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SAN DIEGO, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The newly-opened Legends Bay Casino, Casino Fandango, and Quick Custom Intelligence ("QCI") jointly announced that the two casinos in Northern Nevada have deployed the QCI's Unified Gaming Platform – Nimble Edition. The Unified Gaming Platform aligns marketing, player development, and casino operations around one view of the casino's data.
"We are very impressed with the QCI product and their team. Being able to link player data with slots data in a meaningful way and knowing who is on the floor right now is invaluable. Having the QCI Marketing tool automate the loading of our marketing offers has alleviated a time-consuming process and eliminated the potential for data entry mistakes. This software elevates our analytics and decision making for both properties," said Traci Ferrante, Regional VP, Information Technology for Olympia Gaming.
Dr. Ralph Thomas, CEO of QCI, stated that "Legends Bay Casino and Casino Fandango's decision to select our Unified Gaming Platform shows the importance of continually developing products that truly fit our customers' needs. The Nimble Edition was developed specifically for casinos with under 1,000 slots, allowing their hosts, marketing executives and casino operations teams to function in a modern, data-enriched environment. With QCI now deployed in over 75 casino resorts in North America and over 4,000 sites worldwide, we are confident our proven product will meet the dynamic needs of Legends Bay Casino and Casino Fandango."
Casino Fandango has redefined gaming in Carson City, Nevada. Featuring over 700 slots, 10 table games, a sportsbook, award-winning restaurants including Duke's Steakhouse and Craft 55, a craft beer bar, 7,000 square feet of meeting and event space, a 10-screen, Galaxy theater multiplex, and a 100 room Courtyard by Marriott hotel. Casino Fandango's proximity to a wide variety of vacation destinations, strategic location along US Highway 395, relaxed and friendly atmosphere, and player-oriented approach, has allowed it to enjoy popularity with locals and tourists alike.
The first new casino built in northern Nevada in more than 20 years, Legends Bay Casino features the latest slots and table games, northern Nevada's only Circa Sports | Sportsbook, and several original dining and bar concepts including Duke's Steakhouse, Food Truck Hall, and LB Grill as well as seamless access to the open-air shopping and dining at The Outlets at Legends and the adjacent Sparks Marina. For more information, visit www.legendsbaycasino.com
The QCI Platform aligns player development, marketing and gaming with powerful real-time operational tools developed for the gaming and hospitality industries. QCI has installed their ground-breaking, highly configured software in over 75 casino resorts in North America and over 4,000 sites worldwide. QCI products provide tooling for gaming operators managing over $20 billion in annual gross gaming revenue, these products are built on the QCI Platform, a best-in-class on-premises, hybrid or cloud-based technology that enables fully coordinated activities across gaming or hospitality operations. This data-driven software allows for quick, informed decisions in the ever-changing world of the casino industry and assists casinos in their efforts to optimize resources and profits, manage marketing campaigns and increase customer loyalty. QCI was founded by Dr. Ralph Thomas and Mr. Andrew Cardno. Based in San Diego, QCI also has offices in Las Vegas, St. Louis, Dallas & Phoenix.
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Nothing feels better than being surrounded by like-minded people. You can let your hair down, say what you think, and be yourself — a rarity in our ever-more stifling woke Puritanical world. I’d even argue that it’s important to do this on a regular basis, lest you internalize the garbage social “norms” crammed down your throat by every institution and eventually lose the ability to tell right from wrong and truth from made-up left-wing bullshizzle. It’s important that we band together and associate with one another, so we can remind one another what America is supposed to be.
I first got a glimpse inside an exclusive club of conservatives at CPAC last winter. I had only been working at PJ Media for a few months and already, I felt like a new person. Gone were the appalling woke trainings and time-consuming, soul-sucking all-hands meetings to talk about everyone’s fragile Leftist feelings at my previous places of employment. Gone was my permanent state of anxiety, lest I let slip an indication of the wrongthink bottled up inside me. Among my new conservative colleagues, I felt free and understood as I never had in my entire career, and I was thrilled to finally be attending my first CPAC.
I was especially looking forward to meeting my PJ coworkers in person, and it was every bit as wonderful as I thought it would be. I caught up with the crew at a swanky whiskey bar in the beautiful Rosen Shingle Creek resort in Orlando. I met Paula Bolyard, Matt Margolis, VodkaPundit, Stephen Kruiser, Kevin Downey Jr., Gwendolyn Sims, Jeff Reynolds, Chris Queen, and Stacey Lennox. We had a fabulous time at the conference, but I distinctly remember the moment Kruiser introduced me to members of an exclusive club for conservatives.
I’m talking about PJ Media VIP members. Several had traveled to Orlando to attend CPAC, and some of the PJ writers already knew them through VIP interactions. I was struck that my co-workers, whom I was still in awe of meeting (having been an avid fan before I was hired as a colleague), were straight-up hanging out with VIPs. That was the moment it dawned on me how unique our sustaining supporters’ program is here at PJ: our VIPs are part of our team.
Even without traveling to CPAC, there are many opportunities for PJ Media VIP members to enjoy harmonious experiences with other conservatives. When you join the PJ Media VIP club, you not only get exclusive podcasts and videos, but you can also access live chats with some of your favorite PJ personalities.
Check out this sneak peek at one of our exclusive PJ Media video series, The Fringe with Megan Fox:
PJ Media VIPs also have access to commenting across the entire Townhall Media network of sites. You’ll interact with other VIPs, enjoy great discussions, and meet other people who enjoy edgy, conservative news coverage.
Behind-the-paywall exclusive reporting and analysis is another great amenity of the VIP club. As a member, you’ll get to feed your brain with underreported news, items that would get squelched by social media censors, and thoughtful interpretations of events — all from a reliably conservative worldview. A recent example is an essay called “The Pity of War: Ukraine Edition” by Stephen Green (VodkaPundit). It’s a heartrending analysis of Russia’s tragic socio-cultural blunder in its war against its neighbor and kin, Ukraine. Take a look behind the paywall with this exclusive excerpt:
The Pity of War was the title of Niall Ferguson’s groundbreaking history of the causes and tragic folly of the First World War. The title is so simple and powerful that I’ve borrowed it for this lesser essay on the causes and tragic mistake of a (thankfully) much smaller conflict.
Win, lose, or draw, the Ukraine War is Vladimir Putin’s folly, a completely unnecessary war whose waste and death has or soon will dwarf the Soviet Union’s nine-year losing effort in Afghanistan.
A look at the fighting front that has remained mostly static since July 3 reveals a pitiable effort in which Russia’s reduced war aims consist of destroying and depopulating whatever they cannot take.
It’s an oversized child’s temper tantrum of a war.
The real pity of the conflict is that in a slightly better world, this war would never have happened — for very real reasons, easily explained.
Russia and Ukraine are natural allies, or even confederates — their languages, culture, and history are all intertwined. Ukraine’s national identity was for so long wrapped up with Russia’s that there wasn’t even a Ukraine-language dictionary until early in the 20th Century.
Why would Putin permanently alienate Russia’s closest cousins?
Putin ordered his “special military operation” against Ukraine because Kyiv was looking to the West, towards the EU and NATO, instead of towards Moscow. The double threat to Russia — in Putin’s eyes — was having Ukraine’s military a part of NATO and its economy anchored to Europe.
Whether you believe Putin was justified or paranoid, the question we need to ask is: Why did Ukraine try to turn West?
Ukraine, with its Eastern European history, close ties to Russia, and Third World corruption, hardly seems a good fit for either the EU or NATO. But if Ukraine is the most corrupt country in Europe on a pound-for-pound basis, Russia remains the most corrupt at scale.
Calling the Putin regime a kleptocracy would be an insult to functioning kleptocracies. Putin replaced Boris Yeltsin’s comic-opera kleptocracy for a mobster regime, a gangster government. Russia is a country run by killers and thieves wearing tailored Italian suits.
If Russia were better run, that would have changed everything.
There are other benefits to becoming a VIP, as well. You will know the joy of an ad-free user experience. And, you’ll get the satisfaction of knowing you’re helping to support PJ Media as we do the important work of bringing you the news that the corrupt establishment tries to suppress. Joining the VIP club is much better for America than spending your money enriching yet another left-wing streaming service!
But even better than all of these great benefits is the good you do yourself by associating with an online community of sane, pro-America conservatives — people like you! The next time you feel like you’re the only person you know who isn’t crazy, or you’re the only person who thinks children shouldn’t be corrupted, borders should be respected, and people should show ID to vote, treat yourself to a PJ Media VIP membership. We’d love to have you join the club!
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TORONTO and NEW YORK, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CF Acquisition Corp. VI (Nasdaq: CFVI) ("CFVI"), a special purpose acquisition company sponsored by Cantor Fitzgerald, announced today that at a special meeting of the CFVI stockholders (the "Special Meeting") held today, CFVI's stockholders voted in favor of the proposed business combination (the "Business Combination") with Rumble Inc. ("Rumble") and the related proposals. Only 0.1% of the 30 million CFVI public shares are being redeemed in connection with the meeting. As a result, the completion of the Business Combination is expected to occur as soon as practicable, subject the satisfaction or waiver of remaining customary closing conditions. Following the completion of the Business Combination, the newly combined company will operate as Rumble Inc. and trade on the NASDAQ Stock Exchange under the symbol "RUM." Assuming that closing is completed on Friday, September 16, trading will continue on NASDAQ, switching from the symbol "CFVI" to the new symbol, "RUM", at the open of trading on Monday, September 19.
About Rumble
Rumble is a high-growth neutral video platform that is creating the rails and independent infrastructure designed to be immune to cancel culture. Rumble's mission is to restore the Internet to its roots by making it free and open once again.
About CF Acquisition Corp. VI
CFVI is a blank check company led by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Howard W. Lutnick and sponsored by Cantor Fitzgerald.
About Cantor Fitzgerald
Cantor Fitzgerald, with over 12,000 employees, is a leading global financial services group at the forefront of financial and technological innovation and has been a proven and resilient leader for 77 years. Cantor Fitzgerald is a preeminent investment bank serving more than 5,000 institutional clients around the world, recognized for its strengths in fixed income and equity capital markets, investment banking, SPAC underwriting and PIPE placements, prime brokerage, and commercial real estate on its global distribution platform. Cantor Fitzgerald is one of 24 primary dealers transacting business with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. For more information, please visit www.cantor.com.
Important Information and Where to Find It
This press release relates to a proposed transaction between Rumble and CFVI. This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or exchange, or the solicitation of an offer to buy or exchange, any securities, nor shall there be any sale of securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, sale or exchange would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction. In connection with the transaction described herein, CFVI has filed with the SEC an effective registration statement on Form S-4, which includes a proxy statement/prospectus of CFVI, on August 12, 2022 (the "Registration Statement"), and has filed, and will file, other relevant materials with the SEC. The definitive proxy statement/prospectus has been sent to all CFVI stockholders as of the Record Date. Investors and security holders of CFVI are urged to read the Registration Statement, the definitive proxy statement/prospectus (and any supplements thereto, as and when filed), and all other relevant documents filed or to be filed in connection with the proposed transaction because they contain important information about the proposed transaction.
Investors and security holders will be able to obtain free copies of the Registration Statement, the definitive proxy statement/prospectus and all other relevant documents filed or that will be filed with the SEC by CFVI through the website maintained by the SEC at www.sec.gov.
The documents filed or that will be filed by CFVI with the SEC also may be obtained free of charge upon written request to CF Acquisition Corp. VI, 110 East 59th Street, New York, NY 10022 or via email at CFVI@cantor.com. The documents filed or that will be filed by Rumble or any successor entity of the transaction with the SEC also may be obtained free of charge upon written request to Rumble USA Inc., 444 Gulf of Mexico Drive, Longboat Key, FL 34228.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, including statements regarding the proposed transaction between CFVI and Rumble. Such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the closing of the transaction and CFVI's, Rumble's, or their respective management teams' expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future. The words "anticipate", "believe", "continue", "could", "estimate", "expect", "intends", "may", "might", "plan", "possible", "potential", "predict", "project", "should", "would" and similar expressions may identify forward-looking statements, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. Forward-looking statements are predictions, projections and other statements about future events that are based on current expectations and assumptions and, as a result, are subject to assumptions, risks and uncertainties. These statements are based on various assumptions, whether or not identified in this press release. These forward-looking statements are provided for illustrative purposes only and are not intended to serve as and must not be relied on by an investor as, a guarantee, an assurance, a prediction or a definitive statement of fact or probability. Actual events and circumstances are difficult or impossible to predict and will differ from assumptions. Many actual events and circumstances are beyond the control of CFVI and Rumble. Many factors could cause actual future events to differ from the forward looking-statements in this press release, including but not limited, to (i) the risk that the transaction may not be completed in a timely manner or at all, (ii) the failure to satisfy the remaining conditions to the consummation of the transaction, (iii) the inability to complete the PIPE offering, (iv) the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstance that could give rise to the termination of the business combination agreement , (v) the outcome of any legal proceedings that may be instituted against Rumble and/or CFVI related to the business combination agreement, (vi) the ability to maintain the listing of CFVI stock on Nasdaq (or, if applicable, to list and maintain the listing of the combined entity on the NYSE), (vii) costs related to the transactions and the failure to realize anticipated benefits of the transactions, (viii) the effect of the announcement or pendency of the transaction on Rumble's business relationships, operating results, performance and business generally, (ix) changes in the combined capital structure of Rumble and CFVI following the transactions, (x) changes in laws and regulations affecting Rumble's business, (xi) risks related to Rumble's potential inability to achieve or maintain profitability and generate cash, (xii) the enforceability of Rumble's intellectual property, including its patents and the potential infringement on the intellectual property rights of others, (xiii) the potential for and impact of cyber related attacks, events or issues effecting Rumble, its business and operations, and (xiv) other risks and uncertainties indicated from time to time in the filings of CFVI, including the Registration Statement that CFVI has filed, which includes a proxy statement/prospectus related to the potential business combination. These filings identify and address other important risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events and results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made. Readers are cautioned not to put undue reliance on forward-looking statements, and Rumble and CFVI assume no obligation and do not intend to update or revise these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. Neither Rumble nor CFVI gives any assurance that either Rumble or CFVI will achieve its expectations.
No Offer or Solicitation
This press release is not a proxy statement or solicitation of a proxy, consent or authorization with respect to any securities or in respect of the potential transaction and shall not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy the securities of CFVI or Rumble, nor shall there be any sale of any such securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation, or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of such state or jurisdiction. No offer of securities shall be made except by means of a prospectus meeting the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
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For those curious about the history behind the naming of a subway and a road in Chennai after J.W. Madeley, the answer lies in the quaint, red-brick building treasured amid tall trees on New Avadi Road.
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The busy arterial road houses the sprawling green campus of Kilpauk Water Works, Tamil Nadu’s first water treatment plant. Nearly 108 years old and still sturdy, the British-era plant remains the backbone of the treated water supply system in the State capital. A plaque at the entrance of the building stands testimony to the evolution of the city’s protected water supply system.
It carries the name of the then Governor of Madras, H.E. Lord Penland, who inaugurated the premises on December 17, 1914, and J.W. Madeley, the then special engineer of Madras Municipal Corporation, who pioneered the design for the organised drinking water system.
The Kilpauk Water Works is a landmark symbolising the pioneering work done by many engineers — be it James Fraser, who identified the Kosasthalaiyar river for Chennai water supply, or J.A. Jones, who was responsible for water supply from the Red Hills reservoir. Chennai’s long water history can be traced to the 1860s when picotah buckets were used to draw water from wells dug at Bethanayakanpet near Vallalar Nagar or Mint. Water was delivered through iron pipes until 1872 when a system was formulated for organised water distribution from the reservoirs.
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The Kilpauk Water Works, spread over nearly 66 acres, is home to many firsts. The masonry shaft, a red bowl-like masonry structure on the Kilpauk campus, is preserved to tell the tales of the first system to store water from the Red Hills reservoir and supply to George Town and the central parts of the city through iron pipes without any treatment. The shaft was used from 1872 to 1914 to convey water received through a 10-km open earthen canal from the Red Hills reservoir.
A large part of the distribution network created in the past century is intact, and Chennai continues to rely on the British-era infrastructure. The oldest conduit line built with brick masonry replacing earthen channel in 1914 still travels 12 km, bringing water from Red Hills to Kilpauk. The second and third conduit lines were added in 1955 and 1986 respectively; some portions remain encroached. Chennai Metrowater is building a twin concrete channel in place of the third line that collapsed a decade ago.
The heritage structure, which has a capacity to treat 270 million litres a day (mld), has memorabilia of the past treatment and pumping systems, including sand filter structures and rooms that had boilers feeding steam-powered pumps. A 177-foot chimney branching out from the rear of the main building is yet another monument. Madeley is said to have even stayed in the guesthouse on the premises to oversee the construction of the plant, which was completed in 1914. He had designed the network for a population of 6.6 lakh in 1961. But improvements had to be done by 1936 itself, according to Metrowater officials.
Inside the main building is the 5 KV HT pump house, which was the earliest to be installed in 1936. “We are still operating the three pumps for up to 10 hours daily. It is used to pump nearly 50 mld of water,” says an official.
Pointing to the rolling shutter door at the pump house, the official says the facility from London is still in use. The manufacturer’s name embossed on it reads, ‘S.W. Francis and Co. Ltd., Grays Inn Road’.
The campus has name boards jutting out of the surface, indicating the pipelines criss-crossing underneath, pumping water to different areas even up to Triplicane and north Chennai. As the name boards suggest, water is transported to various headworks, including Anna Poonga, and to areas such as Shenoy Nagar, Perambur, Chetpet, ICF, city hospitals and Chennai Port Trust.
The water treatment plant has added more buildings, pump houses and a storage tank painted in red to resemble the historic structures. It has constantly adopted the latest technologies to meet the needs of the burgeoning metropolis. It now supplies about 220 mld to 25 lakh people. The next step is to add flow meters and form a grid by interlinking the distribution network to monitor the volume and quality of supply.
Water museum
The newest and befitting addition to the building is the upcoming museum that provides a glimpse into a fascinating history of water supply and treatment. The photo exhibition has rare pictures, including a sketch of the proposed Kilpauk Water Works. Besides interactive kiosks and touch screen panels with animated videos on water and sewer facilities, visitors could enjoy a virtual tour of reservoirs and other plants through VR module.
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Merger expands the organization's growing Florida care network into Miami market
MIAMI, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cayuga Centers has announced Miami-Dade County child and family services provider, Institute for Child & Family Health (ICFH), will be joining the Cayuga Centers' family of services as part of the organization's commitment to supporting at-risk youth in Florida and expansion within the state.
"Cayuga Centers and ICFH share a common dedication to helping children and families, a commitment to quality care and an appreciation for strong partnerships and expertise in child welfare and behavioral health," said Edward Hayes, Cayuga Centers President and CEO. "This is a natural pairing that will help Cayuga Centers expand its Florida footprint and allow both organizations to benefit from our collective experiences."
ICFH will begin operating under the Cayuga Centers name on September 17, 2022. Merging into Cayuga Centers' existing organizational structure, the teams and facilities will be under the supervision of Cayuga Centers' newly appointed Senior Vice President of Florida, Dr. Tamaru Phillips, LFMT.
"From the moment we met Ed and the team at Cayuga Centers, it was clear our aligned goals and values made us ideal partners," said Suzy Schumer, CEO of ICFH. "We're excited to join with Cayuga Centers and together expand our reach to children and families in South Florida and beyond by delivering high quality services."
This merger will result in expanded services for Miami-Dade County as Cayuga Centers looks to bring its Treatment Family Foster Care program to the area. To learn more about Cayuga Centers' Florida services and operations, visit cayugacenters.org/florida.
About Cayuga Centers
Cayuga Centers is a nationally accredited and awarded 501(c)(3) non-profit, human services agency headquartered in Auburn, NY. Founded in 1852, the agency has delivered quality services by following the agency's core mission of helping individuals and families grow as independent, healthy, and productive citizens through quality counseling, out-of-home care, and support services. Cayuga Centers provides a continuum of support services nationally, with offices in over 10 cities. The agency specializes in providing individualized, culturally appropriate, and trauma-informed support to diverse populations. Cayuga Centers currently serves 10,000 individuals and families annually. Visit www.cayugacenters.org to learn about its services, how to become a foster parent, and employment opportunities.
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HIGH POINT, N.C. (WGHP) — Actor, rapper, comedian, and television host Nick Cannon is welcoming his ninth child into the world, according to TMZ.
The child’s mother, Lanisha Cole, announced the surprise birth of the baby girl, Onyx Ice Cole Cannon, in an Instagram post.
Cole is a model and actress best known for appearing as a rotating model on “The Price Is Right” from 2003-2010.
Cannon welcomed his eighth child a little over a month ago in late July, having a baby boy with model Bri Tiesi.
TMZ also announced in June that Cannon is expecting a child in October with Abby De La Rosa, their third together.
In an Instagram post in August, Cannon announced he is expecting a child with former beauty pageant winner Brittany Bell, also their third together.
In a post speaking on the birth of his ninth child, Cannon spoke directly to critics of his large family with the following statement.
“I’ve given up on attempting to define myself for the world or society but instead I’m doing the work to heal and grow into the infinite being God ordained me to be. Hopefully I can teach Onyx the same, to not let others shame or ridicule her with their outside opinions, because when they do they are only projecting their own harsh experiences, pain and social programming onto her unblemished beauty. As we all know I am not easily triggered and have quite tough skin and have always been an open book but not everyone in my family has that same level of strength. So I pray and ask others to please project all criticism and cynicism towards me and not the loving and precious mothers of my children. @MissLanishaCole is one of the most guileless, peaceful and nonconfrontational kind souls I’ve ever witnessed, and only deserves to revel in this moment of blissful joy of motherhood. Please give her that. She is so loving and pure hearted. As for me, if you are truly concerned during this time of Spiritual Warfare, my inner struggles with self, mental wellness and physical health concerns… Just continue to pray for me and my entire family that God will grant us peace that surpasses all understanding.”
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Cannon is best known for his hosting work on “America’s Got Talent,” “The Masked Singer” and “Wild ‘n Out.” He also starred in the movie “Drumline” and was married to Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Mariah Carey from 2008 to 2016.
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– Clinicians agree that evidence supports testing benefits for all –
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Invitae (NYSE: NVTA), a leading medical genetics company, joined other clinical experts in releasing a new commentary in Journal of Clinical Oncology Precision Oncology, underscoring the importance of universal germline testing for all patients with cancer (solid tumors). The paper reports a meta-analysis of multiple clinical publications supporting universal testing, independent of age, stage, family history or type of cancer. It reports that for cancer types such as pancreatic and ovarian where universal genetic testing is already recommended, 13% and 20% of patients (respectively) have identifiable actionable heritable gene mutations,2. In comparison, the actionable inherited gene mutation rate for patients with other cancer types is similar: breast 11%, endometrial 13%, prostate 14%, kidney 13%, bladder 14%, testicular 13%, colorectal 13%, liver 14%, and stomach 14%.
Furthermore, it reports that between 5-13% of patients with cancer with heritable gene mutations are missed by current restrictive testing guidelines and are unable to benefit from associated precision treatment and clinical trial benefits. First, allowing all patients to receive germline testing, without restrictive guidelines, affords patients access to precision therapies, clinical trials and other risk reducing interventions that can improve outcomes, and even extend overall patient survival1. Second, genetic testing informs surveillance and risk reduction for future cancers in patients already affected by cancer. Third, cascade testing helps alert their family members of an increased risk for cancer, so they too can then take advantage of monitoring and risk reducing interventions. Consistent with the Cancer Moonshot 2.0 and the President's Cancer Panel report 2022, the expert consensus concludes that current evidence supports the implementation of universal germline genetic testing for all patients with cancer (solid tumors).
"This consensus from nationally recognized, cancer genetics clinical experts reinforces the current guidelines that universal genetic testing be offered in all patients with ovarian and pancreatic cancer and either be offered or considered in all patients with colorectal," said Ed Esplin, MD, PhD, FACMG, FACP, clinical geneticist at Invitae. "More importantly, this is a call to all guidelines committees, insurer medical policy makers and the President's Cancer Moonshot Cabinet to make universal genetic testing available to potentially reduce mortality and improve the lives of all patients with cancer."
The collaborative commentary included experts from the Carolina Urologic Research Center, City of Hope, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Mayo Clinic and Invitae.
"The PROCLAIM study demonstrates the clinical utility of universal germline genetic testing in patients with prostate cancer. Current NCCN guidelines preclude some prostate cancer patients from receiving germline testing, thus depriving these patients of the potential to receive precision-based therapies and specific clinical trial eligibility, while perpetuating healthcare disparities among historically underrepresented populations. The PROCLAIM data supports universal genetic testing for prostate cancer patients. We should expeditiously eliminate barriers to gene-based precision therapies to optimize patient outcomes and accelerate equitable access to care," said Neal Shore, MD, urologist and medical director, Carolina Urologic Research Center.
Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for nearly 10 million deaths in 2020.
Worldwide, there were an estimated 18.1 million new cases of cancer in 2018, with one in four men and one in five women developing the disease. In addition, there were 43.8 million persons living with cancer in 2018 who were diagnosed within the last five years.
"The INTERCEPT study has shown the prevalence and clinical utility of germline genetic testing is virtually the same across 14 cancer types, even those cancers not traditionally considered hereditary. This data supports universal genetic testing not only for colorectal cancer, but patients with all cancer types, to potentially improve their treatment and future cancer prevention for them and their family members," said Jewel Samadder, MD, enterprise co-leader precision/individualized cancer medicine, Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Restrictive guidelines can lead to disparities in cancer care. Offering germline genetic testing to all patients with cancer at diagnosis may help reduce inequities in cancer care by expanding access for all patients to precision therapy or clinical treatment trials.
"The prevalence of pathogenic variants in cancer susceptibility genes for which there are management guidelines is similar among patients with all types of solid tumors, therefore, it does not makes sense that current guidelines only recommend germline genetic testing for all patients with ovarian, pancreatic, and recently, colorectal cancers. This information has the potential to affect the treatment of these individuals' current cancers. In addition, it has the potential to allow for the prevention or early detection of future cancers in both these patients and their family members," said Heather Hampel, MS, CGC, professor, Department of Medical Oncology & Therapeutics Research, City of Hope.
About Invitae
Invitae Corporation (NYSE: NVTA) is a leading medical genetics company, whose mission is to bring comprehensive genetic information into mainstream medicine to improve healthcare for billions of people. Invitae's goal is to aggregate the world's genetic tests into a single service with higher quality, faster turnaround time and lower prices. For more information, visit the company's website at invitae.com.
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This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements relating to the potential benefits of universal genetic testing for all patients with cancer; and that restrictive guidelines can lead to disparities in cancer care. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially and reported results should not be considered as an indication of future performance. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: the company's history of losses; the company's ability to compete; the company's failure to manage growth effectively; the company's need to scale its infrastructure in advance of demand for its tests and to increase demand for its tests; the company's ability to use rapidly changing genetic data to interpret test results accurately and consistently; security breaches, loss of data and other disruptions; laws and regulations applicable to the company's business; and the other risks set forth in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the risks set forth in the company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2022. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date hereof, and Invitae Corporation disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Americans picked up their spending a bit in August from July even as surging inflation on household necessities like rent and food took a toll on family budgets.
U.S. retail sales rose an unexpected 0.3% last month after falling 0.4% in July, the Commerce Department said Thursday. Excluding business at gas stations, sales rose 0.8%.
The sales figures for August were largely boosted by higher spending on vehicles. Sales of purchases at motor vehicles and parts dealers rose 2.8% last month. Excluding vehicle sales, spending slipped 0.3%. Excluding both vehicle and gas spending, retail sales rose 0.3%.
While the report showed shoppers’ resilience, the figures also are not adjusted for inflation unlike many other government reports. In fact, sales at grocery stores rose 0.5% , helped by rising prices in food.
There was, however, weakening in some areas of discretionary spending with Americans fully aware of inflation’s bite. Business at restaurants ticked up 1.1%, but the pace has slowed. Sales at furniture stores fell 1.3%. Online sales fell 0.7% last month after Amazon’s Prime Day boosted e-commerce sales in July.
“Retailers would probably like to be growing more, especially relative to inflation, but I’m not sure they could realistically hope for much more,” said Ted Rossman, senior industry analyst at Bankrate.com. “Consumer spending habits are changing as the pandemic continues to recede and inflation remains high.”
Consumer spending accounts for nearly 70% of U.S. economic activity and Americans have remained mostly resilient even with inflation near four-decade highs. Yet surging prices for everything from mortgages to milk have upped the anxiety level. Overall spending has slowed and shifted increasingly toward necessities like food, while spending on electronics, furniture, new clothes and other non-necessities has faded.
On Thursday, it appeared that the U.S. dodged a national freight rail strike, which could have sent retail prices higher.
Still, inflation remains stubbornly high. Lower gas costs slowed U.S. inflation for a second straight month in August, but most other prices across the economy kept going up — evidence that inflation remains a heavy load for American households.
Consumer prices rose 8.3% from a year earlier and 0.1% from July. But the jump in “core” prices, which exclude volatile food and energy costs, was especially worrisome. It outpaced expectations and sparked fear that the Federal Reserve will increase interest rates more aggressively and raise the risk of a recession.
Retailers are wrapping up what has turned out to be a decent back-to-school shopping season. But many retail executives say that customers are being more selective when they buy, a trend that could hold through the only shopping period that tops back to school in sales, the weeks leading up to winter holidays.
Jill Renslow, executive vice president of business development and marketing at Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, said that mall is faring well with families generously spending for the back-to-school season. But she said the lower income Americans are tightening their belts and waiting for sales.
“They’re being more selective in where they are shopping and what they are purchasing, what they’re spending their time on,” she said.
Shoe Carnival, which has stores located in strip malls rather than enclosed malls, did well during the pandemic as Americans avoided being indoors as much as possible. CEO Mark Worden said the chain is now getting another bump as people trade down to lower price footwear amid soaring inflation.
Shoppers are buying fewer shoes this year compared with the last year when business was boosted by the government stimulus checks. But customers are still buying more shoes than in the pre-pandemic 2019.
The government’s monthly report on retail sales covers about a third of all consumer purchases and doesn’t include spending on most services, ranging from plane fares and apartment rents to movie tickets and doctor visits. In recent months, Americans have been shifting their purchases away from physical goods and more toward travel, hotel stays and plane trips as the threat of the virus fades.
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Merger expands the organization's growing Florida care network into Miami market
MIAMI, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cayuga Centers has announced Miami-Dade County child and family services provider, Institute for Child & Family Health (ICFH), will be joining the Cayuga Centers' family of services as part of the organization's commitment to supporting at-risk youth in Florida and expansion within the state.
"Cayuga Centers and ICFH share a common dedication to helping children and families, a commitment to quality care and an appreciation for strong partnerships and expertise in child welfare and behavioral health," said Edward Hayes, Cayuga Centers President and CEO. "This is a natural pairing that will help Cayuga Centers expand its Florida footprint and allow both organizations to benefit from our collective experiences."
ICFH will begin operating under the Cayuga Centers name on September 17, 2022. Merging into Cayuga Centers' existing organizational structure, the teams and facilities will be under the supervision of Cayuga Centers' newly appointed Senior Vice President of Florida, Dr. Tamaru Phillips, LFMT.
"From the moment we met Ed and the team at Cayuga Centers, it was clear our aligned goals and values made us ideal partners," said Suzy Schumer, CEO of ICFH. "We're excited to join with Cayuga Centers and together expand our reach to children and families in South Florida and beyond by delivering high quality services."
This merger will result in expanded services for Miami-Dade County as Cayuga Centers looks to bring its Treatment Family Foster Care program to the area. To learn more about Cayuga Centers' Florida services and operations, visit cayugacenters.org/florida.
About Cayuga Centers
Cayuga Centers is a nationally accredited and awarded 501(c)(3) non-profit, human services agency headquartered in Auburn, NY. Founded in 1852, the agency has delivered quality services by following the agency's core mission of helping individuals and families grow as independent, healthy, and productive citizens through quality counseling, out-of-home care, and support services. Cayuga Centers provides a continuum of support services nationally, with offices in over 10 cities. The agency specializes in providing individualized, culturally appropriate, and trauma-informed support to diverse populations. Cayuga Centers currently serves 10,000 individuals and families annually. Visit www.cayugacenters.org to learn about its services, how to become a foster parent, and employment opportunities.
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U.S. Department of Agriculture's multibillion-dollar investment will expand markets for climate-smart commodities, leverage the greenhouse gas benefits of climate-smart commodity production and provide direct agricultural benefits
EAU CLAIRE, Wis., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With the backdrop of cows grazing pasture at the Anibas family organic dairy farm, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack highlighted today historic investments to support projects building farmer resiliency to combat the climate crisis and strengthen rural America. Up to $2.8 billion through 70 projects spanning the agricultural industry were initially selected as part of the Partnership for Climate Smart Commodities funding opportunity, including multiple projects in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
The USDA partnership program included a $25 million award to the cooperative headquartered in rural Wisconsin under the project name: Organic Valley Carbon Insetting Program: Building a Multi-stakeholder Path to Produce, Market and Promote Climate-Smart Commodities Across the U.S. The grant is focused on helping small organic family farms establish and measure on-farm practices to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The grant will provide technical and financial resources to accelerate the adoption of 1,200 new carbon reduction and removal projects on 500 Organic Valley member-farms across rural America over the next five years. For Organic Valley, this builds on a new study in the August issue of the Journal of Cleaner Production that shows how organic dairy farming can store carbon and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Through this program, Organic Valley will include direct farmer payments for carbon reduction and removal, as well as cost-share for design and implementation of climate-smart agriculture practices. Climate Smart Practices included in Organic Valley's Carbon Insetting Program include improvements to grazing, pasture and croplands, manure management, feed supplements, agroforestry and solar energy.
"Through Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities, USDA is delivering on our promise to build and expand market opportunities for American agriculture and be global leaders in climate-smart agricultural production," said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. "I'm glad to have the opportunity to join stakeholders at Organic Valley to highlight our strong partnership in increasing the competitive advantage of U.S agriculture, building wealth that stays in rural communities, and supporting new revenue streams for America's climate-smart producers."
The funding will provide the resources needed to scale the Organic Valley Carbon Insetting Program (OV-CIP) from a one-year pilot to a full multi-year program. With funding from USDA and in partnership with more than 20 climate-smart grant partners, this award helps Organic Valley work to achieve carbon neutrality without the use of carbon offsets. The resulting carbon reductions and removals will be applied to Organic Valley-branded products and will help lower the carbon footprint of dairy and eggs. A portion of the carbon insets will also be shared with participating ingredient supply chain partners and applied to their products and climate goals.
"Facing the increasing impacts of the climate crisis, this action from the USDA is vital for the future of farming in the U.S. to weather the current and coming storms. This strategic funding offered by USDA allows us and others to innovate in a meaningful way with farmers and bring to the market climate friendly food," said Nicole Rakobitsch, director of sustainability at Organic Valley. "Organic Valley is creating a model approach to reducing carbon emissions, and we believe that model can be replicated across the food sector. As we advance carbon insetting, we will share our learnings and best practices. Ultimately, we are excited to offer consumers the products they are demanding in the marketplace: dairy and eggs with a low carbon footprint."
As part of Organic Valley's mission, this project will bring increased resources to small family farms. A large portion of participating farms will meet the USDA definition of a Underserved Producer, with a focus on Limited Resource Farmers and Beginning Farmers. Organic Valley will continue working to expand its carbon insetting program while building a stronger foundation for regional farm diversity and climate resilience.
Organic Valley is passionate about doing what's right for people, animals and earth and is committed to bringing ethically made organic food to families everywhere. Organic Valley is the largest farmer-owned organic cooperative in the U.S. and one of the world's largest organic consumer brands. Founded in 1988 to sustain family farms through organic farming, the cooperative represents nearly 1,800 farmers in 34 U.S. states, Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit ov.coop/impact. Organic Valley is also @OrganicValley on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
5-1-2
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
5-1-2
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GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — At least nine people died and some 20 were injured in a stampede in Guatemala early Thursday as the country celebrated its independence, according to firefighters.
The concert was sponsored by a beer maker and held on a field often used for such events. While the Guatemalan rock band Bohemia Suburbana closed the show, some concertgoers were crushed as some tried to leave as others were entering the same place.
Nancy Quemé, who was at the concert, said there had been thousands of people there. “Because of the rain there was a lot of mud,” she said. “I think because of this the people couldn’t move and they fell.”
The lineup of bands had started playing Wednesday afternoon. She said that even in the early hours of Thursday there were still families with children there.
“They closed off the whole area and only left two access (points),” Quemé said. “The entrances seemed really small to me. I stayed pretty far back and decided to leave minutes before the end of the concert.”
Video circulating on social media platforms shows dozens of people smashing into others. Shouts can be heard called for people to stop pushing and to move to one side so those who fell could be rescued.
Amilcar Rivas, Quetzaltenango city manager, said that event organizers did not have a grip on security and crowd control. He said the event did have a permit.
Quetzaltenango, which holds Guatemala’s second largest independence celebration, is about 125 miles (200 kms) west of Guatemala City.
Guatemala is celebrating Thursday 201 years of independence from Spain.
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BERLIN (AP) — The Group of Seven major economies have agreed to take a tougher, more coordinated stance toward China when it comes to trade, Germany’s economy minister said Thursday.
After a two-day meeting with fellow G-7 officials, Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection Robert Habeck told reporters that discussions about China were part of an effort to ensure high international trade standards and to prevent Beijing from using its economic might to steamroll other nations.
“The naivety toward China is over,” Habeck said, referring to Germany’s own position on China. “The time when one said ‘Trade, no matter what,’ regardless of the social or humanitarian standards, … is something we shouldn’t allow ourselves anymore.”
He said Germany would work to persuade the European Union to establish “a more robust trade policy toward China and respond as Europeans to the coercive measures that China takes to protect its economy.”
“The other partner countries will do exactly the same,” Habeck said, adding that the G-7 members – which also include Britain, Canada, France, Italy, Japan and the United States – agreed to coordinate their respective actions.
In a joint statement following the meeting at Neuhardenberg Palace, east of Berlin, the G-7 didn’t explicitly name China.
The statement expressed concerns about “unfair practices, such as all forms of forced technology transfer, intellectual property theft, lowering of labor and environmental standards to gain competitive advantage, market-distorting actions of state-owned enterprises, and harmful industrial subsidies, including those that lead to excess capacity.”
The group also pledged to continue seeking a reform of the World Trade Organization. The United States has been particularly wary of subjecting itself to the Geneva-based body’s jurisdiction on trade matters.
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PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- FinaMill® announces a limited-edition gift set to benefit Cookies for Kids' Cancer™, a national 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated to raising funds for pediatric cancer research. The FinaMill gift set includes: a battery-operated electric FinaMill Spice grinder; two FinaPod® Pro Plus pods; two packets of FinaSpice™ spices, including a pink Himalayan Salt and a Black Tellicherry Peppercorn; background on Cookies for Kids' Cancer and a recipe for Spicy Black Peppercorn Molasses Cookies, created exclusively for this campaign by Chef Jesse Szewczyk. Chef Jesse is the author of Cookies: The New Classics, which was named a 2021 New York Times best cookbook.
"Pediatric cancer is the number 1 killer of children past infancy," noted Alex Liu, founder of FinaMill. "While we do everything in our power to protect our children, protecting them from diseases such as pediatric cancer is just not in our control. That's why FinaMill is proud to support Cookies for Kids' Cancer and help raise funds for pediatric cancer research." FinaMill will be donating 25% of the sale of this charitable spice grinder gift set to Cookies for Kids' Cancer. Available starting October 1, the gift set can be purchased online at www.FinaMill.com through December 31, 2022. Consumers can choose a FinaMill from one of six colors: Midnight Black, Sangria Red, Soft Cream, Silver Stone, Salmon, or Sage.
Since their 2008 launch, Cookies for Kids' Cancer has granted over $18 million to more than 100 research projects and has helped make 25 new treatments available for children battling cancer. The largest single donor to the Children's Oncology Group Pediatric Early Phase Clinical Trial Network, Cookies For Kids' Cancer inspires individuals, organizations, and businesses to join in the fight against pediatric cancer by raising funds for new, improved and less toxic treatments.
Developed over 10 years, FinaMill is the only handheld cordless grinder featuring interchangeable, refillable spice pods. The company holds forty-one patents and has won several design awards. FinaMill has been profiled in The New York Times, Food & Wine, House Beautiful, Forbes and on many local and national media outlets. They can be found on Amazon, at hundreds of retailers nationwide and on select culinary, bridal and home and housewares e-tailers.
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli forces killed a 17-year-old Palestinian in the occupied West Bank Thursday, Palestinian officials said, as troops operated in the area a day after an attack killed a military officer.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said Odai Salah, 17, was shot in the head, although the exact circumstances behind his death were not immediately clear.
The Israeli military said forces were operating in the hometown of two Palestinian gunmen who killed the Israeli officer in a shootout on Wednesday and were then shot and killed by Israeli soldiers. Troops were preparing the gunmen’s homes for demolition and making arrests in the village of Kufr Dan, near the city of Jenin, a bastion or armed struggle against Israel. Israel says it demolishes the homes of attackers as a way to deter future violence, while critics say the tactic amounts to collective punishment.
Israel has been carrying out nightly arrest raids in West Bank cities, towns and villages since a spate of attacks against Israelis in the spring killed 19 people.
Israeli fire has killed dozens of Palestinians during that time, making it the deadliest year in the occupied territory since 2016.
The Israeli military says the vast majority of those killed were militants or stone-throwers who endangered the soldiers. But several civilians have also been killed during Israel’s monthslong operation, including a veteran journalist and a lawyer who apparently drove unwittingly into a battle zone. Local youths who took to the streets in response to the invasion of their neighborhoods have also been killed.
Israel has rounded up scores of Palestinians, holding many without trial or charge in what’s known as administrative detention. Israel says it uses administrative detention to thwart attacks and to hold dangerous militants without revealing sensitive intelligence. Palestinians and rights groups say the system denies due process, with some detainees held for months or years without seeing the evidence against them.
Israel says the arrest raids are meant to dismantle militant networks and prevent future attacks. The Palestinians say the operations are aimed at maintaining Israel’s 55-year military occupation of territories they want for an independent state.
Israel captured the West Bank, along with east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, in the 1967 Mideast war and the Palestinians seek those territories for a future state.
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From winning a cow to eclipsing Bill Gates – 20 facts you may not know about Roger Federer
1 Federer’s father, Robert, is Swiss, but his mother, Lynnette, hails from Johannesburg, South Africa, where she had been a highly promising hockey player in her youth.
2 He avoided compulsory military service in Switzerland, first because of a back injury, then later after the personal intervention of the country’s sports minister, who agreed that he could teach sport as part of the civil protection force instead.
3 Federer’s wife, Mirka, is a former professional tennis player. They met while competing for Switzerland at the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000.
4 The couple have two sets of twins, sisters Myla and Charlene, 13, and brothers Leo and Lenny, eight.
5 As a junior player, Federer was notoriously short-tempered on court. “My parents felt embarrassed,”
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DETROIT (AP) — Attorneys representing sexual-assault victims of a former University of Michigan sports doctor are asking a judge to approve a settlement fund, a key step in a $490 million deal between the school and more than 1,000 people.
The settlement between the school and victims of the late Dr. Robert Anderson was announced in January, but there has been no public activity.
A request was filed under seal Monday in Detroit federal court, seeking the establishment of a “survivors settlement fund” and the appointment of someone to oversee the fund.
“The documents are currently under seal and I cannot comment on them,” attorney Richard Schulte, lead negotiator for victims, said Thursday. “The settlement is progressing overall. We are hopeful we’ll have more concrete news in the near future.”
Anderson died in 2008 after working at the university for nearly 40 years. He was director of the campus Health Service and a physician for multiple sports teams, including football.
Former athletes, students and others who had no connection to the university — mostly men — said they were molested by Anderson during routine physicals or other visits.
Coaches, trainers and other staff in the athletic department did not question Anderson’s status, despite complaints, rumors and even jokes among athletes about his behavior, according to a report commissioned by the school.
The settlement is one of several by universities following sex abuse scandals. Michigan State University paid $500 million to settle claims from more than 300 women and girls who said they were assaulted by Larry Nassar, a campus sports doctor and a doctor for USA Gymnastics.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. intelligence officials predicted two years ago that the Islamic State group would likely regain much of its former strength and global influence, particularly if American and other Western forces reduced their role in countering the extremist movement, according to a newly declassified report.
Analysts said many of the judgments in the 2020 report appear prescient today, particularly as the group is resurgent in Afghanistan following President Joe Biden’s withdrawal of American forces last year.
The Islamic State group is no longer controlling huge swaths of territory or staging attacks in the United States as it did several years ago before a major U.S.-led offensive. But it is now slowly rebuilding some core capabilities in Iraq and Syria and increasingly fighting local governments in places including Afghanistan, where an affiliate of the IS group, also known by the acronym ISIS, is fighting the ruling Taliban following the U.S. withdrawal.
“If the United States and our partners pull back or withdraw further from areas where ISIS is active, the group’s trajectory will increasingly depend on local governments’ will and capability to fill the resulting security voids,” says the report, originally published in classified form in May 2020, months after then-President Donald Trump’s administration reached an agreement with the Taliban to pull out American troops.
Biden and top national security officials have cited the recent strike killing al-Qaida head Ayman al-Zawahri as evidence that America maintains an “over-the-horizon” counterterrorism capacity in Afghanistan after the withdrawal. U.S. special forces also killed the head of the Islamic State group in a February raid in northwest Syria.
“The fact of those operations are, I think, reflective how serious this threat environment remains,” said Christy Abizaid, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, on Thursday. But she added that analysts believe the terrorist threat to the U.S. homeland is “less acute than we’ve seen it” at any time since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Analysts have recently seen growth in IS group branches around the world, particularly in Africa, said Abizaid, who spoke at the Intelligence and National Security Summit outside Washington.
“Afghanistan is a really interesting story along those lines about where the ISIS affiliate is and how we continue to be concerned about it,” she said.
Some outside analysts say al-Zawahri’s apparent presence in downtown Kabul suggests that extremist groups are more comfortable operating in Afghanistan — and that it will be tougher to counter the Islamic State group as it grows across the country.
Bruce Hoffman, senior fellow for counterterrorism at the Washington-based Council on Foreign Relations, called the May 2020 report “very clear-eyed and forthright.”
“It’s very different operating against ISIS in the isolated mountain redoubts or deep valleys of Afghanistan,” he said. “The advantages that enabled us to so brilliantly take out al-Zawahri, I would guess, are absent outside of Kabul.”
While the White House last month released declassified points from an intelligence assessment saying al-Qaida had not reconstituted in Afghanistan, the points did not address the Islamic State in Khorasan, the local IS group affiliate. IS-K was responsible for killing 13 U.S. troops outside the Kabul airport during the withdrawal and has continued to mount an insurgency against the Taliban now in control of the country.
The National Security Council said in a statement that the U.S. is working to deny “ISIS-K access to financing, disrupt and deter foreign terrorist fighters from reaching Afghanistan and the region, and counter ISIS-K’s violent extremism.”
The May 2020 report was declassified this August and published online last week by the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The ODNI periodically declassifies and releases older intelligence assessments. A spokesperson for the ODNI’s National Counterterrorism Center declined to answer questions about the assessment or address the intelligence community’s current view on the Islamic State group.
The report predicts that the Islamic State group’s global branches are likely to increase its “capability to conduct attacks in many regions of the world, including the West.” The U.S. would more likely face attacks from people inspired by the group’s ideology than plots directed or supported by the group, the report said.
Pressure by local governments where the IS group is active and their international partners “almost certainly will shape the scale of ISIS’ resurgence in Iraq and Syria and its expansion worldwide,” the report said.
Experts commonly agree with the report’s predictions, said Colin Clarke, an expert on counterterrorism who is director of research for The Soufan Group, an intelligence and security consultancy. But top intelligence analysts would have been involved in drafting and reviewing the assessment, formally known as a national intelligence estimate, he said.
Clarke noted several recent IS-linked attacks in Afghanistan, including an apparent suicide bombing outside the Russian embassy in Kabul that killed two diplomats, as well as ongoing fighting between militants and U.S.-backed forces at a sprawling camp in Syria.
“There are some things that have happened in the last few weeks,” he said, “that make you wonder if the situation is not more dire than is being presented.”
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The family of a Black Connecticut man who was paralyzed in June when a police van without seatbelts braked suddenly said Thursday that he is back in the hospital.
Randy Cox, 36, was being driven to a police station in New Haven on June 19 for processing on a weapons charge when the driver braked hard to avoid a collision, causing Cox to fly headfirst into the wall of the van, police said.
His family said Thursday that Cox recently had his respirator and feeding tube removed, and that he had been rehabilitating at home and even posted video on Facebook about his recovery. But a few days ago, he fell ill with a fever and was returned to the hospital, they said. He was feeling better Thursday and talking to family members, they said.
“It's been really horrible on him at this point, dealing with the situation," Latoya Boomer, Cox’s sister, said during a news conference in New Haven. "At this point, he can't even scratch his hair if it's itching. He can't wipe his eyes if he's crying. He has no use of his hands. He has a little bit of use of his arms, no movement from the chest down.”
Cox's attorneys said the medical setback led them to delay filing a federal civil rights lawsuit, but that barring a settlement, they would do so within the next 10 days. The suit will name as defendants the officers involved in his transport and the city of New Haven, the said.
“Randy Cox's life matters and we're going to get justice for Randy Cox,” attorney Ben Crump said.
Cox’s supporters say the police mocked his cries for help after he was injured, and accused him of being drunk and faking his injuries. Police video shows the officers dragged him by his feet from the van and placed him in a holding cell at the police department before paramedics finally took him to a hospital.
Five officers were placed on administrative leave following the incident. The city also announced a series of police reforms stemming from the case, including eliminating the use of police vans for most prisoner transports and using marked police vehicles instead. They also require officers to immediately call for an ambulance to respond to their location if the prisoner requests or appears to need medical aid.
Crump said the city's mayor and police chief have met with Cox.
“The mayor and the police chief, you all have the ability to do the right thing by Randy Cox and I pray that you will,” Crump said. “If not, this family is prepared to go all the way.”
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota Highway Patrol is struggling with a shortage of officers after over two dozen left the agency this year, the head of the department told state lawmakers Thursday.
The departures leave the highway patrol's force short 22 troopers, which is nearly 10% of the force, Secretary of Public Safety Craig Price told the Legislature's Appropriations Committee. Even with a recent pay raise approved by Gov. Kristi Noem, the highway patrol's starting pay has lagged behind other law enforcement agencies in the state's largest cities and counties.
The shortage comes despite the Republican governor's attempts to recruit officers from across the country with promises that the state supports law enforcement officers. The highway patrol has lost 27 officers so far this year — more than any in the previous six years.
Price told lawmakers he hoped that a $1.50 hourly wage increase would alleviate the shortages. But he added it’s “likely that we will lose more in the next four months because of the way things have lined up.”
Republican and Democratic lawmakers alike questioned Price aggressively at times Thursday. He pointed out that in exit interviews, departing officers cite either pay or benefits as their reason for leaving 39% of the time.
“We take this low-wage strategy, and then we are surprised that we have hiring and retention challenges,” state Sen. Reynold Nesiba, a Democrat, said.
The appropriations committee pressed Price to return to the Legislature with a plan for addressing the troopers' departures.
“We are in this crisis mode,” said Republican Sen. Jean Hunhoff as she challenged Price to come up with ways to retain officers.
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Clemson Tigers star Bryan Bresee's sister Ella dies of brain cancer aged 15 as he pens heartbreaking tribute to the 'beautiful angel' who spread 'happiness to me and so many people'
- Bryan Bresee, a defensive tackle for the Clemson Tigers, announced on Instagram Thursday that his sister Ella died of brain cancer at the age of 15
- He wrote: 'I know for a fact that Heaven has gained a beautiful angel today'
- Ella had been honored at the university's game against Furman University on Saturday night, when players and coaches donned 'Ella Strong' t-shirts
- She and her family were at the South Carolina school for the game, but she became sick on Friday and was taken to a local emergency room
- From there, she was airlifted to Washington DC, where Bresee joined his family on Sunday to be by her side
- He is now expected to sit out of the game against Louisiana Tech on Saturday
A star football player at Clemson University posted a heartbreaking tribute to his 15-year-old sister on Thursday as he announced her death to brain cancer.
Bryan Bresee, a defensive tackle for the Tigers, posted a photo of him holding dogs with his smiling younger sister to Instagram on Thursday, writing: 'My beautiful sister Ella, you amazed me every single day with the fight that you put up and how joyful you were constantly through this battle.
'Never did I think I would be sitting here today saying bye to you,' he wrote, adding: 'I want to thank you for bringing happiness to not only me, but so many people.
'You are the best sister a brother could ask for, and I know for a fact that Heaven has gained a beautiful angel today. Love you forever and always Ella bear.'
Ella was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer early last year.
Her death comes just days after she was honored at the university's game against Furman University, when players and coaches donned 'Ella Strong' t-shirts.
Bryan Bresee, a defensive tackle for the Tigers, posted this photo of him holding dogs with his smiling younger sister, Ella, to Instagram on Thursday to announce her death
Ella (pictured) was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer early last year
Bresee, who is expected to be a first-round pick in the 2023 NFL Draft, will likely sit out of this Saturday's game against Louisiana Tech
In his tribute he referred to Ella, who died at the age of 15, as a 'beautiful angel' who spread 'happiness to not only me, but so many people'
She and the rest of the Bresee family were at the South Carolina university for the Saturday night game, but she became sick on Friday and was taken to a local emergency room, according to Sports Illustrated.
From there, she was airlifted to Washington DC on Saturday morning, and Bresee joined his family following the university's win against Furman to be by her side.
Bresee is now expected to sit out of Saturday's game against Louisiana Tech as he continues to mourn his sister.
Ella's death to brain cancer comes just days after she was honored at the university's game against Furman University, when players and coaches donned 'Ella Strong' t-shirts
Ella and the rest of the Bresee family were at the South Carolina school when she became sick on Friday and was rushed to a local emergency room
Ella was remembered Thursday on the official Twitter page for Clemson's football program
Speaking to reporters on Wednesday night, head coach Dabo Swinney said he is not sure when Bresee — who is expected to be a first-round pick in the 2023 NFL Draft — will return to the sport.
'As I said [Tuesday], there are a lot more important things than football,' Swinney said. 'He needs to focus on what he is doing. When he is ready to be back and ready to play, we will be here, but right now, he is where he needs to be.'
And following Ella's death on Thursday, Swinney issued a statement saying: 'Our prayers continue to be with the entire Bresee family.
'We are all so appreciative of all the love and support that has been shown by the Clemson family, and so many others during this time.
'Ella was such a sweet spirit, and her spirit will continue to live on throughout the Bresee family and everyone who had the opportunity to know her.
'I am stronger today for having experienced Ella's strength and courage.'
The official Twitter for Clemson's football program, meanwhile, wrote: 'Ella Bresee will continue to be a source of light and strength for this program and the entire Clemson community.
'Please join us in sending our love and support to Bryan and the Bresee family.'
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Cardi B was "born to flex" and her recent gift to her former middle school is just another example.
The Hip Hop star paid a visit to IS 232, the Alexander Macomb School in Morris Heights in the Bronx on Sept. 13 and surprised the students and staff with a $100,000 donation.
In an Instagram post, Cardi B shared about how kids in the Bronx have to "grow up quickly do to our circumstances and our environment." She continued, "Like a lot of these kids i went thru so much while I was going to school here. Experiences that changed me forever and made me who I am today."
Cardi B was joined by New York City Schools Chancellor David C. Banks and K. Bain, the founder and executive director of Community Capacity Development, a nonprofit social justice organization.
She said she hopes the donation can go toward creating after-school programs that will help kids "stay out the streets."
WNBC reporter Kay Angrum shared a video of the moment Cardi B entered the auditorium and surprised the students.
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“We are thrilled to welcome Cardi B back home to IS 232 in the Bronx, and we are so grateful for her generous contribution to her alma mater,” Schools Chancellor David Banks said in a statement. “Cardi B’s commitment of $100K for the arts will help the school’s kids soar to their highest heights. Thank you, Cardi!”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are punting a vote to protect same-sex and interracial marriages until after the November midterm elections, pulling back just days after Majority Leader Chuck Schumer vowed to put the Senate on the record on the issue “in the coming weeks.”
The delay was requested by key senators who have been negotiating changes to the legislation and comes at a time when many Republicans have been signaling opposition.
Wisconsin Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin, the lead champion of the bill, had predicted they would be able to secure the 10 Republican votes needed to break a filibuster and push it to passage. But hopes dimmed in recent days as some Republicans raised concerns about whether the bill would protect the rights of religious institutions, business owners or others who oppose same-sex marriage.
The decision adds to the uncertainty facing the legislation, as it gives interest groups and other lawmakers opposing the bill more time to rally Republicans against it. But supporters hope that by pushing the vote back, they will relieve election-year pressure from some conservative voters and persuade more Republicans to support the legislation.
“We’ve asked Leader Schumer for additional time and we appreciate he has agreed,” Baldwin said in a statement, along with other members of the bipartisan group that is negotiating the bill. "We are confident that when our legislation comes to the Senate floor for a vote, we will have the bipartisan support to pass the bill.”
The statement from Baldwin, Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Rob Portman of Ohio and Thom Tillis of North Carolina came after a meeting with Schumer, who had been considering a vote as soon as next week.
A spokesman for Schumer said he is “100 percent committed” to holding a vote.
“Leader Schumer will not give up and will hold the bipartisan group to their promise that the votes to pass this marriage equality legislation will be there after the election,” said Schumer spokesman Justin Goodman.
Democrats and the small group of Republicans have moved to safeguard same-sex marriage following the Supreme Court decision over the summer that overturned Roe v. Wade and the federal right to an abortion. Lawmakers fear the court’s ruling, and a concurring opinion from Justice Clarence Thomas, indicate that an earlier high court decision protecting same-sex marriage could come under threat.
“We all want to pass this quickly,” Schumer said last week. “I hope there will be 10 Republicans to support it.”
The Senate push for the historic vote — and the openness by some Republicans to back it in an election year — reflects a large shift on the issue since the Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision legalizing gay marriage nationwide. Polling shows widespread public support for allowing such unions.
The bipartisan group has been working closely with the GOP senators who are open to the legislation but have religious liberty concerns. They finalized an amendment this week that would clarify that the legislation does not affect the rights of such private individuals or businesses — rights that are already enshrined in law. The legislation requires the federal government and states to recognize all marriages that were legal where they were performed, along with interracial marriages.
“Through bipartisan collaboration, we’ve crafted commonsense language that respects religious liberty and Americans’ diverse beliefs, while upholding our view that marriage embodies the highest ideals of love, devotion, and family,” the group said in the statement.
But some Republicans who had wavered on the bill were not yet on board.
Responding to the group's statement Thursday, the White House emphasized again that the administration was leaving the mechanics of the legislation — such as the timing of a vote — to the Senate.
“We believe the Senate should find consensus just as the American people have,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Thursday.
The bill protecting same-sex marriage cleared the House in a July vote with the support of 47 Republicans — a larger than expected number that gave the measure a boost in the Senate. But as the weeks went on, more Republicans raised religious liberty issues.
Another proposed tweak to the bill would make clear that a marriage is between two people, an effort to ward off some far-right criticism that the legislation could endorse polygamy.
It's not clear how many Republicans would support the bill. In addition to Collins, Portman and Tillis, a fourth GOP senator, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, has supported same-sex marriage in the past. Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, who is up for reelection this year, has said he doesn’t see a “reason to oppose it” but has talked on both sides of the issue in recent weeks.
Most Republicans opposing the legislation have said it is simply unnecessary because the court ruling still stands. But others have gone further.
One group that has been opposed, the conservative Alliance Defending Freedom, has pushed back on the legislation.
“In the grander scheme, the Respect for Marriage Act is a way of putting an exclamation mark on the sexual revolution and its ideology,” wrote Ryan Womack, who works for the group, in a blog posted on its website.
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Associated Press writer Seung Min Kim contributed to this report.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A grocery store in Buffalo. A nightclub in Orlando. A Walmart in El Paso: All sites of hate-fueled violence against Black, Hispanic or LGBTQ Americans over the past five years. And all somber symbols of a problem that haunts the nation and must be rooted out, Biden administration officials said Thursday.
The administration gathered educators, faith leaders and others who have experienced violence firsthand for a discussion Thursday on how stop the violence. Among the attendees were Sarah Collins Rudolph, who lost an eye and still has pieces of glass inside her body from a Ku Klux Klan bombing that killed her sister and three other Black girls at a Birmingham, Alabama, church 59 years ago. She was also expected to meet with President Joe Biden.
In 2020, hate crimes in the U.S. were the highest in more than a decade and the Justice Department has said it would step up efforts to counter it. And political violence fueled by lies about the 2020 election is overlapping with hate crimes — a growing number of ardent Donald Trump supporters seem ready to strike back against the FBI or others who they believe go too far in investigating the former president.
Law enforcement officials across the country are warning and being warned about an increase in threats and the potential for violent attacks on federal agents or buildings in the wake of the FBI’s search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home.
“We must stand together and we must clearly say that a harm against any one of us is a harm against all of us,” Vice President Kamala Harris said in her opening remarks Thursday. “We are at an inflection point in our history, and indeed, our democracy. Years from now, our children and our grandchildren, they're going to ask us what did you do in that moment?”
The president was expected to announce new steps to help schools, local law enforcement agencies and cultural institutions prevent and respond to such violence.
Brandon Wolf, an LGBTQ activist, recounted from the lectern at the “United We Stand Summit” about being inside Pulse nightclub in 2016 in Florida when a shooter opened fire. He was in the bathroom at the time the shooting started, and he said he remembers how cold the water was from the faucet in the split seconds before gunfire erupted.
“I remember panic, a sprint for the emergency exit,” he said. “I remember willing myself to put one foot in front of other, eyes locked on a sliver of light from a door left ajar.”
Wolf survived, but the shooter killed 49 people who were mostly LGBTQ and people of color. He told the crowd he knows firsthand how important it is to counter hate.
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WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Thursday announced plans to develop floating platforms in the deep ocean for wind towers that could power millions of homes and vastly expand offshore wind in the United States.
The plan would target sites in the Pacific Ocean off the California and Oregon coasts, as well as in the Atlantic in the Gulf of Maine.
President Joe Biden hopes to deploy up to 15 gigawatts of electricity through floating sites by 2035, enough to power 5 million homes. The administration has previously set a goal of 30 GW of offshore wind by 2030 using traditional technology that secures wind turbines to the ocean floor.
There are only a handful of floating offshore platforms in the world — all in Europe — but officials said the technology is developing and could soon establish the United States as a global leader in offshore wind.
The push for offshore wind is part of Biden’s effort to promote clean energy and address global warming. Biden has pledged to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030. A climate-and-tax bill Biden signed last month would spend about $375 billion over 10 years to boost electric vehicles, jump-start renewable energy such as solar and wind power and develop alternative energy sources like hydrogen.
“Today we’re launching efforts to seize a new opportunity — floating offshore wind — which will let us build in deep water areas where turbines can’t be secured directly to the sea floor, but where there are strong winds that we can now harness,'' White House climate adviser Gina McCarthy said at a news conference Thursday.
Deepwater areas in the Pacific especially have potential to vastly expand offshore wind energy in the U.S., McCarthy and other officials said.
McCarthy acknowledged that the floating technology is at an early stage. But she said “coordinated actions” by federal and state officials, working with the private sector, can position the U.S. "to lead the world on floating offshore wind and bring offshore wind jobs to more parts of our country, including the West Coast.''
Two pilot projects are planned off the north and central California coast, and a third is planned in southern Oregon, officials said.
“We think the private sector is going to quickly see the real opportunity here not only to triple the country’s accessible offshore wind resources but to make the U.S. a global leader in manufacturing and deploying offshore wind,'' added Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm.
Emerging technology for floating platforms “means there’s real opportunity for the American people: an opportunity for greater energy security, greater energy affordability, cleaner air, cleaner water and of course tens of thousands of good-paying in-demand jobs,'' such as electricians, engineers, ship builders and stevedores, Granholm said.
Granholm, a top booster for U.S. efforts to promote clean energy, said the Biden administration "is all-in on making floating offshore wind a real part of our of our energy mix and winning the global race to lead in this space. And that’s why we set this big, hairy audacious goal'' of 15 gigawatts of floating offshore wind by 2035.
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said her department has approved the nation’s first two major offshore wind projects in federal waters and has begun reviewing at least 10 more.
An offshore wind lease sale off the New York and New Jersey coast set new records, she said, and a lease sale also was held in North Carolina. Seven lease sales for offshore wind projects are planned by 2025.
More than half of the nation’s offshore wind resources are in deep waters where traditional offshore wind foundations are not economically feasible, Haaland said, adding that "floating wind will help us reach areas once not attainable. And this is critical because floating wind will help us build on the administration’s goal of 30 gigawatts of offshore wind by 2030.''
The world's first floating wind farm has been operating off Scotland’s coast since 2017. Norway-based Equinor, which operates the 30-megawatt Hywind Scotland project, is building a huge, floating offshore wind farm off Norway to provide electricity for offshore oil and gas fields.
Lauren Shane, a spokeswoman for Equinor in the United States, said the company is optimistic about floating offshore wind. “We see the potential for it. We’re always evaluating opportunities and we’re committed to the U.S.,” she said. “We’re excited about the development of offshore wind in the U.S.”
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Panel featured leaders from aluminum and automotive companies
DETROIT, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Aluminum Association's Aluminum Transportation Group (ATG) hosted an expert panel, Transforming Mobility and Electrification Through Collaboration, of top automotive executives on September 15, 2022 at Huntington Place in Detroit.
"Collaboration is a critical component to ensuring the shift to electric vehicles is successful," said Mike Keown, CEO of Commonwealth Rolled Products and chair of the ATG. "When automakers and aluminum producers take a holistic approach to vehicle design, the resulting innovations tackle climate change and protect occupants better than ever."
In addition to Keown, panelists included Peter Hasenkamp, vice president of global supply chain and operations at Lucid Motors and Tommy Hosea, executive director of global purchasing and supply chain central operations at General Motors. The discussion was moderated by Bernard Swiecki, director of Automotive Communities Partnership (ACP) at the Center for Automotive Research (CAR).
The ATG and its member companies continue to work with automakers on focused projects designed to transform manufacturing processes, develop advanced alloys and joining technologies, and deliver comprehensive vehicle solutions that will drive efficient transportation for years to come. The 2022 Roadmap for Automotive Aluminum is a unified blueprint for the industry to grow and diversify within the automotive market and serves as an actionable, living document for the next decade.
Aluminum-clad vehicles will be on display at this year's NAIAS, which opened to media and the industry on September 14, 2022 before opening to the public on September 17, 2022. The ATG is a first-time sponsor of the show.
Detroit's ABC-affiliate, WXYZ, will also air a series of videos sponsored by The Aluminum Association, as an opportunity to learn more about the important role aluminum is playing in the most exciting vehicles on the road today and tomorrow.
To learn more, visit DriveAluminum.org and follow the ATG on Twitter: @DriveAluminum.
Through its Aluminum Transportation Group (ATG), The Aluminum Association communicates the benefits of aluminum in ground transportation applications to help accelerate its penetration through research programs and related outreach activities. The ATG's mission is to serve member companies and act as a central resource for the automotive and commercial vehicle industries on aluminum issues. Full members of the ATG include: Commonwealth Rolled Products, Constellium, Hydro, Kaiser Aluminum, Novelis and Rio Tinto. Real Alloy is an associate member of the ATG. Visit us online at DriveAluminum.org, and follow us on Twitter @DriveAluminum.
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SOUTHERN PINES, N.C., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Directors of First Bancorp (NASDAQ - FBNC), the parent company of First Bank, has declared a cash dividend on its common stock of $0.22 per share payable on October 25, 2022 to shareholders of record as of September 30, 2022. The $0.22 dividend rate represents a 10% increase over the dividend rate of $0.20 paid in the comparable period of 2021.
"The increased dividend reflect the Board and management's commitment to enhancing shareholder value when the Company's capital position allows us the opportunity to do so," stated Richard Moore, Chief Executive Officer of First Bancorp.
First Bancorp is a bank holding company headquartered in Southern Pines, North Carolina, with total assets of approximately $10.6 billion. Its principal activity is the ownership and operation of First Bank, a state-chartered community bank that operates 108 branches in North Carolina and South Carolina. First Bank also provides SBA loans to customers through its nationwide network of lenders - for more information on First Bank's SBA lending capabilities, please visit www.firstbanksba.com. First Bancorp's common stock is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol "FBNC."
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PRESTON, Idaho. (AP) — Two people from Oregon were killed after a plane crashed in southeast Idaho, authorities said.
The Franklin County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post that the wife and husband were flying from Boise, Idaho, to Rock Springs, Wyoming, when it crashed around 10:50 a.m. Wednesday. The couple had been in the process of going on several cross-country flights, officials said.
Search and rescue and law enforcement members responded to a report of the aircraft crash and found the plane east of Preston.
The Sheriff’s Office said recovery was in process and that names would be released after family members were notified. A crash investigation is ongoing.
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Public health officials across the Miami Valley are seeing more interest in the new COVID-19 boosters that officials say offer better protection against current variants.
“We’ve seen a slight increase in the number of people we’re seeing at our weekly COVID-19 clinics,” said Dan Suffoletto, Public Health – Dayton and Montgomery County public information manager.
Greene County also currently has 90 appointments scheduled for its Friday COVID-19 vaccine clinics.
“We did see an increase in those wanting to get the new booster,” said Laurie Fox, public information officer at Greene County Public Health.
Health officials continue to encourage local residents to get vaccinated against COVID-19 and take advantage of the updated booster shots, which target the more prevalent subvariants of the omicron variant.
“It does give you that added benefit of protection,” Fox said. She added people should talk to their doctors if they have concerns about how the vaccine may affect them.
“If there are concerns, please talk to your trusted health care provider,” she said.
The Ohio Department of Health reported an additional 6,825 people have started their vaccine series, up from the 3,671 vaccinations reported last week. Approximately 63.81% of the state has had at least one dose of the vaccine.
The state made a big leap in the number of people who received their second booster shot, reporting an increase of 43,224 shots statewide. This is up from the 2,535 second booster shots reported last week. Approximately 892,207 people have received their second booster shot in Ohio, according to ODH.
Locally, Warren County is the most vaccinated county in the Dayton region with 65.2% of residents considered fully vaccinated against COVID-19. The rest of the Dayton region is below the state rate vaccination at 59.13%.
Butler County follows with 57.35% vaccinated. Montgomery and Greene counties have similar vaccination rates of 55.95% and 55.82%, respectively. Just over half of Clark County is vaccinated at 51.6%. The counties of Miami, Champaign, Preble and Darke are all below half-vaccinated with rates of 47.54%, 43.35%, 40.71% and 38.59%, respectively.
The director-general of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said at a Wednesday press conference that the end of the pandemic is in sight on a worldwide basis.
“Last week, the number of weekly reported deaths from COVID-19 was the lowest since March 2020,” Ghebreyesus said. “We have never been in a better position to end the pandemic. We are not there yet, but the end is in sight.”
Worldwide, COVID-19 has resulted in 6.4 million deaths, according to the World Health Organization. There have been over 607 million cases reported globally, along with over 12.6 billion doses of COVID vaccines administered.
Local health officials say it is too soon to speculate what the future will be like for COVID-19.
“I don’t believe it will ever completely go away,” Fox said.
Coronavirus cases continue to decrease in Ohio, but weekly hospitalizations were back over 600 Thursday for the first time in three weeks.
The state recorded 626 new hospitalizations in the last week, according to the state health department. The last time weekly hospitalizations surpassed 600 was on Aug. 25 when 604 hospitalizations were reported. It also marked the first time in three weeks that new hospitalizations increased.
ODH reported 20,552 cases Thursday compared to 21,731 cases on Sept. 8. It’s the fewest weekly cases recorded in more than two months, since the state added 18,838 cases on July 7.
Public Health – Dayton and Montgomery County reported seeing an approximately 50% decrease in the number of new COVID cases.
Forty-eight ICU admissions and 99 deaths were recorded in the past week, according to the state health department.
As of Thursday, there were a total of 1,133 people hospitalized with COVID and 154 ICU patients with COVID in Ohio’s hospitals, according to the Ohio Hospital Association.
West central Ohio, which includes Champaign, Clark, Darke, Greene, Miami, Montgomery, Preble and Shelby counties, accounted for 80 inpatients. It’s a 13% decrease from last week and a 39% decrease from 60 days ago.
Butler, Warren, Hamilton, Adams, Brown, Clermont and Clinton counties make up southwest Ohio, which recorded 188 people hospitalized with the virus on Thursday, according to OHA. The region saw a 10% increase compared to the past week but a 3% decrease from 60 days ago.
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Nissan recalls over 200K pickups due to risk of rolling away
Published: Sep. 15, 2022 at 2:41 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
DETROIT (AP) — Nissan is recalling more than 203,000 pickup trucks in the U.S. because they can roll away unexpectedly when shifted into park.
The recall covers Frontier and Titan pickups from the 2020 through 2023 model years.
Nissan says owners should use the parking brake whenever they park their trucks.
The company says a transmission parking pawl may not engage when the trucks are shifted into park. The pawl stops the trucks from moving.
Nissan says it’s not aware of any crashes or injuries.
The company is still working on repairs.
Owners will get letters starting Nov. 1, and they’ll be notified again when a fix is available.
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DOVER, Del., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Chesapeake Utilities Corporation (NYSE: CPK) subsidiary Sharp Energy celebrated the opening of a new fueling station in Dunn, North Carolina, on Wednesday, Sept. 14, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
The facility is the first Sharp AutoGas fueling station dispensing propane autogas in North Carolina. The newly constructed fueling station is located at 17220 U.S. Route 421 in Dunn, North Carolina, and is one of 60 propane fueling stations operated by Sharp AutoGas. Other stations are in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and Florida. Propane autogas is a cleaner-burning alternative vehicle fuel that substantially reduces greenhouse gases and other harmful emissions when compared to gasoline or diesel fuel.
The Company first expanded its operating footprint into the Carolinas in December when its propane subsidiary, Sharp Energy, acquired the propane operating assets of Diversified Energy Company. In June, Sharp Energy acquired the propane operating assets of Davenport Energy's Siler City propane division, further expanding into North Carolina.
"We are excited to expand our propane autogas offerings to North Carolina. This new fueling station will provide a lower emissions fuel option for truck fleets and other vehicles that operate in the area," said Andrew Hesson, vice president of propane operations.
The ribbon-cutting event included representatives from the North Carolina Energy Policy Council, Dunn Chamber of Commerce and the North Carolina Technical Education Center, among others.
As part of the Company's mission, Chesapeake Utilities strives to make life better for the people and communities where its employees live, work and serve. During the grand opening event, Chesapeake Utilities announced a $5,000 donation to the Beacon Rescue Mission in Dunn, North Carolina. The organization provides food, shelter and clothing to the homeless in Harnett County.
Sharp Energy, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Chesapeake Utilities Corporation, headquartered in Georgetown, Delaware, distributes propane to residential, commercial and industrial customers in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Florida. With multiple rail facilities and approximately nine million gallons of propane storage, Sharp Energy has established a solid supply portfolio. Sharp Energy is a proud partner of Alliance AutoGas, a national network of companies that have joined together to deliver a comprehensive alternative fueling solution including EPA-certified propane AutoGas vehicle conversions, on-site fueling infrastructure, fuel supply, safety and operational training, and ongoing technical support. To learn more about Sharp Energy, visit www.sharpenergy.com.
Chesapeake Utilities Corporation is a diversified energy delivery company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Chesapeake Utilities Corporation offers sustainable energy solutions through its natural gas transmission and distribution, electricity generation and distribution, propane gas distribution, mobile compressed natural gas utility services and solutions, and other businesses. For more information, visit www.chpk.com.
Please note that Chesapeake Utilities Corporation is not affiliated with Chesapeake Energy, an oil and natural gas exploration company headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
For more information, contact:
Brianna Patterson
Manager, Public Relations and Strategic Communications
419-314-1233
bpatterson@chpk.com
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AUBURN HILLS, Mich., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BorgWarner Inc. (NYSE: BWA) announces the following Webcast:
If you are unable to participate during the live webcast, the call will be archived at
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For more than 130 years, BorgWarner Inc. (NYSE: BWA) has been a transformative global product leader bringing successful mobility innovation to market. Today, we're accelerating the world's transition to eMobility -- to help build a cleaner, healthier, safer future for all. For more information, please visit borgwarner.com.
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The parent-teacher association (PTA) president of a school at Chandera, who was absconding after a molestation case was filed by a student, was arrested on Thursday.
The arrested is T.T. Balachandran, 50. He was also the CPI(M) Echikoval North branch secretary.
According to the complainant, he had touched her with sexual intent during Onam celebrations at the school.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were:
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Roger Federer won 103 total titles as a professional tennis player. The very first came when he was 19 and beat Julien Boutter 6-4, 6-7 (7), 6-4 on an indoor hard court in Milan, Italy, in February 2001.
Federer, who announced his retirement at age 41 on Thursday, is best known for his 20 championships at Grand Slam tournaments: eight at Wimbledon, six at the Australian Open, five at the U.S. Open and one at the French Open.
A look at 10 of Federer’s most memorable Grand Slam finals:
— The first: Wimbledon in 2003
Federer won the 1998 junior title at the All England Club, and another sign of what was to come arrived when he ended seven-time Wimbledon champion Pete Sampras’ 31-match winning streak in the fourth round there in 2001. But Federer had not made it past the quarterfinals at any major tournament until two years later at Wimbledon, when he earned his first Grand Slam trophy at age 21 with a 7-6 (5), 6-2, 7-6 (3) victory over Mark Philippoussis. “There was pressure from all sides; also from myself,” Federer said that day, after sobbing on court when the match ended.
— The first in New York: U.S. Open in 2004
Federer talked about the noise and all of the goings-on in New York, wondering aloud how he would deal with all of the conditions and distractions there. He won it the fifth time he entered, beating Lleyton Hewitt 6-0, 7-6 (3), 6-0 — the first time there had been two shutout sets in the event’s championship match since 1884. “I’m grateful every tournament, every Grand Slam I win. You never know which is your last,” Federer said then. That would be the first of five triumphs in a row at Flushing Meadows. He beat a string of opponents from multiple generations — all, like Hewitt, major champions and ranked No. 1 at some point — in the finals: Andre Agassi, Andy Roddick, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray.
— The rival: French Open in 2005 and beyond
Federer’s first Grand Slam matchup against Rafael Nadal was in the semifinals of the 2005 French Open, which Nadal won en route to his first major trophy at age 19. Their first Grand Slam final came a year later in Paris, when Federer was 24 and 7-0 in major title matches for his career (the best start for a man since the 1880s). He also was riding a 27-match unbeaten streak at majors overall. They had met six times previously, but what was at stake in 2006 truly marked the beginning of what would become an enduring rivalry. It was the first French Open final since 1984 between men ranked No. 1 (Federer) and No. 2 (Nadal). Nadal won 1-6, 6-1, 6-4, 7-6 (4), using his high-bouncing, topspin-lathered lefty forehand to create big problems on Federer’s backhand side. The result made Federer 0-4 against Nadal in 2006, 44-0 against everyone else.
— The greatest: Wimbledon in 2008
After losing to Nadal in three straight French Open finals (2006-08) and beating him in two consecutive Wimbledon finals (2006-07), Federer carried winning streaks of 40 matches at the All England Club and 65 on grass courts into their latest meeting at Centre Court. In what many consider the greatest tennis match in the sport’s long history, Nadal ended Federer’s bid for a sixth championship in a row at Wimbledon by edging him 6-4, 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-7 (8), 9-7 as darkness descended after 9 p.m. in a 4-hour, 48-minute test of will as much as skill. “Probably my hardest loss, by far,” Federer said.
— The career Grand Slam: French Open in 2009
Federer became the sixth man with a career Grand Slam — at least one trophy at all four majors — and tied Sampras’ men’s record of 14 majors by beating Robin Soderling 6-1, 7-6 (1), 6-4 in Paris. This was one of Federer’s five appearances in the title match at Roland Garros, and the only one against someone other than Nadal. Instead, Federer beat the man who beat Nadal, Soderling. “I don’t know if we’ll ever know who was the greatest of all time, but I’m definitely happy to be right up there,” Federer said.
— No. 15: Wimbledon in 2009
Federer broke Sampras’ men’s mark for most Slam trophies with his 15th by scraping past familiar foil Roddick 5-7, 7-6 (6), 7-6 (5), 3-6, 16-14. Federer broke the big-serving Roddick for the only time in the 77th and last game. The match lasted 4 hours, 16 minutes; the fifth set alone was more than 1 1/2 hours. Afterward, Federer pulled on a specially tailored white jacket with a gold “15″ stitched on the back. Sampras said: “Now he’s an icon.”
— The comeback: Australian Open in 2017
Federer took the last half of 2016 off after surgery on his left knee, and he returned to claim his first Grand Slam title since 2012 by defeating Nadal 6-4, 3-6, 6-1, 3-6, 6-3 at Melbourne Park. Federer was down a break in the fifth set but roared back with the help of a 10-point run — and a new, flatter backhand — to grab his 18th major. Federer entered the day 2-6 against Nadal in Slam finals and said afterward: “This one means a lot to me because he’s caused me problems over the years.”
— No. 8 at the All England Club: Wimbledon in 2017
Federer, less than a month from turning 36, won his men’s-record eighth Wimbledon trophy, needing just 101 minutes to dismiss 2014 U.S. Open champion Marin Cilic 6-3, 6-1, 6-4. “Wimbledon was always my favorite tournament. Will always be my favorite tournament,” said Federer, the oldest male champion there in the Open era, which began in 1968.
— The last championship: Australian Open in 2018
Federer beat Cilic again for his third title in a five-major span and 20th Slam overall, although this one at Melbourne Park was much tougher: 6-2, 6-7 (5), 6-3, 3-6, 6-1. Said Federer: “The fairytale continues for us, for me.”
— The last final: Wimbledon in 2019
Federer came as close as possible to earning title No. 9 at Wimbledon and No. 21 from all Slam tournaments but lost to Djokovic 7-6 (5), 1-6, 7-6 (4), 4-6, 13-12 (3) in the first fifth-set tiebreaker in a final at the All England Club. Federer held two championship points, but couldn’t convert. He finished with more total points, more winners, more aces and more breaks of serve. “I don’t want to be depressed,” Federer said, “about actually an amazing tennis match.”
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WFO AMARILLO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, September 15, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
329 PM CDT Thu Sep 15 2022
...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of eastern Armstrong,
southwestern Wheeler, southern Gray, western Collingsworth and Donley
Counties through 400 PM CDT...
At 329 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from 4 miles north of Howardwick to 7 miles
southwest of Hedley. Movement was east at 20 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph and nickel size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Clarendon, Mclean, Howardwick, Hedley, Lelia Lake, Lake Mcclellan,
Alanreed, Greenbelt Lake and Goodnight.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with these storms and may lead
to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with these storms.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
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The U.S.'s Christian majority has been shrinking for decades. A Pew Research Center study shows that as of 2020, about 64% of Americans identify as Christian. Fifty years ago, that number was 90%.
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HOUSTON — So, why does Hispanic Heritage Month start on Sept. 15 through mid-October? Let’s break it down.
Independence Day for several countries
The reason Hispanic Heritage Month runs from Sept. 15 through Oct. 15 is that Sept. 15 is significant to a number of Latin American countries.
It is the anniversary of independence for Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. Also, Sept. 16 is Mexico’s Independence Day. Some Americans think that day is Cinco de Mayo, but Sept. 16 marks the day in 1810 when a catholic priest, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla in Mexico made the first cry for independence. His moving speech lit a spark and inspired a movement.
Started as a week, President Reagan made it a month
Hispanic Heritage Month started as a week in 1968. President Lyndon Johnson signed the law making the week of Sept. 15 a time to honor the contributions of the Hispanic and Latin American communities. In 1988, Reagan signed into law a bill turning that week into an entire month to celebrate Hispanic heritage.
Hispanic population growth in Texas
There is a lot to celebrate here in Texas. According to the U.S. Census, Hispanics makeup nearly 40% of the state’s population and could soon become the majority in Texas.
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DOVER, Del., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Chesapeake Utilities Corporation (NYSE: CPK) subsidiary Sharp Energy celebrated the opening of a new fueling station in Dunn, North Carolina, on Wednesday, Sept. 14, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
The facility is the first Sharp AutoGas fueling station dispensing propane autogas in North Carolina. The newly constructed fueling station is located at 17220 U.S. Route 421 in Dunn, North Carolina, and is one of 60 propane fueling stations operated by Sharp AutoGas. Other stations are in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and Florida. Propane autogas is a cleaner-burning alternative vehicle fuel that substantially reduces greenhouse gases and other harmful emissions when compared to gasoline or diesel fuel.
The Company first expanded its operating footprint into the Carolinas in December when its propane subsidiary, Sharp Energy, acquired the propane operating assets of Diversified Energy Company. In June, Sharp Energy acquired the propane operating assets of Davenport Energy's Siler City propane division, further expanding into North Carolina.
"We are excited to expand our propane autogas offerings to North Carolina. This new fueling station will provide a lower emissions fuel option for truck fleets and other vehicles that operate in the area," said Andrew Hesson, vice president of propane operations.
The ribbon-cutting event included representatives from the North Carolina Energy Policy Council, Dunn Chamber of Commerce and the North Carolina Technical Education Center, among others.
As part of the Company's mission, Chesapeake Utilities strives to make life better for the people and communities where its employees live, work and serve. During the grand opening event, Chesapeake Utilities announced a $5,000 donation to the Beacon Rescue Mission in Dunn, North Carolina. The organization provides food, shelter and clothing to the homeless in Harnett County.
Sharp Energy, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Chesapeake Utilities Corporation, headquartered in Georgetown, Delaware, distributes propane to residential, commercial and industrial customers in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Florida. With multiple rail facilities and approximately nine million gallons of propane storage, Sharp Energy has established a solid supply portfolio. Sharp Energy is a proud partner of Alliance AutoGas, a national network of companies that have joined together to deliver a comprehensive alternative fueling solution including EPA-certified propane AutoGas vehicle conversions, on-site fueling infrastructure, fuel supply, safety and operational training, and ongoing technical support. To learn more about Sharp Energy, visit www.sharpenergy.com.
Chesapeake Utilities Corporation is a diversified energy delivery company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Chesapeake Utilities Corporation offers sustainable energy solutions through its natural gas transmission and distribution, electricity generation and distribution, propane gas distribution, mobile compressed natural gas utility services and solutions, and other businesses. For more information, visit www.chpk.com.
Please note that Chesapeake Utilities Corporation is not affiliated with Chesapeake Energy, an oil and natural gas exploration company headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
For more information, contact:
Brianna Patterson
Manager, Public Relations and Strategic Communications
419-314-1233
bpatterson@chpk.com
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The Philadelphia Phillies — perhaps without first baseman Rhys Hoskins — will shoot for a three-game sweep of the host Miami Marlins on Thursday night.
Hoskins suffered a bruise on his right hand when he was hit by a pitch from Edward Cabrera in the third inning on Wednesday. X-rays were negative.
Even so, the Phillies (80-62) went on to win their fifth consecutive game. Former Marlins catcher J.T. Realmuto victimized his former team with two homers and four RBIs in a 6-1 victory.
The Phillies, who hold the second of three National League wild-card positions, have won 10 of their past 12 meetings with the Marlins. Miami won the teams’ first head-to-head series this year, taking three out of four games at home in mid-April, but the Phillies have dominated since then.
Phillies manager Rob Thomson said sweeping the Marlins over three games in the final series before the All-Star break was a boost to his team.
“That was an important series,” Thomson said on Wednesday. “I know the Marlins haven’t scored a lot of runs lately, but they have the ability to score. They have done it against us. They are a good club.”
On Thursday, Philadelphia will start right-hander Noah Syndergaard (9-9, 4.09 ERA), who is very familiar with the Marlins from his days as a member of the New York Mets.
Miami (58-85) will start right-hander Pablo Lopez (8-10, 4.04 ERA).
Syndergaard, since being acquired in a trade with the Los Angeles Angels on Aug. 2, is 4-1 with a 4.61 ERA in seven starts for the Phillies.
In 14 career starts against the Marlins, Syndergaard is 7-2 with a 2.30 ERA. This year,he is 0-1 with a 3.27 ERA in two starts vs. Miami.
The 30-year-old veteran is 7-3 with a 3.56 ERA at home this year. On the road, he is 2-6 with a 5.06 ERA.
Lopez is 2-1 with a 3.16 ERA in seven career starts against the Phillies. He beat Philadelphia on April 15, when he tossed 5 1/3 scoreless innings in Miami.
The Marlins are 13-15 when Lopez starts. On Thursday, he likely will have to face Phillies star Bryce Harper, who leads his squad with a .956 OPS.
Harper went 1-for-3 with a homer, two walks and two runs on Wednesday, but he was overshadowed by Realmuto.
Syndergaard figures to face Marlins rookie third baseman Jordan Groshans, who went 3-for-3 on Wednesday in his second major league game. The 22-year-old Texas native went 0-for-3 in his debut on Tuesday.
“Getting that first hit is always big, to get that out of the way,” Marlins manager Don Mattingly said. “I’m sure as the game went on, his confidence grew.
“He has a nice swing. If he stays with his approach, he has a chance to hit. He is still young, and he will get bigger and stronger.”
Groshans said he felt more comfortable on Wednesday.
“It was awesome,” he said. “(Getting the first hit) was a big relief. I felt like the world was off my shoulders.
“I just tried to see the ball up. I tried not to swing at anything low in the zone.”
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Roger Federer’s big matches: A look at 10 Grand Slam finals
By HOWARD FENDRICH
AP Tennis Writer
Roger Federer has announced his retirement at age 41 after participating in some of the most memorable matches in the history of Grand Slam tennis. He won 20 of his 103 total titles as a professional player at the sport’s four most prestigious tournaments. The very first major championship came at Wimbledon in 2003 and the last came at the Australian Open in 2018. His career is defined by its excellence and also by Federer’s enduring rivalries with two of the other greatest to play tennis, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic.
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(NewsNation) — Migrants who were bused from the southern border were dropped off at Vice President Kamala Harris’s Washington, D.C., residence early Thursday morning.
Harris’s residence sits on a hilltop on a 72-acre compound of the U.S. Naval Observatory, the official residence of the vice president. The two buses from Texas were parked outside the residence and NewsNation is on the scene and will be providing live updates throughout the morning.
The migrants being bused are asylum seekers who are now permitted to stay in the United States by U.S. Customs and Border Protection until their petitions to stay in the country go through the system. The migrants have escalated a gubernatorial feud and brought a humanitarian crisis across the country.
NewsNation affiliate DC News Now spoke with one of the migrants who arrived outside Harris’s residence. Wilder Alberto Pinto Sosa and his son traveled across eight countries from Venezuela to get to the United States. Sosa said he’s the first of his family to make it to the U.S. and is grateful to make a better life for his son. New York is their final destination.
When asked how he has been treated, he said “perfecto,” adding that he’s been treated with dignity and respect since getting to the U.S. — “much better than any other country I’ve passed through.”
The busing crisis began in spring when Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey announced plans to send busloads of migrants to Washington, D.C., and New York City in response to President Joe Biden’s decision to lift a pandemic-era emergency health order that restricted migrant entry numbers. Abbott recently began busing migrants to Chicago this summer.
Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser last week declared a public emergency over the migrant busing. The move would help “triage the needs of people arriving” in the city, according to the mayor.
The declaration allows Bowser to create an Office of Migrant Services and allocate funds toward that department. She said the office will support the needs of migrants during a “humanitarian crisis.”
This comes as U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents are arresting a record number of migrants crossing into the U.S. from Mexico. U.S. authorities stopped migrants 1.43 million times at the Mexican border from January through July, up 28% from the same period last year, Customs and Border Protection said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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While Patriots quarterback Mac Jones missed the first practice of his career Thursday due to illness, Steelers running back Najee Harris went from limited participation to being a full go in Pittsburgh.
The Steelers upgraded Harris to full participation on their latest practice report, despite a new foot injury he suffered during a Week 1 win at Cincinnati. Steelers cornerback Levi Wallace (ankle) was also upgraded to full participation.
For the Patriots, offensive tackle Trent Brown was limited by a new ankle injury, and linebacker Ja’Whaun Bentley was upgraded to limited participation.
Both teams’ complete practice reports are below.
PATRIOTS
Did not participate
QB Mac Jones (illness)
Limited participation
OT Trent Brown (ankle)
LB Ja’Whaun Bentley (toe)
S Adrian Phillips (ribs)
RB Pierre Strong (shoulder)
CB Shaun Wade (ankle)
S Joshuah Bldsoe (groin)
STEELERS
Limited participation
DL Cameron Heyward (rest)
C Mason Cole (ankle)
Full participation
RB Najee Harris (foot)
CB Levi Wallace (ankle)
LB Rob Spillane (eye)
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Latina Business Leader to Speak on Solutions for Closing the Ownership Gap at Clinton Global Initiative Meeting
TUSTIN, Calif., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- She's the embodiment of the American Dream. Now she's been tapped on the shoulder by the Clinton Foundation to share her expertise on the biggest stage this month at the Clinton Global Initiative 2022 Meeting. A first-generation Hispanic-American, Patty Arvielo has built the largest independent Latina-owned company in the mortgage industry, New American Funding. Arvielo's company is one the nation's largest lenders and specializes in bringing the dream of homeownership to underserved communities.
The knowledge that Arvielo has gained in more than 40 years in the mortgage business has made her a sought-after expert on overcoming the racial wealth gap, building generational wealth in minority communities, and creating sustainable homeownership nationwide.
As such, New American Funding is pleased to announce that Arvielo will share her expertise at the Clinton Global Initiative 2022 Meeting on Mon., Sept. 19 in New York City. Arvielo is part of a panel speaking at "Beyond Representation: How We Can Close the Ownership Gap for Entrepreneurs and Investors of Color."
This will be the first large-scale meeting hosted by the Clinton Global Initiative since 2016.
The panel will focus on building generational wealth for historically excluded communities and working together to identify and break down the greatest systemic barriers that have slowed and prevented asset building and wealth creation.
During the panel, Arvielo will share how in less than 20 years, she has built New American Funding from a small company with a handful of employees into one of the nation's largest mortgage companies by doing the right thing. Arvielo will also share how the company has become of the nation's leading lenders to minority communities.
Arvielo created the company's Latino Focus and New American Dream initiatives that focus on increasing homeownership in Hispanic and Black communities. Driven by Arvielo, the percentage of loans from New American Funding to Hispanic and Black borrowers was 44.8% and 38.2% higher, respectively, than the industry percentage in 2021 (per 2021 HMDA data).
"I am honored to be asked to speak at the Clinton Global Initiative alongside so many leaders who I respect," Arvielo said. "I look forward to sharing my experience in lifting up underserved communities as we seek solutions that will address generations of inequities. Only together will we be able to address these problems and turn a corner in this country."
New American Funding is an independent mortgage lender with a servicing portfolio of 237,000+ loans for approximately $62.8 billion and 163 nationwide locations. The company is #18 on the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® in 2022 and has made Inc. 5000's list of Fastest-Growing Companies in America eight times. It also offers state-of-the-art career training and provides its branch Loan Officers with innovative technologies to streamline the mortgage process.
The Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) convenes global and emerging leaders to create and implement solutions to the world's most pressing challenges. CGI works with partners to drive action through its unique model. Rather than directly implementing projects, CGI facilitates action by helping members connect, collaborate, and develop Commitments to Action — new, specific, and measurable plans that address global challenges. Through CGI, the community has made more than 3,700 Commitments to Action that have made a difference in the lives of more than 435 million people in more than 180 countries.
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– Clinicians agree that evidence supports testing benefits for all –
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Invitae (NYSE: NVTA), a leading medical genetics company, joined other clinical experts in releasing a new commentary in Journal of Clinical Oncology Precision Oncology, underscoring the importance of universal germline testing for all patients with cancer (solid tumors). The paper reports a meta-analysis of multiple clinical publications supporting universal testing, independent of age, stage, family history or type of cancer. It reports that for cancer types such as pancreatic and ovarian where universal genetic testing is already recommended, 13% and 20% of patients (respectively) have identifiable actionable heritable gene mutations,2. In comparison, the actionable inherited gene mutation rate for patients with other cancer types is similar: breast 11%, endometrial 13%, prostate 14%, kidney 13%, bladder 14%, testicular 13%, colorectal 13%, liver 14%, and stomach 14%.
Furthermore, it reports that between 5-13% of patients with cancer with heritable gene mutations are missed by current restrictive testing guidelines and are unable to benefit from associated precision treatment and clinical trial benefits. First, allowing all patients to receive germline testing, without restrictive guidelines, affords patients access to precision therapies, clinical trials and other risk reducing interventions that can improve outcomes, and even extend overall patient survival1. Second, genetic testing informs surveillance and risk reduction for future cancers in patients already affected by cancer. Third, cascade testing helps alert their family members of an increased risk for cancer, so they too can then take advantage of monitoring and risk reducing interventions. Consistent with the Cancer Moonshot 2.0 and the President's Cancer Panel report 2022, the expert consensus concludes that current evidence supports the implementation of universal germline genetic testing for all patients with cancer (solid tumors).
"This consensus from nationally recognized, cancer genetics clinical experts reinforces the current guidelines that universal genetic testing be offered in all patients with ovarian and pancreatic cancer and either be offered or considered in all patients with colorectal," said Ed Esplin, MD, PhD, FACMG, FACP, clinical geneticist at Invitae. "More importantly, this is a call to all guidelines committees, insurer medical policy makers and the President's Cancer Moonshot Cabinet to make universal genetic testing available to potentially reduce mortality and improve the lives of all patients with cancer."
The collaborative commentary included experts from the Carolina Urologic Research Center, City of Hope, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Mayo Clinic and Invitae.
"The PROCLAIM study demonstrates the clinical utility of universal germline genetic testing in patients with prostate cancer. Current NCCN guidelines preclude some prostate cancer patients from receiving germline testing, thus depriving these patients of the potential to receive precision-based therapies and specific clinical trial eligibility, while perpetuating healthcare disparities among historically underrepresented populations. The PROCLAIM data supports universal genetic testing for prostate cancer patients. We should expeditiously eliminate barriers to gene-based precision therapies to optimize patient outcomes and accelerate equitable access to care," said Neal Shore, MD, urologist and medical director, Carolina Urologic Research Center.
Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for nearly 10 million deaths in 2020.
Worldwide, there were an estimated 18.1 million new cases of cancer in 2018, with one in four men and one in five women developing the disease. In addition, there were 43.8 million persons living with cancer in 2018 who were diagnosed within the last five years.
"The INTERCEPT study has shown the prevalence and clinical utility of germline genetic testing is virtually the same across 14 cancer types, even those cancers not traditionally considered hereditary. This data supports universal genetic testing not only for colorectal cancer, but patients with all cancer types, to potentially improve their treatment and future cancer prevention for them and their family members," said Jewel Samadder, MD, enterprise co-leader precision/individualized cancer medicine, Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Restrictive guidelines can lead to disparities in cancer care. Offering germline genetic testing to all patients with cancer at diagnosis may help reduce inequities in cancer care by expanding access for all patients to precision therapy or clinical treatment trials.
"The prevalence of pathogenic variants in cancer susceptibility genes for which there are management guidelines is similar among patients with all types of solid tumors, therefore, it does not makes sense that current guidelines only recommend germline genetic testing for all patients with ovarian, pancreatic, and recently, colorectal cancers. This information has the potential to affect the treatment of these individuals' current cancers. In addition, it has the potential to allow for the prevention or early detection of future cancers in both these patients and their family members," said Heather Hampel, MS, CGC, professor, Department of Medical Oncology & Therapeutics Research, City of Hope.
About Invitae
Invitae Corporation (NYSE: NVTA) is a leading medical genetics company, whose mission is to bring comprehensive genetic information into mainstream medicine to improve healthcare for billions of people. Invitae's goal is to aggregate the world's genetic tests into a single service with higher quality, faster turnaround time and lower prices. For more information, visit the company's website at invitae.com.
Safe Harbor Statement
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements relating to the potential benefits of universal genetic testing for all patients with cancer; and that restrictive guidelines can lead to disparities in cancer care. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially and reported results should not be considered as an indication of future performance. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: the company's history of losses; the company's ability to compete; the company's failure to manage growth effectively; the company's need to scale its infrastructure in advance of demand for its tests and to increase demand for its tests; the company's ability to use rapidly changing genetic data to interpret test results accurately and consistently; security breaches, loss of data and other disruptions; laws and regulations applicable to the company's business; and the other risks set forth in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the risks set forth in the company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2022. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date hereof, and Invitae Corporation disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
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Capital enables University of Michigan spinout to develop life-saving nitric oxide therapies.
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NOTA Laboratories, a development stage company focused on proprietary nitric oxide (NO) delivery systems to treat a wide variety of serious respiratory and inflammatory illnesses, has just completed its second round of financing led by Pegasus Tech Ventures, a global venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley. This financing adds to the $4.3 million the Company has already secured from NIH for its nitric oxide generating technologies.
NOTA has two patented platform technologies that inexpensively generate NO "on-demand." The Company's systems are compact and suitable for the hospital, clinic, and in-home/ambulatory use. NOTA's NOGEN™ System generates NO continuously for up to 6 months by the electrochemical reduction of nitrite, while the company's LANOR™ System uses light activated chemistry to produce NO from a filmstrip coated with a proprietary chemical mixture. LANOR™ is also small, lightweight and can be battery operated, making it ideal for both emergency and in-home use.
Nitric oxide's biological importance was only discovered in the 1980s and has since garnered a tremendous amount of attention from biomedical researchers with over 20,000 publications and 400 ongoing clinical trials using NO for a range of applications. NO is produced in our sinuses, blood vessels and in other parts of the body where it acts as an antiviral, antibacterial, vasodilator, anti-inflammatory, and antithrombotic. It is a key component of the body's immune response to infection. NOTA's systems can be used to augment the body's NO production for potentially life-saving applications like persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn (PPHN), reducing systemic inflammation response syndrome (SIRS) during and after cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) surgery, for use in treating respiratory infections and their associated inflammatory response, and for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
Malcolm Kahn, NOTA's CEO said, "We are pleased about our expanding relationship with Pegasus and the synergies their investor partners bring to the table." Bill Reichert, Partner at Pegasus Tech Ventures, noted, "We are delighted with the progress that the NOTA team has made toward a commercial product, and we are very excited about the potential to deliver NO in a broad range of disease indications using a safer, more cost-effective medical device."
NOTA's other proprietary NO delivery technologies, which are single-use infection fighting disposables, including a sinus spray, a sachet that can be placed into a face mask and two catheter products, have been spun out into a separately run startup called NOxygen Therapeutics.
Pegasus Tech Ventures is a global venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley with $2 Billion in assets under management. Pegasus offers intellectual and financial capital to emerging technology companies around the world. In addition to offering institutional investors a top-tier venture capital investment approach, Pegasus also offers a unique Venture Capital-as-a-Service (VCaaS) model for large, global corporations that wish to partner with cutting-edge technology startups. For more information about Pegasus, go to https://www.pegasustechventures.com.
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(AP) – A Virginia man who stormed the U.S. Capitol while wearing an antisemitic “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirt over a Nazi-themed shirt was sentenced on Thursday to 75 days of imprisonment.
Robert Keith Packer, 57, declined to address U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols before he sentenced him during hearing held by video conference. The judge noted the “incredibly offensive” message on Packer’s sweatshirt before imposing the sentence.
“It seems to me that he wore that sweatshirt for a reason. We don’t know what the reason was because Mr. Packer hasn’t told us,” Nichols said.
Photographs of Packer wearing the sweatshirt went viral after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. When FBI agents asked him why he wore it, he “fatuously” replied, “Because I was cold,” a federal prosecutor said in a court filing.
Packer’s sweatshirt depicted an image of a human skull above the words “Camp Auschwitz.” The word “Staff” was on the back. It also bore the phrase “Work Brings Freedom,” a rough translation of the German words above the entrance gate to Auschwitz, the concentration camp in occupied Poland where Nazis killed more than 1 million men, women and children.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Mona Furst said she learned on Wednesday that Packer also wore an “SS” T-shirt — a reference to the Nazi Party paramilitary organization founded by Adolf Hitler — under his sweatshirt on Jan. 6. Packer “attacked the very government that gave him the freedom to express those beliefs, no matter how abhorrent or evil they may be” when he joined the mob supporting then-President Donald Trump, the prosecutor said
Packer “wanted to support the subversion of our republic and keep a dictatorial ruler in place by force and violence,” Furst told the judge.
Defense attorney Stephen Brennwald acknowledged that Packer’s attire was “seriously offensive” but argued that it shouldn’t be a sentencing factor because he has a free speech right to wear it.
“It’s just awful that he wore that shirt that day. I just don’t think it’s appropriate to give him extra time because of that because he’s allowed to wear it,” he said.
Brennwald added that Packer was offended and angry to be labeled a white supremacist “because he doesn’t see himself that way at all.” The defense lawyer said Packer wanted him to sue House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for linking him to white supremacy during a press conference several days after the riot.
Packer declined to speak during Thursday’s hearing because he didn’t want his words “splashed out there” on social media, his lawyer told the judge.
Packer, a resident of Newport News, Virginia, pleaded guilty in January to a misdemeanor count of parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building, which carries a maximum sentence of six months of imprisonment.
Packer told the FBI that he was about 10 to 12 feet away from a rioter, Ashli Babbitt, when a police officer fatally shot her as she tried to climb through the broken window of a barricaded door leading to the Speaker’s Lobby.
“He told the agents he heard the shot and saw her fall back from the window she was trying to climb through,” Furst wrote in a court filing.
Furst said Packer didn’t express any remorse during his FBI interview.
“He was more interested in relaying how he received hate mail and how he was ‘hounded’ by the media for interviews,” she added.
Packer’s younger sister, Kimberly Rice, wrote a letter asking the judge for leniency. She said her brother’s sweatshirt “could be considered in poor taste” but added that “freedom of expression” isn’t a crime.
Prosecutors had recommended a sentence of 75 days of incarceration followed by 36 months of probation. Brennwald sought a probationary sentence with no jail time.
FBI agents arrested Packer a week after the riot. He has remained free while awaiting sentencing.
Packer is a self-employed pipe fitter. Prosecutors say he has a lengthy criminal record, with approximately 21 convictions, mostly for drunken driving and other motor vehicle violations.
More than 870 people have been charged with federal crimes for their conduct on Jan. 6. Approximately 400 of them have pleaded guilty, mostly to misdemeanor offenses. Over 250 riot defendants have been sentenced, with roughly half getting terms of imprisonment ranging from seven days to 10 years.
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NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg about the railroad deal and how this affects labor going forward.
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Libertarian Party of Virginia has voted to dissolve itself amid disagreements with the party's national direction, but some are questioning whether the vote was legitimate.
The Virginian-Pilot reports that the vote was taken during a virtual board meeting on Sunday.
Holly Ward, the party's chair, said she voted to dissolve the organization because she didn't believe it would be able to run high-quality candidates for office owing to some of the statements coming from Libertarian officials nationwide.
Ward cited several examples, including a social media post from the national party calling social justice “a Marxist lie” and a tweet from the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire stating: “All Republicans want to do about wokeness is whine. Libertarians have a solution: Repeal the Civil Rights Act.”
“I am certainly not going to be a fraud and take members’ money and promise them something and not be able to deliver, and I’m certainly not going to deliver candidates who believe in repealing the Civil Rights Act,” she said.
Ward said she heard from national party representatives that legal action might be taken against the Virginia chapter, but she doesn’t believe there’s any basis for litigation.
In a statement, the Libertarian National Committee’s chair, Angela McArdle, said the group has not yet acknowledged the disaffiliation because of questions over the legitimacy of the vote.
"Based on what I know so far, the LPVA’s board did not have the procedural or legal authority to disaffiliate or ‘dissolve’ without a vote of the membership,” McArdle wrote.
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CLEVELAND (AP) — Elvis Andrus hit one of Chicago's five home runs off rookie Hunter Gaddis — and backed up a pregame swipe at the Guardians — as the White Sox cut Cleveland's lead in the AL Central to three games with an 8-2 victory in a makeup game Thursday.
Andrus connected in the fifth inning off Gaddis (0-2), who became the first Cleveland pitcher to allow five homers in a game since Luis Tiant in 1969.
On Wednesday, Andrus raised some eyebrows by telling reporters he expected the first-place Guardians "to crumble, the closer we get.”
Gavin Sheets hit a two-run homer in the second to start Chicago's homer barrage against Gaddis, and Andrew Vaughn, Yoán Moncada and Yasmani Grandal joined Andrus by hitting shots off the right-hander.
Lance Lynn (7-5) limited the Guardians to two run and six hits in 6 1/3 innings. The right-hander is 5-0 in his last seven starts.
Cleveland had its winning streak stopped at six as it began a run of nine straight games against the White Sox and Minnesota Twins, the club's two closest pursuers in one of baseball's only tight division races.
Before the game, Guardians president of baseball operations Chris Antonetti said he had heard about Andrus' comment but dismissed it as “outside noise.”
It got a little louder for Cleveland.
Sheets and Vaughn connected for consecutive homers in the second off the 24-year-old Gaddis, who was making his second major league start.
Gaddis started the inning by walking Eloy Jiménez and Sheets followed with his 13th homer, a shot into the seats in right that brought a shouting Andrus out of the dugout to high-five teammates along the rail.
Vaughn fouled off two pitches before making it 3-0 with his 16th homer of the season, which again sent Andrus into celebration.
Moncada connected for his 10th homer in the third and Grandal hit No. 5 in the fourth before Andrus, who signed with Chicago on Aug. 19, made it 6-1 with his leadoff homer in the fifth.
After Moncada doubled and scored on José Abreu's single, Guardians manager Terry Francona pulled Gaddis, who is the third pitcher in team history to give up five homers.
CLEMENTE'S DAY
Several Cleveland players along with first-base coach Sandy Alomar Jr. wore Roberto Clemente's No. 21 as baseball honored the late Hall of Fame outfielder, who died nearly 50 years ago.
Coincidentally, this was the 21st Roberto Clemente Day, which celebrates both his on-field excellence (15-time All-Star, four-time batting champion) and selflessness in the community. He died in a plane crash on his way to bringing emergency supplies to earthquake-ravaged Nicaragua.
TRAINER'S ROOM
Guardians: LHP Anthony Gose underwent Tommy John surgery on Wednesday in Texas. He'll be sidelined for at least one year while recovering. Gose pitched 21 innings this season for Cleveland before being shut down. ... RHP Aaron Civale (elbow) will pitch a rehab assignment Thursday night for Triple-A Columbus. He could be back next week when the Guardians are in Chicago.
UP NEXT
White Sox: RHP Lucas Giolito (10-9, 5.18 ERA), 4-0 in his last seven starts, will start the series opener in Detroit on Friday against RHP Matt Manning (2-2, 3.73).
Guardians: RHP Triston McKenzie (10-11, 3.05) will start Friday's opener against the Twins, who have not yet announced their starter.
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DENVER, Colorado — Across the country, there is a push to increase the number of Hispanic business owners. The Census reports that 19% of the country identifies as Hispanic, but they account for only about 6% of business owners.
Now, a new program is trying to increase those numbers.
“I am originally from Mexico City,” said Ana Marina Sanchez, the owner of Ana Marina Studios. “I was born and raised in Mexico City, and I migrated to the U.S. when I was fifteen years old.”
Sanchez is what some would call the American Dream. She is making a living, following her passion and is her own boss.
“I love making jewelry because it’s a way for me to connect with other people,” Sanchez said. “My work is enrooted in my cultural heritage.”
Sanchez has only been running her own business for two years. Becoming an entrepreneur can be difficult for anyone, but it can be even harder for the Latino community.
“I actually started making jewelry when I was undocumented,” Sanchez said. “I was an undocumented student, and I was getting a bachelor’s in history and Latin American studies. When I graduated, I wanted to pursue a master's, but because I was undocumented, and it was very difficult to continue to pay out of pocket so a way for me to make money and tap into my creativity was jewelry.”
According to the U.S. Office of Advocacy, small businesses account for 44% of the country’s economy.
However, the Annual Business Survey reports only 5.6 percent of those businesses are Hispanic-owned.
It's something Harry Hollines, the chief strategy officer at the Latino Leadership Institute (LLI), wants to change.
“Latino’s compute about $2.6 trillion to the GDP to the United States, and that’s still coming from 45% of small business,” Hollines said “If you remove that GDP, it could literally crush the economy today. That’s how significant the contribution the Latino community is.”
LLI launched a business accelerator program called the Latino Entrepreneur Access Program, or LEAP, because they believe the Latino and Black, Indigenous, and people of color communities are the catalysts for the future economic vitality for the country.
“When you become a more powerful tax base, it’s much bigger than entrepreneurship, you get to address other inequities in your community,” Hollines said. “About 96% of Latinos are solo entrepreneurs. Only about 4% have employees, that’s when you get growth and scale. So, how do you start to help those founders grow and scale in their program? The answer is with the access to the financial social and technical capital. And we have a fourth we identified in cultural capital.”
LEAP can help Latino entrepreneurs grow their businesses by giving access to help, resources and investors.
According to data by Crunchbase, funding to Latino entrepreneurs has stalled at about 2% of overall investment in startups.
LLI believes investing in these entrepreneurs is investing in overall Latino community wealth.
Sanchez’s business has been able to grow, and she has already hired her first remote employee to help her with her shop.
“There’s so much that Latinos can share,” Sanchez said. “But by creating their own businesses I feel like they are establishing generational wealth that can also get trickled down to future generations.”
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WFO AMARILLO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, September 15, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
304 PM CDT Thu Sep 15 2022
...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of eastern Armstrong,
southeastern Carson, southwestern Gray and Donley Counties through
330 PM CDT...
At 303 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from 6 miles northwest of Howardwick to 3 miles
north of Brice. Movement was east at 20 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph and nickel size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Clarendon, Groom, Howardwick, Lelia Lake, Lake Mcclellan, Greenbelt
Lake and Goodnight.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 3478 10123 3499 10133 3512 10124 3538 10092
3475 10063 3475 10117
TIME...MOT...LOC 2003Z 256DEG 17KT 3507 10102 3476 10089
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...55 MPH
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Medicare Health Plan in Arizona specifically designed for Medicare beneficiaries living with Diabetes, Heart Failure, Cardiovascular Disease and End Stage Kidney Disease
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Gold Kidney of Arizona, Inc., a subsidiary of Gold Kidney Health Plan has contracted with the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) and is launching a Medicare Advantage Chronic-Care Special Needs Plan effective January 1, 2023. Gold Kidney of Arizona will offer the same coverage as Medicare with additional benefits, designed for patients with Chronic Kidney Disease that lead to and include Kidney Failure.
The plan will be available to Arizona residents who have chronic conditions including diabetes, heart failure, cardiovascular and end stage renal disease and are Medicare eligible. Gold Kidney of Arizona will begin enrolling members in its new Medicare Advantage plan beginning October 15, 2022. Our service area includes the counties of Gila, Maricopa, Pima and Pinal in Arizona.
"We are really pleased to offer the Medicare Health Plan in Arizona Intended for Medicare beneficiaries living with chronic conditions that lead to and include kidney failure," said Dave Firdaus, CEO of Gold Kidney Health Plan. "Currently Medicare beneficiaries who live in Arizona with chronic diseases especially ESRD have limited choice of Medicare Advantage coverage. For example, there is no ESRD Medicare C-SNP plan in Maricopa County today."
Under Gold Kidney Health Plan's model of care, a team of experts, including primary care physicians and nephrologists, will collaborate more closely to develop individualized care plans which address each member's unique health care needs. The member will choose a primary care physician, a nephrologist, and be provided a nurse care manager knowledgeable in the patients' chronic conditions to help them understand their coverage and answer questions.
"Our goal is to improve our members' health and delay their disease progression, and if they must start dialysis, we will be with them and their significant others to help them understand and facilitate their choices for receiving either a kidney transplant, starting on dialysis, and/or continuing to live the quality of life they desire" said Kirsten Sorensen, VP of Clinical Services for Gold Kidney Health Plan. "That's why we have partnered with trusted primary care physicians, nephrologists, hospitals, pharmacies, and other providers — to make sure Gold Kidney Health Plan members get the right care at the right time with the right resources. Our mission is to improve our members' health outcomes through empowering our members and providers with improved access to health care, less prior authorizations, lower out of pocket costs, and benefits designed specifically with their daily health care needs in mind."
Gold Kidney of Arizona is a Medicare Advantage Chronic Condition Special Needs Plan with a Medicare contract to offer coverage to individuals diagnosed with Diabetes, Heart Failure, Cardiovascular Disease and End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD).
Press or Provider Contact: Sandra.Howe@GoldKidney.Com
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WASHINGTON/MEXICO CITY -- As border crossings have soared to record highs, U.S. President Joe Biden's administration is quietly pressing Mexico to accept more migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela under a COVID-19 expulsion order that the White House has publicly sought to end, seven U.S. and three Mexican officials said.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken raised concerns about an escalating number of crossings by migrants from the three countries during a visit on Monday to Mexico City, two U.S. and two Mexican officials told Reuters, but Mexico did not promise any specific actions.
One U.S. official said trying to convince Mexico to agree is "an uphill battle."
All sources requested anonymity to discuss internal government matters.
Mexico already accepts U.S. returns of migrants from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. So far, this fiscal year about 299,000 people from those nations have been expelled at the border, compared to about 9,000 returns from Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela.
The U.S. effort to pressure Mexico on these three particular nationalities illustrates the depth of concern within the Biden's Democratic administration about their border crossings. Most migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela who cross into the United States are allowed to stay to pursue asylum claims, since they are difficult to deport due to frosty diplomatic relations with their governments.
Mexico's foreign ministry declined to comment. A spokesperson for the White House National Security Council declined to discuss "diplomatic conversations" but said that nations in the region "have already begun to take collective responsibility to manage migration flows, including through repatriations."
U.S. border agents have made a record 1.8 million migrant arrests so far in fiscal year 2022, with many attempting to cross multiple times, creating humanitarian challenges and political liabilities for Biden ahead of the Nov. 8 midterm election.
Of those arrests at the southwest border, nearly a quarter of the migrants were from Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, up from 8% in 2021 and 3% in 2020. Most were let into the United States to pursue immigration cases.
The Biden administration has publicly sought to end the COVID health order, known as Title 42. Issued in early 2020 under former Republican President Donald Trump, it allows U.S. border authorities to rapidly expel migrants to Mexico or other countries without the chance to seek U.S. asylum. A federal Trump-appointed judge in Louisiana blocked the administration from ending the order earlier this year, even as U.S. health officials said it was no longer needed to protect against COVID spread.
But behind closed doors, some Biden officials still view expanding expulsions as a way to deter crossers, one of the U.S. officials said, even if it contradicts the Democratic Party's more welcoming message toward migrants.
Advocates and many Democrats fiercely oppose Title 42, saying it has exposed migrants to dangerous conditions in Mexico, including kidnapping and extortion.
"I think this really betrays their commitments to refugee protection," said Robyn Barnard, associate director for refugee advocacy with the New York City-based non-profit organization Human Rights First.
Mexico hesitant
Two Mexican officials told Reuters that Mexico does not want to take Cubans, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans expelled from the United States because those countries resist accepting deportation flights from Mexico as well.
Instead, Mexico aims to step up internal flights of migrants from its northern border to its southern border to relieve pressure on the shared frontier, one of the officials said.
Mexico would like Washington to relax economic sanctions against Venezuela to help curb the exodus from the country and make it easier for migrants to work in the United States legally, two Mexican officials said.
Meanwhile, U.S. border officials in El Paso, Texas, say they have been forced to release hundreds of migrants on city streets near shelters and bus stations to ease overcrowding at their facilities.
Many of the Venezuelans arriving have no family members or sponsors, further straining charity and government agencies that assist them, said Mario D'Agostino, El Paso's deputy city manager.
The Democrat-controlled city has contracted charter buses to carry migrants north to New York City, an effort that comes after the Republican governors of Texas and Arizona drew national attention by busing thousands of migrants to Democrat-led northern cities.
Pressuring other nations
Biden officials are also exploring ways to push responsibility to other nations beyond Mexico, sources said.
For example, the White House wants Panama to accept deported Venezuelans if they passed through the Central American nation en route to the United States, two of the U.S. officials said.
Nearly 70,000 Venezuelans entered Panama from its Colombian border this year through August, compared with 1,150 in the same period last year, according to official data.
Panamanian government officials did not respond to a request for comment.
Separately, the Biden administration had been sending a small number of Venezuelans to the Dominican Republic on commercial flights, two of the U.S. officials said, a continuation of a Trump-era practice.
But the program was halted after pushback earlier this year from the office of Senator Robert Menendez, a Democrat from New Jersey, according to one of the U.S. officials and a person familiar with the matter. In February, Menendez called deporting migrants fleeing Venezuela's "cruel regime" to third countries "extremely disturbing."
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Melatonin is a hormone that your body produces, and it's primarily found in the brain in a structure called the pineal gland.
That gland regulates the sleep-wake cycle.
The hormone can be made from animals or microorganisms, but as the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) notes, the supplement is usually produced synthetically.
Melatonin is almost ubiquitous these days in pharmacies and other stores where sleep aids, supplements, and other products for sleep and health are sold. It can come in pills, gummies, or even topical creams.
As the New York Times reported, the long-term effects of melatonin use are not quite yet known.
Dr. Charles A. Czeisler, chief of a division of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, said, “For almost any medication, whether it’s prescription or over-the-counter, rarely are long-term studies done.”
Experts consider melatonin to be safe for short-term use.
If you've taken melatonin for years, you might find it hard to stop taking it before sleep.
Experts advise deciding on taking melatonin hours ahead of bedtime so you don't stress right before bed about the decision.
Try switching your melatonin routine for something else, like a caffeine-free tea
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"The Future is Now" begins with a 2022 midterm election initiative designed with the goal of registering 30,000 young people to vote and claim our democracy
NEW YORK, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ahead of National Voter Registration Day on September 20th, DoSomething.org, the national hub for youth-centered activism, today launches "The Future is Now." The multi-year civic engagement program will activate new voters and encourage young people to claim our democracy in service of making equitable progress on the issues that matter most to them. The program will accelerate DoSomething's ongoing commitment to mobilizing young voters - the organization registered over 360,000 young people during the 2018 and 2020 election cycles with an average of 62% turning out to vote; above the national average for youth turnout. Between now and November's midterm elections, DoSomething aims to register 30,000 voters. Following the election, DoSomething will prioritize educating their membership about how to wield their civic power between election cycles and sustain engagement toward a mass mobilization effort for the 2024 presidential election.
"It is critical to the health of our democracy that we demystify democracy for young people and support them in shaping it to be more accessible, inclusive and representative," says DeNora Getachew, CEO of DoSomething.org and longtime democracy champion. "Young people are claiming their power by leading some of the most important social movements of today - from championing gun safety to advocating for climate justice. And yet, many states nationwide are making it more difficult for young people to cast their votes through restrictive voting laws and gerrymandering. Our program is designed to help young people understand how to overcome these obstacles and join together to create the change they want to see."
Over 17 million young people will become eligible to vote between 2020 and 2022. However, according to a May 2022 DoSomething member pulse survey, 44 percent of young people who say they do not intend to vote cite that they don't have enough information. Therefore, the first phase of "The Future is Now" will provide young people with increased knowledge about voting laws, the impact of elections on their communities, how to combat barriers to voting, and opportunities for engagement in elections beyond casting a vote.
DoSomething will fuel young people to claim our democracy in several ways:
- Register to Vote in Two Minutes: DoSomething is making registering to vote more accessible than ever. Young people can visit vote.dosomething.org to register to vote in less time than it takes to watch a TikTok video.
- Become a Voter Captain: By signing up to be a Voter Captain, DoSomething will provide young people with all the materials they need to take a leading role in increasing youth voter registration by hosting in-person or virtual voter registration drives in their community – all they need is a passion for democracy.
- Discover Your Civic Superpower: Young people who want to get involved in democracy but aren't sure where to start can participate in "Your Voice, Your Vote," a quiz to help determine how they can use their skills and interests to get engaged, even if they aren't yet eligible to vote.
- Sign Up to Work the Polls: In partnership with Power the Polls, DoSomething is addressing the projected poll worker shortages by connecting young people with opportunities to work at polling stations in their community–something they can do even if they're not yet 18.
- Make a Voting Plan: As election day approaches, young people will be able to make a voting plan on DoSomething.org including accessing nonpartisan resources from Guides.Vote to help them evaluate candidates and spot election misinformation.
- Seize the Opportunity to Vote via Mail: On October 13, DoSomething will celebrate its own civic holiday, National Absentee Ballot Day. Launched in 2018, it serves as an important milestone to ensure young people request and send in absentee ballots and understand the importance of absentee ballots in securing a smooth and complete election count for the millions of young people living away from home.
To amplify these efforts, DoSomething is teaming up with partners such as Her Campus, The Conversationalist and the It Gets Better Project to make civic engagement celebratory and promote critical conversations about the impact of new restrictive voting laws on the youth vote – in particular students, BIPOC communities and trans youth.
At the heart of "The Future is Now" is an effort to capture the voices and opinions of young people today. "This election season, I am willing to do anything I can to make our voices heard," said DoSomething member Arlyn R. "Even though I am not old enough to vote, I will do my part this election season to get everyone to cast their vote. Every year at my school, I like to organize meetings about elections and voting. This has allowed me to listen to other's opinions and perspectives about the election. This has also helped raise awareness of voter registration for students that are old enough to vote at my school!"
"The Future is Now" is one of the first programs launching under DoSomething's new strategic direction, Fueling the Future, which firmly centers young people as the organization evolves away from volunteerism and toward programs that tackle the root cause of the issues that matter most to young people. Those interested in joining Arlyn and thousands of other DoSomething members across the country can take action at: https://www.dosomething.org/us/causes/voter-registration
DoSomething fuels young people to change the world. As a national hub for youth-centered activism, we have activated more than 5 million young people representing every U.S. area code and over 130 countries. DoSomething has registered over 360,000 new voters since 2018 and awarded more than $1.8 million in scholarships to young people since 2010. When you join DoSomething.org, you are joining a reflective and inclusive collective of young people who are collaborating to develop and implement the solutions to the most pressing issues facing society today.
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WASHINGTON — Democrats are punting a vote to protect same-sex and interracial marriages until after the November midterm elections, pulling back just days after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer vowed to put the Senate on the record on the issue “in the coming weeks.”
The request for a delay by senators who have been pushing for the legislation follows Wisconsin Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin, the lead senator championing the bill, predicting that they would be able to get the 10 Republican votes they need to break a filibuster. But the group struggled in recent days as some Republicans had raised increasing concerns about whether it would protect the rights of religious institutions, business owners or others who oppose same sex marriage.
The decision came after a meeting on Thursday with Schumer.
“Through bipartisan collaboration, we’ve crafted commonsense language that respects religious liberty and Americans’ diverse beliefs, while upholding our view that marriage embodies the highest ideals of love, devotion, and family," Baldwin and Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Rob Portman of Ohio and Thom Tillis of North Carolina said a statement along with Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona. "We’ve asked Leader Schumer for additional time and we appreciate he has agreed. We are confident that when our legislation comes to the Senate floor for a vote, we will have the bipartisan support to pass the bill.”
The delay significantly threatens the legislation and could allow interest groups and other lawmakers opposing the bill more time to rally Republicans against it. But supporters hope that the delay will give them time to find more GOP supporters and take off pre-election political pressure.
Amid news of the delay, the White House emphasized again that the administration was leaving the mechanics of the legislation -- such as the timing of a vote -- to the Senate.
“We believe the Senate should find consensus just as the American people have,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Thursday.
Baldwin and the other core group of supporters had worked with the GOP senators who had religious liberty concerns. They were planning an amendment to clarify that the legislation did not affect the rights of such private individuals or businesses, which are already enshrined in law. The legislation instead requires the federal government and states to recognize all marriages that were legal where they were performed, along with interracial marriages.
But some Republicans who had wavered on the bill were not yet on board.
Democrats and the small group of Republicans have moved to safeguard same-sex marriage following the Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade and the federal right to an abortion. Lawmakers fear the court’s ruling, and a concurring opinion from Justice Clarence Thomas, indicate that an earlier high court decision protecting same-sex marriage could come under threat.
“We all want to pass this quickly,” Schumer said last week. “I hope there will be 10 Republicans to support it.”
The Senate push for the historic vote — and the openness by some Republicans to back it in an election year — reflects a large shift on the issue since the Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision legalizing gay marriage nationwide. Some 70% of U.S. adults in a Gallup poll released in June 2021 said same-sex unions should be valid under the law.
The bill protecting same-sex marriage cleared the House in a July vote with the support of 47 Republicans – a larger than expected number that gave the measure a boost in the Senate. But as the weeks went on, more Republicans raised the religious liberty issues.
Another proposed tweak to the bill would make clear that a marriage is between two people, an effort to ward off some far-right criticism that the legislation could endorse polygamy.
The legislation would repeal the Clinton-era Defense of Marriage Act and require states to recognize all marriages that were legal where they were performed. The new Respect for Marriage Act would also protect interracial marriages by requiring states to recognize legal marriages regardless of “sex, race, ethnicity, or national origin.”
It's not clear how many Republicans would support the bill. In addition to Collins, Portman and Tillis, a fourth GOP senator, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, has supported same-sex marriage in the past. Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, who is up for reelection this year, has said he doesn’t see a “reason to oppose it” but has talked on both sides of the issue in recent weeks.
Most Republicans opposing the legislation have said it is simply unnecessary because the court ruling still stands. But others have gone further.
One group that has been opposed, the conservative Alliance Defending Freedom, has pushed back on the legislation, with one blog post on its website calling it a “grave” threat.
“In the grander scheme, the Respect for Marriage Act is a way of putting an exclamation mark on the sexual revolution and its ideology,” wrote Ryan Womack, who works for the group.
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Yukon salmon populations are falling. The cultural damage is vast.
Indigenous communities in the Yukon are struggling to survive in a changing climate. Their stories provides an important warning, no matter where you live.
Perspective by Bathsheba Demuth
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Olivia Ebertz
September 15, 2022 at 4:30 p.m. EDT
In summer, the Yukon River teems with life. Ducks and geese raise their young in quiet sloughs. Moose graze amid shoreline willows. Beavers splash along the muddy banks. Concealed by waters milky with glacial silt, hundreds of thousands of salmon surge upstream from the Bering Sea toward the river’s origins in northwestern Canada, bound for the streams where they were born, will lay their own eggs and will die.
Where there are salmon in the far north, there are people. A century ago, even a decade ago, families from the Indigenous communities along the river regularly spent weeks each summer at fish camp, the cabins and canvas tents that dot the riverbank near eddies where Chinook salmon congregate. Dog mushers set fish wheels — like windmills with mesh baskets that scoop up chum salmon — to feed their teams.
But this year, the fish camps are empty. The wheels sit on shore.
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There are two primary salmon species in the Yukon: Chinook and chum. A good fall chum run might see 1.8 million fish reach the lower river, fresh from the Bering Sea. Fewer than 300,000 are expected in 2022. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game estimates that this year’s Chinook run is the lowest on record: Sonar logged only 44,581 fish entering the river. From the headwaters to the mouth, no one is fishing.
It’s not just because of prohibitions in Alaska and resolutions to keep nets dry by Indigenous governments in Canada’s Yukon territory. “There is no salmon to fish anyways,” says Georgette McLeod, who teaches the Han language for the Tr’ondek Hwech’in government in Dawson City, Canada. “We have no salmon passing through.” Speaking from 100 miles downriver in Eagle Village, Alaska, where she is chief, Karma Ulvi calls the salmon situation “an emergency at this point. Something has to change. Otherwise, we’re facing an extinction.”
The Yukon salmon crisis might seem remote, a problem for small communities scattered along a distant, subarctic river. But from the causes to the impacts, the fate of these fish has resonances both local and global. It is a story of how climate change and biodiversity loss intertwine — and what it means to survive and imagine the future amid rapid ecological flux. The transformation of lands, suddenly and without easy recourse, in ways that alter what they mean and how we dwell within them, is not restricted to the Yukon. It could come soon to your garden or favorite orchard, to the place where you live and its capacity to nourish, both in caloric and cultural terms. Understanding such change in one place — along a river where shifts in the populations of just two fish species have sweeping effects across societies and ecosystems — is important, and provides a warning, no matter where you live.
Salmon are critical to people along the Yukon in part because of how they bring the wealth of the Bering Sea — one of the most productive ecosystems in the world — into the continental interior. In late winter, chinook and chum eggs hatch in the riverbed gravel nests dug by their mothers. By early spring, the fry wriggle free; chum swim directly for the ocean, while chinook spend a year in freshwater before migrating to the Bering Sea. Once in saltwater, both species transform: doubling size in a single summer, putting on enough muscle and fat over two or three or sometimes even five years to power themselves back upriver.
It is that sea-raised protein and lipid that has long nourished Yukon communities, from Yup’ik at the mouth, to middle- and upper-river Koyukon, Gwich’in, Han and Tutchone, to headwater Tlingit villages. In the 1800s, salmon fed the colonial fur-trading outposts of the British and Russian empires, then Klondike gold prospectors. For much of the 20th century, salmon powered people and dog teams.
Today salmon remain critical. “They’re important to our health,” Ulvi says. “They give healthy food that sustains us through the winter.”
In communities like Eagle Village, where road access is seasonal or nonexistent, groceries are expensive. Fishing, as with subsistence hunting and berry-picking, is not a hobby; it is a necessity. “You can’t sustain life without the salmon,” McLeod says.
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Beyond calories, salmon make community. In camp, Ulvi explains, “the elders are cutting fish, telling stories, teaching kids — practicing traditional ways that make everyone really happy.” For communities dealing with more than a century of colonial pressures, from introduced epidemics to forced education in residential schools, fish camps help transmit culture between generations — like the rich linguistic specificity for salmon. Along the river, species are met with precise names, rather than the blanket term “salmon”: Chum are “noolaaghe” in Koyukon; Chinook are “t’a” in Tlingit, “luk cho” in Han, “kiagtaq,” or “summer fish,” in Yup’ik. When translator Amuqan Julia Jimmie must render the general term “salmon” in Yup’ik, she says “neqet kiagmi kuigmin itetulit” — “the fish that enter the river in the summer.”
People along the river, like St. Mary’s Yup’ik Elder George Beans, worry that chances to pass knowledge down are growing rarer — that things they know could end with them. Beans says the thought fills him with emptiness. He fears that his own skills will atrophy. “The more you sit on something or you don’t do anything for a while, you tend to lose some of that yourself,” he says.
Language around salmon has already changed. For Beans’s two granddaughters, the word “fishing” conjures separate images. The older girl remembers when she could target kiagtaq with a wide net, pulling in many at once while learning how to provide for her family and her elders. But the younger granddaughter has been alive only during a time of low kiagtaq runs. When she hears “fishing” she thinks first of manaq’ing, or ice fishing. It’s more of a pastime than a means of sustenance.
The disappearance of fish makes living along the river harder — more expensive, with less connection to the land. “We have to think about what we can do to keep people from leaving rural communities,” says Sonja Sager, a subsistence fisher in Eagle, Alaska. “This truly is more than food to us. There’s a very deep emotional connection. When we’d pull in a fish, we’d say ‘Mahsi’ cho,’ which is a Han way of saying thank you.” Sager grew up fishing chum for her dog team. Now it costs $400 per year to feed each dog kibble. “I feel like I’m watching the way of life I follow fading away,” she says.
On the lower river, Beans’s family buys more of what they eat. All along the river, Alaska Natives and First Nations peoples who have lived on the Yukon for generations are leaving — trading traditional villages for cities where it’s harder to live off the land but easier to afford life.
“If you want to put an umbrella over all of it, that’s the changing climate,” Alaska Department of Fish and Game biologist Katie Howard says. In the Bering Sea, warming waters are radically altering the ecosystem where salmon mature. New species compete with salmon for food, or prey on immature chum and Chinook. Chum are eating more squid, which are newly plentiful but not nutritious. Chinook might also be underfed and suffer more from ichthyophonus, a parasite that infects the heart and other organs and could become more acute when fish are stressed by heat. Near Tanana, Alaska, fisherman and dog musher Stan Zuray estimated in July that 30 percent of the Chinook he had seen this summer were riddled with the disease.
Meanwhile, “Western Alaska sockeye and pink salmon abundance has been the exact opposite, at record or near-record levels,”says Department of Fish and Game regional manager John Linderman. University of Alaska Fairbanks biologist Peter Westley says the sockeye’s food grows more abundantly in the warmer lakes where they spawn. Readily available food “turbocharges” the young fish, fattening them quickly, so they go to sea hardier and faster. It’s been a boon to the Bristol Bay salmon fishery. But Westley warns that the sockeye’s fate could change too.
Such uncertainty — year-to-year shifts in populations of not only salmon but caribou and migratory birds — is a constant theme of conversations along the Yukon. In the Gwich’in community of Fort Yukon, Alaska, people report seeing fewer ducks and porcupines. This summer saw early, massive wildfires all along the river — historically large ones in the lower river’s tundra. In Marshall, Alaska, near the Yukon’s mouth, Elder Nick P. Andrew Jr. says he has seen the moose population explode over his lifetime, as a warming climate has allowed the bushy willows that they eat to grow on what was open tundra.
As the salmon have failed to return, hungry bears are overcoming their fear of villages to fill their bellies at dumps. Andrew has seen them in Marshall. During blueberry season, word of a black bear near a patch in St. Mary’s spread fast at the grocery store. “The bears, like we humans, rely on salmon,” says Andrew. Now they must find alternative ways to fatten up before hibernation.
Howard echoes Andrew’s observation. “Salmon are food for a lot of other animals, and they decompose, and that feeds into the terrestrial system,” she says. What is at stake as salmon decline are diverse human ways of life — and also how bears, eagles and even trees nourish themselves.
The relationships among rising atmospheric carbon, the changing Bering Sea and the long chain of ecological transformations now spreading upriver implicate people who will never set foot near the Yukon. Small communities like St. Mary’s, or Eagle Village, or Teslin, Canada, are not drivers of climate change but instead suffer the consequences of carbon, most of it burned in wealthy regions far to the south.
Then there’s the word heard everywhere on the river: “bycatch.” Yukon Chinook and chum are not major commercial species, but in the ocean, both end up in pollock trawl nets. Alaskan pollock is one of the most widely consumed fish in the United States. If you’ve eaten artificialcrab or McDonald’s filet-o-fish sandwiches, it probably started as a pollock in the Bering Sea.
The pollock fishery prides itself on sustainable management, and official estimates put the Yukon salmon bycatch at only 1 percent of the more than 30,000 Chinook and 300,000 chum caught in pollock nets each year. Yet the North Pacific Fishery Management Council has not restricted chum bycatch, even as the run enters a third historically low year. As Ulvi and Sager both point out, this means subsistence fishers who need the salmon the most must stop fishing first.
It’s a politically salient issue in Alaska. On Aug. 31, Mary Peltola became the first Alaska Native representative in Congress, with an explicitly “pro-fish” platform. Peltola, who is Yup’ik and has fished since childhood, wants more action in the face of “total ecosystem collapse” at sea. Her concerns echo those of people along the Yukon and in the 19,000-member Facebook group “STOP Alaskan Trawler Bycatch,” who discuss salmon and many other species — including king crab, orcas and bearded seals — troubled by industrial fishing.
Scientists Howard and Westley say the Yukon River could reach a point where assuring that each and every chum and Chinook can return to its spawning grounds will matter for the species’ survival — if the fishery isn’t already there.
“Climate change is going to take a long time to fix, if we can fix it,” Ulvi says. “But trawling and bycatch is something we can fix now.”
What might it take to help every noolaaghe and kiagtaq return? Howard hopes more research will make a difference. Sager wants people to remember that the mining boom for metals used in green tech could affect salmon. “Every stream in these hills is a salmon stream. Every mine is a stroke against that,” she says. Ulvi recommends talking to your senator about sound environmental and climate policy — and “asking Indigenous people along the Yukon and letting our voices be heard more.”
For people along the Yukon, one answer is in finding ways to maintain relationships with the salmon, the river and the land. Stanley Njootli, a Gwich’in elder living on a tributary of the Yukon, observes that in the past there was more fishing of pike and other species that eat immature salmon. “Maybe we need to get people back out on the land as part of the solution,” he says.
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Down at the mouth of the river, George Beans said his elders taught him to diversify their catches. “They always said if you want the fish, game and the birds, not only that, but the plants, if you want them to be around, you can’t just concentrate in one area and/or one species for a long time. Otherwise they won’t reproduce. Conservation was one of their teachings,” he said.
Ulvi is getting ready for a culture camp, where she will teach children to cut salmon — sockeye sent north from Bristol Bay, for this year at least. Part of what she hopes to impart is the value of salmon beyond economic measures.
Sager and her children are going out to fish for pike.
“These are big things we’re confronting,” McLeod says, “from climate change to disease to loss of habitat. What do we do to flip that? One of the small ways we can do that is to celebrate the salmon.” McLeod is teaching people in her community a Han song with the chorus “luk cho anay” — “Chinook salmon come.”
“I feel that we need to take this song and sing it more often and more intensely,” McLeod says, “and make sure that people know the salmon are important to us. We just hope that one day that we’ll hear good news about the salmon returning.”
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BOSTON, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Stealth BioTherapeutics Corp (NASDAQ: MITO), a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the discovery, development, and commercialization of novel therapies for diseases involving mitochondrial dysfunction, today announced that the company is participating in upcoming events to discuss challenges and opportunities in ultra-rare disease drug development.
Reenie McCarthy, Stealth's CEO, will be participating in "Rare Disease Research: A Prescription" hosted by STAT which will take place on Thursday, September 15th from 5:30 p.m.–9:00 p.m. ET at Convene located at 600 14th Street NW, Washington, DC.
Ms. McCarthy will also participate in a discussion on "Incentives, Investments & the Way Forward for Ultra Rare Disease Drug Development" at The Business of RARE Biotech Summit on Tuesday, September 20 from 9:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill located at 400 New Jersey Ave NW, Washington, DC. A copy of the presentation will be available on the Investors & News section of Stealth's website at https://investor.stealthbt.com/.
These discussions are expected to include Stealth's clinical and regulatory development experience with Barth syndrome, an ultra-rare disease of cardiolipin deficiency. Stealth has recently met with the Division of Cardiology and Nephrology at the FDA to discuss data from Week 168 of its SPIBA-201 Part 2 open-label extension, which was the last visit completed by all SPIBA-201 Part 2 trial participants. At that time point, after over 3.5 years of chronic elamipretide therapy, a >40% mean improvement from baseline in left ventricular stroke volume (p=0.007) and end diastolic volume (p=0.003) was observed. Also, subjects continued to show improved exercise tolerance on the six-minute walk test (>90-meter mean improvement from baseline; p=0.003), muscle strength (>60 newton mean improvement from baseline; p<0.0001) and other functional endpoints. The company has requested an additional meeting with the FDA to gain further clarity on a regulatory path forward.
About Stealth
We are a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the discovery, development, and commercialization of novel therapies for diseases involving mitochondrial dysfunction. Mitochondria, found in nearly every cell in the body, are the body's main source of energy production and are critical for normal organ function. Dysfunctional mitochondria characterize a number of rare genetic diseases and are involved in many common age-related diseases, typically involving organ systems with high energy demands such as the eye, the neuromuscular system, the heart and the brain. We believe our lead product candidate, elamipretide, has the potential to treat ophthalmic diseases entailing mitochondrial dysfunction, such as dry age-related macular degeneration, rare neuromuscular disorders, such as primary mitochondrial myopathy and Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and rare cardiomyopathies, such as Barth syndrome. We are evaluating our second-generation clinical-stage candidate, SBT-272, for rare neurological disease indications, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia, following promising preclinical data. We have optimized our discovery platform to identify novel mitochondria-targeted compounds which may be nominated as therapeutic product candidates or utilized as mitochondria-targeted vectors to deliver other compounds to mitochondria.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom approves court-ordered mental treatment for homeless
Homeless people who refuse treatment could be placed under a conservatorship and be ordered to comply
With more than 100,000 people living on California’s streets, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a first-of-its kind law on Wednesday that could force some of them into treatment as part of a program he describes as "care" but opponents argue is cruel.
Newsom signed the Community Assistance, Recovery and Empowerment Act on Wednesday. It would let family members, first responders and others ask a judge to draw up a treatment plan for someone diagnosed with certain disorders, including schizophrenia. Those who refuse could be placed under a conservatorship and ordered to comply.
Right now, homeless people with severe mental health disorders bounce from the streets to jails and hospitals. They can be held against their will at a psychiatric hospital for up to three days. But they must be released if they promise to take medication and follow up with other services.
The new law would let a court order a treatment plan for up to one year, which could be extended for a second year. The plan could include medication, housing and therapy. While it shares some elements of programs in other states, the system would be the first of its kind in the country, according to the office of Democratic state Sen. Tom Umberg, a co-author of the law.
For decades, California has mostly treated homelessness as a local problem, funneling billions of dollars to city and county governments each year for various treatment programs. But despite all of that spending, homelessness remains one of the state's most pressing and visible issues.
"Continue to do what you’ve done and you get what you got. And look what we’ve got. It's unacceptable," Newsom said Wednesday before signing the law. "This (law) has been architected completely differently than anything you've seen in the state of California, arguably in the last century."
Some progressives have spoken out against Newsom blocking certain priorities, including vetoing a bill that would have authorized supervised safe-injection sites for drug users and opposing a new tax on millionaires that would pay for more electric cars.
But in a year when Newsom is on his way to a shoo-in reelection bid with speculation building about his presidential aspirations, this new program prompted criticism from both sides of the political spectrum, with some on the left arguing it goes too far while others on the right saying it does not go far enough.
Newsom signed the law over the strong objections of the American Civil Liberties Union of California, Human Rights Watch, Disability Rights California and numerous other organizations that work with homeless people, minority communities and people with disabilities who say the new program will violate civil rights.
They say that courts are a frightening place for many people with severe mental illness and coercion is antithetical to the peer-based model that is critical to recovery. In other words, critics say, a person needs to want to get help and that could take months or years.
"There is absolutely no evidence that this plan will work. It's just one more non-solution," said Eve Garrow, policy analyst and advocate for ACLU of Southern California. "The research shows that adding a coercive element to either housing or mental health services does not increase compliance."
The program is not exclusively for homeless people. It only applies to people who have a severe mental illness — mostly psychotic disorders — and only if they are unlikely to survive safely in the community without supervision or are likely to harm themselves or others.
That means people struggling with alcohol and opioid addiction won't qualify unless they have a diagnosed psychiatric disorder.
The Newsom administration estimates about 12,000 people could get help under the program. James Gallagher, the Republican leader of the state Assembly, said that's not enough.
LOS ANGELES COUNTY HOMELESS JUMPS TO MORE THAN 69,000 PEOPLE, COUNT REVEALS
"Although better than nothing, (the Community Assistance, Recovery and Empowerment) court essentially amounts to a new bureaucratic half-measure," said Gallagher, who like most of his Republican colleagues voted for the bill in the state Legislature. "It's not the groundbreaking policy change we need. It will help some severely mentally ill people get treatment, but will not stop the explosion of homeless camps in our communities."
The program would not begin until next year, and only in seven counties: Glenn, Orange, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Stanislaus, and Tuolumne must establish programs by Oct 1, 2023. All other counties would have until Dec. 1, 2024.
Each of California's 58 counties would have to set up special courts to handle these cases. Counties that don't participate could be fined up to $1,000 per day.
The biggest challenge for the new law will be having enough funding, housing and workers to implement it "without siphoning resources from the hundreds of thousands of county clients already counting on the vital behavioral health and substance use disorder services we provide," said Michelle Doty Cabrera, executive director of the County Behavioral Health Director's Association of California.
Newsom echoed those comments, saying implementation will be key. The state budget this year includes $296.5 million for the "Workforce for a Healthy California for All Program," which aims to recruit 25,000 community health workers by 2025.
The National Alliance on Mental Illness of California supports the proposal, as do business organizations and dozens of cities, including the mayors of Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Francisco and San Diego.
They say treatment models and anti-psychotic medications have changed significantly since people were warehoused in institutions. The individual should be able to thrive in the community given the right clinical support team and housing plan, supporters say.
Newsom said he was "exhausted" by arguments from civil liberties groups that the program goes too far.
"Their point of view is expressed by what you see on the streets and sidewalks all across the state," he said.
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SPRINGDALE, Ark. — Springdale classic Taqueria Guanajuato is a mom-and-pop shop started by Maria Morales and her family.
Maria's youngest, Eric, says he remembers being about 12 years old when they opened the business.
"It all started back when my mom could do like, barely look over the stovetop, looking at my grandma's recipes," Eric said. "My parents came over here, immigrated, failed a few times, and then they made it and I'd say that they're definitely living the American dream."
But even with success, Eric says that their taste and traditions from Guanajuato, Mexico remain the same.
"It kind of just transitioned into them moving to the States wanting to have their own business. And those recipes are the ones that we've used to this day," Eric said. "We have lunch here at the restaurant, our lunch break, we all eat together and make sure that that's still a very vocal point in our lives. It's just part of the culture, like, no phones, you know, still, very an old style traditional home where we have we sit down and we eat and just talk."
Eric says that the COVID pandemic made serving clients difficult but that loyalty held them through. Even now, when inflation is impacting their prices.
"A lot of people told us that they hadn't, that we're the only Mexican restaurant that they go to," Eric said. "Prices for food is just going up a lot and it's all about being super personable and making family and friends with your clientele. That'll give them a reason to really come back."
With success continuing to bless the restaurant and the importance of preserving culture, the family sees many years ahead
"I think the goal is definitely to keep this going as long as we can, or as long as me and my brother can," Eric said.
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President and Chief Executive Officer Steven E. Strah to Retire
John W. Somerhalder Appointed Interim President and Chief Executive Officer
Board to Initiate Search for Permanent Successor
AKRON, Ohio, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- FirstEnergy Corp. (NYSE: FE) today announced that John W. Somerhalder II, chair of the FirstEnergy Board of Directors, has been named interim president and chief executive officer (CEO), effective September 16, 2022. Mr. Somerhalder's appointment follows Steven E. Strah's decision to retire as president and CEO of FirstEnergy and as a member of the Board of Directors.
Mr. Somerhalder will continue to serve as chair of the FirstEnergy Board and work closely with the company's executive team. The FirstEnergy Board will commence a search of external candidates to identify a permanent CEO. The Board of Directors has completed its previously announced management review.
"I look forward to working with the company's executive team and dedicated FirstEnergy employees to continue delivering exceptional value to our customers and shareholders," said Mr. Somerhalder. "With the Board's continued support, I welcome the opportunity to lead the company during this transition and oversee the continued execution of our strategy to become a more resilient and forward-looking company, positioning the business for long-term stability and success."
"On behalf of the Board, I would like to thank Steve for his many contributions and years of service to FirstEnergy and wish him well in his next chapter," said Lisa Winston Hicks, lead independent director of the FirstEnergy Board. "In our search, we will look to identify a visionary leader to continue driving strong performance across the business, while continuing to foster an environment of uncompromising integrity and shared responsibility to execute on the company's strategic priorities. As we conduct this search for a permanent CEO, we are fortunate to have a leader of John's caliber and experience to step into the role on an interim basis to ensure that the company continues building on its strong momentum."
"We have been encouraged to see the company's ongoing efforts to strengthen compliance, operational excellence and its balance sheet," said Sean Klimczak, Blackstone's Global Head of Infrastructure and FirstEnergy director. "They serve as an important step in FirstEnergy's path to delivering exceptional customer service and ensuring transparency with its partners. We are excited about the company's growth potential and look forward to continuing our partnership as they build upon this momentum."
"With the company's operational momentum and portfolio of irreplaceable assets, we believe FirstEnergy is well-positioned to capitalize on long-term sustainable investments to meet customers' needs while growing value for shareholders," said Andrew Teno, portfolio manager of Icahn Capital LP and FirstEnergy director. "We look forward to continuing to support the company as it executes its transformation."
"It has been a great honor to be part of the FirstEnergy family for more than 38 years," Mr. Strah said. "I want to express my gratitude to the extremely dedicated employees, as well as our incredibly talented management team. I believe the future holds great opportunity for this organization."
FirstEnergy's outlook for 2022 continues to be strong, and the company expects results in the upper half of the guidance range provided to the investment community on its second quarter earnings call in July. In addition, the company continues to be focused on accelerating its balance sheet improvement efforts in order to achieve credit metrics consistent with those of premier utilities. The company expects to achieve this through organic growth in operating cash flow, as well as an additional, EPS-accretive transaction involving a minority interest in a transmission or distribution asset.
Mr. Somerhalder, age 66, has served as chair of the Board since May 2022, and previously served as vice chair and executive director of the company from March 2021 to May 2022. Prior to joining FirstEnergy, Mr. Somerhalder served as interim president and chief executive officer of CenterPoint Energy, Inc., an electric and natural gas utility serving several U.S. markets, from February 2020 to July 2020, and served as a member of the CenterPoint Energy Board of Directors from 2016 through July 2020. Mr. Somerhalder also served as interim president and chief executive officer of Colonial Pipeline Company, a U.S. refined products pipeline company, from February 2017 to October 2017. Prior to that, Mr. Somerhalder served as president and chief executive officer of AGL Resources Inc., an energy services holding company in the southeastern United States, from March 2006 through his retirement in December 2015, and served as chairman of the company's Board from November 2007 until December 2015. Prior to joining AGL Resources, Mr. Somerhalder served in a number of roles with El Paso Corporation, a publicly traded natural gas and related energy products provider, where he spent almost 30 years, starting his career as an engineer and progressing through leadership roles before being named president of El Paso Pipeline Group and executive vice president of El Paso Corporation. Mr. Somerhalder also previously held directorships with Gulfport Energy Corp., Crestwood Equity Partners LP, Enable Midstream Partners, LP, and SunCoke Energy Partners GP LLC.
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the potential of non-compliance with debt covenants in our credit facilities; the ability to comply with applicable reliability standards and energy efficiency and peak demand reduction mandates; changes to environmental laws and regulations, including, but not limited to, those related to climate change; labor disruptions by our unionized workforce; changes to significant accounting policies; any changes in tax laws or regulations, or adverse tax audit results or rulings; and the risks and other factors discussed from time to time in our Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") filings. 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ALBION, Ind. (WANE) — Four of the dozens of big cats removed from the roadside zoo featured in the Nexflix documentary “Tiger King” can now officially call Black Pine Animal Sanctuary home.
Black Pine said Thursday that it received notice that tigers Prince, Ima, Elvis & Patronus are now permanent residents of the Albion animal sanctuary, “where they will be able to live out the rest of their lives.”
In May 2021, Black Pine announced it had taken in the big cats from the former Tiger King Zoo in Thackerville, Oklahoma. The U.S. Department of Justice seized nearly 70 federally protected lions, tigers, lion-tiger hybrids and a jaguar as part of a court-approved agreement to resolve a DOJ complaint against Jeffrey and Lauren Lowe over the animals’ care.
At the time, Black Pine said it’d been tasked with providing “refuge and care” for the four tigers while the DOJ pursued permanent forfeiture of the animals.
That has happened.
“All of us at Black Pine Animal Sanctuary appreciate you, our donors and supporters, who helped make this possible,” Black Pine said in a Facebook post.
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Highlighting the industry's most extensive portfolio of telecom solutions and differentiated laser chips for next generation mega data centers
SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lumentum Holdings Inc. ("Lumentum"), a market-leading designer and manufacturer of innovative optical and photonic products, announced it will participate in eco-system partner demonstrations and highlight a comprehensive portfolio of optical communication solutions for current and future network applications at the European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) in Basel, Switzerland, from September 18 - 22, 2022 at the Lumentum stand #516 and OIF partner stand #701.
Lumentum offers an unparalleled suite of 100 to 800 Gbps optical components to customers looking for best-in-class coherent products. The company's portfolio provides performance-optimized discrete components, narrow linewidth lasers, high-baud rate coherent modulators and receivers, as well as integrated components for QSFP-DD, OSFP, CFP2, and other small-form-factor pluggable coherent transceivers.
- Ultra-narrow Linewidth Nano-Integrable Tunable Laser Assembly (nITLA): Lumentum continues to scale production of its nITLA product line, leveraging the advantages of its external-cavity-based laser into a compact form factor critical for coherent modules. The low power consumption, superior phase noise performance, and compact size ensure the nITLA can support long reach and higher baud rate applications for the next generation of coherent transmission systems.
- Digital Coherent Optics (DCO) Modules: Leveraging its industry-leading optics and depth of vertical integration, Lumentum delivers DCO modules for customers seeking turnkey solutions that support transmission rates from 100 to 400 Gbps. Lumentum effectively balances cost, power, and performance using open standard and proprietary FEC to support campus, data center interconnect (DCI), long-haul, and metro-ROADM mesh network applications.
- Tunable Transceivers: Lumentum is in the final stages of completing a significant increase in 10G T-SFP+ manufacturing capacity to support multi-service operators' transition from hybrid fiber coax to distributed access architecture. Upgrading to a single tunable module from fixed modules simplifies service providers' logistical management and reduces overall operational costs. Lumentum's tunable transceiver portfolio also includes TSFP28 solutions that support 25G data rates for expanded capacity, placing it in a leading position to fulfill market demand for these products in 5G wireless fronthaul applications.
- 400ZR Interoperability Demo: Lumentum will demonstrate 400ZR transceivers in switch/router ports and test equipment in both QSFP-DD and OSFP form factors, transmitting over an amplified 75 GHz spaced DWDM optical link compliant with the OIF 400ZR Implementation Agreement (IA). Lumentum 400ZR transceivers provide connectivity in DCI and other applications at a data rate of 400 Gbps. The electrical, thermal, and communications interfaces comply with the OIF 400ZR IA and QSFP-DD/OSFP MSAs and work with the current generation of switches and routers supporting QSFP-DD and OSFP transceivers enabling direct IP over DWDM for customers looking to expand capacity and reach.
- CMIS Implementations Demo: Additionally, Lumentum 400ZR transceivers will be demonstrating the new benefits of CMIS control through firmware upgrades via common data block commands and coherent diagnostics via the flexible coherent CMIS versatile diagnostic monitoring interface.
Enhanced and Expanded Telecom Transport Solutions
- Multiplexers, Demultiplexers, and Multicast Switches: Lumentum offers a complete line of multiplexer, demultiplexer, and multicast switch solutions as part of its comprehensive line subsystems portfolio.
- High-Port-Count TrueFlex® Twin WSS Platform: Lumentum's Twin WSS platform offers enhanced performance. Advancements to its core technology, manufacturing processes, and supply chain robustness drive cost-effective volume production within Lumentum's state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities. The platform delivers a uniformly high standard of performance and supports multiple port configurations. As the platform maintains form factor compatibility with existing products, customers can rejuvenate and refresh their system's capabilities over its lifecycle for the decade ahead.
Hyperscale data centers continue to scale, driving demand for next-generation speeds. Lumentum offers a range of laser solutions to address data center networking, artificial intelligence and machine learning cluster networking, and optical I/O needs.
- 200G PAM4 Externally-Modulated Lasers (EMLs): By leveraging Lumentum's EML chips, customers can deliver high-speed modules in high volumes while reducing costs and power per bit. Lumentum's leading-edge 200G EMLs are sampling today and are expected to be in volume production by early 2023.
- 100G PAM4 Directly-Modulated Lasers (DMLs): Designed for rigorous and cost-effective applications, Lumentum's DMLs for 2x400G FR4 and 400G DR4/FR4, and 800G DR8/PSM8 improve bandwidth from previous generations. These compact chips enable lower costs and complexity relative to comparable silicon photonics-based transceivers. Beta samples are available today.
- CW Lasers: Lumentum is sampling a range of optical power CW lasers to support SiPh-based transceiver applications and external laser sources (ELS) for co-packaged optics (CPO) solutions. Utilizing Lumentum's leading indium phosphide technology platform, Lumentum offers high volume 40 mW CW lasers. Additionally, the company's new 75 mW laser integrates an on-chip semiconductor optical amplifier, allowing it to cover 2x100G lanes at high temperatures for next-generation datacenter applications. With its 350 mW ultra-high-power CW lasers, Lumentum is a leading provider of CPO applications; limited sampling is available today.
- Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers (VCSELs): Beta samples of Lumentum's 100G VCSELs are expected to be available in 2023 at 850 nm, 880 nm, 910 nm, and 940 nm wavelengths and support parallel and shortwave wavelength division multiplexing applications, including 64GFC and 128GFC, extended temperature 50 Gbps, and cost-effective active optical cables. For 25G NRZ and 50G PAM4 applications at 850 nm wavelength, Lumentum's VCSELs are available today and shipping in volume with high production capacity to meet strong cloud market demand. In addition, Lumentum's high bandwidth, wide wavelength range indium gallium arsenide PIN photodiodes for multimode receivers at data rates up to 100 Gbps are available today.
To request samples or learn more about Lumentum's solutions and technology, contact a representative at customer.service@lumentum.com.
Lumentum (NASDAQ: LITE) is a market-leading designer and manufacturer of innovative optical and photonic products enabling optical networking and laser applications worldwide. Lumentum optical components and subsystems are part of virtually every type of telecom, enterprise, and data center network. Lumentum lasers enable advanced manufacturing techniques and diverse applications including next-generation 3D sensing capabilities. Lumentum is headquartered in San Jose, California with R&D, manufacturing, and sales offices worldwide. For more information, visit www.lumentum.com and follow Lumentum on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.
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Ex-Trump Justice official probed by U.S. wants ethics filings made public
By Jacqueline Thomsen
Sept 15 (Reuters) - Former Trump Justice Department official Jeffrey Bossert Clark's lawyers are pushing the District of Columbia Bar Association to make public filings in his ethics case that referenced a federal raid of his home.
Clark is under scrutiny for attempts to be appointed attorney general under then-President Donald Trump to help promote false election fraud claims, and his electronic devices were seized in the June raid.
A report from a D.C. Bar committee posted Wednesday stated that Clark disclosed in earlier filings that a June raid of his home was tied to a Justice Department investigation on potential violations of conspiracy, false statements and obstruction of justice statutes.
Clark´s lawyers, according to a filing they sent to Reuters on Thursday, asked a D.C. Bar board on Wednesday to make the documents quoted in the report public.
"The incomplete public record is creating a misleading impression in the reporters who are following this case, and likely in any reporting they may publish, and in turn in the public as to the arguments of the parties and proceedings in this case," Clark´s attorneys wrote.
A representative for the D.C. Bar board did not immediately return a request for comment. (Reporting by Jacqueline Thomsen; Editing by David Gregorio)
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Doctors, pharmacists and frontline health workers have created a safety net for active drug users in Ottawa Canada that aims to slow the rate of fatal overdoses by helping people get high more safely.
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Doctors, pharmacists and frontline health workers have created a safety net for active drug users in Ottawa Canada that aims to slow the rate of fatal overdoses by helping people get high more safely.
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Benefit for The Children's Inn at NIH
BETHESDA, Md., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Children's Inn at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) "Staches to Lashes" a benefit for The Children's Inn at The National Institutes of Health (NIH), to be held on October 20, 2022 at The Cliff House Resort in Cape Neddick, Maine.
Maine local and The Front Porch owner Scott Vogel founded the local celebrity drag event. "I initiated this event in 2017 during my first summer as the owner of The Front Porch. Over the first three years of this event, we went from raising $32,000 in 2017 to $137,000 in 2019," said Vogel. "My expectation for this year is to raise over $200,000 for a cause very near and dear to my heart."
Diagnosed with Chronic Granulomatous Disease, a rare immune deficiency, at six-months old Mr. Vogel received care at the NIH the world's leading research hospital and stayed at The Children's Inn located in Bethesda MD. "Throughout my life I received care at the NIH for this life-threatening illness and underwent two stem cell transplants. The first transplant in fifth grade unsuccessful, and the second in 2014, at the age of 24, was luckily successful in curing my disease. I now sit on the board of The Children's Inn where my family and I have spent over 250 nights while I underwent treatment at NIH."
"Giving back is a part of my DNA," said Vogel. "I have supported many philanthropic efforts personally and through my restaurants. 'Staches to Lashes' is a very special one; for which I have been humbled to receive so much support."
Funds raised through donations, tickets sales, sponsorship opportunities, and night-of silent and live auctions.
The Children's Inn at NIH is a private, nonprofit "Place Like Home" for children and their families participating in pediatric research at the Clinical Center at NIH. The Inn reduces the burden of illness through therapeutic, educational, and recreational programming – all at no cost to the families. Since opening in 1990, more than 15,500 families from across the world, and many from New England, have considered The Inn their home. As a partner in discovery and care with the NIH, The Inn strives for the day when no family endures the heartbreak of a seriously ill child.
For more information about The Children's Inn at NIH, please visit childrensinn.org or call 240-988-4259. For more information about Staches to Lashes, please call 207-646-4005 or visit thefrontporch.com.
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Medicare Health Plan in Arizona specifically designed for Medicare beneficiaries living with Diabetes, Heart Failure, Cardiovascular Disease and End Stage Kidney Disease
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Gold Kidney of Arizona, Inc., a subsidiary of Gold Kidney Health Plan has contracted with the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) and is launching a Medicare Advantage Chronic-Care Special Needs Plan effective January 1, 2023. Gold Kidney of Arizona will offer the same coverage as Medicare with additional benefits, designed for patients with Chronic Kidney Disease that lead to and include Kidney Failure.
The plan will be available to Arizona residents who have chronic conditions including diabetes, heart failure, cardiovascular and end stage renal disease and are Medicare eligible. Gold Kidney of Arizona will begin enrolling members in its new Medicare Advantage plan beginning October 15, 2022. Our service area includes the counties of Gila, Maricopa, Pima and Pinal in Arizona.
"We are really pleased to offer the Medicare Health Plan in Arizona Intended for Medicare beneficiaries living with chronic conditions that lead to and include kidney failure," said Dave Firdaus, CEO of Gold Kidney Health Plan. "Currently Medicare beneficiaries who live in Arizona with chronic diseases especially ESRD have limited choice of Medicare Advantage coverage. For example, there is no ESRD Medicare C-SNP plan in Maricopa County today."
Under Gold Kidney Health Plan's model of care, a team of experts, including primary care physicians and nephrologists, will collaborate more closely to develop individualized care plans which address each member's unique health care needs. The member will choose a primary care physician, a nephrologist, and be provided a nurse care manager knowledgeable in the patients' chronic conditions to help them understand their coverage and answer questions.
"Our goal is to improve our members' health and delay their disease progression, and if they must start dialysis, we will be with them and their significant others to help them understand and facilitate their choices for receiving either a kidney transplant, starting on dialysis, and/or continuing to live the quality of life they desire" said Kirsten Sorensen, VP of Clinical Services for Gold Kidney Health Plan. "That's why we have partnered with trusted primary care physicians, nephrologists, hospitals, pharmacies, and other providers — to make sure Gold Kidney Health Plan members get the right care at the right time with the right resources. Our mission is to improve our members' health outcomes through empowering our members and providers with improved access to health care, less prior authorizations, lower out of pocket costs, and benefits designed specifically with their daily health care needs in mind."
Gold Kidney of Arizona is a Medicare Advantage Chronic Condition Special Needs Plan with a Medicare contract to offer coverage to individuals diagnosed with Diabetes, Heart Failure, Cardiovascular Disease and End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD).
Press or Provider Contact: Sandra.Howe@GoldKidney.Com
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CHICAGO, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EVERSANA, a pioneer of next-generation commercial services to the global life sciences industry, today announced that CEO Jim Lang has been named a 2022 PharmaVoice 100 Red Jacket Award honoree. Lang received his Red Jacket at the PharmaVoice 100 event on Thursday, September 15 for his commitment to innovation, transformation, mentorship, and philanthropy across the industry.
Introduced in 2014 by PharmaVoice to recognize transformational leaders who have been named to the PharmaVoice list multiple times, the Red Jacket designation is a hall of fame type award from the leading industry publication. 2022 marks the third consecutive year that Lang has been named to the exclusive list, which has recognized the one hundred most influential leaders throughout the life sciences industry for the past 17 years.
"I've worked with many talented, passionate leaders throughout my career, but Jim Lang is an innovator both inside the company and across the global industry," said Mark Thierer, Chairman of the Board at EVERSANA. "Since we first began putting the pieces together to create EVERSANA, Jim has inspired his team to think differently, to take on new challenges, challenge the status quo, and find new ways to transform our industry. We're lucky to have him."
Lang's vision and passion to change an industry by putting the needs of clients and patients first became a reality in 2018 with the official launch of EVERSANA, the industry's first fully integrated commercial services partner. Since then, the company has seen dramatic growth and expansion while earning top-tier client satisfaction ratings, global Great Place to Work recognition, and the growth of an employee base from just over 1,000 employees in 2018 to more than 6,000 today.
"I'm humbled to be recognized by PharmaVoice for this honor, but this all would not be possible without the entire team at EVERSANA. We've worked hard to create a category in the life science industry that did not exist," said Lang. "Outsourced commercialization existed in pockets, but to do it all, under one roof, with such talented colleagues, is special. It's a privilege to build something so special and so needed for the future of better healthcare."
Lang is one of five honorees for the 2022 Red Jacket awards. To see the full list, click here.
EVERSANA™ is a leading provider of global services to the life sciences industry. The company's integrated solutions are rooted in the patient experience and span all stages of the product life cycle to deliver long-term, sustainable value for patients, prescribers, channel partners and payers. The company serves more than 500 organizations, including innovative start-ups and established pharmaceutical companies, to advance life sciences solutions for a healthier world. To learn more about EVERSANA, visit eversana.com or connect through LinkedIn and Twitter.
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MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Corvex™ Connected Worker today announced it is teaming up with Ansell to launch a connected workforce solution under Ansell's new workplace safety product and service brand, Inteliforz™. Leveraging Corvex™ technology, the Inteliforz™ Zone Series will inform and resolve safety risks, ensuring personal protective equipment compliance, and a real-time method for teams to interact, recognize, and share workplace safety concerns is provided.
The Inteliforz™ Zone Series combines the cloud-based platform and IoT technology architecture from Corvex™ with Ansell's safety innovations and industry leadership to turn the experience and insights of workers within essential industries into actionable data for managers and leaders in real-time. Through the collaboration, Inteliforz™ is positioned to deliver advanced solutions that will elevate the industrial workplace far into the future.
"Together Ansell and Corvex™ create the perfect opportunity to put transformative digital tools in the hands of millions of front-line workers globally," says Beemal Vasani, Director of Ansell Inteliforz. "With this partnership, Ansell is making a significant investment in the workplace of the future. We will leverage this collaboration to launch a variety of Ansell connected solutions that will not only drive insight and measurable improvements in safety, but also help our customers achieve their related productivity, quality, and sustainability objectives."
"Our secure, modern, cloud-based platform and IoT technology architecture, combined with Ansell's safety innovations and industry influence is a game-changer," says Joe O'Brien, CEO and Founder of Corvex™ Connected Worker. "In working together with Ansell, we will modify the way that industrial companies think about safety and operational excellence at the front-line of their operations."
Corvex™ Connected Worker is a leading innovator in the market for connected workforce technologies that enable frontline workers to deliver improved results. Based in Minneapolis, Corvex™ technologies connect workers and managers using continuous-loop digital tools that foster real-time communication and collaboration. We power the workforce of the future.
Ansell is a world leader in providing superior health and safety protection solutions that enhance human well-being. The world's need for better protection never stops, so Ansell is constantly researching, developing and investing to manufacture and distribute cutting-edge product innovation and technology, marketed under well-known brands that customers trust. Operating in two main business segments, Industrial and Healthcare, Ansell is the market leader that continues to grow, employing 14,000 people worldwide. With operations in North America, Latin America/Caribbean, EMEA, and Asia Pacific, customers in more than 100 countries around the world trust Ansell and its protection solutions. Information on Ansell and its products can be found at www.ansell.com.
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<NBC5 NEWS AT 5:00 STARTS NOW> (áááBRIANááá) THANKS FOR JOINING US. AT 5 O-CLOCK. I'M BRIAN COLLERAN. AND I'M ALICE KANG. THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT IS UNDER INVESTIGATION... by THE U-S DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. A RECENT FEDERAL COMPLAINT. FILED ON THE BEHALF OF U-V-M STUDENTS.... CLAIMS THE UNIVERSITY DID ááNOT CORRECTLY HANDLE ANTI- SEMITIC INCIDENTS ON CAMPUS. NBC 5'S KRYSTIN RAE IS LIVE FROM THE NEWSROOM. SHE HAS MORE FROM HOW THE UNIVERSITY IS RESPONDING TONIGHT. EARLIER THIS WEEK WE BROUGHT YOU NEWS OF THIS FEDERAL INVESTIGATION. TONIGHT THE UNIVERSITY IS RESPONDING TO THE COMPLAINT FILED BY A D.C .LAW FIRM AND THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION "JEWISH ON CAMPUS" IN RESPONSE, UVM'S PRESIDENT RELEASED A STATEMENT TODAY SAYING, IN PART, "WE DENOUNCE HATEFUL ACTIONS AND RESPOND BRISKLY AND DECISIVELY WHENEVER THOSE RESPONSIBLE ARE IDENTIFIED. UVM IS HOME TO A STRONG AND VIBRANT JEWISH COMMUNITY." AND, "AS A COMMUNITY, WE ADHERE TO OUR COMMON GROUND VALUES OF RESPECT."> HOWEVER---THE ORGANIZATION "JEWISH ON CAMPUS," SAYS THE UNIVERSITY'S RESPONSE IS "DISCOURAGING" <"THE UNIVERSITY HAS AN OPPORTUNITY HERE TO CREATE AN ENVIRONMENT THAT IS BETTER FOR JEWISH STUDENTS ON CAMPUS, THEY HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY HERE TO COMBAT HATE, TO CREATE A MORE INCLUSIVE SPACE ON CAMPUS. JEWISH STUDENTS ARE ASKING FOR AN OPPORTUNITY TO WORK WITH ADMINISTRATION, TO MAKE THEIR CAMPUS A SAFE SPACE FOR THEM."> THE ALLEGATIONS AGAINST THE UNIVERSITY SITE ANTI-SEMETIC SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS, VANDALISM, AND DISCRIMINATION. THE UNIVERSITY'S STATEMENT REFERENCES EACH ALLEGATION AND SITES HOW THE UNIVERSITY EXPLICITLY ADDRESSED EACH SITUATION. THE JEWISH CENTER IS PREPARING AN OFFICIAL RESPONSE TO THE UNIVERSITY'S STATEMENT TO SEE THE FULL RESPONSE FROM THE UNIVERSITY...
UVM president responds to US Dept. of Education investigation
Updated: 5:28 PM EDT Sep 15, 2022
The University of Vermont is under an active Department of Education investigation after a federal complaint filed on the behalf of students claims the university did not correctly handle antisemitic incidents on campus.On Thursday, the university responded to the complaint filed by a Washington, D.C., law firm and the national organization "Jewish on Campus," which provides an outlet for Jewish students to report antisemitic instances. In response to the filing, UVM’s president Suresh V. Garimella released a statement Thursday saying, in part:“We denounce hateful actions and respond briskly and decisively whenever those responsible are identified. UVM is home to a strong and vibrant Jewish community” and, “as a community, we adhere to our common ground values of respect.However, the organization, “Jewish on Campus, says the university’s response is “discouraging”.“The university has an opportunity here to create an environment that is better for Jewish students on campus, they have an opportunity here to combat hate, to create a more inclusive space on campus. Jewish students are asking for an opportunity to work with administration, to make their campus a safe space for them,” said Julia Jassey, CEO of Jewish on Campus.The allegations against the university site antisemitic social media posts, vandalism, and discrimination.The UVM statement references each allegation and cites how the university explicitly addressed each at the time of the incident.Garimella also encouraged anyone who has concerns or who wants to report an incident of antisemitism to do so at uvm.edu/reporting.Editor's note: The above video is from previous reporting on this story.
BURLINGTON, Vt. — The University of Vermont is under an active Department of Education investigation after a federal complaint filed on the behalf of students claims the university did not correctly handle antisemitic incidents on campus.
On Thursday, the university responded to the complaint filed by a Washington, D.C., law firm and the national organization "Jewish on Campus," which provides an outlet for Jewish students to report antisemitic instances.
In response to the filing, UVM’s president Suresh V. Garimella released a statement Thursday saying, in part:
“We denounce hateful actions and respond briskly and decisively whenever those responsible are identified. UVM is home to a strong and vibrant Jewish community” and, “as a community, we adhere to our common ground values of respect.
However, the organization, “Jewish on Campus, says the university’s response is “discouraging”.
“The university has an opportunity here to create an environment that is better for Jewish students on campus, they have an opportunity here to combat hate, to create a more inclusive space on campus. Jewish students are asking for an opportunity to work with administration, to make their campus a safe space for them,” said Julia Jassey, CEO of Jewish on Campus.
The allegations against the university site antisemitic social media posts, vandalism, and discrimination.
The UVM statement references each allegation and cites how the university explicitly addressed each at the time of the incident.
Garimella also encouraged anyone who has concerns or who wants to report an incident of antisemitism to do so at uvm.edu/reporting.
Editor's note: The above video is from previous reporting on this story.
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EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – The Chihuahua Attorney General’s Office said it will appeal a judge’s decision to downgrade charges – from homicide to manslaughter – against a trucker who allegedly crashed into roadside food stands last week, killing 10 people in Villa Ahumada, Mexico.
The trucker, identified by authorities only as Saul A.D., allegedly was under the influence of drugs and speeding when his semi veered off the road, struck a vehicle and overturned on top of the food stands and the patio of a restaurant on Sept. 7. Five food vendors in the bus-stop town known for its burritos and asadero quesadillas died from injuries, as did a self-employed vendor, a window washer and three bystanders.
The crash shocked residents and travelers who usually stop at the town 90 miles south of Juarez, Mexico. It also prompted calls from the food vendors’ cooperative to authorities to rein in speeding truckers and install speed bumps on the portion of Mexico Highway 45 that runs through the town.
Chihuahua state authorities said they will strictly enforce speed limits in the town and require truck drivers passing through Mexico’s largest state to rest every five hours or periodically switch places with a “co-pilot.”
The judge ruled that Saul A.D. will stand trial on the 10 manslaughter charges plus causing injuries and damages to private property. The judge determined the driver will remain in jail for the next 30 months or until the trial is concluded, the Attorney General’s Office said in a statement.
The judge decides guilt or innocence in most trials in Mexico.
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LONDON (AP) — The death of Queen Elizabeth II set in motion a tightly choreographed series of ceremonial and constitutional steps, as Britain undergoes a period of national mourning and enters the reign of King Charles III.
A long-established 10-day plan, code-named Operation London Bridge, covers arrangements for the queen’s final journey to London and state funeral. Here is a look at what will happen in the coming days:
Thursday, Sept. 15
— The queen’s coffin lies in state in Westminster Hall in London for the first of four full days. Thousands of people joined a huge line to pay their respects to their late monarch. By midday, the queue had grown to 4.4 miles (7 kilometers), winding past Tower Bridge.
Friday, Sept. 16
— The king and queen consort will visit Wales, the last leg of their royal tour of the four nations that make up the United Kingdom.
— On Friday night, the king and his three siblings — Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward — will hold a 15-minute vigil around the queen’s coffin as it lies in state.
Sunday, Sept. 18
— Britain holds a “national moment of reflection” with 1 minute of silence at 8.p.m. (1900 GMT, 3 p.m. EDT).
Monday, Sept. 19
— The queen’s lying in state period finishes early Monday morning.
— The king will lead the royal family in a procession that takes the queen’s coffin from Westminster Hall to nearby Westminster Abbey for a state funeral that begins at 11 a.m. Leaders and dignitaries from around the world are expected to attend.
— Two minutes of silence will be observed across the U.K. at the end of the funeral.
— The funeral marks the end of 10 days of national morning, and the day will be a public holiday across the U.K.
— A committal service for the queen takes place at St. George’s Chapel in Windsor on Monday afternoon. She will be interred alongside her late husband, Prince Philip, in the chapel in a private service later that night.
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The Senate confirmed Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Administrator David Pekoske to a second term on Thursday.
In a 77-18 vote, the upper chamber confirmed Pekoske to a second five-year term after previously confirming him to the post in August 2017 by unanimous consent.
“It is a privilege to continue serving the American people alongside an incredible workforce of dedicated and highly skilled professionals,” he said in a TSA statement. “I will continue to work tirelessly to ensure our nation’s transportation system remains secure and facilitates the movement of people and cargo.”
President Biden in May renominated Pekoske, who was nominated for his first term by former President Trump. Pekoske also served a brief stint as the Department of Homeland Security’s acting secretary when Biden took office.
Pekoske leads a workforce of roughly 60,000 employees at nearly 430 airports nationwide, and the agency is also responsible for security of pipelines, rail and mass transit systems.
TSA’s statement also outlined Pekoske’s priorities for his second term, which include implementing more equitable compensation, investing in technology and strengthening partnerships with transportation stakeholders and international governments.
“TSA’s mission lies in the commitment of professionals and highly skilled individuals, and Admiral Pekoske’s confirmation and continued leadership of this team will enable the TSA to further its ongoing and important mission,” Commerce Committee Chairwoman Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) said on the Senate floor prior to the vote.
The agency during Pekoske’s first term grappled with a large number of unruly passengers amid the coronavirus pandemic, with thousands of reported mask-related incidents.
Prior to joining the TSA, Pekoske was a vice commandant in the U.S. Coast Guard, where he was second-in-command and chief operating officer. He also served as commander of Coast Guard Pacific Area and Coast Guard Defense Forces West.
TSA now faces passenger levels not seen since before the pandemic, with the agency regularly screening more than 2 million passengers per day.
The airline industry has seen a chaotic summer travel season with many flight cancellations and delays, but TSA has continually touted low wait times during peak travel days.
Earlier this month, Labor Day marked the first holiday weekend to surpass pre-pandemic air travel levels. TSA said over the course of the weekend, 94.9 percent of PreCheck passengers waited less than five minutes, and about 91.6 percent of standard-screening passengers waited less than 15 minutes.
“TSA’s highly trained and dedicated workforce facilitated secure travel for millions of passengers during the busy summer travel season with very little disruptions at the checkpoint,” Pekoske said at the time.
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(The Hill) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was involved in a car accident early Thursday morning in Kyiv but suffered “no serious injuries,” his press secretary said.
Another car collided with the president’s car and his escort vehicles in Ukraine’s capital city, Zelensky’s press secretary Sergii Nykyforov said in a statement.
“The president was examined by a doctor, no serious injuries were found,” Nykyforov said.
The driver in the other car was treated by medics accompanying Zelensky and transferred to an ambulance, according to Nykyforov.
Law enforcement officials are investigating the circumstances of the accident, he added.
Zelensky visited Izyum in northeastern Ukraine on Wednesday, after Ukrainian forces retook the city from Russian forces as part of a major counteroffensive over the weekend.
The Ukrainian leader is seeking to address the U.N. General Assembly via video next week; however, Russia is looking to block the virtual speech.
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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — The U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo on Thursday described claims by the Bosnian Serb leader that his security services are eavesdropping on the American ambassador to Sarajevo as “blustering” and added that his separatist policies are “gambling” with the future of the Serb entity in the Balkan state.
Milorad Dodik, a member of Bosnia’s tripartite presidency, claimed at a pre-election rally Wednesday that the Bosnian Serb spying agency is now capable of listening to the conversations by U.S. Ambassador Michael Murphy and his staff.
“We also listening in on to them now, it’s not only them listening in on us,” Dodik told his supporters. “I know what they are talking about.”
He said this was not possible to do this just a few years ago.
“What we say in private is the same as what we say in public — the United States remains committed to Bosnia and Herzegovina’s sovereignty, territorial integrity, and multiethnic character and we will respond to any destabilizing, anti-Dayton activity,” the U.S. Embassy tweeted, referring to a 1995 peace deal reached in Dayton, Ohio, between Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats that ended a war that left at least 100,000 people dead and millions homeless.
Although the peace deal ended the bloodshed, it left Bosnia deeply divided between the Bosniak-Croat federation and the Serb entity called Republika Srpska. Dodik has openly been striving to split the Serb entity from Bosnia and join it with neighboring Serbia.
“All of Mr. Dodik’s blustering cannot change the fundamental fact that the RS is not a state. It is one of BiH’s two entities,” the embassy tweet said. “His pursuit of an “Independent Srpska in BIH” isn’t protecting the RS or its residents, it is gambling with their future.”
Dodik, known for his staunchly pro-Russian stance, has been under U.S. financial and travel sanctions since January after the Biden administration accused him of “corrupt activities” that threaten to destabilize the region.
Media in Bosnia say Dodik is among politicians in more than two dozen countries who since 2014 were paid by Russia in exchange for exerting pro-Kremlin influence. According to a newly declassified review by U.S. intelligence agencies Russia has spent at least $300 million to sway both politics and policy in those states.
There are fears in the West that Russia is — through the Bosnian Serbs and its Balkan ally Serbia — working on destabilizing Bosnia to shift at least part of world attention from its war on Ukraine.
Celebrating a recently established holiday that promotes Serb unity in the Balkans, Dodik said joining Serbia remains the main goal for Bosnian Serbs.
“Today Serbs have two states, Republika Srpska and Serbia, but we will always strive to fight for unity,” he said.
Serbia’s populist President Aleksandar Vucic attended the celebrations in northern Bosnia on Thursday, saying “the historical moment demands that we unite and together defeat the madness that can turn these regions into a slaughterhouse again.”
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The Ignore No More: ACTe Now! Campaign to address vast health disparities by seeking more inclusive approach to recruiting Black American patients for clinical trials and research
CHICAGO, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research (FSR) is proud to announce the launch of the Ignore No More: ACTe Now! (Advance Clinical Trials for Equity in Sarcoidosis) campaign. The goals of this campaign are to increase representation of Black American sarcoidosis patients in clinical trials, raise awareness of disparities that exist in sarcoidosis, identify the challenges and barriers that contribute to lower participation by Black Americans in clinical trials, and to provide recommendations that foster a more inclusive approach to recruiting patients for clinical trials and research.
To ensure Black American sarcoidosis patients are at the forefront of this discussion, FSR collaborated with sarcoidosis experts and patients, known as Patient and Clinical Advisory Committees, to create a survey to provide a platform for Black Americans to share their experiences and insights. Black Americans at least 18 years of age and older, who live in the U.S., are encouraged to take the survey at www.stopsarcoidosis.org/ACTNow to help inform recommendations for improving care and increasing representation in clinical trials. The survey is available now through November 30, 2022, and will culminate in a Congressional Briefing in April of 2023, Sarcoidosis Awareness Month.
Black Americans are 2.5 times more likely to have sarcoidosis and are 12 times more likely to die from sarcoidosis than White Americans. While Black Americans are disproportionately impacted by chronic illnesses and diseases across the spectrum, they are significantly underrepresented in clinical trials and research. According to the FDA, only 7% of clinical trial participants, globally, and 16% domestically, are Black, while White participants represent 76% and 78% respectively.
"It is imperative to increase representation of Black Americans in clinical trials and research efforts in order to close the gap in care and improve patient outcomes for Black Americans with sarcoidosis," said Mary McGowan, Chief Executive Officer for FSR. "Ignore No More: ACTe Now! will focus on identifying the barriers and growing representation of Black Americans in clinical trials to provide more comprehensive data on their experiences, leading to more effective protocols, treatments, and equitable outcomes. We believe the learnings from this survey will lead to increased enrollment of Black Americans in clinical trials for sarcoidosis, as well as other chronic illnesses more broadly."
In 2021, FSR launched Phase I of the Ignore No More Campaign to raise awareness of the disproportionate impact sarcoidosis has on Black American women reaching over 500,000 individuals through awareness events, media, and an educational public service announcement video featuring celebrity spokesperson, Jeryl Prescott Gallien. The campaign was featured in media outlets such as The Roland Martin Show, The Tavis Smiley Show, USA Today and Yahoo! News. Phase II, ACTe Now!, sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim, Kinevant Sciences, Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, is the next step in addressing health disparities in the sarcoidosis community, including Black American men.
We are calling on all patients, caregivers, clinicians, researchers, and the wider community to support this campaign and raise awareness of the survey. The FSR ACTe Now! Social Media Toolkit and educational infographic are located on the campaign website to make sharing messaging easy. FSR is also calling all providers, researchers, and clinicians to commit to having discussions with your patients about clinical trials and research participation.
There are more sarcoidosis clinical trials than ever before, so the time to ACTe is Now! Learn what you can do to support at www.stopsarcoidosis.org/ACTNow.
About Sarcoidosis
Sarcoidosis is a rare inflammatory disease characterized by the formation of granulomas—tiny clumps of inflammatory cells—in one or more organs of the body. Despite increasing advances in research, sarcoidosis remains difficult to diagnose with limited treatment options and no known cure. Approximately 175,000 people live with sarcoidosis in the United States.
While Black American women experience the worse outcomes, as a group, Black Americans in general have a higher incidence of sarcoidosis and have poorer outcomes and experiences compared to other groups, have a hospitalization rate nine times higher than White Americans, and are twelve times more likely to die from sarcoidosis and at a younger age than White Americans.
About the Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research
The Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research (FSR) is the leading international organization dedicated to finding a cure for sarcoidosis and to improving care for sarcoidosis patients through research, education, and support. Since its establishment in 2000, FSR has fostered over $6 million in sarcoidosis-specific research efforts. For more information about FSR and to join our community, visit: stopsarcoidosis.org.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bank of America Corporation today announced the Board of Directors has authorized regular cash dividends on the outstanding shares or depositary shares of the following series of preferred stock:
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FORT WORTH, Texas, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kimbell Royalty Partners, LP (NYSE: KRP) ("Kimbell"), a leading owner of oil and natural gas mineral and royalty interests in more than 122,000 gross wells across 28 states, today announced that it will release its third quarter 2022 financial results on Thursday, November 3, 2022, before the market opens. Kimbell will also declare its third quarter 2022 distribution concurrent with this release. In conjunction with the release, Kimbell has scheduled a conference call, which will be broadcast live over the Internet the same day at 10:00 a.m. Central (11:00 a.m. Eastern).
About Kimbell Royalty Partners
Kimbell (NYSE: KRP) is a leading oil and gas mineral and royalty company based in Fort Worth, Texas. Kimbell owns mineral and royalty interests in approximately 16 million gross acres in 28 states and in every major onshore basin in the continental United States, including ownership in more than 122,000 gross wells with over 46,000 wells in the Permian Basin. To learn more, visit http://www.kimbellrp.com.
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Teen tied to bed escapes from home; 3 family members indicted, police say
FAIRFIELD TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WXIX/Gray News) - A mother, stepfather and stepgrandfather in Ohio have been indicted on charges in connection with the alleged abuse of a teen after police say she escaped her family’s home and sought help at a nearby business.
The identities of the accused have not been identified to protect the victim’s identity.
The stepfather is accused of tying his teenage stepdaughter to her bed on Aug. 16 because the family feared she would run away, Fairfield Township police say the suspect claimed.
WXIX reports an officer’s bodycam recording captured the stepfather explaining that he used zip ties to hook the teen to a bed and wrapped a ratchet strap around her feet to ensure the teen could not leave her bed.
Fairfield Police Sgt. Brandon McCroskey said the family admitted to doing their actions.
The stepfather reportedly told police the teen had threatened to kill them, and they had been trying to get her to see her counselor.
Fairfield Township Police said the teen’s mother would allegedly cut her free from the bed, but that was only to use the bathroom.
Once the teen relieved herself, her mother allegedly tied her back down to the bed.
In the bodycam video, the stepfather told police the girl had a kitchen knife, and he had woken up with her standing above his head. When asked, he said he did not call police after that incident.
Police said the teen managed to escape the house and run to a nearby business, where an employee called for help.
The teen had injuries to her eyes, neck, wrists and burns on her palms, according to police.
They were severe enough for first responders to take her to the hospital for treatment.
“If you’re a parent or guardian and you’re aware that a child in your custody is being abused, and you do nothing, you could easily be subjected to criminal liability and charged for that,” McCroskey said. “I’ve had a couple of cases myself where that’s occurred, this being one of them.”
The child’s grandfather was also indicted on charges Wednesday for knowing the alleged criminal activity took place, according to police.
The family trio is facing a total of 14 charges, 13 of which are felonies related to abduction and child endangering. The stepfather alone was indicted on six charges, according to police.
Authorities said it is unclear if the alleged abuse happened on more than one occasion.
The teen is currently in the care of children’s services. Police said other children were removed from the family’s home as well.
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Christians could make up less than half of Americans in 50 years, report finds
(Gray News) – Christians could make up less than half of the United States population by 2070 if recent religious trends continue, according to a new report published Tuesday.
In the report, Pew Research Center modeled several hypothetical scenarios describing how religion in the U.S. might change over the next 50 years.
Based on Pew’s findings, if religious switching continues at recent rates, Christians could decrease from making up 64% of the current population to somewhere between 35-54% by 2070.
Over that same period, Pew estimates people who are religiously unaffiliated would rise from the current 30% to somewhere between 34-52% of the U.S. population.
As of 2020, Christians made up 64% of Americans (including children), religiously unaffiliated people made up 30%, and adherents of all other religions (including Jews, Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists) made up 6%.
Pew said the research is based on patterns observed over recent decades through 2019. Data shows that 31% of people who are raised Christian become unaffiliated between ages 15-29, and an additional 7% become unaffiliated after age 30.
Pew said the ages of 15-29 is the “tumultuous period” in which religious switching is concentrated.
The report emphasizes that these findings are just possibilities based on recent trends and are not meant as predictions of what will happen for certain.
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Bodies Bodies Bodies escalates A24's mix of horror and Gen Z escapades, with a hyper-stylised, housebound murder spree
By Michael SunPlonk a handful of strung-out, cashed-up narcissists in a house and the carnage is basically guaranteed.
Lena Dunham's cult TV show Girls knew this well. In one of the series' most memorable episodes, its central quartet retreat to a secluded bungalow by the beach, ostensibly to patch up old wounds with a spot of salt air.
What ensues, of course, is nothing short of a bloodbath. Secrets tumble out before the first drink is downed; resentment spills over into all-out warfare. Every friendship leaves a little bruised.
That bloodbath becomes literal in Bodies Bodies Bodies, production studio A24's latest addition to its storied canon of glamorous delinquents: a slasher which takes the tried and true format of Dunham's episode and dials it to off-Richter levels. The wealthy are wealthier, the barbs pointier.
The bungalow is now a gargantuan McMansion – the old money kind, with gilded hallways and spiral staircases – and the characters are less likeable than ever before: loose-lipped layabouts with egos as inflated as their trust funds.
It makes for delicious viewing.
Dutch actor-turned-director Halina Reijn – helming her first English-language feature here – affords us but one moment of serenity before a 90-minute onslaught of blood, guts, and glow-in-the-dark wristbands.
We open on Sophie (Amandla Stenberg), fresh out of rehab, and new girlfriend Bee (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm's Maria Bakalova) canoodling in a field so dewy and verdant that it could only exist in a fairytale. There's even birdsong in the distance.
How long will this bliss last?
Approximately two minutes, as it turns out. It's interrupted by the incessant whoosh of iMessage notifications ringing out as the loved-up couple – who have been together all of six weeks – prepare for the getaway ahead.
"They're not as nihilistic as they look on the internet," Sophie soothes an unconvinced Bee, who is fretfully poring over the social feeds of everyone she's about to meet.
Her fears are hardly allayed when she faces them in person: a menagerie of the rich and fameless played by – thanks to A24's classically canny casting – Hollywood's bright young things, each plucked from buzzy breakout roles and given ensemble billing.
There's Rachel Sennott (Shiva Baby) as mouthy, melodramatic podcaster Alice, Chase Sui Wonders (Generation) as wannabe actor Emma, and Myha'la Herrold (Industry) as wily pot-stirrer Jordan – who, to complicate things, might just be an old flame of Sophie's.
That's not to mention the sideshow of boyfriends and hangers-on, including Pete Davidson essentially caricaturing himself, a gangly sleazeball pumped full of machismo, and the hulking Lee Pace as an impossibly Adonic anomaly amidst these twitchy 20-somethings.
Into the lion's den drops Bee, armed with a healthy dose of suspicion and a loaf of zucchini bread – an offering received with sidelong glances and slack-jawed stares.
But Reijn doesn't rest too long on the introductions. There's no time to waste, after all, when a hurricane is fast approaching, effectively confining them to the Cluedo mansion.
The jabs come thick and fast as the rain. "Love the podcast!" Sophie calls out to Alice – in a tone that implies she hates the podcast.
By nightfall, they're submerged in simmering tension that threatens to boil over. Call it cabin fever, or just the side effect of a decaying friendship strung together by little more than shared history.
The nerves are amped up by an inevitable round of the titular game – this group's version of what's better known as Mafia or Werewolf, where a secretly assigned killer goes around claiming unlucky victims, before everyone congregates to accuse one suspect.
It doesn't take a detective to figure out what happens next. Someone winds up (actually) dead, and as more bodies pile up, the paranoia surges, a flurry of fingers pointing in all directions. Is there a murderer on the loose? And, more importantly: is it one of them?
Both Reijn and screenwriter Sarah DeLappe have a stage background, and it shows: they trap their characters in an ever-shrinking chamber piece as the film's once-cavernous setting grows increasingly suffocating. Betrayal and intrigue reign.
The camera loosens into a beast of reckless abandon, sprinting and spinning through the claustrophobic bowels of the manor to giddy, sometimes nauseating effect. Often, Bodies Bodies Bodies makes good on its title, with a blur of unidentifiable limbs all that's visible on screen.
To its credit, it's a miracle we can see anything at all in a film set predominantly in the dark, especially given the recent epidemic of painfully low lighting and washed-out blobs in big-budget film and TV.
Bodies Bodies Bodies bucks the trend with a campy hyper-stylisation indebted – for better or for worse – to teen hit Euphoria: slivers of saturated neons, mesh tops and beaded necklaces, and a soundtrack practically cooked up in a lab for street cred, featuring pop provocateurs Charli XCX and Azealia Banks.
Much of its comedy, too, relies on the same pool of chronically online references. Its best – and blackest – one-liners belong to Sennott, whose spectacular brattiness draws from the kind of feverish lingo recognisable to anyone who has spent too much time on Twitter. Murder is toxic, backstabbing is gaslighting, and death is the ultimate silencing.
There are certainly choices – a plot point involving a viral TikTok song from 2020, for example, or one too many jokes about wi-fi – that risk coming across as dated, victims of the never-ending churn of the fad cycle that renders anything older than a week automatically geriatric.
The film, however, is too frenetic to let any isolated misfire linger. Its scatter-shot approach works in its favour, as does its complete and utter amorality: not a cringingly technophobic parable bemoaning the woes of social media à la Black Mirror, or a condescending Gen Z satire, but a character study of terrible people who feel all too familiar – with a few corpses in tow.
Like the hedonistic pleasure of eavesdropping on others' gossip, we can't help but submit to its delirium.
And when all is said and done, we might find ourselves experiencing that most elusive of feelings in the cinema: fun.
Bodies Bodies Bodies is in cinemas now.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has nominated a Miami litigator and longtime government lawyer to serve as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, the office currently involved in the Justice Department’s investigation of classified records at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.
Markenzy Lapointe would replace Juan Antonio “Tony” Gonzalez, who has been a top prosecutor in Southern Florida involved in the investigation of the classified records and the debate over whether a judge should appoint a special master to review the documents taken by FBI in the search.
It was unclear why the Biden administration chose to announce the nomination for the position now, as the government’s case winds its way through the court system. Gonzalez, who had previously served as a senior prosecutor in the office, had been appointed to the position by Attorney General Merrick Garland. He was never formally nominated for the position.
Gonzalez has served as a federal prosecutor in southern Florida since 1998 and served as the first assistant U.S. attorney and the acting U.S. attorney. He succeeded Ariana Fajardo Orshan, who had been nominated by Trump.
Lapointe will likely be in the spotlight for months to come as the investigation continues. He is currently with Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, and before that he worked at Boies Schiller & Flexner. He worked in the Southern District of Florida as an assistant U.S. attorney from 2002 to 2006.
Biden also formally nominated Roger Handberg to be the United States attorney for the Middle District of Florida, which is handling a federal investigation into Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz. Handberg was appointed by Garland and has been serving in the role since 2021.
U.S. attorney picks must be confirmed by the Senate, and home-state senators usually have significant input on the nominees. Both Florida candidates were recommended by a bipartisan commission led by Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, who praised Biden’s choices.
“They have served their communities and country with distinction, and I expect both will respect the Constitution and uphold the rule of law without fear or favor,” he said in a statement.
The president also nominated McLain Schneider to the District of North Dakota. He was in private practice and served in the North Dakota state Senate from 2008 to 2016.
The White House said the lawyers were chosen for their devotion to enforcing the law, “their professionalism, their experience and credentials, their dedication to pursuing equal justice for all, and their commitment to the independence of the Department of Justice.”
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Recognition underscores Genpact's end-to-end capabilities and sustained success in creating value for clients by driving real-world transformation
NEW YORK, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Genpact (NYSE: G), a global professional services firm focused on delivering digital transformation, today announced that it has been recognized as one of the "World's Best Management Consulting Firms 2022" by Forbes and Statista Inc., a world-leading statistics portal and industry ranking provider.
To determine the list, Forbes and Statista conducted an independent evaluation of thousands of multinational management consultancies across 13 industries and 14 functional areas. These firms were then evaluated based surveys results of peers, including partners and executives from the management consultancies, as well as clients of the management consultancies, to identify the World's Best Management Consulting Firms 2022. To make it to this year's list, global consulting companies were assessed on their ability to adapt and remain competitive during the Covid-19 pandemic, while also evolving to better provide services to their client's changing needs.
"In today's dynamic environment, businesses are looking for partners that can help them accelerate their transformation journeys, leveraging digital technologies and data with process and industry expertise to unlock actionable insights to drive tangible outcomes," said Tiger Tyagarajan, chief executive officer, Genpact. "Our inclusion in Forbes' World's Best Management Consulting Firms 2022 list reflects our relentless focus on driving Data-Tech-AI services and being a partner of choice for creating business outcomes that matter for our clients and the world."
This is Genpact's latest recognition added to its growing list of industry and workplace awards, including: World's Most Ethical Companies 2022 by Ethisphere Institute, Forbes Best Employers for Diversity 2022 list, Frost & Sullivan and TERI Sustainability 4.0 Awards 2022, CSO50 Awards 2022, Asia's Best Diversity Reporting by Asia Sustainability Reporting Awards 2021, Bloomberg's 2022 Gender equality index, among others.
See the full awards and winners list on the Forbes website, here.
About Genpact
Genpact (NYSE: G) is a global professional services firm that makes business transformation real. Led by our purpose -- the relentless pursuit of a world that works better for people -- we drive digital-led innovation and digitally enabled intelligent operations for our clients. Guided by our experience reinventing and running thousands of processes for hundreds of clients, many of them Global Fortune 500 companies, we drive real-world transformation at scale. We think with design, dream in digital, and solve problems with data and analytics. Combining our expertise in end-to-end operations and our AI-based platform, Genpact Cora, we focus on the details – all 100,000+ of us. From New York to New Delhi, and more than 30 countries in between, we connect every dot, reimagine every process, and reinvent the ways companies work. We know that reimagining each step from start to finish creates better business outcomes. Whatever it is, we'll be there with you – accelerating digital transformation to create bold, lasting results – because transformation happens here. Get to know us at Genpact.com and on LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A long-delayed plan to dismantle Interstate 375, a 1-mile (1.6-kilometer) depressed freeway in Detroit that was built by demolishing Black neighborhoods 60 years ago, was a big winner of federal money Thursday, the first Biden administration grant awarded to tear down a racially divisive roadway.
The $104.6 million is among $1.5 billion in transportation grants handed out to 26 projects nationwide thanks to increased funding from the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law.
It allows Michigan to move forward on its $270 million effort to transform the stretch in Detroit into a street-level boulevard, reconnecting surrounding neighborhoods and adding amenities, such as bike lanes. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has said he would make racial justice a priority in his department’s funding awards, pledging wide-ranging help to communities. Black Bottom and Paradise Valley, two of the city’s predominantly African American neighborhoods, were razed as part of the 1950s creation of an interstate highway system, displacing 100,000 Black residents and erecting a decades-long barrier between the downtown and communities to the east.
Hailed by city and state leaders as helping rectify a past racial wrong, the federal money represents a key first step that advocacy groups say will inspire dozens of citizen-led efforts underway in other cities to dismantle highways.
Still, advocates cautioned that Michigan’s plan to build a six-lane city boulevard risks simply replacing one busy roadway with another. Some long-time Black residents, meanwhile, worry they could be priced out of the city by new business development and shiny condo buildings that promise direct links to downtown.
After years of planning dating back to 2013, the highway removal is now estimated to begin as soon as 2025, two years earlier than expected, with construction finished by 2028.
“This stretch of I-375 cuts like a gash through the neighborhood, one of many examples I have seen in communities across the country where a piece of infrastructure has become a barrier,” Buttigieg told The Associated Press. He joined Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan later Thursday in Detroit along with several Black residents to highlight the grant.
“With these funds, we’re now partnering with the state and the community to transform it into a road that will connect rather than divide,” Buttigieg said.
Other winners Thursday of the Infrastructure for Rebuilding America, or INFRA, grants include $32.5 million for Flagstaff, Arizona, to build pedestrian underpasses to reconnect lower-income neighborhoods isolated by a 1-mile segment of railroad to downtown; $100 million to Clear Creek County, Colorado, for upgrades to 8 miles of the I-70 Mountain Corridor, including electric vehicle charging stations; $110 million to New York to expand refrigerated warehouse space at its Hunts Point food distribution center; and $70 million to improve rail track in Chicago.
Detroit’s project would create a slower-speed boulevard that aims to improve safety by removing a steep curve and adding LED lighting, while removing 15 old bridges and two stormwater runoff pump stations and building out wider sidewalks, protected bike lanes and pedestrian crossings.
Whitmer had originally sought as much as $180 million in federal money for the project. Because that would have been a tall order under the Biden administration’s Reconnecting Communities pilot program, which was funded by Congress at just $1 billion over five years, Buttigieg’s Department of Transportation opted to award $104 million to Michigan under the federal INFRA discretionary grant program, which has a bigger total pot of $8 billion over five years.
Christopher Coes, assistant secretary for transportation policy, said the Detroit grant reflected Buttigieg’s pledge to make Reconnecting Communities a broad “principle” of his department — not just a single program — with many efforts underway. Money under that specific $1 billion pilot will be awarded late this year or early next.
Ben Crowther, advocacy manager for America Walks and coordinator for the Freeway Fighters Network, praised the new federal grant. While there are over 50 grassroots efforts around the country aimed at removing or repurposing highways, only three cities — Detroit, Syracuse, New York and Somerville, Massachusetts — have demolition plans that are shovel-ready, making them prime candidates for federal funding.
“The fact the Detroit project is now moving forward really speaks to the priorities that U.S. DOT has set for reconnecting communities that are trickling down to the state level,” Crowther said. While community debate will likely continue over the best design and whether a six-lane boulevard is a good approach, he said, the new federal focus on equity is “a lot of inspiration for local groups for that reason alone.”
Still, some Black residents worry the new boulevard could only create more problems.
Sam Riddle, political director of the Michigan National Action Network and a longtime resident of the area, says to truly address racial inequity, city officials need to take a more holistic approach to improving Black livelihood, such as building affordable housing.
“They’re not going to right a historical wrong where Black businesses were wiped out,” Riddle said. “What they’re going to do is repeat the same mistake that prices out majority-Black Detroit.”
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EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – The Chihuahua Attorney General’s Office said it will appeal a judge’s decision to downgrade charges – from homicide to manslaughter – against a trucker who allegedly crashed into roadside food stands last week, killing 10 people in Villa Ahumada, Mexico.
The trucker, identified by authorities only as Saul A.D., allegedly was under the influence of drugs and speeding when his semi veered off the road, struck a vehicle and overturned on top of the food stands and the patio of a restaurant on Sept. 7. Five food vendors in the bus-stop town known for its burritos and asadero quesadillas died from injuries, as did a self-employed vendor, a window washer and three bystanders.
The crash shocked residents and travelers who usually stop at the town 90 miles south of Juarez, Mexico. It also prompted calls from the food vendors’ cooperative to authorities to rein in speeding truckers and install speed bumps on the portion of Mexico Highway 45 that runs through the town.
Chihuahua state authorities said they will strictly enforce speed limits in the town and require truck drivers passing through Mexico’s largest state to rest every five hours or periodically switch places with a “co-pilot.”
The judge ruled that Saul A.D. will stand trial on the 10 manslaughter charges plus causing injuries and damages to private property. The judge determined the driver will remain in jail for the next 30 months or until the trial is concluded, the Attorney General’s Office said in a statement.
The judge decides guilt or innocence in most trials in Mexico.
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NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s latest celebrity visitor is stopping traffic even in this jaded, larger-than-life town.
Little Amal, a 12-foot puppet of a 10-year-old Syrian refugee, is on a 17-day blitz through every corner of the Big Apple as part of a theater project hoping to raise awareness about immigration.
“When we talk about migration and refugees, we tend to forget that more than half of the people we’re talking about are children,” said playwright and director Amir Nizar Zuabi, the artistic director of Little Amal Walks NYC. “The reality is they’re children and all children are beautiful in their own special way. And I think that’s what Amal brings to the table.”
She will visit tourists meccas — Times Square, Grand Central Station, the American Museum of Natural History and Central Park, among them — and also communities far from the glitz of Manhattan, like Corona in the Queens borough and Bedford–Stuyvesant in Brooklyn.
“The role of the project is to talk about displacement, to talk about immigration, to talk about vulnerability in different contexts and, of course, each locality,” said Zuabi.
At each of the 55 planned stops, organizers have reached out to community artists and leaders to create a special event anchored by the place visited. So Amal will join kids her age to hear a reading of the inclusive picture book “Julián Is a Mermaid” at the Brooklyn Public Library. And when she goes to Harlem she will listen to a drum circle performed by students from the Harlem School of the Arts and be accompanied by a stilt walker from Kotchenga Dance Company.
Yazmany Arboleda, a Colombian American artist who is creative producer of the New York visit, calls it one of the largest scale theatrical experiences ever built in the city: “This is the biggest stage on Earth and it comes from all the pluralism, of all the stories, of all the people who live here.”
The puppet comes to the city after completing a 5,000-mile trek across Europe, from the Syrian-Turkish border to Manchester in northwest England. She has traveled through 12 countries — including greeting refuges from Ukraine at a Polish train station and stopping at refugee camps in Greece — and met with Pope Francis.
“New York is interesting because it is a city built from displacement, forced migration and migration. These are the elements that created the city. And the city looms tall and has a very, very interesting engine of creativity, of innovation, of audaciousness. So bringing this project here is very interesting for us,” said Zuabi.
During a recent rehearsal at the performing arts institution and project co-producer St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn, Zuabi stressed the core idea with his 10 puppeteers, four of which are needed to manipulate the puppet at any one time.
“She is a 10-year-old lost in the city. Whenever you are in doubt, go back to that,” he told them as they stretched in a circle. “She’s never safe in this city. If we understand that, I think we can make real magic.”
Some other stops for the puppet — designed and built by Handspring Puppet Company — include salsa dancing in Washington Heights, walking along the Coney Island boardwalk and listening to drummers in Jackson Heights. At Grand Central Station on Thursday, she loomed over admiring pedestrians, who gazed up and took pictures.
“We often focus on the plight of the immigrant or the refugee, and I think what this work does is really bring our attention to the promise and the beauty,” said Arboleda. “As she walks through New York, we’re all going to be learning along.”
One of Amal’s stops will be Liberty Island, where she’ll come face-to-toe with the Statue of Liberty, who welcomes the “huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”
“The core of this project is empathy, is to fight indifference, because indifference is like a stone. You can’t turn it. It’s what it is. The minute you start cracking indifference, something happens,” said Zuabi.
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Moment excited young Brit crashes Sunrise host Edwina Bartholomew's live cross from London - as mourners wait for nine hours to see the Queen's coffin
Sombre scenes of Britons paying their respects to the Queen while she lies in state were interrupted by two excitable children who were caught smiling and waving during a live Australian news broadcast.
The children, possibly brother and sister, realised they were on camera just before 10pm local time during Sunrise reporter Edwina Bartholomew's live cross from London.
The young girl noticed the camera crew first, smiling and waving a few metres behind Bartholomew as she spoke to co-anchors Natalie Barr and David Koch, who were broadcasting from outside Buckingham Palace.
Sombre scenes of Britons paying their respects to the Queen while she lies in state were interrupted by two children who were caught smiling and waving during a live Australian news broadcast. (Pictured: a girl waving behind Sunrise reporter Edwina Bartholomew)
The boy then started waving his arms in the air before sheepishly walking away.
Thousands of mourners waited for hours on Thursday in a line that stretched for nearly seven kilometres across London for the chance to spend a few minutes filing past Queen Elizabeth II's coffin while she lies in state.
King Charles III spent the day in private to reflect on his first week on the throne.
The queue to pay respects to the late queen at Westminster Hall was at least a nine-hour wait, snaking across a bridge and along the south bank of the River Thames beyond Tower Bridge.
But people said they didn't mind the wait, and authorities brought in portable toilets and other facilities to make the slog bearable.
The young girl noticed the camera crew first, smiling and waving a few metres behind Bartholomew. The boy then waved his arms in the air before sheepishly walking away
'I'm glad there was a queue, because that gave us time to see what was ahead of us, prepared us and absorbed the whole atmosphere,' healthcare professional Nimisha Maroo said. 'I wouldn't have liked it if I'd had to just rush through.'
A week after the Queen died at Balmoral Castle in Scotland after 70 years on the throne, the focus of commemorations was in Westminster - the heart of political power in London.
Her coffin will lie in state at Westminster Hall until Monday, when it will be taken across the street to Westminster Abbey for the Queen's funeral.
Bartholomew was speaking to Sunrise co-anchors Natalie Barr and David Koch
Buckingham Palace on Thursday released details about the service, the first state funeral held in Britain since the death of former Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1965.
Royalty and heads of state from around the world are expected to be among the 2,000 people attending, with a smaller burial service planned for later Monday at Windsor Castle.
Late Monday, the Queen will be buried in a private family service at Windsor alongside her late husband Prince Philip, who died last year.
Thousands of mourners waited for hours on Thursday in a line that stretched for nearly seven kilometres across London for the chance to spend a few minutes filing past Queen Elizabeth II's coffin while she lies in state
The guest list for the state funeral is a roll-call of global power and pomp, from Japan's Emperor Naruhito and King Felipe VI of Spain to U.S. President Joe Biden, French President Emmanuel Macron and the prime ministers of Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau, who first met the monarch when he was a child and his father Pierre Trudeau was Canada's leader, said the Queen was 'one of my favourite people in the world'.
'Her conversations with me were always candid, we talked about anything and everything, she gave her best advice on a range of issues, she was always curious, engaged and thoughtful,' he said at a special session of the Canadian parliament in Ottawa.
After a day of high ceremony and high emotions on Wednesday as the Queen's coffin was carried in sombre procession from Buckingham Palace, the King was spending Thursday working and in 'private reflection' at his Highgrove residence in western England.
Charles has had calls with Biden and Macron and has been speaking to a host of world leaders.
Britons said they didn't mind the wait, and authorities brought in portable toilets and other facilities to make the slog bearable
Prince William, the heir to the throne, and his wife Catherine, the Princess of Wales, visited the Royal Family's Sandringham estate in eastern England on Thursday to admire some of the tributes left by well-wishers.
The couple walked slowly along metal barriers as they received bouquets from the public and chatted to everyday Britons.
Other royals fanned out across the UK to thank people for their support, with the queen's youngest son, Prince Edward, and his wife Sophie visiting Manchester and the Queen's daughter Princess Anne in Glasgow.
On Wednesday, the Queen left Buckingham Palace for the last time, borne on a horse-drawn carriage and saluted by cannons and the tolling of Big Ben, in a solemn procession through the flag-draped, crowd-lined streets of London to Westminster Hall.
Charles, his siblings and sons marched behind the coffin, which was topped by a wreath of white roses and the queen's diamond-studded crown on a purple velvet pillow.
The military procession underscored Elizabeth's seven decades as head of state.
Prince William, the heir to the throne, and his wife Catherine, the Princess of Wales, visited the Royal Family's Sandringham estate in eastern England on Thursday to admire some of the tributes left by well-wishers
Her lying-in-state, meanwhile, allowed many Britons to say a personal goodbye to the only monarch most have ever known.
It's also a huge logistical operation, with a designated 16-kilometre queuing route lined with first aid points and more than 500 portable toilets.
There are 1,000 stewards and marshals working at any given time, and 30 religious leaders from a range of faiths to talk to those in line.
Monica Thorpe said she had walked for two hours to get to the back of the line and join the queue.
'People were just walking and walking and the policemen were like, "Keep going, keep going." It was like the yellow-brick road,' she said.
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, the spiritual leader of the Church of England, wore a high-visibility vest emblazoned with the words 'Faith Team' as he spoke to mourners.
Welby, who will deliver a sermon at Elizabeth's funeral on Monday, paid tribute to the Queen as 'someone you could trust totally, completely and absolutely, whose wisdom was remarkable'.
The Princess of Wales met children from Howard Junior School in King's Lynn, just six miles away from the Queen's country retreat at Sandringham
People old and young, dressed in dark suits or jeans and sneakers, walked in a steady stream Thursday through the historic hall, where Guy Fawkes and Charles I were tried, where kings and queens hosted magnificent medieval banquets, and where previous monarchs have lain in state.
After passing the coffin, most mourners paused to look back before going out through the hall's great oak doors. Some were in tears; others bowed their heads or curtseyed. One sank onto a knee and blew a farewell kiss.
Keith Smart, an engineer and British Army veteran, wiped away tears as he left the hall. He had waited more than 10 hours for the chance to say goodbye.
'Everybody in the crowd was impeccably behaved. There was no malice, everybody was friends. It was fantastic,' he said.
'And then, to come into that room and see that, I just broke down inside. I didn't bow; I knelt to the floor, on my knees, bowed my head to the Queen.'
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Latina Business Leader to Speak on Solutions for Closing the Ownership Gap at Clinton Global Initiative Meeting
TUSTIN, Calif., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- She's the embodiment of the American Dream. Now she's been tapped on the shoulder by the Clinton Foundation to share her expertise on the biggest stage this month at the Clinton Global Initiative 2022 Meeting. A first-generation Hispanic-American, Patty Arvielo has built the largest independent Latina-owned company in the mortgage industry, New American Funding. Arvielo's company is one the nation's largest lenders and specializes in bringing the dream of homeownership to underserved communities.
The knowledge that Arvielo has gained in more than 40 years in the mortgage business has made her a sought-after expert on overcoming the racial wealth gap, building generational wealth in minority communities, and creating sustainable homeownership nationwide.
As such, New American Funding is pleased to announce that Arvielo will share her expertise at the Clinton Global Initiative 2022 Meeting on Mon., Sept. 19 in New York City. Arvielo is part of a panel speaking at "Beyond Representation: How We Can Close the Ownership Gap for Entrepreneurs and Investors of Color."
This will be the first large-scale meeting hosted by the Clinton Global Initiative since 2016.
The panel will focus on building generational wealth for historically excluded communities and working together to identify and break down the greatest systemic barriers that have slowed and prevented asset building and wealth creation.
During the panel, Arvielo will share how in less than 20 years, she has built New American Funding from a small company with a handful of employees into one of the nation's largest mortgage companies by doing the right thing. Arvielo will also share how the company has become of the nation's leading lenders to minority communities.
Arvielo created the company's Latino Focus and New American Dream initiatives that focus on increasing homeownership in Hispanic and Black communities. Driven by Arvielo, the percentage of loans from New American Funding to Hispanic and Black borrowers was 44.8% and 38.2% higher, respectively, than the industry percentage in 2021 (per 2021 HMDA data).
"I am honored to be asked to speak at the Clinton Global Initiative alongside so many leaders who I respect," Arvielo said. "I look forward to sharing my experience in lifting up underserved communities as we seek solutions that will address generations of inequities. Only together will we be able to address these problems and turn a corner in this country."
New American Funding is an independent mortgage lender with a servicing portfolio of 237,000+ loans for approximately $62.8 billion and 163 nationwide locations. The company is #18 on the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® in 2022 and has made Inc. 5000's list of Fastest-Growing Companies in America eight times. It also offers state-of-the-art career training and provides its branch Loan Officers with innovative technologies to streamline the mortgage process.
The Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) convenes global and emerging leaders to create and implement solutions to the world's most pressing challenges. CGI works with partners to drive action through its unique model. Rather than directly implementing projects, CGI facilitates action by helping members connect, collaborate, and develop Commitments to Action — new, specific, and measurable plans that address global challenges. Through CGI, the community has made more than 3,700 Commitments to Action that have made a difference in the lives of more than 435 million people in more than 180 countries.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police on Thursday arrested two teenage boys in connection with the death of a 15-year-old girl who overdosed in a restroom at her high school after buying pills possibly laced with fentanyl on campus, authorities said.
Police served a search warrant around 8:30 a.m. as part of an investigation into the overdose death of a girl a day earlier at Bernstein High School in Hollywood, police Chief Michel Moore said.
A 15-year-old boy who lives with his grandmother was taken into custody on suspicion of manslaughter, Moore said. Investigators believe he sold pills touted as Percocet to two 15-year-old friends around 12:30 p.m. Tuesday who later crushed and snorted the narcotics in the restroom at their school.
The Los Angeles County Coroner identified the student who died as Melanie Ramos, 15. Her unidentified friend who also overdosed remained hospitalized and was expected to recover.
Moore said police also arrested a 16-year-old boy on suspicion of selling fentanyl-laced pills to two other high school students who suffered overdoses after buying the drugs at nearby Lexington Park. He could face narcotics-related charges, the chief said.
Police will work with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency to find the distributors who provided the 15- and 16-year-old boys with the pills, Moore said.
“There is a drug organization behind this,” he said.
The teen suspects knew each other, and both attend Apex Academy, an independent charter school that shares a campus with Bernstein.
Dealers lacing common painkillers with fentanyl is an increasingly common practice, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said at a news conference.
“These are not overdoses. These are people who have been poisoned,” Garcetti said. "One pill can kill.”
Officers were called to Bernstein High Tuesday night after a man said his 15-year-old stepdaughter had overdosed on campus, police said.
The girl and her friend had not come home from school in the afternoon and the man began driving around town looking for the pair. He found his stepdaughter around 8 p.m. in a school courtyard, said police Lt. John Radke.
She had suffered an overdose but managed to tell her stepfather that her friend was in a girls’ restroom on campus, Radke said Wednesday.
The man and a school employee found the other girl unresponsive in the restroom at the school where students and parents had gathered for evening athletic events. The man administered aid until paramedics arrived and pronounced her dead, police said. His stepdaughter was hospitalized.
Earlier in the day, the Los Angeles Fire Department responded to separate calls reporting possible overdoses of two teens in the area of Lexington Park, a few blocks from Bernstein High and a cluster of other schools, according to police.
“It is believed that the overdose victims are students of Bernstein and local high schools,” a police statement said.
One of the victims was a 17-year-old student at nearby Hollywood High School, said Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto Carvalho.
Including the latest victims, there have been a total of six cases of drug-related incidents including overdoses stemming from illicit narcotics purchased in recent at Lexington Park in a residential area of East Hollywood near the U.S. 101 freeway, Carvalho said.
“It is a park well known for allowing individuals to sell drugs to provide drugs to some of our students,” the superintendent told reporters Wednesday.
Los Angeles City Councilmember Mitch O’Farrell, who represents the area, ordered the park closed Wednesday, Carvalho said.
Grief and crisis counselors were on hand at Bernstein High, LA Unified said in a statement.
Law enforcement officials nationwide have for months warned about the dangers of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 80 to 100 times more powerful than morphine. It’s frequently mixed into illicit pills made to look like prescription painkillers or other medicines.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A grand jury indicted a Tennessee man on charges of killing his girlfriend and their 2-day-old daughter, officials said Thursday.
Brandon Isabelle, 25, of Memphis, is accused of fatally shooting Danielle Hoyle, 27, and throwing the newborn into the Mississippi River, said Steve Mulroy, Shelby County district attorney.
He was indicted on two counts of first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse and neglect, and aggravated kidnapping. He is being held without bond.
Jail records did not indicate whether he is represented by a lawyer who could comment on the case. He pleaded not guilty to murder and kidnapping charges after his arrest in February.
Authorities searched the river for five days in frigid temperatures but never found the infant, Kennedy Hoyle, Mulroy's office said in a news release.
Hoyle was found shot to death Feb. 1 near an abandoned car with a broken window.
Relatives said Hoyle had the baby in a car seat and was going to meet with Isabelle, the release said.
Isabelle told police he had thrown the baby into the river, the prosecutor's office said.
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Businesses signing up by December 1st will save $300 on April 15th.
HUNT VALLEY, Md., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Starting today, thousands of small business owners and more than a million Marylanders they employ have a new way to save for emergencies and retirement. MarylandSaves will offer workers throughout the state the opportunity to start a personal WorkLife Savings Account automatically funded from their paychecks. The service is free for businesses and the State waives an annual $300 filing fee for those businesses that enable automatic employee enrollment. Employees can opt out at any time.
"MarylandSaves is an advance on traditional retirement savings," said MarylandSaves Board Chair Joshua Gotbaum. "It's automatic savings from each paycheck, savings that help with life's emergencies now and can keep helping after people retire and need it most."
"We've worked hard to make MarylandSaves hassle-free for businesses," said MarylandSaves Executive Director Glenn Simmons. "Registration is free, quick, and easy – and businesses that sign up this year will save $300 next April 15th. They can register and sign up their employees online, and in many cases, use their payroll processors." Employers that enroll with MarylandSaves by December 1st of this year won't have to pay the State of Maryland's $300 annual report filing fee for 2023. Businesses that already offer a qualified retirement savings plan to their employees will also qualify for the fee waiver.
WorkLife Savings Accounts are Roth IRAs funded by employees through payroll deductions and are under each saver's control. Savers will have multiple investment options to choose from and can decide at any time to change their savings rate, change their investment options, or opt out entirely. They can also withdraw their money or take their account with them when they change jobs. However, savers don't have to do anything: if they don't opt out, 5% of their paycheck will automatically be saved. The first $1,000 will be contributed to an emergency savings fund, and contributions beyond that will be invested in a target date fund based on the age of the saver.
Better Options in Retirement. Most retirement savings programs leave savers on their own to figure out how much they can afford to spend in retirement. MarylandSaves will be different in two ways:
- Help make the most of Social Security. As participants near retirement age, the program is developing a feature to offer savers the option to withdraw money from their MarylandSaves account to help them postpone filing for Social Security benefits (If a person defers and doesn't file for Social Security at age 62, it increases their payment by approximately 8% for each year until age 70).1 Using their WorkLife Savings Accounts to create a "Social Security bridge" could mean getting more Social Security payments when they do file.
- Conversion to a monthly check at retirement. MarylandSaves is developing the ability in the future to enable participants to automatically convert their WorkLife Savings Accounts to a monthly paycheck when they are ready to retire, in an amount estimated but not guaranteed, to last a saver's lifetime.
"Getting a monthly check will take much of the guesswork out of retirement," said Gotbaum.
The "Social Security bridge" and "managed payout" options are not expected to be available for several years and the Board may adjust those options. MarylandSaves will notify employers and participants as these options are available.
The program is being administered by a team of established financial services firms including Vestwell and BNY Mellon. All investment options are professionally managed by BlackRock, Lincoln Financial Group, State Street Global Advisors, and T. Rowe Price.
Since July, a group of Maryland small business owners and non-profit leaders from various industries and regions have been testing the MarylandSaves program. Their reviews have been enthusiastic.
"Atwater's been on a 23-year mission to provide every employee a good job with great benefits. A retirement plan has always been a part of that vision. With MarylandSaves, we've achieved that while staying close to our handcrafted, local roots," said Justin Brady, human resources manager at Maryland's Atwater's markets.
Josseline Rodriguez has worked at the Caliente Grille in Annapolis for 6 years and appreciates the emergency savings fund she is building in her WorkLife Savings Account. "It really feels amazing that I know that I'm saving money for my future and for my family," she said, "because you never know what can happen, and you might need that money, and you have it whenever you need it."
If you lead a professional association, a non-profit, or a small business, or are interested in opening an IRA through MarylandSaves, go to MarylandSaves.com to learn more.
Bipartisan legislation created the Maryland Small Business Retirement Savings Board and charged it with developing an automatic payroll savings IRA program for Maryland businesses that don't offer a retirement plan to their employees. The Board developed the program and under Maryland law its members are legal fiduciaries responsible to program participants. Information about the Board and MarylandSaves' Executive Director and staff can be found at MarylandSaves.org.
WorkLife Savings Accounts are individual accounts controlled by each saver, not the employer. They are Roth IRAs and are subject to applicable laws. Participation by employers is free; MarylandSaves charges them no fees. For more information about our program visit MarylandSaves.com.
The program is managed by MarylandSaves' Executive Director and staff and operated through established third-party financial institutions and managers, including Vestwell, BNY Mellon, BlackRock, Lincoln Financial, State Street Global Advisors and T. Rowe Price. In developing its program, MarylandSaves has been advised by Aon, AKF Consulting, and K+L Gates.
The program is designed to be paid for by fees on invested accounts, not taxpayer funds. The State of Maryland has loaned funds to MarylandSaves to cover startup costs.
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Stephanie Davis
Stephanie.Davis@MarylandSaves.org
410-403-2782
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Roger Federer never let ’em see him sweat.
He played tennis with a style that only rarely betrayed the effort behind the masterful serving, the rare-in-its-day attacking and the flawless footwork. He was not one to grunt loudly on shots or celebrate wildly after them.
The way he wielded a racket helped him to win, yes, and win a lot, to the tune of 20 Grand Slam championships — a half-dozen more than any man before him — across a 15-year stretch, and 103 tournament titles in all, plus a Davis Cup trophy and Olympic medals for Switzerland, and spend week after week at No. 1 in the rankings. It also helped him manage to avoid serious injuries for so long and achieve the consistent excellence over decades he prized.
“Every time people write me off, or try to write me off, I’m able to bounce back,” Federer once said in an interview with The Associated Press. On Thursday, at a little more than a month past his 41st birthday and after a series of knee operations, he announced that there would be no more comebacks.
It is a loss for tennis, to be sure, and a loss for the sports world. The news arrives less than two weeks after Serena Williams, who owns 23 Grand Slam singles titles, played what she indicated would be the last match of her own illustrious career shortly before she turns 41.
“Some depart, others come and the world keeps going,” one of Federer’s great rivals, Rafael Nadal, said recently. “It’s a natural cycle.”
OK, the world will keep going. But tennis will not be the same.
Not without Williams, who was feted at the just-concluded U.S. Open. And not without Federer, whose last tournament came last year at Wimbledon, and whose final appearance on court will be next week in London at the Laver Cup, a team event his management group founded.
Tennis will miss Federer, the player. And Federer, the statesman and ambassador who spoke several languages. And Federer, the instantly recognizable global pitchman who brought his sport to places all over the world that didn’t even have tournaments through exhibitions to raise money for his charitable foundation.
Once a tantrum-throwing kid — on the court and off, where he would overturn a chess table when losing to his father — who grew up admiring basketball stars such as Michael Jordan and soccer players more than tennis players, Federer became a symbol of his sport and someone known as much for the way he carried himself as the hardware he accumulated.
“He was the epitome of a champion; class, grace, humility, beloved by everyone,” Hall of Famer Chris Evert wrote on Twitter.
He became friends with Vogue editor Anna Wintour and showed up at the Met Gala. He had a special jacket with a gold “15” on it to don right there on Centre Court after winning Wimbledon in 2009 to break Pete Sampras’ men’s mark of 14 career major trophies. He kept playing, and winning, well past an age that is customary for that sort of thing in tennis, to the point that his two sets of twins — now ages 13 and 8 — eventually were able to be present in courtside guest boxes. He returned after left knee surgery in 2016, the first significant absence of his career, and used a larger racket head and a rebuilt backhand to collect his last three Slams.
“There won’t be anybody like him,” said Tony Godsick, Federer’s agent since 2005. “There will be people who will win more tournaments or will have more Grand Slams. There will always be a new No. 1. There will always be someone holding a trophy up. But no one has had such a big impact and will continue to have such a big impact.”
When it came to defining success, Federer cared about longevity as much as anything. He was proud of facing — and defeating — stars from an earlier generation (Sampras and Andre Agassi), from his own generation (Andy Roddick, Lleyton Hewitt, Marat Safin), from the next generation (Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Stan Wawrinka) and from the current crop (Daniil Medvedev, Stefanos Tsitsipas).
He chased the first group, dominated the second, dueled with the third — Nadal, with 22, and Djokovic with 21, eventually surpassed Federer’s Grand Slam total — and set an example for the fourth.
Aside from those major trophies won from 2003 to 2018, Federer put together unprecedented stretches of elite play, appearing in 10 consecutive Grand Slam finals (and 18 of 19), along with 23 semifinals and 36 quarterfinals in a row.
His contests against Nadal, now 36, and Djokovic, 35, were happenings, tantalizing matchups against a backdrop of differing ways of play and contrasting personalities.
“I was lucky enough to play so many epic matches that I will never forget,” Federer wrote in the section of his goodbye post addressed to his competitors. “We battled fairly, with passion and intensity, and I always tried my best to respect the history of the game. I feel extremely grateful. We pushed each other, and together we took tennis to new levels.”
Predicted to be a star from the time he won the Wimbledon junior title as a teenager — a sentiment that only built when he stunned Sampras in the fourth round there in 2001 — it took Federer a little time to get pointed in the right direction: He did not win a quarterfinal match in his first 16 Grand Slam appearances.
There were six first-round exits in that span, including at the 2003 French Open. So then came this concern: Might Federer not quite be as good as he, and others, thought?
It all came together at Wimbledon that year, where Federer claimed his first Grand Slam title at the tournament that always meant the most to him. And off he went.
“There was pressure from all sides; also from myself. I wanted to do better in Slams,” Federer said that day. “I’ve always believed, but then in the end, when it happens, you don’t think that it is possible. It’s an absolute dream for me. I was always joking around when I was a boy: ’I’m going to win this.’”
He would end up with those men’s-record eight at Wimbledon, plus six at the Australian Open, five at the U.S. Open and one at the French Open. He is one of eight men with a career Grand Slam, holds the records for most consecutive weeks at No. 1 in the ATP computerized rankings and for oldest to get there, and set a mark for most total weeks that Djokovic eclipsed.
If anyone worried that Federer is gone for good, one of those athletes who wants to disappear after the playing days are done, he concluded his farewell note with these words: “To the game of tennis: I love you and will never leave you.”
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While exercising, our body requires extra energy. But how much extra? Well, the answer depends upon the type of activity, and the intensity, time duration, and frequency of the workout. Dr Kiran Rukadikar, Bariatric Physician and Obesity Consultant, celebrity nutritionist, and Founder of the Diet Queen app, says, “Almost every professional athlete, in whatever sports they play, train for at least 6-8 hrs daily. This is huge in terms of energy expenditure, water and electrolyte loss, and wear and tear. Fuelling up the body by eating the right foods and fluids, in the right amounts, at the right times is important when exercising, even if it’s just for an hour.”
When it comes to your workout, you can make your own schedule as per your training and other activities, but remember – better the fuel, better the performance. “Best and adequate food and fluid should be consumed before, during, and after exercise to help maintain blood glucose concentration during exercise, maximise exercise performance, and improve recovery time,” adds Dr Kiran.
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Before Exercise
“Not fuelling up before you exercise is not good for you as you won’t have enough energy to maximise your workout. Also, chances of loss of protein and muscle mass is very high if you do not eat properly before workout,” shares Dr Kiran.
Solution: Ideally, fuel up two hours before you exercise in the following ways.
- Drinking plenty of water.
- Eating healthy carbohydrates such as whole-grain cereals (wheat, rice, jowar, bajra), whole-wheat toast, low-fat or fat-free yoghurt, whole grain pasta or noodles, brown rice, fruits and vegetables. You can add low-fat or skim milk in any of these preparations.
- Do not have fatty and high protein meals, as these foods digest slower in your stomach and take away oxygen and energy-delivering blood from your muscles.
- Always keep a banana for instant energy. Just before the activity, say 5-10 minutes before you exercise, eat the banana. Easily digestible carbohydrates give you instant energy and do not make you feel sluggish.
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Mid-Exercise
Explaining the reason for fuelling up during the workout, Dr Kiran says, “Our muscle and liver glycogen reservoir is very low. You need to supply instant energy during actual training. Also there is huge fluid loss which can cause dehydration.”
Solution: Whether you’re a professional athlete who trains for several hours or you have a low to moderate routine, keep your body hydrated with small, frequent sips of water, infused with electrolytes. “There is no need to eat during a workout that’s an hour or less. But for longer, high-intensity vigorous workouts, eating every half hour is recommended. Carbohydrates such as raisins, bananas, or nutrition bars are the best options,” suggests Dr Kiran.
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After Exercise
“You need to reload all the energy which is lost, and increase strength and muscle mass post exercise,” states Dr Kiran.
Solution:
- Stock up on fluids. Drink water, of course, but plain water mixed with natural juices like lemon or orange will also provide some carbohydrates. Even coconut water is a good option once in a while.
- While exercising, you use a lot of carbohydrates, the main fuel for your muscles. Within half an hour of your exercise, eat proper food with carbohydrates and proteins. Your muscles can store carbohydrates and protein as energy and help in recovery.
- Eat protein-rich foods like pulses, milk products, and dried fruits to help repair and grow your muscles.
- If you’re not overweight, you can have fats in moderation. Turn to healthy fats and eat along with carbs and protein.
Note that every person is different, and a lot depends on what kind of workout you’re doing. So, do what works best for you, and pay importance to what you eat, as it is as important as what you do during training!
Read More: Exercising 101: Working Out For Busy Professionals Made Easy
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Roof falls in on DIY and furniture: Wickes and DFS warn over 'softening' demand as customers tighten their belts
DIY and furniture retailers became the latest to warn that shoppers are spending less because of the cost of living crisis.
Home improvement business Wickes and sofa giant DFS said they had both seen ‘softening’ demand for their products over the past few months as customers tighten their belts.
Wickes’s warning came despite a strong first half to the year, with shoppers rushing for insulation products to improve efficiency in a bid to cut down on energy bills.
Home improvement business Wickes and sofa giant DFS said they had both seen 'softening' demand for their products over the past few months as customers tighten their belts
Revenues were £822million in the six months to July 2022, up 1.3 per cent on the previous year, but profit shrank 9 per cent to £56.3million as the business absorbed inflation in materials such as timber and cement.
Like Wickes, DFS also posted a fall in profits for the full year, tumbling to £60.3million from £109.2million.
Boss Tim Stacey described the 12 months as ‘the most operationally challenging’ he can remember as soaring bills meant fewer customers are in the market for a sofa.
‘We are not alone in having to navigate these issues,’ he added.
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Cash register stolen from St. Albert Cora's restaurant
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The cash register was stolen from the Cora’s restaurant at City Centre Mall in St. Albert on Wednesday, RCMP say.
Police were called around 11:45 p.m. after the alarm at the business was triggered.
The thief caused damage to the front door and stole several items in addition to the cash register.
The loss to the business has not yet been determined, but is believed to be more than $1,500, police said.
Police are asking anyone who saw anything suspicious in the area or who might have dash cam video to call St. Albert RCMP at 780-458-7700 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
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