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The Emmy Awards will require attendees to provide a negative Covid-19 test as well as proof of vaccination, it has been announced.
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The Emmy Awards will require attendees to provide a negative Covid-19 test as well as proof of vaccination, it has been announced.
Stars attending the premiere awards show in US TV next month will have to show both evidence of immunisation and a recent negative test result.
Organisers previously said the ceremony is being limited due to the rise in cases of the Delta variant across the US.
When you realize the #Emmys are only one month away... pic.twitter.com/o7t2GYzh9e — Television Academy (@TelevisionAcad) August 20, 2021
The TV Academy said nominated teams of three or more will be limited to four tickets, meaning not all those up for an award will be allowed to attend.
As well as the flagship Primetime Emmys ceremony on September 19, the rules on a negative test and immunisation also apply to the three Creative Arts events taking place the previous weekend.
All the ceremonies are due to take place at LA Live, an entertainment complex in downtown Los Angeles.
Organisers said the venue will allow them to use a dual indoor/outdoor set-up, with the in-person audience socially distanced.
British stars nominated at the Emmys include The Crown’s Olivia Colman, Emma Corrin and Josh O’Connor.
The TV Academy’s announcement of strict attendance guidelines comes after Los Angeles County reported more than 4,000 new daily Covid-19 cases for the first time since January, when the area was hammered by the virus.
More than 25,000 people have died from the virus in the county since the pandemic began, officials said.
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2021-08-20 02:15:13+00:00
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University College Dublin (UCD) is returning to full-size lectures of up to 500 students when it reopens next month.
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University College Dublin (UCD) is returning to full-size lectures of up to 500 students when it reopens next month.
Students will have to wear masks at lectures, but they will not be subject to a minimum social distance.
The UCD plan for the return to campus, circulated to staff last night, is the most ambitious of the re-opening arrangements known so far in the higher education sector.
As well as no social distancing, UCD has decided that there will no capacity limits for teaching activities beyond the capacity of the venue. Its largest lecture theatre sits 500.
Trinity College Dublin has advised that any lecture with more than 150 students will be online, the University of Limerick is putting a limit of 300 students on in-person lectures while, at Maynooth University, the cap will be 250.
All third-level colleges are continuing to develop their plans ahead of the reopening.
The UCD plan could spark a row with lecturers.
Next month will see the first large-scale return to higher education since March last year, when campuses closed because of Covid. Apart from some small group teaching, such as practicals, the college experience was online last year and the majority of 2020/21 first years have yet to attend an in-person class.
A framework on safe reopening published by the Department of Further and Higher Education gave colleges discretion to develop their own plans, subject to public health guidelines.
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That document, published in June, set out parameters for minimum and maximum return to on-site activities, depending on the prevailing public health environment.
UCD has gone for the maximum, taking account of the large uptake in vaccinations.
The university says a social distancing requirement of even one metre would reduce the on-campus experience of students to below 50pc of normal.
UCD also expressed concern that a capacity limit on large lectures would disproportionately affect students in the early years of their degrees,
Apart from hygiene measures, including mask-wearing in indoor shared settings, UCD says ventilation systems will be optimised, CO2 levels will be monitored, entry and egress to buildings will be carefully managed and standard lecture times will be reduced to 45 minutes and staggered, as necessary, to avoid congestion.
Instructors will wear masks to teach but may remove them if at a minimum of two metres from the nearest person.
Lecturers will be required to provide online teaching material for all lectures with more than 250 students registered.
UCD says if a national limit on lecture size is adopted by the Government, lectures above the limit will move to alternative teaching material.
Before the UCD plans were circulated, the Irish Federation of University Teachers (IFUT) expressed concern about the different arrangements being developed.
IFUT incoming general secretary Frank Jones said extreme positions are emerging from certain quarters, including “seeking no requirement for any social distancing in classroom and lecture hall settings”.
He said it was “essential that social distancing was maintained, particularly in the classrooms and lecture theatres” and called on the Department of Higher Education “to clarify how social distancing will operate so as to avoid differing strategies and policies in different colleges”.
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2021-08-20 02:14:55+00:00
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The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) has forced the country’s six main motor insurers to submit to more intrusive oversight after an investigation found evidence of anti-competitive “price-signalling” in the industry.
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The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) has forced the country’s six main motor insurers to submit to more intrusive oversight after an investigation found evidence of anti-competitive “price-signalling” in the industry.
However, Brokers Ireland – the representative body for 1,200 insurance brokers – has refused to comply with the requests, stating that its members did not break any competition laws.
The CCPC has also taken the unusual step of writing to the Central Bank to raise concerns about the culture in the insurance industry, which the Central Bank is responsible for regulating.
Motor insurers will now have to make legally binding investments to beef up their internal controls and prove to independent experts that they are not manipulating prices to the detriment of consumers.
“Businesses are required to set their prices independently,” said Brian McHugh, the CCPC member with responsibility for competition enforcement.
“Any form of pricing statements and suspected coordination that could manipulate future pricing raises serious concerns under competition law, as this can impact on competition and ultimately the price consumers pay.
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“The potential for consumer harm is particularly high in the motor insurance market as consumers cannot avoid taking out a policy if they are to drive legally.”
Price-signalling occurs when rival companies publicly indicate in advance their intention to raise prices, potentially tipping each other off in a way that reduces competition and eliminates real choice for consumers.
The CCPC opened an investigation into the insurance industry five years ago when public statements by several parties in the sector “appeared to be forecasting with confidence that premiums would rise”, according to the commission.
These “statements of concern” coincided with reports from consumers that prices were indeed going up, leading the CCPC to believe that price-signalling may have been occurring.
Officials conducted interviews under summons and trawled emails at the companies for evidence. Preliminary findings published last September alleged that breaches of competition law had been evident over a 21-month period in 2015 and 2016.
“The CCPC did not accept that adequate compliance measures were in place in these businesses, as robust compliance programmes would have identified and flagged the behaviours of concern that were under investigation,” Mr McHugh said in a statement.
While the CCPC has not proven conclusively that the companies involved breached competition law, it has extracted commitments from six of them to make major changes to how they follow consumer protection rules.
Failure to implement them will prompt legal action, the CCPC said.
However, Brokers Ireland issued a lengthy statement rejecting the CCPC’s allegations and saying they would not commit to any new compliance agreements.
It said the CCPC had not proved that its predecessor organisation, the Irish Brokers Association, had violated the law. It also said the CCPC was trying to impose a one-size-fits-all compliance regime that was inappropriate for small brokers.
Mr McHugh said the refusal of Brokers Ireland to sign up to the industry-wide commitment “calls into question the organisational attitude towards compliance” and warned that the CCPC’s powers would be “strengthened” under the new Competition (Amendment) Bill.
The CCPC also wrote to the Central Bank to complain about cultural problems in the insurance industry, highlighting the need for “repeated interventions” to deal with anti-competitive behaviour.
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Ireland may be set for an Indian summer next week but spot flooding is in store for areas of the country today.
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Ireland may be set for an Indian summer next week but spot flooding is in store for areas of the country today.
A weather warning has been issued for three counties on Friday, with thunder showers and spot flooding expected in the west.
Met Eireann has issued a status yellow weather warning over Galway, Mayo, and Kerry, which will take effect from 1am on Friday morning until 4pm.
Heavy rain is expected with thunder showers on Thursday night, while on Friday there is a risk of localised flooding.
The forecaster said Friday will be a “cloudy, murky and wet” day with outbreaks of rain becoming widespread.
Showers will be heavy with possible thunder in places, particularly in western counties. The rain will move eastwards to all areas. However, the rain is expected to clear from the west and southwest later in the afternoon.
Temperatures will range from 17 to 21C.
A pattern of wet weather will continue into the weekend, with patches of spot flooding expected in places, however this will clear on Sunday with an Indian summer on the cards from Monday.
"Saturday morning will be dull in the east of the country with further rain, which will clear slowly through the morning and early afternoon,” a Met Éireann forecaster said.
"Brighter weather with showers will follow from the west. The showers will become widespread and heavy through the afternoon and evening and some may be thundery with a risk of spot flooding.
"Highest temperatures of 17 to 21 degrees with mostly light southerly or variable breezes.”
Sunday will also be mainly dry, however, with some scattered showers and highest temperatures of 18 to 21 degrees.
Next week is expected to see a prolonged period of dry weather with settled conditions between Monday and Thursday
"Mean air temperatures are expected to be a little above normal,” a Met Eireann forecaster said.
The following week, from August 27 until September 2, the national forecaster said the most likely scenario is for “high pressure to dominate at the beginning of the period, but to gradually move away and weaken.”
It added: "Mean air temperatures are expected to remain a little above average countrywide”.
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2021-08-20 02:15:21+00:00
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Cases of Covid-19 linked to indoor hospitality are on the increase, it emerged yesterday.
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Cases of Covid-19 linked to indoor hospitality are on the increase, it emerged yesterday.
The HSE said that while they are still not significant they are growing.
Head of testing and tracing Niamh O’Beirne said family get-togethers are still the main setting for outbreaks, as well as gatherings such as barbecues, weddings and any large group of people indoors.
She was speaking as 1,818 new cases of the virus were diagnosed yesterday amid a warning from Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan that “we are witnessing a rapid rise in the incidence of the disease around the country”.
He said there were 12,348 cases of the virus in the past week, signalling it is “now circulating widely in our communities”.
The HSE said infected people are reporting on average around 3.4 contacts, but given the level of socialising this is not accurate.
The true estimate is that those who test positive have around six to nine contacts.
There was an appeal to people to reveal the names of unvaccinated and vaccinated who could have been exposed to the virus.
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If a close contact is fully vaccinated and does not have symptoms, they do not have to restrict their movements unless in exceptional circumstances.
The spread of the Delta variant is high among younger age groups, with positivity rates of 21pc among the 21 to 30 group who are tested.
Testing centres in Cavan, Mayo, Galway and Tralee are now seeing high rates of positivity.
Damien McCallion, who oversees the vaccination roll-out, said they will try to step up the promotion of vaccination in areas where there are high rates of people testing positive.
Yesterday’s HSE briefing was told some unvaccinated staff are bringing Covid-19 back into settings such as hospitals and nursing homes.
The HSE said there were 12 new outbreaks in nursing homes, involving 121 people, in the week ending August 14.
Another five outbreaks were reported in acute hospitals involving 12 people who tested positive.
Among the infected are fully vaccinated people, but they are less likely to be sick with the virus.
Prof Martin Cormican, the HSE lead on infection control, said: “I want to be guarded in this because I think one of the things you don’t want to get into is targeting anybody.
“But I think what we are seeing from the public health is there are instances, certainly, where we are concerned that unvaccinated healthcare workers may have contributed to the introduction of virus into certain settings.”
The HSE has a policy of transferring unvaccinated staff from direct patient care.
Dr Holohan said that “while the vaccine programme continues, we need to allow time for the levels of immunity in the community to increase”.
“The Delta variant spreads through close contact with others,” he added.
“Where possible, please continue to work from home and remember that small group meet-ups in outdoor or well-ventilated indoor spaces are safer for everyone.
“Follow the public health advice and take the opportunity to be vaccinated with all recommended doses – these are our safeguards against the spread of the virus.
“The risk of outbreaks in group settings, such as in workplaces or at social gatherings, can be minimised through strong adherence to social distancing, avoiding crowds, mask wearing and good hand hygiene.”
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Tánaiste Leo Varadkar attended the controversial Merrion Hotel party in “good faith”, Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said.
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Tánaiste Leo Varadkar attended the controversial Merrion Hotel party in “good faith”, Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said.
The Taoiseach also revealed Mr Varadkar personally apologised to him over his attendance at former minister Katherine Zappone’s function, which was attended by around 50 guests.
In his first interview on the controversy, Mr Martin also said it was the Tánaiste who first contacted Attorney General Paul Gallagher seeking legal advice on the regulations for outdoor parties, after his attendance sparked anger among the public and hospitality sector.
“Initially the Tánaiste may have spoken to him, that’s not unusual at all,” Mr Martin told the Irish Independent.
“We all engage with him. Different ministers engage with the Attorney General pertaining to different things.
“The point is the regulations were the regulations. The Attorney General didn’t change the regulations.”
Mr Gallagher issued legal advice showing parties of up to 200 people were permitted outdoors after details of Ms Zappone’s event at the hotel emerged.
Asked if he believed the rules at that time allowed hotels to hold large outdoor parties, Mr Martin said: “It wasn’t on my radar that I would be doing that.”
However, he added: “In fairness, the Tánaiste has apologised and I think in the overall scale of things, it was clear that a regulation wasn’t broken.
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“I think he attended in good faith and I don’t think there was a deliberate attempt to evade the guidance.
“Balance and perspective has to be applied and he apologised and regretted the fact and the impact it had.”
Mr Martin said he has spoken to “quite a number” of his Fianna Fáil colleagues about the controversy surrounding the gathering.
He told them a “balance has to be struck”.
“My view in terms of Covid has been to focus on the substance and management of Covid,” he said.
Mr Varadkar apologised for his attendance at the Merrion Hotel party during an interview on the RTÉ Six One News.
The Fine Gael leader said he let his guard down by attending the event organised by his former Cabinet colleague.
He insisted he had not broken any regulation by attending the party in the hotel’s garden terrace and said he “probably” did not breach any guidelines.
The event sparked anger among the hospitality sector as the Fáilte Ireland guidelines did not appear to allow large outdoor parties in hotels, restaurants and bars.
However, the guidelines were redrafted after it emerged Mr Varadkar attended Ms Zappone’s party, and now parties of up to 200 people are permitted outdoors.
Labour Party TD Ivana Bacik also issued an apology over her attendance at the event.
Green Party leader Eamon Ryan’s joint-chief of staff Dónall Geoghegan also attended the party. However, Mr Geoghegan has remained silent on the issue.
Department of Children secretary general Dr Fergal Lynch and some of his officials were also in the Merrion Hotel for Ms Zappone’s party.
Children’s Minister Roderic O’Gorman’s spokesperson said the party was within regulations and the department will not be saying anything further on the matter.
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Teenagers are slower to come forward for a Covid-19 vaccine than older age groups, with nearly one in three 16 to 17-year-olds yet to register for a jab.
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Teenagers are slower to come forward for a Covid-19 vaccine than older age groups, with nearly one in three 16 to 17-year-olds yet to register for a jab.
Figures from the HSE show 70pc of this group have applied for a vaccine and 8pc are fully vaccinated.
It comes as the countdown to the return to secondary school is under way amid fears the highly infectious Delta variant will inevitably lead to outbreaks next term.
A quarter of people aged 15 to 24 who are being tested are proving positive for the virus, indicating significant levels of infection among this group.
HSE chief Paul Reid said yesterday that some of those who had yet to apply for a vaccine were “under 18, whose parents and guardians are still weighing up the facts”.
Among 12 to 15-year-olds, he said 124,000 out of 275,000 had been signed up by their parents and 72,000 had been administered with a first dose.
Among the 18 to 29-year-olds, around 17pc have yet to register, with one in 10 people in their 30s still to apply for a vaccine.
The slower take-up among younger people has also been seen in other countries, although it is still relatively high here. So far, 90pc of the adult population are partially vaccinated with at least one dose and 83pc are fully covered.
Niamh O’Beirne, head of testing and tracing in the HSE, said she expected a high level of demand for testing in the early weeks of the return to school.
It comes as a British public health study has found that protection from either of the two most commonly used Covid-19 vaccines against the now prevalent Delta variant of the coronavirus weakens within three months.
It also found that those who get infected after receiving two shots of either the Pfizer-BioNTech or the AstraZeneca vaccine may be of greater risk to others than under previous variants of the coronavirus.
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Based on more than three million nose and throat swabs taken across Britain, the Oxford University study found that 90 days after a second shot of the Pfizer or Astrazeneca vaccine, their efficacy in preventing infections had slipped to 75pc and 61pc, respectively.
That was down from 85pc and 68pc, respectively, seen two weeks after a second dose. The decline in efficacy was more pronounced among those aged 35 and older than those below that age.
“Both of these vaccines, at two doses, are still doing really well against Delta. When you start very, very high, you got a long way to go,” said Sarah Walker, an Oxford professor of medical statistics and chief investigator for the survey.
Ireland looks set to roll out a booster campaign from October once the first phase is completed later next month.
Mr Paul Reid said the National Immunisation Advisory Committee (NIAC) is expected to give advice next week. It looks increasingly likely the booster over autumn and winter will be confined to at-risk groups and not offered to the general population.
The evidence here so far is that the vaccines are dramatically reducing the risk of fully vaccinated people becoming very ill if they are infected with Covid-19.
Around 20pc to 25pc of people who are testing positive for the virus currently are fully vaccinated. Among hospital patients, most are unvaccinated and around 45pc are fully vaccinated.
People with underlying conditions whose immune systems are weakened are making up many of the fully vaccinated who are getting ill enough to be hospitalised.
Vaccination is leading to shorter hospital stays, and the average time spent in intensive care for all Covid-19 patients is around 14 days. But it can range from one to 97 days.
Prof Martin Cormican, HSE infection control lead, said people with underlying conditions who were fully vaccinated should enjoy the freedoms but avoid putting themselves at unnecessary risk. He said: “Fully vaccinated means you can do more of what is important to you with less risk to you and to everyone else.
“But there is still a need to observe the speed limits and think about the speed that is safe for you.”
The HSE will operate walk-in Covid-19 clinics for first and second doses over the coming days.
These clinics will be open to anyone in Ireland over the age of 16 who is not yet vaccinated or are awaiting their second dose. Details will be available on the HSE website.
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I ended up back on crutches this week after knocking my pelvis out of alignment. I’m putting it down as a post-pandemic injury – it happened after wearing high-heels for the first time in 18 months. I forgot the special treatment you get when you’re on crutches – people are so nice.
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I ended up back on crutches this week after knocking my pelvis out of alignment. I’m putting it down as a post-pandemic injury – it happened after wearing high-heels for the first time in 18 months. I forgot the special treatment you get when you’re on crutches – people are so nice.
Anyway, I had to dig out what I used to call my sticks from the back of a closet, and my pelvic support brace. The sight of them took me back to 2009, when a pregnancy condition with the distinctly unglamorous name of symphysis pubis dysfunction literally knocked me off my feet.
The agony – I’ll never forget it. I couldn’t walk; my legs wouldn’t move at all. Whenever I see a woman with a bump on crutches, I feel her pain.
I was off my feet for about half of the nine months and was in a wheelchair by the time I got to the Coombe maternity hospital. Yet I tend to romanticise that time.
I live near the Coombe, and whenever I walk past it I think: the most romantic moment of my life happened in there. I got lifted over the threshold in a unique way when there was no wheelchair to hand as we left the hospital. A nurse said: “I’ll carry baby, and Dad, you can carry Mum.”
It could be a phenomenon known as “the halo effect”, where the euphoria of having your healthy baby in your arms makes you dismiss the tough stuff that came before. But I think I’m sentimental about it because it was the time in my life when I felt like a fertile goddess. The female energy and power in pregnancy and birth is so intense it becomes all-consuming; it’s your identity. You’re a woman, using your woman’s body in the most fundamental way. You want people to know this, and so every maternity issue is of great importance. I can see this now from a remove of 12 years.
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So I have to remind myself not to get on my high horse over the drama about maternity hospital restrictions. I’ve had little patience for this as the equality issue of the day, thinking: Wow, the whole country shuts down for six months and this is the one restriction you rail against?
It’s infantilising to suggest we can’t get through what women have been doing since the dawn of time without a man there to hold our hands.
It irks me to hear mothers-to-be go on about how their partner is their “advocate” at the birth, suggesting a need for a male authority figure to get through the most natural process there is. As anyone who has had a baby knows, the birth part is relatively easy – the real challenge begins when you get them home.
If you can’t manage labour alone, you wouldn’t have a hope of coping on your own with a baby, like many women do, spectacularly.
There’s a touch of humble-brag about it – a certain luxury in the battle for Dad to be at the 12-week scan or at the end of the bed for the action. Again, lots of mothers don’t have that problem at all. To these women, it must all sound very “smug married”.
But I have no place being snooty about the fuss over maternity restrictions. This is not my age, not my life stage.
The return of the crutches this week put me back in my box.
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Taliban militants have stepped up their hunt for people who worked with UK, US and Nato forces, according to a confidential United Nations document.
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Taliban militants have stepped up their hunt for people who worked with UK, US and Nato forces, according to a confidential United Nations document.
Fighters are going door to door and threatening to take family members hostage unless their targets surrender themselves.
Senior Afghan officials also said they had been forced to go into “deep hiding” to avoid Taliban teams who are hunting for wanted members of Ashraf Ghani’s ousted administration.
Their accounts and the UN document leaked to The New York Times contradict Taliban assurances they would not seek revenge on members of the former government.
The manhunt has included searches of crowds at Kabul’s international airport, where thousands are still trying to flee the country on evacuation flights.
The document from a group called the Norwegian Centre for Global Analyses – which provides intelligence to UN agencies – cited reports the Taliban were working from a list of those they wanted to question and punish. The list included the locations of their targets.
The Taliban had been going door to door and “arresting and/or threatening to kill or arrest family members of target individuals unless they surrender themselves to the Taliban”, the report said.
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Members of the Afghan military and the police, as well as those who worked for investigative units, were most at risk.
Earlier this week, former British Army officers said hundreds of Afghan commandos from elite units were in hiding and on the run. The units were the Taliban’s most feared adversaries and there are fears their members will be hunted down and executed.
The document contained a letter dated August 16 from the Taliban to an unnamed counter-terrorism official in Afghanistan who had worked with US and British officials. The official has gone into hiding. The letter instructed the man to hand himself in to the Taliban’s military and intelligence commission. If not, his family “will be treated based on sharia law”, the letter said.
A former high-ranking counter-terrorism official, who spent years working with the British and Americans putting hundreds of jihadist terrorists into prison, said his life had been threatened by militants now released from jail in Kabul.
He went straight into hiding with his nine-month old baby after the Taliban surrounded the capital, fearing the threat to his life was extremely grave.
The official’s neighbours have since reported that released prisoners have shown up to his front door on multiple occasions, heavily armed and attempting to break in.
Another high-ranking member of the previous government, who spoke anonymously via contacts in the UK, said he had been targeted for his beliefs that girls should be educated.
When Kabul fell on Sunday, he was visited and questioned by Taliban militants, without threat of violence.
However, following the Taliban press conference on Tuesday, in which an amnesty was offered to all government officials, it was determined the threat to his safety had in fact heightened, and he went underground.
“My house (has) now become probably their hourly point of search and my kids are deeply terrified,” he said.
“The moment they knock at the door all kids start crying. They think they will be killed.” (© Telegraph Media Group Ltd, 2021)
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Miriam O’Callaghan has recalled the traumatic pregnancy with her youngest child which left her terrified she would lose her baby.
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Miriam O’Callaghan has recalled the traumatic pregnancy with her youngest child which left her terrified she would lose her baby.
The Prime Time presenter described how she had woken up one morning when she was 21 weeks pregnant with son Jamie, now aged 15, and realised she was experiencing a “massive haemorrhage”.
She alerted her husband, Steve Carson, who tried to reassure her but she was convinced all was lost.
“I burst into tears saying, ‘Steve we’ve lost our baby’,” she said.
Rushed into the National Maternity Hospital in Holles Street, Dublin, she was diagnosed with placenta previa and was kept in for the remainder of her pregnancy – a period of almost five months.
Every day, she would go down to the little chapel in the hospital where there was a book with all the names of the babies who had died through miscarriage.
“I used to go down to that chapel every day just to look at that book and I used to speak to Jamie. I would say ‘I don’t want you to be in that book’,” she said.
Her son is now a happy and healthy six-foot-two teen. “But I still feel incredibly lucky when I look at him,” she said, adding that she always empathises with women who have lost a child through miscarriage.
“You don’t forget,” she said.
Ms O’Callaghan once interviewed a woman who, chatting beforehand, she asked how many children she had. The woman replied “five, but one was a late miscarriage”.
Ahead of the launch of the 2021 Bewley’s Big Coffee Morning Social for Hospice, the presenter visited Our Lady’s Hospice in Harold’s Cross, Dublin, describing it as a “remarkable” place.
“It’s so peaceful and happy. It makes you realise we need to stop moaning about the small things of life,” she said.
The death of her sister, Anne, in 1995 at the age of 33 made her acutely aware of death among younger people. However, Ms O’Callaghan had been a regular visitor to Harold’s Cross even before that, with her first visit in 1992, the year she came back from London to work for RTÉ.
“I’ve always been aware of being lucky in life. I try to have a positive attitude. We’re only here for a short time,” she said.
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Currently enjoying the summer break – with plans to decamp soon with her eight children to Dingle in Co Kerry which she describes as her ‘happy place’ – she says she is feeling optimistic about the autumn ahead.
With her son Jamie still at school and three children in college, she is hopeful they will be able to go back to relative normality, adding that one son studying engineering in UCD did not get to go into college at all last year. “Even if the young people can get back to school and university, I’ll be happy because their lives have been on hold,” she said.
“My mum is an amazing 93 years old – she’s a former school principal, she drives and still goes shopping in Dunnes – and she said to me the other day ‘who would have thought, Miriam, we’d live through a pandemic?’. She’d never lived through one before.”
The pandemic also saw Prime Time ratings “rocket”, and Ms O’Callaghan admits there is pressure to keep those numbers up.
“The danger is can we hold on to that? People tune in when they’re worried about things but if everything goes perfect again we have to try to keep those ratings,” she said
Meanwhile, she said she had been watching the scenes playing out in Afghanistan with horror.
“When I saw those images first of the people falling from the plane I actually started to cry in my kitchen because it was so horrendous,” she said.
As a female TV presenter, she is conscious of the bravery of her Afghan counterparts who reappeared on TV this week to present current affairs programmes after the fall of the government.
“Some really great journalists have spoken out and it just makes you very aware of how much we might give out about Ireland but in the end, it is a very safe place for women,” she said.
On hand to launch the morning campaign for Together for Hospice – representing 26 hospices and specialist palliative home care services throughout the country – Ms O’Callaghan urged people to get together with family, friends and colleagues for a coffee morning social on September 23 to support the vital work of these services for families and communities.
“This year we really want to see people get creative with their events and coffee creations and take time together with loved ones to help make this the best year yet,” she said.
Everyone taking part is encouraged to host socially distanced coffee morning socials and follow all government guidelines.
Last year, more than €1m was raised nationwide – a significant fundraising milestone for the event which has raised more than €40m since its inception in 1992.
The funds raised have enabled local hospice groups to fund frontline staff such as nurses and healthcare assistants who provide specialist, high-quality and loving care to patients and their families, fund ongoing facility enhancements as well as buy crucial equipment.
Audrey Houlihan, chief executive of Our Lady’s Hospice Harold’s Cross and chairperson of Together for Hospice, said the funds raised each year by the Irish public ensured they could continue to provide vital support to individual patients and their families.
Bewley’s managing director Jason Doyle said the company was immensely proud of its 29-year partnership with Hospice. To register to host a coffee morning, visit hospicecoffeemorning.ie or call 1890 998 995. All hosts are provided with a free coffee morning pack.
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High rental prices and a severe shortage of available accommodation is seeing more students opting to commute to their universities from next month onwards.
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High rental prices and a severe shortage of available accommodation is seeing more students opting to commute to their universities from next month onwards.
The on-site campus experience is something many third level students are looking forward to again, after Covid-19 saw them having to adapt to remote learning.
However, with tens of thousands of students set to return to lecture halls to take part in college life from September, for many the search has been continuing throughout the summer to find somewhere to rent.
Research published last September by the national housing charity Threshold – which was published in conjunction with the Union of Students in Ireland (USI) – found 78pc of students in Ireland were worried about their ability to pay for accommodation ahead of the new academic year.
Some students are finding that despite facing the prospect of long commutes on a daily basis, it is proving to be a more realistic prospect for them, due to the current state of the rental market.
Second year student Cian Hughes (20) told the Irish Independent he will be commuting over an hour by car from Cong in Co Mayo to NUI Galway in September.
The General Science student has been searching for accommodation since the beginning of the summer, but said rents are extremely high and accommodation is scarce.
“It’s going to be very tough if I can’t find a place to stay. My plan wasn’t to commute but it’s just impossible to find anywhere to live,” he said.
“I’ve been looking since the start of summer, I’ve emailed pretty much every property on Daft.ie, Rent.ie trying to get at least a reply, never mind a viewing,” he said.
The student and his friends – who have been working during the summer, and work part-time during the college year – have even increased their budgets in the hope of finding suitable accommodation.
Final year Dublin student Caitlin Grant (21) will spend two hours commuting from Stepaside to Dublin City University.
The law and French student said prices are currently “way too high” for students on part-time salaries to afford.
She plans to leave Ireland after her degree to escape the housing crises.
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Caitlin, who lives at home with her family, said now that she is in final year she would like to move out of her parent’s house, but rent is “so expensive”.
“A lot of young people don’t have as much freedom as they did a few years ago. At my age, you kind of want that extra bit of freedom.
“I’m more likely to move abroad after my degree for sure – It’s so expensive, you could save and save and save living at home, but do you really want to be living with your family until you’re 30?” she added.
Master’s student Criodán Ó Murchú (23) will commute from Castlebar in Co. Mayo to NUI Galway in September.
The environmental science student said “all going well” it will take him an hour and a half to travel to college by public transport.
“I never thought about commuting, and I actually really dislike the idea,” he said, adding he has been left with no other choice as accommodation has become a “nightmare” in the city.
The master’s student said it is “impossible to find a place” to rent in the city. He previously lived in Galway city while studying for his bachelor’s degree, but said finding affordable accommodation is becoming “harder and harder each year”. He said in second year his accommodation rose by 18pc.
Alex de Búrca is a 21-year-old final year student in University College Dublin, and the politics and maths student said he commutes two hours from Lucan to the college to attend his course.
“You end up spending 20 hours a week commuting even though you are in Dublin – it’s crazy,” he said.
“I’ve looked at housing but it’s just very expensive.”
He said he sees “a lot of stress put into housing” from students.
Recalling his “horror” stories of student accommodation, he added: “I had a friend living in Dundrum, the only reasonable place they could find nearby, and then it ended up being infested with rats because of a plumbing issue.”
The student says he is “willing to do the commute to save the money”.
He said many of his friends decided to go to college elsewhere in the country to avoid unattainable Dublin rents and feels colleges in the capital are “missing out on people”.
Student Brian Crehan (22) will make a two-and-a-half hour commute from his home in Co Kildare to Carlow College.
The English, history and theology student only set foot on campus twice in his first year. Now, as he heads into second year, he said he will be commuting. He has no other choice than to rely on the bus to commute to college.
Separately, a 21-year-old third year student in University College Cork, who wants to remain anonymous, said she commutes two hours by bus from Middleton in Co Cork because the price of housing is a “huge limitation”.
The student said the price of housing in major cities puts a limitation on where students can go to college.
“I didn’t even bother looking at courses in Dublin because if I saw something I liked and wasn’t able to go that would just be heartbreaking,” she said.
“People talk in school like points are the only things that make the decision, but that isn’t the case.”
She feels she is “lucky” to be in commuting distance to UCC.
The student, who works part-time, said accommodation is “way too expensive – I’ve a younger sister who’s going to college from next year and it’s just not possible for my parents to afford the two of us”.
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TRIBUTES have been paid to a football coach who was one of two people who died in a three-car collision in Co Meath yesterday.
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The scene of a fatal road traffic collision involving three vehicles that occurred on the R152 at Keenogue, Duleek, County Meath. Photo: Stephen Collins/Collins Photos
A garda checkpoint near the scene of the fatal crash on the R152 between Duleek and Killmoone Cross. Photo: Tony Gavin
TRIBUTES have been paid to a football coach who was one of two people who died in a three-car collision in Co Meath yesterday.
One of the men was named locally as husband and father David Conroy from Laytown. He was well-known in the area as being an “inspiration” to young footballers as he was the director of football for Laytown United FC.
The three-vehicle collision happened on the R152 at Keenogue, Duleek, Co Meath, at around 6.40am.
Two men, including Mr Conroy, died in the crash. No other serious injuries were reported to gardaí.
Laytown United FC paid tribute to Mr Conroy on Facebook, writing: “It is with deepest regret that we share the devastating news of the tragic passing of our friend and director of football David Conroy.
“Our whole community is shocked and deeply saddened by this news. Dave was not only a coach or committee member, he was and always will be at the centre of everything that is Laytown Utd FC.
“As a mark of respect, all club activities will cease until further notice. Our sincere heartfelt sympathies go to Jackie, Lee, Cheryl, Alex, Dayne & Heidi and family.”
Local Fine Gael councillor Sharon Tolan said the news of Mr Conroy’s death was “absolutely shocking” and added that he was well-known within the community.
“It’s shocking, absolutely shocking. He was heavily involved in Laytown United Football Club, he was a great football person and he was very dedicated to young
people and their progression of football,” she said.
“He put a lot of time and effort into helping the club progress and build it up. It’s a big shock.”
Fianna Fáil councillor Tom Behan said his “thoughts and prayers” were with Mr Conroy’s family.
Mr Conroy was well-known in football clubs across the country, and as of a mark of respect some soccer and GAA clubs, including East Meath United FC and St Colmcille’s GAA club in Bettystown, are suspending activities for the next few days.
Drogheda United FC posted on Facebook: “This morning we received the dreadful news that our wonderful U14s coach, David Conroy, passed away following a traffic accident.
“Our club is built on volunteers and fans and David was the finest of both. Many of you will also know David as the father of Alex Conroy from our social media team and already a legend around our club.
“To all David’s family, we send all of our love. David, thank you for everything. Rest in peace, friend.”
Gardaí are appealing for witnesses to the crash to come forward.
A spokesperson said: “Gardaí are also appealing to any road users who were travelling
on the R152 between Kilmoon Cross and Duleek between 6.20am and 6.50am and who may have camera foot-
age, including dash-cam, to make this footage available to gardaí.
“Anyone with information is asked to contact Ashbourne Garda Station on 01 8010600, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any garda station.”
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Marine ecologist Karin Dubsky described Wexford as ‘vulnerable’ when it comes to issues of climate change.
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Marine ecologist Karin Dubsky described Wexford as ‘vulnerable’ when it comes to issues of climate change.
Ms Dubsky said that there is still time to significantly slow things down but policy action is absolutely needed.
She said the responsibility lies on us all to look after our vitally important seaweed and sea grass meadows seen in Kilmore Quay, for marine creatures to survive by taking in carbon.
‘We know for sure that sea levels are rising and we’re having weather patterns that encourage large scale slumping on sea banks. What’s important is a response in that we manage our retreat and don’t expose more houses by building too low down. We see further housing development at King’s Bay in Arthurstown and it’s a wetland so that’s absolutely crazy.
‘The most important thing the state can do now is respond by doing something that other countries like the Netherlands did over a decade ago. We need to prevent exposing ourselves even more and give grants to people who have houses right on the shore so they can resettle inland. We need to provide more water storage on land so that in heavy rain soil and water doesn’t rush down into the sea. The loss of soil, bank erosion and a silt layer on the seafloor need to be minimised as Wexford is particularly vulnerable to soft or semi-soft bolder clay, which has become pronounced. Waterford, Cork and Wexford are essentially sinking and sea walls are needed to prevent erosion but they are not being maintained with proper plans. We need to really look after those and cherish them’.
She said that erosion is being managed in a ‘hap-hazard manner’ and this culture needs to change.
‘We need to look after our dune stocks as they’re a natural erosion control and they may well disappear but we have to look after them while they’re there like we would an athlete that’s going to get the gold medal for us.
‘The better the condition the dune is the more likely it can do its job. Building access roads, car parks, playgrounds or houses in the dunes, it can’t adapt and has no scope to do anything. We also need to build ponds and waterways to keep the water back from the shore to be realised gradually both for biodiversity and coastal erosion management,’ she said.
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(11:30 a.m. EDT) When designing a brand-new cruise ship from scratch, you might not guess that storytelling would play such an elemental role, but that core principle seems to undergird all things Disney -- and Disney Cruise Line’s latest ship, Disney Wish (set to debut in June 2022), is no exception.
Earlier this month, Disney invited Cruise Critic to learn more about the newest on-board fusions of technology, creativity, and storytelling that will shape the experience aboard Disney Wish. Notably, we learned about its forthcoming "Disney Uncharted Adventure": an interactive multiplayer quest-style game referred to by Disney’s Imagineers as a “hidden layer of magic” within the brand-new spaces onboard Disney Wish.
Disney Uncharted Adventure builds upon the popular interactive Midship Detective Agency adventures prior Disney passengers might have played onboard Disney Dream and Disney Fantasy (an experience where you could use your MagicBand to awaken portraits around the ship, each giving you clues along the way to help solve mysteries).
“Interactive storytelling is something we’ve been playing with over the last 10 years or more,” said Davey Feder, software product manager with the Walt Disney Imagineering team. “The technology is really just enabling us to tell stories in a new way. We wanted to [ create ] an adventure that could only take place aboard a Disney ship.”
Disney Uncharted Adventure begins before families set foot onboard Disney Wish. They receive a message from Captain Minnie and Mickey to set the stage for their upcoming cruise, introducing the idea of a magical spy glass (also known as a cell phone), which can be used to view a Disney-fied night sky. Important to note: at the center of the sky is a Wishing Star. Featured Videos See all videos NCL's Restart: What It's Like On The First Norwegian Cruise Ship Back in 16 Months Cruise Critic and JJ Cruise : Our Experience Onboard Celebrity Edge (June 2021) Here's What It's Like Onboard the First Large Cruise Ship to Alaska in 21 Months LIVE Q&A: Cruise Critic and Emma Cruises Chat About All Things Cruise Our Celebrity Silhouette Cruise Experience: March 2020 vs. July 2021 Cruise Executives Wish Cruise Critic a Happy 25th Anniversary Freedom of the Seas: What's It Like Onboard a Test Cruise? 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As the story goes, once on board, something terrible happens to the Wishing Star: it shatters. The rest of the cruise becomes an opportunity for families to work together on mini quests to “set the universe right” by restoring the star to its rightful place in the sky, said Feder.
Guests will have their choice of embarking on several quests inspired by classic Disney and Pixar films, including "The Princess and the Frog", "Finding Nemo", and "Moana".
On each quest “there are multiple stops throughout the ship that bring the characters and films to life in some way,” said Feder. “These are interactive mini-game experiences designed to be a multiplayer [ experience ] for the whole family. They are designed to be quick and easy -- we want everybody working together. It’s designed to be very cooperative.”
Though each participant will need a cell phone in order to play, no special technical know-how or paid internet connection is required to take part in Disney's new Uncharted Adventure aboard Disney Wish. Quests might appear on ship artwork, or on otherwise commonplace signage, which comes alive with a swipe of your magical spyglass.
Cruise Critic played an early test version of a game with Princess Tiana from "The Princess and the Frog", helping her to assemble a list of ingredients to make her famous gumbo. Cell phones-turned-spy glasses were transformed into measuring cups to pour and spoons to stir the ingredients, with Tiana’s encouragement.
One of the cleverest bits of this technology -- of which cruise passengers likely won’t even be aware -- is that it’s designed to optimize crowd control, using sophisticated tracking technology to send passengers to less populated areas of the ship, meaning that each family’s quest will follow a unique route.
And after completing some, all, or even none of the quests, the entire ship can come together on the final date of the voyage for a community experience, which may or may not involve an epic battle with a certain sea witch.
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(1:40 p.m. EDT) -- The on-again, off-again relationship between Venice and the cruise industry has been going on for years, though this time, it looks like the two are headed for divorce.
Venetians long-opposed to cruise ships sailing through the city's iconic Lagoon got their wish on August 1, when the Italian government once again banned large cruise vessels from transiting the region.
Unlike the previous bans that were announced to much fanfare by the Italian government only to be quietly dropped later, this one looks like it will stick. UNESCO had warned it was about to place the historic city on the water under its list of endangered heritage cities over its tourism policies.
Venice was added to UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites in 1987.
For cruise passengers travelling on large ships, the new ban means ships will be prohibited at calling on Venice directly. They will no longer be able to dock at the Venice Cruise Terminal, and will instead have to dock at industrial ports like Marghera. Featured Videos See all videos Perfect Day at CocoCay: Here's How We Spent 2 DAYS at Royal Caribbean's Private Island 60-Second Video Tour of Virgin's Scarlet Lady First Look At Virgin Voyages' Scarlet Lady Carnival Mardi Gras' Excel Suite and Loft 19 NCL's Restart: What It's Like On The First Norwegian Cruise Ship Back in 16 Months BOLT: We Try Carnival Mardi Gras' Roller Coaster at Sea Carnival Mardi Gras: Free Dining on the Lido Deck The Most Exciting New Ships In 2021 MSC Meraviglia Ship Tour Here's What It's Like Onboard the First Large Cruise Ship to Alaska in 21 Months See all videos
Marghera, however, cannot accommodate all ships scheduled to sail to Venice. Last year, Royal Caribbean Cruises announced it would begin deploying Rhapsody of the Seas from Ravenna, Italy -- roughly 88 miles (143 kilometers) to the south -- instead of calling on Venice.
A Royal Caribbean spokesperson confirmed to Cruise Critic in an email that it will continue to use Ravenna as a turnaround port.
Cruise lines are slowly beginning to notify customers of changes to their itineraries. The move does mean that cruisers will have to think about transportation options, as Venice is still the major airport in the region.
Cruise Critic members booked on sailings aboard Azamara Quest this fall had their embarkation port changed from Venice to Trieste -- some two hours away.
"Hoping it would not be the case, but our embarkation port has been changed to Trieste," writes laurieb. "Boarding the Quest on October 19th; the cruise prior to us has also been changed."
"I've checked Trenitalia.com regarding schedules and prices," writes Dr. H. "At best, Trieste is a 2hr ride into Santa Lucia, and frequently it's up to 3 hours, and runs about 20 Euro round trip 2nd class."
"For those who have experienced Venice many times Trieste is an interesting new port," writes Mrs. Miggins. "We visited several years ago. The Miramare was lovely. Wonderful main square overlooking the sea."
The ban does not apply to river cruise ships in Venice. Uniworld has an itinerary on its new ship La Venezia that spends several days in Venice before traveling on the Po River.
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(12:43 p.m. EDT) -- Norwegian Cruise Line announced Wednesday it will extend its health and safety protocols relating to COVID-19 for all departures up to and including December 31, 2021.
Norwegian had previously announced its health and safety protocols, which include the requirement that all passengers be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and participate in rapid antigen testing at the pier -- were previously set to expire on November 1 of this year.
“Under the guidance of globally recognized public health experts and to prioritize the health and safety of our guests, crew and the communities we visit, we have decided to extend guest vaccination requirements for all sailings through December 31, 2021," Norwegian Cruise Line said in a statement. "Guests who are not old enough to be vaccinated will not be allowed on these sailings.
"However, we eagerly await an expansion of the age criteria for vaccinations by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration so we can once again welcome these guests back on board. "
Other cruise lines have made similar choices in recent days. River cruise operator Avalon Waterways recently extended its mandate for passengers to present proof of COVID-19 vaccination for all sailings through March 2022. Featured Videos See all videos NCL's Restart: What It's Like On The First Norwegian Cruise Ship Back in 16 Months LIVE Interview with Frank Del Rio, NCLH President and CEO, About Company's "Safe to Sail" Campaign Silver Cove At Norwegian Cruise Line's Great Stirrup Cay Norwegian Encore - Hull Art Reveal - Artist Eduardo Arranz Bravo Norwegian Bliss Virtual Tour - Why You Should Be Excited About Norwegian's Newest Ship Norwegian Breakaway Photo Tour The Waterfront On Norwegian Cruise Line - Video Norwegian Getaway Photo Tour Inside Look: The Haven On Norwegian Cruise Line Norwegian Escape's Ropes Course - Are You Brave Enough? Inside Look at Norwegian Sky In Cuba Norwegian Escape Attractions - 7 Free Things You Have To Try - Video Tour 4 Exclusive Spots On Norwegian Escape - Video Tour Norwegian Escape Photo Tour Norwegian Breakaway Video Tour (2013) See all videos
During a press conference onboard Norwegian Encore en-route to Alaska, Norwegian Cruise Line president and CEO Harry Sommer echoed sentiments similar to Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings top boss Frank Del Rio: that the line would not drop its 100 percent vaccination mandate as other lines have done, carrying up to five percent unvaccinated passengers.
"On a ship this size, five percent represents 200 passengers and 100 crew," Sommer told media onboard. "So that means on a ship this size, you can have under the CDC guidance 300 unvaccinated people.
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UPDATE: The body of a woman found stuffed into a barrel on a Ridgefield Park street corner was reportedly carted out of a building on Wall Street the night before.
The victim, whose naked body was found in a 55-gallon drum last Friday morning, was identified as Nicole Flanagan, 42, by a family member who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Surveillance video captured images of a man rolling the barrel with Flanagan’s body in it out of an apartment building in Manhattan’s Financial District the night before, The New York Post reported Thursday.
The barrel was loaded into a U-Haul van, the Post reported, adding that sources identified the man in the video as a member of a Queens-based gang known as SNOW.
The container eventually was left with the trash on Hobart Street at the corner of Teaneck Road.
Trash haulers ignored the barrel because it wasn't standard and emptied the other containers, a law enforcement source told Daily Voice.
Temperatures were pushing toward triple digits when the stench eventually brought a police officer who opened the barrel, saw what was inside and closed it, the source said. The area was cordoned off and the barrel was brought to the Bergen County Medical Examiner’s Office, he said. READ MORE....
The Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office is investigating along with the NYPD, village police and other law enforcement agencies.
Bergen County Prosecutor’s Chief of Detectives Jason Love said Thursday that his detectives are “actively investigating and do not have anything further to release at this time.”
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The New York Post, quoting law enforcement sources, reported Thursday that Flanagan worked as an escort and was identified through fingerprints.
Her family member confirmed that Flanagan – who previously had addresses in Greenwich and Stamford, CT, as well as Plymouth, PA -- had a criminal record.
A computer check confirmed arrests for offenses that included assault, child endangerment, criminal mischief, probation violations and failing to appear in court.
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The now-dominant Delta variant of the COVID-19 virus continues to plague the Hudson Valley, which saw another rise in its positive infection rate.
In the Hudson Valley, the average seven-day positive infection rate of those tested rose to 3.36 percent on Wednesday, Aug. 18 after holding steady at 3.25 percent the previous two days.
Statewide, the average infection rate dipped for the first time in two weeks, from 3.16 percent on Tuesday, Aug. 17 down slightly to 3.15 on Aug. 18.
New virus-related deaths were recorded in Orange and Dutchess counties.
Four other deaths were reported in the Bronx, three in Suffolk County, two in Kings County, and single virus-related fatalities in Chautauqua, Chenango, Monroe, Queens, Rensselaer, and Warren counties.
Average seven-day Infection rates in the state’s 10 regions on Aug. 18, according to the state Department of Health:
Central New York: 4.57 percent (down .04 percent);
Capital Region: 4.70 percent (up .09 percent);
North Country: 4.46 percent (up .06 percent);
Finger Lakes: 4.07 percent (down .07 percent);
Long Island: 3.96 percent (up .02 percent);
Southern Tier: 3.86 percent (down .05 percent);
Hudson Valley : 3.36 percent (up .11 percent);
: 3.36 percent (up .11 percent); Mohawk Valley: 3.35 percent (down .12 percent);
Western New York: 3.28 percent (down .09 percent);
New York City: 2.59 percent (down .03 percent).
Each of the 10 regions has seen a marked spike in infection rates in the past several weeks as the virus continues spreading.
At the beginning of July, no single region had an infection rate above 1.50 percent.
New COVID-19 cases in the Hudson Valley, according to the Department of Health on Aug. 18 by county:
Westchester: 343 new (134,833 since the pandemic began);
Orange County: 112 (50,837);
Dutchess: 86 (31,087);
Rockland: 72 (48,569);
Ulster: 66 (14,479);
Sullivan: 28 (7,092);
Putnam: 26 (11,081).
A breakdown of COVID-19 deaths in the Hudson Valley as of Aug. 19:
Westchester: 2,301;
Rockland: 761;
Orange County: 729;
Dutchess: 461;
Ulster: 259;
Putnam: 94;
Sullivan: 76.
There were 169,710 COVID-19 tests administered in New York on Aug. 17, according to the Department of Health, resulting in 5,138 newly confirmed infections for a 3.03 percent daily infection rate, down nearly a full percent from the previous day.
Forty-nine new COVID-19 patients were admitted to New York hospitals with the virus as the number rose to 1,937 being treated statewide, up more dramatically from earlier in the summer.
A total of 77.9 percent of New Yorkers over the age of 18 have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, while 70.2 percent are fully vaccinated. Officials said that 65.6 percent of all New Yorkers have received at least one dose, with 58.6 percent completing the vaccination process.
As of Aug. 19, 1,340,401 (3,746 new) first doses have been administered to Hudson Valley residents, while 1,196,843 (2,207 new) have completed the process, both among the highest rates in the state.
"New Yorkers who have not yet received their vaccination are leaving themselves, their communities, and their loved ones at heightened risk of contracting COVID, especially with the ongoing spread of the Delta variant," New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said. "We have made so much progress thus far and now is not the time to rest. There are no more excuses - the vaccine is safe, effective, and free.
"If you haven't already, now is the time to get vaccinated as soon as possible."
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UPDATE: The body of a woman found stuffed into a barrel on a Ridgefield Park street corner was reportedly carted out of a building on Wall Street the night before.
The victim, whose naked body was found in a 55-gallon drum last Friday morning, was identified as Nicole Flanagan, 42, by a family member who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Surveillance video captured images of a man rolling the barrel with Flanagan’s body in it out of an apartment building in Manhattan’s Financial District the night before, The New York Post reported Thursday.
The barrel was loaded into a U-Haul van, the Post reported, adding that sources identified the man in the video as a member of a Queens-based gang known as SNOW.
The container eventually was left with the trash on Hobart Street at the corner of Teaneck Road.
Trash haulers ignored the barrel because it wasn't standard and emptied the other containers, a law enforcement source told Daily Voice.
Temperatures were pushing toward triple digits when the stench eventually brought a police officer who opened the barrel, saw what was inside and closed it, the source said. The area was cordoned off and the barrel was brought to the Bergen County Medical Examiner’s Office, he said. READ MORE....
The Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office is investigating along with the NYPD, village police and other law enforcement agencies.
Bergen County Prosecutor’s Chief of Detectives Jason Love said Thursday that his detectives are “actively investigating and do not have anything further to release at this time.”
The barrel was found on the southwest corner of Hobart Street and Teaneck Road in Ridgefield Park. FACEBOOK
The New York Post, quoting law enforcement sources, reported Thursday that Flanagan worked as an escort and was identified through fingerprints.
Her family member confirmed that Flanagan – who previously had addresses in Greenwich and Stamford, CT, as well as Plymouth, PA -- had a criminal record.
A computer check confirmed arrests for offenses that included assault, child endangerment, criminal mischief, probation violations and failing to appear in court.
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Madrona Financial Services LLC lifted its holdings in Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) by 2.2% in the 2nd quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The firm owned 1,064 shares of the electric vehicle producer’s stock after buying an additional 23 shares during the quarter. Madrona Financial Services LLC’s holdings in Tesla were worth $723,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.
Several other institutional investors and hedge funds have also modified their holdings of TSLA. Geode Capital Management LLC boosted its position in Tesla by 3.5% during the 1st quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 11,971,355 shares of the electric vehicle producer’s stock worth $7,973,095,000 after acquiring an additional 404,120 shares during the last quarter. Northern Trust Corp boosted its position in Tesla by 2.1% during the 1st quarter. Northern Trust Corp now owns 8,262,415 shares of the electric vehicle producer’s stock worth $5,518,715,000 after acquiring an additional 167,974 shares during the last quarter. ARK Investment Management LLC boosted its position in Tesla by 39.9% during the 1st quarter. ARK Investment Management LLC now owns 5,785,523 shares of the electric vehicle producer’s stock worth $3,864,324,000 after acquiring an additional 1,651,297 shares during the last quarter. Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. boosted its position in Tesla by 8.5% during the 2nd quarter. Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. now owns 4,402,391 shares of the electric vehicle producer’s stock worth $2,992,305,000 after acquiring an additional 343,736 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD boosted its holdings in shares of Tesla by 3.9% in the 1st quarter. Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD now owns 3,607,130 shares of the electric vehicle producer’s stock valued at $2,409,310,000 after buying an additional 134,132 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 39.35% of the company’s stock.
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In other news, CAO Vaibhav Taneja sold 1,813 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, June 7th. The stock was sold at an average price of $587.84, for a total transaction of $1,065,753.92. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief accounting officer now directly owns 18,211 shares in the company, valued at $10,705,154.24. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this hyperlink. Also, Director Robyn M. Denholm sold 31,250 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, August 2nd. The stock was sold at an average price of $707.60, for a total value of $22,112,500.00. Following the transaction, the director now owns 36,250 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $25,650,500. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders sold 55,425 shares of company stock worth $38,241,379 over the last ninety days. 23.00% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.
Shares of TSLA traded down $15.52 during trading hours on Thursday, hitting $673.47. 14,125,584 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 29,549,535. The stock has a market capitalization of $666.75 billion, a P/E ratio of 350.77, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 6.54 and a beta of 1.97. Tesla, Inc. has a fifty-two week low of $329.88 and a fifty-two week high of $900.40. The company has a current ratio of 1.51, a quick ratio of 1.22 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.31. The business’s fifty day simple moving average is $666.48.
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) last released its earnings results on Sunday, July 25th. The electric vehicle producer reported $1.45 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.52 by $0.93. Tesla had a return on equity of 9.75% and a net margin of 5.21%. During the same quarter last year, the company posted $0.44 EPS. Analysts expect that Tesla, Inc. will post 3.15 EPS for the current fiscal year.
TSLA has been the subject of several recent analyst reports. Wells Fargo & Company increased their price objective on Tesla from $590.00 to $660.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a report on Tuesday, July 27th. The Goldman Sachs Group reissued a “buy” rating and issued a $875.00 price objective (up previously from $860.00) on shares of Tesla in a report on Tuesday, July 27th. Citigroup increased their price objective on Tesla from $175.00 to $209.00 and gave the company a “sell” rating in a report on Wednesday, July 28th. Canaccord Genuity cut their price objective on Tesla from $812.00 to $768.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a report on Tuesday, July 27th. Finally, Jefferies Financial Group upgraded Tesla from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating and increased their price target for the company from $700.00 to $850.00 in a research note on Monday, August 9th. Nine research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, nine have assigned a hold rating, fourteen have issued a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the stock. The company currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $585.89.
Tesla Profile
Tesla, Inc designs, develops, manufactures, leases, and sells electric vehicles, and energy generation and storage systems in the United States, China, and internationally. The company operates in two segments, Automotive, and Energy Generation and Storage. The Automotive segment offers electric vehicles, as well as sells automotive regulatory credits.
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HyperCash (CURRENCY:HC) traded 6.6% higher against the U.S. dollar during the 24-hour period ending at 21:00 PM Eastern on August 19th. HyperCash has a market cap of $41.54 million and approximately $3.45 million worth of HyperCash was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. One HyperCash coin can currently be bought for about $0.92 or 0.00001962 BTC on popular exchanges. Over the last week, HyperCash has traded 1.5% higher against the U.S. dollar.
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Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) traded 4.6% higher against the dollar and now trades at $46,963.93 or 0.99974465 BTC.
Cosmos (ATOM) traded 5.8% lower against the dollar and now trades at $18.58 or 0.00039549 BTC.
Compound (COMP) traded up 3.8% against the dollar and now trades at $456.74 or 0.00972295 BTC.
Dash (DASH) traded up 3.9% against the dollar and now trades at $218.69 or 0.00465530 BTC.
Decred (DCR) traded up 2% against the dollar and now trades at $164.19 or 0.00349528 BTC.
Creditcoin (CTC) traded up 1.6% against the dollar and now trades at $3.04 or 0.00006472 BTC.
WhiteCoin (XWC) traded 2.6% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.91 or 0.00001927 BTC.
Bitcoin Diamond (BCD) traded up 5.6% against the dollar and now trades at $2.68 or 0.00005707 BTC.
Venus (XVS) traded up 6% against the dollar and now trades at $35.94 or 0.00076498 BTC.
Stratis (STRAX) traded up 3% against the dollar and now trades at $2.10 or 0.00004466 BTC.
HyperCash Coin Profile
HyperCash (HC) is a PoW/PoS coin that uses the BLAKE256 hashing algorithm. It was first traded on August 21st, 2017. HyperCash’s total supply is 45,071,909 coins. The Reddit community for HyperCash is /r/hcash and the currency’s Github account can be viewed here . HyperCash’s official Twitter account is @HcashOfficial and its Facebook page is accessible here . HyperCash’s official website is h.cash
According to CryptoCompare, “HyperCash is a decentralized and open-source cross-platform cryptocurrency. It provides users with the tools to exchange information between blockchains and non-blockchain networks. The HC ecosystem will consist of two chains that include the HyperCash (HC) main chain and the HyperExchange (HX) chain that is derived from the main chain but will work towards bridging communication between blockchains including BTC, ETH and others, and non-blockchains such as DAGs. The HC token is a cryptocurrency developed by HyperCash. It will be the currency that will power the platform as it is able to operate within both chains which have different functions on HyperCash. HC can be used to exchange value between users and access the available goods and services on the platform. “
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Universal Display Co. (NASDAQ:OLED) has been given an average recommendation of “Buy” by the twelve ratings firms that are presently covering the stock, Marketbeat.com reports. Two investment analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, one has given a hold rating and eight have given a buy rating to the company. The average 1 year price objective among analysts that have issued ratings on the stock in the last year is $252.88.
OLED has been the subject of several research analyst reports. Citigroup upgraded Universal Display from a “neutral” rating to a “buy” rating in a report on Wednesday, May 19th. Zacks Investment Research downgraded Universal Display from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating and set a $222.00 price objective for the company. in a report on Wednesday, May 26th. Roth Capital lifted their price objective on Universal Display from $250.00 to $258.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Friday, August 6th. Finally, upgraded Universal Display from a “neutral” rating to a “buy” rating and lifted their price objective for the stock from $217.00 to $253.00 in a report on Wednesday, May 19th.
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In other Universal Display news, insider Julia J. Brown sold 22,007 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, June 28th. The stock was sold at an average price of $225.00, for a total transaction of $4,951,575.00. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this link. Insiders own 2.90% of the company’s stock.
Several hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of the company. Arizona State Retirement System lifted its position in shares of Universal Display by 0.4% during the 1st quarter. Arizona State Retirement System now owns 12,341 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $2,922,000 after buying an additional 48 shares in the last quarter. Usca Ria LLC lifted its position in shares of Universal Display by 0.9% during the 2nd quarter. Usca Ria LLC now owns 6,455 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $1,435,000 after buying an additional 55 shares in the last quarter. Parallel Advisors LLC lifted its holdings in Universal Display by 14.4% in the 2nd quarter. Parallel Advisors LLC now owns 461 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $102,000 after purchasing an additional 58 shares in the last quarter. Xponance Inc. lifted its holdings in Universal Display by 0.7% in the 1st quarter. Xponance Inc. now owns 8,970 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $2,124,000 after purchasing an additional 59 shares in the last quarter. Finally, JustInvest LLC lifted its holdings in Universal Display by 7.3% in the 1st quarter. JustInvest LLC now owns 953 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $226,000 after purchasing an additional 65 shares in the last quarter. 64.54% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.
Shares of OLED traded up $3.87 during trading hours on Thursday, hitting $203.70. The company had a trading volume of 406,722 shares, compared to its average volume of 339,501. The company’s fifty day moving average is $215.32. The stock has a market capitalization of $9.60 billion, a PE ratio of 52.10, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.65 and a beta of 1.34. Universal Display has a 52-week low of $161.01 and a 52-week high of $262.77.
Universal Display (NASDAQ:OLED) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, August 5th. The semiconductor company reported $0.85 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.73 by $0.12. Universal Display had a return on equity of 19.98% and a net margin of 35.73%. Research analysts predict that Universal Display will post 4.05 EPS for the current fiscal year.
The company also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, September 30th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, September 16th will be paid a dividend of $0.20 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, September 15th. This represents a $0.80 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.39%. Universal Display’s dividend payout ratio is currently 28.57%.
About Universal Display
Universal Display Corp. engages in research, development, and commercialization of organic light emitting diode (OLED) technologies, and materials. It also develops and licenses proprietary OLED technologies to manufacturers of products for display applications, such as cell phones; portable media devices; tablets; laptop computers and televisions; and specialty and general lighting products.
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XTRABYTES (CURRENCY:XBY) traded 4.6% higher against the U.S. dollar during the 1-day period ending at 21:00 PM E.T. on August 19th. During the last week, XTRABYTES has traded 5.3% higher against the U.S. dollar. One XTRABYTES coin can currently be purchased for about $0.0024 or 0.00000005 BTC on major cryptocurrency exchanges. XTRABYTES has a total market capitalization of $1.01 million and approximately $558.00 worth of XTRABYTES was traded on exchanges in the last day.
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Tether (USDT) traded down 0.1% against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00002123 BTC.
XRP (XRP) traded 4.9% higher against the dollar and now trades at $1.22 or 0.00002587 BTC.
Polkadot (DOT) traded up 9.4% against the dollar and now trades at $26.63 or 0.00056539 BTC.
Terra (LUNA) traded 4.7% lower against the dollar and now trades at $30.33 or 0.00064395 BTC.
Internet Computer (ICP) traded up 10% against the dollar and now trades at $69.35 or 0.00147254 BTC.
Stellar (XLM) traded 6.5% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.37 or 0.00000779 BTC.
Filecoin (FIL) traded up 4.2% against the dollar and now trades at $71.04 or 0.00150836 BTC.
Avalanche (AVAX) traded 1% higher against the dollar and now trades at $30.79 or 0.00065386 BTC.
Klaytn (KLAY) traded 5.4% higher against the dollar and now trades at $1.87 or 0.00003977 BTC.
Bitcoin BEP2 (BTCB) traded up 4.9% against the dollar and now trades at $47,083.40 or 0.99971655 BTC.
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XTRABYTES (CRYPTO:XBY) uses the hashing algorithm. Its genesis date was March 1st, 2017. XTRABYTES’s total supply is 650,000,000 coins and its circulating supply is 430,000,000 coins. XTRABYTES’s official website is www.xtrabytes.global . The Reddit community for XTRABYTES is /r/XtraBYtes and the currency’s Github account can be viewed here . XTRABYTES’s official Twitter account is @xtrabytes and its Facebook page is accessible here . The official message board for XTRABYTES is community.xtrabytes.global
According to CryptoCompare, “XTRABYTES™ goes beyond being a currency. It's a next-gen blockchain platform that allows DApps to be programmed in any language, utilizing a new and ecological consensus algorithm. Standard blockchain environments contain many centralization vulnerabilities, such as self-contained development, consensus methods, and coin monopolization. The XTRABYTES™ platform seeks to rectify these limitations by creating a truly decentralized crypto currency and applications platform. Accordingly, XTRABYTES™ presents a next – generation blockchain solution capable of providing a diverse set of capabilities. “
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It is usually not currently possible to purchase alternative cryptocurrencies such as XTRABYTES directly using U.S. dollars. Investors seeking to acquire XTRABYTES should first purchase Bitcoin or Ethereum using an exchange that deals in U.S. dollars such as GDAX, Gemini or Changelly. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Bitcoin or Ethereum to purchase XTRABYTES using one of the aforementioned exchanges.
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2021-08-20 01:49:44+00:00
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Avista (NYSE:AVA) updated its FY 2021 earnings guidance on Wednesday. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $1.960-$2.160 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $2.120. The company issued revenue guidance of -.Avista also updated its FY 2022 guidance to $2.030-$2.230 EPS.
A number of equities analysts have recently commented on the company. Williams Capital reiterated a buy rating on shares of Avista in a report on Friday, April 23rd. Zacks Investment Research cut Avista from a hold rating to a sell rating in a report on Monday, July 26th. Two analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, one has issued a hold rating and one has assigned a buy rating to the company. The company presently has a consensus rating of Hold and a consensus target price of $45.00.
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Shares of AVA stock traded down $0.12 on Thursday, reaching $41.84. 542,185 shares of the company’s stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 416,738. Avista has a 52 week low of $32.26 and a 52 week high of $49.14. The company has a quick ratio of 0.31, a current ratio of 0.41 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.87. The company has a market cap of $2.91 billion, a PE ratio of 19.83, a PEG ratio of 3.97 and a beta of 0.62. The business has a fifty day moving average of $43.07.
Avista (NYSE:AVA) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, August 3rd. The utilities provider reported $0.20 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the Zacks’ consensus estimate of $0.26 by ($0.06). Avista had a return on equity of 7.15% and a net margin of 10.78%. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned $0.26 EPS. Equities analysts predict that Avista will post 2.06 EPS for the current year.
The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, September 15th. Investors of record on Thursday, August 19th will be paid a dividend of $0.423 per share. This represents a $1.69 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 4.04%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, August 18th. Avista’s dividend payout ratio is currently 88.95%.
In other Avista news, VP James M. Kensok sold 600 shares of Avista stock in a transaction on Tuesday, August 10th. The stock was sold at an average price of $41.99, for a total transaction of $25,194.00. Following the completion of the sale, the vice president now directly owns 11,125 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $467,138.75. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available at the SEC website. Also, Chairman Scott L. Morris sold 10,000 shares of Avista stock in a transaction on Wednesday, June 2nd. The shares were sold at an average price of $45.11, for a total value of $451,100.00. Following the sale, the chairman now directly owns 136,675 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $6,165,409.25. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders have sold a total of 20,975 shares of company stock valued at $944,551 over the last three months. 0.94% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.
About Avista
Avista Corp. is a holding company, which engages in the provision of electric and natural gas utility business. It operates through the Avista Utilities, and Alaska Electric Light and Power Company (AEL&P) segments. The Avista Utilities segment includes electric distribution and transmission, and natural gas distribution services in parts of eastern Washington, Northern Idaho, and Northeastern and Southwestern Oregon.
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Madrona Financial Services LLC boosted its position in SPDR S&P Biotech ETF (NYSEARCA:XBI) by 2.2% in the second quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The firm owned 19,883 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock after purchasing an additional 426 shares during the period. SPDR S&P Biotech ETF makes up about 1.4% of Madrona Financial Services LLC’s portfolio, making the stock its 20th largest holding. Madrona Financial Services LLC’s holdings in SPDR S&P Biotech ETF were worth $2,692,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.
Other institutional investors and hedge funds have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Carnegie Capital Asset Management LLC lifted its position in SPDR S&P Biotech ETF by 21.3% in the second quarter. Carnegie Capital Asset Management LLC now owns 103,031 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $13,950,000 after purchasing an additional 18,083 shares during the period. FundX Investment Group LLC increased its holdings in shares of SPDR S&P Biotech ETF by 10.2% in the first quarter. FundX Investment Group LLC now owns 17,598 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $2,387,000 after buying an additional 1,634 shares in the last quarter. Prudential Financial Inc. increased its holdings in shares of SPDR S&P Biotech ETF by 66.5% in the first quarter. Prudential Financial Inc. now owns 10,707 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $1,453,000 after buying an additional 4,278 shares in the last quarter. Conservest Capital Advisors Inc. increased its holdings in shares of SPDR S&P Biotech ETF by 32.9% in the first quarter. Conservest Capital Advisors Inc. now owns 10,923 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $1,482,000 after buying an additional 2,704 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Davis R M Inc. increased its holdings in shares of SPDR S&P Biotech ETF by 9.8% in the first quarter. Davis R M Inc. now owns 108,372 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $14,701,000 after buying an additional 9,676 shares in the last quarter.
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Shares of NYSEARCA XBI traded down $2.92 during trading on Thursday, hitting $118.69. The company had a trading volume of 5,519,907 shares, compared to its average volume of 6,277,636. SPDR S&P Biotech ETF has a 52 week low of $100.64 and a 52 week high of $174.79. The firm has a 50-day moving average of $129.74.
SPDR S&P Biotech ETF (the Fund) seeks to closely match the returns and characteristics of the S&P Biotechnology Select Industry Index. The S&P Biotechnology Select Industry Index represents the biotechnology sub-industry portion of the S&P Total Markets Index. The S&P TMI tracks all the United States common stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange, American Stock Exchange, National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation (NASDAQ) National Market and NASDAQ Small Cap exchanges.
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2021-08-20 01:50:34+00:00
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Cedar Capital LLC increased its stake in shares of SPDR Portfolio Short Term Corporate Bond ETF (NYSEARCA:SPSB) by 13.4% in the second quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the SEC. The fund owned 11,904 shares of the company’s stock after buying an additional 1,405 shares during the period. Cedar Capital LLC’s holdings in SPDR Portfolio Short Term Corporate Bond ETF were worth $373,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.
A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors also recently bought and sold shares of the stock. Hirtle Callaghan & Co LLC boosted its position in SPDR Portfolio Short Term Corporate Bond ETF by 38.0% during the first quarter. Hirtle Callaghan & Co LLC now owns 4,665,388 shares of the company’s stock worth $146,073,000 after purchasing an additional 1,285,167 shares during the period. Baird Financial Group Inc. boosted its position in SPDR Portfolio Short Term Corporate Bond ETF by 30.2% during the first quarter. Baird Financial Group Inc. now owns 3,082,448 shares of the company’s stock worth $96,511,000 after purchasing an additional 715,398 shares during the period. Fisher Asset Management LLC boosted its position in SPDR Portfolio Short Term Corporate Bond ETF by 2.7% during the second quarter. Fisher Asset Management LLC now owns 20,882,316 shares of the company’s stock worth $653,617,000 after purchasing an additional 543,751 shares during the period. WestEnd Advisors LLC boosted its position in SPDR Portfolio Short Term Corporate Bond ETF by 26.7% during the first quarter. WestEnd Advisors LLC now owns 2,415,749 shares of the company’s stock worth $75,637,000 after purchasing an additional 508,535 shares during the period. Finally, Municipal Employees Retirement System of Michigan bought a new position in SPDR Portfolio Short Term Corporate Bond ETF during the first quarter worth about $11,466,000.
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Shares of SPSB stock remained flat at $$31.26 during trading hours on Thursday. 1,620,250 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 1,626,750. The firm has a 50 day moving average of $31.28. SPDR Portfolio Short Term Corporate Bond ETF has a one year low of $31.22 and a one year high of $31.44.
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2021-08-20 01:49:54+00:00
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BitMoney (CURRENCY:BIT) traded down 89.5% against the U.S. dollar during the 24 hour period ending at 21:00 PM ET on August 19th. One BitMoney coin can now be purchased for $0.0000 or 0.00000000 BTC on cryptocurrency exchanges. Over the last seven days, BitMoney has traded down 82.4% against the U.S. dollar. BitMoney has a total market capitalization of $3,875.26 and approximately $1.00 worth of BitMoney was traded on exchanges in the last day.
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Tether (USDT) traded 0.1% lower against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00002128 BTC.
XRP (XRP) traded 5% higher against the dollar and now trades at $1.22 or 0.00002588 BTC.
Polkadot (DOT) traded up 9.9% against the dollar and now trades at $26.46 or 0.00056333 BTC.
Internet Computer (ICP) traded 9.3% higher against the dollar and now trades at $69.07 or 0.00147031 BTC.
Filecoin (FIL) traded 4.2% higher against the dollar and now trades at $70.87 or 0.00150854 BTC.
Klaytn (KLAY) traded 6.3% higher against the dollar and now trades at $1.88 or 0.00003998 BTC.
Bitcoin BEP2 (BTCB) traded up 4.8% against the dollar and now trades at $46,999.23 or 1.00049611 BTC.
SHIBA INU (SHIB) traded up 3.3% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0000 or 0.00000000 BTC.
Wrapped BNB (WBNB) traded 7.5% higher against the dollar and now trades at $431.94 or 0.00919486 BTC.
stETH (Lido) (STETH) traded up 3% against the dollar and now trades at $3,132.21 or 0.06667702 BTC.
BitMoney Profile
BitMoney’s total supply is 87,904,513 coins and its circulating supply is 82,497,698 coins. The official website for BitMoney is bitmoney.ws . BitMoney’s official Twitter account is @bitrewards and its Facebook page is accessible here
According to CryptoCompare, “BitRewards is a blockchain loyalty platform and ecosystem that enables retailers to reward their customers' purchases, friends' invited and other configurable actions with crypto-currency. BIT is the ERC20 token used for rewards within the BitRewards platform. “
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Nestlé S.A. (OTCMKTS:NSRGF) was the recipient of a significant decrease in short interest during the month of July. As of July 30th, there was short interest totalling 718,700 shares, a decrease of 30.7% from the July 15th total of 1,036,700 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 10,200 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 70.5 days.
Large investors have recently made changes to their positions in the business. Main Street Research LLC acquired a new stake in Nestlé during the first quarter worth about $292,000. Fisher Asset Management LLC increased its stake in Nestlé by 10.5% during the first quarter. Fisher Asset Management LLC now owns 4,364 shares of the company’s stock worth $483,000 after acquiring an additional 414 shares during the last quarter. First Manhattan Co. acquired a new stake in Nestlé during the first quarter worth about $1,046,000. Finally, Cullen Capital Management LLC increased its stake in Nestlé by 7.6% during the first quarter. Cullen Capital Management LLC now owns 43,500 shares of the company’s stock worth $4,849,000 after acquiring an additional 3,088 shares during the last quarter.
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Nestlé stock traded up $1.65 during trading on Thursday, hitting $128.00. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 3,156 shares, compared to its average volume of 36,310. The stock has a fifty day moving average price of $125.74. Nestlé has a 1-year low of $104.32 and a 1-year high of $130.00.
Separately, Baader Bank reiterated a “buy” rating on shares of Nestlé in a research note on Friday, April 23rd.
About Nestlé
Nestlé SA is a nutrition, health and wellness company, which engages in the manufacture, supply and production of prepared dishes and cooking aids, milk-based products, pharmaceuticals and ophthalmic goods, baby foods and cereals. The company products portfolio includes powdered and liquid beverages, water, milk products and ice cream, nutrition and health science, prepared dishes and cooking aids, confectionery, and pet care.
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Digitalcoin (CURRENCY:DGC) traded down 4.1% against the U.S. dollar during the 1 day period ending at 21:00 PM ET on August 19th. One Digitalcoin coin can now be bought for approximately $0.0103 or 0.00000022 BTC on popular exchanges. During the last week, Digitalcoin has traded 36.6% higher against the U.S. dollar. Digitalcoin has a market capitalization of $389,405.30 and $10.00 worth of Digitalcoin was traded on exchanges in the last day.
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Bitcoin (BTC) traded up 4.5% against the dollar and now trades at $46,975.92 or 1.00000000 BTC.
Ethereum (ETH) traded up 6% against the dollar and now trades at $3,215.56 or 0.06845115 BTC.
Dogecoin (DOGE) traded up 4.1% against the dollar and now trades at $0.32 or 0.00000681 BTC.
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) traded 3.9% higher against the dollar and now trades at $659.72 or 0.01404377 BTC.
Litecoin (LTC) traded 5.1% higher against the dollar and now trades at $175.85 or 0.00374333 BTC.
Ethereum Classic (ETC) traded up 3.8% against the dollar and now trades at $66.67 or 0.00141921 BTC.
Monero (XMR) traded 3.8% higher against the dollar and now trades at $263.46 or 0.00560844 BTC.
Bitcoin SV (BSV) traded 3% higher against the dollar and now trades at $160.55 or 0.00341779 BTC.
UNUS SED LEO (LEO) traded 0.4% higher against the dollar and now trades at $2.99 or 0.00006355 BTC.
Zcash (ZEC) traded up 4.9% against the dollar and now trades at $148.12 or 0.00315303 BTC.
Digitalcoin Coin Profile
Digitalcoin is a proof-of-work (PoW) coin that uses theMultiple Algorithms hashing algorithm. Digitalcoin’s total supply is 37,680,833 coins. The Reddit community for Digitalcoin is /r/digitalcoin and the currency’s Github account can be viewed here . Digitalcoin’s official Twitter account is @DigitalcoinDGC and its Facebook page is accessible here . Digitalcoin’s official website is digitalcoin.co
According to CryptoCompare, “Digitalcoin is an alternative open-source cryptocurrency with focus on economic fairness and growth. It uses the tagline “A Currency for the Digital Age”. The Digitalcoin community aims to help facilitate the circulation of digital currency by bridging the gap between the common public and the new cryptocurrency technology. Blocks are hashed using Scrypt, X11 and SHA256 algorithms. The average block confirmation time for Digitalcoin takes about 40 seconds. The total supply of digitalcoins will balance out around 48,166,000 as block halvings occur. “
Buying and Selling Digitalcoin
It is usually not presently possible to buy alternative cryptocurrencies such as Digitalcoin directly using US dollars. Investors seeking to acquire Digitalcoin should first buy Bitcoin or Ethereum using an exchange that deals in US dollars such as Changelly, Gemini or Coinbase. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Bitcoin or Ethereum to buy Digitalcoin using one of the exchanges listed above.
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Equifax Inc. (NYSE:EFX) has received a consensus rating of “Buy” from the fourteen brokerages that are presently covering the stock, Marketbeat Ratings reports. Six analysts have rated the stock with a hold recommendation and seven have issued a buy recommendation on the company. The average 12 month price objective among analysts that have updated their coverage on the stock in the last year is $229.42.
Several research firms have recently issued reports on EFX. Barclays increased their price objective on shares of Equifax from $285.00 to $330.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research report on Tuesday. Needham & Company LLC increased their price objective on shares of Equifax from $260.00 to $288.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, July 22nd. The Goldman Sachs Group increased their price objective on shares of Equifax from $241.00 to $267.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research report on Friday, July 23rd. TheStreet raised shares of Equifax from a “c+” rating to a “b” rating in a report on Wednesday, April 21st. Finally, Zacks Investment Research lowered shares of Equifax from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating and set a $265.00 price target for the company. in a report on Friday, July 23rd.
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In other Equifax news, insider Prasanna Dhore sold 2,001 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, August 4th. The shares were sold at an average price of $257.49, for a total transaction of $515,237.49. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this link. 1.03% of the stock is owned by company insiders.
A number of hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in EFX. Bradley Foster & Sargent Inc. CT bought a new position in shares of Equifax in the 2nd quarter worth about $228,000. Zacks Investment Management bought a new position in shares of Equifax in the 2nd quarter worth about $2,347,000. Beacon Pointe Advisors LLC bought a new position in shares of Equifax in the 2nd quarter worth about $1,058,000. National Pension Service lifted its position in shares of Equifax by 0.5% in the 2nd quarter. National Pension Service now owns 187,027 shares of the credit services provider’s stock worth $44,795,000 after buying an additional 998 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co NY lifted its position in shares of Equifax by 89,084.2% in the 2nd quarter. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co NY now owns 16,945 shares of the credit services provider’s stock worth $4,058,000 after buying an additional 16,926 shares during the last quarter. 89.73% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.
Shares of Equifax stock traded up $4.31 during trading hours on Thursday, hitting $258.78. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 620,915 shares, compared to its average volume of 705,089. Equifax has a 1-year low of $135.98 and a 1-year high of $264.29. The firm has a fifty day moving average price of $248.47. The firm has a market cap of $31.53 billion, a P/E ratio of 44.54, a PEG ratio of 2.49 and a beta of 1.42. The company has a quick ratio of 0.71, a current ratio of 0.71 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.94.
Equifax (NYSE:EFX) last released its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, July 20th. The credit services provider reported $1.98 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.71 by $0.27. Equifax had a net margin of 15.44% and a return on equity of 29.57%. The company had revenue of $1.23 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.16 billion. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $1.60 earnings per share. The business’s quarterly revenue was up 25.6% compared to the same quarter last year. Analysts anticipate that Equifax will post 7.45 EPS for the current year.
Equifax Company Profile
Equifax Inc provides information solutions and human resources business process outsourcing services for businesses, governments, and consumers. The company operates through four segments: U.S. Information Solutions (USIS), Workforce Solutions, International, and Global Consumer Solutions. The USIS segment offers consumer and commercial information services, such as credit information and credit scoring, credit modeling and portfolio analytics, locate, fraud detection and prevention, identity verification, and other consulting; mortgage services; financial marketing; and identity management services.
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Cedar Capital LLC increased its holdings in SPDR Portfolio Developed World ex-US ETF (NYSEARCA:SPDW) by 22.0% during the second quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm owned 33,184 shares of the company’s stock after purchasing an additional 5,975 shares during the quarter. SPDR Portfolio Developed World ex-US ETF accounts for 2.1% of Cedar Capital LLC’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 13th biggest position. Cedar Capital LLC’s holdings in SPDR Portfolio Developed World ex-US ETF were worth $1,221,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.
A number of other large investors have also modified their holdings of SPDW. Wrapmanager Inc. increased its position in shares of SPDR Portfolio Developed World ex-US ETF by 7.2% in the first quarter. Wrapmanager Inc. now owns 169,039 shares of the company’s stock valued at $5,977,000 after acquiring an additional 11,293 shares during the period. SPC Financial Inc. increased its position in shares of SPDR Portfolio Developed World ex-US ETF by 7.5% in the first quarter. SPC Financial Inc. now owns 108,047 shares of the company’s stock valued at $3,821,000 after acquiring an additional 7,509 shares during the period. Aptus Capital Advisors LLC increased its position in shares of SPDR Portfolio Developed World ex-US ETF by 104.3% in the first quarter. Aptus Capital Advisors LLC now owns 844,517 shares of the company’s stock valued at $29,862,000 after acquiring an additional 431,165 shares during the period. Reston Wealth Management LLC increased its position in shares of SPDR Portfolio Developed World ex-US ETF by 0.3% in the first quarter. Reston Wealth Management LLC now owns 908,982 shares of the company’s stock valued at $32,142,000 after acquiring an additional 2,776 shares during the period. Finally, Signet Financial Management LLC increased its position in shares of SPDR Portfolio Developed World ex-US ETF by 4.9% during the first quarter. Signet Financial Management LLC now owns 168,789 shares of the company’s stock valued at $5,968,000 after buying an additional 7,919 shares during the period.
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Shares of NYSEARCA SPDW traded down $0.40 during midday trading on Thursday, hitting $36.55. 1,357,343 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 1,855,382. SPDR Portfolio Developed World ex-US ETF has a 12-month low of $28.10 and a 12-month high of $38.38. The firm has a 50-day moving average of $37.08.
SPDR S&P World ex US ETF (the Fund) seeks to replicate as closely as possible total return performance of the S&P/Citigroup BMI World Ex US Index (the Index). The Index is a market capitalization-weighted index that defines and measures the investable universe of publicly traded companies domiciled in developed countries outside the United States.
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Ravencoin (CURRENCY:RVN) traded up 2% against the US dollar during the 24 hour period ending at 21:00 PM Eastern on August 19th. One Ravencoin coin can currently be bought for approximately $0.14 or 0.00000295 BTC on major cryptocurrency exchanges. Ravencoin has a total market capitalization of $1.31 billion and $111.72 million worth of Ravencoin was traded on exchanges in the last day. In the last seven days, Ravencoin has traded 10.6% lower against the US dollar.
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Tether (USDT) traded 0.1% lower against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00002128 BTC.
XRP (XRP) traded up 5% against the dollar and now trades at $1.22 or 0.00002588 BTC.
HEX (HEX) traded down 2.4% against the dollar and now trades at $0.18 or 0.00000375 BTC.
USD Coin (USDC) traded down 0.1% against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00002128 BTC.
Polkadot (DOT) traded 9.9% higher against the dollar and now trades at $26.46 or 0.00056333 BTC.
Chainlink (LINK) traded 6.3% higher against the dollar and now trades at $27.04 or 0.00057569 BTC.
Binance USD (BUSD) traded 0.1% lower against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00002128 BTC.
Internet Computer (ICP) traded 9.3% higher against the dollar and now trades at $69.07 or 0.00147031 BTC.
Polygon (MATIC) traded up 8.2% against the dollar and now trades at $1.46 or 0.00003106 BTC.
THETA (THETA) traded 3.1% higher against the dollar and now trades at $7.13 or 0.00015188 BTC.
About Ravencoin
Ravencoin is a coin. Its genesis date was January 3rd, 2018. Ravencoin’s total supply is 9,465,495,000 coins. The Reddit community for Ravencoin is /r/Ravencoin and the currency’s Github account can be viewed here . The official website for Ravencoin is ravencoin.org . Ravencoin’s official message board is medium.com/@ravencoin . Ravencoin’s official Twitter account is @ravencoin and its Facebook page is accessible here
According to CryptoCompare, “Ravencoin is a digital peer to peer network that aims to implement a use case specific blockchain, designed to efficiently handle one specific function: the transfer of assets from one party to another. Built on a fork of the Bitcoin code, Ravencoin was launched January 3rd, 2018, and is a truly open source project (no ICO or masternodes). It focuses on building a useful technology, with a strong and growing community. Launched on January 3rd, 2018, the ninth anniversary of bitcoin’s launch, Ravencoin is an open-source project designed to enable instant payments to anyone around the world. The aim of the project is to create a blockchain optimized specifically for the transfer of assets such as tokens from one holder to another. A fork of the bitcoin code, Ravencoin features four key changes: The issuance schedule (block reward of 5,000 RVN)Block time (1 minute)Coin supply (21 Billion)Mining algorithm (KAWPOW formerly X16R and X16RV2 respectively)”
Ravencoin Coin Trading
It is usually not currently possible to purchase alternative cryptocurrencies such as Ravencoin directly using U.S. dollars. Investors seeking to acquire Ravencoin should first purchase Ethereum or Bitcoin using an exchange that deals in U.S. dollars such as Changelly, Coinbase or Gemini. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Ethereum or Bitcoin to purchase Ravencoin using one of the exchanges listed above.
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Shard (CURRENCY:SHARD) traded down 8.9% against the U.S. dollar during the one day period ending at 21:00 PM ET on August 19th. Shard has a total market cap of $4.72 million and approximately $73.00 worth of Shard was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. One Shard coin can currently be bought for $0.14 or 0.00000300 BTC on major exchanges. In the last seven days, Shard has traded 14.1% higher against the U.S. dollar.
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Quiztok (QTCON) traded 3.8% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0178 or 0.00000038 BTC.
BOScoin (BOS) traded 4.5% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0101 or 0.00000021 BTC.
Metrix Coin (MRX) traded 4.5% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0005 or 0.00000001 BTC.
FLO (FLO) traded 17% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0418 or 0.00000104 BTC.
ChronoCoin (CRN) traded down 0% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0008 or 0.00000003 BTC.
PirateCash (PIRATE) traded up 0.1% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0457 or 0.00000097 BTC.
Actinium (ACM) traded 11.5% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0275 or 0.00000058 BTC.
Cashbery Coin (CBC) traded up 11.5% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0123 or 0.00000031 BTC.
CREDIT (CREDIT) traded down 0% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0000 or 0.00000000 BTC.
MMOCoin (MMO) traded up 7.6% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0061 or 0.00000013 BTC.
Shard Coin Profile
SHARD is a proof-of-stake (PoS) coin that uses the
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hashing algorithm. Shard’s total supply is 77,344,482 coins and its circulating supply is 33,344,482 coins. The official website for Shard is shardcoin.io. Shard’s official Twitter account is @shardcoin and its Facebook page is accessible here.
According to CryptoCompare, “Shard is a blockchain-based payment platform. It allows users to perform cryptocurrencies transactions between them using the platform native token, the SHARD. At the main website, users will find a digital wallet service as well, with support for Windows, Mac, and Linux devices, where it is possible to store, monitor and manage their digital assets, including SHARD. ShardCoin (SHARD) is a PoS (Proof of Stake) cryptocurrency based on the Scrypt algorithm. It will be the medium through which users can exchange value when using the platform. “
Shard Coin Trading
It is usually not presently possible to purchase alternative cryptocurrencies such as Shard directly using U.S. dollars. Investors seeking to trade Shard should first purchase Ethereum or Bitcoin using an exchange that deals in U.S. dollars such as Gemini, Changelly or Coinbase. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Ethereum or Bitcoin to purchase Shard using one of the aforementioned exchanges.
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SpartanNash (NASDAQ:SPTN) issued its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday. The company reported $0.54 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters’ consensus estimate of $0.48 by $0.06, MarketWatch Earnings reports. The business had revenue of $2.11 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $2.09 billion. SpartanNash had a return on equity of 11.89% and a net margin of 0.87%. The company’s revenue for the quarter was down 3.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $0.73 EPS.
NASDAQ SPTN traded down $0.08 during trading hours on Thursday, reaching $20.54. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 647,947 shares, compared to its average volume of 351,147. The stock has a market capitalization of $744.37 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 9.17 and a beta of 0.80. SpartanNash has a 1-year low of $15.75 and a 1-year high of $23.45. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.70, a current ratio of 1.65 and a quick ratio of 0.69. The firm has a 50-day moving average price of $19.36.
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The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Wednesday, June 30th. Investors of record on Tuesday, June 15th were issued a $0.20 dividend. The ex-dividend date was Monday, June 14th. This represents a $0.80 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 3.89%. SpartanNash’s payout ratio is 31.62%.
Separately, Zacks Investment Research raised SpartanNash from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Wednesday. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, two have issued a hold rating and two have given a buy rating to the stock. The company currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $19.25.
About SpartanNash
SpartanNash Co engages in the distribution of grocery products to military commissaries in the U.S. It operates through the following segments: Military, Food Distribution and Retail. The Military segment sells and distributes grocery products primarily to U.S. military commissaries and exchanges. The Food Distribution segment distributes groceries to independent and corporate owned grocery retailers using multi-platform sales approach.
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Cedar Capital LLC boosted its holdings in shares of SPDR Bloomberg Barclays Emerging Markets Local Bond ETF (NYSEARCA:EBND) by 14.5% during the 2nd quarter, HoldingsChannel reports. The institutional investor owned 8,855 shares of the company’s stock after buying an additional 1,121 shares during the period. Cedar Capital LLC’s holdings in SPDR Bloomberg Barclays Emerging Markets Local Bond ETF were worth $234,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.
Other institutional investors have also bought and sold shares of the company. Patriot Financial Group Insurance Agency LLC raised its position in SPDR Bloomberg Barclays Emerging Markets Local Bond ETF by 23.2% in the second quarter. Patriot Financial Group Insurance Agency LLC now owns 2,082 shares of the company’s stock worth $55,000 after purchasing an additional 392 shares in the last quarter. BCJ Capital Management LLC acquired a new stake in shares of SPDR Bloomberg Barclays Emerging Markets Local Bond ETF in the first quarter valued at approximately $1,176,000. Ameriprise Financial Inc. increased its holdings in shares of SPDR Bloomberg Barclays Emerging Markets Local Bond ETF by 17.9% in the first quarter. Ameriprise Financial Inc. now owns 38,673 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,001,000 after purchasing an additional 5,885 shares in the last quarter. Elmwood Wealth Management Inc. acquired a new stake in shares of SPDR Bloomberg Barclays Emerging Markets Local Bond ETF in the first quarter valued at approximately $1,137,000. Finally, Harbor Advisory Corp MA acquired a new stake in shares of SPDR Bloomberg Barclays Emerging Markets Local Bond ETF in the first quarter valued at approximately $10,954,000.
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Shares of SPDR Bloomberg Barclays Emerging Markets Local Bond ETF stock traded down $0.12 during midday trading on Thursday, reaching $25.75. The company had a trading volume of 101,647 shares, compared to its average volume of 340,767. SPDR Bloomberg Barclays Emerging Markets Local Bond ETF has a 1-year low of $25.73 and a 1-year high of $28.25. The company’s fifty day moving average is $26.22.
SPDR Barclays Emerging Markets Local Bond ETF (Fund) seeks to provide investment results that correspond to the price and yield performance of the Index that tracks the fixed-rate local currency sovereign debt of emerging market countries. The Index is designed to measure the performance of the fixed-rate local currency sovereign debt of emerging market countries.
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8×8, Inc. (NYSE:EGHT) has earned a consensus rating of “Hold” from the fourteen research firms that are currently covering the stock, Marketbeat reports. Two analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, six have given a hold rating and six have given a buy rating to the company. The average 12 month target price among brokers that have issued ratings on the stock in the last year is $32.45.
A number of research analysts have recently weighed in on the company. Zacks Investment Research cut 8X8 from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating in a research report on Tuesday, August 10th. Craig Hallum reaffirmed a “hold” rating on shares of 8X8 in a research report on Monday, May 17th. Evercore ISI reaffirmed a “buy” rating on shares of 8X8 in a research report on Thursday, May 13th. Morgan Stanley lowered their price objective on 8X8 from $35.00 to $30.00 and set an “equal weight” rating on the stock in a research report on Friday, May 14th. Finally, B. Riley reissued a “neutral” rating and issued a $25.00 price target (down from $32.50) on shares of 8X8 in a report on Tuesday, May 11th.
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NYSE:EGHT traded down $0.16 on Thursday, hitting $23.40. The stock had a trading volume of 737,806 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,352,424. The stock has a market cap of $2.62 billion, a PE ratio of -14.90 and a beta of 1.15. The company has a current ratio of 2.20, a quick ratio of 2.20 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.00. The business has a 50-day moving average price of $26.06. 8X8 has a 52-week low of $14.71 and a 52-week high of $39.17.
8X8 (NYSE:EGHT) last announced its earnings results on Wednesday, August 4th. The technology company reported $0.01 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of ($0.23) by $0.24. 8X8 had a negative return on equity of 80.05% and a negative net margin of 29.99%. The business had revenue of $148.30 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $143.07 million. During the same period last year, the firm posted ($0.07) earnings per share. The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 21.7% on a year-over-year basis. Equities analysts forecast that 8X8 will post -1.07 EPS for the current fiscal year.
In other news, CEO David Sipes acquired 43,000 shares of 8X8 stock in a transaction on Monday, June 7th. The shares were acquired at an average price of $23.47 per share, with a total value of $1,009,210.00. Following the purchase, the chief executive officer now directly owns 518,728 shares in the company, valued at approximately $12,174,546.16. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available through the SEC website. Also, Director Elizabeth Harriet Theophille sold 3,361 shares of 8X8 stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, August 11th. The stock was sold at an average price of $24.69, for a total value of $82,983.09. Following the completion of the sale, the director now directly owns 16,040 shares in the company, valued at approximately $396,027.60. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. In the last ninety days, insiders sold 70,109 shares of company stock worth $1,837,489. Corporate insiders own 2.20% of the company’s stock.
Hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Los Angeles Capital Management LLC increased its position in shares of 8X8 by 77.7% during the 4th quarter. Los Angeles Capital Management LLC now owns 32,340 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $1,115,000 after purchasing an additional 14,140 shares during the last quarter. Castleark Management LLC bought a new position in 8X8 in the 1st quarter valued at $8,568,000. Tudor Investment Corp Et Al bought a new position in 8X8 in the 1st quarter valued at $2,383,000. Geode Capital Management LLC grew its position in 8X8 by 9.5% in the 1st quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 1,690,839 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $54,850,000 after acquiring an additional 146,754 shares during the last quarter. Finally, California State Teachers Retirement System grew its position in 8X8 by 0.8% in the 1st quarter. California State Teachers Retirement System now owns 160,810 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $5,217,000 after acquiring an additional 1,311 shares during the last quarter. 92.13% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.
8X8 Company Profile
8×8, Inc provides voice, video, chat, contact center, and enterprise-class application programmable interface (API) Software-as-a-Service solutions for small and mid-size businesses, mid-market and larger enterprises, government agencies, and other organizations worldwide. It offers unified communications, team collaboration, video conferencing, contact center, data and analytics, communication APIs, and other services.
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Coin98 (CURRENCY:C98) traded 2% higher against the dollar during the 24-hour period ending at 21:00 PM ET on August 19th. One Coin98 coin can currently be purchased for approximately $1.82 or 0.00003859 BTC on cryptocurrency exchanges. Coin98 has a total market capitalization of $336.22 million and $165.96 million worth of Coin98 was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. During the last seven days, Coin98 has traded 57.1% higher against the dollar.
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Newcrest Mining Limited (OTCMKTS:NCMGY) was the recipient of a large drop in short interest in the month of July. As of July 30th, there was short interest totalling 27,600 shares, a drop of 31.7% from the July 15th total of 40,400 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 75,200 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 0.4 days.
NCMGY traded up $0.16 on Thursday, hitting $18.33. 51,331 shares of the company’s stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 48,331. Newcrest Mining has a fifty-two week low of $17.80 and a fifty-two week high of $24.71. The company has a quick ratio of 2.72, a current ratio of 3.47 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.21. The firm’s 50-day simple moving average is $19.45.
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About Newcrest Mining
Newcrest Mining Ltd. engages in the exploration, development, and operations of mines. It operates through the following segments: Cadia, Telfet, Lihir, Gosowong, Bonikro, Hidden Valley, and Exploration and Others. The company was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia.
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Public Joint-Stock Company PhosAgro (OTCMKTS:PHOJY) was the recipient of a significant drop in short interest in July. As of July 30th, there was short interest totalling 400 shares, a drop of 33.3% from the July 15th total of 600 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 800 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 0.5 days.
Shares of Public Joint-Stock Company PhosAgro stock remained flat at $$21.05 during trading hours on Thursday. Public Joint-Stock Company PhosAgro has a fifty-two week low of $11.50 and a fifty-two week high of $21.50. The firm’s fifty day moving average price is $20.94.
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Public Joint-Stock Company PhosAgro Company Profile
Public Joint-Stock Company PhosAgro, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the production and distribution of apatite concentrate and mineral fertilizers in Russia and internationally. It operates through two segments, Phosphate-Based Products and Nitrogen-Based Products. The Phosphate-Based Products segment produces and distributes ammophos, diammoniumphosphate, sodium tripolyphosphate, and other phosphate based and complex fertilizers; and apatite concentrate extracted from the apatite-nepheline ore.
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BorgWarner (NYSE:BWA) updated its FY 2021 earnings guidance on Wednesday. The company provided EPS guidance of $4.150-$4.400 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $4.190. The company issued revenue guidance of $15.20 billion-$15.60 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $15.13 billion.
Several research analysts have recently weighed in on the company. KeyCorp boosted their price target on BorgWarner from $55.00 to $60.00 and gave the stock an overweight rating in a research note on Wednesday, April 21st. Barclays reduced their price objective on BorgWarner from $52.00 to $50.00 and set an equal weight rating for the company in a research report on Friday, August 6th. Oppenheimer reiterated a buy rating and set a $54.00 price objective on shares of BorgWarner in a research report on Wednesday, April 21st. Morgan Stanley upped their price objective on BorgWarner from $29.00 to $31.00 and gave the company an underweight rating in a research report on Thursday, May 13th. Finally, Robert W. Baird upped their price objective on BorgWarner from $53.00 to $59.00 and gave the company an outperform rating in a research report on Wednesday, June 9th. They noted that the move was a valuation call. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, five have assigned a hold rating, seven have assigned a buy rating and one has issued a strong buy rating to the company. BorgWarner currently has a consensus rating of Buy and an average price target of $49.36.
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BorgWarner stock traded down $1.74 during midday trading on Thursday, reaching $42.52. 1,701,139 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 2,137,845. The business’s fifty day moving average price is $47.69. BorgWarner has a 12 month low of $34.30 and a 12 month high of $55.55. The company has a market cap of $10.20 billion, a PE ratio of 12.69, a P/E/G ratio of 0.82 and a beta of 1.53. The company has a current ratio of 1.69, a quick ratio of 1.29 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.62.
BorgWarner (NYSE:BWA) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, August 3rd. The auto parts company reported $1.08 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.80 by $0.28. BorgWarner had a return on equity of 15.95% and a net margin of 5.49%. The company had revenue of $3.76 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $3.48 billion. During the same period in the prior year, the company earned ($0.14) earnings per share. The firm’s revenue was up 163.5% on a year-over-year basis. As a group, research analysts predict that BorgWarner will post 4.22 EPS for the current fiscal year.
The business also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, September 15th. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, September 1st will be given a dividend of $0.17 per share. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, August 31st. This represents a $0.68 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.60%. BorgWarner’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 24.64%.
In other news, VP Joseph F. Fadool sold 18,000 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, May 27th. The stock was sold at an average price of $51.59, for a total value of $928,620.00. Following the sale, the vice president now directly owns 122,141 shares in the company, valued at $6,301,254.19. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available at this link. Also, VP Stefan Demmerle sold 4,500 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, June 2nd. The stock was sold at an average price of $55.22, for a total value of $248,490.00. Following the completion of the sale, the vice president now owns 127,977 shares in the company, valued at $7,066,889.94. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Corporate insiders own 0.36% of the company’s stock.
BorgWarner Company Profile
BorgWarner, Inc engages in the provision of technology solutions for combustion, hybrid and electric vehicles. It operates through the following segments: Air Management, e-Propulsion & Drivetrain, Fuel Injection, and Aftermarket. The Air Management segment develops and manufactures products to improve fuel economy, reduce emissions and enhance performance.
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Cedar Capital LLC reduced its holdings in shares of iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF (NYSEARCA:ITOT) by 3.3% in the second quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The firm owned 30,855 shares of the company’s stock after selling 1,069 shares during the period. iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF accounts for about 5.3% of Cedar Capital LLC’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 5th largest holding. Cedar Capital LLC’s holdings in iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF were worth $3,047,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.
A number of other large investors have also bought and sold shares of the stock. Harbor Investment Advisory LLC grew its holdings in iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF by 3.4% in the second quarter. Harbor Investment Advisory LLC now owns 4,036 shares of the company’s stock worth $399,000 after purchasing an additional 134 shares during the period. Tsfg LLC boosted its position in shares of iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF by 0.5% in the 2nd quarter. Tsfg LLC now owns 64,404 shares of the company’s stock worth $6,361,000 after purchasing an additional 308 shares in the last quarter. Red Door Wealth Management LLC purchased a new stake in shares of iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF in the 2nd quarter worth approximately $33,000. Well Done LLC grew its stake in shares of iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF by 2.4% in the 2nd quarter. Well Done LLC now owns 31,071 shares of the company’s stock worth $3,069,000 after buying an additional 726 shares during the last quarter. Finally, ETF Portfolio Partners Inc. increased its position in iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF by 1.9% during the 2nd quarter. ETF Portfolio Partners Inc. now owns 78,999 shares of the company’s stock valued at $7,802,000 after buying an additional 1,436 shares in the last quarter.
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Shares of NYSEARCA ITOT traded down $0.05 during trading on Thursday, reaching $100.30. The company had a trading volume of 1,108,689 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,693,519. iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF has a 12-month low of $71.84 and a 12-month high of $102.15. The business’s 50-day moving average is $99.61.
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Honda Motor (NYSE:HMC) updated its FY 2022 earnings guidance on Wednesday. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $3.680-$3.680 for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $145.76 billion-$145.76 billion.
Honda Motor stock traded down $0.82 during midday trading on Thursday, hitting $30.74. 578,511 shares of the company’s stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 814,475. Honda Motor has a 52-week low of $23.10 and a 52-week high of $33.42. The stock’s 50-day moving average price is $32.24. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.46, a quick ratio of 0.96 and a current ratio of 1.26. The firm has a market capitalization of $53.08 billion, a P/E ratio of 5.87, a P/E/G ratio of 0.60 and a beta of 0.84.
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Honda Motor (NYSE:HMC) last posted its earnings results on Wednesday, August 4th. The company reported $1.18 EPS for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters’ consensus estimate of $0.74 by $0.44. Honda Motor had a return on equity of 10.76% and a net margin of 6.57%. The business had revenue of $32.74 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $30.85 billion. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $97.92 earnings per share. The firm’s revenue was down 10.3% on a year-over-year basis. As a group, research analysts expect that Honda Motor will post 3.8 earnings per share for the current year.
Honda Motor Co, Ltd. engages in the manufacture and sale of automobiles, motorcycles, and power products. It operates through the following segments: Automobile, Motorcycle, Financial Services, and Power Product and Other Businesses. The Automobile segment manufactures and sells automobiles and related accessories.
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Madrona Financial Services LLC lifted its position in Vanguard Communication Services ETF (NYSEARCA:VOX) by 2.8% in the second quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm owned 37,941 shares of the company’s stock after purchasing an additional 1,023 shares during the quarter. Vanguard Communication Services ETF makes up 2.8% of Madrona Financial Services LLC’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 11th biggest holding. Madrona Financial Services LLC’s holdings in Vanguard Communication Services ETF were worth $5,457,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.
Several other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also recently made changes to their positions in VOX. FMR LLC boosted its position in shares of Vanguard Communication Services ETF by 495.7% in the 1st quarter. FMR LLC now owns 1,537 shares of the company’s stock valued at $128,000 after purchasing an additional 1,279 shares during the period. Exchange Traded Concepts LLC boosted its position in shares of Vanguard Communication Services ETF by 19.3% in the 1st quarter. Exchange Traded Concepts LLC now owns 5,395 shares of the company’s stock valued at $701,000 after purchasing an additional 871 shares during the period. Allied Investment Advisors LLC acquired a new stake in shares of Vanguard Communication Services ETF in the 1st quarter valued at about $294,000. Northstar Asset Management LLC raised its stake in Vanguard Communication Services ETF by 0.9% during the 1st quarter. Northstar Asset Management LLC now owns 28,160 shares of the company’s stock valued at $3,661,000 after acquiring an additional 255 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Murphy Capital Management Inc. raised its stake in Vanguard Communication Services ETF by 8.0% during the 1st quarter. Murphy Capital Management Inc. now owns 23,490 shares of the company’s stock valued at $3,053,000 after acquiring an additional 1,750 shares during the last quarter.
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VOX traded down $0.39 on Thursday, hitting $142.28. 102,051 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 174,297. The stock’s 50 day moving average is $143.60. Vanguard Communication Services ETF has a 12-month low of $97.78 and a 12-month high of $147.88.
Vanguard Telecommunication Services ETF (the Fund) seeks to track the performance of a benchmark index that measures the investment return of telecommunication services stocks. The Fund seeks to track the performance of the MSCI US Investable Market Telecommunication Services 25/50 Index. The MSCI US Investable Market Telecommunication Services 25/50 Index includes stocks of the United States companies within the telecommunication services sector.
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Enecuum (CURRENCY:ENQ) traded up 2.6% against the U.S. dollar during the one day period ending at 21:00 PM E.T. on August 19th. One Enecuum coin can now be bought for approximately $0.0896 or 0.00000190 BTC on major cryptocurrency exchanges. Enecuum has a market capitalization of $17.08 million and $309,894.00 worth of Enecuum was traded on exchanges in the last day. In the last seven days, Enecuum has traded up 9.9% against the U.S. dollar.
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Chainlink (LINK) traded up 4.8% against the dollar and now trades at $27.11 or 0.00057422 BTC.
Binance USD (BUSD) traded down 0% against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00002117 BTC.
Polygon (MATIC) traded 9.9% higher against the dollar and now trades at $1.50 or 0.00003169 BTC.
THETA (THETA) traded up 2.7% against the dollar and now trades at $7.17 or 0.00015188 BTC.
DREP (DREP) traded 21% lower against the dollar and now trades at $1.96 or 0.00003398 BTC.
DREP [old] (DREP) traded down 19.5% against the dollar and now trades at $1.96 or 0.00003399 BTC.
Dai (DAI) traded down 0% against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00002118 BTC.
Aave (AAVE) traded 7.4% higher against the dollar and now trades at $412.79 or 0.00874269 BTC.
The Graph (GRT) traded up 17.9% against the dollar and now trades at $1.03 or 0.00002182 BTC.
PancakeSwap (CAKE) traded up 3.8% against the dollar and now trades at $22.52 or 0.00047687 BTC.
About Enecuum
Enecuum (CRYPTO:ENQ) is a coin. Its launch date was February 13th, 2018. Enecuum’s total supply is 195,967,264 coins and its circulating supply is 190,717,257 coins. The official message board for Enecuum is medium.com/@EnqBlockchain . Enecuum’s official Twitter account is @enq_enecuum and its Facebook page is accessible here . Enecuum’s official website is new.enecuum.com
According to CryptoCompare, “Based in Hong Kong, the Enecuum is a Blockchain-based transactions platform. In order to provide speed, scalability and network security to the users, the Enecuum has designed a platform that intends to be supported by three different mining algorithms, the PoW (Proof of Work), the PoS (Proof of Stake), and the PoA (Proof-of-Action). Additionally, the Enecuum intends to provide its users with an app in which is possible to mobile mining. The ENQ token is an Ethereum-based (ERC20) cryptocurrency developed by the Enecuum. It is a utility token that aims to serve as a medium of payment for the platform supported services, including mining. “
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Halma (OTCMKTS:HLMAF) was upgraded by Zacks Investment Research from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a report released on Thursday, Zacks.com reports. The firm presently has a $47.00 price target on the stock. Zacks Investment Research‘s target price would suggest a potential upside of 15.06% from the stock’s current price.
According to Zacks, “Halma PLC is a health and safety sensor technology company. It manufactures products which detect hazards and also protect assets and people at work in public and commercial buildings. Halma PLC is headquartered in Amersham, the United Kingdom. “
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Several other brokerages also recently commented on HLMAF. Berenberg Bank reissued a “hold” rating on shares of Halma in a report on Friday, June 18th. UBS Group reissued a “buy” rating on shares of Halma in a report on Thursday, July 15th. Barclays reissued an “equal weight” rating on shares of Halma in a report on Monday, June 14th. Credit Suisse Group reissued an “outperform” rating on shares of Halma in a report on Friday, June 11th. Finally, JPMorgan Chase & Co. reissued an “underweight” rating on shares of Halma in a report on Friday, August 13th. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, four have issued a hold rating and three have issued a buy rating to the company. The company presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $47.00.
OTCMKTS HLMAF traded down $1.15 during trading on Thursday, reaching $40.85. 437 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 2,210. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.28, a quick ratio of 1.64 and a current ratio of 2.31. The stock has a 50 day moving average price of $38.83. The firm has a market capitalization of $15.51 billion, a P/E ratio of 53.05 and a beta of 0.74. Halma has a 1-year low of $28.10 and a 1-year high of $42.10.
About Halma
Halma plc provides technology solutions in the safety, health, and environmental markets. It operates through four segments: Process Safety, Infrastructure Safety, Environmental & Analysis, and Medical. The Process Safety segment offers specialized interlocks that control critical processes safely; instruments that detect flammable and hazardous gases; and explosion protection and corrosion monitoring systems.
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Labrador Iron Ore Royalty Co. (OTCMKTS:LIFZF) was the target of a large drop in short interest during the month of July. As of July 30th, there was short interest totalling 389,800 shares, a drop of 20.3% from the July 15th total of 489,200 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 12,300 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 31.7 days.
LIFZF traded down $4.18 on Thursday, reaching $32.34. The stock had a trading volume of 23,764 shares, compared to its average volume of 8,163. Labrador Iron Ore Royalty has a 12-month low of $18.13 and a 12-month high of $42.40. The company has a 50-day moving average price of $38.51.
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Several equities analysts have recently issued reports on the company. Scotiabank boosted their price objective on Labrador Iron Ore Royalty from C$50.00 to C$55.00 in a report on Monday, July 12th. TD Securities downgraded Labrador Iron Ore Royalty from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Tuesday, June 29th.
Labrador Iron Ore Royalty Corporation, through its subsidiary, Hollinger-Hanna Limited, holds a 15.10% equity interest in Iron Ore Company of Canada (IOC) that produces and processes an iron ores at Labrador City, Newfoundland and Labrador. IOC produces seaborne iron ore pellets; and sells standard and low silica acid, flux, and direct reduction pellets, as well as iron ore concentrate.
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Madrona Financial Services LLC lifted its position in Vanguard Communication Services ETF (NYSEARCA:VOX) by 2.8% in the second quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm owned 37,941 shares of the company’s stock after purchasing an additional 1,023 shares during the quarter. Vanguard Communication Services ETF makes up 2.8% of Madrona Financial Services LLC’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 11th biggest holding. Madrona Financial Services LLC’s holdings in Vanguard Communication Services ETF were worth $5,457,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.
Several other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also recently made changes to their positions in VOX. FMR LLC boosted its position in shares of Vanguard Communication Services ETF by 495.7% in the 1st quarter. FMR LLC now owns 1,537 shares of the company’s stock valued at $128,000 after purchasing an additional 1,279 shares during the period. Exchange Traded Concepts LLC boosted its position in shares of Vanguard Communication Services ETF by 19.3% in the 1st quarter. Exchange Traded Concepts LLC now owns 5,395 shares of the company’s stock valued at $701,000 after purchasing an additional 871 shares during the period. Allied Investment Advisors LLC acquired a new stake in shares of Vanguard Communication Services ETF in the 1st quarter valued at about $294,000. Northstar Asset Management LLC boosted its position in shares of Vanguard Communication Services ETF by 0.9% in the 1st quarter. Northstar Asset Management LLC now owns 28,160 shares of the company’s stock valued at $3,661,000 after purchasing an additional 255 shares during the period. Finally, Murphy Capital Management Inc. boosted its position in shares of Vanguard Communication Services ETF by 8.0% in the 1st quarter. Murphy Capital Management Inc. now owns 23,490 shares of the company’s stock valued at $3,053,000 after purchasing an additional 1,750 shares during the period.
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VOX traded down $0.39 on Thursday, hitting $142.28. 102,051 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 174,297. The stock’s 50 day moving average is $143.60. Vanguard Communication Services ETF has a 12-month low of $97.78 and a 12-month high of $147.88.
Vanguard Telecommunication Services ETF (the Fund) seeks to track the performance of a benchmark index that measures the investment return of telecommunication services stocks. The Fund seeks to track the performance of the MSCI US Investable Market Telecommunication Services 25/50 Index. The MSCI US Investable Market Telecommunication Services 25/50 Index includes stocks of the United States companies within the telecommunication services sector.
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Cedar Capital LLC increased its position in iShares MSCI Germany ETF (NYSEARCA:EWG) by 27.9% in the 2nd quarter, HoldingsChannel reports. The institutional investor owned 24,794 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock after acquiring an additional 5,401 shares during the period. iShares MSCI Germany ETF makes up about 1.5% of Cedar Capital LLC’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 20th largest position. Cedar Capital LLC’s holdings in iShares MSCI Germany ETF were worth $858,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.
Several other institutional investors have also recently made changes to their positions in the company. BlackRock Inc. lifted its holdings in shares of iShares MSCI Germany ETF by 67.8% in the first quarter. BlackRock Inc. now owns 3,327,437 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $111,269,000 after buying an additional 1,344,210 shares during the period. JPMorgan Chase & Co. lifted its holdings in shares of iShares MSCI Germany ETF by 25.3% during the first quarter. JPMorgan Chase & Co. now owns 3,121,381 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $104,378,000 after purchasing an additional 629,862 shares during the last quarter. Morgan Stanley lifted its holdings in shares of iShares MSCI Germany ETF by 7.1% during the first quarter. Morgan Stanley now owns 1,703,752 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $56,974,000 after purchasing an additional 112,516 shares during the last quarter. Pinnacle Advisory Group Inc. lifted its holdings in shares of iShares MSCI Germany ETF by 33.0% during the first quarter. Pinnacle Advisory Group Inc. now owns 1,286,632 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $43,025,000 after purchasing an additional 319,077 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Morningstar Investment Services LLC lifted its holdings in shares of iShares MSCI Germany ETF by 1.1% during the first quarter. Morningstar Investment Services LLC now owns 1,119,406 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $37,321,000 after purchasing an additional 12,556 shares during the last quarter.
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Shares of NYSEARCA EWG traded down $0.37 during mid-day trading on Thursday, hitting $34.51. 2,729,395 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 3,003,877. iShares MSCI Germany ETF has a 1 year low of $26.06 and a 1 year high of $36.49. The business’s 50 day moving average is $34.77.
iShares MSCI Germany ETF, formerly iShares MSCI Germany Index Fund (the Fund), is an exchange-traded fund. The Fund seeks to provide investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of publicly traded securities in the German market, as measured by the MSCI Germany Index (the Index).
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CYCLUB (CURRENCY:CYCLUB) traded 4.7% lower against the US dollar during the 1-day period ending at 21:00 PM E.T. on August 19th. Over the last week, CYCLUB has traded up 6.4% against the US dollar. One CYCLUB coin can now be purchased for $0.0306 or 0.00000065 BTC on popular exchanges. CYCLUB has a market capitalization of $17.59 million and $916,342.00 worth of CYCLUB was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours.
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Tether (USDT) traded down 0.1% against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00002117 BTC.
XRP (XRP) traded 5.6% higher against the dollar and now trades at $1.22 or 0.00002591 BTC.
Polkadot (DOT) traded up 9.4% against the dollar and now trades at $26.73 or 0.00056623 BTC.
Internet Computer (ICP) traded 10.4% higher against the dollar and now trades at $69.23 or 0.00146629 BTC.
Filecoin (FIL) traded 4.5% higher against the dollar and now trades at $71.38 or 0.00151183 BTC.
Klaytn (KLAY) traded 5.5% higher against the dollar and now trades at $1.87 or 0.00003957 BTC.
Bitcoin BEP2 (BTCB) traded 4.3% higher against the dollar and now trades at $47,127.89 or 0.99815113 BTC.
SHIBA INU (SHIB) traded 3.6% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0000 or 0.00000000 BTC.
Wrapped BNB (WBNB) traded 6.2% higher against the dollar and now trades at $430.33 or 0.00911423 BTC.
stETH (Lido) (STETH) traded 3.7% higher against the dollar and now trades at $3,172.07 or 0.06718335 BTC.
CYCLUB Profile
CYCLUB’s total supply is 3,300,000,000 coins and its circulating supply is 574,716,648 coins. CYCLUB’s official Twitter account is @MciPlatform
CYCLUB Coin Trading
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Jushi Holdings Inc. (OTCMKTS:JUSHF) was the target of a significant increase in short interest in the month of July. As of July 30th, there was short interest totalling 25,200 shares, an increase of 21.2% from the July 15th total of 20,800 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 622,800 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 0.0 days.
Several research analysts have weighed in on the stock. Cantor Fitzgerald dropped their price objective on shares of Jushi from $6.15 to $5.25 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a research note on Wednesday, August 4th. Canaccord Genuity upgraded shares of Jushi to a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, August 5th.
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JUSHF stock traded down $0.08 during mid-day trading on Thursday, hitting $4.80. The stock had a trading volume of 339,031 shares, compared to its average volume of 601,186. Jushi has a 1-year low of $1.95 and a 1-year high of $9.06. The business’s fifty day moving average price is $5.31.
Jushi Holdings Inc, a vertically integrated cannabis company, engages in the cultivation, processing, retail, and distribution of medical and adult-use products. It focuses on building a portfolio of cannabis assets in various jurisdictions in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Illinois, California, Nevada, and Massachusetts.
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Metronome (CURRENCY:MET) traded up 7.7% against the dollar during the one day period ending at 21:00 PM ET on August 19th. Metronome has a market cap of $53.21 million and $87,547.00 worth of Metronome was traded on exchanges in the last day. One Metronome coin can currently be purchased for about $4.42 or 0.00009393 BTC on popular exchanges. Over the last seven days, Metronome has traded up 5.7% against the dollar.
Here is how other cryptocurrencies have performed over the last day:
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Tether (USDT) traded 0.1% lower against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00002123 BTC.
XRP (XRP) traded 4.9% higher against the dollar and now trades at $1.22 or 0.00002587 BTC.
Polkadot (DOT) traded 9.4% higher against the dollar and now trades at $26.63 or 0.00056539 BTC.
Internet Computer (ICP) traded up 10% against the dollar and now trades at $69.35 or 0.00147254 BTC.
Filecoin (FIL) traded 4.2% higher against the dollar and now trades at $71.04 or 0.00150836 BTC.
Klaytn (KLAY) traded 5.4% higher against the dollar and now trades at $1.87 or 0.00003977 BTC.
Bitcoin BEP2 (BTCB) traded up 4.9% against the dollar and now trades at $47,083.40 or 0.99971655 BTC.
SHIBA INU (SHIB) traded 3.4% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0000 or 0.00000000 BTC.
Wrapped BNB (WBNB) traded 6.9% higher against the dollar and now trades at $429.69 or 0.00912360 BTC.
stETH (Lido) (STETH) traded 3.7% higher against the dollar and now trades at $3,160.98 or 0.06711682 BTC.
Metronome Coin Profile
Metronome launched on May 23rd, 2018. Metronome’s total supply is 13,315,383 coins and its circulating supply is 12,029,009 coins. Metronome’s official Twitter account is @MTNToken and its Facebook page is accessible here . The official message board for Metronome is medium.com/@MetronomeToken . The Reddit community for Metronome is /r/metronometoken and the currency’s Github account can be viewed here . Metronome’s official website is www.metronome.io
According to CryptoCompare, “Metronome is an Ethereum-based token designed to serve as a completely decentralized digital currency. “
Buying and Selling Metronome
It is usually not possible to purchase alternative cryptocurrencies such as Metronome directly using U.S. dollars. Investors seeking to trade Metronome should first purchase Bitcoin or Ethereum using an exchange that deals in U.S. dollars such as Changelly, Gemini or GDAX. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Bitcoin or Ethereum to purchase Metronome using one of the aforementioned exchanges.
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Carry (CURRENCY:CRE) traded 0.7% higher against the U.S. dollar during the 1-day period ending at 21:00 PM Eastern on August 19th. One Carry coin can now be bought for approximately $0.0110 or 0.00000023 BTC on popular exchanges. During the last week, Carry has traded down 2.1% against the U.S. dollar. Carry has a total market capitalization of $95.05 million and $9.60 million worth of Carry was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours.
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The Transfer Token (TTT) traded up 1.8% against the dollar and now trades at $12.55 or 0.00026656 BTC.
Arweave (AR) traded 8.8% lower against the dollar and now trades at $28.83 or 0.00061205 BTC.
Paxos Standard (PAX) traded down 0.1% against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00002122 BTC.
SOLVE (SOLVE) traded up 13% against the dollar and now trades at $0.10 or 0.00000220 BTC.
Project Pai (PAI) traded up 0.5% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0186 or 0.00000039 BTC.
Ripio Credit Network (RCN) traded up 0.9% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0279 or 0.00000059 BTC.
HitChain (HIT) traded down 2% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0001 or 0.00000000 BTC.
HoryouToken (HYT) traded 1.1% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0052 or 0.00000013 BTC.
HalalChain (HLC) traded down 0.2% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0074 or 0.00000018 BTC.
Origin Sport (ORS) traded 0.6% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0040 or 0.00000008 BTC.
Carry Coin Profile
CRE is a proof-of-work (PoW) coin that uses the ETH Token hashing algorithm. It was first traded on April 4th, 2019. Carry’s total supply is 10,000,000,000 coins and its circulating supply is 8,651,193,249 coins. The official website for Carry is carryprotocol.io . Carry’s official Twitter account is @carryprotocol and its Facebook page is accessible here . Carry’s official message board is medium.com/carryprotocol
According to CryptoCompare, “Creditcoin is a decentralized credit network that aims to make the bridge between investors and fundraisers. The platform will allow miners (investors) to earn the platform tokens by providing capital to clients, on the other hand, the clients will raise capital by paying Creditcoin to the miners. As the whitepaper reads: “An investment in the Creditcoin network will start by matching offers from investors and fundraisers. A fundraiser will post seeking an amount, interest rate, and collateral. Additionally, the fundraiser will add some amount of Creditcoin to the offer. If is there an investor with matching conditions, the fundraiser and the investor announce the deal to the Creditcoin network. The system verifies the deal's completion by confirming the exchange of collateral and investment. Once validated, the system sends the CreditCoin attached to the investment to the investor.” Furthermore, miners will be able to select credit history parameters to be protected against various risk models. “
Carry Coin Trading
It is usually not presently possible to purchase alternative cryptocurrencies such as Carry directly using US dollars. Investors seeking to trade Carry should first purchase Bitcoin or Ethereum using an exchange that deals in US dollars such as Gemini, Changelly or GDAX. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Bitcoin or Ethereum to purchase Carry using one of the exchanges listed above.
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GCM Grosvenor (NASDAQ:GCMG) was upgraded by Zacks Investment Research from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a report issued on Thursday, Zacks.com reports. The firm presently has a $12.00 price objective on the stock. Zacks Investment Research‘s price target indicates a potential upside of 10.19% from the stock’s current price.
According to Zacks, “GCM Grosvenor is an alternative asset management solutions provider with assets under management across private equity, infrastructure, real estate, credit and absolute return investment strategies. It operates principally in New York, Los Angeles, London, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Seoul. GCM Grosvenor, formerly known as CF Finance Acquisition Corp., is headquartered in Chicago. “
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Other equities research analysts have also recently issued research reports about the stock. William Blair reaffirmed an “outperform” rating on shares of GCM Grosvenor in a research note on Monday, April 26th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised shares of GCM Grosvenor from an “underweight” rating to an “overweight” rating and set a $15.00 price objective on the stock in a research note on Thursday, April 29th.
GCMG traded up $0.01 during trading on Thursday, reaching $10.89. 427,107 shares of the company’s stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 639,302. GCM Grosvenor has a 1 year low of $9.00 and a 1 year high of $15.36. The stock has a market capitalization of $2.03 billion, a PE ratio of 22.22 and a beta of 0.04. The stock has a fifty day moving average of $10.31.
GCM Grosvenor (NASDAQ:GCMG) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, August 10th. The company reported $0.10 EPS for the quarter, hitting analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.10. On average, equities research analysts forecast that GCM Grosvenor will post 0.53 EPS for the current year.
A number of institutional investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in GCMG. Ameritas Investment Partners Inc. acquired a new stake in GCM Grosvenor in the 2nd quarter valued at $27,000. Legal & General Group Plc acquired a new stake in GCM Grosvenor during the 2nd quarter worth $35,000. Penserra Capital Management LLC boosted its stake in GCM Grosvenor by 40.3% during the 2nd quarter. Penserra Capital Management LLC now owns 7,812 shares of the company’s stock worth $81,000 after purchasing an additional 2,242 shares during the last quarter. Pinz Capital Management LP acquired a new stake in GCM Grosvenor during the 2nd quarter worth $86,000. Finally, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co NY acquired a new stake in GCM Grosvenor during the 2nd quarter worth $126,000. 20.37% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.
GCM Grosvenor Company Profile
GCM Grosvenor, Inc provides global alternative asset management solutions. The firm invests on behalf of clients who seek allocations to alternative investments, such as private equity, infrastructure, real estate, credit, and absolute return strategies. It specializes in developing customized portfolios for clients who want an active role in the development of their alternatives programs and also offers multi-client portfolios for investors who desire a turn-key solution for accessing alternative investments.
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Fidelity National Financial (NYSE:FNF) and Doma (NYSE:DOMA) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, earnings and profitability.
Earnings & Valuation
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This table compares Fidelity National Financial and Doma’s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
Gross Revenue Price/Sales Ratio Net Income Earnings Per Share Price/Earnings Ratio Fidelity National Financial $10.78 billion 1.28 $1.43 billion $5.34 9.05 Doma N/A N/A -$8.64 million N/A N/A
Fidelity National Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Doma.
Profitability
This table compares Fidelity National Financial and Doma’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets Fidelity National Financial 17.05% 25.33% 4.01% Doma N/A N/A N/A
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for Fidelity National Financial and Doma, as reported by MarketBeat.
Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score Fidelity National Financial 0 0 2 0 3.00 Doma 0 0 1 0 3.00
Fidelity National Financial presently has a consensus target price of $56.25, indicating a potential upside of 16.36%. Doma has a consensus target price of $14.00, indicating a potential upside of 85.19%. Given Doma’s higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Doma is more favorable than Fidelity National Financial.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
75.1% of Fidelity National Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.9% of Doma shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.8% of Fidelity National Financial shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Fidelity National Financial beats Doma on 8 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Fidelity National Financial
Fidelity National Financial, Inc. is engaged in the provision of title insurance and transaction services to real estate and mortgage industries. Its services include title insurance, escrow and other title-related services, including trust activities, trustee sales guarantees, recordings and reconveyances, and home warranty products; and technology and transaction services to the real estate and mortgage industries. The company operates through the following segments Title, F&G, and Corporate and Other. The Title segment consists of the operations of title insurance underwriters and related businesses. The F&G segment consists of operations of annuities and life insurance related businesses. The Corporate and Other segment involves in real estate brokerage businesses. Fidelity National Financial was founded by William P. Foley, II in 1984 and is headquartered in Jacksonville, FL.
About Doma
Capitol Investment Corp. V entered into a definitive business combination agreement with Doma.
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The Louisiana Purchase Gardens and Zoo has a new exhibit - a budgie house.
Over 400 of the colorful birds were delivered to the zoo on Thursday. A small crowd were present as the singing birds were released into the new exhibit.
Louisiana Purchase Gardens and Zoo director Tom Pearson said the budgie house is the first new exhibit the zoo has acquired in sometime.
"What sets this apart from any other exhibit that we've ever had is it's interactive," Pearson said. "You're able to walk in here and purchase feed sticks and actually feed the birds and that'll help generate revenue for the zoo."
The $20,000 exhibit was funded by contributions from investors in the area. Dr. Jeb Anderson of Monroe and his wife, Nancy, made an initial investment of $10,000, according to Pearson. Local companies contributed to constructing the budgie house, including Tractor Supply, Ouachita Electric and Sammy's Plant World.
Pearson said the birds will spend a month acclimating to their environment before the exhibit is fully open.
The birds can be seen Friday with the planned walk-in portion for the attraction set to open Sept. 18.
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It all started out with a song cover! Harry Styles and Lizzo became total BFFs after the former One Direction crooner covered one of her songs.
In December 2019, Harry appeared in the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge and put his own spin on Lizzo’s song “Juice.” Months later, the songstress returned the favor and covered “Adore You” during her own appearance at the radio studio.
“My favorite British import would be Harry Styles,” Lizzo said while chatting with fans at the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge. “I’ve been listening to the entire album, Fine Line is my jam. I listen to it in the morning, on the plane, so I already sing the songs, and now I get to do it with a live band my way.”
From there, the duo continued their friendship at various awards shows, including the 2020 BRIT Awards where they held hands during the ceremony. Lizzo even planted a smooch on the “Watermelon Sugar” singer’s hand. Of course, their constant social media interactions and real-life appearances together have led fans to hope that there may be a collaboration between the two.
“I think she’s amazing,” Harry said of the “Truth Hurts” musician while appearing on TODAY in February 2020. “I think she’s such a great artist. I think, as a fan, what you want an artist to be is themself, and I think she’s someone who’s just herself and she makes amazing music. It’s really feel good and I think that’s what people need right now. I think she’s great.”
As for whether or not there was a song between the two in the works, Harry played coy and said, “Maybe.”
Lizzo, for her part, also addressed possible collaboration rumors during an interview with U.K.’s Capital FM.
“Honestly, that’s so funny you say that,” she said. “I feel like it would be a love duet. You know, we both have so much love for each other and we love to sing about love. But we’re also very happy-go-lucky if you think about ‘Juice’ and ‘Watermelon Sugar,’ you know what I mean? We could do that too.”
Gushing over their friendship, the Michigan native added, “That’s what I love about that — it’s like anything could come out of it.”
Although the two Grammy winners have yet to confirm or announce anything, their fans are hoping for the best! Scroll through our gallery for a complete timeline of Lizzo and Harry’s legendary friendship.
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Before becoming associated with TikTok’s Hype House, Tayler Holder was already a major name on the internet. The Texas native made his mark in Los Angeles at 18 after making the move from his hometown. From there, he racked up a major social following and kicked off both acting and singing careers.
“I try to be a pretty transparent person on the internet,” Tayler told EUPHORIA magazine in April 2021. “I try to put my entire life out on the internet, that way, you know, there is nothing to hide.”
During the days when Cameron Dallas and Shawn Mendes were rising to fame through MAGCON, Tayler had dreams to do the same thing. But, he was quick to realize that he could do so much more with his career, also telling the publication that, “I realized that’s not forever, that’s temporary … it’s a platform to start something even greater.”
So, in 2018, he nabbed a role on the BRAT TV internet series Dirt. Playing a motocross racer named Luke Dungey, the budding actor started to make a name for himself.
“He’s the best, and we have really easy chemistry. He’s amazing. I love him,” Dirt costar Lilia Buckingham told J-14 exclusively in January 2019 about working with Tayler. “Everybody loves each other. It’s like a family,” she went on. “We spend a lot of time together. After set we’ll go bowling or go to dinner. Even when we’re not filming and we’re on hiatus we’ll hang out because we’re really close.”
Throughout his rise to fame on Dirt, Tayler also made the decision to try his hand in music. Over the years, he dropped songs like “Who I Am” and “Fallback,” but completely revamped his singing career in 2021 with the release of “100 Rounds.”
“The day I made that song, I was like, ‘This is the one that I’m gonna release first.’ And I still felt that way a year later,” Tayler also told EUPHORIA. “It’s very hard to step out of that social media realm and be taken as a serious artist and stuff like that. I felt like that kind of would help solidify me as an artist with the topic of the song, the vibe of the song, even the music video. Just really like making a stamp that I’m a musician, and that’s what I want to do for the rest of my life.”
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Wildlife Troopers have completed their investigation into whether a U.S. Senate candidate and former state official illegally obtained a fishing license for a sportfishing event two years ago. Troopers turned the investigation over to a special prosecutorial branch of the Department of Law. Kelly Tshibaka is a Republican candidate running for Republican U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s seat who has been endorsed by former President Donald Trump. She had only lived in the state eight months when she received the license, not 12 as required by law. Her campaign adviser says the license was only good for one day and the intent was clear to get a nonresident license.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A judge has ruled that the former school resource officer accused of hiding during a Florida mass school shooting will have to convince a jury that he wasn’t criminally negligent. The Sun Sentinel reports that Broward Circuit Judge Martin Fein declined to dismiss the child negligence charges against former Broward County Deputy Scot Peterson. Peterson had worked as a school resource officer at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. Nikolas Cruz, who was 19 at the time of the February 2018 shooting, has been charged with 17 counts of first-degree murder and faces a possible death sentence if convicted.
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Entertainment outfits, S.E.M.G. And JR Gray Designs&Ent. They are set to organize the Queens Of Hip Hop Music Fest 2022, featuring the biggest names in the industry.
How fun is a tour featuring female hip-hop greats like Queen Latifah and Lil Kim? This is the question that will undoubtedly be on the lips of millions of hip hop lovers across the United States, as they are getting ready for a fantastic 2022 with S.E.M.G. and JR Gray Designs &Ent. collaborating to organize the Queens Of Hip Hop Music Fest.
The global music industry has evolved over the years, becoming a multi-billion-dollar market serving millions of people in different parts of the world. The hip-hop world has undoubtedly contributed immensely to the industry’s growth, with several talented musicians, music producers, and other stakeholders making their mark across the globe. Over time, many female acts have graced the music industry, using their unique voices and lyrical prowess to take listeners on a fantastic ride across different genres. But, unfortunately, the efforts of such artists have not been particularly appreciated, which is why S.E.M.G. and JR Gray Designs & Ent. are looking to make a difference with the upcoming Queens Of Hip Hop Music Fest.
The event is organized as a tour, with the train stopping in different parts of the country. The Queens Of Hip Hop Music Fest will feature the most giant female hip hop acts to come out of the United States, making it one of the most anticipated events of 2022. In addition, it will offer a nostalgic feeling, bringing back old memories for music lovers.
Details of the Queens Of Hip Hop Music Fest 2022 are yet to be revealed. However, music lovers can be sure of seeing their favorite hip-hop queens perform. Confirmed locations include New York City, Houston, Miami, Atlanta, Chicago, and Los Angeles.
The world awaits the magic that the duo of S.E.M.G. and JR Gray Designs & ENT. have up their sleeves for the Queens Of Hip Hop Music Fest 2022.
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50 Cent has another film project in the works. This time he is making a movie about a haunted house in New Orleans!
50 Cent is one of the busiest people in entertainment.
Every other day, there is a new project on deck. He took to social media to make the announcement about his new film project that is currently underway.
Curtis Jackson, the artist’s given name, is about to do his first horror film.
In an Instagram post, he said, “From executive producer Curtis ’50 Cent” Jackson comes Lalaurie Mansion. I have a Bomb squad on this one SAW director Darren Lynn Bousman and the writers of the Conjuring Chad Hayes and Carey W. Hayes 💣BOOM💨 we are going to scare the s### out of you.🚦Green Light Gang #bransoncognac
G-Unit Film & Television is one of the most successful production teams that was formed by a rapper.
[His hit Power series on STARZ])https://allhiphop.com/news/50-cents-power-book-iii-raising-kanan-renewed-for-second-season/) (five installments that have only in its third incarnation) has taken the world by storm. Power, Power Book II: Ghost, Power Book III: Raising Kanan, Power Book IV: Force and Power V are exciting hood dramas that show how intricate street politics are.
Recently, it was announced that his highly anticipated show, Black Mafia Family, will actually have a guest appearance by Eminem. The period piece, based in the 80s and on the life of the charismatic Flenory brothers, will also air on STARZ.
Finally, the “Get Rich or Die Trying” rapper’s ABC deal has pushed out important works like For Life that is based on the life of Isaac Wright, Jr. who served time in prison for a crime he did not commit, and a Hip-Hop competition show called Unrapped.
According to GhostCityTours, LaLaurie Mansion is a mansion based in New Orleans, where paranormal activity has been reported for over 200 years.
The mansion housed slaves, and people usually report that they can hear moaning coming from one of the rooms, while “phantom footsteps” are often heard echoing from the house.
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Nicki Minaj's husband says someone forged his name on court documents, as he attempts to get his name off of the sex offender registry.
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Nicki Minaj’s husband says someone forged his name on court documents, as he attempts to get his name off of the sex offender registry.
The story of Nicki Minaj’s husband status as a sex offender has taken another twist.
Kenneth “Zoo” Petty just launched some legal action of his own, in an attempt to have his name removed from New York’s Sex Offender Registry.
In 1995, Petty was convicted of the knife point rape of a 16-year-old named Jennifer Hough. In new court documents, Petty is attempting to have his removed from the registry on a technicality
According to TMZ, Petty maintains he was never given a chance to oppose the risk level assigned to him. He claims he was incarcerated for manslaughter at the time of a status hearing.
Petty also alleges the notice of his court hearing was sent to the wrong address, and that someone forged his signature before the hearing.
As a result, Kenneth Petty was labeled a level two sex offender and his name was placed on the Sex Offender Registry for at least 25 years.
According to his lawsuit, Kenneth Petty claims he is suffered humiliation and financial lost due to his status as a sex offender.
Last week, AllHipHop reported that his victim, Jennifer Hough, was suing Kenneth Petty and her and his famous wife Nicki Minaj.
Hough claims Petty violated the terms of his plea deal multiple times by contacting her in an attempt to bribe to offer a bribe to recant her story.
Petty’s mission was well defined, according to Hough.
He was attempting to pressure her into recanting with an offer of $500,000, so he could have his remove his name removed from the Sex Offender Registry.
Hough claimed Kenneth Petty and Nicki Minaj have been terrorizing her for years, by bombarding her with multiple phone calls, hiring private investigators to track her down, and sending childhood friends from their Jamaica, Queens neighborhood to intimidate her into changing her story so Petty could get off the list.
Kenneth Petty, who also is known by the alias Avery Johnson, recently took a plea deal for failing to register as a sex offender in the state of California, where he was living with Nicki illegally.
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The brainchild of stay-at-home-mom Serena Thompson, the Farm Chicks Fair has been bringing an array of vintage and handmade goods to Spokane from all over the country since 2002. This weekend will featuring roughly half local and half out-of-town vendors.
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The brainchild of stay-at-home-mom Serena Thompson, the Farm Chicks Fair has been bringing an almost endless array of vintage and handmade goods to Spokane from all over the country since 2002. This weekend, featuring roughly half local and half out-of-town vendors, the event will fill the Spokane County Fairgrounds.
“This is a super-inspiring event,” Thompson said, explaining how much time and energy everyone involved puts into preparing for the event. “All these people getting together and supporting each other – it’s just a really creative, giving community. A lot of us have been through sickness and hard times, and we always come back together and we persevere.”
Tickets are $10 for adults, free for children ages 12 and younger and valid both days at the fairgrounds, 404 N. Havana St. in Spokane Valley. To purchase tickets, visit the Spokane Fairgrounds ticket windows between 3 and 5 p.m. Friday and any time during the hours of operation from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. Note that all ticket purchases are cash only.
As vendors rotate and restock throughout the weekend, organizers recommend visiting Saturday and returning Sunday to maximize your ability to explore. “The great thing about Farm Chicks is that there’s such a amazing variety of unique and different vintage items and handmade items,” Thompson said. “But it’s more than just an event. All these, mostly women getting together to sell things – it’s just really special.”
The fair is all indoors. No pets are allowed at the fairgrounds. For nursing mothers, a nursing lounge will be available in the silo near the main entrance at the Plaza. Organizers recommend using a child’s backpack carrier instead of a stroller at the event. For more tips on visiting the fair with young children, visit “Mom Village.” For more information, visit thefarmchicks.com/fc-vintage-fair.
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Dear Doctor: Is there any truth that the three current COVID-19 vaccines may cause infertility? I’ve been told that some of the OB-GYN doctors in my area are advising younger adults that this might be the case.
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By Eve Glazier, M.D.,and Elizabeth Ko, M.D. Andrews McMeel Syndication
Dear Doctor: Is there any truth that the three current COVID-19 vaccines may cause infertility? I’ve been told that some of the OB-GYN doctors in my area are advising younger adults that this might be the case.
Dear Reader: In all the data that have been pouring in since the start of vaccination efforts, no link has been found between getting the COVID-19 vaccine and subsequent infertility. Throughout the clinical trials leading up to the release of the vaccine, women became pregnant.
Studies also continue to show the vaccine doesn’t affect sperm count and is safe during pregnancy. The fallacies about the vaccine causing infertility have grown out of misleading statements made by several scientists, as well as misinterpretation of scientific data by anti-vaccine activists. This includes the falsehood that the coronavirus vaccines can alter the DNA of the recipient. This is not correct.
The vaccine works by teaching the immune system to target a single spike protein on the exterior of the coronavirus. The mRNA in the vaccine does not get incorporated into the recipient’s genetic code. Rather, it is broken down by the body soon after vaccination. All that is left behind are the lessons that it has taught to the person’s immune system about how to recognize and neutralize the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
Although mRNA vaccines have been in development for decades, they are brand new to the public. For this reason, and because the science behind how they work is complex, it has become all too easy for misinformation to take hold. Add in the megaphone of various social media platforms, and it’s no surprise that internet searches for information about infertility and the COVID-19 vaccines have surged almost 35,000% in recent weeks.
Misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccines is rapidly becoming an epidemic of its own. It has come to the point that a private school in Florida has banned teachers who are fully vaccinated from coming into contact with students.
Meanwhile, virtually all COVID-19 deaths are now among people who are unvaccinated. This is due, in part, to the emergence of the delta variant. It’s a form of the original coronavirus that causes COVID-19, which has developed several mutations. As a result, the delta variant is far more transmissible. It’s also able to reach deeper into the lungs, which has linked it to more serious disease.
Due to the availability of these extremely effective vaccines, nearly all COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. are now avoidable. Yet severe illness and deaths are spiking. As we write this, the seven-day average of new COVID-19 cases has increased by nearly 70% over the previous week.
Hospitalizations have jumped by more than one-third. The steady rise in the daily death toll reverses the decline that began with the vaccination effort in mid-January. As we have stated, virtually all COVID-19 deaths at this time are among people who have not been vaccinated. Many of them have been swayed by persistent misinformation, and we believe that is a tragedy.
Send your questions to askthedoctors@mednet.ucla.edu.
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Two larger fires helped keep kept Spokane Valley Fire Department crews busy recently, with the first breaking out in a Millwood strip mall in the early morning hours Aug. 11.
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Two larger fires kept Spokane Valley Fire Department crews busy recently, with the first breaking out in a Millwood strip mall in the early morning hours Aug. 11.
When crews arrived in the 9300 block of East Trent Avenue after the 5:27 a.m. call to 911, they found flames coming from an exterior side door of the Wash N Snip pet grooming shop. No people or animals were inside at the time of the fire, which was put out within 10 minutes, said department spokesman George Hedebeck.
Most of the damage was confined to the dog grooming shop, though one of the other three businesses in the strip mall did have some damage.
Crews were assisted by firefighters from the Spokane Fire Department and Spokane County Fire District 9.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
The second major fire last week was reported at a duplex in the 10900 block of East 16th Avenue at 10:52 p.m. on Aug. 11.
When crews arrived, the basement on one side of the duplex was on fire with flames coming out the front door, said Hedebeck.
Smoke detectors had alerted the residents to the fire.
The fire was difficult to control, and one firefighter was injured.
Two dogs were found in the burning half of the duplex and could not be resuscitated.
The other half of the duplex was not damaged.
The Red Cross was called to assist the displaced residents.
Crews from Spokane County Fire District 8 assisted with the fire. The cause is under investigation.
Other calls Aug. 9-15
Aug. 9: A grass fire was reported next to eastbound Interstate 90 near the Pines exit at 12:12 p.m. The fire was small and was quickly put out. A two-vehicle rollover crash was reported in the 26100 block of East Appleway near Stateline at 10:26 p.m. Kootenai Fire provided assistance.
Aug. 10: A brush fire was reported in a field in the 4100 block of North Industrial Park Fourth Street at 10:29 a.m. The 20-by-20-foot fire was in the vicinity of a power pole and firefighters put water on it from a distance. The transformer blew while firefighters were on scene. Avista was called. A vehicle versus pedestrian collision was reported in the 6600 block of East Broadway Avenue at 11:22 a.m. The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office reported that someone was hit by a car during an attempted carjacking. A fire was reported in the area of Michigan Road and Seventh Avenue at 4:03 p.m. The caller reported smoke coming from the basement. Crews found heat and smoke in a room near an indoor sauna in the basement. An illegal fire was reported in a backyard in the 243000 block of East Wellesley Avenue at 11:08 p.m. The homeowner was burning trash and weeds in a burn barrel, only 2 feet from dried grass and brush. The homeowner was notified of the current burn ban and also told that burn barrels have been illegal for years. The fire was put out.
Aug. 11: A fire alarm summoned firefighters to an apartment complex in the 12300 block of East Main Avenue at 3:55 p.m. It was determined that someone had put a plastic pan in the oven in the communal kitchen, creating a lot of smoke.
Aug. 13: A load of recyclable trash inside a Waste Management truck caught on fire and was dumped in a parking lot in the 10900 block of East Sprague Avenue at 6:56 a.m. Crews doused the large pile of trash with water and foam. A brush fire was reported in the 5300 block of East Fifth Avenue at 2:21 p.m. The smoke was seen near the top of a high rock mound, where several other fires have been found lately. The site was doused with water and foam.
Aug. 14: A grass fire was reported in the 300 block of North Union Road at 5:05 p.m. Crews found the fire had spread to four trees and had burned part of a wooden fence. The fire was put out and is under investigation.
By the numbers: Firefighters responded to 452 calls during the week of Aug. 9-15, including 387 calls for emergency medical services. Other responses included 30 car crashes, 18 fires, a reported natural gas smell that turned out to be an odor from a nearby sewer plant, and a woman who believed she had a hazardous materials leak in her home because several of her pet birds had just died. However, gas monitors did not detect anything hazardous.
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U of I Free Summer Movies – Friday: “Knives Out,” PG-13; Saturday: “Wonder Woman 1984,” PG-13; Thursday: “A Quiet Place Part II,” PG-13. Movies begin at approximately 9 p.m. Free popcorn while supplies last. University of Idaho, 709 Deakin Ave., Moscow. Free.
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U of I Free Summer Movies – Friday: “Knives Out,” PG-13; Saturday: “Wonder Woman 1984,” PG-13; Thursday: “A Quiet Place Part II,” PG-13. Movies begin at approximately 9 p.m. Free popcorn while supplies last. University of Idaho, 709 Deakin Ave., Moscow. Free. (208) 885-6111.
Trevor Wallace – Standup comedian and actor based in Los Angeles. Wallace is an original cast member of the popular YouTube channel “All Def Digital.” He has also been featured on Comedy Central, Buzzfeed, Unilad, Funny or Die, Super Deluxe, Fusion TV, IFC, Worldstar Hip Hop, 9GAG, Reddit and MTV2. Friday and Saturday, 7 and 10 p.m. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague Ave. $25-$35. (509) 318-9998.
“Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” – An ancient prophecy seems to be coming true when a mysterious presence begins stalking the corridors of a school of magic and leaving its victims paralyzed. Directed by Chris Columbus. Rated PG. 161 minutes. Movie begins at dusk. Friday. Pavillion Park, 727 N. Molter Road, Liberty Lake. Free.
Food Truck Friday – Featuring food trucks every Friday, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. through August. 221 N. Wall St.
North Idaho State Fair – Friday through Aug. 29. A 10-day family event featuring carnival rides and attractions, fair food, vendor shopping, rodeos, a concert series including performances by Nelly, Chris Johnson and more. To purchase tickets and view a detailed schedule, visit nisfair.fun. Kootenai County Fairgrounds, 4056 N. Government Way, Coeur d’Alene. $6-$150. (208) 765-4969.
“The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook” – Master Gardener Susan Mulvihill discusses her book “The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook.” Hosted on Zoom. Register at thefriendsofmanito.org. Friday, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Presented by the Friends of Manito. Free.
Cooking Class: Provence Deuxième Partie With Chef Patricia – Make a tatin de tomates, a ginger, thyme and tomatoes savory tart; grilled lamb chops with herbes de Provence and a garlic cream sauce accompanied by La Bohemienne, a tomato and eggplant based stew; and for desssert, fraises rôties, sauteed strawberries with sage and deglazed with red wine served with cottage cheese. Friday, 5:30-7:30 p.m. The Culinary Stone, 2129 Main St., Coeur d’Alene. $50. (208) 277-4116.
Bemiss’ Music Under the Oaks – Family-friendly music by Jerry at Tricks. Friday, 6-8 p.m. Hays Park, 1812 E. Providence Ave. Free.
Shakespeare in the Park – Spokane Shakespeare Society presents “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Check my.spokanecity.org/riverfrontspokane for exact location. Friday, 6:30 p.m. Riverfront Park, 507 N. Howard St. Free. (509) 625-6601.
Rocket Market Wine Class – A weekly wine class hosted by Rocket Market’s Kevin Murphy. Each week offers a new theme with wines to taste and snacks to pair. Call or visit rocketmarket.com to sign up. Friday, 6:30 p.m. Rocket Market, 726 E. 43rd Ave. (509) 343-2253.
Mike Coletta – Seattle-based comedian originally from Alaska. He started comedy performing improv in Pullman, directing the Nuthouse Improv Comedy Troupe. Coletta has performed at the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, Emerald City Comicon, Treefort Festt and Bumbershoot. He’s also the co-host of the HugLife Podcast. Doors at 7 p.m.; show at 8 p.m. Friday, 8-10 p.m. Honey Eatery and Social Club, 317 E. Sherman Ave., Coeur d’Alene. $12. (208) 930-1514.
“Raya and the Last Dragon” – In a realm known as Kumandra, a reimagined Earth inhabited by an ancient civilization, a warrior named Raya is determined to find the last dragon. Directed by Don Hall and Carlos López Estrada. Rated PG. 107 minutes. Movie begins at dusk. Saturday. Pavillion Park, 727 N. Molter Road, Liberty Lake. Free.
The Farm Chicks Vintage and Handmade Fair – Featuring hundreds of vendors selling vintage and handmade goods. Saturday and Sunday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Spokane County Fair and Expo Center, 404 N. Havana St., Spokane Valley. $10 weekend; free children ages 12 and younger. (509) 954-1692.
Unity in the Community – The region’s largest multicultural event. Family-friendly, free school supplies and bike helmets for children in kindergarten through eighth grade (children must be present; while supplies last). Cultural Village, entertainment, career/education fair, youth area, health fair, senior resources and general vendors. For details and volunteer registration, visit nwunity.org. Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Riverfront Park, 507 N. Howard St. Free. (509) 625-6601.
Wine Class: Wines to Celebrate With – Taste wines for special occasions, sparkling and otherwise. Saturday, 3-4:30 p.m. The Culinary Stone, 2129 Main St., Coeur d’Alene. $15. (208) 277-4116.
Summer of ’99 – Drag show. Saturday, 7-9 p.m. Baby Bar, 827 W. First Ave. $10. (509) 847-1234.
Yoga and Mimosas – An hourlong Vinyasa flow, followed by your mimosa of choice. Hosted by the Union. Sunday, 10 a.m. Brick West Brewery, 1318 W. First Ave. $20. (509) 279-2982.
Wine Class: Scintillating Wines – A sampling of forward and friendly wines. Sunday, 2-3:30 p.m. The Culinary Stone, 2129 Main St., Coeur d’Alene. $15. (208) 277-4116.
Christ Cakes: Youth Bible Study – Discuss Scripture in the context of daily life. Conversation will be accompanied by snacks and sweets. Open to adults ages of 18-35. Masks required. For more information, call (509) 325-6810, and visit makingspokanebetter.org. Sunday, 6-7 p.m. The Salvation Army, 222 E. Indiana Ave. Free. (509) 325-6810.
Moonlight Rendezvous Gala – Benefitting Inland Northwest Opera. Enjoy a three-course menu, live and silent auctions and arias from the opera repertoire. Sunday, 6 p.m. Hayden Lake Country Club, 2362 E. Bozanta Drive, Hayden. $110.
Shakespeare in the Park – Spokane Shakespeare Society presents “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Check my.spokanecity.org/riverfrontspokane for exact location. Sunday, 2 p.m. Riverfront Park, 507 N. Howard St. Free. (509) 625-6601.
Jamie Kennedy – Comedian known for his roles in “Scream,” “The Cleveland Show,” “Ghost Whisperer” and more. Kennedy is currently the host is of the CW show “Oh Sit” and will soon release his new book “Wannabe” and a new record “Blowin’ Up.” Sunday, 7:30 p.m. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague Ave. $20-$28. (509) 318-9998.
Circling Raven Championship – Sponsorship, PRO AM and volunteer opportunities available. Visit cdacasino.com/golf/circlingravenchampionship for more information. Monday through Aug. 29. Circling Raven Golf Course, 37914 South Nukwalqw, Worley. $12 single day; $20 two day; $28 three day. (800) 523-2464.
Cooking Class: Comfort Foods Gone Paleo With Chef Michelle – Make healthy “breaded” chicken, baked zucchini spears and bacon-wrapped dates dipped in dairy-free chocolate. Monday, 5:30-7:30 p.m. The Culinary Stone, 2129 Main St., Coeur d’Alene. $50. (208) 277-4116.
Music on Mondays Concert Series: Matt Renner Band – Featuring old-time county, bluegrass and Americana music by the Matt Renner Band. Attendees are advised to bring their own chairs and snacks. Monday, 6-7:30 p.m. Coeur d’Alene Library, 702 E. Front Ave., Coeur d’Alene. Free. (208) 769-2315.
Riverfront Eats Food Truck Series – Featuring rotating food trucks. Tuesday, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Riverfront Park, Orange Howard St. Bridge, 507 N. Howard St. (509) 625-6601.
Riverfront Moves: Pilates at the Clock Tower – Pilates is a whole-body workout that focuses on core integration, shoulder stability, lower body strength and power and joint mobility. Hosted by Providence Health Care and Riverfront Spokane. Visit my.spokanecity.org/riverfrontspokane/calendar for details and possible cancellation updates in the case of poor air quality. Tuesday, 10-11 a.m. Riverfront Park, Clock Tower Meadow, 507 N. Howard St. Free. (509) 625-6601.
CDAIDE End-of-Summer Scavenger Hunt – Teams of 2-6 people race to various locations to compete for a grand prize and raise funds to support hospitality workers. Tuesday, 5-7 p.m. Bardenay Restaurant & Distillery, 1719 W. Riverstone Drive, Coeur d’Alene. $5 person; free children ages 8 and younger. (208) 755-0114.
Cooking Class: Ethiopia With Chef Lesa – Make Injera bread, a thin crepe-like sourdough, gluten-free bread for dipping; misir wat, a lentil stew with tomatoes and spice; and chicken jollof, a baked chicken and basmati rice dish. Tuesday, 5:30-7:30 p.m. The Culinary Stone, 2129 Main St., Coeur d’Alene. $50. (208) 277-4116.
Affordable Health Screenings – Screenings check for level of plaque buildup in your arteries related to risk for cardiovascular disease, stroke and overall vascular health; HDL and LDL cholesterol levels; diabetes risk; bone density as a risk for possible osteoporosis; kidney and thyroid function; and more. Special package pricing starts at $149, but consultants will work with you to create a package that is right for you based on your age and risk factors. Registration required. Wednesday. Corbin Senior Center, 827 W. Cleveland Ave. (509) 327-1584.
Cocktail Class: It’s Cocktail Time in Cuba with Mixologist Renee – Learn how Cuba preserved American cocktail traditions during the 1920s. Make and enjoy some of Cuba’s iconic drinks using the Caribbean’s holy trinity of rum, sugar and lime. Light appetizers included. Wednesday, 5:30-7:30 p.m. The Culinary Stone, 2129 Main St., Coeur d’Alene. $50. (208) 277-4116.
Summer Night Yoga Series – Hosted by The Union. An hour long Vinyasa flow. Bring a mat and water. Wednesday, 7 p.m. Spokane Tribal Gathering Place, 347 N. Post St., behind City Hall. Free.
Coffee in the Garden – Join for refreshments, garden talk, demonstrations, crafts and more. Weekly through August. Thursday, 10 a.m.-noon., Create Art Center, 900 W. Fourth St., Newport. Free. (509) 474-1976.
Safe Start Northwest Webinar: “Safe Sleep 101” – Learn how to keep infants safe during sleep. Review the American Academy of Pediatric Safe Infant Sleep recommendations and get answers to sleep safety questions. Visit safestartnw.org for details and registration. Thursday, 6-7 p.m. Free. (206) 582-6191.
Shakespeare in the Park – Spokane Shakespeare Society presents “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Check my.spokanecity.org/riverfrontspokane for exact location. Thursday, 6:30 p.m. Riverfront Park, 507 N. Howard St. Free. (509) 625-6601.
Gareth Reynolds – Internationally touring comedian known for the podcast “The Dollop.” Reynolds has written for “Arrested Development,” “Flaked,” “Hoops,” “You’re the Worst,” “I’m Sorry,” “Idiotsitter.” He has also been seen on “Maron.” Thursday, 8 p.m. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague Ave. $20-$28. (509) 318-9998.
“Abominable” – Three teenagers must help a Yeti return to his family while avoiding a wealthy man and a zoologist who want him for their own needs. Directed by Jill Culton and Todd Wilderman. Rated PG. 97 minutes. Movie begins at dusk. Aug. 27. Pavillion Park, 727 N. Molter Road, Liberty Lake. Free.
Night of the Bards – A night of five, original one-acts by Sandpoint playwrights on the main stage. Aug. 27 and 28, 7:30 p.m. Aug. 29, 2 p.m. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave., Sandpoint. $15/evening; $12/matinee. (208) 263-9191.
“Little Shop of Horrors” – The meek floral assistant Seymour Krelborn stumbles across a new breed of plant he names “Audrey II” – after his coworker crush. This foul-mouthed, R&B-singing carnivore promises unending fame and fortune to the down and out Krelborn as long as he keeps feeding it blood. Aug. 27, 7 p.m.; Aug. 28, 2 p.m. and 2 p.m.; Aug. 29, 2 p.m. Spokane Children’s Theatre, 2727 N. Madelia Ave. $16/adult; $12/ages 12 and under; $15/senior and military. (509) 328-4886.
Collin Moulton – Comedian known for his special on Showtime and recent feature on “Last Call with Carson Daly.” Aug. 27 and 28, 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague Ave. $20-$28. (509) 318-9998.
Shakespeare in the Park – Spokane Shakespeare Society presents “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Check my.spokanecity.org/riverfrontspokane for exact location. Aug. 27, 6:30 p.m. Riverfront Park, 507 N. Howard St. Free. (509) 625-6601.
Rocket Market Wine Class – A weekly wine class hosted by Rocket Market’s Kevin Murphy. Each week offers a new theme with wines to taste and snacks to pair. Call or visit rocketmarket.com to sign up. Aug. 27, 6:30 p.m. Rocket Market, 726 E. 43rd Ave. (509) 343-2253.
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With almost unconditional funding and no publisher to oversee development, Kickstarter is not risk-free for investors. Plans can change substantially during development, some projects are too lofty for their own good, and others are a scam from the start.
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Since its inception in 2009, Kickstarter has proven to be a great tool for creative types to get projects off the ground when their existing income is insufficient. Given the large quantity of resources and wide variety of talent typically needed to create a video game, the platform has proven to be especially helpful for independent game developers.
Of course, with almost unconditional funding and no publisher to oversee development, Kickstarter is not risk-free for investors. Plans can change substantially during development, some projects are too lofty for their own good, and others are a scam from the start.
“Darkest Dungeon,” one of my favorite games of all time, made it to the finish line thanks to Kickstarter. Red Hook Studios, a five-person indie team, had managed to keep development going for nine months out-of-pocket before taking to the internet in 2014 to beg for help. Their funding target was $75,000 – they amassed $313,000. The game went on to produce several expansions.
Their Kickstarter pitch was thorough, with plenty of authentic in-game footage on display. It wasn’t polished, but the game already looked practically complete at the time. The Kickstarter funds and subsequent commercial success of the game allowed Red Hook Studios to grow their team to 20 employees and be completely independent in developing “Darkest Dungeon II,” which will launch in early access on the Epic Games Store in Q3 2021 – very soon.
“Darkest Dungeon” is a great time, but it’s clearly a small-scale indie effort. Other projects, like the notorious “Star Citizen,” are substantially more ambitious. Cloud Imperium Games’ 2012 pitch was bold, claiming “traditional publishers don’t believe in space sims, and venture capitalists only want to back mobile or social gaming startups.”
The devs didn’t beat around the bush, with their crosshairs planted squarely at the likes of “Eve Online” by promising no subscription fees and zero “pay-to-win” elements. Throughout their bombastic pitch, they proudly reminded would-be backers that the mastermind behind “Star Citizen” is Chris Roberts of “Wing Commander” fame.
Long story short – their brazen tactics worked, with $15 million pledged within the first year. Funding from backers has exceeded $300 million as of June 2020. The game’s initial release window was 2014 – it’s now 2021, and the game still isn’t finished.
The problem is that Cloud Imperium Games is adamant that “Star Citizen” needs to mimic a AAA game experience – cutting-edge graphics, big-budget production, the works. Even under the conditional support and constant watch of major game publishers, modern AAA games often take around half a decade to create from start to finish – assuming it’s a fresh experience and not just another chapter of “Assassin’s Creed” or “Battlefield,” for instance.
In the case of “Star Citizen,” employees aren’t working under the constant threat of a publisher pulling the plug on their project. This gives them a less-stressful working environment and a greater degree of artistic freedom, but it also enables them to develop the game at a snail’s pace with few repercussions.
Many have taken to calling the game “vaporware,” a term for products that are never finished but never formally canceled. Backers can play an early alpha version for the entry cost of $45, but it’s a rough build, and only a handful of the promised features are currently available.
Although the game is stuck in development hell, “Star Citizen” has proven that crowdfunding can be a viable source of capital even for large-scale projects. Despite being established developers, Spokane’s own Cyan Inc. took to Kickstarter in 2013 to fund “Obduction,” a spiritual successor to their own renowned “Myst” series.
Cyan set the goalpost at $1.1 million, and backers pledged $1.3 million within weeks. They also used the platform to release “Myst 25th Anniversary Collection,” with the funding goal of $250,000 – ultimately, $2.8 million was pledged.
On a quick side note, the biography section of both projects reads “Cyan is located on the northern outskirts of Spokane, Washington, about 119 trillion miles from the nearest habitable planet.” Cheeky!
In 2018, they took to Kickstarter once again to announce “Firmament,” an entirely new Cyan world. The project was quickly backed and a July 2020 release date was advertised. When the month came around, however, Cyan pushed the release all the way to late 2022.
Game delays are common but often make would-be players uneasy – doubly so when the gamers effectively paid for the game years in advance. Unlike Cloud Imperium Games, though, Cyan has released completed products on dozens of occasions for more than three decades. There’s no reason to believe “Firmament” is vaporware like “Star Citizen.”
With a brand-new steampunk world, an AI companion, comprehensive VR controls and regular controller support, “Firmament” is Cyan’s biggest undertaking yet – setbacks are understandable, and I look forward to seeing the final product when it’s ready.
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Could it be possible? The temperature is going to be in the mid-80s through next Tuesday. Traditionally we start cooling off about mid-August and it looks like we may be doing just that. Now it’s time to get out, pull all the weeds and get ready for the transition into September.
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Could it be possible? The temperature is going to be in the mid-80s through next Tuesday. Traditionally we start cooling off about mid-August and it looks like we may be doing just that. Now it’s time to get out, pull all the weeds and get ready for the transition into September.
Once the nights start cooling down and we get higher humidity or some rain, powdery mildew will start taking over the leaves of squash, pumpkin, cucumbers and maybe beans, beets, carrot, eggplant, melons, parsnips, peppers, tomatillo, tomatoes and turnips. Powdery mildew is a fungus that develops when the weather cools in the late summer and early fall. It appears as a powdery gray or whitish haze on plant leaves as the temperatures swing from cool nights followed by warm days. Over time the fungus can create a thick cover of powder. The powder is made up of spores that are shedding and spreading to other plants. Once it is established, it can’t be removed and can reduce the leaf’s ability to photosynthesize. If you want to control it, you need to start treating it now before it appears.
Overfertilization can stimulate new growth which is more susceptible to the fungus. Powdery mildew is more likely if your plants are crowded or the air circulation among them is poor. There are many cultural ways to prevent the mildew from establishing itself. Watering with overhead sprinklers might help. The water on the leaves helps wash off the spores before they can settle in. Do this is the morning so the plants have a chance to dry off during the day.
You can treat the susceptible plants with a commercial organic fungicide that contains sulfur as the active ingredient. If the box stores don’t have it, check with the independent garden centers or order online. If home remedies are more your style, there are some simple sprays that can be made from household products. They can be used as a preventative or on existing infections.
Sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) and potassium bicarbonate can be mixed and applied as a preventative. Potassium bicarbonate is the same as low-sodium baking powder. Mix one tablespoon of the baking soda and ½ teaspoon liquid soap such as Castile or Dawn dishwashing soap in a gallon of water. Spray the plants liberally, soaking the top and bottom leaf surfaces and any affected stems or fruit. Repeat applications once a week.
A milk-based spray works especially well on zucchini, melons and cucumbers. Mix one part milk to two to three parts water and spray liberally as above. In all these sprays, it is thought that they change the chemistry of the leaf surface making it inhospitable to powdery mildew. Neem oil by itself won’t treat the mildew but when a couple of tablespoons are added to these sprays, it can give them an extra boost.
Use a handheld sprayer that hasn’t been used for other chemicals and soak the leaves thoroughly through the last of the harvest.
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The third annual Same Dress Spokane photography project celebrated Saturday was the culmination of 12 weeks of photo shoots by 11 photographers featuring the same dress.
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By Katharine Kumangai The Spokesman-Review
The third annual Same Dress Spokane photography project celebrated Saturday was the culmination of 12 weeks of photo shoots by 11 photographers featuring the same dress.
“I am blown away,” Same Dress Spokane founder Rachel Fellows said of the results Tuesday. “There were tons of variety, a lot of beautiful photos, and it was interesting to see what was the inspiration for each photographer.”
Lisa Pipella of Spokane chose an astrological theme, for instance, that was creative and different, Fellows said.
“I have been wanting to do a zodiac-inspired shoot for a long time and decided to go with Leo, since that is my sign and my model’s sign as well,” Pipella said. “I also chose to focus on the element of Leo, which is fire, so the lightning was a perfect fit.”
Pipella said she worked with model Kaylee Peterson years ago and wanted to work with her again.
“Fashion, fantasy and creative photography are my favorite genres, and I was able to incorporate all three in this shoot,” Pipella. “In a way this was like paying tribute to our growth and successes in life and our careers over the years.”
The dress is a silver metallic, long-sleeved, mid-length wrap dress.
The project initially included 12 photographers, but one was unable to complete a shoot. The photographers took turns photographing the dress on a model and revealed the results on Facebook and Instagram and to each other during a gathering Saturday.
The dress is being auctioned on ebay.com this week to raise funds for Spokane Humane Society. On the first day of the fundraiser, cash donations made through Same Dress Spokane links had reached $700, Fellows said. On Tuesday, the dress auction was up to $54.
People can view the photos by searching for #SameDressSpokane on Instragram or by visiting the Same Dress Spokane Facebook page.
The photographers provided two photos each, from which The Spokesman-Review selected one for these pages, along with a short summary of the inspiration for the themes.
Jake Donovan of Spokane who worked with model Samantha Shivvers, said, “What made me want to participate in this project was the need for a challenge. I love when I’m asked to let my creative side run wild and put my own spin on an idea. It has also been great being able to meet and form relationships with other local photographers in Spokane. I can’t wait to see the images from everybody else and how this dress inspired them.”
John Austin has photographed the Spokane area since 2005. He shot the dress with model Ilsa White on the rooftop of Merlyn’s Comics and Games Building .
“I knew immediately who I wanted to feature as my model. Ilsa is an up-and-coming model and has what it takes to make it big. She’s just graduated high school, and with her looks and stature and ease at posing already, she’s ready for prime time. … I think Ilsa made the dress look amazing. I hope our bidders agree,” Austin said.
Spokane photographer Tabor Cote worked with model Taylor Merrill Lunde. He also is one of the original photographers in the project since its inception three years ago.
“While I was nervous to do it, the project helped jump-start my creativity and forced me to push my creativity and editing skills.
“I had a rough idea of what I wanted to do. The photo was shot in broad daylight, which made editing it even harder. I pushed myself beyond what I thought I could do, and I think it paid off.”
Photographer Jason Jakober of Coeur d’Alene said the silver color of the dress reminded him of Shadow Falls in North Idaho where he visited a few years ago.
“I knew the silver color would work perfectly with the color of the waterfall,” said Jakober, who worked with model Amy Joy.
Michael Wolfgram took inspiration from the David Bowie of the 1970s to ‘80s, and used a mural of Bowie in the Garland Business District area as a backdrop. He worked with model Amber Blackstock of Spokane on the concept for the shoot.
Wolfgram, of Saginaw, Michigan, but stationed at Fairchild Air Force Base, said the fundraiser aspect of Same Dress Spokane inspired him to take part in the project.
“I have two German shepherds and a cat. With a person that deals with mental health issues and the stresses of military life, I find that animals are the greatest thing (along with photography) to help deal with such issues,” Wolfgram said.
Project founder Fellows, of Spokane Valley, said her vision is “‘Ziegfeld Girl’ meets 2021. The color of the dress is a nod to a ‘silver lining’ when thinking about the pandemic, stress and uncertainties of the past year.”
Fellows photographed model Nicole Brianna, a Spokane-based dancer, teacher, model and owner of Bloom House Academy. Brianna is the director of cabaret company Rouge la Rue and can be found performing at local events like Spokane’s Burlesque Brunch and Honey Eatery and Social Club in Coeur d’Alene.
“I’m so grateful to the photographers, models, and everyone for supporting us and the Spokane Humane Society,” Fellows said. “The reason I created Same Dress Spokane will always be rooted in celebrating creative diversity.”
Katharine Kumangai can be reached at (509) 459-5389 or katek@spokesman.com.
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I knew something was off in the first mile of our climb. I had a big breakfast in preparation of a lengthy summit, but I was well into my snacks before breaking the tree-line, and still feeling wobbly. I assumed the mosquitos had drained too much of my blood supply.
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By Ammi Midstokke For The Spokesman-Review
I knew something was off in the first mile of our climb. I had a big breakfast in preparation of a lengthy summit, but I was well into my snacks before breaking the tree line, and still feeling wobbly. I assumed the mosquitoes had drained too much of my blood supply.
When my daughter was 6, she had climbed South Sister in the Oregon Cascades with me in a two-day effort motivated by Sour Patch Kids and the promise of a new Barbie. This is where I learned the power of bribery in the Great Outdoors, a useful parenting skill when the lure of achievement itself is not enough. At 14, it would take fewer dolls but more candy.
Volcanoes are often a good way to break a child of the are-we-there-yet habit. They can see right where they are the whole time. You’re there when you reach the top and then you can start your sun-baked descent into the cloud of ravenous mosquitoes below. What I love about being in the wilderness is the constant potential of discomfort.
It makes the Mediocre Indoors that much more delicious.
We brought my brother along for motivation. Any signs of weakness will be latched onto for years of ridiculing. As a matter of pride, I kept quiet about my growing desire to vomit on my feet. Altitude had never bothered me, but today it did. Even my lanky daughter, now taller than I, was comfortably making her way up the zigzag of loose rock, rattling off conservationist considerations.
I wonder if there comes a time when age catches up to us and we lose tolerance for suffering. This is likely what is generally referred to as “wisdom” amongst alumni. I trudged silently up the scree, heart racing, wondering when I could transition to a recumbent bike and those chair yoga classes. The writing was on the wall.
The summit that day was surrounded by thousands of butterflies, orange and brown, moving in patterns like flocks of tiny birds. They lifted off the pitted rocks and floated on the breeze, then landed again together on exposed stone between patches of snow. There were no flowers this high, nothing to bring them here except perhaps the view. I was glad to know we have something in common with butterflies.
I watched my daughter and brother converse as we made our way around the rim of the crater. He’s a father now, too, and it has brought a softness to him that is endearing and wonderful – a reminder that children can heal wounds we don’t know we have. They teach us empathy and playfulness and a thousand other things bludgeoned out of our brains by multiplication tables.
A few days later, I blazed down Interstate 84 toward the Sawtooths for another adventure, but I had not recovered from the climb. I had the growing sense that my body was no longer mine, but a vessel for another purpose. Perhaps the volcanoes and alpine trails were not its priority.
Because class and sophistication have long been bred out of my family line, I discovered the cause at a truck stop where I purchased the usual contraband (beef jerky, kombucha, chewing gum, a mealy red apple) with one exception – a pregnancy test.
Moments later I sat on the grass under a tree, Mack trucks blazing by with Amazon Prime deliveries, Brown Dog frolicking with stranger poodles, staring wide-eyed at my future.
When my trail runners hit the slopes of the Sawtooths, it was with a lighter load and at a slower pace. I packed more food. I promised self-compassion and stopped to linger over views, flowers, falls. I wore the kind of smile that comes from an overwhelming inner joy.
Though just a tiny embryo, it was already imparting the gifts that only children offer, a reminder that we are but a small part of something that began before us and extends long after us. We can merely hope we bring honor to our own brief moment.
And, of course, to raise carbon-neutral kids who have the same visceral familiarity with volcanoes, the smell of old-growth forests, and the soft sound of rich soil under their feet. If we are to have hope, it is found in them.
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I slept poorly after returning home from “The Night House.” Insomnia is a strange way to make a plug for a film – though a plug is what this ultimately is – and one that, while fitting, requires some qualification.
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By Michael O’Sullivan The Washington Post
I slept poorly after returning home from “The Night House.” Insomnia is a strange way to make a plug for a film – though a plug is what this ultimately is – and one that, while fitting, requires some qualification.
Director David Bruckner’s carefully calibrated hybrid horror story (one that teeters, mostly tantalizingly, between the psychological and the supernatural) takes place largely at night.
Sharply written by Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski, the story focuses on the experiences of a woman whose husband has just killed himself.
After her husband’s death, Beth (Rebecca Hall) starts seeing and hearing things, but her perceptions may be distorted by sleeplessness, grief and alcohol to so that she can’t tell the difference between dreams and reality.
Are the noises she hears, the unseen presence she senses and the electronics that come on at 4 a.m. signs of poltergeist activity as they would be in almost any other film of this sort?
Or are they symptoms of either sleep paralysis – the mind awake, but the body asleep – or its converse: somnambulism, or sleepwalking?
Those questions are troubling early in the film in a way that takes hold of you. But later, as “The Night House” shifts focus, evolving from a metaphor for the sleeping brain to something more literal and less satisfying, it nevertheless leaves you with other, darker thoughts. Thoughts that linger and take root, no matter how you try to shake them, and disturb your rest.
Hall is excellent as a college professor in upstate New York whose husband Owen (Evan Jonigkeit, in flashbacks and apparitions) has shot himself in a rowboat on the lake next to the house he designed and built.
Beth isn’t handling the aftermath of the tragedy well, believing she has received posthumous midnight texts from Owen and seeing what appear to be bloody footprints on the dock in the morning. Her best friend Claire (Sarah Goldberg) and neighbor Mel (Vondie Curtis-Hall) have noticed: “You’re not well,” Mel tells her.
Soon, though, there is firmer evidence of a deeper, more earthly mystery: Beth discovers photos on her husband’s phone of several women, all of whom look a little like her, but not quite. And then there are Owen’s notebooks filled with architectural renderings of a mirror image of their house, along with other disturbing notations. There is a creepy talisman, and, as the film’s title hints, more architectural oddities.
For much of “The Night House,” Bruckner constructs a seductive maze of false starts, dead ends and dark hallways, both the literal and the metaphorical kind, as Beth probes these enigmas. Cinematographer Elisha Christian is particularly adept at rendering the kind of shadowy boogeyman figures that haunt the wee hours but turn out to be just that: shadows in a dark corner (or furniture and architectural details that, when viewed from the wrong angle, appear as people).
Prepare yourself to be on sustained edge because “The Night House” will play you like an out-of-tune violin. It left my nerves more jangled than I can recall in a long time.
It is in this foggy realm – one that will be familiar to anyone whose sense of reason has been fried by fatigue, lateness and/or worry – that the film’s strengths lie. Beth’s confusion is palpable, and her inability to think her way out of it genuinely terrifying.
But gradually, in pursuit of an explanation other than Beth’s own lying eyes, the film ventures into territory that is familiar for another reason: because it is so often fallen upon by lesser horror films.
To wit: a literal – if incorporeal – bugaboo, the kind that has plagued and marred many an otherwise impeccable, even artful, horror film, as this one is. (The excellent “Hereditary” and “The Witch” also suffered from endings that relied on supernatural silliness.)
Still, despite this weakness, “The Night House” is a pretty watertight ship, and if it turns in the direction of paranormal waters, it does so with a sure hand on the tiller and an intriguing premise that keeps its flaws from sinking it. Calling it intriguing is actually selling it short. Warts and all, “The Night House” is, in the truest sense of the word, kind of haunting.
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The Spokane County Bar Volunteer Lawyers Program has hired two staff attorneys to work with low-income clients facing eviction in Spokane County.
The positions are part of Washington state’s new Right to Counsel program enabled by SB5160 and funded through the Washington Office of Civil Legal Aid.
Edith M. Martinez brings years of experience as an attorney in private practice representing clients in civil and criminal courts, indigent clients through Airway Heights and city of Cheney Municipal Courts.
She also served as a criminal-justice-administration-panel attorney with the U.S. District Court.
Martinez has been working as a contract attorney through VLP’s Eviction Defense Program and is a 1996 graduate of Gonzaga University School of Law.
Ryan J. Hunt has extensive legal experience, including at the the Thurston County Prosecutor’s office. He served with the Spokane and Thurston County Juvenile Court as a guardian ad litem.
He also worked with the General Practice Indian Law Clinic and Kalispel Tribal Court.
Hunt is a 2021 graduate of Gonzaga University School of Law and took the bar exam in July.
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Two viral and drought-related diseases have killed 38 whitetail deer in eastern Washington.
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"We would like them to report them, but it’s not so that we can retrieve them, we just don’t have the capacity for that," said WDFW spokeswoman Staci Lehman in an email.
State wildlife officials can't respond to dispatch dying deer or collect carcasses, except in new disease outbreak areas where tissue samples might be collected.
Other wildlife, like mule deer, elk, and bighorn sheep could be exposed to the disease but are usually not stricken like white-tailed deer.
The public can help wildlife officials monitor the bluetongue and epizootic hemorrhagic disease outbreak by reporting sick whitetails or deer.
Two viral and drought-related diseases have killed 38 whitetail deer in eastern Washington.
Two whitetail deer, near Davenport, Wash., tested positive for bluetongue and epizootic hemorrhagic disease (EHD), this week. Meanwhile 36 deer, near Colfax, Wash., tested positive for EHD.
Reports of dead whitetail trickled in last week, prompting the Washington Department of Fish and Game to collect samples from some dead deer. Results from the Washington Animal Disease Diagnostic Lab in Pullman came back Thursday.
“We are bracing ourselves for this being a pretty bad year,” said WDFW veterinarian Kristin Mansfield.
Animals can die in a few days once symptoms or mouth and nasal discharge occur.
“We are asking people if they find deer dead or acting unusually or whatever to report them,” said Staci Lehman, a spokeswoman for WDFW.
Bluetongue is closely related to epizootic hemorrhagic disease, which is common in whitetails in September but usually on a small scale and in isolated areas. Bluetongue is a variety of hemorrhagic disease and can affect a wider range of animals, including sheep.
The two diseases are similar, and not well understood. Biologists don’t know where the virus spends the winter, or why outbreaks seem to occur roughly every decade, Mansfield said.
“They affect the animal exactly the same way,” she said.
Both diseases are spread by biting Culicoides gnats and neither spreads to humans, although wildlife officials discourage hunters from shooting and consuming animals that are obviously sick.
Michael Atamian, the district biologist for WDFW, said if the outbreak is bad enough it could impact hunting seasons, although that depends on the extent and severity of the outbreak.
Widespread wildfire and drought will likely limit hunting access in some areas this fall. A disease outbreak only adds to the stress on Washington’s wildlife.
“It’s going to be tough with drought conditions as it is,” said Marie Neumiller, the Inland Northwest Wildlife Council’s executive director.
In 2015, an outbreak of bluetongue and EHD disease killed several hundred whitetail in Eastern Washington. That was followed by severe winter conditions in 2016 and 2017. Decreased hunter-harvest prompted the WDFW commission to eliminate antlerless deer hunting in northeast Washington in 2019. At that time they cited decreased whitetail numbers following the outbreak and harsh winters.
Large outbreaks of EHD happen roughly every decade, Mansfield said, and seem to occur during drought years. Why that happens isn’t totally clear, she said.
“Its an active of area of research,” she said.
One theory is that during a drought sparse water access concentrates ungulates around available ponds, streams and marshes, which provide prime gnat habitat.
“That is the conventional wisdom and it does stand to reason,” she said.
Significant Eastern Washington EHD outbreaks also coincided with drought conditions in 1988 and 2004. Whitetails in Kamiah, Idaho, area required several years to rebuild populations after a major EHD outbreak in 2003.
Earlier this week, the Idaho Department of Fish and Game announced that approximately 250-300 whitetails have died near the Kamiah area from a type of hemorrhagic disease.
WDFW officials have continued to field reports, including a report of a sick deer near Otis Orchards, Mansfield said.
“We don’t know what the impacts are really at this time,” Lehman said. “It depends on how many animals do die from it.”
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Brandi Carlile was playing for the home state crowd Saturday for her "Echoes Through the Canyon" show at the Gorge Amphitheatre. That was never more apparent than when she unveiled her big surprise of the night.
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Brandi Carlile was playing for the home state crowd Saturday for her “Echoes Through the Canyon” show at the Gorge Amphitheatre. That was never more apparent than when she unveiled her big surprise of the night. About 90 minutes into her two-hour set, she welcomed the surviving members of Soundgarden – Kim Thayil, Matt Cameron and Ben Shepard – to the stage.
“You ready to sing? To scream? For one of the best rock bands in the world?” Carlile asked the crowd before launching into two songs with the group, “Black Hole Sun” and “Searching With My Good Eye Closed.” She sang with purpose, more than doing justice to the late Chris Cornell’s lyrics.
And while those two songs were probably the big headline of the night, they only added to a great night that often felt like a gathering of friends and family. (The family part was literal – at one point, her daughter came out onstage, at another point her niece and nephew joined her, and there’s a web of blood and related-by-marriage relationships among the band members.)
Other highlights:
The music, of course. From the start with “Looking Out” to the encore, Carlile and the band were in fine form. Carlile was joined onstage by her longtime bandmates and co-writers, twins Tim and Phil Hanseroth, as well as Shooter Jennings on piano, two percussionists and three strings (who did double duty as backup singers and on other instruments).
It could have all been too much, but it wasn’t. Sometimes, it was just Carlile with her guitar or on the piano. Sometimes, it was Carlile and the twins harmonizing. The other musicians wove in and out seamlessly throughout the night. And those harmonies – wow.
The stories. Carlile is a storyteller (appropriate since her breakout single was “The Story”). And, this is where being in her home state made the stories that much more fun. She talked about the early days when she and the Hanseroth twins would play the Crocodile Cafe, about gardening during the pandemic (as a lead in to a new song, “You and Me on the Rock” – which will be released this fall on “In These Silent Days”), about her family and online schooling and her daughter’s first-grade teacher who sang “Country Roads” – even though she knew Carlile could hear her.
And, she talked about going to concerts at the Gorge and how they changed her life. “I’ve spent a lot of time out there on that hillside,” she said, mentioning shows like Dave Matthews Band, Indigo Girls and Lilith Fair – featuring opener Sheryl Crow. “I get really emotional and nostalgic every time I’m here.”
Sheryl Crow. Crow kicked off her set with “Everyday Is a Winding Road,” and kept the hits coming, including “My Favorite Mistake,” “Leaving Las Vegas” and “Soak Up the Sun.” Carlile joined Crow onstage for “If It Makes You Happy,” and Crow returned the favor during Carlile’s set for a cover of Elton John’s “Rocket Man.”
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Dear Annie: A few years ago, my son’s wife decided to divorce him because she didn’t love him anymore. We accepted that and showed our support for her despite her decision. Shortly thereafter, she was arrested for a heinous crime that I won’t elaborate. It impacted her children.
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Dear Annie: A few years ago, my son’s wife decided to divorce him because she didn’t love him anymore. We accepted that and showed our support for her despite her decision. Shortly thereafter, she was arrested for a heinous crime that I won’t elaborate. It impacted her children.
My son does not keep her parents from attending events that the kids are in because they are their grandparents. The issue that we are dealing with is: Her parents are ignoring their daughter’s crime and constantly talk about her to us. My son is now dating a wonderful woman, and they do the same to her.
Is there a polite way to tell them that we do not want to hear about their daughter as she awaits her trial, which has been delayed because of COVID-19? – Former Daughter-in-Law’s Parents
Dear Parents: The polite thing to do is to say directly that you don’t feel comfortable talking at length about their daughter. Change the subject if they continue. Last resort, just walk away; just as their daughter walked away from her marriage to your son.
Dear Annie: I have never written to an advice columnist before, so please pardon my ignorance.
We have a beautiful 29-year-old daughter with a serious alcohol problem. She has gone through one marriage and several boyfriends. Now she is living at our home. Her current boyfriend is a good fellow. She makes excuses and finds alcohol somehow. We stopped funding her completely. Today, she stole from her boyfriend and drank. He is pretty upset.
She has been to a number of rehabs for help. Her liver was very damaged, and she saw a liver specialist for a possible transplant.
We have spent a lot of money already since she was 18. We are getting older – ages 67 and 63. We are both physicians.
We are at our wit’s end. Any suggestive help is appreciated. My wife and I have lost all our peace of mind as to how to deal with her. – At Our Wit’s End
Dear Wit’s End: I am so sorry that you and your wife have had to live through the nightmare of your daughter’s disease. The truth is that everyone involved is at their wit’s end because of her drinking – including your daughter. That will continue to be the case until she hits bottom and decides to get help.
Stay the course and continue to be a loving and supportive parent while making sure you do not enable her behavior. Look into attending Alcoholics Anonymous in your area. There are many others who have loved ones who are suffering from this disease.
Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@creators.com.
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After inside linebackers Josh Calvert, Miki Ah You and Will Latu left the team this offseason, defensive coordinator Bob Gregory was asked how he felt about the University of Washington’s depth at that particular position.
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By Mike Vorel Seattle Times
After inside linebackers Josh Calvert, Miki Ah You and Will Latu left the team this offseason, defensive coordinator Bob Gregory was asked how he felt about the University of Washington’s depth at that particular position.
“If we keep everybody healthy, I feel good,” he said on Aug. 8.
Ten days later, the Huskies have not kept everybody healthy.
Redshirt freshman Daniel Heimuli — who Gregory also said “has taken a major step” — suffered an injury during Monday’s practice, and watched his teammates work with a brace on his left knee on Tuesday. Another redshirt freshman, Alphonzo Tuputala, continues to be out with an apparent injury sustained in the spring, and won’t be back for the season opener, according to Gregory.
Without the services of Heimuli and Tuputala, the Huskies are left with a total of four healthy scholarship inside linebackers: starters Edefuan Ulofoshio and Jackson Sirmon, fellow sophomore M.J. Tafisi and second-year freshman Carson Bruener (who actually worked at outside linebacker in April). On Tuesday, sophomore walk-on Ben Hines took Heimuli’s spot next to Tafisi with the second team, while Bruener and redshirt freshman walk-on Ruperake Fuavai made up the third unit.
That leaves Washington with three eligible options who have taken a college snap: Ulofoshio, Sirmon and Tafisi.
That’s all, folks.
But on Tuesday, Husky head coach Jimmy Lake didn’t seem concerned.
“Thankfully we have really good depth at inside linebacker,” he said. “We’ve got some guys (like Bruener and outside linebacker Cooper McDonald) who can bounce back and forth.
“Of course we would like all of our bodies to be there at full strength. But again, this is football. Someone’s going to get hurt tomorrow. I’ll make the breaking news right now: someone’s going to get hurt tomorrow, and they’re probably not going to play on Friday or Saturday. Someone’s going to get hurt Saturday. Someone’s going to get hurt on Sept. 4. Someone’s going to get hurt on Sept. 11. This is football. This is why we have a big roster. We have a bunch of players, and we’ve got to keep developing our guys and have depth.”
Correction: the Huskies had a bunch of available inside linebackers.
Now? Not so much.
Battle of the behemoths
UW returns all five starters on the offensive line.
But that doesn’t mean each returning starter will start.
Seismic 6-foot-6, 355-pound sophomore Ulumoo “M.J.” Ale — who started all four games at left guard in the 2020 season — has worked with the second unit at right guard in three consecutive practices, while redshirt freshmen Julius Buelow and Nate Kalepo (to a lesser degree) have snatched up the starting reps at the left guard spot.
Of course, Lake cautioned on Tuesday that “the battle is not done anywhere across our whole football team. But those two guys that you mentioned (Buelow and Kalepo) are going to get a few opportunities, and M.J. is going to get an opportunity as well.”
The opportunity has been earned for the 6-8, 330-pound Buelow, a native Hawaiian who has appeared in one game in his first two seasons in Seattle.
“He obviously has tremendous size, but he’s played really physical in this training camp, which has propelled him to get some more reps,” Lake said. “I tell our whole team that physical play is always going to get rewarded. Offense, defense, special teams, if you show a tough, physical side, it is going to get rewarded. We will find a way to put you on the football field.”
Added left tackle Jaxson Kirkland: “The way he’s firing off the ball, it’s night and day from how it looked a couple months ago in spring ball. So it looks like he’s just putting it together, and the best is yet to come for that guy. The biggest thing is that quick twitch he’s getting off the ball. He’s made some big plays for us.”
Of course, coming from the 6-7, 310-pound Kirkland, the following statement carries extra weight:
“Julius is a monster,” he said. “He’s even bigger than me.”
One hand, two picks?
When a reporter said Jacobe Covington’s name, Will Harris smiled.
“Oh, yeah,” UW’s defensive backs coach said, without waiting to hear the question.
Despite wearing a club on his injured left hand, the 6-2, 195-pound corner continues to (literally) ascend — leaping to snag a one-handed interception of Sam Huard that ended Tuesday’s practice.
It appears a minor injury to fellow second-year freshman Elijah Jackson has presented an opportunity for Covington to claim increased reps. And while Trent McDuffie and Kyler Gordon are effectively entrenched as UW’s starting cornerbacks, expect Covington — a former four-star recruit who could also potentially slide back to safety — to find the field in the Huskies’ sub-packages.
“That kid’s a specimen,” Harris said. “At the Husky Combine (last spring) he ran a 4.51 (second 40-yard dash), which was awesome. He’s been one of the guys that’s been stepping up out of that group, and I’m excited to watch him finish this camp out.”
It’s safe to assume Lake also shares that excitement. And while the second-year head coach no longer directly mentors UW’s defensive backs, he does have an opinion when it comes to that practice-ending pick.
“I was telling the whole DB room it should count as two (interceptions),” Lake said, referring to the defensive backs’ annual competition to claim the most interceptions. “That’s not my area anymore, but I was stirring the pot a little bit. Jacobe definitely thinks it should be worth two interceptions, and I agree with him.”
Extra points
•Sophomore defensive lineman Tuli Letuligasenoa has been a consistently disruptive presence thus far in fall camp, something he couldn’t always sustain as a younger — and heavier — player. The 6-2, 300-pounder has shed 36 pounds since first arriving on campus in 2018. “It was basically trial and error,” he said. “Coming in way too heavy, you could tell when you go against those older guys and you watch the film of the older guys. I was weighing way too much, and I could definitely tell in my play. It was weighing me down, because I could only have one good play and then I’d get tired. Losing that weight, that gave me the confidence that I could play with these guys and I could play every down. I’m an every-down d-lineman.”
•While Laiatu Latu (who medically retired due to a neck injury this spring) and Zion Tupuola-Fetui (who continues to recover from a torn Achilles tendon) can’t currently contribute on the field, both have attended every practice and can often be found coaching UW’s younger outside linebackers. “It’s always nice when any injured guy on our team is able to stay in it mentally by speaking from a player’s point of view to what (co-defensive coordinator and outside linebacker coach Ikaika) Malloe’s trying to teach,” Lake said. “So that is a huge advantage, having Laiatu and Zion right there — being able to say, ‘Hey, this is what coach means. You do this.’ Just having that extra voice right there is a bonus.”
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Bestsellers
From Publishers Weekly
Fiction
1. “Billy Summers,” Stephen King (Scribner)
2. “The Last Thing He Told Me,” Laura Dave (Simon & Schuster)
3. “The Paper Palace,” Miranda Cowley Heller (Riverhead)
4. “The Midnight Library,” Matt Haig (Viking)
5. “Vortex: An FBI Thriller,” Catherine Coulter (Morrow)
6. “Blind Tiger,” Sandra Brown (Grand Central)
7. “Malibu Rising,” Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine)
8. “The Cellist,” Daniel Silva (Harper)
9. “The Invisible Life of Addie Larue,” V.E. Schwab (Tor)
10. “We Were Never Here,” Andrea Bartz (Ballantine)
Nonfiction
1. “American Marxism,” Mark R. Levin (Threshold)
2. “The Long Slide: Thirty Years in American Journalism,” Tucker Carlson (Threshold)
3. “The Truth About COVID-19: Exposing The Great Reset, Lockdowns, Vaccine Passports, and the New Normal,” Joseph Mercola and Ronnie Cummins (Chelsea Green)
4. “Giannis: The Improbable Rise of an NBA MVP,” Mirin Fader (Hachette)
5. “The Authoritarian Moment: How the Left Weaponized America’s Institutions Against Dissent,” Ben Shapiro (Broadside)
6. “Breathe: A Life in Flow,” Rickson Gracie (Dey Street)
7. “Dear America: Live Like It’s 9/12,” Graham Allen (Center Street)
8. “I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year,” Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker (Penguin Press)
9. Here, Right Matters: An American Story,” Alexander Vindman (Harper)
10. “Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in America,” Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard (St. Martin’s)
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TOKYO – Japanese space agency scientists said Thursday they plan to bring soil samples back from the Mars region ahead of the United States and China, which started Mars missions last year, in hopes of finding clues to the planet’s origin and traces of possible life.
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By Mari Yamaguchi Associated Press
TOKYO – Japanese space agency scientists said Thursday they plan to bring soil samples back from the Mars region ahead of the United States and China, which started Mars missions last year, in hopes of finding clues to the planet’s origin and traces of possible life.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, plans to launch an explorer in 2024 to land on Phobos, a Martian moon, to collect 10 grams (0.35 of an ounce) of soil and bring it back to Earth in 2029.
The rapid return trip is expected to put Japan ahead of the United States and China in bringing back samples from the Martian region despite starting later, project manager Yasuhiro Kawakatsu said in an online news conference.
NASA’s Perseverance rover has landed in a Mars crater where it is to collect 31 samples that are to be returned to Earth with help from the European Space Agency as early as 2031. China in May became the second country to land and operate a spacecraft on Mars and plans to bring back samples around 2030.
JAXA scientists believe about 0.1% of the surface soil on Phobos came from Mars, and 10 grams could contain about 30 granules, depending on the consistency of the soil, Kawakatsu said.
Tomohiro Usui, professor at the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, said soil on Phobos is likely to be a mixture of material from the moon itself and material from Mars that was spread by sandstorms. Collecting samples from multiple locations on Phobos could provide a greater chance of obtaining possible traces of life from Mars than obtaining soil from a single location on Mars, he said.
Any life forms that might have come from Mars will have died because of harsh solar and cosmic radiation on Phobos, JAXA scientists said. The NASA and the European Space Agency missions focus on potential life forms and evolution of the area of the Jezero crater, believed to be an ancient lake.
By studying Phobos soil samples including material from Mars, scientists hope to learn about the evolution of the Martian biosphere, Usui said.
He said Japanese research on Phobos and NASA’s samples from specific locations in the Martian crater can complement each other and could lead to answers to questions such as how Martian life, if present, emerged and evolved in time and place.
Last December, a JAXA probe, Hayabusa2, brought back more than 5 grams (0.19 ounce) of soil from the asteroid Ryugu, more than 300 million kilometers (190 million miles) from Earth, in the world’s first successful return of an asteroid sample.
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As a Spokane resident who cares about this community and those who live here, I’m grateful for new state laws that limit how and when law enforcement can use violence. When I see a police car in my neighborhood, I'd feel a little better knowing that police are mandated to de-escalate potentially dangerous situations before resorting to force. I might not worry so much about the safety of my neighbors -- especially those who are disproportionately targeted by police. I would feel even better if I knew that local law enforcement agencies were embracing these changes. Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to be the case.
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As a Spokane resident who cares about this community and those who live here, I’m grateful for new state laws that limit how and when law enforcement can use violence. When I see a police car in my neighborhood, I’d feel a little better knowing that police are mandated to de-escalate potentially dangerous situations before resorting to force. I might not worry so much about the safety of my neighbors — especially those who are disproportionately targeted by police. I would feel even better if I knew that local law enforcement agencies were embracing these changes. Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to be the case.
I’ve heard stories of officers complaining about the new laws. The Sheriff’s Office and Police Department are saying that the reforms will prevent them from catching criminals or even responding to certain calls, neither of which is true. I’d love to know how many officers are on board with the changes, rather than decrying them. How many are excited to learn new skills, to embrace the opportunity to respond peacefully rather than violently? How many are heartened to know that the state has their back in wanting to prevent officer-involved shootings and incidents of deadly force?
Washington’s new police reform laws give public safety officers the opportunity to redefine how they do their jobs (and maybe even remake their public image) and to better protect those they serve. How can this be a bad thing?
Kathryn Smith
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WASHINGTON – On July 8, President Joe Biden stood in the East Room of the White House and delivered a clear message to the Afghans who served the U.S. government as interpreters and in other roles critical to the United States’ 20-year military presence in their country.
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WASHINGTON – On July 8, President Joe Biden stood in the East Room of the White House and delivered a clear message to the Afghans who served the U.S. government as interpreters and in other roles critical to the United States’ 20-year military presence in their country.
“There is a home for you in the United States if you so choose,” Biden said, “and we will stand with you just as you stood with us.”
But after the Taliban’s swift takeover of Afghanistan ended with the fall of Kabul on Sunday, the U.S. government’s promises to the Afghans who supported its two-decade experiment in nation building appear increasingly hard to keep and reflect a government that hasn’t reckoned with the full impact of its hasty withdrawal.
After Biden announced in April he intended to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, concern for the former interpreters and other Afghans who qualify for the Special Immigrant Visas, or SIVs, grew among Democrats and Republicans in Congress, who voted almost unanimously on July 30 to expand eligibility for the program.
On Aug. 2, amid growing alarm about the fate of other Afghans as the Taliban seized territory across the country, the Biden administration issued a “Priority 2” designation to give refugee status to those who worked with Americans – including at U.S.-based nongovernmental organizations and media outlets – but don’t fit the relatively narrow requirements of the SIV program.
After the Taliban took control of Kabul, bringing fears of a return of the repressive policies toward women and ethnic minorities that defined the group’s rule between 1996 and 2001, the Pentagon said it would evacuate an even broader category of “at-risk individuals.”
On Tuesday, State Department spokesman Ned Price said that category “refers to women, it refers to girls; to human rights defenders, journalists, other civil society actors who might not otherwise qualify” for the SIV program or other refugee designations.
In a news conference Tuesday, Taliban leaders said they would not retaliate against Afghans who worked with the United States and promised freedom for women and girls “within the limits of Islam,” without specifying how the militant group’s radical interpretation of Islamic law would be applied. Meanwhile, reports have emerged from across the country of Taliban fighters going door to door in search of those who aided the U.S. government.
Yet as the U.S. government pledges to evacuate a growing number of Afghans, the administration appears unlikely to evacuate even the narrower group of SIV applicants Biden promised a home in the United States. The SIV process, which takes an average of about three years to complete, currently has a backlog of about 20,000 applicants and a total of 100,000 people when including qualifying family members, according to the International Refugee Assistance Project, or IRAP, a legal aid and advocacy group.
On Wednesday, IRAP filed emergency petitions with the State Department on behalf of all SIV applicants, an unprecedented legal move seeking to force the U.S. government to evacuate all of those Afghans. But in a call with reporters Wednesday, IRAP executive director Becca Heller said the Biden administration has argued more than half of the 20,000 applicants are still at the first stage of a three-stage, 14-step process.
“They’re trying to get away on a technicality here,” Heller said, “so they can justify taking out fewer people.”
“They’re blaming our own allies for their failure to have a functioning application process and then using that as an excuse to argue that they shouldn’t have to evacuate them. It’s morally reprehensible.”
The SIV program has drawn bipartisan support from Congress, even as most Democrats have refrained from the harsh criticism of Biden’s withdrawal decision that Republicans have offered.
In a statement on Wednesday, Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., said the Biden administration “must do all that it can to get our Afghan partners who helped our military and our diplomatic and development personnel out of the county. It must also speed up the evacuation of women, civil society activists, and other vulnerable groups from Afghanistan.”
Idaho Sen. Jim Risch, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, slammed Biden’s execution of the withdrawal that former President Donald Trump’s administration negotiated with the Taliban in February 2020.
“We must do more, and do better, at helping our Afghan friends who desperately need our help, after having served alongside us all of these years,” Risch said in a statement Monday. “The people of Afghanistan, and especially the women and children, do not deserve the return to brutal oppression that will come with Taliban rule.”
“We cannot leave our allies who have stood by us for more than 20 years – from the interpreters who supported our troops to the women who bravely stepped forward into civic society – behind,” Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., said in a statement on Tuesday.
Ryan Crocker, a Spokane Valley native who led the U.S. embassy in Kabul in 2002 and again from 2011 to 2012, said he has been getting a deluge of pleas for help from Afghans.
“I am deeply worried, almost sickened, about what we’re doing to those who had the courage to stand with us,” Crocker said. “And I’m deeply, deeply saddened by the failure of the American promise.”
“The women and girls that we encouraged to go to school, to step forward, to move into government, parliament, business, to be part of their own society – well, we’re not going to be able to evacuate all of them. They stepped forward because we said, ‘We’ll protect your backs.’ And now we haven’t.”
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From the pandemic’s earliest days, scientists have counted on COVID-19 vaccines to lead us out of the international health emergency. But they’ve also been aware that the immunity provided by vaccines might not last long.
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From the pandemic’s earliest days, scientists have counted on COVID-19 vaccines to lead us out of the international health emergency. But they’ve also been aware that the immunity provided by vaccines might not last long.
The surmise that vaccine-induced immunity would wane quickly was based on previous experience with other coronaviruses – especially four species of seasonal coronavirus that have circulated for as long as modern medicine has been paying attention.
Those four members of the coronavirus family differ in many ways from the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19, not least because they lead to nothing worse than a common cold. But scientists assumed their family resemblances would be revealing.
A 1990 research effort that involved infecting British volunteers with those coronaviruses found that after a year, most still had elevated antibody levels. Those extra antibodies didn’t shield them from reinfection when they were deliberately exposed again, but none developed cold symptoms and most cleared the virus quickly.
Another study published in 2020 tested a small group of healthy people at least twice a year for more than 12 years. It found that after being infected by any of those four coronaviruses, immunity rarely lasted much longer than 12 months. In some instances, reinfection occurred in as little as six months.
The remarkable effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna made some scientists optimistic that the pattern might change.
In a preliminary report posted online last month, researchers at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology found that people who received the Moderna vaccine developed the levels of immunity that augured well for lasting protection.
Even better were the specific types of immunity the researchers found, including the long-lasting T-cells that continue to generate protective antibodies.
“I thought from the start there’d be a 50-50 chance we’d need vaccines in a year,” said Shane Crotty, a vaccine researcher at the La Jolla Institute who has co-written two studies on SARS-CoV-2 immunity. “But we found a lot of evidence of durable immunity that would probably last for years in most vaccinated individuals.”
Even so, scientists have been watching closely for the expected dropoff in vaccine-induced immunity.
The National Institutes of Health launched a raft of studies aimed at identifying “correlates of immunity” – antibodies and other physiological measures that could indicate whether a person is protected against a disease. Seeing those correlates of immunity dip below a certain threshold could provide early warning of reinfection risk.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, meanwhile, is tracking several large groups of people that were among the first to receive COVID-19 vaccines, including health care workers and people who live in group housing. These groups are the proverbial canaries in the coal mine, indicating to researchers when boosters might become necessary.
So far, Israel has generated some of the most persuasive evidence of waning vaccine immunity.
With 68% of residents 12 and over fully vaccinated against COVID-19, the country appeared to have coronavirus outbreaks almost completely suppressed by the beginning of summer. Since June, however, its cases have been doubling every seven to 10 days.
More than half of Israel’s new cases have occurred in fully vaccinated people, a sign that vaccine-induced immunity was beginning to wane.
That suspicion was borne out by the findings of a preliminary study posted online last month. Researchers at Maccabi Healthcare Services, one of Israel’s two state-run HMOs, found that during June and July, Israelis who got their first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in January were more than twice as likely to be reinfected than their counterparts who got their first jab in April.
Many of those with so-called breakthrough infections were older Israelis and people with health conditions that make them more susceptible to the virus. And nearly all of the infections involved the highly transmissible delta variant, which replicates much more quickly than its predecessors and may be able to get past the immune system’s defenses while it’s still ramping up.
But the likelihood nevertheless appeared high that, in some people at least, vaccine-induced immunity had weakened.
Crotty said he suspects the delta variant is responsible for undermining the vaccine-induced immunity that had once seemed so promising.
“Delta looks a lot tougher, and that has thrown a lot of uncertainty in there,” he said. But he’s still not convinced that booster shots need to be in everyone’s future.
The reported U.S. plan to offer boosters to people eight months after their second dose “is a better-safe-than-sorry kind of decision,” Crotty said.
“Are boosters required, or critically needed? I don’t think the data support that,” he said. “Will boosters help? Will protective immunity be better? Yeah! They top off antibody levels, and the trials look great.”
Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, acknowledged Tuesday that Israeli data on breakthrough infections has powerfully influenced the thinking of American health officials.
“The people who got immunized in January are the ones that are now having more breakthrough cases,” Collins said during an interview on “The Hugh Hewitt Show.” While most have not become very ill, he added, “you’re starting to see a little bit of a trend toward some of those requiring hospitalization.”
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Jordan and Stacey Pyeatt had worked to protect their home in the event of wildfire, but those efforts weren't enough to stop the Ford-Corkscrew fire from destroying the cabin, which was among 18 residences in Stevens County burned.
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Jordan and Stacey Pyeatt thought it would take an act of God for a wildfire to destroy their family home.
Both former firefighters, the couple spent four years renovating their log cabin along Rail Canyon Road north of Tumtum with wildfire safety as top priority. They used fire-resistant wood to build the cabin, cut down trees close to their house and even bought sheep to eat foliage around the property.
But despite everything, the couple ended up in the same position as so many other families forever changed by wildfires: holding each other outside a burnt husk of their home and wondering why it had to happen to them.
“I guess God acted on us this time,” Jordan Pyeatt said.
The couple’s cabin was just one of several homes leveled in the Ford-Corkscrew fire, which is now 14,000 acres and 0% contained. Since the fire began Sunday, 18 residences have been destroyed.
Stacey Pyeatt said she didn’t think it would make sense to try to explain what happened to her daughters, 1 and 5.
“They’ve asked for things and we’re like, ‘remember that fire?’ ” Stacey Pyeatt said. “They just want to go home.”
The family saw the fire over a ridge Sunday afternoon. Ten minutes later, a sheriff’s deputy came to tell them to evacuate.
The family stayed clear of the area until a neighbor told them Monday night their house was going up . The couple immediately went back to see if they could stop the fire from reaching their cabin, but they arrived right when the roof caved in.
Because of how quickly they had to get out, they weren’t able to grab anything from the house. Jordan Pyeatt’s father’s ashes were in the home.
Donation pages scattered across the internet tell the story of other families who lost years of memories to the wildfire in the span of an hour.
“All of the pictures of my mom and grandma were in the house,” Melodie Hall, a resident who also lost her family home to the fire, said. “I’ll miss looking at them the most.”
Her mom and grandma both passed away before the fire.
Along with the sentimental value, losing everything in a flash takes an obvious but extreme financial toll.
Shannon Oakes, whose aging parents live along Rail Canyon Road north of Tumtum, said her family could barely afford the essentials before their property was leveled by fire.
“They saved up a long time just to get a new fridge,” Oakes said. “Losing everything is just unimaginable.”
Oakes’s parents, both in their 70s, will struggle to even clear their property of debris due to persistent medical problems.
All of the families mentioned did not have fire or home insurance.
“With how dry it’s been, I don’t think anyone would have insured us,” Jordan Pyeatt said.
For Pyeatt and his wife, many of the circumstance of the fire just don’t make sense.
Many trees not too far away from the cabin went unscathed, and a pile of junk in the driveway they were planning on selling didn’t burn at all. Even a rope swing tied to a tree somehow wasn’t affected by the fire.
For whatever reason, it seemed that the only things that were destroyed were the possessions the family really valued.
Except for one.
Outside the house, a tiny sapling stood Wednesday surrounded by small bricks. It was planted in memory of one of the couple’s children who passed away not too long ago. In a field of blackness and destruction, it still stands, green and full of life.
A donation page for the Pyeatt family can be found at bit.ly/3y0ljFR. Hall’s family also has a donation page at bit.ly/3stZOvK, and Oakes’s family has a donation page at bit.ly/3k5Tx5H.
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There is no such thing as an objective “perfect,” especially with movies. Even the greatest movies of all time, like “Citizen Kane” or “The Godfather,” have critics who don’t enjoy it. In fact, I’m not even a big fan of “Vertigo.”
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By Paul R. Sell For The Spokesman-Review
There is no such thing as an objective “perfect,” especially with movies. Even the greatest movies of all time, like “Citizen Kane” or “The Godfather,” have critics who don’t enjoy it. In fact, I’m not even a big fan of “Vertigo.”
But there is a subjective “perfect” movie. One where you can’t find any faults in the film and enjoy every moment of it. And more often than not, that’s good enough. “Perfect” is often in the eye of the beholder, and in this case, there are many movies that I consider perfect. These range from new to old, from drama to animation, from Hollywood and beyond.
So, if you’re looking for some of the best experiences throughout all of cinema, here are some of my best suggestions. For this first one, I thought it would be fitting to start with the best movie about making movies – Tim Burton’s 1994 film “Ed Wood.”
If you’ve never heard of the name Edward D. Wood Jr., then you’re missing out. Wood was a film director, producer, writer, editor and actor in Hollywood in the 1950s and 1960s who mostly worked independently and made his own movies from the ground up. And there’s a reason why he worked independently – all of his movies were really bad.
In fact, many of Wood’s movies are often in the discussion for worst film ever made, including his magnum opus, “Plan 9 From Outer Space,” about a couple of aliens trying (and failing) to conquer Earth by resurrecting our dead as their loyal army and only manage to bring back three people and bicker among themselves.
It’s got tin-foil plates on strings as UFOs, a chiropractor coming in halfway through production to replace a deceased Bela Lugosi and an airplane cockpit that is made out of a shower curtain and cardboard.
Yet despite Wood’s constant terrible movies, also including “Bride of the Monster” and “Glen or Glenda,” Wood never lost his love of making those movies. He often took just one take of a shot because he was so in love when the camera was rolling that he didn’t want to mess with perfection. Wood was in his own world where his movies were a love letter to cinema, and he didn’t care what others thought of his movies as long as someone enjoyed his films. Mostly him.
Tim Burton’s 1994 film sees Johnny Depp playing Edward D. Wood Jr. during the “height” of his Hollywood career as he struggles to get his movies off the ground, yet never once losing his passion for filmmaking. “Ed Wood” shows the making of Wood’s three most well-known movies, “Glen or Glenda,” “Bride of the Monster” and “Plan 9 From Outer Space.”
At the time, most of this information hadn’t been well-documented, so this was when the world realized the charming “so bad it’s good” career of Ed Wood. Depp gives the most endearing and heartwarming performance of his career in “Ed Wood.” His optimism is so infectious that it could make anyone want to try making their own movie.
And yet that optimism never comes across as hammy or faking it. There is sincerity and honesty in his passion for making films his way. Even moments of him watching stock footage and imagining how it could be used comes across as delightfully charming. It’s easy to get sucked up into viewing the world as Ed Wood does because of Depp’s performance.
But what elevates Depp’s role is Martin Landau as an aging Bela Lugosi, the king of horror movies. Lugosi set the standard for horror performances with his role as Count Dracula in 1931. It is still the gold standard by which all vampires are compared, especially the accent and his unforgettable piercing stare. Landau plays Lugosi at the end of his career, no longer able to get work in Hollywood and often resorting to heroin.
Landau disappears in this role, practically channeling the spirit of Bela Lugosi. His love of acting is just as intoxicating as Wood’s passion for filmmaking, which makes Landau and Depp a great pair as they prop up each other. It is no wonder that Landau won an Academy Award for best supporting actor for his performance in “Ed Wood.”
“Ed Wood” works perfectly because it speaks to the artist in all of us in the most passionate, flamboyant way possible. It serves as a reminder to all artists that you have to enjoy what you do and not pursue art for money or fame, but because you love to create.
And even if someone else doesn’t see your work like you do, that shouldn’t dull your spark. Ed Wood is an endearing filmmaker because he didn’t let anyone stand in the way of his vision of perfection, and this movie feeds on that wonderful energy.
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Dogs that want to swim in a pool will get their chance Sunday.
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Dogs get to swim in Spokane Valley’s pools on Sunday.
The annual Paws in the Pool event will take place at Spokane Valley’s Park Road and Valley Mission pools.
Having a bunch of dogs swim in a public pool might not sound like the most sanitary move, but Paws in the Pool happens the day after city pools close for the summer for people.
Dogs 65 pounds and under get to swim first, from 9 to 10 a.m. Dogs over the 65-pound threshold can swim from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Owners have to pay $5 per dog and are capped at two dogs each. Dogs must be at least six months old and “current vaccination records must be present,” according to Spokane Valley’s news release. PetVet Hospital and Wellness Center is providing a veterinarian for the event.
Dogs must be either spayed or neutered. Aggressive dogs or dogs with “socialization challenges” should not attend, according to the news release.
You can register your dog in advance by visiting spokanevalley.org/recreation or calling 509-720-5200.
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The Biden administration announced Thursday it will automatically erase student loan debt for more than 300,000 Americans with severe disabilities that leave them unable to earn significant incomes.
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The Biden administration announced Thursday it will automatically erase student loan debt for more than 300,000 Americans with severe disabilities that leave them unable to earn significant incomes.
The move will wipe out more than $5.8 billion in debt, according to the Education Department, and it marks the start of a broader overhaul of a program that has been criticized for having overly burdensome rules.
“We’ve heard loud and clear from borrowers with disabilities and advocates about the need for this change and we are excited to follow through on it,” Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said in a statement.
The federal government offers student debt relief for people who are “totally and permanently disabled” and have limited incomes. But the current rules require them to submit documentation of their disability and undergo a three-year monitoring period to prove they’re earning little pay.
Tens of thousands of people have been dropped from the program and had their loans reinstated simply because they failed to submit proof of their earnings, however, and critics say the complex rules deter some from applying.
Advocates have pressed the Education Department to eliminate the monitoring period entirely and to provide automatic debt relief to people who the Social Security Administration already identifies as permanently disabled.
Under the new action, both demands will be met. Starting in September, the Education Department will start erasing student debt for 323,000 Americans identified in Social Security records as being permanently disabled.
Borrowers will be notified once they have been approved for relief. All of the loans are expected to be discharged by the end of the year.
The department also plans to eliminate the program’s three-year monitoring period, which was previously suspended during the pandemic. That change is expected to be cemented during a federal rulemaking process set to start in October, the agency said.
“This is going to be a smooth process for our borrowers,” Cardona said in a call with reporters. “They’re not going to have to be applying for it or getting bogged down by paperwork.”
Advocates celebrated the change as a victory. Aaron Ament, president of the National Student Legal Defense Network, called it a “life-changing” step.
“This is a huge moment for hundreds of thousands of borrowers with disabilities who can now move on with their lives and won’t be trapped in a cycle of debt,” he said.
The program has faced scrutiny since 2016, when a federal watchdog agency found that the income reporting process posed an obstacle for borrowers. In 98% of cases in which loans were restored, it was because borrowers did not submit paperwork, not because their earnings were too high, the U.S. Government Accountability Office reported.
The Trump administration started granting automatic loan cancellations to eligible military veterans in 2019, but the move did not apply to hundreds of thousands of other Americans with disabilities.
In March, the Education Department canceled debt for more than 40,000 borrowers whose debt had been restored because of paperwork issues, but it indicated further changes would need to come through a federal rulemaking process.
Cardona announced the change as the White House faces mounting pressure to pursue wider debt forgiveness.
Democrats including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, N.Y., and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Mass., have called on Biden to erase $50,000 in student debt for all borrowers as a way to jumpstart the economy.
Biden has asked the Education and Justice departments to assess the legality of mass debt cancellation. Cardona said Thursday that those conversations are “still under way.” Meanwhile, he said, his agency is working to improve other debt forgiveness programs that target specific groups of borrowers.
“It’s an effort to show that we are working to improve targeted loan relief and help our borrowers,” he said.
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Washington State's Jarrett Guarantano was named Thursday to the watch list for the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award, which is presented annually to the top upperclassmen quarterback in college football.
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Washington State’s Jarrett Guarantano was named Thursday to the watch list for the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award, which is presented annually to the top upperclassmen quarterback in college football.
The grad transfer from Tennessee landed on the same list last season, when he threw for 1,112 yards and six touchdowns against four picks for the Volunteers, adding four rushing scores in seven games.
The New Jersey native was a four-year letterwinner with the Volunteers, starting 32 games in that span. Guarantano passed for 6,174 yards and 38 touchdowns on a 61.1% completion rate at Tennessee and was one of just three Vols quarterbacks all time to throw for over 400 yards in a single game.
Guarantano is in a tightly contested quarterback competition at WSU with sophomore Jayden de Laura and junior Cammon Cooper.
Guarantano earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology in 2019. He’s pursuing a master’s at WSU.
Former superstar Coug Gardner Minshew won the award in 2018 and Luke Falk was a finalist in 2016.
Guarantano is one of 31 signal-callers to be named to the list. Four other Pac-12 quarterbacks were also selected – Arizona State’s Jayden Daniels, UCLA’s Dorian Thompson-Robinson, Washington’s Dylan Morris and Oregon’s Anthony Brown.
This season’s winner will be named Dec. 10 during a banquet in Baltimore. A committee made up of journalists, commentators and former players selects the recipient.
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A small wildfire swept through a mobile home park, leaving dozens of homes in ashes, the latest in a series of explosive blazes propelled by gusts that have torn through Northern California mountains and forests.
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GRIZZLY FLATS, Calif. — A small wildfire swept through a mobile home park, leaving dozens of homes in ashes, the latest in a series of explosive blazes propelled by gusts that have torn through Northern California mountains and forests.
The drought-parched region was expected to see red flag warnings for dangerously high winds and hot, dry weather through Thursday.
Those conditions have fed a dozen uncontrolled wildfires, including the month-old Dixie Fire and the nearby Caldor Fire in the northern Sierra Nevada that incinerated much of the small rural towns of Greenville and Grizzly Flats.
No deaths have been reported despite the speed and damage of the blazes.
On Wednesday, a grass fire driven by winds up to 30 mph (48 kph) destroyed dozens of mobile homes in Lake County and injured at least one resident before firefighters stopped its progress, fire officials said at an evening briefing.
Rows of homes were destroyed on at least two blocks and television footage showed crews dousing burning homes with water. Children were rushed out of an elementary school as a field across the street burned.
Some 1,600 people were ordered to flee, with Lake County Sheriff Brian Martin warning of “immediate threat to life and property.”
Lake County has experienced repeated wildfires in the past decade that have destroyed hundreds of homes.
At least 16,000 other homes remain threatened by California wildfires, which are among some 100 burning throughout a dozen Western states, fire officials said.
Tens of thousands of people remain under evacuation orders.
No deaths have been reported, despite the speed and ferocity of the blazes, which have at times created their own erratic winds from heated air swirling into smoke clouds. Flames also have leapfrogged miles ahead of the front lines as winds scattered embers, hot ash and chunks of wood into dry vegetation, said Thom Porter, chief of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
“This is not going to end anytime soon,” he said of the Dixie Fire. “Everybody’s going to be sucking smoke for a long time.”
Fire crews were able to make some progress on the Dixie Fire Wednesday, increasing containment to 35%, and some evacuation orders were lifted in Plumas and Tehama counties, where some people hadn’t seen their homes for a month.
But the Dixie and Caldor fires still menaced many small clusters of homes within and around national forests along with larger communities, including Pollock Pines, with a population of 7,000 and Susanville, population 18,000, which is the seat of Lassen County.
Eldorado National Forest and Lassen Volcanic National Park were closed.
The Dixie Fire is the first on record to have burned all the way across the Sierra Nevada, starting on the western slopes of the mountain range and moving over the crest to the eastern side. It had burned more than 1,000 square miles (2,590 square kilometers) and was only a third contained.
On Wednesday, dozens of fire engines and crews were transferred from that battle to fight the Caldor Fire, which exploded through heavy timber in steep terrain since erupting over the weekend southwest of Lake Tahoe.
The fire has blackened nearly 220 square miles (570 square kilometers) and on Tuesday ravaged Grizzly Flats, a community of about 1,200.
Dozens of homes burned, according to officials, but tallies were incomplete. Those who viewed the aftermath saw few homes standing. Lone chimneys rose from the ashes, little more than rows of chairs remained of a church and the burned out husks of cars littered the landscape.
Chris Sheean said the dream home he bought six weeks ago near the elementary school went up in smoke. He felt lucky he and his wife, cats and dog got out safely hours before the flames arrived.
“It’s devastation. You know, there’s really no way to explain the feeling, the loss,” Sheean said. “Maybe next to losing a child, a baby, maybe. … Everything that we owned, everything that we’ve built is gone.”
California’s wildfires are on pace to exceed the amount of land burned last year — the most in modern history. The blazes also have destroyed areas of the timber belt that serve as a centerpiece of the state’s climate reduction plan because trees can store carbon dioxide.
“We are seeing generational destruction of forests because of what these fires are doing,” Porter said. “This is going to take a long time to come back from.”
Most of the fires this year have hit the northern part of the state, largely sparing Southern California, which was expected to see clouds and even a chance of drizzle in some areas Thursday. Fire conditions in the region are expected to get worse in the fall.
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Associated Press writers John Antczak in Los Angeles and Olga R. Rodriguez and Janie Har in San Francisco contributed to this report.
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This story has been corrected to show that the Dixie Fire moved from west to east across the Sierra crest, not east to west.
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The Ford-Corkscrew Fire in Stevens County grew to 15,000 acres by Thursday morning with 14% containment, but some relief may be in sight from lighter winds, rain and lower temperatures.
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The Ford-Corkscrew Fire in Stevens County grew to 15,000 acres by Thursday morning with 14% containment, but some relief may be in sight from lighter winds, rain and lower temperatures.
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The fire “has experienced extreme fire behavior since its start, including intense spotting and high rates of spread,” fire officials said. It’s also been threatening critical infrastructure, including cell phone towers.
The Stevens County Fire District No. 1 said in a Facebook post the winds had pushed the fire back on itself, helping to slow the growth of the fast-moving brush fire that started Sunday afternoon north of Spokane.
Evacuations remained for the towns of Ford, Tumtum, Clayton and Springdale while officials used dozer crews, ground and air resources to contain the blaze.
Level 3 “go now” orders were set for the town of Ford west of State Route 231 to Stephenson Road, as well as the areas between SR 292 and 293.
The towns of Clayton and Loon Lake were given level 2 “be ready” orders, which meant residents should be packed and ready to leave at a moment’s notice.
Springdale remained in level 1 order, which meant residents had to be aware of danger in their area but did not have to leave immediately.
Road closures included SR 231 between milepost 50 from the Ford-Wellpinit Road to Hidden Road and milepost 60 northwest of Spokane. Rail Canyon, McAlister and Scott’s Valley roads were also closed Thursday.
Smoke was expected to linger in the area, but the fire district said the visibility had gotten better for air support helping firefighting efforts.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is helping fund the cost to fight the fire as of Monday, the agency announced. The Ford aid marks the sixth time the federal agency has helped fund a Washington wildfire effort this year.
Ken Daniel, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Spokane, said winds for the next few days were expected to stay under 10 mph and travel west, meaning Spokane and nearby areas would likely remain in moderate air quality .
The temperatures would also likely stay lower, as Spokane experienced a welcomed cold front this week that also brought higher humidity and chances of rain for Spokane and the region. Thunderstorms were expected to sweep through the region Thursday, with more rain forecasted for Friday and Saturday, Daniel said.
“We are certainly hoping for some measurable rain, which will hopefully help fire activity,” Daniel said.
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Jessica Haynes and her husband Michael had a little time on their hands this summer and spent it dreaming up burgers for the “Art of the Burger” competition run by the Heinz Corp. To their surprise, one of her burgers, titled the Triple Pickle Smash Burger, won.
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Jessica Haynes and her husband Michael had a little time on their hands this summer and spent it dreaming up burgers for the “Art of the Burger” competition run by the Heinz Corp. To their surprise, one of her burgers, titled the Triple Pickle Smash Burger, was named the grand prize winner last week.
She nearly missed the news that she was the big winner.
“It was an email and I didn’t recognize who the email was from,” she said. “I almost deleted it. I kind of still don’t believe it, actually. It’s a little surreal.”
Jessica Haynes is an assistant principal at TEC at Bryant and her husband teaches art at Mead High School. He was the one who first heard about the competition and started coming up with burger ideas, sketching them in what became known as the “Burger Book.” He’d recently broken his elbow and had little else he could do.
Jessica Haynes said she watched her husband become obsessed with the burgers and even mocked him a bit. Then she got the idea that maybe she could create a burger, too.
The more cocky he got about his burgers, the more competitive I got,” she said.
“I think I sketched eight to 10 (burgers),” he said. “We ended up submitting six burgers.”
The six were evenly split between his ideas and hers. There were seven different categories to enter, one for each sauce Heinz makes. The Triple Pickle Smash Burger was entered into the relish category. It includes a spicy garlic chip pickle, a dill relish and a classic dill pickle. “I decided to incorporate three different Heinz items into the burger,” she said.
But the dill relish wasn’t just squeezed out of the bottle. She made it into a smoked paprika remoulade.
“If you’re not a pickle lover, you’re not going to like it,” she said.
Both Jessica and Michael had burgers among the 56 semifinalists, though they were never told which of Michael’s creations made the cut. He intends to find out when they visit the Heinz headquarters, one of several trips they won as part of the grand prize.
“I’m going to see if I can get to the bottom of this,” he said.
As semifinalists, they both won jean jackets with burgers embroidered on the back and other prizes. Jessica Haynes said she was pleased when she heard her burger had been picked to be among the seven finalists, which were put to a public vote. She thought that was as close as she was going to get to being the winner.
Haynes said she wasn’t told how many votes her burger received. KHQ did a story while voting was underway and she said she thinks that boosted her total.
“I think the teachers went wild,” she said.
The grand prize included $25,000. Haynes said she never thought she’d win, so she hasn’t made any plans for the money yet. She also won a lifetime supply of Heinz products, a trip to Heinz headquarters in Chicago and three other two-day trips anywhere in the U.S. she wants to go.
Haynes said she and her husband will visit New York, head somewhere warm this winter and possibly visit a to-be-determined city on a day when the Gonzaga University basketball team happens to be playing there.
People have been excited about her win, Haynes said, and the No. 1 question is where people can get one of her burgers. Jon Brown, owner of the McRuins Restaurant, called and asked Haynes if he could put the Triple Pickle Smash Burger on his menu. Haynes was happy to say yes, but she had to fine tune the recipe first.
“I didn’t write it down,” she said. “I knew I put in a little of this and that in there.”
Brown said the burger is on the menu at McRuins, which is in the Saranac Commons at 19 W. Main Ave. in downtown Spokane, this week through Saturday.
“We might run it for a while if it’s successful,” he said.
Meanwhile, Haynes is enjoying all the perks that come with her win.
“I guess officially I am now titled the Heinz Head Burger Artist, a title which I now require Michael to use when addressing me,” she said.
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President Joe Biden is pointing to an agreement signed by President Donald Trump’s administration in Doha, Qatar, as he tries to deflect blame for the Taliban overrunning Afghanistan in a blitz. He says it bound him to withdraw U.S. troops, setting the stage for the chaos engulfing the country. But Biden can go only so far in claiming the agreement boxed him in.
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WASHINGTON — As President Donald Trump’s administration signed a peace deal with the Taliban in February 2020, he optimistically proclaimed that “we think we’ll be successful in the end.” His secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, asserted that the administration was “seizing the best opportunity for peace in a generation.”
Eighteen months later, President Joe Biden is pointing to the agreement signed in Doha, Qatar, as he tries to deflect blame for the Taliban overrunning Afghanistan in a blitz. He says it bound him to withdraw U.S. troops, setting the stage for the chaos engulfing the country.
But Biden can go only so far in claiming the agreement boxed him in. It had an escape clause: The U.S. could have withdrawn from the accord if Afghan peace talks failed. They did, but Biden chose to stay in it, although he delayed the complete pullout from May to September.
Chris Miller, acting defense secretary in the final months of the Trump administration, chafed at the idea that Biden was handcuffed by the agreement.
“If he thought the deal was bad, he could have renegotiated. He had plenty of opportunity to do that if he so desired,” Miller, a top Pentagon counterterrorism official at the time the Doha deal was signed, said in an interview.
Renegotiating, though, would have been difficult. Biden would have had little leverage. He, like Trump, wanted U.S. troops out of Afghanistan. Pulling out of the agreement might have forced him to send thousands more back in.
He made that point Monday, saying in a televised address from the White House that he would not commit to sending more American troops to fight for Afghanistan’s future while also harkening back to the Trump deal to suggest that the withdrawal path was predetermined by his predecessor.
“The choice I had to make, as your president, was either to follow through on that agreement or be prepared to go back to fighting the Taliban in the middle of the spring fighting season,” Biden said.
The Taliban takeover, far swifter than officials from either administration had envisioned, has prompted questions from even some Trump-era officials about whether the terms and conditions of the deal — and the decisions that followed after — did enough to protect Afghanistan once the U.S. military pulled out.
The historic deal was always high-wire diplomacy, requiring a degree of trust in the Taliban as a potential peace partner and inked despite skepticism from war-weary Afghans who feared losing authority in any power-sharing agreement.
“The Doha agreement was a very weak agreement, and the U.S. should have gained more concessions from the Taliban,” said Lisa Curtis, an Afghanistan expert who served during the Trump administration as the National Security Council’s senior director for South and Central Asia.
She called it “wishful thinking” to believe that the Taliban might be interested in lasting peace. The resulting agreement, she said, was heavily weighted toward the Taliban, contributed to undermining Afghan President Ashraf Ghani — he fled the country Sunday and is now in the United Arab Emirates — and facilitated the release of 5,000 Taliban prisoners without a commensurate concession from the Taliban.
“They wanted U.S. forces out, and they wanted to take over the country militarily, and they believed that they could do that,” Curtis said of the Taliban. “That was just crystal clear.”
The agreement called for the U.S. to bring down its forces to 8,600 from 13,000 over the following three to four months, with the remaining U.S. forces withdrawing in 14 months, or by May 1.
Biden, in an ABC interview that aired Thursday, said he was confronted with that deadline soon after taking office: “Do I say we’re staying? And do you think we would not have to put a hell of a lot more troops?” Even without Trump’s deal, Biden said he “would’ve tried to figure out how to withdraw those troops” and that “there is no good time to leave Afghanistan.”
The agreement stipulated commitments the Taliban were expected to make to prevent terrorism, including obligations to renounce al-Qaida and prevent that group or others from using Afghan soil to plot attacks on the U.S. or its allies. Though the agreement bound the Taliban to halt attacks on U.S. and coalition forces, it did not explicitly require them to expel al-Qaida or to stop attacks on the Afghan military.
The agreement provided significant legitimacy to the Taliban, whose leaders met with Pompeo, the first secretary of state to have such interactions. There were also discussions of them coming to the U.S. to meet with Trump.
Stlll, Trump spoke cautiously about the deal’s prospects for success, warning of military firepower if “bad things happen.” Pompeo similarly said the U.S. was “realistic” and “restrained,” determined to avoid endless wars.
U.S. officials made clear at the time that the agreement was conditions-based and the failure of intra-Afghan peace talks to reach a negotiated settlement would have nullified the requirement to withdraw.
One day before the Doha deal, a top aide to chief U.S. negotiator Zalmay Khalilzad said the agreement was not irreversible, and “there is no obligation for the United States to withdraw troops if the Afghan parties are unable to reach agreement or if the Taliban show bad faith” during negotiations.
Those negotiations were intended to begin within a month of the deal being signed but were delayed amid disputes between the Taliban and the Afghan government over prisoner releases. Amid fits and starts, the negotiations had not produced any outcome by the time Biden announced his withdrawal decision in April. Nor have they done so since.
Miller said it was the “right approach” and necessary to force Ghani into negotiations. He said the Doha deal was always supposed to be “phase one” of the process, with the next part being the U.S. using its leverage to have Ghani negotiate on a power-sharing deal with the Taliban.
“Obviously, he was not jazzed by that, but he was going to do it — or he was going to be removed,” Miller said. “We were going to put some serious pressure on him to make him cut a deal with the Taliban.”
In hindsight, though, said Curtis, the U.S. should not have entered the Doha talks “unless we were prepared to represent the Afghan government’s interests. It was an unfair negotiation, because nobody was looking out for the interests of the Afghan government.”
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Hugh Jackman plays a private detective who helps clients recover lost memories, and Rebecca Ferguson is his new client in “Reminiscence” (2021, PG-13), a mix of private eye thriller, romantic drama and science-fiction odyssey.
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What’s new for home viewing on Video on Demand and Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, Disney+, HBO Max and other streaming services.
Top streams for the week
Hugh Jackman plays a private detective who helps clients recover lost memories, and Rebecca Ferguson is his new client in “Reminiscence” (2021, PG-13), a mix of private eye thriller, romantic drama and science-fiction odyssey. Streams same days as theaters, available for 31 days only beginning Friday. (HBO Max)
The surreal, tragic musical “Annette” (2021, R) from Leos Carax and the pop duo Spark, starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard as a glamorous couple whose baby has an exceptional gift, is an operatic romantic drama that has been polarizing audiences and critics since it debuted at Cannes. (Amazon Prime)
“Sweet Girl” (2021, R) stars Jason Momoa as a widower whose quest for vengeance against a pharmaceutical company puts him and his daughter (Isabela Merced) in harm’s way. (Netflix)
“The Chair” (TV-MA) stars Sandra Oh as the first woman of color serving as chair of a failing English Department of an Ivy League university. The satirical drama uses humor to explore the complicated issues of respect, inclusivity, sensitivity and social justice roiling in academia and the culture at large. (Netflix)
Nicole Kidman plays hostess to “Nine Perfect Strangers” (TV-MA) in the drama set at a boutique resort that promises healing and transformation to the strangers of the title (among them Melissa McCarthy, Michael Shannon, Bobby Cannavale and Regina Hall). Three episodes available, new episodes on Wednesdays. (Hulu)
Pay-Per-View / Video on Demand
Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson team up again in the action comedy “The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard” (2021, R) with Salma Hayek joining the duo. Also on DVD and at Redbox.
Netflix
Taylor Kitsch is an American police officer assigned to help create a new police force in Berlin in the aftermath of World War II in “The Defeated” (Germany, TV-MA).
Kid stuff: “The Loud House Movie” (2021, TV-Y7), a feature-length spinoff of the animated kids show, sends the sprawling family to Scotland.
Amazon Prime Video
Martin McDonagh’s dark-humored crime drama “In Bruges” (2008) stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as hitmen in hiding.
Hulu
Indie drama “The Hate U Give” (2018, PG-13) stars Amandla Stenberg as a Black teenager who witnesses the shooting death of a childhood friend by a white patrolman.
HBO Max
The two biggest movie monsters around go toe-to-claw in “Godzilla vs. Kong” (2021, PG-13).
The documentary “In the Same Breath” (2021, TV-MA) looks at the earliest days of the novel coronavirus in China and the U.S.
Disney+
“Growing Up Animal” follows the journeys of baby animals from womb through infancy.
Other streams
“Heels” (TV-MA) stars Stephen Amell and Alexander Ludwig as brothers in the professional wrestling world of Georgia. New episodes on Sundays. (Starz)
Episodes of “The Walking Dead: Season 11” (TV-MA) stream a week before their respective cable debuts. (AMC+)
Sean Bean and Stephen Graham star in the limited-series prison drama “Time” (not rated) from BAFTA-winning writer Jimmy McGovern. (BritBox)
New on disc and at Redbox
“The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard”
Sean Axmaker is a Seattle film critic and writer. His reviews of streaming movies and television can be found at streamondemandathome.com.
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As we enter the second half of August, some may wonder if the peak of heat is finally behind us. After all, July was hotter than any month in Spokane’s recorded history – 140 years to be exact. Record-breaking high temperatures have taken a toll on us, our fans, our air conditioners, our lawns.
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As we enter the second half of August, some may wonder if the peak of heat is finally behind us. After all, July was hotter than any month in Spokane’s recorded history – 140 years to be exact. Record-breaking high temperatures have taken a toll on us, our fans, our air conditioners, our lawns.
While it’s safe to say the worst of the heat has departed, the chance of reaching 90 degrees remains fairly high through the end of this month and well into September. Let’s call them secondary peaks.
In Spokane, the average high temperature typically falls from 86 to 78 from early to late August, and the average overnight low drops from 58 to 51. However, because summer so far has been on the blistering side of normal, August could run above normal as well.
Last year at this time we were just coming off an excessive heat warning. Spokane reached 101 degrees on Aug. 16 and 100 on Aug. 17. The mercury dipped a bit to 97 degrees on Aug. 18 and to 91 degrees on Aug. 19 – precisely one year ago today. Although August usually runs a tad cooler than July, last year it ran slightly warmer than July.
In 1915, Spokane experienced its hottest August on record. Ironically, the July that preceded it ran below normal.
As for rain? We didn’t get much in August 2020, and chances are we won’t see much this month. Spokane’s typical rainfall during August adds up to a little more than a half-inch. Conversely, the normal amount for Washington, D.C., is 2.93 inches. Obviously, July and August tend to run dry in our region.
For many people, August feels hotter, even when it’s not. We’re burned out on the heat, especially when we’ve just lived through a sweltering June and July like this year. The feeling of burnout is compounded by what we see. Green lawns have turned brown. Flowers are frayed and drooped. Dried leaves are falling from trees. Even well-watered plants are feeling the strain.
Western wildfire smoke filling our skies adds to the problem. Socked in by haze, we develop a type of “smoke fatigue” accompanied by burning eyes, a runny nose and scratchy throat.
Cool, crisp autumn air never sounded so good.
For those loathing the heat, know that the worst is behind us. Sure, we’ll have some more hot days and maybe even another heat wave or two. But it’s highly unlikely the extreme, prolonged heat we endured in late June through July will repeat itself. Little by little, the jet stream will draw cooler air from Canada.
In other words, the worst of our summer’s heat is now history.
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Educated young women, former U.S. military translators and other Afghans most at-risk from the Taliban appealed to the Biden administration to get them on evacuation flights as the United States struggled to bring order to the continuing chaos at the Kabul airport.
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WASHINGTON — Educated young women, former U.S. military translators and other Afghans most at-risk from the Taliban appealed to the Biden administration to get them on evacuation flights as the United States struggled to bring order to the continuing chaos at the Kabul airport.
President Joe Biden and his top officials said the U.S. was working to speed up the evacuation, but made no promises how long it would last or how many desperate people it would fly to safety. “We don’t have the capability to go out and collect large numbers of people,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told reporters Wednesday, adding that evacuations would continue “until the clock runs out or we run out of capability.”
Afghans in danger because of their work with the U.S. military or U.S organizations, and Americans scrambling to get them out, also pleaded with Washington to cut the red tape that they say could strand thousands of vulnerable Afghans if U.S. forces withdraw as planned in the coming days.
“If we don’t sort this out, we’ll literally be condemning people to death,” said Marina Kielpinski LeGree, the American head of a nonprofit, Ascend. The organization’s young Afghan female colleagues were in the mass of people waiting for flights at the airport in the wake of days of mayhem, tear gas and gunshots.
At the Kabul airport, military evacuation flights continued. However, access to the airport remained difficult. On Thursday, Taliban militants fired into the air to try to control the crowds gathered at the airport’s blast walls. Men, women and children fled. Fighter jets later roared overhead, but no airstrike accompanied their pass.
Russia offered to provide its aircraft to fly Afghans willing to leave the country to any nations willing to host them. Some U.S. NATO partners, including Italy, have been flying Afghans out of the country in relatively small numbers.
The U.S. has rushed in troops, transport planes and commanders to secure the airport, seek Taliban guarantees of safe passage, and ramp up an airlift capable of ferrying between 5,000 and 9,000 people a day.
One of the last windows of escape from the Taliban threatens to close when Biden’s planned pullout by Aug. 31 is complete.
“People are going to die,” said Air Force veteran Sam Lerman. He said he was working to help a former Afghan military contractor who received an email from the State Department telling him to go to the airport. But U.S. troops at the entry to the airport turned back the Afghan man Wednesday, telling him he lacked the right document, Lerman said.
Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman described an all-out effort by U.S. officials to get Afghans and allies to safety. “This is an all-hands-on-deck effort and we’re aren’t going to let up,” Sherman said at a State Department news conference.
Taliban fighters and checkpoints ringed the airport — barriers for Afghans who fear that their past work with Westerners makes them prime targets of the insurgents. Afghans who made it past the Taliban reached Americans guarding the airport complex, and thrust documents at some of the 4,500 U.S. troops in temporary control.
Hundreds of Afghans who lacked any papers or promises of flights also congregated at the airport, adding to the chaos. It didn’t help that many of the Taliban fighters were illiterate, and cannot read the documents.
Nearly 6,000 people had been evacuated by the U.S. military since Saturday, a White House official said Wednesday night. The turmoil has seen Afghans rush the tarmac. In one instance, some apparently fell to their death while clinging to a departing American C-17 transport plane.
Hoping to secure seats on an airlift are American citizens and other foreigners, Afghan allies of the Western forces, and women, journalists, activists and others most at risk from the fundamentalist Taliban.
The U.S. has declined to give estimates of how many U.S. citizens remain in Afghanistan and are in need of escape.
About 100,000 Afghans were seeking evacuation through a U.S. visa program meant to provide refuge to Afghans who had worked with Americans, as well as family members, said Rebecca Heller, head of the U.S.-based International Refugee Assistance Program. Her organization was among those pressing the United States to urgently step up visa processing.
Heller said an Afghan client told her of five Afghan translators killed by the Taliban in the past two days for their past work with Americans.
Heller played an appeal that she said a female Afghan client had recorded. The woman, whose name The Associated Press is withholding for her safety, has been waiting for three years for U.S. action on her visa application.
“The only hope in this moment I have is the U.S. government,” the Afghan woman said. “Please, U.S. government … please stop promising. Please, start taking action. As immediately as you can.”
The Pentagon said senior U.S. military officers, including Navy Rear Adm. Peter Vasely, are talking to Taliban commanders about Taliban checkpoints and curfews that have limited the number of Americans and Afghans able to enter the airport.
The U.S. government sent emails in recent days telling some American citizens, green card holders and their families, and others to come to the airport, and to be prepared to wait.
Biden has defended his decision to end the U.S. combat mission in Afghanistan that began after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and has rejected blame for the chaos that has ensued. Biden this laid responsibility on Afghans themselves for the Taliban takeover and for the frantic scrambles to flee the country.
But refugee groups note yearslong backlog of visa applications.
An operation to fly to the United States former Afghan translators and others whose visa processes were closest to completion had managed to bring in only about half of the 4,000 Afghans predicted before the Taliban takeover.
A separate visa program meant to fly out civil society members most at risk from the Taliban was handicapped from the start, partly by a U.S. requirement that Afghans travel outside Afghanistan to apply — a trip that the Taliban sweep made impossible for most.
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Hurricane Grace struck Mexico's Caribbean coast just south of the ancient Mayan temples of Tulum early Thursday, pushing a dangerous storm surge. Heavy rain and strong winds threatened to destroy flimsier homes and keep tourists off white sand beaches until it crosses the Yucatan Peninsula.
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PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico — Hurricane Grace struck Mexico’s Caribbean coast just south of the ancient Mayan temples of Tulum early Thursday, pushing a dangerous storm surge. Heavy rain and strong winds threatened to destroy flimsier homes and keep tourists off white sand beaches until it crosses the Yucatan Peninsula.
The Category 1 storm had already soaked earthquake-damaged Haiti, Jamaica and the Cayman Islands en route to a direct hit on the Riviera Maya, the heart of Mexico’s tourism industry. Grace’s center struck just south of Tulum at 4:45 a.m. CDT with maximum sustained winds of 80 mph, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center.
As it moved over land, Grace weakened to a tropical storm Thursday morning with 65 mph sustained winds. It was moving west across the peninsula at 18 mph and was located about 85 miles west of Tulum.
The storm was forecast to re-emerge over the Gulf of Mexico Thursday night into Friday.
On Thursday morning, the streets of Playa del Carmen north of where Grace made landfall were littered with tree branches. Some power lines hung limply and strong gusts of wind blew a stinging rain.
Quintana Roo Gov. Carlos Joaquín said the storm had knocked out power to some 84,000 customers in Cancun and 65,000 in Playa del Carmen, Cozumel, Puerto Aventura and Tulum.
One lane of the highway between Playa del Carmen and Tulum was blocked by a fallen road sign. A gas station was destroyed when a large pavilion blew down, smashing two cars.
The state had opened shelters and evacuated some hotels and residents ahead of the storm’s arrival. Grace missed the popular cruise ship destination Cozumel and came ashore south of Playa del Carmen, where the downtown, usually thumping with music and clubgoers, was eerily desolate Wednesday night. Authorities had ordered all businesses closed and people inside by 8 p.m.
One exception was Axel Felix, a 37-year-old pizza deliveryman making his last drop-off of the night in a rain slicker. “Now I’m going home and I’m not going out until tomorrow,” Felix said. “You’ve got to be careful and stay at home.”
Another was Juan González, a 25-year-old student walking his dog. “At home we will be calm with food, waiting to see what happens and with the windows protected,” he said.
With little to stand in its way on the peninsula, Grace was expected to weaken slightly then regain hurricane strength in the Gulf of Mexico before making a second landfall in Mexico later this week.
On Tulum’s main drag, tourists in plastic ponchos splashed through puddles as the wind picked up. On the beach side, the surf grew and beachgoers took shelter from the blowing sand. Armed soldiers and sailors patrolled Tulum’s streets in trucks, and businesses taped and boarded up windows as lines formed at grocery stores with families stocking up on essentials.
“We’re taking precautions, buying milk, sugar, water and cookies because we don’t know how long we’ll be shut in,” said 21-year-old homemaker Adamaris García, standing in a line of dozens of people at a small store.
Meanwhile, some tourists fretted over a lost day at the beach while others prepared for their first hurricane experience.
Johanna Geys, of Munich, Germany, was having a beer in Tulum Wednesday afternoon. It was her first time in Mexico and Grace would be her first hurricane.
“We don’t know how it is (in hurricanes), ” said Geys, a 28-year-old waitress. People have been telling her it won’t be bad.
Leaving a store with some supplies, 25-year-old California law student Sarah Lynch said she wasn’t too worried.
“We have extra water. We prepared for the hurricane and we’re just going to roll with the storm and see what happens,” Lynch said. “It’s a little scary because it’s unknown, but besides that we’re okay. We made it through COVID.”
State authorities said that as of last week, the region was hosting about 130,000 tourists and hotels were more than half full despite the pandemic.
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“Game of Thrones' ” David Benioff and D.B. Weiss reunite to create a new, six-part dramedy, "The Chair," about the failing English department of a fictional university. Sandra Oh stars as Ji-Yoon Kim, the first woman of color to take over the department.
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This week’s streaming premieres range from comedy to thriller – with a surprise release thrown in for good measure.
“The Chair” (2021)
“Game of Thrones” production duo David Benioff and D.B. Weiss reunite in a totally different genre to create a new, six-part dramedy about the failing English department of a fictional university. Sandra Oh (“Killing Eve”) stars as Ji-Yoon Kim, the first woman of color to take over the department. As she struggles against tradition and rises to meet her colleagues’ high expectations, Kim has her work cut out for her.
Created by actress and showrunner Amanda Peet with Annie Julia-Wyman, the series also stars Jay Duplass, Holland Taylor, Bob Balaban, David Morse, Nana Mensah and Everly Carganilla. “The Chair” is available on Netflix.
“Grace and Frankie” Season 7 (2021)
The first four episodes of the final season of this charming comedy series are now available after a surprise release on Netflix. The series follows frenemy-rivals Grace (Jane Fonda) and Frankie (Lily Tomlin) after their husbands, who have been having an affair for years, reveal that they’ve fallen in love and have decided to start pursuing a relationship out in the open.
The two soon realize that while their worlds are falling apart, they’ll only be able to rely on each other. The remaining episodes of the final season will be released at a later date. “Grace and Frankie” is available on Netflix.
“The Defeated” (2020)
“The war is over, and life in Germany has never been happier,” an American newsreader narrates over historical footage before the picture shifts to reveal a bloodstained diary. Starring Taylor Kitsch and Tuppence Middleton, the series follows detective Elsie Garten (Nina Hoss) as she attempts to solve the murder of a young girl amid the ashes of a ruined city. “The Defeated,” in English and German with English subtitles, is available on Netflix.
“Reminiscence” (2021)
Hugh Jackman stars as Nick Bannister, a private investigator/heartbroken scientist in a post-apocalyptic society who discovers a way to relive the past. Nick knows that “nothing is more addictive.” But when a client (Rebecca Ferguson) goes missing under mysterious circumstances, the addiction becomes his own in a totally new way. “Reminiscence” is available on HBO Max.
“Annette” (2021)
The daughter of an eccentric standup comedian (Adam Driver) and a world-renowned opera singer (Marion Cotillard) is born with an exceptional gift that turns her parents’ glamorous world upside down. “Annette” is available on Amazon Prime.
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Through a National Institute on Aging $14.6 million grant, a Washington State University-led project called NEAR will launch work to battle disparities associated with Alzheimer's disease and dementia in Native populations.
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Through a $14.6 million National Institute on Aging grant, a Washington State University-led project will work to battle disparities associated with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia in Native populations.
The outreach in the next five years will involve American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander groups across the U.S., including Washington state-based tribes and populations such as the Marshallese.
Although culturally and geographically diverse, Native populations share “an unequal burden of conditions such as hypertension, Type 2 diabetes and low socioeconomic status that make dementia more likely,” a WSU news release said. Life expectancy within Native groups is increasing, raising concerns that Alzheimer’s and dementias might become a public health crisis.
“The number of American Indians and Alaska Native people who are 85 years and older will increase sevenfold by 2050, so that’s good news for communities, but it also means that there is going to be a lot more cognitive impairment among those older individuals,” said Dr. Dedra Buchwald, principal investigator and Seattle-based professor in WSU’s Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine.
Along with age, other Alzheimer’s and dementia risk factors can include genetics, hypertension, lifestyle and environmental influences. “The high risk time is 85 and older, when you might have one-third of people with cognitive impairment. The number of people in this age group is going to dramatically increase, and so in parallel will these conditions.”
The project, called Natives Engaged in Alzheimer’s Research, expects to bring together about 11 tribes, six academic institutions, seven urban Indian organizations and five Native community groups. NEAR will have a nationwide network of eight satellite centers directed by researchers who are members of Native communities.
The health care systems serving these communities are largely unprepared for the clinical, social and economic costs of dementia, Buchwald said. She also is director of the WSU Institute for Research and Education to Advance Community Health, which works to advance community health via partnerships and collaborations.
The grant-funded focuses will have 12 professionals doing project work or consulting who are American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander. Each project is co-led by an investigator who is a member of one or more of these communities.
“Our scientists are grounded in the lived experience and history of trauma surrounding research in Native and Pacific Islander communities,” Buchwald said. “The team will bring an essential understanding of research ethics, stakeholder consultation and cultural humility to effectively and appropriately test interventions to detect and treat dementia in these groups.”
One NEAR project will support clinic health providers with education and training on Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, including how to detect and manage them, she said. The group is confirming sites now, but likely the training will be at many urban and rural Native-serving facilities in this state, including Eastern Washington.
“We’re providing culturally appropriate education to providers in clinics around the United States serving both urban and rural American Indians and Alaskan Native patients,” Buchwald said. “The intervention is with the providers to help them better recognize, detect, diagnose and manage people who have cognitive impairment and or dementia.”
Another grant-focused project will look at sleep apnea issues among Northern Plains Indian groups under research co-led by Ka’imi Sinclair, associate professor in the WSU College of Nursing. It will offer interventions for obstructive sleep apnea and use of Continuous Positive Airway Pressure therapy, commonly called CPAP machines.
“We know lack of sleep can affect brain health and sometimes lead to cognitive impairment,” Sinclair said. “We know wearing a CPAP can be quite challenging. The study is an intervention to try to encourage the CPAP machine, so they’ll get better sleep, which may reduce a person’s risk for cognitive impairment. We’re measuring whether the use of the appropriate treatment improves their cognitive function.”
Sinclair also leads recruitment and engagement. “We will be doing a lot of community engagement and workshops to raise awareness and teach people about Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias and brain health, so we’ll be doing workshops. We will be reaching out to a lot of different people in Washington and beyond.”
She said Washington has the third highest population of Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders, “so we have several other studies we’re conducting with them in Washington and elsewhere.”
Existing research, although limited, suggests that genetic risk factors for dementia in Native people might be different in important ways from non-Native populations, the WSU release said.
This work also will coordinate with local and community partners to develop culturally acceptable practices related to informed consent, confidentiality and data governance needed in the collection of biological samples, or biospecimens, from Native communities. “The aim is to dramatically increase the meager repository of biospecimens from these groups available for dementia research,” the release said.
A third project under the grant is based in Hawaii, where similar work is underway and will be adapted toward this dementia research, Buchwald said.
“It’s an intervention that involves exercising in the form of Hula dancing, and then cultural ancillary activities like food and diet, music and learning the language,” she said. “It looks at the effect of this culturally derived intervention on self-reported and also objectively-measured cognitive function in Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders.
“This research group has already shown that doing the Hula dramatically improves people’s blood pressure control. It’s a pretty powerful intervention, so we’re adapting that to look at cognitive function.”
Project leaders along with Buchwald are Dr. James Galvin, neurology professor and director of the Comprehensive Center for Brain Health at the University of Miami, and John Kauwe, biology professor and president of Brigham Young University–Hawaii. For more information, go to IREACH’s website at ireach.wsu.edu and call (206) 708-8668.
“We literally have dozens of projects on everything from diabetes to hypertension to substance abuse, and there are descriptions on our website,” Buchwald said. “It’s all basically what we call community-based participatory research, so it’s on-the-ground research with partners.”
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Bill Strother, “The Human Spider,” climbed out the ninth floor window of the Paulsen Building and scaled his way to the cornice at the top.
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Bill Strother, “The Human Spider,” climbed out the ninth floor window of the Paulsen Building and scaled his way to the cornice at the top.
Then he “stood on his head, while he continued to hold conversation with those about him.”
“Those about him” included a Spokane Daily Chronicle press photographer, since this was a high-altitude publicity stunt. Strother was drumming up interest in a climb that evening. He planned to climb the Stevens Street side of the Paulsen building, all the way from the sidewalk to the “gilt ball” on top of the building’s flagpole.
Strother was a veteran performer, having traveled around the country during the war for Liberty Loan and Victory Loan drives.
When asked if he ever got scared, he said, “Say, listen! Sometimes I get scared stiff. My tongue gets all twisted in my mouth. I can’t seem to work my legs.”
When the photographer asked how he could stand to climb if it was so frightening, the Human Spider said, “Oh, I don’t mean this stuff. Climbing and balancing is nothing.”
He said he gets stage fright when asked to speak to the crowd.
It was a benefit for the Spokane Home of the Washington Children’s Home Finding Society, which would get half of the proceeds. The YWCA girls were planning to take up a collection amongst the gathered crowd.
From the bank robbery beat: The spate of bank robberies continued with the holdup of the Metaline Falls (Washington) State Savings Bank.
Two unmasked bandits accosted the bank president and cashier and said, “Put ’em up and be damned quick about it, too.” They locked them in the vault and escaped with cash and bonds.
As they tried to escape, the alarm spread through town and 50 armed men took up the chase. The robbers were said to be surrounded near Sullivan Creek.
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Jenny Cooper (Serinda Swan) is tasked with investigating the mysterious death of a caregiver as this medical drama returns for its third season. Jenny’s trying to move on from her recent trauma, a process that has led to a split with her live-in boyfriend, Liam (Eric Bruneau). Elsewhere, Detective Donovan McAvoyi (Roger Cross) is forced to confront his own mortality in a new way, while Ross (Ehren Kassam) struggles with growing pains in the form of identity challenges. Nicholas Campbell also stars. (TVPG) 8 p.m. on 22.1.
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New York Steve Gold becomes a decidedly unwilling host to a total meltdown between arch-rivals Ryan Serhant and Fredrik Eklund in the new episode “Meltdown in Midtown.” Meanwhile, Tyler Whitman hosts a high-energy Roaring ‘20s-themed private showing. Elsewhere at one of Fredrik’s private showings, KJ Jordan opens up about her future career plans. (TV14) 8 p.m. on BRAVO.
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When her boss uses some of Zoey’s (Yara Shahidi) ideas without giving her credit for them, she debates whether to keep quiet about it or speak up, which could risk her internship, in the new episode “A Peace of Light.” Elsewhere, Jazz (Chloe Bailey) seeks medical leave from the track team by going to therapy, and Aaron (Trevor Jackson) tries to make a good impression on someone. (TV14) 8 p.m. on FREE.
The Outpost
As Luna and Garret (Maeve Courtier-Lilley, Jake Stormoen) embark on a risky rescue mission, Tobin (Aaron Fontaine) finds a way to demonstrate his loyalty in a new episode called “All We Do Is Say Goodbye.” Elsewhere, Janzo and Wren (Anand Desai-Barochia, Izuka Hoyle) discover what lies beneath the outpost, and a quest begins to uncover the hidden facts about Luna’s past. Jessica Green also stars. (TV14) 9 p.m. on 22.1.
Alone
With only three survivalists remaining, the final contenders struggle to claim the $500,000 prize in the Season 8 finale, “The Reckoning.” As this trio makes a last stand against the mental challenges assailing them, one survivalist is threatened by a new, all-too-real predator. “Ultimate Moments,” a one-hour retrospective special looking back at past seasons of this hit reality show, immediately follows the finale. (TV14) 9:33 p.m. on HIST.
Restaurant: Impossible
An episode called “Delusions of Grandeur” takes host Robert Irvine to Illinois, where two brothers are close to losing their French bistro. They stubbornly blame the competition for their restaurant’s failures, but Robert can tell the real problem is closer to home. That means he must convince these delusional owners to accept reality or their fantasy will end in bankruptcy. (TVG) 10 p.m. on FOOD.
2021 AIG Women’s Open
The fourth and final major on the 2021 LPGA schedule tees off today in Scotland, where the Tour’s top players vie in the AIG Women’s Open. The 6,649-yard Championship Course at Carnoustie Golf Links has a history dating back to the 16th century and has hosted the British Open eight times and the women’s event once, in 2011, when Yani Tseng emerged victorious. Sophia Popov won this tournament by two strokes over Jasmine Suwannapura last year at Royal Troon. 10 p.m. on GOLF.
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Most people everyone has at least one box in their house, especially during the pandemic. We keep them on our desks, at our bedside tables, in our bathrooms – tissue boxes are so much a part of our home interiors we hardly notice them until they’re empty.
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Have you used your time at home to tackle a project you've always wanted to do, but didn't have the time? Built bookshelves? Created a chicken coop? Completed a room renovation? Learned a new skill? We want to hear about it. Contact Cindy Hval at dchval@juno.com
On the web: Darlene Kruse sells her tissue boxes at UniqueBoutiqueTissueBoxes.com.
Most people have at least one box in their house, especially during the pandemic. We keep them on our desks, at our bedside tables, in our bathrooms – tissue boxes are so much a part of our home interiors we hardly notice them until they’re empty.
Darlene Kruse thinks she knows why.
“They’re kind of boring,” she said.
So, during the long months of the shutdown, she picked up her tapestry needle and resumed a project she’d started before COVID-19. Using party yarn, plastic canvas and lots of imagination, she’s made 70 tissue box covers and counting.
The project not only gives her mind a creative outlet, it’s also had health benefits.
“I wanted to lose weight,” said Kruse. “I don’t eat while I’m doing it. It takes the place of snacking.”
She only crafts covers for boutique-size boxes, as they better display her handiwork.
“I buy the plastic canvas sheets by the dozen,” she said. “I cut them into fours and cut a square for the top.”
Most of the designs stem from her fertile imagination. In addition to holiday themes like Christmas, St. Patrick’s Day, Mardi Gras and Independence Day, Kruse has crafted covers that appeal to cat lovers, coffee drinkers and Seahawks fans. Many of them feature meticulous hand beadwork and whimsical charms.
For instance, a pale blue caffeine-lovers cover includes tiny latte and mug charms.
“It’s my version of a coffee klatch,” she said.
One of her unique additions was stitching small windows on some covers, so she could personalize the design.
Her inspiration comes from many things. As an avid gardener, she created a Japanese-themed cover featuring bonsai and ikebana (a Japanese floral arrangement). She even stitched the symbol for happiness on one side next to a tiny fan.
A visit to Seattle with family prompted one of her favorites – a tribute to Chihuly glass.
“We went to see his famous glassworks, and it inspired me,” Kruse said.
No detail is too small for her nimble fingers.
An American Colonial house replica features blue shutters and window boxes filled with tiny flowers.
She’s still working on mastering a lifelike rose for a musical design that includes piano keys, musical notes and a blooming rose.
“It’s really hard to make the roses look like roses,’ she said.
Kruse uses a rainbow of colors in her creations with one notable exception.
“Never orange. I hate orange.”
Each cover takes about a week to complete, and now that she’s amassed so many she’s considering selling them at craft fairs this fall. Her daughter is working on a website for Kruse’s creations.
Craftiness comes naturally to Kruse, who learned to sew at age 10.
“I made my own clothes and my kids’ clothes when they were younger,” she said.
Then she spent 20 years as an Express site director for the Spokane Public Schools child care program, where teaching crafts was part of her job.
She smiled.
“When you spend your career creating projects, it’s hard to turn it off.”
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Room and board at school can be a major expense for students who go away to get an education.
Jeffrey Decatur, a real estate agent with RE/MAX Capital in Latham, New York, near Albany, said he’s seeing a growing trend of parents buying property for their children to live in during school as both a way to cut costs and as an investment.
He spoke to Bankrate about this strategy, and talked through what you should think about when considering if it’s right for your family.
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Q: How common is it for parents to consider buying real estate in their kid’s college town?
A: Parents are realizing it’s a very viable option to purchase rather than doing the room and board thing, because it winds up benefiting all around in the long-run.
You get a write-off, you can make a little money in the end, and it elevates your child’s learning. They have a different level of responsibility than the average college student.
Q: Why is this a good strategy?
A: Within five miles of me, there are eight colleges or universities. It’s not super, super common, but considering I’m only one agent in an area of 3,800 agents, I’ve seen it enough that it’s something.
I had a parent buy their kid a house because first-year students weren’t allowed to have a car. So the parent bought them a house so they could keep their car and have a life. That was the first one and I thought, “Ooh, crazy rich people.” But it was actually crazy smart people, because they get the benefits of owning a house.
I started seeing it more and more with medical students and law students.
Their parents wanted to make sure they had every advantage and weren’t distracted by other distractions going to school and they had a place to focus and be quiet and study and what have you.
One of the properties I actually sold three times, and it was to med students each time.
That’s when I started realizing that it makes much more sense for someone to buy a house.
One of my best friend’s kids, they were paying $6,000 or $7,000 per semester for room and board, that’s $14,000 per year.
In our area, you can buy a house for that. My one friend who bought a house for their kid, they bought a three bedroom two bath, their kid got their own bedroom and bathroom, and then they rented out the other two rooms.
They took that $14,000 per year, which was just a loss, they put that into a mortgage payment, and then they rented out those other two rooms for less than the college was charging for room and board.
They made money off of it, and then when it came time for the kids to move on, they have a college rental or they can sell it.
Even if the market had gone down, they’re still saving money and making money, because they’re not lighting $14,000 per year on fire and throwing it out the window with room and board for the college.
When you look at it in those terms, there’s no real losing situation. You could end up making money or you end up saving money on paper.
Q: Are there any drawbacks?
A: I guess you have to have confidence in your kid that they’re responsible and not going to trash the place and don’t need a brick wall, and that they’re going to continue through four years of school.
That could be a potential drawback. In the big picture, real estate is never really a bad investment because it’s tangible and historically, yes there’s up and downs in the market, but historically, real estate always goes up.
There’s no real downside in that aspect of things, but it can be more of a hassle when your student graduates, because then you have to sell the house.
I don’t know that it’s for everybody, but for financially astute people, or those who’ve got a few extra bucks to play with, it’s a viable option for them and saving all around.
If your kid’s taking out student loans, you’re not financing their living. You’re taking $60,000 of debt out of that equation for your kid and turning it into an investment.
Q: What should people know if they’re considering doing this?
A: I always tell people to talk with their accountant or financial planner to make sure this makes financial sense.
If it makes more sense for you to pay your kid’s room and board than it does for you to have a rental or investment property, then your accountant will be able to tell you that, and that’s above my pay grade.
I know what I do and I know the benefits of that from some of the people I’ve worked with, but each person’s finances are different. Some parents see it as a good sink or swim moment for their kids, giving them the responsibility of having a house.
Q: Anything else?
A: Always consult a professional no matter what the situation is, and make sure that you’re making a comfortable and educated decision. It’s not something to go into lightly.
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