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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indianapolis police shot and wounded a man Friday as officers were investigating a vehicle matching one seen during an earlier shooting outside a day care center that left a woman dead, police said.
The man, who was shot about 10:30 a.m. EDT near downtown Indianapolis, was taken to a hospital where he was reported “to be awake and breathing," said Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department Officer Samone Burris.
The man's name has not been released.
Burris said preliminary information leads investigators to believe the man shot by police was connected to the fatal shooting about three hours earlier of a woman outside Charity Child Care.
Police said officers were responding to reports of a vehicle matching the description of a vehicle seen at that day care when the man was shot.
Officers did not face gunfire in that incident, police said. Burris said officers found several weapons during their initial investigation at the scene of the officer-involved shooting.
The woman who was fatally shot in the day care center's parking lot was dropping children off there at the time. Her shooting on the city’s near west side occurred in front of children, but police said no children were injured. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police said the shooting of the woman was targeted, but did not provide additional details. Authorities have not released the slain woman's name.
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Roger Federer says he is retiring from pro tennis at age 41
Roger Federer has announced that he is retiring from professional tennis at the age of 41 after winning 20 Grand Slam titles.
Federer has not competed since Wimbledon in July 2021. He has had a series of knee operations.
Federer posted his news on Twitter.
He says his farewell event will be the Laver Cup in London next week. That is a team event run by his management company.
This announcement news comes just days after the end of the U.S. Open.
That tournament was expected to be the last of 23-time major champion Serena Williams' career.
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- APONVIE is the first and only intravenous (IV) formulation of a substance P/neurokinin-1 (NK1) receptor antagonist indicated
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- Delivered via a single 30-second IV injection, APONVIE has demonstrated rapid achievement of therapeutic drug levels ideally suited for the surgical setting -
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Heron Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: HRTX), a commercial-stage biotechnology company focused on improving the lives of patients by developing best-in-class treatments to address some of the most important unmet patient needs, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved APONVIE (aprepitant) injectable emulsion, for intravenous use for the prevention of postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) in adults.
APONVIE is the first and only IV formulation of aprepitant for PONV prevention. Administered via a single 30-second IV injection, APONVIE reaches drug levels associated with ≥97% receptor occupancy in the brain within five minutes and maintains therapeutic plasma concentrations for at least 48 hours. APONVIE is provided in a single-dose vial that delivers the full 32 mg dose approved for PONV. This ready-to-use, easy to administer, innovative IV formulation ensures rapid and consistent exposure in patients undergoing surgery.
An important component of the FDA approval of APONVIE were results from two multicenter, randomized, double-blind clinical studies comparing oral aprepitant to current standard of care, IV ondansetron, for the prevention of PONV in patients during the 48 hours following open abdominal surgery demonstrating that aprepitant was more effective than ondansetron in preventing vomiting. Treatment with aprepitant resulted in approximately 50% fewer patients vomiting in the first 24 and 48 hours compared to ondansetron. In clinical studies, APONVIE was well-tolerated and presented a safety profile comparable to oral aprepitant.
In a 2020 Cochrane meta-analysis, aprepitant was ranked as the most effective drug approved for PONV prophylaxis, being the most effective for the prevention of vomiting in the first 24 hours post-surgery and the drug with the fewest adverse events.
"With the approval of APONVIE our acute care portfolio now addresses the two most common concerns of patients and clinicians after surgery, postoperative pain and postoperative nausea and vomiting. This marks an important milestone for our expanding acute care portfolio and is a testament to our ongoing commitment to developing innovative solutions to help improve the overall patient experience after surgery," said Barry Quart, Pharm.D., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Heron. "With approximately 36 million procedures in the U.S. each year in patients with high to moderate risk for PONV, the approval of APONVIE provides an easy to use, highly effective option for these patients that fits seamlessly into our acute care franchise."
PONV are common adverse effects of anesthesia and surgery, with an estimated 30 percent of patients receiving general anesthesia and up to 80 percent of high-risk patients experiencing these symptoms, necessitating more effective preventative agents. PONV is a major cause of patient dissatisfaction after surgery, with patients frequently ranking vomiting as the most undesirable outcome of anesthesia. Additionally, PONV presents a significant risk in outpatient surgeries as patients are often discharged within hours after surgery and no longer have access to highly effective antiemetics.
"PONV is commonly experienced after surgery and may result in increased hospital stays, prolonged recovery time, and decreased patient satisfaction" said Ashraf Habib, MBBCh, MSc, MHSc, FRCA, Chief, Division of Women's Anesthesia at Duke University Hospital. "Oral aprepitant has been used to prevent postoperative nausea and vomiting for more than 16 years and it is exciting to see that, with the approval of APONVIE, physicians can now offer patients a more convenient IV injection that delivers the same effective treatment, with a 48-hour duration of effect, in a rapid, consistent and reliable way, ensuring a better experience for patients postoperatively."
Heron will host a conference call and webcast on September 19, 2022 at 8:30 a.m. ET. The conference call can be accessed by dialing 646-307-1963 for domestic callers and 800-715-9871 for international callers. Please provide the operator with the passcode 4538096 to join the conference call. The conference call will also be available via webcast under the Investor Relations section of Heron's website at www.herontx.com. An archive of the teleconference and webcast will also be made available on Heron's website for 60 days following the call.
APONVIE should not be used:
- if you are allergic to aprepitant or any of the ingredients in APONVIE
- if you are taking pimozide
APONVIE may cause serious side effects. Tell your doctor or nurse right away if you have any of these signs or symptoms of an allergic reaction:
- trouble breathing or swallowing, shortness of breath or wheezing
- swelling of your eyes, face, tongue, or throat
- flushing or redness of your face or skin
- hives, rash, or itching
- dizziness, a rapid or weak heartbeat, or you feel faint
APONVIE may affect how other medicines work. Other medicines may affect how APONVIE works. Tell your doctor about all the medicines you take, including prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, or herbal supplements. If you take the blood-thinner medicine warfarin, your doctor may do blood tests after you receive APONVIE to check your blood clotting.
Women who use birth control medicines containing hormones to prevent pregnancy (birth control pills, skin patches, implants, and certain IUDs) should also use back-up methods of birth control (such as condoms and spermicides) for 1 month after receiving APONVIE.
Before you receive APONVIE, tell your doctor if you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. APONVIE contains alcohol and may harm your unborn baby.
Before you receive APONVIE, tell your doctor if you are breast-feeding or plan to breastfeed because it is likely APONVIE passes into your milk, and it is not known if it can harm your baby. You and your doctor should decide if you will receive APONVIE, if breast-feeding.
The most common side effects of APONVIE are constipation, low blood pressure, tiredness, and headache.
Talk to your healthcare provider for medical advice about side effects. Report side effects to Heron at 1-844-437-6611 or to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088 or www.fda.gov/medwatch.
The information provided here is not comprehensive. Please see full Prescribing Information.
APONVIE (aprepitant) injectable emulsion is a substance P/neurokinin-1 (NK1) receptor antagonist, indicated for the prevention of postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) in adults. Delivered via a 30-second intravenous (IV) injection, APONVIE 32 mg was demonstrated to be bioequivalent to oral aprepitant 40 mg with rapid achievement of therapeutic drug levels. APONVIE is the same formulation as Heron's approved CINVANTI® (aprepitant) injectable emulsion formulation for prevention of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV). APONVIE is supplied in a single-dose vial that delivers the full 32 mg dose for PONV. APONVIE was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in September 2022.
Heron Therapeutics, Inc. is a commercial-stage biotechnology company focused on improving the lives of patients by developing best-in-class treatments to address some of the most important unmet patient needs. Our advanced science, patented technologies, and innovative approach to drug discovery and development have allowed us to create and commercialize a portfolio of products that aim to advance the standard-of-care for acute care and oncology patients. For more information, visit www.herontx.com.
This news release contains "forward-looking statements" as defined by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Heron cautions readers that forward-looking statements are based on management's expectations and assumptions as of the date of this news release and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially, including, but not limited to, the timing of the commercial launch of APONVIE; the potential market opportunity for APONVIE; the extent of the impact of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic on our business; and other risks and uncertainties identified in the Company's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking statements reflect our analysis only on their stated date, and Heron takes no obligation to update or revise these statements except as may be required by law.
Investor Relations and Media Contact:
David Szekeres
Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Kiromic BioPharma, Inc. (NASDAQ: KRBP): (i) pursuant and/or traceable to the offering documents issued in connection with the Company's initial public offering conducted on or about July 2, 2021 (the "IPO"); and/or (ii) between June 25, 2021 and August 13, 2021, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important October 4, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Kiromic BioPharma securities you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Kiromic BioPharma class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=8051 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than October 4, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, the IPO documents failed to disclose that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") had, prior to the filing of the IPO documents, imposed a clinical hold, and in fact, contained statements indicating that it had not. Given that the IPO closed on July 2, 2021, more than thirty (30) days after Kiromic BioPharma submitted the Investigational New Drug ("IND") applications for its two immunotherapy product candidates, investors were assured that no clinical hold had been issued and clinical trials would commence.
Kiromic BioPharma, however, received communications from the FDA on June 16 and 17, 2021, informing it that the FDA was placing the IND applications for its two candidate products on clinical hold. The IPO documents failed to disclose this information, instead representing that clinical testing was expected to proceed in the third quarter of 2021. Clinical testing did not proceed in the third quarter of 2021, nor was it likely given the FDA's imposition of a clinical hold. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the Kiromic BioPharma class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=8051 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
No Class Has Been Certified. Until a class is certified, you are not represented by counsel unless you retain one. You may select counsel of your choice. You may also remain an absent class member and do nothing at this point. An investor's ability to share in any potential future recovery is not dependent upon serving as lead plaintiff.
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Mexico City’s bells ring for Independence Day, in a massive celebration
Bells rang through Mexico City Thursday night, recreating the 1810 call to arms famously known as El Grito — the cry to overthrow Spanish rule and fight for independence.
“Viva México!” President Andrés Manuel López Obrador shouted repeatedly — calls that were loudly echoed by the massive crowd that packed Mexico City’s Zócalo, the capital’s main square. He celebrated Mexico’s identity, its culture, its indigenous people; he also acknowledged the challenges the country faces.
“Death to corruption, death to classism, death to racism!” López Obrador said in Spanish. Responding to each phrase, the crowd shouted, “Muera!” (Die!)
Estimates of the huge crowd’s size varied. At one point, Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said she was told 130,000 people were in the square; as the night crept into the early hours of Friday, she reported an even bigger number: 140,000.
It was Mexico’s first full-fledged Independence Day celebration since the COVID-19 pandemic dampened 2020’s event, and people responded with glee, wearing green, white and red paint and bushy fake mustaches.
Así luce el #Zócalo de la #CDMX este #15DeSeptiembre, a unas horas del #GritoDeIndependencia 🇲🇽 pic.twitter.com/Fe9NB6IFPe
— Rosa Icela Rodríguez Velázquez (@rosaicela_) September 16, 2022
The crowd braved periodic rainfall, rewarded with a concert by norteño legends Los Tigres del Norte.
The government issued a video of the celebration, showing a military honor guard presenting Mexico’s tricolor flag to López Obrador, followed by his invocation to the crowd, the national anthem and a large fireworks show.
As is traditional, when the president finished his brief speech he repeatedly yanked on a long sash to ring a bell perched high in the palace’s wall — the same church bell the priest Miguel Hidalgo rang 212 years ago in the town of Dolores, signaling the start of the war against Spain and the fight for Mexico’s future.
The festivities extended beyond Mexico City and Mexico’s borders. A special light show marked the day in Dallas, for instance.
Dallas, TX 🇲🇽😍#GritoDeIndependencia #diadelaindependencia #DallasTX pic.twitter.com/KDdklsFOeB
— Edgar Moreno (@ConcacafEdgar) September 16, 2022
Mexican expats and others abroad traded tips on where to find traditional dishes like pozole and chiles en nogada — which Mexico’s embassy to the U.S. describes as “a poblano chile prepared with ingredients that symbolize the Mexican flag,” including parsley, a walnut cream sauce and pomegranate seeds.
When it’s chiles en nogada season and you start getting pics from your family in Mexico 🤤🤤 pic.twitter.com/bRyyMTWMHX
— Gabriela Domenzain (@GabiDomenzain) August 30, 2022
The formal date of Mexico’s Independence Day is Sept. 16. But the commemorations begin the night before, to mark the early-morning call to arms that rang out from Dolores.
López Obrador’s guests for the celebration presented an interesting tableau. Watching from the National Palace’s balcony were Bolivia’s former President Evo Morales, Uruguay’s former President José Mujica, and Aleida Guevara, the daughter of Ernesto “Che” Guevara. They stood alongside John and Gabriel Shipton, the father and brother of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
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IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- American Healthcare REIT, Inc. (the "Company"), a leading internally-managed real estate investment trust ("REIT") that acquires, owns and operates a diversified portfolio of clinical healthcare real estate properties, focusing primarily on medical office buildings, senior housing, skilled nursing facilities, hospitals and other healthcare-related facilities, filed a registration statement on Form S-11 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") today, relating to a proposed underwritten public offering in conjunction with the listing of its common stock on the New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE").
The timing, number of shares that may be offered and the price range for the proposed offering have not yet been determined and will depend on the Company's evaluation of market conditions. The Company intends to apply to list its common stock on the NYSE under the ticker symbol "AHR." There can be no assurance as to whether, or when, a public offering may be commenced or completed or as to the actual size or pricing of any such public offering.
BofA Securities, Citigroup and KeyBanc Capital Markets will be acting as joint book-running managers of the offering.
The offering will be made only by means of a prospectus. Copies of the preliminary prospectus relating to the offering, when available, may be obtained from: BofA Securities, NC1-004-03-43, Attn: Prospectus Department, 200 North College St., 3rd Floor, Charlotte, NC 28255-0001 or by email to dg.prospectus_requests@bofa.com; Citigroup, c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717 (Tel: 800-831-9146); or KeyBanc Capital Markets, Attention: Equity Syndicate, 127 Public Square, 7th Floor, Cleveland, OH 44114, by telephone at 1.800.859.1783 or by fax at 1-216-689-0845.
A registration statement relating to the potential offering has been filed with the SEC but has not yet been declared effective. Securities may not be sold, nor may offers to buy be accepted, prior to the time the registration statement is declared effective by the SEC. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy securities, nor shall there be any sale of securities in any state or other jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.
American Healthcare REIT, Inc. is a leading internally-managed REIT that acquires, owns and operates a diversified portfolio of clinical healthcare real estate properties, focusing primarily on medical office buildings, senior housing, skilled nursing facilities, hospitals and other healthcare-related facilities. As of June 30, 2022, its total assets of approximately $4.5 billion consisted of 313 buildings and integrated senior health campuses owned and/or operated by the Company that are located in 36 states, the United Kingdom and the Isle of Man, representing approximately 19.5 million square feet of gross leasable area.
Certain statements contained in this press release, including statements relating to the Company's expectations regarding the commencement, completion and size of its proposed public offering and listing, may be considered forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The Company intends for all such forward-looking statements to be covered by the applicable safe harbor provisions for forward-looking statements contained in those Acts. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. Any such forward-looking statements are based on current expectations, estimates and projections about the industry and markets in which the Company operates, and beliefs of, and assumptions made by, the Company's management and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied therein, including, without limitation: (1) changes in economic conditions generally, including rising inflation, and the real estate market specifically; (2) the continuing adverse effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, including its effects on the healthcare industry, senior housing and skilled nursing facilities and the economy in general; (3) legislative and regulatory changes, including changes to laws governing the taxation of REITs; (4) the availability of capital on favorable terms, or at all; (5) the Company's ability to pay down, refinance, restructure or extend its indebtedness as it becomes due; (6) competition in the real estate industry; and (7) any of the other risks included in the registration statement relating to the potential offering. Except as required by law, the Company does not undertake any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements contained in this release.
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It has been estimated that Queen Elizabeth II personally owned about $500 million in real estate, investments, jewelry and other assets. King Charles III not only takes over the throne from his mother, but he also takes over the monarch’s vast fortune.
After she died on Sept. 8 at her Scottish residence Balmoral Castle, some people said King Charles III wouldn’t have to pay inheritance taxes on her wealth, even though others in the United Kingdom are required to do so.
More from VERIFY: Yes, Charles automatically became King of England after death of Queen Elizabeth II
THE QUESTION
Is King Charles III exempt from paying inheritance tax?
THE SOURCES
THE ANSWER
Yes, King Charles III is exempt from paying inheritance tax.
WHAT WE FOUND
Normally, when a person dies in the United Kingdom and their survivors inherit their assets, they pay an inheritance tax of 40% on wealth above a certain threshold. According to the British government, inheritance tax is a tax on the estate – the property, money and possessions – of the person who died.
The only time someone in the U.K. wouldn’t have to pay this tax is if:
- the value of the estate is below the £325,000 threshold
- If the deceased left everything above the £325,000 threshold to their spouse, civil partner, a charity or a community amateur sports club
(Note: As of Sept. 15, one Euro equals one United States dollar)
More from VERIFY: Yes, King Charles III's likeness will start appearing on money in the UK
Because the queen’s estate is worth much more than that, the king would have had to pay the 40% tax on it, but that’s not the case because of a deal the queen made in 1993.
According to news reports from the time, the monarch agreed to pay income tax for the first time since the 1930s after the government criticized the crown for receiving special tax treatment because of their tax-exempt status.
Reports said it came as a shock to Parliament when then-Prime Minister John Major announced the queen had agreed to pay taxes. According to a 1993 transcript from Parliament, Major said the queen agreed to voluntarily pay the nation’s highest tier of income tax on her private income and capital gains tax annually. In 1993 that was 40%; in 2021, it rose to 45%.
But, because of the “unique circumstances of an hereditary monarchy, special arrangements are needed for inheritance tax,” Major said in 1993. Therefore, the monarchy would be exempt from paying inheritance taxes.
While the royal family does not pay inheritance tax per the queen’s agreement, others have. In 2002, when Queen Elizabeth II’s mother, known as the “Queen Mother,” passed away, members of her staff were required to pay inheritance tax on items left to them in her will.
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It has been estimated that Queen Elizabeth II personally owned about $500 million in real estate, investments, jewelry and other assets. King Charles III not only takes over the throne from his mother, but he also takes over the monarch’s vast fortune.
After she died on Sept. 8 at her Scottish residence Balmoral Castle, some people said King Charles III wouldn’t have to pay inheritance taxes on her wealth, even though others in the United Kingdom are required to do so.
More from VERIFY: Yes, Charles automatically became King of England after death of Queen Elizabeth II
THE QUESTION
Is King Charles III exempt from paying inheritance tax?
THE SOURCES
THE ANSWER
Yes, King Charles III is exempt from paying inheritance tax.
WHAT WE FOUND
Normally, when a person dies in the United Kingdom and their survivors inherit their assets, they pay an inheritance tax of 40% on wealth above a certain threshold. According to the British government, inheritance tax is a tax on the estate – the property, money and possessions – of the person who died.
The only time someone in the U.K. wouldn’t have to pay this tax is if:
- the value of the estate is below the £325,000 threshold
- If the deceased left everything above the £325,000 threshold to their spouse, civil partner, a charity or a community amateur sports club
(Note: As of Sept. 15, one Euro equals one United States dollar)
More from VERIFY: Yes, King Charles III's likeness will start appearing on money in the UK
Because the queen’s estate is worth much more than that, the king would have had to pay the 40% tax on it, but that’s not the case because of a deal the queen made in 1993.
According to news reports from the time, the monarch agreed to pay income tax for the first time since the 1930s after the government criticized the crown for receiving special tax treatment because of their tax-exempt status.
Reports said it came as a shock to Parliament when then-Prime Minister John Major announced the queen had agreed to pay taxes. According to a 1993 transcript from Parliament, Major said the queen agreed to voluntarily pay the nation’s highest tier of income tax on her private income and capital gains tax annually. In 1993 that was 40%; in 2021, it rose to 45%.
But, because of the “unique circumstances of an hereditary monarchy, special arrangements are needed for inheritance tax,” Major said in 1993. Therefore, the monarchy would be exempt from paying inheritance taxes.
While the royal family does not pay inheritance tax per the queen’s agreement, others have. In 2002, when Queen Elizabeth II’s mother, known as the “Queen Mother,” passed away, members of her staff were required to pay inheritance tax on items left to them in her will.
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BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Massachusetts Lottery's "Numbers Midday" game were:
8-9-2-8
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BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Massachusetts Lottery's "Numbers Midday" game were:
8-9-2-8
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A road No. 23 Chicago Bulls jersey worn by Michael Jordan just sold for $10 million by auction house Sotheby’s.
The auction was expected to fetch anywhere from $3 million to $5 million.
The jersey, complete with an NBA Finals emblem, was worn by Jordan during Game 1 of the 1998 NBA Finals. The Bulls ended up losing the game 88-85, but Jordan’s Bulls won the series 4-2 games.
The 1998 Finals was the last time Jordan played for the Bulls. It also marked his final championship.
The 1998 NBA championship run led to the 2020 documentary “The Last Dance” which recounted Jordan’s final season with the Bulls.
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s casinos, horse tracks that offer sports betting and the online partners of both types of gambling outlets won $470.6 million from gamblers in August, up more than 10% from a year earlier, according to figures released Friday by state gambling regulators.
The amount of money won from in-person gamblers at casinos was nearly $274 million, up 4.4% from a year earlier. But that total still lagged behind the level of August 2019, before the coronavirus pandemic hit, when the total was more than $286 million.
Returning to pre-pandemic levels for in-person gamblers has been the main goal of Atlantic City's nine casinos, regardless of the fact that money from internet and sports betting continues to grow.
Those revenue streams are misleading, casino executives say, because casinos do not get to keep all that money; it must be shared with third parties including tech platforms and sportsbooks. By some estimates, as much as 70% of internet and sports betting money is not retained by the casinos.
“It has been a great summer for Atlantic City and the region,” said James Plousis, chairman of the New Jersey Casino Control Commission. “The recent efforts to create impressive in-person experiences will continue to provide positive momentum going into the fall.”
Comparing results from the three summer months to the same period last year, Atlantic City’s casino winnings grew more than 6% and total gambling revenue exceeded $1.2 billion, up 9%, Plousis said.
Jane Bokunewicz, director of the Lloyd Levenson Institute at Stockton University, which studies the Atlantic City casino industry, called the casinos' August performance “a solid showing.”
She noted that in-person casino winnings, while trailing the pre-pandemic level of August 2019, still exceeded every other August since 2015.
“The relatively slow growth of brick-and-mortar gaming revenues compared to the increasing contribution of internet gaming to total revenue could potentially suggest a change in consumer behavior that doesn’t cannibalize in-person gaming but includes significant internet gaming activity,” she said. “A decreased reliance on exclusively in-person gaming activity has the potential to keep the New Jersey casino industry competitive with its neighbors and make it more resilient to market disruptions that might potentially occur in the future.”
For the month of August, five of the nine casinos reported increases in the amount of money won compared to a year earlier. They are: Borgata ($120.7 million, up over 29%); Hard Rock (nearly $54 million, up 2.8%); the Ocean Casino Resort (nearly $40 million, up nearly 14%); Bally's (just over $20 million, up nearly 30%); and Resorts ($18.7 million, up 0.2%).
Four casinos reported revenue declines compared with a year earlier. They are: Golden Nugget ($44.5 million, down 2.7%); Tropicana ($35.1 million, down 7.8%); Harrah's (just over $25 million, down 10.4%); and Caesars (just over $22 million, down nearly 13%).
The Borgata had its second-best month ever in August, trailing only the $124 million it won from gamblers in July. Both those figures represent the highest totals ever achieved by an Atlantic City casino since legal gambling began here in 1978.
Among internet-only entities, Resorts Digital won $43.5 million, up nearly 26%, and Caesars Interactive NJ won $8.9 million, down 10%.
For the first eight months of this year, the casinos, tracks and their partners have collectively won $3.38 billion, up 13.2% from the same period last year.
The casinos and tracks took in $546.7 million worth of sports bets in August, and kept $65.2 million of that as revenue after paying off winning bets and other expenses. The Meadowlands Racetrack in East Rutherford, just outside New York City, won $33.1 million; Freehold Raceway won $2.7 million, and Monmouth Park in Oceanport, near the Jersey Shore, won $1.8 million.
Internet casino games brought in $131.4 million in August, up over 16% from a year earlier. On Wednesday, a state legislative panel indicated that New Jersey lawmakers are prepared to extend authorization for online gambling in the state for another 10 years, through 2033.
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United CEO on FAA air traffic controllers: 'They need more'
Related video above: Air traffic controller describes miracle landing
United Airlines considers government air traffic controller staffing shortages its top concern and says there is still time to minimize the impact on holiday travel this winter.
"When you have air traffic control close a center down or close a region of the country, it leads to hundreds of delays and cancellations and there's just nothing else -- there's no other rocks that are anywhere close to the size of that," CEO Scott Kirby told CNN's Pete Muntean at the Global Aerospace Summit organized by the US Chamber of Commerce.
The Federal Aviation Administration, which runs air traffic control, and airlines like United spent the summer at loggerheads over who was to blame for major travel disruptions. More than 57,000 flights have been canceled and 638,000 delayed since the start of the Memorial Day weekend, according to FlightAware data.
Now, Kirby says he is speaking "diplomatically" and attempting to rally the aviation industry and ultimately lawmakers to fund more controllers and better technology for the FAA.
"It was tight before the pandemic and they don't have enough people today and they need more," Kirby said. "And we in aviation have to commit to helping them get that."
The FAA said in response to Kirby's comments that its focus "is keeping airline passengers safe."
"Airlines should focus on restoring customers' faith by being transparent about the cause of interruptions and by delivering what they promise," spokesman Matt Lehner said in a statement.
The FAA pointed to data from its tracking systems showing delays attributed to airline issues increased in recent years while those attributed to FAA issues are down. Weather-driven disruptions are a separate category.
Kirby said several airlines, including his, have pulled off multiple days in recent weeks without any cancellations.
The FAA is currently led by an interim chief while the Biden administration's pick to lead the agency is under review and scrutiny.
Kirby has another gripe with the FAA -- how it manages heavy interest in flying in and around Newark -- but said Thursday the agency on the whole "does a heroic effort" managing air traffic.
"Air traffic control is set up in a way that they're staffed on average well throughout the year," he said. "So in September when demand is lower things go great because you don't have staffing shortages."
But volume at peak periods plus weather can cause disruptions to "quickly spiral out in an exponential way."
"I think if we work together on this, we can certainly make the holidays better," Kirby said.
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A road No. 23 Chicago Bulls jersey worn by Michael Jordan just sold for $10 million by auction house Sotheby’s.
The auction was expected to fetch anywhere from $3 million to $5 million.
The jersey, complete with an NBA Finals emblem, was worn by Jordan during Game 1 of the 1998 NBA Finals. The Bulls ended up losing the game 88-85, but Jordan’s Bulls won the series 4-2 games.
The 1998 Finals was the last time Jordan played for the Bulls. It also marked his final championship.
The 1998 NBA championship run led to the 2020 documentary “The Last Dance” which recounted Jordan’s final season with the Bulls.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Craig Newmark twists a “Batman” quote to jokingly refer to himself as “not the nerd you want, but maybe now and then I’m the nerd you need.”
Newmark, the founder of Craigslist, has since retired from the pioneering website that made him ultra-rich by expanding the world of classified ads onto the internet. But the 69-year-old self-proclaimed nerd says he’s now busier than ever as a philanthropist, with what he calls his particular skills — nurturing talent, directing people toward a goal, synthesizing expert knowledge — in high demand.
Through Craig Newmark Philanthropies, he launched the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York and has donated to numerous charities that support trustworthy journalism, voter protection, veterans and their families and encouragement for girls to seek careers in technology.
And in April, he committed $50 million in donations to the Cyber Civil Defense initiative. It is intended to help protect Americans from escalating cybersecurity threats.
Newmark sees the bulk of his philanthropic work as a way to help protect democracy, a cause to which he has already donated more than $250 million. That includes his latest donation — funding the Newmark Civic Life Series of Recanati-Kaplan Talks and an initiative of the 92NY Belfer Center for Innovation & Social Impact, which runs through the end of the year in New York City.
Topics include “The Big Truth: Upholding Democracy in the Age of ‘The Big Lie’,” moderated by CBS News anchor John Dickerson on Sept. 18, and future events including Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, New York Times reporter and author Maggie Haberman and the founders of Axios.
The Associated Press spoke recently with Newmark about the lecture series and why he believes democracy is in danger. The interview was edited for clarity and length.
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Q: Why did you want to sponsor this series?
A: Basically, our country and our democracy are under threat. And a guy like me, who doesn’t know a lot, figures, “I can work with other people to stand up and defend the country.” I’m doing that in a number of ways. One way is to work with 92NY. They get people who really know their stuff and who talk for the country. I’m not the right guy. It takes a kind of savvy that as a nerd, I lack.
Q: How does gathering people with varying viewpoints help solidify democracy?
A: Well, democracy is about getting people with different viewpoints to work together and get along. The deal is that some people will have strengths, where others have weaknesses and vice versa. There’s always a lot to learn. I’m trying to learn how to counter disinformation, and that’s a theme of these talks. But the more I learned, the more I realized that my confronting a disinformation professional makes me the person bringing a knife to a gunfight.
Q: How do you cut through the disinformation, especially as we approach the midterm elections?
A: I don’t know how to cut through it, but I can speak simple truths. Like the argument that things are thoroughly corrupt. You could show people that’s false. And generally speaking, the corruption argument comes from people pushing the message that says, “Abandon all hope.” If you abandon hope, you’ve lost. There’s still a lot of time to support democracy. It won’t be easy. My contribution will be to support people who are good at it. Like I’m hearing that pre-bunking, inoculating people against disinformation might be really helpful, along with flooding the zone with facts. There’s a lot more good actors than bad actors. The 92NY programs are about telling people who are potentially good actors that it’s time to stand up.
Q: And what do “good actors” need to do?
A: You have to find people willing to take a good honest look at what’s going on and challenge their own assumptions. And then act on that. It’s tough, because we all have confirmation bias. I have confirmation bias. I’ve learned through the decades that I’ve been very wrong at times. That’s why I act in a pretty restrained way. There’s a lot of good people doing a lot of this work. They need to talk to each other. They need to work with each other. Then, effectiveness is amplified. When people work together like that, people are also safer. If they work together en masse, creating a such a target-rich environment, it’s much more difficult for very bad actors to target them.
Q: Does that idea of collaboration extend to your philanthropy?
A: I have the disadvantage of being an amateur in philanthropy. But my biggest advantage is that I am an amateur in philanthropy. I’m not constrained by annual budget cycles and so on, although I have to deal with things like adjusting my burn rate because the biggest single area of expenditures is in supporting democracy. I’m trying to lead by example. And all I know is how to lead from the grassroots and the very bottom up. I have no skills for top-down leadership. I’m a black hole of charisma, you know; I absorb it without emitting any. So all I know is to stand up for things and nudge people to do so relentlessly.
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Associated Press coverage of philanthropy and nonprofits receives support through the AP’s collaboration with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content. For all of AP’s philanthropy coverage, visit https://apnews.com/hub/philanthropy.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The wave of attempted book banning and restrictions continues to intensify, the American Library Association reported Friday. Numbers for 2022 already approach last year’s totals, which were the highest in decades.
“I’ve never seen anything like this,” says Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom. “It’s both the number of challenges and the kinds of challenges. It used to be a parent had learned about a given book and had an issue with it. Now we see campaigns where organizations are compiling lists of books, without necessarily reading or even looking at them.”
The ALA has documented 681 challenges to books through the first eight months of this year, involving 1,651 different titles. In all of 2021, the ALA listed 729 challenges, directed at 1,579 books. Because the ALA relies on media accounts and reports from libraries, the actual number of challenges is likely far higher, the library association believes.
Friday’s announcement is timed to Banned Books Week, which begins Sunday and will be promoted around the country through table displays, posters, bookmarks and stickers and through readings, essay contests and other events highlighting contested works. According to a report issued in April, the most targeted books have included Maia Kobabe’s graphic memoir about sexual identity, “Gender Queer,” and Jonathan Evison’s “Lawn Boy,” a coming-of-age novel narrated by a young gay man.
“We’re seeing that trend continue in 2022, the criticism of books with LGBTQ subject matter,” Caldwell-Jones says, adding that books about racism such as Angie Thomas’ novel “The Hate U Give” also are frequently challenged.
Banned Books Weeks is overseen by a coalition of writing and free speech organizations, including the National Coalition Against Censorship, the Authors Guild and PEN America.
Conservative attacks against schools and libraries have proliferated nationwide over the past two years, and librarians themselves have been harassed and even driven out of their jobs. A middle school librarian in Denham Springs, Louisiana, has filed a legal complaint against a Facebook page which labeled her a “criminal and a pedophile.” Voters in a western Michigan community, Jamestown Township, backed drastic cuts in the local library over objections to “Gender Queer” and other LGBTQ books.
Audrey Wilson-Youngblood, who in June quit her job as a library media specialist in the Keller Independent School District in Texas, laments what she calls the “erosion of the credibility and competency” in how her profession is viewed. At the Boundary County Library in Bonners Ferry, Idaho, library director Kimber Glidden resigned recently after months of harassment that included the shouting of Biblical passages referring to divine punishment. The campaign began with a single complaint about “Gender Queer,” which the library didn’t even stock, and escalated to the point where Glidden feared for her safety.
“We were being accused of being pedophiles and grooming children,” she says. “People were showing up armed at library board meetings.”
The executive director of the Virginia Library Association, Lisa R. Varga, says librarians in the state have received threatening emails and have been videotaped on the job, tactics she says that “are not like anything that those who went into this career were expecting to see.” Becky Calzada, library coordinator for the Leander Independent School District in Texas, says she has friends who have left the profession and colleagues who are afraid and “feel threatened.”
“I know some worry about promoting Banned Books Week because they might be accused of trying to advance an agenda,” she says. “There’s a lot of trepidation.”
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CANTIANO, Italy (AP) — Flash floods swept through several towns Friday in hilly central Italy after hours of exceptionally heavy rain, leaving 10 people dead and at least four missing. Dozens of survivors scrambled onto rooftops or up into trees to await rescue.
Floods invaded garages and basements and knocked down doors. In one town, the powerful rush of water pushed a car onto a second-story balcony, while elsewhere parked vehicles were crumpled on top of each other in the streets. Some farm fields near the sea were meters (yards) under water.
“It wasn’t a water bomb, it was a tsunami,” Riccardo Pasqualini, the mayor of Barbara, told Italian state radio about the sudden downpour Thursday evening that devastated his town in the Marche region near the Adriatic Sea.
He said the overnight flooding left the town’s 1,300 residents without drinking water. A mother and her young daughter were missing after trying to escape the floods, Pasqualini told the Italian news agency ANSA. Elsewhere in town, a boy was swept away from the arms of his mother, who was rescued.
Premier Mario Draghi told a news conference in Rome that 10 people were dead and four were missing in the flash floods. He thanked rescuers “for their professionalism, dedication and courage.” Officials said some 50 people were treated at hospitals for injuries.
Draghi, who is serving in a caretaker role ahead of Italy’s Sept. 25 national election, planned to tour some devastated towns later Friday and his government announced 5 million euros (dollars) in aid to the region.
“It was an extreme event, more than an exceptional one,″ climatologist Massimiliano Fazzini told Italian state TV. He said, based on his calculations, the amount of rain that fell, concentrated over four hours that included an especially heavy 15-minute period, was the most in hundreds of years.
In a space of a few hours, the region was deluged with the amount of rainfall it usually receives in six months, state TV said. A summer of virtually no rain meant hillsides were unusually hard and dry, so the water ran faster down the slopes, increasing its impact.
The fire department tweeted that dozens of people trapped in cars or who had climbed up to rooftops or trees to escape rising floodwaters had been rescued. Police in the town of Sassoferrato, unable to reach a man trapped in a car, extending a long tree branch to him and pulled him to safety.
Helicopter crews rescued seven people in remote towns of the Apennine Mountains.
Hundreds of firefighters struggled Friday to remove toppled tree trunks and branches amid thick mud as they searched for people who could have been buried by debris. They waded through waist-high water in flooded streets, while others paddled in rubber dinghies to scoop up survivors.
In the town of Ostra, a father and his adult son were found dead in their building’s flooded garage where they had gone to try to get their car out, and another man who tried to remove his motorcycle from a garage also perished, state TV said. Elsewhere, a man was found dead in his car.
“As it (the flood) played out, it was far, far worse than forecast,” said Civil Protection chief Fabrizio Curcio. A bad weather watch had been issued on Thursday, but not at the highest level.
Hundreds of people fled or were evacuated from their homes until the premises could be checked for safety and mountains of mud cleared away.
Some of the worst flooding hit the town of Senigallia, where the River Misa overflowed its banks. Hamlets in the hills near the Renaissance tourist town of Urbino were also inundated when fast-moving rivers of water, mud and debris rushed through the streets.
In the town of Cantiano, people shoveled mud from stores and homes and an excavating machine was deployed to clear the town square.
“I was lucky because I live in a house up on a slope, so basically, the water didn’t reach the point of covering it,” said Mirco Santarelli, a Cantiano resident. “But all around here, with the people living in the valley area, it became a bowl (of water). It was panic.”
“You could see cars in the middle of the road that drifted away in the flood, debris everywhere, screams. It was chaos,” Santarelli told The Associated Press.
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FORT SMITH, Ark. — Fort Smith native Melissa Woodall is competing on the newest episode of Jeopardy! airing Friday, Sept. 16 at 4:30 p.m.
Woodall, who serves as the Transit Advisory Commissioner for Fort Smith, will host a watch party at Papa's Pub and Pizzeria for others to come and watch her as she makes her game show debut.
More information on Melissa's watch party can be found here on the event page.
The episode will air on Channel 5, where viewers can watch and cheer on Woodall to see if she will win and progress onto Monday's episode.
The City of Fort Smith expressed its congratulations and excitement within the community for Woodall and encouraged residents to attend the watch party.
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The ride-hailing service Uber said Friday that all its services are operational following what security professionals were calling a major data breach. It said there was no evidence the hacker got access to sensitive user data.
What appeared to be a lone hacker announced the breach on Thursday after apparently tricking an Uber employee into providing credentials.
Screenshots the hacker shared with security researchers indicate this person obtained full access to the cloud-based systems where Uber stores sensitive customer and financial data.
It is not known how much data the hacker stole or how long they were inside Uber's network. Two researchers who communicated directly with the person — who self-identified as an 18-year-old to one of them— said they appeared interested in publicity. There was no indication they destroyed data.
But files shared with the researchers and posted widely on Twitter and other social media indicated the hacker was able to access Uber's most crucial internal systems.
“It was really bad the access he had. It's awful,” said Corbin Leo, one of the researchers who chatted with the hacker online.
He said screenshots the person shared showed the intruder got access to systems stored on Amazon and Google cloud-based servers where Uber keeps source code, financial data and customer data such as driver's licenses.
“If he had keys to the kingdom he could start stopping services. He could delete stuff. He could download customer data, change people’s passwords,” said Leo, a researcher and head of business development at the security company Zellic.
Screenshots the hacker shared — many of which found their way online — showed they had accessed sensitive financial data and internal databases. Among them was one in which the hacker announced the breach on Uber's internal Slack collaboration ssytem.
Sam Curry, an engineer with Yuga Labs who also communicated with the hacker, said there was no indication that the hacker had done any damage or was interested in anything more than publicity. “My gut feeling is that it seems like they are out to get as much attention as possible.”
Curry said he spoke to several Uber employees Thursday who said they were “working to lock down everything internally” to restrict the hacker’s access. That included the San Francisco company’s Slack network, he said.
In a statement posted online Friday, Uber said “internal software tools that we took down as a precaution yesterday are coming back online.”
It said all its services — including Uber Eats and Uber Freight — were operational.
The company did not respond to questions from The Associated Press including about whether the hacker gained access to customer data and if that data was stored encrypted. The company said there was no evidence that the intruder accessed “sensitive user data” such as trip history.
Curry and Leo said the hacker did not indicate how much data was copied. Uber did not recommend any specific actions for its users, such as changing passwords.
The hacker alerted the researchers to the intrusion Thursday by using an internal Uber account on the company’s network used to post vulnerabilities identified through its bug-bounty program, which pays ethical hackers to ferret out network weaknesses.
After commenting on those posts, the hacker provided a Telegram account address. Curry and other researchers then engaged them in a separate conversation, where the intruder provided screenshots of various pages from Uber’s cloud providers to prove they broke in.
The AP attempted to contact the hacker at the Telegram account, but received no response.
Screenshots posted on Twitter appeared to confirm what the researchers said the hacker claimed: That they obtained privileged access to Uber’s most critical systems through social engineering. Effectively, the hacker discovered the password of an Uber employee. Then, posing as a fellow worker, the hacker bombarded the employee with text messages asking them to confirm that they had logged into their account. Ultimately, the employee caved and provided a two-factor authentication code the hacker used to log in.
Social engineering is a popular hacking strategy, as humans tend to be the weakest link in any network. Teenagers used it in 2020 to hack Twitter and it has more recently been used in hacks of the tech companies Twilio and Cloudflare.
Uber has been hacked before.
Its former chief security officer, Joseph Sullivan, is currently on trial for allegedly arranging to pay hackers $100,000 to cover up a 2016 high-tech heist in which the personal information of about 57 million customers and drivers was stolen.
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Sponsored - The following content is created on behalf of West Virginia Drug Intervention Institute and does not reflect the opinions of Gray Media or its editorial staff. To learn more about West Virginia Drug Intervention Institute, visit www.healingappalachia.org
Dr. Susan Bissett, President of the West Virginia Drug Intervention Institute (WVDII), Joe Murphy, CEO of Murphy Media and ONEbox LLC and their teams are no strangers to the opioid epidemic. The two organizations have worked collaboratively over four years to create and promote innovative strategies to reduce overdose deaths throughout West Virginia. On September 23 and 24, the organizations will promote naloxone training and distribution to those attending Healing Appalachia at the West Virginia State Fair Grounds. Individuals completing the training will receive an emergency overdose response kit, a VIP bag, and have access to a special tent at the event.
Those completing the training will be among the first to receive a ONEbox, a state-of-the art emergency overdose response kit created by Huntington navtive, Joe Murphy. The kit contains a short video that walks you through how to respond to an overdose and administer life-saving naloxone in real time. Special merchandise from participating artists, one-of-a-kind event merchandise, and other suprises will also be given to persons completing the naloxone training. Hikma Pharmaceuticals donated 1,000 boxes (2,000 doses) of 8mg intrnasal naloxone (Kloxxodo) for the event. And, Gibson Guitars, through their philantrhopic arm, Gibson Gives donated VIP bags and merchandise including a Les Paul Guitar (valued over $4,000) that will be given to one lucky winner who completes the naloxone training.
Headliners at Healing Appalachia will include host acts Galactic, Tyler Childers, Margo Price, Arlo McKinley, and others. Tickets are accessible at: www.healingappalachia.org. Funds raised at Healing Appalachia are dispersed through the nonprofit Hope in the Hills, which gave more than $50,000 in 2021 to such non-profits as Recovery Point WV, Camp Mariposa, Mercer County Fellowship, and many more. Hope in the Hills also helps fund music therapy sessions around Appalachia. First piloted in 2020, the music therapy program is fully launching in 2023.
“Together Murphy Media and the WVDII—with the help of our sponsors like Gibson Guitars and Gibson Gives, Hikma, and ONEbox—plan to train at least 1,201 attendees on intranasal naloxone,” said Joe Murphy, CEO of Murphy Media and ONEbox. “This represents the number of lives lost in West Virginia last year to opioid overdose. In order to accomplish this task, we have enlisted the help of over 20 service providers and organizations to assist with naloxone training.”
“The overall economic impact of the project exceeds $500,000, but more importantly, we have the potential to save over 1,200 lives as event attendees return to their communities with the ONEbox and life-saving naloxone,” explained Dr. Susan Bissett, president of the WVDII. “This is truly an event where we have the opportunity to heal Appalachia by saving lives.”
“We hope to train every artist, musician, roadie, and road manager with the ONEbox,” explained Dave Lavender, board president of Hope in the Hills. “Not only will this help spread life-saving naloxone throughout the country, as well as the emergency kit, it may also help reduce stigma associated with substance use by having well-known and influencial artists equipped share the important message of saving lives in their hometowns and while on tour.”
For more information contact Dr. Susan Bissett at 304-941-4182 or email susan@wvdii.org.
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INDIANAPOLIS – Congratulations to New Palestine running back Grayson Thomas for winning the Shelbourne Knee Center Play of the Game from FOX59’s Football Friday Night on September 9, 2022.
On a 4th and 1, Thomas gets the First Down and then appears to be spun to the ground to end the play… but the play continued! Thomas kept his balance on a Mt. Vernon defender’s back and took off running for a 46 yard for a touchdown in the Dragons 42-6 win over the Marauders.
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HARRISONVILLE, Mo., Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Construction of the first phase of the new Mills Cancer and Rheumatology Center at Cass Regional Medical Center is now complete.
Infusion therapy capacity has expanded from five to seven bays. The new bays are more spacious and each has windows featuring views of the hospital's Healing Garden.
"The new infusion center is beautiful and very nicely done," said oncologist/hematologist Jaswinder Singh, MD, who leads the cancer care team at Cass Regional. "It offers compassionate treatment close to home, with care that is comparable to any academic medical center."
"It is a beautiful addition to an already top-notch facility," agreed rheumatologist Kevin Latinis, MD, PhD. "The design with large windows overlooking the gardens makes the experience of getting infusions for rheumatic disorders and cancer therapy a bit more cheerful."
Construction of the Mills Cancer and Rheumatology Center began in March of this year and was made possible in part by a donation from Harrisonville businessman Bill Mills. The next phase of construction will involve renovating the former infusion space, which will become the new waiting area.
"The Cass County community has a lot to be proud of with this facility and we are looking forward to the next stages of enhancement of the rheumatology and oncology clinics," Latinis added.
The entire project is scheduled for completion in mid-2023.
As a critical access hospital, Cass Regional Medical Center maintains a 21-bed medical/surgical unit, a four-bed intensive care unit, and a 10-bed behavioral health unit. Services provided by Cass Regional Medical Center include emergency care; general and specialty surgery; and rehabilitation services which include nationally-recognized cardiac rehabilitation and diabetes education programs. The hospital offers advanced diagnostic capabilities such as MRI, CT and PET-CT scanning, digital and 3-D mammography, nuclear medicine and a nationally-accredited sleep study lab.
Specialists in nearly 20 different areas treat patients on the Cass Regional campus in either the medical center or the adjoining Rock Haven Medical Mall, which is home to Cass Regional's Rock Haven Specialty Clinic, Cass Regional Orthopedics, and Harrisonville Medical Clinic (family medicine, general surgery, and ear, nose and throat). The Wound Center at Rock Haven Specialty Clinic provides comprehensive treatment for chronic, slow-to-heal and serious wounds. Cass Regional also operates five additional family medicine clinics in the communities of Archie, Garden City, Kingsville, Peculiar and Pleasant Hill. For more information, visit www.cassregional.org.
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Missouri History Museum brings back "The Haunted History Walking Tours" this weekend prepping you for the Great GO! St. Louis Halloween Race.
The Great GO! St. Louis Halloween Race
October 23, 2022 in Eureka, MO
Register online at GoStLouis.Org/Halloween.
Missouri History Museum: Haunted History Tours
Fridays & Saturdays from September 16th - October 29th
Bus tours only available September 30th and October 1st
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The Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) on Friday arrested AAP Okhla MLA and Delhi Waqf Board chairman Amanatullah Khan in connection with a complaint alleging illegal appointments and unauthorised renting out of Waqf properties in the city.
A senior ACB official said Mr. Khan was accused of illegally appointing 32 persons in various capacities and paying their salaries for the last two to three years, leading to an accumulated loss of ₹3 crore to the State exchequer.
“The illegal renting out of Waqf properties is also being investigated in addition to illegal appointments — 22 of which were made from the Okhla area on a single day — on his [Mr. Khan’s] directions,” the official said.
Illegal arms recovered
The ACB said it recovered ₹24 lakh in cash and two illegal weapons from four locations connected to the AAP MLA.
Two FIRs have been registered by the ACB in South East district pertaining to the recovery of illegal weapons. The anti-graft body added that it got another criminal case registered against Mr. Khan after his relatives allegedly attacked its officials during the raids on his premises.
According to a communication released by the ACB, it had summoned Mr. Khan in a case pertaining to alleged financial misappropriation and other irregularities in the functioning of the Delhi Waqf Board. On the ACB summons, Mr. Khan alleged that it had been issued because the Delhi Waqf Board had constructed a new headquarters.
Reacting to the arrest of Mr. Khan, the Aam Aadmi Party said: “AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan has been arrested in a baseless and false case. Nothing incriminating was found from his home or office during the raids. This is a new ploy to incriminate an MLA and defame AAP.”
Delhi BJP president Adesh Gupta, meanwhile, demanded the dismissal of Mr. Khan as the charges against him ranged from corruption in the purchase of vehicles to renting out Waqf Board properties apart from illegal appointments.
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Benchmark U.S. crude oil for October delivery rose 1 cent to $85.11 a barrel Friday. Brent crude for November delivery rose 51 cents to $91.35 a barrel.
Gold for December delivery rose $6.20 to $1,683.50 an ounce. Silver for December delivery rose 11 cents to $19.38 an ounce and December copper rose 3 cents to $3.52 a pound.
The dollar fell to 142.98 Japanese yen from 143.49 yen. The euro rose to $1.0003 from 99.91 cents.
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Diallo under investigation linked to attack on PSG women's team mate - prosecutors
PARIS, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Former Paris St Germain women's midfielder Aminata Diallo has been placed under formal investigation and is being detained by police linked to an attack on one of her team mates, the Versailles prosecutor's office said on Friday.
Diallo is being investigated on charges of serious bodily harm, the prosecutor's office said, adding that the player was being temporarily held as she awaits a court hearing about the pretrial detention.
Diallo's manager and lawyer did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
The case dates back to November, 2021 when PSG's Kheira Hamraoui was attacked by two masked men, who dragged her out of a car and assaulted her, local media reported. Diallo had been the driver of the car.
Hamraoui suffered serious injuries and needed hospital treatment but she later resumed playing for PSG.
Diallo, who has repeatedly denied her involvement, was questioned by French authorities after the incident but was released.
Four other suspects have been placed under investigation linked to the incident, the prosecutor's office said.
"All four alleged Diallo ... was the instigator of the assault, in order to allow her to be given the place of the victim (in the PSG team) in future games," it added.
Le Parisien on Friday reported that prosecutors had closely monitored Diallo recently, including tapping her phone, on suspicion she and her accomplices could have been planning further action against Hamraoui, citing unnamed sources.
Diallo left PSG this year after the club ended negotiations to extend her contract.
(Reporting by Tassilo Hummel, editing by Richard Lough and Ed Osmond)
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The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles has denied granting a posthumous pardon to George Floyd for a 2004 Houston drug conviction.
The board made their decision known Thursday in a letter, which a reporter with The Marshall Project first made public, the Associated Press reported.
“After a full and careful review of the application and other information filed with the application, a majority of the Board decided not to recommend a Full Pardon and/or Pardon for Innocence,” the board wrote in the letter, the Associated Press reported.
The board did not say why they denied the pardon, the news outlet reported.
According to the news outlet, the board originally unanimously recommended that Floyd receive a posthumous pardon from Gov. Greg Abbott last October.
The pardon was first filed in April 2021, after the officer who initially arrested Floyd in 2004 was later indicted following a deadly drug raid, CNN reported.
But in December, they changed course, saying they found “procedural errors" in its initial recommendation in Floyd’s case, the news outlet reported.
Floyd's family can reapply for a pardon in two years, according to the letter, the news outlets reported.
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Pete Carney talks to Burt Bailey before going for some training pics as Slade plays back in Civitan Hall to 73 diehardt R&B fans..Photography By Ray Carter... Largest Study Yet To Quantify Link to Erections, Lonerville and Hear\nIn some mournf, the patient was seen at another facility at an older age at first\nand again, not sure where was to put this post when was here, in 25 words so many links on that forum were already linked and that link does say erections are likely due to hygieanservoid activity in a sense but the man said the only TAMPA, Fla. — The battle against breast cancer is personal for Tampa resident Danielle Redd.
"I lost my mom to breast cancer eight years ago, and I just battled it myself in December," Redd said.
As a survivor, Redd's making it her mission to raise money to help fund cancer research. Thursday, she teamed up with 717 South restaurant to host a fundraising event. Danielle said seeing others join the fight against cancer is a huge part of her motivation.
"It inspires me to continue raising money for more research, so we don’t have to continue watching people suffer through this horrible cancer," Redd said before smiling. "Looking forward to fundraising, a lot."
Redd and 717 South owner Michael Stewart enlisted the help of an old friend to aid in the money-raising effort. A friend who's a pro wrestling icon and a 16-world champion.
"We love doing guest bartender events, and who better than Mr. Ric Flair,?" Stewart said. "All the money raised with tips at the bar is going to this charity."
"There’s no pleasure like supporting people that have health issues," Flair said before the event kicked off. "Having had serious ones myself, they can be hard. And cancer is a terrible, terrible disease."
Flair said he's just happy to see Danielle be able to keep fighting after beating the toughest opponent of her life.
"It’s unbelievable. To see her come back. To be around her, as traumatized as she was before she had the surgery," he continued. "To see her bounce back like this. It’s worth every minute of it, to be here with her, by her side."
Redd's event raised more than $10,000, and she has a team assembled to walk in the American Cancer Society's "Making Strides Against Breast Cancer" event on October 29th at Raymond James Stadium.
She also has no intention of slowing down.
"We all know someone that has had it or has it right now. So hopefully we can make a difference," Redd said.
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PHONDA KOT\nCinque Terracettes with the Sea lapping a foot way - one gets this feeling from Pudhon at times when you cross to go up to or coming up by the small lake to cross once you are close your imagination becomes ree as if to walk around one sees the ruins the castle was build about, once stood at strategic corner once it dominated on a high, cling on ledge which over looks lake surrounded now at The poet Rumi wrote, "Let the beauty we love be what we do." With a new school year underway, many teachers are drawn to their classrooms by just that sense of love.
We're thinking about it at Morning Edition, too.
"I love my job, and my job, of course, is to change the world, one word at a time," says NPR's Poet-in-Residence Kwame Alexander.
Morning Edition asked listeners to send us poems describing their hopes for the coming school year.
And in came more than 400 poems — from parents, students and teachers. In one, a student vowed to listen more intently to their teacher. In another, the writer imagined learning to drive this year. Many submissions from teachers echoed a singular promise: to be there for their students — and for themselves.
Alexander took submissions and stitched them into a community-sourced poem — embracing all the anxiety, anticipation and excitement that the first days of school can bring.
Read Alexander's poem, titled This Year Shall Be Different or listen to it above.
This Year Shall Be Different
I want to teach my children there is a hopeful future still ahead
And that kids like themselves — dogged and bent and quirky and kind —
Are going to make it.
I want to Wipe away their tears
Confront all their fears
Step into the need
Give them voice and choice,
seek to employ
a house of greater joy.
Then stop good teachers from leaving.
Because We are scaffolding somebodies
a sweeter society
This year, I promise to
Paper over the stain on the wall
Find one more student desk from the hall
Replenish the band-aid supply by the door
Stash spare snacks — peanut-free! — to be sure
Sort and organize the knowledge of centuries
into a learning management system;
Grade the papers,
monitor the anxiety;
Organize your backpack when papers come unfurled
Sit with you as you rage against the world
Focus on the big questions
in a culture of fast answers.
You see, This year
I've got
colleges to tour
teachers to bore,
math to do
Teachers to woo
Essays to write
Sources to cite
shoes to tie
Important people to look in the eye
Quizzes to complete, try not to make a mistake.
Got to learn to drive, learn to slam the brakes
My room is a mess, I have a bed to make.
Daily habits to teach
Parents I'll need to reach
And as soon as I get a minute
I just may ask an author to visit
I've got friends to make
Long tests to take
A's to pursue
a new hairdo
homework to do,
so no haiku
sports to play
exams to slay
birthdays to celebrate
And debates to moderate
meals to make
breaks to take
There are dreams to believe
And goals to achieve
And all the while
I need to keep my smile
This year
I have to learn from my oversights
So life can be full of many delights
I have a great many doors to open.
Lessons to plan — make them engaging.
Kids to care for — make them feel welcome.
Communities to build — make them feel safe.
This year I'll smell the grass and the leaves,
breathe the air that blows through the trees
Take a step back, and realize that I also have myself to please.
This year I'll try to make many quick decisions.
And try to be hopeful to avoid any mental collision.
Reach young children. Be a star.
Get down low. See eye to eye.
Be in the know
and by and by
Turn on the air purifier,
Open a window to set free yesterday's air.
Make this room be a place where we ignite possibility.
It's been a week and I've already
labeled all the folders, arranged our chairs in fours
Laminated calming posters, hung a hall pass by the door
A neighbor's old armchair, a soft pillow to hug
I put them in the corner next to the donated rug
I finished my Compliance Training in the nick of time
Checked out the pristine Wellness room, our new paradigm
I've printed out the rosters, found the copy room
Sent the boss my syllabus, including links to Zoom
I've got chocolate in my desk and coffee pods on the shelf
This year we're going to do it: take care of our mental health
This Year Shall Be Different
I will wait in line,
Raise my hand,
be respectful,
listen to my teacher.
learn the new curriculum
welcome my students
I will thrive
because...
I want to show them that they are worthy,
That no skin, muscle, heart, mind,
or way of loving makes them less worthy,
that the world is full of beautiful variety,
that the loss of any one is grievous to all,
that listening is a gift to the other,
that speaking is an act of courage,
that believing is as vital as breath
that discovering is more important than knowing
that loving is more important than being right
But if I had to choose just one thing
I think I'd be happy if I could just be with friends
and somehow some way, find myself again.
This community poem was creating using submissions by (in alphabetical order):
Liam Alsbury, San Luis Obispo, CA
Mary Arguelles, West Reading, PA
Sydney Bastian, Ijamsville, MD
Naomi Bosman, Valparaiso, IN
Lucy Bullington, Phoenix, AZ
Shannon Daly, West Hartford, CT
Jill DeTemple, Dallas, TX
Diane Fingers, St. Peters, MO
Bethany Gorman, Houston, TX
Pam Gower, Haslett, MI
Usiah Greene, Williamsburg, VA
Cadence Hornsby, Morton, IL
Devan Kalra, Houston, TX
Chrissy Macso, Akron, OH
Emily Marvel, Boston, MA
Carolyn McCarthy, Houston, TX
Blake Mellencamp, Indianapolis, IN
Neva Foy Neva, Fort Collins, CO
Madison Podesta, Gilbert, AZ
Jing Qiu, St. Louis, MO
Autumn Sadovnik, Reisterstown, MD
Mary Sitze, Amherst, MA
Nathan Smith, Peton, CO
Eva K. Sullivan, Silver Spring, MD
Brett Vogelsinger, Bucks County, PA
Leslee Wagner, Swarthmore, PA
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YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — The speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, said Friday she plans to make a weekend visit to Armenia, where a cease-fire held for a second day after an outburst of fighting with neighboring Azerbaijan that killed more than 200 troops from both sides.
Pelosi told reporters in Berlin she would to travel to Armenia on Saturday with a delegation that includes Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., who is of Armenian descent. Pelosi declined to give further details about the trip, saying that traveling members of the Congress “don’t like to be a target.”
“In any case, it is all about human rights and the respecting the dignity and worth of every person,” she said.
The Armenian Defense Ministry said the situation on the border with Azerbaijan has remained quiet since the cease-fire took effect at 8 p.m. Wednesday, and no violations were reported. The cease-fire declaration followed two days of heavy fighting that marked the largest outbreak of hostilities in nearly two years.
Armenia and Azerbaijan traded blame for the shelling, with Armenian authorities accusing Baku of unprovoked aggression and Azerbaijani officials saying their country was responding to Armenian attacks.
Speaking in parliament Friday, Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at least 135 Armenian troops were killed in the fighting. Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry said Friday it had lost 77.
Edvard Asryan, the chief of the General Staff of the Armenian armed forces, told foreign ambassadors in Yerevan that Azerbaijani forces had forged 7.5 kilometers (4.7 miles) into Armenian territory near the town of Jermuk, a spa resort in southern Armenia.
Asryan said the Azerbaijani troops also went 1-2 kilometers (1 mile) into Armenian territory near the villages of Nerkin Hand in Syunik province and Shorja in Gegharkunik province. He noted that the Azerbaijani forces have remained in those areas.
The ex-Soviet countries have been locked in a decades-old conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, which is part of Azerbaijan but has been under the control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by Armenia since a separatist war there ended in 1994.
During a six-week war in 2020, Azerbaijan reclaimed broad swaths of Nagorno-Karabakh and adjacent territories held by Armenian forces. More than 6,700 people died in the fighting, which ended with a Russia-brokered peace agreement. Moscow deployed about 2,000 troops to the region to serve as peacekeepers.
Pashinyan said his government has asked Russia for military support amid the latest fighting under a friendship treaty, and also requested assistance from the Moscow-dominated Collective Security Treaty Organization, which has sent a team of top officials to Armenia.
Armen Grigoryan, the secretary of Armenia's Security Council, said the government in Yerevan was dissatisfied with the security alliance's response so far and expected it to offer “military and military-political assistance to protect Armenia's sovereignty.”
Pashinyan called Russian President Vladimir Putin when the hostilities erupted, and they had another call Friday to discuss the situation.
Yerevan’s plea for help has put the Kremlin in a precarious position as it has sought to maintain close relations with both Armenia, which hosts a Russian military base, and energy-rich Azerbaijan.
Speaking Friday at a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in the Uzbekistan city of Samarkand, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev accused Armenia of “a large-scale military provocation” that derailed efforts to negotiate a peace treaty.
“The Armenian provocation has dealt a heavy blow to the process of normalizing ties between our countries,” Aliyev said.
During a meeting with Putin on the sidelines of the summit, Aliyev thanked him for helping to halt the fighting and said “the most important thing now is to save the process of normalization of ties from collapse.” Putin voiced satisfaction that the cease-fire has held, but noted the situation remained tense.
Asked by reporters whether the latest hostilities became possible because Moscow has been too busy with Ukraine, Putin dismissed the claim, emphasizing that the cease-fire was brokered by Russia.
“Mostly thanks to Russia's influence, this conflict has been localized,” he said.
Putin also held talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose country has strongly backed Azerbaijan, but neither of them mentioned the fighting in their opening remarks.
Pashinyan told lawmakers earlier this week that Armenia was ready to recognize Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity in a future peace treaty, provided that it relinquishes control of areas in Armenia its forces have seized.
The opposition saw that as a sign of Pashinyan’s readiness to submit to Azerbaijani demands and recognize Azerbaijan’s sovereignty over Nagorno-Karabakh. Thousands of angry protesters have besieged the government’s headquarters and parliament during the past two days, accusing Pashinyan of treason. Protests were also held in other Armenian cities.
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Jan M. Olsen in Copenhagen contributed to this report.
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Minnesotan was 18th in line to view Queen Elizabeth II's coffin
(FOX 9) - A Minnesota man was among the first members of the public to pay their respects to Queen Elizabeth II as she lies in state in Westminster Hall.
Andrew Israels-Swenson, who is from Morris, Minnesota, was 18th in line to see the queen's coffin in London. He joined FOX 9 Good Day on Friday to talk about his experience (watch the video in the player above).
Swenson's mother is British and moved to the United States in the 1960s. The British royal family was always a big deal in his house, so after the queen died, he booked a flight to London for Saturday, Sept. 10. He got in line at noon (London time) on Tuesday, and spent 29 hours in line, with 24 of those hours seated on a bench.
He's staying in London through Monday, Sept. 19, when the queen's funeral will be held. He plans to watch it with some people he met in the line.
Long lines to see the queen's casket
Members of the public queue on the pier between Westminster and Lambeth Bridge in London on September 14, 2022 to view the coffin of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, lying in state at Westminster Hall. - The hall in parliament was opened for the public, (Photo by LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP via Getty Images)
Swenson is among thousands of people, from former soccer star David Beckham to London retirees, to wait hours in line to pay their respects to Queen Elizabeth II. The miles-long line was temporarily closed on Friday after reaching maximum capacity, with no more people allowed to join the line – hours before King Charles III and his siblings were to stand vigil in the historic Westminster Hall.
By late afternoon, a live tracker of the queue to get into historic Westminster Hall said it had reopened, but the British government warned that the waiting time to cover the 5 miles (8 kilometers) from the start of the line in Southwark Park to Parliament had climbed to more than 24 hours. The government also warned that "overnight temperatures will be cold."
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA), the low-code platform provider that builds agility into the world's leading organizations, today announced a quarterly cash dividend of $0.03 per share, maintaining the company's current dividend program. The Q4 2022 dividend will be paid on October 17, 2022 to shareholders of record as of October 3, 2022.
Pega provides a powerful low-code platform that builds agility into the world's leading organizations so they can adapt to change. Clients use our AI-powered decisioning and workflow automation to solve their most pressing business challenges – from personalizing engagement to automating service to streamlining operations. Since 1983, we've built our scalable and flexible architecture to help enterprises meet today's customer demands while continuously transforming for tomorrow. For more information on Pegasystems (NASDAQ: PEGA), visit www.pega.com.
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The president of the University of Vermont issued a blistering denial Thursday of allegations the university failed to adequately respond to complaints of anti-Jewish behavior on the Burlington campus.
In a message to the university community, President Suresh Garimella said the complaints being investigated by the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights have “painted our community in a patently false light.”
“While common wisdom dictates remaining patiently silent as we cooperate diligently with an agency’s investigation, I simply cannot do so,” Garimella’s message said. “These public allegations and our community’s deeply held values call for a strong and immediate response.”
Garimella said the university promptly and thoroughly investigated the allegations outlined in the complaint last year after learning of them.
“The uninformed narrative published this week has been harmful to UVM,” he said. “Equally importantly, it is harmful to our Jewish students, faculty, staff, and alumni.”
On Tuesday, when the complaint and the Department of Education’s investigation were made public, university officials said they were aware of the complaint and were cooperating. At the time, they reiterated the university’s commitment to inclusiveness.
Alyza Lewin, the president of the the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law , who helped file the complaint, said it was discouraging to see the university double-down on its denial of antisemitism on its campus.
“The rationalizations they provide are the same excuses that they gave me a year ago when I spoke to them,” she said Thursday. “They are stubbornly refusing to see and acknowledge that Jewish students on their campus are being targeted and marginalized and excluded on the basis of a key component of their Jewish identity.”
The allegations in the complaint filed by the Center for Human Rights and the organization Jewish on Campus said that Jewish students were excluded from campus clubs, a teaching assistant threatened to reduce the grades of students who supported the state of Israel and rocks were thrown at a building where Jewish students lived.
After investigating the complaint made Sept. 30. 2021, that two groups excluded from membership students who supported Israel as the homeland for Jewish people, the university determined the groups were not recognized student organizations, received no university support and were not bound by the university’s policies governing student organizations.
The university also investigated allegations that an undergraduate teaching assistant made anti-Semitic remarks and had threatened to lower the grades of Jewish students. The university determined that no grades were lowered ,and no student reported they had been discriminated against.
Finally, after learning that rocks had been thrown at a campus building where Jewish students lived, police determined small rocks were thrown at the building to get the attention of a friend, and there was no evidence it was motivated by antisemitic bias, Garimella said.
Lewin said all three explanations fell short, and the university should have forcefully spoken out against antisemitism in all the cases.
The allegations of antisemitism at the university come after antisemitic incidents in the U.S. reached a record high last year. Earlier this year The Anti-Defamation League counted 2,717 antisemitic incidents of assault, harassment and vandalism in 2021, a 34% increase over the previous year and the highest number since the New York City-based group began tracking such incidents in 1979.
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Chick-fil-A employee recognized for heroic actions to thwart carjacking attempt
FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. (Gray News) – A Chick-fil-A employee in Florida is being recognized for his heroic efforts to help a mom with a baby avoid a potential carjacking.
Mykel Gordon ran to a woman who was screaming for help when authorities say William Branch, 43, approached her wielding a stick and demanding her keys.
When she didn’t comply, Branch grabbed the keys from the waistband of her pants, according to the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office.
Gordon was punched in the face as he fought Branch to the ground, authorities said.
The Chick-fil-A employee was not seriously injured in the incident, part of which was captured on video by a witness.
The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office honored Gordon with a Community Service award, a special coin and a personal thank you for his quick response to seeing someone in danger.
“We’re grateful for the courage of people like Mykel,” the sheriff’s office said in a post on Facebook.
Branch was charged with carjacking with a weapon and battery. According to Gordon, he had been involved in another incident shortly before the carjacking attempt.
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The Pennsylvania Department of Health reported 17,506 additional coronavirus cases this week, compared with 16,909 last week. The seven-day moving average of newly reported cases was 2,501 cases per day, up 3.5% from a week ago, but down 15% over the last 30 days.
To date, there have been 3.22 million infections statewide.
While case numbers have notched up from last week, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has moved the Lehigh Valley from having a medium COVID community level to low.
Last week, 9 of the state’s 67 counties were designated as having high community levels. The number has increased to 14 this week, but Philadelphia’s move from high back to medium means the overall number of Pennsylvanians living in a highly-impacted area dropped from 2.78 million last week to 940,163 this week.
More than 8 million people live in the 33 counties now regarded as having medium COVID community levels, while 3.8 million people in the remaining 20 counties have low levels. That includes the 675,000 people living in Lehigh and Northampton counties.
Only those people living in highly-impacted areas are encouraged to take active measures to mitigate their exposure to the virus.
The community level tool takes into account multiple factors, including cases numbers, test positivity and the rate of hospital admissions to determine the virus’s effect on a particular area.
Deaths
There were 54 additional deaths reported over the past week. The seven-day moving average of deaths per day is 7.7, compared with 16.4 a week ago, a decrease of 53% in the last seven days. Pennsylvania has recorded 46,970 deaths since March 2020.
The rate of coronavirus-related deaths in Pennsylvania is at its lowest level since the first week of August last year.
Vaccinations
The latest data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show:
There are 9.05 million fully vaccinated people in Pennsylvania, accounting for 70.7% of the population. An additional 2.18 million people are in need of their follow-up shot. In total, 24.57 million shots have been put into the arms of 11.23 million people, or 87.7% of the state’s residents.
Included in those statewide numbers are 489,820 Lehigh Valley residents who are fully vaccinated, accounting for 72.6% of the local population. In total, 571,851 locals have received 1,274,479 shots in the arm, accounting for 84.8% of the Valley’s population.
An average of 3,272 vaccinations are being administered to Pennsylvania residents each day, according to CDC data. Of those, 1,017 are first doses. The number of total vaccinations per day is down 66.2% over the last 30 days. The number of first doses being given per day is down 58.3% over the last 30 days.
Hospitalizations
There were 1,171 people hospitalized according to the latest report, with 133 in intensive care, and 56 on ventilators. Statewide hospitalizations have remained steady over the last week, and are down 10% in the last 30 days.
Hospitals in the Lehigh Valley reported 38 COVID-19 patients, including 9 in intensive care, and three on ventilators. Local hospitalizations have increased 5.2% over the last week, but are down 23% in the last 30 days.
Lehigh Valley
Cases: 1,016 additional case reports, with 534 in Lehigh County, 482 in Northampton County. That brings the total to 193,242.
Deaths: No new deaths in the past week, leaving the total at 2,456 (1,297 in Lehigh, and 1,159 in Northampton).
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FAIRFAX, Va., Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cooper Ginsberg Gray, PLLC announced today that three of its attorneys have been named to the Washingtonian's Top Lawyers Hall of Fame. The honorees include Heather A. Cooper, David L. Ginsberg, and Daniel L. Gray, who are the firm's founding partners.
This prestigious award is granted to lawyers who have been included on Washingtonian's Top Lawyers list at least 10 times in the last 15 years. Receiving this award earns lawyers their place amongst an elite group of peers. Cooper, Ginsberg and Gray have been recognized as "The Best of the Best" in Washingtonian Magazine's September 2022 issue.
The Washingtonian Lifetime Lawyer Award is not Cooper's first achievement. Throughout her 25+ year career, Cooper has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America and was named to the Super Lawyers List (Virginia) for 2020-2023 for her work in Family Law. She has also received the AV Preeminent Rating from Martindale-Hubbell.
Similarly, Ginsberg has been listed in Best Lawyers in America and named to the Super Lawyers List (Virginia) for 2020-2023. Most recently, Ginsberg was recognized by Best Lawyers as the 2023 "Lawyer of the Year" for Family Law in Washington D.C. He received the Fairfax Law Foundation's Humanitarian of the Year Award for 2014 and Fairfax Bar Association's President Award for 2009, and an AV Preeminent Rating from Martindale-Hubbell. Ginsberg also organizes the Chipping in to End Domestic Violence Charity Golf Tournament, which over the last 22 years has raised more than $650,000 for Shelter House, operator of Fairfax County's only 24-hour shelter for domestic violence victims.
Gray has also been listed in The Best Lawyers in America. He has been named to the Super Lawyers List (Virginia) since 2010, and was recognized in Virginia's Top 100 Lawyers in 2022. Gray is extremely active in the Virginia State Bar, Virginia Bar Association, Virginia Family Law Coalition and AAML. A popular lecturer and presenter, Gray has received an AV Preeminent Rating from Martindale-Hubbell, and was the recipient of the Virginia State Bar's Family Law Service Award in 2022.
Cooper Ginsberg Gray includes nine family law attorneys that practice law in all Northern Virginia jurisdictions and offers Divorce Coaching with an on-staff psychologist, a unique benefit for clients. Together, their philosophy is that clients are entitled to representation that entails respect, dignity, trust, and support.
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ORLANDO — Fire officials in Florida are continuing their search for a student who went missing while rowing in an Orlando lake after the boat they were in capsized after an apparent lightning strike.
"The rowing club was on the lake practicing,” Orlando Fire Department Executive Deputy Chief Ian Davis said during a news conference, the Associated Press reported. “There was lightning strike in the area. We’re unsure if it actually hit the vessel or was just in the area. The boat was capsized.”
The fire department told ABC News that the incident occurred while the North Orlando Rowing Club were practicing on Lake Fairview around 5:50 p.m. Thursday
According to the news outlets, five children, their ages were not given, were on the boat when it capsized.
The Associated Press reported one child was transported to a local hospital, while three others went home after the incident.
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Sarah Sanders undergoes surgery for thyroid cancer
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Former White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, who is running for governor in Arkansas, underwent surgery Friday for thyroid cancer.
Sanders announced she underwent the surgery after a biopsy earlier this month revealed that she had thyroid cancer.
“Today, I underwent a successful surgery to remove my thyroid and surrounding lymph nodes and by the grace of God I am now cancer-free,” Sanders said in a statement released by her campaign. “I want to thank the Arkansas doctors and nurses for their world-class care, as well as my family and friends for their love, prayers, and support.”
Sanders said she looked forward to returning to the campaign trail soon.
Sanders, who served as former President Donald Trump’s spokeswoman until 2019, is running against Democratic nominee Chris Jones. She is the daughter of former Gov. Mike Huckabee.
A doctor for Sanders said in a statement that he expected her to be back on her feet within the next 24 hours. Dr. John R. Sims said Sanders will need adjuvant treatment with radioactive iodine and continued long follow up care.
“I think it’s fair to say she’s now cancer free, and I don’t anticipate any of this slowing her down,” Sims said.
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For 60 years Patricia Sallahan-Schmit has done all she can to help others and serve St. Mark Catholic Church.
On Sunday, she will receive the special recognition she deserves and thanks during a special morning Mass.
Callahan-Schmidt has played for the church since 1950 when she was 11 years old, and continued on to direct the choir in 1963, shortly after becoming the organist.
"I've just been following my vocation, doing my work and so I wasn't sure that it merited a special celebration," Callahan-Schmit said. "But he (the pastor) wanted to call attention to the fact that I'm probably the longest (working) employee there."
Callahan-Schmidt grew up attending St. Mark's and has noticed how much it's changed over the years.
"When I first started playing, the Mass was still in Latin and the rules for being an organist were very rigid," Callahan-Schmidt said. "Once the Vatican II council was enacted, and the Mass became in people's language, then I would like to say the participation in the people became, No. 1, more active rather than passive; (and) No. 2, more joyful because they could understand what was going on."
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Callahan Schmidt said she also noticed the congregation become more active in its participation in worship services after the changes made by the Vatican II council.
"It used to be people marched in the church and sat there for the Mass and then marched out and they were there as a spectator and the musician supplied the background ... (but) now the musician supports the voice of the congregation," Callahan-Schmidt said. "I find it much more engrossed in being a welcoming community (and) in being an outreach community (and) the one I remember working for in the very beginning."
She also recalled memories of her time working with the choir and traveling with them.
"I've taken the adult choir on a tour of Rome (and) we played for the Pope," Callahan-Schmidt said. "We did a tour of Spain, we did an international choir festival in Cincinnati (and) we've done several things here locally."
Some of Callahan-Schmidt's favorite songs include "The Lord is my Light" and "Ever on my Lips," the latter of which will be played on Sunday.
"I believe that music has the power to say things that you can't put into words," Callahan-Schmidt said. "I believe that music is more integral to worship (and) prayer. It speaks more than we can say."
Callahan-Schmidt said she's more used to serving the background than taking center stage.
"It's not my usual place to be in the limelight," Callahan-Schmidt said. "In fact, I used to tease by saying most people recognize me by the back of my head."
The special Mass will be held at 10 a.m. and Callahan-Schmidt said there will likely be family, friends and former choir members coming in from out of town to celebrate.
"If you have a talent, it's important to use it, not to hide it," Callahan-Schmidt said. "Whatever your talent is, you need to acknowledge that you have been given the talent and then use it."
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BERLIN (AP) — Germany is taking control of three Russian-owned refineries in the country to ensure energy security before an embargo on oil from Russia takes effect next year, officials said Friday.
Two subsidiaries of Russian oil giant Rosneft — Rosneft Deutschland GmbH and RN Refining & Marketing GmbH — will be put under the administration of Germany’s Federal Network Agency, the Economy Ministry said in a statement.
As a result, the agency will also control the companies’ shares in the refineries PCK Schwedt, MiRo and Bayernoil, located in the east and south of Germany.
“This is a far-reaching energy policy decision to protect our country,” German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said. “We’ve long known that Russia isn’t a reliable supplier of energy anymore.”
“With today’s decision, we’re ensuring that Germany is supplied with oil in the medium- and long-term as well,” Scholz said. “That is particularly true for the Schwedt refinery.”
The facility provides petroleum products to much of northeastern Germany, including Berlin.
Rosneft accounts for about 12% of Germany’s oil refining capacity, importing oil worth several hundred million euros (dollars) every month, the ministry said.
It said the move would help ensure continued energy supplies and was initially due to last for six months.
Rosneft had previously made clear it had no intention to stop imports of oil via the Druzhba pipeline, which runs from Russia through Ukraine to refineries in central Europe, despite a looming EU embargo coming into force on Jan 1, 2023.
Scholz said a 1-billion-euro (dollar) aid package would secure jobs for about 1,200 people currently working at the PCK refinery in Schwedt and help with its long-term transformation as part of the transition toward a green economy.
Economy Minister Robert Habeck said the refinery would in the future receive oil through a pipeline from the port city of Rostock and via neighboring Poland, which had refused to provide supplies as long as there was a risk that Rosneft might profit from them.
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WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, September 16, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
322 PM CDT Fri Sep 16 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern Calhoun
and east central Victoria Counties through 400 PM CDT...
At 321 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Placedo, or 9 miles west of Port Lavaca, moving northeast at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Port Lavaca, Point Comfort, Placedo and Dacosta.
This includes US Highway 87 between mile markers 822 and 840.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
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TIME...MOT...LOC 2021Z 235DEG 8KT 2867 9677
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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Belgium's all-time record goalscorer, on loan at Inter Milan from Chelsea, has not played since August due to a muscle problem.
Rennes winger Jeremy Doku is also out injured, with Martinez giving a first call-up to 18-year-old Anderlecht defender Zeno Debast.
Belgium will host Wales in Brussels on September 22 and take on the Netherlands in Amsterdam three days later in their final competitive game before the World Cup in Qatar.
The Belgians trail leaders the Netherlands by three points in Group A4 heading into their last two matches.
Belgium open their World Cup campaign against Canada in Al Rayyan on November 23, before further Group F games against Morocco and Croatia.
Belgium Nations League squad:
Goalkeepers: Thibaut Courtois (Real Madrid/ESP), Simon Mignolet (Club Brugge), Koen Casteels (Wolfsburg/GER), Matz Sels (Strasbourg/FRA)
Defenders: Toby Alderweireld (Antwerp), Jan Vertonghen (Anderlecht), Arthur Theate (Rennes/FRA), Thomas Meunier (Borussia Dortmund/GER), Timothy Castagne (Leicester City/ENG), Dedryck Boyata (Club Brugge), Zeno Debast (Anderlecht), Jason Denayer (free agent), Brandon Mechele (Club Brugge), Wout Faes (Leicester City/ENG)
Midfielders: Axel Witsel (Atletico Madrid/ESP), Youri Tielemans (Leicester City/ENG), Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City/ENG), Amadou Onana (Everton/ENG), Hans Vanaken (Club Brugge), Alexis Saelemaekers (AC Milan/ITA), Thorgan Hazard (Borussia Dortmund/GER), Leander Dendoncker (Aston Villa/ENG)
Forwards: Michy Batshuayi (Fenerbahce/TUR), Lois Openda (Lens/FRA), Eden Hazard (Real Madrid/ESP), Leandro Trossard (Brighton/ENG), Yannick Carrasco (Atletico Madrid/ESP), Charles De Ketelaere (AC Milan/ITA), Dries Mertens (Galatasaray/TUR), Dodi Lukebakio (Hertha Berlin/GER)
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Chick-fil-A employee recognized for heroic actions to thwart carjacking attempt
FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. (Gray News) – A Chick-fil-A employee in Florida is being recognized for his heroic efforts to help a mom with a baby avoid a potential carjacking.
Mykel Gordon ran to a woman who was screaming for help when authorities say William Branch, 43, approached her wielding a stick and demanding her keys.
When she didn’t comply, Branch grabbed the keys from the waistband of her pants, according to the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office.
Gordon was punched in the face as he fought Branch to the ground, authorities said.
The Chick-fil-A employee was not seriously injured in the incident, part of which was captured on video by a witness.
The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office honored Gordon with a Community Service award, a special coin and a personal thank you for his quick response to seeing someone in danger.
“We’re grateful for the courage of people like Mykel,” the sheriff’s office said in a post on Facebook.
Branch was charged with carjacking with a weapon and battery. According to Gordon, he had been involved in another incident shortly before the carjacking attempt.
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Sheriff calls man ‘evil’ in animal cruelty case for intentionally starving dogs
BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. (Gray News) - A Florida man has been arrested for animal cruelty after investigators say he was intentionally starving his two dogs.
The Brevard County Sheriff’s Office reports Joseph Farkas is facing two counts of felony animal cruelty and two counts of unlawful confinement.
Authorities said the dogs were emaciated and in a state of paralysis when they arrived at Farkas’ home, and the animals required emergency medical treatment.
Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey said Farkas was intentionally starving the dogs to death, and investigators called what they saw “disturbing.”
Ivey called Farkas “evil” as investigators said he left a sealed bag of dog food in direct view of the two dogs, contributing to their further suffering and torment. Investigators said the bag wasn’t opened for at least a month.
“What kind of sick, demented, and cruel person does that to a helpless animal,” Ivey said.
Farkas reportedly refused to open the door when authorities came to his home to arrest him. Ivey said he tried to drink liquid detergent to avoid going to jail.
“You [Farkas] deserve to be under the jail, but since the law only allows me to put you in it, that’ll have to do,” Ivey said.
The sheriff said the rescued dogs are recovering thanks to their veterinary team and remain out of Farkas’ care.
“We have zero tolerance for crime and zero tolerance for animal cruelty,” Ivey said.
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SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan — Chinese President Xi Jinping warned his Central Asian neighbors on Friday not to allow outsiders to destabilize them with “color revolutions” and offered to set up a regional counterterrorism training center.
Xi’s comments at a security summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin and leaders from Central Asia, India, and Iran reflect official Chinese anxiety that Western support for pro-democracy and human rights activists is a plot to undermine Xi’s ruling Communist Party and other authoritarian governments.
“We should prevent external forces from instigating a color revolution,” Xi said in a speech to leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, referring to protests that toppled unpopular regimes in the former Soviet Union and the Middle East.
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Xi offered to train 2,000 police officers, to set up a regional counterterrorism training center and to “strengthen law enforcement capacity building.” He gave no details.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization was formed by Russia and China as a counterweight to US influence. The summit is part of Xi’s first trip abroad since shortly after the coronavirus pandemic began 2½ years ago, highlighting the importance to Beijing of asserting itself as a regional leader.
The group also includes Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. Iran is an observer and has applied for full membership.
The one-day summit in the ancient city of Samarkand occurred against a backdrop of Russia’s attack on Ukraine and fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenia.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, a “dialogue partner” of the group, attended the summit and planned to hold talks with Putin on the status of a deal under which wheat exports from Ukraine through the Black Sea resumed.
Xi is promoting a “Global Security Initiative” announced in April following the formation of the Quad by the United States, Japan, Australia, and India in response to Beijing’s more assertive foreign policy. Xi has given few details, but US officials complain it echoes Russian arguments in support of Moscow’s actions in Ukraine.
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China’s relations with Washington, Europe, Japan, and India have been strained by disputes about technology, security, human rights, and territory.
Central Asia is part of China’s multibillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative to expand trade by building ports, railways, and other infrastructure across an arc of dozens of countries from the South Pacific through Asia to the Middle East, Europe, and Africa.
On Thursday, Putin held a one-on-one meeting with Xi and thanked the Chinese leader for his government’s “balanced position” on the Ukraine war. Putin said he was ready to discuss unspecified “concerns” by China about Ukraine.
Xi, in a statement released by his government, expressed support for Russia’s “core interests” but also interest in working together to “inject stability” into world affairs.
The Xi-Putin meeting “makes clear that the partnership between China and Russia indeed has limits,” said Eurasia Group analysts in a report.
Xi’s government, which said it had a “no-limits” friendship with Moscow before the attack on Ukraine, has refused to criticize Russia. Beijing and India are buying more Russian oil and gas, which helps Moscow offset Western sanctions.
“China has never approved of the Russian invasion” but is committed to “deepening strategic ties with Moscow as a counterweight to Western influence,” they said.
China wants a negotiated end to the Ukraine war, said Li Xin, director of the Institute of European and Asian Studies of Shanghai University of Political Science and Law.
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“China will not judge whether the special military operation of Russia is just or not,” Li said.
The reference to stability “is mainly related to China-US relations,” said Zhang Lihua, an international relations expert at Tsinghua University.
“The United States has been using all means to suppress China, which forced China to seek cooperation with Russia and the role of the SOC,” Zhang said.
After the meeting, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said views on international affairs by Moscow and Beijing “fully coincide. We don’t have any differences.”
Observers say Russia will likely grow increasingly reliant on China as a market for its oil and gas as the West moves to establish a price cap on Russian energy resources and potentially cut their imports altogether.
Russia was forced to pull back its forces from large swaths of northeastern Ukraine last week amid a swift Ukrainian counteroffensive. Ukraine regaining control of several Russian-occupied cities and villages represented Moscow’s largest setback since its forces had to retreat from areas near the capital early in the war.
Putin also met with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, whose country is on track to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Raisi said Moscow and Tehran were finalizing a treaty that would bring their relations to a “strategic level.”
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AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Local homelessness service organization The Other Ones Foundation (TOOF) has recently expanded its Board of Directors by three new individuals. Flavia de la Fuente, Rhie Azzam Morris, and Chris Turnley bring a wide array of expertise to the table that will help bolster TOOF's mission to welcome Austin's unhoused neighbors into engaged communities through shelter, opportunity, and support.
"As a formerly homeless youth in Austin, I have a deep commitment to seeing an end to homelessness for all," said Rhie Azzam Morris. "I served in the inaugural slate of the Austin Homeless Response System Leadership Council for close to a year before stepping down due to the nature of working within a system where I once received services. I am excited to continue the work of ending homelessness in Austin, serving alongside others with a passion and commitment to see a more just and equitable world.
Flavia de la Fuente, formerly a technology investor and now serving on the leadership team at Skimmer, an early stage software company headquartered in Austin, shares her perspective: "As I've spent more time following these issues, including recent ballot initiatives related to criminalizing homelessness, I'd like to be a part of a group of people who are approaching the issue from a constructive perspective."
Finally, Chris Turnley, a leader in the business, nonprofit, and faith-based communities of Austin, weighs in: "I've watched our city grow and prosper over the last 15 years, and it is so clear to me that with that growth is coming friction and division. People who are currently living without shelter are on the front end of it. We can do better. Let's make Austin known for how we take care of others, especially marginalized members of our community!"
About TOOF: The Other Ones Foundation is a nonprofit organization that offers low-barrier work opportunities, case management and humanitarian aid to people experiencing homelessness in Austin, Texas. TOOF has helped 250 clients move into stable housing, paid out over $1,800,000 in earned income to people experiencing homelessness, and removed more than 2,000,000 pounds of trash from green spaces in Austin. TOOF's latest endeavor is to offer services and build a transformational shelter complex at The Esperanza Community, a sanctioned encampment in East Austin.
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If approved, the Sponsor will make additional monthly contributions to the trust account during the extension period
The proposal will be voted on by stockholders at the upcoming special meeting of stockholders on September 29, 2022
STAMFORD, Conn., Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Atlantic Avenue Acquisition Corp (NYSE: ASAQ.U, ASAQ, ASAQ WS) (the "Company") announced today that it reaffirmed its intention to support the proposals to amend (i) the Company's Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to allow the Company, without another stockholder vote, to elect to extend the date by which the Company must consummate a business combination (the "Extension") from October 6, 2022 (the date that is 24 months from the closing date of the Company's initial public offering of units (the "IPO")), on a monthly basis for up to six times to April 6, 2023 (the date that is 30 months from the closing date of the IPO), and (ii) the Company's Investment Management Trust Agreement, dated October 1, 2020, by and between the Company and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company (the "Trustee"), to allow the Company, without another stockholder vote, to elect to extend the date on which the Trustee must liquidate the trust account established by the Company in connection with its IPO if the Company has not completed its initial business combination, on a monthly basis for up to six times from October 6, 2022 (the date that is 24 months from the closing date of the IPO) to April 6, 2023 (the date that is 30 months from the closing date of the IPO). In order to support these proposals, the Company and Atlantic Avenue Partners LLC (the "Sponsor") have agreed that, if the proposals are both approved, the Sponsor will deposit (or cause to be deposited) into the trust account, for each one-month extension, the lesser of: (x) $150,000 or (y) $0.05 per share multiplied by the number of public shares that are not redeemed in connection with the upcoming special meeting on September 29, 2022 (each, a "Monthly Contribution").
Each Monthly Contribution will be deposited in the trust account no later than one business day prior to the beginning of the applicable extension period. The Monthly Contribution(s) will bear no interest and will be repayable by the Company to the Sponsor (or its designee(s)) upon consummation of an initial business combination. The loans will be forgiven if the Company is unable to consummate an initial business combination, except to the extent of any funds held outside of the trust account. In the event the extension is approved by the Company's stockholders and the Sponsor elects to not fund a Monthly Contribution, which it may do in its sole discretion, the Company will dissolve and liquidate in accordance with its charter.
The Extension and Trust Amendment Proposals will be voted on by stockholders at the upcoming special meeting of stockholders on September 29, 2022 (the "Special Meeting") and is described in further detail in the Company's Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A (the "Proxy Statement"), filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on September 2, 2022.
The Special Meeting will be held virtually at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time on September 29, 2022, at https://www.cstproxy.com/asaqspac/2022, or at such other time, on such other date and at such other place at which the meeting may be adjourned or postponed. Further detail related to attendance and voting is described in the Company's Proxy Statement.
Atlantic Avenue Acquisition Corp is a special purpose acquisition company formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses.
This release includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The Company's actual results may differ from its expectations, estimates and projections and consequently, you should not rely on these forward looking statements as predictions of future events. Words such as "expect," "estimate," "project," "budget," "forecast," "anticipate," "intend," "plan," "may," "will," "could," "should," "believes," "predicts," "potential," "continue," and similar expressions (or the negative versions of such words or expressions) are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements include, without limitation, Company's commitment to funding the Monthly Contributions, the Company's expectations with respect to future performance and anticipated financial impacts of the non-binding letter of intent that it has entered into with a differentiated food tech platform for an initial business combination. These forward-looking statements involve significant risks and uncertainties that could cause the actual results to differ materially from the expected results. Most of these factors are outside the Company's control and are difficult to predict. The Company cautions investors not to place undue reliance upon any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. The Company does not undertake or accept any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements to reflect any change in its expectations or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A mother charged with drowning her three children at New York's Coney Island beach was arraigned on murder charges Friday, authorities said.
Erin Merdy, 30, was charged with first and second-degree murder in the deaths of her children Zachary Merdy, 7, Liliana Stephens-Merdy, 4, and Oliver Bondarev, 3 months, a spokesperson for the Brooklyn district attorney's office said.
Merdy was arraigned remotely from the hospital where she was sent for a psychiatric examination. A request for comment was sent to her attorney at Brooklyn Defender Services.
Officers searched the Coney Island shoreline early Monday after a relative called 911. According to the criminal complaint, Merdy had told the relative “that she had hurt her children and that they are gone.”
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Police found Merdy on the boardwalk, wet and barefoot. The children were later found unresponsive at the water's edge. They were pronounced dead at a hospital. The city medical examiner's office ruled their deaths homicides by drowning.
Evidence against Merdy includes video that shows her walking toward the ocean with the children just before 1 a.m. Monday, according to the complaint.
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The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles has denied granting a posthumous pardon to George Floyd for a 2004 Houston drug conviction.
The board made their decision known Thursday in a letter, which a reporter with The Marshall Project first made public, the Associated Press reported.
“After a full and careful review of the application and other information filed with the application, a majority of the Board decided not to recommend a Full Pardon and/or Pardon for Innocence,” the board wrote in the letter, the Associated Press reported.
The board did not say why they denied the pardon, the news outlet reported.
According to the news outlet, the board originally unanimously recommended that Floyd receive a posthumous pardon from Gov. Greg Abbott last October.
The pardon was first filed in April 2021, after the officer who initially arrested Floyd in 2004 was later indicted following a deadly drug raid, CNN reported.
But in December, they changed course, saying they found “procedural errors" in its initial recommendation in Floyd’s case, the news outlet reported.
Floyd's family can reapply for a pardon in two years, according to the letter, the news outlets reported.
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TRAVERSE CITY — Autopsy results ruled the deaths of two people found inside an apartment in Brookside Commons was accidental.
The report came back to the Grand Traverse County's Sheriff's Office last week and was shared by Captain Randy Fewless on Friday.
On June 23, Kim Allison, 61, and Steven Morris, 63, were discovered by a building maintenance man at approximately 11 a.m. He then called 9-1-1.
When deputies arrived on the scene, they said they saw no signs of foul play or marks on either of the bodies. This lead them to believe that their deaths could have been a result of carbon monoxide poisoning.
A fire department investigation concluded that there were no signs of carbon monoxide present in the apartment.
A full autopsy by Western Michigan Forensic Lab in Kalamazoo ruled both deaths as accidental, Fewless said, and that they died of "probable inhalation of toxic fumes due to the mixing of multiple chemicals."
Fewless said the cleaning products found on the scene were Clorox Bleach, LA's Totally Awesome Cleaner and Meijer brand Gel Drain Opener. According to the report, Allison and Morris appeared to be trying to unclog the sink in the apartment at the time of their death.
Fewless said he was unable to comment on how the combination of these products produce deadly fumes, but said he knew from the autopsy results that the combination of two or more of the products resulted in their deaths.
Both of the families have been notified.
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Man in custody after threatening TPD officer with sword-like knife, brick
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - One man is in custody after police say he threatened an officer with a sword-like weapon and a brick.
According to Topeka Police Department Sergeant Scurlock, just after 2:00 p.m. Friday, an officer stopped a suspicious person walking along the road near 24th and SE Minnesota for having an open container.
Over the course of the stop, SGT. Scurlock said the man gave the officer multiple fake names and also had a felony warrant out for his arrest. The officer then learned the man’s true identity and attempted to take him into custody when he drew a “samurai-style knife.” The officer pulled out his weapon and the man dropped the sword and ran into the backyard of a nearby house.
SGT. Scurlock said a struggle ensued between the man and the office in the backyard and the man grabbed a brick and attempted to hit the officer, but the officer was able to take the man into custody using a non-lethal beanbag gun.
The incident happened close to Highland Park High School, which had just finished their Homecoming parade.
TPD said nobody involved was seriously injured. The man’s name has not yet been released. The incident is still under investigation.
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"A time of great peril."
That's how the head of the United Nations, Secretary-General António Guterres, sums up the state of things.
In a press conference this week, as the annual U.N. General Assembly began in New York City, Guterres pointed to wars, poverty, hunger, and what he described as "climate chaos."
He called for solidarity and cooperation, even while acknowledging that the global response to all these challenges seems "paralyzed."
Guterres joined All Things Considered to discuss five things going on in the world right now that he is worried about: fighting near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power; fertilizer availability; Europe's energy crisis; Russia's invasion of Ukraine; and the climate crisis.
This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity.
Interview highlights
On rising concerns about fighting near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine
It was my belief since the beginning that the parties should agree there should be no shooting from the plant, or into the plant. We have suggested the creation of a perimeter in which Russian troops would not enter, but also in relation to which the Ukrainian troops would commit not to enter. I don't think that we are approaching a solution of this type. I know the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) is exploring as much as possible the concept of a safe zone, and the negotiations are taking place between the IAEA and the parties.
But I'm not very optimistic. In any case, the six reactors now are not working. The question is that they need to have the supply of electricity to guarantee the cooling together with other parts in all contexts. So I hope that this kind of stalemate will not bring any catastrophic situation. But of course, there is a major concern with what's happening there.
On U.N. efforts to export grain to countries impacted by supply chain issues
We have already [transported] more than 3 million tons that went out from the Black Sea from Ukraine. And it's going on and on. And I think that the movement is taking place in a very positive way.
Our biggest problem in relation to food security now is not food in itself, but fertilizers. The fertilizers from Belarus are sanctioned, and being a landlocked country, they cannot export their fertilizers through the European Union. It is absolutely essential to remove the obstacles that still exist. And we are cooperating with the U.S. government, and also with the European Union to make sure that what has always been said, that no sanctions apply to food and fertilizers, is translated into practice.
And this is having a dramatic impact in West Africa, for instance. We have concrete data that farmers are already planning to farm less than the land available because of the fertilizer price and its availability.
On whether Russia can be held accountable for manufacturing an energy crisis in Europe
This is an area where we have no capacity. Let's be frank, energy is something that is dealt with by a number of very powerful countries and a number of very powerful companies. And the influence of the United Nations there is much more reduced. With the grain, we were able to get to the agreements. We got a lot of commitment with a lot of persistence. It took four months, but it was possible because there were no major interests against it. When you talk about energy, there are many major interests and it's very difficult for us to be able to create the conditions for the energy market to normalize. I'm very worried about that.
On any hopes of making progress between Russia and Ukraine during the general assembly
I do not hope to make progress here in New York. I don't think there will be any chance to have any kind of dialogue between the Russians and the Ukrainians, the Russians and the Americans, the Russians or Europeans. But we are working hard in order to, first of all, put together a fact finding mission that will go to the place where so many prisoners of war would be.
In relation to the key question, which is peace, I think we are still very far from creating the conditions to get it. And for us, peace must be in line with the U.N. Charter and in line with international law.
On a lack of action on the climate crisis
I think we have problems in mitigation, which means reduction of emission, and we are probably in a position which means we need to focus on building resilience and supporting communities that can be impacted. And we have problems in finance in the reduction of emissions.
Developed countries have been able to announce a meaningful reduction in the next few years, but most emerging economies do not have that capacity, which means that we risk having an increase in emissions during this decade instead of the reduction of 45%, which is what's needed.
There are arguments from both sides against each other and what we need is effective cooperation for the developed country to support the emerging economies, for them to accelerate their financing, to move from coal and other fossil fuels into renewables. And for that they need financing and they need technology.
So for all of these things to be prevented or to be minimized in their impact, they need a massive investment in adaptation. And there has been no money for that. It's essential that there is money for that. Military expenditure is increasing everywhere. There must be money to rescue the planet.
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Gilby, ND man arrested on suspicion of DUI
GILBY, N.D. (Valley News Live) - A man from Gilby has been arrested after getting his vehicle stuck in a ditch. The Grand Forks County Sheriff’s Office responded to the complaint around 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, September 15.
Deputies received a call about a vehicle driving aggressively in the 3000 block of 34th Street NE in Gilby. A deputy tried to stop the vehicle, but says it wouldn’t stop and was swerving on the road. The deputy says the vehicle was going about 35 miles per hour, but ended up becoming stuck in a ditch near the 3400 block of 29th Avenue NE.
Law enforcement approached the vehicle, but the driver refused to get out. Deputies ended up breaking the window and physically removing the driver from the pickup he was driving.
Guy Nelson, 63, of Gilby was arrested of suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol, preventing arrest, and fleeing in a motor vehicle. Nelson was also cited for having an open container of alcohol. His pickup was removed from the ditch and towed from the scene.
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Inflation in European Union is now higher than in Britain as rising energy and food prices hit families on continent
Inflation in the European Union is now higher than in Britain as rising energy and food prices hit families on the continent.
A report by official statisticians Eurostat showed prices across the 27-nation bloc were 10.1 per cent higher last month than in August 2021.
That was a sharper rise than the 9.9 per cent increase in the UK, and underlined the scale of the cost of living crunch around the world.
Among EU countries, inflation was highest in Estonia at 25.2 per cent and lowest in France at 6.6 per cent. In the eurozone it was 9.1 per cent.
That was the highest rate since the euro was created in 1999.
Prices around the world have been driven higher by rising energy and food costs in the wake of the Ukraine war as well as the aftermath of the Covid pandemic.
The European Central Bank (ECB) raised rates in the eurozone by an unprecedented 0.75 percentage points last week and said further hikes were on the way.
Speaking at the French central bank yesterday, ECB president Christine Lagarde conceded that rate increases could hit growth.
'It's possible, but it's a risk we have to take,' she said.
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CLEVELAND (AP)Standing to the side along with Kareem Hunt while waiting to speak to reporters this week, running back Nick Chubb quietly chanted something that could grow louder in upcoming weeks for the Browns.
”Chunt … Chunt,” Chubb repeated, combining his and Hunt’s names.
Together, at last.
After pairing Chubb and Hunt in the same backfield for several plays during Cleveland’s 26-24 win at Carolina last week, Browns coach Kevin Stefanski, who seldom used the package in the past for a variety of reasons, hinted at deploying it more often as this season unfolds.
”Moving forward, definitely could see something like that growing,” he said.
Stefanski gets his next chance Sunday against the New York Jets (0-1), who are expecting the Browns (1-0) to again lean heavily on their rushing attack after rolling up 217 yards against the Panthers.
With one of the NFL’s best offensive lines and two talented backs, the Browns know what works for them.
”They’re going to try to absolutely run the ball, like they always do and they do it at a high level every week,” Jets defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich said. ”If we don’t stop the run and we don’t play the run well, we’re going to have a rough day.”
The Jets shut down Baltimore’s running game last week, holding the Ravens to just 63 yards and containing dynamic quarterback Lamar Jackson, who only got 17 on six attempts.
This week’s challenge will be trying to stop Chubb, who rushed for 141 yards against Carolina, along with Hunt, who added 24 on the ground and scored two touchdowns – one rushing, one receiving.
Cleveland’s 1-2 punch is tough enough when the Browns are using Chubb and Hunt to complement each other. On the field at the same time presents a defense with a whole different set of problems.
They can both run. They can both catch. They can both score from anywhere on the field.
”They’re both powerful, they’re both strong, they’re both extremely fast,” Ulbrich said.
”They’ve got the ability to do the dirty work inside and push the pile and do the hard running, but they also have the ability to finish runs because they both have that explosiveness.”
While knowing the Chubb-Hunt backfield’s potential is high, Stefanski isn’t ready to fully commit to it.
”There are times when it makes sense and there are other times when you do want to keep those guys fresh,” he said. ”If they are both playing at a high level, whether they are on the field together or not, it takes a backseat to them playing at a high level and doing things that give the defense difficulty.”
Hunt said Chubb makes him play better and vice versa. There’s not a competition between them, rather a commitment.
”Kareem brings a lot of energy to the team, a lot of intensity and I feed off of that,” Chubb said. ”When Kareem’s in there, he’s running the ball hard and it gets me going, so I enjoy playing with him.”
They’re ready to share the wealth, and a chant if necessary.
”What is it? Chunt?” Hunt asked. ”I mean, that’s all right, whatever they want to call us. But that’s Nick, I’m Kareem.”
So will they be doing interviews as a team going forward?
”I guess so,” Hunt said. ”They say we’re better together.”
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Jets coach Robert Saleh made headlines this week when he said he was ”taking receipts” on critics of the franchise. And there were plenty after the loss to Baltimore.
He later clarified he wasn’t taking shots at fans or reporters. Rather, he was caught ”in a passionate moment” defending his team.
”This is not the same old Jets, but until we win, until we prove it, which is on us as coaches and on us as players, the shots will keep on coming,” Saleh said. ”So we welcome them. Keep bringing them. It’s not going to change our mission, and that’s to bring this organization and this fanbase a win.”
LEGENDARY TACKLE
Joe Thomas was a pillar for the Browns as a 10-time Pro Bowl left tackle.
To his four kids, he’s just dad. His oldest daughter, Logan, recalls his games, not his glory.
”She went to a ton of games when she was little,” Thomas said. ”She said, `Daddy, the only thing I remember about going to Browns games was sitting on the floor at the stadium and eating peanuts.”’
Thomas will be honored Sunday as the Browns induct him into their Legends club along with Darrel ”Pete” Brewster, a two-time Pro Bowler who played defensive end and tight end with the team from 1952-58.
Thomas lives in Wisconsin, but he’s raising his kids to pull for the Browns in the heart of Packers country.
”They’ve got all their Browns stuff when it’s school spirit day,” he said. ”They’re the only Browns fans wearing their Browns jerseys, but they do it proudly.”
J-E-T-S, MESS, MESS, MESS
The Jets made mistakes all over the field in their opener.
Joe Flacco was sacked three times and hit 11 behind a shuffled offensive line that struggled to protect its 37-year-old quarterback. There were two fumbles and several dropped passes. Greg Zuerlein missed a 45-yard field goal and an extra point. Braden Mann averaged just 42.2 yards on six punts, shanking a 20-yarder to set up a Ravens touchdown.
”Just a lot of self-inflicted errors,” said wide receiver Corey Davis, who had a drop. ”And we’ve got to eliminate that before we give ourselves a chance.”
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For Oliver Hudson, family is everything.
Ahead of the season two premiere of Fox's The Cleaning Lady, the actor, who stars as FBI agent Garrett Miller, has revealed exclusively to E! News exactly how big of fans his famous parents Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell are of the twisty crime thriller.
"I've been doing this for 20-plus years now, and I've done many, many shows, and I'm not sure my parents have ever seen more than two to four episodes—maybe five—of anything that I've ever done," Hudson explained. "The Cleaning Lady is the first show that my parents binged, and they got really excited about."
He continued, "They would wait not to watch it live so they can watch three in a row. They actually were invested, and that was good. That felt nice for me."
Hudson, 46, also noted a personal connection to his Cleaning Lady role. After the Rules of Engagement actor's his parents divorced in 1980, he and sister Kate Hudson were raised in Colorado by mom and stepdad Kurt, and he sees a lot similarities between his upbringing and Garrett's.
"His father was a criminal—was a bad person—and he was raised by his uncle, who was a firefighter and a war hero," the actor said. "It really sort of mirrors my life a little bit—not in the exact situation, but my relationship with my father, and Kurt coming into my life and raising me."
The actor would love to see the series lean into this as it explores Garrett's backstory, suggesting it could lead to the FBI agent breaking bad.
"Sometimes you question who you really are," he added. "I have a better relationship with my father now, but you question, you're like, 'Am I just faking being a good person? Am I just faking being a good dad, or am I really my father, because he's a part of me?' I think Garrett can ask himself that question and maybe answer it."
In season two, however, Hudson's character grapples with a different kind of struggle. This time around, we dive into Garrett's backstory: He previously had an affair with his informant (played by Chelsea Frei), who has now gotten involved with a drug dealer. Now, Garrett must save her from a situation that he blames himself for.
And although Garrett is purely focused on the mission, there might be an opportunity for the two to rekindle their romance along the way.
"As the chemistry progressed with Chelsea and I, it felt like there could still be something there," Hudson revealed. "Our last scene that we had together—last thing was shot together—there was a kiss. It was supposed to be just sort of—not friendly, but it was more of like, 'I still care about you, in a way.' And that was pretty fiery. I was like, 'Oh, well, there is still something there.'"
Watch the relationship blossom for yourself when season two of The Cleaning Lady premieres Sept. 19 on Fox.
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If you want to make self-care a more regular occurrence, you need some new face masks in your skincare selection. That post-clay mask feeling is just so relaxing. You're renewed, fresh, and your skin is looking great. If you want to switch things up or restock your current options, there's a can't-miss sale happening at GLAMGLOW.
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Love Is Blind for Kyle Abrams and Deepti Vempati.
The two, who have been teasing their relationship status since their season of Love Is Blind first premiered on Netflix in February 2022, finally confirmed they're dating in the show's After the Altar episodes, which dropped on the streamer Sept. 16.
Throughout the three episodes, both Kyle and Deepti admitted to having strong feelings for one another, but worried about losing their friendship. But after a weekend of reuniting with fellow cast members and exploring their relationship, Kyle decided to finally make the first move.
"I wanna just start a relationship—like a legitimate relationship with you," Kyle admits as the two stand on a chilly Chicago balcony. "And be exclusive, instead of just, like, in limbo."
"We're gonna actually try this?" Deepti asks him in response.
"Yeah, sure," Kyle says. "I want to."
"I want to, too," she says.
Deepti seemingly acknowledged the relationship on her Instagram Sept. 16, posting a compilation of snaps from shooting After the Altar to the song "Woke Up in Love" by Kygo, Gryffin and Calum Scott, though she did not confirm if the two are still together.
The confirmation comes after E! News' exclusive Love Is Blind first look premiered Sept. 15, in which Kyle gushes over his feelings for Deepti.
"I care about you so much," he says to her in the clip. "I do have so much love for you, and whatever problems you have, they feel like my problems. If there's something that goes wrong—even when your tire was flat, I felt like this is my problem. I will help you, I will take care of it for you because I just care about you."
Fans of the show will remember that both Kyle and Deepti originally came out of the pods with different people—Kyle proposed to Shaina Hurley, while Deepti came out engaged to Abhishek "Shake" Chatterjee. But Kyle raised eyebrows during the show's reunion when he admitted he "should've asked Deepti to marry me." Do we hear wedding bells ringing for these two already?
Watch Kyle and Deepti's love story unfold on Love Is Blind: After the Altar, now streaming on Netflix.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Mississippi Today reporter Anna Wolfe about Mississippi officials' misappropriation of welfare funds and former NFL player Brett Favre's involvement in the scandal.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Mississippi Today reporter Anna Wolfe about Mississippi officials' misappropriation of welfare funds and former NFL player Brett Favre's involvement in the scandal.
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China's Xi Jinping, Russia's Vladimir Putin and India's Narendra Modi are among the world leaders in Uzbekistan for a security forum. What unites them is a distrust of the American-led world order.
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China's Xi Jinping, Russia's Vladimir Putin and India's Narendra Modi are among the world leaders in Uzbekistan for a security forum. What unites them is a distrust of the American-led world order.
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Music teacher charged with repeated sexual battery of 15-year-old student, sheriff says
TAMPA, Fla. (Gray News) – A music teacher in Florida has been arrested and charged with sexual battery after he had sexual contact multiple times with a 15-year-old student, officials said.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said Jason Troche, 34, admitted to investigators that he knew the victim was underage and admitted to the sex acts with the student.
The student’s father signed the teen up for guitar lessons with Troche in March at the Music Showcase store in Tampa. The student attended guitar lessons once a week with Troche.
The sheriff’s office said the sexual abuse began in June and continued through this month.
Troche also sent inappropriate messages through social media to the victim, the sheriff’s office said.
Sheriff Chad Chronister said his office will continue to seek justice in the case.
“It’s upsetting that a person put into a position of trust and care for one of our children has violated that trust with his disgusting actions,” Chronister said in a statement.
The sheriff believes there may be more victims of Troche and asks them to call 813-247-8200.
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Biden administration officials are set to meet Friday to discuss a multitude of critical immigration issues as the administration responds to Republican governors sending migrants north in protest of President Joe Biden's border policies.
A White House official said the meeting had been planned prior to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott sending two busloads of migrants to Vice President Kamala Harris' residence in Washington on Thursday. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis also sent two planes carrying migrants to Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts on Wednesday.
Biden accused the Republicans of "playing politics with human beings" and "using them as props" in response to those stunts. The two governors have been frequent antagonists for Biden on immigration and the southern border since he came into office in January 2021.
The meeting is expected to cover issues such as operational support along the border and support in destination cities, including funding for services and housing.
Lawyers from the departments of Justice and Homeland Security are separately weighing litigation options regarding the movement of migrants out of state by Republican governors.
An administration official referred CNN to the Justice Department when asked whether litigation options would specifically be discussed in Friday's meeting.
Axios was first to report on the meeting.
Immigration has been a major issue for the Biden administration and Republicans have cited border security as a key issue ahead of the midterm elections. The U.S. is on track to see a record high of more than 2 million encounters at the U.S.-Mexico border by the end of the fiscal year, CNN has reported, as conditions deteriorate in Latin America.
To draw attention to the issue and protest what they say are inadequate federal efforts on southern border security, several Republican officials have transported migrants to northern cities and states.
An estimated 50 migrants arrived on Martha's Vineyard on Wednesday, and officials said the group included several families with young children. In Washington, D.C., dozens of migrants were left standing on the sidewalk and in the grass outside the gated U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington on Thursday.
Harris' residence is located on Naval Observatory grounds. The migrants are asylum-seekers who have been processed by federal immigration authorities and are awaiting court dates.
The Defense Department said Friday it would look into the use of a joint-use airfield at Joint Base San Antonio, Kelly Field, to fly migrants to Martha's Vineyard.
"We'll look into what exactly the situation was at Kelly," said Pentagon press secretary Air Force Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder at a briefing with reporters.
Ryder said that "there could be a variety of factors" in the use of Kelly, which is used by both military and civilian aircraft.
"Just because aircraft are taking off from a location does not necessarily mean that there's (Defense Department) involvement," said Ryder.
The director at Martha Vineyard's airport previously confirmed the flight path of the two planes of migrants to CNN.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Friday accused DeSantis and Abbott of using tactics similar to those used by smugglers in Mexico and Guatemala.
"These vulnerable migrants were reportedly misled about where they were headed, told they would be headed to Boston, misled about what they would be provided when they arrived, promised shelter, refuge, benefits and more. These are the kinds of tactics we see from smugglers in places like Mexico and Guatemala. And for what -- a photo op?" Jean-Pierre said at a news briefing.
Jean-Pierre accused the Republican governors of using the migrants as "political pawns" and said they "treated them like chattel in a cruel, premeditated political stunt."
The migrants were transported to Harris' residence days after the vice president said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that she was confident the border was "secure."
Second gentleman Doug Emhoff told CNN Friday that Abbott sending migrants to the vice president's residence was "shameful."
"These are human beings, these are people. They needed to be treated with dignity and kindness and respect and they weren't," Emhoff said.
He continued, "And we have so-called leaders in this country who, rather than focusing on what's good for the public within their own states, they're using their people as pawns for a political stunt."
The migrants on Martha's Vineyard will be voluntarily transported Friday to receive shelter and humanitarian support at Joint Base Cape Cod, according to Massachusetts Republican Gov. Charlie Baker, who is also activating up to 125 National Guard to assist in the relief effort.
Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) is coordinating with state and local officials to ensure access to food, shelter and other essential services for the families.
This story has been updated with additional developments on Friday.
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Backing up a trailer can be difficult, because it’s sometimes difficult to figure out which way to turn the steering wheel to go in the desired direction.
What if you could get out of your truck for a better view? Ford has applied for a patent that could make that happen.
A patent application filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) shows how Ford may want to turn a truck and trailer, in essence, into a giant R/C car. Drivers would use a mobile device like a smartphone to remotely back up a vehicle and trailer combination without actually being behind the wheel.
Steering angle would be set by tilting the device, while acceleration would be controlled by rotating it, according to the application. Signals are then sent to a controller onboard the vehicle, which dials in the necessary steering, acceleration, or braking inputs.
The potential uses aren’t limited to trucks, Ford noted in the application. The proposed system could be used in passenger cars as well, and would work equally well with internal-combustion, hybrid, or all-electric powertrains, according to the automaker.
As with all patent applications, it’s unclear if Ford’s remote-control trailer back-up tech will ever reach production. Automakers often patent new features to protect the intellectual property before making actual plans to use it in production vehicles.
But this tech isn’t too far beyond what is already available on the market. It’s essentially a mashup of Ford’s Pro Trailer Backup Assist, which lets vehicles automatically steer a trailer while the driver remains behind the wheel, and Tesla’s Summon feature, which allows cars to pull in and out of parking spaces with no one onboard (albeit not always reliably). It’s certainly less radical than another recent Ford patent application for driving with your brain.
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Patriots announce death of former offensive lineman Shelby Jordan
Jordan died Sept. 9 at the age of 70
The New England Patriots on Friday announced the death of former offensive lineman Shelby Jordan.
The one-time Super Bowl champion died Sept. 9 at the age of 70.
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Jordan played 11 seasons in the NFL — seven with New England, and four with the then-Los Angeles Raiders.
He was selected by the Houston Oilers in the seventh round of the 1973 NFL Draft, but could never agree on a contract with them. Jordan signed with the Pats as a free agent the following year.
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Jordan made a name for himself as a linebacker for Washington University in St. Louis. He led the Huskies in tackles for three straight seasons and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2013.
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Jordan started in 87 of the 95 games he played with the Patriots and won Super Bowl XVIII with the Raiders in 1984 against the Washington Redskins.
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Lincoln Electric System proposes rate increase
LINCOLN, Neb. (Press Release) - The Lincoln Electric System Administrative Board’s Budget and Rates Committee proposed a 4.8% systemwide increase to 2023 retail electric rates on Friday. LES said the rate adjustment primarily is due to budgeted increases in power and transmission costs, which are the costs to generate and deliver electricity to customers.
LES said that they have a limited ability to influence these costs.
An LES residential customer, using 1,000 kilowatt-hours per month on average, will see an increase of approximately $5 on their monthly bill, or 4.8%, if the rate increase is adopted. Other rate classes would see increases varying from 3.9% to 6.1% based on the cost to serve each customer class.
While net-power costs are up $3.5 million and transmission costs are up $9.6 million, reductions in other operating expenses helped reduce the overall rate adjustment.
“In addition to power and transmission cost increases, similar to other Lincoln businesses, LES is experiencing inflationary and supply-chain pressures,” said Emily Koenig, LES vice president of Financial Services and chief financial officer. “While cost reductions were included in the proposed budget, it is necessary to implement a rate increase to fund overall increased costs.”
“It is a priority of LES to keep costs low for customers,” Koenig continued. “The 2023 rate increase will position LES to continue delivering safe, reliable and affordable electric service while keeping the average residential customer’s daily cost less than $3 per day.”
The total proposed 2023 budget of $331 million includes the operating budget of $276 million and the capital budget of $55 million.
A public meeting on the proposed LES 2023 budget and rates will be held Oct. 4, 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the LES Operations Center, 9445 Rokeby Road in Lincoln. Customers can join virtually through a link, view materials and watch the meeting recap at LES.com/Budget.
LES staff also will be meeting with customers and customer groups in October to provide information and receive feedback on its proposed 2023 budget and rates.
Board action on the budget is planned to occur at its Oct. 21 meeting. If approved by the LES Administrative Board, the proposed budget and rates will be considered by the Lincoln City Council at a public hearing in November. If approved, rate changes will be effective Jan. 1, 2023.
Business and residential customers can use LES’ online rate calculator to see an estimated bill with the proposed rate, found at LES.com/BillCalculator.
Payment assistance options can be found at LES.com/FinancialAssistance or by calling LES at 402-475-4211.
Financial incentives are available for residential and business customers making energy-efficiency improvements through LES’ Sustainable Energy Program, available at LES.com/SEP.
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LONDON (AP) — The death of Queen Elizabeth II is a reminder that the World War II generation is aging. Like the queen, even the youngest veterans of the war are now nearing their 100th birthdays, and a steady stream of obituaries tells the story of a disappearing generation.
Here are the stories of a few veterans who died this year.
HENRIETTE HANOTTE:
Aug. 10, 1920- Feb. 19, 2022
Henriette Hanotte began her wartime career ferrying Allied airmen to safety almost by accident.
On May 23, 1940, as British forces retreated toward Dunkirk, two soldiers asked her parents for help crossing the Belgian frontier as they tried to make their way back to England. Hanotte, then 20, volunteered to take them to the French city of Lille, some 20 kilometers (12.5 miles) away.
That chance encounter brought her to the attention of British operatives who later asked her to join a network of resistance fighters guiding downed Allied airmen across Belgium, France and Spain to safety in Gibraltar.
Hanotte was especially valuable to the operation, known as the Comet Line, because she grew up traveling between her home in Rumes, on the Belgian side of the border, and the nearby French town of Bachy, where she took music lessons. This gave her an intimate knowledge of the border and helped her guide her “packages” to safety.
“She knew the border like the back of her hand, the patrol schedule, customs officers, the little roads, the barking of dogs, the habits of the neighborhood,” according to a brochure about her exploits published by Rumes and Bachy.
Known by the code name Monique, she is believed to have helped 135 airmen to safety before she was forced to flee to England to avoid capture by the Gestapo. There she joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service and trained as a secret operative but was prevented from returning to Europe when she broke her leg in parachute training.
“I was trying to protect my family, and they were trying to protect me,” Hanotte told the Times of London last year on her 100th birthday. “It was our natural instinct to help.”
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FLIGHT LT. DOUGLAS NEWHAM:
Nov. 13, 1921-March 14, 2022
Douglas Newham survived 60 bombing raids as a Royal Air Force navigator from 1942 to 1945, but he was haunted for the rest of his long life by those who didn’t return.
Some 55,573 of the men who flew with Bomber Command during World War II — 44% of its air crews — were killed in action, the highest attrition rate of any Allied unit.
For Newham that meant losing his friends in groups of seven, the standard crew complement of the Halifax bombers he flew during the later stages of the war.
“In my darker moments now, I still remember coming back dead tired from perhaps a 10-hour trip … and maybe one or two aircraft were still missing and you’d hope that maybe they’d landed somewhere for fuel, or they’d got battle damage and they’d be along later,” he told the BBC in 2020. “And, of course, then they wouldn’t come.”
When the war began, Newham was a teenage post office engineering trainee who helped install early-warning radar and repair radar stations damaged by German bombers.
In 1941, he joined the RAF. During his first combat tour, Newham dropped mines into U-boat lanes and flew bombing raids over occupied Europe before he was sent to North Africa. Returning to England, he received advance training then returned to combat duty, serving as navigation leader for multiple squadrons on some large-scale raids over Germany.
One night over the English Channel, he realized the responsibility he’d been given.
“My skipper said, `Doug, come back here … put your head up in the astro dome and have a look behind,’” Newham told the International Bomber Command Centre in 2017. “And, of course, there were 350 bloody aircraft following me. I don’t want to know!”
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SAPPER HARRY BILLINGE:
Sept. 15, 1925-April 5, 2022
Harry Billinge and his comrades had a single task when they landed on Gold Beach at 6:30 a.m. on D-Day: capture the German radar station at Arromanches.
They succeeded, but only four of the 10 men in the unit survived the day.
“It was hell,” Billinge said in an interview recorded by the British Normandy Memorial Trust. “I never seen anything like it in me life. You had the ships firing over your head and you had the Germans firing from inland — 88 millimeter guns they used, which will blow you off the face of the Earth.”
Billinge was an 18-year-old army commando that day. After surviving the war, the boy from London moved to Cornwall, where he became a barber.
He rejected the idea that he was a hero, always shifting the focus to those who died on June 6, 1944.
In his later years, Billinge dedicated himself to raising funds for the British Normandy Memorial in France, even when age forced him to do so from a comfortable chair at the local market. In 2020, Queen Elizabeth II pinned a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, or MBE, to Billinge’s lapel after he raised 50,000 pounds ($57,500) for the project.
“It means more to me than life itself, knowing I’m doing all I can for the memorial and my mates — 22,442 men died on that beach,” he said.
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SIGNALLER FRANK BAUGH:
Nov. 26, 1923-June 20, 2022
Frank Baugh was an 18-year-old coal worker when he joined the Royal Navy in 1942. Two years later he was a crewman onboard a landing craft carrying 200 soldiers into battle on D-Day.
As the craft approached Sword beach in the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, it suffered a direct hit. The soldiers were able to scramble ashore, but the landing craft was stranded for thee hours as the crew made emergency repairs under enemy fire.
“We couldn’t get off the beach,” Baugh said in a 2018 interview. “We were flooded, we weren’t seaworthy, so we were sat there in a very awkward situation. It wasn’t a place you wanted to be.”
Baugh said he and his crew mates owed their survival to two bits of luck. Advance troops had already killed the German soldiers manning a fort that guarded the beach directly in front of the landing site, and a navy destroyer laid down a smokescreen to shield Baugh’s boat from guns at the other end of the beach.
Repairs made, Baugh and his shipmates turned their boat around and headed back out to sea to pick up another load of soldiers.
He was believed to have been the last surviving British marine to see the Royal Navy’s white ensign raised over Sword Beach as allied forces advanced.
“The men and women of today’s Royal Navy treasure the bonds they have with those who served in World War II, and Frank’s remarkable longevity was testament to a life well-lived serving his country,” First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Ben Key said in a eulogy read at Baugh’s funeral.
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How Safe Are Bitcoin ATMs?
One of the aspects making Bitcoin technology stand out is its incredible flexibility. The group that created the core software released the source code, enabling software developers to upgrade Bitcoin whenever necessary. As a result, Bitcoin and related coins have continuously improved. Check out bitcoin code if you want to invest in or trade cryptocurrencies.
When the Satoshi Nakamoto group launched Bitcoin in 2009, we can boldly confirm the technology wasn't as perfect as it is today. We never had top-notch solutions like the Bitcoin ATMs (BTMs) nor more efficient forks. However, the community saw the need for more advanced options, and the BTMs were born.
Understanding Bitcoin ATMs
The standard ATMs have been with us for many decades now and have served people well. By automating bank withdrawals and deposits, customers save a lot of time. Besides, ATMs enable various banks to attend to their clients 24 hours a day. And this improves satisfaction and extends operations to numerous locations. Most importantly, ATMs allow banking institutions to minimize operational costs significantly.
Interestingly, Bitcoin ATMs use the same operational principle. You don't need the assistance of another service provider to buy or sell Bitcoins. That's because BTMs can help you do that effortlessly. Since the introduction of the first one in Canada in 2014, more have emerged. There are over 10 000 BTMs around the world today. This number will likely increase at a higher pace as BTC technology continues to spread globally.
How a BTM Works
You need to understand how a Bitcoin ATM works to know whether the technology is safe or not. For example, you should understand the network they use and any associated government regulations. As we've stated, you can use Bitcoin ATMs to buy or sell your cryptocurrency. The machines can also allow you to transfer Bitcoins from your address to another.
BTMs connect to the blockchain network like renowned cryptocurrency trading platforms. Therefore, the system securely broadcasts any transaction request you make to the blockchain for processing and recording. And this means that Bitcoin ATMs have the same security standards as the blockchain network.
You require an active digital wallet to use a BTM. In addition, a legal document such as your national identity card is vital. Most Bitcoin ATMs will also require one to have a valid phone number. And this is crucial because the network uses it to confirm your identity. The service providers want to be sure it's the genuine wallet owner initiating a transaction, which adds significantly to the overall security.
What Makes Bitcoin ATMs Safe?
Many proven reasons make BTMs one of the safest cryptocurrency machines today. For example, the manufacturers develop them with high-tech security features to keep intruders away. Various service providers have expressed great confidence in BTMs, stressing the machines are safe against hacking.
Another notable security feature of BTMs is their strict verification process when selling or buying Bitcoin. For instance, it scans your wallet's QR code before the transaction can proceed. Moreover, there's a step that requires the one transacting to enter and verify their phone number.
Large transactions require further identity verification with a government-issued document like an ID, DL, or passport to minimize fraud. Most importantly, there's a set maximum transaction limit per day. Bitcoin ATMs also comply with various government regulations that prevent money laundering.
Final Thoughts
Bitcoin ATMs are safe, and you should feel free to use them whenever possible. That's because they come with robust security features, making them difficult to compromise. BTMs also connect with the blockchain network, which boasts some of the best safety mechanisms in the digital space.
Importantly, using a BTM involves strict identity verification processes, thus preventing unauthorized users from stealing your funds. As their number grows, Bitcoin ATMs will soon be everywhere worldwide.
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In trading on Friday, shares of Marriott International, Inc. (Symbol: MAR) crossed below their 200 day moving average of $161.69, changing hands as low as $154.53 per share. Marriott International, Inc. shares are currently trading off about 4.8% on the day. The chart below shows the one year performance of MAR shares, versus its 200 day moving average:
Looking at the chart above, MAR's low point in its 52 week range is $131.01 per share, with $195.90 as the 52 week high point — that compares with a last trade of $154.72.
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The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday upheld a controversial Texas social media law that bars companies from removing posts based on a person’s political ideology, overturning a lower court’s decision to block the law from taking effect and likely setting up a Supreme Court showdown over the future of online speech.
The ruling could have wide-ranging effects on the future of tech regulation, as states throughout the country consider legislation similar to the Texas law.
The judges ruled that while the First Amendment guarantees every person’s right to free speech, it doesn’t guarantee corporations the right to “muzzle speech.”
The ruling also sets up a split between two circuit courts on key issues, which could potentially need to be resolved by the Supreme Court. Earlier this year, the 11th Circuit Court blocked major provisions of a social media that had been passed by Florida’s Republican-led legislature.
Tech industry representatives said they disagreed with the decision, and said that they are evaluating options for appeal.
“Little could be more Orwellian than the government purporting to protect speech by dictating what businesses must say,” said Matt Schruers, president of the Computer & Communications Industry Association, which had challenged the Texas law. “The Texas law compels private enterprises to distribute dangerous content ranging from foreign propaganda to terrorist incitement, and places Americans at risk.”
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Reporter Notebook: Day 4 includes shutting down the line, a guy who can click his tongue, and David Beckham
LONDON, UK (WBTV) - Friday was the fourth day of my assignment covering all things related to the death of Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth, and it did not disappoint.
You know how you’ve been hearing about the long lines of people wanting to see the Queen’s coffin as she lies in state at Westminster Hall? Today it went over the top. Officials had to “pause” the queue, meaning they stopped letting anyone new join. That lasted for several hours and the said it was because the queue had reached something longer than five miles and was overwhelmed.
I saw people getting in line anyway, even though at one point the wait was said to be 24 hours. For the most part the people in the line don’t seem to mind the wait.
“It will be worth it,” Nancy Dove told me. “I think, the emotion, just to pay homage to a brilliant leader. Selfless. All giving. You can’t say too much about her and she really truly is Elizabeth the Great.”
On and on it went for blocks and blocks, crossing the Thames, and it even included soccer, or football royalty David Beckham who was said to have waited 12 hours, and then teared up as he walked past the coffin.
Asked what he was eating and sharing with others in the queue, Beckham said Pringles, sherbet lemons, sandwiches, coffees and donuts.
But for some Britons, standing in queue wasn’t how they chose to honor the Queen. Take Sally and Sue.
“We’re sisters,” they proudly said.
They don’t live in London but were here today enjoying a cup at a small café near Westminster Abbey. Sue said that for a lot of Britons, just the act of coming to London is a homecoming.
“I think because something like this brings the country together, makes me realize what a brilliant country it is and how we all come together at times like this and all support each other.”
Sue isn’t standing in line today but did queue many years ago for another British hero.
“I did for Winston Churchill,” she said.
And while it was a different time and a different figure, the sentiment was the same.
“And there it is. There’s the coffin. And in that case it was Winston Churchill, and you know a very important, momentous, significant person is lying there and I think it will be the same for those seeing the Queen lie in state.”
Sue also said that she was deeply affected by the Queen’s death. She noted that Queen Elizabeth was 96, but said the announcement of her death was a shock, saying it is similar to when you know a loved one is at the point of death, but don’t want to accept it.
“We were in Cornwall at the time and I remember it coming on the wireless and and you’re thinking no, that can’t be so,” she said. “You know they’re ill, you know their time is nigh, you don’t really believe it will happen, and I think it was the same with the Queen.”
While walking along Whitehall this afternoon, one of the countless security guards/private security officers who stand on the streets of central London stopped me to tell me that he wanted to be on TV. This is how that exchange went:
“You told us that you wanted to be on TV. Do you have any special talents or skills or anything while were rolling our cameras that you want to show off for us Cameron?”
“I can click really loud with my tonque…
“Let’s hear a little clicking Cameron.”
“Click…oh wait, I got one…click…haha, I can’t do it properly, oh, I go…CLICK.”
“That is very loud, very impressive.” And it was.
On Friday night there was brief excitement when we saw the Union Flag come down from its staff over Westminster Abbey, and the Royal Standard of King Charles III was raised in its place. You may know that the Royal Standard is raised when the Sovereign is in the building. Turns out the King wasn’t in Westminster Abbey, but was in Westminster Hall for a vigil at his mother’s coffin.
It was another fun day, albeit one that involved a lot of work. The Queen will continue to lie in state on Saturday and Sunday, leading up to the big funeral on Monday. Have a great weekend!
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MADRID — Real Madrid has denounced the use of racist language to denigrate forward Vinícius Júnior.
The club said in the statement on Friday that it “rejects all types of racist and xenophobic expression and behavior in soccer, sports and life in general, such as the regrettable and unfortunate comments in recent hours directed toward our player Vinícius Júnior.”
The club added it would take legal action against anyone who used racist language against its player.
The debate regarding Vinícius’ goal celebrations was sparked after Atlético Madrid’s Koke Resurrección said “there could be trouble” if the Madrid forward dances after a goal on Sunday in the Madrid derby to be played at Atlético’s stadium.
Koke appeared to make the comment in jest, but it has been widely commented on. Even Brazil star Neymar chimed in on social media by tweeting, “Dance Vini Jr.”
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If approved, the Sponsor will make additional monthly contributions to the trust account during the extension period
The proposal will be voted on by stockholders at the upcoming special meeting of stockholders on September 29, 2022
STAMFORD, Conn., Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Atlantic Avenue Acquisition Corp (NYSE: ASAQ.U, ASAQ, ASAQ WS) (the "Company") announced today that it reaffirmed its intention to support the proposals to amend (i) the Company's Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to allow the Company, without another stockholder vote, to elect to extend the date by which the Company must consummate a business combination (the "Extension") from October 6, 2022 (the date that is 24 months from the closing date of the Company's initial public offering of units (the "IPO")), on a monthly basis for up to six times to April 6, 2023 (the date that is 30 months from the closing date of the IPO), and (ii) the Company's Investment Management Trust Agreement, dated October 1, 2020, by and between the Company and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company (the "Trustee"), to allow the Company, without another stockholder vote, to elect to extend the date on which the Trustee must liquidate the trust account established by the Company in connection with its IPO if the Company has not completed its initial business combination, on a monthly basis for up to six times from October 6, 2022 (the date that is 24 months from the closing date of the IPO) to April 6, 2023 (the date that is 30 months from the closing date of the IPO). In order to support these proposals, the Company and Atlantic Avenue Partners LLC (the "Sponsor") have agreed that, if the proposals are both approved, the Sponsor will deposit (or cause to be deposited) into the trust account, for each one-month extension, the lesser of: (x) $150,000 or (y) $0.05 per share multiplied by the number of public shares that are not redeemed in connection with the upcoming special meeting on September 29, 2022 (each, a "Monthly Contribution").
Each Monthly Contribution will be deposited in the trust account no later than one business day prior to the beginning of the applicable extension period. The Monthly Contribution(s) will bear no interest and will be repayable by the Company to the Sponsor (or its designee(s)) upon consummation of an initial business combination. The loans will be forgiven if the Company is unable to consummate an initial business combination, except to the extent of any funds held outside of the trust account. In the event the extension is approved by the Company's stockholders and the Sponsor elects to not fund a Monthly Contribution, which it may do in its sole discretion, the Company will dissolve and liquidate in accordance with its charter.
The Extension and Trust Amendment Proposals will be voted on by stockholders at the upcoming special meeting of stockholders on September 29, 2022 (the "Special Meeting") and is described in further detail in the Company's Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A (the "Proxy Statement"), filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on September 2, 2022.
The Special Meeting will be held virtually at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time on September 29, 2022, at https://www.cstproxy.com/asaqspac/2022, or at such other time, on such other date and at such other place at which the meeting may be adjourned or postponed. Further detail related to attendance and voting is described in the Company's Proxy Statement.
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Upper 90s bring second taste of summer next week
COLUMBUS – SUMMARY: Highs in the upper 90s cap off what will be a week of rapid warming. Lows stick in the upper 60s heading into the weekend, ending up in the mid 70s near the turn of the weekend next week.
SATURDAY: Upper 80s is the norm once again as mostly clear skies prevail. Lows hit the upper 60s overnight.
SUNDAY: More temperatures in the upper 80s await us on Sunday. Some return of cloud cover will offer the opportunity for localized shading although most of us stay warm. Lows bottom out in the upper 60s once again in the overnight hour.
NEXT WEEK: Mostly clear skies tacked onto dry conditions mean the potential for substantial warming is a certainty. Highs touch the 90s by Tuesday and hit the upper 90s by Thursday. Lows will also take part in the warming, getting into the mid 70s by overnight Thursday. Rain of any kind is not expected through next Friday.
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Authorities in Massachusetts are moving the dozens of migrants who arrived earlier this week in Martha's Vineyard to Cape Cod.
The office for Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker announced Friday that the state's emergency management agency relocated the migrants to Joint Base Cape Cod. There, the state will provide shelter, food and other essential services, Baker said.
Baker also plans to activate 125 members of the state National Guard to assist.
"We are grateful to the providers, volunteers and local officials that stepped up on Martha's Vineyard over the past few days to provide immediate services to these individuals," Baker said in a statement. "Our Administration has been working across state government to develop a plan to ensure these individuals will have access to the services they need going forward, and Joint Base Cape Cod is well equipped to serve these needs."
The migrants' arrival in Martha's Vineyard earlier this week was a surprise to local officials, who had no idea that they were coming. The immigrants, many of whom were from Venezuela, were surprised themselves, since they had been told they were being sent to Boston for work opportunities. They arrived on two separate planes that took off from San Antonio, Texas, and that were arranged and paid for by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Since Wednesday, state and local organizations have scrambled to assist the new arrivals, many of whom speak little to no English.
According to GBH, Joint Base Cape Cod's southern portion has a small town usually reserved for housing soldiers and their families. It has provided humanitarian assistance in the past, including when residents from Louisiana stayed there after fleeing Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
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The ride-hailing service Uber said Friday that all its services are operational following what security professionals were calling a major data breach. It said there was no evidence the hacker got access to sensitive user data.
What appeared to be a lone hacker announced the breach on Thursday after apparently tricking an Uber employee into providing credentials.
Screenshots the hacker shared with security researchers indicate this person obtained full access to the cloud-based systems where Uber stores sensitive customer and financial data.
It is not known how much data the hacker stole or how long they were inside Uber's network. Two researchers who communicated directly with the person — who self-identified as an 18-year-old to one of them— said they appeared interested in publicity. There was no indication they destroyed data.
But files shared with the researchers and posted widely on Twitter and other social media indicated the hacker was able to access Uber's most crucial internal systems.
"It was really bad the access he had. It's awful," said Corbin Leo, one of the researchers who chatted with the hacker online.
He said screenshots the person shared showed the intruder got access to systems stored on Amazon and Google cloud-based servers where Uber keeps source code, financial data and customer data such as driver's licenses.
"If he had keys to the kingdom he could start stopping services. He could delete stuff. He could download customer data, change people's passwords," said Leo, a researcher and head of business development at the security company Zellic.
Screenshots the hacker shared — many of which found their way online — showed they had accessed sensitive financial data and internal databases. Among them was one in which the hacker announced the breach on Uber's internal Slack collaboration ssytem.
Sam Curry, an engineer with Yuga Labs who also communicated with the hacker, said there was no indication that the hacker had done any damage or was interested in anything more than publicity. "My gut feeling is that it seems like they are out to get as much attention as possible."
Curry said he spoke to several Uber employees Thursday who said they were "working to lock down everything internally" to restrict the hacker's access. That included the San Francisco company's Slack network, he said.
In a statement posted online Friday, Uber said "internal software tools that we took down as a precaution yesterday are coming back online."
It said all its services — including Uber Eats and Uber Freight — were operational.
The company did not respond to questions from The Associated Press including about whether the hacker gained access to customer data and if that data was stored encrypted. The company said there was no evidence that the intruder accessed "sensitive user data" such as trip history.
Curry and Leo said the hacker did not indicate how much data was copied. Uber did not recommend any specific actions for its users, such as changing passwords.
The hacker alerted the researchers to the intrusion Thursday by using an internal Uber account on the company's network used to post vulnerabilities identified through its bug-bounty program, which pays ethical hackers to ferret out network weaknesses.
After commenting on those posts, the hacker provided a Telegram account address. Curry and other researchers then engaged them in a separate conversation, where the intruder provided screenshots of various pages from Uber's cloud providers to prove they broke in.
The AP attempted to contact the hacker at the Telegram account, but received no response.
Screenshots posted on Twitter appeared to confirm what the researchers said the hacker claimed: That they obtained privileged access to Uber's most critical systems through social engineering. Effectively, the hacker discovered the password of an Uber employee. Then, posing as a fellow worker, the hacker bombarded the employee with text messages asking them to confirm that they had logged into their account. Ultimately, the employee caved and provided a two-factor authentication code the hacker used to log in.
Social engineering is a popular hacking strategy, as humans tend to be the weakest link in any network. Teenagers used it in 2020 to hack Twitter and it has more recently been used in hacks of the tech companies Twilio and Cloudflare.
Uber has been hacked before.
Its former chief security officer, Joseph Sullivan, is currently on trial for allegedly arranging to pay hackers $100,000 to cover up a 2016 high-tech heist in which the personal information of about 57 million customers and drivers was stolen.
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Hundreds of thousands of gallons of expired state-produced hand sanitizer that were sitting outside the New York State Preparedness Training Center in Oriskany are heading to Rochester to be repurposed.
Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo launched an initiative to make millions of bottles of hand sanitizer at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. More than 700,000 gallons ended up in Oriskany, where it has been since last year.
The New York State Office of General Service says the state has contracted with Eastman Kodak in Rochester to remove the hand sanitizer.
Eastman Kodak will transport 168 trailer loads of materials to its business park in Rochester where it will extract the alcohol so it can be reused in manufacturing.
OGS says it will take about 44 weeks to complete the recycling process.
The state will continue its $2.32 million contract with Eastman Kodak through February of 2024.
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GRAINS-Soybean futures slump on global demand concerns
By Tom Polansek
CHICAGO, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Chicago Board of Trade soybean futures stumbled on Friday as rising crop sales in Argentina and warnings of a recession raised concerns about global demand for U.S. supplies, analysts said.
Corn futures ended little changed, while wheat futures advanced.
Traders focused on demand for crops, after the U.S. Department of Agriculture updated its domestic production estimates in a monthly report issued on Monday.
"While we've answered a lot of the supply-side questions, now we have a ton of demand-side questions," said Ted Seifried, chief market strategist of Zaner Ag.
In Argentina, the world's top exporter of soy oil and meal and the No. 3 for raw beans, farmers increased sales of soybeans after the government implemented a more favorable exchange rate for exports of the cash crop. Until last month, local farmers were holding on to more soybeans than usual due to Argentina's uncertain economic environment.
"Competition from South American supplies continues to put pressure on U.S. soybean exports," analysts at Zhongzhou Futures in China said.
Most-active CBOT soybean futures closed 3 cents lower at $14.48-1/2 a bushel. Corn settled down 1/4 cent at $6.77-1/4 a bushel, while wheat jumped 14-3/4 cents to end at $8.59-3/4 a bushel.
Trading was choppy as investors weighed tighter U.S. crop inventories against uncertainty over demand.
"We're trying to juggle the idea of tighter-than-expected balance sheets, especially in soybeans," Seifried said. "We're kind of caught in between."
Next week, investors will wait for a U.S. Federal Reserve policy decision where the central bank is expected to deliver a hefty interest rate hike. Wall Street's major indexes closed lower on Friday as investors' fears about the prospects for a global recession intensified.
Traders will also monitor U.S. corn and soy harvests and crop development, which are generally benefiting from warm, dry weather. In the Southern Delta region, rain showers are not enough to hamper harvesting, Commodity Weather Group said.
(Reporting by Tom Polansek in Chicago, Gus Trompiz in Paris and Enrico Dela Cruz in Manila Editing by Diane Craft and Matthew Lewis)
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Shares of First Quantum Minerals Ltd.
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falling 0.89% to 19,385.88. This was the stock's second consecutive day of losses. First Quantum Minerals Ltd. closed C$22.06 below its 52-week high (C$45.38), which the company reached on April 4th. Trading volume of 3.4 M shares eclipsed its 50-day average volume of 3.1 M.
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Friday's golf: Rory McIlroy, Matt Fitzpatrick are 1-2 on next year's Ryder Cup course
Guidonia Montecelio, Italy — Rory McIlroy and U.S. Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick are getting quite comfortable on next year’s Ryder Cup course.
Europe captain Luke Donald, meanwhile, made a novice’s error after hitting into the thick rough at the Marco Simone club outside Rome and then hitting the wrong ball, earning himself a two-stroke penalty.
McIlroy (66) produced an eagle for the second consecutive day and Fitzpatrick (69) had five straight birdies in the second round Friday as they stood 1-2, respectively, near the midpoint of the Italian Open. The round was suspended because of darkness for the second straight day.
McIlroy — playing in Italy for the first time as a pro specifically to gain familiarity with the Ryder Cup course — was at 9-under 133 overall with Fitzpatrick one stroke behind.
“Fitz has had an unbelievable year, first major championship and he’s obviously matured into one of the best players in the world,” McIlroy said. “Looking forward to going up against him over the weekend.”
After McIlroy took a share of the overnight clubhouse lead with an opening 67 before play was cut short Thursday, Fitzpatrick had a strong finish early Friday to take the lead after the first round with a 65.
Later in the day, it was McIlroy who surged ahead as he sank an eagle putt on the par-5 12th and celebrated with a slight wave — unlike his arms-above-the-head reaction when he holed out an approach shot for an eagle on the par-4 third a day earlier.
Fitzpatrick, who claimed his first major title at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts, in June, also tied for fifth at the PGA Championship. At 28, he’s a veteran of the European tour and this is the seventh time he’s playing the Italian Open, with a best finish of second in 2019.
“I love Italy,” Fitzpatrick said, adding that he’s a big soccer fan. “I came in December to watch Roma.”
Donald struggled to a triple bogey on the driveable par-4 16th when he hit his tee shot into the rough and then played the wrong ball.
“A first for me,” Donald wrote on Twitter. “Poor drive in deep rough, spotter goes straight to ball, play the shot and then realize I’ve played the wrong ball. Same red Titleist 4, just not my markings on the ball.”
Donald, however, recovered by making birdies on five of the next eight holes to finish in contention at 5 under.
Afterward, Donald suggested that the rough will be “pretty high” for the 2023 Ryder Cup — when Marco Simone will become the third venue in continental Europe to host golf’s biggest team event after Valderrama in Spain (1997) and Le Golf National in France (2018).
“We want to put a premium on hitting the fairways,” Donald said. “The rough here, it’s a different type of grass. It’s kind of a thick blade, so it doesn’t need to be too, too heavy to make it tough. … We obviously want to play similar conditions to what we played in this year.”
Defending champion Nicolai Højgaard (70) also remained in contention at 5 under, with 10th-ranked Viktor Hovland (68) a stroke further back. Tom Lewis was third at 7 under and Victor Perez stood fourth at 6 under.
Local player Filippo Celli continued to impress in his pro debut after a sterling amateur career, scoring an eagle with a wedge shot on No. 12 to finish at 1 under and make the cut.
Julien Quesne made a hole-in-one on the 187-yard fourth.
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The recent visits Monica Bullock had with her mother had been pleasant. Her smile was bright, she was a healthy weight, and she talked about her future, Bullock’s mother, Cheryl Auburger said.
Bullock had long struggled with depression, which worsened when her infant son died seven years earlier, her mother said. Bullock began abusing prescription painkillers and alcohol to cope with the grief, leading her mother to take custody of Bullock’s oldest son, she said.
Recently, Bullock, 31, had been living at an apartment in Baltimore’s northeast neighborhood of Frankford with her boyfriend, working as a cashier at a nearby dollar store. She was working toward stability in hopes of one day being able to raise 12-year-old Naszir herself, Auburger said.
Those hopes for a future reunification were abruptly dashed on Aug. 26 when Baltimore Police said Bullock was found fatally shot just before 10 p.m. in the 5300 block of Eastbury Avenue, near the apartment where she was living.
Three days after her daughter was killed, Auburger said city homicide detectives called her to say that her youngest — the baby of the family — had been killed.
Police publicly identified Bullock on Thursday.
Auburger said police have not provided her any other information, and expressed frustration about her unanswered calls to detectives assigned to the case. She fears that the department, burdened by more than 300 homicide cases a year, will not give her daughter’s case their full attention.
“The only thing we want is to know who killed Monica,” Auburger said. “She didn’t deserve that.”
Bullock is one of 249 people killed in the city so far this year, and one of 22 women.
In the same block where Bullock was killed, police said a 24-year-old man was critically injured in a shooting on Aug. 10.
Police have not identified any motive or suspects in Bullock’s case.
“The investigation is open and ongoing,” police spokeswoman Detective Niki Fennoy said Friday, declining further comment.
Auburger said she doesn’t know why anyone would want to hurt her daughter.
“She was a good person,” she said. “She was a little firecracker. She said what was on her mind.”
Auburger said her daughter was born in Baltimore, but the family relocated to Carroll County, where Bullock attended Gateway, an alternative high school.
While her mother’s family remained in Westminster, Bullock remained in Baltimore, where her father still lived. Bullock’s father, Allen Bullock, said Friday that he and his daughter had a falling out 14 years ago and he had not seen her much in the past few years.
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Auburger said her daughter had struggled in recent years, since the death of her youngest son, Davion, who accidentally suffocated when he fell between a wall and a bed.
“She always had depression, but when the baby died she dabbled in pain pills,” her mother said. Auburger took custody of her older grandson.
Recently, Bullock appeared to have stopped abusing drugs and was healthy, her mother said.
“I think she was in a good place,” she recalled.
Auburger said her daughter recently talked about applying to school programs. She said her daughter dreamed of becoming a marine biologist and moving to California to work with animals.
“She loved dolphins,” said Auburger, picked out an urn with dolphins on it.
“I know she is going to love it,” she said.
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The ride-hailing service Uber said Friday that all its services are operational following what security professionals were calling a major data breach. It said there was no evidence the hacker got access to sensitive user data.
What appeared to be a lone hacker announced the breach on Thursday after apparently tricking an Uber employee into providing credentials.
Screenshots the hacker shared with security researchers indicate this person obtained full access to the cloud-based systems where Uber stores sensitive customer and financial data.
It is not known how much data the hacker stole or how long they were inside Uber's network. Two researchers who communicated directly with the person — who self-identified as an 18-year-old to one of them— said they appeared interested in publicity. There was no indication they destroyed data.
But files shared with the researchers and posted widely on Twitter and other social media indicated the hacker was able to access Uber's most crucial internal systems.
"It was really bad the access he had. It's awful," said Corbin Leo, one of the researchers who chatted with the hacker online.
He said screenshots the person shared showed the intruder got access to systems stored on Amazon and Google cloud-based servers where Uber keeps source code, financial data and customer data such as driver's licenses.
"If he had keys to the kingdom he could start stopping services. He could delete stuff. He could download customer data, change people's passwords," said Leo, a researcher and head of business development at the security company Zellic.
Screenshots the hacker shared — many of which found their way online — showed they had accessed sensitive financial data and internal databases. Among them was one in which the hacker announced the breach on Uber's internal Slack collaboration ssytem.
Sam Curry, an engineer with Yuga Labs who also communicated with the hacker, said there was no indication that the hacker had done any damage or was interested in anything more than publicity. "My gut feeling is that it seems like they are out to get as much attention as possible."
Curry said he spoke to several Uber employees Thursday who said they were "working to lock down everything internally" to restrict the hacker's access. That included the San Francisco company's Slack network, he said.
In a statement posted online Friday, Uber said "internal software tools that we took down as a precaution yesterday are coming back online."
It said all its services — including Uber Eats and Uber Freight — were operational.
The company did not respond to questions from The Associated Press including about whether the hacker gained access to customer data and if that data was stored encrypted. The company said there was no evidence that the intruder accessed "sensitive user data" such as trip history.
Curry and Leo said the hacker did not indicate how much data was copied. Uber did not recommend any specific actions for its users, such as changing passwords.
The hacker alerted the researchers to the intrusion Thursday by using an internal Uber account on the company's network used to post vulnerabilities identified through its bug-bounty program, which pays ethical hackers to ferret out network weaknesses.
After commenting on those posts, the hacker provided a Telegram account address. Curry and other researchers then engaged them in a separate conversation, where the intruder provided screenshots of various pages from Uber's cloud providers to prove they broke in.
The AP attempted to contact the hacker at the Telegram account, but received no response.
Screenshots posted on Twitter appeared to confirm what the researchers said the hacker claimed: That they obtained privileged access to Uber's most critical systems through social engineering. Effectively, the hacker discovered the password of an Uber employee. Then, posing as a fellow worker, the hacker bombarded the employee with text messages asking them to confirm that they had logged into their account. Ultimately, the employee caved and provided a two-factor authentication code the hacker used to log in.
Social engineering is a popular hacking strategy, as humans tend to be the weakest link in any network. Teenagers used it in 2020 to hack Twitter and it has more recently been used in hacks of the tech companies Twilio and Cloudflare.
Uber has been hacked before.
Its former chief security officer, Joseph Sullivan, is currently on trial for allegedly arranging to pay hackers $100,000 to cover up a 2016 high-tech heist in which the personal information of about 57 million customers and drivers was stolen.
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KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — The Southernmost Point marker in Key West, Florida, a landmark delineating the continental United States’ southernmost spot of land, became a memorial to Queen Elizabeth II on Friday when city workers installed a British flag and royal purple banner at the much-photographed site beside the Atlantic Ocean.
The tribute was particularly fitting because the long-reigning monarch, who died Sept. 8 at age 96, visited the Florida Keys in 1991.
“We do have a connection with the queen; we had the privilege of actually having her visit us,” Key West Mayor Teri Johnston said.
“We join the world today in mourning the loss of such an incredible human being,” Johnston said.
Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip stopped at Dry Tortugas National Park and Fort Jefferson, 70 miles (113 kilometers) west of Key West in the Gulf of Mexico, on the royal yacht. They were welcomed by then-Florida Keys Mayor Wilhelmina Harvey, who presented them with a conch shell, an enduring symbol of the island chain.
The red, yellow, black and white Southernmost Point marker, a 20-ton concrete monument that resembles a giant marine navigational buoy, was installed in 1983 and has become a popular photo stop for travelers.
Plans call for the memorial to Queen Elizabeth to stay in place through her funeral on Monday,.
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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — In the hours since El Salvador President Nayib Bukele announced he would seek re-election despite a constitutional ban, opinion quickly divided.
Those who want to give more time to the man who has arrested more than 50,000 people in the past six months for alleged gang connections voiced their support while a vocal minority who see it as one more unsurprising step toward authoritarianism rejected the move.
Bukele announced he would seek re-election in a televised speech Thursday night, El Salvador’s Independence Day, riding a wave of popularity from his crackdown on gangs.
Bukele’s current five-year term ends in 2024, but observers had long expected the announcement, especially since the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court, handpicked by his supporters in congress, ruled last year that re-election was permitted and ordered the electoral court to allow it.
“I don’t understand that about the constitution, but the man is doing a good job, he‘s finishing with the gangs, and yes I support him,” said Estela Sánchez, a produce vendor in the San Salvador suburb of Santa Tecla.
Constitutional lawyers have said re-election violates at least four articles of the constitution, including one that limits the presidential term to five years and states that the person who serves as president will not continue in their functions for one day more.
Vice President Félix Ulloa, predictably, sees it differently. “Of course it isn’t unconstitutional,” Ulloa said. “One of the things that has concerned me my entire life has been to respect the rule of the democratic and constitutional state.”
However, some observers have voiced doubts for years about Bukele’s commitment to democratic institutions.
His popularity and sweeping electoral victories are unquestioned, but that power has been wielded to intimidate lawmakers — he took soldiers into the Legislative Assembly when opponents balked at voting on part of his security plan — to remove Supreme Court justices who had challenged some of his measures early in the COVID-19 pandemic and the attorney general.
Congresswoman Dina Argueta of the leftist Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, the party Bukele began his political career in, said that the announcement came as no surprise because Bukele had been working toward it. “However, we must establish that our constitution does not allow re-election in any moment,” she said.
Juan Pappier, senior investigator in Human Rights Watch Americas Division, has been a frequent Bukele critic and the human rights organization one of those that Bukele regularly rails against.
“This constitutional breach was predictable,” he said via Twitter. “El Salvador for some time has been on the path to be a dictatorship and many, for ideological blindness, cowardice, geopolitical interests or obsession with immigration did not want to raise the voice in time or help to stop it.”
Within El Salvador, the crackdown that began in late March after gangs killed 62 people in one day, has maintained its popularity despite a rising number of documented human rights violations. Nearly 53,000 people have been arrested since it was put into place March 27 and then renewed monthly ever since.
Human and civil rights organizations have documented more than 3,000. Still, recent polling has shown support for the measures, including suspending some constitutional rights under a state of exception, to be above 90%. Bukele’s own popularity has remained above 80%.
Under President Joe Biden, the U.S. government has been more critical of Bukele’s administration, sanctioning some members of his inner circle and accusing officials of exchanging benefits with gang leaders in return for keeping homicides relatively low during the first half of his term. Bukele has repeatedly denied any such pact, something his government has prosecuted officials from previous administrations for doing.
Eduardo Escobar, a lawyer with the nongovernmental watchdog Citizen Action, said “it is prohibited in the constitution, he has not right to seek re-election, that’s the rule. If he does it, it is contrary to the constitution and takes us closer to Nicaragua. It’s that simple.”
Nicaragua is Central America’s most ominous example. President Daniel Ortega was elected to his fourth consecutive term last November after jailing all of his serious potential opponents. But a constitutional ban on re-election did not stop former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández from seeking re-election either. A friendly court gave him the green light.
Still, Manuel Torres, a bank employee waiting for a bus Friday, was willing to give Bukele the benefit of the doubt.
“Some say it is not legal, we’ll have to see what happens,” Torres said. “There’s a lot of time before the elections, but I would vote for him.”
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CHICAGO — A Chicago firefighter was honored Friday with a posthumous degree from Southern Illinois University – Carbondale.
Capt. Ronald Regan Jr., 58, died Dec. 19, 2021, following a COVID-19 diagnosis. SIU-Carbondale said he was just one semester away from earning a bachelor’s degree in public safety management.
“Ron was not just a firefighter or captain, he was a friend,” Fire Commissioner Annette Nance-Holt said. “He did so much for everybody else. He never thought about himself.”
His daughter, Qianna, accepted his diploma and spoke on the family’s behalf.
“My dad inspired me, and it’s amazing to see how he inspired others,” she said.
Regan Jr. began his career with CFD in 1996.
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LONDON (AP) — The long goodbye for Queen Elizabeth II is a reminder of a broader truth playing out with little fanfare across Britain: The nation is bidding farewell to the men and women who fought the country’s battles during World War II.
The queen, who served as a mechanic and truck driver in the last months of the war, was a tangible link to the sailors, soldiers, airmen, marines and others who signed up to do their bit in a war that killed 384,000 service personnel and 70,000 British civilians.
But like the queen, even the youngest veterans of the war are now nearing their 100th birthdays, and a steady stream of obituaries tells the story of a disappearing generation.
“It’s extraordinary how that sense of the passing of time is felt very keenly at the moment,″ said Charles Byrne, director general of the Royal British Legion, the nation’s largest armed services charity.
“The queen was a personification of that generation … and with her passing, it just drives home the sense that time is moving relentlessly, as it does.”
That loss is, perhaps, felt more widely in the United Kingdom than a country like the United States, because the U.K.’s very existence was threatened during the war. Bombs fell on cities from London to Belfast, women were conscripted into war work and wartime rationing didn’t end until 1954.
Elizabeth, who famously saved ration coupons to make her wedding dress in 1947, led a ceremony of remembrance for all the nation’s fallen service personnel each year on the anniversary of the end of World War I.
“She is the epitome of that sense of service and stoic contribution,″ Byrne said. “And that is treasured more than ever.”
British authorities don’t know exactly how many World War II veterans are left because the nation’s census takers didn’t track military service until last year. Those figures are due to be released next month.
The Royal Air Force says it knows of only one surviving Battle of Britain pilot, the men Winston Churchill immortalized as “the few” who helped turn the tide of the war. Group Captain John Hemingway celebrated his 103rd birthday in July.
But the number of survivors is dwindling.
Among those who died this year were Henriette Hanotte, who ferried downed Allied pilots across the French border as they made their way home. And Harry Billinge, who was just 18 when he joined the first wave of troops to land on Gold Beach in Normandy on D-Day, as well as Douglas Newham, who survived 60 bombing raids as a Royal Air Force navigator, but was haunted by those who didn’t return.
It was a time of shared sacrifice. Then-Princess Elizabeth, like many teenagers, had to persuade her father to let her join the army in 1945.
When Elizabeth turned 18, King George VI exempted her from mandatory military service because he said her training as the heir to the throne took precedence over the wartime need for manpower.
But the princess, who began her war work at 14 with a broadcast to displaced children and later tended a vegetable garden as part of the government’s “Dig for Victory” program, got her way.
She enlisted in the Auxiliary Territorial Service in February 1945 and trained to become a military truck driver and mechanic. The ATS was the largest of the auxiliary services deploying women to non-combat rolls such as clerks, drivers and dispatch riders to free up men for front line duties.
The first female member of the royal family to serve in the armed forces, Elizabeth was promoted to honorary junior commander, the equivalent of an army captain, after completing five months of training. But the war ended before she could be assigned to active duty.
On May 8, 1945, Princess Elizabeth appeared in uniform on the balcony of Buckingham Palace as the royal family greeted the crowds celebrating Germany’s surrender. That night, she and her sister, Princess Margaret, slipped out of the palace to take part in the festivities.
“We cheered the king and queen on the balcony and then walked miles through the streets,” she later recalled. “I remember lines of unknown people linking arms and walking down Whitehall, all of us just swept along on a tide of happiness and relief.”
Many of those who took part in that joy are now gone.
Among them is Frank Baugh, a Royal Marine who helped guide a landing craft to Sword Beach during the June 6, 1944, D-Day landings. He later campaigned for a memorial to be built to commemorate the 22,442 men and women who died under British command during the Battle of Normandy.
A few months before his death in June at 98, Baugh toured the British Normandy Memorial, which overlooks the beach where he fought.
“I would like to see children coming all of the time,″ he said. “Because they’re the people we need to tell what’s happened, and those lads that didn’t get back — to remember them.”
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NJ city imposes super-low speed limit on every street
HOBOKEN — Sammy Hagar could do a remake of his 80s hit "I Can't Drive 55" as Hoboken transitions into a new citywide speed limit.
Even 55 will be too fast with the installation began Wednesday of new signage and pavement markings for the new 20 mph limit.
The new speed limit is part of the city's Vision Zero Action Plan with a goal to eliminate all traffic-related deaths and injuries by 2030.
Signs with radar to flash a driver's speed will be installed at the eight streets that carry traffic into the small Mile Square City. Hudson County will restripe sections of Willow Avenue.
The speed limit will not officially take effect until the installation is complete on both city and county streets. And once complete, enforcement will be educational-only at first, according to Public Safety Director Kenneth Ferrante, the former police chief.
"An enforcement campaign will then be introduced on the north and south ends of our city, where the Hoboken Police Department and Hudson County Sheriff’s Depart will collaborate to ensure that drivers are operating at safe speeds," Ferrante said.
Educational enforcement
The ordinance adopted unanimously by the City Council in July does not include specific fines for violations of the speed limit once the educational period is over. Violators could get two points for violations of up to 14 mph over the speed limit and 4 points up to 29 mph.
Mayor Ravi S. Bhalla pushed for the new speed limit and started the initiative by creating the Vision Zero Task Force with an executive order in 2019, which the mayor said makes pedestrians, drivers and cyclists safer.
“Even though it might take an extra minute or two to travel across Hoboken in a vehicle, that extra time could very well end up saving the life of a child or senior citizen," Bhalla said. "As a father of two children who walk our streets every day, the tradeoff is certainly worth it and is the latest effort we’re making to eliminate all traffic-related injuries by 2030. Thank you to the County for partnering with us on this life-saving initiative."
Dan Alexander is a reporter for New Jersey 101.5. You can reach him at dan.alexander@townsquaremedia.com
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- At its regular meeting held today, the Board of Directors of PNM Resources (NYSE: PNM) declared the regular quarterly dividend of $0.3475 per share on the company's common stock. The dividend is payable November 10, 2022, to shareholders of record at the close of business October 27, 2022.
PNM Resources (NYSE: PNM) is an energy holding company based in Albuquerque, N.M., with preliminary 2021 consolidated operating revenues of $1.8 billion. Through its regulated utilities, PNM and TNMP, PNM Resources provides electricity to approximately 800,000 homes and businesses in New Mexico and Texas. PNM serves its customers with a diverse mix of generation and purchased power resources totaling 3.1 gigawatts of capacity, with a goal to achieve 100% emissions-free energy by 2040. For more information, visit the company's website at www.PNMResources.com.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Association of Insurance Commissioners' (NAIC) Life Insurance Policy Locator (LIPL) helps to connect consumers with their deceased loved ones' lost life insurance policies and annuity contracts.
"Dealing with the financial aftermath in the death of a loved one is difficult and often confusing," said NAIC President and Idaho Insurance Director Dean Cameron.
"You might be asking if they had insurance. Their checking account shows a payment was made to a company, but how do you know if there is coverage? The LIPL can help you through the process. This free online tool is available to anyone and is one of the ways insurance regulators help consumers get their entitled insurance benefits," said Cameron.
The Locator is easy to use. In your web browser, go to naic.org, hover over Consumer, and click Life Insurance Policy Locator under Tools.
- Create an account by entering your email address and name.
- Create a password.
- Wait 30 minutes.
- Login and agree to the process.
- Enter your name and address.
- Submit a search request by entering the deceased's information from the death certificate:
Your request will be stored in a secure, encrypted database where participating life insurance and annuity companies can access the information through a secure portal. You will receive a "Do Not Reply" email confirming the request details you submitted. If a policy is found and you are the beneficiary, the life insurance or annuity company will contact you directly, usually within 90 days.
If no policy is found or you are not the beneficiary, you will not be contacted. Please note that the NAIC has no policy or beneficiary information.
If you have questions or need assistance, please contact your state department of insurance. In each state, there are consumer service personnel eager to assist you. If you do not know how to contact your state department of insurance, follow this link for assistance.
As part of our state-based system of insurance regulation in the United States, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) provides expertise, data, and analysis for insurance commissioners to effectively regulate the industry and protect consumers. The U.S. standard-setting organization is governed by the chief insurance regulators from the 50 states, the District of Columbia and five U.S. territories. Through the NAIC, state insurance regulators establish standards and best practices, conduct peer reviews, and coordinate regulatory oversight. NAIC staff supports these efforts and represents the collective views of state regulators domestically and internationally.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Faced with a decline in the number of corporate criminal prosecutions over the last decade, a top Justice Department official on Thursday unveiled new sweeteners for companies that cooperate with the government and a $250 million Congressional budget request to expand its work.
Every division that prosecutes corporate crime must now develop programs to incentivize companies to report misconduct, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said in a speech at New York University Law School. In some cases, no one will have to plead guilty to criminal charges if the violation was self-reported and the company fixed it.
The Justice Department’s top priority is prosecuting individuals who commit corporate crime, she said. She pointed to companies like Theranos, whose disgraced CEO Elizabeth Holmes was convicted on felony counts earlier this year.
“We will hold those who break the law accountable, regardless of their position, status, or seniority,” Monaco said.
Companies will also be required to come forward more quickly with evidence of suspected misdeeds to get leniency, and could eventually be rewarded for clawing back money from executives that break the law.
The new policies include alluring carrots for companies, but if they’re not accompanied by the stick of increased enforcement they may not have a big impact, so the $250 million request is a key piece, said Julian Andre, a former federal prosecutor who is now in private practice with the Los Angeles-based firm McDermott Will and Emery.
“Corporate prosecutions are still declining,” he said. “Until the DOJ devotes substantial additional resources to pursuing these time-intensive and complex investigations … many companies may still decide that voluntary disclosures are not in its best interests.”
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- At its regular meeting held today, the Board of Directors of PNM Resources (NYSE: PNM) declared the regular quarterly dividend of $0.3475 per share on the company's common stock. The dividend is payable November 10, 2022, to shareholders of record at the close of business October 27, 2022.
PNM Resources (NYSE: PNM) is an energy holding company based in Albuquerque, N.M., with preliminary 2021 consolidated operating revenues of $1.8 billion. Through its regulated utilities, PNM and TNMP, PNM Resources provides electricity to approximately 800,000 homes and businesses in New Mexico and Texas. PNM serves its customers with a diverse mix of generation and purchased power resources totaling 3.1 gigawatts of capacity, with a goal to achieve 100% emissions-free energy by 2040. For more information, visit the company's website at www.PNMResources.com.
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Updated September 16, 2022 at 5:06 PM ET
A huge chunk of Alaska's western coastline is now under flood and storm warnings, as forecasters warn that the remnants of a Pacific typhoon could bring seas up to 54 feet and winds up to 75 knots (86 mph) to the shore this weekend.
"Typhoon Merbok has transitioned into a historically powerful Alaskan storm in the Bering Sea," the National Weather Service said on Friday. "Significant, damaging high winds and storm surges are expected to slam into southwestern Alaska, especially along the southern Seward peninsula."
Post TC #Merbok moving into the Bering Sea this morning. Low pressure has reached 937 MB making it the deepest low to affect the region in September (since 2005). Winds to 75 kts and seas to 54 ft expected. #marinewx #alaskawx #hurricaneforce @NOAASatellites @NWSAlaska pic.twitter.com/NPT0wbjvru
— NWS OPC (@NWSOPC) September 16, 2022
Power lines could be blown down, and roads and houses could flood as water levels are expected to be 3-8 feet higher than normal high tide marks, the agency said.
By 11 p.m. local time Thursday night, a weather buoy in the Western Aleutians was recording seas reaching 41 feet, the NWS office in Anchorage said. The storm's tropical origin was evident on the outlying Adak Island, where wind gusts reached 75 mph and the temperature rose to 70 degrees.
As of 11pm this evening Buoy 46071 south of Amchitka Island in the Western Aleutians has recorded seas to 41 feet🌊🌊!! Here is a picture of the massive waves caught on the buoy's camera. Adak Island has recorded multiple gusts to 75 mph and reached 70°F. #akwx @databuoycenter pic.twitter.com/oDQhjzVZ5W
— NWS Anchorage (@NWSAnchorage) September 16, 2022
The strongest hurricane-force winds are expected to weaken a bit Friday before the system reaches land, but storm warnings persist through early Saturday morning. But dire flood warnings will remain in effect for some northern coastal and inland areas through Sunday morning.
"Highest water levels are expected Saturday night and Sunday," the NWS said.
Flood warnings are in effect for a wide area, with Nome roughly in its center. But virtually the entire shoreline of Alaska is under some form of alert, with small-craft advisories issued from the Gulf of Alaska to the coast of the North Slope.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KARK) – Sarah Huckabee Sanders released a statement Friday revealing that she underwent surgery earlier Friday after learning she had thyroid cancer.
In the statement, Sanders said that she underwent surgery to remove her thyroid and surrounding lymph nodes. She added that she is now cancer free. She thanked Arkansas doctors and nurses for their treatment. She also noted that she looks forward to returning to her campaign for Arkansas governor soon.
“This experience has been a reminder that whatever battle you may be facing, don’t lose heart,” Sanders said. “As governor, I will never quit fighting for the people of our great state.”
Dr. John R. Sims stated that Sanders is recovering from surgery and is expected to be back on her feet within the next 24 hours. He added that her stage 1 cancer is the most common type of thyroid cancer and has a good prognosis.
“While she will need adjuvant treatment with radioactive iodine, as well as continued long term follow up, I think it’s fair to say she’s now cancer free, and I don’t anticipate any of this slowing her down,” Sims stated.
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KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — The Southernmost Point marker in Key West, Florida, a landmark delineating the continental United States’ southernmost spot of land, became a memorial to Queen Elizabeth II on Friday when city workers installed a British flag and royal purple banner at the much-photographed site beside the Atlantic Ocean.
The tribute was particularly fitting because the long-reigning monarch, who died Sept. 8 at age 96, visited the Florida Keys in 1991.
“We do have a connection with the queen; we had the privilege of actually having her visit us,” Key West Mayor Teri Johnston said.
“We join the world today in mourning the loss of such an incredible human being,” Johnston said.
Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip stopped at Dry Tortugas National Park and Fort Jefferson, 70 miles (113 kilometers) west of Key West in the Gulf of Mexico, on the royal yacht. They were welcomed by then-Florida Keys Mayor Wilhelmina Harvey, who presented them with a conch shell, an enduring symbol of the island chain.
The red, yellow, black and white Southernmost Point marker, a 20-ton concrete monument that resembles a giant marine navigational buoy, was installed in 1983 and has become a popular photo stop for travelers.
Plans call for the memorial to Queen Elizabeth to stay in place through her funeral on Monday,.
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MLB Expanded Pitching Comparison
For Games of Saturday, September 17
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CAR-Career record versus this opponent.
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WFO RENO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, September 17, 2022
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LAKE WIND ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Reno NV
227 PM PDT Fri Sep 16 2022
...LAKE WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM TO 11 PM PDT SATURDAY...
* WHAT...Southwest winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 45 mph
expected. Waves 2 to 4 feet.
* WHERE...Lake Tahoe.
* WHEN...From 2 PM to 11 PM PDT Saturday.
* IMPACTS...Small boats, kayaks and paddle boards will be prone
to capsizing and should remain off lake waters until
conditions improve.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Check lake conditions before heading out and be prepared for a
sudden increase in winds and wave heights. Consider postponing
boating activities on the lake until a day with less wind.
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