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Farm work, geography, and health care gaps leave them vulnerable to extreme weather. But research on the health impacts and effective prevention is thin. | |
Submitted at 07-17-2023, 04:55 PM by sleeppoor | |
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An Asheville photographer has filed more than 170 copyright infringement lawsuits in the last decade. Experts say the law needs reform. | |
Submitted at 07-17-2023, 04:24 PM by sleeppoor | |
Each shooting profoundly impacts the victim and health of the surrounding community, according to a Knock LA survey.
A yearlong Knock LA analysis of LASD records reveals that, since 1984, at least 916 people have been fired upon by deputies. Of those, 387, or 42%, were killed by the gunfire and 311 were wounded, while the shots missed another 209 people.
Compton, a city of mostly low-income Latine and Black people, is an epicenter of these sheriff shootings. Since 1984, deputies have fired their weapons at 88 Compton residents. On average, one person in Compton, population 93,500, is killed by deputies every year, according to Knock LA’s analysis. | |
Submitted at 07-17-2023, 03:51 PM by sleeppoor | |
Object at Green Head, 250km from Perth in Western Australia, could be from an Indian space rocket, experts said, but police say it is not hazardous, almost like they want to keep it all for themselves. | |
Submitted at 07-17-2023, 02:28 PM by John Holmes Boxxyfucker | |
Jury selection in the trial is scheduled to begin Monday in federal court in Dallas. Timpa died in August 2016 after calling 911 for help. | |
Submitted at 07-17-2023, 09:18 AM by sleeppoor | |
There is no defense an amateur nuclear streaming failure can develop that his natural predator, the Arkansas copper thief, will not counter. | |
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One tenant said raw sewage “will just sit in the basement like a pond." Tenants say they have rodent and roach infestations, broken locks, and mold. | |
Submitted at 07-17-2023, 04:43 AM by sleeppoor | |
Though there are some parallels in this new study, fungi are strange beings, comprising a whole other kingdom of life to us animals. So there may be less chance of scientists finding some cellular machinery in fungi capable of quashing cancer that could be relevant to humans. | |
Submitted at 07-16-2023, 07:02 PM by Nibbles | |
A cruise line has apologized to over 1,000 of its passengers after one of its ships arrived at port in the middle of a whale hunt where dozens of the marine mammals were being slaughtered.
Ambassador Cruise Lines confirmed on Thursday that the arrival of their ship Ambition in Torshavn in the Faroe Islands -- located between Scotland, Iceland and Norway in the North Atlantic -- “coincided with the culmination of a hunt of 40+ pilot whales in the port area,” according to the cruise line. | |
Submitted at 07-16-2023, 12:46 PM by Wreckard | |
Parma is quiet at night. The man sitting opposite me is paranoid someone will overhear our conversation. “They hate me here,” he explains in a hushed voice. He checks behind him, but the only other person in the osteria is a waitress who has had nothing to do since serving us our osso buco bottoncini. The aroma of roasted bone marrow wafts up from the table. Amy Winehouse’s cover of “Valerie” plays on a faraway radio.
“Can I badmouth them?” he asks. I tell him he can. After all, he hasn’t been invited here to expose corporate fraud. He has come to tell me the truth about parmesan cheese.
The man I’m dining with is Alberto Grandi, Marxist academic, reluctant podcast celebrity and judge at this year’s Tiramisu World Cup in Treviso. (“I wouldn’t miss it, even if I had dinner plans with the Pope”.) Grandi has dedicated his career to debunking the myths around Italian food; this is the first time he’s spoken to the foreign press. When his 2018 book, Denominazione di origine inventata (Invented Designation of Origin), started racking up sales in Italy, his friend Daniele Soffiati suggested they record a spin-off podcast.
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Pickleball has enjoyed a public image as the people's sport. It's also considered “a venture capitalist’s dream.” I suggest you run. | |
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Alex Mashinsky, founder and former CEO of bankrupt cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network, pleaded not guilty Thursday to fraud charges that he misled customers and artificially inflated the value of his company’s propriety crypto token.
Three United States federal regulatory agencies also sued Mashinsky and Celsius in connection with the case.
Mashinsky, 57, was charged with seven criminal counts – including securities fraud, commodities fraud and wire fraud – according to an indictment unsealed earlier on Thursday.
He is one of several crypto moguls to be indicted in another blow for the industry, which is undergoing a reckoning after a slump in crypto prices led to the collapse of several companies, including exchange giant FTX. Its founder Sam Bankman-Fried was charged with fraud last year and has pleaded not guilty.
Mashinsky arrived in federal court in Manhattan for his arraignment wearing a grey polo shirt, jeans and no handcuffs.
US Magistrate Judge Ona Wang said he would be released on a $40m bond secured by his Manhattan residence.
Mashinsky and Celsius’ former chief revenue officer, Roni Cohen-Pavon, were charged with market manipulation of the company’s crypto token, known as Cel, as well as a fraudulent scheme to manipulate the price of the cryptocurrency and wire fraud related to the manipulation of the token, according to the indictment.
Prosecutors alleged Mashinsky also personally reaped approximately $42m in proceeds from selling his holdings of the Cel token.
Cohen-Pavon is abroad and is an Israeli citizen, US lawyer Damian Williams said at a press conference detailing the charges. Williams declined to comment on whether the former Celsius executive would be extradited.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sued Mashinsky and Celsius, according to a court filing, alleging he and his firm raised billions of dollars through the sale of unregistered crypto securities and misled investors about the financial state of the privately held, Hoboken, New Jersey-based company.
The SEC, along with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Federal Trade Commission, accused Mashinsky and his company in their lawsuits of touting Celsius as safe – akin to a traditional bank – even as they took increasingly risky steps to deliver promised returns of as much as 17 percent.
Celsius used emails with phrases like “Pour Yourself a Cup of Profits” and “Profits in your Pocket” to promote its interest-earning programme.
While the firm lost millions of dollars as customers raced to withdraw funds, Mashinsky and Celsius continued to claim the company was financially secure and had enough funds to meet withdrawals, regulators said.
“Whether it’s old-school fraud or some new-school crypto scheme, it doesn’t matter one bit. It’s all fraud to us,” Williams, the lawyer, said. | |
Submitted at 07-15-2023, 08:54 AM by A Fistful Of Double Downs | |
Meta and major tax preparation companies inappropriately shared millions of taxpayers’ financial data for years, according to a congressional report released today that was spurred by a Markup article.
Our investigation, which was published in November, revealed how tax filing services including H&R Block, TaxAct, and TaxSlayer were transmitting data to Facebook’s parent company, Meta, through a tool called the Meta Pixel. The data was sent as taxpayers filed their taxes and included personal information like first and last names, income, filing status, and refund amounts. Some data was also sent to Google through its analytics tools, and Google was also a subject of the congressional investigation.
Today’s report from lawmakers was informed by interviews with representatives of Meta, Google, and major tax prep services. It cited and confirmed The Markup’s report and chided the tax companies for being ”shockingly careless with their treatment of taxpayer data” and the tech firms for acting “with stunning disregard for taxpayer privacy.” | |
Submitted at 07-15-2023, 02:58 AM by sleeppoor | |
A New Rochelle, N.Y., police officer shot Jarrell Garris, 37, after he was accused of eating some grapes and a banana without paying, his family’s lawyer said. | |
Submitted at 07-15-2023, 02:27 AM by sleeppoor | |
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Farm work, geography, and health care gaps leave them vulnerable to extreme weather. But research on the health impacts and effective prevention is thin.
An Asheville photographer has filed more than 170 copyright infringement lawsuits in the last decade. Experts say the law needs reform.
Each shooting profoundly impacts the victim and health of the surrounding community, according to a Knock LA survey.
A yearlong Knock LA analysis of LASD records reveals that, since 1984, at least 916 people have been fired upon by deputies. Of those, 387, or 42%, were killed by the gunfire and 311 were wounded, while the shots missed another 209 people.
Compton, a city of mostly low-income Latine and Black people, is an epicenter of these sheriff shootings. Since 1984, deputies have fired their weapons at 88 Compton residents. On average, one person in Compton, population 93,500, is killed by deputies every year, according to Knock LA’s analysis.
Object at Green Head, 250km from Perth in Western Australia, could be from an Indian space rocket, experts said, but police say it is not hazardous, almost like they want to keep it all for themselves.
Jury selection in the trial is scheduled to begin Monday in federal court in Dallas. Timpa died in August 2016 after calling 911 for help.
There is no defense an amateur nuclear streaming failure can develop that his natural predator, the Arkansas copper thief, will not counter.
One tenant said raw sewage “will just sit in the basement like a pond." Tenants say they have rodent and roach infestations, broken locks, and mold.
Though there are some parallels in this new study, fungi are strange beings, comprising a whole other kingdom of life to us animals. So there may be less chance of scientists finding some cellular machinery in fungi capable of quashing cancer that could be relevant to humans.
A cruise line has apologized to over 1,000 of its passengers after one of its ships arrived at port in the middle of a whale hunt where dozens of the marine mammals were being slaughtered.
Ambassador Cruise Lines confirmed on Thursday that the arrival of their ship Ambition in Torshavn in the Faroe Islands -- located between Scotland, Iceland and Norway in the North Atlantic -- “coincided with the culmination of a hunt of 40+ pilot whales in the port area,” according to the cruise line.
Parma is quiet at night. The man sitting opposite me is paranoid someone will overhear our conversation. “They hate me here,” he explains in a hushed voice. He checks behind him, but the only other person in the osteria is a waitress who has had nothing to do since serving us our osso buco bottoncini. The aroma of roasted bone marrow wafts up from the table. Amy Winehouse’s cover of “Valerie” plays on a faraway radio.
“Can I badmouth them?” he asks. I tell him he can. After all, he hasn’t been invited here to expose corporate fraud. He has come to tell me the truth about parmesan cheese.
The man I’m dining with is Alberto Grandi, Marxist academic, reluctant podcast celebrity and judge at this year’s Tiramisu World Cup in Treviso. (“I wouldn’t miss it, even if I had dinner plans with the Pope”.) Grandi has dedicated his career to debunking the myths around Italian food; this is the first time he’s spoken to the foreign press. When his 2018 book, Denominazione di origine inventata (Invented Designation of Origin), started racking up sales in Italy, his friend Daniele Soffiati suggested they record a spin-off podcast.
Pickleball has enjoyed a public image as the people's sport. It's also considered “a venture capitalist’s dream.” I suggest you run.
Alex Mashinsky, founder and former CEO of bankrupt cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network, pleaded not guilty Thursday to fraud charges that he misled customers and artificially inflated the value of his company’s propriety crypto token.
Three United States federal regulatory agencies also sued Mashinsky and Celsius in connection with the case.
Mashinsky, 57, was charged with seven criminal counts – including securities fraud, commodities fraud and wire fraud – according to an indictment unsealed earlier on Thursday.
He is one of several crypto moguls to be indicted in another blow for the industry, which is undergoing a reckoning after a slump in crypto prices led to the collapse of several companies, including exchange giant FTX. Its founder Sam Bankman-Fried was charged with fraud last year and has pleaded not guilty.
Mashinsky arrived in federal court in Manhattan for his arraignment wearing a grey polo shirt, jeans and no handcuffs.
US Magistrate Judge Ona Wang said he would be released on a $40m bond secured by his Manhattan residence.
Mashinsky and Celsius’ former chief revenue officer, Roni Cohen-Pavon, were charged with market manipulation of the company’s crypto token, known as Cel, as well as a fraudulent scheme to manipulate the price of the cryptocurrency and wire fraud related to the manipulation of the token, according to the indictment.
Prosecutors alleged Mashinsky also personally reaped approximately $42m in proceeds from selling his holdings of the Cel token.
Cohen-Pavon is abroad and is an Israeli citizen, US lawyer Damian Williams said at a press conference detailing the charges. Williams declined to comment on whether the former Celsius executive would be extradited.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sued Mashinsky and Celsius, according to a court filing, alleging he and his firm raised billions of dollars through the sale of unregistered crypto securities and misled investors about the financial state of the privately held, Hoboken, New Jersey-based company.
The SEC, along with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Federal Trade Commission, accused Mashinsky and his company in their lawsuits of touting Celsius as safe – akin to a traditional bank – even as they took increasingly risky steps to deliver promised returns of as much as 17 percent.
Celsius used emails with phrases like “Pour Yourself a Cup of Profits” and “Profits in your Pocket” to promote its interest-earning programme.
While the firm lost millions of dollars as customers raced to withdraw funds, Mashinsky and Celsius continued to claim the company was financially secure and had enough funds to meet withdrawals, regulators said.
“Whether it’s old-school fraud or some new-school crypto scheme, it doesn’t matter one bit. It’s all fraud to us,” Williams, the lawyer, said.
Meta and major tax preparation companies inappropriately shared millions of taxpayers’ financial data for years, according to a congressional report released today that was spurred by a Markup article.
Our investigation, which was published in November, revealed how tax filing services including H&R Block, TaxAct, and TaxSlayer were transmitting data to Facebook’s parent company, Meta, through a tool called the Meta Pixel. The data was sent as taxpayers filed their taxes and included personal information like first and last names, income, filing status, and refund amounts. Some data was also sent to Google through its analytics tools, and Google was also a subject of the congressional investigation.
Today’s report from lawmakers was informed by interviews with representatives of Meta, Google, and major tax prep services. It cited and confirmed The Markup’s report and chided the tax companies for being ”shockingly careless with their treatment of taxpayer data” and the tech firms for acting “with stunning disregard for taxpayer privacy.”
A New Rochelle, N.Y., police officer shot Jarrell Garris, 37, after he was accused of eating some grapes and a banana without paying, his family’s lawyer said.