday, Aug. 23 Work Session.
City leaders published a survey to allow locals to choose their top priorities for funding. During Tuesday’s meeting, they talked about the first four categories of spending: public health, housing, supporting workers and families and support for K-12 students.
For health-related issues, survey participants said they wanted to use ARPA money to expand mental health resources for youth and provide adequate health care clinics to meet needs. In the housing category, participants wanted to focus on ensuring more affordable, safe and quality rental housing and expanding pathways for home ownership.
Participants said, to support workers and families, they wanted to use funds to advance living wages for all workers and support competitive wages. For students, survey participants want to see better compensation for teachers and expanded mental health services.
Presenters with the Institute for Constructive Advocacy and Dialogue, Rob Alexander, Lori Britt and Kara Dillard, broke down the information. Each category has subcategories, allowing the council to discuss specifics. Councilors discussed childcare, incentivizing businesses that pay workers a living wage and creating affordable housing.
Harrisonburg City Mayor Deanna Reed said creating affordable housing has been a priority for council.
“We’ve been very focused on housing in general. I can’t tell you how many projects we’ve already approved for housing. We have focused on this,” Reed said.
The presentation on the data took about two hours, but Reed said Tuesday was not a time for definite decisions.
“I kind of felt like that’s probably what some people thought,” Reed said with a laugh. “There’s no way we’re going to be able to make a decision tonight. We’ve got so much that we have to process and we want to make sure that we’re doing a thorough job of looking at the data that Lori, Rob and Kara put together for us because we wanted that, as well as the community conversations.”
At their next meeting, city council will continue to break down the rest of the results. There are four other categories to look into: infrastructure, neighborhoods, public spaces and city government.
You can find a breakdown of the results on Tuesday’s agenda.
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VALCOURT, QC, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - BRP Inc. (TSX: DOO) (NASDAQ: DOOO) reports that, following the recent cyberattack, information on certain employees and suppliers accessed by an unauthorized third party has been leaked on the dark web.
While the investigation is still ongoing, the evidence collected so far allows BRP to believe that the impact of this incident from a data privacy perspective should be limited, as mentioned in the press release issued on August 15, 2022.
BRP confirms that it has already contacted the very few employees who may have been impacted by the incident. The appropriate resources have been made available to them, including credit monitoring services. Based on the current status of its investigation, BRP also believes that the compromised information relating to certain of its suppliers is limited in quantity and sensitivity, and is in the process of contacting them.
At this time, the Company has no evidence that its clients' personal information would have been affected by the attack. Should the circumstances change, BRP would directly contact individuals or corporations impacted.
Certain information included in this release, including, but not limited to, the statements on the fact that the impact from this cyberattack was limited from a data privacy and confidentiality perspective and other statements that are not historical facts, are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Canadian and United States securities laws. Forward-looking statements are typically identified by the use of terminology such as "may", "will", "would", "should", "could", "expects", "forecasts", "plans", "intends", "trends", "indications", "anticipates", "believes", "estimates", "outlook", "predicts", "projects", "likely" or "potential" or the negative or other variations of these words or other comparable words or phrases. Forward looking statements, by their very nature, involve inherent risks and uncertainties and are based on several assumptions, both general and specific. BRP cautions that its assumptions may not materialize and that current economic conditions render such assumptions, although reasonable at the time they were made, subject to greater uncertainty. Such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results or performance of BRP to be materially different from the outlook or any future results or performance implied by such statements. Further details and descriptions of these and other factors are disclosed in BRP's annual information form dated March 24, 2022.
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Weiss Law is investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law by the board of directors of CyberOptics Corporation (NASDAQ: CYBE) in connection with the proposed acquisition of CYBE by Nordson Corporation. Under the terms of the merger agreement, CYBE shareholders will receive $54.00 in cash for each share of CYBE common stock owned. If you own CYBE shares and wish to discuss this investigation or your rights, please call us at one of the numbers listed above or visit our website: https://www.weisslaw.co/news-and-cases/cybe
Weiss Law is investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law by the board of directors of Global Blood Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: GBT), in connection with the proposed acquisition of GBT by Pfizer Inc. Under the terms of the merger agreement, GBT shareholders will receive $68.50 in cash for each share of GBT common stock owned. If you own GBT shares and wish to discuss this investigation or your rights, please call us at one of the numbers listed above or visit our website: https://www.weisslaw.co/news-and-cases/gbt
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The Battle of Stalingrad, with its five months of fierce fighting, began exactly 80 years ago, on Aug. 23, 1942. An estimated 750,000 Soviets died defending the city, delivering an enormous blow to the seemingly unstoppable German war machine, a psychological turning point of World War II.
German dictator Adolf Hitler had set his sights on Stalingrad in part because it was named after his rival, Soviet leader Josef Stalin. Hitler had publicly announced that he would take the Soviet city and assumed he would do so with ease.
He was wrong.
The Germans' push to take the city resulted in some of the most intense urban combat in history, according to West Point's Modern War Institute. Hitler's hubris was matched by that of Stalin, who was determined to defend the city, today called Volgograd, at all costs.
Soviet forces had retreated in earlier battles, and as a result, Stalin issued Order No. 227, known as "Not One Step Back," said Rutgers University history professor Jochen Hellbeck.
Hitler's forces had conducted an aerial bombardment campaign early on, destroying the city's structures and roads and killing as many as 40,000 civilians. When the Germans began to engage Soviet ground forces, they found their opponents were better fighters when it came to urban combat.
The world watched for months as the Soviets repeatedly beat back the enemy, who, until that time, had rolled across Europe without defeat, Hellbeck said. Many believed that the outcome of Stalingrad would dictate the fate of the war.
"The same stakes that Hitler had laid out for the Germans also applied to the Soviets. This would have been a huge public loss for the Soviet Union," Hellbeck said. "It's quite possible that in the end, if Hitler had won Stalingrad, the first atomic bomb blast would have happened over Europe."
Ultimately, it was Hitler's determination to fight to the end that led to the Germans' defeat. Many of his commanders were unhappy with how the battle was going but didn't have the courage to stand up to their leader.
The battle came to an end on Feb. 2, 1943, after the Germans had been encircled by the Soviets and eventually surrendered. The estimated loss of life at Stalingrad varies, but the Modern War Institute puts the death toll at approximately 1.2 million people.
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Progressive activist Maxwell Frost, one of the first members of Generation Z to run for Congress, has won his Democratic primary, according to a race call by The Associated Press.
Frost's win nearly secures his path to Congress since the Orlando-based seat is considered a solidly Democratic district. Frost will face off against Republican Calvin Wimbish in November.
"Today's election is proof that Central Florida's working families want representation that has the courage to ask for more," Frost said in a statement. "I share this victory with the nurses, forklift drivers, teachers, caregivers, social workers, farmers, union organizers, cashiers, and other members of this vibrant community who supported this campaign."
At 25 years old, Frost just qualifies for the age requirement to serve in the U.S. House. The 2022 midterms mark the first election where members of Generation Z can run for congressional office. The Pew Research Center considers anyone born between 1997 and 2012 to be Gen Z.
Frost campaigned on key progressive issues, including Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, student debt cancelation and an end to gun violence. He first became involved in political organizing in 2012 while in high school following the mass shooting in Newtown, Conn. He's also spoken publicly about surviving a separate incident of gun violence.
"Our generation has been born into a lot of trauma and a lot of civil unrest around people being frustrated with things. And I think because of that, our generation naturally thinks about things in a bit of a different way," Frost told NPR.
The former March for Our Lives national organizing director and ACLU activist beat out a crowded field of nine other competitors, including state Sen. Randolph Bracy and former Florida Reps. Corrine Brown and Alan Grayson.
Frost also topped his competitors in fundraising while racking up key national endorsements from progressive leaders, including Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
In an interview with NPR, Frost acknowledged that age plays a symbolic role in his campaign.
"Yes we march, yes we engage in mutual aid, yes we engage on social media, and now we're running for office because we believe that we are prepared to be in the rooms and to be the voice for our communities and we can do that and young people should be allowed," he said.
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Paying taxes is our civic duty. The government’s duty is to make it as easy and inexpensive as possible for us to pay our taxes. But for too long, Congress has failed to uphold this responsibility, favoring instead corporations that profit from our need to file tax returns.
A bill recently introduced in Congress would fix this problem. Sen. Jeff Merkley and Reps. Earl Blumenauer and Peter DeFazio have co-sponsored the Tax Filing Simplification Act, which would create a simple and free way for Americans to file their taxes. All other members of Oregon’s congressional delegation should jump on board this common-sense reform.
Right now, it costs the average taxpayer about 13 hours and $240 every year to file a federal tax return, according to Internal Revenue Service figures.
People bear these costs and hassles even though, for many of them, the IRS already has all the information on hand to figure out their tax bill. Do you get a W-2 from your employer showing how much you got paid? So does the IRS. Do you get a 1099 form from the bank telling you much interest you earned? So does the IRS. The reality is that people often spend time and money simply to tell the IRS what it already knows.
For some families, the harm is greater. The cost and complexity of tax filing deters many Americans struggling to get by on low wages from filing a tax return. While their low incomes may mean they aren’t required to file a tax return, it also means they lose out on tax credits designed to help their families make ends meet. In doing so, they miss out on several thousand dollars that would make their lives and that of their children a bit easier.
The problem of families not claiming tax credits, even though they qualify for them, is worse in Oregon than just about every other state.
The Tax Filing Simplification Act would require the IRS to give people easy access to wage and other data needed to file a tax return that the agency already has in its possession. Such a system of pre-filled tax returns is not new; other countries already do it this way, making filing taxes a zip for their people.
There’s more. This legislation would also allow taxpayers with simple returns to choose to have the government fully prepare their tax returns. And it would direct the IRS to create its own free, online tax preparation and filing service. Yes, free.
Why doesn’t our country make it free and easy for people to file their tax returns? Because a few big corporations profit from the current, dysfunctional system.
In 2002, the Bush administration proposed creating a free tax filing system, but a massive lobbying campaign by Intuit — owner of TurboTax — killed the idea. Instead, the IRS agreed to allow a handful of corporations, in theory, to provide free tax filing software to as many as 70% of tax filers.
In practice, few people access the free service. In 2021, less than 3% of tax filers used the free service. Intuit, for one, made it so that users could not find the free service, while steering low-income taxpayers to its paid service. Earlier this year, the company paid $141 million to settle a claim it had deceived users with promises of free tax filing — a slap on the wrist for a corporation that hauled in billions in profits over that period.
Ultimately, the deal between the IRS and the corporate tax preparers collapsed after the IRS put in place measures to rein in the corporate shenanigans. H&R Block pulled out of the deal in 2020, followed by Intuit’s exit in 2021.
It’s long past due to put the interests of the American people above those of a few giant corporations profiting from our civic duty to pay taxes. The Tax Filing Simplification Act would save people money and hassles, while enabling many low-paid families to claim tax credits that improve their well-being.
It’s great that some members of Oregon’s congressional delegation are already fighting for this common-sense reform. The rest of the delegation should get on board.
Juan Carlos Ordóñez is the communications director of the Oregon Center for Public Policy, as well as the host of the podcast Policy for the People. Outside of work, Juan Carlos likes to spend time tending to his garden. | https://www.heraldandnews.com/members/forum/opinion-free-simple-tax-filing-puts-interest-of-americans-above-corporate-profits/article_d00e5d32-231b-11ed-a61b-63b21b0b3b28.html | 2022-08-24T03:43:32Z |
The Inflation Reduction Act, just signed by President Biden, will mark the most significant step the nation has taken toward a comprehensive national energy strategy. More important, this legislation will ensure a federal effort to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels, the primary cause of climate change.
Indeed, according to a recent analysis by the REPEAT Project at Princeton University, the Inflation Reduction Act would cut U.S. emissions by 3.8 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent by 2030.
This legislation also communicates to the business community that the federal government will support private investments in clean energy. This is essential if we will unlock the scientific advances required to one day be a nation — or even a planet — that is carbon neutral. We can get there only by funding the science that will lead to the development of energy sources that do not pollute.
Understanding just how critical the Inflation Reduction Act is to the renewable sector, Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft and Breakthrough Energy, a foundation to advance business investment in clean energy, wrote in the New York Times: “Through new and expanded tax credits and a long-term approach, this bill would ensure that critical climate solutions have sustained support to developing new industries.”
Opponents of the Inflation Reduction Act assert this legislation either does too little or would be ineffective. But these criticisms ignore something amazing that is taking place in California, where a government policy to reduce carbon emissions and spur economic investment in clean energy technologies is working.
Implemented in 2011, California’s Low Carbon Fuels Standard (LCFS) was designed to reduce emissions from transportation fuels, the largest source of greenhouse-gas emissions. The program is a massive success, with more than 75 million metric tons reduced to date and is on track to achieve its stated goal of reducing the carbon intensity of transportation fuels in California by at least 20% by 2030.
The Golden State’s LCFS quietly, but constructively, affects the lives of Californians by bringing more fuel options to drivers. The LCFS gives drivers a break from high gas prices by reducing demand for gasoline and diesel, increasing the supply of lower-cost biofuels, and by bringing more efficient vehicles like EVs and hydrogen vehicles into the market.
The LCFS also means cleaner air to breathe, especially in low-income neighborhoods where air quality tends to be worst, and provides community resources. According to the California Air Resources Board, “21.2 (%) of incentives went to customers in underserved communities, 10 (%) to customers in low-income communities and another 10 (%) to customers in disadvantaged communities.”
Building on these impressive achievements in reducing carbon emissions, CARB — the agency that oversees the clean air program — recently announced that it is redoubling its efforts on the LCFS to achieve carbon neutrality from transportation fuels by 2045 or even sooner.
California’s LCFS has created more than $10 billion in credit value that flows directly from petroleum refiners and importers to producers and manufacturers of clean fuels, vehicles and technologies. In other words, it is spurring economic growth in industries racing to slow carbon pollution.
The message I like to deliver is that the state’s LCFS has proven to be an effective policy, and a similar federal policy could expand the effects of the Inflation Reduction Act. If we could add to the public/private partnerships created by the Inflation Reduction Act with a National Clean Fuel Standard — technology and fuel neutral — then imagine the massive carbon reductions our nation would achieve in the next 10 years.
The Inflation Reduction Act could set off a movement to establish a national energy policy that lowers carbon emissions every year with both existing and new technologies. In fact, in coordination with other key stakeholders, my organization has been pursuing a federal clean fuel standard bill to be introduced in the Senate.
When the Inflation Reduction Act, just like California’s LCFS, begins to show progress and economic benefits, I am confident lawmakers on both sides of the aisle in Congress will support these carbon-reducing policies. After all, a clean and sustainable economy is stable and profitable, and often good business transcends political ideologies.
Graham Noyes is the executive director of the Low Carbon Fuels Coalition. He wrote this for InsideSources.com. | https://www.heraldandnews.com/members/forum/opinion-inflation-reduction-act-hits-mark-on-energy-environment/article_951a5a8a-2322-11ed-b83c-371ef79fcc79.html | 2022-08-24T03:43:39Z |
On Tuesday, Aug. 23, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced the grant funding to the Klamath County organization for it to improve wetland habitats through irrigation efficiencies on Lower Klamath and Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuges in the face of an unprecedented drought. This project comes through collaboration with landowners, government and irrigation districts to bring benefit to important waterfowl habitat in the region.
This innovative project will improve water management within both refuges and improve agricultural irrigation efficiency by providing flexibility and reduced operational costs for more than 20,000 acres of irrigated agriculture.
Operational improvements will include installing pumping stations to increase their capacity to manage and move water through different parts of the refuges. Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge and Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge will have two pumps each, allowing for water re-use and circulation within the refuge.
“Ducks Unlimited has been working for decades in the Klamath Basin,” said Ducks Unlimited Regional Director of Operations Jeff McCreary. “We are partnering with farmers and local governments to adapt to a new normal of unpredictable water supply.”
According to Ducks Unlimited, the record-setting drought has significantly affected waterfowl habitats in the Klamath Basin, threatening their populations through habitat loss. Within the last fifteen years, there has been a drastic decline in water availability on the refuges due to high demand for every drop.
“The Klamath Basin is one of the most critical points for waterfowl in the Pacific Flyway,” Amelia Raquel, regional biologist of Ducks Unlimited said. “Ducks Unlimited implements wetland habitat projects, builds coalitions, and delivers communications, policy, and scientific support to make a significant, long-term impact in the region.”
Ducks Unlimited said they are working closely with the US Fish and Wildlife Service Klamath Basin Refuges Complex, Klamath Drainage District, and Tulelake Irrigation District to facilitate this project, enjoying support from the Klamath Water Users Association, Intermountain West Joint Venture, and Farmers Conservation Alliance. | https://www.heraldandnews.com/news/2-6-million-grant-awarded-to-ducks-unlimited/article_1c5dabcc-232e-11ed-bf41-ffe5c13e4858.html | 2022-08-24T03:43:45Z |
Every summer since 1986, the Klamath Tribes have reserved the fourth weekend of August to celebrate when the Klamath Tribes Restoration Act was passed into law, restoring federal recognition of the Klamath, Modoc and Yahooskin (Paiute) tribes.
The Restoration Celebration returns this weekend for its 36th year and invites the public to join in the traditional festivities. Following pandemic shut downs, the community celebration this year is back in full-swing, hosting family-friendly events all weekend long, under the banner of “Revitalize Our Spirit.”
The four-day event begins Thursday, Aug. 25 when the Klamath Tribal Health Department Youth & Family Guidance Center hosts a pre-day Smudge Walk and Prayers. The walk begins at 8:30 a.m. at the fitness center in Chiloquin and ends at noon. Brunch will be provided to participants and everyone is welcome to join.
The celebration truly starts Friday, Aug. 26 with “Kicking it off” with the Health Row event. Master of Ceremonies Henry Thunderboy Rondeau said this portion of the celebration is intended to give community members an opportunity to learn about the available health provisions from members of the tribal health administration.
With set-up beginning at 7:30 a.m., gates will open to the public at 9 a.m.
Before the Health Row event is the unveiling of the Green School Yard — a new facility open to community use when school is not in session — at 8 a.m.
The school yard is around the back of Chiloquin Elementary at 548 S. Second Ave. in Chiloquin.
Running alongside the Health Row event will be the Color Run & Walk, which also takes place at the Green School Yard. This event is hosted by Klamath Tribal Health & Family Services. Participant registration begins at 9 a.m. and ends prior to the photo lineup which is set to take place at 10:45 a.m. Runners will take their marks at 11 a.m., with the walkers following.
A lunch will follow the completion of the Color Walk & Run event as participants return to Chiloquin Elementary around 12:30 p.m. Runners will be recognized at 12:45 p.m.
The pow wow will begin at 7 p.m. and continue throughout the weekend. The first Grand Entry is set for 7 p.m. at the Goos Olgi Gowa Community Center, 35601 Choke Cherry Way. This event will feature local vendors and fun for people of all ages, including dance contests for teens, adults and seniors.
Saturday, Aug. 27 continues the festivities with a traditional parade at 10 a.m. The parade leaves from Chiloquin Elementary School to head through downtown Chiloquin.
The parade will feature this year’s Grand Marshal, William Ray, who will serve the role in honor of his late siblings, Leticia Kirk and Eugene Ray.
Saturday also holds a traditional Red Shawl Dance, a practice of remembrance for loved ones who have passed. Those who attend are asked to wear red in support of Missing or Murdered Indigenous Peoples (MMIP). The event will begin at 3 p.m. and is hosted in collaboration by the Tribal Court Victims of Crime Project (TCVCP) and Healing Winds.
Finally, the celebratory weekend wraps up Sunday, Aug. 28 when the Klamath Tribes Culture and Heritage Department displays Klamath Tribal Artifacts at the community center alongside a language presentation by the newly founded Klamath Tribes Language Department.
The pow wow will wrap up the festivities, presenting its last Grand Entry event at 1 p.m. | https://www.heraldandnews.com/news/annual-revitalize-our-spirit-slated-for-chiloquin-this-weekend/article_4470c92a-2313-11ed-9eb2-a7eec1a29b2d.html | 2022-08-24T03:43:51Z |
Outside McMinnville, tucked in between huge vineyards and State Highway 18, farmer Jason Lampman runs a small, one-acre operation. He squeezes in as many plants as possible, making the most of the available space: apples, cherries, walnut trees and other crops.
But for Lampman, a father of three who moved to McMinnville five years ago to farm, having such a small plot makes it difficult to turn a profit. It’s why he also grows more lucrative crops like hemp and cannabis, and why he now has his eye on a new crop: psilocybin, also known as magic mushrooms.
“Being a new, emerging industry, it’s a great addition to a small farm where we don’t have room to expand,” Lampman said of psilocybin.
Starting in January, Oregon will become the first state to legalize psilocybin use in clinical settings, nearly two years after voters approved Measure 109. The treatment will be administered in permitted service centers under the watch of a trained facilitator. Oregonians will also be able to apply for permits to grow the crop.
Research suggests psilocybin could be effective in treating such behavioral disorders as post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and obsessive compulsive disorder.
But large portions of Oregon may lose access to this treatment before a single center opens. That’s because Measure 109 allows local governments the option to send the issue back to voters, either for a total ban or a two-year moratorium.
Advocates say fear is fueling the efforts against psilocybin, driven in part by widespread misconceptions about the drug and what access will look like when Measure 109 takes effect in January.
Since late July, a flurry of local governments have taken steps to add measures on psilocybin bans to the November ballot. As of Monday, more than 40 cities and counties will likely have some kind of psilocybin ban before voters in the general election, with more expected by Sept. 8. The vast majority are considering complete bans. If passed, the measures would create expansive tracts in Eastern, Central and Southern Oregon where people would not be able to access psilocybin.
Sam Chapman, executive director of the Healing Advocacy Fund, was the campaign manager for Measure 109. He said the widespread bans could render psilocybin inaccessible for rural Oregonians.
“These are people who, often in rural communities, already have a hard time accessing mental health care if at all,” Chapman said. “To take one additional option away from them, I do feel is unfortunate.”
Chapman watched several of the meetings where local officials took up the issue and noticed a common misconception — many believe that psilocybin will be recreationally available like cannabis. Measure 109 does not allow for recreational sales of psilocybin, he said.
Oregon does allow local governments to opt-out of having cannabis retailers in their areas. Ninety-eight municipalities have bans in place, according to the Oregon Liquor Control Commission.
Comparisons between psilocybin and cannabis have been on display in recent weeks, including in Deschutes County, where 52% of voters approved Measure 109. Commissioners voted 2-1 to send psilocybin back to voters, with Patti Adair citing concern over increased crime.
“With (legal) marijuana, we thought it would stop the cartel from coming — it didn’t,” Adair said. “We know the cartel is here.”
Commissioner Phil Chang responded that there’s no evidence legalizing a drug increases black market demand, and that he thought a ballot measure to prohibit psilocybin was “wasting tax-payer dollars.”
Government leaders in various jurisdictions were also concerned that the Oregon Health Authority had not yet released all of its rules on psilocybin centers. A draft of the final rules are expected in September, weeks after the Aug. 19 deadline to advance a measure for the ballot.
Others were simply skeptical that treatment with the drug would work at all. When the Prineville City Council sent a ballot measure to voters, some councilors said they weren’t sure it would be effective, while others said the training for facilitators is not rigorous enough.
“It sounds to me kind of like you’re gonna pay legally to go do drugs at a facility and we’re gonna make sure you don’t hurt yourself,” Councilor Raymond Law said.
Dr. Anthony Back, a researcher at the University of Washington School of Medicine, is leading a trial on the effectiveness of psilocybin and said while there are certainly side effects, there’s no shortage of research on the drug’s effectiveness.
“There may be other reasons that those counties want to opt-out,” Back said. “You can’t use a lack of research as the reason.”
Not all counties approve ban
When Lampman heard his home of Yamhill County was considering a similar ban, he immediately sprang into action.
He started posting daily on Instagram, encouraging people to write to the commission. He also started attending more county meetings, providing more information about psilocybin and its potential benefits.
“(The commission) sounded like they didn’t have any information about it at all,” he said. “It sounded like they were scared.”
He encouraged many others to testify. One of them was Josh Longoria, who co-owns a gardening store in McMinnville.
Longoria suffers from migraines, which can last for months at a time and sometimes force him to miss work.
He said he’s hoping to start psilocybin therapy, both to treat the migraines and the depression that often accompanies them.
“When (the migraines are) going on, it just drains me to where I don’t want to do anything,” Longoria said. “I’ve had friends that have microdosed psilocybin, and it seems to help them in a really big way. So I’m looking forward to being able to try that out.”
He said it’s important to have a safe space where he can take psilocybin while someone is watching to make sure he’s safe.
When the commission finally considered the ban measure on Aug. 11, it was clear the testimony of Lampman and others had an impact. The normally conservative commission opted not to send a ban to voters, citing the testimony as a big reason.
“At the beginning of this I thought, ‘We just need to do a total ban on this.’ Then I listened to people give testimony,” Commissioner Mary Starrett said. “There is an appropriate therapeutic use of this.”
Lampman and other supporters hugged afterward, their faces beaming with surprise. Lampman said he did not expect that result, but that it felt good to know they had listened.
“I was so happy — it’s unbelievable,” he said.
The outcome for much of the rest of Oregon will be up to the voters who see the issue again in November. | https://www.heraldandnews.com/news/in-mad-dash-oregon-psilocybin-centers-face-bans-across-the-state-before-any-have-opened/article_de77b3a2-2314-11ed-bff0-6fe9b15eb4b9.html | 2022-08-24T03:43:57Z |
The Klamath Irrigation District said it will continue delivering water to farmers in the drought-stricken basin, despite the federal government ordering a shutdown of the Klamath Project on Friday, Aug. 19.
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation manages the project, which includes KID and serves 170,000 acres of farmland straddling the Oregon-California border.
Only a limited allocation of water was allowed for irrigators from Upper Klamath Lake this year because of extreme drought.
While Reclamation has stated the project is now out of water, the KID Board of Directors met Monday, Aug. 22 and authorized the district’s manager, Gene Souza, to continue operations — defying the agency’s order to immediately cease diversions.
KID operates the project’s A Canal, providing water to nine irrigation districts totaling approximately 122,000 acres.
In a letter to Alan Heck, acting area manager for Reclamation, Souza argued the agency has not provided a legal basis for shutting down the project, and doing so would deny patrons water to which they are lawfully entitled.
“I am not doing my duty if I just comply, because I do not have a legal justification to deny the people I serve their property,” Souza told the Capital Press.
A spokesperson for Reclamation could not immediately be reached for comment.
Adaptive management
From the beginning, Reclamation stated it would take an adaptive approach to project operations in 2022.
Under the Endangered Species Act, the agency must also uphold protections for several species of fish, including shortnose and Lost River suckers in Upper Klamath Lake and coho salmon in the lower Klamath River.
Reclamation initially allocated 50,000 acre-feet of water for irrigators beginning April 15, just 15% of full demand.
However, officials stated that if inflows to Upper Klamath Lake exceeded expectations, they would set aside 50% of the additional water for irrigators.
That is exactly what happened. May and June brought slightly above-average precipitation to the Klamath Falls area. As of Aug. 1, the project water supply had increased to 82,253 acre-feet while maintaining a minimum lake elevation for suckers to access critical habitat.
Brad Kirby, manager of the Tulelake Irrigation District in Tulelake, Calif., said shutting off water now could spell disaster for some crops.
“For some crops like alfalfa, we are looking at severely reduced production,” said Kirby. “But for row crops like potatoes and onions, there is essentially no production unless you have water through the end of the irrigation season.”
Moving the goalposts
Paul Simmons, executive director of the Klamath Water Users Association, estimated about one-third of the Project will have received zero water this year, and the rest will have received “very limited” water.
As for the Aug. 19 water shutoff, Simmons accused Reclamation of making its decision based on politics, rather than science.
The ESA requires Reclamation to consult with two other federal agencies, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service, to establish guidelines for protecting endangered fish. The resulting Biological Opinions, or BiOps, form the basis for how much water fish and irrigators get every year.
A current BiOp for the suckers establishes an “absolute minimum” water elevation of 4,138 feet above sea level in Upper Klamath Lake for young fish to access critical habitat and hide from predators.
As a safeguard against over-drafting, Reclamation set a buffer of 4,138.15 feet above sea level, which it later increased to 4,138.62 feet. Simmons said that amounts to nearly 45,000 acre-feet of water put off limits to irrigators.
Simmons also said the end-of-year lake elevation targeted by Reclamation is “far above any level ever claimed to be necessary for endangered sucker species.”
The Klamath Tribes sued the federal government in May, claiming any water diverted from Upper Klamath Lake for irrigation in 2022 threatens the survival of suckers during the drought.
The fish, known as C’waam and Koptu, are central to the tribes’ history and culture.
Scrambling to respond
In response to the shutdown, districts are scrambling to come up with alternative plans to save as many crops as possible.
Kirby, with the Tulelake Irrigation District, said they are being forced to pump groundwater from the district’s wells to keep crops alive through harvest. Not only is the groundwater supply short of demand, but moving it to where it is needed poses a major logistical challenge.
“We’re having to rethink our entire system,” Kirby said. “It’s pretty difficult to think about how to make this work.”
Scott White, manager of the Klamath Drainage District, said Reclamation did propose a plan to “borrow” 10,000 acre-feet of additional water for farmers from PacifiCorp, which manages hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River.
The KDD board rejected the idea after learning the water would be repaid out of the district’s winter agricultural diversions.
“It’s been a different year, for sure, in terms of operating and cooperating with the bureau,” White said. “These policy decisions that are contrary to precedent and contrary to history, they do us no benefits in terms of managing our water wisely.”
The issue, Simmons said, comes back to “fundamental defects” with the project’s operations plan.
“It’s way beyond disappointment,” he said. “You just shake your head at how dysfunctional the government’s process is, trying to run this Project.” | https://www.heraldandnews.com/news/klamath-irrigation-district-defies-order-to-cease-water-deliveries/article_9be1cc50-2317-11ed-bba5-13ad63b9d783.html | 2022-08-24T03:44:03Z |
Districts plan on spending millions of dollars in state and federal funds to pay teachers higher salaries and offer hiring and retention bonuses to fully staff schools by Sept. 1.
Nearly all of Oregon’s 219 school districts and education service districts have applied for a portion of $100 million allocated by the state Legislature this year for staff bonuses. Districts also have had access to $1.7 billion in federal COVID-19 relief money since 2020, of which Oregon has more than $1 billion left to spend. Districts are allowed to use this money to maintain, retain and recruit staff.
Across the state, district superintendents say they continue to face teacher shortages for certain grades and subjects, including special education and English language teachers, along with shortages of administrators, bus drivers, custodians, and auxiliary staff.
A lack of teachers and other staff has meant that a growing number of students are taught by substitute teachers and emergency teachers after months of online learning during the pandemic. It has meant larger class sizes for some students and teachers forced to teach during planning periods and to work more hours.
The Capital Chronicle reached out to 100 superintendents across the state and heard back from more than one-third. A majority had most of the staff they needed but were still hiring in the runup to the first day of school, just two weeks away.
To fill gaps, the Siuslaw School District in Florence on the Oregon coast plans to ask a few retired teachers to help manage special education programs at the 400-student high school, Superintendent Andrew Grzeskowiak said in an email. Right now the school only has one special education teacher. Lane County also lacks bus drivers. Grzeskowiak said Siuslaw will try to attract them by matching hiring bonuses offered to drivers from private companies or in nearby school districts.
Staff needed in urban, rural areas
Portland Public Schools, the state’s largest district by enrollment, currently has 226 open teaching and classified school staff positions. Among them are openings for four school psychologists, 12 counselors and 29 special education teachers.
“We will fill any vacancies at the beginning of the school year with substitutes and other contingencies, if necessary,” said Sydney Kelly of the district’s media relations department.
Beaverton Public Schools, the state’s third largest district by enrollment, also needs staff. It is looking for more counselors, special education teachers, music, math and science teachers, Susan Rodriguez, chief human resources officer, said.
Rural districts need staff as well.
The Umatilla School District has long sought special education teachers.
“They’re so hard to find so we are always on the lookout,” Superintendent Heidi Sipe said.
In Hermiston, a push last school year to get substitute teachers and classified staff licensed to work full-time in classrooms has left the district with shortages of substitutes and classified staff, like paraprofessionals who work with students with disabilities and teahing assistants.
Superintendent Tricia Mooney said emergency teacher and substitute teacher licenses will continue to be helpful but she said they’re a “Band-Aid.”
“We need to be thinking further down the road, too, about how we’re going to grow our own teachers,” Mooney said.
Last year teacher burnout led to a greater strain on staffing.
“We did have teachers resign mid-year, and we haven’t really had that in the past,” Mooney said. “The fallout of that we’re gonna feel for several years to come.”
Her district is working with Western Governors University, a private online four-year college in Utah, to offer tuition reimbursement for non-certified staff who complete a teacher degree program and teach in Hermiston schools.
Bonuses, raises offered
The Parkrose School District in Portland will offer all returning teachers from last year a $1,000 bonus in November, Superintendent Michael Lopes Serrao said.
Tillamook used federal COVID-19 relief dollars last school year to provide teachers with one-time $3,500 appreciation stipends. It gave classified staff 10% raises last year and will add another 7.5% this year. Full-time teachers who return this year will receive another $1,000 bonus.
In Beaverton, teachers who return this year will get a $1,000 bonus. Dual language teachers will be eligible for an additional $2,000 in bonuses as will psychologists and speech therapists. Licensed staff with Spanish proficiency can get an extra $1,200 annually.
To combat bus driver shortages, Beaverton schools will pay $30 an hour for drivers, the highest rate in Washington County.
In North Bend, which is south of Florence, teachers who work at schools outside city limits could get stipends for gas, according to Superintendent Kevin Bogatin.
“We are hoping to provide some relief that will also help in staff recruitment,” he said.
Sipe in Umatilla said last year her teachers and classified staff wanted money invested in staff, rather than bonuses, so she used COVID-19 relief money to pay for more full-time substitute teachers and mental health professionals. The substitutes gave each teacher in the district a couple days of extra support, she said. Sipe also used the money to give each teacher one paid hour per month to collaborate with and mentor one another.
This year, the district will use federal dollars to double tuition reimbursements for school staff to become teachers in Umatilla. The district has up to $20,000 to offer employees for the 2022-23 school year, Sipe said.
Statewide group seeks long-term solutions
Since December of 2021, Sen. Michael Dembrow, D-Portland, has convened a working group that’s been studying Oregon’s teacher shortages and potential solutions. The group includes teachers; representatives from the Oregon Department of Education; the state’s largest teachers union, the Oregon School Boards Association; the Coalition of Oregon School Administrators; and several colleges and universities around the state.
The group is collecting data on teacher attrition. It last met in July to discuss findings, and Dembrow said one big one is an especially high turnover in administrators.
“Teachers need to be supported, and that support needs to be stable,” he said.
Short term, besides hiring and retention bonuses, an idea the group has pushed is to have Oregon join a national compact on educator licensing, allowing teachers from out of state to work in Oregon without having to get relicensed.
Long term, Dembrow said the group needs to address working conditions in schools and make the job appeal to new cohort of teachers.
“I’m reminded of what really important work teachers do and how deeply satisfying that work can be under the right conditions. If we can make those conditions right, we can attract more young and mid-career people into the profession,” Dembrow said.
Many of the newer teachers the working group has talked with are saying they need dedicated time and resources to receive mentorship and training.
“What’s clear is, if you’re not giving new teachers – whether they’re coming straight out of education programs or if they are sort of commissioned to deal with an emergency – the support they need in their first years, they won’t stay. It’s becoming even clearer,” he said.
The group will reconvene in September to discuss policy options that can be proposed during the next legislative session in 2023.
“We owe it to teachers to not come up with flashy proposals that look good and sound good to our constituents but to ask ourselves: do they have staying power? Are they well thought out?” Dembrow said. | https://www.heraldandnews.com/news/schools-hope-to-overcome-staff-shortages-with-millions-in-wage-bonus-incentives/article_0e4f18ea-2310-11ed-b21f-6f79fd974dce.html | 2022-08-24T03:44:10Z |
Oregon officials have stepped into the fray of the state’s hospital crisis with a request for nearly $40 million from the Legislature.
The Oregon Health Authority and state Department of Human Services sent requests to the two Democratic leaders of the state House and Senate – Sen. Peter Courtney, D-Salem and Rep. Dan Rayfield, D-Corvallis – last week. Courtney and Rayfield chair the Legislature’s emergency board, which is due to meet in September to adjust agency budgets and field funding requests.
The Department of Human Services is seeking $28.38 million, with $25.78 million from the general fund and $2.6 million in federal funds. The health authority is requesting $11.65 million, with $9.65 million from the general fund and the rest in federal dollars.
Oregon’s hospital system – and its long-term care sector – have struggled through worker shortages that have grown during the pandemic. Part of the problem, experts say, is the low reimbursement rates paid to providers which force facilities to keep salaries low, particularly in the long-term care sector. The Legislature has raised rates, but they’re still not sufficient, Fariborz Pakseresht, DHS director, said in his letter. Hospitals also struggle to find enough nurses and other professionals, with thousands of positions open across the state.
“To avoid life-threatening hospital bed shortages and make sure people can access the care they need, we must address the current health care staffing crisis,” Pakseresht wrote.
The staffing crisis in hospitals and long-term care facilities has limited the number of patients and residents they can admit.
“This current crisis has led to delays in moving patients from lower to higher levels of care, finding a bed when someone needs to be admitted from an emergency department, and finding a placement for a patient that is ready to be discharged from a hospital to a skilled nursing facility or other patient setting, such as an adult foster home,” Patrick Allen, health authority director, said.
On Monday, about 475 patients were “boarding” in a hospital bed, awaiting transfer to a facility with a lower level of care, according to data from the Association of Hospitals and Health Care Systems.
To help alleviate that logjam, Pakseresht proposes spending:
• $14.9 million for short-term staff in long-term care facilities.
• $4.4 million on shelter space for individuals who are well enough to transition out of a skilled care setting but have nowhere to go.
• $4.2 million to pay adult foster homes, which can care for a maximum of five people, to take discharged hospital patients.
• $1.5 million for long-term care facilities on the brink of bankruptcy and for rural Oregon.
• $800,000 to create “enhanced care facilities” to take in hospital patients with complex behavioral needs who require acute care.
The Oregon Health Authority also asked for money for enhanced care facilities – $1.5 million. It said that funding would be matched for a total of $3.5 million.
In addition, the health authority wants:
• $6.9 million to contract 50 nurses to care for patients who require less care in the hospital, with hospitals paying 25% of the cost. The agency estimated that would amount to $8.7 million total.
• $750,000 for three clinical staff to help coordinate the transfer of patients from constrained hospitals to others in emergency situations.
• $500,000 for 350 licensed and indigenous health care interpreters.
• $50,000 for grants for six regional resource hospitals which help coordinate care in their region.
The requests stem from negotiations with the hospital association, which released a statement on Friday, welcoming the requests.
“We asked the state for help to take pressure off the system, especially when it comes to discharging some patients and transferring others to more appropriate levels of care,” said Becky Hultberg, president and CEO of the association. “Today the state made the commitment to help, and we are grateful. This was a collaborative effort that we hope will help us take care of patients in need today, and avoid a disaster in the coming months, when people return to indoor activities and seasonal flu cases rise.”
Hultberg urged the emergency board to support the requests. Hultberg has told the Capital Chronicle that the money will help in the short term but does not provide a long-term fix. | https://www.heraldandnews.com/news/state-officials-seek-nearly-40-million-for-staff-in-hospitals-long-term-care-facilities/article_357069d2-2311-11ed-bbf2-db152d303d61.html | 2022-08-24T03:44:16Z |
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LIHUE, Hawaii (KITV4) -- Controversy over the future of the embattled Coco Palms Resort remains after a four-hour Planning Commission Meeting on Kauai, Tuesday.
Much of the meeting was dedicated to an annual status update regarding permits needed to continue the development.
A representative for the new developer said a majority of the permits has been acquired, and plans are to move forward with building out the hotel project. But residents who testified against the development argue the lack of environmental and structural integrity won't support a restored resort.
"Environmentally, it's not feasible with climate change and erosion issues. Look at the bike path that's falling into the beach in many sections. Infrastructure does not work. The septic system [is] a hundred times [busier] than in the 50s when this hotel was built," said resident, Kalena P.
"As far as what's vested beyond the property right now, what it's zoned for, and the entitlements on it is a resort hotel, and I don't think it would be fair to the buyers who spend a lot of money and I don't think it would be fair to us who spend a lot of money relying on those permits to at least let it play out now, that, for the first time, we're within weeks of getting building permits," argued developer representative, Parker Enlow.
Enlow says the developer plans to host community discussions regarding the once popular hotel -- something that wasn't done in the past. Plans to include a cultural center on resort grounds are also in the works.
Coco Palms Resort was left in shambles almost exactly 30 years ago when Hurricane Iniki struck Kauai in September 1992. Little has changed since then, as several efforts by developers over the years have not been successful at rebuilding the once-famous resort. | https://www.kitv.com/news/business/coco-palms-resort-planning-pushes-forward-kauai-residents-and-developers-still-at-odds/article_74effd94-235b-11ed-abdb-5721b2b6356b.html | 2022-08-24T03:57:56Z |
WAILUKU, Hawaii (KITV4) -- Farmers on Maui who have been impacted by the overpopulation of Axis deer may be eligible for an emergency loan of up to $150,000 to deal with the economic impacts of the invasive species.
The $150,000 will be the maximum amount loaned out to impacted farmers, according to the Hawaii Board of Agriculture. The terms of the loan and the amount handed out will be determined on a case-by-case basis.
Loan applications will be accepted through the end of the year.
Some considerations the Board will make as it determined loan terms include the historical performance of the farm and the “projected cash flow based on reasonable assumptions of revenue and expenses.”
The interest rate for the loans will be 3%, the Board said. The credit elsewhere requirement will be waived for loans of $100,000 or less. But those applying for more than $100,000 will need at least one credit denial before being eligible for the loan.
Anyone needing $50,000 or less can apply for micro-loans which involve less paperwork and swifter processing, according to the Board.
The three-year residency requirement will not apply.
Anyone looking for more information about the emergency loan program is asked to call the Agricultural Loan Division in Honolulu at 808-973-9460. | https://www.kitv.com/news/business/emergency-loans-up-to-150-000-available-to-maui-farmers-impacted-by-axis-deer-infestation/article_e77af618-2354-11ed-9c96-6758541d3427.html | 2022-08-24T03:58:02Z |
KAILUA, Hawaii (KITV4) -- After seeing his beachfront Kailua home burglarized for the third time, the anonymous owner is hoping the thieves will return the sentimental belongings they stole.
The owner of the home that sits on a private lane did not want to go on camera and did not want KITV4 to film the house itself out of fear of retaliation.
After submitting a police report, the anonymous victim claimed he pinged his stolen Airpods, with the last location listed at a home in Hau'ula.
But he said he was then told police could not conduct a search of that residence or initiate any arrests because they did not have enough evidence.
Attorney Doug Chin explained that to do either, officers need probable cause.
"Probable cause is sufficient reason based upon known evidence for a law enforcement officer to believe a crime has been committed, or that certain property is connected to a crime," Chin said.
Probable cause, Chin added, is needed to uphold people's right to privacy.
"If a judge decides that they (officers) did not have probable cause, then the evidence that they seized in a search warrant would be suppressed, or the arrest would be deemed a false arrest," Chin said. "Both of those would either jeopardize a case or get a police officer in trouble."
Bill Hicks, a long-time Kailua resident who sits on the area neighborhood board, suspects many of the robberies in his town involve thieves in need of money for drugs.
"It's awful, it's painful," Hicks said.
The board receives monthly statistics from the police department on crime in the area and Hicks notes there aren't many fluctuations.
Kailua saw 131 burglaries in 2019, 100 in 2020, then 105 in 2021. Hicks reported so far this year, there have been 50 robberies in the area.
"It's not typical, when you look at the larger picture, it seems as though it's been fairly static in Kailua," Hicks added.
The investigation into the robberies is still ongoing and if you have any information, call Honolulu police.
'A'ali'i is a reporter with KITV. He was born and raised on the island of Maui and graduated from the University of Southern California with a bachelor's degree in Journalism. | https://www.kitv.com/news/local/amid-probe-into-repeat-robberies-at-kailua-home-statistics-show-area-crime-unchanged/article_952e406e-2349-11ed-8343-2747951a1e55.html | 2022-08-24T03:58:08Z |
J Riley Busacker 1944-2022 J Riley Busacker, 78, of Cheyenne, passed away on August 19, 2022 surrounded by his loving family after a courageous dementia journey. He was born on January 21,1944 in Cheyenne, Wyoming to Howard and Rowena Busacker. Riley graduated from Cheyenne East High School in 1962 and attended college, first at CU Boulder, before transferring to Laramie to attend the University of Wyoming. In the summer of 1971, he returned to Cheyenne. On March 25, 1972, he married Jacqueline Busacker; they raised two children, Chauncey and Ashley. Riley was a contractor for 10 years in Cheyenne before beginning his 27 years of service as a state employee. Riley worked at multiple state agencies before finishing his career in the Bridges Department at the WY Department of Transportation. He was a skilled carpenter and enjoyed sharing his talent with friends, relatives and the community. His love of carpentry is evident by his vast collection of building supplies and tools. He enjoyed a friendly game of cribbage with his coworkers. In retirement, he found joy in golf and recounting the round afterwards with the guys. He was an avid sports fan, rarely missing Wyoming Cowboy football and basketball games. He was known for his stories, and was always willing to lend a hand. He was a dedicated Cheyenne Frontier Days volunteer for 50 years, and was elected to the Cheyenne Frontier Days HEELS in 1975. Riley was a member of the Cowboy Joe Club, Old West Museum, ELKS Lodge, the Cheyenne Quarterback Club and the Airport Golf Club. Riley will be missed by his wife of 50 years, Jacque; his son Chauncey (Ashley) and two grandchildren Emery and Josh of Denver; his daughter Ashley (George) of Cheyenne. Riley was preceded in death by his parents. A memorial service will be held Saturday, August 27th at 10 am at the Wiederspahan-Radomsky Chapel with a reception to follow at the Cheyenne Frontier Days Buckle Club. Donations may be made to the Old West Museum, the Lewy Body Foundation or the charity of your choice. To send the family condolences please visit www.wrcfuneral.com
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Mela D. Sandoval 1934-2022 Mela Sandoval, 88, of Cheyenne, Wyoming passed away August 20, 2022 surrounded by her loving family. Mela was born February 25, 1934, in Rainsville, New Mexico, a daughter of the late Manuel S. and Beatrice (Baca) Duran. Mela enjoyed caring for her home and was very dedicated to her Christian faith including teaching catechism. Her other interests included fishing, playing bingo and embroidery. Mela is survived by daughter, Bernadette Meza; sister, Dahlia (Gilbert) Romero; three granddaughters; four great-grandchildren; and she touched the hearts of every one of her nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, William Sandoval; siblings, Genevive Rivera, Eluid Duran, Maclovia Casias, Eleanor Martinez. Emma Buck, Isabel Lovato, Elvira Apodaca and Daniel Duran. Visitation will be held on Thursday, August 25, 2022 from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Schrader, Aragon and Jacoby Funeral Home with a Vigil for the Deceased to follow at 6:00 p.m. at the funeral home. A Funeral Liturgy will be celebrated on Friday, August 25th at 11:00 a.m. at St. Mary's Cathedral. Condolences may be offered to the family on-line at www.schradercares.com.
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Wyoming Tribune Eagle
CHEYENNE – Moderate Republicans across the state are searching for an independent candidate to run in the general election for secretary of state.
Sources told the Wyoming Tribune Eagle the desire to find a challenger came in response to state Rep. Chuck Gray, R-Casper, defeating Sen. Tara Nethercott, R-Cheyenne, in the Aug. 16 Republican primary, but the deadline is quickly approaching.
An independent candidate for a statewide seat must file by Monday with the Secretary of State’s Office, as well as secure 5,418 valid signatures. Efforts to find a candidate to even consider putting their hat in the ring have remained unsuccessful.
“People are really leery of the political environment right now,” said Rebekah Fitzgerald, a local political consultant scouting candidates. “And frankly, it’s a really tall order to ask someone to stand up a campaign from scratch and run in 70 days.”
She runs Fitzgerald Strategies Group, which is a communications and political firm out of Cheyenne, and was approached by some Republicans seeking a contender to challenge Gray. (Fitzgerald also is a member of the Wyoming Tribune Eagle’s editorial board.)
Another individual searching for a second option is state Sen. Cale Case, R-Lander. He has been on his own mission separate from Fitzgerald, but has similar motivations. Gray faces no Democrat in the primary, and will otherwise take office in January unless a write-in candidate receives enough votes.
“The voters have spoken, and it’s regrettable that Cale Case is refusing to listen to their voice,” Gray said via text message to the Wyoming Tribune Eagle on Tuesday. “We are going to continue to reach everyone in Wyoming and listen.”
Gray received significant support during the primaries. He was publicly endorsed by former President Donald Trump just days before the election, and was backed by other Wyoming Republicans, such as the U.S. House GOP primary winner, Harriet Hageman.
Gray was announced the winner late Tuesday night, with 75,938 votes reported in the unofficial results from the Secretary of State’s Office. Nethercott received 63,044 votes, and 14,292 went to Republican contender Mark Armstrong. Dan Dockstader, who withdrew from the race to support Nethercott after his name was printed on ballots, received 3,465 votes.
Criticisms of Gray
Despite securing the Republican spot in the general election, Gray has been criticized by fellow party members for his stances on election security and his leadership qualifications. Former Republican Secretary of State Max Maxfield also filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission at the beginning of August, voicing his concern over Gray’s income reports during his U.S. House campaign.
Maxfield endorsed Nethercott, and is hoping to have an independent candidate to vote for in the wake of her loss. Maxfield said he believes Gray lacks the professional experience to manage the office, and he objected to the doubts Gray cast on some positions related to the office.
Maxfield said to come out and argue there were cases of voter fraud in previous elections, and to advocate for the removal of absentee ballot drop boxes and reverting to paper ballots is ridiculous.
“I watched the process of the election, and saw the kind of campaign that Mr. Gray ran, and looked at his qualifications and looked at his personal views toward the second-highest office in the state,” Maxfield told the WTE. “It concerns me enough that I want to support someone else.”
These criticisms of the Republican primary winner were echoed by candidate seekers.
Case said he would not be comfortable with a secretary of state who has claimed the 2020 election was stolen being in charge of the Elections Division.
“There’s concerns with his FEC filing and the paperwork, and how his assets may or may not align, and then there’s just the concerns about his fitness and aptness to do the job,” Fitzgerald said. “He has been in the Legislature for a period of time now, and he hasn’t gotten many bills passed, and so that makes me question and others question his ability to work with others.”
She said since the responsibilities of secretary of state are largely administrative, there are significant consequences if the work is done incorrectly. She is worried employees may not want to work in the environment created by Gray, and that would lead to difficulties executing elections or working with small businesses.
Although there are doubts regarding his capability, Fitzgerald said this doesn’t translate to doubting the results of the election. She said it was fair and based on the ballots cast, and Gray was the clear winner.
Disinterest among candidates
The reason Fitzgerald has hope an independent candidate could win is because of the close to 63,000 votes Nethercott received, but it has been an uphill battle to find a contender. Fitzgerald said she doesn’t want to reveal the names of individuals considered so far due to the nature of the race, but they’ve expressed their weariness.
A candidate Case has been vying for openly turned down the opportunity to challenge Gray. Laramie County GOP vice-chairman Nathan Winters told the WTE he has received an extraordinary number of calls asking him to consider running, but his focus lies in other areas.
“We are in a very pivotal moment of bringing a charter school to Cheyenne that would be an affiliate of Hillsdale College, and we are one of only seven in the United States that was selected this year,” he said. “We are actually standing before the State Loan and Investment Board in just a few weeks, so this is important.”
Winters is also the president and executive director of the Family Policy Alliance of Wyoming, and doesn’t want to step down from that position.
He said he has spoken with Gray in recent days and expressed his support for the Wyoming Secretary of State’s Office. He said he believes the Republican primary winner will be successful if he works closely with the longtime employees.
“The staff that has been built up over the last number of years is one of the very best in the state of Wyoming,” he said he told Gray. “Secondly, (current Secretary of State) Ed Buchanan has made election integrity one of the foremost things that he has fought for over the last four-and-a-half years.”
He said he agreed with U.S. Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., in her belief that there were major questions raised regarding other states in the 2020 election, but he knows there were strong efforts that went into ensuring secure elections in Wyoming.
Although Gray has cast doubt on the election process in this state, Winters said he will support the most conservative candidate in the general election, and right now it is the Republican primary winner.
Uphill battle
Despite Winters telling Case he didn’t want to run against Gray, the state senator moved forward with trying to get the 5,418 signatures needed for Winters before Monday. Case hoped seeing the encouragement from residents would convince Winters to run.
Case sent a letter to Kai Schon, Elections Division director at the Secretary of State’s Office, arguing the petition could be circulated without pre-approval by the possible candidate. Case wrote that he agreed with Wyoming Statute 22-5-301 (a) in that the proposed candidate needed to approve the submission it was presented to the Secretary of State’s Office, but disagreed that the petitions couldn’t be sent out across the state if there was no such authorization.
“These petitions beforehand are not binding and have no effect. Only with the candidate’s signature do they become binding,” Case said. “Your existing policy prohibits a draft where people can express their support for a candidate. It is a free speech issue and a bureaucratic encumbrance of a process that has no effect on your office until the signatures are submitted with the candidate’s approval and countersignature.”
Case followed up with the WTE and said the Secretary of State’s Office would not accept his interpretation of the statute as of Tuesday.
Winters was the most viable candidate Case wanted to run, because he said others don’t have the name recognition or strong qualifications.
“I served with Nathan Winters in the Wyoming Legislature. He is a very honorable, thoughtful and kind person. He is very conservative and holds immense faith in our savior,” Case said in his testimonial. “No one ever will be able to tag him as a RINO.”
Facing the Wyoming GOP
The difficulty in finding a candidate doesn’t just revolve around a sprint campaign being unappealing, or the laws the Secretary of State’s Office must follow.
Both Fitzgerald and Case said some don’t want to put themselves in the crosshairs of the Wyoming Republican Party.
Fitzgerald said she believes leadership and members of the party showed support exclusively for Hageman. She said this, in turn, benefited Gray, who was backed by the U.S. House candidate.
“It’s clear the large majority of the state party was supporting her efforts there, and I think that just speaks more to the current environment of Wyoming politics and the Wyoming GOP,” she said.
The political consultant said she knows the state party and others have been careful not to host events endorsing specific candidates, but there has been a lot of bleed-over where voters might have had a hard time telling what was an independent event versus what was a county or state GOP-sponsored event.
“The messaging was blurred, and that may have been intentional to only invite certain people to certain events,” Fitzgerald said. “But the rules are very clear that the party has to remain neutral in the primary, and I think a lot of people are questioning whether that really happened.”
Case is a Republican who believes the GOP has overstepped its bounds when it comes to showing support for candidates. He pointed to the Save Wyoming Rally, which only hosted one Republican candidate in each statewide race, including Gray. Wyoming GOP Chairman Frank Eathorne attended the event, as well as the Hageman campaign rally in Casper over Memorial Day weekend attended by Trump and her campaign party on primary election night.
“We need to restore a fair primary, which Frank Eathorne didn’t give us,” Case said. “And if you just look at the attendees at the Lander rally, you tell me that the Republican Party wasn’t up to their ears behind the scenes for that, even though they said they weren’t. They only invited one candidate from each slot, and they put all their efforts behind that.”
Case argued it was another reason Winters decided not to run against Gray. Winters said he cares very deeply about the Republican Party and conservative principles, and would never run for office without the letter “R” following his name.
“I don’t blame him for saying no, because you’re up against the Republican Party leadership now, and you don’t want to buck that,” said Case. “That’s what he would be doing.”
Wyoming GOP National Committeeman Corey Steinmetz said in a statement the state party didn’t support a specific candidate in the primary race for secretary of state. He said they neither campaigned nor advertised for or against any candidate in the race.
He said the party congratulated all Republican primary winners, and it looks forward to continuing its work in support of those who represent Republican values, as expressed in the party’s platform.
“The voters have spoken in the primary, Representative Gray was elected with a margin of over 13,000 votes,” Steinmetz said. “Senator Case has the freedom to do whatever he feels he should, however ... the handpicked candidate by Mr. Case has said clearly that he is not interested in running for the office of secretary of state.”
Both Case and Fitzgerald said the hunt will continue for a contender over the next five days.
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. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/elections/election_2022/republicans-search-for-independent-candidate-to-challenge-gray/article_cf2c8890-2333-11ed-9bf4-afcfe1f3e718.html | 2022-08-24T04:05:57Z |
Participant Isabella Alexander is the 2022 2nd place winner for The Great Duck Race during the 17th annual River Festival in Green River on Saturday, Aug. 20.
Sweetwater County resident Lyneen Murphy's took the People's Choice Award, "The Leader of the Quack" during the Duckorating for Bills event at the 17th annual River Fesitival in Green River.
The Westenskow Family won the John Wesley Fowl Award during the Duckorating for Bills event at the 17th annual River Festival in Green River on Saturday, Aug. 20.
The Green River Trona Valley Federal Community Union took 2nd place in the Flaunt Your Fish competition during the 17th annual River Festival in Green River on Saturday, Aug. 20.
Ace Hardware in Green River took 3rd place in the Flaunt Your Fish competition during the 17th annual River Festival in Green River on Saturday, Aug. 20.
Rock Springs resident Josh Huseth took 1st place in The Great Duck Race at the 17th annual River Festival in Green River on Saturday, Aug. 20.
Photo Courtesy of Green River Chamber of Commerce
Participant Isabella Alexander is the 2022 2nd place winner for The Great Duck Race during the 17th annual River Festival in Green River on Saturday, Aug. 20.
Photo Courtesy of Green River Chamber of Commerce
Sweetwater County resident Lyneen Murphy's took the People's Choice Award, "The Leader of the Quack" during the Duckorating for Bills event at the 17th annual River Fesitival in Green River.
Photo Courtesy of Green River Chamber of Commerce
The Green River Hampton Inn and Suites won the Mallard Award during the Duckorating for Bills event at the 7th annual River Festival in Green River.
Photo Courtesy of Green River Chamber of Commerce
The Westenskow Family won the John Wesley Fowl Award during the Duckorating for Bills event at the 17th annual River Festival in Green River on Saturday, Aug. 20.
Photo Courtesy of Green River Chamber of Commerce
The Hunter/Rosene Family took 1st place in the Flaunt Your Fish event during the 17th annual River Festival in Green River on Saturday, Aug. 20.
Photo Courtesy of Green River Chamber of Commerce
The Green River Trona Valley Federal Community Union took 2nd place in the Flaunt Your Fish competition during the 17th annual River Festival in Green River on Saturday, Aug. 20.
Photo Courtesy of Green River Chamber of Commerce
Ace Hardware in Green River took 3rd place in the Flaunt Your Fish competition during the 17th annual River Festival in Green River on Saturday, Aug. 20.
GREEN RIVER – Communities, in and out of Sweetwater County, joined as one during the 17th annual River Festival in Green River, Friday, Aug. 19 and Saturday, Aug. 20.
One of the main attractions was The Great Duck Race. Participants stood in the river to gather the most colored, rubber ducks in minutes.
The Great Duck Race winners include:
1st Place Josh Huseth
2nd Place Isabella Alexander
3rd Place Cynthia Truong
According to Jesica Hunter, office clerk for the Green River Chamber of Commerce, “The Great Duck Race has been going on for many years and the proceeds this year are going to The Friends of the Greenbelt.
The Friends of the Greenbelt is a non-profit organization for the Greenbelt.
Businesses and individuals used their artistic skills and imagination to decorate purchased ducks. The “Leader of the Quack,” which is a People’s Choice Award, was determined by the duck with the most money in votes.
Duckorating for Bills winners include:
Leader of the Quack: Lyneen Murphy
Mallard Award: Hampton Inn & Suites Green River
John Wesley Fowl: Westenskow Family
Hunter pointed out that this was the first year for “Duckorating for Bills” and the proceeds are going to the Sweetwater County Food Bank.
Hunter said that “Flaunt Your Fish” has been a tradition since 2017 and 50% of the proceeds go to Seedskadee Trout Unlimited.
Participants had the opportunity to paint and decorate wood carved fish for the event. Their fish were displayed on both sides of the bridge, entering Expedition Island.
Flaunt your Fish winners include:
1st Place: Hunter/Rosene Family
2nd Place: Trona Valley FCU Green River
3rd Place: Ace Hardware Green River
“We think that the events turned out great,” Hunter said. “There were so many wonderful entries.” | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rocketminer/a-ducking-good-time-was-had-at-the-river-festival/article_05653c18-2352-11ed-bad9-439457762e97.html | 2022-08-24T04:06:04Z |
Episode 115: Guy Williams Works to Restore Pontchartrain Beach
This week’s episode features Guy Williams, CEO at Gulf Coast Bank and co-founder the Pontchartrain Beach Foundation, a nonprofit hoping to restore and re-open the storied beach at the lake end of Elysian Fields Avenue. Last month, the Lakefront Management Authority, which oversees the property, unanimously voted to negotiate a lease with the foundation. Next on the to-do list is moving the process forward and securing $20 million to make the dream a reality. | https://www.bizneworleans.com/episode-115-guy-williams-dreams-of-a-restored-pontchartrain-beach/ | 2022-08-24T04:25:31Z |
Louisiana Regulators File Suit Over Grand Gulf Nuclear Power Plant
BATON ROUGE (The Center Square) — The Louisiana Public Service Commission is suing the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, alleging the federal agency is slow-walking decisions regarding Entergy’s Grand Gulf nuclear plant that could save customers millions.
The PSC recently filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals that alleges “inexcusable” delays in resolving its complaints against Entergy’s nuclear power plant in Mississippi is costing customers $4 million a month in just one of many open cases, The Advocate reports.
The lawsuit suggests FERC is more focused on incentivizing clean energy than resolving the PSC’s complaints against Entergy, which recently offered three states a settlement to refund hundreds of millions to resolve the issues at the nuclear plant.
“Because of federal preemption, (Entergy) continues to collect excessive rates and state regulators can do nothing but seek relief at FERC, which the agency puts off through delay,” the lawsuit read.
That’s a problem because FERC can only grant refunds for 15 months, according to the lawsuit, which argues FERC should give the “same preference” to actions as utility rate filings that are required to be acted on within 60 days, according to the news site.
“Each day of FERC’s inaction imposes irreparable injury on consumers,” the lawsuit reads.
The Louisiana PSC, the New Orleans City Council and regulatory agencies in Mississippi and Arkansas accused Entergy of overcharging ratepayers through tax maneuvers, incentive pay for executives and through other issues at the Mississippi facility that sells wholesale power to multiple states.
The Mississippi Public Service Commission announced in June it agreed to a $300 million settlement to end the state’s part in 13 rate proceedings before FERC, finalizing a dispute that began in 2017. Entergy did not admit any wrongdoing as part of the settlement and said it’s simply trying to mitigate costs from the ongoing FERC dispute.
“Entergy has long maintained that the disputed positions regarding the taxing, financing, accounting and operating of Grand Gulf before FERC are proper, well-reasoned and in the best interest of its customers and the company. Entergy also believes Grand Gulf has provided consistent value for its customers through its operations over the years,” an Entergy statement read.
The deal uses $200 million to offset high fuel prices that the company planned to pass on to customers, and $35 million in lump sum bill credits to Entergy Mississippi customers amounting to a one-time credit of $80. Another $50 million in bill credits were also made in prior refunds as part of the FERC proceedings, according to an Entergy statement.
But the Louisiana PSC rejected a $95 million offer to settle its claims, while the New Orleans City Council rejected a $116 million offer and Arkansas rejected $142 million. Early recommendations in the case suggest Entergy should repay more than the settlement provides, but FERC hasn’t made a final determination.
“That proposed refund amount would not come close to making New Orleans ratepayers whole for … years of overcollections,” the New Orleans council wrote in rejecting the $116 million settlement offer.
While FERC has yet to resolve the disputes, the Grand Gulf facility has continued to struggle with a shutdown in July, which increased Entergy’s reliance on costly natural gas to produce electricity. Entergy passes those costs on to ratepayers.
While the plant resumed operation on Aug. 9 according to Nuclear Regulatory Commission records, the plant was completely shut down from July 13 to July 31. | https://www.bizneworleans.com/louisiana-regulators-file-suit-over-grand-gulf-nuclear-power-plant/ | 2022-08-24T04:25:37Z |
New Orleans Businesses Fill CPR Training Need for Area Schools
NEW ORLEANS (press release) — The American Heart Association of Greater New Orleans collaborated with local sponsors and businesses to fill an urgent CPR training need. They are providing 69 CPR in Schools Training Kits, which will serve more than 50,000 greater New Orleans area students each year. The kits have 10 mannequins each, and are sustainable and reusable, meaning the schools can continue to use them year after year, potentially adding more trained lifesavers to our community.
The local American Heart Association, Boysie and Joy Bollinger, and the Ray & Jessica Brandt Family Foundation came together with additional sponsors, E.J. and Marjory B. Ourso Family Foundation, Acadian Companies, and InclusivCare, to make sure students have the resources they need to fulfill their CPR graduation requirement at no cost to schools.
The CPR in Schools Training Kits will empower students to learn the core skills of CPR in under 30 minutes, including AED skills and choking relief. Everything teachers need to properly educate students: an instructional video, facilitator’s guide, mannequins and a mannequin pump, knee pads, replacement parts and sanitizer is included.
“Many of the schools, public and private, throughout Greater New Orleans lack CPR kits for training. COVID-19 created an even more urgent gap for students needing to complete CPR graduation requirements. Additionally, it showed a need for students in lower grades to learn this essential, lifesaving skill as so many of us were home bound. Thanks to the recognition of this need for our community, and the generosity of our local sponsors, tens of thousands of our students will now be able to save a life,” said Coretta LaGarde, executive director, American Heart Association of Greater New Orleans.
Each year, more than 350,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests occur in the United States and fewer than half of these people receive the immediate help that they need before professional help arrives. But immediate CPR could double or triple a cardiac arrest victim’s chance of survival.
“With more than 70 percent of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests happening in homes, you will most likely be trying to save the life of someone you love: a child, a spouse, a parent or a friend. Through programs like CPR Kits in Schools, the American Heart Association is working to increase the number of bystanders who use CPR in an emergency,” said LaGarde.
In 2014, the American Heart Association helped to pass the Burke Cobb Act, which made it a requirement for all Louisiana high school seniors learn CPR before graduation. These kits provide schools with the tools they need to teach hands only CPR skills and gives students the confidence necessary to perform CPR or use an AED, ultimately making our communities safer and empowering youth to save lives.
To make a donation toward the CPR in Schools Training Kit program, email AHANewOrleans@heart.org. Click here for more information. | https://www.bizneworleans.com/new-orleans-businesses-fill-cpr-training-need-for-area-schools/ | 2022-08-24T04:25:43Z |
Report: N.O. Business Owners Cautiously Optimistic Despite Challenges
NEW ORLEANS — Despite enormous challenges, including the COVID pandemic and the devastation of Hurricane Ida and other major storms over the past two years, New Orleans business owners remain cautiously optimistic about prospects for growth. This is one of several findings in a report released today by StayLocal, an independent business alliance.
Data for the 2022 Focus Group Report was collected during a two-hour session conducted earlier this year with owners of restaurant, retail and service-oriented businesses of varying ages and sizes. Research was conducted collaboratively with Pam Jenkins, University of New Orleans research professor of sociology emerita.
The report collected meaningful information on business owners’ pain points and hopes when planning for the future. The data will help StayLocal provide the most appropriate support to local businesses moving forward.
The focus group explored far-ranging topics related to the impacts of cascading disasters on the business climate, including the often-unaddressed toll on mental health.
“New Orleans is very different,” said Sinnidra Taylor, owner of Crazy Waffle Bar. “We get these things over and over again, and the mental health supports aren’t there. The expectation is to bounce back but if we want our long-term residents to stay and be resilient and be fruitful, we have to support them in ways where maybe they don’t even recognize they need support.”
While responses to questions varied according to business type and size, participants were unanimous on one issue: engaging with city departments for permitting, licensing, tax compliance and other processes is unnecessarily burdensome and therefore costly to business owners.
“City Hall needs to work with us,” said Michelle Ingram, founder and owner of Zeus’ Place, a 16-year-old pet grooming business on Freret Street, and co-founder of the Freret Market. “We’re bringing them tax money that’s going to keep the city going. We’re not a burden. I think it would be so much easier if there were more online options, less showing up to City Hall in person, and if permit applications were streamlined.”
One finding of the study is that business owners want to remedy the challenge of ineffective communication when systems are down during hurricanes. In response, StayLocal will host a two-way text communication system for business owners. The new system will enable businesses to share information about their status, including temporarily revised hours of operation or location, as well as goods and services they can provide to sheltering citizens, and ways to collaborate business-to-business to improve reopening times for businesses.
Despite the challenges, local businesses remain cautiously optimistic that a more user-friendly City Hall is possible, and that with better communication and more streamlined processes in place, prospects for their business in New Orleans are bright.
“I’d like to bring in global manufacturers to the city of New Orleans to show them an example of a city that is designed and built better. A city with long-term sustainability, and a city that has thought about what it means to be a business owner,” said Josh Loeske, CEO of QSM, a Kenner-based construction product supplier.
StayLocal plans to share report findings with city and regional agencies in the hopes of improving coordination.
Founded in 2003 by the Urban Conservancy, StayLocal is a city-wide initiative to create a strong economy based on locally owned and operated business.
Dana Eness is the executive director of the Urban Conservancy. Maryann Miller is the StayLocal New Orleans program manager. | https://www.bizneworleans.com/report-n-o-business-owners-cautiously-optimistic-despite-challenges/ | 2022-08-24T04:25:49Z |
St. Tammany Corporation, Idea Village Bring IDEAinstitute to Northshore
MANDEVILLE, La. – Chris Masingill, CEO of St. Tammany Corporation, and Jon Atkinson, CEO of the Idea Village, have announced the establishment of a strategic partnership between the organizations, anchored by the launch of the IDEAinstitute Northshore program. This partnership represents a key step in St. Tammany Corporation’s strategic priority of engaging in dynamic relationships with respected thought leaders to enhance the entrepreneurial ecosystem in St. Tammany and the broader region.
“This partnership with The Idea Village is a key component of our Startup Northshore initiative that strives to advance our strategic business formation and business retention efforts,” said Masingill in a press release. “The launch of the first IDEAinstitute Northshore cohort is a significant opportunity to begin shaping the broader entrepreneurial ecosystem on the Northshore. This partnership is designed to bring specific, technical business development support for entrepreneurs from a nationally recognized leader in the entrepreneurial space directly to our Northshore area businesses.”
“The momentum of regional entrepreneurship shows that good ideas don’t know parish lines,” said Atkinson. “Our new partnership with the St. Tammany Corporation will offer Northshore entrepreneurs an enhanced opportunity to benefit from The Idea Village’s deep experience in helping to catalyze their startups, while also connecting them with other Northshore startups, business coaches, mentors, and investors that are closer to home,” he said. “The launch of this partnership, along with the Startup Northshore initiative, is a key first step towards building a connected super-regional startup community that supports local founders in creating dynamic, innovative new businesses and allows for deep, local connections wherever they choose to call home.”
IDEAinstitute is an idea-stage accelerator program that introduces innovative entrepreneurs and potential startup founders to the tools they need to turn an idea into a scalable venture. Founders will walk away from the program with a plan to build a business following the Lean Startup Methodology, and they will meet a community of like-minded founders along the way. This 10-week program is run in a hybrid format, with each week’s session running virtually and opportunities to engage in person in the final week. IDEAinstitute is led by Dr. Felipe Massa, professor of management and entrepreneurship at Loyola University New Orleans, and produced by the Idea Village in collaboration with local partners.
Since its inception, the program has served 261 founders across seven cohorts while continually fine-tuning the curriculum and surrounding acceleration model. IDEAinstitute is looking to expand hands-on support and accessibility in surrounding communities by developing a network of local satellite programs that will be delivered through partner organizations to expand the program’s footprint and reach across the region.
“The entrepreneurial ecosystem in southeastern Louisiana has evolved significantly in the past two decades, and we are excited to intentionally engage with well-respected regional partners to bring their expertise to the Northshore,” said Marty Mayer, St. Tammany Corporation board president. “The Idea Village has a strong track record of supporting regional entrepreneurs who have since experienced tremendous success in scaling their business endeavors, and in turn, garnering broad industry recognition. The Northshore is well-suited to maximize our strategic geographic location and talented people to foster innovation and creativity through business formation, and this partnership with The Idea Village is an excellent way to launch the Startup Northshore initiative.”
Ultimately, The Idea Village envisions a hub-and-spoke network that brings world-class startup resources to all communities within our region and connects and provides value to all regional entrepreneurs. St. Tammany Corporation is the first “spoke” partner of this approach.
Applications are now open for IDEAInstitute Northshore, a 10-week program that begins the week of Sept. 4. This idea-stage accelerator is designed to give entrepreneurs the knowledge and expertise needed to turn an idea into a scalable business venture. The program is offered in a hybrid format of evening virtual classes, in-person networking events, and mentorship opportunities. Click here to learn more.
St. Tammany Corporation’s Startup Northshore initiative is made possible through the financial support and partnership of Chevron and Citizens National Bank. This three-year entrepreneurial ecosystem pilot program is designed to deliver first-class programming and technical assistance to entrepreneurs, startups, and second stage companies on the Northshore through strategic partnerships with recognized entities in the entrepreneurship landscape. | https://www.bizneworleans.com/st-tammany-corporation-idea-village-bring-ideainstitute-to-northshore/ | 2022-08-24T04:25:55Z |
Man accused of sexually abusing boy in McDonald’s bathroom
Published: Aug. 23, 2022 at 11:51 PM EDT|Updated: 48 minutes ago
CHICAGO (WLS) - A Michigan man is facing charges after police say he sexually abused a 6-year-old boy in a McDonald’s bathroom.
Bryan Sutton, of Flint, Michigan, was expected to appear in bond court Tuesday.
Police say a 6-year-old boy was in the bathroom Saturday evening at the McDonald’s flagship restaurant in Chicago when the 62-year-old Sutton went into a stall and sexually abused him.
When security tried to stop Sutton, he allegedly fought back. He was eventually detained and arrested when police showed up.
Sutton is charged with aggravated kidnapping and criminal sexual abuse.
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VANCOUVER, BC, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Copper Mountain Mining Corporation (TSX: CMMC) (ASX: C6C) (the "Company" or "Copper Mountain") announces that the Company has terminated the employment of Rodney A. Shier as Chief Financial Officer, effective immediately. Mr. Bradley Bolger, currently the Company's Vice President, Finance, will become interim Chief Financial Officer.
Copper Mountain's flagship asset is the 75% owned Copper Mountain Mine located in southern British Columbia near the town of Princeton. The Copper Mountain Mine currently produces approximately 100 million pounds of copper equivalent per year. Copper Mountain also has the 100% owned development-stage Eva Copper Project in Queensland, Australia and an extensive 2,100 km2 highly prospective land package in the Mount Isa area. Copper Mountain trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol "CMMC" and Australian Stock Exchange under the symbol "C6C".
Additional information is available on the Company's web page at www.CuMtn.com.
On behalf of the Board of
COPPER MOUNTAIN MINING CORPORATION
"Gil Clausen"
Gil Clausen, P.Eng.
President and Chief Executive Officer
This document may contain "forward looking information" within the meaning of Canadian securities legislation and "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (collectively, "forward-looking statements"). These forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this document and Copper Mountain does not intend, and does not assume any obligation, to update these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required under applicable securities legislation.
All statements, other than statements of historical facts, are forward-looking statements. Generally, forward-looking statements relate to future events or future performance and reflect our expectations or beliefs regarding future events.
In certain circumstances, forward-looking statements can be identified, but are not limited to, statements which use terminology such as "plans", "expects", "estimates", "intends", "anticipates", "believes", "forecasts", "guidance", scheduled", "target" or variations of such words, or statements that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might", "occur" or "be achieved" or the negative of these terms or comparable terminology. In this document, certain forward-looking statements are identified, including production and cost guidance, anticipated production at the Copper Mountain Mine, expectations regarding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on operations, financial condition and prospects, anticipated metals prices and the anticipated sensitivity of the Company's financial performance to metals prices, the timing and results of the Company's exploration and development programs, the timing of the Company's plant improvement and optimization projects at the Copper Mountain Mine, the timing of commissioning the first four Trolley Assist haul trucks at the Copper Mountain Mine, the timing of the Company's updated mineral reserves and mineral resources estimate and new life of mine plan for the Copper Mountain Mine, the timing for the completion of detailed engineering for the Eva Project, the timing of studies, announcements, and analysis, events that may affect its operations and development projects, anticipated cash flows from operations and related liquidity requirements, the anticipated effect of external factors on revenue, such as commodity prices, estimation of mineral reserves and resources, mine life projections, reclamation costs, economic outlook, the impact of inflation, government regulation of mining operations, and business and acquisition strategies. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results, performance, achievements and opportunities to differ materially from those implied by such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements include, among others, the successful exploration of the Company's properties in Canada and Australia, market price, continued availability of capital and financing and general economic, market or business conditions, extreme weather events, material and labour shortages, the reliability of the historical data referenced in this document and risks set out in Copper Mountain's public documents, including in each management's discussion and analysis, filed on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. The potential effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Copper Mountain's business and operations are unknown at this time, including Copper Mountain's ability to manage challenges and restrictions arising from COVID-19 in the communities in which Copper Mountain operates and its ability to continue to safely operate and to safely return the business to normal operations. The impact of COVID-19 is dependent on a number of factors outside of the Company's control and knowledge, including the effectiveness of the measures taken by public health and governmental authorities to combat the spread of the disease, global economic uncertainties and outlook due to the disease, and the evolving restrictions relating to mining activities and to travel in certain jurisdictions in which Copper Mountain operates. Although Copper Mountain has attempted to identify important factors that could cause the Company's actual results, performance, achievements and opportunities to differ materially from those described in its forward looking statements, there may be other factors that cause the Company's results, performance, achievements and opportunities not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. While the Company believes that the information and assumptions used in preparing the forward-looking statements are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on these statements, which only apply as of the date of this news release, and no assurance can be given that such events will occur in the disclosed time frames or at all. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on the Company's forward-looking statements.
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Since launching the Gogoro battery swapping network and Smartscooter in 2015, Gogoro has enabled more than 325 million battery swaps, 340,000 battery swaps per day, and now supports ten vehicle makers accounting for more than 92% of Taiwan's electric two-wheel refueling.
TAIPEI, Taiwan, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Gogoro® Inc. (Nasdaq: GGR), a global technology leader in battery swapping ecosystems that enable sustainable mobility solutions for cities, today announced it had surpassed 500,000 monthly battery swapping subscribers in Taiwan.
Launched in 2015, Gogoro battery swapping has become the refueling leader for electric two-wheel vehicles with more than 92% market share in Taiwan in the first half of 2022. Gogoro's open battery swapping ecosystem currently supports ten different vehicle brands, accounting for more than 25% of all two-wheelers sold in Taipei in the first half of 2022.
"Gogoro's half-million battery swapping subscribers is an amazing testament to our growth and momentum as a company, but more importantly it represents 500,000 individual stories and 500,000 people who have chosen to embrace sustainable transportation to lead Taiwan into a sustainable future," said Horace Luke, founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Gogoro. "Taiwan is an excellent example of how an open battery swapping ecosystem can enable governments, businesses, vehicle makers and riders to embrace sustainable electric transportation."
At the heart of Gogoro's ecosystem is the Gogoro Network, an open and interoperable battery swapping platform that was recognized in 2021 by Guidehouse Insights as the leading battery swapping company for lightweight urban vehicles in the world. The Gogoro Network is an open platform for battery swapping and smart mobility services, delivering a fresh alternative to legacy fuel. Gogoro Network is a new generation of swappable battery refueling that is smart, scalable, and continually optimizing itself to be dynamic and versatile for people, communities, and businesses.
The Powered by Gogoro Network Program gives Gogoro's vehicle maker partners access to Gogoro innovations including its intelligent drivetrains and controllers, components, and smart systems, so they can develop and roll out unique electric vehicles that integrate with Gogoro Network battery swapping. With more than 500,000 riders and nearly 11,000 battery swapping GoStation cabinets at over 2,240 locations, Gogoro Network is hosting 340,000 daily battery swaps with more than 325 million total battery swaps to date.
Founded in 2011 to rethink urban energy and inspire the world to move through cities in smarter and more sustainable ways, Gogoro leverages the power of innovation to change the way urban energy is distributed and consumed. Gogoro's battery swapping and vehicle platforms offer a smart, proven and sustainable long-term ecosystem for delivering a new approach to urban mobility. Gogoro has quickly become an innovation leader in vehicle design and electric propulsion, smart battery design, battery swapping, and advanced cloud services that utilize artificial intelligence to manage battery availability and safety. The challenge is massive, but the opportunity to disrupt the status quo, establish new standards, and achieve new levels of sustainable transportation growth in densely populated cities is even greater. For more information, visit www.gogoro.com/news and follow Gogoro on Twitter: @wearegogoro.
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jaimie branch, a trumpeter who combined punk ferocity with advanced technique in her version of improvised music, earning acclaim within and well outside of jazz circles, died on Monday night at her home in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, N.Y. Her death was announced by International Anthem, the Chicago-based label that released her music. (The statement, made in consultation with her family, did not provide a cause.) She was 39.
branch could conjure a world of personal expression with her trumpet, sounding brash and conflagratory one moment, bleary and contemplative the next. What she always conveyed with her horn, in any setting, was an absolute whole-body conviction. One reason she became a beloved linchpin of the creative music community over the last decade was this spirit of gutsy intensity. Her demeanor, by comparison, was often hilariously profane and ultracasual — qualities she hinted at with a preferred moniker, jaimie breezy branch (no caps).
She was a rising star who'd amassed a worldwide following and no shortage of critical acclaim over the last five years, especially for her work with a chamberlike yet attractively rough-hewn band, FLY or DIE. Along with branch on trumpet and vocals, it featured Jason Ajemian on bass, Chad Taylor on drums, and either Tomeka Reid or Lester St. Louis on cello. NPR Music recognized FLY or DIE's self-titled debut as one of the Top 50 Albums of 2017. (The group also made my personal list of Top 10 jazz performances that year). A sequel, FLY or DIE II: Bird Dogs of Paradise, landed in the Top 10 in the 2019 NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll.
The trumpet wasn't the only tool in branch's creative arsenal: She was a skilled producer and electronic artist, and lately ventured headlong into vocals, spoken and sung. As WBEZ's Nereida Moreno reported in 2019, branch took focused aim at the resurgence of nativist and racist ideologies with "prayer for amerikkka," a piece from FLY or DIE II so titled because, as she told Moreno at the time, "this country was really founded on genocide and slavery, so let's just be real about that."
Before she was widely known for any political stance, branch was hailed in new-music circles for the dynamic range and grounded power of her trumpet playing. She was a welcome presence on the Festival of New Trumpet Music (FONT Music) in New York, which presented her as early as 2007, and on multiple occasions since.
"She brought us so many insights into how the trumpet could engage in the music differently," trumpeter and composer Dave Douglas, the founder of FONT Music, tells NPR. "She had a vision for synthesizing the voices of her inspirations and taking them to new levels no one had thought possible. It's a tragic loss for our community."
Those inspirations covered a spectrum, from the murmuring warmth of Chet Baker to the mischievous blare of Lester Bowie. Like Bowie and Miles Davis, another key influence, branch knew how to place her sound within the tumult of an assertive band, sometimes cutting through and sometimes burrowing in. A version of "Theme 002" recorded in Switzerland early in 2020, and later included on FLY or DIE LIVE, finds her bobbing and weaving against a springy variation on dub rhythm before the beat dissolves into freeform static. It's a neat distillation of branch's style as an improviser, though it's also just one discrete piece.
Born on June 17, 1983 in Huntington, N.Y., branch grew up in a musically conducive environment, partly inspired by the example of her half-brother, a decade her senior. She started on piano at age 3, and by 9 she had taken up trumpet. Within a few years, she later remembered, it was clear that this would be her calling.
The Branch family moved from Long Island to the northern suburbs of Chicago — Wilmette, Ill. — when jaimie was 14. At the New England Conservatory in Boston, she studied with Charles Schlueter, then the principal trumpeter in the Boston Symphony Orchestra, as well as seasoned improvisers like guitarist Joe Morris and trumpeter John McNeil. As a student at NEC, she also discovered the experimental sound palette of German trumpeter Axel Dörner, promptly falling down a rabbit hole of extended technique: circular breathing, multiphonics, spectral resonance, areas of pure sound.
This burgeoning area of expertise served branch well when she returned to Chicago, home to some of the most free-thinking composer-improvisers on the planet. Among her early champions there was cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm, with whom she formed a trio. Before long she had also met Ajemian, Reid and Taylor, as well as Chicago mainstays like multi-reedist Ken Vandermark, drummer Frank Rosaly and flutist Nicole Mitchell.
Another move in 2012, to study in a graduate program at Towson University, exacerbated some personal struggles: "Baltimore is a hard town to live in if you want to quit doing heroin," branch told Peter Margasak in a 2017 article for the Chicago Reader. She dropped out of Towson after two years, enrolled in a treatment program on Long Island, and found her way to Brooklyn.
She fell in with a new crop of collaborators in New York, including tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis, drummer Mike Pride and guitarist Ava Mendoza. At the same time, she preserved a knockabout Chicago energy in her music — most recently in an ambient-improv duo called Anteloper, featuring branch on trumpet, electronics, percussion and vocals, with Jason Nazary on synthesizers and drums.
This spring, as pandemic restrictions loosened enough for touring to resume, branch took FLY or DIE back out on the road. Among those dates was one at the Ruba Club in Philadelphia, presented by the nonprofit Ars Nova Workshop. "Jaimie used her music as an incredible tool to connect the creative and the critical," Mark Christman, ANW's Executive and Artistic Director, tells NPR. "And she used that creative, improvised, DIY tool to do what every great jazz artist uses it for: imagining alternative futures, addressing trauma, sustaining resilience."
branch is survived by her mother, Sally Branch; a sister, Kate Branch; two brothers, Russell and Clark Branch; and nieces and nephews. "Of all the people jaimie touched, I'm luckiest of all, because I've only ever known life with jaimie and her music," writes Kate Branch, whose loft in Red Hook served as the unlikely recording studio for FLY or DIE. "She was my older sister, my first teacher, my first friend, my first fight, my last fight. She was my everything. She was the bravest person I knew, on and off the stage. And life just seems too quiet now."
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Man accused of sexually abusing boy in McDonald’s bathroom
Published: Aug. 23, 2022 at 11:51 PM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
CHICAGO (WLS) - A Michigan man is facing charges after police say he sexually abused a 6-year-old boy in a McDonald’s bathroom.
Bryan Sutton, of Flint, Michigan, was expected to appear in bond court Tuesday.
Police say a 6-year-old boy was in the bathroom Saturday evening at the McDonald’s flagship restaurant in Chicago when the 62-year-old Sutton went into a stall and sexually abused him.
When security tried to stop Sutton, he allegedly fought back. He was eventually detained and arrested when police showed up.
Sutton is charged with aggravated kidnapping and criminal sexual abuse.
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...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 915 PM HST THIS EVENING FOR THE
ISLAND OF OAHU IN HONOLULU COUNTY...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall.
* WHERE...The island of Oahu in Honolulu County.
* WHEN...Until 915 PM HST.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding on roads, poor drainage areas, and in
streams.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 609 PM HST, radar indicated heavy rain over windward Oahu,
from Kahaluu to Turtle Bay. Rain was falling at a rate of 1
to 2 inches per hour.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Punaluu, Hauula, Wahiawa, Laie, Waikane, Kaaawa, Mililani,
Waiahole, Kahuku, Kahaluu, Pearl City, Haleiwa, Ahuimanu,
Kaneohe Marine Base, Kahana Valley State Park, Helemano
Housing, Whitmore Village, Malaekahana State Park, Kualoa and
Waimea Valley.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Stay away from streams, drainage ditches and low lying areas prone
to flooding.
&&
This advisory may need to be extended beyond 915 PM HST if flooding;
persists.
Kcyleen Walter, a mother of seven, used to go searching for 'ulu -- or breadfruit -- all over the island.
Sometimes families would let her pick from their trees, sometimes not.
But the Micronesian staple and other cultural foods are getting harder to access with inflation.
"Now it's hard to find fruit. If you go to the regular store, it's getting so expensive," she said. "Bananas -- my son loves to eat bananas. And sometimes it's hard to get it when you don't have the money for it."
Even as local produce and cultural starches like kalo gets more expensive, the Food Hub is working to help low-income families access healthy foods.
The nonprofit Roots Food Hub -- part of Kokua Kalihi Valley health center -- provides fresh fruits and vegetables, catering to the many Pacific Islanders living in the community.
"Everyone has large families especially within this community so having enough for everybody is a challenge," said Food Hub manager Kaui Tuihalafatai. "Thinking about where people might have come from and different islands where picking fruit from the tree which is something free and now coming here and having to pay for those things."
"We're able to get them the foods they feel comfortable with that make them feel healthy that remind them of their grandparents," said Kaiulani Odom, Roots project director.
The projects aims to help native peoples with higher rates of chronic illnesses -- stay healthy.
"Especially to have the food you know the regular vitamins that we usually eat, to get healthy to prevent us from getting the sickness like diabetics ... cancer," Walter said.
The organization is looking to purchase a mobile market truck to take fresh produce into the neighborhood to provide even greater access as people struggle to put food on the table.
"We're hoping to serve the broader community," Odom said. "There's a housing project, there's WIC eligible clients, just people that need to get the produce but aren't able to make it here."
Even as farmers raise their prices, the nonprofit aims to keep its mark-ups as low as possible, offering food stamp recipients double the value they pay.
"Food security has been an issue. It is an issue," Odom said. "The cost may go up, but we are trying our best to make sure that every week there's kalo, there's uala, there's cassava -- all of the foods our community enjoys."
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...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 915 PM HST THIS EVENING FOR THE
ISLAND OF OAHU IN HONOLULU COUNTY...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall.
* WHERE...The island of Oahu in Honolulu County.
* WHEN...Until 915 PM HST.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding on roads, poor drainage areas, and in
streams.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 609 PM HST, radar indicated heavy rain over windward Oahu,
from Kahaluu to Turtle Bay. Rain was falling at a rate of 1
to 2 inches per hour.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Punaluu, Hauula, Wahiawa, Laie, Waikane, Kaaawa, Mililani,
Waiahole, Kahuku, Kahaluu, Pearl City, Haleiwa, Ahuimanu,
Kaneohe Marine Base, Kahana Valley State Park, Helemano
Housing, Whitmore Village, Malaekahana State Park, Kualoa and
Waimea Valley.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Stay away from streams, drainage ditches and low lying areas prone
to flooding.
&&
This advisory may need to be extended beyond 915 PM HST if flooding;
persists.
KALAELOA (KITV)- Due to a tough economy, some companies are starting to reduce their work staff. Barbers Point Aviation, says it's being forced to lay off workers by this weekend.
Even with the troubled economy, planes continue to take off and land at Kalaeloa airport. "Work's been in slow decline," said Barbers Point Aviation Services manager Matthew Lyman. No matter how many planes come in, someone has to help roll out the steps to get people off the planes, fuel, and fix the aircraft.
Barbers Point Aviation Services has been doing that at the airport since 2014. But now the company's owner says they have to let go 9 employees by August 27th. Another 31, may have to go as well in the future. Lyman let 5 of those employees go. He says he often wonders if he may be next. "It's crossed my mind. I just take everyday one day at a time," said Lyman.
It's a problem people who live in Hawaii have to deal with every day. A big company that comes in from the mainland, and the small local company that's built themselves up. Now they have to fight to survive. The new company at the airport, Million Air, has 4 gas tanks visible at the airport. The local company barber's point has 2 gas tanks visible. "We park all our planes on the one small ramp out there. There's not really room for 2 service companies. The bigger company has more money and funds to operate. We saw this coming," said Lyman.
What's going on with the economy, that's making things even more difficult. "Inflation is an issue. It's simple things like parts and tungsten and spark plugs. All these costs add up," said Barbers Point Aviation Services owner Reginald Perry.
The aviation company has several arms, including a flight school, repair shop, and fueling service. When they lost their fueling lease with the state, to their competitor that hurt the most. The company uses two different types of fuel, one for those with propellers and the other for jets. "One type has gone up 4 dollars and the other type of gas nearly 3 dollars. It's across the board in aviation and this airport in particular, because they don't run the fuel under the ground. They use trucks," said Perry.
Lyman says he still has faith the local company will turn things around, and he'll see fellow employees he saw let go, again. "I'm quite positive, I will see half of them or 3/4 of them will come back," said Lyman.
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...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 915 PM HST THIS EVENING FOR THE
ISLAND OF OAHU IN HONOLULU COUNTY...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall.
* WHERE...The island of Oahu in Honolulu County.
* WHEN...Until 915 PM HST.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding on roads, poor drainage areas, and in
streams.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 609 PM HST, radar indicated heavy rain over windward Oahu,
from Kahaluu to Turtle Bay. Rain was falling at a rate of 1
to 2 inches per hour.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Punaluu, Hauula, Wahiawa, Laie, Waikane, Kaaawa, Mililani,
Waiahole, Kahuku, Kahaluu, Pearl City, Haleiwa, Ahuimanu,
Kaneohe Marine Base, Kahana Valley State Park, Helemano
Housing, Whitmore Village, Malaekahana State Park, Kualoa and
Waimea Valley.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Stay away from streams, drainage ditches and low lying areas prone
to flooding.
&&
This advisory may need to be extended beyond 915 PM HST if flooding;
persists.
Chinatown Merchants Concerned about Crime Since Friday's Deadly Shooting
HONLULULU-HI (KITV-4) The recent shooting in Chinatown on Friday night has some merchants saying they are concerned about what they say is an increase in violent crime.
Following the deadly shooting, a make shift memorial to the 24-year-old female victim has been set up. Vivian Booyah Papalaylay , knew the victim and has this to say about her, “She was a nice person to me she never bothered me and I’m sorry this happened. May God bless her and may she rest in peace.”
Businesses in Chinatown say they have seen an increase in violent crime.
Chu Lan Shubert-Kwock with the Chinatown Business & Community Association says,
“Customers tell them they don’t want to come down because of the crime. “
“this is the escalation of violence that is so unpredictable. And this is what people are nervous about..if you lose your money you are concerned, but when you lose your life, it’s a very serious matter.”
Ra Long owns Fred’s Sundries. The bus stop where the shooting happened, is right in front of his store.
Ra Long, Owner of Fred’s Sundries says, This is what Chinatown needs, more law enforcement more crackdown.sad to say but this place is overrun by crime.
Unfortunately when it is quiet crime happens more. What Chinatown needs is more foot traffic and more police patrol.”
Long says his outside camera system was cut about 10 days ago. Plus, he says, cameras in the area are being spray painted or their wires cut.
Jonathan Cook – President, Chinese Chamber of Commerce of HI says, "We definitely want to see more police presence patrols are good as well. I think we need to have more eyes on the streets. Getting the cameras back would be good.
HPD reports, criminal cases in Chinatown, from June through August of this year, are lower with 437 cases in June compared to 240 cases so far this month. For homicides, district 1 which includes Chinatown reports 3 homicides, the same number as last year. Police say they haven't received any reports of recent gang related incidents.
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Ukraine's Independence Day, which on Wednesday marks 31 years since the country broke with the Soviet Union, is set to be a somber affair as officials warn that Russia may carry out missile attacks against Ukrainian cities.
While previous years have been marked by celebrations and parades, Wednesday's commemoration comes exactly six months after Russia's invasion of the country began.
The head of Kyiv's Military Administration, Maj. Gen. Mykola Zhyrnov, said events have been banned in the capital and other cities so that security forces can respond more efficiently to potential Russian attacks.
In lieu of a parade, wrecked and captured Russian military vehicles including tanks were placed on Khreshchatyk, Kyiv's main street, as a testament to Moscow's failed attempt to capture the capital in the early weeks of the war.
"The enemy planned to hold a 'parade' on Khreshchatyk in three days, but it didn't work out. Our armed forces answered back," Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of the Ukrainian President's office, wrote on Telegram Saturday, when the vehicles were placed on the road with a crane.
On the eve of Independence Day, crowds of people were seen in Khreshchatyk, inspecting the display. Some children crawled up the rusty metal carcass of a tank, while others posed for pictures by the mangled vehicles.
Liubov, who asked for her last name to not be published, said she turned up to show the "scrap metal parade" to her 8-year-old son, Illia.
As Illia climbed on a Russian combat vehicle, Liubov described the parade as "symbolic," saying "a lot of people in Kyiv (have forgotten) about war, so I think this is a good reminder."
Her husband, who is fighting on the front line, has implored her to leave the capital for their summer home 50 kilometers (31 miles) away, she said. But she has refused to go.
Even if "there are massive missile strikes on Kyiv (on Wednesday), we will not leave," she said, explaining she has an emergency bag at home, with enough clothes and overalls "in case of radiation pollution... in case of missiles. We are not that easily scared by them anymore."
"I don't feel festive about (Independence Day), I rather feel sad," she added. "Because I understand what is going on and my husband and brother are on the front line."
Holding a Ukrainian flag, another onlooker told CNN she also has relatives fighting against Russia.
"My father is on the front line, a lot of my relatives are on the front line ... so tomorrow is not a celebration per se, but honoring and feeling independence, because this time it will feel differently than for the previous 30 years," said Daria, 35, who declined to give her last name.
'It's tearing me apart'
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned Tuesday that Russia may step up efforts to launch attacks, including missile strikes, on "infrastructure facilities or state institutions" around the holiday. The US government joined the chorus of concern, telling Americans on Tuesday to leave the country immediately.
On Khreshchatyk, by Ukrainian spoils of war, many who spoke to CNN shared worries about a possible Russian attack on Wednesday.
"We were planning to come here tomorrow but because there were a lot of warnings about tomorrow, we will stay at home," Oleh Fetir, 51, said as he visited the parade with his wife.
"We came here to see the parade of scrap metal, because the (Russians) have spoiled the celebration for us. Last year on Independence Day we were here watching the parade (of Ukrainian) military equipment, with the airplanes, it was majestic and fascinating. Now, this current parade is quite impressive. It's missing the photos of those who were inside," he said in reference to Russian soldiers.
After six months of conflict that have sent Ukraine's economy into a tailspin and disrupted almost every part of daily life, the weariness was tangible.
"I don't feel festive about tomorrow, not in a festive mood," said 29-year-old Oleksii, explaining that he is worried about missiles being fired on the capital.
"My hatred for Russians has grown so big that it's tearing me apart," said Anna, 68, who declined to give her surname for safety reasons.
The clinic that she works in has told her to work remotely for the next few days. "I've worked (throughout) the war ... sometimes getting home under shelling," she said.
She described Russian President Vladimir Putin as unpredictable, like "a monkey holding a grenade."
"He says one thing, does something different and nobody can guess what's actually on his mind," she said.
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...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 915 PM HST THIS EVENING FOR THE
ISLAND OF OAHU IN HONOLULU COUNTY...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall.
* WHERE...The island of Oahu in Honolulu County.
* WHEN...Until 915 PM HST.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding on roads, poor drainage areas, and in
streams.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 609 PM HST, radar indicated heavy rain over windward Oahu,
from Kahaluu to Turtle Bay. Rain was falling at a rate of 1
to 2 inches per hour.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Punaluu, Hauula, Wahiawa, Laie, Waikane, Kaaawa, Mililani,
Waiahole, Kahuku, Kahaluu, Pearl City, Haleiwa, Ahuimanu,
Kaneohe Marine Base, Kahana Valley State Park, Helemano
Housing, Whitmore Village, Malaekahana State Park, Kualoa and
Waimea Valley.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Stay away from streams, drainage ditches and low lying areas prone
to flooding.
&&
This advisory may need to be extended beyond 915 PM HST if flooding;
persists.
COVID trends in Hawaii could soon be spotted faster, as the department of health expands a surveillance program.
In the battle against COVID, the state has way of closely tracking the spread of this virus.
and it all starts with a flush.
"It is like an early warning system, that allows us to respond faster and protect ourselves better," said the Dept. of Health's Brooks Baehr.
Hawaii is part of the Center's for Disease Control wastewater surveillance program, which monitors sewage for the coronavirus.
"We have 15 facilities around the state, collecting samples which are then sent off to a lab as part of the CDC program."
Soon, Hawaii will no longer need to send off samples to the mainland. That could save up to a week in reporting results.
"We've already purchased equipment. We have protocols in place, but haven't had the manpower. But this week we have 2 new employees coming on. Once they get up to speed, they will be doing the analysis in the state laboratory."
Sampling wastewater can give the state an early indication of where COVID levels are rising or falling.
While virus concentrations have been dropping at most Oahu and Maui reporting sites, those on Kauai and Hawaii Island have seen an increase this month.
Which means the DOH expects an increase in reported cases, as the trends tend to mirror one another.
"When the trends go up in wastewater, they are also going up in confirmed testing. And when they go down, we are seeing the same thing reflected in the wastewater."
Wastewater surveillance can also detect new COVID variants earlier than other methods.
"When BA.2 came to town, we spotted it on Kauai in the wastewater there before before we found it in any individual samples."
Other cities also use wastewater surveillance to search for other viruses, but so far, Hawaii has no plans in place to expand its testing.
"You can look for other pathogens in wastewater other than COVID. Right now our focus is COVID but we have other things on our radar - certainly monkeypox is on our radar."
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In Texas, a county elections administrator and her two deputies have resigned, with at least one citing threats fueled by misinformation, as former President Donald Trump and his supporters continue to spread baseless claims about the 2020 election.
"The threats against election officials and my election staff, dangerous misinformation, lack of full time personnel for the elections office, unpaid compensation, and absurd legislation have completely changed the job I initially accepted," now-former Gillespie County Elections Administrator Anissa Herrera reportedly wrote in her resignation letter, dated Aug. 2.
She added: "The life commitment I have given to this job is unsustainable."
The letter was obtained by Votebeat through a public records request.
The Texas secretary of state's office provided a few more details about the threats, which Herrera first revealed to the local Fredericksburg Standard-Radio Post.
"I don't know if there's been any threat since, we didn't get a lot of specifics about the threats, only that they were a combination of social media stalking and other kinds of threats against her in her capacity as elections administrator," Sam Taylor, assistant secretary for communications at the secretary of state's office, told Texas Public Radio.
The state to send in trainers
Now, two months before early voting begins for the November general election, the county, which is west of Austin, has no elections department.
"I really don't know what they're going to do and how they're going to hold the election in November. And they're going to have to do a lot of scrambling," said Joyce LeBombard, president of the League of Women Voters of Texas.
The Texas secretary of state's office plans to send in trainers to make sure Gillespie County can still hold an election this November.
Taylor said replacements would be trained by former election admins who work with the secretary of state's office in regularly training new elections officials. In the case of Gillespie County, workers in the tax office and county clerk's office will likely take up the initial responsibilities.
"The [county] judge has told us there are still employees in the county clerk and county tax-assessor collector's office who have run elections in the past," Taylor said. "Albeit that was back in 2019 and earlier. So a lot has changed about election laws since then. So that's why our office is going to be sending our trainers, we've got about six to eight trainers on our staff. All of them are former county election officials themselves."
Under Texas law, counties appoint elections administrators through a locally created commission that includes the county judge, county clerk, tax-assessor collector and the chairs of the county political parties.
Early voting in Texas starts on Oct. 24, giving state officials a two-month window to train replacements until a new elections administrator is appointed — an appointment that may not happen until after the November election.
Gillespie County, where Trump secured 79% of the vote in 2020, has just over 20,000 registered voters.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke visited Fredericksburg, the county seat, days after the resignation as part of a statewide campaign tour.
He said the threats were an attack on American democracy and criticized some Texas voting laws that he said make it difficult to register and cast mail ballots.
"Not only are we the toughest state in which to register to vote, in which to cast a ballot, but you have election workers in Gillespie being run out of office, you have election workers and others in other counties within the state who feel under constant attack, you have now an elections law that allows partisans to come to polling places to serve as poll watchers really with free rein to intimidate voters who show up," O'Rourke said.
Texas has been an especially difficult place for election workers in recent years, according to Remi Garza, the immediate past president of the Texas Association of Election Administrators. He points to the state's relatively new expanded voting observer law.
"Before, [the law] was that they could 'observe' the activities of the polling place, and they changed that to 'see and hear' what's occurring, which makes it much more subjective to the individual who is watching," he said. "There's the chance they could be a little more intrusive to the process because they could claim they are not able to see or hear what's happening in a polling place."
Garza said the expansion of the voter observation law comes with legal protections that he said may occasionally give observers a sense of entitlement to be more engaged in the process than intended by the law. He said the role of observers is to monitor the voting process to ensure transparency and that voting laws are followed. He said observers are expected to do just that, not "coach" or "referee" election workers.
"It has never been before"
The Democratic-led U.S. House Oversight Committee last week released a report detailing threats made to election officials across the country. One such instance from Texas includes threats of hanging and harm to the children of a county election official.
"In Texas, 'personal attacks on national media outlets' led to alarming threats against an election administrator, including a social media call to 'hang him when convicted for fraud and let his lifeless body hang in public until maggots drip out of his mouth' and messages threatening his children, stating, 'I think we should end your bloodline,' " the report stated.
David Becker, executive director and founder of the Center of Election Innovation & Research, said these kinds of threats were not common before Trump's false claims that the 2020 election was stolen.
"Gillespie County is one of the more extreme incidents with an entire county's election staff resigning," Becker said. "But we have to understand that election workers all over the country — in red states, blue states, battleground states, non-battleground states — from elected secretaries of state down to volunteer poll workers are being harassed and threatened in a way that we've never seen before. It's not worse than it's been before. It has never been before."
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Updated August 22, 2022 at 9:28 AM ET
Firebaugh, Calif., sitting right on the San Joaquin River, is a great place to raise a family, says city manager Ben Gallegos. He's lived in this Central Valley community for most of his life.
But now he's preparing the city for a force of nature potentially more destructive than the fires and drought Californians are used to — a megastorm.
They form out at sea as plumes of water vapor thousands of miles long. As they reach land, they dump rain and snow for weeks at a time, causing devastating flooding.
The last megastorm to hit the West Coast was the Great Flood of 1862. It temporarily turned much of the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys into a giant inland sea, 300 miles long.
Gallegos is in no doubt about what a megastorm would mean for Firebaugh.
"A lot of water. Flooding for many days. [A] potential hazard to really wiping out the city," he told NPR's Leila Fadel.
Climate scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles say that climate change will increase the frequency of these megastorms.
While they used to occur every 100-200 years on average, rising temperatures mean we'll now see them as often as every 50 years.
Xingying Huang and Daniel Swain, who co-authored the research, say a megastorm could mean millions of people displaced by flooding, major transportation links severed, and damage totaling nearly $1 trillion.
Gallegos is worried that bigger cities will be the focus of flood-prevention spending before a megastorm, rather than his city of around 8,500 people.
"You think about San Francisco, Los Angeles. Is the state really going to say — or the feds — let me give Firebaugh $50 to $60 million to upgrade the levee, or should we give it to somebody else?" he said. "They say, 'Oh if we lose that town, what impact is it going to have to the state?' Well, it's going to have a lot of impact to the state."
Firebaugh is an agricultural community, growing tomatoes that are processed into sauces for the restaurant industry. Farmers also grow cantaloupes. Gallegos says the loss of those businesses would have a knock-on impact on California's economy.
Residents of Firebaugh are worried by the prospect of a megastorm hitting, especially after a previous evacuation due to a flood in 1997 didn't go well.
"The city wasn't prepared at that time for an evacuation. They evacuated all the residents to our community center. But the community center was right next to the river, so there was a levee that was washing out," Gallegos said. "So they went and sent them out to our neighboring cities. But those cities were not ready for our residents, so then they had to get them back. And then they put them up in a warehouse just west of the city."
Gallegos knows that state and federal officials have a choice: Pay for flood prevention measures now, or pay much, much more later to help Firebaugh recover from a megastorm.
"We need help. I always tell our leaders, we can fix it now, which would cost less than when we have an emergency, and you have people trying to fix it, which would cost a lot more than being proactive," he said.
If nothing is done, the alternative doesn't bear thinking about for Gallegos, he said.
"I think Firebaugh would be wiped out."
The audio for this story was produced by Chad Campbell and edited by Simone Popperl and Adam Bearne.
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Mom, 72, dies after son sets her on fire, police say
Published: Aug. 24, 2022 at 1:41 AM EDT|Updated: 26 minutes ago
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (WXII) - The son of a 72-year-old North Carolina woman is accused of setting her on fire, resulting in her death.
The Winston-Salem Police Department received a report early Monday morning of a woman on fire outside of a home.
Police say the 72-year-old woman’s son, James Parker, had become upset and poured gasoline on his mother while she was on the porch. He then lit her on fire, according to police.
Police say they were able to extinguish the flames. The woman was taken to the hospital, where she later died.
Parker was taken into custody and is facing a murder charge.
The investigation is ongoing.
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Latest fundraise expands Barings' $14.3+ billion Global Infrastructure platform
LONDON and NEW YORK, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Barings, one of the world's leading investment managers, today announced the successful close of its inaugural Target Yield Infrastructure Debt Fund and associated vehicles at $630 million, surpassing the high-end target of $500 million. The strategy, which has garnered interest from a global investor base including a mix of public and private pension funds and insurance companies, is focused on OECD countries primarily in North America and Europe. In line with Barings' existing infrastructure strategies, this fund will invest in below investment grade debt assets across social and regulated infrastructure, renewables, transportation and digital infrastructure, and expands the firm's $14.3+ billion Global Infrastructure platform.
"Barings Global Infrastructure aims to offer investors exposure to a diversified, uncorrelated global strategy with appropriate risk and return. We believe that the asset class offers tangible investment opportunities that have an immediate positive impact on communities across the globe and contribute to a sustainable future," said Pieter Welman, Managing Director and Head of Barings Global Infrastructure.
Barings has been investing in infrastructure debt for over 30 years and established a standalone group focusing on the asset class in 2013. Since then, the group has invested over $18 billion across more than 300 transactions, deploying $3.4 billion in the last 18 months.
"We have been making investments in infrastructure debt on behalf of our parent company for years. We view this inaugural fund as a natural evolution of our historical infrastructure debt strategy, focused on the same sectors and types of credits," said Mark Ackerman, Managing Director and Co-Portfolio Manager for Barings Target Yield Infrastructure Debt Fund.
"We continue to find investment opportunities in below investment grade infrastructure debt as a compelling addition to our investors' asset allocation strategies," said Managing Director, Orhan Sarayli, who serves as the lead originator for infrastructure project finance debt transactions. "We appreciate their confidence in our team and share their enthusiasm around the opportunity set that exists in this space."
Barings is a $349+ billion* global investment manager sourcing differentiated opportunities and building long-term portfolios across public and private fixed income, real estate, and specialist equity markets. With investment professionals based in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific, the firm, a subsidiary of MassMutual, aims to serve its clients, communities and employees, and is committed to sustainable practices and responsible investment.
*As of June 30, 2022
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- The VENTANA PD-L1 (SP263) Assay helps determine which patients with non-small cell lung cancer may benefit from treatment with Tecentriq immunotherapy based on the results of the Phase III IMpower010 study.1
- This label expansion strengthens Roche's industry-leading portfolio of companion diagnostics and builds on its commitment to improve personalised healthcare for better patient outcomes.
TUCSON, Ariz, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) today announced CE label expansion of the VENTANA PD-L1 (SP263) Assay in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) as a companion diagnostic for Tecentriq® (atezolizumab). This advances the company's commitment to guide clinical decision making through innovative, high quality assays that improve patient access to personalised healthcare.
The current standard of care for patients with early stage lung cancer is removal of the tumour, which may be followed by chemotherapy. Unfortunately, about half of these patients will have their cancer return following surgery.2 The European Commission approved Tecentriq in June 2022 as adjuvant treatment following surgery and platinum-based chemotherapy for adults whose Stage II-IIIA NSCLC tumours have high PD-L1 protein expression. The VENTANA PD-L1 (SP263) Assay identifies NSCLC patients who may be eligible for Tecentriq monotherapy in this indication, potentially reducing their risk of disease recurrence or death by more than half.
"With early detection of lung cancer, it is possible to give patients more treatment options and potentially improve a patient's outcome," said Jill German, Head of Pathology Lab at Roche Diagnostics. "We are proud to offer a PD-L1 test that may qualify lung cancer patients for Tecentriq therapy. With this latest expansion, clinicians can consider multiple targeted immunotherapy options with one test to quickly determine the right treatment for each patient."
The VENTANA PD-L1 (SP263) Assay was used in the IMpower010 study sponsored by Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, to identify patients whose tumours expressed the PD-L1 protein. The IMpower010 clinical study began in 2015 with the goal of understanding how patients would respond to treatment with Tecentriq following traditional surgery and chemotherapy. In 2021, Genentech reported a 57% reduction in the risk of disease recurrence or death amongst Tecentriq patients whose tumours were shown to express PD-L1 protein on ≥50% of tumour cells.
Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, with more than 2.2 million people diagnosed globally last year.3 The launch of Roche's VENTANA PD-L1 (SP263) test as a companion diagnostic to identify non-small cell lung cancer patients eligible for Tecentriq demonstrates the company's commitment to improve patient access to personalised healthcare.
About the VENTANA PD-L1 (SP263) Assay
VENTANA PD-L1 (SP263) Assay is used to detect programmed death ligand-1 (PD-L1) protein in non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC) patients. PD-L1 expression on tumour cells and immune cells has been shown in clinical studies to help predict the likelihood a patient may benefit from PD-L1/PD-1 immunotherapy drugs.4
VENTANA PD-L1 (SP263) Assay testing is performed on a BenchMark ULTRA instrument and is visualised using the OptiView DAB IHC Detection Kit.
Roche has developed a leading, comprehensive and differentiated lung cancer immunohistochemical portfolio, with biomarkers that support multiple guidelines for the diagnosis and stratification of lung cancers.
About Roche
Founded in1896 in Basel, Switzerland, as one of the first industrial manufacturers of branded medicines, Roche has grown into the world's largest biotechnology company and the global leader in in-vitro diagnostics. The company pursues scientific excellence to discover and develop medicines and diagnostics for improving and saving the lives of people around the world. We are a pioneer in personalised healthcare and want to further transform how healthcare is delivered to have an even greater impact. To provide the best care for each person we partner with many stakeholders and combine our strengths in Diagnostics and Pharma with data insights from the clinical practice.
In recognizing our endeavour to pursue a long-term perspective in all we do, Roche has been named one of the most sustainable companies in the pharmaceuticals industry by the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices for the thirteenth consecutive year. This distinction also reflects our efforts to improve access to healthcare together with local partners in every country we work.
Genentech, in the United States, is a wholly owned member of the Roche Group. Roche is the majority shareholder in Chugai Pharmaceutical, Japan.
For more information, please visit www.roche.com.
All trademarks used or mentioned in this release are protected by law.
References
[1] Pivotal Phase III study shows Roche's Tecentriq helped people with early lung cancer live longer without their disease returning. https://www.roche.com/media/releases/med-cor-2021-03-22.
[2] Yano T, et al. Therapeutic strategy for postoperative recurrence in patients with non-small cell lung cancer. World J Clin Oncol. 2014;5(5):1048-1054.
[3] World Health Organization: GLOBOCAN 2020 – Lung Cancer: Estimated cancer incidence, mortality and prevalence worldwide. [Internet; cited May 2021] 1.Available from: https://gco.iarc.fr/today/data/factsheets/cancers/15-Lung-fact-sheet.pdf.
[4] VENTANA PD-L1 (SP263) Assay. CE marked Package Insert. Roche Diagnostics; 2022
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STOCKHOLM, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Skanska has signed a contract with National Highways to upgrade a 6.6 kilometer stretch of the A46 Newark Bypass in the Midlands region, UK. The contract is worth GBP 345M, about SEK 4.3 billion, which will be included in the order bookings for Europe in the third quarter 2022.
The project will deliver a dual carriageway A46 Bypass, providing two lanes in each direction, between the Farndon and Winthorpe junctions. Works will also include the construction of a new five-arm roundabout at Winthorpe and traffic lights at Farndon junction to improve traffic flows during peak hours. A new bridge will be built over the A1, and a flyover installed at Cattle Market.
The A46 Newark Bypass is an important route connecting the M1 and Leicester to the A1 and central Lincolnshire. This project will provide a more reliable and resilient road network.
Skanska will begin design works in 2022. Subject to Development Consent being granted, construction work on site will start in 2025 and the scheme is due to open for traffic in 2028.
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Louisa Perry, Head of Corporate Communications, Skanska UK, tel +44 7407 802 546
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Mom, 72, dies after son sets her on fire, police say
Published: Aug. 24, 2022 at 1:41 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (WXII) - The son of a 72-year-old North Carolina woman is accused of setting her on fire, resulting in her death.
The Winston-Salem Police Department received a report early Monday morning of a woman on fire outside of a home.
Police say the 72-year-old woman’s son, James Parker, had become upset and poured gasoline on his mother while she was on the porch. He then lit her on fire, according to police.
Police say they were able to extinguish the flames. The woman was taken to the hospital, where she later died.
Parker was taken into custody and is facing a murder charge.
The investigation is ongoing.
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Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul Pelosi has been sentenced to five days in jail after being convicted Tuesday of misdemeanor driving under the influence in California, the Napa County District Attorney's Office announced.
Pelosi, 82, was arrested May 28 and later charged with driving under the influence and causing injury, "based upon an automobile collision," the DA said, and having a blood alcohol level above 0.08%.
The latter charge was dismissed after Pelosi entered a guilty plea.
Pelosi has already served two days, and will not have to stay in jail for two of the days due to good behavior, according to court records. He must also serve three years of probation and pay $4,927 in victim restitution for medical bills and lost wages.
Pelosi did not appear in court for his sentencing, as it is not required by California law, unless mandated by a judge.
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HILO, Hawaii (KITV4) -- Big Island police are investigating an officer-involved shooting that happened on a street in Downtown Hilo.
Police said just after 4 p.m. on Tuesday, officers responded to a report of a man who was cutting himself with a knife on Keawe Street. When they arrived, they ordered the man to put the knife down.
According to a media release from police: "The suspect immediately began rapidly approaching an officer. The officer drew his weapon and continued giving clear commands to the suspect.
"The suspect ignored the officer’s lawful commands, and the officer subsequently discharged his duty weapon, striking the suspect in the lower extremities."
Paramedics took the suspect to the hospital. Police said the suspect does not have life-threatening injuries and is expected to make a full recovery. No officers or bystanders were injured.
Police have initiated an internal administrative investigation, which is standard procedure.
The officer who fired his weapon is a 14-year veteran of the department, and will be placed on administrative leave pending the internal review.
Marisa Yamane joined KITV4 in January 2022 as an anchor and executive producer. She is an award-winning veteran journalist, who’s spent most of her career in Hawaii. She’s a proud graduate of Iolani School and UCLA. | https://www.kitv.com/news/crime/big-island-police-investigating-officer-involved-shooting-in-hilo/article_b672e936-236d-11ed-9048-4f9397f65a07.html | 2022-08-24T07:22:15Z |
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