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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul won Tuesday’s Democratic primary, her first contest in seeking a full term as governor. She’ll now face the Republican primary winner, Long Island Rep. Lee Zeldin, in the November election.
Hochul, dressed in white at a Tribeca venue that featured a literal glass ceiling, said Tuesday night that she stands on the shoulders of generations of women.
“To the women of New York, this one’s for you,” Hochul said to the cheering crowd of supporters.
Hochul beat back challenges from New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, a progressive, and Long Island Rep. Tom Suozzi, a moderate Democrat. Neither candidate had name recognition or much money compared to Hochul’s multi-million-dollar campaign fund, and they failed to win significant support from voters.
If Hochul wins in November, she would be the first woman chosen by voters to hold the state’s highest elected office. Hochul replaced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo when he resigned last August in a sexual harassment scandal.
In the closing days of the campaign, she focused on defending abortion rights and approving gun safety measures, two issues of concern for Democratic voters. She vowed to continue the fight, saying she won’t let “right-wing extremists” win.
“And making the world know that New York State is a safe harbor for America’s women,” Hochul said. “You come here.”
Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado, Hochul’s running mate, won over progressive candidate Ana Maria Archila and moderate Diana Reyna.
Delgado, a former congressman, has been in this post for just over a month. He replaced Hochul’s first choice, former Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin, who was indicted on federal corruption charges and resigned.
Delgado called for unity in the wake of the recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings overturning Roe v. Wade and New York’s restrictions on carrying concealed weapons, saying “dark forces” are exploiting hate and division.
“New York has always been ahead of the national curve, setting the pace,” Delgado said. “And now more than ever, we need New York to … hold the line.”
Republican Long Island Rep. Lee Zeldin won in a four-way primary, beating Rob Astorino, Harry Wilson and Andrew Giuliani, son of Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor and adviser to former President Donald Trump.
Zeldin said New York is at a “breaking point,” and high costs and taxes have led to rising outmigration. He blamed Hochul for high crime rates, saying she sold out to the liberals on issues like the bail reform laws that ended many forms of cash bail. He also promised to end all pandemic-related mandates.
“In the state of New York, one-party rule will end, Kathy Hochul will get fired,” Zeldin said. “We will restore balance and common sense to Albany again.”
There are twice as many registered Democrats as Republicans in New York, and Hochul is favored to win the general election in November.
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2022-06-29T16:20:17+00:00
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wbfo.org
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https://www.wbfo.org/politics/2022-06-29/hochul-zeldin-will-face-off-in-novembers-election-for-governor
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Capitol riot plans to focus its hearing Thursday on the pressure that Donald Trump put on his vice president, Mike Pence, in a last-ditch and potentially illegal plan to stop Joe Biden's election victory.
Trump seized on the unorthodox proposal from conservative law professor John Eastman to have Pence turn back the electors when the vice president presided over Congress to certify the election results on Jan. 6, 2021.
Traditionally, Jan. 6 is a ceremonial day, a procedural step tallying the presidential vote. But Eastman’s highly unusual plan — “bold,” he called it — was to have alternative slates of electors submitted to Congress, leaving Pence no choice but to return them to the states to sort it out. Biden would be denied a majority and Trump could win.
As the defeated Trump watched dozens of court cases challenging the 2020 presidential election collapse, he turned to the Eastman plan as a last resort to stay in office.
"John (Eastman) is one of the most brilliant lawyers in the country and he looked at this," Trump told thousands of supporters at a rally near the White House before sending them to the Capitol on Jan. 6.
“And he looked at Mike Pence, and I hope Mike is going to do the right thing. I hope so. I hope so because if Mike Pence does the right thing, we win the election,” the then-president said.
The committee viewed it as a “grave, grave threat to democracy” according to a committee aide who was granted anonymity to discuss the matter before Thursday's hearing.
A look at the Eastman plan in the days before Jan. 6 and why it's central to the congressional investigation:
THE PLAN
Two days before the Capitol attack, Pence was summoned to the White House for an Oval Office meeting with Trump and Eastman to hear about the law professor’s plan to turn back the electors.
With Trump's false claims of election fraud, Eastman had been circulating what was essentially an academic proposal challenging the workings of the 130-year-old Electoral Count Act that governs the process for tallying the election results in Congress.
The six-point plan was gaining momentum among Trump’s allies in Congress, including key senators, and outside activists.
“BOLD, Certainly,” Eastman said in a memo included in a court filing from the Jan. 6 committee. But he said such an unusual step was needed, falsely claiming “this Election was Stolen.”
If Pence would refuse to count some electors, then the threshold needed to certify the presidential election would drop from the regular 270-vote majority to a lesser number — one presumably that Trump could reach.
If Democrats in Congress objected, as Eastman predicted they would, then under current law the House would be called on to decide the presidency. In that scenario, because the House would vote by individual state congressional delegations, which were mostly Republican majority, the numbers would align for Trump to win.
“The illegality of the plan,” declared the Jan. 6 committee in a court filing, “was obvious.”
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HOW COULD THAT EVEN WORK?
To set the plan in motion, Trump and Eastman convened hundreds of electors on a call on Jan. 2, 2021, encouraging them to send alternative electors from their states where Trump's team was claiming fraud.
Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, and maybe even Nevada and New Mexico were on the list, according to testimony provided to the committee by Greg Jacob, who was counsel to Pence.
Jacob, who is scheduled to testify Thursday before the House committee, was at the Oval Office meeting with Trump and Pence when Eastman outlined the plan on Jan. 4. Jacob received an email from Eastman late the following night.
“Major new development,” Eastman wrote, attaching a letter signed by several members of the Pennsylvania legislature.
“It now looks like PA Legislature will vote to recertify its electors if Vice President Pence implements the plan we discussed.”
Jacob responded in lawyerly prose, asking if it is “not unconstitutional."
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HAD THIS EVER BEEN DONE BEFORE?
While the every-four-year-ritual of certifying the election results has certainly come with objections, nothing of this magnitude had been proposed since the disputed election of 1876 that led Congress to pass the Electoral Count Act.
Routinely, lawmakers from the losing side of a presidential election would wage protest votes during the ceremonial proceedings in Congress. Several Democrats, including then-Sen. Barbara Boxer of California and Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, chairman of the Jan. 6 committee, joined a challenge to Ohio's electors after the 2004 election.
But no defeated president had ever done what Trump did, mounting a wide-ranging campaign to overturn an election that included pressure on the vice president to change the outcome.
When Eastman received Jacob's probing questions, he retorted that the counsel was being “small-minded.”
The professor pointed to past instances in history when presidents essentially violated the letter of the law for a greater outcome, and he suggested such an action was warranted now because the “Constitution was being shredded” over the election.
Jacob replied that he could not believe there was a single Supreme Court justice or any judge who would agree to toss election laws “that have been followed without exception for more than 130 years.”
Eastman's theory, Jacob wrote, was “essentially entirely made up.”
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PRESSURE BUILDS, TRUMP CALLS PENCE
Pence's instinct was there was no way the Founding Fathers would entrust a single person with this authority to determine an election, Jacobs testified.
Pence had asked questions of Eastman during the meeting, but “never once did I see him budge from that view,” he said.
But a day after the Oval Office meeting, the pressure intensified. Rather than just turn the electors back to the states, Eastman said Pence should just throw out the states' tallies outright.
"What I’m here to ask you to do is to reject the electors” Eastman said on Jan. 5, according to Jacob’s testimony.
On the morning of Jan. 6, as the vice president prepared to head to the Capitol to preside over the vote, Trump called.
Trump told Pence he didn't think he had the courage to make a hard decision, according to testimony to the Jan. 6 committee by retired Gen. Keith Kellogg, a national security aide who was with Trump at the time and heard part of the conversation.
“You’re not tough enough to make the call,” Trump said to Pence.
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THE COUNT BEGINS
The first objection during the joint session of Congress was raised by a Republican congressman from the Arizona, one of the states Trump most vehemently disputed was won by Biden.
Congress began working its way through the procedural matter; rioters were closing in on the Capitol.
In an email to Eastman after the attack began, Jacob closed his arguments against the plan, saying: “And thanks to your bullshit we are now under siege.”
At the time, Jacob was sheltering in the Capitol from the mob.
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WHO IS JOHN EASTMAN?
A former Chapman University law professor, Eastman is known in conservative circles for having clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court.
Eastman also clerked for retired Judge Michael Luttig, who is also scheduled to testify Thursday. Luttig has called Eastman's ideas “incorrect at every turn” and had been providing legal counsel to Pence's team before Jan. 6.
Ahead of Thursday’s hearing, the vice chair of the House committee, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., released a video offering a glimpse of what's to come.
In the video, Eric Herschmann, a lawyer at the White House, recounts a final conversation he had with Eastman the day after Jan. 6.
“I'm going to give you the best free legal advice you're ever getting in your life — get a great effing criminal defense lawyer. You're going to need it," Herschmann recalled, saying. "And then I hung up on him.”
Eastman repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment rights not to testify during his interview with the committee.
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For full coverage of the Jan. 6 hearings, go to https://www.apnews.com/capitol-siege
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2022-06-15T21:57:34+00:00
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springfieldnewssun.com
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https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/explainer-the-last-ditch-plan-to-have-pence-stop-biden-win/663BIGFGCNELJC6LQFNVKYCOVI/
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The Montana State Library withdraws its membership with the American Library Association.
Montana's decision comes in response to the group's president describing herself as a Marxist.
The impact will be negligible at the Billings Public Library, according to director Gavin Woltjer.
He says the library has four workers who are members, but the library itself is not part of the association.
Woltjer says he understands the board's decision, but at the same time says it's a good idea to be part of the ALA.
ALA President Emily Drabinsky stated in the 2022 tweet about being a Marxist, according to the Montana State Library Commission.
"She was unabashed," said Superintendent of Public Instruction Elsie Arntzen, R-Mont. "And I recognize that her role may be only for one year."
The post has since been deleted.
Arntzen is also on the commission.
On Tuesday, the board voted, 5-1, with one abstention, to withdraw from the association.
"I believe that the national association has been polarized," Arntzen said. "We do not need to be tethered to a national organization that does not honor our great state, our values, or our nation as being America."
In a letter to the ALA, the commission states, "Our oath of office and resulting duty to the Constitution forbids association with an organization led by a Marxist."
Several months ago, the Campbell County Library Board in Wyoming voted to not cover the cost of memberships in the ALA, according to Terri Lesley, executive director of the library.
So far, the rest of Wyoming has stayed on board.
"There's lots of checks and balances in there," said Conrrado Saldivar, president of the Wyoming Library Association and tech manager for the Natrona County Library in Casper. "There's a process. To assume that all libraries are going to somehow become Marxist organizations under current president Emily Drabinski is just flat out incorrect."
Woltjer says the ALA is a good place for networking and conferences.
"I wish there was a little more robust conversation," he said on the phone. "I do not fault the commission. I hope the ALA does some examination of its president's platform. And I hope the two go back to a cohesive relationship."
That's something Arntzen expects will happen.
"And so my purpose was let's rebuild," Arntzen said. "Let's revisit. Let's see exactly how we can aid all of our libraries across our states, including our school librarians."
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2023-07-13T07:20:32+00:00
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ktvq.com
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https://www.ktvq.com/news/local-news/montana-state-library-commission-severs-ties-with-american-library-association
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TOWNSEND, Tenn. (WATE) — Four rehabilitated black bears returned to the wild Tuesday after they were rehabilitated at Appalachian Bear Rescue (ABR) according to social media posts by the rescue.
ABR shared Thursday night that the bears had been released earlier in the day. All four bears, Lovey Bear, His Royal Highness Rover Bear (HRH Rover Bear,) Townsend Bear and HoneyBunny Bear, were rescued as yearlings earlier this year, posts made by ABR say.
Lovey Bear was the first of the four rescued on February 10. ABR said the National Park Service called them after Wildlife Rangers found the 12-pound yearling limping near Maloney Point in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. An examination at the University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine found that Lovey had a broken femur and multiple bad teeth.
ABR worked with UTCVM as Lovey Bear’s leg required surgery, and once his leg began healing, doctors removed several bad teeth and drained an abscess. After several months at ABR, Lovey was released Thursday, weighing 97.6 pounds.
HoneyBunny, Townsend, and HRH Rover were each rescued after they were found near areas where people were. HRH Rover was 8 pounds when he was rescued in February, so small that ABR said there were questions of if he was a cub or a very small yearling. Townsend was rescued in March, weighing 12 pounds, and HoneyBunny was rescued, weighing 9 pounds and covered in ticks, in April.
All three were also released Thursday, with HoneyBunny weighing 60 pounds, Townsend weighing 79 pounds, and HRH Rover weighing 69 pounds.
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2023-07-13T02:17:38+00:00
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wjhl.com
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https://www.wjhl.com/news/regional/tennessee/four-bears-return-to-wild-after-being-rescued-by-appalachian-bear-rescue/
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Soda sweetener aspartame now listed as possible cancer cause, but considered safe
(AP) — The World Health Organization’s cancer agency has deemed the sweetener aspartame — found in diet soda and countless other foods — as a “possible” cause of cancer, while a separate expert group looking at the same evidence said it still considers the sugar substitute safe in limited quantities.
The differing results of the coordinated reviews were released early Friday. One came from the International Agency for Research on Cancer, a special branch of the WHO. The other report was from an expert panel selected by WHO and another U.N. group, the Food and Agriculture Organization.
The Lyon, France-based cancer agency periodically reviews potential cancer hazards, but doesn’t determine how likely they are to cause cancer in their evaluations which range from “possibly” carcinogenic to “probably” to cancer-causing.
Aspartame joins a category with more than 300 other possible cancer-causing agents, including things like aloe vera extract, Asian-style pickled vegetables and carpentry work.
The guidance on use of the sweetener, though, isn’t changing.
“We’re not advising consumers to stop consuming (aspartame) altogether,” said WHO’s nutrition director Dr. Francesco Branca. “We’re just advising a bit of moderation.”
Here’s a look at the announcement:
What is aspartame?
Aspartame is a low-calorie artificial sweetener that is about 200 times sweeter than sugar. It is a white, odorless powder and the world’s most widely used artificial sweetener.
Aspartame is authorized as a food additive in Europe and the U.S. and is used in numerous foods, drinks such as Diet Coke, desserts, chewing gum, medications including cough drops and foods intended to help with weight loss. It’s in tabletop sweeteners sold as Equal, Sugar Twin and NutraSweet.
Aspartame was approved in 1974 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration with an acceptable daily intake of 50 milligrams per kilogram of body weight. According to the FDA, a person weighing 132 pounds (60 kilograms) would need to consume about 75 aspartame packets to reach that level.
U.N. experts evaluated the safety of aspartame in 1981 and set the safe daily limit slightly lower, at 40 milligrams of aspartame per kilogram.
David Spiegelhalter, an emeritus statistics professor at Cambridge University, said the guidance means that “average people are safe to drink up to 14 cans of diet drink a day … and even this ‘acceptable daily limit’ has a large built-in safety factor.”
What did the 2 groups say?
WHO’s cancer agency, IARC, convened its expert group in June to assess the potential of aspartame to cause cancer. It based its conclusion that aspartame is “possibly carcinogenic” on studies in humans and animals that found “limited” evidence that the compound may be linked to liver cancer.
In a separate evaluation, experts assembled by WHO and the food agency updated their risk assessment, including reviewing the acceptable daily intake. They concluded there was “no convincing evidence” at the currently consumed levels that aspartame is dangerous; their guidelines regarding acceptable levels of consumption were unchanged.
The move comes weeks after the WHO said that non-sugar sweeteners don’t help with weight loss and could lead to increased risk of diabetes, heart disease and early death in adults.
Should I be concerned about getting too much?
Not as long as you don’t exceed the guidelines. The FDA said scientific evidence continues to support the agency’s conclusion that aspartame is “safe for the general population,” when used within limits.
Almost any substance can be dangerous in excessive amounts, said David Klurfeld, a nutrition expert at the Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington.
“The dose makes the poison,” said Klurfeld, who previously served on an IARC panel. “Even essential nutrients like vitamin A, iron and water will kill you within hours if too much is consumed.”
So what should consumers do?
WHO’s Branca said it was acceptable for people to consume a “pretty large” amount of aspartame without suffering any ill effects. “High consumers” might want to cut back, he said.
Dr. Peter Lurie, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, which previously nominated aspartame for IARC review, said there’s an easy choice for consumers.
“At least when it comes to beverages, our message is your best choice is to drink water or an unsweetened beverage,” he said.
Most people, though, probably don’t pay much attention to IARC evaluations. The agency has previously classified processed meat like hot dogs and bacon as cancer-causing, noting in particular its link to colon cancer. That move surprised even others in the scientific community — the U.K.’s biggest cancer charity reassured Britons that eating a bacon sandwich every so often wouldn’t do them much harm.
What does this mean for the food and beverage industry?
Food and beverage producers say there’s no reason to avoid products with aspartame.
“There is a broad consensus in the scientific and regulatory community that aspartame is safe,” the American Beverage Association said in a statement.
WHO’s Branca said the agency advises food manufacturers in general to “use ingredients that do not require the addition of too much sugar.” After the latest assessments of aspartame, Branca said that using sweeteners “is probably not the way forward.”
Previous coverage
- Don’t use sugar substitutes for weight loss, World Health Organization advises
- ‘Diet’ soda disappearing from store shelves
- Coke is giving one of its most popular drinks a makeover
The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science and Educational Media Group. The AP is solely responsible for all content.
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2023-07-14T00:52:04+00:00
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wishtv.com
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https://www.wishtv.com/news/medical/soda-sweetener-aspartame-now-listed-as-possible-cancer-cause-but-considered-safe/
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Working Wednesdays: Charleston County Parks hiring for Holiday Festival of Lights
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Christmas is just three months away, and Charleston County Parks is preparing for its annual lights event.
The Holiday Festival of Lights returns to James Island County Park for its 33rd year Nov. 12 through Dec. 31.
The attraction features an estimated two million shimmering lights. The Festival of Lights is known for its three-mile driving tour, but there is much more to see and do. The festival also has an impressive sculpture made from 50 tons of sand, a holiday train, an enchanted walking trail, a Victorian carousel, Santa Clause, Santa’s sweet shop, gift shops, marshmallow roasting, and concessions with hamburgers, kettle corn, hot chocolate and more.
To manage all of the attractions, Charleston County Parks is hiring now. Attendants are needed for gate operations, concessions, tickets, parking, and retail operations. There are also openings for maintenance, and to play Santa Claus.
The pay range is $15 to $30 per hour. Click here to apply.
Learn more about opportunities to work at the Holiday Festival of Lights on Working Wednesdays. Watch “Working Wednesdays” live at 1 p.m. every Wednesday on Live5+, the streaming app, available for free on Roku, Amazon Fire and Apple TV. After the live event is over, you can also find the recording and stream earlier editions of “Working Wednesdays” for free anytime on Live5+!
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2022-09-21T17:38:00+00:00
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live5news.com
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https://www.live5news.com/2022/09/21/working-wednesdays-charleston-county-parks-hiring-holiday-festival-lights/
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Recent actions in two states have solidified a bloc of EV support throughout most of the East Coast.
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy on Wednesday announced plans to adopt California’s 2035 end date for new internal-combustion cars aside from plug-in hybrids. This was codified in one of three executive orders signed by Murphy Wednesday, which outline policies that include 100% clean-energy use by 2035, and greater energy efficiency in the state’s building sector.
“These bold targets and carefully crafted initiatives signal our unequivocal commitment to swift and concrete climate action today,” Murphy said in a statement.
The executive order directs the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection to formally adopt the stricter emissions rules needed to meet the 2035 goal by the end of the year. Environmental advocates were quick to note that the clock is ticking.
“The longer we wait to adopt this rule, the lesser our chances are at securing more EV options in the state, and the harder to achieve the goal of 100% of new sales by 2035,” Anjuli Ramos-Busot, director of the NJ Sierra Club, said in a statement.
New Jersey joins a number of East Coast states that have finalized, or are working to finalize, emissions standards that follow California’s 2035 timeline, which are collectively referred to as “Advanced Clean Cars II” standards, the Sierra Club noted. This East Coast bloc joins a West Coast contingent of EV-friendly states encompassing California, Washington, and Oregon.
Other states in that cohort include New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont, and Virginia, which just successfully rejected a challenge to its Clean Car standards, keeping it on track to tighten emissions standards in the coming years.
A Democrat-led state senate committee last month threw out a slate of Republican proposals aimed at repealing Virginia’s adoption of California standards, according to the Virginia Mercury.
These states are getting hard to ignore, and with states in the middle of the country now stepping in—like Minnesota, which is now also a Clean Cars state—it’s easier for automakers to simply plan, on a national level, for the vehicles these standards will require.
It should be noted that not everyone will profess regulation as the solution for EV adoption. Three out of the five U.S. states with the most EVs haven’t had a mandate for them, according to a 2021 study. Yet it’s unclear whether that sales growth will continue without mandates, which also serve as a clear sign to automakers to continue producing more EVs.
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2023-02-16T18:57:41+00:00
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pix11.com
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https://pix11.com/automotive/internet-brands/california-ev-mandate-new-jersey-adopts-it-virginia-keeps-it/
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Fewer Americans applied for jobless benefits last week following a previous spike that many analysts took as a sign that higher interest rates were finally cooling the labor market.
It turns out the recent jump in jobless benefit applications was largely due to fraudulent applications in Massachusetts, where claims fell this week by more than 14,000 from the previous week, analysts said.
U.S. applications for jobless claims for the week ending May 13 fell by 22,000 to 242,000, from 264,000 the week before, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The weekly claims numbers are broadly as representative of the number of U.S. layoffs.
While news of the fraudulent Massachusetts numbers made the hand-wringing over last week’s jump in claims seem overblown, economists still expect a slow uptick in layoffs in the second half of 2023.
“We expect jobless claims will resume their upward trend as the economy weakens and enters a mild recession in the second half of the year, and as layoffs become more widespread,” wrote Nancy Vanden Houten, economist at Oxford Economics.
The four-week moving average of claims, which flattens some of the week-to-week fluctuations, ticked down by 1,000 to 244,250. Analysts have pointed to a sustained increase in the four-week averages as a sign that layoffs are accelerating, but are reluctant to predict that a spike in layoffs is imminent.
Overall, 1.8 million people were collecting unemployment benefits the week that ended May 6, about 8,000 fewer than the previous week.
Since the pandemic purge of millions of jobs three years ago, the U.S. economy has added jobs at a breakneck pace and Americans have enjoyed unusual job security. That’s despite interest rates that have been rising for more than a year and fears of a looming recession.
Early this month, the Fed raised its benchmark lending rate for the 10th time in a row in its bid to cool the economy and bring down four-decade high inflation. Though the labor market still favors workers, there have been some recent indications that the Fed’s policy actions are working.
In April, U.S. employers added a healthy 253,000 jobs and the unemployment rate dipped to 3.4%, matching a 54-year low. But the figures for February and March were revised lower by 149,000 jobs, potentially signaling that the Fed’s rate policy strategy is starting to cool the job market.
The government also recently reported that U.S. job openings fell in March to the lowest level in nearly two years.
The Fed is hoping to achieve a so-called soft landing — lowering growth just enough to bring inflation under control without causing a recession. Economists are skeptical, with many expecting the U.S. to enter a recession later this year.
Last month, the Commerce Department reported that U.S. economy slowed sharply from January through March, decelerating to just a 1.1% annual pace as higher interest rates hammered the housing market and businesses reduced inventories.
There have been an increasing number of high-profile layoffs recently, mostly in the technology sector, where companies added jobs at a furious pace during the pandemic. IBM, Microsoft, Salesforce, Twitter, Lyft, LinkedIn and DoorDash have all announced layoffs in recent months. Amazon and Facebook have each announced two sets of job cuts since November.
But it’s not just the tech sector that’s trimming staff. McDonald’s, Morgan Stanley and 3M also announced layoffs recently.
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2023-05-18T23:45:29+00:00
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fox44news.com
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https://www.fox44news.com/news/business-news/ap-fewer-americans-apply-for-jobless-benefits-labor-market-still-showing-strength/
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A roundup of the most newsworthy press releases from PR Newswire this week
NEW YORK, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With thousands of press releases published each week, it can be difficult to keep up with everything on PR Newswire. To help journalists and consumers stay on top of the week's most newsworthy and popular releases, here's a recap of some major stories from the week that shouldn't be missed.
The list below includes the headline (with a link to the full text) and an excerpt from each story. Click on the press release headlines to access accompanying multimedia assets that are available for download.
- FDA Authorizes Moderna, Pfizer-BioNTech Bivalent COVID-19 Vaccines for Use as a Booster Dose
The authorized bivalent COVID-19 vaccines, or updated boosters, include an mRNA component of the original strain to provide an immune response that is broadly protective against COVID-19 and an mRNA component in common between the omicron variant BA.4 and BA.5 lineages to provide better protection against COVID-19 caused by the omicron variant. - Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. Announces Strategic Changes to Strengthen its Financial Positioning, Drive Growth and Better Serve Customers
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. announced a strategic and business update focused on changes intended to meet the demand of its customers, drive growth and profitability, and improve its balance sheet and cash flows. The Company has identified and commenced the closure of approximately 150 lower-producing Bed Bath & Beyond banner stores. It's also secured financing commitments for more than $500 million of new financing. - Bank of America Introduces Community Affordable Loan Solution™ to Expand Homeownership Opportunities in Black/African American and Hispanic-Latino Communities
Bank of America announced a new zero down payment, zero closing cost mortgage solution for first-time homebuyers, which will be available in designated markets, including certain Black/African American and/or Hispanic-Latino neighborhoods in Charlotte, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles, and Miami. The Community Affordable Loan Solution™ aims to help eligible individuals and families obtain an affordable loan to purchase a home. - Fall in Love with Wingstop's New Chicken Sandwich Offered in 12 Bold Flavors, Now Available Nationwide
Fans will be begging to split from their current and tired weekly "lunch date" to get their hands on Wingstop's crispy chicken sandwich that's hand sauced-and-tossed in a Lemon Pepper punch, OG Hot kick, Mango Habanero heat, or Hickory Smoked BBQ bliss to name a few – served with the brand's iconic ranch for dipping. - Butterball Shares 2022 Thanksgiving Outlook Report As Hosts Prepare for Holiday Celebrations
According to Butterball's 2022 Thanksgiving Outlook Report, people are excited for Thanksgiving with nearly 90% of Americans planning to celebrate in 2022 as concerns around COVID-19 shrink. However, concerns around inflation – particularly at the grocery store – are driving the need to get creative with cutting costs all without sacrificing holiday celebrations. - Bud Light 'Cracks Open' NFL Season by Celebrating Fans' First Beer
To kick off the NFL season and excite fans no matter where they are, Bud Light is bringing the harmonious sound of Bud Light being cracked open to life with "Kickoff Beers." Featuring NFL stars Travis Kelce and George Kittle, "Kickoff Beers" remixes an iconic NFL theme song using the sound of Bud Light's being opened. - TIME Acquires Brandcast, the Leading Platform for Building No-Code Enterprise Websites
Through this acquisition, Brandcast's technology, which enables partners to quickly and easily turn content into dynamic, customized microsites, will become TIME Sites. TIME Sites is the newest offering in TIME's rapidly growing, 360° suite of products and platforms for storytelling. - Royal Caribbean Group to Use SpaceX's Starlink in an Industry-first to Provide High-speed Internet Onboard Full Cruise Fleet
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2022-09-02T11:16:16+00:00
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TEMPE, Ariz., June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GT Medical Technologies announced today that it has earned the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 13485:2016 certification from GMED. The certification demonstrates the company's compliance with medical device quality management system requirements under the Medical Device Single Audit Program (MDSAP).
ISO/MDSAP certifications emphasize a key achievement in the global commercial expansion plans for GT Medical Technologies' FDA-cleared GammaTile® Therapy.
GammaTile Therapy is Surgically Targeted Radiation Therapy (STaRT) for operable brain tumors, including high-grade gliomas, brain metastases, and malignant meningiomas. Implanted during the last five minutes of brain tumor removal surgery, the GammaTiles start working immediately to eliminate residual tumor cells.
"Achieving ISO and MDSAP certifications is the first step in the process of qualifying GammaTile Therapy for patients with brain tumors outside of the United States and around the globe," said GT Medical Technologies President and CEO Matthew E. Likens. "This demonstrates our ongoing commitment to maintaining the highest standards of quality management to ensure the safety and efficacy of GammaTile."
GammaTile Therapy is currently available to patients at top brain tumor centers across the United States.
Driven to overcome the limitations of current treatments for brain tumors and raise the standard of care, a team of brain tumor specialists joined forces and formed GT Medical Technologies to improve the lives of patients with brain tumors. GammaTile Therapy received FDA 510(k) regulatory clearance for the treatment of all types of recurrent brain tumors and newly diagnosed malignant tumors. The 3D, resorbable collagen tiles embedded with radiation sources are implanted during the last five minutes of brain tumor resection, providing an immediate, dose-intense treatment to eliminate residual tumor cells. This "one and done" procedure allows patients to receive their course of radiation while going about their daily lives, requiring no additional trips to the hospital or clinic for radiation therapy. For more information, visit www.gtmedtech.com and follow @GammaTile on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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2022-06-29T10:17:56+00:00
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https://www.wafb.com/prnewswire/2022/06/29/gt-medical-technologies-earns-iso-mdsap-certifications/
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Mary Skipper came into her new job as the superintendent of Boston Public Schools with high hopes, making big promises to revamp the beleaguered district. “We need every place in Boston Public Schools to be a place where students run into the building,” she said in June, shortly after she was hired. “We need it to be a place where our families trust that what we say we’re going to do, we do.”
Skipper now has an opportunity to show she means it. On Wednesday, the district released a new report on the now-defunct Mission Hill K-8 School — the third and final phase of an investigation commissioned by BPS and conducted by the law firm Hinckley Allen. The report documents how key failures that led to the Jamaica Plain school’s closure trace all the way up to top district leaders. If Skipper is indeed determined to rebuild trust, then she must clearly inform the public of the steps BPS will take to ensure that what happened at Mission Hill will never happen again.
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That starts with accountability. The first phase of the Hinckley Allen investigation, which came out before Skipper became superintendent, resulted in a damning report that revealed systemic problems with how Mission Hill school officials handled problems of bullying and sexual misconduct among students; a chronic neglect of students with disabilities and special education programs; and a school that was seriously struggling to provide its students with the necessary academic tools to succeed. The findings prompted Boston Mayor Michelle Wu to promise “accountability to every level of the district.”
Still, other than shutting down the school — which, to be sure, was the right call — it’s unclear if anyone, whether Mission Hill officials or BPS leaders, has faced any disciplinary action for their negligence and the harm that it caused students and their families. Unless that happens, it would be a tall order to expect Boston families to suddenly begin trusting BPS, as Skipper hopes. After all, if some of the school officials responsible for the massive failures at Mission Hill are still around, then who’s to say that they’ve learned the right lessons and won’t make the same mistakes?
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That’s why it’s incumbent on the new superintendent to release the entire investigation, so that the public can itself hold BPS accountable. Though the first and third phases of the Hinckley Allen investigation have been released — with redactions — the second phase, which delved into the failures of BPS personnel, has yet to be released. A spokesperson for BPS told the editorial board that the report on the second phase of the investigation will not be released because it includes confidential personnel matters and recommendations that are protected by attorney-client privilege.
But as this page has said before, while it’s important to protect the privacy of students and their families, school and district officials who either remain at BPS or are on their way to work at other schools deserve some level of scrutiny. It would seem reasonable to think BPS could waive attorney-client privilege where it is in the public interest and release a report with the necessary redactions, as they did with the first and third phases of the investigation.
Skipper has already announced some of the steps she’s going to take, including commissioning an audit of BPS systems and protocols, reorganizing her senior leadership team, and improving oversight of schools by splitting them into regions, among other things. That’s a good start.
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But there’s no reason for BPS to wait for yet another report before taking tangible steps to rebuild trust, and until there is more transparency and accountability, Skipper is asking Boston residents to take it on faith that changes will be made for the better.
The way BPS responds to the latest report on the Mission Hill scandal will be an early glimpse into Skipper’s style of leadership. If she wants to show Boston that her tenure will be a happy departure from the past, then she has to stand up to the people who let the students of Mission Hill down. The longer she waits, the more reason people have to believe the direction of BPS will be much the same. Good luck building trust then.
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2022-10-01T08:19:10+00:00
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bostonglobe.com
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https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/10/01/opinion/latest-mission-hill-report-is-an-early-test-bostons-new-schools-superintendent/
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Parish leaders with their parols stand in front of the cathedra where Seattle Archbishop Paul D. Etienne blesses them and commissions them to return to their parishes to commence the nine days of Masses leading up to Christmas, during St. James Cathedral’s annual celebration of Simbang Gabi, a Filipino Advent tradition, on Saturday, Dec. 11, 2022. (Amanda Snyder/Crosscut)
For Ed Jose, coordinator of the North Seattle Deanery, it was one more reminder that not everything was back to normal last year.
“The Filipinos love getting together, [and] a Catholic Mass is one of the ways that we do it, especially during this time of the year,” said Jose, who relishes in the tradition.
This year's attendance, back up to about 600 people, made it all the more meaningful a celebration for him and others like Deacon Carl Chilo, the director of multicultural ministry for the Archdiocese of Seattle.
“We want to be able to celebrate with so many people throughout the Archdiocese,” Chilo said. ”People [come] from 65 parishes throughout Western Washington, [and] it's just to celebrate the Holy Mass together.”
Simbang Gabi started in the 1500s when the Spanish came to the Philippines. Fray Diego Soria, prior of the San Augustin Convent, petitioned the Pope to hold Masses outdoors during the month leading up to Christmas to accommodate crowds. They held them in the early morning so farmers could participate despite their early work hours, and also avoid the midday heat. The term “Simbang Gabi” in Filipino means “night Mass,” and it is traditionally held at dawn or in the evening.
When Filipino-Americans brought the tradition to the United States, it was celebrated sporadically. In 1997, Seattle Archbishop Alexander J. Brunett was the first archbishop to take part in the Simbang Gabi celebration in Seattle.
“He knew that there [were] a number of Filipinos that [were] celebrating Simbang Gabi in their own parishes, but it was never recognized as part of the Archdiocese celebration, ” Jose said.
Burnett went on to encourage the entire Archdiocese to participate in the Advent celebration in all its pageantry.
When Leovy Cabrera was a child in the Philippines, there were no celebrations of Simbang Gabi in her neighborhood.
“We [were] too far from the city,” she said. “There was no church in our area.”
She moved to Olympia in 1971, but it wasn’t until about 2010 that she was invited to join the Seattle Filipino Mass.
The first year she went, Cabrera happily remembers making her star, called a parol. The star-shaped lantern, representing a guiding light for Jesus to come home, is used as part of the processional for the Mass. Each parish makes many parols and then picks one to showcase at the Mass, according to Jose.
As the Mass comes to a close, an array of sparkly and bright parols, held by parish leaders, wander their way to the centra, a throne for the bishop, as the leaders stand in front of the current Seattle Archbishop Paul D. Etienne. He blesses the leaders and commissions them to return to their parishes to commence the novena, a form of devotion and prayer consisting of special services for nine successive days.
This photo essay is part of an ongoing series on holiday celebrations. If you have a celebration you would like Crosscut to attend, please let us know by emailing amanda.snyder@crosscut.com
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2022-12-13T23:38:09+00:00
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crosscut.com
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https://crosscut.com/culture/2022/12/festivities-focus-filipino-catholics-gather-simbang-gabi
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NPR's A Martinez speaks with Andrea Patiño Contreras, director of the documentary #IamVanessaGuillen, which explores the culture of sexual harassment at Fort Hood military base.
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NPR's A Martinez speaks with Andrea Patiño Contreras, director of the documentary #IamVanessaGuillen, which explores the culture of sexual harassment at Fort Hood military base.
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2022-07-12T09:40:30+00:00
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kunm.org
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https://www.kunm.org/2022-07-12/iamvanessaguillen-explores-the-culture-of-toxicity-at-fort-hood
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Rayshawn Jenkins intercepted Dak Prescott’s bobbled pass and returned it 52 yards for a touchdown that gave the Jacksonville Jaguars a 40-34 victory over the Dallas Cowboys in overtime Sunday.
Noah Brown failed to secure Prescott’s low throw, and Jenkins made a shoelace grab and went untouched the other way to end Jacksonville’s 20-game skid against NFC teams. It’s an NFL record.
Prescott sat on the field as the Jaguars celebrated one of their more improbable wins in franchise history. The Cowboys (10-4) ended a five-game winning streak.
The stunner prevented Dallas from securing a playoff spot. Jacksonville (6-8), meanwhile, could gain ground on Tennessee in the topsy-turvy AFC South.
Jacksonville won the toss in overtime and had a chance to win it with Trevor Lawrence, who threw for 318 yards and four touchdowns. But the Jaguars went three-and-out, giving the Cowboys a chance to win after squandering a 27-10 lead.
Prescott’s third-down pass proved to be a difference-maker.
Prescott completed 23 of 30 passes for 256 yards, with three touchdowns and two interceptions. Two of his TD passes went to Brown.
Prescott found Brown for a 13-yard score with 3:02 remaining that looked like it would be the winner. Lawrence fumbled while scrambling on the ensuing possession, but he got the ball back and drove his team into position for Riley Patterson’s 40-yard, game-tying field goal on the final play of regulation.
Lawrence threw three TD passes to Zay Jones. Travis Etienne ran for 103 yards.
The Jaguars scored 21 consecutive points to rally from a 27-10 deficit and take a 31-27 lead in the fourth. But Prescott and the Cowboys countered with a 13-play drive that included three third-down conversions.
Ezekiel Elliott ran for 58 yards and a score for Dallas, joining Hall of Famer Emmitt Smith as the only backs in franchise history with rushing touchdowns in seven straight games.
KEY INJURIES
Cowboys: Dallas lost two defensive starters. Linebacker Leighton Vander-Esch (neck) was ruled out early in the second half and defensive tackle Dorance Armstrong (knee) left the game in the third quarter.
Jaguars: Etienne missed one drive late with an ankle injury. … Jacksonville lost both starting offensive tackles. Left tackle Cam Robinson went to the locker room in the fourth quarter with a right knee injury. Right tackle Jawaan Taylor had previously left with a hamstring injury. … Defensive tackle Foley Fatukasi injured an ankle in the first half.
COWBOYS’ TYRON SMITH RETURNS
Cowboys offensive tackle Tyron Smith, one of the best blockers in franchise history, made his season debut in Jacksonville. The eight-time Pro Bowl left tackle started on the opposite side in place of injured Terence Steele, who tore knee ligaments last week against Houston.
Smith missed the first 12 games with a torn hamstring tendon sustained in training camp. Rookie Tyler Smith replaced Tyron Smith at left tackle, and coaches wanted to keep him in his usual spot against the Jags. Tyron Smith rotated at right tackle with 40-year-old Jason Peters.
STREAK ENDS
Lawrence’s streak of consecutive passes without an interception ended at 204. Cowboys rookie DaRon Bland picked off Lawrence’s pass intended for Christian Kirk in the third quarter. Lawrence was closing in on the franchise record (209) set by David Garrard in 2007.
ANOTHER SLOW START
For the sixth consecutive game, the Jaguars dug themselves an early hole. They trailed Dallas 14-0 in the second quarter. It followed a 14-7 deficit against Tennessee last week. Jacksonville also trailed at Detroit 20-3, against Baltimore 6-0, at Kansas City 20-0 and against Las Vegas 17-0.
UP NEXT
The Cowboys host Philadelphia on Saturday, a pivotal game in the NFC East.
The Jaguars play at the New York Jets on Thursday night. It’s Jacksonville’s only primetime game this season.
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2022-12-18T22:47:33+00:00
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valleycentral.com
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https://www.valleycentral.com/sports/silver-star-nation/cowboys-blow-big-lead-in-ot-loss-to-jaguars/
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Celebrity breakups can be visceral and wrenching, especially when you don’t see them coming. So it was especially painful on Monday when Showtime announced the abrupt cancellation of “Desus and Mero,” the bold and bawdy late-night show hosted by Desus Nice and The Kid Mero.
They launched the popular Bodega Boys podcast in 2015, continuing to build a fan base that appreciated their irreverent commentary on sports, pop culture and everything in between. The first iteration of “Desus and Mero” as talk show arrived in 2016 on the now-defunct Viceland, where the hosts got noticed for their unfiltered political insight despite a no-frills aesthetic (the show was filmed in a conference room) and jokes that would fly over the heads of most other late-night audiences. Desus and Mero, both raised in the Bronx by immigrant parents (Desus’s parents are from Jamaica; Mero is Dominican American), spoke to an audience — a generation, really — that had long gone ignored in that realm. Their guests, which ranged from journalists to internet personalities to rappers, tended to be people outside of the late-night circuit. But even when they hosted more mainstream bookings, Desus and Mero asked unanticipated questions (″What hood you reppin?,” they asked MSNBC Rachel Maddow in 2017).
When Showtime announced in 2019 that Desus and Mero were moving to the network, it felt like the culmination of “the brand is strong,” one of many phrases the pair coined and shared over the years with the Bodega Hive, the name for their legion of fans. Bigger budget notwithstanding, Desus and Mero brought the same energy and ethos to premium cable. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), a fellow Bronx native, was the show’s inaugural guest; the interview took place in the trio’s home borough. “Desus and Mero” aired twice weekly on Showtime initially, and the duo clocked dozens of interviews that first season, hosting the likes of Stacey Abrams, Anna Kendrick, Issa Rae, Carmelo Anthony, Lil Nas X, the Wu-Tang Clan, Pete Buttigieg, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Zendaya and Spike Lee.
Throughout it all, they maintained the spirit of the Bodega Boys; the first episode was titled “Series Premiere, Ballbags” in a nod to the glossary of terms the duo has compiled across projects. And while the pandemic threw off many a late-night host in 2020, Desus and Mero seemed to find their footing in a year that saw a global pandemic, widespread racial-injustice protests and a chaotic election. They interviewed rapper Saweetie, chef José Andrés, Anthony Fauci and former president Barack Obama, and maintained a similarly illustrious guest list in the show’s third season. The fourth installment of “Desus and Mero,” which bowed June 23, was just as critically acclaimed as the first few and a fifth season seemed likely. Until …
Rumors of a fallout between the comedy duo had been buzzing around the Hive since last weekend, when a Bodega Boys fan account posted a series of screenshots that appeared to show Desus and Mero subtweeting each other. Fans were hankering for another episode of the Bodega Boys podcast, which hadn’t released new content since last November. When Desus sent a tweet promising the Hive that more was to come, Mero appeared to quickly shut the notion down. “Nah, it’s a wrap brody,” he began before appearing to reference issues on the Bodega Boys tour that brought the pair to Washington (and other cities around the U.S.) in 2017. “I tried y’all,” Desus said. He later tweeted that “the hive deserved better than this ending.”
“Seems like it’s a wrap, y’all,” Bodega Boys Daily noted. Speculation intensified after Desus and Mero appeared to largely ignore one another while participating in this year’s All-Star celebrity softball game. By Monday evening, Showtime confirmed the bad news: The fourth season of “Desus and Mero” would be its last and the hosts would be going their separate ways.
Bodega Hive: The illustrious @desusnice and @THEKIDMERO will be pursuing separate creative endeavors moving forward. #DESUSandMERO will not be returning to SHOWTIME. It's been a good run, fam.
— DESUS & MERO on SHOWTIME (@SHODesusAndMero) July 18, 2022
The show’s end seemed to be just as shocking to its production staff, several of whom took to social media to express gratitude for their time on the series, which helped launch other personalities, including Ziwe, who now has her own Showtime talk show.
Well, friends, it's the end of an era. It takes a village to make a show, and I'm so honored to have been a part of the Desus & Mero village. Truly the most illustrious team in late night! Hire them all!!! I feel so much pride looking back at everything we made. Nothing compares.
— Heben Nigatu (@hebennigatu) July 19, 2022
There is also a bittersweet irony in how things played out, since the idea of Hollywood causing creative tension has long been a running joke between them and their fans. While the Hive is still grappling with what could have possibly caused the rift, fans of “Desus and Mero” are wondering what it means for late night, an industry landscape that has historically favored older White men (especially those named Jimmy) on network television. Where else but “Desus and Mero” could you tune in to see Yo-Yo Ma cover Britney Spears, Sisqo and DMX, all in one place?
It’s unclear where exactly the duo will end up now that they’ve gone their own ways, but their late-night presence isn’t completely gone just yet: Desus is one of the celebs guest-hosting for Jimmy Kimmel this summer.
The brand may be in flux, but the repertoire, at least, is strong.
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2022-07-20T17:58:36+00:00
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washingtonpost.com
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2022/07/20/desus-mero-showtime-canceled-history/
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In scathing reports, federal regulators on Friday outlined a number of disastrous decisions — including failures by the Federal Reserve and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation — that ultimately led to last month’s banking crisis.
A much-anticipated 114-page report from the Fed on Silicon Valley Bank set the stage for a new, aggressive push to tighten up many of the rules that were eased by Congress in a bipartisan vote in 2018 and further loosened by the Fed in 2019. A separate report on Signature Bank’s collapse released later Friday by the FDIC blamed that bank’s management for ignoring risks — and also faulted the FDIC for not pushing the bank harder.
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“SVB’s failure demonstrates that there are weaknesses in regulation and supervision that must be addressed,” Fed Vice Chair for Supervision Michael Barr wrote in a letter accompanying his report. “Regulatory standards for SVB were too low, the supervision of SVB did not work with sufficient force and urgency, and contagion from the firm’s failure posed systemic consequences not contemplated by the Federal Reserve’s tailoring framework,” Barr wrote, referring to moves in 2018 and 2019 to ease, or “tailor,” the banking system’s rules.
The Fed launched its own investigation of what went wrong after the implosion of SVB and Signature Bank spurred two weeks of economic panic and forced an emergency government intervention in March. That crisis appears to have been contained, but officials have been seeking to explain what regulators missed and how two poorly managed banks could so quickly threaten the broader financial system. Meanwhile, the unknown fate and plunging share price of First Republic Bank has left regulators and industry executives scrambling to find a solution that does not also cause that bank’s collapse.
On Monday, the FDIC will also release a report on whether the rules governing deposit insurance should be changed. (Typically, the FDIC ensures deposits up to $250,000, but in the recent crisis, government officials decided to guarantee all deposits at both banks to avoid a wider catastrophe.) The Fed and FDIC regulate different kinds of banks, with the FDIC overseeing state-chartered and regional banks that are not members of the Fed system, as SVB was.
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Barr, nominated by President Biden as the Fed’s chief banking cop in 2022, wrote the report on SVB and will lead any push for new rules. He has long been a critic of past moves to weaken banking system oversight, which he had helped to strengthen after the 2008 financial crisis.
Still, the report is likely to draw criticism from the banking industry and from Republicans who dispute claims that the looser rules directly contributed to SVB’s downfall. In a statement, Representative Patrick T. McHenry, Republican of North Carolina and the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, said that although he agreed with Barr on some issues — including on a need to pay attention to liquidity when a bank is growing fast — “the bulk of the report appears to be a justification of Democrats’ long-held priorities.”
“The section on tailoring is a thinly veiled attempt to validate the Biden administration and congressional Democrats’ calls for more regulation,” McHenry said. “Politicizing bank failures does not serve our economy, financial system, or the American people well.”
Barr’s proposals will go through standard rulemaking procedures, but senior Fed officials have expressed confidence that these changes will come to fruition. Barr said the Fed will reevaluate a range of rules for midsize banks that have at least $100 billion of assets. The Fed also will reconsider how it guards against risks from rising interest rates, which are seen as having played a major role in SVB’s demise. And the central bank will reexamine rules governing how much capital banks have to keep on hand; the stability of banks’ uninsured deposits; and the Fed’s audits, known as “stress testing,” which the 2019 rules change made less complex.
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That push was overseen by Barr’s predecessor, Randal Quarles, and supported by Fed Chair Jerome H. Powell. (Quarles could not immediately be reached for comment.)
In a statement Friday, Powell said of Barr’s report, “I agree with and support his recommendations to address our rules and supervisory practices, and I am confident they will lead to a stronger and more resilient banking system.”
The changes would not require separate legislation or approval by Congress, according to senior Fed officials. Powell and the Fed’s board of governors were briefed on the findings but were not involved in the review or final report. Also not involved were the staffers involved in supervising SVB before it failed in early March.
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2023-04-28T20:03:34+00:00
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bostonglobe.com
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https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/04/28/business/fed-says-it-must-strengthen-banking-rules-after-svbs-collapse/
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ROME (AP) — Russia has lodged a formal protest with the Vatican over Pope Francis’ latest condemnation of atrocities in Ukraine, in which the pontiff blamed most of the cruelty on Chechens and other minorities in an apparent effort to spare ethnic Russian troops from criticism.
The Kremlin’s ambassador to the Holy See, Alexander Avdeev, told the RIA Novosti agency that he met Monday with a Vatican official to express his “indignation” about Francis’ comments, which were contained in an interview with the Jesuit magazine America that was published Monday.
In his comments, Francis defended his usual reluctance to call out President Vladimir Putin by name, saying it was clear Ukraine is the “martyred” victim in the war. But he also said that, while it was the Russian state that invaded Ukraine, “Generally, the cruelest are perhaps those who are of Russia but are not of the Russian tradition, such as the Chechens, the Buryats and so on.”
The pope’s apparent distinction between the mostly Muslim Chechens and Buddhist Buryats on the one hand, and ethnic Russian fighters on the other, irked Moscow.
“I expressed indignation at such insinuations and noted that nothing can shake the cohesion and unity of the multinational Russian people,” Avdeev was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti.
Throughout the nine-month war, Francis has tried to spare direct condemnation of Moscow for fear of antagonizing the Russian Orthodox Church, which has strongly backed Putin’s invasion on religious grounds. Francis has previously blamed “mercenaries” for the atrocities being committed in Ukraine, drawing criticism from the Kyiv government.
In the new comments, Francis was clearly trying to draw a line between those who follow “the Russian tradition” and allegedly more brutal Chechens and Buryats, when in fact Russian troops have been accused of war crimes regardless of their ethnicity.
While it wasn’t entirely clear what Francis meant by people who follow the “Russian tradition,” it could be a reference to the predominantly Russian Orthodox Christian roots of an estimated 68% of the population.
The RIA report also cited the regional leader of Buryatia, Alexey Tsydenov, as describing the pope’s remarks as “at least strange.” Buryatia, a Siberian republic which forms part of Russia, is home to indigenous Buryat Mongolians, who were reported to be disproportionally targeted by Moscow’s mobilization efforts alongside other minorities.
Ramzan Kadyrov, the Kremlin-backed leader of predominantly Muslim Chechnya, has been one of the most outspoken supporters of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, though fighters from the southern Russian republic have participated on both sides in the war. Pro-Kyiv volunteers, for example, have named their grouping after a late leader who headed Chechnya’s drive for independence from Moscow.
The latest dustup over Francis’ comments come as the Holy See tries to play a mediating role in the conflict. Francis and the Vatican secretariat of state have made repeated offers to try to facilitate peace talks, to no avail.
Asked Monday about the latest offer, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow appreciates the gesture but he noted that Ukraine has refused to hold talks.
The Vatican has a tradition of not taking sides in conflicts, believing it can be a more effective peacemaker with behind-the-scenes diplomacy. And Francis has tried to balance his rhetoric, expressing solidarity with the “martyred” people of Ukraine while also seemingly acknowledging Kremlin complaints about NATO “barking at its gates” by its eastward expansion.
The day after Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion Francis made a very public gesture by going to the Russian embassy to the Holy See to personally appeal to Avdeev for peace.
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Kozolowska reported from London.
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2022-11-30T08:10:01+00:00
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wboy.com
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https://www.wboy.com/news/world/ap-russia-protests-pope-comments-as-vatican-seeks-to-mediate/
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This week we try Car Darts. It is a game more inside of GTA V (Grand Theft Auto 5) that is called adversary mode.
Klam, Brrr, Unknown and myself go 2 on 2 to see who is better at darts with cars.
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This week we try Car Darts. It is a game more inside of GTA V (Grand Theft Auto 5) that is called adversary mode.
Klam, Brrr, Unknown and myself go 2 on 2 to see who is better at darts with cars.
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2023-04-21T19:39:43+00:00
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9and10news.com
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https://www.9and10news.com/2021/10/04/one-up-xp-show-car-darts/
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Federal prosecutors have filed criminal charges against Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.), who is the subject of intense public scrutiny over his resume and finances and has faced bipartisan calls to resign, a source familiar with the charges confirmed to The Hill.
The charges remain under seal. Santos could appear in court as early as Wednesday, the source said.
The existence of the charges was first reported by CNN.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York and the Department of Justice declined to comment when reached by The Hill. The FBI referred The Hill’s inquiry to the Department of Justice.
Prosecutors reportedly had been investigating Santos’s finances and campaign disclosure filings.
The congressman has been the target of multiple investigations after questions emerged about his resume, biography and finances. State and federal entities have either received formal complaints about or are said to be looking into the congressman. The House Ethics Committee has also opened an investigation into Santos.
A number of lawmakers have called on Santos to resign, including some from his own party.
One Republican — Rep. Mike Lawler (N.Y.) — reupped that call after reports of the charges emerged Tuesday.
“I reiterate my call for George Santos to step down,” Lawler said in a statement.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who has stopped short of calling for Santos’s resignation, declined to comment on reports of the charges.
Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.), who sponsored an effort to expel Santos from Congress, similarly reiterated his call for the New York Republican to be removed.
“If the reports are accurate, it appears as if he has been now indicted based on campaign finance fraud, which means that he committed a crime in order to become a member of Congress,” Goldman said. “And this is altogether different than other members who have committed different crimes in the past. His crime got him here.”
Santos has been adamant throughout his tenure in Congress that he does not plan to resign from his seat. In February, he wrote on Twitter, “Let me be very clear, I’m not leaving, I’m not hiding and I am NOT backing down.” Last month, he announced that he was running for reelection next year.
The congressman’s office and Santos’s attorney did not immediately respond to a requests for comment.
The nature of the charges remains unclear, but prosecutors had reportedly been examining the source of the funding for Santos’s congressional campaign. The probes have reportedly, among other leads, included a yacht deal Santos helped broker and an alleged scheme to steal money from a GoFundMe fundraiser he set up for a veteran’s dying service dog.
While the specifics of the investigations into Santos largely remain unknown, the House Ethics Committee in March said it was looking into if Santos “engaged in unlawful activity with respect to his 2022 congressional campaign; failed to properly disclose required information on statements filed with the House; violated federal conflict of interest laws in connection with his role in a firm providing fiduciary services; and/or engaged in sexual misconduct towards an individual seeking employment in his congressional office.”
Santos’s office at the time said the congressman was “fully cooperating.”
Santos was previously charged with criminal theft in 2017, but the case was later dropped.
Despite his controversies, Santos has been a key vote for Republicans throughout the 118th Congress. House Republicans have a slim majority over Democrats (222-213), making his vote crucial for helping the politically diverse GOP coalition pass legislation.
The congressman has been under scrutiny since shortly after he won his race to represent New York’s third congressional district in the House. In December, the New York Times published a bombshell report raising questions about his background. Days later, he admitted to “embellishing” his resume.
Amie Parnes contributed. Updated at 7:12 p.m.
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2023-05-10T00:00:10+00:00
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cbs42.com
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https://www.cbs42.com/hill-politics/federal-prosecutors-file-criminal-charges-against-george-santos/
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The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is monitoring the clean up of an oil spill at Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) in Decatur.
The Illinois EPA told WAND News, staff responded Wednesday afternoon to the site of the spill. EPA Officials are coordinating with ADM officials to determine what caused the spill and how they will clean it up.
Preliminary reports show the material is likely vegetable oil, which can still be harmful to the environment, but is not toxic.
The Illinois EPA told WAND News the vegetable oil has gotten into a storm drain that empties into a storm water pond west of the plant. ADM officials have permission to enter the private property for any clean-up needed. A contractor is collecting the vegetable oil from the point, and a consultant has been hired to clean-up the material that impacted soils.
Illinois EPA continues to monitor the clean-up.
ADM released the following statement to WAND News:
"ADM is committed to ensuring the safety of our employees, our communities, and the environment. Yesterday afternoon, ADM fielded a concern about a possible vegetable oil leak from our processing complex in Decatur. We quickly initiated an investigation, which is ongoing.
ADM takes matters like this very seriously. We understand the community’s concerns and will continue to respond as necessary."
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2023-07-14T23:35:27+00:00
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wandtv.com
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https://www.wandtv.com/news/epa-working-with-adm-on-decatur-oil-spill-clean-up/article_c4ff55d2-2292-11ee-bdca-afca42e4b5fa.html
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Artificial intelligence can predict if, and when, a person could die of cardiac arrest.
We’ve seen AI used in a number of industries, and health care is no exception.
"What we set to do is to use imaging ... so we can predict risk of sudden cardiac death," said Dr. Natalia Trayanova, a professor of biomedical engineering and medicine at Johns Hopkins Medicine. She played a role in a new study looking at how AI can determine cardiac arrest. She is also the director of AI in health and medicine for AI-X Foundry, Johns Hopkins University’s new initiative bringing AI into all aspects of research.
Experts and doctors at Johns Hopkins have done multiple clinical trials looking at how AI can be used to help predict a number of diseases using MRI scans.
Thefirst study researchers released found that AI can predict the chance for sudden cardiac death in patients over a span of 10 years, and when it could happen.
SEE MORE: Could AI be the key to detecting lung cancer years in advance?
"One of the key important novelties in this approach is that we use raw images. We don't do anything to the images," Trayanova said.
Cardiac arrest causes about 300,000 to 450,000 deaths in the United States every year, according to the National Institute of Health.
While this new technology can help increase survival rates for patients, experts do have concerns over making sure the AI is ethical and equitable.
Trayanova said AI won't replace doctors, but it could be used to support decision making.
"I think that opens the door for so many things. There are so many clinical scans that we do on patients that are really underutilized and it shows how deep learning can figure out patterns and features that we don't know how to engineer, that we don't know about," she said.
SEE MORE: Drones are being tested to deliver AEDs to cardiac arrest emergencies
Trending stories at Scrippsnews.com
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2023-04-27T19:31:41+00:00
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wsfltv.com
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https://www.wsfltv.com/ai-can-help-predict-if-when-a-person-will-suffer-from-cardiac-arrest
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HENRIETTA (KFDX/KJTL) — Boy Puppy/Kodiak is looking for a home to adopt him from the Clay County Animal Shelter and Adoption Center.
Carney Porter: If you don’t notice right here, we have a cutie just hanging out. He’s kind of taking a nap right now. He’s from the Clay County Animal Shelter and Adoption Center. Thank y’all so much for being here today. So tell us a little bit: his name is Boy, or we’re trying the new name Kodiak.
CCAS Representative: Boy, Puppy or Kodiak. We nicknamed him Kodiak. But he’s a good boy. He gets on great with other dogs. We think he’s a Weimaraner or Catahoula mix; he might have some lab in him. We’re not exactly sure what all he’s mixed with, but he’s a good boy.
Carney Porter: Where are you going? Are you going to come see me? Are you going to come see me? Oh, sweet boy. Now he’s a little bit shy and maybe a little fearful when you first meet him. He just has to get to know ya.
CCAS Representative: Yeah, he’s just a little timid at first. But he wants to get to know you. He’s a good boy.
Carney Porter: So once he gets comfortable with you, what is he like when he lets loose, per se?
CCAS Representative: He’s playful. He had to be watched some because he at his foster home, he did eat a comforter, so you have to watch what you give him. But he was great with just chewing bones and stuff. If you gave him a raw hide. And he’s he’s very playful, he’s trying to play with the dogs all the time. He loves to play.
Carney Porter: Gotcha. So maybe with a household of like, kiddos, we might want to test the waters out first. Or do we think he’ll adjust to that quickly?
CCAS Representative: We took him into PetsMart over the weekend, and he did great with kids. He loved them.
Carney Porter: Oh, can we see your face? Look at the face. Look at how cute he is. And how long have you had him?
CCAS Representative: He was in the foster home since October. And we just got him in last month. So we only had him in the shelter about a month.
Carney Porter: Oh, goodness. And he, like you said, you found him when he was a puppy, kind of out in some fields and whatnot.
CCAS Representative: Out by like Lake Arrowhead with his momma. The fosters kept his momma, but they just weren’t able to keep him, too.
Carney Porter: Gotcha. Hey, come here, baby. Well, if they are interested in adopting him, how can anybody go about doing so?
CCAS Representative: They can call the number on the screen 9405386757. And just say you’re interested in Boy Puppy or Kodiak either one. We’ll know which one you want. You can stop by – we’re there from 9 to 1 every day, our address is 503 North Carroll Street.
Carney Porter: Perfect. Well, thank you all so much for joining us. We appreciate it. Don’t go anywhere. We’ll be right back.
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2023-04-04T23:02:56+00:00
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texomashomepage.com
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https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/interviews/clay-county-animal-shelter-meet-kodiak/
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There's a mounting body of evidence on how having or being denied an abortion affects pregnant people, including impacts on their mental health and the finances of them and their children. The effects on their male partners have received less attention.
In the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, experts say that no longer should be the case.
"It's really naïve to think that the repeal of Roe is only going to impact women and pregnant people," said Dr. Bethany Everett, a professor of sociology at the University of Utah.
While the issue disproportionately impacts people who can get pregnant, Dr. Everett says it's important to look at abortion access from all sides, as limits on abortion access likely will have broader implications for society as a whole.
One in five men have been involved in an abortion, one study finds
Research on the impact of abortions on male partners has been limited, but that doesn't mean the issue isn't relevant to men.
Using existing data from the National Survey of Family Growth, a recent study estimates that one in five men have impregnated someone who's had an abortion. That's likely an undercount, according to Dr. Brian Nguyen, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Southern California, who helped oversee the project.
"Not all men are aware of the pregnancies they cause and those that end in abortion," said Dr. Nguyen. "For some men who may see abortion as a failure on their part to be a better partner or potential father, or for those whose social and cultural backgrounds have made them feel as if abortion is wrong, disclosing an abortion can be challenging or uncomfortable.
In a separate survey of more than 200 male partners of women seeking procedures at abortion clinics, Dr. Nguyen and his team found that about half of them already had children, and supported termination of a pregnancy in order to better provide for their existing family.
Young men who have been involved in abortions are more likely to pursue college and earn more
In her study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, Dr. Everett and her team found that young men who were involved with a pregnancy and whose partners had an abortion were nearly four times more likely to graduate from college than those whose partners gave birth.
Her research also suggests that males under the age of 20 who were affected by an abortion were likely to earn more money than those who became parents but did not live with their child. Earnings between those who became parents and lived with their child and those whose partners terminated a pregnancy were about the same, Everett said, possibly because those who became teen fathers entered the workforce sooner.
"But still, you likely would see later down the road economic capital build among those who were able to pursue their educational careers," she adds.
Those differences are significant but not surprising. According to Dr. Everett, previous research generally has linked delayed parenthood with greater educational achievement and future socioeconomic status for both men and women.
"Parents should really think hard about not just what the repeal of Roe is going to mean for their daughters, but what it's going to mean for their sons," Dr. Everett said. "Their sons may become dads much earlier than they're prepared for."
Debunking the "us v. them" narrative between men and women
Dr. Nguyen has been working to help people recognize cis men's role in reproductive health for more than a decade. He sees his work as inherently female focused and in pursuit of gender equality, but to others that hasn't always been clear.
"The gender-based discrimination and disparity that women have faced because of patriarchal power structures have really put a rift between the public's mental image of men and women when it comes to reproductive rights," Dr. Nguyen said.
He believes that the fight for abortion access would benefit if cis men fully engaged in the cause, and demonstrating their tangible stakes could help.
"When it comes to reproductive rights, we hear a lot of 'her body, her choice' and 'I'll support her no matter what.' But that's passive support," he said. "To me, what men need to be risking is their own comfort of having to grapple with an issue that women are forced to do biologically."
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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2022-06-27T09:34:28+00:00
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iowapublicradio.org
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https://www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-npr/2022-06-27/the-end-of-roe-v-wade-has-huge-economic-implications-for-male-partners-too
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US spy satellite launched into orbit from California
VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — A classified satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office launched into orbit aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 Heavy rocket on Saturday.
The NROL-91 spy satellite lifted off at 3:25 p.m. from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California’s Santa Barbara County.
It was the last launch of a Delta 4 from the West Coast. Additional launches are planned from Florida before the Deltas are replaced by ULA’s next-generation Vulcan Centaur rockets.
The Delta IV Heavy configuration first launched in December 2004. This was the 387th flight of a Delta rocket since 1960 and the 95th and final launch from Vandenberg.
The National Reconnaissance Office is the government agency in charge of developing, building, launching and maintaining U.S. spy satellites that provide intelligence data to policymakers, the intelligence community and Defense Department.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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2022-09-25T02:34:26+00:00
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mysuncoast.com
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https://www.mysuncoast.com/2022/09/25/us-spy-satellite-launched-into-orbit-california/
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(NEXSTAR) – Just a few short months ago, Powerball players were vying for a world record-setting $2.04 billion jackpot. Though only one ticket – claimed by Edwin Castro last month – matched all six numbers to win the jackpot, a NASCAR driver says he was one number away from claiming the prize before it surpassed $2 billion.
During an episode of his podcast, “Actions Detrimental with Denny Hamlin,” the driver for Joe Gibbs Racing explained that while in Arizona last year, he scored a big payout off the track.
The weekend before the November 7 drawing for the massive Powerball jackpot, NASCAR was racing at Phoenix Raceway in Arizona. By then, Hamlin had already been booted from championship contention after Ross Chastain pulled ahead of him in points thanks to a now-banned video-game move. He and his team had also received tragic news – Coy Gibbs, the son of Joe Gibbs and co-owner of Joe Gibbs Racing, died the night before Sunday’s race.
Hamlin went on to finish eighth in the race.
But, hours before the race, Hamlin tweeted that he had hit “5 of 6 on my first Powerball purchase.” He recounted the experience in Monday’s episode of his podcast.
Hamlin explained that, as he was leaving the race track one day that weekend, he had to stop for gas and texted the people he was staying with to let them know he’d be back late. They responded, telling him to buy a lottery ticket.
When he stopped at the gas station in Scottsdale and went inside, Hamlin said there were dozens of people standing in line at the lottery kiosk waiting to buy tickets.
“I was going to get $300 in tickets. That’s just what I had on me and what I was going to get,” he continued. The problem? Hamlin, who had never played Powerball before, wasn’t sure what to do at the kiosk when it became his turn. After trying to figure it out, he instead purchased his tickets at the register.
After securing the tickets – 150 drawings, since each drawing costs $2 – Hamlin said he went to dinner and was there when the drawing happened. When he checked the tickets later, he realized the first drawing he received matched four white numbers and the Powerball, missing just one to land the record-setting jackpot.
Matching those five numbers still results in a $50,000 payout. But, as Hamlin noted, had he opted for the Power Play – the rookie Powerball player said the gas station clerk didn’t offer him the option – his payout could have been much larger. When a player opts for Power Play, if they match the red Powerball number, their non-jackpot prize can grow by as much as 10 times the standard payout.
“I guess that, if you hit the Powerball number, which I did, the Powerball that hit that night was 20, which I had, whatever your winnings are, it triples,” Hamlin explained. Though Hamlin doesn’t explain it in his podcast, his ticket matches the numbers drawn Saturday, November 5, before the jackpot surpassed $2 billion.
Though he missed the jackpot and the Power Play, Hamlin’s prize was still large enough that he had to either mail in a form or claim it in person. He described visiting an Arizona lottery office while “wearing my hat really low because I don’t want to be seen” while other lottery players were claiming smaller prizes.
Hamlin, a three-time winner of the Daytona 500, was quickly recognized.
“I just kind of felt bad that I was cashing out this big ticket when likely, there were these people that were lifers in there that had never hit it,” he explained.
The odds of matching four white numbers and the red Powerball are 1 in 913,129.18, according to the game’s website.
Under Arizona law, the state lottery waits 90 days after the prize has been awarded to release the names of people like Hamlin, who win between $600 and $100,000. Arizona winners who receive $100,000 or more can have their names withheld from the public permanently.
Arizona Lottery didn’t immediately respond to Nexstar’s request for information regarding Hamlin’s win.
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2023-03-09T22:41:10+00:00
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wboy.com
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https://www.wboy.com/news/national/nascar-driver-says-he-nearly-won-record-setting-powerball-jackpot-last-year/
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Beloved bronze statue stolen from Girls Scouts of Southern Nevada now in need of major repairs
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - For almost 20 years the beloved “In Grace” statue has sat out front of the Southern Nevada Girl Scouts building.
“Oh my gosh, I didn’t think I would be emotional about it,” said former Girl Scout Melissa Fitzgerald. “I just remember when I was a Girl Scout, 15 years ago, however long ago it was there and it was memories.”
Former Girl Scout Melissa Fitzgerald is thankful the statue has been returned so now her daughter, a current Girl Scout, can enjoy the statue the same way she did.
“My daughter coming to council and getting to see it,” said Fitzgerald. “She loves it and she takes a picture with it all the time when we are here.”
On May 7th, surveillance video caught two thieves driving up in a sedan, and then driving off with the trunk open and the statue that is worth $28,000 in the trunk.
On May 12th, the statue was returned but with damages.
“The thieves took and tried to cut it so there were three or four cuts through the bronze,” said CEO council for the girl scouts Kimberly Trueba.
CEO for the girl scout council Kimberly Trueba said because the statue is made from special bronze it cannot be fixed just anywhere.
“We need to raise the money to get that statue crated and shipped to Oregon to the foundry to get it fixed and back and get it placed in our courtyard,” said Trueba.
Trueba said the girl scouts are in need of donations as it will cost $6,000 to ship and repair the statue.
“Anything, anybody can do to help, it would be greatly appreciated by all of the adults in Girl Scouts and all of the girls,” said Fitzgerald.
Trueba said a company in Henderson has offered to help mount the statue once it is repaired
To help with repairs you can donate here.
Copyright 2022 KVVU. All rights reserved.
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2022-10-28T00:41:57+00:00
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fox5vegas.com
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https://www.fox5vegas.com/2022/10/28/beloved-bronze-statue-stolen-girls-scouts-southern-nevada-now-need-major-repairs/
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Most American homeowners said in a recent survey released by the Cato Institute that they would be unable to afford the home they currently own.
According to the survey, 55% say they wouldn’t be able to purchase their home in today’s market, compared to 32% who said they could afford it. The survey found that just one in four Americans believe now is a good time to buy a home.
The survey comes as housing prices surged during the pandemic, which was followed by a spike in mortgage rates.
In the last two years, the 30-year fixed mortgage rate has more than doubled, going from under 3% in late 2020 to now 6.4%, according to federal data. This year marked the first time in 14 years that mortgage rates topped 6%.
Meanwhile, the median price for a home has gone up considerably in the last couple of years. In the first quarter of 2020, the median home went for $329,000. In the third quarter of 2022, it was $454,900.
Although Americans have seen relatively high pay increases in the last few years, according to federal data, those wages have not come close to keeping up with the cost of housing.
The average hourly wage in January 2020 was $28.43. In November, it was up to $32.64.
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2022-12-29T21:55:37+00:00
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wkbw.com
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https://www.wkbw.com/news/national/despite-pay-raises-most-homeowners-say-they-couldnt-afford-current-home
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Annual industry event held on construction sites across the U.S. and Canada
LIBERTYVILLE, Ill., April 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Construction Safety Week, an annual industrywide education and awareness event originally hosted in 2014, kicks off at construction sites across U.S and Canada on May 2.
As pandemic restrictions have eased, Safety Week will be holding more in-person events, including celebrations near O'Hare Airport in Chicago and Centene Stadium in St. Louis. Media members looking to cover these events can get details by emailing info@constructionsafetyweek.com.
This year's theme is "Connected. Supported. Safe." This reflects the enduring connection workers and leaders have to each other across the industry. Being connected builds strength because it means individual workers are not alone in building a stronger, safer industry and creating a safe, supportive environment for everyone.
The event also focuses on mental health issues among workers. Issues like substance abuse or depression can cause even the best worker to put others at risk. And less noticeable things like prolonged stress, anxiety, financial concerns, or tension with a family member can cause workers to lose focus. If we connect with and support one another, we can conquer these challenges together.
New for this year, Construction Safety Week encourages all contractors and workers to begin using safety helmets with an integrated chinstrap and lateral protection, such as those made by Kask and other manufacturers. This simple change can significantly decrease the frequency and severity of traumatic brain injuries (TBIs).
Construction Safety Week leaders encourage all construction companies to participate in this important industry initiative. Firms can visit ConstructionSafetyWeek.com for free planning resources, including:
- Safety Week promotional materials, including job site banners, PowerPoint templates, a planning playbook and more.
- Daily topics, videos and Toolbox Talks.
- Toolkits to help promote Safety Week internally and externally.
- New this year: a Mental Wellness Field Guide to print and distribute on job sites during Safety Week to your teams and subcontractors. It includes information on mental wellness and where to turn for help or support.
- Activities for workers and their families to do at home.
- Materials translated into Spanish and French.
Industry workers, families and companies are invited to share a photo representing how they stay connected, supported and safe every day, and submit their short story for a chance to win $1,000 prize. Details are available on the Safety Week website.
"I'm proud of the work we've done as an industry to encourage safety through this event," said Ken Aldridge, 2022 Safety Week Committee Chair. "I am looking forward to seeing how firms across the industry celebrate this week."
About Safety Week
Construction Safety Week is an annual event designed to raise the awareness of the industry's ongoing commitment to building a culture of safety through sharing best practices, tools and resources at job sites and offices across the U.S. and Canada. Safety Week was founded by members of The Construction Industry Safety Initiative (CISI) and the Incident & Injury Free Executive Forum (IIF) and now includes 70 of the top contractors in the industry, representing thousands of workers. Additional support comes from Safety Week sponsors, partners and advocates. For a complete list and more information, visit www.constructionsafetyweek.com
Safety Week 2022 members:
Aecom, Alberici, Aldridge Electric, Allan Myers, Ames Construction, APi Group, Arco, Atkinson Construction, Austin Industries, Baker Concrete, Balfour Beatty, Barnard, Barton Malow Company, Black & Veatch, BMWC Constructors, Boh Brothers, Brasfield & Gorrie, BrightView, Burns & McDonnell, Caddell Construction Co., Cashman Dredging and Marine, Cianbro, Clark Construction Group, Commercial Contracting Corporation, Doka USA, DPR Construction, Eldeco, Inc., Flintco, LLC, Fluor, Gaylor Electric, Gilbane Building Company, Graham, Granite, Great Lakes Dredge & Dock, Hensel Phelps Construction, Herzog, Hitt, Hoffman, Hunter Roberts Construction Group, J.F. Shea, Kiewit Corporation, Lane Construction, Limbach, M.J. Electric, Manson Construction, Massman Construction Co., McCarthy, Middlesex Corporation, Mortenson, PC Construction, PCL Construction, Phillips and Jordan Inc, Rodgers Builders, Rosendin Electric, Schimenti, Skanska, Stacy and Witbeck, Structural Group, Suffolk Construction, Sukut Construction, Sundt Construction, Superior Construction, Terracon, Traylor, Turner, Walsh, Webcor Concrete, Weeks Marine, Yates, Zachry.
Safety Week 2022 sponsors:
Signature Sponsor: AGC of America, Aon, Beavers, Chubb (ACE American Holdings), CNA (Insurance), Construction Industry Roundtable (CIRT), Dr. Sally (Sally Spencer Thomas), GPRS (Ground Penetrating Radar System), Gray Construction, iHeart Radio, JMJ Consultants, John Moriarty & Associates of Virginia, LLC, Kask Helmets, Milwaukee Tool, National Academy of Construction (NAC), Stanley Black & Decker (Dewalt), Stantec, The Moles, Travelers, Triax, Zurich.
Media Contact:
Rob Pasquinucci
513.604.3556
Rob.pasquinucci@intrinzicbrands.com
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2022-04-26T17:46:08+00:00
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live5news.com
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https://www.live5news.com/prnewswire/2022/04/26/connected-supported-safe-construction-safety-week-kicks-off-may-2/
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The Reporter/Multimedia Journalist identifies potential stories, collects, analyzes, and presents facts about newsworthy events by interview, investigation or observation for all platforms in a manner that is clear, engaging and meaningful to news consumers.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Writes and reports stories on multiple platforms (Web, Broadcast, Social Media) describing the background and details of various events.
- Arranges and conducts interviews with people who can provide information about stories.
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- Receives assignments and evaluates leads and tips to develop story ideas.
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- Ability to meet deadlines, prioritize assignments and handle multiple tasks simultaneously.
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- Flexibility to work any shift as news events demand.
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The Reporter must be able to sit, conduct telephone conversations, use electronic mail, write letters and memos, conduct face-to-face discussions with individuals or groups, make decisions without supervision, make decisions that impact the results of co-workers, work in close proximity to others, work outdoors in all weather conditions, and work indoors in environmentally controlled conditions. In addition, the Reporter must be able to lift, set up and operate equipment weighing up to 25 pounds, and be able to handle, control or feel objects, tools or controls. Repetitive movements are required. Work may be conducted in extremely bright or inadequate lighting conditions.
Apply online at https://nexstar.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/nexstar/details/Reporter-I–MultiMedia-Journalist_REQ-19251
WFRV and Nexstar Media Inc. are an equal opportunity employer.
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2022-07-14T18:32:13+00:00
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wearegreenbay.com
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https://www.wearegreenbay.com/jobs/mmj-bureau-reporter/
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Highlights Firm's Efforts to Drive Positive Change Through ESG Initiatives and Goals
GREENWICH, Conn., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- L Catterton, the largest global consumer-focused private equity firm, today announced that it has published its 2021 Impact Report. The report details L Catterton's approach to responsible investment and marks important milestones in the firm's ongoing efforts to support ESG initiatives and successes across its portfolio.
"We are pleased to release our second annual Impact Report which profiles actions we have taken at both our firm and within our portfolio companies to further drive sustainability, strengthen our communities, and serve the interests of our stakeholders," said Scott Dahnke, Global Co-CEO of L Catterton. "At L Catterton, we possess both the privilege and the responsibility to drive positive change in the world. In this regard, our goal is to not just be a participant in this space, but also to be a leader. We embrace the challenge and remain dedicated to this continuous improvement journey."
"At L Catterton, ESG has always been at the heart of what we do, and we are committed to further expanding our capabilities and activities in this area, recognizing that ESG is essential to our success," said Michael Chu, Global Co-CEO of L Catterton. "While we take pride in our ESG achievements to date, we are acutely focused on the challenges ahead. Our obligation as both investors and as global citizens demands this dedication, and we look forward to continuing to advance our ESG goals and act as a force of positive change across the industry."
Since its founding in 1989, L Catterton has considered ESG factors as core to its operations and investment decisions. In its second annual Impact Report, L Catterton highlights its continued progress, with a particular focus over the last year. Select highlights include:
- Became a founding member of Ownership Works, a nonprofit organization that partners with companies and investors to provide employees with the opportunity to build wealth at work.
- Launched PRISM, the firm's proprietary initiative to support executive and board-level diversity, with a particular focus on female leaders.
- Selected female candidates for approximately 50% of all new firm hires and appointed 17 (of 21) diverse candidates to serve as independent directors on L Catterton portfolio company boards of directors, reinforcing the firm's commitment to gender diversity.
- Partnered with Persefoni, a leading carbon management SaaS platform, to support the firm's climate program.
- Announced the firm's participation in the ESG Data Convergence Initiative to drive transparency and uniformity in disclosures.
- Partnered with local charitable organizations across L Catterton's global offices, including Feeding Westchester, Filling in the Blanks, Meals & More, Henry Street Settlement, and Kids in Crisis to support and empower local communities.
About L Catterton
With approximately $33 billion of equity capital across its fund strategies and 17 offices around the world, L Catterton is the largest global consumer-focused private equity firm. Leveraging deep category insight, operational excellence, and a broad strategic network of relationships, L Catterton's team of nearly 200 investment and operating professionals support management teams around the world in building strong, category-leading brands. Since 1989, the firm has made around 250 investments in consumer businesses. For more information about L Catterton, please visit lcatterton.com.
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2022-09-15T18:51:48+00:00
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kmvt.com
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MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s finance ministry said Monday that budget revenue in January was 35% lower compared with the same month in 2022, the last month before Russia sent troops into Ukraine.
The ministry also said the budget deficit for January was 1.77 trillion rubles ($23.9 billion), about 60% of the shortfall that had been planned for the entire year.
Oil and gas revenue, the backbone of Russia’s economy, was down 46% compared with January 2022.
Western countries have declared a $60-per-barrel price cap on Russian crude oil as well as ceilings on refined oil products like diesel fuel and gasoline.
Russia has said it won’t sell oil to countries observing the limit, but the cap and falling demand from a slowing global economy has meant customers in China, India and elsewhere can buy Russian oil at steep discounts, cutting into the Kremlin’s revenue.
The country also has been hit with an array of Western sanctions since the start of the Ukraine conflict and many Western companies have stopped doing business in Russia.
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2023-02-07T05:21:36+00:00
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cbs4indy.com
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https://cbs4indy.com/business/ap-business/ap-russias-revenue-falls-sharply-in-january-from-year-earlier/
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The Colorado Avalanche won the Stanley Cup for the first time since 2001. Here’s what you need to know about how to celebrate their victory.
The celebration kicks off at 9 a.m., Thursday, June 30th, in Civic Center park with live music, Avs season highlight reels and a live video feed from the parade. The stage will be on the top steps of the City and County Building at Civic Center Park. Video screens will be positioned on Bannock St. and throughout the park.
The Avs victory parade will start at 10 a.m. and go from Union Station (17th and Wynkoop) to Civic Center park. Attendees will include your 2022 Stanley Cup Champions: the Colorado Avalanche players, coaches and management, E. Stanley and Josh Kroenke, Mayor Michael B. Hancock, the Avalanche mascot Bernie and Avalanche Ice Patrol. The parade route is below.
The following roads will be closed and parking unavailable during the specified timeframes. The city advises attendees to consider taking public transit or alternate methods of travel:
Wednesday, June 29th:
Bannock St, Colfax to 14th Ave, 6 a.m.- 11:59 p.m.
Thursday, June 30th:
14th Ave between Delaware Street and Broadway, 6 a.m.-11:59 p.m.
Bannock Street from Colfax to 13th Avenue, 6 a.m. – 11:59 p.m.
Cherokee Street from Colfax to 13th Avenue, 6 a.m.- 5 p.m.
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2022-06-27T04:42:18+00:00
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denverpost.com
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https://www.denverpost.com/2022/06/26/colorado-avalanche-stanley-cup-victory-parade-map/
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Endorsing a candidate who can topple Democratic Gov. Tim Walz in one of the Midwest's rare liberal-dominated states tops the agenda as Minnesota Republicans gather for their state convention Friday and Saturday.
They’ll choose from a field led by a physician skeptical of coronavirus vaccines and mandates, a former Senate majority leader, and a Black business executive trumpeting his outsider status. The 2,200 delegates are eager to reverse their party's repeated defeats in elections statewide since 2006.
The outcome at the convention hall in Rochester will essentially settle the GOP field for the November general election, assuming there's no deadlock. Minnesota Republicans traditionally abide by their party's endorsements. And none of the Democratic candidates for statewide office faces a significant challenge from within their own party, which portends few fireworks for their own state convention one weekend later.
GOP delegates are expected to endorse in the governor's race on Saturday, with a deadline to exit the venue by 6 p.m. Leaders plan to use an electronic voting system to speed the process, reducing the chance of a deadlock that could be caused by counting paper ballots.
Dr. Scott Jensen, a former state senator, got the earliest start in the GOP field. The folksy doctor has raised the most money and built a national following on social media as he leveraged his medical credentials to promote vaccine skepticism. He also opposed the mask mandates and school and business closures that Walz imposed to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
Jensen has also been stressing his uncompromising anti-abortion position in recent days, bolstered by his running mate, former Minnesota Viking and Baltimore Raven Matt Birk, a social conservative who refused to visit the White House after the Ravens’ 2013 Super Bowl victory because of President Barack Obama’s support for abortion rights. Jensen raised eyebrows recently when he suggested Democratic Secretary of State Steve Simon should go to jail for actions he legally took to make it easier to vote amid the pandemic.
Sen. Paul Gazelka was the state's highest ranking elected Republican before he stepped down as Senate majority leader to run for governor. His main theme has been law and order in the wake of the sometimes violent unrest and spike in crime following the police killing of George Floyd in 2020. He's been endorsed by the state's biggest law enforcement association and has highlighted the close ties he enjoyed with President Donald Trump.
But Kendall Qualls has been coming on strong. Qualls, who is Black, has underlined his rise from poverty to success. He challenged incumbent Democratic U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips in 2020, losing by 11 points but impressing Republicans in the process. He raised nearly $468,000 in the first three months of the year, the highest first-quarter take for any candidate, and has won some recent straw polls. Like Jensen, he also has a football connection. His campaign co-chair is former NBC sideline reporter Michele Tafoya.
Also seeking the party's gubernatorial nomination are former Hennepin County Sheriff Rich Stanek, dermatologist Neil Shah and Lexington Mayor Mike Murphy.
The main business for Friday is endorsing candidates for the three other statewide offices on the November ballot: attorney general, secretary of state and state auditor. The endorsement to take on Democratic Attorney General Keith Ellison has drawn the most attention. It's an office Republicans haven't won since 1968.
Former legislator Doug Wardlow is making his second run for the job after losing to Ellison by less than 4 percentage points in 2018. He's general counsel at MyPillow and has the backing of its CEO, Mike Lindell, who perpetuates the baseless claim that Trump won the 2020 election.
Former Washington County judge, former Hennepin County commissioner and former legislator Tad Jude has the most political experience in the race. He points to his 10 general election victories as evidence of his electability, as well as his anti-abortion record from seven terms in the House and Senate. He has picked up a string of endorsements from current legislators in recent weeks.
Also hoping to take on Ellison are business attorney Jim Schultz, who has police association backing; former legislator Dennis Smith, who has the most money in the bank; and Second Amendment attorney Lynne Torgerson.
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2022-05-11T18:01:32+00:00
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ourmidland.com
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https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Minnesota-GOP-seeks-candidate-who-can-topple-17165484.php
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The Red Sox have extended qualifying offers to shortstop Xander Bogaerts and pitcher Nate Eovaldi, but not to pitcher Michael Wacha, according to a major league source.
Wacha, 31, started 23 games for the Sox last year, going 11-2 with a 3.32 ERA. He will be looking for a multi-year deal after playing on a series of one-year deals with the Mets in 2020 ($3 million), the Rays in 2021 ($3 million), and the Sox in 2022 ($7 million).
Bogaerts is certain to decline the qualifying offer. Earlier this week, he opted out of the remaining years of his contract to become a free agent.
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Eovaldi might not decline the qualifying offer. At $19.65 million, it’s a nice raise from his $17 million annual average value of the last four years, he and his family have loved Boston, and after an injury-riddled 2022, he could return to the market after his age 33 season.
Eovaldi could also work out a multi-year deal with the Sox at a lower AAV than the qualifying offer. If he rejects it, his market might be impacted somewhat by the need for teams to give up a draft pick (or picks) to sign him.
As of late Wednesday, there had been some early conversations between the Sox and Eovaldi about a multi-year deal but nothing close.
Designated hitter J.D. Martinez is also eligible to receive a qualifying offer.
Alex Speier can be reached at alex.speier@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter at @alexspeier.
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2022-11-10T22:30:53+00:00
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bostonglobe.com
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https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/11/10/sports/red-sox-extend-qualifying-offers-xander-bogaerts-nate-eovaldi-not-michael-wacha/
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Costly Care: Unexpected medical bill from ER leaves one woman pushing for reform
Experts say medical supplies, medication are almost always up-charged in emergency rooms
This story is produced in partnership with Kaiser Health News. You can submit your unexpected, high-cost medical bills to KHN here.
InvestigateTV - It’s an ER visit New Orleans resident Leigh Fava said left her with a large bill, unanswered questions and a poorly-wrapped bandage.
“When I went home, I literally took off their bandage, washed it out with soap and water and put Neosporin on it myself. And that was actually more than what was done for me in the emergency room,” Fava said.
Fava went to the ER at New Orleans East hospital in November 2021 after injuring and cutting her thumb while on her front deck.
“Obviously when you have an injury like that the first thing you need is a tetanus shot. And so, among other things that were done, they did give me a tetanus shot, but they ultimately charged me almost $700 for it,” Fava said.
Fava said it just didn’t add up.
“I wanted to dispute the tetanus shot because I thought it was outrageous. I wanted to dispute the level 4 emergency fee, because this was not a level 4 injury. This was a Level 1. This was basic. And I also wanted to dispute the medication that I was charged for that I did not actually get,” Fava said.
In emergency rooms, patients are coded at certain levels depending on the severity of injuries and the diagnostic tests done. The higher the level, usually the higher the cost.
Fava said she felt she was ignored, despite sending letters and calling the hospital. She reluctantly paid her remaining balance to avoid it impacting her credit, but she wants a refund and answers from hospital administrators.
“I am not in a financial hardship because of this, but I know for a fact that there are people out there who are getting billed like this on a regular basis,” Fava said.
Surprises in medical billing is an issue that medical billing experts say patients have battled for years.
The Department of Health and Human Services says more than half of consumers in the U.S. report having received an unexpected large bill.
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation’s most recent poll, 58% of adults say that they’re worried about unexpected medical bills.
“In KFF polling, 6 in 10 adults reported worrying about affording unexpected medical bills. And so, unexpected medical bills are so pervasive among people with and without health insurance,” said Krutika Amin, Associate Director at the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Fava works specifically on reviewing medical records as part of her job, and even for her, this was complicated.
“I know what I’m looking for when I look at a medical bill, and I know the language. I know how to say, ‘I want an itemized statement, not a bill.’ I know the difference, and I know how to tell people what it is that they need to give me in order to satisfy a bill, and it didn’t matter,” Fava said.
Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal, Editor and Chief of Kaiser Health News, said cases like Fava’s can sometimes be argued.
“If you know all they did was put a band-aid on a cut and maybe washed it out a little bit… a level 4 emergency room visit there are parameters for that. You’d have to be seen for a certain length of time. There has to be an intense level of care. You know that didn’t happen. So you can say, uh, this wasn’t level 4 this was more like a level 2,” Rosenthal said.
Sometimes, you have no choice but to go to the ER, but Rosenthal said if you can, look at alternative ways of getting treatment.
“If you have a cut on your hand, or if you just need stitches, go to urgent care because every little thing that’s done to you in an emergency room, whether it’s a CAT scan or putting on a band-aid, is probably going to be up-charged by a factor of 10. And that’s hard to argue because ER’s are allowed to charge a lot for things,” Rosenthal said.
InvestigateTV reached out to Fava’s hospital to see if administrators could address the situation and explain the bill thoroughly. The health system issued the following statement:
LCMC Health is committed to providing quality healthcare and price transparency to help patients understand and prepare for the cost of their care. A thorough investigation of the billing charges for the case in question has been reviewed by the Clinical Nurse Auditor, Health Information Management Coding team, and Revenue Integrity team and all identified charges are appropriate for services rendered.
As a result of this audit, we identified one line item where the patient was “undercharged.” However, we will not be pursuing additional reimbursement from either the insurance carrier or the patient for that expense at this time.
LCMC Health understands Ms. Fava’s concerns and has been working with a team of experts to review this matter. Our team has made multiple phone attempts to discuss this issue with Ms. Fava, however, Ms. Fava has indicated that she only wants written responses, which we provided after a thorough review of her case. Because of the complexity of this situation, we believe a phone conversation, followed by a written response, would be the most productive and efficient way to address Ms. Fava’s concerns.
While we stand by the findings of our internal assessment, we are committed to working towards a resolution for the patient’s concerns. Ms. Fava’s privacy rights prevent us from sharing specific information about this case with outside parties.
Pertaining to level of emergencies, LCMC Health added:
Coding is determined on the basis of all the facts and circumstances involved in each individual case. In general, we follow American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) coding guidelines and payer payment policies, which can vary from payer to payer.
Fava said she had little hope in getting a refund. But that’s not stopping her from sharing her story. She wants to help other patients avoid what she calls a complicated and costly ER visit.
“I think we need some sort of reform where things are charged as what their actual cost is, or at least somewhere near what their actual cost is,” Fava said.
Fava works for a local firm that has the same hospital as a client. After speaking to InvestigateTV about her situation, she says the health care system sent an email to her superiors asking her to be pulled from any work on any of their cases. She’s currently seeking legal advice.
One thing experts say will help consumers with unexpected medical bills is the No Surprises Act, which took effect in January 2022. Part of the law makes it illegal for patients to pay higher, out-of-network prices for emergency visits, even if the hospital is not on their insurance plan.
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2023-03-06T19:45:50+00:00
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foxcarolina.com
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https://www.foxcarolina.com/2023/03/06/costly-care-unexpected-medical-bill-er-leaves-one-woman-pushing-reform/
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A FLOOD WATCH is in effect for a lot of central and eastern Montana until 6pm Saturday/6am Sunday. Flooding due to excessive rainfall is possible.
Showers and thunderstorms are likely tonight in central Montana and there are going to be some scattered showers and thunderstorms around tonight in north-central Montana as a storm system impacts our area. There are then going to be some more scattered showers and thunderstorms around tomorrow as this storm system slowly departs our area. Some of the rain that falls tonight and tomorrow may also be heavy at times, which may lead to some flooding. We are also going to have mostly cloudy to overcast skies tonight and tomorrow morning, with decreasing clouds tomorrow afternoon and evening.
Lows tonight are going to be in the upper 40s and low to mid 50s in most locations. For tomorrow, highs are going to be in the mid to upper 60s and low to mid 70s in most locations. There is also only going to be a little breeze around tonight and tomorrow.
For Sunday and Monday, we are going to have partly cloudy skies with some scattered showers and thunderstorms around, generally during the PM hours, as a couple disturbances pass through our area. We are also going to have mild temperatures on these two days as highs are going to be in the 70s and low to mid 80s in most locations.
There are then going to be scattered showers and thunderstorms around on Tuesday and Wednesday, especially during the PM hours, as a couple stronger disturbances pass through our area. We are then going to have a chance to see some more showers and thunderstorms on Thursday. We are also going to have partly cloudy skies on Tuesday and Thursday and mostly cloudy skies on Wednesday. It is also going to continue to be mild on these three days as highs are going to be in the 70s and low 80s in most locations.
More summer-like weather is then expected on Friday as we are going to have lots of sunshine, mainly dry conditions, and warm temperatures as highs are going to be in the low to mid 80s in most locations.
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2023-06-24T01:04:22+00:00
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krtv.com
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https://www.krtv.com/weather/todays-forecast/scattered-showers-storms-and-possible-flooding-through-saturday
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Floor & Decor to open in former Burlington space
A Floor & Decor store will move into the former Burlington space in the Ambassador Way shopping center at the corner of Ambassador Caffery Parkway and Ridge Road.
Store officials were issued a building permit with Lafayette Consolidated Government recently to open at 3310 Ambassador Caffery Parkway following an extensive remodel of the building.
Work is valued at over $6.6 million, the permit indicates.
Floor & Decor, which has one store in Baton Rouge and two in the New Orleans market, is a specialty retailer and commercial flooring distributor operating 174 warehouse-format stores and five design studios across 34 states.
Burlington moved out of that space to the former Stein Mart space in the Acadiana Square shopping center.
Fidelis Realty Partners of Bellaire, Texas, owns the shopping center, records show.
Old Navy eyeing former shoe store space near Costco
Old Navy could be opening a store near Costco in the Ambassador Town Center shopping center.
The popular clothing store has applied for a sign variance at 111 Meadow Farm Road, Suite 130, in the space that recently housed an Off Broadway Shoe Warehouse. The matter is on the Lafayette Consolidated Government’s board of zoning adjustment agenda for its Thursday meeting.
Old Navy, which is owned by Gap Inc., has a store at 119 Tucker Drive near the Acadiana Mall but does not appear to own the building, land records show.
A Gap spokesperson declined comment.
It’s unclear when Off Broadway Shoe Warehouse, a division of Rack Room Shoes, closed its Lafayette store.
LHC Group reports $10.6 million profit in second quarter
Lafayette-based LHC Group reported second-quarter profit of $10.6 million, or 35 cents per share, compared with $37.6 million, or $1.21 per diluted share a year ago.
LHC reported $576.2 million in revenue during the quarter, up from $545.9 million the year before.
The company, which got the green light for its its $5.4 billion merger with UnitedHealth Group in June, said its quality and patient satisfaction scores continue to exceed the national average. Home Health quality star ratings improved from 4.2 in April to 4.25 in July, and home health quality patient satisfaction ratings rose from 3.83 in April to 4.01 in July, company officials said.
Hospice admissions were up 5.5% in the second quarter compared with a year ago.
Acadiana Square sells for undisclosed amount
The Acadiana Square shopping center has been sold for undisclosed amount, records show.
Houston-based Property Commerce bought the 244,000-square-foot shopping center from RCG Ventures of Atlanta, land records show.
Located at the north corner of Ambassador Caffery Parkway and Johnston Street, the property in question involves three parcels, including the buildings that range from Burlington and TJ Maxx up the smaller shops up against the Ollie’s Bargain Barn. It also includes an outparcel, the Kirkland’s Home Store building, at 5632 Johnston St.
It’s the second property Property Commerce owns in Louisiana. It bought the Elmwood Oaks shopping center in New Orleans in 2019.
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2022-08-14T06:25:25+00:00
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theadvocate.com
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https://www.theadvocate.com/acadiana/news/business/article_506b7b3c-18e4-11ed-b468-87b84909ce67.html
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North Korea takes inspiration from Putin’s nuke threats
TOKYO (AP) — For decades North Korea has threatened to turn enemy cities into a “sea of fire,” even as it doggedly worked on building a nuclear weapons program that could back up its belligerent words.
Now, as North Korea conducts another torrid run of powerful weapons tests — and threatens pre-emptive nuclear strikes on Washington and Seoul — it may be taking inspiration from the fiery rhetoric of the leader of a nuclear-armed member of the U.N. Security Council: Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
With Putin raising the terrifying prospect of using tactical nukes to turn around battleground setbacks in Ukraine, there’s fear that this normalization of nuclear threats is emboldening North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as he puts the finishing touches on his still incomplete nuclear program.
“Putin and Kim feed off each other, routinizing the right to nuke a peaceful neighbor by repeating it without repercussion,” said Sung-Yoon Lee, an expert on North Korea at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. “Putin’s threats sound more credible than Kim’s, as there is bloodshed in Ukraine every day. But Kim’s threats must not be dismissed as empty bluster.”
After more than 40 missile launches this year — its most ever — there are a host of fresh signs that North Korea is becoming more aggressive in making its nuclear bombs the centerpiece of its military.
A recent two-week barrage of missile launches was meant, according to North Korean media, to simulate the use of its tactical battlefield nuclear weapons to “hit and wipe out” potential South Korean and U.S. targets. It’s believed to mark the first time that North Korea has performed drills involving army units tasked with the operation of tactical nuclear weapons.
The tests — all supervised by Kim — included a nuclear-capable ballistic missile launched under a reservoir; ballistic missiles designed for nuclear strikes on South Korean airfields, ports and command facilities; and a new-type ground-to-ground ballistic missile that flew over Japan.
State media announced Thursday the tests the previous day of long-range cruise missiles, which Kim described as a successful demonstration of his military’s expanding nuclear strike capabilities and readiness for “actual war.”
There are also indications that North Korea is taking steps to deploy tactical nuclear weapons along its frontline border with South Korea. The North has also adopted a new law that authorizes preemptive nuclear attacks over a broad range of scenarios, including non-war situations, when it perceives a threat to its leadership.
North Korea is still working to perfect its nuclear-tipped missile technology, but each new test pushes it closer to that goal.
“North Korea has been clearly emulating Putin’s approach in his war on Ukraine while using it as a window to accelerate arms development,” according to Park Won Gon, a professor of North Korea studies at Seoul’s Ewha Womans University.
In what’s seen as a reference to his nuclear arsenal, Putin has declared his readiness to use “all means available” to protect Russian territory. With a string of defeats in Ukraine leaving Putin increasingly cornered, observers worry that Putin could be tempted to explode a tactical nuclear weapon to avoid a defeat that may undermine his grip on power.
Battlefield nuclear weapons are intended to crush advancing enemy troops in one designated frontline section, and have a low yield compared to nuclear warheads fitted on strategic weapons. But even these types of nuclear weapons would expose huge numbers of civilians in densely populated Ukraine, and possibly Russia and other places, to radiation risks.
It would also have a devastating political impact, marking the first time nuclear weapons have been used since World War II and prompting rapid escalation that could end in all-out nuclear conflict.
The United States and its allies have said they are taking Putin’s threats seriously but won’t yield to what they described as Putin’s blackmail to force the West to abandon its support for Ukraine. Ukraine said it won’t halt its counteroffensive despite Russian nuclear strike threats.
U.S. officials have said they don’t believe that Kim is going to launch conventional or nuclear attacks because of what the North Korean leader sees happening in Ukraine. Rather, they see Kim as worried that North Korea may be left behind in the international influence battle and therefore escalating because Putin is getting all the attention.
North Korea’s missile launches are seen by many as presaging an eventual test of a nuclear device.
Such tests, besides putting Washington and Seoul on the defensive, may be meant to win talks, on North Korean terms, with Washington that could eventually get the North recognized as a legitimate nuclear power. That, in turn, would force the international community to ease crushing sanctions and, eventually, negotiate the removal of nearly 30,000 U.S. troops in South Korea.
Pyongyang’s ultimate goal, according to Lee, the Tufts professor, is to complete what Kim Jong Un’s grandfather, Kim Il Sung, began in 1950 with the surprise North Korean invasion of South Korea and establish a Korean Peninsula ruled by the Kim family.
Putin’s moves in Ukraine could also help Kim by continuing to distract the United States from focusing on North Korea and deepening a divide on the U.N. Security Council where Russia and China side with North Korea and prevent additional sanctions over the North’s recent tests, said Park, the analyst in Seoul.
“North Korea is paying as much attention to the (Ukraine) situation as anyone,” Park said. If Putin gets away with using nukes without suffering major repercussions, North Korea will see that as boosting its own nuclear doctrine, Park said.
The Korean Peninsula is still technically at war because the 1950-53 conflict ended with an armistice not a peace treaty, and the two Koreas have a history of bloody skirmishes. North Korea fired artillery during South Korean military drills in 2010 that killed two civilians and two South Korean military members on a front-line island. An international panel also blamed the North for sinking a South Korean warship the same year, killing 46.
Similar future clashes could be followed by North Korean threats to use nuclear weapons, said Park. He noted that conventional military clashes between India and Pakistan increased after Pakistan acquired its own deterrent to counter its nuclear-armed rival, mainly because the perceived balance in strength emboldened the countries to carry out more aggressive military action.
Recent North Korean missile tests came despite a U.S. aircraft carrier in nearby waters and during trilateral naval drills between the United States, South Korea and Japan, Park said. “This shows the growing confidence they have in their weapons.”
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AP reporters Kim Tong-hyung in Seoul and Matthew Lee in Washington contributed to this story.
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2022-10-13T09:37:15+00:00
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kob.com
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https://www.kob.com/news/us-and-world-news/north-korea-takes-inspiration-from-putins-nuke-threats/
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Matt Murray helped the Pittsburgh Penguins raise the Stanley Cup in 2016 and again in 2017 as a young goaltender whose steadiness under pressure belied his age.
The echoes of the victory parades are long gone. Murray has moved on. So have the Penguins. At the moment, only Murray is moving in the right direction while his old team is spinning its incredibly expensive wheels.
Murray turned aside 34 shots, including several key stops to fend off a Pittsburgh surge to help the Toronto Maple Leafs pull away for a 5-2 victory Tuesday night.
“I’m feeling great, really enjoying myself,” said Murray after his first game in Pittsburgh since being traded to Ottawa in October 2020. “Had a great time tonight, a great experience here tonight. I’m looking forward.”
John Tavares became the 107th player in NHL history to reach 400 goals with a first-period shot from high in the slot that beat a screened Casey DeSmith to give the Maple Leafs an early lead they never surrendered while winning for the fifth time in seven games.
“(Scoring 400 is) just that much more meaningful when you do it on a night where we get two points and the group plays well, everyone contributes,” the 14-year veteran said.
Michael Bunting had two goals and an assist for Toronto. Mitchell Marner extended his points streak to 10 games with his fourth goal of the season. William Nylander added an empty-net goal to seal it.
Sidney Crosby and Rickard Rakell scored for the Penguins but Pittsburgh couldn’t sustain the momentum from a successful three-game trip in which they earned five of possible six points to end an early season skid.
DeSmith stopped 28 shots but had little help in front of him on a night Toronto had no issue finding open space, sometimes right in front of the Pittsburgh net as the Penguins’ inattention to detail in their own end — a habit they mostly kicked on their road swing — returned.
Pittsburgh coach Mike Sullivan called the defensive lapses “egregious.”
“I think there’s been moments in some of these games where for whatever reason we get away from (defending well) and it seems like in those moments (the puck) ends up in the back of our net,” Sullivan said.
Two of Toronto’s goals came from inside the blue paint, including Bunting’s second goal with 50 seconds left in the second period on a play in which he simply camped to DeSmith’s right and was in the perfect position to slam home a rebound with Penguins defenseman Kris Letang fruitlessly trying to cross-check him out of the way.
Two of Toronto’s other goals came with the Penguins woefully out of position. Tavares briefly found himself unguarded high in the slot in the first period and Crosby closed too late. Bunting’s first goal came on a 2-on-1 created by a Pittsburgh turnover that gave Toronto a 3-0 lead.
A deflection by Rakell and a pretty backhand by Crosby against his old teammate in a 1:44 span early in the second drew Pittsburgh within 3-2 but Murray — attempting to kickstart his career after two underwhelming seasons with the rebuilding Senators — stood his ground and the Maple Leafs pulled away.
NOTES: Tavares is the fifth player to reach 400 goals while wearing a Maple Leafs sweater. Hall of Famer Mats Sundin hit 400 goals on Oct. 14, 2002, also against the Penguins. … Pittsburgh C Teddy Blueger skated 12:00 in return after missing the first 15 games with an upper-body injury.
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Maple Leafs: Begin a three-game homestand Thursday night against New Jersey.
Penguins: Play at Minnesota Thursday.
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PHOENIX — $150 billion worth of products bought over the holiday season will be returned, according to the National Retail Federation.
If you’re still trying to decide whether or not to keep a certain Christmas gift, time is running out.
Julie Ramhold, consumer analyst with DealNews.com tells ABC15 how long you have to return an item varies by store, but she suggests doing it now if you haven't already. Some companies like Amazon and Walmart have reported extending their return window until January 31, to accommodate the holidays.
But returning an item can end up costing you more. She says some stores make you pay to ship an item back. For some electronics, you may notice you’ll be charged a “restocking fee”. She says you’re better off going in person to make a return, then online.
“There’s a real risk of the item costing you more to return than if you were to hold onto it, donate it or regift it," Ramhold said. "Some cases, stores may offer store credit. In some cases, they may offer you essentially store credit for the lowest price it hit. So, if you spent more, you’re only getting the bare minimum back.”
If you don't have a gift receipt, she says you may be asked to verify that the item was bought at that certain store.
Some companies with more lenient return policies include Costco, L.L. Bean and Bath & Body Works.
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2023-01-05T15:04:16+00:00
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abc15.com
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Prominent death penalty opponent Sister Helen Prejean, whose book “Dead Man Walking” was turned into a movie, on Wednesday joined others calling on Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt to grant death row inmate Richard Glossip a 60-day reprieve from his scheduled execution.
Prejean joined Republican Reps. Kevin McDugle and Justin Humphrey and others in asking Stitt for a 60-day delay similar to the one he granted Glossip in November to give the state Court of Criminal Appeals time to rule on claims of innocence and prosecutorial misconduct that were eventually denied.
“The people of Oklahoma need to be the one to get to Gov. Stitt, who has that power to grant a reprieve,” Prejean, a spiritual advisor to Glossip said during a news conference at the state Capital.
Spokespeople in Stitt’s office did not immediately return phone calls and messages asking for comment.
McDugle, who says he supports the death penalty, called for Stitt to delay the execution while two appeals by Glossip are pending before the U.S. Supreme Court.
“Allowing this case to play out in federal courts would be following the law. Following the law means not rushing the execution process,” McDugle said.
The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted 2-2 last week to reject a clemency recommendation for Glossip with one member recusing himself because his spouse is a prosecutor who was previously involved in Glossip’s case, despite state Attorney General Gentner Drummond supporting clemency.
Stitt can not grant clemency without a recommendation from the parole board, but can grant a delay.
Glossip’s attorney, Don Knight, objected at the start of the hearing to proceeding without a replacement for the recused board member.
On Tuesday, Knight amended a lawsuit challenging the Pardon and Parole Board meeting with four members present, instead of the full five-member board.
The amended lawsuit, filed in Oklahoma County District Court, asks for a stay of execution until Glossip has a clemency hearing before a full board and that the parole board’s vote denying clemency be declared null and void.
“The State of Oklahoma has already agreed that Richard Glossip was denied a fair trial … he has now been denied a fair clemency hearing,” Knight said in a statement. “The Board’s split decision is precisely the outcome this lawsuit sought to avoid, and it underscores the grave injustice of allowing (Glossip’s) execution to proceed without a proper clemency hearing before a fully constituted Board.”
Drummond on Monday filed a request that the U.S. Supreme Court stay the execution after taking the unusual step of supporting the clemency request.
“Absent this Court’s intervention, an execution will move forward under circumstances where the Attorney General has already confessed error—a result that would be unthinkable,” according to the stay request.
During the clemency hearing, Drummond said he believes Glossip is guilty, at least, of accessary after the fact, but has numerous concerns about the fairness of the trial, including that Justin Sneed, the key witness against Glossip, lied to the jury about his psychiatric treatment and reasons for taking the mood-stabilizing drug lithium.
Glossip, now 60, was convicted of the 1997 murder-for-hire killing of his boss, motel owner Barry Van Treese, at two separate trials based largely on the testimony of Sneed, a co-defendant in the case. Sneed admitted robbing and killing Van Treese, but claims he only did so after Glossip agreed to pay him $10,000. Sneed received a sentence of life in prison.
Glossip has been scheduled to be executed three times, only to be spared shortly before the sentence was set to be carried out. He was only hours from being executed in September 2015 when prison officials realized they had received the wrong lethal drug, a mix-up that helped prompt a nearly seven-year moratorium on the death penalty in Oklahoma.
Glossip’s case attracted international attention after actress Susan Sarandon — who won an Academy Award for her portrayal of Prejean’s fight to save a man on Louisiana’s death row in the 1995 movie based on Prejean’s book — took up his cause in real life. His case also was featured in a 2017 documentary film titled “Killing Richard Glossip.”
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2023-05-05T05:53:49+00:00
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India Johnson, Executive Director of Thrival Indy Academy, says the mentality of a leader impacts everyone who works under them. She always tries to take a positive approach and take an intentional approach to ensuring she’s in a good place.
Self accountability and vulnerability are two things that India says help create a safe space for coworkers and students at Thrival Academy. She also recommends being transparent in order to build trust between members of the school.
For more information, watch the video above or click here.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. — Jordan Spieth was caught in such a whirlwind after winning the Masters eight years ago, whether it was winging his way to New York for television appearances or throwing out the first pitch at a Texas Rangers game, that he never bothered to find a tailor for his green jacket.
Leave it to Augusta National, where every piece of the property is finely tailored, to take care of such details.
“I just had it everywhere and I never got it fixed,” Spieth said Monday, “and I think they have done it since here, because the arms certainly fit a lot better. I left a little room just in case I put on a few pounds over the years.”
That’s some forward thinking.
Of course, a better solution would be to keep winning new ones.
There was a time when that seemed inevitable. Spieth was just 21 back in 2015, when he became the first wire-to-wire Masters champion since Ray Floyd nearly four decades earlier, tying Tiger Woods’ then-record of 18 under along the way. He went on to win the U.S. Open that summer, and everything portended greatness for a kid who fell in love with the game watching the Masters on TV and then racing out to the chipping green at Brookhaven Country Club.
Spieth kept winning, of course. Prestigious monuments, too, like the Tour Championship that fall and the Tournament of Champions the following January. A year later, Spieth won his third major at the British Open at Royal Birkdale.
Yet winning a second green jacket has been an exercise not in futility so much as frustration.
In 2016, he led from the first round until the back nine on Sunday, when he blew a five-shot lead by losing six shots to par over the first three holes. The coup de grace came at No. 12, the picturesque par-3 over Rae’s Creek in the back corner of the property, where Spieth hit not just his approach into the water but his next shot as well.
It was perhaps the lowest Spieth has ever felt at Augusta National, on the lowest spot on the course. The quadruple bogey cleared the way for Danny Willett, whose bogey-free final round earned him a green jacket instead.
In 2018, Spieth again led after the first round before fading on Friday and Saturday, and only a blistering final-round 64 got him within two shots of winner Patrick Reed. He matched that third-place finish with another two years ago, when he hung around the first page of the leaderboard but never threatened winner Hideki Matsuyama.
“When I look back on the times where I’ve had real legitimate chances, I look at the middle two rounds of 2018 — I really could have, should have won it that year,” Spieth said. “Like, I’ve backdoored some of those top finishes, and I’d love to get in the mix because I feel like right now, I feel better about my game than I’ve felt since probably 2017.”
It hasn’t been easy to reach this point.
Spieth would go through periods when his swing was out of whack, and his solution was to grind harder, and that would lead to more problems. So he would back off, and that would lead if not to more problems then at least different ones.
“I tried working really, really hard without really knowing what I was doing, and I think that put me more in a hole,” he said. “I got to the point where I was like, ‘OK, let’s figure this out. Stop trying the same thing and overworking it, thinking something is going to click and it’s all over.’ Instead, I started to really re-engineer backward what kind of made me so successful.”
It’s been a process, Spieth said, yet the progress was evident last year at Augusta. He was 1 under in his second round, and 1 over for the championship, before a triple bogey at No. 12 — he splashed another shot into Rae’s Creek — and a double bogey at the 18th caused him to miss the cut at the Masters for the first time.
The next week, Spieth won the RBC Heritage in a playoff with Patrick Cantlay.
The good results kept coming, if not the wins: second at the Byron Nelson, top 10 at the British Open at St. Andrews, sixth earlier this year at the Phoenix Open, fourth at Bay Hill and third at the Valspar Championship.
Those results are why oddsmakers put him behind only defending champion Scottie Scheffler, four-time major winner Rory McIlroy — still needing the Masters for his career slam — and major winner Jon Rahm heading into Thursday’s opening round.
And why Spieth would be wise to have a tailor on standby come Sunday.
“It’s exciting,” he said, “because when I go to the range, I’m confident by the end of the day I know what to improve. That seems like it would be standard every day for a golfer, but there were a lot of years in a row where I would go to the course and I would be uncertain if I would come out that day feeling better or worse. That’s tough to go into.”
“You know,” Spieth added, “I don’t feel I have all the weapons right now. But I have enough, and I’m continuing to work on the ones that I don’t have, and I get a little better each day with them.”
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2023-04-03T22:44:13+00:00
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HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (NewsNation) — The suspect in a shooting on an Independence Day parade in suburban Chicago had planned the attack for several weeks, acted alone and wore a disguise to assist his escape, authorities said Tuesday.
Lake County Major Crime Task Force spokesman Christopher Covelli said the suspect used a high-powered rifle “similar to an AR-15,” spraying parade-goers in Highland Park from a rooftop with more than 70 rounds that were initially mistaken for fireworks.
At least six people were killed and at least 39 wounded in the attack.
According to Covelli, the suspect dropped his rifle, exited the roof using the fire escape and attempted to blend into the fleeing and frantic crowd.
Covelli said the suspect was disguised “as a woman” to assist in avoiding capture and can be seen in a surveillance photo wearing what appears to be a dress, scarf and possibly makeup.
“A wig is not out of the question,” Covelli said, possibly to hide his distinctive neck and face tattoos.
Authorities said a quick trace of the rifle, as well as witness statements, photos and videos, helped identify the suspect.
An hourslong manhunt during which residents hunkered down in businesses or received police escorts to their homes ended with a traffic stop and brief chase Monday evening, when authorities detained a man they described as a person of interest.
Covelli said a second rifle was found in the suspect’s vehicle. Both of the firearms in the suspect’s possession as well as additional firearms at his residence were purchased legally and from separate locations in the area, according to police.
Authorities have not yet identified a motive for the attack in the affluent community of about 30,000 on Chicago’s north shore.
The July 4 shooting was just the latest to shatter the rituals of American life. Schools, churches, grocery stores and now community parades have all become killing grounds in recent months. This time, the bloodshed came as the nation tried to find cause to celebrate its founding and the bonds that still hold it together.
“It definitely hits a lot harder when it’s not only your hometown but it’s also right in front of you,” resident Ron Tuazon said as he and a friend returned to the parade route Monday evening to retrieve chairs, blankets and a child’s bike that he and his family abandoned when the shooting began.
“It’s commonplace now,” Tuazon said. “We don’t blink anymore. Until laws change, it’s going to be more of the same.”
The shooting occurred at a spot on the parade route where many residents had staked out prime viewing points early in the day for the annual celebration.
Among them was the family of Nicolas Toledo, who was in his late 70s and visiting from Mexico when he was shot. He died at the scene, his granddaughter, Xochil Toledo, told the Chicago Sun-Times. Also killed was Jacki Sundheim, a lifelong congregant and “beloved” staff member at nearby North Shore Congregation Israel, which announced her death on its website.
Dozens of fired bullets sent hundreds of parade-goers — some visibly bloodied — fleeing. They left a trail of abandoned items that showed everyday life suddenly, violently disrupted: a box of chocolate cookies spilled onto the grass; a child’s Chicago Cubs cap; baby strollers, some bearing American flags, and children’s bikes.
“There’s no safe place,” said Highland Park resident Barbara Harte, 73, who had stayed away from the parade fearing a mass shooting, but later ventured from her home.
Highland Park Police Chief Lou Jogmen said a police officer pulled over Robert E. Crimo III about 5 miles north of the shooting scene, several hours after police released the man’s photo and an image of his silver Honda Fit, and warned the public that he was likely armed and dangerous. Crimo will turn 22 in September and is a resident of Highwood.
Police declined to immediately identify Crimo as a suspect but said identifying him as a person of interest, sharing his name and other information publicly was a serious step.
Covelli said at a news conference “several of the deceased victims” died at the scene and one was taken to a hospital and died there. No children died in the attack.
Police have not released details about the victims, but Toledo’s granddaughter told the Sun-Times that Toledo had spent most of his life in Morelos, Mexico. Xochil Toledo said she remembers looking over at her grandfather as a band passed them playing music.
“He was so happy,” she said. “Happy to be living in the moment.”
Xochil Toledo said her father tried to shield her grandfather and was shot in the arm; her boyfriend also was shot in the back and taken by someone to nearby hospital because they weren’t sure there would be enough ambulances for all the victims.
Roberto Velasco, Mexico’s director for North American affairs, said on Twitter that two Mexicans were also wounded.
Sundheim had spent decades on the staff at North Shore Congregation Israel, early on teaching at the congregation’s preschool and later serving as Events and B’nei Mitzvah Coordinator, “all of this with tireless dedication,” the congregation said in its statement announcing her death.
“Jacki’s work, kindness and warmth touched us all,” the statement said.
Lake County Coroner Jennifer Banek said the five people killed at the parade were adults, but didn’t have information on the sixth victim.
NorthShore University Health Center treated a total of 39 patients who arrived by either ambulance or other means after the attack. Nine patients are currently still hospitalized and range in age from 14 to their 70s. Eight of the current patients have suffered gunshot wounds.
“It is devastating that a celebration of America was ripped apart by our uniquely American plague,” Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker said at a news conference.
“While we celebrate the Fourth of July just once a year, mass shootings have become a weekly — yes, weekly — American tradition.”
The shooter opened fire around 10:15 a.m., when the parade was about three-quarters through, authorities said.
Highland Park Police Commander Chris O’Neill, the incident commander on scene, said the gunman apparently used a “high-powered rifle” to fire from a spot atop a commercial building where he was “very difficult to see.” He said the rifle was recovered at the scene. Police also found a ladder attached to the building.
President Joe Biden on Monday said he and first lady Jill Biden were “shocked by the senseless gun violence that has yet again brought grief to an American community on this Independence Day.”
In recent days, Biden signed the widest-ranging gun violence bill passed by Congress in decades, a compromise that showed at once both progress on a long-intractable issue and the deep-seated partisan divide that persists.
Crimo, who goes by the name Bobby, was an aspiring rapper with the stage name Awake the Rapper, posting on social media dozens videos and songs, some ominous and violent.
In one animated video since taken down by YouTube, Crimo raps about armies “walking in darkness” as a drawing appears of a man pointing a rifle, a body on the ground and another figure with hands up in the distance.
In another video, in which Crimo appears in a classroom wearing a black bicycle helmet. He says: “Everything has led up to this. Nothing can stop me, even myself.”
Crimo’s father, Bob, a longtime deli owner, ran unsuccessfully for mayor of Highland Park in 2019, calling himself “a person for the people.”
Highland Park is a close-knit community on the shores of Lake Michigan, with mansions and sprawling lakeside estates that have long drawn the rich and sometimes famous, including NBA legend Michael Jordan, who lived in the city for years when he played for the Chicago Bulls. John Hughes filmed parts of several movies in the city, including “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” “Sixteen Candles” and “Weird Science.”
Gina Troiani and her son were lined up with his daycare class ready to walk onto the parade route when she heard a loud sound that she believed was fireworks — until she heard people yell about a shooter.
“We just start running in the opposite direction,” she told The Associated Press.
Troiani said she pushed her 5-year-old son’s bike, running through the neighborhood to get back to their car.
“It was just sort of chaos,” she said. “There were people that got separated from their families, looking for them. Others just dropped their wagons, grabbed their kids and started running.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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2022-07-05T18:35:20+00:00
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The Justice Department announced multiple hate and firearms charges against the white man accused of killing 10 people at a Buffalo market in a predominantly Black neighborhood.
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The Justice Department announced multiple hate and firearms charges against the white man accused of killing 10 people at a Buffalo market in a predominantly Black neighborhood.
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2022-06-15T22:21:02+00:00
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HarrisX conducts national poll with George W. Bush Institute and Freedom House on public perceptions of democracy at home and abroad
DALLAS, Nov. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The majority of Americans are supportive of standing with others around the world in their fight for human rights and freedom, according to a new national poll of registered voters by the global research consultancy HarrisX in collaboration with the George W. Bush Institute and Freedom House. Fifty-four percent of voters believe the U.S. should support activists in Iran, 61% support providing weapons and other assistance to Ukraine, and 59% support U.S. government officials visiting Taiwan, even at the risk of increased diplomatic tensions with China, according to the poll.
"The survey results are heartening and show that the U.S. remains committed to the cause of freedom around the globe," said David J. Kramer, executive director of the George W. Bush Institute. "Freedom and democracy, after all, are issues at the core of who we are and what we do here at the Bush Institute."
The poll was commissioned ahead of the Nov. 16 Struggle for Freedom conference. The full-day conference featured conversations on Ukraine's commitment to democracy and the importance of pushing back on authoritarian threats. In addition, Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen provided virtual remarks on advancing the cause of liberty.
"The strength and extent of Americans' support for democratic rights and institutions gives me great hope for the future of freedom globally," said Michael Abramowitz, president of Freedom House. "Freedom House was founded during World War II on the principle that the fate of US democracy is inextricable from the fate of democracy abroad, and that oppression anywhere is a threat to freedom everywhere. It's vital that we carry that spirit into the fight against modern authoritarianism."
The survey also found that 53% of registered voters believe democracy is expanding, while 47% believe democracy is in retreat. Freedom House's Freedom in the World research shows in 2011, 43.3% of the global population lived in countries rated as Free, compared to just 20.3% in 2021.
In addition to questions about key foreign policy challenges facing the nation and perceptions of democracies overseas, voters were also surveyed about the health of U.S. democracy. The survey reveals that trust in elections remains a critical challenge for the nation, and that voters are frustrated by the general workings of U.S. democracy. Fifty-four percent of American voters are confident in the future of U.S. democracy, but worryingly, only 55% firmly believe the U.S. will be a democracy in 20 years.
"Our research shows that, above all, the arsenal of democracy consists of the unwavering commitment to liberty and democratic institutions voters have in the United States and abroad, and the fact they are both very sensitive to the challenges presently faced and willing to make sacrifices for the preservation of democratic order where it is under threat," said Dritan Nesho, CEO and chief researcher at HarrisX.
Among other findings:
- Three in five voters support accepting Ukraine into NATO and either using peacekeepers to work toward a diplomatic solution or using NATO forces to neutralize Russian forces.
- Voters want the U.S. to support U.S. official visits to Taiwan, but still support a policy of "strategic ambiguity."
- Voters want the U.S. to maintain their level of democracy promotion or engage in more, but with less resources.
- The vast majority of voters, 76%, including 58% of Republican voters, believe the 2022 midterm elections were conducted fairly.
- Only 38% of registered voters think U.S. democracy is functioning well or very well.
- A small majority of voters believe democracy is getting worse in the U.S., driven by views of Republican voters; Democrats were more optimistic.
To request the full slides of the survey results, please contact Alexandra Trollip at Alex.Trollip@harrisx.com.
Methodology: HarrisX conducted this survey online within the United States from Nov. 11 – Nov. 13, 2022 among 1,866 registered voters. The sampling margin of error of this poll is plus or minus 2.3 percentage points. The results reflect a nationally representative sample of registered voters. Results were weighted for age, gender, region, race/ethnicity, income, political party, education, ideology, and area type where necessary to align them with their actual proportions in the population.
Freedom House is a nonprofit, nonpartisan democracy organization that works to create a world where all are free. We inform the world about threats to freedom, mobilize global action, and support democracy's defenders. Learn more at FreedomHouse.org.
About the George W. Bush Institute
The George W. Bush Institute is a solution-oriented nonpartisan policy organization focused on ensuring opportunity for all, strengthening democracy, and advancing free societies. Housed within the George W. Bush Presidential Center, the Bush Institute is rooted in compassionate conservative values and committed to creating positive, meaningful, and lasting change at home and abroad. We utilize our unique platform and convening power to advance solutions to national and global issues of the day. Learn more at bushcenter.org.
About HarrisX
HarrisX is a global research consultancy and data analytics company that conducts market research, public opinion polling, and interdisciplinary data-driven consulting in over 40 countries around the world on behalf of Fortune 100 companies, public policy institutions, global leaders, NGOs and philanthropic organizations. HarrisX was the most accurate pollster of the 2020 U.S. presidential election and is the sister company of The Harris Poll, which has conducted public polling in the United States since 1963. It is a proud member of Stagwell Global (STGW).
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China has a new premier — Li Qiang, widely regarded as one of Xi Jinping's closest allies. We take a close look at Li's career and his government's priorities in the coming decade.
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China has a new premier — Li Qiang, widely regarded as one of Xi Jinping's closest allies. We take a close look at Li's career and his government's priorities in the coming decade.
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2023-03-13T21:33:08+00:00
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New technologies often benefit highly paid, college-educated professionals — while putting others out of work. Research indicates generative AI could benefit middle-skill workers in surprising ways.
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New technologies often benefit highly paid, college-educated professionals — while putting others out of work. Research indicates generative AI could benefit middle-skill workers in surprising ways.
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2023-06-02T09:36:51+00:00
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https://www.lakeshorepublicmedia.org/2023-06-02/how-will-generative-ai-such-as-chatgpt-affect-the-workplace
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Global stocks mixed after Wall St sinks on rate fears
By JOE McDONALD
AP Business Writer
BEIJING (AP) — Global stock markets are mixed as traders look ahead to a speech by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell for clues to interest rate plans after Japanese wages rose and Australia’s central bank hiked its key rate again. London and Shanghai gained. Frankfurt, Tokyo and Wall Street futures declined. Oil prices rose. Last week’s unexpectedly strong U.S. data on hiring and wages dampened hopes the Fed might decide it has succeeded in cooling inflation and can wind down plans for more rate hikes. Traders worry the Fed and other central banks might tip the global economy into recession to extinguish inflation that is at multi-decade highs.
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2023-02-07T12:22:53+00:00
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keyt.com
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(NEXSTAR) – If you have an Android phone, you may want to stop using Wi-Fi calling, a team of security experts with Google warns.
Earlier this month, Google’s Project Zero team confirmed it had found multiple vulnerabilities in Exynos chipsets, made by Samsung. Of those, four can allow “Internet-to-baseband remote code execution,” giving hackers the ability to remotely compromise certain Android phones.
The hacker would only need to know your phone number, explained Project Zero, a team of security researchers that study zero-day vulnerabilities, which are flaws in software that are known but don’t yet have a patch to protect against them.
“With limited additional research and development, we believe that skilled attackers would be able to quickly create an operational exploit to compromise affected devices silently and remotely.”
The remaining 14 vulnerabilities found by Project Zero were determined to be “not as severe.”
Devices that may be affected because they use the Exynos chipset, according to Samsung, include:
- Samsung Galaxy S22, M33, M12, M13, A71, A53, A33, A21s, A13, A12, and A04 models
- Vivo S16, S15, S6, X70, X60, and X30 series
- Google Pixel 6 and 7
Some vehicles may also be impacted if they use an Exynos Auto T5123 chipset. Pixel phones already received a fix for the vulnerabilities, according to Google, while Samsung lists that an update was released for some of the vulnerabilities.
If you haven’t had an update on your phone recently, you can also turn off Wi-Fi calling and Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) to protect from hackers.
Wi-Fi calling allows you to make calls and send text messages when you aren’t connected to cell service while VoLTE uses your LTE network instead of the usual network.
For Samsung users, Wi-Fi calling settings can be found under Settings, then Connections, then Wi-Fi Calling. You’ll find a toggle that, if it isn’t already, can be switched off. Google Pixel users can find their Wi-Fi calling option by going to Settings, then Network & Internet, then Mobile Network, and then tapping Advanced.
VoLTE is automatically on for many devices. It can be found under Settings, then Connections, and then Mobile Network on most Samsung and Google phones.
The Project Zero team also recommends updating your phone as soon as new patches and software are made available.
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2023-03-22T02:06:34+00:00
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2023 Aims Focus on FDA Reforms and Sustaining Surveillance, Medical Research and Patient Care Gains Achieved Over the Past Two Decades
WASHINGTON, March 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- For the first time since 2020, advocates for Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy (PPMD), a nonprofit organization leading the fight to end Duchenne muscular dystrophy (Duchenne), will be back in person in Washington, D.C. for the organization's annual Advocacy Conference, March 5-7, to make their voices heard in the fight to end Duchenne.
Over 130 advocates – people with Duchenne, parents, siblings, grandparents, and other family members and friends will join PPMD on Capitol Hill for the annual meeting that continued on a virtual basis for the last two years during the COVID-19 pandemic. That persistence and commitment by advocates enabled PPMD and the broader Duchenne community to make continued progress on federal public policy priorities despite the challenging times and circumstances.
"There is no substitute for being face-to-face in Washington, D.C., especially this year. I am so grateful that once again our advocates will be able to gather in person for our annual Advocacy Conference," said Pat Furlong, PPMD Founding President and CEO.
"For more than 20 years, PPMD advocates have brought a unified voice to Washington, D.C. Through these advocacy efforts, our community began the journey that resulted in the enactment of the Muscular Dystrophy Community Assistance, Research, and Education (MD-CARE) Act back in 2001, and together we have built upon and strengthened the federal commitment to Duchenne and broader muscular dystrophy research, public health, patient and caregiver support, and other activities. I am so thrilled we are back in person while also providing a virtual option for those who are unable to travel to Washington so they can still make their voices heard and foster relationships with members of Congress and staff," Furlong added.
This year's agenda will focus on bipartisan legislation to update current Food and Drug Administration (FDA) law to require that the all-important patient experience and related data points associated with candidate therapies be a core component of the FDA's benefit-risk assessment. This would build upon recent laws and enshrine experience data into the statute to provide a state of permanence while also providing additional transparency into how such information is being used by reviewers.
"Congress has done so much over the past two decades to create and refine the field of patient engagement and to ensure such inputs are used by FDA in a meaningful way. The bipartisan BENEFIT Act, sponsored by our longtime champions and friends Sens. Roger Wicker (R-MS) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Reps. Doris Matsui (D-CA) and Brad Wenstrup (R-OH), would achieve this goal. I urge Congress to enact this bill into law this year," Furlong said.
In addition to the BENEFIT Act, advocates will be urging their Representatives and Senators to support the annual Duchenne appropriations requests to strengthen medical research, public health, and patient care priorities. The 2023 (Fiscal Year 2024) request includes:
- Increasing to $8 million from $7.5 million funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Muscular Dystrophy program to support muscular dystrophy surveillance and caregiver education, including ways to incorporate essential Duchenne care considerations into electronic health record (EHR) tools.
- Reporting by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on medical research programs focused on muscular dystrophy so the community can fully understand the work of the past two decades as well as increasing to $15 million the annual fund available through the Department of Defense to support Duchenne research.
- Direction from Congress to advance consideration of adding newborn screening for Duchenne to the list of recommended tests to reduce the time to diagnosis and maximize the likelihood that all individuals with Duchenne can receive clinically recommended care as early as possible.
"For more than two decades, PPMD's Advocacy Conference has been an essential component of our overall advocacy strategy that has resulted in much progress for our community. While we have made many gains, we have much more to do and I am so thrilled that our advocates will be working so aggressively for continued progress," Furlong said.
Duchenne is a genetic disorder that slowly robs people of their muscle strength. Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy (PPMD) fights every single battle necessary to end Duchenne.
We demand optimal care standards and ensure every family has access to expert healthcare providers, cutting edge treatments, and a community of support. We invest deeply in treatments for this generation of Duchenne patients and in research that will benefit future generations. Our advocacy efforts have secured hundreds of millions of dollars in funding and won five FDA approvals.
Everything we do—and everything we have done since our founding in 1994—helps those with Duchenne live longer, stronger lives. We will not rest until we end Duchenne for every single person affected by the disease. Join our fight against Duchenne at EndDuchenne.org. Follow PPMD on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube.
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2023-03-06T16:21:40+00:00
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kalb.com
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https://www.kalb.com/prnewswire/2023/03/06/parent-project-muscular-dystrophy-advocates-head-capitol-hill-advance-duchenne-public-policy-priorities/
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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- De Beers Jewellers natural & responsibly sourced diamonds dazzled on nominees and actors Michelle Yeoh, Lily James, and Jessie Buckley at the 28th annual Critics' Choice Awards held at the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, honoring the finest achievements of filmmaking and television
Yeoh, nominee for Best Actress in a Motion Picture radiated modern, natural elegance in a dramatic black and fuchsia gown complemented by sculptural rose pink aluminum earrings with white and intense pink diamonds and a statement pear-shaped diamond ring. The earrings, from De Beers' The Alchemist of Light high jewelry collection which celebrates the elemental magic of light, are a sublime fusion of art and science, precision and imagination, tradition and modernity.
James, nominated for Best Actress in Limited series opted for delicate classic diamond pieces to accompany her daring black gown.
De Beers looks at the 28th Critics' Choice Awards include:
Michelle Yeoh, Critics' Choice Nominee for Best Actress in a Motion Picture
- De Beers The Alchemist of Light 'Ascending Shadows' Pink Earrings set in 18K White & Pink Gold, Pink Titanium & Aluminum, 6.30 carats
- De Beers 'Volute' Pear Diamond Ring set in Platinum, 6.80 carats
Lily James, Critics' Choice Nominee for Best Actress in a Limited Series
- De Beers Arpeggia Choker/Headband set in 18K White Gold, 5.89 carats
- De Beers Classic Round Brilliant Diamond Stud Earrings set in Platinum, 4.03 carats
- De Beers Five Line Diamond Ring set in 18K White Gold, 1.75 carats
- Aura Diamond Band set in 18K White Gold
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Jessie Buckley, Critics' Choice Nominee for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
- De Beers Multi Diamond Aura Earrings set in 18K White & Yellow Gold, 5.38 carats
- De Beers Yellow Fancy Cushion Line Bracelet set in 18K Yellow Gold, 33.47 carats
- De Beers Five Line Diamond Ring set in 18K White Gold, 1.75 carats
- De Beers Adonis Rose Cluster Ring set in 18K White Gold, 1.94 carats
- De Beers Dewdrop Diamond Single Ear Cuff set in 18K Rose Gold
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Founded in London, with a flagship store on Old Bond Street and a presence in the most exclusive locations around the world, De Beers Jewellers is the pinnacle of luxury diamond jewellery. Building on De Beers' 130 years of expertise, the House glorifies the world's most beautiful diamonds through creativity and craftsmanship in bold, distinctive designs.
De Beers is invested in ensuring all the diamonds it discovers create a lasting positive impact for people and the places where they are found. This comes with a pledge to build a better future – one that is fairer, safer, cleaner and healthier, in which communities thrive, ethical practices are maintained, and the natural environment is protected. We call this long-term commitment Building Forever.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Josh Bailey and Hudson Fasching each had a goal and an assist in the third period, and the New York Islanders beat the Buffalo Sabres 3-2 on Tuesday night.
Casey Cizikas also scored for New York and Ilya Sorokin made 22 saves as the Islanders improved to 10-3-3 in their past 16 games. New York is in position for the first wild-card playoff berth in the Eastern Conference.
Dylan Cozens and Kyle Okposo scored and Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen finished with 36 saves for the Sabres, who have lost four of five.
Fasching gave the Islanders a 3-2 lead when he directed a fluttering puck over the goal line with his knee at 7:37 of the third. The goal was initially waved off due to a distinct kicking motion, but upon a lengthy review, that call was overturned.
The Islanders improved to 27-6-3 this season when they have scored at least three goals, including shootout winners.
Bailey gave the Islanders a 2-1 edge when he put home a rebound at 1:51 of the third. Alexander Romanov’s shot deflected off Cizikas and Bailey was able to backhand the loose puck for his eighth of the season.
Okposo erased the Islanders' advantage about three minutes later. The Sabres captain fired a well-placed wrist shot from just inside the blue line past the glove of Sorokin.
It was the first time the Islanders allowed a third-period goal in nine games, outscoring opponents 15-1 during that stretch.
Cizikas buried a loose puck from in close to even the game at 1-1 at 12:38 of the second period. Fasching's pass from behind the net deflected off the skate of Sabres defenseman Owen Power right to Cizikas at the top of the crease. Romanov also assisted.
Cozens opened the scoring five minutes into the second period with his 25th of the season. The 22-year-old forward, who signed a seven-year, $49.7 million extension in February, entered the offensive zone, split two Islanders players and fired a wrist shot below the blocker of Sorokin. Henrik Jokiharju assisted.
INJURIES
Islanders forward Jean-Gabriel Pageau continued to skate with the team but remains on injured reserve with an upper-body injury that has cost him 10 games. ... Sabres forward Tyson Jost returned to the lineup after missing one game with an undisclosed injury.
UP NEXT
Islanders: Visit Pittsburgh on Thursday.
Sabres: Host Dallas on Thursday.
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2023-03-08T03:49:52+00:00
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lmtonline.com
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https://www.lmtonline.com/sports/article/bailey-fasching-lead-islanders-to-3-2-win-over-17826011.php
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CHICAGO (AP) — Zach Edey knew what he needed to do just just about every time he touched the ball. After all, he had just one man trying to defend him in the paint.
The star center took over and led the Boilermakers to the Big Ten Tournament championship game.
Edey had 32 points and 14 rebounds, and No. 5 Purdue beat Ohio State 80-66 in the conference semifinals on Saturday.
“There’s kind of like a point halfway through the first half when one of our coaches, P.J. (Thompson), kind of came up to me, this is just one of those days you’ve got to get 30” he said. “So I just kind of stuck with it. I executed the game plan. I just tried my best to score the ball every time I touched it.”
The top-seeded Boilermakers (28-5) started to take control late in the first half and cruised into the conference final for the second straight year. They will meet Penn State — a 77-73 winner over No. 19 Indiana — on Sunday.
Purdue is seeking its second tournament title to go with the one it captured in 2009. It will try to become the first No. 1 seed to win since 2019.
Edey, the Big Ten Player of the Year, dominated down low with the Buckeyes mostly guarding him one on one.
“There’s legendary Hall of Fame coaches that don’t believe in doubling the post because they don’t want to be in rotations and they don’t like the rebound balance,” coach Matt Painter said. “But you’ve got to mess with him in some capacity.”
Ohio State coach Chris Holtmann said the plan actually was to help on Edey. It just didn’t work out for a variety of reasons, whether the rotations weren’t quick enough or he caught the ball closer to the basket than the Buckeyes would have liked.
“We were trying to trap him,” Holtmann said. “We just couldn’t get there. He got it too deep a couple times, more than a couple times. Their ability, they do a great job obviously getting him the ball, but also he just plants in the paint and you can’t move him. He just plants there, and he’s immovable. Sometimes they’ll do some ball screen actions, but it’s too hard to get him out of the paint.”
Brandon Newman scored 15 and Braden Smith added 14 points as the Boilermakers won their fourth in a row.
Roddy Gayle Jr. led Ohio State (16-19) with a career-high 20 points, 16 in the first half. The freshman made 5 of 6 from long range.
“Just being able to see him grow over these past couple weeks, just how fast he’s been able to pick up on stuff and he’s been able to get to it, especially during this Big Ten tournament,” Justice Sueing said. “It shows the growth and progression he was able to make but also what’s to come. Roddy is going to be a great player for Ohio State University.”
Sueing had 15 points. Leading scorer Brice Sensabaugh missed his second game in a row because of a sore knee, and the Buckeyes came up short after winning five of six following a nine-game losing streak.
TAKING CONTROL
It was 61-55 when Ohio State’s Bruce Thornton missed a pull-up jumper with just over five minutes left. Edey grabbed the rebound and made two free throws before Smith drove for a layup to bump the lead to 10.
Edey scored 17 in the first half to help Purdue grab a 42-34 lead.
With Gayle hitting his five 3-pointers, the Buckeyes took to a 29-21 lead even though they were playing their fourth game in as many days. But Purdue outscored them 13-3 over the final 3:51.
Edey made two free throws and scored in the paint to put Purdue on top 33-31 before Gayle answered with a 3. But the Boilermakers reeled off the final nine points of the half.
BIG PICTURE
Ohio State: The Buckeyes came on strong late in the season after struggling in a big way.
Purdue: With one of the best players in the country in Edey, the Boilermakers hope to make a deep run in the NCAA Tournament. The question is whether his teammates will make enough shots.
UP NEXT
Ohio State: The Buckeyes’ season is likely over, with Holtmann indicating they wouldn’t accept an invitation to a postseason tournament even if they got one. He said the team is banged up “beyond kind of what’s public.” “They’re not significant, but they need to be tended to, and they need some time off,” he said. “So that might answer your question.”
Purdue: The Boilermakers advanced to the championship game for the sixth time overall and second year in a row. Purdue beat Penn State twice by comfortable margins.
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2023-03-12T12:51:01+00:00
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localsyr.com
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https://www.localsyr.com/sports-news/edey-dominates-purdue-beats-ohio-state-in-big-ten-semis/
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Women remain significantly underrepresented in leadership positions at the Football Subdivision level of college athletics, a new study shows.
Thursday’s report card from The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) issued another F for gender hiring, a C for racial hiring and an overall grade of D+ for 2022. Those grades largely look as they have in past editions of the study, which have shown leadership positions like president or chancellor, athletic director and conference commissioner are dominated by white men.
TIDES director and lead report author Richard Lapchick called the lack of significant change “incredibly discouraging.”
“I felt that there was a shift in attitudes at all levels in sport after the murder of George Floyd and during that period of the racial reckoning,” Lapchick told the The Associated Press. “And the results that just haven’t proven that out in these leadership positions.
Those scores are particularly striking when examining gender.
Women made up only 22.9% of presidents and chancellors, up slightly from last year’s figure (20.8%) after sitting as low as 13.8% in 2019. The number of women working as athletic directors dropped from 13 to 10 (7.6%) in 2022, with six of those in Power Five conferences ( Duke, Missouri, Pittsburgh, Vanderbilt, Virginia and Washington).
Women now lead two of the FBS’ 10 leagues: Judy MacLeod with Conference USA and the Mountain West’s Gloria Nevarez, who was hired in November from the West Coast Conference.
“There’s been no sustained improvement to make me think we’ve turned the corner and this is going to get a lot better in the next couple of years,” Lapchick said.
Women fared best in the faculty athletics representative position — 42% for an A-minus grade. These are typically faculty members designated to serve as a liaison to the athletics department.
In all, white people held 79.9% (321 of 402) of leadership positions in the study. But racial hiring scores increased, showing people of color holding 21.4% of president or chancellor positions and 22.9% of AD roles, though it fell for faculty athletics representatives (16.4%).
Felicia Martin, the NCAA's senior vice president for inclusion, education and community engagement, issued a statement that pointed to multiple steps taken by college sports' governing body to address diversity hiring.
Those include NCAA leadership development programs for administrators and coaches, as well as the Leadership Collective — a database to assist hiring officials in diversifying their candidate pools.
Still, Martin said: “The report reflects the reality that there is much work that remains in diverse hiring.”
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2023-02-23T23:01:17+00:00
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clickorlando.com
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https://www.clickorlando.com/sports/2023/02/23/study-women-still-underrepresented-in-fbs-leadership-ranks/
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JONESBOROUGH, Tenn. (WJHL) — In the 225-year-old Eureka Inn, some of the doors that lead nowhere are part of its character and historic importance.
Dr. William Kennedy is parting with his ownership of the 12-room, 6,000-square-foot inn that he and partners spent several years restoring before it reopened for business in 2000. He told News Channel 11 Wednesday he hopes whoever buys the iconic piece of Tennessee’s oldest town will appreciate and maintain the inn’s “dummy doors” and other elements he called “tangible links to the past.”
Sitting in the Mitchell Room in the inn’s oldest section built in 1797, Kennedy talked about two doors that tell just a sliver of the many stories the inn holds within its walls.
One faces the front entrance on Main Street and allowed entry into the inn’s so-called “sample room.”
“It tells the story of how salesmen could come through town, rent a room down on the ground floor of the inn and invite their customers and display their merchandise, which was the custom back particularly between 1900 and 1910,” Kennedy said.
Around the back of the building — another dummy door — once the ingress point for Black citizens during segregation. Stepping through it, they could “go through a buffet line and get lunch and eat when they had to be separated from white people. We’ve left that door there to tell that story – that most unfortunate period of story.”
Those are among the stories that rest inside the walls of the inn, which was in very poor repair when Kennedy bought it in 1997. Now it offers modern amenities, including bathrooms in each of its 12 rooms, air conditioning, modern plumbing and the like without sacrificing its historic authenticity.
“It has been inviting and people really enjoy the distinctiveness of its historic character while also having the comforts that we normally expect in modern lodging,” he said.
Kennedy is 82, other minority partners are in their 80s, or have moved away or died, and he said the time was right to sell. The building is listed for $1,250,000 with Evans and Evans Real Estate.
“As we’ve aged and as we’ve worked with the property for 25 years we just think it’s time to move it on as an opportunity and as a source of joy to some younger owners.”
Kennedy said the current owners really hope to see the building’s historic character maintained and expand on its convenience and comfort. They also hope there will be an emphasis on food.
“Jonesborough is in need of a fine restaurant, particularly for evening meals.”
He believes an owner could focus on food and secondarily on lodging, the other way around, or live there and rent parts of it out as an Airbnb.
“Whatever happens with it we hope that owner will want to maintain its historic character and will also fit into the community, because we did this as a project initially to help Jonesborough stabilize its economy and continue to grow in its historic central business district.”
With distinctive woodwork dating back to the late 1700s around him in the Mitchell Room, Kennedy described the building’s history. He said Peter and Angeline Miller bought the existing house, which had gone through several owners, in 1900. They added a couple of wings and opened it as the Eureka Hotel. The Russell family bought the hotel in 1910 and expanded it further to its current 6,000 square feet.
Cameo Waters is Jonesborough’s Tourism and Main Street Director and said she thinks the building — whose operators, Blake and Katelyn Yarbrough, closed it after the pandemic derailed their hopes of buying the property — will be an easy sell.
“It’s going to be a big blessing and joy for somebody and a great opportunity that you don’t see every day,” she said.
It’s also a major part of the community, opening its doors for historic home tours and when the Heritage Alliance takes people through the old downtown.
Even people that live here and don’t necessarily need lodging love to come and see all the beauty inside and learn a little bit more about the history.”
Business ownership in downtown Jonesborough isn’t an anonymous affair, Waters said.
“It’s not just being an entrepreneur it’s being part of a community. So someone that really aligns with our beliefs about historic preservation and being neighbors to everyone and being very welcoming.”
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2022-10-05T23:08:45+00:00
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wjhl.com
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https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/historic-eureka-inn-on-market-in-downtown-jonesborough/
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — A man was shot several times during a shootout at a store on Old Walkertown Road in Winston-Salem Thursday night, according to police.
The Winston-Salem Police Department said they got a call around 8:48 p.m. about a shooting on 4366 Old Walkertown Road.
When police arrived, they found Christopher Domena lying inside Island Brothers store suffering from four gunshot wounds and was taken to a hospital.
After an investigation, officers said when Domena was closing a business called Domena Brothers Kids Cave for the Tre Arcade located at 4370 Old Walkertown Road, two men walked inside and opened fire.
Domena said when they began firing shots, hitting him multiple times, he was able to grab his own firearm and shoot back at them.
That's when the shooters ran out to the parking lot, shooting into the front window of the business as they were leaving.
Domena then crawled to the store next door and had the business owner of that store dial 911.
A vehicle near the business was caught in the crossfire and sustained damage. Officers also found several shell casings in the parking lot and inside the business.
A police K-9 investigated the scene and did not find any suspects.
The Winston Salem Police Gun Crime Reduction Unit is currently investigating this shooting.
Detectives said they believe the suspects were trying to rob the business.
Anyone with any information regarding this investigation is asked to call the Winston-Salem Police Department at 336-773-7700, Crime Stoppers at 336-727-2800, or En Espanol at 336-728-3904.
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2022-07-30T01:05:40+00:00
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https://www.wfmynews2.com/article/news/crime/shootout-on-old-walkertown-rd-in-winston-salem/83-f2c27050-80eb-4949-9971-81a49060dad0
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Evening" game were:
3-2-5
(three, two, five)
¶ Ticket-holders with all three winning numbers in the order given win the top prize. Lesser amounts are also awarded to ticket-holders with other varying combinations of the winning numbers.
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2022-11-11T04:20:30+00:00
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sfgate.com
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https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-3-Evening-game-17576146.php
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July 18 at Seattle, 9:40 p.m.
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July 20 at Seattle, 3:40 p.m.
July 21 Chicago White Sox, 8:10 p.m.
July 22 Chicago White Sox, 7:15 p.m.
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July 23 Chicago White Sox, 2:10 p.m.
July 24 Seattle, 7:40 p.m.
July 25 Seattle, 7:40 p.m.
July 26 Seattle, 1:10 p.m.
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July 28 at Kansas City, 8:10 p.m.
July 29 at Kansas City, 7:10 p.m.
July 30 at Kansas City, 2:10 p.m.
Aug. 1 at St. Louis, 7:45 p.m.
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Aug. 3 at St. Louis, 7:45 p.m.
Aug. 4 Arizona, 8:10 p.m.
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Aug. 7 at Detroit, 6:40 p.m.
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Aug. 11 at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m.
Aug. 12 at Philadelphia, 6:05 p.m.
Aug. 13 at Philadelphia, 1:35 p.m.
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Aug. 18 Pittsburgh, 8:10 p.m.
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Aug. 22 at Milwaukee, 8:10 p.m.
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Aug. 24 Texas, 7:10 p.m.
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Aug. 26 Texas, 7:15 p.m.
Aug. 27 Texas, 2:10 p.m.
Aug. 28 Cleveland, 7:40 p.m.
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Sept. 11 Tampa Bay, 7:40 p.m.
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Sept. 14 at Chicago White Sox, 7:10 p.m.
Sept. 15 at Chicago White Sox, 7:40 p.m.
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Sept. 17 at Chicago White Sox, 2:10 p.m.
Sept. 18 at Cincinnati, 6:40 p.m.
Sept. 19 at Cincinnati, 6:40 p.m.
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Sept. 22 L.A. Angels, 8:10 p.m.
Sept. 23 L.A. Angels, 2:10 p.m.
Sept. 24 L.A. Angels, 2:10 p.m.
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Sept. 28 Oakland, 1:10 p.m.
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2023-03-28T00:27:43+00:00
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https://www.seattlepi.com/sports/article/2023-minnesota-twins-schedule-17863242.php
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NPR's Scott Simon talks with Felicia Rangel-Samponaro, of the Sidewalk School, which helps migrants, about the CBP app rolled out to help process asylum seekers. It's had a lot of glitches.
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NPR's Scott Simon talks with Felicia Rangel-Samponaro, of the Sidewalk School, which helps migrants, about the CBP app rolled out to help process asylum seekers. It's had a lot of glitches.
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2023-04-01T12:52:04+00:00
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https://www.klcc.org/npr-top-stories/npr-top-stories/2023-04-01/an-app-launched-to-make-seeking-asylum-simpler-has-left-migrants-even-more-precarious
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(The Hill) – As many as 10 million people may still be entitled to receive a COVID-19 stimulus payment, the government’s internal watchdog said Tuesday.
Americans with little or no income, who are not required to pay taxes, have until Nov. 15 to complete a simplified tax return in order to get their stimulus checks, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in a blog post.
“Throughout the pandemic, IRS and Treasury struggled to get COVID-relief payments into the hands of some people — especially those with lower-incomes, limited internet access, or experiencing homelessness. Based on IRS and Treasury data, there could be between 9-10 million eligible individuals who have not yet received those payments,” the agency said.
The GAO found that people who don’t have to file tax returns, first-time filers, mixed immigrant status families and people experiencing homelessness were among those likely not to have received a payment owed to them.
Over the course of several payments delivered through legislation enacted under both the Trump and Biden administrations, $931 billion went out to Americans to help with the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.
However, the GAO described this process as “challenging for the IRS and Treasury.”
Many in the tax world have come to the defense of the IRS over the course of the pandemic, saying it was beyond the call of duty for a tax collection agency to become the primary administrator of emergency economic stimulus payments.
Still, the added duties for the IRS have led to a backlog of tens of millions of unprocessed tax returns and unanswered phone calls that have left millions of Americans waiting for their annual refunds.
The extra pressure may also have resulted in the stimulus delivery shortage for up to 10 million Americans.
“Part of the challenge for the IRS and Treasury in 2020 was they only had data on taxpayers that had previously filed taxes,” the GAO said. “In May 2021, the Treasury Inspector General identified potentially 10 million individuals eligible for payments. As of June, IRS had no plans to conduct additional outreach.”
A recent spending package from Democrats is set to give the IRS its biggest funding boost in decades, with $80 billion going to the agency in the next 10 years.
While more than half of that will go toward increased enforcement efforts like audits, around $33 billion will go toward operational support, services for payers and systems modernization.
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2022-10-12T18:15:05+00:00
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Heat and humidity returned to Mid-Michigan Wednesday on strong southwesterly winds. We did have a wide range of temperatures during the afternoon, but all of us had to deal with sticky conditions. Highest readings did move into the 90s in some areas. Strong thunderstorms developed during the day, and the activity will linger through the evening. A Severe Thunderstorm Watch is in effect for most of the ABC12 viewing area until 9pm.
Gusty winds, some hail, and torrential rains will remain possible through the evening. Some parts of the area have already seen more than an inch of rainfall. While the intensity of the storms will diminish later this evening, showers and even a few rumbles of thunder will linger into Thursday. High temperatures Thursday will surround the 80-degree mark, and humidity levels will remain on the “high” side.
A few showers will even remain a possibility for the southern parts of the ABC12 viewing area early Friday. For the afternoon, we will be into some sunshine with an easterly breeze. The winds will shift back in from the southwest again Saturday, so high temperatures will cruise through the 80s, on into the 90s with partly sunny skies. Sunday will be another really warm one too. By the end of the day a new batch of rain will be moving in from the northwest. We'll track rain chances into next week on ABC12 News. - JR
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2022-08-03T21:58:27+00:00
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BROWNSBURG, Ind. (WXIN) – Staffers at an elementary school in Brownsburg, Indiana, are now facing criminal charges after investigators say they told a 7-year-old student to eat his own vomit and failed to report the incident.
The Hendricks County Prosecutor’s Office filed criminal charges against five staff members in connection with the incident in which a special education student was mistreated during lunch. Brownsburg Community School Police learned about the incident on April 12, although it occurred during a lunch period in February, according to the investigation.
The prosecutor’s office identified the staff members and charges as:
- Brown Elementary Life Skills teacher Sara Seymour, 27; neglect of a dependent as a Level 6 felony, and failure to report, a Class B misdemeanor.
- Brown Elementary Life Skills instructional aide Debra Kanipe, 63; neglect of a dependent as a Level 6 felony, and failure to report, a Class B misdemeanor.
- Brown Elementary Life Skills teacher Julie Taylor, 48; failure to report, a Class B misdemeanor.
- Brown Elementary Life Skills instructional aide Kristen Mitchell, 38; failure to report, a Class B Misdemeanor.
- Kids Count registered behavioral technician Megan King, 24; failure to report, a Class B misdemeanor
According to the Brownsburg Police Department, Seymour advised the 7-year-old student that if he vomited, he would have to eat whatever he threw up. The child, on a tray provided by Taylor, indeed vomited, at which point Kanipe provided the child with a spoon.
Seymour and Kanipe stood on either side while the boy ate a portion of the vomit, police said. The child then used paper towels to clean up what remained. Mitchell and King witnessed what happened.
According to the probable cause affidavit, video showed the incident and the involvement of the five staff members. None of them reported what happened.
The termination process has already been started for Seymour and Kanipe, the district said. The others remain on administrative leave, while King is prohibited from being on Brownsburg Community School Corporation property.
While the district and police previously said they had reviewed video evidence of the encounter, they had not disclosed the nature of the mistreatment.
Brownsburg Community School Corporation released a message to parents:
On Monday, April 17, we shared with Brown Elementary families and staff that BCSC had moved forward with termination for two staff members after learning of the mistreatment of a Life Skills student in their care at lunch. BCSC has been notified that these two staff members will be charged by the Hendricks County Prosecutor. Two other staff members are also being charged for their roles in failing to report the incident. More details are forthcoming from the Brownsburg Police Department (BPD).
As BPD releases more information about this incident, please know that the BCSC family will continue to be steadfast in our commitment to Brownsburg students, their safety, and their well-being. This horrendous action is not in line with the character of staff and teachers at Brownsburg Schools. The shocking actions of a few does not define the care and concern that Brownsburg teachers and staff show every day.
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2023-04-27T00:22:57+00:00
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https://www.krqe.com/news/indiana-police-student-told-to-eat-vomit-with-a-spoon-as-staffers-watched/
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Post-tropical cyclone Fiona is pummeling parts of eastern Canada, downing trees and leaving many without power. It's expected to be one of the strongest storms to hit that area.
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Post-tropical cyclone Fiona is pummeling parts of eastern Canada, downing trees and leaving many without power. It's expected to be one of the strongest storms to hit that area.
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2022-09-24T14:58:55+00:00
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Florida - Sunday March 12, 2023: Spring is just around the corner and so is Gopher Tortoise Day on Monday April 10.
Gopher Tortoise Day was founded by the Gopher Tortoise Council to increase appreciation and conservation support for one of Florida’s iconic species. Florida supports more populations of the gopher tortoise than any other state.
Florida residents are an important part of conserving the state-protected Gopher Tortoise and they are encouraged to participate in this year’s events. Celebrating and living alongside gopher tortoises is an important part of ensuring the tortoise, and the over 350 other species they provide shelter for in their burrows, will be around for years to come.
You can visit the Florida Gopher Tortoise Day website to get started on your plans for this year’s special day.
- Create gopher tortoise friendly yards at your home and in your community to welcome gopher tortoises as part of your neighborhood.
- Plan an event on or around April 10. Check out our Get Involved page for ideas or come up with your own. Please send your event info to GTEvents@MyFWC.com and we will add it to our upcoming events map.
- Work with local governments and organizations in your area to pass a resolution celebrating Gopher Tortoise Day. Be sure to send a copy to GTEvents@MyFWC.com so we can share it.
- Spread the word to your social media networks by posting using #GopherTortoiseDay.
Educators can create activities or lesson plans to celebrate Gopher Tortoise Day. Educational materials are available at the FWC’s Gopher Tortoise Program Education Corner and at the Florida Gopher Tortoise Day website.
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2023-04-05T00:11:46+00:00
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https://www.wqcs.org/wqcs-news/2023-03-12/gopher-tortoise-day-is-monday-april-10
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KETTERING — Three tax levy options are expected to be presented to the Kettering City Schools board of education tonight.
Proposals for a November levy, according to district records, include:
•A 5.99-mill issue estimated to last three years.
•A 5.49-mill tax with the same lifespan.
•A 4.99-mill levy projected to last two to three years.
A new levy option would generate about $9 million annually if approved by voters, according to district financial documents.
The options are part of a report by district Treasurer Cary Furniss. They are set to be considered by the board after a May five-year forecast showed projected operating deficits through June 2026.
Projections have Kettering schools’ $104.8 million budget showing a $3.16 million deficit next fiscal year with expenditures at $117.45 million and revenues at $106.3 million in the following fiscal year, records show.
Furniss has said passage of a fall levy this year will allow the district to maintain current programs and services. Waiting until 2023 — or a levy failure this year — would cost $9 million in revenue, according to his report.
Board President Toby Henderson said last month that he expects a levy to be on the November ballot.
Voters in the Kettering district approved an additional 5.99-mill levy in 2018, Montgomery County records show.
That levy was projected to last three years but was stretched to a fourth year, officials said. The school board is not scheduled to vote on any options tonight.
Ohio election records show Aug. 10 is the filing deadline to have local issues on the November ballot.
The school board is scheduled to meet at 6 p.m. in Fairmont High School’s Recital Hall.
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2022-06-07T15:25:10+00:00
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BOULDER, Colorado (AP) — New Colorado coach Deion Sanders can’t yet point to any on-field wins in Boulder, but signs of a massive shift in mood and expectation abound at this school and in this city around what has been a forlorn football program.
Hired in December after a highly successful run as Jackson State’s head coach, the NFL Hall of Fame cornerback is in the midst of running practices with his new team in preparation for Colorado’s annual intrasquad spring game on April 22.
The school announced earlier this week that the game, which is also being nationally televised on ESPN, had sold out with more than 45,000 people expected to be on hand. It would stand out as the highest attendance ever for Colorado’s spring game, eclipsing the previous high of 17,800 in 2008. Indeed, according to the school, the anticipated attendance will be higher than the combined total for the previous nine spring games.
“We haven’t won a game. There’s no impact right now,” Sanders said at a news conference Saturday. “The financial aspect of what’s going on, that’s a blessing. Somebody’s profiting really well and I’m happy for that, especially this university because they deserve it. And to display and show what’s here, in your beloved city, I think that’s a beautiful thing to bring that to fruition.”
Sanders, popularly known as “Primetime” in his playing days but better known now as “Coach Prime,” said he likes the way the team is starting to mesh. He can sense the eagerness and desire among his players and the students he’s met to turn around the program.
“I can’t wait for the spring game, really looking forward to it, because I want to see the difference in the atmosphere and the feeling and the spirit of everything,” said Sanders, who is taking over a program that has had a losing record in its last six seasons, including a 1-11 finish last season.
“I spoke to the School of Business yesterday and it was phenomenal,” Sanders said. “Those kids were hungry. Every kid had a pencil and piece of paper and taking notes and they were on every darn word, every thought, everything I uttered, they were on it. They wanted it. I loved that.”
Sanders insists change has to be made by both players and fans.
“If we’re going to change the game here, that means the fans have got to change, too,” he said. “We want to impact them as well. We want them to be ready for us like we want to be ready for them.”
If his players are anything like their coach, they’ll be ready, for primetime. Sanders attended the conference wearing a cowboy hat with a gold chain and traditional coach’s whistle draped around his neck. He was asked if he would like to see some of his players, which include his son, quarterback Shedeur Sanders, take on any of his football characteristics as is sometimes wont between players and coaches.
“I hope so,” Sanders said with a smile. “God, I hope so. That’s what I want. That’s what I’m looking for.”
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2023-04-09T21:51:29+00:00
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cbs42.com
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https://www.cbs42.com/sports/new-colorado-coach-deion-sanders-already-making-an-impact/
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Police: Marine recruiters help take down jewelry thieves attempting to escape
TORRANCE, Calif. (Gray News) - Two would-be robbers in California are in police custody thanks to the help of some military personnel.
According to the Torrance Police Department, officers were called to the Del Amo Fashion Center regarding a robbery call Tuesday night.
The department said a group of smash-and-grab thieves hit a jewelry store inside the mall. They were wearing masks, gloves and armed with hammers.
However, as the group was attempting to run out of the mall, Marine recruiters jumped in along with a couple of bystanders to catch two of the suspects. Police said they were able to hold down the men until officers arrived.
Torrance police thanked the bystanders and the recruiters for their help.
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2022-12-23T02:06:59+00:00
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A federal appeals court ruled that the abortion pill mifepristone can still be used for now but reduced the period of pregnancy when the drug can be taken and said it could not be dispensed by mail.
Last week’s decision temporarily narrowed a ruling by a lower court judge in Texas that had completely blocked the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the nation’s most commonly used method of abortion. Still, preventing the pill from being sent by mail amounts to another significant curtailing of abortion access — less than a year after the reversal of Roe v. Wade resulted in more than a dozen states effectively banning abortion outright.
In response to the ruling, the Justice Department said it will ask the U.S. Supreme Court for an emergency order to put any action on hold.
“We are going to continue to fight in the courts, we believe the law is on our side, and we will prevail,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said, speaking to reporters from Dublin during a visit by President Joe Biden.
Opponents that brought the Texas lawsuit against the drug last year cast the decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals as a victory.
Mifepristone was approved by the FDA more than two decades ago and is used in combination with a second drug, misoprostol.
Abortion rights groups expressed relief that the FDA approval would remain in place for now but criticized the court for reinstating restrictions on the drug. Whole Woman’s Health, an abortion provider that operates six clinics in five states, said in a tweet they were continuing to offer mifepristone in clinics and through virtual services.
In the 2-1 vote, the panel of judges put on hold changes made by the regulator since 2016 that relaxed the rules for prescribing and dispensing mifepristone. Those included extending the period of pregnancy when the drug can be used from seven weeks to 10, and also allowing it to be dispensed by mail, without any need to visit a doctor’s office.
The panel’s decision came just days after the Justice Department swiftly appealed a far-reaching ruling out of Texas, when a federal judge blocked the FDA’s approval of the pill following a lawsuit by the drug’s opponents. There is virtually no precedent for a lone judge overturning the regulator’s medical decisions.
The lawsuit challenging the drug’s approval was brought by the Alliance Defending Freedom, which also argued for overturning Roe v. Wade and indicated it was content for now in the mifepristone case. Erin Hawley, an attorney for the group, said it had no plans to seek an appeal that might restore the Texas court’s full ruling.
“The 5th Circuit’s decision is a significant victory for the doctors we represent, women’s health, and every American who deserves an accountable federal government acting within the bounds of the law,” Hawley said.
The two judges who voted to tighten restrictions, Kurt Engelhardt and Andrew Oldham, are both appointees of former President Donald Trump. The third judge, Catharina Haynes, is an appointee of former President George W. Bush. She said she would have put the lower court ruling on hold entirely for now to allow oral arguments in the case.
Adding to the uncertainty, a separate federal judge in Washington recently ordered the FDA not to do anything that might block mifepristone’s availability in 17 Democrat-led states suing to keep it on the market. The judge in that case has not yet to responded to the Justice Department seeking additional clarity.
The appeals court judges in the majority noted that the Biden administration and mifepristone’s manufacturer “warn us of significant public consequences” that would result if mifepristone were withdrawn entirely from the market under the lower court ruling.
But the judges suggested FDA changes making mifepristone easier to obtain since 2016 were less consequential than its initial approval of the drug in 2000. It would be “difficult” to argue the changes were “so critical to the public given that the nation operated — and mifepristone was administered to millions of women — without them for sixteen years” the judges wrote.
When the drug was initially approved in 2000, the FDA limited its use to up to seven weeks of pregnancy. It also required three in-person office visits: the first to administer mifepristone, the next to administer the second drug misoprostol and the third to address any complications. It also required a doctor’s supervision and a reporting system for any serious consequences associated with the drug.
If the appeals court’s action stands, those would again be the terms under which mifepristone could be dispensed for now.
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2023-04-14T00:20:17+00:00
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NPR's Life Kit offered a lot of tips this year. We shared guidance on how to take better photos on vacation, how to find your singing voice and even how to overcome FOMO.
Out of the 143 episodes that we published in 2022, there were a handful that really took off with our audience: You loved a story that busts myths on hydration, guidance on how to prevent impulse purchases and our advice column, Dear Life Kit.
Here are our top 10 episodes, ranked by page views on NPR.org.
10. Deciding a fair inheritance
A Dear Life Kit listener says she took care of her elderly stepfather more than her siblings did. Yet after he passed, he left all his children the same inheritance. The situation, says the listener, "keeps me awake at night." What should she do? Find out what our expert advised.
9. What to say to a husband who secretly spent thousands of dollars
Financial therapist Amanda Clayman tells a Dear Life Kit listener how to deal with a spouse who spent a large amount of their finances on impulse buys. Read what Clayman advised.
8. How to protect North American birds during migration
In North America, we've seen a staggering loss of birds. A 2019 study from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology found that there are 3 billion fewer breeding birds than in 1970. Although the situation sounds dire, there's plenty we can do to help birds survive and thrive. Experts share 8 ways to help these creatures as they migrate to their breeding grounds.
7. Preventing 'lifestyle creep'
"Lifestyle creep" is what happens when you have access to more money — maybe from a raise or a bonus — but instead of investing or saving it, you increase your spending, explains financial planner Paco de Leon.
She shares tips about how to manage your money and your emotions in order to achieve what she calls "inner wealth." Here's her advice on how to avoid impulse purchases.
6. Dealing with a sister who prioritized a recital over a wedding
Natalie Lue, author of the self-help blog Baggage Reclaim, advises a Dear Life Kit listener who asks for advice about a close family member who isn't sure she can come to their wedding because their 8-year-old daughter has a dance recital. Read our expert's counsel.
5. An illustrated guide to divvying up household chores
In many households, one person shoulders the brunt of the chores and childcare – and that's often the woman. But it doesn't have to be this way.
Eve Rodsky, an attorney and author, says it's possible to divide domestic tasks fairly, which can help reduce stress at home and give back precious time to each member of the household. These tips can help you share the domestic load.
4. The playtime ritual that can get your kids to listen better
Sometimes kids listen to instructions — and sometimes they don't. And when they don't, that can be very frustrating for parents.
So how can parents get their kids to be more apt to comply? It might sound counterintuitive, but one strategy widely recommended by children's health professionals is to engage your child in short, daily sessions of child-led play. Dive into the strategy here.
3. Busting myths about water and hydration
Drink eight glasses of water a day. Coffee will make you dehydrated. Drinking extra water can help you lose weight.
You've probably heard these claims about water and hydration before. But are they true? Scientists explain the science of hydration and bust 5 common myths about water. Find out what the myths are here.
2. How to avoid cognitive biases
The mind is a tricky thing. It can lead us to believe that we can confidently sing "Bohemian Rhapsody" at karaoke even though we haven't heard the song in years, or that one terrible review on Yelp is reason enough not to go to a 4-star rated restaurant.
These thinking errors are what people in the psychology community call cognitive biases. But Yale psychology professor Woo-kyoung Ahn says there are things we can do to correct these thinking traps. The key, she says, is to pause before making assumptions — and be aware of our tendencies for different kinds of bias. Read her tips here.
1. The quiz that reveals your attachment style
According to the field of attachment theory, each person has a unique attachment style that informs how they relate to intimacy: secure, anxious, avoidant and a small subset who are anxious-avoidant.
This quiz, adapted from Amir Levine and Rachel Heller's bestselling book, Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find — and Keep — Love, will help you figure out your own attachment style. Take the quiz here.
Edited by: Beck Harlan. Listen to Life Kit on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, or sign up for our newsletter.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Buffalo was set to emerge from a deep freeze Wednesday, bringing some relief but also the tragic possibility of finding more victims amid melting snow from the area's deadliest storm in decades.
Officials said more than 30 people so far have been reported to have died because of the blizzard that raged Friday and Saturday in western New York, an area prone to powerful winter storms. The historic Blizzard of 1977 killed as many as 29.
Antwaine Parker told The Buffalo News that his mother, Carolyn Eubanks, perished at the home of strangers who took her in after her family tried to get help for the ailing woman.
Eubanks, 63, relied on an oxygen machine. With the power out in her home and emergency responders unable to answer calls amid the blizzard, Parker said, he and his stepbrother drove through the snow Saturday to rescue her themselves. She collapsed as they led her to a car, he said.
“She’s like, ‘I can’t go no further.’ I’m begging her, ‘Mom, just stand up.’ She fell in my arms and never spoke another word,” Parker told the newspaper.
The stepbrothers knocked on nearby doors, seeking someone who would help. They found David Purdy, who opened his door to two desperate strangers and helped them carry Eubanks inside and try in vain to revive her.
After they realized she was gone, Purdy and his fiancee sheltered her body until first responders showed up with plows the next day.
“I done it as respectful as I could,” Purdy told The Buffalo News. His own mother is roughly the same age as Eubanks was and also uses an oxygen machine, he said, and “if she needed help, I’d hope there would be people out there to help her, as well.”
Temperatures were expected to rise into the mid-40s (around 7 degrees Celsuis) on Wednesday and the low 50s (around 10 Celsius) by Friday, the National Weather Service said.
With enough snow still on the ground that driving was still banned in New York's second-most-populous city, officials worked to clear storm drains and watched a forecast that calls for some rain later in the week. Officials in Erie County, which encompasses Buffalo, said Tuesday they were concerned about the possibility of flooding.
The weather service said Wednesday that "any flooding is expected to be of the minor or nuisance variety."
While suburban roads and most major highways in the area reopened Tuesday, there was still a driving ban in Buffalo, and state and military police were assigned to enforce it. Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz, a Democrat, said “too many people are ignoring the ban.”
A Facebook group originally created in 2014, when Buffalo was buried under deep snow, has become a lifeline, seeking to help thousands seeking food, medicine, shelter and rescue in the latest storm. Currently managed by five women, the group swelled to at least 68,000 people as of Tuesday.
“We are seeing a lot of desperation,” said Erin Aquilinia, founder of the original group, in an online interview.
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Contributing to this report were Associated Press journalists Jennifer Peltz and Julie Walker in New York; Heather Hollingsworth in Kansas City, Missouri; Susan Haigh in Hartford, Connecticut; and Mike Schneider in Orlando, Florida.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says Disney will finally be paying its fair share after having its self-governing status revoked.
DeSantis on Monday signed a bill into law that ends Disney’s self-governing power and puts the media giant under the control of a state board. Disney’s punishment came after the theme park went against the state’s Parental Rights in Education Act which bars teachers from instructing students in kindergarten through third grade on sexual orientation and gender identity.
"Last year, they came out very strong against a piece of legislation to protect parents’ rights and to protect young children from having sexualized curriculum in things like elementary school," DeSantis told "Tucker Carlson Tonight" Monday.
The governor explained he pushed back as the company’s executives spoke about their intent to "jam" sexualized programming into Disney cartoons.
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"We're in a situation... where they're taking those positions as a company, which are antithetical to our values," DeSantis said. "But with this arrangement, Florida was subsidizing that type of activism. That could no longer stand."
The Sunshine State governor says the decision, which has earned support from the some of the company’s employees and firefighters, will be beneficial to Florida.
"For the first time since 1967, Disney no longer has its own government," he explained. "They're going to have to abide by the same laws as everybody else. They're going to finally pay their fair share of taxes and pay all the debts that they've racked up over these decades."
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While the decision has drawn criticism from some, DeSantis explained the importance of standing strong in good convictions as detailed in his new book "The Courage to be Free."
"When you stand up for what's right, they come after you," he reflected. "It isn't easy, so you got to have the courage of your convictions to stand strong. But I think what we've shown in Florida if you do that and people see you're willing to fight for them, they'll walk over broken glass barefoot to vote for you, and I'm proof positive that. Four years ago, I won by 32,000 votes. Last November, I won by 1.5 million votes."
Fox News’ Jessica Chasmar contributed to this report.
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Lordstown Motors on Monday warned that Taiwan’s Foxconn may be looking to back out of a crucial funding deal that would keep the electric truck maker running—and that it might go bankrupt if the issue isn’t resolved.
In a regulatory filing first reported by CNBC, Lordstown said it received a letter from Foxconn on April 21 alleging that the would-be truckmaker was in breach of a funding deal because its stock had fallen under $1 per share for 30 consecutive trading days, triggering a delisting notice from NASDAQ (shares were trading at 30 cents on Monday). Lordstown reported that the companies remain in talks.
Created to take over a former General Motors factory in its namesake Ohio town to build electric trucks, Lordstown sold the factory to Taiwanese contact manufacturer Foxconn last year. After that deal closed in May 2022, the two companies agreed to a second deal in which Foxconn would invest up to $170 million in Lordstown, which CNBC calculated as a 19.3% stake in the U.S. company.
Foxconn paid the first $52.7 million due under the funding deal last year, but hasn’t made additional payments, according to CNBC. Under the terms of the deal, Foxconn is supposed to invest an additional $47.3 million within 10 days of regulatory approval by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. That approval was granted April 25, Lordstown told CNBC, meaning Foxconn is obliged to release the money by May 8.
Foxconn is probably best known as the contract manufacturer for Apple iPhones, but lately the company has tried to expand into EV production. The Lordstown affair has made for an inauspicious start.
Last year when it took charge of the plant and manufacturing, Foxconn said the Lordstown Endurance pickup truck would be delivered later in 2022. Soon it became clear that Lordstown still didn’t have enough cash to produce more than an introductory few hundred trucks, if that, due to the lack of high-volume production equipment. The factory has since made about 30 trucks, but production has been effectively stalled.
In its fourth-quarter 2022 financial results, Lordstown indicated it would shift focus from the Endurance to a new EV likely using Foxconn-sourced components, and likely built at the same Ohio plant. Lordstown and Foxconn had agreed to finalize a plan for joint development of a new EV by May 7, after which Foxconn would invest an additional $70 million, but that plan hasn’t been finalized, CNBC reported.
Foxconn meanwhile has been pivoting to making its own EVs, including some under the new Foxtron brand that may not be destined for the U.S. The company also has contract-manufacturing deals with other automotive startups, including plans to build the $29,900 Fisker Pear EV at the same ex-Lordstown factory in Ohio.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Block, Inc..
Shareholders who purchased shares of SQ 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: November 4, 2021 to April 4, 2022
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) the Company lacked adequate protocols restricting access to customer sensitive information; (2) as a result, a former employee was able to download certain reports of the Company's subsidiary, Cash App Investing, containing full customer names and brokerage account numbers, as well as brokerage portfolio value, brokerage portfolio holdings and/or stock trading activity; (3) as a result, the Company was reasonably likely to suffer significant damage, including reputational harm; (4) and as a result of the foregoing, defendant's positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
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Senegalese opposition leader jailed for two years for ‘corrupting youth’
By Stephanie Busari, CNN
(CNN) — Senegal’s opposition leader Ousmane Sonko has been sentenced to two years in prison for “corrupting youth,” according to state media.
The conviction means Sonko, who has a large youth following and is the leader of the PASTEF party (Patriots of Senegal for Ethics, Work and Fraternity), will not be eligible to stand for the country’s upcoming 2024 elections.
The court cleared Sonko of other charges, including rape, Radio Television Senegalaise said.
Sonko previously said that the rape allegation was politically motivated by President Macky Sall’s government.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Anchorage official says thick, heavy ice had accumulated on the roof of a gym that collapsed earlier this month, killing one person and trapping two others.
Ross Noffsinger, acting building official for the city, said “tremendous” ice buildup on the roof of the Turnagain CrossFit gym far exceeded the weight listed by the city's design and construction standards, the Anchorage Daily News reported Friday.
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The collapse happened the evening of Feb. 17, during a fitness competition. One woman was killed in the collapse and two others were temporarily trapped. More than 10 people were inside the gym at the time.
“The roof area in general is quite large, and it looks like a substantial portion of the roof was sloping in that direction,” Noffsigner said, indicating the northeast corner of the building where the gym was located.
Noffsinger said the city is still waiting on an engineer's structural report and more analysis must be done before officials reach a final conclusion. But he said the weight of the ice may have been more than double the city's design criteria of 40 pounds of snow or ice per square foot.
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A contractor hired by the building owner said that while ice may have been a factor, other issues may have contributed to the collapse. Chuck Dunn of Dunn Contractors and Associates said he is working with a structural engineering company and their analysis will include the building's condition, history and building materials.
“We have a lot to determine still, so it’s premature to say what the cause was,” Dunn said.
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DALLAS (AP) _ Kimberly-Clark Corp. (KMB) on Tuesday reported second-quarter earnings of $437 million.
On a per-share basis, the Dallas-based company said it had profit of $1.29. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, came to $1.34 per share.
The results missed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of four analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.35 per share.
The maker of consumer products such as Huggies diapers and Kleenex tissue posted revenue of $5.06 billion in the period, which topped Street forecasts. Four analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $4.99 billion.
Kimberly-Clark expects full-year earnings in the range of $5.60 to $6 per share.
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2022-07-26T13:20:32+00:00
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Jeffrey Epstein, despite his high profile and a jail suicide attempt two weeks earlier, was left alone in his cell with a surplus of bed linens. Nearly all the surveillance cameras on his unit didn’t record. One worker was on duty for 24 hours straight.
The Justice Department’s watchdog said Tuesday that negligence, misconduct and poor job performance by the federal Bureau of Prisons and workers at the New York City jail enabled Epstein to take his own life in August 2019.
Inspector General Michael Horowitz, saying he found no evidence of foul play, blamed numerous factors for Epstein’s death, including the jail’s failure to assign him a cellmate and overworked guards who lied on logs after failing to make regular checks. Had the guards done so, Horowitz said, they would’ve found Epstein had excess linens, which he used in his suicide.
“The combination of negligence, misconduct and outright job performance failures documented in the report all contributed to an environment in which arguably one of the most notorious inmates in BOP’s custody was provided with the opportunity to take his own life,” Horowitz wrote in a report detailing his findings.
Horowitz’s investigation, the last of several official inquiries into Epstein’s death, echoed previous findings that some members of the jail staff involved in guarding Epstein were overworked. He identified 13 employees with poor performance and recommended charges against four workers. Only the two workers assigned to guard Epstein the night he died were charged, avoiding jail time in a plea deal after admitting to falsifying logs.
Horowitz’s report highlighted some of the many problems plaguing the Bureau of Prisons, many of which have been exposed by The Associated Press. The agency, the Justice Department’s largest with more than 30,000 employees, 158,000 inmates and an annual budget of about $8 billion, is plagued by severe staffing shortages, staff sexual abuse and criminal conduct, among other issues,
The Bureau of Prisons said it has accepted all eight of Horowitz’s recommendations, has updated its suicide watch process and will apply other lessons learned “to the broader BOP correctional landscape.”
The agency said it will review video to ensure correctional officers are making the proper rounds and will require more paperwork when prisoners are kept alone in cells. A warden must now be notified when someone is placed on suicide watch, the agency said. It is also requiring specialized training on suicide prevention.
“We make every effort to create a controlled environment within our facilities that is both secure and humane, prioritizing the physical and emotional well-being of those in our care and custody,” the Bureau of Prisons said in a statement.
Horowitz’s report comes nearly four years after Epstein took his own life at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhttan while awaiting trial on sex trafficking and conspiracy charges. It also comes weeks after the AP obtained thousands of pages of records detailing the wealthy financier’s detention and death and its chaotic aftermath.
Horowitz’s investigators found no evidence to suggest anything other than suicide, echoing the findings of New York City’s medical examiner’s office, which determined Epstein killed himself, and a separate FBI investigation that found no crimes associated with the death.
No physical evidence supported any of the many conspiracy theories surrounding Epstein’s death, Horowitz concluded, and none of the video captured from the cameras that were recording showed any indication of anyone else in the cell. Investigators probed for possible money changing hands involving guards but found no evidence of that, either.
The workers assigned to guard Epstein were sleeping and shopping online instead of checking on him every 30 minutes as required, prosecutors said.
Nova Noel and Michael Thomas admitted lying on prison records to make it seem as though they had made the checks but avoided prison time under a deal with prosecutors. They left the Bureau of Prisons in April 2022, agency spokesperson Benjamin O’Cone said.
It’s the second time in six months that Horowitz has blamed a high-profile inmate’s death on the Bureau of Prisons’ failings. In December, the inspector general found that management failures, flawed policies and widespread incompetence were factors in notorious gangster James “Whitey” Bulger’s 2018 beating death at a troubled West Virginia prison.
The AP obtained more than 4,000 pages of documents related to Epstein’s death from the federal Bureau of Prisons under the Freedom of Information Act. The documents, including a reconstruction of events leading to Epstein’s suicide, internal reports, emails, memos and other records, underscored how short staffing and corner-cutting contributed to Epstein’s death.
Epstein spent 36 days at the now-shuttered Metropolitan Correctional Center. Two weeks before his death, he was placed on suicide watch for 31 hours after what jail officials said was a suicide attempt that left his neck bruised and scraped.
The workers tasked with guarding Epstein the night he died were working overtime. One of them, not normally assigned to guard prisoners, was working a fifth straight day of overtime. The other was working mandatory overtime, which meant a second eight-hour shift in one day.
In addition, Epstein’s cellmate did not return after a court hearing the day before, and jail officials failed to pair another prisoner with him, leaving him alone.
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Sisak reported from Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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2023-06-27T15:36:44+00:00
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Oro, Inc., marks 10th anniversary with global digital commerce event
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif., July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Oro, Inc., the pioneering ecommerce leader behind OroCommerce, the No.1 open source B2B digital commerce platform, today announced the eagerly awaited return of its flagship digital commerce event, OroVibe. The landmark celebration will be held in Paris on Thursday, October 6 2022 — and for the first time will be followed next year with a North American OroVibe event to mark the Oro's ecosystem rapid global expansion.
The eagerly awaited gatherings come as Oro marks its 10th anniversary, and will celebrate Oro's fast-growing community while giving hundreds of today's top B2B, B2C, and B2X merchants an opportunity to learn more about Oro's industry-leading solutions. OroVibe will feature a packed agenda including keynotes and panels where attendees will learn about new and improved Oro features and the latest B2B trends and digital commerce strategies. Oro customers will also be invited to take the stage and share their experiences and digitization stories — all while networking with eCommerce thought leaders and B2B peers from around the world.
This year's OroVibe will also host the 2022 Oro Brilliance Awards, celebrating the most innovative and successful B2B leaders from a range of industries. The prestigious awards will honor the most creative and effective deployments of Oro's digital commerce solutions, and also recognize the partnerships and collaborations that unlocked value for B2B merchants and their customers over the past year.
Later next year, Oro will also host the first-ever North American OroVibe event, marking the company's rapid expansion in the United States and the broader region. Like its European counterpart, the U.S. OroVibe will bring together top B2B and eCommerce leaders from around the world, and will honor Oro's customers, partners, and the continent's thriving B2B eCommerce sector.
"We're celebrating Oro's 10th anniversary this year, and there's no better way to do that than by bringing back OroVibe," said Yoav Kutner, Oro CEO and co-founder. "Digital merchants have faced big challenges in recent years, and OroVibe is a space where B2B eCommerce leaders can come together to get inspired, build relationships, and share new strategies for success. We're looking forward to reconnecting with our entire ecosystem — including valued customers, trusted partners, and friends from across a wide range of industries."
OroVibe will be held at Verso in Paris on Thursday, October 6 2022. Full details about the inaugural U.S. OroVibe will be published later in the year. Register now to reserve your spot.
About Oro, Inc.
Oro, Inc. offers a suite of open-source commerce applications: OroCommerce, the B2B eCommerce platform purpose-built for manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers and brands; OroMarketplace, the analyst-recognized marketplace management platform for all business use cases; OroCRM, the industry's most flexible multi-channel CRM solution; and OroPlatform, a streamlined solution for developers of custom business applications. Oro's founders previously founded Magento and have deep experience in the eCommerce industry. They include Yoav Kutner, CEO; Dima Soroka, Chief Technology Officer; and Roy Rubin, director of Oro's advisory board. For more information on OroCommerce, visit https://oroinc.com/b2b-ecommerce/.
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2022-07-14T14:31:48+00:00
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NEW YORK (AP) — A Lebanese and Belgian citizen considered a key financier of the Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah was arrested Friday in Bucharest, Romania’s capital, federal authorities said.
Mohammad Ibrahim Bazzi, 58, who was labeled a “global terrorist” by the United States in 2018 when $10 million was offered for information about his whereabouts, has funneled millions of dollars to Hezbollah over the years, authorities said.
U.S. Attorney Breon Peace in Brooklyn said the extradition of Bazzi and Lebanese citizen Talal Chahine, 78, was sought on charges contained in an indictment returned last month in Brooklyn federal court.
“Mohammad Bazzi thought that he could secretly move hundreds of thousands of dollars from the United States to Lebanon without detection by law enforcement,” Peace said in a release. “Today’s arrest proves that Bazzi was wrong.”
Charges lodged against Bazzi and Chahine included conspiracy to cause U.S. individuals to conduct unlawful transactions with a global terrorist and money laundering conspiracy. It was unclear who will represent the men when they arrive in the United States.
Daniel J. Kafafian, acting head of the Drug Enforcement Administration in New Jersey, said the defendants “attempted to provide continued financial assistance to Hezbollah, a foreign terrorist organization responsible for death and destruction.”
Romanian law enforcement authorities took Bazzi into custody after he arrived in Bucharest on Friday, according to the release announcing his arrest.
Authorities said Bazzi and Chahine conspired to force or induce an individual in the U.S. to liquidate their interests in some real estate assets in Michigan and covertly transfer hundreds of thousands of dollars in proceeds out of the U.S. to Bazzi and Chahine in Lebanon.
The men were caught on recorded conversations proposing numerous ways to conceal from U.S. law enforcement officials that Bazzi was the source and destination of the proceeds of the sale and that the men were involved, authorities said.
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2023-02-25T16:42:25+00:00
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LOS ANGELES — The family of rapper Theophilus London filed a missing persons report with Los Angeles police this week and are asking for the public's help, saying he hasn't been seen in months.
London's family and friends believe someone last spoke to the musician in July in Los Angeles, according to the family's statement released Wednesday from Secretly, a music label group that has worked with London.
London's relatives have been trying to determine his whereabouts over the last few weeks and filed a police report earlier this week, the statement said.
Officer Annie Moran, an LAPD spokesperson, confirmed Wednesday that a report for London had been taken. A department news release said London was last seen in the Skid Row area on Oct. 15, and his family has lost complete contact with him.
"Theo, your Dad loves you, son," his father, Lary Moses London, said in the family's statement. "We miss you. And all your friends and relatives are searching for you. Wherever you are send us some signal. No matter what we will come get you son."
London posted prolifically on Instagram, but his last posts also came in July.
London, 35, was born in Trinidad and Tobago and later raised in the Brooklyn borough of New York. He was nominated for a 2016 Grammy for best rap performance for a featured spot alongside Paul McCartney on Kanye West's "All Day."
London has frequently collaborated with the artist now known as Ye, who produced and guested on 2014's "Vibes." London would often post updates on Ye's "Donda" and "Donda 2" on Instagram, even saying that he was "promoted to tackle media duties" on Ye's behalf for the month of February.
London himself has released three studio albums — 2011's "Timez Are Weird These Days," "Vibes" and 2020's "Bebey." He recently was a featured artist on Young Franco's "Get Your Money," released this past September — the month before he was last seen.
While "Vibes" was a Warner Records release, "Bebey" was released on London's own label, My Bebey Records.
"I wanted to see what a sense of family is, a sense of me having a plot of land, building a house on my own land, instead of sleeping at a hotel for the rest of my life," he told Complex of branching out on his own in 2020.
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2022-12-29T06:12:44+00:00
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One year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, putting an end to the constitutionally protected right to access abortion, the health care landscape has become increasingly fragmented and complex to navigate, spawning widespread confusion.
So far, more than a dozen states have enacted extremely restrictive abortion bans, with the majority making no exceptions for rape or incest. And many more are waiting on legal challenges to make their way through the courts. In Texas, private citizens can sue abortion providers and those who assist patients seeking an abortion after about six weeks of pregnancy.
That has left approximately 22 million women, girls and other people of reproductive age now living in states where abortion access is heavily restricted or totally inaccessible. In the nine months following the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, abortions with providers fell by a monthly average of 2,849 compared to April 2022, new data collected by the Society of Family Planning shows.
With individual states empowered to ban abortion, some health care professionals say they are trapped by poorly drafted laws that criminalize care and fail to consider how women and other pregnant people might inadvertently be affected, including those who had not planned to terminate their pregnancies.
Doctors feel trapped by vaguely written bans
"States that have banned abortion are also threatening the health and well-being of people with wanted pregnancies who face obstetric emergency," Kelly Baden, vice president for public policy at the Guttmacher Institute, told NPR.
"Doctors and hospitals do not know how to operate, or [they're] operating under a really dark cloud of suspicion and hostility," Baden added.
Half of the doctors in states with abortion bans say that they have patients who have been unable to obtain an abortion, according to a national KFF survey of OBGYNs released Wednesday. About 40% reported facing constraints on their care for miscarriages and pregnancy-related emergencies. Meanwhile, 61% of those practicing in states with abortion bans express concerns about legal risks when making decisions about patient care.
And a majority of OBGYNs say they believe that the Dobbs decision has also exacerbated pregnancy-related mortality, racial and ethnic inequities in maternal health and made it harder to attract new OBGYNs to the field.
Dr. Loren Colson is one of only about a half-dozen maternal fetal medicine physicians still remaining in Idaho. He described the scene across the state as one of "complete chaos."
Idaho has implemented a ban on abortion beyond six weeks — often too early for a person to know they are pregnant. Exceptions can be made if the mother's life is in jeopardy. "But there's been a huge question of what that means," Colson told NPR.
Colson, who has testified before the Idaho House of Representatives on the issue, said the law is written so vaguely that there is no common understanding between lawmakers and doctors of what constitutes a life-threatening situation.
"We think that they know where that line is, when it has come down to it," he said, "but when the idea of jail time is on the table, everyone gets confused."
Colson, like numerous other physicians around the country, is calling on legislators to include more precise medical language in the bans that have been enacted.
There's widespread confusion about abortion laws
Another KFF survey published last month revealed that there is broad uncertainty around the legal status of abortion among the general population. In the states where abortion is banned, about 1 in 8 residents incorrectly believes that medication abortion is still legal there. And more than half of residents say they are unsure of the legality of abortion in their state.
In the wake of the Dobbs decision, some states have passed protective legislation with the aim of expanding access and protecting providers. In all, 17 states and the District of Columbia have laws protecting abortion. And over the last 12 months, at least 15 municipal and six state governments allocated nearly $208 million to pay for contraception, abortion and support services for people seeking abortions, according to data provided to NPR by the National Institute for Reproductive Health.
The funding, which has shot up from approximately $55 million since 2019, allocates money for abortion funds and support networks that provide financial assistance to people struggling to pay for procedures, travel and other associated costs.
Abortion will be a key issue in 2024
Politically, the Dobbs decision has mobilized both parties, and politicians are counting on the issue to bring voters to the polls in 2024. Republicans, backed by anti-abortion groups including Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, are seeking to codify a 15-week ban nationwide.
Democrats have also galvanized around the rollback of Roe. They are warning voters that Dobbs is only the first of future attempts to limit people's autonomy over their own bodies and health care, including contraception and LGBTQIA issues.
NPR's Sarah McCammon and Selena Simmons-Duffin contributed to this story.
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DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal's top opposition leader has been given a two-month suspended sentence after being found guilty of libel.
Ousmane Sonko on Thursday was convicted of spreading false statements and will also have to pay about $330,000 to Minister of Tourism Mame Mbaye Niang, who accused the politician of defamation and public insults.
“This is a historic day for Senegal. Many had said that the trial would not take place, but it did. This is a victory,” the Cabinet minister's lawyer El-hadji Diouf told reporters in Senegal's capital, Dakar.
The case stems from accusations that Sonko, 48, made against the tourism minister during a news conference late last year. He had alleged the minister stole $47 million from a government agency.
Security was tight around the courtroom Thursday, as small groups of people gathered in support of Sonko. Sonko was not present at the hearing. His lawyers had requested to postpone the trial, saying that Sonko was sick from tear gas fired earlier this month.
Sonko's party called the verdict unjust.
“The verdict is abnormal ... they decided to force it but they know that it’s not normal,” El Malick Ndiaye, national secretary in charge of communication for Sonko's Pastef Les Patriotes party, told The Associated Press. Ndiaye said he was not sure if Sonko would appeal the verdict and said that Sonko was meeting with his lawyers to discuss options.
Sonko’s supporters see the charges against him as the latest attempt to cut short his political career, including his likely presidential candidacy in 2024. Sonko finished third in Senegal’s 2019 presidential election and has called on President Macky Sall to declare publicly that he won’t seek a third term.
The ruling party says Sall should be allowed to run after a constitutional change in 2016 — made while Sall was president — which changed presidential terms to five years.
Along with the defamation trial, Sonko also faces rape charges based on accusations from a female employee who said she was assaulted by him at a massage salon. If convicted, he faces up to 10 years in prison and would be barred from running for president. No date is set for the that trial.
Thursday's conviction won't impact Sonko's ability to run for president, as defamation is not included in the electoral code as one of the reasons that would bar someone from running.
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2023-03-30T17:27:25+00:00
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Honda’s electrification push won’t be limited to cars. The company on Tuesday announced that it will launch 10 electric motorcycles globally by 2025, and make its motorcycle lineup carbon neutral by 2040.
Honda already sells a line of small scooters aimed at fleet operators, and that are already used by the Japanese and Vietnamese postal services. The company plans to expand availability of these models to other markets, and introduce two personal-use derivatives for the European and Asian markets between 2024 and 2025.
Between 2022 and 2024, Honda plans to introduce five larger electric moped models, again in European and Asian markets. Those will be followed by three even larger models for Japan, Europe, and the United States between 2024 and 2025.
Finally, Honda plans to launch an electric motorcycle for kids. This model is also slated for 2024 or 2025, and also appears destined for the U.S.
Honda said it will equip future electric motorcycles with solid-state batteries, utilizing technology the company is also eyeing for cars. Battery swapping is also part of the company’s plans; Honda in 2021 joined fellow Japanese motorcycle manufacturers Kawasaki, Suzuki, and Yamaha in a consortium to develop battery-swapping standards for motorcycles.
In addition to electric models, Honda said it will continue to improve the fuel efficiency of its internal-combustion bikes, and investigate alternative fuels to reach its carbon neutrality goal.
There was at least one false start for these efforts. Honda originally said in 2008 that it would launch an electric motorcycle in 2010. That left room for companies like Zero and Energica to focus on electric bikes.
BMW Motorrad said in 2018 that it saw electric powertrains as the future for motorcycles. And even some traditional motorcycle makers like Harley-Davidson beat Honda to market with a fully fleshed-out electric bike.
Honda has stepped up its electric vehicle investment too. It now plans 30 EVs by 2030, globally, with two electric sports cars in development.
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2022-09-16T18:15:15+00:00
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wwlp.com
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https://www.wwlp.com/automotive/internet-brands/honda-plans-10-new-electric-motorcycle-models-by-2025-including-one-for-kids/
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NCODA University Offers Complimentary Accredited Learning Through Virtual and In-Person Events
CAZENOVIA, N.Y., July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Empowering all stakeholders in oncology with easily accessible, patient-centered education and collaborative learning opportunities is fundamental to NCODA, Inc. Today, NCODA, launches NCODA University, a new division of the organization, which will allow medically-integrated oncology professionals to obtain top-tier training in a format that is accessible, functional, diverse, and addresses current practice needs.
NCODA University will utilize a four-column structure for encompassing educational initiatives specifically designed for each of the different facets: members, trainees (students, residents, and fellows), industry team members, and patients. "This new educational platform will help us continue providing quality education to a variety of different stakeholders in oncology - from our students and industry partners, to our clinical members and the patients they serve," said Michael Reff, RPh, MBA, Founder and Executive Director at NCODA.
Firmly committed to lifelong learning, NCODA University, led by Julianne Darling, PharmD, BCOP (Manager of Education), will build upon highly utilized NCODA-developed resources such as the Oral Chemotherapy Education (OCE) and Intravenous Cancer Treatment Education (IVE) sheets. In addition, the program will meet important needs of oncology professionals with continuing education (CE) activities, a virtual expert speaker library, Medically-Integrated Pharmacy (MIP) Significance Training, and learning modules designed to equip all participants with the information needed to excel in oncology.
Not only will NCODA University support clinical and industry professionals, the program will fill a gap in pharmacy student oncology education. Working closely with NCODA-affiliated schools / colleges of pharmacy, the need for enhanced oncology-focused coursework was identified. Pharmacy students, residents and fellows will be able to engage with NCODA University for learning opportunities designed to enhance important oncology curriculum prior to graduating.
NCODA University is a complimentary member benefit and is now available on NCODA.org.
The program will offer in-person CE at the upcoming NCODA Fall Summit on October 27-29, 2022 in Orlando, Florida.
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2022-07-27T18:36:15+00:00
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Albuquerque Police have arrested a suspect in the investigation tied to the murder of four Muslim men. Police say 51-year-old Muhammad Syed was taken into custody last night near Santa Rosa, roughly 118 miles east of Albuquerque.
According to APD, Syed is currently being charged two of the four homicides under investigation. Those include the July 26 shooting of Aftab Hussein and the August 1 shooting of Muhammad Afzaal Hussain. APD says detectives connected Syed to those two cases through bullet casings recovered at the respective crime scenes and several guns recovered in the case.
APD searched Syed’s home near Gibson and Carlisle Monday night at roughly the same time Syed was stopped off of an I-40 exit in Santa Rosa. Multiple guns were found inside Syed’s home, while another gun was found in Syed’s car, according to APD.
“A tip from the community is what helped lead us to this subject, and what helped us eventually find the car that we put out just two days ago to the public,” APD Deputy Commander Kyle Hartsock said. “Hundreds of tips have come in that have been thoroughly reviewed, dozens of interviews took place.”
As police went to serve the search warrant on Syed’s home Monday night, APD says officers observed Syed load items into the grey sedan police were seeking, then leave his home. Police then followed Syed out to Santa Rosa where he was later arrested.
During the news conference, said detectives are still investigating Syed’s possible involvement in two other shooting deaths, including the November killing of Mohammad Zahir Ahmadi and the August 5 murder of Naeem Hussain. Hartsock said, “We think there might be involvement in two other homicide cases, those are still considered open and active, but we’re working on more evidence testing and more interviews to continue to build that case with the prosecutor’s office.”
In all, APD says four Muslim men have been killed in four different shootings since November 2021. They include Mohammad Zahir Ahmadi, 62; Aftab Hussein, 41; Muhammad Afzaal Hussain, 27; and Naeem Hussain, 25.
APD remains reserved about a possible motive in the killings. In a news release, APD said “detectives discovered evidence that shows the offender knew the victims to some extent and an interpersonal conflict may have led to the shooting.” In a news release from the Council on American–Islamic Relations, National Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell said the group “strongly condemned the anti-Shia hatred that may have motivated the killings.”
“The motives are still being explored, fully, to understand what they are,” Hartsock. “We do have some information about [Shiite/Sunni] events taking place, but we’re not really clear if that was the actual motive or it was part of the motive, or if there’s just a bigger picture that we’re missing, so what’s really important is we’re still investigating it even though he is arrested today, we’re going to continue to investigative and work with our prosecutors to understand what the motives were.”
According to reporting from the New York Times, authorities are exploring possible Sunni/Shiite beliefs among Syed, his family members and the victims. APD acknowledged it has “heard those things,” responding to a question from a reporter about the motive Tuesday. Hartsock could not confirm if Syed was a Sunni Muslim when asked Tuesday.
It’s unclear if anyone else will be charged in the case. APS confirmed Tuesday that Syed’s son were questioned, then released amid the investigation Monday night.
“We’re going to follow the evidence,” Hartsock said. “If the evidence leads us to someone else that needs charges, we’ll be happy to file them with the [district attorney’s] office.”
APD says it believes Syed is from Afghanistan. The department believes he came to the U.S. “in the last several years.” APD says its officers have contacted Syed in the past for “a few minor misdemeanor arrests” including a domestic violence incident in the past four years.
Continuing coverage on KRQE.com:
- August 4: Police: 3 separate murders of Muslim men in Albuquerque could be related
- August 6: Homicide could be connected to other Muslim shootings
- August 7: APD seeks vehicle of interest in homicide investigation
- August 8: Victim’s brother speaks out as police investigate if Muslim murders are connected
- August 8: Muslims fleeing Albuquerque, Afghan community remembers 4th victim
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2022-08-10T15:00:30+00:00
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kfor.com
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Republican lawmakers remained far from agreement Wednesday on whether to go along with the governor’s proposal to give each taxpayer a $225 rebate from the state’s surging budget surplus.
The Republican-dominated House and Senate have advanced vastly different plans during the special legislative session for using $1 billion or more of the state’s record $6.1 billion in cash reserves, with the Senate version nixing the refund payments in favor of paying down future teacher pension obligations.
Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb has described the payments as inflation relief, but GOP Senate leaders have raised concerns about further fueling inflation with the rebate and worries about inflation pushing up the cost of planned state construction projects.
Republican Rep. Sharon Negele of Attica, the House plan’s sponsor, said Wednesday she believed residents prefer a direct rebate and was hopeful of reaching a compromise in the coming days.
“I think the relief can be for each individual family to determine where they need their relief and that’s why I like the automatic taxpayer refund,” Negele said. “Some families will use it for schoolbooks, some families will use it for clothing, some families will use it for gas, some families will use it for grocery shopping.”
The Republican divide over the refund plan comes as attention has largely been focused during the special session that started July 25 on the debate over a bill aimed at largely banning abortions in the state. Lawmakers are aiming to make decisions on both matters before the session’s Aug. 14 adjournment deadline.
The governor’s office didn’t immediately reply Wednesday to a request for comment on the rebate plan negotiations.
The Senate proposal would suspend the state’s 7% sales tax on electricity, water, natural gas and other utility bills for six months. A legislative report estimates would save residential and business customers about $300 million — less than one-third of the projected $1.1 billion that would go out in rebate checks that House Republicans have supported.
The Senate plan would also cap until next summer the state’s gasoline taxes at about one cent less than the current record level of 62.4 cents a gallon. Republican legislators for several months have rebuffed calls from Democrats to suspend the gasoline taxes to help motorists.
House Republicans have stood firmly behind Holcomb’s rebate plan. It would send payments to an estimated 4.3 million people who filed state tax returns and are eligible for $125 payments that started going out in May under the state’s automatic taxpayer refund law, along with allowing perhaps 800,000 people who didn’t file returns to request the money.
Senate tax committee Chairman Travis Holdman, a Republican from Markle, said the Senate plan would both reduce the tax burden on residents and protect state finances by directing $400 million toward a teacher pension fund’s future obligations and about $200 million to cover rising construction costs.
House and Senate Republicans are also advancing plans that would direct more money toward programs that help pregnant women, children and people who adopt children as a companion step to the tighter abortion restrictions being considered.
Democratic legislators have called for additional steps from the state surplus, such as directing larger rebate payments to lower-income families, expanding childcare programs and removing the state sales tax on infant-related products such as baby clothing,
“There are too many mothers, too many families that will be negatively affected because we didn’t do more,” Democratic Rep. Greg Porter of Indianapolis. “Another missed opportunity.”
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2022-08-03T20:51:52+00:00
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ourmidland.com
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7 shot, 1 fatally, in Chicago when gunfire erupts amid remembrance for man killed in car crash
CHICAGO (AP) — A 25-year-old woman was fatally shot and six other people were wounded early Sunday when gunfire erupted in Chicago during a remembrance for a man who died in a car crash, police said.
A large group of people had gathered about 1 a.m. to mark four years since a man’s fatal crash when there was an altercation and shots rang out, said Deputy Chief Adnardo Gutierrez of the Chicago Police Department, WLS-TV reported.
Seven people were wounded and one of them, a 25-year-old woman, was pronounced dead at a hospital, he said. The six other shooting victims were hospitalized, one in critical condition.
“They were out there celebrating and then something happened and a verbal altercation occurred and somebody began shooting, or multiple people began shooting,” Gutierrez said at a Sunday briefing.
He said it’s still under investigation how many people opened fire, but he said the gunshots were fired by a person or persons who were taking part in the remembrance.
Gutierrez said a witness told officers an altercation occurred before the shooting, which happened as the group was in a street in the Austin neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side.
Among the six other victims, a 29-year-old man was hospitalized in critical condition with a chest wound. The five others, a 17-year-old girl, a 28-year-old woman, and three men ages 27, 28 and 29, were hospitalized in good condition, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
Police detectives were investigating the shooting, and no one was in custody as of midmorning Sunday.
Gutierrez said detectives were still working to find and interview witnesses. He urged anyone with information about the shooting to contact police and pass that information along.
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2023-06-04T19:38:25+00:00
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keyt.com
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TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Twenty-two attorneys general urged a federal court Wednesday to reject a proposed $10.3 billion settlement over contamination of U.S. public drinking water systems with potentially dangerous chemicals, saying it lets manufacturer 3M Co. off too easily.
The deal announced in June doesn’t give individual water suppliers enough time to determine how much money they would get and whether it would cover their costs of removing the compounds known collectively as PFAS, said the officials with 19 states, Washington, D.C., and two territories. In some cases the agreement could shift liability from the company to providers, they said.
“While I appreciate the effort that went into it, the proposed settlement in its current form does not adequately account for the pernicious damage that 3M has done in so many of our communities,” said California Attorney General Rob Bonta, leader of the multistate coalition.
3M spokesman Sean Lynch said the agreement “will benefit U.S.-based public water systems nationwide that provide drinking water to a vast majority of Americans” without further litigation.
“It is not unusual for there to be objections regarding significant settlement agreements,” Lynch said. “We will continue to work cooperatively to address questions about the terms of the resolution.”
The company, based in St. Paul, Minnesota, manufactures per- and polyfluorinated substances — a broad class of chemicals used in nonstick, water- and grease-resistant products such as clothing and cookware, as well as some firefighting foams.
Described as “forever chemicals” because they don’t degrade naturally in the environment, PFAS have been linked to a variety of health problems, including liver and immune-system damage and some cancers.
3M has said it plans to stop making them by the end of 2025.
Some 300 communities have sued 3M and other companies over water pollution from the compounds. A number of states, airports, firefighter training facilities and private well owners also have pending cases.
They have been consolidated in U.S. District Court in Charleston, South Carolina, where the proposed settlement was filed last month.
Although the company put its value at $10.3 billion, an attorney for the water providers said it could reach as high as $12.5 billion, depending on how many detect PFAS during testing the Environmental Protection Agency has ordered over the next three years.
The law firm representing the water providers did not immediately respond Wednesday to messages seeking comment.
EPA in March proposed strict limits on two common types, PFOA and PFOS, and said it wanted to regulate four others.
In addition to California, states urging Judge Richard Gergel to reject the deal included Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont and Wisconsin. Also opposed were Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands.
In a court filing, the attorneys general said it would force nearly all public water providers nationwide to participate unless they withdraw individually — even those that haven’t filed suits or tested for PFAS.
“Troublingly, they would have to make their opt-out decisions without knowing how much they would actually receive and, in many cases, before knowing the extent of contamination in their water supplies and the cost of remediating it,” the officials said in a statement.
A provision in the proposed deal would shift liability from 3M to water suppliers that don’t opt out, the statement said. That could enable the company to seek compensation from providers if sued over cancer or other illnesses in PFAS-affected communities, it said.
“As such, the proposed settlement is worth far less than the advertised $10.5 billion to $12.5 billion,” the attorneys general said.
The attorneys general did not take a position on a separate $1.18 billion deal to resolve PFAS complaints against DuPont de Nemours Inc. and spinoffs Chemours Co. and Corteva Inc.
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2023-07-27T13:11:20+00:00
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pahomepage.com
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ATLANTA – Four years ago, Georgia Democrats had a contested primary for governor because the party old guard didn’t believe in Stacey Abrams. She blew away the elders’ alternative and, in a close general election loss, established herself as de facto party boss in a newfound battleground.
That previewed 2020, when Joe Biden put Georgia in Democrats’ presidential column for the first time in 28 years, while Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff captured two Senate seats in early 2021 to give Democrats control on Capitol Hill.
Now Abrams and Warnock top the Democratic ticket together for the first time as the party tries to replicate its success in a tough midterm election landscape. The outcome will again help determine Senate control in Washington and whether Republicans continue to dominate state government in Georgia.
“We’re putting in the work to show everyone across the country that 2020 was not a fluke,” said Democratic Chair Nikema Williams ahead of the party’s convention Saturday.
Yet Williams and other Democrats acknowledge that 2022 is not a simple replay of the last two cycles.
Abrams is no longer a burgeoning juggernaut running against a little-known secretary of state; she’s a battle-worn challenger facing Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, a well-positioned incumbent. Warnock isn’t a political newcomer but a sitting senator who must distinguish himself from a relatively unpopular president who once campaigned for him — a point underscored by GOP nominee Herschel Walker relentlessly criticizing Warnock as a rubber-stamp for the White House.
The rest of the Democratic slate must run under the banner of a national party that controls Washington amid sustained inflation and an uncertain economy. And Democrats must retool their voter turnout operation to comply with tighter voting restrictions that Kemp and the state’s Republican legislature enacted after Democrats’ 2020 victories.
The response, Democrats here say, isn’t to run from their record but to embrace it, while casting Republicans as an “extremist” party that advances an out-of-step cultural agenda and remains in thrall to former President Donald Trump.
“The party of Trump is a party of extremism, a party of election deniers, a party of authoritarianism, that says that their opinions about who should win elections matter more than the voters,” said lieutenant governor nominee Charlie Bailey, whose Republican opponent, Burt Jones, is among the fake electors who signed certificates falsely stating that Trump, not Biden, had won their states.
That approach aligns with the national midterm pitch that Biden unveiled Thursday at a campaign rally in Maryland, where he cast voters’ choice in November as being between Democrats and Trump’s “MAGA movement,” a dominant strain of the GOP that Biden said resembles “semi-fascism.”
Kemp and Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger have garnered plaudits from moderate voters for bucking Trump's bid to overturn the 2020 election. But Abrams and others challenge the “moderate” label for either man.
Abrams criticizes Kemp as an “extremist” who signed a concealed carry law to loosen gun restrictions and a near-total abortion ban that bars the procedure after six weeks of pregnancy, before many women know they're pregnant.
Bee Nguyen, a legislator challenging Raffensperger, hammers the secretary of state for his part in overhauling state voting procedures. Nguyen notes Raffensperger as a state lawmaker compiled a staunchly conservative record on abortion and guns, among other matters. “He’s not a friend to democracy. He’s not a friend to women, either,” she said recently on the liberal “Pod Save America” podcast.
Indeed, Georgia Democrats agree that the Supreme Court’s decision eliminating a constitutional right to access abortion, combined with Georgia’s near ban, is a critical enough issue to overcome swing voters’ worries about the economy.
“I’ll tell you that people are much more concerned about protecting their rights and their access to health care than anything else,” said attorney general nominee Jen Jordan, a state senator who has made her support of abortion rights a centerpiece of her bid.
Even so, Democrats insist they aren’t afraid to discuss the economy or other issues Republicans try to claim as theirs.
Kemp blasts Abrams as a liberal who wants to “defund the police.” Abrams counters with proposals that would increase salaries for many law enforcement and criminal justice personnel. “Brian Kemp wants you to be afraid of me,” she says in one of her advertisements.
Jordan talks openly of crime increases but dismisses Republicans’ effort to cast it as “an Atlanta problem” — GOP framing aimed at white voters beyond the demographically diverse and heavily Democratic city.
“It’s not an urban problem or a suburban problem. It’s a Georgia problem, and the people who have been in charge have a lot to answer for,” Jordan said.
In the Senate campaign, Warnock has largely steered clear of Biden, even as he embraces Democrats' legislative victories. Warnock touts a pandemic relief bill and its child tax credit as critical aid to Georgia families. He notes the benefits from a long-sought infrastructure package.
The senator acknowledges that gas prices and general inflation have spiked but notes that he called for a suspension of the federal gas tax and then won passage of a provision in the Democrats' big climate and health care bill that caps the price of insulin for Medicare patients. Republicans blocked his effort to extend the cap to all consumers.
Williams, who is also an Atlanta congresswoman, summed up the two-track argument.
“We Democrats have delivered on the national level. ... And just imagine what we could be doing when we are in control at the state level,” she said. And if Republicans control Congress, she added, “a national abortion ban is on the table” along with cuts to popular programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
Those warnings ignore that Biden would certainly veto such measures. But Williams said the point remains: “A lot is at stake.”
And every marginal shift among voters matters. In 2018, Kemp topped Abrams by 55,000 votes out of about 4 million cast. Biden outpaced Trump by less than 12,000 votes out of 5 million cast. In concurrent Senate runoffs two months later, about 4.5 million Georgians voted; Warnock and Ossoff won by 2 percentage points and 1.2 percentage points, respectively.
Democrats hope the November electorate is at least as large as that Jan. 5, 2021, electorate. Georgia requires a majority vote to win statewide office, and Libertarian candidates can draw enough to force a runoff.
With that in mind, Abrams, a Black woman from Atlanta, has spent a noticeable amount of time in rural, mostly white Georgia, where she lost ground in 2018 compared with Democrats’ performances in previous midterms. Jordan, who is white, notes that she grew up in small-town south Georgia but now represents a suburban Atlanta state Senate district that had been a Republican lock. Abrams sometimes campaigns alongside Bailey, a white man with a pronounced Southern accent and small-town Georgia roots.
“We have a ticket that looks like Georgia,” Abrams says often.
Al Williams, a Black state lawmaker who is close to Abrams, praises the ticket as well. But he put the pressure most squarely on the woman at the top, predicting that in an era of few split-ticket voters, Abrams must win for Democrats to have a big day.
“Stacey is the wind beneath the sail,” he said.
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2022-08-27T05:35:49+00:00
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ksat.com
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AUSTIN, Texas, June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Texas Health Action (THA), a community-informed nonprofit with an expertise in serving LGBTQIA+ people and people impacted by HIV, recently named Dr. Sandra Guerra as its chief medical officer (CMO). In this role, Guerra is responsible for clinical leadership, quality processes and medical education efforts that advance THA's mission of providing access to culturally affirming, quality health services in a safe and supportive environment. She assumed her new role on June 6, 2022, replacing Dr. Cynthia Brinson.
"We are incredibly grateful for the legacy Dr. Brinson has left as one the founding members of our organization, and we look forward to the many contributions Dr. Guerra will bring," Christopher Hamilton, chief executive officer of THA, said. "Dr. Guerra's extensive public health background and experience working with diverse patient populations make her the ideal person to lead Texas Health Action's growing clinical programs."
In her new role, Guerra oversees THA's programs including Kind Clinic, which provides sexual health services through locations in Austin, San Antonio and Dallas; and TeleKind, which provides Texas residents access to the HIV prevention medication known as PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) via virtual appointments, as well as at-home testing and HIV care.
"I have watched Texas Health Action grow from Austin's first PrEP clinic to a thriving nonprofit that provides access to PrEP for all Texans, among a range of health services," Brinson said. "Dr. Guerra's more than 20-year career in population-based healthcare and leadership experience at large multidisciplinary organizations make her the perfect choice to help continue this growth."
Before joining THA, Guerra was the CMO of Centene Corporation WellCare of Kentucky and the interim deputy director of the San Antonio Metropolitan Health District. Prior to this, she served as the vice president and CMO of Humana Military, which offers military health care through the Department of Defense TRICARE East program. From 2005-2012, Guerra was the regional medical director and preventative medicine residency program director for the Texas Department of State Health Services. She has also served on the Board of Regents for the American College of Preventive Medicine, the American Board of Preventive Medicine PAFT Exam Committee, and the San Antonio AIDS Foundation Board of Directors, among others.
"At this point in my career, I am excited to work with Texas Health Action toward solutions for such a deserving population," Guerra, said. "I am honored to join an organization focused on prevention and health equity."
Guerra earned a Bachelor of Science in Child Development and Family Relationships from The University of Texas at Austin, a Doctor of Medicine from Texas A&M University Health Science Center, and a Master of Public Health from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health.
Texas Health Action (THA) is a community informed organization dedicated to providing access to culturally affirming, quality health services in a safe and supportive environment with an expertise in serving LGBTQIA+ people and people impacted by HIV. Since 2015, Texas Health Action has provided health services without stigma or judgment and has empowered the community through outreach and education. Texas Health Action operates Kind Clinic, which provides sexual health services through locations across Central Texas; TeleKind, which provides sexual health services via virtual visits and at-home testing; and Waterloo Counseling Center, which provides behavioral health services in Austin. Texas Health Action is led by CEO Christopher Hamilton. For more information about Texas Health Action and its programs, please visit www.TexasHealthAction.org.
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2022-06-08T13:43:28+00:00
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SCHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland, March 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The shareholders of TE Connectivity (NYSE: TEL), a world leader in connectivity and sensors, elected Jean-Pierre Clamadieu, chairman of the board of directors of ENGIE S.A., and former chief executive officer and chairman of the executive committee of Solvay S.A, to TE's board of directors during the 2023 Annual General Meeting on March 15.
"We are very pleased to have Mr. Clamadieu join as a new director to TE's board," said TE Connectivity Chairman Tom Lynch. "He brings a range of valuable expertise to the board. He has held multiple global leadership positions, including as a two-time CEO of global chemicals companies, and has proven himself as an effective leader both in times of financial crisis and in growth. He has held numerous independent director and chairman roles with international companies across the aerospace, financial services, utilities, chemicals and industrial sectors which are relevant to TE Connectivity. Mr. Clamadieu has strong international business experience, making him a valuable asset to provide essential business guidance to the board and the company."
Mr. Clamadieu is chairman of the board of directors of ENGIE S.A., a French multinational utility company mainly active in the power and gas sectors, where he was first appointed in May 2018 and reelected in April 2022 for 4 years. From 2011 to 2019, Mr. Clamadieu served as chief executive officer and chairman of the executive committee of Solvay S.A., a Belgian multinational chemical company. In 1993, he joined the Rhône-Poulenc group where he held several management positions. Following the creation of Rhodia SA as a spin-off of the chemicals and polymers activities of Rhône-Poulenc, Mr. Clamadieu held a variety of leadership roles in the organization, including chairman and chief executive officer from 2008 to 2011. In September 2011, Rhodia was acquired by the Solvay Group. Between 1981 and 1993, he held various positions in the French Public Service. Mr. Clamadieu graduated from École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris with an engineering degree. He is chief engineer of the Corps of Mines.
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TE Connectivity is a global industrial technology leader creating a safer, sustainable, productive and connected future. Our broad range of connectivity and sensor solutions, proven in the harshest environments, enable advancements in transportation, industrial applications, medical technology, energy, data communications and the home. With more than 85,000 employees, including over 8,000 engineers, working alongside customers in approximately 140 countries, TE ensures that EVERY CONNECTION COUNTS. Learn more at www.te.com and on LinkedIn, Facebook, WeChat and Twitter.
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2023-03-16T21:26:29+00:00
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Pelé, the Brazilian king of soccer who won a record three World Cups and became one of the most commanding sports figures of the last century, died Thursday. He was 82.
The standard-bearer of “the beautiful game” had undergone treatment for colon cancer since 2021. He had been hospitalized for the last month with multiple ailments.
His agent Joe Fraga confirmed his death.
Widely regarded as one of soccer’s greatest players, Pelé spent nearly two decades enchanting fans and dazzling opponents as the game’s most prolific scorer with Brazilian club Santos and the Brazil national team.
His grace, athleticism and mesmerizing moves transfixed players and fans. He orchestrated a fast, fluid style that revolutionized the sport — a samba-like flair that personified his country’s elegance on the field.
He carried Brazil to soccer’s heights and became a global ambassador for his sport in a journey that began on the streets of Sao Paulo state, where he would kick a sock stuffed with newspapers or rags.
In the conversation about soccer’s greatest players, only the late Diego Maradona, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are mentioned alongside Pelé.
Different sources, counting different sets of games, list Pelé’s goal totals anywhere between 650 (league matches) and 1,281 (all senior matches, some against low-level competition.)
The player who would be dubbed “The King” was introduced to the world at 17 at the 1958 World Cup in Sweden, the youngest player ever at the tournament. He was carried off the field on teammates’ shoulders after scoring two goals in Brazil’s 5-2 victory over the host country in the final.
Injury limited him to just two games when Brazil retained the world title in 1962, but Pelé was the emblem of his country’s World Cup triumph of 1970 in Mexico. He scored in the final and set up Carlos Alberto with a nonchalant pass for the last goal in a 4-1 victory over Italy.
The image of Pelé in a bright, yellow Brazil jersey, with the No. 10 stamped on the back, remains alive with soccer fans everywhere. As does his trademark goal celebration -- a leap with a right fist thrust high above his head.
Pelé’s fame was such that in 1967 factions of a civil war in Nigeria agreed to a brief cease-fire so he could play an exhibition match in the country. He was knighted by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II in 1997. When he visited Washington to help popularize the game in North America, it was the U.S. president who stuck out his hand first.
“My name is Ronald Reagan, I’m the president of the United States of America,” the host said to his visitor. “But you don’t need to introduce yourself because everyone knows who Pelé is.”
Pelé was Brazil’s first modern Black national hero but rarely spoke about racism in a country where the rich and powerful tend to hail from the white minority.
Opposing fans taunted Pelé with monkey chants at home and all over the world.
“He said that he would never play if he had to stop every time he heard those chants,” said Angelica Basthi, one of Pelé’s biographers. “He is key for Black people’s pride in Brazil, but never wanted to be a flagbearer.”
Pelé’s life after soccer took many forms. He was a politician -- Brazil’s Extraordinary Minister for Sport -- a wealthy businessman, and an ambassador for UNESCO and the United Nations.
He had roles in movies, soap operas and even composed songs and recorded CDs of popular Brazilian music.
As his health deteriorated, his travels and appearances became less frequent. He was often seen in a wheelchair during his final years and did not attend a ceremony to unveil a statue of him representing Brazil’s 1970 World Cup team. Pelé spent his 80th birthday isolated with a few family members at a beach home.
Born Edson Arantes do Nascimento, in the small city of Tres Coracoes in the interior of Minas Gerais state on Oct. 23, 1940, Pelé grew up shining shoes to buy his modest soccer gear.
Pelé’s talent drew attention when he was 11, and a local professional player brought him to Santos’ youth squads. It didn’t take long for him to make it to the senior squad.
Despite his youth and 5-foot-8 frame, he scored against grown men with the same ease he displayed against friends back home. He debuted with the Brazilian club at 16 in 1956, and the club quickly gained worldwide recognition.
The name Pelé came from him mispronouncing the name of a player called Bilé.
He went to the 1958 World Cup as a reserve but became a key player for his country’s championship team. His first goal, in which he flicked the ball over the head of a defender and raced around him to volley it home, was voted as one of the best in World Cup history.
The 1966 World Cup in England -- won by the hosts -- was a bitter one for Pelé, by then already considered the world’s top player. Brazil was knocked out in the group stage and Pelé, angry at the rough treatment, swore it was his last World Cup.
He changed his mind and was rejuvenated in the 1970 World Cup. In a game against England, he struck a header for a certain score, but the great goalkeeper Gordon Banks flipped the ball over the bar in an astonishing move. Pelé likened the save — one of the best in World Cup history — to a “salmon climbing up a waterfall.” Later, he scored the opening goal in the final against Italy, his last World Cup match.
In all, Pelé played 114 matches with Brazil, scoring a record 95 goals, including 77 in official matches.
His run with Santos stretched over three decades until he entered semi-retirement after the 1972 season. Wealthy European clubs tried to sign him, but the Brazilian government intervened to keep him from being sold, declaring him a national treasure.
On the field, Pelé’s energy, vision and imagination drove a gifted Brazilian national team with a fast, fluid style of play that exemplified “O Jogo Bonito” -- Portuguese for “The Beautiful Game.” His 1977 autobiography, “My Life and the Beautiful Game,” made the phrase part of soccer’s lexicon.
In 1975, he joined the New York Cosmos of the North American Soccer League. Although 34 and past his prime, Pelé gave soccer a higher profile in North America. He led the Cosmos to the 1977 league title and scored 64 goals in three seasons.
Pelé ended his career on Oct. 1, 1977, in an exhibition between the Cosmos and Santos before a crowd in New Jersey of some 77,000. He played half the game with each club. Among the dignitaries on hand was perhaps the only other athlete whose renown spanned the globe — Muhammad Ali.
Pelé would endure difficult times in his personal life, especially when his son Edinho was arrested on drug-related charges. Pelé had two daughters out of wedlock and five children from his first two marriages, to Rosemeri dos Reis Cholbi and Assiria Seixas Lemos. He later married businesswoman Marcia Cibele Aoki.
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2022-12-29T19:15:44+00:00
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fox17online.com
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https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/pele-brazils-mighty-king-of-soccer-has-died-after-bout-with-cancer
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Boston Celtics star Jaylen Brown wants to win more than championships after inking the richest deal in NBA history.
On Wednesday, minutes after he did a ceremonial signing of the contract that will keep him a Celtics uniform and pay him a record $304 million over five years, he made it clear the next stage of his basketball career is about more than money.
“I appreciate the investment and the commitment from the Celtics,” Brown told reporters. “That commitment will be felt from me here in Boston on and off the floor.”
Though Brown has been eligible for the supermax extension since July 1, he said he felt the contract negotiations were straight forward throughout the process.
“From my standpoint, they understood where I came from, they understood where we came from and it was all about meeting in a place where it made sense for everybody,” Brown said.
Asked what he plans to do with the generational wealth that comes with his new deal, Brown said he wants to launch a project to bring “Black Wall Street” to Boston and do his part to help close the racial wealth disparity in the city that’s been his home for the past seven years.
Black Wall Street was the name given to a district in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that was one of the most economically affluent areas for Black Americans during the early 1900s before it was destroyed during the 1921 race massacre.
“There’s analytics that support that stimulating the wealth gap is something that could be a betterment for the entire economy,” Brown said. “With the biggest financial deal in NBA history, it makes sense to talk about one, your investment in community. But two, also the wealth disparity here that nobody wants to talk about. … It’s something we can all improve on.”
Brown hopes that by starting new initiatives in Boston he can play a role in creating new jobs, resources and businesses to stimulate the economy and gaps he’s observed working through his 7uice Foundation.
It’s why he held Wednesday’s news conference at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, site of 7uice’s Bridge Program, which is focused on promoting science and technology education among underrepresented minority communities in high schools.
Celtics co-owner Wyc Grousbeck said Brown’s motivations are exactly why the organization felt comfortable making the long-term investment it did.
“It’s not just about a contract or money or playing basketball. It’s about making a difference in life,” Grousbeck said. “That’s what Jaylen embodies to me and to my partner Steve (Pagliuca) and others and to all of us here at the Celtics. He’s a true Celtic. He’s a Celtic for years to come.”
Grousbeck said Brown’s philanthropic goals go hand in hand with the team’s hopes that Brown will one of the catalysts in its quest to win an 18th NBA championship.
“This is the next step to that,” Grousbeck said.
Celtics president of basketball operations Brad Stevens said the fact that Brown included the students involved with his foundation speaks to the kind of person he remembers meeting when Boston drafted him third overall in 2016.
“From the moment Jaylen’s gotten here it’s been about growing. It’s been about getting better. It’s about tackling every challenge,” Stevens said. “I think that is a great separator when you’re talking about a player, when you’re talking about a teammate, when you’re talking about a person want to be associated with and have a long-term relationship with.”
Brown said he’s ready for the expectations that will come on the court with his new deal.
“I look at life as stages and degrees,” Brown said. “Everything that I went through throughout my career has prepared me for each stage. … I don’t shy away from pressure. I know what the demand is. I know what the expectation level is. And I know the work that is required. Everything about me is about work. So I look at it as just another challenge.”
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2023-07-27T06:29:06+00:00
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wivb.com
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https://www.wivb.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-celtics-brown-ready-for-expectations-that-come-with-new-deal-wants-to-use-it-to-impact-community/
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Insurer ranks No. 31 among large organizations for excellence in IT employee compensation, benefits, growth opportunity
COLUMBUS, Ga., Dec. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Aflac Incorporated, a leading provider of supplemental health insurance and products in the U.S., announced that Foundry's Computerworld named the insurer as a 2023 Best Place to Work in IT. Ranked 31st among the top information technology organizations headquartered in the U.S., this year marks the 22nd time Aflac appears on the coveted list for providing challenging work, growth opportunities, and best-in-class employee engagement, compensation, benefits and training.
"The Aflac family is honored to be recognized among the best IT organizations in the nation," said Shelia Anderson, chief information officer, Aflac U.S. "We strive to provide a first-class environment for all employees, including our valuable IT teams, who are empowered and inspired each day to bring innovative solutions to serve our business and our policyholders. As we emerged from the global pandemic, the Digital Services organization remained focused on innovating and delivering products and services to enable our customer experience, all while embracing agile approaches and a hybrid work-from-home environment. This third-party validation of our efforts goes a long way in demonstrating how Aflac is, indeed, a great place to work."
Since 1994, the annual Computerworld Best Places to Work in IT feature has ranked the top work environments for technology professionals. The list is compiled based on a comprehensive online questionnaire regarding company benefits, career development, diversity, equity and inclusion, future of work, training and retention. In addition, this year, the rankings are reviewed and vetted by a panel of industry experts.
"Adapting to a 'new normal' has put additional demands on IT organizations at companies of all sizes. This year's winning companies have stepped up with increased IT staffing and a variety of innovative professional development opportunities. The result of these efforts is that not only are IT staffs engaged and productive, but the entire business benefits from IT's ability to support evolving workplace models and changing business and customer needs," said Rob O'Regan, global director, content strategy, Foundry. "Importantly, this year's award winners are laser-focused on diversity initiatives to expand the IT talent pool and promote workplace diversity and inclusion."
To view the complete list of the Computerworld 2023 Best Places to Work in IT list, visit Computerworld.com.
Aflac Incorporated (NYSE: AFL) is a Fortune 500 company helping provide protection to more than 50 million people through its subsidiaries in Japan and the U.S., paying cash fast when policyholders get sick or injured. For more than six decades, the insurance policies of Aflac Incorporated's subsidiaries have given policyholders the opportunity to focus on recovery, not financial stress. In the U.S., Aflac is the number one provider of supplemental health insurance products.1 Aflac Life Insurance Japan is the leading provider of medical and cancer insurance in Japan, where it insures 1 in 4 households. In 2021, the company was included in the Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index and became a signatory of the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). In 2022, Aflac Incorporated was proud to be included as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere for the 16th consecutive year, Fortune's World's Most Admired Companies for the 21st time and Bloomberg's Gender-Equality Index for the third consecutive year. To find out how to get help with expenses health insurance doesn't cover, get to know us at aflac.com or aflac.com/español. Investors may learn more about Aflac Incorporated and its commitment to ESG and social responsibility at investors.aflac.com under "Sustainability."
The Best Places to Work in IT list is an annual ranking of the top work environments for technology professionals by Foundry's Computerworld. The list is compiled based on a comprehensive questionnaire regarding company offerings in categories such as benefits, career development, DEI, future of work, training and retention. In addition, the rankings are reviewed and vetted by a panel of industry experts.
Computerworld is the leading technology media brand empowering enterprise users and their managers, helping them create business advantage by skillfully exploiting today's abundantly powerful web, mobile, and desktop applications. Computerworld also offers guidance to IT managers tasked with optimizing client systems—and helps businesses revolutionize the customer and employee experience with new collaboration platforms. Computerworld's award-winning website (www.computerworld.com (http://www.computerworld.com)), strategic marketing solutions and research forms the hub of the world's largest global IT media network and provides opportunities for IT vendors to engage this audience. Computerworld is published by Foundry. Company information is available at www.foundryco.com (http://www.foundryco.com).
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2022-12-21T13:29:33+00:00
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Asurion® Repair Experts Provide Fast Fixes on Phones, Tablets, Laptops, and More
NAPA, Calif., July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A new electronics repair shop, Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions™, has opened in Napa at 1348 Trancas Street. The store offers professional fixes for most consumer electronics, from smartphones, tablets, and computers to game consoles, smart speakers, drones, and more.
While common repairs include cracked screens, battery issues, and water damage, the company's repair experts have fixed millions of devices and can help with most any tech mishap, and many basic repairs can be completed in 45 minutes or less.
The store is owned by Mark Gonzales, who also owns locations in Sparks and Reno, Nevada as well as additional locations in Petaluma and Santa Barbara.
"Napa is the perfect market to introduce Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions," Gonzales said. "Whether you're a visiting tourist or a long-time local, our repair experts will deliver convenient and affordable fixes in a matter of minutes. We're excited for the Napa location to join our evolving network and believe this store will be a great addition to the influence we're currently creating in the tech repair industry."
The store's expert repair technicians fix all kinds of technology, regardless of make or model, and the store is an authorized repair provider for Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel smartphones. Customers can book a repair appointment online, stop by the store for walk-in service or mail their device to the store for repair. The store also offers come-to-you phone repair services, with repair technicians available to meet customers at home, at their office or anywhere else convenient to complete their phone repair on site.The store offers free, no-obligation diagnostics on all gadgets, as well as a 1-year limited warranty on all repairs. It even offers a price match guarantee on any local competitor's regularly published price for the same repair.
The new Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions store brings the company's retail footprint to more than 800 locations across the U.S. Formerly known as uBreakiFix®, all U.S. locations will rebrand as Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions throughout 2022.
"We are excited to serve people in Napa with fast and affordable tech repair," said Dave Barbuto, CEO of Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions. "We all rely on our phones and laptops more than ever before, and our mission is bigger than repairing shattered screens and broken charge ports. We fix tech because people depend on it to stay connected to things that are important to them. I look forward to serving this community through our new location."
The new store is located at:
Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions
1348 Trancas St, Napa, CA 94558
(707) 899-0251
About Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions™
Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions™, formerly known as uBreakiFix®, is the retail brand operated and franchised by a subsidiary of tech care company Asurion®. As the world's leading tech care company, Asurion eliminates the fears and frustrations associated with technology to ensure its 300 million customers get the most out of their devices, appliances, and connections. Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions stores specialize in the repair of consumer technology, including smartphones, game consoles, tablets, computers, and nearly everything in between. Asurion Tech Repair and Solutions repair experts fix cracked screens, software issues, camera issues, and most other tech mishaps at more than 700 stores across the U.S. The stores provide fast, affordable fixes for nearly any device type, regardless of make or model, including authorized repairs for Google Pixel and Samsung Galaxy smartphones.
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2022-07-26T22:27:07+00:00
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Advertisers benefit from both Sharethrough's ad enhancement technology, as well as Adelaide's attention metrics
MONTREAL, March 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Sharethrough, one of the top global independent omnichannel ad exchanges, and Adelaide, a leader in attention-based media quality measurement, announced a partnership to offer attention-based curated inventory. This initiative further demonstrates Sharethrough's focus on improving the attentive quality of all ads through research, enhancements, and technology integrations. Thanks to the partnership, Adelaide will be able to measure millions of impressions across Sharethrough's inventory and generate an AU (Attention Unit) rating for each placement. Adelaide's AU is a precise measure of a placement's likelihood of driving attention and impact. The offering will be available to all Sharethrough customers through high-AU PMPs (private marketplace), enabling them to easily secure high-quality, attentive media.
Attention is key for advertisers, but it has long been a challenge for the industry. In fact, according to data from Sharethrough, 76% of viewers do not pay active attention to ads. In teaming up with Adelaide, Sharethrough aims to provide even more value to the attention enhancing tools that the company currently offers.
Through this curated inventory, advertisers get the best of both worlds. They will benefit from Sharethrough's ad enhancement technology, which improves attention by supplementing ad creative with features such as dynamic captions for digital video or CTV enhancements, including dynamic QR codes, sports tickers, and countdowns. They will also benefit from targeting high-AU media. Adelaide's AU is generated by a machine learning algorithm tuned to proxy outcomes from brand lift to sales. High-AU PMPs allow advertisers to secure inventory with a greater probability of capturing attention and driving results.
"Over the years, Sharethrough has built research-backed products built to improve attention and comprehension while respecting the user experience," said JF Cote, CEO of Sharethrough. "Through this partnership with Adelaide, we'll deliver an ad experience that is overall more enjoyable for the consumer, but also helps advertisers reach their attention goals."
"We are thrilled to announce our partnership with Sharethrough to curate high-attention marketplaces. By using Adelaide's attention data, Sharethrough is empowering publishers to monetize their content more effectively and enabling advertisers to buy higher-quality placements with greater precision," said Marc Guldimann, CEO of Adelaide. "This is a significant step toward creating a more transparent and fair advertising ecosystem, where attention is the new currency."
This partnership comes on the heels of the launch of Sharethrough's CTV ad enhancements, designed to address the ongoing attention challenge by providing viewers with information they would otherwise get on their phones within the ad itself.
Sharethrough is one of the largest global ad exchanges by scale with over 40 billion daily display, video and native impression requests, with integrations on mobile, desktop and Connected TV.
For more information on Sharethrough, please visit www.sharethrough.com.
About Sharethrough
Sharethrough is one of the top global independent omnichannel ad exchanges. Driven by our conviction that advertising should be underpinned by respect and care, we believe taking a human-centric approach to advertising and monetization is the key to a sustainable path forward for the independent and accessible internet to thrive. Advertisers and publishers leverage Sharethrough's unique technology to enhance every impression by rendering a higher-performing banner, video, CTV or native ad that dynamically fits into any placement on any site. Our publisher partners benefit from directly-sourced demand, scale, and quality, prioritizing their monetization efforts while elevating performance. With its headquarters in Montreal, Sharethrough has several offices across North America including San Francisco on the west coast and New York City in the east and European headquarters in London.
About Adelaide
Adelaide is the leader in the rapidly growing field of evidence-based media quality measurement. Adelaide's metric, AU, helps advertisers make better media investment decisions. AU is an omnichannel metric that evaluates thousands of signals to predict attention and drive more efficient outcomes. Since 2019, Adelaide has enabled the world's top brands to understand media quality across their entire media spend and uncover valuable optimization opportunities to reduce waste and drive better results. Named after the global epicenter of evidence-based marketing in southern Australia, Adelaide is headquartered in New York City. For more information, visit www.adelaidemetrics.com.
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2023-03-06T15:54:43+00:00
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kwch.com
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https://www.kwch.com/prnewswire/2023/03/06/adelaide-metrics-sharethrough-partner-offer-attention-based-curated-inventory/
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Amanda Maxwell, the mother 14-year-old Ahjanae Harper, on Monday morning received a call that no parent ever wants to receive.
“It was a freak accident of kids just trying to live their lives, but they chose the wrong fun.”
Maxwell received the call during her prenatal appointment that her 14-year-old daughter, Ahjanae, lost her life in the crash on Route 198. She is heartbroken, and she noticed a troubling trend when her daughter was just 12 years old.
Maxwell said she didn’t know the kids her daughter was in the car with, and that she hadn’t been home since Friday.
“They sought fun, so they went and they rode in this car, and he was just driving too fast,” Maxwell said. “Who knows what happened in that car, who knows why he was going that fast? I never thought in a million years my daughter would of put herself into that type of situation. Seeing the videos, seeing how they were — like I said — she left Friday and never came back home.”
The family said they even took steps to get help from local agencies with parenting Ahjanae, but they never got that help.
“It shouldn’t take death, it shouldn’t take jail, it shouldn’t take murder for them to step in,” a family member of Ahjanae told News 4. “The system needs to be more for us. There needs to be more resources, more aid, to help the minorities and our kids.”
They wish social media platforms would flag content that encourages reckless behavior, and want people to speak up against this behavior.
“I just hope that this is an eye-opener to younger generations, to honor and listen to their father and mother,” said a family member of Ahjanae. “I just hope that people please stop using reckless behavior and violence as content to entertain people on social media platforms because this is what it’s doing.”
They’re hoping people will learn from this tragedy and will speak up when they see things happening that could endanger teenagers.
“Right now, hopefully these kids can see the hurt that they bring upon their parents, their family, to see what’s going on with them having fun,” said Michael Thomas, Ahjanae’s uncle. “It’s not fun. It’s not fun when somebody gets killed, somebody gets hurt.”
As for the 16-year-old driver that police say allegedly stole the vehicle, Ahjanae’s family hopes he will be held accountable and learn from what happened.
“At the end of the day, you can’t just blame him, because they all chose to get into that car, but I fault him for having to get all of those kids,” said Maxwell. “Even though my kid and those other parents lost their children and they lost their lives, he has to live with that.”
Ahjanae was just 14 years old, and leaves behind her 5-month-old daughter, Tru. Her family is raising money for funeral costs, and they plan on having a vigil this Sunday in her and the other victims’ honor.
Hope Winter is a reporter and multimedia journalist who has been part of the News 4 team since 2021. See more of her work here.
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2022-10-27T06:33:25+00:00
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wivb.com
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https://www.wivb.com/news/local-news/it-was-a-freak-accident-of-kids-just-trying-to-live-their-lives-but-they-chose-the-wrong-fun-198-crash-victims-family-speaks-out/
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EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The 43-year-old gunman who killed three students and wounded five others at Michigan State University had no apparent connection to the campus, police said Tuesday as they searched for a motive for shootings that terrified the community for hours.
Investigators were sorting out why Anthony McRae fired inside an academic building and the student union just before 8:30 p.m. Monday. An hourslong lockdown at the campus in East Lansing ended when he killed himself miles away while being confronted by police.
The shooting happened the day before the fifth anniversary of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting that killed 17 and is the latest in what has become a deadly new year in the U.S.
“We have to do something to stop the gun violence that’s ripping apart our communities,” President Joe Biden said in a speech Tuesday, mentioning Michigan State.
Meanwhile, a school district in Ewing Township, New Jersey, closed for the day after investigators said that McRae, who lived in the area years ago, had a note in his pocket indicating a threat to schools there. But it was determined there was no credible threat, local police said later in a statement shared by the superintendent.
The dead and injured in the gunfire at Berkey Hall and the MSU Union, a popular place to eat and study, were all Michigan State students. Five remained in critical condition at Sparrow Hospital, said Dr. Denny Martin, who fought back tears during a news conference Tuesday.
“We have absolutely no idea what the motive was,” said Chris Rozman, deputy chief of campus police, adding that McRae, of Lansing, was not a student or Michigan State employee.
“This is still fluid,” Rozman said. “There are still crime scenes that are being processed, and we still are in the process of putting together the pieces to try to understand what happened.”
The dead were all from the Detroit area. Two gradated from separate high schools in the Grosse Pointe district: Brian Fraser, president of Phi Delta Theta fraternity, and Arielle Anderson. Alexandria Verner, a graduate of Clawson High School in another Detrot suburb, also died.
“If you knew her, you loved her and we will forever remember the lasting impact she has had on all of us,” Clawson Superintendent Billy Shellenbarger said in an email to families.
The shootings took place in an area of older, stately buildings on the northern edge of the Michigan State campus, one of the nation’s largest at 5,200 acres. Just across busy Grand River Avenue lies East Lansing’s downtown, teeming with restaurants, bars and shops.
“Our Spartan community is reeling today,” Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Michigan State graduate, said at the morning briefing.
Biden pledged his support during a phone call, she said.
“We mourn the loss of beautiful souls today and pray for those who are continuing to fight for their lives. … Another place that is supposed to be about community and togetherness is shattered by bullets and bloodshed,” Whitmer said.
Michigan State has about 50,000 students, including 19,000 who live on campus. As hundreds of officers scoured the campus, about 90 miles (145 kilometers) northwest of Detroit, students hid where they could Monday night.
At 11 p.m., police were still searching for McRae when he turned up on school security cameras, and his image was quickly released to news media. An “alert citizen” saw the picture, recognized him in the Lansing area and contacted police within minutes, Rozman said.
“That was exactly what we were trying to achieve by releasing that picture. We had no idea where he was at that point,” the deputy chief said.
Officers confronted McRae about 5 miles (8 kilometers) from campus in an industrial area, where he killed himself, Rozman said.
In 2019, McRae was accused of illegally possessing a concealed weapon, according to the state Corrections Department, but pleaded guilty to having a loaded gun in a vehicle, a misdemeanor. He completed 18 months of probation.
A large police presence was in his Lansing neighborhood overnight. Suzanne Shook said she has lived a block away from McRae for about a year.
“We never spoke to him,” Shook said. “When he would be walking or riding his bike, he was always straightforward and wouldn’t look at anybody.”
Students, meanwhile, recalled the previous night’s terror. Dominik Molotky said he was learning about Cuban history around 8:15 p.m. when he and the other students heard a gunshot outside the classroom. He told ABC’s “Good Morning America” that a few seconds later, the gunman entered and fired three to four more rounds.
“I was ducking and covering, and the same with the rest of the students,” Molotky said.
Claire Papoulias, a sophomore, described on NBC’s “Today” how she and other students scrambled to escape a history class through a window after the gunman entered from a back door and began firing.
“As soon as I fell out of the window I kind of hit the ground a little. I just grabbed my backpack and my phone, and I remember I just ran for my life,” she said.
All classes, sports and other activities were canceled for 48 hours. Interim university President Teresa Woodruff said it would be a time “to think and grieve and come together.”
Dozens of people have died in mass shootings so far in 2023, most notably in California, where 11 people were killed as they welcomed the Lunar New Year at a dance hall popular with older Asian Americans. In 2022, more than 600 mass shootings occurred in the U.S. in which at least four people were killed or wounded, according to the Gun Violence Archive.
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Associated Press writers Ed White and Corey Williams in Detroit contributed to this report.
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Birthday Bash Atlanta weekend! If you’re not here you missed out on one of the biggest parties of the year! The energy in the city was electric as artists. The DJs kept the party going in between sets, spinning the latest hits and throwing it back to some old-school jams.
The atmosphere was full of excitement and celebration as everyone sang along to their favorite songs and danced the night away. Birthday Bash Atlanta Weekend is truly an unforgettable experience, and if you didn’t make it this year, you’ll definitely want to mark your calendar for next year’s event. Don’t miss out on the fun!
Everything You Missed During Birthday Bash ATL 2023 Weekend was originally published on hotspotatl.com
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