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Dozens of Native American remains found on University of North Dakota campus
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVLY/Gray News) - The University of North Dakota’s President Andrew Armacost said the university found Native American remains in a closet on campus earlier this year.
Armacost said on Wednesday the discovery was made while looking for a missing sacred item on campus. He estimated that there are dozens of remains.
Including other sacred artifacts, the university has found more than 250 boxes with Native American belongings on the university campus, KVLY reported.
“Coming on the heels of other recent revelations about historic wrongs inflicted on Indigenous people in the United States and Canada, members of our tribal communities in the region will undoubtedly be deeply affected by this news from UND. While I cannot take away their pain, I can apologize on behalf of UND for our mistakes,” Armacost said.
He said the school immediately reached out to representatives from area tribes, collaborating with them and seeking advice for more than four months to “... make certain this work is done correctly.” In a recent visit to the campus, tribal leaders blessed spaces where the ancestors and sacred items were stored and found.
Armacost said the response from each tribal representative has been common: “Anger, sadness, acceptance of our apologies and appreciation that we are involving them from the outset of this work.”
They said their goal is to work diligently until all ancestors and sacred objects are returned home, no matter how long it takes. University officials are now working to connect ancestors and artifacts with their places of origin and are hiring experts to help.
Armacost said the sacred items will be returned in a manner consistent with the Native American Grave and Repatriation Act, involving tribal nations, as well as federal and state agencies.
Students on the campus were taken aback at the finding.
“That’s the craziest part is that remains were found. It wasn’t just objects found, and that’s just wild to think about,” said Haiden Huschka, a freshman.
Another freshman, Riley Schreiner added, “We’re just finding out about them now, and you have no clue who that could be or the significance of that person back in their time.”
“I never would have expected it to happen. I’m not Indigenous, but I imagine for those Indigenous folk it’s more unsettling than for others,” stated sophomore Max Taylor.
Some Indigenous faculty and students gathered together to watch the virtual presser. While they declined to comment, the emotion could be felt in the room.
Wednesday’s announcement brought shock, with many sharing hopes that the artifacts and ancestral remains are returned to their respective tribes.
Professor Doug McDonald runs the university’s Indians into Psychology Doctoral Education program, and he and his team are available with counseling services in support of Native American students, faculty and staff. The University Counseling Center is also providing support to students.
The university has launched a repatriation webpage that explains its repatriation process to date. It also includes an email address, UND.inforequest@UND.edu, for repatriation-related questions.
North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum released a statement Wednesday, saying in part: “We are heartbroken by the deeply insensitive treatment of these Indigenous ancestral remains and artifacts and extend our deepest apologies to the sovereign tribal nations in North Dakota and beyond. This dark chapter, while extremely hurtful, also presents an opportunity to enhance our understanding and respect for Indigenous cultures and to become a model for the nation by conducting this process with the utmost deference to the wishes, customs and traditions of tribal nations.”
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Law enforcement warns parents about increase in reported sextortion cases of teens
CIBOLO, Texas (KWTX/Gray News) – A police department in Texas is warning parents about cases of sextortion targeting teens and young adults.
The Cibolo Police Department said in a post on Facebook it has seen an increase in reported cases where people are being threatened, coerced or blackmailed into sending money or explicit images online through social media or games.
According to authorities, sextortion most often occurs on Snapchat and Instagram, but can also happen on children’s games like Roblox or Minecraft.
“The victim often believes they are communicating with someone their own age who is interested in a relationship. The victim is asked to send a revealing or nude photo of themselves oftentimes after first receiving a revealing or nude photo from the suspect,” the police said.
After the person has one or more pictures of the target, they will threaten or blackmail them saying they will put the explicit images on the social media site if they don’t send money.
Cibolo PD and the FBI recommend that all parents with children who have access to online content talk to their kids about the potential dangers of the internet.
The FBI recommends the following:
1. Be selective about what you share online. If your social media accounts are open to everyone, a predator may be able to figure out a lot of information about you.
2. Be wary of anyone you encounter for the first time online. Block or ignore messages from strangers.
3. Be aware that people can pretend to be anything or anyone online. Videos and photos are not proof that people are who they claim to be. Images can be altered or stolen. In some cases, predators have even taken over the social media accounts of their victims.
4. Be suspicious if you meet someone on one game or app and this person asks you to start talking on a different platform.
5. Be in the know. Any content you create online—whether it is a text message, photo, or video—can be made public. And nothing actually “disappears” online. Once you send something, you don’t have any control over where it goes next.
6. Be willing to ask for help. If you are getting messages or requests online that don’t seem right, block the sender, report the behavior to the site administrator or go to an adult. If you have been victimized online, tell someone.
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OPEC+ cuts oil supplies to the world as prices have fallen
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — OPEC and allied oil-producing countries, including Russia, cut their supplies to the global economy by 100,000 barrels per day, underlining their unhappiness with crude prices that have sagged because of recession fears.
The decision Monday by energy ministers means the cut for October rolls back the mostly symbolic increase of the same amount in September. The move follows a statement last month from Saudi Arabia’s energy minister that the group could reduce output at any time.
Oil producers such as Saudi Arabia have resisted calls from U.S. President Joe Biden to pump more oil to lower gasoline prices and the burden on consumers.
But worries about slumping future demand have helped send prices down from June peaks of over $120 per barrel, cutting into the windfall for the government budgets of OPEC+ countries but proving a blessing for drivers in the U.S. as pump prices have eased.
The energy minsters said in a statement that the September increase was only for that month, and that the group could meet again at any time to address market developments.
Other factors are lurking that could influence the price of oil. For one, the Group of Seven major democracies plan to impose a price cap on imports of Russian oil and what effect that might have on the market. The price level for the cap has not yet been set.
Meanwhile, a deal between Western countries and Iran to limit Tehran’s nuclear program could ease sanctions and see more than 1 million barrels of Iranian oil return to the market in coming months. However, tensions between the U.S. and Iran appear to have risen in recent days: Iran seized two U.S. naval drones in the Red Sea, and U.S., Kuwaiti and Saudi warplanes flew over the Middle East on Sunday in a show of force.
Oil prices have gyrated in recent months: Recession fears have pushed them down, while worries of a loss of Russian oil because of sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine pushed them up.
Recently, recession fears have taken the upper hand. Economists in Europe are penciling in a recession at the end of this year due to skyrocketing inflation fed by energy costs, while China’s severe restrictions aimed at halting the spread of the coronavirus have sapped growth in that major world economy.
Those falling oil prices have been a boon to U.S. drivers, sending gasoline prices down to $3.82 per gallon from record highs of over $5 in June.
That month, fears that U.S. and European sanctions would take Russian oil off the market helped push Brent to over $123. Those concerns are still out there because European sanctions aimed at Russian oil shipments won’t take effect until the end of the year.
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Red wave crashing? GOP momentum slips as fall sprint begins
NEW YORK (AP) — The possibility of a great red wave still looms.
But as the 2022 midterm elections enter their final two-month sprint, leading Republicans concede that their party’s advantage may be slipping even as Democrats confront their president’s weak standing, deep voter pessimism and the weight of history this fall.
The political landscape, while still in flux, follows a string of President Joe Biden’s legislative victories on climate, health care and gun violence, just as Donald Trump’s hand-picked candidates in electoral battlegrounds like Arizona, Georgia, Ohio and Pennsylvania struggle to broaden their appeal. But nothing has undermined the GOP’s momentum more than the Supreme Court’s stunning decision in June to end abortion protections, which triggered a swift backlash even in the reddest of red states.
“This midterm looks and feels significantly different than it did six months ago,” said veteran Republican pollster Neil Newhouse. The abortion ruling “has energized some segments, especially the Democratic constituency, and it has thrown a wrench, at least to some extent, into the hopes of winning a ton of seats.”
History suggests Republicans should dominate the November elections.
In the modern era, the party that holds the White House has lost congressional seats in virtually every first-term president’s first midterm election. Ronald Reagan lost 26 House seats, Bill Clinton lost 52, Barack Obama 63 and Trump 40. Only George W. Bush’s Republican Party enjoyed a modest eight-seat gain in his first midterm, coming after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Nine weeks before Election Day, leading operatives in both parties expect Republicans to pick up roughly 10 to 20 House seats, which would give the GOP a narrow majority in the chamber in November and break up Democrats’ control of the federal government. But many Republicans are losing confidence in the high-stakes fight for the Senate majority and key governorships across the nation.
In Pennsylvania, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Josh Shapiro argues that his focus on public safety, education, the economy and freedom is driving his momentum but concedes that his opponent is also a major factor.
“Folks trust me to get it done,” Shapiro, the state attorney general, told The Associated Press. “And in fairness, in part, it’s because I’m running against the guy who’s by far the most extreme and dangerous candidate in the nation.”
In one of the nation’s most important swing states, Republicans nominated Doug Mastriano as their nominee for governor, even after learning about his leading role in Trump’s push to overturn the 2020 election.
The state senator and retired military officer helped organize the state’s effort to submit fake presidential electors beholden to Trump and was seen outside the Capitol as pro-Trump demonstrators attacked police on Jan. 6, 2021. He has also alienated moderate voters and even some Republicans with divisive positions on several issues, including abortion, which he opposes in all circumstances.
Mastriano’s campaign didn’t respond to an interview request for this story.
Shapiro will launch his first TV ad of the fall campaign on Tuesday, casting Mastriano’s fierce opposition to abortion rights and gay marriage as a threat to Pennsylvania’s economy. The ad is the first spot in a $16.9 million television advertising investment the campaign reserved for the nine weeks leading up to Election Day.
Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel acknowledged that the GOP must sharpen its message on abortion given the Democrats’ apparent momentum.
“We can’t allow them to control the narrative,” McDaniel said in an interview.
She emphasized Republican leaders’ record of supporting exceptions for abortion in cases of rape, incest and the life of the mother, sidestepping questions about candidates like Mastriano, Georgia Senate nominee Herschel Walker and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who oppose such exceptions.
“I’m not going to speak about every candidate and where they’re at,” McDaniel said. “But the past four Republican presidents since Roe believe in the exception, and that is where I think a lot of the American people are, according to polling. But they also believe in limitations, and Democrats have shown no inclination to have any limitation.”
On the Republican Party’s broader midterm outlook, McDaniel said top races were always likely to tighten, despite the conventional wisdom that a massive red wave was building.
“Many of these states are battleground states,” she said. “It’s going to be tight.”
On paper, Republicans continue to enjoy tremendous advantages.
Beyond the weight of history, Democrats are saddled with Biden’s low favorability ratings as roughly 7 in 10 voters believe the country is headed in the wrong direction. Democratic strategists acknowledge serious political headwinds as inflation and pessimism surge, but they note gas prices have ticked down, pandemic worries have waned and Biden has won major legislative victories on several key issues.
“Republicans haven’t taken advantage of the bad political environment. And they punted on having any agenda or getting anything done,” said Biden pollster John Anzalone, who was far less confident about the midterm outlook at the beginning of the summer.
“Historically, this should be a 30- or 40-seat win by Republicans,” he added. “The entire Republican Party has been one big mistake for the past four or five months.”
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell has blamed GOP “candidate quality” for why his party was more likely to win the House than the Senate.
Florida Sen. Rick Scott, who leads the Senate GOP campaign arm, sees it differently.
“He and I clearly have a disagreement on this. I think we’ve got great candidates,” Scott told the AP, citing opportunities to challenge Democrats in blue states like Colorado and Washington state. “I think we’re doing fine.”
Scott did acknowledge some uncertainty involving Trump’s role in the coming weeks.
The former president helped his loyalists, most of whom embraced his conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, win primary elections across the country throughout the spring and summer. But it’s unclear how Trump will help them, if at all, as the election moves into the fall.
“He’s got a choice about what he wants to do. He clearly has some candidates that he wanted to get through the primaries and they did,” Scott said. “He’ll make his own decision on what he wants to do.”
At the same time, a disproportionate number of women are registering to vote. And if recent voting patterns hold, that’s good news for Democrats.
In at least seven states, women made up a higher share of newly registered voters following the overturning of Roe v. Wade, according to an AP analysis of voter data from L2, a nonpartisan data provider.
In the five weeks after the court eliminated the constitutional right to abortion, women made up 64% of new Kansas registrations. Then, on Aug. 2, Kansas voters overwhelmingly rejected a ballot measure that would have let state lawmakers impose new restrictions on abortions.
Trump-backed Republicans who oppose abortion rights are fighting for momentum in several swing states.
A leading Republican Senate super PAC recently canceled television ad reservations in Arizona, where Blake Masters is running, while committing $28 million to help Trump loyalist JD Vance in Ohio, a state Trump carried by 8 points in the last election. In Pennsylvania, there are concerns that Mastriano is dragging down the rest of the Republican ticket, while Trump-endorsed GOP Senate nominee Mehmet Oz is struggling with residency questions. And in Georgia, Walker is facing difficult questions about his past and his opposition to abortion in all cases.
Rep. Tom Emmer, the Minnesota Republican who leads the House GOP campaign arm, warned his party against taking anything for granted.
He noted that most of the seats Republicans are targeting this fall are set in districts Biden carried, a contrast from past elections where Republicans found success in GOP-leaning districts.
“Don’t be measuring the drapes,” Emmer told the AP in a message to Republican colleagues. “This isn’t the typical midterm that we’re talking about.”
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Associated Press writers Aaron Kessler, Hannah Fingerhut and Zeke Miller in Washington and Bill Barrow in Atlanta contributed to this report.
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ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine — Mansur was 13 when Russian soldiers destroyed his village of Samashki during Chechnya's first war for independence against Russia.
Wielding flamethrowers, the Russians burned Mansur's neighbors alive in their homes, threw grenades into basements and executed men. Four years later, a truce disintegrated, and Mansur was back at war. He says he was never the same after.
"Russia ruined everything I had. I grew up with war, and the war shaped me in all respects," Mansur, 40, says matter-of-factly.
Mansur is one of more than 200,000 Chechens who fled to Turkey and Europe throughout the 2000s during a second war between Russian federal forces and fighters in Chechnya, a republic in far southern Russia.
Leaving his home didn't mean giving up on his fight against Russia. "If I had been born in America or Canada, I wouldn't come here to Ukraine. But because Russia took everything from me, I have to resist. Nothing else matters," Mansur says.
Today, Mansur is the deputy commander of the Sheikh Mansur Battalion (no relation), one of at least two all-Chechen battalions fighting in Ukraine against Russia. These Chechens are among the 20,000 foreign fighters that the Ukrainian government estimated to have joined its forces as of early March, near the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The Chechens say they are ready to fight Russian forces as well as against the other ethnic Chechen soldiers who have been sent to fight on behalf of Russia.
The pro-Kyiv Chechen fighters who spoke with NPR refused to disclose their numbers in Ukraine, citing security concerns, especially from Kremlin-backed Chechens. That is also why they gave only their first names or no name at all. But they do say their battalion numbers at least in the hundreds of men — all shaped by trauma and driven by hatred of Russia.
In Ukraine, Russian soldiers have shot civilians, indiscriminately shelled schools and apartment buildings and terrorized towns and villages they have occupied. However, Chechen soldiers say they were unfazed by these horrors. They believe they have already experienced much worse.
"The tragedies of Ukraine in Bucha and Mariupol are nothing compared to what we experienced growing up. The Russians leveled our cities and villages to the ground," says a second soldier in Mansur's battalion, who was born and raised in the Chechen capital of Grozny before it was destroyed by Russian bombing in the early 2000s.
Chechens have a history of clashes with Russians
Ethnic Russians and Chechens have clashed bitterly since the 18th century in periodic border conflicts. Russian imperial troops routinely plundered Chechen settlements in bloody ethnic cleanses against Chechen civilians. During Josef Stalin's rule of the Soviet Union, about 400,000 Chechens and ethnic Ingush were forcibly deported from their homeland in the North Caucasus. As many as 30% of people died from the hardship and violence of relocation, until the survivors were allowed to return to their land under Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev 13 years later.
After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Russia brutally quashed a nascent Chechen republic. The first war for independence ended in a peace armistice, only to dissolve in 1999 after Vladimir Putin, then Russia's prime minister, spearheaded a new military campaign in Chechnya allegedly for the sake of combating terrorists. Historians now say the allegation may have been exaggerated or fabricated.
"We were always betrayed and sold," says another Chechen soldier in Mansur's battalion. He did not give his name for security reasons. "From our very first liberation and the construction of our state, no one has ever helped us and they will not help."
They can't offer howitzers; only themselves, and years of experience fighting Russians
The Chechens say they are eager to pass on know-how from this experience fighting Russia for the last 20 years to the Ukrainian army. Unlike the U.S., they say, they have no howitzers or heavy weapons to give Ukraine. They can only give their bodies. Their lives as individuals matter little, the second soldier says.
"We lost our homeland. What more does a person have to lose? Our family or children are not important when we've lost our home, and the whole world was silent," he says.
The members of the Sheikh Mansur battalion say that matters in settling a 400-year-old blood feud, beginning in the 1700s, when Russian czars pushed into the North Caucasus where Chechens live.
"This is our dream. And we will pass this dream on from one generation to the next generations until this evil is destroyed," says the soldier.
Overall, Chechens are divided on whether to fight for or against Russia. In 2006, Moscow appointed pro-Russian leader Ramzan Kadyrov to rule Chechnya, and Kadyrov has pledged his support and loyalty to Putin and his invasion of Ukraine. Kadyrov has claimed that Chechen fighters loyal to Russia have been sent to Ukraine to fight for Putin, meaning it is entirely possible Chechens are now fighting Chechens.
No matter, says Mansur, they are playing the long game here.
"In czarist Russia, General Yermolov stole everything from us. But we survived him. Stalin died. Putin will die. We will outlive these people," he says.
He hopes he lives long enough to see 45-year-old Kadyrov perish as well.
Wherever Russia wages war in the world, Mansur says, his battalion would follow to fight it. Their only purpose in life now is to take up arms against Russia — wherever that might be.
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As the week begins, here's a look ahead and a roundup of key developments from the past week.
What to watch this week
On Monday, Brussels hosts a meeting of the EU-Ukraine Association Council, whose agenda includes the European Union's support for Ukraine amid the Russian invasion and Ukraine's application for membership in the bloc.
On Tuesday, the United Nations Security Council is expected to convene, on Russia's request, to discuss the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station in southern Ukraine, following recent attacks, outages and an international inspection at the plant.
Also, Boris Johnson's tenure as British prime minister comes to an end. He won praise and affection from Ukrainians as a strong supporter of Kyiv.
And Russian President Vladimir Putin is scheduled to visit the Vostok military exercises in eastern Russia.
On Wednesday, the U.N. Security Council is due to talk about forced displacement in Ukraine, as announced by France.
Thursday, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield will give a preview of Washington's priorities at the U.N. General Assembly later this month. On Saturday, she will address global food security, which has also been affected by the war.
Friday, EU energy meetings are to hold an extraordinary meeting following price surges largely due to fallout from the war in Ukraine. Additionally, EU economy and finance ministers and central bank chiefs will also hold an informal meeting.
On Sunday, Russia holds gubernatorial elections in over a dozen regions.
Meanwhile, security analysts will watch for developments as Ukraine's counteroffensive in the south goes into its second week.
What happened last week
Aug. 29: Ukraine launched a counteroffensive in southern areas captured by Russian forces early in the war.
Aug. 30: Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev died at 91. An interpreter who worked with him later told Reuters that Gorbachev had been "shocked and bewildered" by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Putin didn't attend the Sept. 3 burial ceremony, and the Kremlin gave it only limited elements of a state funeral.
UNESCO said it supports Ukraine's bid to list Odesa as a World Heritage site.
Aug. 31: EU countries agreed to suspend visas for Russians but came short of an outright entry ban.
Sept. 1: International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors visited the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station in southern Ukraine, after a delay and attacks en route to the Russian-occupied plant.
Ukraine's new school year began in the middle of a war. While some schools started in person, most will try to hold classes online. More than 2,000 centers of learning, from preschools to universities, have been damaged or destroyed, the Education Ministry says.
Russia kicked off Vostok 2022, a week of military exercises with other countries. Some analysts say the drills reflect Moscow's deepening ties with China and India.
Sept. 2: President Biden asked Congress to approve $11.7 billion for Ukraine, including $7.2 for military-related costs and $4.5 billion for direct economic support.
Sept. 3: The embattled Zaporizhzhia nuclear station was once again knocked off its last external power line but was still able to run electricity through a reserve line. Russia and Ukraine have blamed each other for shelling in the area.
Russian shelling hit Ukraine's Kharkiv, in the northeast, and Mykolaiv, in the south.
Sept. 4: John Sullivan left his post as U.S. ambassador to Russia and will retire from public service, the U.S. Embassy in Moscow said. He was appointed in December 2019 by then-President Donald Trump and stayed on through a tumultuous time. Elizabeth Rood becomes the embassy's charge d'affaires until Sullivan's successor arrives.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal visited Germany and spoke with its leaders about the war, Russia sanctions and Ukraine's weapons needs.
In-depth
Ukraine's southern offensive relies on heavy weapons. Soldiers say there aren't enough.
Along the front lines in eastern Ukraine, cut off from resources, a resilient city holds on.
What it's like for Ukrainians working at a nuclear plant under Russian occupation.
Russia's effort to break European energy unity seems to be failing — at least for now.
As inspectors leave Ukraine's nuclear plant, the mayor of a nearby town has high hopes.
What inspectors are looking for at Ukraine's war-damaged Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant.
A Ukrainian neurologist from Kyiv checks back in with NPR, saying dozens of medical professionals from the West have offered help since the first interview.
At Latvia's border with Russia, the line grows long, and tempers short.
Massive military aid package to Ukraine signals U.S. is in war for the long haul.
Special report
Russia's war in Ukraine is changing the world: See its ripple effects in all corners of the globe.
Earlier developments
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16 Uvalde fourth graders waited an hour with injured teacher
UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Elsa Avila slid to her phone, terrified as she held the bleeding side of her abdomen and tried to stay calm for her students. In a text to her family that she meant to send to fellow Uvalde teachers, she wrote: “I’m shot.”
For the first time in 30 years, Avila will not be going back to school as classes resume Tuesday in the small, southeast Texas town. The start of school will look different for her, as for other survivors of the May 24 shooting at Robb Elementary School in which 21 people died, with an emphasis on healing, both physically and mentally. Some have opted for virtual education, others for private school. Many will return to Uvalde school district campuses, though Robb Elementary itself will not ever reopen.
“I’m trying to make sense of everything,” Avila said in an August interview, “but it is never going to make sense.”
A scar down her torso brings her to tears as a permanent reminder of the horror she endured with her 16 students as they waited in their classroom for an hour for help while a gunman slaughtered 19 children and two teachers in two adjoining classrooms nearby.
Minutes before she felt the sharp pain of the bullet piercing her intestine and colon, Avila was motioning students away from the walls and windows and closer to her. A student lined up by the door for recess had just told her something was going on outside: People were running — and screaming. As she slammed the classroom door so the lock would catch, her students took their well-practiced lockdown positions.
Moments later, a gunman stormed into their fourth-grade wing and began spraying bullets before ultimately making his way into rooms 111 and 112.
In room 109, Avila repeatedly texted for help, according to messages reviewed by The Associated Press. First at 11:35 a.m. in the text to her family that she says was meant for the teacher group chat. Then at 11:38 in a message to the school’s vice principal. At 11:45 she responded to a text from the school’s counselor asking if her classroom was in lockdown with: “I’m shot, send help.” And when the principal assured her that help was on the way, she replied simply: “Help.”
“Yes they are coming,” the principal wrote back at 11:48 a.m.
It’s unclear whether her messages were relayed to police. District officials did not respond to requests for comment on actions taken to communicate with law enforcement on May 24, and an attorney for then-Principal Mandy Gutierrez was not available for comment.
According to a legislative committee’s report that described a botched police response, nearly 400 local, state and federal officers stood in the hallway of the fourth-grade wing and outside the building for 77 minutes before finally entering the adjoining classrooms and killing the gunman. Lawmakers also found a relaxed approach to lockdowns — which happened often — and security concerns, including issues with door locks. State and federal investigations into the shooting are continuing.
The district is working to complete new security measures, and the school board in August fired the district’s police chief, Pete Arredondo. Residents say it remains unclear how — or even if — trust between the community and officials can be rebuilt even as some call for more accountability, better police training and stricter gun safety laws.
Avila recalls hearing the ominous bursts of rapid fire, then silence, then the voices of officers in the hallway yelling, “Crossfire!” and later more officers standing nearby.
“But still nobody came to help us,” she said.
As Avila lay motionless, unable to speak loud enough to be heard, some of her students nudged and shook her. She wished for the strength to tell them she was still alive.
A light flashed into their window, but nobody identified themselves. Scared it might be the gunman, the students moved away.
“The little girls closest to me kept patting me and telling me, ‘It’s going to be OK miss. We love you miss,’” Avila said.
Finally, at 12:33 p.m. a window in her classroom broke. Officers arrived to evacuate her students — the last to be let out in the area, according to Avila.
With her remaining strength, Avila pulled herself up and helped usher students onto chairs and tables and through the window. Then, clutching her side, she told an officer she was too weak to jump herself. He came through the window to pull her out.
“I never saw my kids again. I know they climbed out the window and I could just hear them telling them, `Run, run, run!’” Avila said.
She remembers being taken to the airport, where a helicopter flew her to a San Antonio hospital. She was in and out of care until June 18.
Avila later learned that a student in her class was injured by shrapnel to the nose and mouth but had since been released from medical care. She said other students helped their injured classmates until officers arrived.
“I am very proud of them because they were able to stay calm for a whole hour that we were in there terrified,” Avila said.
As her students prepare to return to school for the first time since that traumatic day, Avila is on the way to recovery, walking up to eight minutes at a time on the treadmill in physical therapy and going to counseling. She looks forward to teaching again someday.
Outside of a shuttered Robb Elementary, a memorial for the people killed overflows at the entrance gate. Teachers from across Texas stopped throughout the summer to pay their respects and reflect on what they would do in the same situation.
“If I survive, I have to make sure they survive first,” said Olga Oglin, an educator of 23 years from Dallas, her voice breaking.
“Whatever happens to a student at our school, it just happens to one of my kids,” Olgin said, adding that she as the first person to greet parents, students and staff at the door in the mornings, she likely would be the first person shot.
Ofelia Loyola, who teaches elementary school in San Antonio, visited with her husband, middle school teacher Raul Loyola. She was baffled at the delayed response from law enforcement on May 24, as seen on security and police video.
“They are all kids. It doesn’t matter how old they are, you protect them,” she said.
Last week, Avila and several of her students met for the end-of-year party they were unable to have in May. They played in the pool at a country club and she gave them each a bracelet with a little cross to remind them that “God was with us that day and they are not alone,” she said.
“We always talked about being kind, being respectful, taking care of each other — and they were able to do that on that day,” Avila said.
“They took care of each other. They took care of me.”
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Anicira hosting ‘Walk for the Animals’ event
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - One local veterinary office is inviting you and your four-legged friends to help support sick and injured pets.
Ancira Veterinary Center in Harrisonburg is hosting its ‘Walk for the Animals event. Staff say animal lovers and their pets can enjoy free activities like agility courses, live music, and food from local businesses.
The event will be held at Shenandoah Valley Farms in McGayhesville and includes a walk for community members and their pets to participate in.
Any donations made will go to help sick or injured pets in need of veterinary care.
“We really do believe that pets are four-legged family members, and it’s important for us to be able to provide veterinary care for them,” Anicira’s Marketing and Communications Manager Katie Nicholson said.
‘Walk for the Animals’ will take place on September 17th from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. All pets who attend the event must be leashed.
For more information, click here.
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ARROW opens up drop-in counseling sessions
STAUNTON, Va. (WHSV) - An organization in Staunton will open their doors three days a week to drop-in, informal outpatient counseling sessions.
The ARROW (Augusta Resources for Resilience, Opportunity and Wellness) Project is a grassroots mental health organization with the goal of removing barriers to mental health care.
Katie Dolieslager, Resident in Counseling and Communications Director for the ARROW Project, said the drop-in hours further that goal.
“It’s just a hope that people would know that someone in the community is there for them and can listen to them and process anything that might be going on with them,” said Dolieslager.
You do not have to be a client at the ARROW Project to take advantage of the new program. Each session is 15 minutes, but you can sign up for two slots back-to-back. The sessions are also completely free and offered three days a week.
“We realized our community really would benefit from having more access and really that’s our biggest hope of what arrow is, giving more access and knocking down that barrier and helping people have support in the community,” she said.
Dolieslager said drop-in hours can serve any purpose: to vent or even to celebrate.
“I think sometimes the joy of life isn’t talked about enough in mental health counseling. Even if someone just has something going on and they’re like you know, I just really want to talk to someone about this, having someone there to just listen and be a support for them,” she said.
Drop-ins aren’t formal counseling, but sometimes that’s not what someone needs.
“This idea of people feeling alone or isolated or overwhelmed with the state of the world, so having someone there to help you process that and walk through it so that you can leave the space with a clearer head than when you walked into it,” she said.
Dolieslager said you can also use the slot to find community resources for mental health.
You can sign up for a drop-in session on their website. The link is also available on Facebook. Drop-in appointments are available on Wednesdays and Fridays, 6-8 p.m. and Saturdays, 1-3 p.m.
For more on the ARROW Project, visit their website.
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Community Spotlight: Blue Ridge CASA for Children
STAUNTON, Va. (WHSV) - Between June of 2020 and July of 2021, there were 2,400 reports of child abuse to the Department of Social Services between the Harrisonburg area and Augusta County.
One local organization focuses on advocacy for children who have experienced abuse or neglect and helps them find a form of stability, one child and one volunteer at a time.
“We go out, we recruit people, we give them the training and then those volunteer advocates make sure that the abused and neglected children they’re advocating for have all the services they need and ultimately find a safe, permanent loving home,” Blue Ridge CASA for Children’s Program Engagement Manager Maggie Dodson said.
The volunteers are called CASA’s or Court Appointed Special Advocates, and Dodson says each year the need for them grows larger.
“We’ve actually just been asked by the Juvenile and Domestic Relations court judge in Staunton to take on additional types of cases. Children who need supervision or maybe haven’t quite experienced abuse or neglect yet but there’s a concern that something like that is on the way,” Dodson explained.
She says kids who are paired with a CASA have a 50% less chance to enter the foster care system and have a better opportunity to receive care.
“That includes things like counseling and mental health services as well as physical health services,” Dodson said.
Of the 96 children in foster care in the area last year, just 38 had a CASA, and on top of volunteers, monetary donations are also a major need.
“It takes a thousand dollars to train one CASA volunteer advocate, and it takes $2,500 to serve a CASA child for an entire year,” Dodson said.
Dodson says the organization’s biggest fundraiser of the year is coming up, the Firebolt 5K, as part of the Queen City Mischief and Magic event in Staunton which runs September 24th through the 25th.
If you would like to apply to become a CASA, or help out in a different way, you can find out how by visiting the BRCFC website.
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Flood threat continues in Georgia, other southern states
SUMMERVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Flood watches were in effect in the U.S. southeast early Monday as forecasters warn of the possibility of torrential downpours on Labor Day across already saturated ground.
Waves of showers and storms were expected to develop Monday in the region, as moisture from the Gulf of Mexico continues to stream across the South, the National Weather Service said. Some training storms — storms that drop several inches of rain as they move over the same areas like train cars — were also possible, the weather service said.
Parts of Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia were under flash flood watches through Monday evening. The chance for flash flooding also extended to the northeast, into Pennsylvania and parts of southern New England, the weather service said.
Among the hardest-hit areas in this weekend’s storms was northwest Georgia, where 12 inches (30 centimeters) of rain fell in some spots, forecasters said. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Sunday declared a state of emergency in Chattooga and Floyd counties. That directed all state resources to help with “preparation, response and recovery activities.”
In Chattooga County, church pastors and volunteers planned to distribute water on Monday in the small towns of Summerville and Trion, according to the Chattooga County Emergency Management Agency. Summerville city officials also had water available at its city hall.
The city of Summerville advised residents who use the city’s water utility services to boil water prior to drinking, cooking or preparing baby food due to flash flooding at the Raccoon Creek Filter plant. It wasn’t clear on Monday how long it would take to make repairs to the system.
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At least 10 shot, 1 killed outside Ohio bar, police say
Published: Sep. 5, 2022 at 10:41 AM EDT|Updated: 41 minutes ago
EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO/Gray News) - One person was killed and at least 10 others injured in a shooting outside a bar early Monday morning, WOIO reported.
East Cleveland police said at 2:53 a.m. they received multiple calls reporting shots fired outside the Just Us Lounge & Deli.
When officers arrived, several victims were taken to various hospitals.
One person has died from their injuries, but no information on the victim has been released at this time.
There is also no other information on the surviving victims.
Agents with the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation have also been called to the scene to help with the investigation.
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Nearly 30 Valley organizations coming together for Community Resource Fair
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - For some community members facing financial and health challenges, trying to find help for those problems can be difficult.
Leaders of nearly 30 organizations in the area say they are coming together to help this issue.
“Individuals who are experiencing homelessness, who have recently been released from incarceration, who have low or no income. So we really have recruited specific organizations to participate in the resource fair that have services for those populations,” founder and executive director of Strength in Peers, Nicky Fadley said.
In partnership with Valley Open Doors, Strength in Peers will be hosting a Community Resource Fair. There will be 27 organizations in total. They will offer behavioral health services along with employment and education booths.
“Whether there’s a financial challenge that you might be struggling with, healthcare or a mental health challenge, looking for a new job. Not every service provider out there is just for the most vulnerable. For anybody out there, there could be something that sparks your interest something that you wanna pursue or connect with,” Fadley said.
Omar’s Hair Salon will be offering free haircuts at the event and Cedar Stone Massage will be offering free massages. There will be a mobile clothing closet provided by Vertical Connections Ministry.
The event is on Saturday, September 10, and runs from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Rockingham County Administration Building parking lot.
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New Harrisonburg family practice looking to address lack of primary care physicians
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - A new primary care practice has hit the ground running in Harrisonburg. Fowler Family Medicine opened in January and has been working to fill a void in the community.
The practice is run by brothers, Dr. Rocky Fowler and Dr. Tolvert Fowler who are primary care physicians with 20 years of combined experience in family medicine. They have seen great demand for their services, having already seen around 1,000 patients.
Despite the number of urgent care clinics in the area, there is a lack of physicians who are able to take on new patients.
“The need is so great in this area, a lot of patients will call me up and say they’ve called everywhere and no one is taking new patients. So we can actually fit you in the same day if not the next day,” said Dr. Rocky Fowler.
Fowler said that one reason for the demand is that fewer and fewer doctors are choosing to go into family medicine.
“The number of family medicine doctors who’ve been graduating over the past 20 to 30 years has gradually decreased. It mainly has a lot to do with reimbursements,” he said.
Fowler said he hopes for more physicians to come to the area as there is a great need for the kind of services they provide.
“Family medicine actually keeps your population healthier. It’s shown that people live a happier healthier life, they’re more happy and enjoy doing everyday things. They don’t need a doctor as much whenever you have enough physicians in your community,” he said.
Fowler Family Medicine is also able to do some of the things that many specialists can do and provide medical services at a more affordable rate.
“We also take people without insurance. It’s $150 upfront for a new patient visit and then $100 after every visit. If you consider, that’s almost like what an urgent care would charge you, so it’s actually a lot cheaper going to your family physician,” said Fowler.
Fowler Family Medicine hopes to be able to continue taking new patients on indefinitely, as it continues to grow.
“We’re growing exponentially, we anticipate being able to have 3,000-3,500 patients each in our panel, so that’s maybe where we’ll start considering tapering off but until then it’s full steam ahead,” said Fowler.
You can learn more about the practice and everything it offers here.
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Russia sanctions 25 more Americans, including Sean Penn, Ben Stiller
(AP) - Russia imposed personal sanctions Monday on 25 Americans, including actors Sean Penn and Ben Stiller, in response to U.S. sanctions against Russians stemming from the conflict in Ukraine.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo was on the new sanctions list, as were several American senators: Mark Kelly and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, Kevin Cramer of North Dakota, Mike Rounds of South Dakota, Rick Scott of Florida and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry said the group, which also included business leaders, academics and government officials, would be banned permanently from entering Russia.
Previous rounds of Russian sanctions against Americans have included President Joe Biden and members of his family, as well as lawmakers and business leaders. The U.S. has sanctioned numerous Russians, including government officials and business people.
Penn and Stiller have been outspoken critics of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Penn is an activist involved in relief work, among other causes. Stiller is a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.
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This man is taking technology into his own hands – literally
DETROIT, Mich. (WXYZ) – A man in Michigan is using implanted chips in his hand to start his car and unlock his home.
In the near future, he’ll use them to replace his wallet.
“It’s not just a Tesla key, you are able to have it be a secure crypto storage wallet,” Brandon Dalaly said. “I can at some point in the future do credit card transactions of it at some point in time.”
The 41-year-old has a microchip about the size of a small paper clip implanted sub-dermally in his right hand.
A piercer implanted the chip for $100, which, according to Dalaly, doesn’t impact his day-to-day activities and most people don’t even notice it.
This wasn’t Dalaly’s first implant. He has one in each hand. One starts his car, while the other opens the door to his home and can pull up his medical records when needed.
His goal is to lead a life without having to carry keys and a wallet.
“This is something I’m doing for me. It doesn’t affect anybody else,” Dalaly said. “I’m not saying this technology is for everybody. I’m saying in the future, you might start to see more of these things. It could possibly save someone’s life.”
Dalaly is planning a third implant to monitor his vitals, like his body temperature.
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Woman dies rock climbing when rock suddenly breaks
ASPEN, Colo. (KKTV/Gray News) – A woman in Colorado fell to her death Saturday morning while rock climbing at Capitol Peak, according to the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office.
A witness called 911 around 8 a.m. after seeing the woman fall into Pierre Lakes Basin when a rock she was trying to grab gave way.
Authorities said the witness was able to provide Mountain Rescue Aspen officials with the exact location of the woman’s body.
The rescue volunteers hiked up to the woman’s body and prepared it for extraction from the field.
According to the sheriff’s office, she was flown out of the basin around 2:45 p.m. and turned over to the Pitkin County Coroner for further investigation.
Capitol Peak is a mountain with an elevation of 14,137 feet and is considered to be one of Colorado’s most difficult mountains to climb.
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Woman in Rockingham County trains unadoptable horse to find a loving home
FULKS RUN, Va. (WHSV) - A horse trainer in Rockingham County helped a horse deemed unadoptable find its forever home.
Laura Lezotte started Pale Hollow Farms in Fulks Run just over a year ago to train unhandled horses and find them good homes.
“What I wanted to do was try and run a business and make income retraining these horses and finding good homes for them, so I could do what I love, maybe make a little bit of income on it while putting good back into the world,” Lezotte said.
The Appalachian Trainer Face Off is an annual national competition in West Virginia that works toward that same mission. It’s something Lezotte has followed over the years, but this year she decided to participate.
“It was literally the last day to apply,” Lezotte said. “I put in my application. I sent in all the videos. I was up super late trying to get it all together, and I did get selected for the amateur division.”
Each trainer is assigned a horse that would be unadoptable and has 100 days to train them to learn the skills needed to be adopted. Lezotte got Ferrari.
“For about a year, he sat in a quarantine facility, so he sat in a stall for a year,” Lezotte said. “He was mostly unhandled, and I think he was still a stallion when he went through auction. An unhandled stallion can be dangerous for even experienced horse owners, so there’s much of a chance to be adopted.”
Because of his past experiences, Lezotte explained how Ferrari was really shut down and didn’t want anything to do with people. She said training him was very challenging at first. He didn’t participate in is training, and Lezotte started to think the two would never connect. But one night, he finally came around.
“I was feeding the horses, and he walked up and he just really lightly touched my arm with his nose, and that was the first interest he ever showed in me,” Lezotte said.
So from there, the two really got to work. They went on trail rides, worked with beginner riders, and he began feeling more comfortable experiencing new things.
“He was just terrified of every object we would introduce, so we just had to love on him with everything and rub ropes on him and blankets and all of that. Just to get him used to being touched and exposed to the things that he was going to see everyday,” Lezotte said.
Lezotte and Ferrari spent at least a couple of hours each day training from May to August. By the time the three-day competition came around, Lezotte said Ferrari was a rockstar, and she was so proud of how both of them did.
In the days leading up to the competition, many interested adopters got to meet Ferrari before bidding on him at an auction after the big event.
10-year-old Natalie McFarland fell in love with him.
“He was the right fit. I could tell at the start because he was really fast, and that was what I was looking for,” she said.
“She was just cantering laps on this horse. I really, really liked the way that she rode him. She’s a fearless kid,” Lezotte said.
The McFarland family lives in Maryland and was not able to physically attend the event in the Mountain state. They live streamed it and had someone there to bid on Ferrari for them.
But there was someone else who also had their eye on Ferrari from the beginning. The woman did bid the highest to win the horse but later that night, she found out her boarding facility would not accept him, and she had to back out.
And while the McFarlands were not the next highest bidder, Lezotte really wanted Ferrari to go home with Natalie.
“For Laura to give him to us, she really took a big financial cut, too, so I think that really resonates with us just how kind of a gesture that was,” Jackie McFarland, Natalie’s mother said.
But Lezotte says the connection Natalie and Ferrari have is what this process is all about.
“Just taking a horse that was unadoptable and being able to home him with a 10-year-old who loves him is a really rewarding process,” Lezotte said.
Natalie already has a few lessons with Ferrari under her belt, and Lezotte said she’s looking forward to seeing their progress together.
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LAS VEGAS, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Allegiant (NASDAQ: ALGT) announced it has repaid the $24.8 million dollar emergency relief loan the company received under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act in April 2020.
The government assistance, coupled with proactive initiatives from Allegiant and its employees, allowed the airline to preserve liquidity and strategically position itself to withstand the uncertainty surrounding the outbreak of COVID-19. Allegiant's unique business model, focused entirely on leisure travel, helped the company respond to the unprecedented challenges that the entire airline industry faced when demand for air travel dropped so suddenly and precipitously in 2020, as a result of the global pandemic.
The CARES Act, signed into law in April 2020, established the Payroll Support Program to provide assistance to U.S. companies that were impacted by the global pandemic. The funds helped Allegiant support the airline's employee salaries and benefits.
"We're so grateful to the federal government and the American people for stepping up and assisting the entire industry when the outlook for the future was so uncertain," said Allegiant's CEO John Redmond. "This loan helped us save jobs at a time when it wasn't clear how the U.S. would emerge from the pandemic. We're thrilled that demand has increased so much in recent months that we were able to fulfill our obligation much earlier than we originally anticipated."
Las Vegas-based Allegiant (NASDAQ: ALGT) is an integrated travel company with an airline at its heart, focused on connecting customers with the people, places and experiences that matter most. Since 1999, Allegiant Air has linked travelers in small-to-medium cities to world-class vacation destinations with all-nonstop flights and industry-low average fares. Today, Allegiant's fleet serves communities across the nation, with base airfares less than half the cost of the average domestic roundtrip ticket. For more information, visit us at Allegiant.com. Media information, including photos, is available at http://gofly.us/iiFa303wrtF
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SHENZHEN, China, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading interior design firm Cheng Chung Design (CCD) is ranked Interior Design Magazine's 2022 Top 10 Hospitality List, becoming the first Chinese interior design firm to take the top spot in the list's 45-year history. CCD's focus is on providing professional interior design and consulting services for high-end international hotel brands and bringing innovative designs for forward-thinking clients.
"CCD is unrelentingly committed to adapting to the ever-changing needs of our clients. We not only seek innovation in design but also explore deeper the relationship between design and sustainable development. Sustainable design will lead to a harmonious trinity of people, space and nature," said Joe Cheng, Founder of Cheng Chung Design.
Over the years, CCD has completed capstone hotel interior design projects that combine a new lifestyle, a sustainable design approach, and Asian aesthetics to create the ideal space for living, traveling, and social sharing.
The Club InterContinental of InterContinental Shenzhen Dameisha Resort is designed to invoke a home-like vibe as people increasingly turn to urban resorts to relax from the pressures of the pandemic. The project also incorporates more smart technologies and uses flexible design space, blending different social elements and creating an upbeat public space.
The Banyan Tree Nanjing Garden Expo project, on the other hand, aims to blend the interior of the hotel with its natural surroundings. The design team used local materials such as rocks from nearby abandoned mines as room decoration, which reduces waste and environmental harm while also creating a setting where design becomes nature's companion.
The project of Suning Zhongshan Golf Resort in Nanjing represents how CCD combines Eastern and Western aesthetics, creating a sublime yet creative balance between the elegant European art style and the charm of the ancient Chinese capital through the new language characteristic of contemporary design.
More high-profile CCD international projects
- Hoiana Hotels & Suites (Hoi An, Vietnam)
- Columbia International Hotel and Residences (New York, U.S)
- Sheraton Universal Hotel(Los Angeles, U.S)
- Conrad Bangkok (Bangkok, Thailand)
About CCD
Cheng Chung Design (HK) Ltd was founded by renowned designer Mr. Joe Cheng and is one of the top hotel interior design firms in the world. With teams in Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Beijing, Shanghai, Los Angeles, Bangkok and more, CCD's "Eastern Artistic Conception in the Western Form" design concept is highly acclaimed internationally. It has won over 140 top international design awards, including the "Gold Key Awards" and "Asian 500" in 2021. CCD is ranked No.1 in the Top 10 Hospitality list by US Interior Design Magazine in 2022.
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Grand opening celebration on September 8, 2022
SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Celebrity's Soul Food®, the country's fastest-growing soul food chain, is continuing its expansion plans and bringing its legendary recipes and best-in-class service to Salt Lake City. The newest location 487 E. 12300 South, Draper, UT 84020 marks the first for Utah and the first bistro-style concept for the brand. Franchise owners Scott and Anissa Hargraves will be leading the Salt Lake City team. A grand opening celebration is scheduled for September 8, from 12:00 p.m.- 8:00 p.m. Doors will be open to the public at 11 a.m. Guests will enjoy entertainment, prizes, and more to commemorate the day.
"We are delighted to partner with Scott and Anissa to bring our restaurant concept to Utah and further grow our brand," said Taja Jacobs, Co-Founder and CEO for Celebrity's Soul Food. "Our restaurants are typically full-service establishments, but Salt Lake City will be home to our first bistro-style restaurant. Guests will get to enjoy our bold and flavorful menu offerings and exceptional hospitality with the convenience of a quick-service format."
"We draw inspiration from various cultures from around the world to create our menu that boasts an innovative and modern approach to soul food. Our high-quality meals satisfy a range of tastes from meat lovers to vegetarians to vegans and even flexitarians," added Jacobs. "We're looking forward to serving the greater Salt Lake City area, whether you're a resident or just visiting the area and it's amazing offerings."
The Salt Lake City restaurant will be open Sunday through Saturday from 11 a.m.-8 p.m.
About Celebrity's Soul Food
Celebrity's Soul Food®, the country's fastest-growing soul food chain, provides legendary, scratch-made dishes paired with a VIP experience to every guest. The quality casual restaurant takes guests on a culinary adventure with its innovative twist on traditional soul food. Dishes are prepared fresh and with high-quality ingredients.
For more information about Celebrity's Soul Food, visit www.celebrityssoulfood.com or follow the Salt Lake City restaurant at https://www.facebook.com/celebrityssoulfoodsaltlakecity/.
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LANDSKRONA, Sweden, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nasdaq Stockholm has decided that Haldex Aktiebolag will be delisted from Nasdaq Stockholm. The last day of trading in the share will be on 19 September 2022.
The information was submitted for publication, through the agency of the contact person set out above, at 16:20 CEST on 5 September 2022.
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About Haldex
Over 100 years of powerful innovation gives Haldex unsurpassed expertise when it comes to braking systems and air suspension systems for heavy trucks, trailers, and buses. We live and breathe our business with the goal to deliver robust and technically superior solutions which is founded in a deep insight in our customer's reality. Through focusing on our core competences and the passion we all share, we achieve the agility and flexibility that the market demands. Innovative collaborations aren't only the core of our products, but our philosophy. Our 2 000 employees, spread out across four continents, challenge the conventional on a daily basis in order to secure that the products we deliver create a unique value to our customers and the end users. We are listed on Nasdaq Stockholm and have a turnover of approx. 4.6 billion SEK.
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PARIS, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dizal reported the promising safety and pharmacokinetic data from the global Phase I study of DZD1516 in patients with HER2 positive metastatic breast cancer (HER2+ MBC) who relapsed from multiple prior treatments at the 2022 European Society for Medical Oncology Annual Meeting.
Nearly 60% of patients with advanced HER2-positive breast cancer develop brain metastasis and the prognosis is extremely poor. DZD1516 is an oral, full blood-brain barrier (BBB) penetrant selective HER2 inhibitor for the treatment of HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer.
The Phase I study is enrolling HER2+ MBC patients who relapsed from or were intolerant to the standard of care (SoC). The primary objective is to evaluate the safety of DZD1516 and to define maximum tolerated dose (MTD). As of February 20, 2022, DZD1516 was explored in 22 HER2+ MBC patients from the USA and China, among whom nearly 70% had CNS metastases at baseline. Key findings are as follows:
- DZD1516 was well tolerated at doses ≤ 250 mg, and in consistent with its high selectivity, no wild-type EGFR-related AEs have been reported. Thus, 250 mg was defined as MTD.
- In patients, mean Kpuu,CSF was 2.1 for DZD1516 across the dose range, indicating full penetration of DZD1516 through human BBB.
- 18 patients had completed ≥ 1 post treatment RECIST assessment. With a median of 7 lines of prior systemic treatment (86% treated with HER2 TKI), the best antitumor efficacy in intracranial, extracranial and overall lesions was stable disease.
"Patients with HER2 positive breast cancer and brain metastasis have poor outcomes due to the limited therapies," said Dr. Xiaolin Zhang, CEO of Dizal, "Based on these promising findings, we will further explore the potential of DZD1516 as a new treatment option for this underserved patient population."
About 1516
DZD1516 is designed as an oral, potent, reversible, highly selective, and full blood-brain barrier (BBB) penetrant HER2 tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI), with more than 300-fold selectivity for HER2 compared to wild-type EGFR. It is well tolerated at doses ≤ 250 mg, twice daily. And in consistent with its high selectivity, no wild-type EGFR-related AEs have been reported. In patients, mean Kpuu,CSF is 2.1 for DZD1516 across the dose range, indicating full penetration of DZD1516 through human BBB.
About Dizal
Dizal is a clinical-stage, biopharmaceutical company, dedicated to the discovery and development of differentiated therapeutics for the treatment of cancer and immunological diseases. Deep-rooted in translational science and molecular design, it has established an internationally competitive portfolio of five clinical-stage assets with two leading assets in global pivotal studies.
About ESMO
The European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) is the leading professional organization for medical oncology. With more than 25,000 members representing oncology professionals from over 160 countries worldwide, ESMO is the society of reference for oncology education and information. Found in 1975, ESMO's core mission is to improve the quality of cancer care, from prevention and diagnosis all the way to palliative care and patient follow-up. And it is to promote equal access to optimal cancer care for all patients. The 2022 annual ESMO Congress will be held in Paris, France, online and offline from 9-13 September. The congress presents the latest scientific developments in basic, translational and clinical cancer research and contextualizes new findings for practical implementation in everyday patient care.
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This news release may contain certain forward-looking statements that are, by their nature, subject to significant risks and uncertainties. The words "anticipate", "believe", "estimate", "expect", and "intend" and similar expressions, as they relate to Dizal, are intended to identify certain forward-looking statements. Dizal does not intend to update these forward-looking statements regularly.
These forward-looking statements are based on the existing beliefs, assumptions, expectations, estimates, projections, and understandings of the management of Dizal with respect to future events at the time these statements are made. These statements are not a guarantee of future developments and are subject to risks, uncertainties, and other factors, some of which are beyond Dizal's control and are difficult to predict. Consequently, actual results may differ materially from information contained in the forward-looking statements as a result of future changes or developments in our business, Dizal's competitive environment, and political, economic, legal, and social conditions.
Dizal, the Directors, and the employees of Dizal assume (a) no obligation to correct or update the forward-looking statements contained on this site; and (b) no liability in the event that any of the forward-looking statements does not materialize or turn out to be incorrect.
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- The confirmed objective response (cORR), as assessed by blinded independent central review (BICR), was 59.8% in advanced NSCLC with EGFR exon20ins mutations after at least one line of platinum-based chemotherapies
- The response rate for patients with baseline brain metastasis was 48.4%
- Clinical activities observed across a broad range of EGFR exon20ins mutation subtypes and regardless of mutation positions
- Benign safety profile, with adverse effects mild in nature and reversible.
PARIS, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dizal today announced positive topline results from the first pivotal study of sunvozertinib (DZD9008) in platinum-pretreated NSCLC Patients with EGFR exon20ins mutations at the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Annual Meeting. The trial met the primary endpoint, cORR, as assessed by Blinded Independent Central Review (BICR).
Even though lung cancer is the second most common cancer and leading cause of cancer death globally, NSCLC patients with EGFR exon20ins mutation lack effective treatment options, especially those who develop brain metastases (BM) historically have worse outcomes. Sunvozertinib (DZD9008), which was granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation by both the US FDA and China CDE, is a rationally designed, oral, potent EGFR exon20ins inhibitor, with wild-type EGFR selectivity.
The topline result presented at 2022 ESMO was based on the latest data from WU-KONG6 study, the multicenter, single-arm, Phase II pivotal study conducted in China. As of 31 July 2022, the efficacy set included 97 platinum-pretreated NSCLC patients with EGFR exon20ins mutations. Key findings from efficacy set are as follows:
*Patients are still on treatment and responding.
Sunvozertinib also demonstrated a favorable safety profile. Of all 277 patients in the safety set, the most common treatment-related adverse events (TEAE) were diarrhea and rash, the majority of which were Grade 1/2 and clinically manageable.
"The importance of advancing research on NSCLC with EGFR exon20ins mutation – a complicated and devastating disease – cannot be overstated, as available treatment options provide limited benefit especially to those develop brain metastasis," said Dr. Xiaolin Zhang, CEO of Dizal, "It is great news to our patients that sunvozertinib is showing such strong antitumor activities with a benign safety profile. This data further strengthens our confidence in sunvozertinib and reinforces its best-in-class position"
About sunvozertinib (DZD9008)
Sunvozertinib was designed with the goal to address the limitations of existing NSCLC therapies. It is an irreversible inhibitor targeting EGFR exon 20 insertion mutations as well as EGFR sensitizing T790M and uncommon mutations while maintaining selectivity against wild-type EGFR. The first pivotal study WU-KONG6 of sunvozertinib has achieved its primary endpoint, demonstrating superior antitumor efficacy in pre-treated NSCLC patients with EGFR exon20 insertion mutations. The confirmed ORR (cORR) at 300 mg was 59.8% by BICR. Patients with baseline brain metastasis showed significant response as well, with a confirmed ORR of 48.4%. (Data cut-off date: July 31, 2022). It is well tolerated with a manageable AE profile. Global pivotal studies are ongoing for ≥ 2nd line and 1st line treatment of NSCLC with EGFR exon20 insertion mutation in countries including China, U.S., EU, Australia, South Korea and other countries and regions.
About EGFR Exon20ins
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the world. It is classified broadly as non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), accounting for 85% lung cancer cases, and small cell lung cancer (SCLC). EGFR mutation is common in NSCLC. About 4–12% of all EGFR mutations are insertions at exon 20 (EGFR exon20ins). Patients with EGFR exon20ins generally don't respond to the first-, second- and third-generation EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs).
About Dizal
Dizal is a clinical-stage, biopharmaceutical company, dedicated to the discovery and development of differentiated therapeutics for the treatment of cancer and immunological diseases. Deep-rooted in its translational science and molecular design, it has established an internationally competitive portfolio of five clinical-stage assets, with two leading assets in global pivotal studies.
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These forward-looking statements are based on the existing beliefs, assumptions, expectations, estimates, projections, and understandings of the management of Dizal with respect to future events at the time these statements are made. These statements are not a guarantee of future developments and are subject to risks, uncertainties, and other factors, some of which are beyond Dizal's control and are difficult to predict. Consequently, actual results may differ materially from information contained in the forward-looking statements as a result of future changes or developments in our business, Dizal's competitive environment, and political, economic, legal, and social conditions.
Dizal, the Directors, and the employees of Dizal assume (a) no obligation to correct or update the forward-looking statements contained on this site; and (b) no liability in the event that any of the forward-looking statements does not materialize or turn out to be incorrect.
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PORSGRUNN, Norway, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HydrogenPro AS (OSE: HYPRO) hereby announces that an extraordinary general meeting (the "EGM") was held today at Henrik Ibsens gate 100, 0255 Oslo, Norway at 10:00 CEST on 5 September 2022.
The EGM resolved, inter alia, to convert the company from a private limited liability company (AS) to a public limited liability company (ASA) in connection with the contemplated up-listing to Oslo Stock Exchange's main list from Euronext Growth Oslo. Other items rquired or deemed necessary in connection with the contemplated up-listing were also resolved.
Minutes from the EGM meeting is attached hereto.
For more information, please contact:
Richard Espeseth, interim CEO, +47 958 43 007
Martin T. Holtet, CFO, +47 92 24 49 02, ir@hydrogen-pro.com
About HydrogenPro
HydrogenPro is a technology company and an OEM for high pressure alkaline electrolyser and supplies large scale green hydrogen plants, all ISO 9001, ISO 45001 and ISO 14001 certified.
The Company was founded in 2013 by individuals with background from the electrolysis industry which was established in Telemark, Norway by Norsk Hydro in 1927. We are an experienced engineering team of leading industry experts, drawing upon unparalleled experience and expertise in the hydrogen and renewable energy industry.
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Featuring active noise cancellation, Bluetooth 5.3 and an eye-catching design
RICHMOND, BC, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Edifier, the forward-thinking audio-technology brand, have announced the release of a brand new earbud, the W240TN, which continues in the brand's outstanding record for affordable but premium quality audio. Aimed at the highly competitive under $100 market, the W240TN true wireless earbuds with Active Noise Cancellation have a range of exciting features and continues Edifier's signature design language and stellar audio fidelity capabilities.
Armed with Dual Dynamic Drivers (Φ6mm+Φ10mm) the W240TN creates a wide sound field aimed at immersing listeners in their favourite songs. Compared to single drivers, the W240TN maintains delicate details even at a high volume threshold and the hybrid ANC functions allow users to block out unwanted sounds and focus in on the music that makes them happy.
With an industrial-chic, gunmetal black or white finish the W240TN is inspired by the shape of a robust piston head. Rugged yet trustworthy, the metallic design carries the legacy of the TWS1 Pro and the finished product speaks volumes for Edifier's pursuit of style. The result has an iconic profile that balances modern lines with a retro, almost 80s-like character; think Robocop meets Blade Runner 2049. In comparison to other earbuds on the market, which often take an altogether more minimal or maximalist approach, the W240TN gives off an effortlessly clean look, one that wouldn't look out of sorts on the streets of Manhattan, Dubai, Tokyo or London.
Unlike the majority of its competition the buds feature the latest in Bluetooth 5.3 technology which not only provides impressively low latency (which can be reduced even further via a dedicated 'Game' mode) but consistently ensures that users never feel far from their favourite sounds. With a compact charge case, the W240TN provides 8.5 hours of playtime and a further 17 hours via the case, making unnecessary cutouts and low battery disasters are a thing of the past. And, users can enjoy crystal clear phone calls thanks to innovative AI DNN Adaptive Call Noise Reduction technology – blocks out unwanted noises and focuses in on your voice.
The W240TN also includes a range of ergonomic features. For those who lead a busier life, listening to music in the gym or whilst they're out for a run, the buds are IP55 certified – meaning they are water resistant and sweat proof – and feature Edifier's impressive AI call noise cancellation technology, which allows users to enjoy clear and life-like call audio without external noise interfering. To ensure your safety whilst listening to your favourite artists or calling an old friend, the W240TN also comes with an optional 'Ambient Mode' designed to allow environmental sounds (like car engines, tannoy callouts or dogs barking) to seep through into your listening.
Designed to keep up to speed with the modern individual, bustling from one situation to the next, the W240TN are lastly compatible with the Edifier Connect App – which gives smartphones users the option to customize their call settings, EQ levels, ANC mode and more with the tap of a finger. If you prefer a sturdy button, over a delicate touch sensitive one, the W240TN also comes with handy push controls allowing you to stay in control with ease.
For under $100 the W240TN provides a highly competitive option for audio lovers on a budget and adds to Edifier's groundbreaking range of consumer audio products.
Price & Availability:
Available for $79.99 on Amazon.com.
About Edifier:
Edifier specializes in the design and manufacture of premium audio solutions that showcase technological innovation and design excellence. Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Beijing, China, Edifier delivers outstanding sound experience through a wide range of audio systems for personal entertainment and professional use. Renowned for its award-winning design philosophy, expertise and innovation in acoustic technology, and superior manufacturing standards, Edifier is one of today's leading innovators of audio electronics.
More information about Edifier is available online at www.edifier.com
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I thought there should be a simple and easy way to carry a plate and drink with one hand," said an inventor, from Maxwell, Texas, "so I invented the SOPHTRAY. My design can be used at social gatherings, picnics, barbecues and parties."
The patent-pending invention provides an effective way to hold a food plate and a beverage cup in one hand. In doing so, it eliminates the need to struggle or shuffle a plate and drink. As a result, it could help to prevent spills and it can be used while dining indoors or outdoors. The invention features a versatile design that is easy to use so it is ideal for households. Additionally, it is producible in design variations and a prototype is available.
The original design was submitted to the National sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-CTK-2756, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I'm an automotive do-it-yourselfer and I thought there could be a better way to replace disc brake pads on vehicles," said an inventor, from Charlotte, N.C., "so I invented the RAPID TOOL DISC BRAKE PAD SPREADER. My design enables you to apply the necessary torque in a smooth, safe and controlled manner."
The patent-pending invention provides an improved tool for depressing the brake caliper piston on a vehicle for disc pad replacement. In doing so, it eliminates the need to directly grip and turn the large knob on a traditional brake pad spreader tool. As a result, it saves time and effort. The invention features a practical design that is easy to use so it is ideal for mechanics and do-it-yourselfers. Additionally, it is producible in design variations and a prototype model is available upon request.
The original design was submitted to the Charlotte sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-CNC-806, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a durable, affordable and earth-friendly alternative to conventional wooden ties used by railways," said an inventor, from Elgin, S.C., "so I invented the C G CROSSTIE. My design could help to preserve wooded areas and it could reduce the amount of waste delivered to landfills."
The invention provides a more reliable and long-lasting design for a railroad tie. In doing so, it offers an alternative to using wooden ties that eventually split and rot. As a result, it helps to reduce the cost while extending the life of ties. It also eliminates the need to cut down large swaths of old-growth trees. The invention features an environmentally-friendly design that is easy to install and maintain so it is ideal for the railroad industry.
The original design was submitted to the National sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-CSK-171, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "As an apprentice, I needed a better way to secure and hold a length of pipe for cutting," said an inventor, from Countryside, Ill., "so I invented the PIPE SADDLE. My design would eliminate the need to hold the pipe across your leg or in the air and it enables you to make clean, accurate cuts."
The invention provides a secure way to hold a length of pipe for cutting. In doing so, it prevents the pipe from shifting or moving. As a result, it increases safety and efficiency and it saves time and effort. The invention features a practical and durable design that is easy to use so it is ideal for laborers, tradespeople and DIY enthusiasts. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Chicago sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-CLR-139, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a convenient shade device to protect users from the sun during an outdoor event like a barbecue," said an inventor, from Kings Mountain, N.C., "so I invented the CUSTOM SHADES. My design would provide optimum shade and protection."
The patent-pending invention protects an outdoor space against the sun and rain. In doing so, it offers an alternative to using a patio umbrella. It would also help to protect against wind, leaves and birds and it can be used for picnics, backyard parties, etc. The invention features a portable and versatile design that is easy to install and use so it is ideal for households. Additionally, it is producible in design variations and a prototype model is available upon request.
The original design was submitted to the Charlotte sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-CNC-814, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com
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RADNOR, Pa., Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The law firm of Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP (www.ktmc.com) informs investors that a securities class action lawsuit has been filed in the against MINISO Group Holding Limited ("MINISO ") (NYSE: MNSO). The action charges MINISO with violations of the federal securities laws, including omissions and fraudulent misrepresentations relating to the company's business, operations, and prospects. As a result of MINISO's materially misleading statements and omissions to the public, MINISO investors have suffered significant losses.
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CLASS PERIOD: OCTOBER 15, 2020 THROUGH AUGUST 17, 2022
CONTACT AN ATTORNEY TO DISCUSS YOUR RIGHTS:
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Kessler Topaz is one of the world's foremost advocates in protecting the public against corporate fraud and other wrongdoing. Our securities fraud litigators are regularly recognized as leaders in the field individually and our firm is both feared and respected among the defense bar and the insurance bar. We are proud to have recovered billions of dollars for our clients and the classes of shareholders we represent.
Headquartered in the People's Republic of China, MINISO purports to be a fast-growing global value retailer which serves consumers primarily through its large network of MINISO stores. On October 15, 2020, MINISO conducted its IPO, issuing approximately 30.4 million American Depositary Shares (ADSs) to the investing public at $20.00 per ADS.
On July 26, 2022, market researcher Blue Orca Capital published a report on MINISO which alleged several alarming issues with MINISO, including that: 1) many MINISO stores are secretly owned by MINISO executives or insiders closely connected to the chairman; 2) MINISO misleads the market about its core business; and 3) based on Blue Orca's analysis, MINISO's Chinese corporate filings indicate that the chairman siphoned hundreds of millions from the public company through opaque Caribbean jurisdictions as the middleman in a crooked headquarters deal.
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.
MINISO investors may, no later than October 17, 2022, seek to be appointed as a lead plaintiff representative of the class through Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP or other counsel, or may choose to do nothing and remain an absent class member. Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP encourages MINISO investors who have suffered significant losses to contact the firm directly to acquire more information.
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Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP prosecutes class actions in state and federal courts throughout the country and around the world. The firm has developed a global reputation for excellence and has recovered billions of dollars for victims of fraud and other corporate misconduct. All of our work is driven by a common goal: to protect investors, consumers, employees and others from fraud, abuse, misconduct and negligence by businesses and fiduciaries. The complaint in this action was not filed by Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP. For more information about Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP please visit www.ktmc.com.
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The United Steelworkers union (USW) released the following statement today from USW International President Tom Conway in honor of the Labor Day holiday.
"This Labor Day, as we pause to honor workers and celebrate the dignity of work, we remember how far we have come and rededicate ourselves to the fight for fairness for working people.
"For generations, the labor movement has led the way in helping working families achieve the American Dream. At the bargaining table, in our communities, and in our halls of government, we make sure workers are safe, that they earn fair wages, that they have time with their loved ones, that they have affordable health care, and that when their work is done they can retire with dignity.
"American workers are hungry for unions, and we must be there for them. Workers are organizing in huge numbers, but they still face greedy employers and politicians who fight them every step of the way.
"That's why we owe it to them to pass the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act and other worker protections, so every worker who wants to be a union member can do so without intimidation and interference.
"That's also why the USW is proud to welcome President Joe Biden to Pittsburgh today to celebrate alongside the working people who built – and continue to build – this country.
"We partnered with this administration and with this Congress to make historic progress for workers: including the new infrastructure law that is rebuilding our nation and growing our economy; the Butch-Lewis Act, which saved the pensions of more than a million workers and retirees; and the Inflation Reduction Act, which will lower costs and boost American manufacturing. As a result of these efforts, we've seen record job growth, low unemployment, and rising wages across our industries.
"But our fight is far from over. As we look to the future, we pledge to continue the fight for working people, and to push our leaders to join us in that fight, on this Labor Day and every day."
The USW represents 850,000 workers employed in metals, mining, pulp and paper, rubber, chemicals, glass, auto supply and the energy-producing industries, along with a growing number of workers in health care, public sector, higher education, tech and service occupations.
Contact: R.J. Hufnagel, (412) 562-2450, rhufnagel@usw.org
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16 Uvalde fourth graders waited an hour with injured teacher
UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Elsa Avila slid to her phone, terrified as she held the bleeding side of her abdomen and tried to stay calm for her students. In a text to her family that she meant to send to fellow Uvalde teachers, she wrote: “I’m shot.”
For the first time in 30 years, Avila will not be going back to school as classes resume Tuesday in the small, southeast Texas town. The start of school will look different for her, as for other survivors of the May 24 shooting at Robb Elementary School in which 21 people died, with an emphasis on healing, both physically and mentally. Some have opted for virtual education, others for private school. Many will return to Uvalde school district campuses, though Robb Elementary itself will not ever reopen.
“I’m trying to make sense of everything,” Avila said in an August interview, “but it is never going to make sense.”
A scar down her torso brings her to tears as a permanent reminder of the horror she endured with her 16 students as they waited in their classroom for an hour for help while a gunman slaughtered 19 children and two teachers in two adjoining classrooms nearby.
Minutes before she felt the sharp pain of the bullet piercing her intestine and colon, Avila was motioning students away from the walls and windows and closer to her. A student lined up by the door for recess had just told her something was going on outside: People were running — and screaming. As she slammed the classroom door so the lock would catch, her students took their well-practiced lockdown positions.
Moments later, a gunman stormed into their fourth-grade wing and began spraying bullets before ultimately making his way into rooms 111 and 112.
In room 109, Avila repeatedly texted for help, according to messages reviewed by The Associated Press. First at 11:35 a.m. in the text to her family that she says was meant for the teacher group chat. Then at 11:38 in a message to the school’s vice principal. At 11:45 she responded to a text from the school’s counselor asking if her classroom was in lockdown with: “I’m shot, send help.” And when the principal assured her that help was on the way, she replied simply: “Help.”
“Yes they are coming,” the principal wrote back at 11:48 a.m.
It’s unclear whether her messages were relayed to police. District officials did not respond to requests for comment on actions taken to communicate with law enforcement on May 24, and an attorney for then-Principal Mandy Gutierrez was not available for comment.
According to a legislative committee’s report that described a botched police response, nearly 400 local, state and federal officers stood in the hallway of the fourth-grade wing and outside the building for 77 minutes before finally entering the adjoining classrooms and killing the gunman. Lawmakers also found a relaxed approach to lockdowns — which happened often — and security concerns, including issues with door locks. State and federal investigations into the shooting are continuing.
The district is working to complete new security measures, and the school board in August fired the district’s police chief, Pete Arredondo. Residents say it remains unclear how — or even if — trust between the community and officials can be rebuilt even as some call for more accountability, better police training and stricter gun safety laws.
Avila recalls hearing the ominous bursts of rapid fire, then silence, then the voices of officers in the hallway yelling, “Crossfire!” and later more officers standing nearby.
“But still nobody came to help us,” she said.
As Avila lay motionless, unable to speak loud enough to be heard, some of her students nudged and shook her. She wished for the strength to tell them she was still alive.
A light flashed into their window, but nobody identified themselves. Scared it might be the gunman, the students moved away.
“The little girls closest to me kept patting me and telling me, ‘It’s going to be OK miss. We love you miss,’” Avila said.
Finally, at 12:33 p.m. a window in her classroom broke. Officers arrived to evacuate her students — the last to be let out in the area, according to Avila.
With her remaining strength, Avila pulled herself up and helped usher students onto chairs and tables and through the window. Then, clutching her side, she told an officer she was too weak to jump herself. He came through the window to pull her out.
“I never saw my kids again. I know they climbed out the window and I could just hear them telling them, `Run, run, run!’” Avila said.
She remembers being taken to the airport, where a helicopter flew her to a San Antonio hospital. She was in and out of care until June 18.
Avila later learned that a student in her class was injured by shrapnel to the nose and mouth but had since been released from medical care. She said other students helped their injured classmates until officers arrived.
“I am very proud of them because they were able to stay calm for a whole hour that we were in there terrified,” Avila said.
As her students prepare to return to school for the first time since that traumatic day, Avila is on the way to recovery, walking up to eight minutes at a time on the treadmill in physical therapy and going to counseling. She looks forward to teaching again someday.
Outside of a shuttered Robb Elementary, a memorial for the people killed overflows at the entrance gate. Teachers from across Texas stopped throughout the summer to pay their respects and reflect on what they would do in the same situation.
“If I survive, I have to make sure they survive first,” said Olga Oglin, an educator of 23 years from Dallas, her voice breaking.
“Whatever happens to a student at our school, it just happens to one of my kids,” Olgin said, adding that she as the first person to greet parents, students and staff at the door in the mornings, she likely would be the first person shot.
Ofelia Loyola, who teaches elementary school in San Antonio, visited with her husband, middle school teacher Raul Loyola. She was baffled at the delayed response from law enforcement on May 24, as seen on security and police video.
“They are all kids. It doesn’t matter how old they are, you protect them,” she said.
Last week, Avila and several of her students met for the end-of-year party they were unable to have in May. They played in the pool at a country club and she gave them each a bracelet with a little cross to remind them that “God was with us that day and they are not alone,” she said.
“We always talked about being kind, being respectful, taking care of each other — and they were able to do that on that day,” Avila said.
“They took care of each other. They took care of me.”
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Flood threat continues in Georgia, other southern states
SUMMERVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Flood watches were in effect in the U.S. southeast early Monday as forecasters warn of the possibility of torrential downpours on Labor Day across already saturated ground.
Waves of showers and storms were expected to develop Monday in the region, as moisture from the Gulf of Mexico continues to stream across the South, the National Weather Service said. Some training storms — storms that drop several inches of rain as they move over the same areas like train cars — were also possible, the weather service said.
Parts of Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia were under flash flood watches through Monday evening. The chance for flash flooding also extended to the northeast, into Pennsylvania and parts of southern New England, the weather service said.
Among the hardest-hit areas in this weekend’s storms was northwest Georgia, where 12 inches (30 centimeters) of rain fell in some spots, forecasters said. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Sunday declared a state of emergency in Chattooga and Floyd counties. That directed all state resources to help with “preparation, response and recovery activities.”
In Chattooga County, church pastors and volunteers planned to distribute water on Monday in the small towns of Summerville and Trion, according to the Chattooga County Emergency Management Agency. Summerville city officials also had water available at its city hall.
The city of Summerville advised residents who use the city’s water utility services to boil water prior to drinking, cooking or preparing baby food due to flash flooding at the Raccoon Creek Filter plant. It wasn’t clear on Monday how long it would take to make repairs to the system.
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At least 10 shot, 1 killed outside Ohio bar, police say
Published: Sep. 5, 2022 at 10:41 AM EDT|Updated: 46 minutes ago
EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO/Gray News) - One person was killed and at least 10 others injured in a shooting outside a bar early Monday morning, WOIO reported.
East Cleveland police said at 2:53 a.m. they received multiple calls reporting shots fired outside the Just Us Lounge & Deli.
When officers arrived, several victims were taken to various hospitals.
One person has died from their injuries, but no information on the victim has been released at this time.
There is also no other information on the surviving victims.
Agents with the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation have also been called to the scene to help with the investigation.
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Russia sanctions 25 more Americans, including Sean Penn, Ben Stiller
(AP) - Russia imposed personal sanctions Monday on 25 Americans, including actors Sean Penn and Ben Stiller, in response to U.S. sanctions against Russians stemming from the conflict in Ukraine.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo was on the new sanctions list, as were several American senators: Mark Kelly and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, Kevin Cramer of North Dakota, Mike Rounds of South Dakota, Rick Scott of Florida and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry said the group, which also included business leaders, academics and government officials, would be banned permanently from entering Russia.
Previous rounds of Russian sanctions against Americans have included President Joe Biden and members of his family, as well as lawmakers and business leaders. The U.S. has sanctioned numerous Russians, including government officials and business people.
Penn and Stiller have been outspoken critics of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Penn is an activist involved in relief work, among other causes. Stiller is a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.
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This man is taking technology into his own hands – literally
DETROIT, Mich. (WXYZ) – A man in Michigan is using implanted chips in his hand to start his car and unlock his home.
In the near future, he’ll use them to replace his wallet.
“It’s not just a Tesla key, you are able to have it be a secure crypto storage wallet,” Brandon Dalaly said. “I can at some point in the future do credit card transactions of it at some point in time.”
The 41-year-old has a microchip about the size of a small paper clip implanted sub-dermally in his right hand.
A piercer implanted the chip for $100, which, according to Dalaly, doesn’t impact his day-to-day activities and most people don’t even notice it.
This wasn’t Dalaly’s first implant. He has one in each hand. One starts his car, while the other opens the door to his home and can pull up his medical records when needed.
His goal is to lead a life without having to carry keys and a wallet.
“This is something I’m doing for me. It doesn’t affect anybody else,” Dalaly said. “I’m not saying this technology is for everybody. I’m saying in the future, you might start to see more of these things. It could possibly save someone’s life.”
Dalaly is planning a third implant to monitor his vitals, like his body temperature.
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Woman dies rock climbing when rock suddenly breaks
ASPEN, Colo. (KKTV/Gray News) – A woman in Colorado fell to her death Saturday morning while rock climbing at Capitol Peak, according to the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office.
A witness called 911 around 8 a.m. after seeing the woman fall into Pierre Lakes Basin when a rock she was trying to grab gave way.
Authorities said the witness was able to provide Mountain Rescue Aspen officials with the exact location of the woman’s body.
The rescue volunteers hiked up to the woman’s body and prepared it for extraction from the field.
According to the sheriff’s office, she was flown out of the basin around 2:45 p.m. and turned over to the Pitkin County Coroner for further investigation.
Capitol Peak is a mountain with an elevation of 14,137 feet and is considered to be one of Colorado’s most difficult mountains to climb.
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Updated September 5, 2022 at 9:56 AM ET
Chile spent the past two years writing a progressive new constitution, but the document was so soundly spurned by voters on Sunday that the result was clear less than two hours after the polls closed.
Nearly 62% of Chileans rejected the draft Magna Carta that was designed to replace the current one written during the country's military dictatorship while just 38% voted to accept it, according to official returns.
Although nearly every public opinion survey suggested the draft constitution was in trouble, Sunday's results were shockingly lopsided and a huge blow for President Gabriel Boric, a leftist elected last year largely on his pledge to shepherd through passage of a new constitution.
"As president I receive this message with a lot of humility," Boric, who is 36 and is Latin America's youngest president, said in a TV address Sunday night. "You have to listen to the voice of the people."
News that the "rejection" vote had prevailed sparked celebrations in Santiago, the capital, where lines of drivers honked their car horns and people gathered outside to chant and toast victory.
"We're happy because, really, we all want a new constitution, but one that is done right and this one didn't fulfill the expectations of the majority," Lorena Cornejo, 34, told the Associated Press, as she waved a Chilean flag. "Now we have to work for a new one that unites us. This one didn't represent us and that was clear in the vote."
The proposed constitution was considered too liberal for a conservative country
In a traditionally conservative country — married couples couldn't get divorced in Chile until 2004 — many voters considered the new constitution too liberal. It was written by an elected special assembly dominated by leftists and progressives while only about one-third of the 155 delegates were conservatives.
The text called for legalized abortion, gender parity in government offices, the abolition of Chile's senate and the establishment of autonomous Indigenous territories. It included vast new protections for the environment that, according to critics, could have put the brakes on the country's lucrative copper mining industry. It also called for universal health care and the right to decent housing, education and pensions, which would have required steep tax increases.
"We don't have the financial capacity to pay for all of these things," said Mitzi Rojas, an architect in Santiago who voted against the constitution.
The effort to remake Chile's governing guidelines stems from a deep political crisis. For decades the country was viewed as an economic powerhouse and a Latin American success story. But frustration over inequality and the high cost of health care, education and public transportation sparked violent protests in 2019 that nearly brought down Chile's right-wing government.
To address protesters' concerns and convince them to call off their demonstrations, Boric — who was then an opposition congressman — helped cut a deal to begin the long, complicated process of writing a new constitution.
A new constitution is considered long overdue
The current one was written in 1980 under dictator Augusto Pinochet, who ruled Chile for 17 years and calls for private sector involvement in education, pensions and health care. Democracy was restored in 1990. But even though most nations that undergo momentous political transformations write new constitutions to reflect these new realities, Chile never got around to it.
"The original sin of the current constitution is that it was written during the dictatorship," said Rodrigo Espinoza, a political science professor at Diego Portales University in Santiago. "It has gone through reforms but is still seen as illegitimate."
In a 2020 referendum nearly 80% of Chileans voted to draft a new one.
However, experts say the best constitutions are usually short and to the point. By contrast, the document produced by Chile's special assembly was a confusing collection of 388 articles, said Claudio Fuentes, a Santiago political analyst. Another problem, he said, was a vast disinformation campaign that spread lies — including claims that under the new constitution the government would disarm the police and confiscate people's homes.
Boric acknowledged these problems in his TV address but he also vowed to lead a new constitutional rewrite process.
"I commit to put my all my energies into building a new constitutional process alongside congress and civil society," said Boric, who plans to meet with the heads of political parties and both houses of congress on Monday.
Boric added that whoever drafts the next version — whether its Congress or a special assembly — they will have to produce a constitution that unites Chileans rather than divides them.
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JERUSALEM — The Israeli army said Monday there was a "high possibility" that a soldier killed a well-known Al Jazeera journalist in May, as it announced the results of its investigation into the killing. But it said the shooting was accidental and no one would be punished.
Shireen Abu Akleh was killed in May while covering Israeli military raids in the occupied West Bank. The Palestinians blamed Israel for the killing. Israel initially said she may have been killed by militant fire, but later said a soldier may have hit her by mistake during an exchange of fire.
Abu Akleh, a Palestinian-American journalist, had covered the West Bank for the satellite channel for two decades and was known across the Arab world.
In a briefing to reporters, a senior military official said the military could not conclusively determine where the fire emanated from, saying there may have been Palestinian gunmen in the same area as the Israeli soldier. But he said the soldier shot the journalist "with very high likelihood" and did so by mistake. The official did not explain why witness accounts and videos showed limited militant activity in the area, as well as no gunfire in the vicinity until the barrage that struck Abu Akleh and wounded another reporter.
"He misidentified her," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity under military briefing guidelines. "His reports in real time...absolutely point to a misidentification."
The results of the probe, announced nearly four months after the killing, largely align with those of several independent investigations completed much earlier.
Abu Akleh's family criticized the investigation, saying the army "tried to obscure the truth and avoid responsibility" for the killing.
"Our family is not surprised by this outcome since it's obvious to anyone that Israeli war criminals cannot investigate their own crimes. However, we remain deeply hurt, frustrated and disappointed," they said in a statement. The family also reiterated its call for an independent U.S. investigation and a probe by the International Criminal Court.
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Updated September 5, 2022 at 9:56 AM ET
Chile spent the past two years writing a progressive new constitution, but the document was so soundly spurned by voters on Sunday that the result was clear less than two hours after the polls closed.
Nearly 62% of Chileans rejected the draft Magna Carta that was designed to replace the current one written during the country's military dictatorship while just 38% voted to accept it, according to official returns.
Although nearly every public opinion survey suggested the draft constitution was in trouble, Sunday's results were shockingly lopsided and a huge blow for President Gabriel Boric, a leftist elected last year largely on his pledge to shepherd through passage of a new constitution.
"As president I receive this message with a lot of humility," Boric, who is 36 and is Latin America's youngest president, said in a TV address Sunday night. "You have to listen to the voice of the people."
News that the "rejection" vote had prevailed sparked celebrations in Santiago, the capital, where lines of drivers honked their car horns and people gathered outside to chant and toast victory.
"We're happy because, really, we all want a new constitution, but one that is done right and this one didn't fulfill the expectations of the majority," Lorena Cornejo, 34, told the Associated Press, as she waved a Chilean flag. "Now we have to work for a new one that unites us. This one didn't represent us and that was clear in the vote."
The proposed constitution was considered too liberal for a conservative country
In a traditionally conservative country — married couples couldn't get divorced in Chile until 2004 — many voters considered the new constitution too liberal. It was written by an elected special assembly dominated by leftists and progressives while only about one-third of the 155 delegates were conservatives.
The text called for legalized abortion, gender parity in government offices, the abolition of Chile's senate and the establishment of autonomous Indigenous territories. It included vast new protections for the environment that, according to critics, could have put the brakes on the country's lucrative copper mining industry. It also called for universal health care and the right to decent housing, education and pensions, which would have required steep tax increases.
"We don't have the financial capacity to pay for all of these things," said Mitzi Rojas, an architect in Santiago who voted against the constitution.
The effort to remake Chile's governing guidelines stems from a deep political crisis. For decades the country was viewed as an economic powerhouse and a Latin American success story. But frustration over inequality and the high cost of health care, education and public transportation sparked violent protests in 2019 that nearly brought down Chile's right-wing government.
To address protesters' concerns and convince them to call off their demonstrations, Boric — who was then an opposition congressman — helped cut a deal to begin the long, complicated process of writing a new constitution.
A new constitution is considered long overdue
The current one was written in 1980 under dictator Augusto Pinochet, who ruled Chile for 17 years and calls for private sector involvement in education, pensions and health care. Democracy was restored in 1990. But even though most nations that undergo momentous political transformations write new constitutions to reflect these new realities, Chile never got around to it.
"The original sin of the current constitution is that it was written during the dictatorship," said Rodrigo Espinoza, a political science professor at Diego Portales University in Santiago. "It has gone through reforms but is still seen as illegitimate."
In a 2020 referendum nearly 80% of Chileans voted to draft a new one.
However, experts say the best constitutions are usually short and to the point. By contrast, the document produced by Chile's special assembly was a confusing collection of 388 articles, said Claudio Fuentes, a Santiago political analyst. Another problem, he said, was a vast disinformation campaign that spread lies — including claims that under the new constitution the government would disarm the police and confiscate people's homes.
Boric acknowledged these problems in his TV address but he also vowed to lead a new constitutional rewrite process.
"I commit to put my all my energies into building a new constitutional process alongside congress and civil society," said Boric, who plans to meet with the heads of political parties and both houses of congress on Monday.
Boric added that whoever drafts the next version — whether its Congress or a special assembly — they will have to produce a constitution that unites Chileans rather than divides them.
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Wyoming Education Association President Grady Hutcherson announces that WEA is suing the state for failing to fund education adequately outside of the Wyoming State Capitol, in Cheyenne on Aug. 18. Alyte Katilius/Wyoming Tribune Eagle
Wyoming Education Association President Grady Hutcherson announces that WEA is suing the state for failing to fund education adequately outside of the Wyoming State Capitol, in Cheyenne on Aug. 18. Alyte Katilius/Wyoming Tribune Eagle
Sen. Dave Kinskey, R-Sheridan, listens during a session on Wednesday, March 9, 2022, at the Capitol. Rhianna Gelhart/Wyoming Tribune Eagle
BUFFALO – Johnson County School District No. 1 administrators are keeping their eyes on a recently filed lawsuit from the Wyoming Education Association alleging the state Legislature has failed to adequately fund K-12 education.
Superintendent Charles Auzqui said district administrators and the school board have yet to have any conversations about the suit, but if the district – or others in the state – agree with the suit, they could join as plaintiffs.
“There’s always that option for districts to join in this lawsuit, but it’s so fresh off the press, other than social media (and) texts that went around, there really hasn’t been a gathering of what’s going to take place,” he said.
The legal complaint, filed Aug. 18 in the First Judicial District Court in Laramie County, primarily argues that the Legislature has failed its constitutional duty to adequately fund education by not providing additional funding for schools as costs have increased and inflation has ballooned in recent years. The WEA argues the Legislature could have provided external cost adjustments, created new revenue streams or adjusted funding during its school funding model review process, which takes place at least every five years.
While the suit contends that the Legislature is funding education inadequately, Sen. Dave Kinskey, R-Sheridan, believes otherwise.
“This (lawsuit) is asking for whole new categories of spending to be created,” Kinskey said. “And it is absolutely an attempt to try to get the Supreme Court to force the Legislature to create new taxes or raise existing taxes, and I think it’d be out of line for the court to do so.”
Kinskey pointed to multiple portions of the complaint that reference state revenue issues that have gone unresolved and how the Legislature has not made efforts to establish new revenue sources as his basis for believing that this is more about taxes than education funding.
He said he wasn’t necessarily surprised that it had come to a suit, describing his time in Cheyenne as “every year, for eight years, I’ve been hearing, ‘You better give me everything I want, or we’re going to sue.’” On school funding, Kinskey said that he believes Wyoming’s current efforts – about $17,000 per student – is more than adequate and that the Legislature will work with the state’s current revenue streams to “continue to fund education well.”
Auzqui said he understands the reason for the suit, especially after the Legislature failed to provide an external cost adjustment for districts during its budget session last spring.
The education committee had proposed a $72 million external cost adjustment during that session; however, that was cut by the full legislative body to just $10.1 million before being eliminated entirely.
ECA, according to a report from the Legislative Service Office, aims “to reflect the changing costs of resources” between years when the Legislature contemplates adjustments to the education funding model. Auzqui has been a proponent of external cost adjustments.
“What kind of stemmed it (the suit) is when you have the money to give an ECA, but put $1 billion away in savings, that probably is not helping the cause when you have some buildings and some things that need to be fixed,” Auzqui said. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/in_our_schools/opinions-differ-on-wea-education-lawsuit/article_7d70c0d6-2a6b-11ed-9382-8f901ae4428c.html | 2022-09-05T15:59:54Z |
Arsenic found in water at New York housing complex
NEW YORK (WCBS) - Arsenic has been detected in the tap water at a major New York City Housing Authority complex.
City health officials are scrambling to address the problem that affects thousands of people in the East Village.
Loading up on water from stands right outside the Jacob Riis Houses, tenants are being urged to cook and bathe with the bottled water instead of what’s in their apartment.
“Everybody is worried. The whole development is worried,” resident Mary Cannon said.
Stacey Jones said she felt something was wrong on Aug. 2.
She noticed how cloudy the water was while cleaning her fish tank, and as soon as she put the fish back in it, it died.
She said she also noticed her and her children’s skin have been irritated.
“On my stomach, around my neck and my foot was really irritated and red, like patches and red spots,” Jones said.
She called New York City Housing Authority. A rep came out, but she said they told her the water was fine.
On Saturday, a month later, Mayor Eric Adams said the housing authority started testing immediately after getting multiple complaints of cloudy water in early August.
“It’s affecting the whole development because nobody has any real answers for us, and we don’t know what’s going on.” Mary Cannon said.
A spokesperson from the mayor’s office says additional testing on Friday showed arsenic levels higher than the federal standard for drinking water.
There’s concern damage may have already been done.
“The question is how long have the people at Riis houses been bathing and drinking arsenic-based water.” public advocate Jumaane Williams said.
The mayor’s office says the issue is only limited to Jacob Riis Houses and that it is safe for New York City at large to continue drinking tap water.
Free bottled water is being provided to residents until the problem is resolved.
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Judge grants Trump bid for special master in Mar-a-Lago case
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a legal victory for former President Donald Trump, a federal judge on Monday granted his request for a special master to review documents seized by the FBI from his Florida home and also temporarily halted the Justice Department’s own use of the records for investigative purposes.
The decision by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon authorizes an outside expert to review the records taken during the Aug. 8 search and to weed out from the rest of the investigation any that might be protected by claims of attorney-client privilege or executive privilege. Some of those records may ultimately be returned to him, but the judge put off a ruling on that question.
The order came despite the strenuous objections of the Justice Department, which said an outside legal expert was not necessary in part because officials had already completed their review of potentially privileged documents.
The appointment appears likely to slow the pace of the department’s investigation into the presence of top-secret information at Mar-a-Lago, particularly given the judge’s directive that the Justice Department may not for the moment use any of the seized materials as part of its investigation into the illegal storage of government secrets at the Florida property.
“The Court is mindful that restraints on criminal prosecutions are disfavored, but finds that these unprecedented circumstances call for a brief pause to allow for neutral, third-party review to ensure a just process with adequate safeguards,” Cannon, a Trump appointee, wrote in her 24-page order.
Even so, it is not clear that the decision will have a significant effect on any investigative or charging decisions or the ultimate outcome of the probe. A separate assessment by the U.S. intelligence community of the risk posed by the apparent mishandling of classified records will continue under the judge’s order.
The Justice Department did not have an immediate comment, and a lawyer for Trump did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Trump’s lawyers had argued that a special master — usually an outside lawyer or former judge — was necessary to ensure an independent review of records taken during the search. Such a review was necessary, they have said, so that any personal information or documents recovered by the FBI could be filtered out and returned to Trump and so that any documents protected by privilege could also be segregated from the rest of the investigation.
In this case, the seized records “include medical documents, correspondence related to taxes, and accounting information,” according to the judge’s order.
The judge said it was too soon to know whether any of the records will be returned to Trump, but “for now, the circumstances surrounding the seizure in this case and the associated need for adequate procedural safeguards are sufficiently compelling to at least get Plaintiff past the courthouse doors.”
The Justice Department had argued against the appointment, saying it was unnecessary because it had already reviewed potentially privileged documents and identified a limited subset of materials that could be covered by attorney-client privilege.
It also said Trump was not entitled to the return of any of the presidential records that were taken since he is no longer president and the documents therefore do not belong to him. And personal items that were recovered were commingled with classified information, giving them potential value as evidence, the department has said.
Cannon, who was nominated to the bench by Trump in 2020, had signaled in a brief order last month that she was inclined to appoint a special master and did so again during arguments last week, asking at one point, “Ultimately, what is the harm in the appointment of a special master to sort through these issues without creating undo delay?”
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PARIS, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EKINOPS (Euronext Paris: EKI) (ISIN: FR0011466069), a leading supplier of telecommunications solutions for telecom operators and businesses, announces that it has joined the United Nations Global Compact, the world's largest corporate sustainability initiative.
The UNGC is a voluntary initiative for companies and organizations to participate in the creation of a global framework for achieving sustainable growth by exhibiting responsible, creative leadership and acting as good members of society. Companies and organizations that sign the UNGC are required to uphold and contribute to the realization of 10 principles in four areas: Human Rights, Labor, Environment, and Anti-Corruption.
As part of its Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) policy, Ekinops engages in daily business activities with an endeavor to be a responsible company with respect to third parties and to limit the environmental impact of its activities to advance towards sustainable development goals.
Signing the UNGC means Ekinops is willing to integrate the UNGC principles into the Group's strategy, culture and daily operations, and to advance them in its area of influence. By signing the UNGC, Ekinops commits to publishing a yearly Community of Practice (COP), describing the Group's efforts to integrate the ten principles.
Didier Brédy, Chairman and CEO of Ekinops said:
"Several months after creating its ESG committee, Ekinops continues its efforts towards sustainable value creation. We are proud to be a signatory of this UN Global Compact statement and to take this commitment. Ekinops will play its role by ensuring we better ourselves alongside the other parts of our ecosystem."
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Delicious taste in an instant, Puly is changing the landscape of boba with its innovations
TAOYUAN, Taiwan, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Taiwan-based PULY CO., LTD. (Puly), the experts in instant tapioca pearls, are bringing their latest instant boba products to FHA Food & Beverage Asia Singapore and Fine Food Australia 2022 and ushering in the next wave of boba beverages.
FHA Food & Beverage Asia Singapore will take place from September 5 to 8 at the Singapore Expo, while Fine Food Australia 2022 happens during the same period at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre. Puly can be found at Booth 4C2-07 and HI33, respectively.
Instant boba hits the spot
Instant boba has been recognized as the top winning product among the selection of common frozen foods by Refrigerated & Frozen Foods, with Puly's products bagging the Superior Taste Awards in 2020 and 2022 from the International Taste Institute in Brussels. "We feel honored and thrilled that frozen instant boba made in Taiwan is chosen as the top product amongst other popular frozen foods from around the world," said Ma Hsin-Tien, Chairman of Puly.
The company produces at least 400,000 instant boba packets a day. With reports forecasting the dominance of the bubble tea market due to its growing popularity among the young generation, the industry is anticipated to generate US$4.3 billion by 2027. The emergence of new flavors or blends in bubble tea also presents increasing demand among the young population in the coming years, coupled with the COVID-19 pandemic triggering a change in consumer behavior of spending more on delicious drinks, the instant boba solutions provided by Puly will be highly sought after.
Puly's instant boba sensation
Puly's instant boba boasts several innovations and advantages that are sure to be a hit with consumers. Each packet is designed to pair perfectly with one cup of your favorite beverage, maintaining the highest safety and hygiene standards while remaining extraordinarily convenient and easy to use.
With no preservatives and two-year shelf life, Puly utilizes unique freezing technology to achieve bacteriostasis. This technique makes preservatives in traditional tapioca balls obsolete. Consumers can easily enjoy instant boba with 90 seconds of microwave heating or heat by water for 4 minutes, delivering a smoother and springy bite without the toughness or softening of the outer layer. added to drinks or desserts to enjoy anytime and anywhere. There are also 15 flavors to choose from, ranging from brown sugar to more unique tastes like taro or matcha, ensuring that everyone will have something to love about Puly's latest line of products.
Be sure to visit the Puly booth at FHA Food & Beverage Asia Singapore and Fine Food Australia 2022. Also, get ready to see more of Puly in the upcoming SIAL Paris that will take place from October 15 to 19 at Hall 8 B063-C5 and Taipei International Food Show 2022 in November to round up the year. These are great opportunities to get a taste for yourself and see why instant boba is taking over the world.
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About PULY CO., LTD.
PULY CO., LTD. was founded in 2011 with extensive experience in both developing and manufacturing technology. With an R&D team and its factory, Puly is well equipped to produce high-quality customized tapioca ball products for its global consumers. The company continues to innovate to create even more refreshing offerings for global needs.
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a safe and comfortable way to communicate through a vehicle window without shouting, becoming soaked or risking exposure to airborne germs," said an inventor, from Calhoun Falls, S.C., "so I invented the SHIRLEY SAFETY SYSTEM. My design can be utilized in the drive-through lane or when speaking to anyone outside of the vehicle."
The invention provides an effective way to communicate with others outside a vehicle. In doing so, it eliminates the need to shout through the glass. It also reduces the risk of being exposed to airborne germs and it helps to prevent rain from entering the window. The invention features a safe and convenient design that is easy to use so it is ideal for vehicle owners. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the National sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-CSK-196, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I was relaxing in bed and I thought there could be a better way to hold and use my tablet computer," said an inventor, from Loris, S.C., "so I invented the E Z TABLET. My design would eliminate the strain, discomfort and hassle associated with constantly holding the device in the air or propping it up with a pillow."
The patent-pending invention provides a hands-free way to support and use a tablet computer while relaxing in bed. In doing so, it eliminates the need to constantly hold the device at eye level. As a result, it enhances comfort and convenience and it could help to reduce stress and strain. The invention features an inventive design that is easy to install and use so it is ideal for households. Additionally, a prototype is available.
The original design was submitted to the National sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-CSK-228, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I thought there should be a stylish and comfortable neckwear accessory for masons and people who don't like wearing traditional neck ties," said an inventor, from Winston Salem, N.C., "so I invented THE SQUARE. My attractive design would be easy to secure around the neck for work, casual outings and dressy events and occasions."
The invention provides a unique alternative to wearing a traditional neck tie or bow tie. In doing so, it eliminates the hassle of keeping a long neck tie in place. As a result, it could enhance style, comfort and convenience and it can be worn for a professional or casual look. The invention features an attractive and practical design that is easy to wear so it is ideal for individuals who wear ties. Additionally, it is producible in design variations and a prototype is available.
The original design was submitted to the Charlotte sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-CNC-836, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I thought there could be an improved way to promote the safety and social distancing of oral care products within a home," said an inventor, from Chicago, Ill., "so I invented the INDIVIDUAL PIECE. My design could help to prevent the spread of germs and bacteria between toothbrushes."
The invention provides a sanitary storage unit for toothbrushes. In doing so, it offers an improved alternative to storing toothbrushes in conventional holders. As a result, it prevents the brushing heads from touching and it increases hygiene and cleanliness. The invention features a protective and practical design that is easy to use so it is ideal for households. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Chicago sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-CLR-129, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a dedicated smart calendar that enables you to prioritize calendar content based on specific cultural, religious or military contexts," said an inventor, from Summerville, S.C., "so I invented THE RIVERS FLOW SYSTEM. My design helps you keep track of specific holidays, historical dates and other important events."
The patent-granted invention provides a unique design for a digital calendar. In doing so, it enables the user to select information for specific cultural, religious or military themes. As a result, it increases organization and it would offer a more focused and dedicated form of information. The invention features a user-friendly design that is easy to use so it is ideal for households.
The original design was submitted to the National sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-CSK-174, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "We wanted to create a protective barrier that would shield the seat/bench of a piece of fitness equipment and indoor/outdoor public seating from perspiration and germs," said one of two inventors, from El Paso, Texas, "so we invented the WORKOUT BUDDY. Our design could help to reduce the risk of contracting a viral or bacterial infection from fitness equipment."
The invention provides a protective accessory for use with fitness/exercise equipment. In doing so, it prevents the transfer of perspiration and germs left behind by the machines' previous users. As a result, it increases sanitation and safety and it eliminates the need to spray and wipe the bench between every user. The invention features a convenient design that is easy to apply and use so it is ideal for fitness enthusiasts and gyms. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the National sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-CTK-2819, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Outset Medical, Inc. (NASDAQ: OM) between September 15, 2020 and June 13, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important September 6, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Outset Medical securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Outset Medical class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=6976 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than September 6, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) defendants had "continuously made improvements and updates to Tablo over time since its original clearance" that required an additional 510(k) application; (2) as a result, Outset Medical could not conduct a human factors study on a cleared device in accordance with FDA protocols; (3) Outset Medical's inability to conduct the human factors study subjected Outset Medical to the likelihood of the FDA imposing a "shipment hold" and marketing suspension, leaving the Company unable to sell Tablo for home use; and (4) as a result, defendants' positive statements about Outset Medical's business, operations, and prospects were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the Outset Medical class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=6976 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
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New Platts Global I-REC price assessments to augment pricing transparency for the burgeoning market of certified renewable power generation
LONDON, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- S&P Global Commodity Insights today announced an independent suite of price assessments for International Renewable Energy Certificates (I-RECs) in Brazil, India, and Turkey as market participants and energy consumers seek transparency in the global market for valuing renewable-origin power generation.
"As the energy transition progresses more energy consumers are looking to I-RECs to meet renewable energy goals or mandates, which in turn is creating a growing demand for assessment and transparency of these certificates globally," said Alan Hayes, Head of Energy Transition Pricing for S&P Global Commodity Insights. "With our Platts Global I-REC assessments market participants will now have pricing transparency within the key energy markets of Brazil, India, and Turkey."
I-RECs certificates are a way for consumers of electricity to have confidence that their power consumption comes from renewable sources. These assessments augment a suite of similar price references offered by S&P Global Commodity Insights for renewable energy certificates (RECs) in North America and Guarantees of Origin (GOs) in Europe. Brazil is the largest I-REC market in Latin America while Turkey and India represent two of the largest markets in Asia.
"The global nature of the energy transition makes extension of such assessments crucial for the progress of the renewable energy markets," Hayes said. "We will continue to innovate and expand in the space to meet client needs as the marketplace evolves and grows over time."
The Platts Global I-REC price assessments reflect end-of-day renewable-origin power values as determined by buyers and sellers in the spot certificates market. The assessments will be expressed in a variety of currencies per megawatt hour (MWh).
Platts I-REC assessments cover the leading renewables technologies of hydro, solar, wind and biomass generation. The vintages assessed cover the most liquid vintages of the previous year and the current year. For example, in calendar year 2022, the I-RECs vintages assessed will be 2021 and 2022.
I-RECs price assessments can be found in MegaWatt Daily and European Power Daily publications, as well as on Platts Energy Transition Alert and Platts Dimensions Pro platform.
Read more about the Platts Global I-REC asessements in the Subscriber Note here: Platts launches global I-RECs renewable electricity assessments | S&P Global Commodity Insights.
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~ Bollywood Meets Blockchain: Shemaroo is set to create new opportunities for industry & consumers ~
MUMBAI, India, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Shemaroo, one of India's leading Media & Entertainment players with 60 years of enriching history has created another milestone by entering the Web 3.0 space in partnership with leading blockchain technology company Seracle, thus leading the Web 3.0 initiatives in the media and entertainment industry. The rising demand for enhanced user experience and increasing advancements in connectivity are the key factors driving Web 3.0 market revenue growth and with this new partnership, Shemaroo has taken giant strides to create a strong foundation.
Since its inception, Shemaroo has fostered a culture of innovation and technology that has enabled the brand to stay ahead and cater to the evolving needs of the consumers. Web3 technology is expanding at a breakneck speed and is going to favourably impact the entertainment sector as well. Seracle is a Web 3.0 full stack infrastructure company, building decentralized applications globally. With their enterprise blockchain expertise, Shemaroo will be unleashing the value of intellectual properties to democratize creativity, ownership, and applications in the new frontier using Blockchain technology.
Hiren Gada, CEO - Shemaroo Entertainment, said, "Web 3.0 provides limitless opportunities, especially for the entertainment industry. Shemaroo's expansion into this space is a strategic decision and to be the innovator which will lead the transformation in the ever-evolving M&E industry. We are happy to partner with Seracle for our Web 3.0 expansions and keep the brand future-ready to capture this emerging space by creating a fresh alternative for our tech-savvy consumers."
Rahul Mishra, Head – Web 3.0 Initiatives, Shemaroo Entertainment, commented, "With this partnership, we look at cementing our position as the chosen entertainment platform at the national and global level and extend the value-added experience for consumers in the Web3.0, NFT, and Metaverse. With evolved virtual-reality experience, we aim to connect the traditional fandom with the Web3.0 ecosystem and uncap the huge growth potential for the brand."
Shrikant Bhalerao, CEO, Seracle, Web 3.0 Infrastructure, commented, "We are proud to partner with Shemaroo in realising their vision and business goals in the Web3.0 space. Web3.0, NFT, and Metaverse will open avenues for the entertainment sector – keeping up with the digital burst, elevating the individual experience in personalised entertainment content space. We are happy to be instrumental in levelling up the industry standards through this partnership."
As per recently published data, the global Web 3.0 market size will reach USD 81.5 Billion in 2030 with a compound annual growth rate of 43.7%. Another research data predicts the NFT transaction will rise from 24 million in 2022 to 40 million by 2027, globally. Web 3.0 and Blockchain market is projected to add USD 1.1 Trillion to India's GDP by 2032 and most certainly Media & entertainment industry will be a key player in driving this growth.
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SAN DIEGO, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TuSimple (Nasdaq: TSP), a global self-driving technology company based in San Diego, California, today announced its participation in the following investor conferences.
- On Wednesday, September 7, 2022, at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time, management will virtually present in a fireside chat at the Cowen 15th Annual Global Transportation & Sustainable Mobility Conference
- On Tuesday, September 13, 2022, at 10:00 a.m. Central Time, management will present in a fireside chat at the Piper Sandler Growth Frontiers Conference
- On September 15, 2022, at 9:20 a.m. Pacific Time, management will present in a fireside chat at the Morgan Stanley 10th Annual Laguna Conference
Management will be available for one-on-one or group meetings with institutional investors at all conferences above. Portfolio managers and analysts who wish to request a meeting should contact their institutional sales representative at each sponsoring bank.
TuSimple is a global autonomous driving technology company headquartered in San Diego, California, with operations in Arizona, Texas, Europe, and China. Founded in 2015, TuSimple is developing a commercial-ready, fully autonomous (SAE Level 4) driving solution for long-haul heavy-duty trucks. TuSimple aims to transform the $4 trillion global truck freight industry through the company's leading AI technology, which makes it possible for trucks to drive safely autonomously, operate nearly continuously, and reduce fuel consumption by 10%+ relative to manually driven trucks. Global achievements include the world's first fully autonomous, 'driver-out' semi-truck run on open public roads, and development of the world's first Autonomous Freight Network (AFN). Visit us at www.tusimple.com.
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Arsenic found in water at New York housing complex
NEW YORK (WCBS) - Arsenic has been detected in the tap water at a major New York City Housing Authority complex.
City health officials are scrambling to address the problem that affects thousands of people in the East Village.
Loading up on water from stands right outside the Jacob Riis Houses, tenants are being urged to cook and bathe with the bottled water instead of what’s in their apartment.
“Everybody is worried. The whole development is worried,” resident Mary Cannon said.
Stacey Jones said she felt something was wrong on Aug. 2.
She noticed how cloudy the water was while cleaning her fish tank, and as soon as she put the fish back in it, it died.
She said she also noticed her and her children’s skin have been irritated.
“On my stomach, around my neck and my foot was really irritated and red, like patches and red spots,” Jones said.
She called New York City Housing Authority. A rep came out, but she said they told her the water was fine.
On Saturday, a month later, Mayor Eric Adams said the housing authority started testing immediately after getting multiple complaints of cloudy water in early August.
“It’s affecting the whole development because nobody has any real answers for us, and we don’t know what’s going on.” Mary Cannon said.
A spokesperson from the mayor’s office says additional testing on Friday showed arsenic levels higher than the federal standard for drinking water.
There’s concern damage may have already been done.
“The question is how long have the people at Riis houses been bathing and drinking arsenic-based water.” public advocate Jumaane Williams said.
The mayor’s office says the issue is only limited to Jacob Riis Houses and that it is safe for New York City at large to continue drinking tap water.
Free bottled water is being provided to residents until the problem is resolved.
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Judge grants Trump bid for special master in Mar-a-Lago case
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a legal victory for former President Donald Trump, a federal judge on Monday granted his request for a special master to review documents seized by the FBI from his Florida home and also temporarily halted the Justice Department’s own use of the records for investigative purposes.
The decision by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon authorizes an outside expert to review the records taken during the Aug. 8 search and to weed out from the rest of the investigation any that might be protected by claims of attorney-client privilege or executive privilege. Some of those records may ultimately be returned to him, but the judge put off a ruling on that question.
The order came despite the strenuous objections of the Justice Department, which said an outside legal expert was not necessary in part because officials had already completed their review of potentially privileged documents.
The appointment appears likely to slow the pace of the department’s investigation into the presence of top-secret information at Mar-a-Lago, particularly given the judge’s directive that the Justice Department may not for the moment use any of the seized materials as part of its investigation into the illegal storage of government secrets at the Florida property.
“The Court is mindful that restraints on criminal prosecutions are disfavored, but finds that these unprecedented circumstances call for a brief pause to allow for neutral, third-party review to ensure a just process with adequate safeguards,” Cannon, a Trump appointee, wrote in her 24-page order.
Even so, it is not clear that the decision will have a significant effect on any investigative or charging decisions or the ultimate outcome of the probe. A separate assessment by the U.S. intelligence community of the risk posed by the apparent mishandling of classified records will continue under the judge’s order.
The Justice Department did not have an immediate comment, and a lawyer for Trump did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Trump’s lawyers had argued that a special master — usually an outside lawyer or former judge — was necessary to ensure an independent review of records taken during the search. Such a review was necessary, they have said, so that any personal information or documents recovered by the FBI could be filtered out and returned to Trump and so that any documents protected by privilege could also be segregated from the rest of the investigation.
In this case, the seized records “include medical documents, correspondence related to taxes, and accounting information,” according to the judge’s order.
The judge said it was too soon to know whether any of the records will be returned to Trump, but “for now, the circumstances surrounding the seizure in this case and the associated need for adequate procedural safeguards are sufficiently compelling to at least get Plaintiff past the courthouse doors.”
The Justice Department had argued against the appointment, saying it was unnecessary because it had already reviewed potentially privileged documents and identified a limited subset of materials that could be covered by attorney-client privilege.
It also said Trump was not entitled to the return of any of the presidential records that were taken since he is no longer president and the documents therefore do not belong to him. And personal items that were recovered were commingled with classified information, giving them potential value as evidence, the department has said.
Cannon, who was nominated to the bench by Trump in 2020, had signaled in a brief order last month that she was inclined to appoint a special master and did so again during arguments last week, asking at one point, “Ultimately, what is the harm in the appointment of a special master to sort through these issues without creating undo delay?”
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Here & Now‘s Scott Tong speaks with Valencia Gunder, national co-leader of the Black Hive initiative, who is concerned that she and other Black environmentalists are being left out of the part of the Biden climate change agenda that is aimed at helping communities of color affected by pollution and rising sea levels.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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Updated September 5, 2022 at 12:39 PM ET
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon has granted former President Donald Trump's request for a special master to review documents seized by the FBI from Mar-a-Lago last month, temporarily stopping federal prosecutors from using those documents in their investigation into obstruction and mishandling of government secrets.
The decision was expected. Last weekend, the judge said she was inclined to grant Trump's request, and a hearing on the matter took place last Thursday. At that hearing, the Justice Department laid out its argument against the special master and signaled it was likely to appeal such a ruling.
Cannon, a Trump appointee, cited in her order on Monday the need to ensure "the appearance of fairness and integrity under the extraordinary circumstances presented."
A special master is an independent third party, typically an attorney, appointed by the judge to review materials seized in a search for anything that may be protected from investigation by attorney-client privilege, or executive privilege as Trump is claiming.
The judge also ordered the government to cease any review or use of the materials for its criminal investigation until the special master review is completed, but Cannon said the intelligence community may continue its review to determine potential national security risks from the classified material being kept outside of a secure government facility.
Cannon set a deadline of Fri. Sept. 9 for the two parties to submit a joint filing with a list of proposed candidates to be named special master and a detailed proposal to establish the duties and limits of the special master, as well as a schedule for the review and compensation.
Legal experts have told NPR that requesting a special master is another attempt from Trump to undermine the work of the Justice Department and question their integrity. But others have argued that it will just be another procedural loophole the department has to go through during their investigation into the documents.
On Friday, Cannon unsealed a list of items the FBI seized from former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago home during a court-authorized search last month.
Previous documents filed in court by the Department of Justice revealed that Trump was holding several classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, and the DOJ has raised questions on whether Trump and his team attempted to obstruct justice by concealing or removing some of the documents authorities wanted.
Trump's attorneys have downplayed the Justice Department's concerns about the classified material found at Mar-a-Lago, saying in a filing Wednesday that there was no "cause for alarm."
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The short-term solution to the water problem in Jackson, Miss., has been free drive-thru bottle water pickup sites.
But that's an issue for people who have no way to get to the water, like April Williams. Her car's been broken down for a week and it'll likely be another before the part she needs can come in. On Thursday, she was down to half a case of bottled water in an apartment with three adults and two young kids.
"The main thing we need, it's a struggle to get right now," Williams said. "You'd be surprised to know how much you need water to survive."
Jackson residents without transportation — or the gas money to spend waiting in some cases hours — have felt abandoned during the city's water crisis. Local nonprofits have been delivering water directly to some residents, but they're still working on scaling up to dealing with a problem that stretches across the city.
City agencies like the fire department have been passing along names of low-income neighborhoods where transportation options are sparse to the Salvation Army. That's how the aid group found Williams about a mile west of Jackson State University and gave her several cases.
Water pressure has now been mostly restored in Jackson. But a boil water notice remains across the city. Williams kept her tub filled with water in case she needed it to flush the toilet.
Dorthy Young sipped from one of her last three palm-sized water bottles when the Salvation Army arrived. She's 85 years old and can't get around without a walker or wheelchair. A neighbor who saw the Salvation Army's truck come by asked for some cases to drop at Young's door. Cleaning up the dishes piled up in her sink was her priority after getting the clean water.
"I worry about it cause you can't get your dishes clean," Young said.
The city's been partnering with the Mississippi Rapid Response Coalition, a collaboration of aid groups in Jackson, for distribution sites and home deliveries. Jackson has dealt with boil water notices for decades, so the nonprofits are used to home water deliveries.
But those past notices were in just pockets of the city — the groups weren't prepared for all of Jackson's water supply to be threatened. This week, the coalition expects to ramp up the home deliveries. While there's no clear timeline for repairs to the city's failed water treatment plant, the coalition plans to continue providing clean water for weeks.
"We know we're going to have boil water notices during the repairs," said Rukia Lumumba, the executive director of the People's Advocacy Institute. She's also the sister of Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba. "We're going to need clean water from somewhere outside of the pipes."
Springboard to Opportunities works with five affordable housing communities in Jackson. Aisha Nyandoro, the group's chief executive officer, spent much of last week on the phone tracking down water to deliver to the families she works with. She finally connected with an Alabama sheriff who personally drove down a large load with several pallets of water on Thursday.
The families in these complexes make on average $12,000 per year, according to Nyandoro. Even if they have a car, they can't afford waiting in long water lines.
"Time costs," Nyandoro said. "Gas costs. So it's all of these pieces that so many of us take for granted that families are having to negotiate right now."
Yvette Day is one of the residents Springboard to Opportunities delivered water to on Thursday. She could afford a car, but she's waiting first to see if she wants to remain in Jackson or follow her daughter to Texas. Apartments in the Lone Star State are pricier, but Jackson's constant water problems are pushing her toward moving.
The water pressure dropped again at these apartments, but for a new reason — water has been gushing out of the manhole and flooding the street throughout the morning.
"I just want to leave," Day said. "I just want to move."
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British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has won the race to become the country’s next prime minister. Truss, who quickly became the frontrunner, saw off former Chancellor Rishi Sunak in the last round of voting and will take over from Boris Johnson, her close political ally.
Truss will face a difficult political climate right out of the gate due to concerns of an energy crisis that could plunge many into financial chaos. Calum Macdonald, a reporter and host for Times Radio, joins Here & Now‘s Scott Tong for the latest.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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A massive manhunt is underway in Saskatchewan, Canada after a series of deadly stabbings left 10 dead and another 15 hospitalized Sunday morning.
Officials there warn that the two suspects, who may have fled in a black SUV, should be considered armed and dangerous. The breadth of the attacks has stunned the largely rural communities about 200 miles north of Regina, the provincial capital, where the stabbings took place.
CBC Saskatchewan’s Sam Maciag joins Here & Now‘s Scott Tong.
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How do you say goodbye to a constant travel companion with you for decades worldwide — on buses, trains and planes? Katy Sewall of “The Bittersweet Life” podcast has this essay on the impossible challenge of looking objectively at a much-loved piece of luggage.
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We revisit host Robin Young’s conversation with acclaimed musician Josh Ritter about his novel “The Great Glorious Goddamn of It All.” The book is about a young boy coming of age among lumberjacks in turn- of-the-20th-century Idaho and it comes out in paperback Tuesday.
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HONOLULU (KITV4) - Partly to mostly cloudy with scattered showers. Highs 85 to 90. Trade winds 10 to 20 mph.
Tonight, partly to mostly cloudy with scattered showers. Lows 70 to 75. Trade winds 10 to 20 mph.
Locally breezy trade winds will deliver an area of showery low clouds today into tonight, fueling an increase in windward showers. Trades will diminish slightly on Tuesday, and may ease further later in the week, delivering periodic clouds and showers to windward areas.
South-facing shore surf will remain low through the week with the continued passage of small, long period background south southwest swells. High swell from storm and gale force wind fetch regions south of New Zealand and the Tasman Sea, respectively, will be directed along the island's south southwest swell window paths today. These larger, medium to long period swells are timed to reach our local waters next weekend and may support near or slightly over head high surf along many south-facing shores. A series of small, medium period north swells from a couple of systems northwest of the state, between the western Aleutians and the International Date Line, will produce minor bumps to late week north-facing shore surf. Near term east wind wave chop will remain slightly elevated under these generally moderate to fresh east trades over and upstream of the islands. There is also a chance that the state could experience an additional weekend east swell generated from eastern Pacific Tropical Cyclone Kay as she moves near parallel to the Baja Peninsula.
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A CVS pharmacy store in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Monday, May 2. Labor Day, which recognizes the many contributions workers have made to the prosperity of the United States, also marks the unofficial end of summer on the first Monday in September.
Labor Day, which recognizes the many contributions workers have made to the prosperity of the United States, also marks the unofficial end of summer on the first Monday in September.
Many Americans across the country will be celebrating the long weekend, but it can be confusing to figure out what will be open and closed to observe the holiday on Monday, September 5.
Here are the businesses and institutions that will be open and closed.
Retailers
Most major retailers, including Walmart, Target, CVS and major grocery stores like Kroger and Trader Joe's will be open. Notably, wholesale retailer Costco will be closed Monday. Make sure to check in with local businesses to see if they'll be closed in observance of the holiday.
Government
Federal offices, government buildings and post offices will be closed Monday. State and local courts and DMV offices will not be operating.
Financial institutions
Labor Day is a bank holiday, so most banks will be closed — however, online banking and ATMs will be available for use. The stock market will not be trading — the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq will be dark.
Post office
USPS will be closed on Monday. UPS also will not be operating, but its Express Critical services will be available. While most of FedEx's services will be closed, its Custom Critical service will also be operating. | https://www.kitv.com/news/top-stories/labor-day-2022-whats-open-whats-closed/article_3aebb87b-9b2d-5747-9fda-f230bf3d34fc.html | 2022-09-05T17:53:35Z |
For a city in the desert, water conservation must be a way of life. But amid a prolonged megadrought that has depleted water resources across the Southwest, the need to save every drop has intensified in Southern Nevada.
Las Vegas knows the stakes are high, and it isn't gambling on Mother Nature to solve its water problems.
Instead, the city is betting on extreme water-saving measures to keep the taps flowing. Here's how it intends to win.
Bet 1: Banning mega-pools
Las Vegans are no longer allowed to build giant swimming pools or spas at single-family homes.
The Southern Nevada Water Authority says there's been a proliferation of giant pools -- some larger than 3,000 square feet -- in recent years. The new building code limits new pools to no more than 600 square feet -- a move the Las Vegas Valley Water District says will save more than 32 million gallons of water over the next decade. The average pool size in southern Nevada is 470 square feet.
The idea was to prevent people from building pools that were more like "water features" at some homes, rather than recreational swimming pools, said Bronson Mack, public outreach officer for the Water Authority, which manages water resources for 2.2 million people including Las Vegas.
"A lot of these more affluent homes, they're not even occupied year-round," Mack told CNN. "And yet they have all of this water in their backyard."
Bet 2: Reclaiming all indoor water for reuse
Most of the Water Authority's conservation efforts focus on outdoor water. But indoor water can be recycled.
"Water that we used indoors all gets reclaimed," Mack said. "We treat that water to clean water standards, then return it to Lake Mead, our primary water source. Every gallon that we return to Lake Mead allows us to take another gallon out of the lake without counting against our limited water allocation."
According to the Water Authority, only 10% of its water comes from local groundwater. The other 90% comes from the Colorado River's Lake Mead, the largest man-made reservoir in the country, which continues to fall to record lows. In April, the Water Authority had to decommission one of the original intake valves in the lake because the water level had fallen so low.
And in August, the federal government enacted a Tier 2 shortage, which will limit the amount of water southern Nevada can pull from Lake Mead beginning in January by about 8.1 billion gallons a year.
Yet, on the Las Vegas Strip, glasses of water may still be served to restaurant customers since all that water will be recycled.
"Even if you don't drink that glass of water ... they're going to dump that down the drain, and all of that water gets reclaimed," Mack said, noting this practice began in the 1950s. "That dish is going to go through the dishwasher -- all of the dishwasher water gets reclaimed and recycled back to Lake Mead."
Bet 3: Keeping the Vegas Strip water-savvy
As for the Strip, the economic engine of southern Nevada, Mack said the region's resort, casino and hotel sector is not as water-wasteful as it seems, despite its reputation for excess.
Mack said it only uses 5% of the community's total water supply, while also making up its largest employment base, supporting some 40 million visitors a year.
There are also limitations on swimming pool size for the resorts based on the number of hotel rooms and guests they serve.
"We could turn on every shower and every sink in every hotel room on the Las Vegas Strip, and it wouldn't increase the amount of water we deplete from the Colorado River because all of that gets cycled back through our wastewater system, gets treated and returned to Lake Mead," Mack explained.
As for the Las Vegas strip's iconic fountains? They lose a lot of water to evaporation. According to the Water Authority, the fountain at the Bellagio is fed from a privately owned groundwater well and doesn't use water from the Colorado River. But it estimates those outdoor water features can lose 48 gallons of water per square foot a year to evaporation -- in a place where every drop counts.
The canals in the Venetian Resort recirculate their water, which does come from Colorado River. However, since the water is used indoors it can be reclaimed, Mack said.
As the climate crisis intensifies and water resources decline, the Las Vegas Valley Water District is considering a ban on all new ornamental water features at resort hotels, unless the feature is completely indoors and supplied by a privately owned water source.
Bet 4: Tearing out 'nonfunctional' grass
Grass has been a major focus for conservation efforts in Las Vegas -- especially grass that tends to be "nonfunctional," or is merely ornamental, on medians, in front of commercial buildings and even in front yards.
Since April, the Las Vegas Valley Water District has banned grass and spray-irrigation systems at all new properties. Schools, parks and cemeteries are exempt. Single-family homes built after 2003 are prohibited from having grass in front yards and limited on how much they can have in side and back yards.
"We have removed more than 200 million square feet of grass from this valley, but there's still about that much grass that remains," Mack said.
While getting rid of grass has been more widely embraced by homeowners, businesses have been slower to adapt. However, in 2021 the Nevada legislature passed a law that bans irrigating nonfunctional grass with water from the Colorado River.
SNWA estimates the grass law will ultimately save 10% of its total water supply.
"That's more water than is consumed by the entire Las Vegas Strip," Mack said, explaining that it takes 73 gallons of water per square foot every year to keep grass alive in the Mojave Desert. But drip-irrigated and drought-tolerant landscaping only requires 18 gallons per square foot a year.
Watering grass "is the least efficient way" we can use water, Mack said.
Bet 5: Strict irrigation schedules year-round
The Water Authority also has a rotating watering schedule based on the time of the year.
As of September 1, outdoor watering is limited to three assigned days a week for the fall. On November 1, the winter schedule drops to one day a week before going back to three days for the spring, beginning March 1.
In the summer months, watering is permitted six days a week starting May 1, but never during the hottest time of day -- between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. -- when the water is prone to evaporation in the desert heat.
Watering is always scheduled by neighborhood and is never permitted on Sunday.
Bet 6: Identifying water wasters
Since everyone in a community is on the same watering schedule, it makes it easy to identify the people and businesses flouting the rules.
The Water Authority has water waste investigators who will contact property owners, highlight the waste and give them a chance to fix the issue. If the problem isn't addressed, the owners will be fined, starting at $80 and then doubling for every subsequent violation.
Mack said there's still water waste happening daily, but the water authority has enforced these rules for about a decade.
"We had to be early adopters of that kind of activity," Mack said.
Bet 7: Taking advantage of Mother Nature
When Mother Nature makes it rain, Las Vegas goes all in.
This summer, Las Vegas was hit with a couple of monsoonal rain storms that helped ease some of the region's drought, but also left incredible damage in their wake. It only took a couple inches of rain for water to pour into casinos on the Strip.
Much of that storm water gets funneled into the Las Vegas Wash which flows out to Lake Mead. But even though it was a lot of water all at once, Lake Mead is huge, and it may only increase the lake level by fractions of an inch, Mack said.
What's most important when it does rain in the Las Vegas Valley, Mack explained, is getting customers to shut their irrigation off.
During one week of extreme rain in August, the community turned off its irrigation systems and some of its air conditioning systems, which also use water.
"That collectively saved about 250 million gallons of water," Mack said. "Saving water is desert living and we are in the middle of the Mojave Desert. Our community has been a city in the desert and now we are finally becoming a desert city."
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California governor signs landmark law for fast food workers
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed a nation-leading measure giving more than a half-million fast food workers more power and protections, despite the objections of restaurant owners who warned it would drive up consumers’ costs.
The landmark law creates a 10-member Fast Food Council with equal numbers of workers’ delegates and employers’ representatives, along with two state officials, empowered to set minimum standards for wages, hours and working conditions in California.
Newsom said he was proud to sign the measure into law on Labor Day.
“California is committed to ensuring that the men and women who have helped build our world-class economy are able to share in the state’s prosperity,” he said in a statement. “Today’s action gives hardworking fast food workers a stronger voice and seat at the table to set fair wages and critical health and safety standards across the industry.”
The law caps minimum wage increases for fast food workers at chains with more than 100 restaurants at $22 an hour next year, compared to the statewide minimum of $15.50 an hour, with cost of living increases thereafter.
The state legislature approved the measure on Aug. 29. Debate split along party lines, with Republicans opposed.
Sen. Brian Dahle, the Republican nominee for governor in November, had called it “a steppingstone to unionize all these workers.”
Supporters had said they hoped the measure would inspire similar efforts elsewhere.
Restaurant owners and franchisers cited an analysis they commissioned by the UC Riverside Center for Economic Forecast and Development saying that the legislation would increase consumers’ costs.
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Man’s body recovered from James River
RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - Richmond Fire officials said a man’s body was found Monday morning in the James River during a recovery operation.
First responders were first called to the scene in the 7600 block of Riverside Drive to search for a man who went missing around 7 p.m. Sunday.
Rescue crews say a group of swimmers were in the water when one of the people tried to navigate across the river and fell in.
On Monday, first responders said it appeared that the man was wading in the river and was unable to swim.
The body was found around 10:50 a.m. Monday about 200 yards down river from Riverside Meadows.
The James River is currently under 4 feet deep with calm conditions.
Officials have not yet confirmed that the body recovered Monday morning is that of the missing person.
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Melting of ‘Doomsday Glacier’ could raise sea levels by several feet, study says
(CNN) – Scientists said concern over Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier is amplifying.
The Thwaites Glacier is one of the widest on Earth, and it is larger than the state of Florida.
It’s nicknamed “Doomsday Glacier” because it continues to melt underwater as the planet warms, and it has a high risk of collapse.
If that happens, it could raise the global sea level by several feet, which could lead to widespread destruction of the coastlines.
In a study published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience, scientists mapped the glacier’s historical retreat, hoping to predict what it might do in the future.
They found that at some point in the past two centuries, the base of the glacier retreated at twice the rate that scientists have observed in the past decade or so.
Scientists said swift disintegration suggests the Thwaites Glacier has the capability to undergo a retreat at a much faster pace than they had thought.
They believe a seabed ridge is what has been helping to recently keep it in check.
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New Orleans political patriarch Moon Landrieu has died
NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP) — Former New Orleans Mayor Moon Landrieu — whose early, lonely stand against segregationists in the Louisiana legislature launched a political career at the forefront of sweeping changes on race — died Monday, a family friend confirmed. He was 92.
Ryan Berni, a longtime friend of the family, confirmed that Landrieu passed away early Monday.
“He died peacefully this morning surrounded by family,” Berni told The Associated Press.
A progressive white Democrat whose demeanor could be combative at times, Landrieu came from a blue-collar Roman Catholic family, served in the Army and sat alongside the first Black students at the city’s Loyola law school before winning a statehouse seat in 1960.
By then, six years had passed since the U.S. Supreme Court ordered public schools to desegregate nationwide, and Landrieu couldn’t in good conscience go along when Gov. Jimmie Davis steamrolled legislation to keep students in New Orleans separated by race. They passed by lopsided margins with Landrieu, at least once, the lone “no” vote.
The white politicians who had a lock on power on Louisiana said he’d dug his political grave, but he held onto his House seat in 1963 and then won a city council seat in 1965 with strong support from Black voters, whose influence was beginning to be felt at the polls.
To win his first mayoral term, Landrieu assembled a coalition of white liberals and African Americans and campaigned to bring Black people into important positions in government.
Integrating City Hall had its costs: In a 2018 memoir, Mitch Landrieu wrote that death threats were phoned into his family home and his school. Moon Landrieu discussed the blowback over race in a 1977 speech to the National League of Cities convention.
“If you embark on a campaign to end racial discrimination in your hometown, you will need nerves of steel, a will of iron, skin like leather and testicles of brass to withstand the slings and arrows,” he said. “I have myself these past eight years been known in some quarters as ‘Moon the Coon,’ an epithet that has caused me some pain at times, but that is also a badge of honor that bears testimony to what we try to do.”
His mayoral legacy also includes the New Orleans Superdome, which finally opened in 1975. It’s a beloved fixture of the city landscape now, but cost overruns and a contract scandal caused headaches for its supporters, including Landrieu.
“There has been an unbelievable emphasis on the few things that have been wrong with it and total neglect of the many, many things that are right with it,” he said several years later.
As Black voters gained influence, the coalition that elected Landrieu to the maximum two terms helped make Ernest “Dutch” Morial the city’s first Black mayor, in 1978.
Landrieu then became President Jimmy Carter’s secretary of housing and urban development, an agency whose programs came under attack when President Ronald Reagan took office on a platform to reduce the federal government’s size and power.
Landrieu criticized Reagan for “gutting” public aid programs, and briefly considered a presidential bid of his own. But he never sought national office. Instead, he became a judge -- “I really wanted to get out of my kids’ way,” he said – serving on Louisiana’s 4th Circuit Court of Appeal from 1992 to 2000.
Several of Landrieu’s nine children continue his legacy in law and politics: Mitch, also a two-term New Orleans mayor, is now President Joe Biden’s infrastructure coordinator; Mary, who served three terms as a U.S. senator, is now a policy adviser with a Washington law firm. Madeleine became dean of the law school at Loyola University New Orleans, and Maurice is a federal prosecutor.
Born Maurice E. Landrieu on July 23, 1930, he was called Moon, a family nickname, throughout his life and eventually made that his legal first name. He served three years in the Army before opening a small, walk-up law office with law school classmate Pascal Calogero, later the chief justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court.
Landrieu credited his wife, Verna, with nudging him into politics, and his Black classmates, including Norman Francis, who would become Xavier University’s dean and president, for opening his eyes.
“It wasn’t just a question of racial justice, but from a practical standpoint, I recognized -- as a politician, as a legislator and councilman -- that we were wasting so much talent, wasting so much energy, by precluding Blacks from participation in all matters,” he recalled in a 2020 interview with the New Orleans weekly newspaper Gambit.
“And I was determined, as I became mayor, to revitalize this city and to bring about racial integration, so that the city could enjoy the full benefit of white and Black participants.”
Gov. John Bel Edwards called Landrieu a man of “bold vision.”
“Moon Landrieu was a courageous and defining voice for Louisiana and his beloved hometown of New Orleans,” Edwards said in a statement. “In addition to his many contributions to our state and nation, he leaves behind the most enduring legacy of all – a family that continues his fight for equality.”
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Restaurants facing shortage of cooks, chefs, report says
(CNN) - As the restaurant industry tries to recover from the pandemic, it is facing a new crisis: a staff shortage in the kitchen.
According to Bureau of Labor Statistics, the need for chefs and head cooks is far outpacing the number of students interested in those careers.
The bureau projects the need for head cooks and chefs will rise 25% by 2030, far faster than the 8% growth rate for other occupations.
America’s most prestigious school for chefs, The Culinary Institute of America, now accepts 97% of all applicants.
That compares to 2001, when it was far more selective, accepting only 36% of applicants.
The industry is acknowledging that it must offer higher pay, benefits and improved work-life balance to help meet the demand.
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "Gun violence seems to be getting worse," said an inventor from Enfield, N.C., "so I invented the FINAL ALERT to provide safety and security by being able to wear a first alert responder every day to be able to alert any and all danger."
The invention provides school administrators and other building managers with a more discreet and timely form of emergency message conveyance to premises occupants. The device would not tip off an unauthorized intruder and could directly notify 911 and law enforcement. It would provide safety and security as well as added confidence and peace of mind.
The original design was submitted to the national sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-CTK-7031, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "As a welder, I wanted to use a level without needing another person to help me," said an inventor from Gray Court, S.C., "so I invented the ADHERENT LEVEL."
The invention sticks easily to hard surfaces and eliminates the need to have a helper holding it. This could speed up jobs and projects as well as save time and money. Easy to use and convenient, the level is Patent-Granted, and a prototype has been created by the inventor.
The original design was submitted to the Charlotte sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-CSK-250, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a simple way to enjoy your porch without worrying about the weather or being bothered by pesky insects," said an inventor, from Grayslake, Ill., "so I invented the PORCH CURTAIN. My design offers a temporary and cost-effective alternative to permanently screening in your porch."
The patent-pending invention provides a convenient kit for creating a temporary enclosure for a porch. In doing so, it helps to protect against insects and weather. It also eliminates the need to permanently alter the appearance of the home and it allows the user to easily achieve the aesthetic of an open porch when desired. The invention features a practical design that is easy to install and use so it is ideal for households. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Chicago sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-CLR-147, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I would see motorist not stopping when an emergency vehicle was approaching and I wanted to create a safety system for intersections to ensure safe passage for emergency vehicles, so I invented this," said an inventor, from Columbia, S.C., "so I invented the EMERGENCY STOP LIGHT DETENTION. My design would give motorists plenty of time to stop to help prevent accidents with an ambulance, police car or fire truck."
The patent-pending invention signals motorists to stop at intersections when an emergency vehicle is approaching. In doing so, it ensures that the EV has the clear right-of-way. As a result, it could help to prevent collisions and confusion and it enhances safety. The invention features an automatic and manual design that is easy to use so it is ideal for emergency services such as police, ambulance, fire, etc.
The original design was submitted to the Columbia sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-CSK-221, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I'm a structural engineer and following Hurricane Harvey, I was hired by different builders and construction companies to evaluate damaged houses and buildings. I thought there should be a sturdy, safe and reliable wall panel design," said an inventor, from Dallas, Texas, "so I invented the CABLE- BLOCK. My green and durable design would withstand tremendous forces and could help save lives."
The patent-pending invention provides an improved wall panel design for new construction homes. In doing so, it offers an alternative to using costly wood or concrete framing. It also protects against hurricanes, termites, fires, tornadoes and earthquakes and it would serve as the first post tension wall panel in the housing industry. Additionally, the invention features an innovative, durable and environmentally-friendly design that is easy to install so it is ideal for the construction industry and new home builders.
The original design was submitted to the Dallas sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-DAL-178, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a safety/surveillance system for use in a vehicle to help any motorist who is concerned about being unjustly profiled by the police," said an inventor, from Charlotte, N.C., "so I invented the SAFE RIDE. My design allows you to safely and discreetly record the situation and notify designated contacts within your phone."
The invention provides an effective way to safeguard an individual in any adverse on-the-road situation. In doing so, it enables the user to easily record video/audio of the situation. It also ensures that key contacts are notified of the situation. As a result, it provides added protection and peace of mind. Additionally, the invention features a secure design that is easy to install and use so it is ideal for vehicle owners and professional drivers.
The original design was submitted to the Charlotte sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-CNC-804, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "We wanted to create an attractive accessory for holding a cigarette to help prevent the fingers from becoming discolored and burned," said one of two inventors, from Columbus, Ohio, "so we invented the BLUNT PINCHER/ BLUNT SPLITTER. Our design would also eliminate the need to split the paper of a cigarette or cigarillo with your fingernails."
The patent-pending invention provides useful and fashionable accessories for tobacco and marijuana smokers. In doing so, it offers a stylish alternative to conventional cigarette or roach clips. As a result, it eliminates the need to hold a cigarette between the fingers. It also enables the user to easily cut the paper or wrap around a cigarette. The invention features an eye-catching design that is easy to use so it is ideal for smokers. Additionally, it is producible in design variations and a prototype is available.
The original design was submitted to the Columbus sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-CLM-551, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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BALTIMORE, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Transamerica Financial Advisors, Inc. (TFA) is pleased to announce that five of the organization's independent representatives have been recognized as top-ranked financial security professionals in their respective states. Forbes and SHOOK Research have ranked the top professionals in the wealth planning, protection, and insurance industry in their annual list of Top Financial Security Professionals 2022. The annual list spotlights the nation's top-performing advisors, who are evaluated on quantitative and qualitative criteria, including personal interviews, industry experience, compliance records and revenue produced.
This year's list includes an overall ranking of the best insurance professionals across the country and the top candidates in each state. Jan Zhuang was recognized as one of America's Top Financial Security Professionals for the 2022 national list, a repeat honor after appearing on the 2021 national list. Ms. Zhuang also attained the 2022 Best-In-State ranking for Florida. In addition, TFA recognizes and congratulates Brian Loiseau of Colorado, R.J. Cunningham of Utah, Nikki Dorch-Cannon of California and Fradel Barber of Florida for their rankings on the respective Best-In-State lists.
Jan Zhuang, Brian Loiseau, Fradel Barber, R.J. Cunningham, and Nikki Dorch-Cannon are registered representatives and investment advisor representatives with TFA, a broker/dealer and registered investment advisor. They are also licensed independent insurance agents, with World Financial Group Insurance Agency (WFGIA), an affiliate of TFA. With these qualifications, these respected financial professionals can provide securities and investment advisor products and services, in addition to life insurance, to individuals, families and businesses.
"We are delighted Jan Zhuang, Brian Loiseau, R.J. Cunningham, Nikki Dorch-Cannon and Fradel Barber have ranked highly on the Forbes Top Financial Security Professionals Best-In-State 2022 list," said George Chuang, President of TFA. "This is a fantastic achievement for each of them and shows that our agents and representatives know how to help their clients achieve financial security and success."
With a history that dates back more than 100 years, Transamerica is recognized as a leading provider of life insurance, retirement and investment solutions, serving millions of customers throughout the United States. Recognizing the necessity of health and wellness during peak working life, Transamerica's dedicated professionals work to help people take the steps necessary to live better today so they can worry less about tomorrow. Transamerica serves nearly every customer segment, providing a broad range of quality life insurance and investment products, individual and group pension plans, as well as asset management services. In 2021, Transamerica fulfilled its promises to customers, paying more than $52 billion in insurance, retirement, and annuity claims and benefits, including return of annuity premiums paid by the customer. Transamerica's corporate headquarters is located in Baltimore, Maryland, with other major operations in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and Denver, Colorado. Transamerica is part of the Aegon group of companies. Based in the Netherlands, Aegon is a diversified financial services group focused on providing investment, protection, and retirement solutions. For the full year of 2021, Aegon managed over $1.1 trillion in revenue generating investments. For more information, go to www.transamerica.com.
Transamerica Financial Advisors, Inc. (TFA) is a broker-dealer and registered investment advisor located in the United States that's in the business of helping people. TFA is a part of Transamerica, a company with over 100 years of history, and is recognized as a leading provider of investment solutions. TFA's representatives strive to serve people from all backgrounds and encourage clients to think differently about their future in pursuit of their financial success. Properly licensed representatives may offer securities and investment advisory services through Transamerica Financial Advisors, Inc. (TFA), Member FINRA, MSRB, SIPC, and Registered Investment Advisor.
To learn more, go to https://www.tfaconnect.com/
In the United States, life insurance and fixed products are offered by independent agents of World Financial Group Insurance Agency, LLC, World Financial Group Insurance Agency of Hawaii, Inc., World Financial Group Insurance Agency of Massachusetts, Inc., (In California dba World Financial Insurance Agency, LLC), and/or WFG Insurance Agency of Puerto Rico, Inc.
Those agents who are properly licensed may offer securities and investment advisory services through the affiliate broker/dealer, Transamerica Financial Advisors, Inc. (TFA), Member FINRA, MSRB, SIPC and Registered Investment Advisor.
Residents of California who wish to be independent agents with World Financial Group Insurance Agency, LLC must already have a life license. Individuals who reside in California may become sales representatives with WFG Direct, a direct sales marketing platform offered through World Financial Group, Inc.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Unity Software Inc. (NYSE: U) between March 5, 2021 and May 10, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important September 6, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Unity securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Unity class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=7381 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than September 6, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) deficiencies in Unity's product platform reduced the accuracy of the Company's machine learning technology; (2) the foregoing was likely to have a material negative impact on Unity's revenues; (3) accordingly, Unity had overstated its coUnity Software Inc.mmercial and/or financial prospects for 2022; (4) as a result, Unity was likely to have to reduce its fiscal 2022 guidance; and (5) as a result, defendants' public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the Unity class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=7381 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
No Class Has Been Certified. Until a class is certified, you are not represented by counsel unless you retain one. You may select counsel of your choice. You may also remain an absent class member and do nothing at this point. An investor's ability to share in any potential future recovery is not dependent upon serving as lead plaintiff.
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California governor signs landmark law for fast food workers
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed a nation-leading measure giving more than a half-million fast food workers more power and protections, despite the objections of restaurant owners who warned it would drive up consumers’ costs.
The landmark law creates a 10-member Fast Food Council with equal numbers of workers’ delegates and employers’ representatives, along with two state officials, empowered to set minimum standards for wages, hours and working conditions in California.
Newsom said he was proud to sign the measure into law on Labor Day.
“California is committed to ensuring that the men and women who have helped build our world-class economy are able to share in the state’s prosperity,” he said in a statement. “Today’s action gives hardworking fast food workers a stronger voice and seat at the table to set fair wages and critical health and safety standards across the industry.”
The law caps minimum wage increases for fast food workers at chains with more than 100 restaurants at $22 an hour next year, compared to the statewide minimum of $15.50 an hour, with cost of living increases thereafter.
The state legislature approved the measure on Aug. 29. Debate split along party lines, with Republicans opposed.
Sen. Brian Dahle, the Republican nominee for governor in November, had called it “a steppingstone to unionize all these workers.”
Supporters had said they hoped the measure would inspire similar efforts elsewhere.
Restaurant owners and franchisers cited an analysis they commissioned by the UC Riverside Center for Economic Forecast and Development saying that the legislation would increase consumers’ costs.
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Melting of ‘Doomsday Glacier’ could raise sea levels by several feet, study says
(CNN) – Scientists said concern over Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier is amplifying.
The Thwaites Glacier is one of the widest on Earth, and it is larger than the state of Florida.
It’s nicknamed “Doomsday Glacier” because it continues to melt underwater as the planet warms, and it has a high risk of collapse.
If that happens, it could raise the global sea level by several feet, which could lead to widespread destruction of the coastlines.
In a study published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience, scientists mapped the glacier’s historical retreat, hoping to predict what it might do in the future.
They found that at some point in the past two centuries, the base of the glacier retreated at twice the rate that scientists have observed in the past decade or so.
Scientists said swift disintegration suggests the Thwaites Glacier has the capability to undergo a retreat at a much faster pace than they had thought.
They believe a seabed ridge is what has been helping to recently keep it in check.
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New Orleans political patriarch Moon Landrieu has died
NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP) — Former New Orleans Mayor Moon Landrieu — whose early, lonely stand against segregationists in the Louisiana legislature launched a political career at the forefront of sweeping changes on race — died Monday, a family friend confirmed. He was 92.
Ryan Berni, a longtime friend of the family, confirmed that Landrieu passed away early Monday.
“He died peacefully this morning surrounded by family,” Berni told The Associated Press.
A progressive white Democrat whose demeanor could be combative at times, Landrieu came from a blue-collar Roman Catholic family, served in the Army and sat alongside the first Black students at the city’s Loyola law school before winning a statehouse seat in 1960.
By then, six years had passed since the U.S. Supreme Court ordered public schools to desegregate nationwide, and Landrieu couldn’t in good conscience go along when Gov. Jimmie Davis steamrolled legislation to keep students in New Orleans separated by race. They passed by lopsided margins with Landrieu, at least once, the lone “no” vote.
The white politicians who had a lock on power on Louisiana said he’d dug his political grave, but he held onto his House seat in 1963 and then won a city council seat in 1965 with strong support from Black voters, whose influence was beginning to be felt at the polls.
To win his first mayoral term, Landrieu assembled a coalition of white liberals and African Americans and campaigned to bring Black people into important positions in government.
Integrating City Hall had its costs: In a 2018 memoir, Mitch Landrieu wrote that death threats were phoned into his family home and his school. Moon Landrieu discussed the blowback over race in a 1977 speech to the National League of Cities convention.
“If you embark on a campaign to end racial discrimination in your hometown, you will need nerves of steel, a will of iron, skin like leather and testicles of brass to withstand the slings and arrows,” he said. “I have myself these past eight years been known in some quarters as ‘Moon the Coon,’ an epithet that has caused me some pain at times, but that is also a badge of honor that bears testimony to what we try to do.”
His mayoral legacy also includes the New Orleans Superdome, which finally opened in 1975. It’s a beloved fixture of the city landscape now, but cost overruns and a contract scandal caused headaches for its supporters, including Landrieu.
“There has been an unbelievable emphasis on the few things that have been wrong with it and total neglect of the many, many things that are right with it,” he said several years later.
As Black voters gained influence, the coalition that elected Landrieu to the maximum two terms helped make Ernest “Dutch” Morial the city’s first Black mayor, in 1978.
Landrieu then became President Jimmy Carter’s secretary of housing and urban development, an agency whose programs came under attack when President Ronald Reagan took office on a platform to reduce the federal government’s size and power.
Landrieu criticized Reagan for “gutting” public aid programs, and briefly considered a presidential bid of his own. But he never sought national office. Instead, he became a judge -- “I really wanted to get out of my kids’ way,” he said – serving on Louisiana’s 4th Circuit Court of Appeal from 1992 to 2000.
Several of Landrieu’s nine children continue his legacy in law and politics: Mitch, also a two-term New Orleans mayor, is now President Joe Biden’s infrastructure coordinator; Mary, who served three terms as a U.S. senator, is now a policy adviser with a Washington law firm. Madeleine became dean of the law school at Loyola University New Orleans, and Maurice is a federal prosecutor.
Born Maurice E. Landrieu on July 23, 1930, he was called Moon, a family nickname, throughout his life and eventually made that his legal first name. He served three years in the Army before opening a small, walk-up law office with law school classmate Pascal Calogero, later the chief justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court.
Landrieu credited his wife, Verna, with nudging him into politics, and his Black classmates, including Norman Francis, who would become Xavier University’s dean and president, for opening his eyes.
“It wasn’t just a question of racial justice, but from a practical standpoint, I recognized -- as a politician, as a legislator and councilman -- that we were wasting so much talent, wasting so much energy, by precluding Blacks from participation in all matters,” he recalled in a 2020 interview with the New Orleans weekly newspaper Gambit.
“And I was determined, as I became mayor, to revitalize this city and to bring about racial integration, so that the city could enjoy the full benefit of white and Black participants.”
Gov. John Bel Edwards called Landrieu a man of “bold vision.”
“Moon Landrieu was a courageous and defining voice for Louisiana and his beloved hometown of New Orleans,” Edwards said in a statement. “In addition to his many contributions to our state and nation, he leaves behind the most enduring legacy of all – a family that continues his fight for equality.”
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Restaurants facing shortage of cooks, chefs, report says
(CNN) - As the restaurant industry tries to recover from the pandemic, it is facing a new crisis: a staff shortage in the kitchen.
According to Bureau of Labor Statistics, the need for chefs and head cooks is far outpacing the number of students interested in those careers.
The bureau projects the need for head cooks and chefs will rise 25% by 2030, far faster than the 8% growth rate for other occupations.
America’s most prestigious school for chefs, The Culinary Institute of America, now accepts 97% of all applicants.
That compares to 2001, when it was far more selective, accepting only 36% of applicants.
The industry is acknowledging that it must offer higher pay, benefits and improved work-life balance to help meet the demand.
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Teenage angst pays off well, as Nirvana's Kurt Cobain sang. But a lawsuit from a man who appeared as a naked baby on the band's landmark Nevermind album still isn't paying off: a federal judge has once again dismissed the lawsuit.
Spencer Elden is appealing the dismissal, his lawyers told NPR, arguing that the judge in the case has misinterpreted the federal child sexual exploitation law known as Masha's law. Elden says Nirvana and its record label have profited from child pornography by selling the album that famously features him on the cover.
"Most child pornography is traded well into the victim's adulthood," attorney Margaret Mabie said via email. "Masha's law permits victims to sue for each violation of their privacy when their childhood images remain in circulation."
Elden, 31, was 4 months old when he was photographed underwater at the Pasadena Aquatic Center in California. A fishhook and dollar bill were later edited into the image. Elden says Nirvana's surviving members, Cobain's estate and others have "leveraged the lascivious nature of his image" to market and make millions of dollars off of the famous album.
But the defendants say Elden has himself previously sought to parlay his infant fame into adult profits, playing up his "Nirvana Baby" status by re-enacting the photo and autographing copies of the album.
Elden's lawsuit, filed in August 2021, names Cobain's estate and former bandmates, along with photographer Kirk Weddle, Universal Music, Geffen Records, Warner Records and MCA Music. It seeks at least $150,000 in damages from each defendant, along with legal fees.
But Judge Fernando Olguin of the Central District Court in California dismissed Elden's suit with prejudice, ruling that he had waited too long to file suit. The judge cites the law's statute of limitations, which requires a child pornography victim to bring a claim either 10 years after they discover the violation or injury against them, or 10 years after they turn 18.
"Here, plaintiff does not dispute that he knew of injuries arising from defendants' activities related to their use of his image on the Nevermind album cover more than ten years before he filed this action," Olguin said.
Elden's lawyers argue that the damage done to him is ongoing, and has persisted in the years after he ceased being a minor. They note, for instance, that the band and its label rereleased Nevermind last year, with him on the album cover, to mark its 30th anniversary.
Under Olguin's reading of the law, "child pornography remedies vaporize once the victim in the contraband image turns 28 years old," Mabie wrote in an email to NPR. "Under this logic, any child pornography producer—such as Masha Allen's original abuser—could simply wait out the clock and then re-distribute abusive material with impunity. Spencer's victimization as a child remains frozen in time."
But the defendants say the law's statute of limitations "cannot be suspended indefinitely while a plaintiff is fully on notice that a known person does the same thing to him, in the same manner, for more than 10 years."
Olguin had previously dismissed Elden's lawsuit in January, after his lawyers missed a deadline for responding to a defense motion. The judge allowed Elden's team to file an amended complaint after that flub — but his new ruling doesn't provide that leeway.
On Monday, Elden's lawyers filed a notice of appeal, seeking to take their case to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
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In 2016, Springsteen spoke about New Jersey, masculinity and wishing to be his stage persona: "People see you onstage and, yeah, I'd want to be that guy. ... I want to be that guy myself very often."
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In 2016, Springsteen spoke about New Jersey, masculinity and wishing to be his stage persona: "People see you onstage and, yeah, I'd want to be that guy. ... I want to be that guy myself very often."
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The folk singer, who died in 2014, was famous for his songs about working people, unions and social justice. In this 1984 interview, Seeger cited Woody Guthrie as one his most important influences.
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The folk singer, who died in 2014, was famous for his songs about working people, unions and social justice. In this 1984 interview, Seeger cited Woody Guthrie as one his most important influences.
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Russia imposed personal sanctions Monday on 25 Americans, including actors Sean Penn and Ben Stiller, in response to U.S. sanctions against Russians stemming from the conflict in Ukraine.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo was on the new sanctions list, as were several American senators: Mark Kelly and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, Kevin Cramer of North Dakota, Mike Rounds of South Dakota, Rick Scott of Florida, and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania.
Russia's Foreign Ministry said the group, which also included business leaders, academics and government officials, would be banned permanently from entering Russia.
Previous rounds of Russian sanctions against Americans have included President Joe Biden and members of his family, as well as lawmakers and business leaders. The U.S. has sanctioned numerous Russians, including government officials and business people.
Penn and Stiller have been outspoken critics of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Penn is an activist involved in relief work, among other causes. Stiller is a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.
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CHEYENNE — Wyoming is following the lead of federal health officials when it comes to getting newly updated vaccinations against the coronavirus.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky has endorsed a CDC advisory committee recommendations for use of updated COVID-19 boosters from Pfizer-BioNTech for people ages 12 and older, and from Moderna for all adults.
On Friday, Wyoming Department of Health Public Information Officer Kim Deti told the Wyoming Tribune Eagle that public and private partners will work to ensure vaccines are available to residents who want them. Updated COVID-19 boosters add omicron BA.4 and BA.5 spike protein components to the current vaccine composition, helping to restore protection that has waned since previous vaccinations.
As the CDC noted in a news release, “the updated COVID-19 boosters are formulated to better protect against the most recently circulating COVID-19 variant,” said Walensky. “They can help restore protection that has waned since previous vaccination and were designed to provide broader protection against newer variants. This recommendation followed a comprehensive scientific evaluation and robust scientific discussion. If you are eligible, there is no bad time to get your COVID-19 booster and I strongly encourage you to receive it.”
In the coming weeks, the CDC also expects to recommend updated COVID-19 boosters for other pediatric groups. The Food and Drug Administration in recent days authorized updated COVID-19 boosters.
Public health nursing offices and local health departments in Wyoming will be receiving more than 15,000 doses in the next few weeks. WDH’s Deti said out of that supply, doses may be shared with other COVID-19 vaccine providers in their respective communities. Pharmacies that are part of the federal retail pharmacy program may also have the updated boosters available in the next two weeks.
Deti expects additional orders can be placed in the next several weeks by vaccine providers. She said interested parties should confirm availability ahead of time with the location they want to visit for their vaccination. Such shots will continue to be free to all residents.
“These are intended to be a single booster dose for people who already completed what’s known as a primary series, such as two primary doses of a Pfizer or Moderna vaccine,” she said. “People who have not yet received a primary series would need to have those doses before these updated booster doses, with appropriate timing between.”
WDH doesn’t recommend people waiting until they are at imminent risk of infection, and instead they should get inoculated beforehand to prevent infection and serious illness. People who have already received a booster can get the updated dose if it’s been long enough since their most recent shot in the arm.
As flu season approaches, Deti reminded the public that residents can get flu shots and COVID-19 booster doses at the same time.
“We continue to recommend Wyoming residents stay up to date with their COVID-19 vaccinations,” she said.
This article has been further updated online with information from CRMC about CDC indicators for Laramie County.
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/rawlinstimes/news/state-follows-cdc-in-recommending-updated-covid-19-boosters/article_8196f3a0-2d32-11ed-a509-8bb9423dae6b.html | 2022-09-05T18:41:42Z |
LARAMIE – After taking a 38-6 thrashing at the hands of Illinois in the season opener, the University of Wyoming football team was hungry for an opportunity to prove that wasn’t who the Cowboys were going to be this year.
Staring down a 10-point deficit with the clock winding down in the fourth quarter, they received a chance to do just that Saturday afternoon. The Pokes delivered, storming back to beat Tulsa 40-37 in double-overtime at War Memorial Stadium.
Sophomore kicker John Hoyland drilled a career-long 55-yard field goal with 10:53 remaining to cut the deficit to seven, a moment UW coach Craig Bohl described as the turning point in the game. Junior quarterback Andrew Peasley then hit sophomore receiver Joshua Cobbs in stride up the right sideline for a 51-yard touchdown to tie the game with 6:19 left.
The teams swapped field goals in the first overtime, and Hoyland added another in the second. Tulsa proceeded to miss a game-tying attempt from 43 yards, sending the UW sideline streaming onto the field in celebration.
“We got down by 10, and we talked about believing,” Bohl said. “We had gone a couple three-and-outs, and we came up with a couple plays. I went down and I talked to John, and I knew where we were at on the field. I said, ‘OK, John,’ and he looked at me with a straight face and said, ‘Coach, I’ve got you.’
“He nailed it, which was pretty impressive. There was electricity that spread along the sidelines, because now it was a one-possession game, and a 55-yard field goal is pretty spectacular. Then things just began to go.”
Peasley, who was 5 of 20 for 30 yards and an interception in his UW debut, rebounded in a massive way to help lead the Cowboys to victory. The Utah State transfer completed 20 of 30 passes for 256 yards – the most by a UW quarterback since 2020 – and two touchdowns with no interceptions, while posting a passer rating of 160.3.
Bohl started to get emotional at his postgame news conference when discussing Peasley’s performance, as well as the criticism he received after the Illinois game.
“I have news for you guys, he ain’t got no six-figure NIL deal,” Bohl said. “He’s playing for Wyoming because he loves it.”
Peasley noted that it felt good to bounce back from a rough performance in the season opener, but quickly turned the topic to his teammates and what the win means for the Pokes as a whole.
UW had eight different players record catches, with Cobbs leading the team with five receptions for 77 yards. Sophomore receiver Will Pelissier added 67 yards on three catches, scoring his first career touchdown on a 48-yard strike from Peasley just before halftime, and adding 19 rushing yards on two carries. Sophomore tight end Parker Christensen had four receptions for 45 yards, as his position group saw their targets increase to six from just two the previous week.
“I transferred schools, and there were a lot of expectations for myself,” Peasley said. “(Bohl) knew that, and when you go 5 for 20 and kind of get your butt whooped in the season opener, it was tough for me. I just told everyone that we have to bounce back as a team. (Through) all this adversity, all through the week we were just grinding, and I feel like that showed today.
“There are always things we still need to work on. We’re going to watch film, and we’re going to be like, ‘Why did we do this, why did we do that?’ So there is still more to improve on, but overall, the offense and the defense, we all just took it to another level. We learned from our mistakes, and now we’re here.”
In last week’s loss to Illinois, the Cowboys fell behind on the second play from scrimmage. This time, it was UW that found the scoreboard almost instantly.
On the second play of the opening drive, sophomore defensive tackle Jordan Bertagnole sacked Tulsa quarterback Davis Brin near the 20-yard line, forcing a fumble. Junior defensive tackle Cole Godbout attempted to scoop up the loose ball and it bounced into the end zone, where sophomore linebacker Easton Gibbs pounced on it to put the Pokes up 7-0 just 37 seconds into the contest.
“We talked about coming out fast and finishing stronger than we did last week, and I think we did that well today,” Gibbs said. “It was big for us to jump on them fast. We talked about (how) it’s a momentum game, so to do that today felt really nice and got us on the right page.”
The defense forced another turnover with the game on the line in the closing moments of the fourth quarter.
UW appeared set to score the go-ahead touchdown, with a first-and-goal at the 7-yard line and less than two minutes on the clock. However, junior running back Titus Swen fumbled and Tulsa recovered, setting the Golden Hurricane up with the chance to deliver a game-winning drive.
Brin connected with Keylon Stokes for what would have been a 33-yard gain and third-down conversion, but sophomore cornerback Cam Stone delivered a jarring hit to knock the ball loose. Sophomore nickelback Keonte Glinton recovered to give the Pokes one last shot to win it in regulation, but Hoyland’s 44-yard attempt in the final seconds bounced off the top of the right upright.
“(Stone) has been a tremendous player over the past couple years for us, and he’s going to be an outstanding player for us,” Bertagnole said. “You always make mistakes throughout the game, and you’re never going to play a perfect game. Seeing him bounce back from some of the mistakes that he made ... just seeing him do that, and then coming up with that huge play, it took a lot of weight off our shoulders when we were turning in pursuit and saw him just hit stick to knock the ball out.”
Although the Pokes were out-gained 521-399, the defense allowed just 61 rushing yards on 32 carries, with Bertagnole, sophomore linebacker Shae Suiaunoa, sophomore defensive end DeVonne Harris and redshirt freshman defensive end Braden Siders each recording one sack. On the other side of the ball, the Cowboys did not allow a sack for the second straight week.
UW knows it has areas to improve, and cannot get satisfied after just one win. As they do every week, the Pokes plan to turn the page after 24 hours, and refocus for next weekend’s showdown with Northern Colorado.
On Saturday, though, they made sure to enjoy the moment.
“I need to learn the song,” Peasley said. “I probably shouldn’t say that, but it was good. No one was surprised. It was kind of like, ‘I told you,’ This is who we are, this is what we’ve been doing, and that’s why last week was such a disappointment to everyone.
“We knew we were better than that, so as a team, it’s probably the best feeling in the world. Just coming into the locker room and looking at one another, it’s all love. The stadium was rocking.”
Josh Criswell{span} covers the University of Wyoming for WyoSports. He can be reached at jcriswell@wyosports.net or 307-755-3325. Follow him on Twitter at @criswell_sports.{/span} | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/sports/cowboys-storm-back-to-beat-tulsa-in-2ot/article_c6e9fe66-2d32-11ed-a1ae-23e9ccdb166c.html | 2022-09-05T18:41:48Z |
Wyoming’s Andrew Peasley, right, runs past Tulsa defender Justin Wright during second half action on Saturday, in Laramie. Wyoming defeated Tulsa 40-37. Michael Smith/WyoSports
LARAMIE – University of Wyoming junior quarterback Andrew Peasley completed just 25% of his passes during the Cowboys’ season-opening loss at Illinois, and while his receivers did not give him much help, he still missed quite a few open throws.
Peasley’s performance against Tulsa was a complete 180. He completed eight of his first 10 passes to start the game, including a 48-yard touchdown pass late in the second quarter. This let him get into a rhythm. In the fourth quarter, he completed 10 of his 16 passes, including a game-tying 51-yard touchdown pass.
“Our offense is based on our run game, and our quick (passing) game was decent today,” said Peasley, who finished with 256 passing yards and two touchdowns. Getting completions was big thing for me this week. Just getting the ball into receivers hands and letting them go to work will open things up.”
Peasley also rushed for a team-high 45 yards on 10 carries.
D-line makes a statement
After giving up 261 yards on the ground to Illinois, the Pokes defensive front came into Saturday’s game feeling like it had something to prove.
The defense held Tulsa’s rushing attack to just 61-yards and sacked quarterback Davis Brin four times. One of which was a strip sack that opened the scoring on the second play of the game.
“We got embarrassed in the run game last week,” sophomore middle linebacker Easton Gibbs said. “We wanted to go out there and make a statement that (last week) was not going to be a common theme all year. We came out and knew we had to be more physical.”
Special teams helps
Special teams came up with 19 of the 40 Cowboys points. The big-time play everyone will point to is the blocked kick by Ryan Marquez in the third quarter that was returned for a touchdown, but another play sticks out in coach Craig Bohl’s mind.
Just after Tulsa took a 10-point lead in the fourth quarter, Bohl had a decision to make. On fourth down, inside the Tulsa 40-yard line, he could either punt the ball away or kick a 55-yard field goal. Bohl elected to attempt the 55-yarder, and kicker John Hoyland nailed it.
“(That kick) spread a lot of electricity along the sideline,” Bohl said. “Now we are within one possession, and then things just began to go.”
No quit in WY
The offense had trouble moving the ball the entire second half. At the start of the fourth quarter, Tulsa scored to go up by 10. With 1:45 remaining in the game, running back Titus Swen fumbled to give Tulsa the ball back. After the defense forced a fumble, Hoyland missed a chip-shot field goal that would have effectively ended the game.
All of these things could have spelled certain doom for a team, but the Cowboys never gave up. They battled until the end and were rewarded for their efforts. It takes a lot for a team to not get down when things like that happen, but Wyoming’s mental fortitude was on display throughout the game.
“Its definitely huge (being able to overcome adversity),” defensive tackle Jordan Bertagnole said. “The biggest emphasis that we talked about on the sideline getting ready to go in on these last drives and overtime was just that we had to believe and know that we were going to win this game.”
While a win is a win at the end of the day, it was far from perfect. The Cowboys struggled up until the final quarter of the game, and really had a hard time getting out of their own way.
Passing defense
While the Pokes’ run defense was excellent, their passing defense was downright abysmal. They allowed 460 yards through the air, including multiple completions of over 40 yards. While mostly holding Tulsa’s passing attack at bay in the first quarter, things quickly fell apart completion. They gave up 202 yards passing in the second quarter, including three straight third-down completions that led to a touchdown.
In the third quarter, Tulsa converted on four consecutive third-down attempts, ending with a 41-yard touchdown reception by JuanCarlos Santana.
Third-down defense
Third-down defense also left a lot to be desired. The Pokes allowed Tulsa to convert on 50% of third downs (9 for 18) in the contest. This included six straight third-down completions in the third quarter before the defense was able to get off the field.
Despite the deficiencies, the team overcame them to walk out of War Memorial Stadium with a win. The mark of a good team is being able to win when all hope looks lost. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/sports/peasley-rebounds-in-cowboys-win-over-tulsa/article_eb3cf002-2d32-11ed-89c9-0bb2ab4db6e8.html | 2022-09-05T18:41:54Z |
A pair of University of Wyoming football players were honored by the Mountain West on Monday after the Cowboys erased a 10-point, fourth-quarter deficit to take down Tulsa 40-37 in double-overtime.
Junior quarterback Andrew Peasley was named the conference’s offensive player of the week, while sophomore kicker John Hoyland received top special teams honors.
Peasley completed 20 of 30 passes for 256 yards and two touchdowns, while rushing for an additional 45 yards in the win. The Utah State transfer had no turnovers, and led the Cowboys on six scoring drives — including two in the fourth quarter to send the game to overtime. His first touchdown pass was a 48-yard strike to Will Pelissier in the final minute of the first half, while his second was a 51-yard completion to Joshua Cobbs that tied the game with 6:19 left in regulation.
Hoyland was 4 for 5 on field goal attempts, including 2 for 2 in overtime. He connected on a career-long 55-yarder that sparked the comeback with 10:53 remaining in the fourth quarter, with his other makes being from 25, 25 and 30 yards. He was also 4 for 4 on extra-point attempts, and had six of his seven kickoffs go for touchbacks.
This marks the second MW player of the week honor for both Peasley and Hoyland, who were previously recognized during the 2020 season. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/university_of_wyoming/football/peasley-hoyland-earn-mw-player-of-the-week-honors/article_c882aad8-2d38-11ed-a941-5736f26090ae.html | 2022-09-05T18:42:00Z |
In 2016, Springsteen spoke about New Jersey, masculinity and wishing to be his stage persona: "People see you onstage and, yeah, I'd want to be that guy. ... I want to be that guy myself very often."
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In 2016, Springsteen spoke about New Jersey, masculinity and wishing to be his stage persona: "People see you onstage and, yeah, I'd want to be that guy. ... I want to be that guy myself very often."
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The folk singer, who died in 2014, was famous for his songs about working people, unions and social justice. In this 1984 interview, Seeger cited Woody Guthrie as one his most important influences.
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The folk singer, who died in 2014, was famous for his songs about working people, unions and social justice. In this 1984 interview, Seeger cited Woody Guthrie as one his most important influences.
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Brendan Fraser celebrated for comeback role in ‘The Whale’
VENICE, Italy (AP) — Brendan Fraser is having a moment at the Venice International Film Festival.
The once ubiquitous movie star of “The Mummy” franchise and “George of the Jungle” had, in the last decade, backed away from the spotlight. But Fraser is charting what could be a major comeback starting with his transformative role in Darren Aronofsky’s “The Whale,” which had its world premiere Sunday night at the festival.
As the credits rolled in the Sala Grande theater, the audience gave the film a long standing ovation while Fraser, on the balcony alongside his director and co-stars, wiped tears away.
Fraser plays Charlie, a reclusive English teacher with a kind soul who weighs 600 pounds (270 kilograms). While the film already has pundits predicting Oscar nominations, Fraser is trying not to think about whether awards are in his future.
“I’m just trying to stay in today,” Fraser said before the premiere.
Aronofsky has been trying to make “The Whale” for about 10 years. He vividly remembers reading The New York Times review of Samuel D. Hunter’s play, going out to see it, and knowing he had to meet the writer.
One line in particular stuck out to him: “People are incapable of not caring.” It’s why, he said, he had to make the film.
But casting presented a challenge.
“To a lot of Sam Hunter’s pain, it took me 10 years to make this movie and that’s because it took me 10 years to cast,” Aronofsky said. “Casting Charlie was a huge challenge. I considered everyone. Every single movie star on the planet. But none of it really clicked. ... It didn’t move me. It didn’t feel right.”
Then, a few years ago, he saw a trailer for “a low-budget Brazilian movie” with Fraser and “a lightbulb went off,” he said.
Fraser, who also has a role alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese’s next film, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” said he doesn’t “know an actor in my peer group worth his weight in salt who wouldn’t want to work with Darren.”
Plus: “By far and away I think Charlie is the most heroic man I have ever played,” Fraser added. “His superpower is to see the good in others and bring that out of them.”
Prosthetics were used to transform Fraser into Charlie, who rarely leaves his couch.
“I needed to learn to absolutely move in a new way. I developed muscles I did not know that I had. I even felt a sense of vertigo at the end of the day when all the appliances were removed, as you would feel stepping off of a boat in Venice,” Fraser said. “It gave me an appreciation for those with bodies similar. ... I learned that you need to be an incredibly strong person, physically, mentally, to inhabit that body.”
Beyond his physicality, Charlie is also a character with profound empathy and love for everyone around him, including his estranged daughter, Ellie, played by “Stranger Things” star Sadie Sink.
“She’s got a lot of things to say so she comes in hot. But I think what she’s not expecting is someone who cares so much about her,” Sink said. “For someone like Charlie to see that there’s good in someone like Ellie, it’s throwing her for a loop.”
Hunter, who also wrote the screenplay, said his play is personal. He started it 12 years ago when he was teaching a mandatory expository writing course at Rutgers University that no one wanted to take and everyone resented. He also pulled from his own background, setting the play in his hometown of Moscow, Idaho, and weaving in his history of being depressed, self-medicating with food and going to a fundamentalist religious high school as a gay teenager.
“I was afraid to write it,” he said. “I thought the only way I can do it is if I write it from a profoundly place of love and empathy. ... I wanted (Charlie) to be a lighthouse in the middle of a dark, dark sea.”
“The Whale” was Aronofsky’s favorite kind of challenge — in that it had so many limitations. He learned long ago on 1998′s “Pi” that boundaries are “your gateway to freedom.” On that film, he only had $20,000 and a dream. In “Mother!” he was limited to a house. And, in “The Whale,” it’s not just a single apartment, it’s also a character who doesn’t move much.
He and cinematographer Matthew Libatique, whose friendship stretches back to their days at the American Film Institute in 1990, spent quite a bit of time talking about “how to turn theater into cinema” and “how to make that engaging and exciting.” In the rough cut, Aronofsky said he was relieved to find that it didn’t feel claustrophobic.
Fraser added that the film is “a piece of cinema. Proper cinema.”
Venice is a regular stop for Aronofsky, who in 2008 won the Golden Lion for “The Wrestler” and also debuted “Black Swan” and “The Fountain” on the Lido. He said the festival is like home.
Aronofsky and his actors could be poised to leave with trophies in hand this year, too. “The Whale” is part of the official competition of the festival, which will be decided on by a Julianne Moore-led jury on Sept. 10. And A24 plans to release it in theaters on Dec. 9. But he’s mostly just glad to be back with his first film since 2017′s “Mother!”
“The last few years, so many of us have lost so much. ... Cinema is about human connection. It’s about the chance to slide into someone else’s shoes and have two hours of empathy in someone else’s mind. I think that’s exactly what the world needs. I’m just so happy to be back,” Aronofsky said. “It’s a big moment for me and, I think, for cinema.”
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Luke Combs rewards young fans for their hard work to attend his show
BANGOR, Maine (WABI/Gray News) – Two young country music fans learned this weekend that hard work pays off.
When 12-year-old Bo Fenderson heard Luke Combs was coming to Maine, he knew instantly that he wanted to go to the show.
“I prayed for it to happen. I hoped. I prayed, and it happened,” Bo told WABI.
His mom agreed to take Bo to the concert, but she said tickets were pricey and he needed to earn the money to buy them himself.
Bo and his friend, Tanner, raised the money and made it to Luke Comb’s show Friday night at Maine Savings Amphitheater.
The boys held signs that read:
“We made $100 bucks stacking 5 cords of wood, bought two Luke Combs tickets. Man, he sounds good. Our Dads swore it was a waste of time, oh but they were wrong. Today’s my 12th birthday, oh Lord when it rains it pours.”
Combs spotted the young fans’ homemade signs in the crowd. When the country singer realized how much work they put in to get to the show, he offered to repay them.
“How much were your tickets? $100? $200? Y’all paid $200, $100 a piece? I only got $140 right here,” the singer said pulling cash out of his pocket. “Y’all want that? Pay yourselves back. I’ll get you some more.”
The reigning CMA Entertainer of the Year signed Bo and Tanner’s hats and invited them backstage after the show.
“I thought it was pretty cool to see him walking towards us,” Tanner said.
“He came towards us, and we were able to meet with him. I thought it was really cool,” Bo said.
The boys say they learned some valuable life lessons.
“The two most important things in life are hard work and kindness,” Bo said.
Bo’s mom said Combs was a great role model to take the time to acknowledge the boys’ hard work.
“It wasn’t just Luke, it was the rest of the staff too that made it happen and made it a point to come find us and the boys and fulfill that promise that he made to them,” Bo’s mom said.
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