Manufactured goods include industrial equipment, electric equipment, pharmaceutical products, vehicles and optical instruments. Agricultural products include oilseeds, meats, cereals, cotton and seafood.
Digging deeper, China agreed to purchase a variety of goods from each major industry, including but not limited to the following:
A woman with Capstone Clinic prepares to administer a COVID-19 test for a patient at the new testing site outside the Alaska Airlines Center in Anchorage on Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2021. (Emily Mesner / ADN)
Alaska ended a week of record COVID-19 cases and elevated hospitalizations with another high count of 893 new COVID-19 infections and one new death reported Friday.
Alaska’s surge — currently one of the worst in the country — is driven by the highly contagious delta variant, which has pushed up case counts, hospitalizations and deaths across most of the U.S. in recent months.
But while other states have very recently begun to see plateauing case counts, Alaska continues to report pandemic-high counts that the state epidemiologist said this week shows little sign of slowing.
According to a tracker compiled by The New York Times, Alaska by Friday was third in the nation for new daily case rates and in the top five for new hospitalizations over the past two weeks.
By Friday, a total of 204 COVID-positive patients were in hospitals statewide, according to state data. That’s a slight drop from earlier in the week but still a near-record, and far higher than the hospitalization numbers reported over last winter’s peak. More than half of the current hospitalizations were concentrated in Anchorage, and included 33 people on ventilators.
Patients with the virus accounted for nearly half the state’s intensive-care unit patients. In all, about one in five hospitalized Alaskans have COVID-19.
Hospitals say virus hospitalization numbers are likely an undercount of the true impact of COVID-19, since they don’t include some long-term COVID-19 patients who no longer test positive but still need hospital care.
Few states have surpassed their winter-level surges the way Alaska has in recent weeks. Of those that have, fewer have overwhelmed their hospitals to the crisis levels Alaska is now experiencing. Providence Alaska Medical Center, the state’s largest hospital, this week began rationing care under crisis-care protocols, while most other facilities reported similar levels of stress.
Dr. Anne Zink, Alaska’s chief medical officer, this week encouraged Alaskans with less serious or longer-term health concerns to consider visiting urgent care or walk-up health clinics instead of overwhelmed emergency rooms.
Because COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths lag a few weeks behind surges in cases, Alaska’s overburdened hospitals aren’t likely to see relief anytime soon.
Of the 893 new cases reported Friday, 875 involved residents and 18 involved nonresidents. While cases are high across most of the state, communities on the road system with lower vaccination rates — including Anchorage, Fairbanks, the Mat-Su and most of the Kenai Peninsula — appear to be hardest hit.
One new death was reported Friday. Since March 2020, 454 Alaskans and 15 people from out of state who were in Alaska have died with COVID-19.
After leading U.S. states in vaccinations per capita earlier this year, Alaska on Friday ranked 32nd. By Friday, 62.2% of eligible Alaskans had received at least one dose of vaccine and 57% were fully vaccinated, according to state data.
Meanwhile, state officials say continued high numbers of new cases are leading to backlogs in contact tracing and data reporting.
As of Friday, the state’s seven-day average test positivity rate — the number of positive tests out of total performed — was 9.58%, a near-record high since the pandemic began. Health officials say anything over 5% indicates a need for more testing.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
A contentious public infight within the National Rifle Association came to a head on Saturday with the organization’s president, retired Lt. Col. Oliver North, announcing that he will not return for a second term.
North had intended to make an appearance at the organization’s national convention in Indianapolis over the weekend, but instead of attending, Richard Childress, who serves as one of the NRA’s current vice presidents, read a letter on his behalf.
“Please note, I hoped to be with you today as interim president endorsed for reelection. I’m now informed that will now not happen,” Childress read to a convention hall full of NRA members. “I’ve been on the NRA board for more than two decades, it was a great privilege to serve as your president this past year.”
North’s departure comes amid a heated battle with Wayne LaPierre, chief executive officer and the longtime spiritual leader of the NRA. North reportedly asked LaPierre to resign from his post earlier this week as the organization faces challenges surrounding fundraising and its nonprofit status, the New York Times reported.
The organization’s 2016 election spending, including $36 million to help Trump, has prompted regulators in its charter base of New York state to threaten to investigate its nonprofit status.
North told organization brass that he created a committee to investigate possible financial improprieties committed by the organization, the Times reported. North also sent a letter to the board with allegations that LePierre charged a vendor more than $200,000 on wardrobe purchases, according to The Wall Street Journal.
In response, LePierre sent a letter to the NRA board alleging he was being extorted and pressured by North, who threatened to release “damaging” information about him if he did not resign, according to the Journal. LaPierre said he refused and called on board members to “see this for what it is: a threat meant to intimidate and divide us.”
The dispute between the two NRA titans was triggered in part after the organization filed a lawsuit against advertising firm Ackerman McQueen, alleging the agency was not being transparent with how it used NRA money, according to the Journal. The NRA paid Ackerman McQueen $42.6 million in 2017, making it the group’s largest vendor, the Journal reported.
The lawsuit is also connected to a looming investigation by New York state regulators seeking to re-examine the NRA’s tax exemption status as a non-profit.
North, who accepted a “salaried position” with Ackerman McQueen, said that the lawsuit was filed without notice to the board, according to the letter read by Childress.
LaPierre alleged that North has “contractual and financial loyalties” to Ackerman McQueen and was, therefore, protecting them, according to the Journal.
North, a central figure in the Iran-Contra scandal, was selected last year to be the NRA’s president and his term will end on Monday.
The 76 member NRA board will face pressing decisions when it meets on Monday.
Safia Samee Ali writes for NBC News, based in Chicago.
“We have law firms, we have project developers, the guys who are putting clean technology on the ground around the world, they’re also members of our association as well,” says Alessandro Vitelli, an IETA spokesman.
Over the past few decades, the American public has become more socially liberal on most issues. It has reversed its opposition to gay marriage and marijuana legalization and grown unsupportive of the death penalty. But there’s one issue that’s effectively stagnated, evenly dividing the electorate, with no signs of budging: abortion.
Twenty years ago, 56 percent of the country favored legal abortion. Today, that number is 57 percent, with minimal fluctuation over the past two decades.
But the binary of pro-choice vs. pro-life doesn’t tell the whole story.
Today’s Democratic Party would have you believe that the future is female and demands abortion on demand at any time in a pregnancy. But the average American’s view on the matter can pretty much be summed up with “safe, legal, and rare,” the standard that Democrats abandoned long ago.
While the majority of Americans favor legal abortion in the first three months of pregnancy, just one quarter believe in allowing it in the second trimester. That figure plummets to 13 percent when Americans are asked about legal abortion for the final trimester of pregnancy. These numbers have remained constant for two decades.
These figures grow even more complicated when Americans judge the rationale behind an abortion. The overwhelming majority of the public favors a woman’s ability to abort a pregnancy conceived through rape, but only 45 percent of Americans believe a woman should be allowed to get an abortion solely for personal reasons, even in the first trimester.
Compared to the nation’s new, popular support for gay marriage and legal pot, our abortion polling demonstrates that social liberalism is now social libertarianism. Letting people live their lives without the imposition of the government is broadly supported, but abortion imposes a level of cognitive dissonance in the American psyche. If the stagnancy and breakdown of our abortion polling numbers indicate anything, it’s that Americans don’t want to abolish the practice outright but remain extremely uncomfortable with the Left’s fetishization of it.
Rather than treat abortion as a necessary evil, as most Americans seem to, the new Democratic Party has heralded abortion as a positive good, a personal undertaking to celebrate as an act of feminist independence. The execrable “ShoutYourAbortion” campaign repeatedly trends on social media, and the ardent pro-choice crowd has vilified Republican lawmakers for attempting to deregulate and increase access to birth control pill as well as commonsense pushes to reduce the incidence of unintended pregnancies.
Now, New York and Virginia have made concerted efforts to legalize abortion not just past the point of fetal viability but right up until the time of birth. Democrats in those two states have turned their backs on all meaningful attempts to define the beginning of life as, say, the point at which a fetus can feel pain or the moment of quickening (the European Medieval understanding). Instead, they’ve abandoned any pretense of ethics and accepted that some humans simply have less moral value than other humans.
Democrats have relied on the most sympathetic presentation of women seeking abortions, invoking teen pregnancies and poor, single women to win over Americans skeptical of abortion. But now the Left is gambling that the country will accept abortions up to birth, motivated by pure selfishness, as a positive good. This may just detonate the tenuous coalition that’s kept the pro-choice movement a national majority.
Fotógrafo y colaborador del sitio digital La Bandera Noticias, Juan Carlos Hernández Ríos fue asesinado la noche del martes en el municipio de Yuriria, Guanajuato, informó el portal Zona Franca.
El jefe de información de Zona Franca, Javier Bravo, aseguró para #AristeguiEnVivo que Juan Carlos Hernández colaboraba desde hace dos meses con el portal La Bandera Noticias, donde fungía como asistente del reportero Alejandro Chávez.
Chávez ya había sido sido amenazado por la familia del alcalde de Yuriria, Gerardo Gaviña, desde diciembre pasado, explicó Bravo.
Sin embargo, el coordinador de Comunicación Social del Gobierno de Guanajuato, Enrique Avilés, negó que Juan Carlos Hernández sea periodista y que su asesinato tenga relación con el ejercicio periodístico.
Agregó que todo crimen es condenable y que se va a investigar el homicidio, porque todos los asesinatos son deplorables para las víctimas y sus familias.
Previamente, el periodista Javier Bravo aseguró que aun cuando Juan Carlos Hernández Ríos era taxista de profesión, comenzó a colaborar con La Bandera Noticias en el marco de la violencia creciente que vive Guanajuato y que, poco a poco, había comenzado a enviar al sitio fotografías y videos para reportes policiacos.
El Real Madrid y el Atlético de Madrid empataron 1-1 este martes en el Santiago Bernabéu en la ida de la Supercopa de España, en la que James Rodríguez marcó su primer gol oficial con la camiseta blanca.
En la reedición de la pasada final de la Liga de Campeones (victoria blanca 4-1), James abrió el marcador en el minuto 81 y Raúl García hizo el empate en el 88.
El diez colombiano, que entró en la segunda parte en sustitución del portugués Cristiano Ronaldo -con problemas en su pierna izquierda-, marcó así su primer tanto en el Bernabéu. El tenista Rafael Nadal, gran aficionado blanco y presente en la tribuna, lo celebró con alegría.
Durante gran parte del encuentro, el Real Madrid, campeón de Copa, chocó con el bloque defensivo del Atlético, campeón de Liga, que mostró que conserva su solidez pese a haber perdido este verano a piezas importantes como el hispano-brasileño Diego Costa, el portero belga Thibaut Courtois o el lateral brasileño Filipe Luis.
Cuando se llevaba un cuarto de hora de juego un error de la defensa del Real Madrid permitió a Saúl, de 19 años y sorpresa en el once de Diego Simeone, quedarse solo ante Iker Casillas, pero disparó sin potencia ni colocación, y el guardameta respondió con solvencia.
Entre las pocas ocasiones del conjunto local en la primera parte estuvo un cabezazo de Ronaldo que se marchó fuera después de un centro desde la izquierda de Gareth Bale.
En la segunda mitad, ya con James sobre el campo, el Real Madrid tiró por primera vez entre los tres palos. Bale recogió un centro de Dani Carvajal y su potente lanzamiento lo despejó con autoridad Miguel Ángel Moyá.
En una de las primeras acciones en las que participó el colombiano, forzó una falta al borde del área por agarrón del capitán del Atlético Gabi.
El lanzamiento desde el balcón del área de Sergio Ramos se fue alto. Se tuvo que repetir porque la barrera se adelantó y Bale lo intentó, pero sin colocar. Despejó Moyá y el balón se quedó suelto. El alemán Toni Kroos disparó finalmente por encima del larguero.
El panorama había cambiado, el Real Madrid llegaba con mayor facilidad. En el minuto 70 James recibió el balón en el pico derecho del área y su tiro con la izquierda salió muy cerca de la escuadra. Fue su primer aviso.
Finalmente, tras un centro de Carvajal y en una jugada con varios rechaces, el balón le cayó al “niño maravilla”, que marcó con la pierna derecha.
Pero la alegría duró poco ya que Raúl García igualó en el 88, cuando acertó a empujar el balón a la red tras el saque de un córner.
Ficha técnica:
1 – Real Madrid: Iker Casillas; Carvajal, Pepe, Sergio Ramos, Marcelo; Xabi Alonso, Modric (Di María, m.78), Kroos; Bale, Cristiano Ronaldo (James, m.46) y Benzema.
1 – Atlético de Madrid: Moyá; Juanfran, Miranda, Godín, Siqueira (Ansaldi, m.63); Saúl Ñíguez (Griezmann, m.56), Mario Suárez, Gabi, Koke; Raúl García; y Mandzukic (Raúl Jiménez, m.79).
Goles: 1-0, m.81: James. 1-1, m.88: Raúl García.
Árbitro: Estrada Fernández (colegio catalán). Amonestó a Xabi Alonso (38) y Ramos (60) por el Real Madrid; y a Koke (5), Siqueira (12), Mario Suárez (58), Mandzukic (60), Raúl García (68) por el Atlético de Madrid.
The United States,like most countries, does not recognize Taiwan as an independent nation. It adheres to the one-China policy, which states that there is only one China, and which acknowledges the Chinese point of view that Taiwan is part of it.
“If you think about what it means to have a virus takeover that rapidly, it means that it is the most fit virus that it is spreading more efficiently, that it is spreading in pockets that are unvaccinated and it’s causing a lot of disease, and a lot of stress in it,” he added.
Mississippi has administered at least one shot to just 37% of its population, ranking last in the country. Officials there asked people over 65 and immunocompromised residents to avoid any indoor mass gatherings for the next two weeks amid “significant transmission” of the delta variant over the coming weeks.
“We don’t want anybody to die needlessly,” Mississippi State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs said during a news briefing Friday.
The Covid vaccines currently being used are proving to be successful in preventing severe disease, hospitalization and death from the delta variant, according to Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Breakthrough infections are rare, and about 75% of the people who die or are hospitalized with Covid after vaccination are over the age of 65, according to the CDC.
“Preliminary data over the last six months suggest 99.5% of deaths from Covid-19 in the states have occurred in unvaccinated people … the suffering and loss we are now seeing is nearly entirely avoidable,” Walensky said earlier this month.
In addition to the risk of illness for Americans who have yet to get a shot, having unvaccinated pockets of the population could threaten the country’s ability to control the pandemic. Continued transmission of the virus means additional opportunities for new variants to emerge, with the possibility that one will be able to evade the protection offered by vaccines.
While 48% of all Americans are fully vaccinated, the pace of daily shots has slowed significantly in recent months. About 515,000 vaccinations have been administered each day on average over the past week, CDC data shows, following a steady decline from peak levels of more than 3 million shots per day in April.
“MURIENDO POR CRUZAR,” AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE INCREASING NUMBER OF IMMIGRANT DEATHS ALONG THE BORDER, THIS SUNDAY, AUGUST 3 AT 6 P.M./5 C
Carmen Dominicci and Neida Sandoval present the Telemundo and The Weather Channel co-production
Miami – July 31, 2014 –Telemundo presents “Muriendo por Cruzar”, a documentary that investigates why increasing numbers of immigrants are dying while trying to cross the US-Mexican border near the city of Falfurrias, Texas, this Sunday, August 3 at 6PM/5 C. The Telemundo and The Weather Channel co-production, presented by Noticias Telemundo journalists Carmen Dominicci and Neida Sandoval, reveals the obstacles immigrants face once they cross into US territory, including extreme weather conditions, as they try to evade the border patrol. “Muriendo por Cruzar” is part of Noticias Telemundo’s special coverage of the crisis on the border and immigration reform.
“‘Muriendo por Cruzar’” dares to ask questions that reveal the actual conditions undocumented immigrants face as they try to start a new life in the United States,” said Alina Falcón, Telemundo’s Executive Vice President for News and Alternative Programming. “Our collaboration with The Weather Channel was very productive. They have a unique expertise in covering the impact of weather on people’s lives, as we do in covering immigration reform and the border crisis. The result is a compelling documentary that exposes a harrowing reality.”
“Muriendo por Cruzar” is the first co-production by Telemundo and The Weather Channel. Both networks are part of NBCUniversal.
Celebridades y admiradores del fallecido actor lamentaron la prdida al tiempo que elogiaron su persona y carrera artstica. | Fuente: Privada | Twitter Thala
Celebridades y admiradores de Robin Williams lamentaron la muerte del actor, al parecer por suicidio.
El destacado actor Robin Williams era uno de los artistas más queridos de Hollywood. Así quedó demostrado a través de frases que compartieron los famosos en Twitter.
La conductora Ellen DeGeneres escribió: “No puedo creer la noticia sobre Robin Williams. Él dio tanto a tanta gente. Tengo el corazón destrozado”.
“Supiste sembrar en mi risas y reflexión con tu arte. Una pérdida profunda de un ser tan mágico y especial. Hoy muchos que necesitan entender lo que es la depresión, levantarán su voz para pedir ayuda o para brindarla. Descansa en paz #Robin Williams, siempre te recordaremos con una cálida sonrisa”, escribió la cantante mexicana Thalía.
Mientras que Sarah Michelle, compartió varias fotografías con el destacado actor. Estas son algunas de las reacciones más destacadas en las redes sociales, conoce más en la siguiente galería.
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Ashley Sawyer participou de episódio da segunda temporada de ‘Catfish’ (Foto: Reprodução/MTV)
A participante de um episódio da segunda temporada do programa “Catfish”, Ashley Sawyer, morreu aos 23 anos nos Estados Unidos. Segundo a MTV americana, responsável pela série, a causa da morte é desconhecida.
“A MTV está profundamente triste por saber que Ashley Sawyer morreu”, afirmou a emissora em nota. “Nossas condolências, pensamentos e orações vão à sua família e aos seus amigos.”
“Catfish” é uma série-documentário que investiga pessoas com relacionamentos pela internet e que mentem sobre sua identidade aos parceiros virtuais.
O episódio com a participação de Sawyer foi transmitido nos EUA em 2013. O capítulo mostrou que tanto ela quanto Michael Fortunato, com quem Sawyer tinha um relacionamento digital por sete anos, mentiam um para o outro.
Ele morreu um mês depois da transmissão aos 26 anos de idade por embolia pulmonar.
À MTV americana, a irmã de Sawyer, Jessica Ross, afirmou que Ashley havia completado um programa de reabilitação e morava no Alabama.
CARSON, California.- Una vez que se reactivó la MLS con un nuevo torneo, Giovani dos Santos sufrió una mala noticia, ya que se lesionó durante el juego entre LA Galaxy y Portland Timbers.
Gío presentó una distensión de tendones en su pierna derecha, que le impidió jugar los noventa minutos. El mexicano solamente participó durante la primera parte en donde acusó molestias.
Después del silbatazo final, el técnico del equipo Curt Onalfo, explicó un posible reporte médico, mismo que será hasta hoy cuando se oficialice. “Gío dos Santos tiene una pequeña distensión de tendones o quizás solo fatiga. Sabremos con exactitud mañana (hoy), pero él no podía seguir jugando en el segundo tiempo, por eso tuve que sustituirlo.
La lesión podría poner en predicamentos a Juan Carlos Osorio, quien en breve deberá dar su lista de seleccionados del Tricolor para los juegos de eliminatoria mundialista frente a Costa Rica y Trinidad y Tobago a finales de marzo.
“What has allowed Pete [Buttigeig] to be successful is that South Bend doesn’t have the same demands that a New York City or a Los Angeles mayor has,” said Doug Herman, a Democratic strategist. | Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images
‘The irony is that the South Bend mayor is being taken seriously and the New York mayor’s not.’
LOS ANGELES — No mayor has ever ascended directly to the White House. So, Pete Buttigieg’s surprising performance in the Democratic primary has been met with a dose of excitement in the nation’s city halls — along with some humility.
Buttigieg, the mayor of Indiana’s fourth-largest city, has been steeped in television coverage, raised millions of dollars and been photographed with his husband, Chasten, for the cover of Time magazine.
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Meanwhile, New York’s Bill de Blasio, the mayor of the nation’s largest city, is having difficulty persuading anyone — the media, his own constituents — to take his potential run for president seriously.
“Everybody’s going to laugh at him” if he runs, said Doug Herman, a Democratic strategist. “The irony is that the South Bend mayor is being taken seriously and the New York mayor’s not.”
And it isn’t just de Blasio. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, who considered running for president before demurring earlier this year, has been asked more than once whether Buttigieg’s success has made him reconsider his choices.
“Mayor Pete, somebody that is a veteran like you, is a mayor like you, is a Rhodes scholar like you, is a pianist like you,” a reporter asked Garcetti in Los Angeles recently, where he appeared alongside Buttigieg. “Do you think, ‘That could have been me?’”
Perhaps it could have been Garcetti. Or former mayors Mitch Landrieu of New Orleans or Michael Bloomberg of New York or any number of big-city mayors or former mayors sitting 2020 out. The Democratic primary once appeared likely to present an opening for a politician who could lean on a record of executive experience in a big, heavily Democratic city.
But what Buttigieg’s success brought to light more than anything is that the particulars of the position were never all that important — that the lane that once appeared to exist for mayors was, in fact, incidental to the office.
“He’s not carrying the flag for mayors,” said Rebecca Katz, a progressive consultant who advised Cynthia Nixon in her primary campaign against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo last year. “Mayor is part of his qualification, [but] he’s running as a millennial, he’s running as a veteran, he’s running a historic candidacy as the first LGBTQ candidate. So there’s a lot of things that make Buttigieg special.”
Still, she said, “I think when mayors, when other elected officials look at his actual qualifications, it’s easy to see how they could look in the mirror and say, ‘Why not me?’”
More than a year ago, when the Democratic primary field was first beginning to take shape, mayors began presenting themselves as credible contenders for the very reason that they were mayors. They pointed to their city hall executive experience and their burgeoning influence within the Democratic Party. With President Donald Trump in the White House and Republicans running Congress before the midterm elections, large Democratic urban centers were a place of refuge for progressives.
“It’s definitely a season for cities,” Buttigieg said last year. “And it’s definitely a season for mayors.”
But then mayors started dropping from the 2020 landscape. Garcetti passed on a run. So did Landrieu and Bloomberg.
Julián Castro, the former mayor of San Antonio, is running. But he polled at about 1 percent in the most recent Morning Consult survey. So is John Hickenlooper, the former Colorado governor and Denver mayor. Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), the former mayor of Newark, stands at 3 percent.
And de Blasio? More than three-quarters of New Yorkers think he shouldn’t run for president, according to a recent Quinnipiac University poll.
“Who Hasn’t told Bill de Blasio That He Shouldn’t Run for President?” a New York magazine headline read.
David Holt, the Republican mayor of Oklahoma City, said it is possible that Garcetti and de Blasio, among other high-profile mayors, were burdened by being known too well by Democrats. Buttigieg’s relative anonymity offered his supporters the excitement of discovering something new.
“Pete was a fresh face, and I think he significantly benefited from that in this process,” Holt said. “If they’d never heard of Cory Booker for some reason three months ago, then I think they’d be pretty excited about him, too. But he and other known candidates have been known quantities for a [long] time.”
On the other hand, Holt said, “For most people, my experience is they’ve never heard of Mayor Buttigieg in their lives.” His candidacy “was kind of an exciting development.”
While not widely known to Democratic voters, Buttigieg had gained some significant connections to party activists through his work with fellow mayors and during his long shot bid to become chairman of the Democratic National Committee. And Buttigieg was less encumbered by the baggage of government than some of his counterparts in bigger cities.
“What has allowed Pete to be successful is that South Bend doesn’t have the same demands that a New York City or a Los Angeles mayor has,” Herman said.
Buttigieg is governing a relatively small city — South Bend’s population is just more than 100,000 people — but his supporters do not care. When searching for identifiers, they are just as likely to mention that he is young, gay, a polyglot or a veteran as they are to define him as a mayor.
Bill Carrick, who managed former Missouri Rep. Dick Gephardt’s 1988 presidential campaign and who advises Garcetti, said of Buttigieg’s success, “I don’t think it has anything to do with being a mayor.”
“That’s all attributable to him — his personality and the way he articulates a message,” Carrick said. “Here’s this guy who is very smart, articulate, interesting background. Yeah, sure, mayor, but also a veteran. … He seized the moment.”
Like most other Democrats, Buttigieg remains far behind Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders in early presidential contest polls. But he is running with the top handful of candidates behind them, and he is raising money at a furious clip.
At a sold-out fundraiser at a West Hollywood gay bar this week, Buttigieg told supporters that, at this point in the campaign, he had expected to be “spending our time explaining how to say my name and convincing people that I ought to be somewhere in this process so that we could fight our way onto the debate stage and have a breakout moment maybe in June.”
“Instead, we qualified for the debates a long time ago,” Buttigieg said. “People are still trying to figure out how to say my name. But instead of trying to claw our way into the top 10, we are consolidating our position as one of the top candidates in the presidential race.”
Many mayors are glad to see it. Steve Benjamin, the Columbia, S.C., mayor and chairman of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, said many mayors are excited about Buttigieg’s candidacy and are hopeful that he could help refocus Washington’s attention on America’s cities.
For years, Benjamin said, “We’ve been, to some degree, knocking our heads against a wall looking for a partner in Washington, D.C. … A lot of mayors are excited to see a peer running and finding some success.”
Garcetti, responding to a reporter’s question about whether Buttigieg’s candidacy made him second-guess his own decision not to run, answered quickly: “No, I think that this is a great candidate for president.
“I’ve never had an ounce of regret.”
Then Garcetti, who has not endorsed a candidate and is appearing with many of them as they come through Los Angeles, called Buttigieg a “kindred spirit.”
As a fellow mayor, he said, “He gets to be my avatar, and I get to run for president through him.”
Daniel Ortiz, Director Business Development International-México de LexisNexis® Risk Solutions http://www.lexisnexis.com/risk/intl/es/anti-bribery-corruption.aspx comenta: “Las llamadas Noticias Negativas pueden ofrecer a un negocio, entidad bancario o a una persona física, datos oportunos para tener información detallada de los clientes o proveedores y de esta forma puedan tener la facilidad de reaccionar rápidamente ante alguna situación irregular e implementar las acciones de control, para mitigar el riesgo de ser involucrados en señalamiento de mala reputación.“
De acuerdo a un estudio desarrollado por LexisNexis Risk Solutions en conjunto con ACAMS (Asociación de Especialistas Certificados en la Prevención de Lavado de Dinero), el cual refleja datos de América del Sur, nos ofrece los siguientes datos:
Hoy en día cerca del 40% de las Instituciones Financieras NO revisan las “Noticias Negativas” de sus clientes.
El 70% de las Instituciones Financieras, no revisan las “Noticias Negativas”, ni siquiera para sus clientes de “alto riesgo”. Además el 28% de las entidades bancarias solamente utilizan las “Noticias Negativas” para sus clientes de “alto riesgo”
De estos dos últimos, solo el 61% utiliza las noticias negativas cuando se encuentran en una investigación de alguna actividad inusual.
Cerca del 30% de los bancos no realizan una revisión continua de las “Noticias Negativas” de sus clientes.
Más del 20% solo revisan las “Noticias Negativas” cuando registran al cliente por primera vez.
El 63% de las Instituciones utilizan las “Noticias Negativas” al investigar su cartera de clientes.
LexisNexis® Risk Solutions, empresa líder en el suministro de información esencial y soluciones para la gestión de riesgo, cumplimiento y prevención de lavado de dinero ayuda a sus clientes de todas las industrias y gobierno a predecir, evaluar y administrar riesgos, por medio de la combinación de tecnología de punta, datos únicos y analíticos avanzados, recomienda que utilices las “Noticias Negativas” cuando te percates de alguna actividad inusual, son una de las primeras fuentes de información que te pueden decir quién podría ser la persona involucrada en alguna actividad inusual o que se encuentre haciendo algo ilegal.
La Asociación de Especialistas Certificados en la Prevención de Lavado de Dinero (ACAMS por sus siglas en Ingles) fomenta la educación, el intercambio de información y el conocimiento de las mejores prácticas para la prevención de este delito financiero. Profesionales en las áreas de Riesgo, Ética y Cumplimiento normativo en todos los segmentos de la industria encuentran en ACAMS (www.acams.org) un sólido apoyo para el adecuado manejo de sus programas de prevención de riesgo y cumplimiento. Por tal motivo, es fundamental tomar en cuanta cada una de las “Noticias Negativas”, ya que éstas podrían ofrecer un indicador de quienes son las personas o negocios que pudieran tener un impacto negativo sobre un negocio, y si se encuentran involucradas indirectamente con algún otro individuo que haya sido enlistada dentro de las “Noticias Negativas”.
Acerca de LexisNexis Risk Solutions LexisNexis® Risk Solutions (http://www.lexisnexis.com/risk/) es el líder en el suministro de información esencial que ayuda a los clientes en todas las industrias y al gobierno a evaluar, predecir y administrar riesgos. Por medio de la combinación de tecnología de punta, datos únicos y analíticos avanzados, LexisNexis Risk Solutions ofrece productos y servicios que solucionan las necesidades en evolución de los clientes en el sector de riesgo al mismo tiempo que tiene los más altos estándares de seguridad y privacidad. LexisNexis Risk Solutions es parte de RELX Group PLC, un proveedor líder a nivel mundial de soluciones de información para clientes profesionales en todas las industrias.
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