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ELMIRA, N.Y. (WETM) – Riley Davis is picking up right where she left off.
Davis, a Corning High School grad, has scored six goals in three games for the Canisius College women’s lacrosse team. That mark also includes a hat trick performance by Davis in a 17-10 win over Stetson on February 19. Her three goals against Stetson tied a career-high for Davis who also notched a hat trick against Iona last April.
Canisius has raced out to a perfect (3-0) start and looks to make it four wins in a row Tuesday when the Golden Griffs head to Pitt (2-2) for a 4 pm start. The game will be streamed live on ACCNX against The Panthers.
Davis was a 2022 All-MAAC Academic Team pick and was also selected as a member of the 2021 MAAC All-Rookie Team.
Last season, Davis started all 16 games for Canisius and racked up 20 goals on the year. Davis also tallied four assists and 15 ground balls last year for Canisius.
(PHOTO: Canisius College Athletics)
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2023-02-28T06:13:00+00:00
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mytwintiers.com
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https://www.mytwintiers.com/williams-sportsdesk/riley-davis-off-to-fast-start-for-canisius-lacrosse/
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National awards are based on repeated success in cutting-edge work on behalf of plaintiffs
DALLAS, June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dean Omar Branham Shirley, LLP, a Dallas-based firm dedicated to holding corporations accountable when their actions harm hardworking people, has been named a finalist for the National Law Journal's 2022 Elite Trial Lawyers awards based on its work and many successes in products liability litigation.
The firm was selected as a finalist following the National Law Journal's extensive review process of hundreds of submissions.
The firm's most recent courtroom successes include:
- A $15.6 million wrongful death verdict in Nevada. John Wagner spent more than 50 years working as an electrician and maintained motor starters and controllers manufactured by Eaton Corp. Mr. Wagner never knew those products contained asbestos. He contracted mesothelioma, an always-fatal cancer of the lining of the lungs.
- A $26.5 million verdict for a Wisconsin family that lost a grandfather to mesothelioma he contracted during his time working as a steamfitter. Jerry Lorbiecki was exposed to asbestos through his work for Pabst's Milwaukee Brewery in the 1970s.
"It is an exceptional honor to be named a finalist among such other acclaimed legal professionals," said name partner Trey Branham. "And to know that this honor is tied to our work for these two families, whom we were so honored to represent, makes it really special."
The National Law Journal's Elite Trial Lawyer awards are based on repeated success in cutting-edge work on behalf of plaintiffs. The criteria for this prestigious honor include an impressive track record of wins within the past three to five years, performance in significant cases, verdict dollar amount, size of punitive damages penalties, complexity of procedure and others.
American Lawyer Media and the National Law Journal will present the actual awards in each category in an event scheduled for July 14, 2022, at the Mandarin Oriental in New York.
About Dean Omar Branham Shirley, LLP
Dean Omar Branham Shirley, LLP, is a nationally recognized trial firm that handles cases across the country for individuals who have suffered catastrophic injuries or have died as a result of the irresponsible conduct of others. For more information, visit www.dobslegal.com.
Media Contact:
Mark Annick
800-559-4534
mark@androvett.com
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2022-06-20T20:16:46+00:00
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witn.com
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https://www.witn.com/prnewswire/2022/06/20/dean-omar-branham-shirley-named-finalist-national-law-journals-2022-elite-trial-lawyers-awards/
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By TIA GOLDENBERG
Associated Press
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The Israeli military shot and killed two Palestinians during a raid in the occupied West Bank early Monday, Palestinian officials said, deepening what has become the deadliest round of fighting in the territory in years.
The military alleged that the men tried to ram their car into soldiers, a claim that could not be independently verified. Palestinians and rights groups often accuse Israeli troops of using excessive force against Palestinians, who live under a 55-year military occupation with no end in sight. Israel says it follows strict rules of engagement and opens fire in life-threatening situations.
The military said soldiers were attempting to arrest a suspect in the Jalazone refugee camp near the city of Ramallah when the two Palestinians allegedly attempted to run over soldiers with their car. The soldiers opened fire on the car, the military said.
But residents of the camp said the pair, Basel Basbous, 19, and Khaled Anbar, 22, were construction workers who were on their daily commute. The official Palestinian news agency Wafa said Israel took the two bodies, while a third passenger who was wounded was detained.
The Palestinian Civil Affairs Authority, which coordinates on civilian issues with Israel, said the military shot and killed the two men. Their identities were not immediately known.
Palestinians called a general strike in the West Bank city of Ramallah, where the internationally recognized Palestinian Authority is based, to protest the killings. Dozens of angry protesters marched through the streets, chanting “God is the greatest,” as they called on shops to close.
Israel has been carrying out nightly arrest raids in the West Bank since the spring, when a spate of Palestinian attacks against Israelis killed 19 people.
Israel says its operations are aimed at dismantling militant infrastructure and preventing future attacks, and that it has been forced to act due to the ineffectiveness of Palestinian security forces. The Palestinians see the nightly incursions into their cities, villages and towns as Israel’s way of deepening its occupation of lands they want for their hoped-for state and undermining the security forces.
The Israeli raids have killed some 100 Palestinians, making this year the deadliest since 2015. Most of those killed are said by Israel to have been militants but local youths protesting the incursions as well as some civilians have also been killed in the violence. Hundreds have been rounded up, with many placed in so-called administrative detention, which allows Israel to hold them without trial or charge.
The raids have driven up tensions in the West Bank, with a recent uptick in Palestinian shooting attacks against Israelis. They have also drawn into focus the growing disillusionment amongst young Palestinians over the tight security coordination between Israeli and the internationally-backed Palestinian Authority, who work together to apprehend militants.
Israeli media said Israel has beefed up its troop presence in the West Bank ahead of the Yom Kippur Jewish holy day, which begins Tuesday evening. Late on Monday, the army said soldiers came under fire near the West Bank town of Beita. There were no injuries reported.
Israel captured the West Bank in the 1967 Mideast war and 500,000 Jewish settlers now live in some 130 settlements and other outposts among nearly 3 million Palestinians. The Palestinians want that territory, along with east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, for their future state.
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Associated Press reporter Jalal Bwaitel contributed to this report from Ramallah, West Bank.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.
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2022-10-03T23:21:04+00:00
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wtmj.com
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https://wtmj.com/national/2022/10/03/palestinians-israeli-military-kills-2-during-west-bank-raid/
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WATCH: Boat explodes, sends debris flying at Florida marina
Published: Aug. 22, 2022 at 2:51 PM CDT|Updated: 18 minutes ago
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Gray News/TMX) – A boat exploded after refueling at a Florida marina Sunday.
The Daytona Beach Fire Department posted surveillance video of the boat bursting into flames at Halifax Harbor Marina.
You can see an explosion at the back half of the boat, sending debris flying.
Several people were on board at the time and one person was standing on the dock.
Four people were hurt during the explosion, one of whom was airlifted to a hospital in Orlando.
Firefighters extinguished the flames, but the boat sank.
Copyright 2022 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. TMX contributed to this report.
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2022-08-22T20:11:51+00:00
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newschannel10.com
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https://www.newschannel10.com/2022/08/22/watch-boat-explodes-sends-debris-flying-florida-marina/
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Time is short; set aside differences and be thankful
Dear Editor:
I was thinking this morning about how misguided and ignorant a large majority of citizens of the U.S. are. Many simply look at holidays as a day off with pay.
Do they know the importance of Thanksgiving and the Mayflower Compact? Do they know their history? Ten percent of America today are descendants of the Pilgrims on the Mayflower. They are truly the ones that took the lead in a strong work and Christian ethic.
I find myself saddened by the attitudes of most Americans. It’s like we don’t have independent thinkers anymore. Many do as their parents say, their friends say and their pastors say. Yet do they even know how God wants your family, friends and pastors to lead? No. Because they would actually have to study history and the Bible (which is our history) to know these truths.
So as we sit around the table, it is my prayer that we, for once, set aside our differences and take time to truly thank all for having this time to be with our loved ones. Time is short.
B.J. Fletcher
Albany
All candidates are sinners; vote for Christian values
Dear Editor:
I am writing this to all of the Bible-believing voters in Georgia. If you don’t believe in the Bible, then you probably will not understand my comments. In the upcoming Senatorial runoff election (as well as the next presidential election), all of the candidates are sinners. The sins of one are no worse than the other in God’s eyes. The only difference is if that person has asked to be forgiven and tried to not repeat them. It doesn’t matter what is alleged in the political ads or whether there is a D or R after their names.
There is one political ad that is especially illogical. Janis from Marietta says that she will not vote for Walker because he lied about encouraging someone to have an abortion and she will pray for him. These are “facts” promoted by a Warnock political ad. She evidently has no problem with voting for Warnock, who supports abortions up to the second before birth and for taxpayers paying for them.
I believe that God takes the long view and we also should. Which political platform that a candidate supports that will insure a future structure and foundation that allows for the freedom of religion and will uphold the Biblical standards expressed by God, that is the candidate we should vote for. We have seen this proven in the past during President Trump’s four years, especially when it comes to appointment of Supreme Court Justices and Federal Judges.
I know that this is hard to accept, but in the long-term it is not about whether you like a candidate or think that he is a terrible sinner, it is about which party will support Judeo-Christian values as a nation in the future. If you look at both the Republican and Democratic Party platforms, it is obvious how I will vote. Which platform will you decide for our children’s future?
John Cannady
Albany
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2022-11-19T22:45:54+00:00
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albanyherald.com
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https://www.albanyherald.com/letters/article_a2c49466-6846-11ed-8dcc-8fbd5147dfba.html
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Building a leadership team with global and local experience and expertise to enable rapid execution across Company's broad therapeutic strategy
DURHAM, N.C. and BEIJING, Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Brii Biosciences Limited ("Brii Bio" or the "Company", stock code: 2137.HK), a multi-national company developing innovative therapies for diseases with significant unmet medical needs and large public health burdens, today announced the appointments of Eleanor (Ellee) de Groot, Ph.D., as Chief Technology Officer and Aleksandar Skuban, M.D., as Central Nervous System (CNS) Diseases Therapy Area Head.
"Ellee and Aleksandar are both seasoned biotech leaders with impressive credentials and an entrepreneurial history of leading medicine development and manufacturing initiatives within their functional areas. We are excited to welcome them to the Brii Bio team as we continue to advance our pipeline of innovative drug candidates on behalf of patients facing significant health burdens around the world," said Zhi Hong, Ph.D., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Brii Bio. "With experience spanning all phases in the making of medicines, Ellee is an important addition to our executive team as we execute against our broad therapeutic modalities. Likewise, Aleksandar's deep expertise in CNS and mental health clinical development and patient care will be essential as we prioritize the advancement of our lead U.S. therapeutic programs in postpartum depression and major depressive and anxiety disorders."
Eleanor (Ellee) de Groot, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer
Dr. de Groot has more than two decades of experience leading a wide range of streamlined global operations across growing biotechnology companies, from early to late stage clinical development and commercial-scale manufacturing. Dr. de Groot held key leadership roles during her career with Alaunos Therapeutics, most recently serving as Executive Vice President of Operations where she oversaw the development of novel cell therapy programs and led clinical manufacturing, quality and process development. In addition, during her extended tenure at Helsinn Therapeutics, Dr. de Groot held multiple roles of increasing responsibility within CMC management where she directed preparations for drug product commercialization, including global regulatory engagement, technology transfers and collaborations with key business partners worldwide. Dr. de Groot holds both a Ph.D. and Master of Science degree in chemical engineering from Stanford University, a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a Master of Business Administration from Rice University.
"I believe Brii Bio's diversified pipeline of promising therapeutic candidates shows great potential to address some of the biggest public health challenges of our time, and I'm eager to contribute my expertise to support ongoing product development and generate a sustainable long-term growth strategy within the Company," said Ellee de Groot, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer of Brii Bio.
Aleksandar Skuban, M.D., CNS Diseases Therapy Area Head
Dr. Skuban brings to Brii Bio more than 25 years of global pharmaceutical R&D experience with an extensive medical, scientific and business leadership track record of achievements, including leading more than 30 studies across therapeutic areas from early stage proof of concept through positive regulatory outcomes, with a focus in CNS diseases. Previously, Dr. Skuban served as SVP of Clinical Development at Better Therapeutics, where he shaped research strategy to enable rapid development of new indications for prescription digital therapeutics. Prior to that, he served as an Executive Medical Director leading clinical development within Alexion's emerging ophthalmology therapeutic area. At Otsuka Pharmaceuticals, Dr. Skuban's tenure included roles overseeing various clinical portfolios, notably guiding to FDA approval for Brexpiprazole (REXULTI) for major depressive disorder and schizophrenia. Dr. Skuban also held a number of clinical development director roles at Merck and Sanofi-Aventis. He earned a Doctor of Medicine degree from Semmelweis University of Medicine, Budapest, Hungary and attended the School of Medicine at the University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia (Serbia).
"I am inspired by the meaningful patient-centric approach that Brii Bio has cultivated in the earliest stages of clinical planning. I look forward to incorporating unique patient insights into Brii's CNS programs to ensure our investigational treatments are well-positioned for the future of mental healthcare and grounded in the fundamental understanding of patients' preferences and needs," said Aleksandar Skuban, M.D., CNS Diseases Therapy Area Head of Brii Bio.
About Brii Bio
Brii Biosciences Limited ("Brii Bio", stock code: 2137.HK) is a biotechnology company based in China and the United States committed to advancing therapies for significant infectious diseases, such as hepatitis B, COVID-19, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, multi-drug resistant (MDR) or extensive drug resistant (XDR) gram-negative infections, and other illnesses, such as the central nervous system (CNS) diseases, which have significant public health burdens in China and worldwide. For more information, visit www.briibio.com.
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2022-08-23T00:05:57+00:00
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waff.com
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https://www.waff.com/prnewswire/2022/08/22/brii-biosciences-appoints-eleanor-de-groot-chief-technology-officer-aleksandar-skuban-central-nervous-system-diseases-therapy-area-head/
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Retired teacher hits $125,000 jackpot playing poker in Las Vegas
Published: Dec. 29, 2022 at 8:24 PM CST|Updated: 41 minutes ago
LAS VEGAS (KVVU) - A Hawaii visitor hit a massive jackpot while playing poker on the Las Vegas Strip.
According to Caesars Entertainment, Sandra Haynes of Kauai County, Hawaii, hit a major progressive jackpot this week for $125,878.
KVVU reports Haynes won the jackpot while playing the Let It Ride poker game at Harrah’s Las Vegas.
A spokesperson for Caesars Entertainment said the lucky gambler caught a five-card straight flush to cash the jackpot.
Haynes said she plans to share her winnings with her children and continue to enjoy retirement.
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2022-12-30T03:06:45+00:00
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kcrg.com
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https://www.kcrg.com/2022/12/30/retired-teacher-hits-125000-jackpot-playing-poker-las-vegas/
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Albuquerque dogs dress to impress at ‘Mutt Masquerade’
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Marble Brewing hosted its annual “Mutt Masquerade” where dogs were dressed to impress in their best costume.
Ghouls, goblins, and tons of slobbery, four-legged creatures was found Sunday in the metro.
“Her name is molasses sugar, because she’s so sweet.”
And while they look sweet, there were serious competitors in this year’s costume contest.
“Take it pretty seriously training, like every morning. She has her glass of raw eggs, running up the stairs every morning, so yeah, she’s a she’s a fit pup,” said Syndey Wort, owner of Jabbin Hosie.
Jabbin Hosie the Boxer is just one costume found at Marble Brewery in downtown Albuquerque. There were lobsters, oompa loompas, and even break dancing dogs, but the humans were just as excited.
“I mean, I love dressing up, so anytime I get an opportunity I take it,” said Kelly Ard, in Supergirl and Batman costume.
The contest has three categories: Most Creative, Marble Themed, and Best Group. And while Halloween spirit was on display – so were some four-legged friends looking for their forever home.
Watermelon Mountain Ranch partners with Marble Brewery every year to hold an adopt-a-thon.
“This is one of our Gilmore Girl litters because we name all of our litters in theme, so, this is Laura– she is looking for her forever home, and there’s hope. Oh, we don’t we don’t want to talk about it right now cause we’re so shy about it, but she’s a litter of six that came into us,” said Sarah Hefferen, executive director of Watermelon Ranch.
And we even saw a family grow.
“Well, I saw her on Facebook and then I was like I just fell in love with this. I was like I have to get her, and then we drove all the way from Rio Rancho just to see her, and then I saw her and then I was like ‘ oh my goodness, we have to get her first that was gonna take her,'” said Madison Beitler.
And $1 from every pint sold at the brewery during this event will go to Watermelon Mountain Ranch.
Winners:
- Best Homemade/Most Creative Winner: Margot who was a bush and her human was Edward Scissorhands.
- Best Group/Human & Pet Winner: Sawyer who was a Beagnik and so was his human aka “Beatnik.”
- Marble Theme Winner: Sushi – Marble beer distributor.
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2022-10-24T06:10:25+00:00
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kob.com
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https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/albuquerque-dogs-dress-to-impress-at-mutt-masquerade/
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "All or Nothing Evening" game were:
03-04-05-07-09-10-13-14-15-18-20-24
(three, four, five, seven, nine, ten, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, eighteen, twenty, twenty-four)
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2023-01-11T00:26:54+00:00
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lmtonline.com
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https://www.lmtonline.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-All-or-Nothing-Evening-17709092.php
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Lulac’s Advisor and Latinx Outreach Coordinator Jesse Garcia Janessa Calderon of the Quad City Hispanic Chamber of Commerce sat down with us to talk about how the oldest and largest Hispanic organization in the US is working with the Quad City Hispanic Chamber of Commerce to advance their community.
For more information visit qchcc.org and lulac.org
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2022-12-08T19:25:58+00:00
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ourquadcities.com
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https://www.ourquadcities.com/living-local/lulac-quad-city-hispanic-chamber-of-commerce/
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- Coway Environmental Technology Research Institute recognized as a CSA-qualified witness laboratory for electronic and electrical safety testing
SEOUL, South Korea, May 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Coway Co., Ltd., the "Best Life Solution Company," announced today that Coway's Seoul-based R&D Center, the Environmental Technology Research Institute, has received Witnessed Manufacturer's Testing for Certification (WMTC) certificate from CSA. Coway has officially become a CSA-qualified witness laboratory.
CSA Group is a global organization dedicated to safety, social good and sustainability. They are a leader in North American standards development and in product testing, inspection, and certification around the world. CSA Group is also a nationally recognized testing laboratory (NRTL) in the United States, as well as accredited by Standards Council of Canada (SCC) which is Canada's voice on standards and accreditation. CSA Group is providing certification for over 360 categories of CSA/ANSI/IEC/UL standards related to a wide range of products, including electronics and electrical products.
CSA evaluates the testing laboratory's analytical capabilities according to strict evaluation criteria and grants the designated testing laboratory qualification.
Following a rigorous evaluation of the testing laboratory's analytical capabilities according to strict evaluation criteria, CSA Group granted Coway's R&D Center the WMTC certificate for meeting international standards as a product safety testing laboratory. The certification allows Coway to test new products within its own R&D Center.
"Our qualification as a CSA witness laboratory demonstrates that Coway's in-house testing system adheres to the highest global requirements, enabling us to act swiftly in gaining CSA certifications in the North American market," said Park Chan-Jeong, head of Coway Environmental Technology Research Institute. "In the future, we'll continue to provide our customers with reliable products while contributing to product safety as a comprehensive global safety certification testing laboratory."
In addition to the CSA qualification, Coway Environmental Technology Research Institute has been recognized for its test and analysis capabilities by many other certification bodies. These include approval as a designated TÜV SÜD testing laboratory, TSP (Technical Service Provider) by WQA (Water Quality Association), an international testing laboratory with accreditation from KOLAS (Korea Laboratory Accreditation Scheme), and a drinking water quality inspection agency by South Korea's Ministry of the Environment.
About Coway Co., Ltd.
Established in Korea in 1989, Coway, the "Best Life Solution Company," is a leading environmental home appliances company making people's lives healthy and comfortable with innovative home appliances such as water purifiers, air purifiers, bidets, and mattresses. Since being founded, Coway has become a leader in the environmental home appliances industry, with intensive research, engineering, development, and customer service. The company has proven dedication to innovation with award-winning products, home health expertise, unrivaled market share, customer satisfaction, and brand recognition. Coway continues to innovate by diversifying product lines and accelerating overseas business in Malaysia, USA, Thailand, China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Japan, and Europe, based on the business success in Korea. For more information, please visit http://www.coway.com/ or http://newsroom.coway.com.
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2023-05-26T08:05:08+00:00
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kswo.com
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https://www.kswo.com/prnewswire/2023/05/26/coways-rampd-center-becomes-csa-qualified-witness-laboratory/
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FBI search of Mar-a-Lago came after suspicions of withheld materials
By Pamela Brown, Kaitlan Collins and Katelyn Polantz, CNN
The search of Donald Trump‘s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida came after authorities believed that the former President or his team had not returned all the documents and other materials that were property of the government, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Authorities believed the documents at Mar-a-Lago had national security implications, according to the source.
The FBI’s execution of the search warrant on Monday followed a meeting earlier this year by investigators with Trump’s attorneys, during which they entered a room where documents were being held, as first reported by CNN. The search warrant pertained to both the handling of classified documents and the Presidential Records Act.
There was also suspicion, after months of discussion on the matter, that Trump representatives were not being completely truthful with investigators, the source said.
The Washington Post first reported on some of the details of the search.
As part of the FBI investigation, Justice Department investigators previously subpoenaed the Trump Organization for a copy of Mar-a-Lago’s surveillance tapes, a source familiar with the situation told CNN. The organization complied with the subpoena, which was first reported by The New York Times, and handed over the Mar-a-Lago surveillance tapes to investigators, the source said.
Before FBI agents arrived Monday at Trump’s private club and searched his residence, people around the former President had been under the impression that the probe into how he handled classified information had stalled, according to two sources familiar with the thinking.
For months, investigators had been looking into how Trump handled material taken with him when he left the White House after the National Archives referred the case to the Justice Department earlier this year. It remains unclear why those around the former President believed the investigation had stalled, but in June, his attorneys received a letter from investigators asking them to preserve the remaining documents in his possession “until further notice,” one source told CNN.
The concern arose after the former President had returned some 15 boxes of materials to the National Archives.
A source familiar with Trump team deliberations said it will push an argument that Trump didn’t have any classified information at Mar-a-Lago because he declassified it when he was President.
Legal analysts say the declassification procedure is a bit of a gray area when it comes to the president and producing proof. One former White House lawyer said the White House counsel would typically want to create a memo detailing the declassification for the president to sign, but that is not a requirement.
“The president has wide latitude to declassify, and there’s no strict, formal procedure that must be followed,” CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig said. “So if Trump claims he declassified documents while in office, that could come down to a factual dispute and would turn on the strength of the evidence either way.”
After leaving office, a former president no longer has the authority to declassify information.
This, of course, does not address the Presidential Records Act and the requirement that White House documents be preserved with the National Archives.
On Monday, federal agents removed boxes of material from the Palm Beach property.
The Mar-a-Lago search, which focused on the area of the club where Trump’s offices and personal quarters are located, marked a major escalation of the classified documents investigation. It was the first time in American history that a former president’s home was searched as part of a criminal investigation.
The Secret Service had about an hour heads up before the FBI executed the warrant, a source familiar with the situation told CNN. The Secret Service validated the search warrant, met up with FBI agents as they arrived, and ensured they had uninhibited access, but the Secret Service agents themselves did not help in the search, the source said.
The senior-most Secret Service person at the property served as the point of contact.
Trump has denied all wrongdoing and claims the investigation is a politically motivated sham, intended to derail his potential bid to return to the White House.
Top congressional Republicans have rushed to the former President’s defense, with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy warning of an oversight probe “when” Republicans take back the chamber in the midterm elections.
“The Department of Justice has reached an intolerable state of weaponized politicization,” McCarthy said, warning Attorney General Merrick Garland to “preserve your documents and clear your calendar.”
House Republicans briefly discussed the FBI search during a conference call on Tuesday, multiple sources told CNN, and top Republicans made clear that they want to get answers and a full accounting from the Justice Department.
This story has been updated with additional details Tuesday.
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CNN’s Whitney Wild contributed to this report.
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2022-08-10T05:09:57+00:00
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kyma.com
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https://kyma.com/cnn-us-politics/2022/08/09/fbi-search-of-mar-a-lago-came-after-suspicions-of-withheld-materials/
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The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank brings back memories on Capitol Hill of rescuing the financial markets during the 2008 collapse, raising concerns among lawmakers that taxpayers may have to pay to bail out risky financial bets.
President Biden assured the nation Monday that no taxpayer money will be used after lawmakers warned over the weekend they will not support bailouts, which are unpopular with voters.
The president said the money to cover depositors would come from the fees banks pay into the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and promised that managers at failed banks would be fired and stock-holding investors would not be protected — sidestepping a fight with Congress.
Still, there is already disagreement over what constitutes a “bailout” and the fund being used to pay depositors — including over the $250,000 for standard insurance from the FDIC — is backed by “the full faith and credit of the United States government.”
And some conservative Republicans are already making the argument that covering depositors above the FDIC’s regular $250,000 deposit insurance limit is creating a future moral hazard and could embolden risky behavior heading forward.
A GOP aide predicted that more conservatives would push that argument once they return to Washington and have more time to examine the details of Biden’s intervention.
“I’m sure there will be people who take the view that there shouldn’t be government intervention on any of this,” the aide said.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle spent Sunday assuring voters they were against a bailout.
Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) said he was “not ready to offer them a bailout by any stretch of the imagination,” while Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) said, “It’s still very early. I don’t even think it’s been 48 hours. But at this time, I would not support a bailout.”
Biden’s decision to intervene and pledge on Monday that no depositors will lose their money was viewed as an effort to avoid repeat of the panic that gripped the financial markets in 2008 after the Bush administration decided not to rescue Lehman Brothers Inc., a major investment bank.
Former Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.), who was in the Senate when Lehman Brothers collapsed, said then-Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and other senior administration officials were uncertain at first about how to respond to the crisis.
“It isn’t quite déjà vu because it’s different. First of all, Biden stepped forward and said this is what it’s going to be. It isn’t a bailout, it’s going to be making sure depositors are covered,” Nelson said.
Nelson said Biden appears to have learned a key lesson from the fall of 2008: The federal government must act quickly and decisively to prevent fear from quickly spreading through the financial markets.
“I don’t know how many days it was, the secretary of the Treasury was getting together with us trying what to do. There wasn’t any plan that I can recall that came together right away as quickly as this did,” he said, comparing the federal response in 2008 to today.
Liberals, meanwhile, are going on offense by blaming Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse on a banking deregulation bill signed in 2018 under President Trump.
“In 2018, Donald Trump signed a law to deregulate large banks like SVB and Signature Bank. In opposing Trump’s decision to roll back the toughest regulatory requirements in Dodd-Frank, I warned at the time that this could create serious vulnerabilities and ‘may make it more difficult for regulators to spot a threat to financial stability from a larger bank while increasing competitive pressures on community banks and credit unions,’” Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), a senior member of the Senate Banking Committee, said in a statement Monday afternoon.
The Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act, which passed the Senate with bipartisan support in 2018, scaled back some requirements of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, which Congress passed after the 2008 financial collapse.
Critics say it contributed to the downfall of Signature Bank, which the FDIC took control of Sunday.
Together they mark the second- and third-biggest bank collapses, respectively, in U.S. history and kindled fears of runs on regional banks across the country.
Shares of San Francisco-based First Republic bank fell 62 percent on Monday while Western Alliance Bancorp shares fell 47 percent and PacWest Bancorp shares dropped 21 percent.
“Let’s be clear. The failure of Silicon Valley Bank is a direct result of an absurd 2018 bank deregulation bill signed by Donald Trump that I strongly opposed,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said.
“Five years ago, the Republican Director of the Congressional Budget Office released a report finding that this legislation would ‘increase the likelihood that a large financial firm with assets of between $100 billion and $250 billion would fail,” he said.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) wrote in a New York Times op-ed Monday that “had Congress and the Federal Reserve not rolled back the stricter oversight, S.V.B. and Signature would have been subject to stronger liquidity and capital requirements to withstand financial shocks.”
Some Republicans, on the other hand, blamed Silicon Valley Bank’s downfall on a lack of proper oversight from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. They argue that federal regulators have become too preoccupied with climate and other “woke” issues to watch out for fundamental problems.
“There’s no mystery what transpired. They had 10 percent insured deposits, they had massive unrealized losses because their portfolio was weighted in long-duration debt so they had a liquidity mismatch. It didn’t matter what artificial regulatory you put into place, you could not overcome the underlying fundamentals of the mismatch and the high rate of uninsured deposits,” said a second GOP aide.
“How the hell did the regulator miss this? That’s the whole point of supervisory examination, to spot this type of thing,” the aide added.
The Republican aide argued that Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse doesn’t call for a new wave of regulation because its circumstances of its liquidity shortfall don’t affect the vast majority of other banks.
“There was no bank in the country with a larger liquidity mismatch than SVB. Nobody else even comes close to the problem that this bank had. That’s what makes it so astonishing that the regulators missed it,” the GOP aide added.
Silicon Valley Bank reported in a December regulatory filing that 95 percent of its bank deposits were uninsured.
Biden administration officials hastily convened a call with Republicans and Democrats in the House and Senate Sunday evening to brief them on the plans to insure the deposits at Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank.
The briefing was convened so quickly that only a few Senate Republicans participated, including Sen. Mitt Romney (Utah) and Senate Republican Whip John Thune’s (S.D.) staff.
The administration held a second briefing midday Monday to bring Republican senators who missed the Sunday call up to speed.
The quick outreach appeared to pay off when Romney voiced support for the administration’s actions during the Sunday call and then tweeted his support.
Romney retweeted a statement from the Federal Reserve announcing the plan to ensure depositors’ savings and praised it as the “right decision.”
Democratic leaders on Monday applauded the Biden administration for taking quick action and urged colleagues to “look closely” at the failure of Silicon Valley Bank to weigh whether more regulation is needed.
“We are grateful that the Biden administration, Federal Reserve and FDIC took swift action to safeguard depositors and maintain confidence in the banking system,” Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) said in a joint statement.
“Americans should have faith that bank regulators are doing everything they can to protect consumers. In the coming days and weeks, Congress will be looking closely at the causes behind the run on Silicon Valley Bank and other banks and how we can prevent a similar crisis in the future,” they said.
The vast majority of congressional Republicans stayed quiet on Monday, with neither Speaker Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) nor Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) commenting on the decision to cover the potential losses of bank depositors.
McCarthy told “Fox News Sunday” that the administration had “the tools to handle the current situation” but voiced hope that regulators would find a larger bank to buy Silicon Valley Bank to cover the depositors.
“This bank is a unique bank, where they do have assets, they have an amazing clientele, it’s something that could be very possible [for] someone to purchase this bank,” he said, describing that as “the best outcome.”
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2023-03-14T10:48:40+00:00
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Ernaux often addresses issues of gender, language, class and shame in her work. Her writing blurs the line between memoir and fiction such as A Woman's Story, I Remain in Darkness and Cleaned Out.
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Ernaux often addresses issues of gender, language, class and shame in her work. Her writing blurs the line between memoir and fiction such as A Woman's Story, I Remain in Darkness and Cleaned Out.
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2022-10-06T11:45:18+00:00
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Woman who killed 2 officers did not take own life, investigators now say
BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (WLOX/Gray News) - Several new, key pieces of information have come to light in the deaths of two Bay St. Louis Police officers and an Ocean Springs woman.
Investigators said Amy Anderson believed she was being followed and asked a motel clerk to call 911 for help.
The 8-year-old daughter was in the front passenger seat when the deadly shootings happened, and the bullet that killed Anderson was not self-inflicted, but from one of the officers.
Public Safety Commissioner Sean Tindell gave WLOX a more detailed timeline of that morning’s events. At 3:35 a.m., a distressed Amy Anderson asked the clerk at the Motel 6 to call 911. Four minutes later, Sergeant Steven Robin and Officer Branden Estorffe arrived and met with Anderson in her motel room. Anderson’s 8-year-old daughter and three dogs were also in the room.
Anderson was at the Bay St. Louis motel even though she lived in Ocean Springs because “she believed that she was being followed,” Tindell said.
Based on what he observed on an officer’s body camera, the officers talked with Anderson for about 40 minutes. A portion of the talk was described by Tindell as “pleasant conversation.”
However, the pleasant chat took a dark turn.
“During the course of the conversations with Ms. Anderson, the officers became concerned for the safety of her daughter,” said Tindell.
He wouldn’t elaborate on what made them concerned, only saying, “She had made a number of comments that had the officers concerned for the safety of the child.”
A decision was made by the two officers to call Child Protective Services.
A little more than a half hour into the talk, Anderson packed up her stuff and headed to the car. Tindell said, “Ms. Anderson was loading up her car and was apparently attempting to leave the hotel. They were trying to keep her there until Child Protective Services could arrive.”
At 4:19, “Ms. Anderson, while seated in her car, shot and killed Officer Robin,” said Tindell.
The head of the Department of Public Safety said Robin was at the door of Anderson’s vehicle when he was shot and killed.
Estorffe and Anderson then exchanged two shots each. Estorffe was hit in the arm and head, while Anderson took a fatal shot in the chest.
Estorffe was treated for his injuries but later died at Memorial Hospital in Gulfport. Anderson died at the scene.
Investigators said five shots were fired, three by Anderson, two by Estorffe. Throughout the gun battle, the 8-year-old daughter was in the front passenger seat.
“I don’t know what she saw,” said Tindell, “but she was there.”
Based on what Tindell reviewed, he hailed the officers for reaching out to CPS.
“It’s my belief their fears were justified. There is little doubt in my mind the actions that they took very well could have saved the lives of others.”
Estorffe was the only officer with a body camera.
Investigators are waiting for the autopsy and toxicology report to determine if drugs played a factor in this incident.
Anderson had three children. The older two were with their father.
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2022-12-16T19:45:58+00:00
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PARIS (AP) — Global negotiators have agreed to craft a draft treaty to end plastic pollution, a preliminary but crucial step toward tackling one of the most lasting sources of human waste.
Environmental advocates cautiously welcomed the outcome of five days of U.N. talks in Paris on plastic pollution, but expressed concern that the petroleum industry and some governments would water down the eventual treaty. Most plastic is made from fossil fuels.
Delegates at the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for Plastics agreed Friday evening to produce an initial draft before their next meeting in Kenya in November, participants said. The committee is charged with developing the first international, legally binding treaty on plastic pollution, on land and at sea.
A coalition of “high-ambition” governments led by Norway and Rwanda, along with environmental groups, want to end plastic pollution altogether by 2040 by slashing production and limiting some chemicals used in making plastics.
“Projections suggest that a child born today will see plastic production double by the time they turn 18, but we know that the consequences of increasing plastic production will be disastrous for our health, the planet, and the climate,” said Dr. Tadesse Amera, who led the International Pollutants Elimination Network’s delegation at the talks. “The stakes are high, but we are optimistic by the growing awareness among delegates of the need for global controls.”
Countries with big petroleum industries like the U.S., China and Saudi Arabia are focusing instead on plastic recycling, and want country-by-country rules instead of across-the-board limits.
Stew Harris, senior director for global plastics policy at the American Chemistry Council, argued for allowing each government to “use the right tools based on their unique circumstances.” In a statement to The Associated Press as the talks wrapped up, he said that circularity — or reusing plastics — was “at the forefront of the negotiations as a means to tackle pollution and be more sustainable in producing and consuming plastics. We agree that’s the best path.”
Humanity produces more than 430 million tons of plastic annually, two-thirds of which are short-lived products that soon become waste, filling the ocean and, often, working their way into the human food chain, the U.N. Environment Program said in an April report. Plastic waste produced globally is set to almost triple by 2060, with about half ending up in landfill and under a fifth recycled, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Over 2,000 participants from nearly 200 countries, including governments and observers, took part in this week’s talks. Waste pickers and some advocacy groups said they were initially denied access to the talks. Then debates about rules of procedure — including whether decisions would require consensus or just two-thirds approval — dragged out the proceedings, participants said.
But they ultimately agreed to produce a draft treaty by November, which keeps things on track to produce a final version by the target deadline of late 2024. This week’s talks were the second of five rounds of meetings due to take place to complete the negotiations.
“Time is running out and it is clear from this week’s negotiations that oil-producing countries and the fossil fuel industry will do everything in their power to weaken the treaty and delay the process,” said Graham Forbes of Greenpeace USA global plastics campaign. “While some substantive discussions have taken place, there is still a huge amount of work ahead of us.”
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McDermott reported from Providence, Rhode Island.
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2023-06-03T13:06:20+00:00
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MILWAUKEE (AP)Tyler Wahl scored 17 points as Wisconsin defeated Stanford 60-50 on Friday night at American Family Field, the home of Major League Baseball’s Milwaukee Brewers.
Jordan Davis had a career-high 13 points and Chucky Hepburn added 11 to help Wisconsin (2-0) win the first college basketball game at a baseball-only facility since a 2015 matchup between San Diego and San Diego State at Petco Park, the home of the San Diego Padres.
Badgers coach Greg Gard had tried for about 15 years to bring a game to the Brewers’ stadium, located about 80 miles east of Wisconsin’s campus. Billed as the ”Brew City Battle,” Friday’s event was part of a doubleheader that started with a women’s basketball game that Kansas State won 77-63 over Wisconsin.
”I had fans grabbing me that I have no idea who they are, as I was walking down to the dugout and stuff, just so excited to be able to be part of this event,” Gard said. ”It turned out better than we probably ever expected or imagined.”
American Family Field has a retractable roof that was closed for Friday’s games. The event had an announced attendance of 17,927 and included a combination of University of Wisconsin and Milwaukee Brewers traditions.
One timeout featured a version of the sausage race that happens in the seventh inning of Brewers home games. Another timeout had Wisconsin fans jumping along to House of Pain’s ”Jump Around,” the same way they do back on campus.
The stadium was reconfigured for basketball by removing the pitcher’s mound and placing the court on the infield. About 400 bleacher seats were placed courtside, there were a few rows of chairs behind each basket and fans also filled portions of the stadium’s permanent stands.
”It was great, looking up in the stands and you see three or four levels filled with red,” Wahl said.
Steven Crowl had nine points and 11 rebounds for Wisconsin.
Brandon Angel scored 14 points to lead Stanford (1-1), which shot just 1 of 16 from 3-point range. Wisconsin was 5 of 20 from beyond the arc.
Wisconsin led 32-20 after a first half in which Stanford missed all nine of its 3-point attempts and had nearly twice as many turnovers (12) as baskets (7).
Stanford cut Wisconsin’s lead to 45-40 with 8:22 left but shot just 2 of 11 from the floor the rest of the way.
”I do think at the end of the day, we’re going to have a fantastic 3-point shooting team and we’ll be a very efficient offensive team,” Stanford coach Jerod Haase said. ”Obviously that wasn’t the case tonight. Certainly Wisconsin gets some credit for how they defended us.”
Michael Jones had nine points for the Cardinal three nights after the Davidson transfer had a career-high 31 in his Stanford debut, an 88-78 victory over Pacific. Maxime Raynaud, who scored 22 against Pacific, had just three points Friday.
Spencer Jones, who led Stanford in scoring last season, had eight points Friday after an injury kept him out of the Pacific game.
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2022-11-12T22:59:09+00:00
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For Russia, it’s been a year of bold charges and bombardments, humiliating retreats and grinding sieges. Ukraine has countered with fierce resistance, surprising counteroffensives and unexpected hit-and-run strikes.
Now, on the anniversary of Russia’s invasion that has killed tens of thousands and reduced cities to ruins, both sides are preparing for a potentially even more disastrous phase that lies ahead.
Russia recently intensified its push to capture all of Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland of the Donbas. Kyiv and its Western allies also say Moscow could try to launch a wider, more ambitious attack elsewhere along the more than 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) front line.
Ukraine is waiting for battle tanks and other new weapons pledged by the West for it to reclaim occupied areas.
What’s nowhere in sight is a settlement.
The Kremlin insists it must include the recognition of the Crimean Peninsula, which it annexed illegally in 2014, along with the acceptance of its other territorial gains. Ukraine categorically rejects those demands and rules out any talks until Russia withdraws all forces.
While Putin is determined to achieve his goals, Ukraine and its allies are standing firm on preventing Russia from ending up with any of its land.
Experts warn that Europe’s largest conflict since World War II could drag on for years, and some fear it could lead to a direct confrontation between Russia and NATO.
NEW OFFENSIVES, NEW OBJECTIVES
In recent months, Russian forces have tried to encircle the Ukrainian stronghold of Bakhmut and push deeper into the Donetsk region. Along with fulfilling its goal of capturing the entire Donbas, Moscow aims to wear down Ukrainian forces and prevent them from starting offensives elsewhere.
Bakhmut has become an important symbol of tenacity for Ukraine, as well as a way to tie up and destroy the most capable Russian forces. Both sides have used up ammunition at a rate unseen in decades.
Ukrainian military analyst Oleh Zhdanov said Russia has poured more troops and weapons into the Donbas and attacked other areas in an apparent bid to distract Ukrainian forces.
“Russia currently has the initiative and the advantage on the battlefield,” he said, noting Kyiv’s acute shortage of ammunition.
Russia has relied on its massive arsenal, and boosted production of weapons and munitions, giving it a significant edge. While Ukrainian and Western intelligence agencies observed that Moscow is running out of precision missiles, it has plenty of old-style weapons.
But even though Ukraine and its allies expect a wider Russian offensive beyond the Donbas, it could be a gamble for Moscow, which mobilized 300,000 reservists last fall to bolster its forces.
Igor Strelkov, a former Russian security officer who led separatist forces in the Donbas when fighting erupted there in 2014, warned that any big offensive could be disastrous for Russia because its preparation would be impossible to conceal and attackers would face a devastating response. He said an offensive would also raise logistical challenges like those that thwarted Russia’s attempt to capture Kyiv at the war’s start.
“Any large-scale offensive will quickly and inevitably entail very big losses, exhausting the resources accumulated during mobilization,” Strelkov warned.
Justin Bronk, a senior research fellow at RUSI in London, predicted any Russian offensive would fail, but said it could drain Ukraine’s resources and keep it from preparing its own large-scale counteroffensive.
“The big question is how much damage does the Russian offensive do before it runs out of steam, because that will dictate the Ukrainian position,” he said, noting that its aim could be to disrupt Kyiv’s ability to stage a counteroffensive.
Bronk said Ukraine spent the winter building up its mechanized brigades that had spearheaded autumn counteroffensives in the Kharkiv and Kherson regions and suffered losses.
He said Ukraine has a window of opportunity of six to eight months to reclaim more land, noting that Russia could launch another mobilization to recruit up to 500,000 more troops who could be readied for combat after at least six months of training.
Zhdanov said Ukraine could launch a new counteroffensive in late April or early May after receiving new Western weapons, including battle tanks. He predicted Ukrainian forces will likely attack from the Zaporizhzhia region to try to reclaim the ports of Mariupol and Berdyansk and cut the Russian corridor to Crimea.
“If Ukraine reaches the Sea of Azov coast, it will nullify all the Russian gains,” Zhdanov said, turning Putin’s victories “to dust.”
STALEMATE IN UKRAINE OR UPHEAVAL IN RUSSIA?
Observers see little prospect for talks. Both sides are “irreconcilable on their current positions,” said Bronk.
Major Ukrainian battlefield successes this summer could fuel “significant political turmoil in Russia, because at that point, Putin’s own position within the leadership becomes very, very difficult to see as tenable,” he said.
At the same time, if Ukraine fails to reclaim more territory before Russia builds up its troops, it could lead to a “long-term stalemate and sort of a grinding attritional war that just kind of goes on and on,” Bronk added, playing into Moscow’s plan “to prolong the war and just wait for the West to get exhausted.”
Fiona Hill, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who served in the past three U.S. administrations, also saw little prospect for a settlement.
“The Russians are digging in for the long haul. They have no intention of losing,” she said. “Putin has made it very clear that he’s prepared to sacrifice whatever it takes. His message there is basically saying you can’t possibly counteract me, because I’m willing to do whatever and I’ve got so much more manpower.”
Hill said Putin is hoping for Western support for Kyiv to dissolve — “that it goes away and that Ukraine is left exposed, and then that Russia can force Ukraine to capitulate and give up on its territory.”
Tatiana Stanovaya of the Carnegie Endowment said Putin continues to believe he can achieve his goals by pressing the campaign.
“For him, the only way he admits it can end is capitulation of Kyiv,” she said.
THE NUCLEAR OPTION
Putin has repeatedly said Russia could use “all available means” to protect its territory, a clear reference to its nuclear arsenal.
Moscow’s nuclear doctrine states that it could use those weapons in response to a nuclear strike or an attack with conventional forces threatening “the very existence of the Russian state,” a formulation that offers broad room for interpretation and abrupt escalation.
Some Russian hawks urged nuclear strikes on Ukrainian bridges and other key infrastructure to force Kyiv and its allies to accept Moscow’s terms.
Bronk said he doesn’t expect Russia to resort to that, arguing it would backfire.
“Actually using them generates almost no practical benefits at all and certainly nothing to compensate for all of the costs, both in terms of immediate escalation risk — irradiating things they want to hold on to and be part of — and also pushing away the rest of the world,” he said.
It would be certain to anger China, which doesn’t want the nuclear taboo broken, he added.
Hill also noted that Russia got some pushback from China and India, who were worried about Putin’s nuclear saber-rattling. She added that Putin sees nuclear threats as a powerful political tool and will keep issuing them in the hope of forcing the West to withdraw support for Ukraine.
“Putin’s just hoping that everybody’s going to blink,” she said. “He’s not going to give up the idea that he could use a battlefield tactical nuclear weapon.”
But Hill added: “If he thought he would get the results that he wanted from it, he would use it.”
Stanovaya, who has long followed Kremlin decision-making, also said Putin’s nuclear threat is no bluff.
If he sees that Ukraine can attack in a way that threatens Russian territory and lead to Moscow’s defeat, “I think he would be ready to use nuclear weapons in a way that he can show that it’s a question of survival for Russia,” she said.
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Danica Kirka in London, Andrew Katell in New York and Yuras Karmanau in Tallinn, Estonia, contributed to this report.
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2023-02-23T13:35:44+00:00
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https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-in-russia-ukraine-war-more-disastrous-path-could-lie-ahead/
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Longtime director of Marquette's Les Aspin program accused of sexually harassing students
The longtime director of a Marquette University program based in Washington, D.C.. is under investigation for alleged sexual harassment of students.
The university's Title IX office is looking into allegations lodged last year by at least two students against the Rev. Timothy O'Brien. The allegations were first reported by The Marquette Wire, the university's student news organization.
"All I want is for students to be safe," one of the complainants, junior Amanda Schmidt, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "I don't want any student to have to go through what I have gone through. Marquette should have stepped in sooner to protect students. All I'm asking for is that Father O'Brien is held accountable for his actions and Marquette staff who supported him are held accountable for failing to protect students."
O'Brien told the Journal Sentinel on Sunday that he emphatically denied the allegations. He declined to comment further, citing the ongoing investigation.
O'Brien is credited with creating the Les Aspin Center, one of the first congressional internship programs of its kind. More than 3,000 students have participated since 1988, spending a semester or summer living in the "O'Brien House" a couple blocks from the Capitol, taking political science classes and interning somewhere that suits their interests. This year marks the center's 35th anniversary.
Marquette hailed O'Brien as a "pioneer" and "founding father" in a 2020 story that described the priest's ability to connect with students on a personal level and noted his fundraising prowess, which helps keep the program open to students from all economic backgrounds.
Student David Chrisbaum read the story before heading to D.C. in January 2022. He told the Journal Sentinel he "was so excited to meet this man. But we didn’t meet that man. We met someone completely different."
During a one-on-one conversation early in the semester in the priest's living room, Chrisbaum said, O'Brien asked him if he was gay. The question struck Chrisbaum as strange and uncomfortable but not necessarily sexual harassment.
As Chrisbaum's semester progressed, however, he said O'Brien made a series of sexual and racist comments, such as talking about the genitalia of a previous student O'Brien mentored and referring to an Arab woman on campus as “Saddam Hussein” in a joking manner. He said he heard from other students who said they were also uncomfortable with O'Brien's remarks.
Chrisbaum, now a senior, said he filed an HR and Title IX complaint last May alongside another student who said they had experienced sexual harassment at the Les Aspin Center in a previous semester.
"My entire intention was to protect future students because I didn’t want them to experience anything remote to what I did," Chrisbaum said.
A few months after Chrisbaum filed his complaint, O'Brien announced his plan to retire at the end of this school year. He has been on medical leave since early last November, Marquette spokesperson Monica MacKay said.
O'Brien said his doctor recommended medical disability leave due to ongoing complications from a recent accident.
Later in November, Schmidt said O'Brien walked up behind her during an alumni event, slid his hand down her back and rested his hand on top of her butt for two to three minutes as he talked with others in the group around her.
Schmidt filed a Title IX complaint after the Nov. 15 incident and said she was assured by the office's director that O'Brien wouldn't attend any more Les Aspin events. That didn't happen, Schmidt said. He appeared at two other events.
When Schmidt followed up with the office, the Title IX director said she was advising O'Brien to "not only stay away from university-related events but also to avoid contact with all students."
O'Brien is no longer teaching or participating in events related to the center but still has access to the residence, MacKay said. She said the Title IX reporting process is confidential and every complaint is fully investigated.
In December, O’Brien requested a delay in the Title IX process due to his leave, the Marquette Wire reported. He requested another delay early this year, pushing Chrisbaum’s and Schmidt’s hearings to May.
O'Brien retires June 30. A search is underway for his successor.
Contact Kelly Meyerhofer at kmeyerhofer@gannett.com. Follow her on Twitter at @KellyMeyerhofer.
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2023-03-13T12:16:51+00:00
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jsonline.com
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https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/education/2023/03/13/marquettes-les-aspin-director-under-investigation-for-sexual-harassment/69983292007/
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Mother of Kentucky man killed decades ago pleads for answers in cold case
MOREHEAD, Ky. (WKYT) - Tuesday marks 22 years since Gary Lee Adkins Jr. was pronounced dead after an apparent hit and run.
Police say it happened when he was walking on West Main Street in Morehead in the early hours of May 1, 2001.
Gary’s mother, Theresa Colson, tells us, as far as she knows, he didn’t have any enemies. She says he was a happy-go-lucky guy who was always trying to brighten peoples’ days. She says it’s hard to fathom that 22 years have gone by and nobody has come forward with information about his death.
“You’re not supposed to bury your son. You’re not supposed to bury your children,” said Colson.
Colson says Gary got up and went for a walk and, soon after, a woman driving along west main street saw him lying on the steps of a church seriously hurt and called 911.
“His right shoulder was broke. His left hip was broke, but the back of his skull was crushed,” said Colson.
Morehead police say he was hit and killed by an unknown vehicle. However, Colson says she’s not sure if this is what truly happened to her son.
“Was he beaten with a baseball bat? How was he found on the church steps? That part, I don’t understand,” said Colson.
Colson also says Gary’s shirt, shoes and hat were found on the side of the church building.
“Somebody knows something. They have to know something,” said Colson.
Just last week, Colson says Morehead police called her to tell her they’re putting out a new call for answers. She says she hopes this time might just be the time someone steps up.
“I just wish that someone would tell me what happened to my baby,” said Colson.
The Morehead Police Department is asking anyone who may have information about what happened to contact Detective Caudill at 606-784-7511 or email ecaudill@cityofmorehead.net.
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2023-05-02T19:46:18+00:00
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wymt.com
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https://www.wymt.com/2023/05/02/mother-kentucky-man-killed-decades-ago-pleads-answers-cold-case/
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‘I’m trying to keep everyone walking’: 102-year-old leads exercise class 4 times a week
OMAHA, Neb. (KETV) – A 102-year-old woman in Nebraska is living proof that your age can’t keep you from staying in shape.
Jean Bailey is all business as she leads her exercise class at Elk Ridge Assisted Living Center in Elkhorn.
When it comes to health, Bailey doesn’t just talk the talk.
“It’s a half-hour exercise that does your whole body,” she said.
Bailey coaches her neighbors four times a week.
“I just think it’s so important to keep your body busy as well as your mind; it’s very important to keep your mind occupied,” she said.
Bob Howell is one of her students.
“It’s good for us. We need that,” he said.
Bailey said she also needs the exercise.
“I’m trying to keep everyone walking and to be able to be on their own,” she said.
Even at her age, Bailey said she isn’t done just yet and plans to keep coaching as she lives her life to the fullest.
“God lets you stay around like this, and I’m not sure why, so there’s things I must have to do yet,” she said.
Copyright 2023 KETV via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.
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2023-02-12T18:06:15+00:00
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https://www.wagmtv.com/2023/02/12/im-trying-keep-everyone-walking-102-year-old-leads-exercise-class-4-times-week/
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‘Owen was in the best hands’: Newborn baby receives world’s first partial heart transplant
DURHAM, N.C. (WECT/Gray News) - A newborn baby in North Carolina received the first known partial heart transplant.
According to Duke Health, living arteries and valves from a donated heart were fused into a baby’s heart on April 22.
Duke officials said the surgery was performed on Owen Monroe, a 5-pound newborn.
“As harrowing of an experience as it was for our family, we knew from the beginning that Owen was in the best hands,” said Nick Monroe, Owen’s father.
WECT reports Owen’s family is from Leland, North Carolina, but the baby was born at Duke after his parents learned that he had a condition called truncus arteriosus, in which his two main heart arteries were fused together.
Duke Health said one of Monroe’s vessels was also equipped with a leaky valve, making it unlikely he could survive the wait for a full heart transplant.
According to the medical team, this scenario usually calls for preserved cadaver arteries with valves, but the non-living tissue requires repeated open-heart surgeries to be replaced as the person grows up. But by transplanting living tissue, the heart will grow over time as usual without needing those follow-up surgeries.
A partial transplant reportedly allows for portions of a heart to be used that would otherwise not be viable for a full transplant.
“Our greatest hope is that Owen’s success story will change the way organ donation and transplants are handled not only for congenital heart disease babies but for all patients,” Nick Monroe said.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (WDAF) — The Jonas Brothers broke the news Monday that they planned to appear at the 2023 NFL Draft in Kansas City — but some NFL fans may be wondering just what the former Disney stars were doing there.
Turns out, “the Jo Bros” picked the event to drop their new single “Celebrate,” in addition to “celebrating” players who were drafted.
The Grammy-winning group joined host Rece Davis, along with “College GameDay” analysts Kirk Herbstreit and Desmond Howard.
“Congrats to all of the players at the @nfldraft tonight!” the band wrote on Instagram.
The new Jonas Brothers record, simply called “The Album,” will be available next month.
Kevin, Nick and Joe Jonas just wrapped five shows at the Marquis Theatre on Broadway last month. Each night focused on a different Jonas album, including “Jonas Brothers,” “A Little Bit Longer,” “Lines, Vines and Trying Times,” and “Happiness Begins.”
Three other concerts will follow the Jonas Brothers appearance at the Draft this weekend.
Fall Out Boy took the stage after the final draft pick Thursday night. Friday night, Mötley Crüe headlines the concert after Round 3. Thundercat will wrap up NFL Draft weekend Saturday evening.
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2023-04-29T01:42:24+00:00
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https://www.ktalnews.com/news/u-s-world/nfl-draft-2023-why-were-the-jonas-brothers-there/
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Owen Bentley went nine of 15 from the line in his 23 points as Gloucester Tech rallied to win, 60-59, over Cumberland in Sewell.
Trent Phillips was three of four from the line in his 13 points while Carl Schmidt added 10 points for Gloucester Tech (3-8), which trailed 30-23 at halftime and went on a 19-10 run in the fourth quarter to win.
Ethan Turner led everyone with 26 points while Lukas Weist posted 15 more for Cumberland (4-5).
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2023-01-12T02:23:31+00:00
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nj.com
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Presidents Day is officially known by many different names across the country
Is Monday really Presidents Day? Your answer may vary.
Is Monday really Presidents Day? Your answer may vary.
Is Monday really Presidents Day? Your answer may vary.
Your calendar says it. Car commercials and mattress ads say it. But is it true?
Is it Presidents Day? In much of the country, the answer is no.
Federal Holiday
The federal holiday is officially called Washington's Birthday and was created in 1879.
It originally was celebrated on Feb. 22, the day George Washington was born. (Well, even that may not technically be true, but that's another story.)
In 1970, the holiday was moved to always fall on the third Monday in February, regardless of the calendar date.
State Holidays
Most states also celebrate the third Monday in February with their own state holiday. What they call it varies from state to state.
About half the states call the holiday Presidents Day. Nevada, New Jersey and Oregon don't use apostrophes. More than a dozen do, but they don't agree on exactly where that apostrophe goes, before or after the s.
Other states, like Virginia, Massachusetts, and Iowa, honor just George Washington on the day.
Montana, Colorado, Ohio, Utah, and Minnesota have named the day some variation of Washington and Lincoln's Birthday, honoring both presidents.
Alabama calls the holiday George Washington and Thomas Jefferson's Birthday. Arkansas honors both Washington and Daisy Bates, a journalist and civil rights activist, on the day.
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- 31st annual Global Business Aviation Outlook projects 8,500 new business jet deliveries valued at $274 billion over the next decade.
- Projected business jet deliveries, expenditures over the next decade surge 15% from last year's survey.
- Business jet usage in 2022 is expected to be 9% higher than a year ago.
- Operators report far greater interest in reducing their carbon footprints.
ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Honeywell's (NASDAQ: HON) 31st annual Global Business Aviation Outlook forecasts up to 8,500 new business jet deliveries worth $274 billion from 2023 to 2032, which is up 15% in both deliveries and expenditures from the same 10-year forecast a year ago. This year, surveyed operators reported new jet purchase plans on par with 2019 levels, with fleet addition rates doubling from last year's reported intentions. Respondents' feedback in this year's survey aligns with industry reports of sold-out business jet production lines for the next several years.
"The business aviation industry is greatly benefitting from a wave of first-time users and buyers due in part to changing habits brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic," said Honeywell Aerospace President, Americas Aftermarket, Heath Patrick. "The business aviation sector is expected to recover to 2019 delivery and expenditure levels by 2023, which is much sooner than previously anticipated. Demand for new business jets is as high as we've seen it since 2015, and we expect high levels of demand and expenditures for new aircraft for several more years."
Key findings in the 2022 Honeywell Global Business Aviation Outlook include:
- New business jet deliveries in 2023 are expected to be 17% higher than in 2022. Expenditures are expected to be 20% higher.
- Five-year purchase plans for new business jets are up three percentage points compared with last year's survey; this reaches 2019 levels and is equivalent to 17% of the current fleet.
- Fleet additions are up for the second year in a row, doubling 2021's rate and topping 2% of the fleet.
- New jet deliveries and expenditures over the next decade are projected to grow at a 2% average annual rate, in line with expected worldwide long-term economic growth.
- One-third of those surveyed expect to fly more in 2023 versus 2022; 64% expect to fly at least the same amount, and just 4% expect to fly less.
- Large, long-range aircraft classes are expected to account for more than 70% of all expenditures of new business jets in the next five years.
- Just 2% of surveyed operators plan to dispose of an aircraft without replacement, which is half the rate gleaned in 2021.
- Five-year purchase plans for used jets remain high, totaling 28% of the current fleet and on par with last year's results. High demand for used jets will keep pressuring the already low inventory of jets available for sale.
The business aviation industry is benefitting from waves of first-time private aviation users and buyers, which is likely attributed to COVID-19. At times in 2022, flight activity met levels not seen since 2007, which was the busiest year ever for business aviation. Concerns about exposure to pathogens and the reduction of premium class airline services helped drive recent growth in business and private aviation. The 2022 Honeywell survey sampled first-time business aircraft owners who have made their purchases since 2020 and operators who are capturing first-time private aviation users.
- Nearly 74% of surveyed new users of private aviation expect to keep the same level of flying in 2023 as they did in 2022, which is 10 percentage points above the whole fleet average. Only 4% expect to fly less in 2023.
- Nearly 85% of first-time users operate in the Americas.
- Within the Americas, 80% of first-time buyers operate in the United States; the rest mostly operate in Brazil.
- Business turboprops and small cabin jets each make up 35% of the fleet carrying these new users, followed by medium jets (18%) and large long-range jets.
Honeywell is committed to reaching carbon neutrality by 2035 in its operations and facilities and to driving aviation sustainability with a wide range of ready-now solutions that will support a more sustainable future for the sector. This year's survey features a dedicated section on operators' current and future plans to reduce their carbon footprint during operations.
- Half of this year's surveyed operators report currently implementing at least one method to reduce their carbon footprint, which is 30 percentage points above last year's survey.
- The most frequently mentioned current method to reduce carbon footprint is "fewer or slower private jet trips" (20%), followed by "increasing passenger capacity" (17%).
- Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) is the third-most mentioned current method to reduce carbon footprint (14%); however, operators cite challenges with SAF availability.
- More than 60% of operators plan to either adopt or increase methods for more environmentally friendly operations in the future, and 37% cite SAF as the most common way to achieve this goal.
- The survey asked the remaining 40% what would compel them to adopt any methods to address sustainability in the future, and 57% of these operators cited economic incentives such as tax benefits or operating cost savings.
The Global Business Aviation Outlook reflects current operator concerns and identifies longer-cycle trends that Honeywell uses in its own product decision process. The survey has helped identify opportunities for investments in sustainability solutions, has expanded propulsion offerings, innovative safety products, services and upgrades and has enhanced aircraft connectivity offerings. The survey informs Honeywell's business pursuit strategy and helps consistently position the company on high-value platforms in growth sectors.
Honeywell's forecast methodology is based on multiple sources, including macroeconomic analyses, original equipment manufacturers' production and development plans shared with the company, and expert deliberations from aerospace industry leaders. Honeywell also uses information gathered from interviews conducted during the forecasting cycle with 152 nonfractional business jet operators worldwide. The survey sample is representative of the entire industry in terms of geography, operation and fleet composition. This comprehensive approach provides Honeywell with unique insights into operator sentiments, preferences and concerns and provides considerable insight into product development needs and opportunities.
Honeywell Aerospace products and services are found on virtually every commercial, defense and space aircraft. The Aerospace business unit builds aircraft engines, cockpit and cabin electronics, wireless connectivity systems, mechanical components and more. Its hardware and software solutions create more fuel-efficient aircraft, more direct and on-time flights and safer skies and airports. For more information, visit www.honeywell.com or follow us at @Honeywell_Aero.
Honeywell (www.honeywell.com) is a Fortune 100 technology company that delivers industry specific solutions that include aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings and industry; and performance materials globally. Our technologies help aircraft, buildings, manufacturing plants, supply chains and workers become more connected to make our world smarter, safer and more sustainable. For more news and information on Honeywell, please visit www.honeywell.com/newsroom.
This release contains certain statements that may be deemed "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, that address activities, events or developments that we or our management intends, expects, projects, believes or anticipates will or may occur in the future are forward-looking statements. Such statements are based upon certain assumptions and assessments made by our management in light of their experience and their perception of historical trends, current economic and industry conditions, expected future developments and other factors they believe to be appropriate. The forward-looking statements included in this release are also subject to a number of material risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to economic, competitive, governmental and technological factors affecting our operations, markets, products, services and prices. Such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance, and actual results, developments and business decisions may differ from those envisaged by such forward-looking statements. We identify the principal risks and uncertainties that affect our performance in our Form 10-K and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Carvana Co. ("Carvana" or the "Company") (NYSE: CVNA) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Carvana investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud between May 6, 2020 and June 24, 2022. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
CVNA investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (1) Carvana faced serious, ongoing issues with documentation, registration, and title with many of its vehicles; (2) as a result, Carvana was issuing unusually frequent temporary plates; (3) as a result of the foregoing, Carvana was violating laws and regulations in many existing markets; (4) as a result of the foregoing, Carvana risked its ability to continue business and/or expand its business in existing markets; (5) as a result of the foregoing, Carvana was at an increased risk of governmental investigation and action; (6) Carvana was in discussion with state and local authorities regarding the above-stated business tactics and issues; (7) Carvana was facing imminent and ongoing regulatory actions including license suspensions, business cessation, and probation in several states and counties including in Arizona, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and North Carolina; and (8) as a result, Defendants' statements about Carvana's business, operations, and prospects, were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Carvana during the relevant time frame, you have until October 3, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief and representatives from Western nations berated Russia’s top diplomat as he chaired a U.N. meeting Monday, accusing Moscow of violating the U.N. Charter by attacking Ukraine and occupying part of its territory.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov responded by defending his country’s military action and accusing the U.S. and its allies of undercutting global diplomacy, the foundation of the United Nations, which was created to prevent a third world war.
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called cooperation among the U.N.’s 193 member nations the organization’s “beating heart” and “guiding vision,” and he warned the Security Council that global collaboration is under the greatest strain since the creation of the United Nations in 1945 on the ashes of World War II.
Tensions between major powers are at a “historic high” and so are the risks of conflict “through misadventure or miscalculation,” he said, pointing first and foremost to the war in Ukraine.
The U.N. secretary-general and the ambassadors of the U.S., Britain, France and their allies all pointed to the U.N. Charter’s underlying principle requiring all countries to support the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of every nation — which Russia violated by invading its smaller neighbor on Feb. 24, 2022, and illegally annexing several regions.
Russia convened the ministerial meeting on making “multilateralism” — when countries work together — more effective through the defense of the U.N. Charter, calling it the high point of its month-long presidency of the Security Council. It has been the most contentious presidency in the memory of longtime U.N. diplomats and officials, and Monday’s meeting added to the antagonism.
U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield called Russia a “hypocritical convener” of the meeting whose “illegal, unprovoked and unnecessary” war in Ukraine “struck at the heart of the U.N. Charter and all that we hold dear.”
Britain’s U.N. Ambassador Barbara Woodward said the world has seen “what Russia’s idea of multilateralism means for the world” — the trampling of the U.N. Charter and a war that has brought unimaginable suffering to Ukraine and been “an unmitigated disaster for Russia, too.”
The 27-member European Union called Russia’s attempt to portray itself as a defender of the U.N. Charter and multilateralism “cynical,” saying it is “in contempt” not only of the U.N. Charter but U.N. General Assembly resolutions demanding the withdrawal of Russian forces.
But Lavrov defended what Moscow calls its “special military operation,” reiterating accusations that Ukraine was promoting “Nazi practices” and banning the Russian language and culture, and NATO was planning to expand into Ukraine. He stressed, however, that “it’s not all about Ukraine” but what he called the West’s plans to leverage the Ukrainian government in the hope of weakening Russia.
“We cannot consider the Ukrainian issue separately from the geopolitical context,” Lavrov said. “It’s about how international relations will continue to be shaped through the establishment of a sound consensus on the basis of balance of interests, or through aggressive and volatile advancement of Washington’s hegemony.”
Lavrov strongly criticized NATO members’ activities in the Western Pacific, specifically the alliance between Australia, Britain and the U.S., and also strengthening U.S. ties with Japan, South Korea and a number of Southeast Asian countries.
The Russian minister stressed that multilateralism is a key part of the U.N. Charter and accused the United States and its allies of “destroying globalization” despite touting its benefits.
Lavrov said the West is promoting a “rules-based order” where nobody has seen the rules and which bars access to modern technologies and financial services to punish countries it disagrees with. The West has imposed a series of economic sanctions on Russia in response to the invasion of Ukraine.
“Let’s call a spade a spade. Nobody allowed the Western minority to speak on behalf of all humankind,” he said.
Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador, told the council that Russia’s actions during the 14-month war show that the invasion of Ukraine isn’t an isolated incident.
“This does not just concern Ukraine or Europe,” she said. “It concerns all of us. Because today it’s Ukraine, But tomorrow it could be another country, another small nation that is invaded by its larger neighbor.”
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2023-04-25T01:44:50+00:00
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Updated July 25, 2023 at 1:29 PM ET
A federal judge has blocked the Biden administration's new rules for asylum-seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border.
U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar in Oakland, Calif., found the rules unlawful because they impose conditions on asylum-seekers that Congress did not intend.
Tigar stayed his own ruling for 14 days, giving the Biden administration a chance to appeal before it takes effect.
The asylum rules, which took effect in May, make it harder for migrants to get asylum if they cross the border illegally after passing through Mexico or another country without seeking protection there first.
Tigar wrote that "noncitizens who enter between ports of entry, using a manner of entry that Congress expressly intended should not affect access to asylum."
The judge's decision was not unexpected. At a hearing last week, Tigar joked that he heard somewhere that "2023 was going to be a big year for sequels." Tigar blocked a similar policy during the Trump administration, and immigrant advocates had urged him to do the same in this case.
At a hearing last week, a lawyer for the Justice Department argued that the Biden administration's policy is different from the Trump-era version, in part because it's paired with new legal pathways for migrants seeking protection.
The number of migrants crossing the border illegally dropped sharply in May and June, after the new rule took effect. The Biden administration says the decline is due in part to the new asylum rules — along with a mobile app called CBP One, which migrants can use to schedule interviews at official ports of entry, the first step toward filing a claim for asylum.
The Biden administration's border policies have also been challenged in court by Republican-led states. They argue that immigration authorities are releasing too many migrants into the country to pursue their asylum claims.
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MIAMI (AP) — Donald Trump is expected to become Tuesday the first former president to face a judge on federal charges as the city of Miami prepared for possible protests by crowds that officials said could number in the thousands.
Security was tight outside the federal courthouse ahead of Trump’s history-making court appearance but there were no major disruptions as the morning unfolded.
Trump approached his arraignment with characteristic bravado, insisting as he has through years of legal woes that he has done nothing wrong and was being persecuted for political purposes. But the gravity of the moment was unmistakable as he answers to 37 felony counts that accuse him of willfully retaining classified records that prosecutors say could have jeopardized national security if exposed, then trying to hide them from investigators who demanded them back.
The case is laden with political implications for Trump, who currently holds the dominant spot in the early days of the 2024 Republican presidential primary. But it also poses profound legal consequences given the prospect of a years-long prison sentence. Even for a defendant whose post-presidential life has been dominated by investigations, the documents probe has stood out for both the apparent volume of evidence amassed by prosecutors and the severity of the allegations.
It’s also a watershed moment for a Justice Department that until last week had never before brought charges against a former president. Attorney General Merrick Garland, an appointee of President Joe Biden, sought to insulate the department from political attacks by handing ownership of the case last year to a special counsel, Jack Smith, who on Friday declared, “We have one set of laws in this country, and they apply to everyone.”
The arraignment, though largely procedural in nature, is the latest in an unprecedented public reckoning this year for Trump, who faces charges in New York arising from hush money payments during his 2016 presidential campaign as well as ongoing investigations in Washington and Atlanta into efforts to undo the results of the 2020 race. He’s sought to project confidence in the face of unmistakable legal peril, attacking Smith as “a Trump hater,” pledging to stay in the race and scheduling a speech and fundraiser for Tuesday night at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club.
“They’re using this because they can’t win the election fairly and squarely,” Trump said Monday in an interview with Americano Media.
The court appearance is also unfolding against the backdrop of potential protests. Some high-profile backers have used barbed rhetoric to voice support. Trump himself has encouraged supporters to join a planned protest Tuesday at the Miami courthouse, where he is expected to surrender to authorities.
Trump is not expected to be subjected to a mugshot, according to a person familiar with the situation. Generally, Justice Department agencies, like the FBI and U.S. Marshals Service, take a booking photo as part of the arrest process and the photo is uploaded into a shared law enforcement database.
Some Trump supporters were also planning to load buses to head to Miami from other parts of Florida, raising concerns for law enforcement officials who are preparing for possible unrest around the courthouse. Miami Mayor Francis Suarez said the city would be ready, and police chief Manuel A. Morales said downtown could see anywhere from a few thousand up to 50,000 protesters.
Among those who arrived early Tuesday were the father-son duo of Florencio and Kevin Rodriguez, who came to the U.S. fifteen years ago as asylum seekers fleeing dictatorship in Cuba.
Wearing a shirt that reads “Jesus is my savior, Trump my president,” the younger Rodriguez, Kevin, said it was possible Trump was guilty of illegally retaining classified documents. But he questioned the fairness of the proceedings in light of other classified information probes concerning Democrats, including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Joe Biden.
Clinton was not charged for sending classified information on a private email server after FBI investigators concluded that she had not intended to break the law. The Biden investigation remains open, but no evidence has emerged to suggest he acted willfully — a core claim in the Trump indictment.
“We never abandon our amigos — those who love this country and our liberty,” Rodriguez added, highlighting Trump’s staunch opposition to Cuba’s communist government.
Unlike in the New York case, where photographers produced images of a somber-faced Trump at the courtroom defense table, the public’s view will limited. Cameras are generally not permitted in federal courts, and a judge Monday night barred reporters from having phones inside the building.
A federal grand jury in Washington had heard testimony for months in the documents case, but the Justice Department filed it in Florida, where Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort is located and where many of the alleged acts of obstruction occurred. Though Trump is set to appear Tuesday before a federal magistrate, the case has been assigned to a District Court judge he appointed, Aileen Cannon, who ruled in his favor last year in a dispute over whether an outside special master could be appointed to review the seized classified documents. A federal appeals panel ultimately overturned her ruling.
It’s unclear what defenses Trump is likely to cite as the case moves forward. Two of his lead lawyers announced their resignation on the morning after his indictment, and the notes and recollections of another attorney, M. Evan Corcoran, are cited repeatedly throughout the 49-page charging document, suggesting prosecutors envision him as a potential key witness.
Trump has said he’s looking to add to his legal team though no announcements were made Monday. He was expected to be represented at his arraignment by Todd Blanche, an attorney also defending him in the New York case, and Florida lawyer Chris Kise, who joined Trump’s stable of attorneys last year. Under the rules of the district, defendants are required to have a local lawyer for an arraignment to proceed.
The Justice Department unsealed Friday an indictment charging Trump with 37 felony counts, 31 relating to the willful retention of national defense information. Other charges include conspiracy to commit obstruction and false statements.
The indictment alleges Trump intentionally retained hundreds of classified documents that he took with him from the White House to Mar-a-Lago after leaving the presidency in January 2021. The material he stored, including in a bathroom, ballroom, bedroom and shower, included material on nuclear programs, defense and weapons capabilities of the U.S. and foreign governments and a Pentagon “attack plan,” the indictment says. The information, if exposed, could have put at risk members of the military, confidential human sources and intelligence collection methods, prosecutors said.
Beyond that, prosecutors say, he sought to obstruct government efforts to recover the documents, including by directing personal aide Walt Nauta — who was charged alongside Trump — to move boxes to conceal them and also suggesting to his own lawyer that he hide or destroy documents sought by a Justice Department subpoena.
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Sen. Amy Klobuchar continues to push bill to lower prescription costs
ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – Sen. Amy Klobuchar (DFL-MN) was joined virtually by health leaders and advocate groups Friday to highlight her bill that aims to reduce prescription drug costs.
David Mitchell, President and Founder of Patients for Affordable Drugs (P4AD) and Steffany Stern, Vice President of Advocacy at the National MS Society expressed their support for the bill in the news conference.
Klobuchar said prescription drug prices in the U.S. are more than 250% higher than in other countries.
The bill includes provisions to end expensive, unpredictable medication prices, puts limits on out-of-pocket costs at $2,000 for Medicare Part D beneficiaries and caps insulin co-pays at $35 a month.
“Passing this legislation is going to reduce spending for millions of patients,” Klobuchar said. “I believe we are going to finally get something done on this. This is major game changer when it comes to pharmaceuticals. We have finally built the political support to bring costs down for Americans.”
Mayo Clinic physician Dr. Vincent Rajkumar is an oncologist and hematologist that also has experience with drug trials and research.
He said capping co-pays and medication costs is a modest, but good start.
“Every new drug is expensive,” Dr. Rajkumar said. “Every new cancer drug since 2017 is more than $100,000 a year. The truth is that there are very few allies. There are very people that speak up. Patients’ voices are silenced. Many, many organizations get funding from Pharma and are silent. So we really need the public on our side.”
The bill reportedly has support from AARP, Democrats and President Joe Biden.
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2022-07-22T23:44:25+00:00
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After nearly four years of lawsuits, court decisions and recriminations between Larimer County and Thornton over the city’s efforts to pipe water from the Cache la Poudre River to fuel future growth, Colorado’s home builders are now weighing in with a warning that the ongoing standoff risks worsening the state’s affordable housing crisis.
In a letter sent to Larimer County officials on Oct. 31, the Home Builders Association of Metro Denver and the Colorado Association of Home Builders wrote that the county’s February 2019 denial of a permit for a portion of a 72-mile pipeline Thornton needs to move its Poudre River shares continues to reverberate.
“The ongoing delays associated with Larimer County’s denial and refusal to work something out with Thornton are only increasing these costs and adding needless delays — carelessly pricing thousands of aspiring homeowners in Colorado out of the market in the process,” the letter reads.
According to the National Association of Home Builders, the letter said, a $1,000 increase in the cost of a median-cost new home bumps more than 2,300 Colorado households out of the market.
Thornton says without its Poudre water shares, its growth will grind to a halt before 2030 at a population of 160,000. It has long-term plans for 240,000 residents but available water for only another 5,000 housing permits.
“We could add another 90,000 people and we have the resources to do it, but we just don’t have access to the resources,” said Jason O’Shea, Thornton’s development director. “Five to six years from now, we won’t have permits to sell.”
But Gary Wockner, director of the non-profit Save The Poudre, accused the home builders last week of “spewing false information.” Wockner and others who have spent the last few years fighting the $423 million pipeline say Thornton could easily send its water down the Poudre to a point much closer to the city, like Windsor, before taking it out.
That would bolster the health of the river and spare county residents the disruption of laying a 42-inch diameter pipe through neighborhoods, he said. Had it done so, Wockner argued, “Thornton would not have even needed a permit in Larimer County and Thornton would’ve had its water 10 years ago.”
The city counters that sending its water down the Poudre through Fort Collins — shares it purchased 40 years ago — would degrade its quality to an unacceptable level.
So far, Thornton has been unable to get the relief it wants in the courts. A Larimer County judge upheld the county’s decision to deny the pipeline permit and that ruling was affirmed by the Colorado Court of Appeals in September.
Thornton recently announced that it won’t seek a ruling from the state’s high court, opting instead to try and negotiate a resolution with Larimer County.
More people, less water
Clarke Carlson, vice president of Carlson Associates, has been building homes in Thornton for more than 30 years, including the Cherrywood Park and Fallbrook Farm neighborhoods. His company has around five projects, covering 600 to 700 acres, going through the entitlement process with the city.
“It is beginning to cause a big concern among developers and builders in the city,” he said of the water standoff. “We’re at risk. Without water, you don’t have anything.”
That premise is nothing new for Colorado, which has seen its share of water fights over the decades. But now those disputes are playing out amid a severe drought that has persisted for 20 years, and as millions more people have moved to the American West since the turn of the millennium.
Last week, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation issued a report that found that conditions on the Colorado River are deteriorating faster than anticipated, and federal officials are considering whether to release less water next year from the country’s two largest reservoirs downstream to Arizona, California and Nevada.
That has put a spotlight on big water storage projects like the expansion of Gross Reservoir, southwest of Boulder, which draws water from the headwaters of the Colorado River in Grand County through the Moffat Tunnel to serve Denver Water’s 1.5 million customers.
It was only a year ago that Boulder County officials, who oppose raising the height of the Gross Dam to store an additional 120,000 acre-feet of water, settled a lawsuit with Denver Water that will allow the project to go forward.
Earlier this year, Douglas County made headlines — and drew criticism — with a plan to explore buying and moving 22,000 acre-feet of water from the San Luis Valley 200 miles away to the fast-growing county south of Denver.
But Carlson said the battle between Thornton and Larimer County is different, because Thornton lawfully bought its water rights decades ago in anticipation of rapid growth, only to find itself unable to access those rights.
Still, he holds out hope that the city and county will come to an agreement. He points to the $825 million Southern Delivery System, a pipeline that started moving water to Colorado Springs from the Arkansas River in Pueblo six years ago, as an example of much-needed regional cooperation.
“I believe that as elected leaders exercise their judgment and wisdom, that resolution will be obtained,” Carlson said.
Chad Murphy, managing director of real estate development company Hines, also hopes cooler heads prevail. Hines purchased 765 acres in Thornton four years ago for a 4,000-unit mixed-use project dubbed Parterre, which Murphy hopes to break ground on soon.
“On the Front Range, water availability is the most critical — and effectively the first — entitlement for development to occur,” Murphy said. “Municipalities must work cooperatively to allow for growth to continue or else the Colorado economy will suffer.”
Colorado remains 127,000 homes and apartments short of what is needed to comfortably house its population, ratcheting up home prices into the stratosphere. In a recent study of home prices, metro Denver ranked 10th among 187 metros with an average gain in home prices of $94 a day from 2011 to 2021 — as the price for a home shot up from $231,400 to $607,100.
Morgan Cullen, government affairs director for the Home Builders Association of Metro Denver, said denying water to a fast-growing city like Thornton, which is projected to overtake Lakewood as Colorado’s fifth-largest city in the coming years, will only make it harder for people to buy a home here.
“We have a housing attainability crisis,” Cullen said. “Thornton is a key piece of the housing attainability puzzle here in metro Denver. If we’re going to tackle this issue, which is at a breaking point right now, we have to provide more housing — it’s as simple as that.”
Entrenched positions
But what isn’t simple is getting to a resolution in the long-standing dispute, which has cost Thornton nearly $3.5 million to date in both planning and legal bills.
Thornton has drawn a red line on sending its water down the Poudre through Fort Collins. In a letter written last month, City Manager Kevin Woods said “multiple courts have made it clear that Thornton cannot be required or expected to put its drinking water down the Cache La Poudre River and Thornton is unwilling to revisit that proposed solution.”
But the city wants to keep talking with Larimer County, he said. County spokeswoman Michelle Bird said her side is ready to listen.
“As of today, Thornton has not submitted a new application for a 1041 permit for its project,” she said, referring to the land use permit that big infrastructure projects are required to obtain. “Any talks between the County and Thornton would need to be happening at the staff level and only related to processing a 1041 permit application.”
Meanwhile, Thornton could see a big source of revenue dry up after 2028 if no additional water can be obtained and home-building stops in the city of 145,000. O’Shea, the city’s development director, said Thornton expects to collect approximately $170 million in water connection fees and $60 million in building permit fees over the next five years.
But, he said, the damage from the water fight could hit earlier, with builders hesitant to “either start or continue to spend money to go through the development process, which from pre-application to building permit can take several years.”
“When we can’t give them certainty, that gives pause to people who want to invest in the city,” O’Shea said.
But Karen Wagner, a former Larimer County commissioner who heads the No Pipe Dream group opposing Thornton’s plan, isn’t buying it.
“Thornton can rant about its ‘red line,’ but the Larimer County commissioners are charged with protecting residents’ property values and ensuring that 1041 projects benefit Larimer County, not just the applicant,” she said. “No Pipe Dream will be there when Thornton returns.”
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‘Instant family’: Couple welcomes son, daughter within days and in different states
TRUSSVILLE, Ala. (WBRC/Gray News) - A family in Tennessee doubled in just a few days as the new parents welcomed a baby boy and girl born days apart in different states.
WBRC reports Meredith and Clay McCord are crediting their strong faith and a friend for their recent double blessing.
“We are the definition of an instant family,” said Meredith McCord. “Doubled up in three days.”
But the couple said making their family a group of four took a lot of patience, heartbreak and faith.
“We started trying to begin our family about four and a half years ago. We had three miscarriages,” Meredith McCord said.
“And through every miscarriage, we asked ‘Why us? We’re going to be great parents. We’re going to do everything right. Why us? Why is this happening? Why does this keep happening?’” Clay McCord said.
The couple said after the miscarriages, they looked into in-vitro fertilization, and after two rounds of IVF and another miscarriage, the McCords then looked into surrogacy.
“It takes some time to wrap your head around it,” Meredith McCord said. “You know, a woman doing this for you. Once we thought about it, we realized that’s what we should do.”
So, Meredith McCord reached out to a friend from college, Thomas Morse. His wife had been a surrogate for two families already, and it is something she said God placed in her heart to do.
“I feel like this was one of those little nudges from God telling me that this was how he wanted me to serve,” Katie Morse said.
Meredith McCord eventually asked if Katie Morse would consider being their surrogate, and she said yes.
“A week or two later, we found out we were pregnant!” Clay McCord said.
Suddenly, the couple said Meredith McCord and Katie Morse were both pregnant at the same time. Meredith McCord was having a girl, and Katie Morse was carrying a boy.
On Mother’s Day, Katie Morse gave birth to James McCord in Alabama, and three days later, Meredith McCord gave birth to Mary Clark in Tennessee.
“The timing could not have been more perfect. It was just another testament to how God works,” Katie Morse said. “I’ve always said he’s never promised me this journey would be easy, but he’s always promised that he would be there through it all.”
And Meredith McCord shared some advice for those families facing the same struggles.
“I think there’s hope, and it’s OK to try unconventional, nontraditional ways to start a family. It may even lead to another blessing too. You just never know what that path is going to look like. You just have to be willing to give it a try,” Meredith McCord said.
Katie Morse said if you’re considering surrogacy or becoming a surrogate, conduct research by looking at agencies across the country and learning about the process.
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PARIS – U.N. cultural and scientific agency UNESCO announced Monday that the United States plans to rejoin — and pay more than $600 million in back dues — after a decade-long dispute sparked by the organization’s move to include Palestine as a member.
U.S. officials say the decision to return was motivated by concern that China is filling the gap left by the U.S. in UNESCO policymaking, notably in setting standards for artificial intelligence and technology education around the world.
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources Richard Verma submitted a letter last week to UNESCO Director General Audrey Azoulay formalizing the plan to rejoin.
Applause rang out in the solemn UNESCO auditorium as Azoulay announced the plan to ambassadors at a special meeting Monday, and delegate after delegate stood up to welcome the news — and the new influx of money. The return of the U.S., once the agency’s biggest funder, is expected to face a vote by its 193 member states next month, according to a UNESCO diplomat.
The decision is a big financial boost to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, known for its World Heritage program as well as projects to fight climate change and teach girls to read.
The U.S. and Israel stopped funding UNESCO after it voted to include Palestine as a member state in 2011, and both countries lost their voting rights in 2013. The Trump administration decided in 2017 to withdraw from the agency altogether the following year, citing anti-Israel bias and management problems.
In his letter last week, Verma noted efforts by UNESCO toward management reform, and “decreasing politicized debate, especially on Middle East issues.” A delegation from Washington came to Paris last week to hand-deliver the letter, obtained by the AP.
Since her election in 2017, Azoulay has worked to address the reasons the U.S. left, through budget reforms and building consensus among Jordanian, Palestinian and Israeli diplomats around sensitive UNESCO resolutions.
The U.S. decision to come back “is the result of five years of work, during which we calmed tensions, notably on the Middle East, improved our response to contemporary challenges, resumed major initiatives on the ground and modernized the functioning of the organization,” Azoulay told The Associated Press.
She met with Democrats and Republicans in Washington to explain those efforts, according to a UNESCO diplomat. Thanks to those bipartisan negotiations, UNESCO diplomats expressed confidence that the U.S. decision to return is for the long term, regardless of who wins next year’s presidential election.
The diplomats were not authorized to be publicly named discussing the behind-the-scenes work that led to the U.S. decision.
Under the plan, the U.S. government would pay its 2023 dues plus $10 million in bonus contributions this year earmarked for Holocaust education, preserving cultural heritage in Ukraine, journalist safety, and science and technology education in Africa, Verma’s letter says.
The Biden administration has already requested $150 million for the 2024 budget to go toward UNESCO dues and arrears. The plan foresees similar requests for the ensuing years until the full debt of $619 million is paid off.
That makes up a big chunk of UNESCO’s $534 million annual operating budget. Before leaving, the U.S. contributed 22% of the agency’s overall funding.
Undersecretary of State for Management John Bass said in March that the U.S. absence from UNESCO has strengthened China, and ’’undercuts our ability to be as effective in promoting our vision of a free world.”
He said UNESCO is key in setting and shaping standards for technology and science teaching around the world, “so if we’re really serious about the digital-age competition with China … we can’t afford to be absent any longer.”
The U.S. absence plunged the agency into financial uncertainty. UNESCO diplomats described belt-squeezing across agency programs and aggressive efforts by Azoulay to boost voluntary financing from other countries to fill gaps.
One diplomat expressed hope that the return of the U.S. would bring “more ambition, and more serenity” — and energize programs to regulate artificial intelligence, educate girls in Afghanistan and chronicle victims of slavery in the Caribbean.
The diplomat said that the agency would also “welcome” Israel back if it wanted to rejoin.
The United States previously pulled out of UNESCO under the Reagan administration in 1984 because it viewed the agency as mismanaged, corrupt and used to advance Soviet interests. It rejoined in 2003.
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Matthew Lee in Washington contributed.
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clickorlando.com
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DENVER, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Black Resilience in Colorado (BRIC) Fund, the first Black-focused community fund in Colorado, has raised nearly $3 million and granted more than $2 million to 136 Black-led and Black-serving nonprofit organizations — establishing itself as a national blueprint for Black-focused community funds and giving circles, which have been created in Washington, Alabama, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Oregon, California, Connecticut, Ohio, and North Carolina.
BRIC, a fund of The Denver Foundation, was established on Juneteenth (June 19, 2020) to address systemic racism and inequities that negatively impact Black communities.
"As we celebrate Juneteenth and two years of the BRIC Fund supporting Colorado's Black-led and serving nonprofit organizations, we're proud to play a significant role as a collaborator and leader in the Black philanthropic community," said LaDawn Sullivan, director of the BRIC fund. "True to our mission, we continue to be a conduit for Black leadership and community support that is invested in shifting Black nonprofits from surviving to thriving and building Black communities—BRIC by BRIC."
Funds across the country are establishing a network of innovative programs and financial resources to strengthen local nonprofits.
"The BRIC Fund has been an inspiration to our efforts in Greensboro, North Carolina," said Athan L. Lindsay, vice president of grants and community impact for the Black Investments in Greensboro (BIG) Equity Fund. "It has been affirming to know that there is another Black-led philanthropic fund that demonstrates the power of Black philanthropic leadership."
In addition to its grant-funding program, BRIC has developed new ways to support Black communities.
For example, BRIC offers low-interest loans to support capital projects or other improvements for Black-led and serving nonprofits and founded the Executive Directors of Color Institute (EDCI), a two-year leadership development program for Black, Indigenous People of Color in nonprofit leadership roles.
Visit bricfund.org for additional information.
Black Resilience in Colorado (BRIC) Fund is the first Black-focused community fund established in Colorado, explicitly providing financial resources and support to Black-led and serving organizations. www.bricfund.org
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The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol has established a subcommittee to craft possible criminal referrals and examine “all outstanding issues” facing the panel as it races a deadline to complete its work.
Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) said the panel formed the subcommittee about a month ago, grouping a number of the committee’s lawyers to examine how to move forward on unresolved subpoenas — a group that includes fellow lawmakers and former President Trump — investigative loose ends and any recommendations to the Department of Justice (DOJ).
“We need to have a decision as to what we do with the members who did not recognize the subpoenas. It’s cleaning up every unfinished piece of work for the committee. And that part of it just fit better in some subcommittee. Let them come back and report, and we’ll make a decision,” Thompson said.
The unfinished business facing the committee is substantial, as it strives to publish its final report in early December before the panel itself sunsets at the start of the next Congress.
It must determine how to deal with the remaining flouted subpoenas, one for Trump as well as those handed to five GOP lawmakers, including likely next Speaker Kevin McCarthy (Calif.).
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) is leading the subcommittee, serving alongside Reps. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.).
“We’re looking at potential referrals or criminal offenses and for civil offenses and for general lawlessness where it might not otherwise be obvious,” Raskin said.
“We’re looking at criminal and civil referrals for people who have broken the law and may have escaped scrutiny,” he added, declining to answer questions seeking greater specificity.
The committee said Monday it would be forced to consider “next steps” after Trump failed to show up for a deposition the panel scheduled for that day. Trump’s absence followed a Saturday suit in Florida challenging the committee’s subpoena.
“Even though the former President initially suggested that he would testify before the committee, he has since filed a lawsuit asking the courts to protect him from giving testimony. His attorneys have made no attempt to negotiate an appearance of any sort, and his lawsuit parades out many of the same arguments that courts have rejected repeatedly over the last year,” Thompson and Vice Chair Cheney said in a statement.
GOP Reps. McCarthy, Scott Perry (Penn.), Jim Jordan (Ohio), Andy Biggs (Ariz.), and Mo Brooks (Ala.) have also all failed to respond to subpoenas issued in May.
The panel has yet to suggest a contempt of Congress referral for any of the six men, a move that would send a formal referral to DOJ if approved by the full House.
But broader criminal referrals for those involved in the insurrection, which could span those both inside out outside of the Trump White House, would come as the Justice Department’s investigation into Jan. 6, has, at least publicly, taken a back seat to its investigation into the mishandling of White House documents at Mar-a-Lago.
The Justice Department has interviewed a number of former White House staff in connection with its Jan. 6 investigation, but any recommendations from the panel will put renewed pressure on a DOJ that has remained quiet about any progress.
“We will give them the benefit of the work of the committee staff,” Thompson said.
“And they can determine from that work, how much is useful and that which is not.”
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2022-11-18T00:32:03+00:00
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Ayesha Rascoe talks with the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Andrea Bayer about a new New York law requiring museums to acknowledge if a work of art was stolen by the Nazi regime.
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Ayesha Rascoe talks with the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Andrea Bayer about a new New York law requiring museums to acknowledge if a work of art was stolen by the Nazi regime.
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2022-08-21T12:21:18+00:00
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — On a dusty field on the east side of Mexico’s sprawling capital, some 500 Ukrainian refugees are waiting in large tents under a searing sun for the United States government to tell them they can come.
The camp has only been open a week and 50 to 100 people are arriving every day. Some have already been to the U.S. border in Tijuana where they were told they would no longer be admitted. Others arrived at airports in Mexico City or Cancun, anywhere they could find a ticket from Europe.
“We are asking the U.S. government to process faster,” said Anastasiya Polo, co-founder of United with Ukraine, a nongovernmental organization, that collaborated with the Mexican government to establish the camp. She said that after a week’s time none of the refugees there “are even close to the end of the program.”
The program, Uniting for Ukraine, was announced by the U.S. government April 21. Four days later, Ukrainians showing up at the U.S.-Mexico border were no longer exempted from a pandemic-related rule that has been used to quickly expel migrants without an opportunity to seek asylum for the past two years.
Instead, they would have to apply from Europe or other countries such as Mexico. To qualify people must have been in Ukraine as of Feb. 11; have a sponsor, which could be family or an organization; meet vaccination and other public health requirements; and pass background checks.
Polo said U.S. government officials had told her it should take a week to process people, but it appeared like it was just beginning. Some of the first arrivals had received emails from the U.S. government acknowledging they received their documents and the documents of their sponsors, but she had heard of no sponsors being approved yet.
“These people cannot stay in this camp, because it is temporary,” Polo said. More than 100 of the camp’s residents are children.
Nearly 5.5 million Ukrainians, mostly women and children, have fled Ukraine since Russia invaded its smaller neighbor on Feb. 24, according to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.
Giorgi Mikaberidze, 19, is among the waiting. He arrived in Tijuana April 25 and found the U.S. border closed. He complained that the U.S. government had given so little notice, because many people like himself were already in transit. He went from being just yards from the United States to some 600 miles (966 kilometers) now.
When the U.S. government announced in late March that it would accept up to 100,000 Ukrainian refugees, hundreds entered Mexico daily as tourists in Mexico City or Cancun and flew to Tijuana to wait for a few days – eventually only a few hours – to be admitted to the U.S. at a San Diego border crossing on humanitarian parole. Appointments at U.S. consulates in Europe were scarce, and refugee resettlement takes time, making Mexico the best option.
Traveling through Mexico was circuitous, but a loose-knit group of volunteers, largely from Slavic churches in the western United States, greeted refugees at the Tijuana airport and shuttled them to a recreation center that the city of Tijuana made available for several thousand to wait. A wait of two to four days was eventually shortened to a few hours as U.S. border inspectors whisked Ukrainians in.
That special treatment ended the day Mikaberidze arrived in Tijuana.
“We want to go to America because (we’re) already here, some don’t have even money to go back,” he said.
Mikaberidze was visiting relatives in Georgia, south of Ukraine, when the Russian invasion occurred and was not able to return. His mother remains in their village near Kharkhov in eastern Ukraine, afraid to leave her home because Russian troops indiscriminately shoot up cars traveling in the area, he said.
“She said it’s a very dangerous situation,” said Mikaberidze, who traveled to Mexico alone.
The Mexico City camp provides a safe place to wait. It was erected inside a large sports complex, so Ukrainians could be seen pushing strollers with children along sidewalks, playing soccer and volleyball, even swimming.
However, the refugees have been warned that while they are free to leave the complex, no one is responsible for their safety. Iztapalapa, the capital’s most populated borough, is also one of its most dangerous.
The Mexican government was providing security at the camp with about 50 officers, Polo said. The Navy had also set up a mobile kitchen to provide meals.
She said they felt safe inside the camp, but were asking the government about the possibility of moving the camp to a safer area.
Mykhailo Pasternak and his girlfriend Maziana Hzyhozyshyn, waited at the entrance to the complex Monday afternoon. Both suffering from an apparent head cold, they planned to move to a hotel for a day or two to try to get some sleep and recover before returning to the camp.
Pasternak had left the U.S. to help Hzyhozyshyn get in. The two had spent several days in Tijuana before flying to Mexico City and arriving at the camp Sunday.
The couple stood out on the streets of Iztapalapa and appeared to be withering under the relentless sun. The couple had known each other for six years.
“She’s my love,” Pasternak said.
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AP writer Elliot Spagat in San Diego contributed to this report.
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2022-05-03T11:49:41+00:00
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BUFFALO, N.Y., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- M&T Bank announced its new partnership today with Stefon Diggs, the Buffalo Bills star wide receiver and one of the league's most savvy entrepreneurs and brand-builders. In forming the new relationship, Diggs and M&T have developed a playbook that builds on the bank's "Football Brings Us Together" message and emphasizes their shared commitment to making a difference in people's lives and creating authentic connections with fans.
Diggs made his debut as the new ambassador for the "Official Bank of the Buffalo Bills" in a video announcement that M&T published on its social media channels.
"Stefon Diggs is one of the best route runners in professional football, but he could also show you the best routes to build an authentic, purpose-driven business that connects with customers and uplifts communities. He's a great fit for M&T Bank, bringing a big heart for community impact and a sharp business acumen that resonates with the entrepreneurs and business leaders we serve," said M&T Bank Chief Marketing and Communications Officer Francesco Lagutaine.
"M&T Bank gets it. We collectively appreciate that it is imperative to use our platforms to make a difference in our community," Diggs said. "Being here in Buffalo and growing up in Maryland, I've seen first-hand how M&T gets involved in communities to bring people together and meet local needs. Our partnership is built on our shared values and focused on creating opportunities to support the Western New York community."
Diggs will serve as the face and play a leading role in M&T's "Football Brings Us Together" campaign, which celebrates the diversity of the community as well as the values and passions that bring Bills fans together. A new 30-second spot featuring Diggs will debut later this month and bring the campaign's message to fans throughout the season.
"We launched the 'Football Brings Us Together' campaign to reinforce an important message about why we support the Bills through our 'Official Bank' sponsorship. It's not about publicity, rather it's about investing in programs that strengthen communities and create connections among people of all backgrounds," Lagutaine added. "Stefon will help us bring this campaign to life here in Western New York and for the far-reaching community of Bills fans spread across the country."
Diggs and M&T are planning a community event that will focus on supporting single mothers and their families in Western New York, inspired by his mother Stephanie Diggs, who worked to individually support their family after her husband and Stefon's father, Aron Diggs, passed away unexpectedly when Stefon was just 14 years old. Event details and timing are still being finalized.
Additionally, as part of their collaborative efforts to connect and engage fans, Diggs and M&T are coordinating opportunities for community members and M&T customers to meet Diggs during pre- and regular season, both on and off the field, and they will launch a weekly social media campaign called "Fan Feud" playing off Diggs' August appearance on the similarly named family game show.
M&T will also offer its customers two Diggs-inspired custom debit cards. One shows the wide receiver in full gear making a one-handed catch, and the other features Diggs' personal artfully designed logo.
Diggs joined the Bills in 2020, quickly becoming a fan favorite for his on-field performance, his leadership, both on and off the field, and his admiration of Bills Mafia. Over several years in the league, Diggs has strategically worked to build his personal brand, emphasizing authenticity to help people connect with him and issues he cares about.
Fans can engage with M&T, the Bills and Stefon Diggs and learn more about upcoming events and promotions at mtb.com/bills.
Building on long-term partnership
M&T Bank's relationship with the Buffalo Bills first began in 1985. Since the earliest days of the partnership, M&T and the Bills have worked collaboratively on community-based initiatives that strengthen the Buffalo region and bring fans closer to their team.
Among their most well-known programs, Touchdown for Teachers has recognized about 50 outstanding educators and awarded more than $40,000 to schools across Western New York over the last 12 years. The Bills also support M&T's annual Gift of Warmth drive, which has collected about 40,000 winter clothing items for families served by the Salvation Army of Buffalo since it was launched.
M&T is the only provider of official Buffalo Bills debit cards and remains the exclusive financial services partner at Highmark Stadium. M&T also sponsors several seating areas, including the M&T Family Zone that serves as a family-friendly seating option, the M&T Club that provides a climate-controlled option and The Comfort Zone by M&T Bank, for which M&T awards tickets to deserving nonprofits that are making a difference in Western New York.
About M&T M&T Bank Corporation is a financial holding company headquartered in Buffalo, New York. M&T's principal banking subsidiary, M&T Bank, provides banking products and services in 12 states across the eastern U.S. from Maine to Virginia and Washington, D.C. Trust-related services are provided in select markets in the U.S. and abroad by M&T's Wilmington Trust-affiliated companies and by M&T Bank. For more information on M&T Bank, visit www.mtb.com
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BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union Commissioners were putting the finishing touches early Wednesday to a drastic plan to make sure that any Russian cutoff of its natural gas supplies to the bloc will not fundamentally disrupt industries and send an additional chill through homes next winter.
The European Commission is set to present its proposals later Wednesday, so that EU member states can discuss them at an emergency meeting of energy ministers next Tuesday. For it to be approved, national capitals would have to consider yielding powers over energy policy to Brussels.
The last-minute discussion comes at a time when a blog post from the International Monetary Fund has warned about the power Russian President Vladimir Putin could wield by weaponizing energy exports and choking off the 27-nation bloc.
“The partial shutoff of gas deliveries is already affecting European growth, and a full shutdown could be substantially more severe,” the IMFBlog warned. It added that gross domestic product in member nations like Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic could shrink by up to 6%.
Italy, a country already facing serious economic problems, “would also face significant impacts.”
EU economic forecasts last week showed that Russia’s war in Ukraine is expected to wreak havoc with economic recovery for the foreseeable future, with lower annual growth and record-high inflation. The disruptions in Russian energy trade threaten to trigger a recession in the bloc just as it is recovering from a pandemic-induced slump
Since Russia invaded Ukraine, the EU has approved bans on Russian coal and most oil to take effect later this year, but it did not include natural gas because the 27-nation bloc depends on gas to power factories, generate electricity and heat homes. Now, it fears that Putin will cut off gas anyway to try to wreak economic and political havoc in Europe this winter.
Such threats have forced the bloc’s head office to make a plan centered on energy cuts and savings that might make for a much colder winter, but one without massive disruptions.
“We are working on the worst possible scenario,” said EU spokesman Eric Mamer. “And that scenario — an assumption, therefore — is that Gazprom would no longer deliver any gas … to Europe.”
The 27 Commissioners and experts were still plotting how to spread the pain of cuts equally among member states under the plan. Up to the last hours, EU officials were putting final touches on how the proposals would look, including how far guidance would go and where mandatory rules would have to kick in.
The aim is to ensure essential industries and services like hospitals functioning, while others would have to cut back. That could include lowering heat in public buildings and enticing families to use less energy at home.
EU nations and the Commission have gone on a buying spree to diversify its natural gas sources away from Russia, but they are still expected to fall far short of providing businesses and homes with enough energy in the cold months.
Even if the EU has enough gas to keep the lights on and factories running right now, it does so at painfully high prices that have fueled runaway inflation and caused public uproar.
Russia has cut off or reduced gas to some EU countries, and there are fears that the energy crisis will get worse if Moscow does not restart a key pipeline to Germany after scheduled maintenance ends Thursday.
“We already have 12 countries, or in certain cases companies within countries, that from one day to the next have experienced disruptions, either full or partial flow from gas from Gazprom,” Mamer said. “It is impossible for us to predict how Gazprom is going to act.”
The energy squeeze is also reviving decades-old political challenges for Europe. While the EU has gained centralized authority over monetary, trade, antitrust and farm policies, national capitals have jealously guarded their powers over energy matters.
The European Commission has spent decades chipping away at this bastion of national sovereignty, using previous supply disruptions to secure gradual gains in EU clout. The five-month-old Russian invasion of Ukraine is now the starkest test of whether member countries are willing to cede more of their energy powers.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, member states did join in common action to help develop and buy vaccines in massive quantities in an unprecedented show of common resolve in the health sector.
“This is a moment for Europe to build upon the decisive action and solidarity displayed during the pandemic to address the challenging moment it faces today,” the IMFBlog said.
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2022-07-20T10:19:17+00:00
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — A dominant defense and Deebo Samuel.
The formula that has been so successful for the San Francisco 49ers against the Los Angeles Rams delivered another convincing win.
Samuel turned a short catch into an electric 57-yard touchdown, Talanoa Hufanga returned an interception for a score and the 49ers beat the Rams 24-9 Monday night.
“We knew it would be an ice-bag game,” Hufanga said. “Every time we play these guys it’s a physical matchup. For us as a defense, we want to be the rock. We want to be solid on defense, stand our ground and go out there and swarm.”
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Jeff Wilson Jr. also scored on a 32-yard run that gave the Niners (2-2) their seventh straight regular-season win over their in-state rivals.
The Rams (2-2) won the matchup that meant most in last season's NFC championship game on the way to a Super Bowl title, but this meeting looked more like their recent regular-season meetings.
San Francisco used a relentless defense to slow down coach Sean McVay's offense and got enough big plays for the win.
Nick Bosa had two of San Francisco's seven sacks against Matthew Stafford to give him an NFL-best six on the season and Hufanga iced it with his 52-yard pick-6 in the fourth quarter. It was San Francisco's fourth pick-6 against the Rams in their last six regular-season meetings.
"The story of the night from an offensive perceptive was self-inflicted wounds,” McVay said. “Just above the neck errors where we’re not doing the things that we are capable of and I expect us to be better than that.”
Samuel once again delivered the big blows offensively. The key play came late in the second quarter when he turned what looked to be an interception by Jimmy Garoppolo into a touchdown.
Derion Kendrick jumped the 5-yard route and nearly got the pick. But Samuel made the catch and that's when his work really started.
He broke tackles from Taylor Rapp and Jalen Ramsey and weaved his way through the Rams defense for the final 52 yards to give the Niners a 14-6 lead.
“It was just me and the ball out there,” Samuel said. “I just go out and break some tackles like I do all the time.”
Samuel has scored seven TDs and thrown another touchdown in eight career games against Los Angeles.
“He does that time and time again,” tackle Mike McGlinchey said. “There’s a reason he’s one of our best players. He delivers for us in our biggest moments at all times, and especially against that damn team.”
The Rams moved the ball efficiently down the field on the opening drive before a sack by Samson Ebukam stalled the drive and forced Los Angeles into a field goal.
Los Angeles struggled to move the ball consistently after that and the Rams couldn't finish drives when they did. They were held to field goals on three trips into the red zone.
San Francisco struck back with big plays that led to two long touchdowns. Wilson took advantage of string blocking on a 32-yard burst up the middle on the opening drive for the 49ers that made it 7-3.
Samuel added the second touchdown and Robbie Gould kicked a 25-yard field goal after a Niners drive stalled at the 1. Gould missed a 42-yarder midway through the fourth quarter to keep the Rams in the game until Stafford's interception on a screen that Hufanga anticipated perfectly.
“You can smell a rat when it comes to those things," he said. “They've been running screens all night. I saw a different release than I'm used to. Instead of following man, I turned my head and the ball dropped to me.”
BIG HIT
One of the biggest hits of the game was delivered to a protestor who ran out on the field late in the second quarter with a device letting out pink smoke.
As the protestor got close to the Rams sidelined, linebacker Bobby Wagner came off and flattened him with a big hit. The man was taken off the field by security and the game quickly resumed.
“I just saw someone running on the field,” Wagner said. “It looked like he wasn’t supposed to be on the field so I saw security was having a problem so I helped them out.”
INJURIES
Rams: Coleman Shelton, filling in for injured center Brian Allen, left the game with an ankle injury in the first quarter. That forced third-string center Jeremiah Kolone into action.
49ers: Colton McKivitz, filling in for injured All-Pro LT Trent Williams, left the game in the second half with a knee injury and didn't return. ... DT Arik Armstead, who missed last week's game with a foot injury, left this game as well with an injured foot and didn't return.
UP NEXT
Rams: Host Dallas on Sunday.
49ers: Visit Carolina on Sunday.
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2022-10-04T06:51:07+00:00
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Supreme Court ruling: Some immigrants can be detained at least six months without bond hearing
Video above: Immigrant detentions soar despite Biden’s promises
The Supreme Court has ruled against immigrants who are seeking their release from long periods of detention while they fight deportation orders.
In two cases decided Monday, the court said that the immigrants, who fear persecution if sent back to their native countries, have no right under federal law to a bond hearing at which they could argue for their freedom no matter how long they are held.
The justices also ruled 6-3 to limit the immigrants ability to band together in court, an outcome that Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote “will leave many vulnerable noncitizens unable to protect their rights.”
In recent years, the high court has taken an increasingly limited view of immigrants' access to the federal court system under immigration measures enacted in the 1990s and 2000s.
“For a while, it seemed like the court was going to push back a bit. In extreme cases, it would interpret a statute to allow for as much judicial review as possible,”said Nicole Hallet, director of the immigrants rights clinic at the University of Chicago law school. “Clearly now, the court is no longer willing to do that.”
The immigrants who sued for a bond hearing are facing being detained for many months, even years, before their cases are resolved.
The court ruled in the cases of people from Mexico and El Salvador who persuaded Homeland Security officials that their fears are credible, entitling them to further review.
Their lawyers argued that they should have a hearing before an immigration judge to determine if they should be released. The main factors are whether people would pose a danger or are likely to flee if set free.
Sotomayor wrote the court's opinion in one case involving Antonio Arteaga-Martinez, who had previously been deported to Mexico. He was taken into custody four years ago, and won release while his case wound through the federal courts. His hearing on whether he can remain in the United States is scheduled for 2023.
But Sotomayor wrote that the provision of immigration law that applies to people like Arteaga-Martinez simply doesn't require the government to hold a bond hearing.
The court, however, left open the issue of the immigrants' ability to argue that the Constitution does not permit such indefinite detention without a hearing.
Justice Samuel Alito wrote the court's opinion holding that federal judges can only rule in the case of the immigrants before them, not a class of similarly situated people.
Sotomayor dissented from that decision, joined by Justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan. She wrote that the ability to join together in a class was especially important for people who have no right to a lawyer and “are disproportionately unlikely to be familiar with the U.S. legal system or fluent in the English language.”
The cases are Johnson v. Arteaga-Martinez, 19-896, and Garland v. Aleman Gonzalez, 20-322.
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DETROIT (AP) — Shohei Ohtani threw his first shutout in Major League Baseball in one game and hit two homers in the next, helping the Los Angeles Angels beat the Detroit Tigers twice on Thursday to sweep a three-game series.
Ohtani, though, gave the Angels a scare when he left the second game of the doubleheader due to cramps that led to him grimacing after hitting his 38th homer in the fourth inning.
“He’ll get some fluids in him and he’ll be fine,” manager Phil Nevin said.
He had a one-hitter and struck out eight as the Angels beat Detroit 6-0 in the first game and then cleared the fences twice in an 11-4 victory for the surging team’s ninth win in 11 games.
Ohtani became the first major league player to throw a shutout in one game of a doubleheader and hit a homer — much less two — in the other.
“He probably had the greatest day of baseball that anybody’s ever seen today,” said right-hander Matt Manning, who gave up both homers to Ohtani. “It’s incredible.”
Ohtani (9-5) did not allow a baserunner until the fifth inning of his start and walked three batters on the same day the Angels confirmed they’re not trading him.
The two-way superstar, who will be a free agent after the season, didn’t budge on his approach to avoid talking about next year despite the recent developments.
“In season, I don’t really like to think about the long-term stuff, just focus on the season and every game that’s in front of me,” Ohtani said through a translator after the first game. “Obviously, I’ve been with the Angels my whole career here, and I love the fans. I love the team, no complaints.”
The hard-throwing righty with wicked off-speed pitches threw 111 pitches, 71 for strikes.
“I got to save the bullpen,” said Ohtani, who had previously finished eight innings five times.
Michael Lorenzen (5-7) gave up three runs and five hits while walking one and striking out seven over five innings in what might have been his final start with Detroit.
The 31-year-old Lorenzen signed a one-year deal with the rebuilding Tigers, who are likely hoping they can acquire assets for a pitcher with experience as a starter and reliever before the trade deadline Tuesday.
The Angels, aiming for their first playoff appearance since 2014, sent a message to their players and fans that they’re in a win-now mode with a significant trade that essentially confirmed Ohtani is staying at least through the season.
The Ohtani-led pitching staff was bolstered Wednesday night when the Angels acquired right-handers Lucas Giolito and Reynaldo López from the Chicago White Sox.
“This team deserves a chance to win,” Angels general manager Perry Minasian said. “To acquire two pitchers, we think that really helps.”
While Ohtani went 0 for 5 at the plate and struck out twice in the first game, his teammates provided plenty of offense. Trey Cabbage’s sacrifice fly in the second inning was his first of three RBIs and Taylor Ward hit two homers.
Ohtani kept Detroit off balance, blowing fastballs that neared 100 mph past them and leaving them flailing at sliders and splitters.
“It looked like he had the guys guessing,” Tigers catcher Jake Rogers said.
In the second game, the right-handed hitter sent a two-run homer to left in a five-run second inning. Ohtani and Eduardo Escobar hit solo shots in the fourth. Hunter Renfroe added another homer in the sixth to help the Angels pull away.
Patrick Sandoval (6-7) gave up two runs in five innings for the win in the second game and Manning (3-2) took the loss after allowing seven runs over five innings.
MOVING ON
The Angels designated 2021 All-Star slugger Jared Walsh for assignment. Walsh hit .119 with one homer and five RBIs in 28 games this season as he has struggled with headaches and insomnia, coming off an injury-stunted 2022.
CABRERA WATCH
Tigers designated hitter Miguel Cabrera went 1 for 4 in the second game and his single was the 3,134th hit of his career and his 5,309th total base to put him into a 14th-place tie with Adrian Beltre in major league history.
SLUMPS & STREAKS
Angels catcher Chad Wallach ended an 0-for-38 drought with a single in the seventh.
“In the dugout, it was a good eruption when he got that hit,” Nevin said.
Mickey Moniak extended his career-best hitting streak to 16 games with a double in the first inning of the second game.
UP NEXT
Giolito (6-6, 3.79) is expected to make his Angels debut Friday night against Toronto, where the Blue Jays plan to start RHP Kevin Gausman (7-5, 3.18) in the first game of the series.
Detroit travels to Miami, where Tigers RHP Reese Olson (1-4, 4.53) and Marlins LHP Braxton Garrett (5-3, 4.32) are the probable pitchers on Friday night.
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2023-07-28T21:21:44+00:00
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SAN DIEGO — California voters would decide whether to fund a major expansion of housing and treatment for residents suffering from mental illness and addiction, under the latest proposal by Gov. Gavin Newsom to address the state’s homelessness crisis.
“This is the next step in our transformation of how California addresses mental illness, substance use disorder and homelessness — creating thousands of new beds, building more housing, expanding services and more,” Newsom said in a statement.
California, home to nearly 40 million people, has nearly one-third of the nation’s homeless population, and their numbers are growing much faster than in other states, according to an analysis of federal data by the Public Policy Institute of California. Tent encampments have popped up on sidewalks and under freeway overpasses across California, and people in clear mental health crisis are a common sight on city streets.
The initiative would be partially funded by general obligation bonds that would go toward construction of “campus-style” facilities along with smaller homes and long-term residential settings, Newsom’s office said.
In addition, it would overhaul California’s Mental Health Services Act, an initiative approved by voters in 2004 that charges a 1% tax on incomes greater than $1 million to fund mental health services. Some lawmakers complained that money from the initiative bypassed those who needed it the most, and Newsom’s office said the new version would improve accountability and oversight for counties.
“Modernizing it will lead to $1 billion every year for housing, treating substance abuse disorders, and more,” the statement said.
State Sen. Susan Talamantes Eggman, D-Stockton, will introduce the measure, which would also earmark money to house more than 10,000 homeless veterans across the state, according to the statement.
Newsom planned to unveil further details during a stop Sunday afternoon in San Diego, according to his office. The governor is wrapping up a four-day statewide tour that he used to highlight his major policy goals. The tour replaced a traditional State of the State address.
On Thursday, Newsom announced a plan to spend about $30 million to build 1,200 small homes across the state to help house people living on the streets. The homes can be assembled quickly and cost a fraction of what it takes to build permanent housing. Federal courts have ruled cities can’t clear homeless encampments if there are no shelter beds available.
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NPR's Elissa Nadworny talks with astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell about debris from China's satellite launches crashing uncontrolled back to earth.
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NPR's Elissa Nadworny talks with astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell about debris from China's satellite launches crashing uncontrolled back to earth.
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(The Hill) — Passenger complaints have soared as airlines canceled and delayed flights this year, but reliability has varied between airlines.
The Department of Transportation (DOT) released its latest air travel consumer report late last month, noting that roughly 24 percent of commercial flights between destinations in the United States did not arrive on time in the first half of the year.
The figure is a 52 percent jump from the same period last year, although carriers operated fewer flights in 2021 as more Americans avoided flying out of concerns of catching COVID-19.
Travel demand has now resurged to levels not seen since before the pandemic, but the airline industry has struggled to meet the influx of passengers, facing issues like staffing shortages, severe weather and high fuel costs. Some airlines have also placed blame on labor shortages at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
Here’s how airlines’ on-time arrival percentages ranked during the first six months of 2022:
1. Hawaiian Airlines: 82.14 percent
Hawaiian Airlines beat out other airlines for the top spot, with more than 8 in 10 of its scheduled U.S. flights arriving on time.
The airline is smaller than the other nine included in DOT’s analysis, and Hawaiian also outranked the other carriers last year.
About 91 percent of Hawaiian’s U.S. flights during the first six months of 2021 arrived on time.
“We are proud of our frontline teams and everyone supporting our operations for getting our guests to their destination on time and with aloha while maintaining our industry-leading punctuality record,” said Hawaiian Airlines spokesperson Alex Da Silva.
2. Delta Air Lines: 80.75 percent
Delta Air Lines and flights operated by regional carriers marketed under the Delta brand were ranked No. 2 in DOT’s report.
Flights operated by Delta itself slightly outpaced the on-time arrival percentage of its regional carriers. Just over 80 percent of U.S. Delta-operated flights arrived on time, about a percentage point higher than its codeshare partners.
Delta has touted its leading record in its promotional appeal to customers, saying on Wednesday it was prepared to carry up to 2.9 million passengers over the upcoming busy Labor Day travel weekend.
“We’re looking forward to welcoming our customers on board for Labor Day weekend,” Allison Ausband, Delta’s chief customer experience officer, said in a statement. “We’ve taken steps this summer to ensure our people have the tools and support they need to deliver on our high standards for reliability, while offering Delta’s signature customer service with warmth and care.”
3. Alaska Airlines: 78.91 percent
Alaska Airlines and its codeshare partners clocked in at No. 3 on the list, with just under 8 in 10 U.S. flights arriving on time during the first half of the year.
Flights branded as Alaska Airlines but operated by its regional partners, Horizon Air and SkyWest Airlines, arrived on time about 81 percent of the time, slightly more often than those operated by Alaska itself.
An Alaska Airlines spokesperson did not return a request for comment.
4. United Airlines: 76.92 percent
United Airlines’ on-time arrival percentage registered about two percentage points below Alaska, with 76.92 percent of U.S. United Airlines-marketed flights arriving on time in the first half of 2022.
The figure marks a dip from the same period in 2021, when 83.47 of the airlines’ marketed flights arrived on time. United similarly ranked No. 4 during that period when compared to the other carriers.
United achieved its highest second-quarter revenue in the company’s history this year, which was also the airline’s first profitable quarter since the start of the pandemic.
A United Airlines spokesperson did not return a request for comment.
5. American Airlines: 76.75 percent
American Airlines, which marketed more flights than any other carrier in the first half of the year, clocked in near the middle of the pack, barely behind United Airlines.
Like United, a slight majority of flights marketed by American Airlines were operated by the carriers’ regional partners.
Those regional carriers’ flights arrived on time 78.01 percent of the time, compared to 75.33 percent of those operated by American Airlines.
Pilot unions at three regional carriers wholly owned by American Airlines — Envoy Air, Piedmont Airlines and PSA Airlines — recently announced contract agreements that include significant pay increases as part of their efforts to attract and retain pilots.
6. Southwest Airlines: 73.87 percent
Just under 74 percent of Southwest Airlines flights arrived on time in the first half of the year, earning the carrier sixth place out of the 10 airlines assessed by DOT.
As the industry faces scheduling snafus in part due to labor shortages, the airline said in a statement that it has grown its full-time equivalent employee base to more than 62,000, which is higher than its number of employees at the end of 2019.
“While on-time performance through June was down, our flight completion factor has recently been among the highest in the industry,” the airline said.
Most other major carriers use a hub-and-spoke system in which airlines concentrate flights in a handful of central airports. But Southwest is one of a few exceptions, instead leveraging a point-to-point strategy that offers direct flights between many smaller airports.
7. Spirit Airlines: 69.31 percent
Roughly 7 in 10 Spirit Airlines flights arrived on time between January and June, placing the low-cost carrier at No. 7 in DOT’s ranking.
When reached for comment, a Spirit Airlines spokesperson pointed to the company’s statement last month indicating its operational performance ranked among the industry best in the two months after Spirit’s peak summer schedule went into effect on June 5.
“These great results are among the best in the industry and are due to the relentless dedication of our Spirit family,” John Bendoraitis, the company’s chief operating officer, said in the statement. “Our team rose to the occasion to serve record numbers of summer travelers and work through industry challenges to deliver a high value experience for our guests.”
8. Frontier Airlines: 64.50 percent
More than a third of Frontier Airlines flights did not arrive on time, according to DOT.
About 81 percent of Frontier’s flights arrived on time during the first half of 2021.
The airline is one of the country’s smaller commercial carriers, marketing the third-lowest number of flights out of the 10 assessed by DOT, with only Hawaiian and Spirit airlines marketing fewer flights.
A Frontier Airlines spokesperson did not return a request for comment.
9. JetBlue Airways: 62.08 percent
About 62 percent of JetBlue flights arrived on time in the first half of 2022.
JetBlue spokesperson Derek Dombrowski said 70 percent of the airline’s flights touch the northeast corridor, a congested air traffic region often plagued by severe weather events. The airline was also impacted by air traffic control constraints in April and by sick calls due to the pandemic, he said.
Multiple airlines have placed blame on staffing challenges at air traffic control centers manned by the FAA, which at times have led to delayed flights. The challenges have been especially pronounced in New York and Florida.
“JetBlue has taken a number of steps to improve our operation and reliability, and our completion factor has greatly improved in recent months,” Dombrowski said, noting that the airline now has record levels of staffing following a spring hiring and training push.
“These investments have brought a significant improvement despite continued constraints on the air traffic system in New York and Florida,” he added.
10. Allegiant Air: 61.63 percent
Allegiant Air clocked in at the bottom of DOT’s list, with 61 percent of flights arriving on time. Roughly 74 percent of Allegiant’s flights in the first half of 2021 arrived on time.
The airline said in a statement that some of its crews maxed out on the number of hours they could fly under FAA regulations during the first half of the year, and limited availability of back-up crews caused a number of delays.
Allegiant, like other airlines, said it also grappled with crews being out of service due to COVID outbreaks and faces an “unprecedented” labor shortage.
“We are actively working to mitigate it by offering extra incentives to attract and retain employees, including higher wages, bonuses, work schedule flexibility and more,” the airline said.
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2022-09-02T11:34:09+00:00
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It doesn't take much to go viral nowadays.
Take Jon Levy, a professor and chair of the department of environmental health at Boston University's school of Public Health.
Earlier this month, an image of Levy went viral on Twitter. The cause? He was wearing an N95 mask alone in his office.
After prompting backlash from critics, Levy posted a Twitter thread explaining why he chose to do so, asking, "Am I crazy? Am I virtue signaling? Am I fearmongering? Or is there some rationale to wear a mask in a private office? Let's discuss."
2. Let’s start with the basics. Here’s a screenshot an angry critic took and shared. You can see I am wearing an N95. I work at a mask-optional university, so no one is making me do it. You can also see I need to clean up my office, but that’s a separate topic. pic.twitter.com/5998r1R2rf
— Jon Levy (@jonlevyBU) May 21, 2022
All Things Considered took him up on that offer. He discusses why he wore the mask, the motivations behind his Twitter thread in response, and some thoughts on mask guidelines.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Interview highlights
On why he chose to wear the mask in the first place
Even though I was on a video call, obviously, I was in a physical space, which is my office, and it shares air with other offices and with the bathrooms that are just across the hall from my office. It's important, I think, to remember that COVID is transmitted through the air, and it can linger for a long time.
I have a spouse who treats COVID patients. I have kids who are in schools where masking is optional. I could be a source at any point in time to my department. And, of course, there are other people, students and faculty, who could be sources to me. Wearing a mask protects me from others and protects others from me.
On the reactions he got online
So the context was I was on a Zoom to discuss the potential need for more public health protections. I think some people saw the fact that I was wearing a mask on the Zoom and thought that that was some sort of signal, an attempt to frighten people or virtue signal, or just some sense that I was not approaching this in a fair-minded way. I think that the image was shared to sort of perhaps undermine my argument or say that I was going over the top with COVID.
On his hopes with his similarly viral Twitter thread
I really had a few goals. I wanted people to understand that COVID is mostly in the aerosol phase, which means very, very small particles that stay in the air for a long time. I also wanted to get across the very practical side of things, that a good, high-quality mask is very effective and actually can be very comfortable and affordable as well. And there's not a lot of downside to wearing a mask in a setting like that if you have a good mask.
I think the other thing I really wanted to try to get across, was more about the human side of things, not just the science side of things. Right now we should try to act with a little bit more grace and assume the best of people and assume that people who are wearing masks have very good reasons to do so. By the way, a good reason to do so is to simply say, "I don't want to get COVID, and I don't want to give COVID to others."
On how people can learn to coexist with different comfort levels relating to COVID precautions
I think my hope has been that we could get to a place where we think about masks or other public health protections as just simple tools to be used at some points and not to be used at others. That's not the same as a lockdown. We're not shutting down society. We're just taking a targeted measure to try to reduce transmission. And then when we get to a better place, the mask can come off.
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2023-01-25T12:14:16+00:00
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CHENGDU, China, May 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The first smart factory of Sichuan Teway Food Group Co., Ltd ("Teway Food", SHE: 603317), a Chinese leading compound condiment manufacturer, has put into official operation recently in the Sichuan Cuisine Industrial Park in Chengdu, China.
Teway Food puts into use of innovative approach of the production line design in industry by utilizing cross-industry and cross-scenario technologies, which aims to tackle challenges of manpower in traditional food production. Its single-line production capacity has increased by more than two times with efficiency per capita increased by more than six times, while the cost of single-piece manufacturing has dropped by nearly 40 percent.
"Teway Food is embracing the era of Industry 4.0 and intelligent manufacturing will lead the market trend. This smart factory represents a key milestone in our digital transformation, a path we have been following since 2019," said Zhiyong Yu, Vice President of Teway Food. "Informationization and industrialization are fundamental components of the company's overall strategy to transform from a traditional food manufacturer to a modern food provider. The company's investment in intelligent production bases in Pidu and Shuangliu in Chengdu empowers this transformation and will promote sustainable development for the company."
Empowered by its digital platform, Teway Food's smart factory applies a digital and intelligent automated manufacturing and management system with many technologies put in use for the first time in the industry, including a complete set of robots to conduct auto-batching, transportation and ingredient mixing, reaction kettles which can automatically fry ingredients, clean-in-place automatic cleaning system, intelligent warehousing system as well as application of large-scale air delivery system.
Such smart automation allows precise control of raw material to a standardized production procedure, guaranteeing the product quality and flavor. It also enables transparent information flow that make every step in the production process traceable, further ensuring the food safety. The smart factory also launches a more accurate product quality monitoring and analysis mechanism, which will help the company make decision on product upgrade and new product development.
About Teway Food
Teway Food is a China-based leading food manufacturer that focuses on compound condiments specialized in seasonings for hot pot and Chinese cuisines, with its products distributed to over 30 countries including China, the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia.
For more information about Teway Food, please visit its Facebook.
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2022-05-28T10:11:46+00:00
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https://www.kcrg.com/prnewswire/2022/05/28/teway-food-smart-factory-leads-compound-condiment-manufacturing-quality-development/
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Your family may be asking for a second serving of vegetables with the recipe we’re making tonight. Time to grab a Bite with Belkys.
The Chef: Pawan Pinisetti
The Restaurant: Sérêvène, Miami Beach
The Dish: Roasted Carrots with Tomato Piperade
Ingredients:
Roasted Carrots
8-10 medium-sized heirloom Rainbow Carrots
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp unsalted butter
1/2 tsp wildflower honey
1/4 tsp zested citrus ( lime, lemon, orange )
Tomato Piperade (tomato pepper sauce):
1/4 cup (2 ounces) sundried tomatoes
1/4 cup (2 ounces) garlic aioli/mayonnaise
2-3 cloves roasted garlic
Salt
Pepper
Method of Preparation:
Carrots:
- Cut in oblique shape; sized about 1-inch cuts to ensure they cook evenly.
- Pan roast on med-high heat with 1 tbsp of olive oil ( 4-5 mins ). Carrots can be 1/2 cooked to still maintain some texture and crunch. Lightly season with salt and pepper towards the end of the cooking.
- Add 1/4 tsp of your favorite seasonal citrus, 1 tbsp of unsalted butter and 1/2 tsp of wildflower or lavender honey (any other honey you prefer).
- Quickly sauté for 1 min to allow a nice honey butter emulsion.
- Remove from heat and serve immediately.
- Note: do not cook honey for too long or on height heat to avoid burn/bitterness.
Tomato Piperade
- Combine all ingredients below and chop and mince into a smooth paste along with a basic aioli (mayonnaise can be substituted)
- 1/4 cup Sundried tomatoes, 2-3 roasted garlic cloves, parsley, basil, mint, chives (all herbs combined).
- Add salt and pepper to taste.
To Plate:
- A healthy swipe of tomato piperade across the plate and place the carrots as desired. Finishing salt and micro viola flowers are optional.
Sérêvène
1920 Collins Ave, Miami Beach, FL 33139
(786) 636-6440
https://www.serevenemiami.com/
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2023-02-15T23:59:07+00:00
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wsvn.com
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https://wsvn.com/entertainment/bite-with-belkys/roasted-carrots-with-tomato-piperade-serevene-miami-beach/
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CINCINNATI – San Francisco Giants outfielder Joc Pederson said Cincinnati Reds outfielder Tommy Pham slapped him prior to Friday's series opener over a dispute about their fantasy football league.
While the Giants warmed up in the outfield, Pham confronted Pederson and smacked him in the face before the pair was separated.
Major League Baseball is investigating, and Pham agreed to be scratched from Cincinnati's lineup shortly before first pitch pending results of the inquiry.
Pederson said after the Reds' 5-1 victory that he was accused of cheating for placing a player on injured reserve and replacing him with a free agent in a fantasty football league. Pederson said the player he put on IR had been ruled out for that week, which made it a legal move. He said Pham had executed essentially the same maneuver with his own team.
“I sent a screenshot of the rules, how it says that if a player's ruled out, you're allowed to put him on the IR and that's all I was doing,” Pederson. “He literally did the same thing. That was basically all of it."
Pederson said he had no advance notice that Pham might confront him during the series in Cincinnati.
“There was no argument, he kind of came up and said, ‘You remember from last year?’ and I said, ‘Fantasy football?'" Pederson recalled.
The Giants outfielder said he didn't retaliate after being slapped, and he has no plans to re-engage Pham while the team is in Cincinnati.
“Violence isn't the answer. It's over as far as I'm concerned,” Pederson said. “I won't talk to him. I don't think he wants to talk to me, I don't know. It was a weird interaction.”
Pham threatened violence to settle an on-field score with San Diego's Luke Voit in April, challenging the slugger to a fight after Voit injured Reds catcher Tyler Stephenson with a hard, ugly slide into home.
“If Luke wants to settle it, I get down really well," Pham said. “Anything. Muay Thai, whatever. Like I said, I’ve got an owner here who will let me use his facility.”
The scuffle was witnessed by reporters and occurred before fans entered the ballpark.
Reds manager David Bell refused to comment on the incident, and Pham refused to speak on the record with reporters.
“Major League Baseball is investigating it, and until that's complete, I'm probably not going to say much on it," Giants manager Gabe Kapler said.
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2022-05-28T06:56:28+00:00
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ksat.com
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https://www.ksat.com/sports/2022/05/27/reds-pham-and-giants-pederson-in-pregame-altercation/
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(The Hill) — In what they hope to be a preview of the November midterms, Republicans shut out Democrats 10-0 in the annual Congressional Baseball Game at Nationals Park on Thursday, led by the efforts of pitcher Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.).
The game brought lawmakers together in a show of bipartisanship to support local charities, with this year’s event securing a record-high number of ticket sales and donations, raising more than $1.7 million for such organizations as The Washington Literary Center and the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Washington.
Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff marked the game’s commencement, yelling “play ball” before Roberto Clemente Jr., former professional baseball player and son of MLB Hall of Famer Roberto Clemente, threw the first pitch. The game started with Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.) on the pitcher’s mound and Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) first up at bat to an eruption of cheers.
Scalise was shot and injured at a Republican practice leading up to the 2017 Congressional Baseball Game. The Louisiana lawmaker has continued to participate in the game since his recovery.
As the lawmakers played it out on the field, the political activism of Washington found its way to the front steps of the ballpark.
The Capitol Police heightened security at Nationals Park as climate activists threatened to “shut it down” if lawmakers did not make tangible steps toward passing climate change legislation. At least three individuals were arrested for unlawful entry after blocking one of the park entrances.
Despite activists’ threats to stop the event even after Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) reached a deal to combat climate change on Wednesday, the game continued until a fourth-inning rain delay with the Republicans leading 4-0. The crowd erupted into cheers when lawmakers returned to the field thirty minutes later.
Rep. August Pfluger (R-Tex.) replaced Steube on the mound after he threw five shutout innings. Pfluger struck out two, including Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.), and helped the GOP out of a jam when the bases were loaded in the bottom of the sixth inning.
Ossoff took the mound in the seventh inning but allowed 5 runs, ballooning the Republican lead to the final score of 10-0.
Pfluger took the GOP the rest of the way, closing the game in the seventh inning and securing his party the win for the second year in a row, marking only their third win since 2009.
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2022-07-29T13:55:34+00:00
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wdtn.com
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https://www.wdtn.com/nexstar-media-wire/republicans-victorious-at-nationals-park-for-second-straight-year/
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President of Howard University Brings Extensive Knowledge of Higher Education and Healthcare Industries to Workday
PLEASANTON, Calif., June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Workday, Inc. (NASDAQ:WDAY), a leader in enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, today announced that its board of directors has elected Wayne A.I. Frederick, M.D. as an independent director.
Dr. Frederick brings with him nearly two decades of experience in academic leadership, having started his career as associate director of the Cancer Center at the University of Connecticut. He is currently the president of his alma mater, Howard University, having held this position since July 2014. Prior to this appointment, he was the institution's interim president after serving as its provost and chief academic officer.
Last year, Dr. Frederick was honored as a "Great Immigrant, Great American" by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, which recognizes individuals who have enriched and strengthened American society and democracy through their contributions and actions. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and is a member of the American Surgical Association. In addition to his academic leadership experience, Dr. Frederick has extensive knowledge of the healthcare industry and currently serves on the boards of Forma Therapeutics Holdings, Inc., Humana, Inc., Insulet Corporation, and Mutual of America Life Insurance Company.
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"I have long believed in the power of innovation and its ability to solve some of the most pressing challenges facing our world. Workday, with innovation as one of its core values, embodies that belief in developing technologies that help some of the world's largest organizations and institutions navigate our changing environment," said Wayne A.I. Frederick, M.D., independent director, Workday board of directors. "As a member of its board, I look forward to the next chapter of my career by applying my experience to support Workday in its mission of helping organizations adapt and respond in a changing world."
"I greatly admire Dr. Frederick's commitment to public service and creating opportunities for all, and know that his leadership approach strongly aligns with our commitment to leading with values," said Aneel Bhusri, co-founder, co-CEO, and chairman, Workday. "We are honored to have him on our board and believe that his extensive knowledge in academia, coupled with his deep understanding of the healthcare industry, will bring great value to our organization and customers."
About Workday
Workday is a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, helping customers adapt and thrive in a changing world. Workday applications for financial management, human resources, planning, spend management, and analytics have been adopted by thousands of organizations around the world and across industries — from medium-sized businesses to more than 50% of the Fortune 500. For more information about Workday, visit workday.com.
© 2022. Workday, Inc. All rights reserved. Workday and the Workday logo are registered trademarks of Workday, Inc. All other brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
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2022-06-22T21:35:04+00:00
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kswo.com
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https://www.kswo.com/prnewswire/2022/06/22/workday-elects-wayne-ai-frederick-md-board-directors/
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Grim as they were, the recent release of student assessments known as “the nation’s report card” should have surprised no one. Education researchers say the effects of learning disruption during the pandemic are worse than what kids in New Orleans faced after Hurricane Katrina.
Yet, 92% of parents believe their children are working at or above grade level, according to the Learning Heroes national survey of parents, teachers and principals.
The truth is, only 28% of Washington eighth graders are currently proficient in math, a drop of 13 points since 2017. Overall, the pandemic wiped out decades of slow academic improvement, pushing us back to where we were in the 1990s.
Some will note that Washington students are still doing better, on average, than kids in 21 other states, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress. But averages blur glaring — and important — extremes. Consider the ocean of difference in math scores between low-income eighth-graders and middle-class kids: a 31-point gap that is among the widest in the nation.
If ever there was a moment to do something different, surely this is it. Yet the prevailing attitude in most school district headquarters might best be described as a desperate effort to get back to normal. Understandable. But when “normal” in math achievement means a gulf between Black and white students on par, or worse, than that in Mississippi, it’s time for new answers.
State Sen. Brad Hawkins, R-East Wenatchee, floated legislation aimed at this problem during the pandemic. It didn’t pass, but the central concept — modifying the traditional school calendar — is gaining traction with some school districts anyway.
Sometimes referred to as “year-round learning,” the modified calendar takes our state’s standard 180 days of school and, instead of cramming them into nine months, spreads the time more evenly throughout the year. Yes, that means shortening summer break. It also means students don’t spend their first month of school reviewing what they were taught 11 or 12 weeks earlier. If students are going to catch up, they can’t afford to waste that time.
Educators in 43 state school districts appear to agree. They are either studying or implementing modified calendars. In tiny Winlock, south of Olympia, that means extending the school year by three weeks — with vacation days added to October and February instead. In Toppenish, the modified schedule shows up as longer school hours Monday-Thursday, with Friday afternoons reserved for tutoring. The guiding concept is responsiveness to student needs, rather than fidelity to a calendar designed when the U.S. was an agrarian society.
It’s early still. But teachers in Winlock are already reporting better behavior among their students — only 19% of whom were at grade level in math last spring.
A more targeted response, high-dosage tutoring, also has shown results. It’s expensive, requiring one-on-one sessions between teachers and students at least three times a week. But Washington received $1.6 billion in federal aid to cover exactly this sort of intervention. To date, a perplexing 68% of that money remains unclaimed, according to the state Superintendent of Public Instruction.
It’s puzzling to examine school district spending choices so far. Though they have until September 2024 to use the funds, only 9% of the learning recovery dollars have gone toward intensive tutoring and social-emotional support for kids. Just 3% has been spent on helping disadvantaged students. The bulk has instead funded sanitation and bookkeeping costs collected under the label “Other.”
As Sen. Hawkins points out, Washington has made enormous investments in education during the past 10 years, responding to the McCleary ruling. Yet the school system itself seems the same as it ever was.
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2022-11-02T23:17:14+00:00
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seattletimes.com
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https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/editorials/dismal-student-scores-make-clear-normal-doesnt-cut-it/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all
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Osage put its nose to the grindstone and turned back Northwood-Kensett in a 66-55 decision for an Iowa boys basketball victory on February 3.
The last time Osage and Northwood-Kensett played in a 79-41 game on February 4, 2022. For more, click here.
In recent action on January 27, Osage faced off against Nashua-Plainfield . Click here for a recap. Northwood-Kensett took on Buffalo Center North Iowa on January 26 at Northwood-Kensett High School. For more, click here.
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2023-02-04T05:59:54+00:00
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globegazette.com
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https://globegazette.com/sports/high-school/basketball/boys/osage-denies-northwood-kensetts-challenge-66-55/article_16e79377-916a-558c-bd51-430bb87e92ba.html
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NEW YORK, Sept. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for REUN, BLUE, RVPH, TBPH, and BWEN.
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2022-09-19T15:25:15+00:00
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wagmtv.com
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https://www.wagmtv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/19/thinking-about-buying-stock-reunion-neuroscience-bluebird-bio-reviva-pharmaceuticals-theravance-biopharma-or-broadwind/
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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced on Friday new nutrition standards for school meals, keeping the focus on increasing nutritional value and decreasing diet-related diseases.
If implemented, the new standards would limit sugar and sodium intake while increasing the amount of whole grains in meals eaten by more than 30 million students each day during the school year.
"We're proposing these changes now to build in plenty of time for planning and collaboration with all of our school nutrition partners," said Stacy Dean, deputy undersecretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services in a statement. "Implementing the final school nutrition standards will require the support of schools and state agencies."
On the table for the new school meal standards are:
Nutrition advocates argue that school meals are often some of the healthiest that many students have access to because of the nutrition requirements behind every dish served — impacting not only health but educational outcomes as well.
USDA last year released a report that showed added sugars in school meals far exceed the Dietary Guidelines for Americans standard that no more than 10% of calories from meals should come from added sugars. 92% of school breakfasts and 69% of school lunches were found to have exceeded the limit.
The goal is to begin implementing the new standards as soon as 2025, but with a phased-in approach. By 2027, the Food and Nutrition Service aims for sugar to make up less than 10% of school meal calories and sodium to be reduced 30% by 2029.
The new proposal is cited as being a part of the Biden administration's National Strategy on Hunger, Nutrition and Health, which was released during the White House Conference in September.
A new report released on Friday by Healthy Eating Research, a program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, finds that aligning the standards with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans would provide benefits such as increased student participation in the meal programs, reduced food insecurity and improved academic outcomes.
The National Milk Producers Federation and the International Dairy Foods Association voiced support for the new proposed updates, particularly the plan to keep low-fat flavored milk in cafeterias.
Some school advocates are pumping the brakes
And the School Nutrition Association is calling on the department to go back to enforcing the current standards, instead of implementing new rules.
Many of the current school meal standards, originally put in place during the Obama administration, were waived during the pandemic in order to give schools flexibility with what they could serve as they faced supply-chain crunches.
"As schools nationwide contend with persistent supply chain, labor and financial challenges, school meal programs are struggling to successfully maintain current standards and need support, not additional, unrealistic requirements," SNA President Lori Adkins said in a statement, adding that their 2023 survey of school meal directors found 88% are still facing challenges finding whole-grain, low-sodium and low-fat options to meet the current standards.
Current federal waivers given to schools that allow for continued pandemic-era serving flexibilities expire at the end of June.
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2023-02-04T13:56:47+00:00
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upr.org
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https://www.upr.org/npr-news/2023-02-03/the-usda-wants-to-limit-added-sugars-and-sodium-in-school-meals
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BATON ROUGE (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday put on hold a lower court ruling that Louisiana must draw new congressional districts before the 2022 elections to increase Black voting power.
As a result, Louisiana’s November congressional elections will be held using a Republican-drawn map with white majorities in five of six districts. The high court’s ruling paused an earlier decision by a federal judge concerned the map violates the Voting Rights Act and dilutes Black voter clout.
Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat, expressed disappointment with the development and reiterated his stance that creating a second African-American majority district was “about simple math, basic fairness, and the rule of law.”
“Black Louisianans make up one third of our population, and one third of our districts should be majority Black when such a map can be drawn, and, as has been clearly demonstrated, that map is more compact, better adheres to the legal principles governing redistricting, and will perform,” he said.
With the three liberal justices dissenting, the high court short-circuited the earlier order from U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick to create a second majority Black congressional district in Louisiana. As the map stands, five of Louisiana’s six seats appear likely to remain in Republican hands.
State Rep. Vincent Pierre, chairman of the Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus, said he was “disheartened” by the Supreme Court’s decision and added that “hopes for change in the short term have been dashed.” The Democrat described the map approved by the legislature as an “obvious violation” of the Voting Rights Act.
Democrats and the Black Caucus argue that by the numbers at least two of the six districts should have Black majorities.
The court’s action is similar to an order issued in February in Alabama that allowed the state to hold elections in 2022 under a map drawn by Alabama’s GOP-controlled legislature that contains one majority-Black district. Alabama has seven seats in the House of Representatives.
The justices are hearing arguments in the Alabama case in October. The Louisiana case will remain on hold under the court renders a decision on the Alabama case, the justices said.
Every 10 years, state lawmakers — armed with new U.S. Census Bureau information — redraw political boundaries for seats in the U.S. House, state Senate, state House, Board of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Public Service Commission. The process ultimately affects which political parties, viewpoints and people control the government bodies that write laws, set utility rates and create public school policies.
This year’s redistricting process in Louisiana has been a tense political tug-of-war, with the Republican-dominated legislature and Edwards fighting over the boundaries since February, when lawmakers approved a congressional map with white majorities in five of six districts. The governor vetoed the map. However the legislature overrode the veto — marking the first time in nearly three decades that lawmakers refused to accept a governor’s refusal of a bill they had passed.
Sen. Sharon Hewitt, a Slidell Republican and a leader in the remapping effort, has insisted that trying to include the state’s widely dispersed Black population in two separate congressional districts would result in two districts with very narrow Black majorities that could actually diminish Black voter power.
Hewitt tweeted on Tuesday that she was “very pleased” by the Supreme Court’s decision and maintains that the map has always been constitutional.
Along with tense debate on Louisiana’s House and Senate floor, the legal battle to determine the state’s congressional boundaries has played out, simultaneously, at all three levels of the federal judiciary.
In early June, the federal judge Dick struck down the map for violating the Voting Rights Act, citing that the “evidence of Louisiana’s long and ongoing history of voting-related discrimination weighs heavily in favor of Plaintiffs.” Dick, who was appointed by then-President Barack Obama, ordered lawmakers to redesign the map and this time include a second majority Black district by June 20.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal briefly put a hold on Dick’s deadline, but later removed the hold and scheduled to hear arguments in July.
With little willingness to compromise from the GOP and a tight deadline that was not extended, the session ended with no new map and as a result the task was passed to Dick. The judge scheduled a hearing on the issue for Wednesday, but it has been canceled following the Supreme Court’s decision.
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2022-06-29T05:28:41+00:00
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cenlanow.com
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https://www.cenlanow.com/politics/ap-politics/justices-nix-2d-mostly-black-district-in-louisiana-for-2022/
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ATLANTA (AP) — Startup of a nuclear power plant in Georgia will be delayed since its operator found a vibrating pipe in the cooling system during testing.
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Georgia Power Co., the lead owner of Plant Vogtle near Waynesboro, announced the delay Wednesday. The company said that the third reactor at the plant is scheduled to begin generating electricity for the grid in April. The unit of Atlanta-based Southern Co. had previously given a startup deadline of March.
The problem was found during startup testing in a pipe that is part of the reactor's automatic depressurization system, said Georgia Power spokesperson Jacob Hawkins. He said the pipe needs to be braced with additional support.
“It's not a safety issue,” he said.
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Southern Nuclear Operating Co., which will operate the reactor on behalf of Georgia Power and other owners, must get approval for a license modification from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the company said in an investor filing.
The plant includes two operating nuclear reactors and the first two nuclear reactors being built from scratch in the United States in decades. The fourth reactor is still under construction and is supposed to start generating electricity sometime in 2024.
The delay will cost Georgia Power and other co-owners at least $30 million.
A third and a fourth reactor were approved for construction at Vogtle by the Georgia Public Service Commission in 2012, and the third reactor was supposed to start generating power in 2016. The cost of the third and fourth reactors has climbed from an original cost of $14 billion to more than $30 billion.
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Other owners include Oglethorpe Power Corp., the Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia and the city of Dalton. Oglethorpe and MEAG would sell power to cooperatives and municipal utilities across Georgia, as well as in Jacksonville, Florida, and parts of Alabama and the Florida Panhandle.
Radioactive fuel was loaded into the third reactor in October. Federal regulators gave approval after delays over faulty wiring and incomplete inspection documents.
Georgia Power customers are already paying part of the financing cost and state regulators have approved a monthly rate increase as soon as the third reactor begins generating power. But the Georgia Public Service Commission will decide later who pays for the remainder of the costs.
Vogtle is the only nuclear plant under construction in the United States. Its costs and delays could deter other utilities from building such plants, even though they generate electricity without releasing climate-changing carbon emissions.
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2023-01-12T00:43:32+00:00
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seattlepi.com
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https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Georgia-nuclear-plant-startup-delayed-due-to-17711807.php
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Esperion Therapeutics Inc. (ESPR) on Tuesday reported a loss of $61.7 million in its first quarter.
The Ann Arbor, Michigan-based company said it had a loss of 79 cents per share.
The results fell short of Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of six analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for a loss of 65 cents per share.
The biopharmaceutical company posted revenue of $24.3 million in the period, beating Street forecasts. Five analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $21 million.
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2023-05-09T12:26:40+00:00
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ourmidland.com
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https://www.ourmidland.com/business/article/esperion-therapeutics-q1-earnings-snapshot-18087803.php
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Rapper Nipsey Hussle’s convicted killer to be sentenced
By ANDREW DALTON
AP Entertainment Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man convicted of gunning down rapper Nipsey Hussle in 2019 is likely to get life in prison when he is sentenced Wednesday in a Los Angeles courtroom.
Jurors in July found Eric R. Holder Jr., 32, guilty of the first-degree murder of the 33-year-old Grammy-nominated hip-hop artist outside the clothing store Hussle founded, the Marathon, in the South Los Angeles neighborhood where both men grew up.
Holder was also convicted of two counts of attempted voluntary manslaughter and two counts of assault with a firearm for gunfire that hit two other men at the scene who survived.
The sentencing has been delayed in part so defense attorney Aaron Jansen could move for Superior Court Judge H. Clay Jacke to reduce Holder’s conviction to manslaughter or second-degree murder, which the judge rejected in December.
Jacke will have a broad range of possibilities when he sentences Holder at the Thursday morning hearing, but the murder conviction alone carries a term of 25 years to life. The other convictions, and special sentencing circumstances that jurors found true, make it almost certain Holder will spend the rest of his life in prison. Holder was not eligible for the death penalty.
“We hope that there is some resounding peace in the fact that his killer will be in prison likely for the rest of his life,” the lead prosecutor, Deputy District Attorney John McKinney, said after the verdict.
Actor Lauren London, who was Hussle’s partner and the mother of his two young children, did not attend any part of the trial, nor did any of his relatives, and none are expected to give victim impact statements, as often happens at such hearings.
The evidence against Holder was so overwhelming — from eyewitnesses to surveillance cameras from local businesses that captured his arrival, the shooting and his departure — that his attorney conceded during trial that he had shot Hussle.
But Jansen argued to jurors that the heated circumstances of the shooting meant a lesser verdict of voluntary manslaughter was merited.
The jury returned with the first-degree murder verdict after about six hours of deliberations.
Jansen said afterward that he was “deeply disappointed” in the verdict, which they planned to appeal.
He did manage a minor victory for Holder by securing the attempted voluntary manslaughter convictions where prosecutors had sought attempted murder verdicts.
The sentencing, originally scheduled for September but postponed at the request of the defense, brings an end to a legal saga that lasted more than three years and a trial that was often delayed because of the pandemic.
Hussle, whose legal name is Ermias Asghedom, and Holder had known each other for years growing up as members of the Rollin’ 60s in South LA. Both were aspiring rappers. But Holder never found the same success as Hussle, who would become a local hero and a national celebrity.
A chance meeting outside the Marathon, in a shopping center Hussle owned, led to a conversation the two men had about rumors that Holder had been acting as an informant for authorities. Jansen argued that being publicly accused of being a “snitch” by a person as prominent as Hussle brought on a “heat of passion” in Holder that prompted the shooting.
A woman who was with Holder that day took a photo with Hussle before becoming Holder’s unwitting getaway driver, was a key witness for the prosecution.
After years of devoted work that won him underground acclaim — his nickname was both a play on the name of comedian Nipsey Russell and a nod to the hustle the future hip-hop star showed in making music and selling CDs — Hussle had just released his major-label debut album and earned his first Grammy nomination when he was killed.
A year after his death, he was mourned at a memorial at the arena then known as Staples Center, and celebrated in a performance at the Grammy Awards that included DJ Khaled and John Legend.
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2023-02-22T07:48:37+00:00
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SHENZHEN, China, April 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Starting with a focus on women's groups, Waton Securities International (Waton) officially established its Waton Welfare Team in 2021 and launched the "Follow Me · Yunjin Blossoms - Rural Women's Welfare Project." In the two years since the project was launched, Waton Women's Welfare has been on the move, leaving countless heartwarming moments and fulfilling one meaningful mission after another for both Waton and the beneficiaries.
With the preparation and implementation of a series of welfare events such as the "131 Wish List for Rural Women," the Mengjinglai Girls' Summer Dai Culture Learning Experience Camp, and the Warmth for Left-behind Elderly, the Welfare seeds that Waton sowed in Yunnan gradually took root, sprouted, and bloomed into one flower after another. In 2022, as the welfare project developed further, that field of flowers presented us with one cluster after another.
Making Beautiful Changes Happen
The Follow Me Women's Welfare Team held traditional handicraft experience activities and handicraft summer camps for girls in Mengjinglai Village, Daluo Town, Menghai County, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, and supported and led women in the village to carry out women's interest cultivation activities. The launch of the Women's Network Entrepreneurship Development and Optimization Plan, which is dominated by women's network entrepreneurship, helped the beneficiaries find a new path to realize their self-worth. At the same time, the project also made valuable explorations in stimulating the confidence of ethnic minority cultures and discovering ethnic minority cultures, and accumulated valuable experience in women's special services, driving the participation of local and external resources in border ethnic minority villages.
Moving Forward with Determination
The Waton welfare team stated, "We have always believed that no one is an island and should not be an island." On the road of public welfare, Waton has never stopped its efforts. However, in many corners of the world, there are still many groups in various difficulties who need to be discovered, seen, and helped. They are in remote and backward environments, but they also yearn to blossom. As a member of society, Waton hopes to gather more users, more companies and organizations, and more caring people and cross-sector resources through its limited power, to discover and pay attention to these groups that need help, and to form a long-term, diverse, stable, and powerful force of kindness, so that warmth can extend to every corner of the world.
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2023-04-14T20:37:06+00:00
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The deadlines! The arm-twisting! The threat of default!
The U.S. may be just days away from being unable to pay its bills, but Wall Street has seen this movie before, and markets seems unbothered — for now.
"One staffer on Capitol Hill likened this, the debt ceiling, to passing a kidney stone," says Libby Cantrill, the head of public policy at PIMCO, which manages some of the world's largest bond funds. "We all know it will pass. It's just a question of how painful it will be."
On Wall Street, everybody acknowledges a debt default would be devastating for markets and the economy, and most investors believe lawmakers will eventually clinch a deal as they have in the past.
"We think the stakes are too high for both sides of the aisle to really not reconcile," says Eric Freedman, chief investment officer at U.S. Bank Asset Management Group.
Nonetheless, portfolio managers are still gaming out what could happen if lawmakers are unable to pass a deal to raise or suspend the debt ceiling.
If that were to be the case, the impact would be severe. Here's what to expect.
How bad would it be?
At the very least, there would be a huge selloff on Wall Street. In its latest analysis, UBS says the S&P 500 could fall by at least 20%.
But it's hard to predict just how bad things could get because the U.S. has never defaulted on its debt.
Analysts believe the selloff could match or surpass a precipitous drop in September 2008, when the House of Representatives rejected a $700 billion rescue package as the U.S. was on the precipice of the global financial crisis.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped about 778 points that day, which was then the largest single-day drop by points in the index's history.
A default would also send the U.S bond markets sharply lower.
Treasurys have been seen as some of the safest investments worldwide. They are held by companies and countries the world over and used as collateral in all kinds of financial transactions. If the federal government failed to pay bondholders, it would have unimaginable consequences for the standing of the U.S.
A default would also weaken the U.S. dollar, which is widely seen as the world's most important currency given the critical role it plays in the global economy.
"The world's main reserve currency and the world's 'safe' asset, which form the bedrock of the global financial system, are suddenly a lot less safe and should be repriced," UBS economists wrote in a May 19 note to clients. "How that cascades through the system is unpredictable."
Analysts also believe credit ratings agencies would downgrade the country's credit rating.
Currently, the U.S. has a "AAA" rating from two of the three major credit agencies. The U.S. suffered a downgrade in 2011 from the other major ratings company, when S&P Global Ratings lowered the country's rating to AA+ amidst another round of debt negotiations under President Obama.
How would the market turmoil affect me?
Most obviously, a sharp drop in stocks would hit retirement or other investment funds across the board. At the same time, bond markets determine all kinds of borrowing costs, which would go sharply higher if there were a U.S. default.
This would be more bad news for anyone hoping to buy a house or a car at a time when borrowing costs have already risen after the Federal Reserve hiked interest rates aggressively to fight high inflation. Mortgage rates, for example, would climb even higher, as would interest rates on credit cards.
Inflation has cooled some, but it is still nowhere near the Fed's 2% target, and many economists expect the U.S. is headed for a recession. On top of that, there is still turmoil in the banking sector after the recent failures of three regional lenders.
"There are already significant pressures on the U.S. economy," says Seema Shah, the senior global investment strategist at Principal Global Investments. "It cannot afford to have another major shock landing on its head."
Shah echoes what policymakers have said, that a government default would not only kickstart a domestic recession, but also potentially another global financial crisis.
Is this how it's going to be?
As long as the U.S. has this limit on how much it can borrow, it seems likely.
Lawmakers have voted to raise the debt ceiling more than 100 times, but debates about the debt limit have become increasingly fractious and used as a political weapon.
In recent days, business leaders have gotten more engaged with the process.
On Thursday, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen met with dozens of bank CEOs, while more than 100 executives wrote a letter to President Biden and congressional leaders, warning them of the consequences of inaction and encouraging them raise the debt limit.
"Action to end the pending debt crisis is necessary now," they wrote, noting a default "would weaken our position in the world financial system."
"We strongly urge that an accord be reached quickly so that the country can avert this potentially devastating scenario.
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2023-05-21T12:27:24+00:00
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Former ASU baseball star Drew Maggi proves there is no expiration date on dreams
Opinion: Baseball player Drew Maggi had 4,494 plate appearances in 1,154 games over 13 years, all in the minor leagues. Then …
The most important story of the week involved a 33-year-old baseball player you’ve never heard of getting his first Major League at-bat … and striking out.
If that somehow doesn’t seem to you like a significant news event, it is only because those of us in the media have lost our way, foolishly focusing all of our energy on the madness and mayhem of everyday existence instead of the wonderment of dreams.
This is a story about dreams.
In the early 2000s, Drew Maggi was a star multi-sport athlete at Brophy Prep in Phoenix. He went on to play baseball at Arizona State University, becoming a standout on what was then one of college baseball’s most dominant teams.
He played shortstop and was the leadoff hitter. In 2009, his coach, Pat Murphy, said of him, “Maggi’s been the difference maker on the team. Our offense goes when Maggi goes.”
Drew Maggi went pro, then waited and waited
In 2010, while only a sophomore, Maggi was drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates and decided to go pro.
That was 4,494 plate appearances, 1,154 games and 13 years ago. All spent in the minor leagues.
Last Sunday, Pirates’ outfielder Brian Reynolds went on bereavement leave and the team called up Maggi from its Double-A affiliate in Altoona, Pa.
Two games were played with Maggi on the bench.
During that time, baseball fans in Pittsburgh became aware of his long, long stay in the minor leagues.
Other athletes would have hung up their spikes long ago. Maggi kept playing.
'It's the best strikeout I ever had,' he said
On Wednesday, with the Pirates safely ahead, Maggi was inserted as a pinch hitter in a game between Pittsburgh and the Los Angeles Dodgers.
It was his first Major League at bat.
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As Maggi walked to the plate, fans chanted his name and gave him a standing ovation.
He struck out on four pitches but said afterward, “It’s the best strikeout I ever had.”
Family from Phoenix was there.
Maggi said, “There were a lot of ‘I love you. We’re proud of you. You did it!’
“I saw my dad crying. I don’t think I ever saw him cry before. All those years, I wondered what I would say to my parents if that moment ever were to come. They’ve been right there with me. Hearing those words made it all worthwhile. I know the last 13 years have not been wasted.”
In reality, Maggi knocked it out of the park
Over the years, Maggi would have heard rumblings that he should quit.
Individuals who give up on their dreams often try to talk others into not pursuing theirs.
But for some people, like Maggi, dreams do not have an expiration date.
He said, “I love baseball. I was grinding for 13 years but I was doing what I loved. The ultimate goal is the big leagues. Just kind of getting here, my name is in history. I put on a big league uniform, and I shared the field with the world’s greatest players.”
That’s not striking out.
That’s knocking it out of the park.
Reach Montini at ed.montini@arizonarepublic.com.
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2023-04-28T15:15:46+00:00
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Biden faces building political pressure as classified document probe takes shape
Some things were trending in the right direction for President Joe Biden as he opened the year.
His approval ratings were ticking up. Inflation was slowing. And as Democrats united behind his likely reelection campaign, Republicans were at war with themselves after a disappointing midterm season.
But on Thursday, Biden's political standing took a huge hit after Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel to investigate the Democratic president's handling of classified documents.
Democrats publicly and privately conceded that the stunning development was, at best, an unwelcome distraction at an inopportune time that muddies the case against Donald Trump. The Republican former president is facing a special counsel of his own and is under federal criminal investigation for his handling of classified documents and other potential transgressions.
From the public, though, Biden, who called Trump "irresponsible," for his handling of classified documents, is facing charges of hypocrisy and lacking transparency.
Nonetheless, Thursday's appointment of a special counsel thrusts legal uncertainty over the sitting president and could revive debate among Democrats about the wisdom of him seeking a second term.
“No one’s going to say this is helpful,” veteran Democratic strategist James Carville said. “It’s pretty evident that’s not the case.”
As Democrats recoiled into a defensive posture, Trump's would-be Republican rivals in 2024 acknowledged that the contours of the upcoming race had shifted.
Trump “is the luckiest man in American politics,” said John Bolton, who served as national security adviser under Trump and is considering a Republican White House bid. “This ought to be disqualifying to both of them."
Thus begins a messy election season in which the current and former presidents of the United States are both under investigation by special counsels as they gear up for a potential rematch in 2024. Many voters in both parties were already calling for a new generation of leadership to emerge in the nascent presidential contest. Such calls are now growing louder.
“On many political fronts, Biden’s touted 2024 campaign is potentially vulnerable,” said Norman Soloman, a progressive Democrat who leads the so-called Don't Run Joe campaign, which is already running television ads against Biden in key states. “Democrats and the country as a whole would be much better off this year and next if he’s not running for president.”
The 80-year-old president has already indicated he plans to seek a second term, but he has yet to make a final decision. His allies believe he is likely to make a formal announcement after the end of March.
So far, at least, no high-profile Democrats appear willing to challenge Biden in a prospective presidential primary contest. Privately, however, some Democratic officials believe the new federal probe may help motivate an insurgent candidate.
One of Biden's potential challengers, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, recently told The Associated Press that he would make a decision about his 2024 intentions “at the appropriate time.” Nina Turner, who chaired Sanders' 2020 presidential campaign, said after Thursday's announcement that she hopes a “freedom-fighting progressive” mounts a primary challenge against Biden in 2024.
“The American people certainly deserve better choices — Republicans and Democrats,” Turner said, applauding the government’s decision to review Biden’s handling of classified documents in the same way it's investigating Trump. “We shouldn't have these men shoved down our throats.”
Garland's appointment of a special counsel followed Biden’s acknowledgement Thursday morning that documents with classified markings from his time as President Barack Obama's vice president were found in the garage of his Delaware home and in his personal library, in addition to documents already discovered in a locked closet at an office he used after leaving the White House.
Garland said Biden’s lawyers informed the Justice Department on Thursday morning of the discovery of a classified document at Biden’s home, after FBI agents first retrieved other documents from the garage in December.
Speaking to reporters Thursday, Biden said he was cooperating “fully and completely with the Justice Department’s review.”
“People know I take classified documents and classified material seriously,” Biden said. He added: “My Corvette’s in a locked garage.”
There are differences between Trump's and Biden's cases, including the volume of documents discovered and the gravity of the ongoing grand jury investigation into the matter at Mar-a-Lago, Trump's Palm Beach, Florida, home.
Roughly 300 records with classification markings were recovered from Mar-a-Lago, a private club that hosts constant events. The search of Trump’s property was the culmination of months of back-and-forth between the government and Trump’s representatives, who repeatedly resisted efforts to return the missing documents. And the Justice Department says classified documents were “likely concealed and removed” from a storage room as part of what they allege was an effort to obstruct the federal investigation.
A warrant for the search showed the FBI was investigating crimes, including the willful retention of national defense information and efforts to obstruct the federal probe.
Trump has seized on the latest development, potentially seeking to use it to undermine the investigation into his actions.
“It’s over,“ Trump said in an interview with conservative talk radio host Mark Levin on Thursday evening. ”When all of these documents started coming out and Biden had them, it really changed the complexion and the intensity that they were showing to me because, you know, what they did is – I don’t say far worse, I did nothing wrong — what they did is not good. What they did is bad.”
Ignoring the ethical questions surrounding the case and focusing solely on the political ramifications, some Democrats were hopeful, but not certain, that voters might distinguish between Biden's cooperative approach involving a smaller trove of documents he allegedly possessed by mistake and what federal prosecutors described as Trump's willful obstruction of hundreds of government secrets.
“It’s all the difference in the world between having something you don’t know you have and having something you know you have and aren’t supposed to have,” Carville said. “Is that going to get lost among a third of the country? Probably so.”
Bolton, a fierce Trump critic, predicted that the significant legal differences between the two cases would "get lost in the fog.” Now, he finds it hard to believe that Trump can be prosecuted for the Mar-a-Lago documents, regardless of the circumstances.
“I don’t see how a criminal case goes forward at this point,” Bolton said. “I just think it’s such a cloud over the prosecution.”
While the ground may have shifted, Trump’s legal challenges aren’t going to disappear.
Two months ago, Garland appointed former Justice Department public corruption prosecutor Jack Smith to lead investigations into the classified documents discovered at Mar-a-Lago as well as key aspects of a separate probe involving the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and efforts to undo the 2020 election.
Federal prosecutors have been especially focused on a scheme by Trump allies to elevate fake electors in key battleground states won by Biden as a way to subvert the vote. They issued subpoenas to multiple state Republican Party chairmen.
Democratic strategist Josh Schwerin described the latest development as “certainly not ideal.”
“I think everyone would wish this hadn’t happened, including the president,” he said. “But it’s important to keep all of this in context: Everyone views President Biden as a far more responsible figure than Donald Trump. And that cannot be forgotten.”
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2023-01-13T18:58:09+00:00
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wesh.com
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — (AP) — The suspect in a mass shooting at a Colorado Springs gay nightclub is expected to plead guilt y Monday in an attack last year that killed five people and wounded 17 at a longtime sanctuary for the LGBTQ+ community in the mostly conservative city.
The plea could bring a life sentence for suspect Anderson Lee Aldrich and end the court case just seven months after the shooting — sparing victim’s families and survivors a potentially painful trial that would force them to revisit the attack.
Victims’ family members and survivors are expected to speak at Monday's hearing about how their lives were forever altered by the terror that erupted just before midnight on Nov. 19 when the suspect walked into Club Q and indiscriminately fired an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle.
Aldrich, who is nonbinary and uses they and them pronouns, had been arrested over a year before the attack for threatening their grandparents and vowing to become "the next mass killer." But, charges in that case were ultimately dropped.
Monday's hearing follows a series of jailhouse phone calls from Aldrich to The Associated Press expressing remorse and the intention to face the consequences at this court hearing. Several survivors told the AP about a planned plea agreement after being approached about Aldrich's comments. They said prosecutors had notified them that Aldrich will plead guilty to charges that would ensure a sentence of life behind bars.
Federal and state authorities and defense attorneys have declined to comment on a possible plea agreement for Aldrich but Colorado law requires victims to be notified of such developments.
Aldrich faces more than 300 state counts, including murder and hate crimes. The U.S. Justice Department is considering pursuing federal hate crime charges, according to a senior law enforcement official familiar with the matter who spoke to AP on condition of anonymity to discuss the ongoing case.
Aldrich hinted at plans to carry out violent attacks at least a year before the Club Q assault. In June 2021, Aldrich's grandparents told authorities that they were warned not to stand in the way of a plan to stockpile guns, ammo, body armor and a homemade bomb to become “the next mass killer.” Aldrich was then arrested after a standoff with SWAT officers that was livestreamed on Facebook and the evacuation of 10 nearby homes, telling officers “If they breach, I’m a f----ing blow it to holy hell!” Aldrich eventually surrendered.
However, the charges against Aldrich were thrown out in July 2022 after Aldrich's mother and grandparents, the victims in the case, refused to cooperate with prosecutors, evading efforts to serve them with subpoenas to testify, according to court documents unsealed after the shooting. Other relatives told a judge they feared Aldrich would hurt their grandparents if released, painting a picture of an isolated, violent person who did not have a job and was given $30,000 that was spent largely on the purchase of 3D printers to make guns, the records showed.
Aldrich was released from jail then and authorities kept two guns — a ghost gun pistol and an MM15 rifle — seized in the arrest. But there was nothing to stop Aldrich from legally purchasing more firearms, raising questions immediately after the shooting about whether authorities should have sought a red flag order to prevent such purchases.
The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office said it would not have been able to seek a court order stopping Aldrich from buying or possessing guns because the 2021 arrest record was sealed after the charges were dropped. There was no new evidence that they could use to prove that Aldrich posed a threat “in the near future,” the sheriff’s office said.
Investigators later revealed that the two guns Aldrich had during the Club Q attack — the rifle and a handgun — appeared to be ghost guns, or firearms without serial numbers that are homemade and do not require an owner to pass a background check.
Aldrich told AP in one of the interviews from jail they were on a “very large plethora of drugs” and abusing steroids at the time of the attack. But they did not answer directly regarding the hate crimes charges. When asked whether the attack was motivated by hate, Aldrich said only that was “completely off base.” Aldrich's attorneys, who have not disputed Aldrich's role in the shooting, have also pushed back on hate being the reason.
Some survivors who listened to the recorded phone calls saw Aldrich's comments as an attempt to avoid the death penalty which still exists in the federal system. Colorado abolished it in 2020 and life without prison is now the mandated sentence for first-degree murder in the state. They objected to Aldrich's unwillingness to discuss a motive and their use of passive, general language like “I just can’t believe what happened” and “I wish I could turn back time.”
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2023-06-26T07:05:51+00:00
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SARMS are considered to be a better proposition to steroids for bodybuilders looking to build muscle, increase strength and lose body fat quickly. As with most performance enhancing supplements a post cycle therapy (PCT) protocol of some sort should be used. Post cycle therapy after using SARM is important as it can protect you hard earned muscle gains and help your body recover effectively. This article highlights what a SARMS PCT is, how they work and which PCT supplements to use.
SARMS Without PCT - Quick Look
The supplement industry is ever changing. There are now hybrid SARMs available that are both legal to buy and use for bodybuilding and to improve athletic performance. They are also free from side effects - and there is no need for a post cycle therapy.
Most Popular SARMS Without PCT
There are about a dozen SARMS that are used to build muscle, increase strength and reduce body fat. Here are the 4 most popular and commonly used. None of these SARM brands need post cycle therapy and all of them are legal to purchase.
RAD 140 (Testol 140) - for muscle gains, increasing testosterone levels
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Testol 140 is RAD 140 branded testolone hybrid legal SARM.
Increase muscle on bulking cycles
Boost natural testosterone production
Reveal lean and cut physique
LGD 4033 (Ligan 4033) - for lean muscle mass on bulking cycles
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Ligan 4033 is a branded legal Lingandrol.
Increases energy levels
Gain muscle and bigger pumps
Recovery quicker, combat fatigue
MK 677 (Ibuta 677) - for Increasing HGH and blood flow
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Ibuta 677 is a legal and safe Ibutamoren
Increase human growth hormone
Improve blood flow
Promotes muscle fullness
GW501516 (C-Dine 501516) - for fat loss on cutting cycles
CLICK to view C-Dine 501516 price (No PCT Needed)
C-Dine 501516 is a legal Cardarine and best used on cutting cycles to reduce body fat.
Reduces excess body fat
Promotes lean muscle mass
Reveals a ripped physique
There are several other legal SARMs that don't require post cycle therapy that can be combined into a SARMS Stack. An ULTIMATE STACK combines everything you need to bulking, cutting, strength and recovery.
CLICK to view ULTIMATE SARMS STACK (without the need for a PCT)
What Is A SARMs PCT?
A SARM PCT is a post-cycle therapy that helps to minimize the side effects of SARMS use. The protocols are typically used after a cycle of SARMS use, and they help to restore the body's natural hormone levels. PCT's can also help to improve recovery time and reduce the risk of injuries.
What are SARMS
SARMs (Selective Androgen Receptor Modulators) are a class of therapeutic compounds that have similar properties to anabolic agents, but with reduced androgenic properties. This makes them ideal for treating conditions like muscle wasting and osteoporosis, as well as age-related frailty.
SARMs act on the androgen receptors, which are found in both muscle and bone tissue. This results in an increase in muscle mass and bone density, without the negative side effects associated with traditional anabolic steroids. SARMS are still in the early stages of research, but they hold great promise as a safe and effective treatment for a variety of conditions.
LATEST: What are the best SARMs for Cutting - to reduce body fat
How to Build a PCT Protocol for SARMs
A PCT, or post cycle therapy, is a vital part of any SARMs protocol. As SARMs are not androgenic, they will not cause the suppression of testosterone. However, there are some SARMs that are more potent than others and may require a PCT. These SARMs include Ostarine (MK2866), Andarine (S4), Ligandrol (LGD-4033), RAD 140 (testolone), and YK-11. These SARMs have been linked to suppressing testosterone levels. The severity of the suppression is dose and timing dependent. When designing a PCT protocol, a few things must be taken into consideration.
The type of SARM used must be considered. Second, the duration of the cycle must be taken into account. Next, the dosage of the SARM must be considered. Then, the individual's response to the SARM must be taken into consideration. With all of these factors in mind, a PCT protocol can be designed that will help to mitigate any suppression of testosterone levels caused by SARMs.
Why Do Bodybuilders and Athletes Use SARMS
Recent studies have shown that SARMS can help to increase muscle mass, decrease body fat, and improve strength and endurance. SARMS work by binding to the androgen receptors in muscles and bone, stimulating growth and repair. In addition, SARMS have been shown to increase levels of growth hormone and insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1), which play a key role in muscle growth. As a result, SARMS are an effective way to build muscle mass and improve athletic performance.
Why Do You Need Post Cycle Therapy After a SARM Cycle?
The main reason why post cycle therapy (PCT) is needed after a SARM cycle is to jumpstart the body's own natural production of testosterone. Testosterone is responsible for many things, including muscle growth, fat loss, and overall health. When exogenous testosterone is introduced into the body, the body will signal the pituitary gland to stop producing LH and FSH.
This in turn will cause the Leydig cells to stop producing testosterone. Once the exogenous testosterone is removed, it can take some time before the Leydig cells begin working again. PCT helps to jumpstart this process by providing the body with the nutrients it needs to produce testosterone naturally.
How Do PCT's Work?
A PCT after a SARMS cycle is designed to offer two main benefits
1. Reactivating Testosterone Production
Post cycle therapy, or PCT, is a method of treatment used to reactivate the body's own production of testosterone following a course of anabolic steroids. Anabolic steroids suppress the body's ability to produce testosterone, so post cycle therapy is designed to kick start testosterone production and help the body recover from steroid use. The most common approach to PCT is to use hormone replacement therapy, or HRT.
This involves supplementing the body with exogenous testosterone in order to jumpstart the production of endogenous testosterone. However, there are a number of other approaches that can be taken, and the most effective approach may vary from person to person. Regardless of the approach taken, the goal of PCT is to re-establish normal hormone levels as soon as possible so that the individual can return to their prior level of health and well-being.
2. Managing Estrogen Levels
A key component of PCT is managing estrogen levels. Estrogen is a hormone that can cause various side effects when present in high levels, such as water retention, bloating, and gynecomastia (enlarged breasts in men).
By managing estrogen levels during PCT, users can minimize these side effects and help their bodies recover more quickly and effectively. There are several ways to manage estrogen levels during the recovery cycle, including the use of SERMs (selective estrogen receptor modulators) and aromatase inhibitors. SERMs work by blocking the estrogen receptors, while aromatase inhibitors prevent the conversion of testosterone to estrogen. Both of these strategies can be effective in managing estrogen levels during recovery cycles or therapy.
What are the Most Popular PCT for SARMS (PCT Supplements)?
These are the most common and popular PCT supplements to use after a SARM Cycle (both bulking and cutting phases).
Nolvadex (Tamoxifen Citrate)
Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG)
Enclomiphene
Rebirth
Clomid (Clomiphene Citrate)
PCT Side Effects
The main goal of PCT is to minimize the side effects of steroids or SARMS, such as decreased libido, fatigue, and depression. Unfortunately, PCT'S can also cause its own set of side effects, such as headaches, hot flashes, and fatigue. In some cases, these side effects can be quite severe. Therefore, it is important to speak with a doctor before starting PCT.
When should I start my PCT?
There are a few things to consider when deciding the best time to take PCT after a SARMS cycle.
How long was the cycle? For shorter cycles, PCT can be started sooner.
What were the dosages used during the cycle? Higher dosages will require a longer break before starting PCT.
What other compounds were used in conjunction with the SARMS? If other suppressive compounds were used, it may be necessary to wait a bit longer before beginning PCT.
How well did the individual respond to the SARMS cycle? Some individuals may need a longer break before starting a cycle in order to fully recover.
Overall, there is no hard and fast rule for when to start PCT after a SARMS cycle. However, by taking into account the factors listed above, individuals can make an informed decision about when to start their PCT protocol.
How Long Between SARM Cycles?
Individuals new to using SARMS may cycle them for 8-12 weeks. A common dosing protocol is 25mg-50mg per day, taken orally. After a cycle is completed, it is recommended that users take a break for at least 4 weeks before beginning another cycle.
This allows the body time to adjust and return to its normal hormone levels. Some individuals may choose to extend their break to 6-8 weeks, or even longer. It is important to consult with a medical professional before starting any type of SARM cycle. They can help you determine the best dosage and schedule for your individual needs.
What is the Best Over the Counter PCT for SARMs
When it comes to SARMs, or selective androgen receptor modulators, there is no one-size-fits-all answer to the question of what the best over the counter PCT is. The reason for this is that each individual will have different goals in mind when they start using SARMs, and as such, will need to tailor their post cycle therapy accordingly. However, there are a few key factors that should be considered when selecting an over the counter PCT for SARMs.
First, it is important to choose a product that contains high-quality ingredients that have been proven to be effective in clinical trials. Second, the product should be designed specifically for SARMs users, as generic PCT products may not be as effective. Finally, it is important to select a product that is easy to use and that will not cause any unwanted side effects. By taking all of these factors into account, you can be sure to find the best over the counter PCT for your specific needs.
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Best PCT for SARMS - Do I need a Really Need One - Conclusion
The short answer is yes. While some may believe that they do not need a post-cycle therapy (PCT) when using selective androgen receptor modulators (SARMs), this is incorrect. PCT is necessary in order to ensure the safety of the user as well as to prevent any negative long-term effects. SARMs are often compared to steroids, and while they are not as potent, they still carry many of the same risks.
These risks can be minimized with the use of an after cycle supplement. Some of the best PCT for SARMS include preventing muscle loss, preserving gains, maintaining sexual health, and in some cases, helping the organs recover from the cycle. While there are some drawbacks to using a PCT, such as the cost and the length of time it takes, these are outweighed by the benefits. For anyone considering using SARMs, a PCT should be an essential part of their cycle.
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2022-11-01T03:08:23+00:00
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dailyuw.com
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https://www.dailyuw.com/ask_the_experts/best-pct-for-sarms-post-cycle-therapy-after-sarms-cycle/article_ea655448-595c-11ed-91c9-97ba027d481f.html
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Minnesota Lynx vs. Phoenix Mercury: Betting Trends, Record ATS, Home/Road Splits
Napheesa Collier and the Phoenix Mercury will duke it out when the Minnesota Lynx (8-9) meet the Mercury (3-13) at Target Center on Friday, July 7 at 8:00 PM ET.
Minnesota prevailed by a final score of 90-83 in its last game against Indiana. Leading the way on offense for the Lynx was Collier, who wound up with 21 points and eight rebounds. Kayla McBride posted 21 points and six rebounds. Phoenix is coming into this game having lost to New York 99-95 in their last outing. Diana Taurasi led the team with 23 points and seven assists.
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Lynx vs. Mercury Game Time and Info
- Who's the favorite?: Lynx (-175 to win)
- Who's the underdog?: Mercury (+145 to win)
- What's the spread?: Lynx (-4.5)
- What's the over/under?: 163.5
- When: Friday, July 7, 2023 at 8:00 PM ET
- Where: Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota
- TV: ION
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Lynx Season Stats
- The Lynx are seventh in the WNBA with 80.2 points per game so far this year. At the other end of the court, they rank eighth with 83.9 points allowed per contest.
- Minnesota is averaging 34.8 rebounds per game (sixth-ranked in WNBA) this season, while allowing 34.3 rebounds per contest (fifth-ranked).
- This season, the Lynx rank seventh in the league in assists, averaging 18.9 per game.
- With 12.9 turnovers per game, Minnesota is fifth in the WNBA. It forces 12.7 turnovers per contest, which ranks eighth in the league.
- It's been a tough stretch for the Lynx in terms of three-pointers, as they are tallying just 6.5 made threes per game (third-worst in WNBA) and are draining just 30.6% of their attempted three-pointers (second-worst).
- Minnesota has found it difficult to stop threes, ranking worst in the league with 9.2 treys allowed per game. It ranks ninth by allowing a 35.9% three-point percentage to opposing teams this season.
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Lynx Home/Away Splits
- The Lynx have scored at a higher rate when playing at home than away from home in the 2023 season (81.1 at home versus 79.3 on the road), but have allowed the same number of points at home as on the road (83.9 opponent points per game regardless of venue).
- In home games, Minnesota averages 35.3 rebounds per game and allow its opponents to grab 32.5, while on the road it averages 34.4 per game and allows 35.9. The Lynx average 19.5 assists per home contest, 1.2 more than their average on the road in 2023 (18.3).
- During 2023, Minnesota has more turnovers at home than on the road (13.5 turnovers per game at home versus 12.3 on the road), and has forced fewer turnovers at home than on the road (12.1 per game at home versus 13.2 on the road).
- The Lynx knock down 0.2 fewer three-pointers when playing at home (6.4 per game) than on the road (6.6).They also shoot a lower percentage at home (30.5% in home games compared to 30.6% on the road).
- Minnesota allows 1.5999999999999996 fewer three-pointers when playing at home (8.4 per game) than on the road (10). It also allows a lower three-point shooting percentage at home (35.3% in home games compared to 36.4% on the road).
Lynx Moneyline and ATS Records
- The Lynx are 2-3 in games they were favored on the moneyline (winning 40% of those games).
- The Lynx have played as a moneyline favorite of -175 or shorter in just two games this season, which they split 1-1.
- Against the spread, Minnesota is 9-7-0 this season.
- Minnesota has one win ATS (1-1) as a 4.5-point favorite or greater this year.
- The implied moneyline probability in this matchup gives the Lynx a 63.6% chance to win.
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2023-07-07T14:49:10+00:00
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kcrg.com
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Audio-first media company produces new original podcasts at the intersection of climate change with business, technology, politics, culture, and more
BOSTON, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Post Script Media, maker of podcasts for a changing planet, announced $2 million raised in a series seed funding round, led by Prelude Ventures. The funding will be used to expand the Post Script team and support the launch of original podcasts on the intersection of climate change with critical areas of our economy, including food, fashion, transportation, urban tech, travel and finance.
"We truly believe that climate is an 'everything' story. We're building a media company to reflect that in the audio space," said Post Script Media Co-Founder and Executive Editor Stephen Lacey. "I'm honored and humbled that our work has already received critical acclaim."
Post Script is behind the two-time Webby award winning podcast, Where the Internet Lives, for Google, Inc., and the Anthem-award winning podcast A Matter of Degrees.
Post Script Media currently produces the original shows The Carbon Copy and Catalyst With Shayle Kann, in partnership with Canary Media. The Big Switch, is about the transitions underway in the economy to a zero-carbon future, and Columbia Energy Exchange, provides in-depth conversations with the world's top energy and climate leaders from government, business, academia and civil society – both produced with Columbia University. With Powerhouse, Post Script produces Watt It Takes, a monthly podcast that tells the stories of founders who are building our climate-positive future.
New podcasts launching this month include Climavores, a show about eating on a changing planet and Hot Buttons, featuring weekly observations and lively debate about the future of the fashion industry as it reckons with its impact on the climate, natural resources, and worker rights.
Prior to founding Post Script Media in 2018, co-founders Stephen Lacey and Scott Clavenna, were Editor-in-Chief and CEO at Greentech Media, respectively, and were the creators of Greentech Media's industry-leading podcasts The Energy Gang and The Interchange, now Wood Mackenzie podcasts.
"We have an opportunity here to help bring more people into the conversation around sustainability and climate change," said Scott Clavenna, CEO and co-founder of Post Script Media. "In addition to our podcasts on clean energy tech and solutions, we think it's important to have discussions that center on people's passions and interests first, what they eat, wear and drive. We're excited to get to work developing our new slate of shows."
"We believe that solving climate depends both on building better systems and communicating about the challenges in powerful, relatable ways," said Gabriel Kra, Managing Director at Prelude Ventures. "We are proud to partner with Scott and Stephen, master storytellers, to explain not only how these problems relate to our lives, but also how we can solve them."
Post Script Media makes podcasts for a changing planet. Founded by Stephen Lacey and Scott Clavenna, Post Script has produced some of the most important podcasts in the energy and climate space, including The Carbon Copy, Catalyst With Shayle Kann, The Big Switch, Columbia Energy Exchange, and Watt it Takes. Its production of Where the Internet Lives for Google won two Webby Awards in 2022, including Best Technology Podcast and People's Voice Winner, Technology Podcast. Its production of A Matter of Degrees was a bronze winner in the inaugural Anthem Awards in 2022. Post Script Media is based in Boston, MA, with a team of audio professionals located throughout the US.
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2022-06-21T10:39:06+00:00
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wafb.com
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https://www.wafb.com/prnewswire/2022/06/21/post-script-media-launches-new-line-up-announces-2m-funding-round/
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — The International Committee of the Red Cross said a convoy of trucks carrying medicine arrived in Tigray’s regional capital Mekele on Tuesday, the first aid delivery by the group to the embattled region since August.
“It is an enormous relief for us to deliver this cargo,” said Nicolas Von Arx, the ICRC head of delegation in Ethiopia. “The health care system in the region is under extreme pressure and these deliveries are a lifeline for people who need medical help.”
The trucks delivered 40 tons of “essential medical items, emergency medicines and surgical equipment,” the ICRC said in a statement.
On Saturday, military leaders from the warring sides signed an accord in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, to implement a truce signed in South Africa earlier this month. It commits the parties to facilitate “unhindered” humanitarian access to Tigray, home to more than 5 million people, after more than two years of aid restrictions.
The cease-fire agreement has been hailed as an opportunity to end the Tigray war, which U.S. diplomats say has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths.
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2022-11-15T15:25:14+00:00
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everythinglubbock.com
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https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/international/ap-ethiopia-status-of-western-tigray-to-be-settled-by-law/
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The Humane Society of Utah (HSU) is waiving adoption fees for the fifth year of its “Fall in Love Adoption Special” event.
This week, Nov. 14 -18, all animals adopted at the HSU will have no adoption fees, courtesy of Mountain America Credit Union. Animals will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis for adoption without need for appointments, though there will still be the regular adoption approval process.
Since the event’s inception in 2018, more than 500 pets have been adopted, and the HSU is hoping for a similarly large turnout this year, as they’ve seen a large increase in animals but a slowdown in adoptions.
Those looking to take advantage of this cost-effective chance for a forever friend can go to the Humane Society of Utah at 4242 S 300 W in Murray, UT, open 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
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2022-11-15T01:44:59+00:00
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upr.org
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https://www.upr.org/utah-news/2022-11-14/the-humane-society-of-utah-is-waiving-pet-adoption-fees-this-week
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McDonald’s found liable for hot Chicken McNugget that fell from Happy Meal and burned girl
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — McDonald’s and a franchise holder are at fault after a hot Chicken McNugget from a Happy Meal fell on a little girl’s leg and caused second-degree burns, a jury in South Florida has found.
A second jury will determine how much McDonald’s USA and its franchise owner, Upchurch Foods, will pay the child and her mother, the South Florida SunSentinel reported.
Thursday’s decision was split, with jurors finding the franchise holder liable for negligence and failure to warn customers about the risk of hot food, and McDonald’s USA liable for failing to provide instructions for safe handling of the food. McDonald’s USA was not found to be negligent, and the jury dismissed the argument that the product was defective.
“This was an unfortunate incident, but we respectfully disagree with the verdict,” McDonald’s USA said in a statement. “Our customers should continue to rely on McDonald’s to follow policies and procedures for serving Chicken McNuggets safely.”
The jury heard two days of testimony and arguments about the 2019 episode that left the 4-year-old girl with a burned upper thigh before finding McDonald’s to blame.
Philana Holmes testified that she bought Happy Meals for her son and daughter at a drive-thru window at a McDonald’s in Tamarac, near Fort Lauderdale, the SunSentinel reported. She said she handed the food to her children, who were in the back seat.
After she drove away, her daughter started screaming. The mother testified she didn’t know what was wrong until she pulled over to help the girl, identified in court as Olivia, the newspaper reported. She saw the burn on the girl’s leg and took photos on her iPhone, which included audio clips of the child’s screams.
The sound of the girl’s screams were played in court.
The child, who is autistic, did not testify, the newspaper reported.
Lawyers for McDonald’s noted that the food had to be hot to avoid salmonella poisoning, and that the nuggets were not meant to be pressed between a seat belt and human flesh for more than two minutes.
The girl’s parents sued, saying that McDonald’s and the franchise owner failed to adequately train employees, failed to warn customers about the “dangerous” temperature of the food, and for cooking the food to a much higher temperature than necessary.
While both sides agreed the nugget caused the burns, the family’s lawyers argued the temperature was above 200 degrees (93 Celsius), while the defense said it was no more than 160 degrees (71 Celsius).
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2023-05-12T13:40:55+00:00
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kaaltv.com
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https://www.kaaltv.com/news/business-news/mcdonalds-found-liable-for-hot-chicken-mcnugget-that-fell-from-happy-meal-and-burned-girl/
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell was tricked into an extended phone call in January with Russian pranksters posing as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, during which Powell appeared to discuss the economic impact of interest rate hikes.
Videos of the phone call have been posted on social media. In one clip, Powell says a “recession is almost as likely as very slow growth” this year. Powell has said before that the Fed’s rapid series of rate hikes in the past year would slow the economy and even potentially cause a recession.
A spokesperson for the Federal Reserve said “the video appears to have been edited, and I cannot confirm it is accurate.”
“Chair Powell participated in a conversation in January with someone who misrepresented himself as the Ukrainian president,” the spokesperson said. “It was a friendly conversation and took place in a context of our standing in support of the Ukrainian people in this challenging time. No sensitive or confidential information was discussed.”
The spokesperson would not say whether the call demonstrated that the Fed faces security lapses or what steps would be taken to try to prevent it from occurring again.
“The matter has been referred to appropriate law enforcement, and out of respect for their efforts we won’t be commenting further,” the spokesperson said.
The phone call was reportedly carried out by a duo of longtime Russian pranksters, Vladimir Kutznetsov and Alexei Stolyarov, according to Bloomberg News. The pair have previously tricked other world leaders into conversations under false pretenses, including European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde earlier this year and then-UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson in 2018.
The Powell incident has come to light at a time when the Fed is under intense scrutiny over its interest rate hikes, which are intended to cool the economy and slow inflation. Yet if the Fed keeps rates too high for too long, a recession could result.
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2023-04-28T02:38:30+00:00
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wivb.com
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https://www.wivb.com/news/world/feds-powell-was-tricked-by-fake-call-from-russia-pranksters/
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2023-02-25T12:57:14+00:00
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by: Liza Mahachek Posted: Aug 4, 2022 / 02:16 PM EDT Updated: Aug 4, 2022 / 02:27 PM EDT SHARE DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – Permanent ink isn’t so permanent while Jiva Med Spa is around! Tattoos begone! Dr. Nanda with Jiva Med Spa shares the options to remove your tattoo. This segment is sponsored by Jiva Med Spa. Close Modal Suggest a Correction Your name(required) Your email(required) Report a typo or grammatical error(required) Submit Δ Suggest a Correction
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2022-08-04T18:56:41+00:00
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GREENSBORO — Guilford County deputies responded to a 911 call about an armed robbery where a gun was discharged at former state NAACP President Anthony Spearman’s home a week before he was found dead.
And in a separate report, an assault with a sexual motive was alleged to have occurred at Spearman’s home at 7:05 p.m. on July 13 — the same date and time as the armed robbery was reported.
The report does not indicate who was assaulted or if there was an arrest.
Spearman was found dead by friends or family at his home on Farlow Drive shortly after 5 p.m. Tuesday. The Guilford County Sheriff’s Office has released few details about his death.
The cause of Spearman’s death remains under investigation, a sheriff’s office spokeswoman said Thursday.
Dispatch records indicate the call initially came over as a cardiac/respiratory call. However, an unidentified man who talked to dispatchers from the scene said “there’s blood everywhere.”
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A woman who accompanied him to the home made the call to 911. When the dispatcher tried to give instructions for CPR, she said the man who was attending to Spearman told her “there was no hope.”
Details are sketchy in the robbery, but according to audio from a 911 call and a magistrate’s order, Spearman alleged that Jayden Lorenzo Hawthorne asked for $2,000 — money Spearman said he didn’t have.
Although names are redacted from 911 records, the audio detailing the robbery indicates that Spearman had known Hawthorne for years and that the 20-year-old came to him with financial problems.
Hawthorne allegedly took Spearman’s cellphone and tried to use an app to transfer money to his account.
At some point, Spearman alleged, Hawthorne pulled a gun and when the elder man grabbed it, the handgun discharged inside the home.
Spearman told dispatchers he was not injured.
Hawthorne then allegedly struck Spearman with the gun on his head and thigh before fleeing with his cellphone in a dark sedan, the records indicate.
Spearman approached a neighbor who called 911 shortly after 7 p.m. to report the robbery, the 911 call indicates.
When the neighbor handed Spearman his phone, he told dispatchers: “I have (unintelligible) … around my family for years. … He came here telling me he had some, uh, problems with, uh, some funds. And I was going to try my best. I’ve always tried to help him out financially, but today he, he was doing some things to threaten me.”
Using an app on Spearman’s cellphone, authorities were able to track the mobile device in the city, where officers identified a suspect and observed him get out of a black vehicle and enter a green Toyota on Randleman Road.
While the Toyota was northbound on Randleman Road, a Greensboro police officer intentionally bumped it, according to an accident report filed with the Greensboro Police Department.
Hawthorne was driving the vehicle, according to the report.
Dispatch records indicate Spearman’s cellphone was found inside the car.
According to a magistrate’s order, Hawthorne was arrested and charged the same day with robbery with a dangerous weapon and assault with intent to kill. He was later released on a $15,000 bond.
The next day — July 14 — Spearman called the sheriff’s office to report that fraudulent transactions had occurred on his Wells Fargo account.
Another 911 call occurred about an hour before the report of the robbery on July 13. In that call, the caller gives Spearman’s address but does not respond when the dispatcher asks for the phone number he is calling from.
The call continues for a few more minutes without a response then goes dead.
No one answered when the dispatcher tried to call back.
In a report, the dispatcher notes that it sounded like there may have been “some type of confrontation in the background.”
When a deputy arrived at the address, the unidentified caller said “he called 911 because an unidentified person came to the home, and he thought he would need help. However, the person left.”
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2022-07-22T05:08:00+00:00
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greensboro.com
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https://greensboro.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/911-calls-made-in-the-week-prior-to-spearmans-death-add-layer-of-complexity/article_2f2e8eaa-0935-11ed-b569-870be9a249b2.html
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Russian losses evident in key liberated Ukrainian city
LYMAN, Ukraine (AP) — The bodies of Russian soldiers were lying in the streets of a key eastern Ukrainian city on Tuesday following their comrades’ retreat that marked the latest defeat for Moscow even as Russia’s upper house of parliament was set to rubber-stamp the annexation of Ukrainian regions on Tuesday.
Russian troops pulled back from Lyman over the weekend to avoid being encircled by Ukrainian forces. The city’s liberation gave Ukraine a key vantage point for pressing its offensive deeper into Russian-held territories.
The Ukrainian military collected the bodies of their comrades after fierce battles for control of Lyman, a key logistics and transport hub, but did not immediately remove those of the Russians.
“We fight for our land, for our children, so that our people can live better, but all this comes at a very high price,” said a Ukrainian soldier who goes by the nom de guerre Rud.
Lyman residents emerged the basements where they had hidden during the battle for control of the city and built bonfires for cooking. The city has had no water, electricity or gas since May.
A 85-year-old, who identified herself by her name and patronymic, Valentyna Kuzmichna, recalled a recent explosion nearby.
“I was standing in the hall, about 5 meters away, when it boomed,” she said. “God forbid, now I can’t hear well.”
The Russian forces launched more missile strikes at Ukrainian cities on Tuesday as Ukrainian forces pressed their counteroffensives in the east and the south.
Several missiles hit Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv, damaging its infrastructure and causing power cuts. Kharkiv Gov. Oleh Syniehubov said one person was killed and at least two others, including a 9-year-old girl, were wounded.
In the south, four civilians were injured when Russian missiles struck the city of Nikopol.
After reclaiming control of Lyman in the Donetsk region, the Ukrainian forces pushed further east and may have gone as far as the border of the neighboring Luhansk region as they advance toward Kreminna, the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War said in its latest analysis of the combat situation.
On Monday, Ukrainian forces also scored significant gains in the south, raising flags over the villages of Arkhanhelske, Myroliubivka, Khreshchenivka, Mykhalivka and Novovorontsovka.
The Ukrainian successes in the east and the south came even as Russia moved to absorb four Ukrainian regions amid the fighting there.
The upper house of Russian parliament, the Federation Council, voted Tuesday to ratify treaties to make the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk and the southern Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions part of Russia.
The lower house had quickly rubber-stamped the accession pacts after last week’s Kremlin-orchestrated annexation “referendums” that Ukraine and its Western allies have dismissed as illegal and fraudulent.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to quickly endorse the annexation treaties.
Russia’s moves to incorporate the Ukrainian regions have been done so hastily that even the exact borders of the territories being absorbed were unclear.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday that Donetsk and Luhansk are joining Russia with the same administrative borders that existed before a conflict erupted there in 2014 between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian forces. He said the borders of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson are still undecided.
But a senior Russian lawmaker offered a different view. Pavel Krasheninnikov said Zaporizhzhia will be absorbed within its “administrative borders,” meaning Moscow plans to incorporate parts of the region still under Kyiv’s control. He said similar logic will apply to Kherson, but that Russia will include two districts of the neighboring Mykolaiv region that are now occupied by Russia.
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Schreck reported from Kyiv.
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2022-10-04T08:41:32+00:00
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wafb.com
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https://www.wafb.com/2022/10/04/russian-losses-evident-key-liberated-ukrainian-city/
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AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Democrats in the Maine Legislature pushed through a nearly $10 billion, two-year state budget that prevents any government shutdown, but angered Republicans and virtually assures partisan rancor moving forward.
House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross admonished Republicans repeatedly not to impugn Democrats, who control both legislative chambers, during an emotional debate preceding the first budget vote Thursday evening. The Senate followed suit in approving the budget on party-line votes.
The strategy of adopting a basic budget on a simple majority vote early in the legislative session prevents Republicans from using the threat of a state government shutdown as an 11th-hour negotiating tactic.
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Democrats said approval of a budget with no new programs preserves Republicans’ negotiating clout for additional spending proposals to be considered later in a supplemental budget. But that didn’t assuage the resentment of Republicans who were cut out of the process after negotiations broke down.
Sen. Trey Stewart, the chamber’s Republican leader, said Democrats “simply aren’t interested in allowing the minority party to have any sort of meaningful seat at the negotiation table.”
“This is tyranny of the majority,” said GOP Rep. Laurel Libby of Auburn, one of more than a dozen House Republicans to stand to criticize the budget proposal on a variety of grounds Thursday evening.
The Democratic maneuver required lawmakers to adjourn to allow the budget to go into effect 90 days later, on July 1, without a two-thirds majority approval. Then lawmakers will reconvene to deal with hundreds of pending bills, as well as a supplemental budget with any new spending initiatives.
The budget advanced by majority Democrats would continue to fund 55% of public education costs, universal free school meals and revenue sharing with municipalities, among other things. But it doesn’t include any new programs — not even programs supported by Democratic Gov. Janet Mills.
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Republicans blasted Democrats for not considering their proposal to reduce income taxes on the state’s low- and moderate-income residents. Before the measure passed, the Legislature brushed aside GOP proposals to replace the word “Vacationland” with “Taxationland” on state license plates.
Democrats and their allies said the early vote ensures the government will continue operations and provides an opportunity for both parties to work on a supplemental budget to address extra proposals later.
Democratic Sen. Jill Duson of Portland said it makes sense to return to a two-part budget. "This approach ensures the state can prioritize ongoing commitments before taking on new initiatives,” she said.
The process mirrors 2021, when Democrats passed a majority budget over the objection of Republicans. A bipartisan revision was later adopted.
If lawmakers were to wait until later in the session to approve the budget, a two-thirds majority would be required for provisions to go into effect in time for the new fiscal year.
In 2017, House Republicans aligned with then-GOP Gov. Paul LePage torpedoed a compromise budget, forcing a partial shutdown of state government that lasted for several days. Frenzied negotiations led to new spending bill that cleared the two-thirds threshold.
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2023-03-31T03:23:55+00:00
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bostonglobe.com
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https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/03/30/metro/maine-legislature-approves-nearly-10-billion-budget/
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Hosts Next OpenSSF Day in Dublin
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) a cross-industry organization hosted at the Linux Foundation that brings together the world's most important software supply chain security initiatives, today announced 13 new members from leading financial services, technology, employment, software development, cybersecurity, telecommunications, and academic sectors.
New premier member, Capital One, joins the OpenSSF Governing Board. New general member commitments come from Akamai, Indeed, Kasten by Veeam, Scantist, SHE BASH, Socket Security, Sysdig, Timesys, and ZTE Corporation. New associate members include Eclipse Foundation, Purdue University, and TODO Group. "We are excited to welcome new members to the OpenSSF," says Brian Behlendorf, General Manager of OpenSSF. "As open source software security vulnerabilities continue to draw attention from governments and businesses around the world, interest in the work of the OpenSSF has been rapidly increasing."
"A growing community of organizations, developers, researchers, and security professionals are investing the time and resources needed to strengthen open source security," said Jamie Thomas, OpenSSF Board Chair and IBM Enterprise Security Executive. "New members of OpenSSF are joining at a time when cross-industry collaboration and innovation are needed more than ever to proactively respond to pervasive cybersecurity threats"
Resolving the systemic issues that led to major security vulnerabilities like the log4shell incident emphasizes the urgency and importance of the work of OpenSSF. A recent Cyber Safety Review Board report declared that Log4j has become an "endemic vulnerability" that will be exploited for years to come and that the 10-point mobilization plan introduced earlier this year at the Open Source Software Security Summit II by the OpenSSF will improve the resiliency and security of open source software.
OpenSSF will host a full day of sessions on Tuesday, September 13th at OpenSSF Day EU on the eve of Open Source Summit Europe (OSS EU) in Dublin. Working Group leaders and community members will host sessions, panels, and fireside chats about ongoing work to secure the software supply chain and the future of open source security. Registration and attendance are free for all those attending the OSS EU.
Premier Member Quote
Capital One
"Today some of the most ground-breaking digital experiences created for customers are based on open source software. As a company that widely adopts this technology, Capital One is incredibly proud to join the OpenSSF and the world's technology leaders as we collaborate to strengthen the software security supply chain. As a highly-regulated company, we are seasoned in managing compliance and governance and advocate for standardization, automation and collaboration. We look forward to working together to identify solutions that advance the OpenOSSF mission and give back to the open source community."
- Chris Nims, EVP of Cloud & Productivity Engineering at Capital One
General Member Quotes
Akamai
Improving the security of open source software -- so central to the internet ecosystem -- is one of the most critical security challenges we face today. Only by gaining visibility into the network and the software supply chain can we reliably address security flaws when they occur at the code level. The technology community must support the open source communities we depend on with financial and technological resources to limit our collective risk. As a leading security and cloud services provider, we look forward to contributing to the Open Source Security Foundation and helping to advance this important work.
- Robert Blumofe, EVP and CTO, Akamai
Kasten by Veeam
"We are honored to be part of the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) and champion this initiative alongside our peers. Kasten by Veeam has an open source heritage, and with Kubernetes data protection as our core offering, security remains a critical underpinning for Kasten K10 design and implementation. As Kubernetes adoption continues to fuel Digital Transformation journeys for enterprises, more attention is rightfully being placed on security, especially with the inexorable rise of ransomware attacks. Kasten by Veeam is committed to ensuring the security and data protection of cloud native environments to better protect business applications."
- Gaurav Rishi, Vice President of Products and Partnerships at Kasten by Veeam
Scantist
"On one hand, the software industry is benefiting substantially from the rapid growth of open source, which has become the basic building blocks of the digital world. On the other hand, open source security is becoming more critical and all these risks are multiplied by the interdependent nature of open source. Now as a member of OpenSSF, we would like to contribute to the OpenSSF missions based on our recent research on open source ecosystem analysis to provide a quantitative view to understand the complexity and security of open source. We want to become the active participant, evangelist and ambassador for OSS governance in south east Asia to promote open source software supply chain security."
- Dr. Liu Yang,Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Co-Founder of Scantist
SHE BASH
"Since our inception, SHE BASH has witnessed a variety of predatory industry practices that get shielded from extensive scrutiny via the protective veil of closed source. At our core, open source software is a public institution that enables everyone to build their future.
The combination of decades of apathy and the incentive mechanisms that sustain a culture of "don't care" has allowed our company to stand out among tech's largest and most culpable companies. We have always considered "best practice first" as one of the main value propositions we can provide as a company, albeit a small one. Open Source Software provided us the level playing field to make differences in key technological shifts within the public sector, and the evolution of these shifts are the development of best practices born from the open source that sustains all software life today. It's a true honor to be of assistance to the work OpenSSF is leading to remedy large structural mistakes that grew from decades of neglect. "
- Cameron Banowsky, Co-founder and CTØ, SHE BASH
Socket Security
"As maintainers of open source packages which are installed over 1 billion times per month, the Socket team is intimately familiar with the massive growth in open source dependency usage. Modern applications use thousands of dependencies written by hundreds of maintainers, and installing even one package leads to dozens of transitive dependencies coming along for the ride. Unfortunately, it is far too easy for a bad actor to infiltrate the software supply chain and wreak havoc. That's why Socket is proud to join OpenSSF and do our part to make open source safe for everyone with our industry-leading approach to software composition analysis which is used by thousands of companies to detect and prevent supply chain attacks. The Socket team is excited to work with other OpenSSF member companies to safeguard the open source ecosystem for everyone."
- Feross Aboukhadijeh, Founder and CEO, Socket Security
Sysdig
Sysdig is proud to be part of OpenSSF and work together to help guide open source security standards and secure the software supply chain. As a cloud security company built on open source, we believe the industry must come together to strengthen software for the common good. Having created and contributed Falco to the CNCF to help secure the runtime, we look forward to continuing open collaboration in the OpenSSF. The future of security is open, and what we do now will shape software forever."
- Edd Wilder-James, Vice President, Open Source Ecosystem at Sysdig
Timesys
"With software supply chain breaches up more than 650%, securing the software supply chain is a big focus. We've been working for more than 5 years developing technology to help secure, monitor, and maintain open-source based embedded Linux and Android devices from exposures and vulnerabilities. We are so excited to be joining up on this community effort with OpenSSF and to be a part of the Linux Foundation again. By sharing technology and collaborating to build ecosystems that accelerate open-source technology development, device manufacturers and consumers everywhere will be able to rest easier knowing they are secure."
- Atul Bansal, CEO of Timesys
ZTE Corporation
"We are very pleased to join the OpenSSF. As a world-leading communication equipment manufacturer, more and more open source software is used by us. While actively embracing open source software, it also brings unprecedented risks to software supply chain security. ZTE Corporation has made many efforts to control and manage risks, and regard them as our top priority. After joining the OpenSSF, ZTE Corporation works with a group of members with similar visions and goals to promote the development of open source software supply chain towards a more secure direction."
- Xiang Shuming, Director of OSS Compliance and Security Governance, ZTE Corporation
Additional Resources
- View the complete list of the 89 OpenSSF members
- Watch the recent August OpenSSF Town Hall
- Contribute efforts to one or more of the active OpenSSF working groups and projects
About OpenSSF
The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) is a cross-industry organization hosted by the Linux Foundation that brings together the industry's most important open source security initiatives and the individuals and companies that support them. The OpenSSF is committed to collaboration and working both upstream and with existing communities to advance open source security for all. For more information, please visit us at: openssf.org.
About the Linux Foundation
Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation and its projects are supported by more than 2,950 members. The Linux Foundation is the world's leading home for collaboration on open source software, hardware, standards, and data. Linux Foundation projects are critical to the world's infrastructure including Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js, ONAP, Hyperledger, RISC-V, and more. The Linux Foundation's methodology focuses on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users, and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.
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2022-08-17T14:14:37+00:00
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wbrc.com
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https://www.wbrc.com/prnewswire/2022/08/17/openssf-announces-13-new-members-committed-strengthening-security-open-source-software-supply-chain/
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2023 Vamos a Pescar, Let’s Go Fishing – Pre-Registering Open!
July 10, 2023 11:30AM CDT
Just a reminder to Pre-Register for the 14th Annual “Vamos a Pescar, Let’s Go Fishing” Event!
IT’S FREE & FUN! We’re committed to a family fun event and to make sure to make it special! Bring all the family, and invite all your friends – just remember to register so that we can be prepared. >
When: SAVE THE DATE Sat., August 5, 2023 from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Where: Buddy Holly Lake at N. University & Cesar Chavez Drive
No fishing license needed
Lunch is provided while it lasts
SWAG Bag for the first 500 adults, and for the first 500 kids!
Lake stocked with catfish
Register here
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2023-07-11T10:22:10+00:00
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klll.com
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https://www.klll.com/2023-vamos-a-pescar-lets-go-fishing-pre-registering-open/
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Kimberly Rubio keeps trying to picture the classroom through her 10-year-old daughter Lexi’s eyes, haunted by the different ways that May day could have ended.
But the one question that lawmakers should ask themselves every morning and night, she posed, was: “What if the gunman never had access to an assault weapon?”
“We are no longer asking for change,” Rubio, 33, said to a cheering crowd of about 200 people at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. “We are demanding it.”
Rubio was one of several people who spoke at a rally about the ways gun violence had irreparably harmed their lives and demanded a federal ban on assault weapons.
Those gathered wore bright orange shirts and included community members from Highland Park, Ill., where a gunman killed seven adults and injured dozens more during a Fourth of July parade, and parents of children who were among the 21 people killed in May at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Tex.
Rubio’s daughter Alexandria Aniyah Rubio, known as Lexi, was one of the children killed.
Many openly grieved at the rally, crying during Rubio’s remarks. A mother at the Highland Park parade recounted how she fled, holding her 1-year-old daughter in her arms as she was grazed by a bullet. Parents shared the terrifying questions they’re hearing from their young children who survived shootings. And speaker after speaker demanded more sweeping federal action to curb the scourge of gun violence.
Last month, President Biden signed a bipartisan gun-control bill into law, the most significant of its kind in three decades. It expands criminal background checks for some gun buyers, bars a larger group of domestic-violence offenders from purchasing firearms, and funds programs that would allow authorities to seize guns from troubled individuals. However, gun control advocates, and Biden himself, have noted that the legislation does not include everything they hoped for.
During an event on the White House’s South Lawn on Monday billed as “commemorating the historic achievement of the passage of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act,” the father of a 17-year-old boy killed in the 2018 massacre at a high school in Parkland, Fla., heckled the president, demanding more action to curb gun violence. Biden renewed calls for a federal ban on assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines.
On Wednesday, mothers continued to step up to the lectern near the grassy area by 1st and C streets NE and speak about their children, friends and relatives who died of gun violence and the ways survivors grapple with anxiety attacks, fear and guilt. Democratic lawmakers from Illinois, including Sen. Tammy Duckworth; Rep. Brad Schneider, whose district includes Highland Park; and Rep. Jan Schakowsky, also spoke at the rally before the crowd marched toward the Capitol.
Nubia Hogan, 45, stood among the crowd and held a poster with a photo of her father, Eduardo Uvaldo.
Uvaldo was at the July Fourth parade with Hogan and their relatives when gunfire rained on the crowd. The parade was a family tradition and Uvaldo’s favorite holiday, she said.
Hogan said she thought about how when gunfire erupted from a nearby rooftop, she froze. Her son, Brian Hogan, 13, yelled to run and the family tried to flee. A bullet hit Brian in the arm and fragments hit Nubia Hogan’s mother, too. Uvaldo was also struck and was rushed to the hospital, where he died two days later.
“I get anxiety really bad. I get nightmares, waking up to hearing ‘boom boom’ like the shots,” said Nubia Hogan, of Waukegan, Ill. “These types of guns should not be out there for civilians. These are for the military and for police.”
She plans to continue with activism around this issue, joining the many other people who have channeled their grief into advocacy for change. Thousands of people gathered earlier this summer on the National Mall to join the rally staged by March for Our Lives, the organization founded by student survivors of the mass shooting in Parkland, where a gunman killed 17 people.
Still, more than 115,000 students have been exposed to gun violence on K-12 campuses during regular hours since the Parkland massacre, according to a Washington Post database.
Brett Cross, 39, stood toward the back of the crowd and said he thought about his nephew, 10-year-old Uziyah Garcia, and how the “system” didn’t protect his family and so many others. The day of the shooting in Uvalde, his wife raced over to the school where Cross said police pushed and blocked parents from entering the building to save their children.
In the first classroom the gunman entered, Cross said, was his nephew, “Uzi,” the young boy who was fast, always racing people, and who aspired to make music, be a YouTuber and one day become a police officer to help people.
“Those same cops that he looked up to failed him and his classmates,” Cross said.
His 10-year-old son and Uzi shared a room together but now, his son doesn’t want to be in there. Cross bought a cot and placed it next to his bed, where the two hold hands before falling asleep.
“He said he wanted to go to school that day so that he could have done something,” Cross said. “He wants to know why an 18-year-old kid can go buy these weapons, why it took his brother from him.”
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2022-07-14T00:05:45+00:00
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washingtonpost.com
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/07/13/uvalde-highland-park-gun-violence/
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By ASHRAF KHALIL
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Steve Bannon’s lawyer opened his defense Thursday, asking the judge for a direct acquittal, arguing that prosecutors had not proven their contempt-of-Congress case against the former adviser to then-President Donald Trump. Then the defense rested without bringing any witnesses.
Bannon lawyer Evan Corcoran said the prosecution’s case concerning Bannon’s resistance to the Jan. 6 committee’s subpoena rested on the testimony of Kristin Amerling, the panel’s chief counsel and it was “clear from her testimony that the dates were in flux.”
In making his motion for acquittal before U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, Corcoran said that “no reasonable juror could conclude that Mr. Bannon refused to comply.”
Corcoran then rested the defense case. Nichols said he would rule later on the acquittal motion.
Throughout the trial Corcoran has tried to establish that the deadline for the onetime Trump strategist to appear before the House committee investigating the Capitol riot was flexible as long as the two sides were on negotiating terms.
In opening statements Corcoran argued that the charges against Bannon were politically motivated and that the former adviser was engaged in good-faith negotiations with the congressional committee when he was charged. “No one ignored the subpoena,” Corcoran told the jury.
In reality, Corcoran said, one of Bannon’s previous lawyers, Robert Costello, contacted an attorney for the House committee to express some of Bannon’s concerns about testifying.
“They did what two lawyers do. They negotiated,” Corcoran said, adding that Bannon and his legal team believed “the dates of the subpoena were not fixed; they were flexible.”
Bannon was in an unofficial capacity to Trump at the time of the insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, and is charged with defying a congressional subpoena from the House committee investigating the aftermath of the 2020 election and the events leading up to the deadly riot.
Bannon was indicted in November on two counts of criminal contempt of Congress, a month after the Justice Department received the House panel’s referral. Each count carries a minimum of 30 days of jail and as long as a year behind bars upon conviction.
The Justice Department rested its case Wednesday after calling just two witnesses: Amerling, and FBI special agent Stephen Hart. The prosecution’s case was dominated by testimony from Amerling, who explained the extent to which the committee tried to engage Bannon and the timeline leading up to the missed deadline.
During cross examination Corcoran asked Amerling whether it was common for witnesses to appear before a congressional committee several weeks after the deadline date on a subpoena. Amerling answered “yes,” but added only “when witnesses are cooperating with the committee.”
Amerling said Bannon was uncooperative from the start, so there was no such leeway.
The committee heard nothing from Bannon until after the first deadline had passed, at which point his lawyer sent a letter to the committee stating that Bannon was protected by Trump’s claim of executive privilege and would not be providing documents or appearing. The committee responded in writing that Trump’s claim was invalid — Trump was no longer president, and Bannon was not employed at the White House at the time of the riot.
The panel gave Bannon a hard deadline of Oct. 14 to come before the committee. When that deadline passed, the committee chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., wrote Bannon’s lawyer on Oct. 15 threatening criminal prosecution.
The committee, which is holding a prime time hearing Thursday, wanted to speak with Bannon because it had information that Bannon was actively involved in planning, logistics and fundraising for efforts by Trump, a Republican, to overturn the 2020 election and stop Congress from certifying Democrat Joe Biden’s victory. The subpoena demanded any documents or communications relating to Trump and other people in his orbit, including lawyer Rudy Giuliani and extremist groups such as the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers.
The emphasis on the subpoena timeline is one of the few avenues of defense that Nichols left Bannon’s legal team after a hearing last week. Nichols ruled that major elements of Bannon’s planned defense were irrelevant and could not be introduced in court. The judge said Bannon could not claim he believed he was covered by executive privilege, which allows presidents to withhold confidential information from the courts and the legislative branch, or that he was acting on the advice of his lawyers.
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Follow AP’s coverage of the Jan. 6 committee hearings at https://apnews.com/hub/capitol-siege
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.
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2022-07-21T20:44:46+00:00
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wtmj.com
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https://wtmj.com/national/2022/07/21/steve-bannons-defense-seeks-acquittal-then-rests-case/
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The meet-cute in Rye Lane occurs in a public restroom at a mutual friend's art show, though not in a dirty-sexy kind of way; it's actually quite awkward. Dom (David Jonsson) is perched on a toilet seat, having a big cry over an ex-girlfriend, when Yas (Vivian Oparah) overhears his sad whimpers echoing from the other side of a stall. Is he alright? she inquires of the blubbering stranger. Slightly irritated, he brushes her off – "Trying to have a private moment here," he says unironically – but a few minutes later, after Dom has finally pulled himself together enough to mingle, they'll unwittingly meet again, this time face-to-face in the gallery. And, as these things in rom-com land can reliably go, witty banter turns into a day of bonding over shared musical tastes and past heartbreaks, plus an impromptu karaoke session.
Raine Allen-Miller's extremely charming directorial debut Rye Lane, with a screenplay by Nathan Bryon and Tom Melia, is a British rom-com that feels fresh while cloaking fans of the genre in a warm, soothing blanket of familiarity. Will our central couple start to fall for each other, only to face some big existential obstacle that briefly pulls them apart before a grand gesture finally brings them back together again? Of course – that journey is why many of us seek out rom-coms in the first place! But in this particular journey of Dom and Yas, there's also something special here; the material strikes a balance between specificity and broad humor that fosters confidence and playfulness that's impossible to resist.
As with previous generations of young and highly emotional twentysomethings, Dom and Yas are firmly at that in-between stage in life where they're stumbling into "adulting": Dom, an accountant, recently moved back in with his parents after breaking up with his ex Gia (Karene Peter), who cheated on him with his best friend Eric (Benjamin Sarpong-Broni); Yas is also fresh from a breakup, and struggling to break into the costume design industry. Each has their ways of dealing with their respective roadblocks – she buries her insecurities under faux self-assuredness, while he wallows in self-pity – and in a not-unusual dynamic, they offer support and advice to one another yet seem oblivious as to how to get over their own hang-ups.
This propels the romp and their acquaintanceship forward as they make their way through a series of mini-adventures around bustling South London and the heavily Afro-Caribbean communities embedded within it. This includes an impromptu double "date" with Gia and Eric – in which Yas tags along and pretends to be Dom's new girl to make them jealous – and a quest to steal back Yas's Low End Theory vinyl from her pompous ex's pad. These experiences are rendered vividly, sometimes through theatrical set-pieces evoking the outsized intensity of the characters' feelings, like Yas's recounting of how she ended things with her ex, which is literally presented on a stage to an audience made up of a plurality of Dom clones hanging on every detail of her story. Other times, the film's off-kilter sensibilities manifest through cinematographer Olan Collardy's occasional use of a fisheye lens to distort perspective or through a clever nod to a beloved rom-com via a surprise cameo.
It's the kind of movie that oozes stylistic flair in nearly every frame but doesn't skimp on the storytelling and world-building. Much of this can be attributed to the grounded performances of Jonsson and Oparah, who coolly feed off the other's energy and naturally slip into the getting-to-know-you vibes. Whether as friends or something more, it's easy to see their characters' somewhat opposed personalities meshing well together. There's also a clear sense of place and how Dom and Yas move through it; their eclectic network of artist friends, family members, and ex-lovers are memorable and distinct even if they show up for a single scene. (Eric, in particular, is totally That Dude we've all encountered at some point or another, a pitch-perfect embodiment of the handsome dimwit who is just here to have a good time, mate!)
What Rye Lane offers, then, is a vibrant addition to the rom-com canon that may call to mind an array of visual and thematic reference points, from the Before Sunrise trilogy and When Harry Met Sally to Hype Williams-directed music videos and Spike Lee's immersive New York City-set films. Yet it also carves out a space all its own, creating a story and characters that feel wholly lived in, messy, and just plain cool. If we're truly in the midst of a revival of the genre, this is one of the new batches that rises to the top.
Rye Lane is streaming on Hulu beginning March 31.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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2023-03-30T09:57:35+00:00
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iowapublicradio.org
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https://www.iowapublicradio.org/2023-03-30/rye-lane-is-a-fresh-and-charming-rom-com-that-also-feels-comfortingly-familiar
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BEIIJING — Travelers entering China will no longer need to provide a negative PCR test result starting Saturday, in another easing of China’s “zero COVID” policies.
Travelers can instead show a negative antigen test result taken within 48 hours before boarding, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning told reporters Tuesday.
Over the last three years, China imposed an array of anti-virus controls to try to eliminate the coronavirus from the country, including lockdowns and regular mass testing. But after the regulations hammered the economy and sparked protests, the government suddenly rolled back the onerous measures in December and made a major step to drop its quarantine rule in early January.
Last month, the country resumed issuing all types of visas as part of its efforts to revive tourism. Still, it kept PCR testing requirements for passengers arriving from some countries, a costly requirement that was a major deterrent for visitors.
PCR tests are highly accurate but cost time and money, while antigen tests are easier to obtain.
“To further facilitate cross-border travel, China is taking new steps to refine pre-departure testing requirements guided by the principle of ensuring safe and orderly travel and keeping the measures science based and well targeted,” Mao said.
She added that airlines will no longer be required to check test results before departure.
At a briefing on Wednesday, He Qinghua, an official of the National Health Commission, said the number of COVID-19 cases in early April had dropped to the lowest level since December. Although the figures have risen slightly since mid-April, massive outbreaks in the short term are unlikely, he said.
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2023-04-26T15:29:35+00:00
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seattletimes.com
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https://www.seattletimes.com/business/china-to-scrap-pcr-test-requirement-for-inbound-travelers/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news
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Making things merry and bright was easy this weekend if you took a jaunt down to the Kemper Center where merchants and vendors brought their wares, handcrafted items and unique foods to the historic grounds overlooking Lake Michigan.
On Sunday, it’s second day, Public Market’s Merry & Bright Holiday Market welcomed more than 800 visitors, pushing weekend attendance into the thousands. It was held in the Kemper Center auditorium, the historic gymnasium, and at a gigantic tent stationed just outside. Some vendors braved temperatures in the mid-30s to sell baked goods and gourmet eggrolls, among other goods.
Inside the tent, Destiny Garcia of “Dig It Garlic” stood before an array of dozens of frozen sunflower seed heads.
“You thaw them out and these can be used to feed birds outside (during the winter),” she said, before pulling out a three-foot tall sunflower stem that she said could be used as a walking stick.
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Indoors, the auditorium buzzed with the happy chatter of vendors and visitors.
For Lisa Ormson of Pleasant Prairie, shopping helped make her spirits bright as she stopped to look for jewelry with her sister-in-law. They were at brunch when they decided to stop by.
“We wanted to stop and check out some gift ideas and we love the Kemper Center,” she said. “We love looking at the (Gallery of) Trees.”
Laura Belsky, treasurer for Kenosha Public Market and a Kemper Center board member, said the weekend was nothing short of “phenomenal.”
“I think our partnership with Kemper Center was really important, with all the fantastic vendors that we had and their products. We really looked at the selection this year, and then having both indoor and outdoor vendors really, really helped,” said Belsky, who is also a Kenosha County Board supervisor.
“I’m just amazed by some of our vendors who insist on being out there in the cold,” she said.
Belsky said the market got a weekend boost from the Durkee Mansion tours at the historic home. The nearby Gallery of Trees also adjusted its hours to coincide with the market, so visitors could also view the decorated Gallery of Trees, which was on display through Sunday.
“We’ve found such an outpouring from the community. They can go to the market, they can see the trees, they can see the dressed-up mansion,” she said. “It’s nice to really showcase Kemper Center and the fabulous vendors at the market.”
Belsky said more than 40 vendors participated on each of the two days with about 2,000 visitors who stopped by over the two-day event.
“People have really turned out and we’ve really made this a family event,” she said. Family activities included free S’mores to make and eat, face painting and photos with Santa and Mrs. Claus.
“I mean, it doesn’t get any more Christmas than that, right?” she said.
“Next year, we have some really great plans in the works,” she added including a proposed ice rink and tree sales on the property.
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2022-12-05T01:41:58+00:00
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kenoshanews.com
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https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/watch-now-making-merry-and-bright-some-2-000-enjoy-the-two-day-weekend-market/article_d0be312c-7414-11ed-bee5-2bf62aed7d3b.html
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Iranian hackers broke into to a system used by a U.S. municipal government to publish election results in 2020 but were discovered by cyber soldiers operating abroad and kicked out before an attack could be launched, according to U.S. military and cybersecurity officials.
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The system involved in the previously undisclosed breach was not for casting or counting ballots, but rather was used to report unofficial election results on a public website. The breach was revealed during a presentation this week at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, which is focused on cybersecurity. Officials did not identify the local government that was targeted.
“This was not a system used in the conduct of the election, but we are of course also concerned with systems that could weigh on the perception of a potential compromise,” said Eric Goldstein, who leads the cybersecurity division at the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
If not expelled from the site, the hackers could have altered or otherwise disrupted the public-facing results page — though without affecting ballot-counting.
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“Our concern is always that some type of website defacement, some type of (denial of service) attack, something that took the website down or defaced the website say on the night of the election, could make it look like the vote had been tampered with when that’s absolutely not true,” Major Gen. William J. Hartman, commander of U.S. Cyber Command’s Cyber National Mission Force, told conference attendees Monday.
Hartman said his team identified the intrusion as part of what he termed a “hunt-forward” mission, which gathers intelligence on and surveils adversaries and criminals. The team quickly alerted officials at the U.S. cybersecurity agency, who then worked with the municipality to respond to the intrusion.
Hartman said his team then acted “to ensure the malicious cyber actor no longer had access to the network and was unable to come back into the network in direct support of the elections.”
No details were released on how or from what country the Iranian intrusion was detected.
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Its successful thwarting highlights the stealthy, largely classified, efforts of U.S. military cyberwarriors to prevent a repeat of 2016, when a Russian hack-and-leak operation targeting Hillary Clinton's campaign favored former President Donald Trump’s election.
Asked in a recent interview about his accomplishments since he was promoted to U.S. Cybercom and National Security Agency chief in 2018, Gen. Paul Nakasone pointed to election security.
“We said if you are going to come and try to influence or interfere in our elections, we’re going to take you on, and we did,” he said.
Election and national security officials have been increasingly focused on cybersecurity threats since the 2016 election. Locally, they have been trying to heighten protections for voting machines, vote tabulators, voter registration databases and electronic pollbooks, which are used to check in voters at polling locations.
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Some of the non-voting systems present security challenges because they have internet connections. As the use of electronic systems has grown, they have proved an attractive target for those seeking to meddle in elections.
In 2016, Russian hackers scanned state voter registration systems looking for vulnerabilities and accessed the voter registration database in Illinois, although an investigation later determined no voter data was manipulated. In 2020, Iranian hackers obtained confidential voter data and used it to send misleading emails, seeking to spread misinformation and influence the election.
Beginning in 2018, the National Defense Authorization Act let the U.S. “take down infrastructure” and “take on adversaries" outside the country, Nakasone said. So by 2020, when Russian and Iranian actors attempted to interfere with the U.S. election, U.S. cyber operators were able to thwart them, he added.
Under Nakasone, Cybercom has sent small teams to 22 countries to help hunt on their networks — “to identify malware, tradecraft, techniques that adversaries are using and then broadly publicize that,” he said. That includes Ukraine, where he said a team arrived on Dec. 3, 2021, more than two months ahead of the Russian invasion.
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In a March statement ahead of a congressional hearing, Nakasone said Cybercom had deployed its teams 40 times to work on 59 networks, generating insights and “imposing costs on common adversaries.” He said the missions “exposed malicious cyber activity by China, Russia, Iran and cyber criminals,” helped make other nation's networks more secure and “led to the public release of more than 90 malware samples for analysis by the cybersecurity community.”
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Cassidy reported from Atlanta. Bajak reported from Boston.
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2023-04-25T21:05:33+00:00
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BIRAO, Central African Republic (AP) — The Russian mercenary group that briefly threatened President Vladimir Putin’s authority has for years been a ruthless force-for-hire across Africa, protecting rulers at the expense of the masses. That dynamic is not expected to change now that the group’s founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has been exiled to Belarus as punishment for the failed rebellion.
The Wagner Group brutalizes civilians in the Central African Republic, Mali and elsewhere to crush dissent and fend off threats to their leaders’ power. In exchange, Russia gains access to natural resources and ports through which weapons can be shipped, and receives payments that enrich the Kremlin and help it fund operations elsewhere, including the war in Ukraine.
Neither Russia nor the African leaders dependent on Wagner’s fighters have any interest in ending those relationships. But many questions linger in the aftermath of Wagner’s stunning revolt, such as who will lead its thousands of fighters stationed across many African nations and whether Moscow will absorb these fighters into the Russian army.
“The situation is extremely volatile,” said Nathalia Dukhan, senior investigator at The Sentry, a U.S.-based policy organization that published an investigative report Tuesday accusing Wagner of carrying out various human-rights abuses in African countries. “But what we have learnt from investigating and analyzing Wagner in Africa in the past 5 years is that the group is resilient, creative, fearless and predatory, so it is less likely that the Wagner empire will instantly fall like a house of cards.”
Beyond the financial rewards, Putin has also sought to use Wagner fighters to help expand Russia’s presence in the Middle East and Africa. He seeks out security alliances with autocrats, coup leaders, and others who have been spurned or neglected by the U.S. and Europe, either because of their bloody abuses or because of competing Western strategic interests.
Asked whether Wagner’s weekend mutiny could erode Russia’s positions in Africa, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told a state-run TV network that security assistance to African countries would continue. He specifically mentioned the Central African Republic and Mali, and noted that Russian government officials have maintained contact with leaders there.
Lavrov told RT he has not seen “any sign of panic or any sign of change” in African nations over the revolt against Moscow. But amid the uncertainty, there is at the very least some confusion about what exactly comes next.
In Mali, where at least 1,000 Wagner fighters replaced French troops brought in to fight Islamic extremists, the U.S. alleges that the Kremlin uses the country as a way-station for arms shipments to Russian forces in Ukraine. But the Malian government has denied using Wagner for any purpose other than training.
An officer in the Malian Air Force who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was unauthorized to comment publicly said Russian fighters play an important combat role.
“At the moment we don’t have enough pilots, and most of our military aircraft and combat helicopters are flown by Wagner’s men. If Russia asks the Malian government to stop cooperating with Wagner, we’ll be obliged to do so, because we have a greater interest in the Russian government than in Wagner,” the officer said.
As part of a deal to end the rebellion, Putin has presented Wagner fighters with three options: either join the Russian military, go to Belarus like Prigozhin, or return home. It was not clear if those options also applied to Wagner fighters in Africa.
In the Central African Republic, a statue in the capital, Bangui, pays tribute to Russian mercenaries who have helped keep President Faustin-Archange Touadera in power. Lavrov told RT that hundreds of Russian fighters would remain there.
Regardless of who ultimately oversees the Wagner fighters in the Central African Republic, the source of their authority remains clear, said Jordy Christopher, a special adviser to Touadera. “Prigozhin is nothing more than a pawn in the handling of the art of war, moreover he is only the tip of the iceberg,” he said.
Wagner operates in roughly 30 countries, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and it faces numerous human rights violations, including extrajudicial killings. Its fighters are most influential in African countries where armed conflicts have forced leaders to turn to Moscow for help, such as Libya and Sudan.
“The African leadership of these countries need them,” said Federica Saini Fasanotti, a senior Fellow at Brookings Institution’s Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology.
Still, some experts said the revolt against the Kremlin will force African countries reliant on Wagner to pay closer attention to how they engage with Russia, where Putin faces the gravest threat to his authority since coming to power more than two decades ago.
“Developments in Russia will likely render many African countries more cautious in their engagement with Russia moving forward,,” said Ryan Cummings, director of Africa-focused security consulting company Signal Risk.
Any unexpected turn of events domestically in Russia poses potential threats to African leaders who have become dependent on its foreign fighters to stay in power, such as those in Mali and the Central African Republic.
“Any withdrawal could readily be exploited by non-state groups challenging the authority of the government in these countries,” said Cummings.
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Asadu reported from Abuja, Nigeria. Irwin reported from Dakar, Senegal.
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2023-06-27T19:04:33+00:00
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Soccer's top athlete propels international excitement to DRV PNK Stadium in Fort Lauderdale
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., July 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The City of Fort Lauderdale is thrilled to welcome Major League Soccer's Lionel Messi to his new home at DRV PNK Stadium in Fort Lauderdale. The journey to attracting such a world-class athlete to our booming metropolis began with a public-private partnership between Fort Lauderdale and Inter Miami CF. The ongoing relationship continues to propel international interest in all we have to offer our residents, businesses and visitors.
"This is a shining example of what collaboration between government and private enterprise can accomplish. Here in Fort Lauderdale, we continue to build strong partnerships with outstanding organizations to strengthen our economy and create a world-class community. We are extremely excited to have Messi call Fort Lauderdale home and welcome him with open arms," said Mayor Dean Trantalis.
"We are excited to have another wonderful opportunity to share our City with the world. Fort Lauderdale is not just a tourist destination, but a leader among multiple industries from international business to real estate and beyond," said City Manager Greg Chavarria.
A recent report shows the strength of Fort Lauderdale's economy as a world-class City offering an outstanding quality of life and successful business ecosystem.
Our Businesses
- The City has recently welcomed major companies including the Four Seasons Hotel and Resorts, West Marine, the Allied Marine/Ferretti Group and many others.
- We support our longtime employers including Citrix, Microsoft Latin America and Auto Nation.
- Fort Lauderdale was named 2nd best business climate in the country by Business Facilities Magazine in 2021, 2022, 2023.
Beaches and Attractions
- Fort Lauderdale Beach was placed top 3 in the nation for bluest water in the country, only behind New Mexico and Alaska.
- Our waterfront Aquatic Center is home to the tallest dive tower in the Western Hemisphere and has attracted divers and swimmers from all over the world.
Hotel Demand
- Downtown Fort Lauderdale hotel inventory has grown by 290% in the last 5 years.
- The Q1 occupancy rate for all Fort Lauderdale hotels was 86%. This outpaces the national average by 23 points.
Sports Impact
- The Panthers will be investing $65M+ to bring their practice facility to Downtown Fort Lauderdale.
Where Visitors Are Coming From
- The New York City metro area, with 19% of all trips to Downtown Fort Lauderdale, was the top point of origin for out-of-town visitors in 2022, followed by Chicago and Detroit.
- Tourists spend more time in Downtown Fort Lauderdale than ever, with 36% of all visits extending between 3 and 7 days, a 9-point increase from 2018.
To see the history of our public-private partnership with Inter Miami CF, check out this video, and for more information on other public-private partnerships in Fort Lauderdale, as well as major projects, go to this link.
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NEW YORK, Oct. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in LifeStance Health Group, Inc. ("LifeStance" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: LFST) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of LifeStance investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of all purchasers of LifeStance common stock pursuant and/or traceable to the documents issued in connection with LifeStance's June 10, 2021 initial public stock offering. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
LFST investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (i) the number of virtual visits clients were undertaking utilizing LifeStance Health was decreasing as the COVID-19 lockdowns were being lifted, thereby flatlining LifeStance Health's out-patient/virtual revenue growth; (ii) the percentage of in-person visits clients were undertaking utilizing LifeStance Health was increasing as the COVID-19 lockdowns were being lifted, thereby causing LifeStance Health's operating expenses to increase substantially; (iii) LifeStance Health had lost a large number of physicians due to burn-out and, as a result, its physician retention rate had fallen significantly below the 87% highlighted in the initial public offering's registration statement, and LifeStance Health had been expending additional costs to onboard new physicians who were less productive than the outgoing physicians they were replacing; and (iv) as a result, LifeStance Health's business metrics and financial prospects were not as strong as the initial public offering's registration statement represented.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in LifeStance during the relevant time frame, you have until October 11, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
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"It's too close to home, I didn't even know that person who bought the house was even there because I never see anyone," says Sharon Reeder.
Reeder has lived in the neighborhood for about a decade.
She says her neighbors told her they saw a fight outside one of the homes.
Ed Hinijosa with the Tulare Police Department says officers responded to a house party on Stoney Creek Street near Bardsley and confirmed the incident started as a fight.
"We know we have more than one shooter, we know there are multiple weapons involved. We recovered some but at this point we are sorting out exactly what unfolded. We have some subjects detained, at least 4 or 5," says Hinijosa.
Hinijosa wants to remind people who have large gatherings to be mindful of who they invite into their home.
"If you are going to have a party or get together, you better know who your guests are and find out what activities they are involved in," he says.
Reeder says she hopes an incident like this one doesn't happen near her home again.
"You can't tell people when they can have parties but I don't like something like this happening, it makes my security go away a little bit," she says.
The Tulare Police department is continuing to investigate and encourages anyone with information about this shooting to call them.
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2022-07-12T02:47:40+00:00
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abc30.com
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https://abc30.com/tulare-house-party-turns-deadly-police-say-shooting-stoney-creek/12040769/
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The call “CQ, CQ field day. CQ, CQ, field day,” echoed out of the pop-up tent.
Members of the High Desert Amateur Radio Group took part in the annual field day at Creekside Park in Sisters on Saturday.
Part competition, part open house, the international event sees ham radio groups attempting to contact other operators around the US and Canada.
More than a hobby, ham radio groups can keep the lines of communication open if disaster strikes.
It’s an activity that attracts people from all walks of life.
“There’s more and more younger people becoming interested in it as they learn about it and this event is to show the public what it’s all about,” said member Dave Drullinger.
The local group provides communications for the Pole Pedal Paddle in the spring and can support Saint Charles if standard radio and internet systems at the hospital go down.
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2022-06-26T07:58:41+00:00
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centraloregondaily.com
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https://centraloregondaily.com/amateur-radio-enthusiasts-have-a-field-day-in-sisters/
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- CEO Chung Ki-sun discussed with Chairman Peter Thiel to make progress in business cooperation, digital transformation (DX), and business management agenda.
- Establishment of a joint venture for big data solutions within this year was discussed to build a big data platform to provide service for the public and private sectors.
- "We will further speed up the digital transformation with Palantir," said CEO Chung.
SEOUL, South Korea, Oct. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HD Hyundai (former Hyundai Heavy Industries Holdings) CEO Chung Ki-sun met with Co-founder and Chairman Peter Thiel of Palantir Technologies, the world's no.1 big data company, to discuss new business development and overall business agenda.
Hyundai Heavy Industry Group (HHI Group) announced on October 30 that CEO Chung had a discussion with Palantir Chairman Thiel at Yeouido Fairmont Hotel Seoul during the Chairman's visit to Korea. They exchanged opinions about an upcoming joint venture (JV) between HHI Group and Palantir and the business development currently under bilateral cooperation.
CEO Chung and Chairman Thiel examined the digital transformation (DX) status in HHI Group's business areas of shipbuilding, energy, and construction equipment, which are under bilateral collaboration.
In September, HHI Group signed the main contract to introduce "Foundry," Palantir's corporate big data platform, to all the affiliates under the shipbuilding business, and planned to utilize the platform to establish the foundation for a shipyard with autonomous operation, which is currently under development.
Moreover, the two business leaders exchanged opinions about business uncertainty caused by worldwide inflation, interest rate increase, and the energy crisis combined with the prolonged Russia-Ukraine war and shared ideas about corporate survival and growth strategy amid the complex economic crisis.
In addition, CEO Chung and Chairman Thiel agreed to finalize the JV establishment this year to introduce and supply a tailored big data platform service to public institutions and the private sector in Korea. HHI Group and Palantir plan to expand sales through the JV by providing a customer-tailored big data solution in Korea, where the world-class IT infrastructure is established.
HHI Group will provide know-how accumulated in its world's no.1 shipbuilding business and various manufacturing businesses and establish a bridgehead in the Korean market and entry strategies. At the same time, Palantir will build up a big data platform for customers and take responsibility for software supply and operation.
"The meeting with Chairman Thiel was very constructive and fruitful. With Palantir, we will gear up the speed for digital transformation based on data and AI," said CEO Chung.
"The logistical challenges for a world-leading shipbuilding company like Hyundai Heavy Industries Group are immense," said Palantir Co-Founder and Chairman Peter Thiel. "Those hard problems are where Palantir's engineers thrive."
- About Chairman Peter Thiel of Palantir Technologies
Chairman Peter Thiel founded PayPal in 1998, the world's first Fin-tech company and operated it with Elon Musk, and co-founded Palantir with Alex Carp in 2004. Known as a "Silicon Valley heavyweight," he invested in over 150 IT companies, including Facebook, LinkedIn, Tesla Motors, Space X, and Airbnb.
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2022-10-30T21:42:01+00:00
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Glance Salon spreads holiday cheer by pampering patrons from the Heavens Helpers Soup Café
BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) - A new haircut can really make a difference in how you feel about yourself. That’s why Glance Salon partnered with Heavens Helper’s Soup Café to give back to people in the community who can’t afford a makeover.
Patrons at the soup café were surprised today by Glance salon with a trip in a limousine to the salon for pampering. The owner, Andrea Birst, said this is just one way her team bonds and builds
“Giving back to the community in whatever capacity you can is so important for strengthening team members for fostering a family culture,” said Birst
They were pampered with makeovers, haircuts and more, some choosing fun colors like red.
“It’s kind of layered a little bit, kind of wandering, just a little bit red. The first time I will get my hair dyed,” said Tyler Dean Fourth.
The services they received were something they weren’t expecting, but they got a chance to experience something they wouldn’t do daily.
“Really bizarre because I’m homeless, you know, and this doesn’t happen to us all the time,” said Rachel Parker.
Many of the stylists feel like they’ve benefited just as much as the clients in the chairs.
“When you look good, you feel good, right? So, I mean, even something as simple as having clean hair and a fresh trend, even if it’s not a big makeover. It just really does a lot for a person,” said Jessica Tergesen, a stylist.
This was the last hurrah of Glance Salons Glambush makeovers. Throughout the year, they did makeovers for teachers, first responders and nurses, and for their last event, partnering with Heavens Helpers.
For the holidays, Glance Salon also served a thanksgiving meal. The clients also had the opportunity to pick out clothes from Closet 701.
Next year they will continue their three-year tradition, giving back to the community with their services.
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2022-11-17T23:59:32+00:00
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By MARIA DI MENTO and DREW LINDSAY of The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Chronicle of Philanthropy
As the ranks of America’s super wealthy grow, the roster of major philanthropists is expanding to include not-so-typical megadonors — among them, a professional clarinetist, a Ph.D. in meat science, and a lawyer who regularly argues before the U.S. Supreme Court.
That’s according to a Chronicle of Philanthropy analysis of giving by the country’s 50 biggest donors in 2022. Twenty-six of the 50 are new to the Chronicle’s annual ranking, which dates to 2000. They include big names from business such as Airbnb’s Brian Chesky (who gave $100 million to the Obama Foundation), FedEx’s Fred Smith ($65 million to the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation), and Roku founder Anthony Wood ($71.5 million to several charitable giving vehicles).
Also, Jacklyn Bezos, mother of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, made her debut on the list with her husband, Miguel. The two gave $710.5 million to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center.
Other Philanthropy 50 first-timers, however, lack the national profile, the Silicon Valley address, or Wall Street credentials that are commonplace in today’s philanthropy world, where such tech and finance titans as Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Warren Buffett set the tone. (The full list is here.)
The ranking’s newcomers include:
— Edward Avedisian, a retired Boston Pops clarinetist who amassed a fortune trading stocks on the side. Avedisian gave $100 million to Boston University before his death in December.
— David Frederick and his wife, Sophia Lynn, who made gifts totaling $40 million to the University of Pittsburgh and Oxford University in England. Frederick is an appellate attorney who’s argued dozens of cases before the Supreme Court.
— Sisters Mary Bastian and Emily Markham, the last members of a multigenerational Utah farming and ranching family, who donated 100 acres of land worth $41.3 million to Utah State University.
— Gordon and Joyce Davis, who gave $44 million to Texas Tech, where Gordon — who holds a doctorate in meat science — once taught and coached the university’s meat-judging team to a national championship.
The ranking’s changing composition reflects in part the country’s skyrocketing wealth. More than 141,000 Americans have a net worth of $50 million or higher — nearly four times more than just a decade ago, according to the finance company Credit Suisse. Growth accelerated during the pandemic, with the number climbing 75% in just two years.
The rise of the super wealthy coincides with and fuels another trend: greater fundraising sophistication and the ambition to snare big gifts. Top-tier, high-profile institutions such as Boston University, the Obama Foundation, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art received individual donations of at least $10 million from Philanthropy 50 donors in 2022. But so did the Air Force Academy; McPherson, a small liberal-arts college in Kansas; and Samford, a Christian university in Alabama.
Altogether, half of the Philanthropy 50 made contributions to organizations that reported the donation as the largest in their history. Also, while big philanthropy is often criticized as being too focused on the coasts and urban areas, half of the 34 gifts to U.S. higher education went to institutions in the country’s interior, some to land-grant universities such as Oregon State, Purdue, and Utah State. The University of Pennsylvania was the lone Ivy League recipient.
The donors at the ranking’s pinnacle are fixtures in philanthropy. Gates tops the list in his 13th Philanthropy 50 appearance; the Microsoft mogul gave away $5.1 billion in 2022, more than a third of the $14 billion donated by the Philanthropy 50 collectively. The bulk of his gift was a transfer of stock to the foundation he runs with his former wife, Melinda French Gates. Michael Bloomberg — founder of the Bloomberg financial-news empire, a former mayor of New York, and an 18-time veteran of the ranking — finished second; he gave away $1.7 billion to causes that include the arts, education, environment, public health, and programs aimed at improving city governments globally.
As in years past, men dominate the list of the biggest donors. There’s also only one person of color: Taiwanese American Jen-Hsun Huang, who debuted on the list with his wife, Lori, in a tie for No. 40.
(Novelist and high-profile philanthropist MacKenzie Scott is not in the ranking, though she has donated some $14 billion to charities since 2020. It’s likely that Scott made gifts to her donor-advised funds that would have earned her a spot in the ranking, but she and her representatives declined to provide information to the Chronicle. French Gates, another big-name donor, also did not share such information.)
Despite the new blood in the top tier of philanthropists, last year’s biggest donors hewed closely to decades-old conventions of charitable giving. At least 14 earmarked contributions to scholarships for high-school or college students — a type of gift that dates back at least 1,000 years.
Ten made donations of at least $10 million to support research on cancer, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and other diseases that have stymied medicine — and attracted philanthropists hunting answers — for decades.
Some philanthropy observers see in these gifts a focus on the future born of the suddenness with which the pandemic and racial reckoning turned society upside down. “We had to throw away our strategic plan because none of it works anymore,” says Trista Harris, a former foundation leader who now runs FutureGood, a consultancy. Donors recognized “that there might be even bigger change around the corner, and it’s my responsibility to understand what those possibilities are.”
Others worry that the donors are not addressing the country’s biggest problems. Contributions by last year’s 50 biggest donors toward climate change mitigation and solutions, for instance, reached only $195 million — one-tenth of the more than $2 billion directed to scholarships and disease prevention. Only a handful of gifts aimed to close racial disparities.
“The default setting for the biggest donors still seems to be to steer away from addressing some of the thorniest societal challenges related, for example, to inequity, racism, and the future of our planet,” says Phil Buchanan, president of the Center for Effective Philanthropy.
After the police murder of George Floyd in 2020 and resulting nationwide protests, a number of major philanthropists stepped forward to learn about racial justice and understand what they could do, says Crystal Hayling, executive director of the Libra Foundation, which is leading a $45 million effort to support small, Black-led racial justice organizations.
Now, Hayling says, there’s a reversion to the mean. “Conversation is moving back to a place that’s a little bit more comfortable for people of wealth. They say, ‘Let’s just talk about equal opportunity, job pipelines, and improving schools.’ Those things are important, but they can be slightly evasive of really addressing the issue of racial justice.”
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2023-02-14T16:23:30+00:00
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NEW YORK, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Spero Therapeutics, Inc..
Shareholders who purchased shares of SPRO during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
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CLASS PERIOD: October 28, 2021 to May 2, 2022
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) the data submitted in support of the New Drug Application ("NDA") for the Company's product candidate, Tebipenem HBr, were insufficient to obtain approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA"); (ii) accordingly, it was unlikely that the FDA would approve the Tebipenem HBr NDA in its current form; (iii) the foregoing would necessitate a significant workforce reduction and restructuring of Spero's operations; and (iv) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
DEADLINE: July 25, 2022 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/spero-therapeutics-inc-loss-submission-form/?id=29518&from=4
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2022-07-06T10:04:46+00:00
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uppermichiganssource.com
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https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/prnewswire/2022/07/06/shareholder-alert-gross-law-firm-notifies-shareholders-spero-therapeutics-inc-class-action-lawsuit-lead-plaintiff-deadline-july-25-2022-nasdaq-spro/
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TSX.V: DME
U.S. OTC: DMEHF
Frankfurt: QM01
VANCOUVER, BC, June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - DESERT MOUNTAIN ENERGY CORP. (the "Company") (TSXV: DME) (OTC: DMEHF) (Frankfurt: QM01) From the President of the Company.
The Company is pleased to announce that it has received permits for the next two helium wells in Arizona. The Gunner Dome wildcat prospect is approximately 16 miles east of the McCauley Helium Field. Operations for this well will begin in July when the rig is finished with its current contract. An offset well in the McCauley Helium Field will be drilled later this year to supply additional supply to the McCauley Helium Processing Facility.
"We are excited about drilling the Gunner Dome Wildcat," says Robert Rohlfing, CEO of Desert Mountain Energy Corp. "Adding another new field to our existing 3 helium fields will increase the asset value of our portfolio. The additional offset will increase our anticipated cash flow from the McCauley Helium Processing Facility."
Desert Mountain Energy Corp. is a publicly traded resource company primarily focused on exploration, development and production of helium, hydrogen and noble gases. The Company is primarily looking for elements deemed critical to the renewable energy and high technology industries.
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"Robert Rohlfing"
Robert Rohlfing
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Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in polices of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. The statements made in this press release may contain certain forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Actual events or results may differ from the Company's expectations.
This news release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation. Such forward looking statements and information herein include but are not limited to statements regarding the Company's anticipated performance in the future the planned exploration activities, receipt of positive results from drilling, the completion of further drilling and exploration work, and the timing and results of various activities.
Forward-looking statements or information involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements of the Company and its operations to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such statements. Such factors include, among others, changes in national and local governments, legislation, taxation, controls, regulations and political or economic developments in Canada and the United States; financial risks due to helium prices, operating or technical difficulties in exploration and development activities; risks and hazards and the speculative nature of resource exploration and related development; risks in obtaining necessary licenses and permits, and challenges to the Company's title to properties.
Forward-looking statements are based on assumptions management believes to be reasonable, including but not limited to the continued operation of the Company's exploration operations, no material adverse change in the market price of commodities, and such other assumptions and factors as set out herein. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking statements or information, there may be other factors that cause results to be materially different from those anticipated, described, estimated, assessed or intended. There can be no assurance that any forward-looking statements or information will prove to be accurate as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements or information. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements or information. The Company does not intend to, and nor does not assume any obligation to update such forward-looking statements or information, other than as required by applicable law.
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2022-06-07T08:38:34+00:00
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kxii.com
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https://www.kxii.com/prnewswire/2022/06/07/desert-mountain-energy-receives-permits-two-new-helium-wells-arizona/
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HOOD RIVER, Ore., March 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Trillium Engineering, a leading designer and manufacturer of high-quality imaging systems for manned and unmanned aircrafts performing intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions, announced the launch of its latest camera innovation, the HD80-AIM. The Artificial Intelligence - Maritime (AIM) gimbal combines Trillium's new SkyLink-AIM proprietary software with artificial intelligence and its core imaging technology, to conduct wide-area search, surveillance, and vessel identification specific to maritime missions.
"By delivering automated target detection and identification capabilities in a single payload, the HD80-AIM reduces a customer's payload cost, payload weight and need for a complex aircraft," Ryan O'Connor, Trillium's VP of Engineering, said in an interview. "In addition, the AIM's fully integrated AI system dramatically increases efficiency and accuracy for maritime customers—ultimately improving mission success."
The HD80-AIM contains two primary full motion video (FMV) cameras including a 640x512 cooled MWIR camera with 10x optical zoom lens, and a 1080p visible camera with 36x optical zoom. The pair accommodates close vessel inspection and identification from an undetectable range, and uses three image bands: visible, Near-IR, and Mid Wave Infrared (MWIR) to conduct the search in both day and night conditions. Working in concert, the specialized sensors systematically and continuously scan the vast search area and highlight objects of interest, utilizing SkyLink-AIM onboard data processing software, search algorithms and artificial intelligence. When objects of interest are flagged for human review, the HD80-AIM promptly notifies the operator and presents geolocation points with an image clip for further assessment.
"With the increase of illegal fishing, piracy, and search and rescue operations around the world, the HD80-AIM's quick and comprehensive analysis greatly increases the success rate of maritime missions covering vast areas of open ocean," said Matt Carreon, Trillium's VP of Business Development.
The HD80-AIM leverages Trillium's universal, core imaging technology with SkyLink software and is built upon the baseline configuration of the HD80 gimbal, which is currently fielded in variety of military applications. Collectively, Trillium Engineering has shipped more than 2000 gimbals globally to serve ISR missions in the commercial, civil and government sectors.
For the full list of features visit: https://trilliumeng.com/hd80-AIM
About Trillium Engineering:
Founded in 2013, Trillium Engineering is a technology company headquartered in Hood River, Oregon, that specializes in designing and manufacturing gimbaled camera systems for tactical unmanned aircraft. Trillium's customers include prime defense contractors, leading aircraft manufacturers, and military and government end users. For more information, visit https://trilliumeng.com/
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2023-03-31T12:01:05+00:00
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kmvt.com
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https://www.kmvt.com/prnewswire/2023/03/31/trillium-engineering-announces-its-latest-innovation-cameras-utilizing-ai-technology-hd80-aim/
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Ember Smart Mug review: Is this high-tech mug worth it?
It’s happened to all of us at one time or another: We make our morning cup of coffee, set it down after a few sips and find ourselves so busy that we don’t pick up the mug again until hours have passed and the coffee is cold.
The Ember Smart Mug offers a high-tech solution to enjoying the perfect cup of coffee, no matter how long ago you made it. Temperature-control technology in the mug partners with smartphone controls, so you can set and keep your hot coffee or tea at its preferred temperature.
We wanted to see if the Ember Smart Mug could keep our drink warm and delicious even hours later, so we put it to the test. Here’s what we learned.
Testing Ember Smart Mug
Our tester usually relies on travel mugs and double-walled mugs to keep their morning coffee nice and hot, and they were curious to find out how the Ember Smart Mug compared. Setup wasn’t particularly intuitive — we had to look online to find instructions for pairing it to our phone — but once we had the Ember mug set up, we found it easy to use thanks to the helpful app.
What is Ember Smart Mug?
The Ember Smart Mug is the first temperature-controlled mug on the market. It features patented technology that keeps your drink at the ideal temperature for hours. The Ember Mug is available in two sizes, 10 ounces and 14 ounces, and three colors. The 14-ounce mug can keep your drink warm for up to 80 minutes, while the included coaster can maintain the temperature all day. The 10-ounce mug can keep warm for 1.5 hours. We tested the 14-ounce model.
The Ember Smart Mug relies on an app for full temperature control, notifications and more. The mug detects movement and the presence of liquid, allowing it to enter sleep mode when it’s empty or after 2 hours of inactivity. The mug will activate again upon adding liquid or moving the mug.
Ember Smart Mug price and where to buy
The 14-ounce Ember Smart Mug costs $144.95, while the 10-ounce mug costs $129.95. The Ember Mug is available at Amazon.
How to use the Ember Smart Mug
The Ember Mug ships with the mug, charging coaster, adapter and a quick-start guide. We had to use Ember’s website for a few clarifying questions, but we got the app set up quickly and could start using our mug right away.
We used the Ember Smart Mug’s auto-on function, which can instantly detect when liquid is poured into the mug. The charging coaster also worked instantaneously. Simply plug it in and place the Ember mug on its surface to start charging.
We mostly used the preset options on the Ember app, which kept our coffee at the perfect temperature for the full 80 minutes of the Ember’s advertised battery life. However, the Ember Smart Mug can maintain temperatures from 120-145 degrees. The battery’s lifespan depends on your temperature choice. For example, if you select a temperature higher than the preset 135 degrees, it uses more power and drains the battery faster.
Ember Smart Mug benefits
Due to the battery in its base, the Ember Smart Mug feels heavy, but not uncomfortably so. It’s sturdy and well-made. The charging plate worked well, as did the Bluetooth-connected app, which kept the drink hot while the exterior of the mug remained cool to the touch.
When it comes to flavor, the Ember Mug does a great job at preserving coffee’s taste even after a couple hours have passed. It doesn’t taste perfectly fresh, but it does a good job at avoiding the flavor of microwaved coffee or coffee that’s been in the carafe for hours.
The Ember app offers preset temperature choices that worked well for our preferences, but we appreciated the flexibility to customize temperature if we wanted. The app even offers features such as customized LED colors, temperature notifications and timers. It can even integrate with Apple Health to help you monitor your caffeine intake.
Ember Smart Mug drawbacks
While the Ember Smart Mug’s design is modern and elegant, not all of its features are universally intuitive. We relied on the Ember website’s support page for both setting up the mug and learning what the different colored lights mean. Neither the quick-start guide nor the app could help us understand this. Our tester also found its charging time inconveniently long. It took almost two hours to fully charge the Ember mug before the first use and took around an hour to recharge after that.
Due to its electronic components, the Ember mug must be hand-washed and fully dried to prevent the mug’s auto-on function from detecting liquid and staying on, which drains the battery. It also can’t go in the microwave.
For our tester, the biggest drawback was the Ember mug’s price. While our tester enjoyed using the mug, ultimately they didn’t feel it was worth the cost.
Should you get the Ember Smart Mug?
The Ember Smart Mug looks amazing and performed well in our tests. It’s pricey, but its convenience factor, build quality and app support make it a worthwhile investment for a busy or forgetful tea- or coffee-lover.
Consider other products
Corsori Coffee Mug and Coaster
This 17-ounce stainless steel mug isn’t Bluetooth-enabled, but its coaster keeps your drink hot and allows you to choose your drink’s temperature. A lid keeps your drink hot while it’s off the coaster. It has a rubber sleeve and a heat-resistant handle.
Sold by Amazon
Keep any drink warm or revive a cooled-off drink with this affordable standalone mug warmer. Plug it in with its extra-long cord, turn it on and heat up a bowl or mug. The heated plate can accommodate a cup with a 3.25-inch base. It’s worth noting that it doesn’t have an auto shut-off feature.
Sold by Amazon
Bestinnkits Gravity-Induction Mug Warmer
With a simple design, this mug warmer doesn’t have an on/off switch. It detects the weight of a mug placed on it and starts heating. It doesn’t offer temperature control, but it can keep your drink at a comfortable 131 degrees.
Sold by Amazon
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2023-01-19T17:43:20+00:00
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texomashomepage.com
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https://www.texomashomepage.com/reviews/br/kitchen-br/coffee-accessories-br/ember-heated-mug-review-we-tested-this-ceramic-smart-mug-to-see-if-it-could-keep-coffee-and-tea-at-our-chosen-temperature/
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WASHINGTON (Nexstar) – First Republic Bank was seized by regulators early Monday, marking the third bank failure in 2023 and the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history.
President Biden is trying to reassure Americans that the U.S. banking system is strong but at the same time, the administration says more action is needed to safeguard the banking industry.
Government regulators stepped in by taking control of First republic bank and quickly selling off most of its assets to JP Morgan Chase. As part of the deal, the FDIC provided $50 billion dollars in financing to Chase.
“These actions are going to make sure the banking system is safe and sound and that includes protecting small businesses across the country who need to make payroll for workers and their small businesses,” President Biden said.
While the Biden administration says all is well with the U.S. banking system, First Republic is the largest bank to fail since the 2008 financial crisis. Rules that were put into place after that crisis have since been weakened by Congress.
“The banking system overall is in stable shape,” said National Economic Council Deputy Director Bharat Ramamurti. “The president’s been clear that he is supportive or reinstating a lot of the rules on these large regional banks, that were rolled back in the previous administration.”
However, Ej Antoni with the conservative Heritage Foundation says the regulations won’t fix the problem and instead says the blame lies elsewhere.
“The systemic interest rate risk, that the Fed created within the banking system is causing the house of cards to collapse,” Antoni said.
The Heritage Foundation says interest rates were kept too low for too long during the height of the pandemic, and the assets banks bought are now worthless.
Interest rates were kept low during the pandemic to prevent the entire economy from collapsing since many businesses were closed and many people were unemployed. One of the only ways that individuals and businesses could stay afloat was by borrowing money at a low-interest rate.
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2023-05-02T23:25:25+00:00
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nwahomepage.com
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https://www.nwahomepage.com/washington/washington-dc/biden-calls-for-banking-safeguards-after-feds-seize-first-republic-bank/
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