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ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Johnson // Becker, PLLC is a nationwide products liability law firm with extensive experience representing victims of pressure cooker explosions. The firm has represented over 500 clients who have been severely burned by exploding pressure cookers designed and sold by numerous manufacturers.
Johnson//Becker filed this Complaint against manufacturer Tabletops Unlimited, on behalf of India Smith, a resident of Wynne, Arkansas, alleging that a defective Philippe Richards pressure cooker caused severe burns to Ms. Smith.
The pressure cooker explosion occurred when the lid exploded off the pressure cooker "suddenly and unexpectedly," splashing Ms. Smith with its scalding hot contents. Ms. Smith suffered her burn injuries during the "normal, directed use" of her Philippe Richards pressure cooker, and despite the manufacturer's assurances of so-called "triple safety features," according to the Complaint. The explosion left Ms. Smith with "serious bodily injuries, medical expenses, lost wages, physical pain, mental anguish, diminished enjoyment of life, and other damages," the Complaint alleges.
This suit is filed by Adam J. Kress of Johnson // Becker, PLLC. Adam exclusively handles injury cases, with an emphasis on national products liability litigation, including cases involving burn injuries from defective products.
If you or a loved one has been injured by a defective Philippe Richards pressure cooker, you may want to speak with the lawyers at Johnson//Becker. We are filing new pressure cooker lawsuits across the country, and you may be entitled to financial compensation for your defective pressure cooker injuries.
We offer a free case evaluation. To learn more about Johnson // Becker's product liability cases, or to arrange a free, no obligation case review, please visit Johnson // Becker at https://www.johnsonbecker.com/product-liability/pressure-cooker-lawsuit/, https://www.johnsonbecker.com/product-liability/philippe-richards-pressure-cooker-explosion-lawsuit/ or contact Johnson // Becker directly at (800) 279-6386.
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian government said Wednesday it is confident its greenhouse gas reduction target will be enshrined in law after negotiating amendments with senators from outside the new administration’s ranks.
A bill to enshrine the center-left Labor Party’s election pledge to reduce Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions by 43% below 2005 levels by 2030 was the first piece of legislation introduced to the Parliament when it sat last week for the first time since the May 21 elections.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said his government had negotiated sufficient support for the bill to pass the Senate without changing the 43% commitment.
“I am very confident that it will be passed through the House of Representatives and through the Senate,” Albanese told reporters.
All 12 senators of the minor Greens party, which wants a 75% emissions reduction by the end of the decade, had agreed to support the amended bill, Greens leader Adam Bandt said.
“The Greens have improved a weak climate bill and we will pass it,” Bandt told the National Press Club.
“But the fight to stop Labor’s new coal and gas mines continues and, in this Parliament, the only obstacle to stronger climate action is Labor,” Bandt added.
With the Greens’ backing, the bill only needs the support of one of the six remaining unaligned senators to achieve a majority in the 76-seat chamber.
Albanese did not say which senator or senators had promised support or what his government had conceded. But he said senators outside government did not get a “whole lot of things that they want.”
“We made our position very clear. There will be some amendments passed in the House of Representatives that are sensible, that are consistent with our position,” Albanese said.
Labor has a narrow majority in the House of Representatives.
Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen said a legally enforced target would instill confidence in business to invest in clean energy.
“It’s now very clear that our legislation will pass the Parliament,” Bowen said.
The conservative coalition that ruled for nine years until the election won’t budge from its 2015 Paris commitment to reduce emissions by between 26% and 28%.
When Labor was last in power between 2007 and 2013, its climate plans were rejected as too ambitious by the conservatives and not ambitious enough by the Greens.
Environmentalists criticized the Greens for rejecting a Labor bill in 2009 that would have made polluters pay for their greenhouse gas emissions through an emissions trading scheme because the Greens wanted deeper reductions.
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UN fact-finding mission will probe Ukraine prison killings
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief said Wednesday he is appointing a fact-finding mission in response to requests from Russia and Ukraine to investigate the killings at a prison in a separatist region of eastern Ukraine that the warring nations accuse each other of carrying out.
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told reporters he doesn’t have authority to conduct criminal investigations but does have authority to conduct fact-finding missions, and the terms of reference for a mission to Ukraine are currently being prepared and will be sent to the governments of Ukraine and Russia for approval.
Russia claimed that Ukraine’s military used U.S.-supplied rocket launchers to strike the prison in Olenivka, a settlement controlled by the Moscow-backed Donetsk People’s Republic. Separatist authorities and Russian officials said the attack killed 53 Ukrainian POWs and wounded another 75.
The Ukrainian military denied making any rocket or artillery strikes in Olenivka. The intelligence arm of the Ukrainian defense ministry claimed in a statement Wednesday to have evidence that local Kremlin-backed separatists colluded with the Russian FSB, the KGB’s main successor agency, and mercenary group Wagner to mine the barrack before “using a flammable substance, which led to the rapid spread of fire in the room.”
The Ukrainian military on Tuesday likewise claimed that the barrack had been blown up from the inside, citing the nature of damage which it said was inconsistent with Russian claims that Ukraine had shelled the building. It was not immediately possible to verify these claims.
Secretary-General Guterres said he took the requests from Russia and Ukraine for a U.N. investigation of last Friday’s deadly incident “very seriously” and expressed hope that both countries will agree to the terms of reference. At the same time, he said, the U.N. is looking for “competent, independent people” to take part in the mission.
The U.N. chief also expressed hope the warring countries will facilitate the mission’s access and provide the data required “to clarify the truth about what happened.”
The Ukrainian POWS at the Donetsk prison included troops captured during the fall of Mariupol. They spent months holed up with civilians at the giant Azovstal steel mill in the southern port city. Their resistance during a relentless Russian bombardment became a symbol of Ukrainian defiance against Russia’s aggression.
More than 2,400 soldiers from the Azov Regiment of the Ukrainian national guard and other military units gave up their fight and surrendered under orders from Ukraine’s military in May.
Scores of Ukrainian soldiers have been taken to prisons in Russian-controlled areas. Some have returned to Ukraine as part of prisoner exchanges with Russia, but other families have no idea whether their loved ones are still alive, or if they will ever come home.
Ukraine’s defense ministry claimed Wednesday that Ukrainian captives at the prison had been subject to “bullying, physical humiliation, and psychological demoralization” in an attempt to coerce them into starring in pro-Russian propaganda videos.
“Ukrainian prisoners showed exceptional courage and invincible willpower,” the ministry said, alleging that Moscow and the separatists did not intend to include the captives in an exchange, and opted to “deliberately destroy” them, in order to hide signs of torture which could serve as evidence in international criminal proceedings. It did not immediately disclose how it had arrived at this assessment.
By EDITH M. LEDERER
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HOUSTON, Aug. 3 , 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Callon Petroleum Company (NYSE: CPE) ("Callon" or the "Company") today reported results of operations for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022.
Presentation slides accompanying this earnings release are available on the Company's website at www.callon.com located on the "Presentations" page within the Investors section of the site.
Second Quarter 2022 and Recent Highlights
- Delivered production of approximately 100.7 MBoe/d (61% oil and 81% liquids) in the second quarter of 2022
- Increased Delaware Basin well productivity in 2022 by approximately 20% over 2021 as co-development offset spacing and completions initiatives are implemented
- Generated net cash provided by operating activities of $372.3 million and adjusted free cash flow of $125.6 million
- Reported net income of $348.0 million, or $5.62 per diluted share, adjusted EBITDA of $418.5 million, and adjusted income of $227.8 million, or $3.68 per diluted share
- Achieved an operating margin of $67.58 per Boe, a sequential increase of over 15%
- Executed a refinancing transaction that extended maturities and reduced term balances, with total debt balance of $2.5 billion at June 30 after continued debt reduction
"Callon continues to execute on important steps to solidify a foundation for durable free cash flow generation" said Joe Gatto, President and Chief Executive Officer. "In the inflationary environment that we operate in today, and likely for the foreseeable future, operating margins are critical to our cash generation objectives. In our most recent quarter, our operating margins increased to almost $70 per Boe produced, our eighth consecutive quarterly increase, which drove unhedged adjusted EBITDA of over $600 million. When our industry leading margins are combined with demonstrated well productivity gains in the Delaware and drilling and completion efficiencies across the portfolio, we expect to drive more efficient conversion of EBITDA into free cash flow. These cash flow benefits will be further enhanced in the near-term with a steadily decreasing impact of financial hedges and a reduced interest expense burden as debt continues to be reduced."
Callon Operations Update
At June 30, 2022, Callon had 1,377 gross (1,229.3 net) wells producing from established flow units in the Permian and Eagle Ford. Net daily production for the three months ended June 30, 2022 was 100.7 MBoe/d (61% oil and 81% liquids).
Production volumes for the quarter include the impact of the following items:
- Increased Workover Activity – Callon experienced a higher level of well failures than historical trends due to intermittent power disruptions and the timing of useful equipment lives. During these outages, Callon accelerated its artificial lift initiatives, which provide production and runtime benefits, primarily in Delaware Basin South. Given the additional time to complete these conversion and repair projects, which were roughly double the level executed in the first quarter, downtime was elevated in the second quarter. Portions of this activity were previously planned to occur later in the year and, as a result, workovers and associated downtime for this initiative should be reduced going forward relative to our previous forecast.
- Conversion of Midland Basin Gathering Contract – Natural gas and NGL volumes increased from the conversion of a Midland Basin gathering contract from a percentage of proceeds to fee-based which resulted in a reduction in oil cut for the quarter.
Operated drilling and completion activity for the three months ended June 30, 2022 are summarized in the table below:
For the three months ended June 30, 2022, Callon drilled 35 gross (32.6 net) wells and placed a combined 33 gross (29.1 net) wells on production. Completions operations for the quarter included 6 gross (5.9 net) wells in the Delaware Basin, 7 gross (6.3 net) wells in the Midland Basin, and 15 gross (13.0 net) wells in the Eagle Ford Shale. Callon placed 11 gross (10.1 net) wells on production in the Delaware Basin, 7 gross (6.0 net) wells in the Midland Basin, and 15 gross (13.0 net) wells in the Eagle Ford Shale. The average lateral length for the wells completed during the second quarter was 8,281 feet. Operated completions during the second quarter consisted of 4 Upper Wolfcamp A wells and 2 Lower Wolfcamp A wells in the Delaware Basin; 2 Lower Spraberry wells, 3 Wolfcamp A wells and 2 Wolfcamp B wells in the Midland Basin; and 15 lower Eagle Ford Shale wells.
Leverage and Liquidity Update
On June 9, 2022, Callon priced $600 million principal amount of 7.50% Senior Notes due 2030 in a private offering. On June 24, 2022, the Company deposited with the trustee the proceeds from the offering of the 7.50% Senior Notes due 2030, along with borrowings under the Credit Facility, to redeem all of its outstanding 6.125% Senior Notes due 2024 and 9.0% Second Lien Notes due 2025. As of June 30, 2022, the drawn balance on the facility was $779.0 million and cash balances were $6.1 million. The Company intends to continue its application of organic free cash flow towards repayment of debt balances related to the credit facility and other debt instruments.
Third Quarter Activity Outlook and Guidance
Callon is currently running six rigs, with three rigs in the Delaware Basin, two rigs in the Midland Basin and one rig in the Eagle Ford which the Company will be dropping in the coming days. Callon plans to utilize two to three completion crews for the third quarter, supporting new production across the Midland, Delaware and Eagle Ford positions.
For the third quarter, the Company expects to produce between 102 and 105 MBoe/d (63% oil) with between 38 and 42 gross wells (33 and 36 net) placed on production. In addition, Callon projects an operational capital spending level of between $245 and $255 million on an accrual basis.
For full year 2022, Callon is increasing the bottom end of its production guidance to between 102 and 105 MBoe/d (63% oil) to reflect underlying Permian well performance that is above expectations, and an increase in natural gas and NGL volumes from the Midland Basin gathering contract conversion. The revised guidance is available in the accompanying presentation.
Capital Expenditures
For the three months ended June 30, 2022, Callon incurred $237.8 million in operational capital expenditures on an accrual basis. Total capital expenditures, inclusive of capitalized expenses, are detailed below on an accrual and cash basis:
Hedge Portfolio Summary
As of July 29, 2022, Callon had the following outstanding oil and natural gas derivative contracts:
Operating and Financial Results
The following table presents summary information for the periods indicated:
Revenue. For the quarter ended June 30, 2022, Callon reported revenue of $760.3 million, which excluded revenue from sales of commodities purchased from a third party of $153.4 million. Revenues including the loss from the settlement of derivative contracts ("Adjusted Total Revenue") were $575.7 million, reflecting the impact of a $184.6 million loss from the settlement of derivative contracts. Average daily production and average realized prices, including and excluding the effects of hedging, are detailed above.
Commodity Derivatives. For the quarter ended June 30, 2022, the net loss on commodity derivative contracts includes the following (in thousands):
For the quarter ended June 30, 2022, the cash paid for commodity derivative settlements includes the following (in thousands):
Lease Operating Expenses, including workover ("LOE"). LOE for the three months ended June 30, 2022 was $72.9 million, or $7.96 per Boe, compared to LOE of $67.3 million, or $7.29 per Boe, in the first quarter of 2022. The sequential increase in LOE was primarily due to increases in workover costs as well as certain operating costs such as fuel, power and equipment rentals. The increase in LOE per Boe was due to the increases in operating costs mentioned above as well as the distribution of fixed costs spread over lower production volumes.
Production and Ad Valorem Taxes. Production and ad valorem taxes for the three months ended June 30, 2022 were approximately 5.9% of total revenue excluding revenue from sales of commodities purchased from a third-party and before the impact of derivative settlements, or $4.90 per Boe.
Gathering, Transportation and Processing. Gathering, transportation and processing expense for the three months ended June 30, 2022 was $23.3 million, or $2.54 per Boe, as compared to $20.8 million, or $2.25 per Boe, in the first quarter of 2022. This increase in gathering, transportation and processing expense was primarily due to a new contract entered into during the second quarter of 2022 as well as inflationary cost increases.
Depreciation, Depletion and Amortization ("DD&A"). DD&A for the three months ended June 30, 2022 was $11.94 per Boe compared to $11.15 per Boe in the first quarter of 2022. The increase in DD&A per Boe was primarily attributable to higher capital expenditures during the three months ended June 30, 2022 and increases in future development cost assumptions.
General and Administrative Expense ("G&A"). G&A for the three months ended June 30, 2022 and March 31, 2022 was $10.9 million and $17.1 million, respectively. G&A, excluding non-cash incentive share-based compensation valuation adjustments, ("Adjusted G&A") was $16.0 million for the three months ended June 30, 2022 compared to $14.3 million for the first quarter of 2022. The cash component of Adjusted G&A increased to $14.1 million for the three months ended June 30, 2022 compared to $13.0 million for the first quarter of 2022 primarily as a result of higher compensation costs during the quarter.
The following table reconciles total G&A to Adjusted G&A - cash component and full cash G&A (in thousands):
Income Tax. Callon provides for income taxes at the statutory rate of 21% adjusted for permanent differences expected to be realized. We recorded income tax expense of $3.0 million and $0.5 million for the three months ended June 30, 2022 and March 31, 2022, respectively. Since the second quarter of 2020, we have concluded that it is more likely than not that the net deferred tax assets will not be realized and have recorded a full valuation allowance against our deferred tax assets. As long as we continue to conclude that the valuation allowance is necessary, we will not have significant deferred tax expense or benefit.
Adjusted Income, Adjusted EBITDA and Unhedged Adjusted EBITDA. The following tables reconcile the Company's net income (loss) to adjusted income, adjusted EBITDA and unhedged adjusted EBITDA:
Adjusted Free Cash Flow. The following table reconciles the Company's net cash provided by operating activities to unhedged adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA and adjusted free cash flow:
Adjusted Discretionary Cash Flow. The following table reconciles the Company's net cash provided by operating activities to adjusted discretionary cash flow:
Adjusted Total Revenue. Adjusted total revenue is reconciled to total operating revenues, which excludes revenue from sales of commodities purchased from a third party, in the following table:
Net Debt. The following table reconciles the Company's total debt to net debt:
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
This news release refers to non-GAAP financial measures such as "adjusted free cash flow," "adjusted EBITDA," "unhedged adjusted EBITDA," "operating margin," "adjusted income," "adjusted income per diluted share," "adjusted diluted weighted average common shares outstanding," "adjusted discretionary cash flow," "adjusted total revenue," "adjusted G&A," "full cash G&A," and "net debt." These measures, detailed below, are provided in addition to, and not as an alternative for, and should be read in conjunction with, the information contained in our financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP (including the notes), included in our filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and posted on our website.
- Adjusted free cash flow is a supplemental non-GAAP measure that is defined by the Company as adjusted EBITDA less operational capital expenditures (accrual), capitalized cash interest, capitalized cash G&A (which excludes capitalized expense related to share-based awards), and cash interest expense, net. We believe adjusted free cash flow provides useful information to investors because it is a comparable metric against other companies in the industry and is a widely accepted financial indicator of an oil and natural gas company's ability to generate cash for the use of internally funding their capital development program and to service or incur debt. Adjusted free cash flow is not a measure of a company's financial performance under GAAP and should not be considered as an alternative to net cash provided by operating activities, or as a measure of liquidity, or as an alternative to net income (loss).
- Callon calculates adjusted EBITDA as net income (loss) before interest expense, income tax expense (benefit), depreciation, depletion and amortization, (gains) losses on derivative instruments excluding net settled derivative instruments, impairment of evaluated oil and gas properties, non-cash share-based compensation expense, merger, integration and transaction expense, (gain) loss on extinguishment of debt, and certain other expenses. Adjusted EBITDA is not a measure of financial performance under GAAP. Accordingly, it should not be considered as a substitute for net income (loss), operating income (loss), cash flow provided by operating activities or other income or cash flow data prepared in accordance with GAAP. However, the Company believes that adjusted EBITDA provides useful information to investors because it provides additional information with respect to our performance or ability to meet our future debt service, capital expenditures and working capital requirements. Because adjusted EBITDA excludes some, but not all, items that affect net income (loss) and may vary among companies, the adjusted EBITDA presented above may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies.
- Callon calculates unhedged adjusted EBITDA as adjusted EBITDA, as defined above, excluding the impact of net settled derivative instruments. Unhedged adjusted EBITDA is not a measure of financial performance under GAAP. Accordingly, it should not be considered as a substitute for net income (loss), operating income (loss), cash flow provided by operating activities or other income or cash flow data prepared in accordance with GAAP. However, the Company believes that unhedged adjusted EBITDA provides useful information to investors because it provides additional information with respect to our performance without the impact of our settled derivative instruments. Because unhedged adjusted EBITDA excludes some, but not all, items that affect net income (loss) and may vary among companies, the unhedged adjusted EBITDA presented above may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies.
- Callon believes that operating margin is a comparable metric against other companies in the industry and is useful to investors because it is an indicator of an oil and natural gas company's operating profitability per unit of production. Operating margin is a supplemental non-GAAP measure that is defined by the Company as oil, natural gas, and NGL revenues sales price less lease operating expense; production and ad valorem taxes; and gathering, transportation and processing fees divided by total production for the period.
- Adjusted income and adjusted income per diluted share are supplemental non-GAAP measures that Callon believes are useful to investors because they provide readers with a meaningful measure of our profitability before recording certain items whose timing or amount cannot be reasonably determined. These measures exclude the net of tax effects of these items and non-cash valuation adjustments, which are detailed in the reconciliation provided. Adjusted income and adjusted income per diluted share are not measures of financial performance under GAAP. Accordingly, neither should be considered as a substitute for net income (loss), operating income (loss), or other income data prepared in accordance with GAAP. However, the Company believes that adjusted income and adjusted income per diluted share provide additional information with respect to our performance. Because adjusted income and adjusted income per diluted share exclude some, but not all, items that affect net income (loss) and may vary among companies, the adjusted income and adjusted income per diluted share presented above may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies.
- Adjusted diluted weighted average common shares outstanding is a non-GAAP financial measure which includes the effect of potentially dilutive instruments that, under certain circumstances described below, are excluded from diluted weighted average common shares outstanding, the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure. When a net loss exists, all potentially dilutive instruments are anti-dilutive to the net loss per common share and therefore excluded from the computation of diluted weighted average common shares outstanding. The effect of potentially dilutive instruments are included in the computation of adjusted diluted weighted average common shares outstanding for purposes of computing adjusted income per diluted share.
- Adjusted discretionary cash flow is a supplemental non-GAAP measure that Callon believes provides useful information to investors because it is a comparable metric against other companies in the industry and is a widely accepted financial indicator of an oil and natural gas company's ability to generate cash for the use of internally funding their capital development program and to service or incur debt. Adjusted discretionary cash flow is defined by Callon as net cash provided by operating activities before changes in working capital and merger, integration and transaction expenses. Callon has included this information because changes in operating assets and liabilities relate to the timing of cash receipts and disbursements, which the Company may not control, and the cash flow effect may not be reflected the period in which the operating activities occurred. Adjusted discretionary cash flow is not a measure of a company's financial performance under GAAP and should not be considered as an alternative to net cash provided by operating activities, or as a measure of liquidity, or as an alternative to net income (loss).
- Callon believes that the non-GAAP measure of adjusted total revenue (which is revenue including the gain or loss from the settlement of derivative contracts) is useful to investors because it provides readers with a revenue value more comparable to other companies who engage in price risk management activities through the use of commodity derivative instruments and reflects the results of derivative settlements with expected cash flow impacts within total revenues.
- Adjusted G&A is a supplemental non-GAAP financial measure that excludes non-cash incentive share-based compensation valuation adjustments and adjusted G&A - cash component further excludes equity-settled, share-based compensation expenses. Callon believes that the non-GAAP measure of adjusted G&A and adjusted G&A - cash component are useful to investors because they provide for greater comparability period-over-period. In addition, adjusted G&A - cash component provides a meaningful measure of our recurring G&A expense.
- Full cash G&A is a supplemental non-GAAP financial measure that Callon defines as adjusted G&A – cash component plus capitalized G&A excluding capitalized expense related to share-based awards. Callon believes that the non-GAAP measure of full cash G&A is useful to investors because it provides a meaningful measure of our total recurring cash G&A costs, whether expensed or capitalized, and provides for greater comparability on a period-over-period basis.
- Net debt is a supplemental non-GAAP measure that is defined by the Company as total debt excluding unamortized premiums, discount, and deferred loan costs, less cash and cash equivalents. Net debt should not be considered an alternative to, or more meaningful than, total debt, the most directly comparable GAAP measure. Management uses net debt to determine the Company's outstanding debt obligations that would not be readily satisfied by its cash and cash equivalents on hand. We believe this metric is useful to analysts and investors in determining the Company's leverage position since the Company has the ability to, and may decide to, use a portion of its cash and cash equivalents to reduce debt. This metric is sometimes presented as a ratio with Adjusted EBITDA in order to provide investors with another means of evaluating the Company's ability to service its existing debt obligations as well as any future increase in the amount of such obligations. This ratio is referred to by the Company as its leverage ratio.
Earnings Call Information
The Company will host a conference call on Thursday, August 4, 2022, to discuss second quarter 2022 financial and operating results, outlook and guidance for the remainder of 2022, and current corporate strategy and initiatives.
Please join Callon Petroleum Company via the Internet for a webcast of the conference call:
Date/Time: Thursday, August 4, 2022, at 8:00 a.m. Central Time (9:00 a.m. Eastern Time)
Webcast: Select "News and Events" under the "Investors" section of the Company's website: www.callon.com.
An archive of the conference call webcast will also be available at www.callon.com under the "Investors" section of the website.
About Callon Petroleum Company
Callon Petroleum Company is an independent oil and natural gas company focused on the acquisition, exploration and development of high-quality assets in the leading oil plays of South and West Texas.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Information
This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Forward-looking statements include all statements regarding wells anticipated to be drilled and placed on production; future levels of development activity and associated production, capital expenditures and cash flow expectations; the Company's production and expenditure guidance; estimated reserve quantities and the present value thereof; future debt levels and leverage; and the implementation of the Company's business plans and strategy, as well as statements including the words "believe," "expect," "plans," "may," "will," "should," "could," and words of similar meaning. These statements reflect the Company's current views with respect to future events and financial performance based on management's experience and perception of historical trends, current conditions, anticipated future developments and other factors believed to be appropriate. No assurances can be given, however, that these events will occur or that these projections will be achieved, and actual results could differ materially from those projected as a result of certain factors. Any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on which such statement is made and the Company undertakes no obligation to correct or update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by applicable law. Some of the factors which could affect our future results and could cause results to differ materially from those expressed in our forward-looking statements include the volatility of oil and natural gas prices; changes in the supply of and demand for oil and natural gas, including as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and various governmental actions taken to mitigate its impact or actions by, or disputes among members of OPEC and other oil and natural gas producing countries with respect to production levels or other matters related to the price of oil; our ability to drill and complete wells; operational, regulatory and environment risks; the cost and availability of equipment and labor; our ability to finance our development activities at expected costs or at expected times or at all; our inability to realize the benefits of recent transactions; currently unknown risks and liabilities relating to the newly acquired assets and operations; adverse actions by third parties involved with the transactions; risks that are not yet known or material to us; and other risks more fully discussed in our filings with the SEC, including our most recent Annual Reports on Form 10-K and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, available on our website or the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. Any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on which such statement is made, and the Company undertakes no obligation to correct or update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by applicable law.
Contact Information
Kevin Smith
Director of Investor Relations
Callon Petroleum Company
ir@callon.com
(281) 589-5200
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ELKHART COUNTY, Ind. (WXIN) – Four people, including U.S. Congresswoman Jackie Walorski (R-In.), died in a car crash in Elkhart County, Indiana, on Wednesday.
The Elkhart County Sheriff’s Office said the crash happened around 12:30 p.m. on State Road 19, south of State Road 119. A northbound car traveled left of center, colliding head-on with a southbound vehicle.
Congresswoman Walorski, along with Zachary Potts of the St. Joseph County Republican Party and Walorski’s communications director Emma Thompson, all died in the crash.
The northbound vehicle driver was also pronounced dead.
GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) shared a statement in response to Walorski’s passing, saying his “heart is broken” for her family and friends.
“Jackie was a true public servant — selfless, humble, and compassionate,” he wrote. “She was a devout Christian, a passionate advocate for life, and a leader among Hoosier representatives. Everything Jackie did was to serve others. Before Congress, she served in the Indiana Statehouse and she and her husband served as missionaries in Romania where they provided impoverished children food and medical care. From my first day in Congress, Jackie showed me kindness and grace. She had a heart of gold, and I will miss her dearly. Please join Amanda and I in praying for Jackie’s loved ones and the friends and family of her two staff members who also lost their lives in this tragic accident.”
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg added that Walorski, despite being from a “very different” political background than he, was “always prepared to work together where there was common ground, always decent and straightforward, and she cared deeply about her work and her constituents.”
Rod Roberson, mayor of Elkhart, and U.S. Senator Todd Young (R-Ind.), also said they were devastated by Walorski’s tragic death, adding that they would be keeping her in their prayers.
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Commonwealth Games 2022: Australia win eight gold medals on day one – as it happened
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Thanks for joining us today on very busy first day of action – there is another packed schedule coming up tomorrow, so we will see you then.
Don’t forget to follow along with the seismic Neighbours finale right here:
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Today’s news reports, features, galleries ... and the opening ceremony gallery, too:
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Men’s hockey: Scotland have roared out of the starting blocks on day one. They now lead New Zealand 5-1 at half time in their opening men’s hockey match.
They already have one gold, one silver and six bronze medals in the bag.
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Australia finish the day with eight gold medals from a possible 16, which is some going. Their performances in the pool, in particular, were simply outstanding.
New Zealand have three, England have two.
Here is the full medal table:
Related: Commonwealth Games 2022: complete medal table
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Men’s rugby sevens: The latest results and scores from this evening –
Pool B
South Africa 36-5 Tonga
Pool C
Wales 38-5 Zambia
(Latest score) Fiji 12-0 Canada
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Men’s hockey: England kicked off with a 6-0 win against Ghana. Goals from Nicholas Bandurak (3), David Condon, William Canlan and Phillip Roper.
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After snaffling silver in the freestyle relay , Lewis Burras says: “Tonight I wanted to go out and use the home advantage ... swimming it our passion, and we get to make a career out of our passion. Not many people can say that, so I feel very privileged to be here.”
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Swimming: On the BBC Clare Balding says, because Australia have been so dominant in the pool today, that we should all pipe down and listen to the Advance, Australia Fair with Zac Stubblety-Cook standing atop the podium after his 200m breaststroke gold. #Respect #SwimmingValues
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James Wilby speaks after winning silver in the 200m breaststroke : “It was such an incredible race ... to come away with a medal, really happy with that. It’s been a rollercoaster after the [Olympic] Games last year ... it’s always one of those one we want to put in a good effort. Really happy with that.”
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Gold for Australia in the Mixed 4x100m freestyle relay final!
Swimming: Yes, you guessed it: Australia win the Mixed 4x100m freestyle relay final in a time of 3mins 21.18secs. England seconds, Canada third.
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Swimming: It’s time for the Mixed 4x100m freestyle relay, which is nice.
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“Ten, nine, eight, no wait, I’ve got ahead of myself, nine, eight, seven … ” The Birmingham Commonwealth Games began with this out-of-synch countdown in (and yes I had to triple check this) Royal Leamington Spa, where, at just gone eight on Friday morning, 80 finely-honed athletes filed out of a little wooden pavilion in Victoria Park to begin the first of nine days of ruthlessly competitive lawn bowls. Friendly Games my foot. Go tell it to Wales’ five-time world champion Laura Daniels, who wiped out a 59-year-old Falkland Islander called Daphne Arthur-Almond 21-2 while you were finishing your breakfast.
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Artistic gymnastics: England, Canada and Cyprus are coming out for their medal presentation. They get a huge cheer from the crowd. And the English team looks thrilled, as well they might, having dominated the event from start to finish.
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Gold for Zac Stubblety-Cook in the men's 200m breaststroke!
A thrilling race sees the favourite, Zac Stubblety-Cook of Australia, win gold in 2min 08.07secs. James Wilby of England pushes him all the way, though, and claims the silver, with Ross Murdoch of Scotland winning bronze as the fantastic Scottish start to these Games continues!
Murdoch yells with delight and flexes his muscles while still in the water ... what a performance!
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Amid all the Australian success in the swimming pool , among other places, I should probably tell you that we are live-blogging the Neighbours finale. A historic day indeed. Bid farewell to Madge, Harold, Mrs Mangel et al right here:
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Gold for England in the men's team artistic gymnastics!
Canada claim silver and Cyprus win the bronze, their first medal in this discipline. History made by Cyprus, and an accomplished team performance by England.
The final podium:
England – 254.550
Canada – 241.200
Cyprus – 239.650
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Women’s rugby sevens: Today’s results are as follows –
Pool A
England 57-0 Sri Lanka
New Zealand 45-7 Canada
New Zealand 60-0 Sri Lanka
Canada 26-19 England
Pool B
Australia 38-0 South Africa
Fiji 31-12 Scotland
Fiji 41-0 South Africa
Australia 50-0 Scotland
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Men’s rugby sevens: Scotland run out 50-12 winners against Malaysia in Pool B.
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Swimming: Various medal ceremonies are now taking place for the earlier finals. The men’s 100m backstroke semi-final is the next event up in the pool.
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Men’s rugby sevens: Scotland are beating Malaysia 43-12 in the second half of their Pool B match.
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Artistic gymnastics: England are streaking away to victory in the men’s team final: After the fifth rotation, they top the table with a score of 212.650. Canada are next best, with 202.550, Cyprus now in third with 201.750.
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Men’s rugby sevens: New Zealand, remarkably, fight back from 17-0 down at half-time to win 19-17. The Samoans look gutted, as well they might. New Zealand will top Pool A.
It was a late try from Caleb Tangitau that won it!
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Men’s rugby sevens: Having trailed 17-0, New Zealand now lead 19-17 in a game that will decide who tops the pool ...
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Men’s rugby sevens: England ran out 47-19 winners against Sri Lanka: now Samoa are beating New Zealand 12-17 in the second half ... Samoa were winning 17-0 at half-time.
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Australia have nabbed nine medals in five swimming finals so far this evening ...
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Toni Shaw speaks after her bronze medal: “I’m so, so happy ... I’m just really happy. It’s just an amazing experience to be part of Team Scotland, we don’t get to do it very often.”
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Gold for Sophie Pascoe in the women's 100m freestyle S9!
Pascoe defends the title she won four years ago in a hugely exciting race as she just holds off Emily Beecroft of Australia! The winning time is 1min 02.95secs ... Meanwhile Toni Shaw grabs another medal for Scotland – it’s bronze and their fifth medal of the games already.
There is an emotional moment as she gives a big hug and a kiss to Ellie Cole, the Australian who is bowing out after this race, and who was racing in the next lane. Clearly a lot of affection and respect betweenn the two athletes.
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Compelling images aplenty in our Commonwealth Games gallery:
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Gold for Tim Hodge in the men's 100m backstroke!
Australia continue to dominate in the pool this evening: A new Games record of 1min 01.88sec for Tim Hodge who beats Jesse Reynolds of New Zealand into the silver-medal position. It’s a first Commonwealth Games medal for Northern Ireland, for Barry McClements ! A fine achievement.
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Women’s netball: In Pool A, Jamaica have defeated Wales 72-43 in their opening match. Earlier on, Australia hammered Barbados 95-18, and (as previously stated) England beat Trinidad & Tobago 74-22 .
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Men’s rugby sevens: England are taking on Sri Lanka and they lead 19-0 with 60 seconds of the first half remaining.
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A few bits of news from today ...
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Artistic gymnastics: Scotland are up to third in the table in the men’s artistic team final after an excellent effort on the parallel bars.
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Katie Shanahan , who is understandably both out of breath and very emotional, speaks to the BBC after her bronze medal in the women’s 400m medley: “I’m so happy, this season’s not been the season I wanted it to be ... never in my wildest dreams would I have thought I was going to get a medal in my first Commonwealth Games, I am so happy. I could see all the girls coming at me, and I was thinking, I need to hurry up here ... I just gave it my all. I’m so happy right now.”
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Men’s hockey: England lead Ghana 1-0 after the first quarter in pool B.
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Gold for Ariarne Titmus in the women's 200m freestyle!
Mollie O’Callaghan pushed her all the way but it’s a gold medal for the Olympic champion. It’s another one-two-three for Australia, with Madison Wilson coming home third. Titmus and O’Callaghan embrace while still in the water ... that was a big and probably unexpected scare for Titmus.
Titmus’s time of 1min 53.89secs is a Commonwealth Games record.
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Gold for Summer McIntosh in the women’s 400m medley!
1) Summer McIntosh (Canada) 4min 29.01secs
2) Kiah Melverton (Australia) 4min 36.78secs
3) Katie Shanahan (Scotland) 4.39.37secs
A sensational performance from the 15-year-old McIntosh, who destroys the field, and a wonderful effort from Shanahan of Scotland to take bronze. It’s a new Games record for McIntosh, and a first gold medal of these Games for Canada.
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Swimming: The races are going to come thick and fast this evening. Now it’s time for the final of the women’s 400m individual medley.
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Gold for Elijah Winnington in the men's 400m freestyle!
A stunning performance by the Australian and the team: it’s a one, two, three with Winnington first, Sam Short second to take silver, and Mack Horton wins bronze.
Winnington’s winning time is 3.43.06secs. The favourite takes it down in a time fully two seconds quicker than Short, the silver medalist, who comes home in 3.45.07secs.
Daniel Wiffin, of Northern Ireland, is fourth, Luke Turley of England fifth, Daniel Jervis (Wales) finished eighth.
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Swimming: The men’s 400m freestyle final is first on the menu this evening, and is scheduled to begin at 7.07pm.
Dan Jervis, the Welsh competitor, gets a big cheer as he walks out into the arena. He will be in lane one.
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Artistic gymnastics: After rotation three in the men’s team final, England lead the way with a score of 125.300. Canada are second, with 123.050, Australia third with 121.750.
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One of England’s team sprint silver medalists , Ryan Owens, speaks to Jill Dougals on the BBC: “You couldn’t tell, with how incredible the crowd was here, whether you were up or down ... I swing off pretty early and I get a good view of the whole event, it was an adrenaline rush watching that ... it was a great run-out from the boys ... we didn’t quite have enough, they’re flying at the moment, but it was a good day out, I’d say.”
Joe Truman adds: “Goosebumps all day with this crowd, it’s been a while since we had a crowd like this. It was amazing for the start line, even for the qualifiers this morning, it was buzzing.”
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Meanwhile, the BBC pundit Chris Hoy points out that Australia’s time in that team sprint final would have won Olympic gold by 0.6secs at the Olympics in 2012.
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Gold for Australia in the men's team sprint!
Australia’s power-packed Matthew Glaetzer rounds off a dominant win to claim gold in a time of 42.040secs. The gap between the teams was a massive 1.332secs. They both started well, but Leigh Hoffman was quicker with a lap of 17secs on the nose. Matthew Richardson turned in a strong second leg and Glaetzer put the cherry on the cake. Glaetzer has won gold in the Keirin twice now, in 2014 and 2018, and is bidding to become the third track rider to win three consecutive golds in the same event (thank you Simon Brotherton on the BBC for that factoid).
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Track cycling: It’s Hoffman, Richardson and Glaetzer for Australia v Owens, Turnbull and Truman for England in the men’s team sprint final.
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Bronze for New Zealand in the men's team sprint!
Sam Webster seals it for the Kiwis in an emphatic bronze-medal race win against Canada, a time of 43.856secs. Australia v England, now for the gold medal.
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Track cycling: New Zealand v Canada now in the men’s bronze-medal race in the team sprint.
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Gold for New Zealand in the women's team sprint!
Ellesse Andrews, who dropped out of the team pursuit earlier, does the business with a telling final leg. New Zealand win gold in another new Games record (this three-rider version of the event is new, after all), a time of 47.425secs. They finish 0.576secs ahead of Canada.
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Bronze for Wales in the women's team sprint!
Emma Finucane brings it home for Wales on the track! That was a great ride by their three-rider team, they took the initiative early, and didn’t let it slip. They win bronze in a new Games record of 47.767secs, 0.356 ahead of Australia! Now time for the final: New Zealand v Canada.
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Track cycling: Time for the bronze-medal ride-off in the women’s team sprint. It’s Australia v Wales ...
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Men’s artistic gymnastics: James Hall now pulls off an excellent routine on the pommel horse for England as they aim to defend their title.
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Men’s artistic gymnastics: ... is the latest sport that I will be trying to work out on the fly. Thanks for holding the fort, by the way John.
Australia are up now, on the vault, and Clay Mason Stephens nails an incredible double twist jump which he lands as clean as a whistle.
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Until the swimming finals start this evening , the men’s artistic team gymnastics final is taking the focus, with Cyprus looking good amidst contenders from Wales, Scotland and England.
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Some news from the women’s cricket, as Raf Nicholson reports on the England team.
Women’s cricket is making its debut appearance at the Games, in a Twenty20 tournament at Edgbaston between 29 July and 7 August. Knight has received an injection in her hip in a bid to soothe some irritation in the joint, having missed the final two T20s of the multiformat series against South Africa, and hopes to be fit to return in the remaining matches. Meanwhile, Nat Sciver will deputise as skipper for the Sri Lanka fixture.
Related: England begin Commonwealth Games cricket without captain Heather Knight
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“We can’t turn down a silver at the Commies, ” says Ollie Wood, the English team pursuit silver medallist, who points to illness and a lack of preparation time hampering progress, though with New Zealand in such form, and Australia looking so strong, they will take that.
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That was New Zealand’s first team pursuit gold since Auckland 1990, and some emotion among their team. Their first of these games, too. They had just too much for England despite Dan Bigham’s great heave at the end.
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New Zealand win the men's 4000m team pursuit gold!
So, the race for gold, New Zealand v England, over 16 laps, and it’s New Zealand who start well, England slowing up a bit, the gap around half a second, then 0-7 at half-distance. Aaron Gates drives on for New Zealand, but the gap starts to narrow. No mistakes made so far, as Ollie Wood powers on England and New Zealand down to three, then England drop down as Wood drops out. The gap is 1.5 seconds and New Zealand look likely to hang on. Dan Bigham takes it on for England, and they can’t hold the wheel as New Zealand hold their shape, and set a Commonwealth record in coming in to claim gold. England were under the old record, too, but were well beaten. That race was New Zealand’s from the very start.
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It’s Wales v Australia , in the battle for bronze in the men’s cycling team pursuit. Sixteen laps of the Stratford Velodrome, as in east London, not “upon-Avon”, and the Australians, fancied for overall gold before the event, set off at quite a rate, though go down to three men as they lead by two seconds. Josh Duffy has dropped out but his team are firmly in control as the bell comes. They take the bronze by over three seconds, and that goes to Australia, just too strong for Wales, who rode well, particularly at the start.
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That Wales 0-4 Canada result in the women’s hockey confirmed.
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Alex Marshall, by the way , is a bowls legend, while Fachie has a further chance to pass his compatriot on the velodrome.
Some quotes from Fachie, via the BBC.
It’s something I’ve spoken about for a while, as you can here my voice has gone. I’ve been quite ill and that made that all the more tough.
But I was determined to win for Scotland, for my family, my wife and my baby to come. I’m just so, so proud. I came into this knowing it would take something super-human. I’m not getting any younger and I am having to get quicker, quicker - so kudos to the Welsh, and to our English counterparts.
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In the women’s hockey , it’s currently Wales 0-4 Canada, with about five minutes left of the game, so not much chance for a famous comeback.
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I shall mind the shop while Luke tucks into some finest Brum delicacies, rounded off with some Bourneville chocolate. The medal ceremony is taking place for the men’s pursuits, as England and Wales collect bronze as Scotland’s Neil Fachie, with partner, Lewis Stewart, collect gold for the men’s B 1000m tandem, for Fachie’s fifth gold, and his country’s first of the games.
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Women’s hockey: Canada are now cruising and 3-0 up against Wales.
Now, I shall hand over over to John Brewin for the next little while.
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Laura Kenny speaks after winning bronze: “I don’t think I’ve ever felt so much pressure to win a bronze ... Stepping on the side line I was a whole bag of nerves, it was like the Olympics ... I felt a real sense of pressure.”
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Gold for Australia in the women's 4000m team pursuit
It’s a new Games record of 4min 12.234sec for Australia, hammering New Zealand by 5.750secs. As Simon Brotherton says on commentary, they made that look easy.
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Track cycling: Now for the final in the women’s 4000m team pursuit: Australia v New Zealand. New Zealand immediately go down, deliberately, to three riders with one eye on the team sprint later. On commentary Chris Boardman questions the tactic, calling it “Really disappointing ... it’s difficult if not impossible to beat Australia with three riders,” he says.
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Bronze for England in the women's 4000m team pursuit!
Track cycling: Laura Kenny and co. take it from Wales by 1.79sec, in a time of 4min 17.096secs.
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Women’s hockey: Canada now lead Wales 2-0 in the third quarter.
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Track cycling: Now it’s England v Wales in the Women’s 4000m Team Pursuit bronze medal race ...
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Neil Fachie speaks after winning his fifth Commonwealth Games gold : “It’s something I’ve spoken about for a while [equalling Scotland’s medal record] ... as you can here my voice has gone, I’ve been quite ill, fortunately it’s not Covid so I’m allowed to race ... it just made it all the more tough but I was so determined to win for Scotland, for my family here, for my wife ... all that emotion just drove me through the last two laps.”
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Scotland's Neil Fachie wins gold in the men’s tandem B 1000m time trial!
Gold for Scotland, silver for Wales (Ball), and bronze for England (Bate).
1) Fachie / Pilot: Stewart – 59.938secs
2) Ball / Pilot: Rotherham – 1min 0.53secs
3) Bate/ Pilot: Latham – 1.02.276secs
That means Fachie is now Scotland’s joint-winningest Commonwealth Games athlete, with five gold medals in his career. He and Stewart had time to make up but they pulled it out of the bag at the end.
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Track cycling: Here comes Neil Fachie of Scotland.
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Track cycling: Wales! James Ball moves into the lead in the final of the tandem B 1000m time trial, clocking a new Games record time of 1min 0.53secs. He is guaranteed a silver medal now.
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Track cycling: England’s Stephen Bate sets the fastest time in the tandem B 1000m time trial – 1min 02.276secs – and brings a massive roar from the crowd, some of whom are waving flags enthusiastically and swigging beers.
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Track cycling: The men’s tandem B 1000m time trial has begun. Apologies for any confusion just then over what cycling is happening now, in real-time, and what isn’t ... Anyway: England’s tandem sets off to a huge roar.
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Women’s Hockey: Canada 0-0 Wales in the second quarter.
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There’s also a bit of football on this weekend , of course. Karen Carney writes that England’s Lionesses have a chance to change the women’s game forever in Sunday’s Euro 2022 final against Germany:
Related: This is the opportunity for England to change the women’s game forever | Karen Carney
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In other news , Marianne Vos won Tour de France Femmes stage six – of course she did – to extend her lead in the general classification:
Related: Tour de France Femmes: Marianne Vos consolidates lead with stage six success
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Track cycling: Ah, got them now. Jason Kenny, now the British team’s men’s sprint coach is pictured chatting to an athlete. The first event on the schedule is the Women’s Tandem B Sprint. First of all the tandem teams will set a lap time, which will set the seedings for the following competition.
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Track cycling : There seem to be no live pictures from the velodrome at the moment, but I am keeping ’em peeled.
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Chloe Merrell reports from the NEC Arena after England women’s opening win against Trinidad & Tobago in the netball:
“England shook off early jitters to get their Commonwealth Games title defence off to a winning start with a 74-22 victory over Trinidad and Tobago on Friday. A nervous start, marred by several shooting errors, were eventually brushed aside as the Roses found their rhythm in front of an approving home crowd.”
Related: England begin Commonwealth Games netball title defence with easy victory
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Track cycling: Chris Boardman is on the scene at the velodrome in Stratford, east London. The BBC just ran a good feature about his gold medal in Barcelona in 1992, in the individual pursuit. He says his wife, Sally, spent their savings (£500) on getting out there, slept on someone’s floor, and bought a ticket from a tout outside the stadium so she could witness it. Anyway, coming up soon on the track, it’s the men’s team sprint. (As far as I can see on the official site, anyway.)
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The women’s sprint triathlon silver medallist Georgia Taylor-Brown is asked how the race went: “Really hard. The swim start was very odd, I think me and Flora got a little bit mugged off, we didn’t know what was happening, we kind of looked at each other and were like, “Oh, we’re going.” So yeah, it was a bit of a chaotic start. On the bike, we kind of discussed beforehand that we wanted to try and make something happen and make it exciting, I guess and not just roll around ... she said she was going to go, I went with her, it paid off, we went very hard ... I have it my best shot. The run, I just didn’t have the legs today ... I felt flat all day ... considering how I felt before the race I’m extra-happy with a silver medal.
“I’m a bit bored of coming second to Flora constantly, so we need to change that ... and Alex obviously came away with his gold this morning, so I’m a bit gutted I can’t copy him in that aspect ... but like I said, silver, I can’t complain with that today.”
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The champion, Flora Duffy, speaks to the BBC: “Thank you ... it feels really special. I was definitely feeling the pressure coming into this. No one has ever won twice, so that was definitely sort of weighing on me ... it was so cool being off the front with Georgia. ... the crowd were going nuts, and I was just enjoying the moment and soaking that all up, because it’s been so long since we’ve had such an electric crowd. It was just really special ... I’m super glad that I could put on a great race, it’s always special to race at a major Games.”
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Women’s sprint triathlon: On the BBC, Beth Potter reacts to winning Scotland’s first medal of the Commonwealth Games: “I’m buzzing, it’s obviously a biggie this season for me, and I’m just happy to get Scotland a medal. I mean I’ve not really been doing a lot of running, I’ve been riding a lot and it feels like it’s paying off ... I put a lot of work in this winter and I’m glad I’m reaping the rewards now.
“It was a real target to a get a medal this year, and I’m just happy I could do that.”
She is asked where that amazing swim came from: “I don’t know! I’ve been swimming well, but I got to the front, and I was just like: ‘I’m just going to go ... they can follow me.’”
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Flora Duffy wins gold in the women's sprint triathlon!
Duffy defends her title in dominant style ... and adds another Commonwealth Games gold to Olympic gold. Emphatic.
Georgia Taylor-Brown wins silver – she runs in waving an England flag and waving to the crowd ... she crosses the line, and immediately gives a big hug to Duffy who is waiting just under the arch which emblazoned with the “Birmingham 2022” branding.
Beth Potter wins bronze for Scotrland and she beams with delight as she crossed the finish line, and she too congratulates Duffy and Taylor-Brown.
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Women’s hockey, Pool B results:
New Zealand 16-0 Kenya
South Africa 2-4 Scotland
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In the quiet, woody surrounds of Sutton Park, seven miles north of Birmingham proper, the Commonwealth Games erupted into life as the first medal was seized by one of England’s brightest stars. Alex Yee, the 24 year-old Olympic silver medallist, pulled off a masterful comeback to outrun New Zealand’s Hayden Wilde and mark himself as the Commonwealth champion.
Related: England’s Alex Yee wins first gold medal of Commonwealth Games in triathlon
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Women’s sprint triathlon: With 2.5km to go, Duffy has a 16-second lead on Taylor-Brown. Duffy’s rhythm is metronomic, she looks completely relaxed and comfortable, and she is bearing down on a gold medal here with a minimum of fuss.
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If you missed it – there are some choice shots from the opening ceremony here:
Related: Commonwealth Games opening ceremony – in pictures
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Our 2022 Commonwealth Games medal table can be found here:
Related: Commonwealth Games 2022: complete medal table
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Women’s sprint triathlon: Flora Duffy is living up to her status as the Olympic champion. She has powered away from Taylor-Brown in the early stages of the run, and has opening up a gap of maybe 20 seconds.
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Women’s sprint triathlon: The only question is, after this massive effort on the bike, have either Duffy or Taylor-Brown left themselves short for the closing 5km run? The answer is probably no, of course, they will be confident they’ve paced themselves correctly. And here they come for the transition to the running!
Duffy’s transition is faster and she starts her run three of four seconds before her English rival.
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Elsewhere in the wide world of sport , today’s Tour de France Femmes stage is entering its final kilometres. Barry Glendenning has all the latest here:
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Women’s sprint triathlon: Going into the fourth and final lap of the cycling, the lead for Duffy and Taylor-Brown is 34secs. That is a commanding advantage. I should mention that the cycling course is packed with cheering fans – it’s a great turn-out, and they are packed in against the metal barriers all the way along.
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Women’s sprint triathlon: It seems like the dual leaders Duffy and Taylor-Brown have gold and silver sewn up here. There are no time gaps on the screen, but they have managed to build what looks like a decisive lead on the chasers.
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Mixed team badminton, group stage: The second session is now under way – below are the results from the first session this morning:
Group B:
England 5 - 0 Barbados
Singapore 5 - 0 Mauritius
Group D:
South Africa 3 - 2 Jamaica
Malaysia 5 - 0 Zambia
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Women’s sprint triathlon: On the second lap of the cycling, the Olympic champion Duffy and Taylor-Brown of England have clipped off the front of the escape group together. It looks like they have about 15secs lead.
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Women’s sprint triathlon: Potter carried out a smooth transition to the bike, and powered away alone at the front of the field, but has now been joined by four other riders. Legault (Canada), Coldwell and Taylor-Brown (England), Duffy (Bermuda) are the other riders in the front group.
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Men’s boxing: Lewis Richardson of England has defeated Wales’s Harris Khan by unanimous decision to move into the last 16 of the men’s middleweight competition. Richardson won silver at the European Championships in Armenia in May.
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Women’s sprint triathlon: Glasgow-born Beth Potter leads the field in the 750m swim.
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Women’s sprint triathlon: A slightly odd start (but not a false start), with a few athletes seemingly unsure if the starter’s gun had fired. There was no gap between ‘On your marks’ and the gun firing, which I think was what led to the confusion. Anyway, despite the fact that a few competitors lost a couple of seconds, the race is under way.
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The women’s sprint triathlon is in the following format: 750m swim, four laps of 5km on the bike around Sutton Coldfield, then two laps of the 2.5km running circuit.
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There are no fewer than 14 sports being played or participated in on this first day of action, so it’s all go. The women’s sprint triathlon is coming up very shortly. There’s plenty of track cycling to come, and loads of swimming coming up this evening, too.
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Thanks Will and hello everyone.
Men’s rugby sevens: Samoa have just handed out a 34-0 hammering to England in Group A.
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And, with that, I’ll hand you over to Luke McLaughlin. There’s still plenty of action – including the women’s triathlon – to come.
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Gardner cinches it with a final four! Australia have won by three wickets, a result which looked fairly unlikely after a flurry of cheap dismissals early on.
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Gardner brings up her half century with another boundary. Australia need three runs off nine balls. What a turnaround.
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Gardner with another four! It’s 145-7 and Australia are suddenly in the driving seat.
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Gardner thrashes a shot through covers for another boundary. Having got themselves into such a good position, India are rocking now.
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Gardner follows up by lashing one to the boundary herself. Australia need 21 runs off 18 balls. It’s tense, this!
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But wait a minute! Alana King keeps Australia in the hunt with consecutive fours off Singh.
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Just as Grace Harris was building up a head of steam in the T20, with 37 off 20 balls, Meghna Singh tempted her with a fullish delivery and Harmanpreet Kaur made the catch. Australia are now 112-7, with Jess Jonassen surrendering her wicket for three runs after being bowled and caught by Deepti Sharma.
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What’s going on in the boxing, then? Well, since you ask, Scotland’s Reese Lynch has overcome Kiribati’s Timon Aaree in the men’s light welterweight round of 32 via referee’s stoppage.
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Over in the aquatic photography... wait a minute, what? This event isn’t on the schedule anywhere!
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England have triumphed in the netball, beating Trinidad & Tobago 74-22. It’s a convincing victory which puts them in a promising position in Pool B.
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In the women’s T20, Australia are now 63-5 against India. Ashleigh Gardner and Grace Harris are swimming against the tide, but the latter has just clonked Radha Yadav for six.
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Related: Commonwealth Games 2022: complete medal table
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Back in the men’s rugby sevens, there’s another drubbing in progress. Fiji are 33-0 up against Zambia. Canada beat Wales 31-0 in the end, for those keeping count.
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Meanwhile, the home nations have made a strong start in the squash. Wales’ Emyr Evans has beaten the British Virgin Islands’ Luca Reich 3-0 in the men’s singles round of 64.
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Thanks Martin. It’s good to be back! I feel so alive!
Over in the netball, England are now 54-10 up against Trinidad & Tobago with a little under three minutes left in the third quarter and heading for a big win.
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Women’s T20 cricket : Make that 21-3 from 2.5 for Australia . Thakur has taken all three wickets for India .
That is it from me, Martin Belam. I am going to hand you back over to Will Magee for the next couple of hours. I will see you here again on Monday.
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Women’s T20 cricket : Australia are having a bit of a nightmare here. They are 21-2 from 2.3 overs. They’ve just survived an LBW decision review as well. Their target is 155 to beat India .
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Cycling men’s team spring : England will race Australia for gold after posting a time of 43.296, just over a second slower than the Aussies. The bronze medal race will see New Zealand and Canada tussle.
That final is around 6pm BST this evening. The action has ended in the velodrome for now, and will resume at 4pm where there could be gold for Aileen McGlynn and her pilot Ellie Stone of Scotland in the Women’s Tandem B Sprint. They are up against Australia ’s Jessica Gallagher and her pilot Caitlin Ward .
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Men’s rugby sevens : I’m not saying that the pool stage of this competition is wildly unbalanced (I am) but the opening round of matches has delivered some heavy tankings. Here are the scores so far:
Australia 82-0 Jamaica
Kenya 27-14 Uganda
New Zealand 63-5 Sri Lanka
England 0-34 Samoa
South Africa 48-0 Malaysia
Scotland 41-0 Tonga
Canada are currently 10-0 up against Wales as they approach the end of the first-half and I’ll have my usual moan-up about it being Wales in green and Canada in red and therefore unnecessarily impossible for colour-blind people to tell the sides apart.
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Cycling men’s team sprint : England have false-started, and are regrouping to go again.
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Women’s T20 cricket : Australia have got off to (almost) the worst possible start in their innings, losing a wicket on the second ball. The are 0-1 off of two balls.
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Cycling men’s team sprint : Australia have just set a cracking time here, only one second off the world record. They are 1.752 seconds ahead of second placed New Zealand and are now guaranteed a race for gold. England need to better New Zealand’s time of 43.974 to be in that final. They go next.
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Cycling men’s team sprint : Canada have just gone into second place, just under a tenth of a second behind New Zealand. India , Australia and England are still to race. The two fastest in qualifying race for gold, the third and fourth teams race for bronze.
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Netball : England are really beginning to outclass Trinidad & Tobago now. With five minutes of the second quarter left they have stretched their lead to 29-7.
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Women’s T20 cricket : India have completed the first ever innings at the Commonwealth Games in a women’s T20 competition. Two Australian wickets with the two penultimate balls meant they finished their twenty overs on 154-8. That is a run rate of 7.70 for Australia to better when it is their turn to give it a thwack.
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Cycling : That relegation for England ’s Sophie Unwin and Georgia Holt was quite agonising on TV, where the cameras lingered on their celebrations as they seemed to be the last people in the velodrome to know what was happening. It was good news for Aileen McGlynn and Ellie Stone of Scotland though, who progress and will have a shot at gold.
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Cycling : The men’s team sprint is about to start in the velodrome. Multi-medal winner Jason Kenny is coaching England who go last. There has just been a disappointing moment for the team though, where England’s women’s tandem pairing thought they had won only to be given a penalty for riding outside the sprint line.
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By the way, if the sport this morning has whetted your appetite for the Commonwealth Games, there are still some tickets available.
The organisers say “Tickets for Aquatics - Swimming, Cycling - Mountain Biking, Cycling Time Trial, Cycling - Road Race, Gymnastics - Artistic and Triathlon & Para Triathlon are now resale tickets only. Tickets for all other sports are still available.”
You can see what is available here .
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Netball : England lead 15-6 at the end of the first quarter against Trinidad & Tobago . England got off to a sluggish and nervous start, but the defending champions have gradually stretched their lead.
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Alex Yee has thanked the rest of the England triathlon team, saying their work during the cycling leg set him up for his gold medal. He also paid tribute to silver medallist Hayden Wilde , saying “He’s a great competitor. He’s brought the best out of me every single day.”
“I wanted to enjoy the moment as much as anything,” Yee said, adding “I made sure I was looking around, enjoying it, soaking it up. There’s thousands of people on the course and it was just crazy.”
“Second place is nothing to be disappointed about” said Wilde when he was interviewed.
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Netball : The first netball match-up of the games is about to start. Trinidad & Tobago face England in the Pool B opener.
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Men’s triathlon : The unofficial result is gold for England’s Alex Yee , silver for Hayden Wilde of New Zealand, and bronze for Matthew Hauser of Australia.
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Alex Yee of England wins first gold of the games in men's triathlon.
Men’s triathlon : Hayden Wilde ’s penalty is for not putting his cycling helmet away correctly in the box. What a sport. They’ve been going for fifty minutes now. Wilde has yielded and now England’s Alex Yee is getting an incredible reception as he crosses the line first for the first gold medal of Birmingham 2022!
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Men’s triathlon : England’s Alex Yee is now up to the shoulder of New Zealand’s Hayden Wilde, but Wilde has been given a ten second penalty! It is going to surely be gold for Yee now?
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Women’s hockey : New Zealand are the defending champions from the last games, and they’ve got off to a perfect start with a 16-0 victory over Kenya in the opening Pool B match.
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Men’s triathlon : New Zealand’s Hayden Wilde leads England’s Alex Yee by seven seconds going into the second and final lap of the running leg. Hauser of Australia is twenty seconds back from Wilde and in bronze medal position.
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Men’s rugby sevens : Samoa have raced off to a lead against England . It is 24-0 at half-time.
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Men’s triathlon : The men are into the run now, New Zealand’s Wilde leads from South Africa’s Riddle. Alex Yee is thirteen seconds off the pace, which is doable, but will be difficult.
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Women’s T20 cricket : India have just had a bizarre escape when Australia ’s wicketkeeper Healey should have stumped Yastika, but took the stumps out with the wrong hand, before then throwing the ball at the stumps instead. After a review it is not out. India were 68-1 at the start of the ninth over, but there was a run out on the very next ball, so it 68-2 from 9.1.
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Men’s rugby sevens : The opening Pool A match has finished as a crushing 63-5 victory for New Zealand over Sri Lanka . England face Samoa in the next match.
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Women’s T20 cricket : Australia have just missed what should have been a relatively simple catch, and India are now 51-1 at the start of the eighth over in the opening contest.
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Now I must confess that I was looking forward to live blogging some of the Commonwealth Games as a refreshing change of tone from my usual daily gig of war and politics, but at the moment I am trying to simultaneously watch cycling, triathlon, rugby sevens and cricket and it is quite … a lot. You cannot complain that there isn’t enough sport happening on this opening morning, that is for sure.
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Men’s triathlon : They are 10km into the 20km ride, and now the leading three of Wilde, Riddle and Reid are about twenty seconds ahead of the pack.
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Men’s rugby sevens : There are points on the board for Sri Lanka which is greeted with a huge cheer. Just seconds before the break they put together a lovely move on the left. It looked like the chance had gone but then a fortuitous bounce went in their favour, so at half-time the score is New Zealand 28 Sri Lanka 5 . New Zealand once beat them 80-0 at a Commonwealth Games, so you can see why the Sri Lanka team were inclined to celebrate the points wildly.
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Reid (NZ), Riddle (RSA) and Wilde (NZ) have formed a trio breakaway ahead of the pack in the cycling leg, and you would imagine they ought to be able to work together and pull away, which would put the three of them in a very strong position going into the run. But there is still a long way to cycle yet. The streets are lined for the event, it looks like a decent crowd.
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The leading bunch at the men’s triathlon sprint are coming out of the water and into the transition onto the bikes, and out in front are Reid (NZ), Riddle (RSA), Wilde (NZ) and Dixon (Eng). Wilde and Riddle get out first and second onto the bikes.
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Hi everybody, Martin Belam here, I’m a big fan of triathlon, and indeed all the endurance events that I can safely watch rather than take part in. The men are in the water for the swimming leg.
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The men’s triathlon has begun, with the big swim up first. I’ll hand you over to the indomitable Martin Belam for this one.
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The men’s triathlon begins at 11am. Will Alex Yee overcome the challenge of Hayden Wilde? We’re about to find out.
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And, last but not least, here come Wales. They make a fast start, but drop off by increments and end up with a time of 4:20.398. That means that New Zealand and Australia will do battle for the gold medal later on.
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Canada are the fourth team out on the track. They post the slowest time so far at 4:24.701.
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Australia are next up. They go hard and end up with a time of 4:14.605, setting a new Commonwealth Games record and putting England out of gold medal contention in the process.
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England finish with a time of 4:19.841, over a second behind New Zealand. The fastest two teams compete for gold later today, so Kenny, Josie Knight, Maddie Leech and Sophie Lewis are now in a precarious position.
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Over in the track cycling, New Zealand have set an opening time of 4:18.434 in women’s 4000m team pursuit qualifying. England are up next, with Laura Kenny leading the charge.
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Scotland’s Katie Shanahan is in action in the women’s 400m individual medley heats soon. She’s spoken about her excitement at taking part in the Games and experiencing “a noisy home crowd”.
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Grace Crompton runs in a try in the corner and, with that, England wrap up a 57-0 win. Sri Lanka will be glad that’s over.
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Maude gets her second. Another try follows straight from the kick off. 52-0. This is a free-for-all.
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Alicia Maude gets her name on the scoresheet and it’s 38-0. Sri Lanka can only really limit the damage now.
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Boatman scores her fourth try. That brings the first half to a close, with England 33-0 up.
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Amy Wilson Hardy adds another. It’s nice of Boatman to give someone else a turn. England are now 28-0 up and, to be honest, a Sri Lanka comeback seems quite unlikely.
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No, sorry, make that 21-0. Boatman has her third, running in a no-nonsense try under the posts.
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Make that 14-0. Boatman has another try to her name after a neat jink out wide sends her away with deceptive ease.
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Ellie Boatman has opened the scoring for England’s women’s sevens side against Sri Lanka. The Red Rose look pretty formidable here, even if it is only 7-0.
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It’s all go in the women’s rugby sevens. Fiji have started their Commonwealth Games with an emphatic 33-12 win against Scotland.
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The lawn bowls and para lawn bowls are well under way. In case you didn’t know, lawn bowls has been a Commonwealth Games sport since the inaugural event in 1930. It has featured at every Games bar 1966, when it was dropped owing to the lack of available bowling greens in Kingston, Jamaica.
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Missed the opening ceremony last night? Don’t worry, much of the visual spectacle has been captured in the form of photography, a newish technological advance which allows us to create lasting images by recording light.
Related: Commonwealth Games opening ceremony – in pictures
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Preamble
After a suitably bombastic opening ceremony – including giant metal bulls, flyovers by the Red Arrows and Duran Duran, obviously – the Commonwealth Games begin in earnest today.
We kick off (roll off? get rolling?) with lawn bowls and para lawn bowls this morning, with badminton, hockey, rugby sevens and artistic gymnastics to follow from 9am onwards.
The schedule for day one also includes table tennis and para table tennis, cycling, swimming, T20 cricket, triathlon, boxing, squash, netball, 3x3 basketball and 3x3 wheelchair basketball, so it’s fair to say there should be something for everyone.
The individual triathlon is probably the most-anticipated event of the day, with Team England’s Alex Yee, a silver medalist in the same event at Tokyo 2020, among those competing in the men’s final. His main rival is New Zealand’s Hayden Wilde, with both expected to end up on the podium.
In the women’s final, Georgia Taylor-Brown will also go in search of a podium finish. She will be up against Bermuda’s Flora Duffy, who pipped her to a gold medal in Tokyo.
How will the medal table look by the end of the day? No idea, honestly. Whatever happens, let’s hope that, in the words of Nadine Dorries, the Games “puts Birmingham on the map”. It was famously impossible to locate the United Kingdom’s second-largest city before today. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2684895884900/commonwealth-games-2022-australia-win-eight-gold-medals-on-day-one-as-it-happened | 2022-08-03T22:41:53Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2684895884900/commonwealth-games-2022-australia-win-eight-gold-medals-on-day-one-as-it-happened | true | 1 |
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WHOOPI Goldberg has revealed that a member of The View is leaving the talk show after this season.
The show has just a couple of days left before it goes on hiatus until its season 26 premiere in September.
At the end of Wednesday’s broadcast, Whoopi shared some sad news with viewers.
She announced the hosts would be saying goodbye to one of their View family members at the end of this season, which wraps up later this week.
Whoopi told viewers: “There’s another big change happening on The View next season.”
The moderator revealed “it’ll be the first season without” one of their crew members, the show’s “outside property manager.”
In a sweet note, Whoopi shared that he’s been part of the talk show since it premiered in 1997.
“[He’s] been at ABC for like 44 years, has been at The View since day one,” the actress said. “He’s also been a firefighter for the past 25 [years] and is now a chief at the Carlsbad Fire Department.”
She said as she looked out at the crew member in the audience: “He’s retiring from The View, and it won’t be the same with out you, D.”
This announcement arrived just one day ahead of another big reveal that's set to take place on The View.
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Earlier this week, the show teased that its new full-time host would be announced on Thursday.
The newcomer will fill the seat that was left empty after Meghan McCain's exit last year.
Despite The View's official hosting announcement not arriving until Thursday, DailyMail.com reported the identity of the newcomer last week.
Three sources informed the news outlet that Alyssa Farah Griffin, who has often guest co-hosted on the show, will be joining in a permanent capacity.
The insiders said Alyssa will be joining Sara Haines, Whoopi, Joy Behar, and Sunny Hostin for The View's 26th season, which begins in September.
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When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived late Tuesday night in Taiwan, its tallest building — iconic landmark Taipei 101 — lit up with words of welcome, blinking "Thank you" and "TW ♥ U.S."
While Pelosi's visit delighted people in Taiwan, it enraged Beijing and set the region on edge over what China might do in retaliation. From the Philippines to Singapore, countries are worried the status quo could turn from tension to conflict.
"What countries in this region know is that China cannot do nothing — it will look weak," says Singaporean veteran diplomat and academic Kishore Mahbubani. "China has no choice but to react," he says, adding, "at the same time, China doesn't want to start World War III."
China views Taiwan as a breakaway island that should be ruled by the mainland. The U.S. follows an intentionally vague "One China" policy, which views Taiwan as an independent entity that should eventually be integrated into China.
Pelosi has long been a critic of China and an advocate for Taiwan's democracy. She was the first House speaker to visit in 25 years, as U.S. officials generally avoid any moves that could touch off a military conflict — China versus Taiwan, and possibly, the U.S.
Southeast Asia especially feels the strain of living in the shadow of the U.S.-China rivalry. "Governments will be very cautious" talking about cross-Taiwan Strait relations, "for fear of how China will react," says Manila-based maritime expert Jay Batongbacal.
He says the region does not want to become "an arena of major power conflict," and countries would not like to be seen as taking sides.
For that reason, governments in Southeast Asia have stuck to mild statements about the importance of the U.S. and China avoiding "any miscalculation and further escalation of tensions," as the Philippines Foreign Affairs Ministry put it. Indonesia has called on "all parties to refrain from provocative actions that may worsen the situation."
China announced fresh live-fire drills in six locations near Taiwan within hours of Pelosi's arrival on the self-governed island of 23 million. Its military maneuvers have restricted air space and water routes around Taiwan, and an anxious region is watching.
Japan complained to Beijing that the area overlaps with its exclusive economic zone, while Taiwan called the move "a challenge to the international order."
The live drills — more aggressive than usual exercises — should have been anticipated, according to Dewi Fortuna Anwar, an analyst at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences, a government research agency. She calls Pelosi's trip "dangerously provocative" and says it came at a time when tensions were already high in the region.
Anwar says with Russia invading Ukraine, "We are all very nervous." The prospect of China moving on Taiwan, replicating events in Europe, looms over Asia, she says.
Anwar says the Taiwan visit by such a high-ranking U.S. official flouted the one-China policy that many countries adhere to when they conduct business with Taiwan, but refrain from sending their senior-most figures. "It's a matter of face for China," she says, and this "is spitting in their face."
Anwar questions what the endgame is for the United States: "Does it want an open war with China over Taiwan?"
Because war is so "unthinkable," says De La Salle University international studies professor Renato Cruz de Castro in Manila, regional governments don't tend to game out the geostrategic significance of Taiwan. His own government focuses instead, he says, on more manageable issues like how to evacuate the 142,000 overseas Filipino workers from Taiwan in the event of armed conflict.
Across the South China Sea, Beijing is flexing its muscle, accused of intimidating fishers, interfering with other nations' ships and occupying islands claimed by its smaller neighbors, including Vietnam and the Philippines.
Being "dragged into a U.S.-China conflict over Taiwan is pretty high on the list of anxieties for most U.S. allies and partners," says Gregory Poling with the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Pelosi's visit, he says "will be seen as, at best, unnecessarily risky to most regional governments."
That said, countries of the region "do not want the U.S. to seem a paper tiger" — which he says would only embolden further "bullying" by China.
But Batongbacal believes Pelosi's visit was neither reckless nor deserving of China's threat of military action, which he called "excessive" and "disproportional." Beijing, he says, is "hyping what should be a minor event."
Pelosi provided China "an opportunity to instigate" a confrontation, he says, and China's rhetoric sounded like "it was spoiling for a fight."
That's an outcome no one wants.
"There will be no winners in a military conflict," Anwar says. "We are much too integrated now. If you disrupt trade in the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea, the whole economy of Southeast Asia will be destroyed."
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BLUE BELL, Pa. (AP) _ Unisys Corp. (UIS) on Wednesday reported a loss of $17.1 million in its second quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Blue Bell, Pennsylvania-based company said it had a loss of 25 cents. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, came to 24 cents per share.
The information technology service provider posted revenue of $515 million in the period.
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Wall Street maintains its hot streak and closed again with solid gains
Stocks on Wall Street extended their gains on Wednesday, as investors review a series of mostly encouraging quarterly earnings from several large companies.
The S&P 500 it rose 1.6%, to a nearly two-month high. The nasdaq rose 2.59% and the dow jones gained 1.28 percent.
The indices have more than recovered the losses from earlier in the week. The companies technologicalthe retailers and the companies of communications They were some of the biggest winners. Only the values of the sector energetic fell, dragged down by lower oil prices.
The values of the small companies they also gained ground, propelling the Russell 2000 1.4% higher.
Investors celebrated a report on the sector of the services, which makes up most of the US economy. The sector grew faster than expected in July, according to the Institute for Supply Management.
“This is one more proof that the economy is resisting”said Jeff Buchbinder, equity strategist at LPL Financial. “Right now, we have a combination of evidence that inflation is coming down.”
The 10-year Treasury yield it rose to 2.75% from 2.73% on Tuesday.
Profits remain in the spotlight this week, as investors analyze the latest company results and statements to better understand how inflation is affecting businesses and consumers.
The prices of Petroleum fell after OPEC’s decision to increase production in September at a much slower pace than in previous months. US crude fell 4% to $90.66 a barrel, while Brent crude, the international standard, was 3.7% lower at $96.78 a barrel.
Markets are also keeping an eye on possible economic fallout from China following US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan.. China claims self-governing Taiwan as part of its territory, and has banned imports of citrus Y fish frozen Taiwanese in retaliation for Pelosi’s visit. But he has avoided disrupting the flow of computer chips and other industrial products, a move that could rock the global economy.
The next data on the working market they could help investors determine how the Federal Reserve will move forward with its interest rate policy, which has been aggressive in an effort to try to curb inflation. Figures for last week’s jobless claims will be released on Thursday, and on Friday the government will release its July jobs report.
“Expectations for Fed rate hikes may have become too aggressiveBuchbinder said. “We don’t know if we’ll get a pause by the end of the year, but there’s a decent chance we’ll get a pause signal by the end of the year.”
(With information from AP)
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Gisele Bündchen celebrated her one true love on his special day. On Wednesday, the model wished her husband, Tom Brady, a happy 45th birthday with a sweet message.
“Happy birthday to one of the most focused, disciplined and fashionable person I know! @tombrady you are so loved and we are always here cheering for you and wishing you all the most wonderful things in life! ❤️,” Bündchen wrote on Instagram.
The 42-year-old model also shared a picture of Brady in his football uniform, posing with their two children, Vivian, 9, and Benjamin, 12. Brady is also father to 14-year-old John, whom he shares with Bridget Moynahan.
Bündchen’s birthday message for her man comes weeks after the Super Bowl champion celebrated her birthday with a sweet Instagram post.
“Happy Birthday @gisele,” the quarterback wrote next to a picture of his wife smiling for the camera. “Enjoy your special day and I know this year will be your best year yet ❤️. Thank you for inspiring me with your honesty and authenticity.”
In May, Brady spoke with ET about the challenges he faces with work-life balance and the guilt he feels leaving his family when it’s time to play football.
"Being available to your kids is really important... I feel like I'm so driven to succeed in football and that's taken me away from other important priorities, which are my kids, my wife," Brady told ET.
The Super Bowl champion -- who famously unretired this year -- praised his wife’s commitment to taking care of their family.
"She's really held it down for our family. I'm super grateful that she really committed so much of her time the last 14 years to make sure everything was so stable at home, so I could go live my dream. I look back at my parents, and my dad and mom did the same thing for me," he said.
"I do feel, maybe, some guilt that I haven't been able to do that in the same way for my kids, but I'm doing the best I can do," he added. "I'm trying to be really conscious and aware of that, and then when I do have the time to spend with them, I'm really present."
The same month, Bündchen spoke about her and Brady’s marriage, and how they complement each other’s completely different work worlds.
"I don't think relationships just happen; it's never the fairy tale people want to believe it is," Bündchen told British Vogue.
"It takes work to be really in sync with someone, especially after you have kids," she noted. "His focus is on his career, mine is mostly on the kids. And I'm grateful that he lets me take the reins when it comes to our family. He trusts my decisions."
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Major twist in $327m QB star’s suspension as NFL refuses to accept ban
The NFL is not accepting the ruling to suspend Deshaun Watson for six games.
Watson was handed the decision by retired federal judge Sue Robinson, after he was accused by over two dozen female massage therapists of sexual misconduct.
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“Under the 2020 NFL-NFLPA CBA, the factual findings of the Disciplinary Officer are binding and may not be appealed,” an NFL spokesperson said.
“Judge Robinson found that Mr. Watson violated the NFL’s Personal Conduct Policy on multiple occasions and suspended him for six games.”
However, the NFL continued, “[t]he CBA affords the NFL or NFLPA the right to appeal the discipline imposed by the Disciplinary Officer.”
Here, the appeal would be heard by commissioner Roger Goodell, or a designee of his choosing.
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The NFL told the NFLPA that it will indeed exercise its right to appeal the punishment and that Goodell will choose the designee at a later date.
Per multiple reports on Wednesday, the NFL is believed to be pushing for an indefinite suspension that would be at least one year.
Per ESPN, the league is also pushing for a monetary fine, notable due to the structure of his five-year, fully-guaranteed $AUD327 million contract with the Browns.
Under Robinson’s ruling, Watson would only have lost about $345,000.
While Watson was never charged with a crime related to the allegations, he settled civil lawsuits with 23 of his 24 accusers, and the Houston Texans, who he played for at the time of the alleged incidents, settled lawsuits with 30 women.
It is unknown how long the appeals process will take at this time, or what suspension length the league would determine to be more appropriate.
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What began as a small effort by a group of women in Mysuru’s outskirts over a year ago has turned out to be an effective model for waste management in urban residential layouts. In Roopanagar layout, visionary women came together virtually to transform their neighbourhood and ended up transforming their locality in more ways than one.
The initiative is drawing attention for its use of technology in community participation and creating environment-friendly habits. This helps supplement public waste management efforts.
In 1990, the Roopanagar layout was developed by Deepa House Building Cooperative Society (DHBCS), about 10 km from Mysuru railway station. Spread across 260 acres, the neighbourhood comprises about 800 houses with over 4,000 residents.
Like most other residential layouts, Roopanagar, faced the pressing problem of garbage disposal and management. Garbage was littered around the layout. Trash was being disposed on the roadside and in the drainage system, causing frequent blocks. The layout resembled a large dumping yard for plastic waste.
The housing society found it difficult to address these problems. Its efforts fell short.
Community initiative
During the lockdown, the residents of Roopanagar were restricted to their homes. Digital media was the only mode of communication among members of the layout. By then, many women had identified the potential of WhatsApp. Gradually, they began using the app to conduct online activities for their children.
It was at this time that a group of like-minded women from different professional backgrounds came together and launched Woman Power Roopanagar (WPR). In March 2021, a WhatsApp group was created, followed soon after by a Facebook page.
“The WPR’s idea was to bring like-minded women together to organise programmes of socio-environmental relevance. The members would initially share Covid-19 alerts, hold online talks on health, yoga, meditation, nutrition and music. We would also hold painting, drawing, quiz, storytelling and origami workshops for children,” recalls Rupa Tubgere, one of the group’s founders.
Word about the WhatsApp group spread. Several neighbours and friends soon became group members. Within no time, the number of members rose to 300.
The administrators would conceptualise community initiatives and finalise plans of action. They would then share this with the larger group and allot specific roles for members to execute. “We could do very little individually but could make a huge difference collectively. We swung into action when the group was formed,” says Lekshmy Raghavendra, a member of WPR.
The WPR women became advocates of the ‘three Rs’ framework — reduce, reuse and recycle. They vowed to adopt environment-friendly sustainable practices that reduced pressure on local bodies.
“We launched many initiatives to achieve our goals, including waste segregation & recycling programmes. Extensive appeals were made through the WhatsApp group and Facebook page to segregate dry, wet and plastic waste at its source in homes. We persuaded women to hand over trash for recycling and composting,” says Purnima Kota, a homemaker and one of the group administrators.
Once plastic waste was collected, the organisers got in touch with Jagruth Tech Private Limited (JTPL), an authorised dry waste recycler, to visit Roopanagar once a month and collect waste from a designated pickup point. Specific dates and timings were scheduled so that the residents could bring plastic waste for collection.
“One truckload of plastic goes out of Roopnagar every month now,” says Lekshmy. The dry waste recycling company partnered with Namma Mysore Foundation (NMF), a non-government organisation, and began collecting plastics every month to convert low-value plastic waste into construction materials, furniture and bricks for pavement.
Awareness drives
In addition to efforts in the virtual space, groups of 50 women were constituted for door-to-door awareness drives. They distributed pamphlets to every house in the layout on waste management. Public announcements are also held periodically in each street.
A ‘Bring Your Own Bag’ campaign was launched, where shopkeepers and customers were persuaded to use cloth bags.
“We visited schools and colleges in Roopanagar and requested students to not throw plastic on roads. We also asked them to bring plastic waste from their houses for recycling, once a month,” Purnima adds.
Today, Roopanagar is a clean, environmental-friendly neighbourhood, owing to many initiatives. Nearly 200 residents collect plastic littered from their respective streets for recycling.
“Roopnagar residents faced inconvenience due to frequent clogged drains. In the last year, there was not a single incident of blocks in drains,” says Sadashiva Poojary, secretary, DHBCS.
Besides this, the group of homemakers spurred action in various aspects. Saplings have been planted in the streets, avenues and temple garden through a tree-planting drive. Newspapers, books and clothes are regularly donated to nearby children’s homes.
Online programs are conducted to exhibit talents and advertise products and services of women entrepreneurs every Wednesday. Events are held to felicitate artists and sports personalities of the layout.
Starting with just a WhatsApp group, the women of Roopanagar rallied with their community to drive real change in more than one sphere. “It’s an inspiring method for homemakers in urban residential layouts,” says Poojary.
“The concept of using technology for community participation to address the problem of garbage is a good model. Changes in Roopanagar in the last year prove that community participation increases the probability of success,” says Renuka Manjunath, a resident.
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A professional services agreement has been negotiated with former Mayor Ron Shaver to serve in an interim capacity as Fort Morgan’s city manager until Jan. 31, 2023, or until such time as a new city manager can be hired.
City Manager Steve Glammeyer last month resigned amid what he described as a “toxic work environment,” publicly relaying claims that Mayor Lyn Deal had violated the city charter and procedural protocol to such a point his continuance in the position was impossible.
An independent investigation into the claims Glammeyer levied is complete. The city attorney is reviewing the work of the independent investigation to compile a written report, which could soon be presented, Deputy City Manager John Brennan wrote in an email to The Fort Morgan Times. The scope of the investigation appears to be restricted to the claims made by Glammeyer. The Fort Morgan Times has asked for a copy of the written report upon its completion.
Glammeyer’s tenure effectively ends at close of business Friday, although he contractually agreed to serve through Saturday. Shaver began his service as interim city manager July 25 and attended Tuesday’s meeting of City Council.
City Council unanimously supported the professional services agreement Tuesday with all members of the board present.
Shaver will be paid $15,610 monthly through a six-month term of August to January, and an additional pro-rated $3,902 for work performed in July. His total compensation would be $97,562, barring an extension to the agreement. Glammeyer was provided six months of salary and three months of benefits as severance upon his resignation.
The professional services agreement allows for a “month-to-month” extension beyond the conclusion of the Jan. 31, 2023, term, and would be based on the $15,610 monthly salary. Shaver has told The Fort Morgan Times the process to select a city manager through a search might take six months or longer. That is a process that was set to begin this month through the selection of a search firm.
Additionally, Shaver will be provided a $50 monthly stipend for use of his personal cell phone and “exclusive and unrestricted use of an automobile” to be provided at the city’s cost, the professional service agreement reads.
While serving in an interim city manager capacity, Shaver will be considered a contractor and will not receive standard employment benefits, such as workers’ compensation, paid time off, compensatory time off, severance benefits, long-term disability, retirement contributions or participation in medical, dental or life insurance. The agreement allows for litigation protections related to Shaver’s performance of duties as city manager.
The agreement stipulates a 30-day notice by either Shaver or the City of Fort Morgan would be required to terminate said agreement.
The City Council resolution supporting the agreement with Shaver indicates it will ensure “continuity of vital city business and operations” through the utilization of Shaver, a “long-time city government veteran.” The agreement further cites Shaver is “ready, qualified, willing and able to provide” interim city manager services based on his experience and expertise. He served for about 40 years as an employee and elected official with the City of Fort Morgan, including most recently as mayor. | https://www.fortmorgantimes.com/2022/08/03/city-council-reaches-agreement-with-shaver-as-interim-city-manager/ | 2022-08-03T22:58:25Z | https://www.fortmorgantimes.com/2022/08/03/city-council-reaches-agreement-with-shaver-as-interim-city-manager/ | true | 1 |
Trygve Hammer is seeking your vote for a seat on the Public Service Commission, a body he claims is mired in groupthink and aligned in favor of everyone but the people it’s supposed to serve.
“Right now I feel like all three people on the Public Service Commission are sitting there with each decision asking themselves: what does Doug Burgum want? We have basically groupthink going on in the public service commission. Regulators in general in North Dakota seem to always err on the side of industry … they are quick to forgive fines for when industry misbehaves,” Hammer told the Times-Record. “The Public Service Commission is there to serve the interests of the people of North Dakota, not the interests of utility (companies).”
Hammer brings plenty of credentials to the race – a combat veteran and Marine, a teacher, a former roughneck and a father, Hammer has plenty of life experience to draw upon should he get the seat.
Though he attended Naval academy, Hammer ultimately decided to become a Marine rather than join the Navy, and he said that part of that was his love of the physicality of the Marine Corps – but the other was the code of honor that he saw there.
“The biggest part was this ethos of ‘officers eat last.’ You take care of your (soldiers), your lance corporal … you see that all the way up the line,” Hammer said. “A staff sergeant will not get in line for chow ahead of the lance corporal … we watch out for the lowest ranking, those with the least, we take care of them first and everything flows up from there. We need to take care of the people … who actually execute the mission, who are out on the frontlines for us.”
There are certainly people on the edges whom Hammer is particularly concerned about. With the impacts of inflation being widely-felt, Hammer fears the damage that a potential increase in utility rates could do, particularly since he claims there’s a potential 17 percent rate increase coming down the line. If that went into effect, Hammer said the impact would particularly hurt North Dakota’s senior citizens.
“Those particular stakeholders, they’re the ones who need someone to look out for them,” Hammer said.
He doesn’t frame this issue as one of partisan politics – he’s been lauded by some pundits for being willing to speak his own mind, and he sees the value of having differing perspectives within the same organization, something increasingly hard to find these days.
“You need different perspectives in any organization to make it stronger,” Hammer said. “Even if you agree on an issue, it’s good to have different reasons or perspectives on why you agree…and when you disagree, I would expect there to be a baseline civility at the PSC … I would expect it in politics, though we don’t see a lot of it right now. Government doesn’t function without that baseline civility.”
Though he’s running as a Democrat, Hammer says he has no problem with the energy sector or fossil fuels.
“I’ve worked in the oilfields as a roughneck on oil rigs,” He said. “I’m not against oil, I’m not against coal, though with the PSC you do want to make sure these coal companies, when they do reclamation, are doing a good job.”
Hammer is up against a governor-appointed candidate, Sheri Haugen-Hoffart, who must be confirmed by the voters for her appointment to cement. Hammer positions himself as the underdog, relying on small donations whereas Haugen-Hoffart has bigger pockets in her corner.
“I am beholden to no one else, which is why I have so little money in my campaign account. My opponent … was appointed by the governor, started out with $33,000,” Hammer said. “I don’t have even a tenth of that. All of my donors so far have been small dollar donors. Would I refuse a big dollar donor? No.”
Hammer has discovered in this race that many North Dakotans aren’t fully aware of just how big an impact the PSC can have over their lives.
“The PSC reaches into people’s lives so much more than they really know. Everytime you use a scale in a grocery store, pump gas, railroad safety, warehouses, auctioneers, it reaches into your lives in so many ways – and not to mention your electric rates,” Hammer said. “I feel that’s a big piece of it and people need to understand what the PSC does and you can really only do that by going out and talking to people.”
The Public Service Commission, according to its official state website, is a constitutional agency with varying degrees of statutory authority over a wide range of areas, including electric and gas utilities, telecommunications, railroads, pipelines, coal mine reclamation and abandoned mine lands and more. The Commission is comprised of three Commissioners who are elected on a statewide basis to staggered six-year terms.
The Commission predates North Dakota’s statehood, originating from a Board of Railroad Commissioners who oversaw railroads back in the 1880s, when the Dakotas were still a territory. The election is November 8.
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REDMOND, Wash. (AP) _ Paymentus Holdings Inc. (PAY) on Wednesday reported a loss of $2.5 million in its second quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Redmond, Washington-based company said it had a loss of 2 cents. Earnings, adjusted for amortization costs, came to less than 1 cent on a per-share basis.
The electronic bill payment services posted revenue of $120 million in the period.
Paymentus expects full-year revenue in the range of $485 million to $492 million.
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The Laguna Beach Police Department will join the numerous law enforcement agencies across the nation offering bonuses to new employees, following an uptick in on-duty injuries and employees poached by other agencies.
Police officers and dispatchers who jump ship to Laguna Beach by Dec. 31 will receive a one-time $15,000 bonus. They’ll receive $7,500 upon getting hired and $7,500 after staying with the City for 24 months.
Current police employees who successfully refer a candidate will receive a $1,000 bonus upon hiring and another $1,000 after the employee completes 12 months of service.
The City Council unanimously approved these bonuses as part of a deal with the Laguna Beach Police Employees’ Association on Tuesday.
“Police agencies across Orange County and the nation are struggling to attract and retain officers due to the changing business and political environment,” Police Chief Jeff Calvert said Tuesday. “The pool of qualified officers has decreased due to mass resignations and retirements from the anti-police and ‘defund the police’ movements, changes in legislation that have placed more pressure and scrutiny on officers, and the unprecedented increase in inflation.”
The City Council has approved a budget for 55 sworn officers and 11 dispatchers. When Calvert took the agency’s helm in May 2021, there were 45 officers and nine dispatchers available to work, according to a staff report.
As of Aug. 2, there are 43 officers in Laguna Beach’s ranks who have graduated from a police academy and are available to work without a supervisor. Seven dispatchers are cleared to work without supervision. Three dispatchers are in training, Calvert said.
“We’ve also had significant turnover in dispatchers in the communications center due to personnel moving out of state or not being able to pass training,” Calvert said.
To compensate current employees tasked with extra hours through the end of September, the City will pay double-time pay to officers, corporals, sergeants, dispatchers, and senior dispatchers, according to the City’s side letter of agreement with the police union.
City staffers projected these new recruitment and overtime programs will cost $100,000 from the department’s overtime budget and General Fund Contingency.
Mayor Pro Tem Bob Whalen thanked the police union, Calvert, and City Manager Shohreh Dupuis for coming together so quickly on an interim deal.
“Hopefully this will alleviate things then obviously we’ve got some more time to consider more permanent solutions as we enter into negotiations,” he said.
In addition to the injuries, three front-line officers departed Laguna Beach after being recruited by other agencies over the last year.
As part of a neighborhood and environmental improvement plan, the City Council authorized new parking revenue to be spent on park rangers to patrol neighborhoods, trailheads, and open spaces for illegal behavior. The City has hired two park rangers—one has nearly completed training and other is about to start—and plans to onboard a new full-time park ranger in late August, Calvert said.
Police leaders expect these new positions will free up patrol officers for other police work.
Since the pandemic’s start, law enforcement agencies across the country have experienced early retirements linked to burnout.
Law enforcement officers lived with mental health problems at a rate greater than the general public before the challenges, stress, and uncertainty created by the pandemic, according to criminal justice researchers at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Clemson University.
Councilmember Toni Iseman said she supported the bonuses and added overtime costs but questioned senior staff on why the City Council wasn’t notified of the police staffing issues months ago.
“I don’t begrudge any money that we spend with our police and fire but I am concerned that we are putting them in a place where they have to work overtime and, as I understand, sometimes they’re required to work overtime. And a good way to get in trouble is to work beyond your comfort and capacity,” Iseman said.
Councilmember George Weiss asked if there are any plans for additional programs to retain qualified officers and make sure they don’t depart for other agencies.
“I think that needs to be part of the negotiations. I don’t think we want to be discussing that right now,” City Manager Shohreh Dupuis said.
The Laguna Beach Police Employees’ Association shared its gratitude for city leaders’ quick execution of the temporary overtime hike and bonuses.
“The PEA supports the agenda bill approved by the Council as a short-term response to our staffing issues. We look forward to negotiations and working with City staff to identify meaningful and long-term measures to retain our current officers while attracting skilled and experienced officers to join us,” the Association’s Board of Directors said in a statement.
Calvert reassured councilmembers that standards required of job candidates will not be lowered under his command.
“I want to be clear though that although we’re facing challenges, morale is high and the outstanding men and women of this police department are fully committed to the safety of this community,” Calvert said.
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‘A fast three months’ ahead as Tudor Dixon will face Gov. Whitmer in November
LANSING, Mich. (WLUC) - State Republicans are looking forward to November’s election, as the GOP now has its nominee in the race for governor.
Tudor Dixon will face Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in November. She won the primary by a 19-percentage point margin over the second-place candidate.
“It is going to be a fantastic three months, a fast three months. When I look around this room and I see all of these smiling faces, I know there is no better team of people to do this,” Dixon said at a GOP lunch Wednesday in Lansing.
Meantime, Republican Ryan Kelley announced Wednesday morning he’s not conceding. He wants a recount.
“Let’s see the GOP and the predetermined winner call for a publicly supervised hand recount to uphold election integrity,” Kelley said in a statement on his Facebook page.
Kelley had 15 percent of the votes, while Dixon took 41 percent.
Dixon received backing from Donald Trump late last week. The conservative commentator believes her background in manufacturing and being a mom to four girls will help her as governor.
“We will remember when Gretchen Whitmer came out and said that she supports the spirit of defunding the police and our crime rate skyrocketed,” Dixon said.
Gov. Whitmer and her multimillion-dollar campaign fund are ready.
“While Dixon has focused her campaign on attracting support from special interests and political insiders, Governor Whitmer has been working to earn support from Michiganders by doing what she has always done: working with anyone to get things done,” Whitmer’s campaign spokesperson said in a statement.
With Dixon and Whitmer on the November ballot, this will be the first time in Michigan history that two women will face off as the major party nominees for governor.
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DALLAS (AP) _ NL Industries Inc. (NL) on Wednesday reported second-quarter earnings of $30.2 million.
The Dallas-based company said it had profit of 62 cents per share.
The chemical and components holding company posted revenue of $41.6 million in the period.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has arrived in Taiwan.
It’s a controversial trip and one that will escalate tensions between China and the United States.
Pelosi is the highest-ranking U.S. official in a quarter-century to visit the island, which Beijing claims as part of its territory,
Chinese officials, including President Xi Jinping, have warned of unspecified countermeasures if Speaker Pelosi’s Taiwan visit proceeded. President Joe Biden says her journey is “not a good idea.”
Ahead of the visit, in a piece for The New York Times, writer and columnist Tom Friedman called the trip “utterly reckless.”
We speak to Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian a reporter for Axios based in Taipei.
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Kansas Voters Resoundingly Protect Their Access To Abortion
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas voters on Tuesday sent a resounding message about their desire to protect abortion rights, rejecting a ballot measure in a conservative state with deep ties to the anti-abortion movement that would have allowed the Republican-controlled Legislature to tighten restrictions or ban the procedure outright.
It was the first test of voter sentiment after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in June that overturned the constitutional right to abortion, providing an unexpected result with potential implications for the coming midterm elections.
While it was just one state, the heavy turnout for an August primary that typically favors Republicans was a major victory for abortion rights advocates. With most of the vote counted, they were prevailing by roughly 20 percentage points, with the turnout approaching what’s typical for a fall election for governor.
The vote also provided a dash of hope for Democrats nationwide grasping for a game-changer during an election year otherwise filled with dark omens for their prospects in November.
“This vote makes clear what we know: the majority of Americans agree that women should have access to abortion and should have the right to make their own health care decisions,” President Joe Biden said in a statement.
After calling on Congress to “restore the protections of Roe” in federal law, Biden added, “And, the American people must continue to use their voices to protect the right to women’s health care, including abortion.”
The Kansas vote also provided a warning to Republicans who had celebrated the Supreme Court ruling and were moving swiftly with abortion bans or near-bans in nearly half the states.
“Kansans bluntly rejected anti-abortion politicians’ attempts at creating a reproductive police state,” said Kimberly Inez McGuire, executive director of Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity. ”Today’s vote was a powerful rebuke and a promise of the mounting resistance.”
The proposed amendment to the Kansas Constitution would have added language stating that it does not grant the right to abortion. A 2019 state Supreme Court decision declared that access to abortion is a “fundamental” right under the state’s Bill of Rights, preventing a ban and potentially thwarting legislative efforts to enact new restrictions.
The referendum was closely watched as a barometer of liberal and moderate voters’ anger over the Supreme Court’s ruling scrapping the nationwide right to abortion. In Kansas, abortion opponents wouldn’t say what legislation they’d pursue if the amendment were passed and bristled when opponents predicted it would lead to a ban.
Mallory Carroll, a spokesperson for the national anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, described the vote as “a huge disappointment” for the movement and called on anti-abortion candidates to “go on the offensive.”
She added that after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling, “We must work exponentially harder to achieve and maintain protections for unborn children and their mothers.”
The measure’s failure also was significant because of Kansas’ connections to anti-abortion activists. Anti-abortion “Summer of Mercy” protests in 1991 inspired abortion opponents to take over the Kansas Republican Party and make the Legislature more conservative. They were there because Dr. George Tiller’s clinic was among the few in the U.S. known to do abortions late in pregnancy, and he was murdered in 2009 by an anti-abortion extremist.
Anti-abortion lawmakers wanted to have the vote coincide with the state’s August primary, arguing they wanted to make sure it got the focus, though others saw it as an obvious attempt to boost their chances of winning. Twice as many Republicans as Democrats have voted in the state’s August primaries in the decade leading up to Tuesday’s election.
“This outcome is a temporary setback, and our dedicated fight to value women and babies is far from over,” said Emily Massey, a spokesperson for the pro-amendment campaign.
The electorate in Tuesday’s vote wasn’t typical for a Kansas primary, particularly because tens of thousands of unaffiliated voters cast ballots.
Kristy Winter, 52, a Kansas City-area teacher and unaffiliated voter, voted against the measure and brought her 16-year-old daughter with her to her polling place.
“I want her to have the same right to do what she feels is necessary, mostly in the case of rape or incest,” she said. “I want her to have the same rights my mother has had most of her life.”
Opponents of the measure predicted that the anti-abortion groups and lawmakers behind the measure would push quickly for an abortion ban if voters approved it. Before the vote, the measure’s supporters refused to say whether they would pursue a ban as they appealed to voters who supported both some restrictions and some access to abortion.
Stephanie Kostreva, a 40-year-old school nurse from the Kansas City area and a Democrat, said she voted in favor of the measure because she is a Christian and believes life begins at conception.
“I’m not full scale that there should never be an abortion,” she said. “I know there are medical emergencies, and when the mother’s life is in danger there is no reason for two people to die.”
An anonymous group sent a misleading text Monday to Kansas voters telling them to “vote yes” to protect choice, but it was suspended late Monday from the Twilio messaging platform it was using, a spokesperson said. Twilio did not identify the sender.
The 2019 Kansas Supreme Court decision protecting abortion rights blocked a law that banned the most common second-trimester procedure, and another law imposing special health regulations on abortion providers also is on hold. Abortion opponents argued that all of the state’s existing restrictions were in danger, though some legal scholars found that argument dubious. Kansas doesn’t ban most abortions until the 22nd week of pregnancy.
The Kansas vote is the start of what could be a long-running series of legal battles playing out where lawmakers are more conservative on abortion than governors or state courts. Kentucky will vote in November on whether to add language similar to Kansas’ proposed amendment to its state constitution.
Meanwhile, Vermont will decide in November whether to add an abortion rights provision to its constitution. A similar question is likely headed to the November ballot in Michigan.
In Kansas, both sides together spent more than $14 million on their campaigns. Abortion providers and abortion rights groups were key donors to the “no” side, while Catholic dioceses heavily funded the “yes” campaign.
The state has had strong anti-abortion majorities in its Legislature for 30 years, but voters have regularly elected Democratic governors, including Laura Kelly in 2018. She opposed the proposed amendment, saying changing the state constitution would “throw the state back into the Dark Ages.”
State Attorney General Derek Schmidt, a Republican hoping to unseat Kelly, supported the proposed constitutional amendment. He told the Catholic television network EWTN before the election that “there’s still room for progress” in decreasing abortions, without spelling out what he would sign as governor.
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Reggie Jackson: Paul George 'Saved' His Career
As his tenure with the Detroit Pistons was coming to an end, veteran point guard Reggie Jackson was uncertain about his future in the NBA. After contemplating retirement, Reggie was signed by the LA Clippers where he has completely revived his career. During an appearance at Paul George's youth summer camp, Reggie used his story to give a speech to the campers in attendance.
"It really started making me question myself," Reggie said about the uncertainty in Detroit. "Don't let anybody ever do this to you in life, take the fun out of the things that you love to do. I really was gonna retire. My lifeline, my brother here saved me."
Pointing to Paul George, who was standing beside him, Reggie credited his longtime friend with saving his career. It has been known for a while now that George was very influential in getting Reggie to the Clippers, but at that point the work was only just beginning. Since then, Reggie has led the Clippers to countless victories both in the regular season and deep in the playoffs. With a healthy roster returning next season, he projects to be a key piece once again.
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With both Reggie Jackson and Nicolas Batum, the LA Clippers have shown an ability to revive the careers of impact veterans. With the culture and roster to compliment anyone who buys in, the Clippers have really become a desirable organization play for.
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Deal marks the mission-driven affordable housing group's first financial closing on a ground-up development.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lincoln Avenue Capital (LAC), a mission-driven acquirer and developer of affordable housing, announced this week that it closed on the financing for the construction of InterQuest Ridge Apartments. Once complete, this new community will provide 240 units of affordable housing for working families and individuals in northern Colorado Springs, an area of the city that currently lacks affordable housing options.
This opportunity was made possible through several financing partners including construction and permanent loans from Citibank; an equity investment in federal low-income housing tax credits from Aegon; an allocation of tax credits and tax-exempt bonds from Colorado Housing and Finance Authority and the City of Colorado Springs; and a gap loan from the Colorado Department of Local Affairs. Additionally, LAC partnered with the Colorado Springs Housing Authority to secure certain tax exemptions that will play a key role in bringing InterQuest Ridge to life.
InterQuest Ridge will support the housing needs of underserved veterans in Colorado Springs, which has one of the highest veteran populations in the country. Once complete, the apartments will prioritize 20 units for veterans and their families who are associated with the Mt. Carmel Veterans Service Center.
"Lincoln Avenue Capital is proud to partner with state and local organizations to support this landmark affordable housing development," said LAC CEO Jeremy Bronfman. "The diverse and extensive financing team demonstrates the power of public-private partnerships in developing quality, attainable homes in communities that need housing."
"We're committed to advancing solutions to our nation's affordable housing crisis, and our first ground-up development marks the beginning of a new chapter for LAC," said Brandon Hodge, LAC Director. "This development in Colorado Springs will help address the dire need for affordable housing in the community and allows residents to live in a place they are proud to call home."
Construction began July 2022, with the first units becoming available for occupancy in the summer of 2023, and the expected overall completion in the summer of 2024. InterQuest Ridge will feature many amenities for its families, such as a clubhouse with a full kitchen, outdoor pool area with seating, covered pavilion with barbeque grills, fitness center with a yoga room, and a playground for children of all ages.
LAC is prioritizing sustainability within the new development, as the project will be National Green Building Standard (NGBS) Bronze Certified. NGBS-certified buildings are constructed with systems and products that release fewer pollutants and improve indoor air quality for residents.
About LAC: Lincoln Avenue Capital is one of the nation's fastest-growing developers, investors, and operators of affordable and workforce housing, providing high-quality, sustainable homes for lower- and moderate-income individuals, seniors, and families nationwide. LAC is a mission-driven organization that serves residents across 21 states, with a portfolio of 109 properties comprising 20,000+ units.
About CSHA: The Colorado Springs Housing Authority is dedicated to providing and sustaining quality affordable housing by being innovative, performance oriented, and results driven. CSHA works to establish effective partnerships and sound fiscal practices to benefit the quality of life in the Pikes Peak Region.
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Everyone who knows me well knows that I can’t leave the house without my coveted charcoal blotting papers. What can I say, I’m an oily gal! That said, blotting sheets only do so much; there are only so many times you can duck behind your office desk or restaurant menu to touch up your face. One solution that isn’t so high-maintenance is a mattifying face powder, and thanks to TikTok (per usual), we found one that acts as a real-life filter for your skin.
Say hello to the Brighten Up! Banana Powder by Essence. If it looks familiar to you that’s because it’s going viral on TikTok and consequently selling out everywhere except for Ulta. The $5 skin-blurring powder yields jaw-dropping results. We’re serious, your jaw will be on the floor after watching @mualesandro’s TikTok try-on, which, by the way, has garnered over seven million views in just two days.
@mualesandro This $4 powder looks like a filter in real life😩 #powder #settingpowder #drugstoremakeup #affordablemakeup #bestmakeup
Just look at how his complexion is shiny to begin with and then completely matte and poreless after pressing the powder onto his skin. As he says in the video, he’s “done gatekeeping this $4 powder that makes your pores disappear” because “this Essence powder literally looks like Facetune in real life.” At the end, he adds, “I’m wearing this to my grave.”
Uhhhhmmm, SOLD! The difference is day and night, and other TikTokers have taken to the platform to show similarly shocking results. Additional proof: these videos from @themexicanbeauty and @alishasapproach.
Their makeup looks absolutely flawless after applying Essence’s Brighten Up! Banana Powder. Whether you’re going to an event where lots of flash photos will be taken or are a naturally oily gal like me, this secret weapon of a product needs to be with you wherever you go.
The game-changing pressed powder has already sold out at Amazon and Target, but it’s still in stock for $5 at Ulta right now. Snatch yours ASAP before it sells out everywhere.
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Let’s cut to the chase: This powder’s mattifying formula sets your makeup look so that there’s no creasing throughout the day. It’s ideal for baking your under-eyes, per the brand. However, as shown by TikTok, you can swipe it over your entire face for a smooth, matte finish.
Lots of Ulta shoppers join TikTok in celebrating this skin-perfecting powder.
“Absolutely stunning as a setting powder. Blurs my pores and brightens my under-eye area,” wrote one reviewer.
“I love this brightening powder. I specifically use it under my eyes and it makes a huge difference,” wrote another shopper. “I’m 40 years old and it does not get into my lines. I will continue to buy this over and over! I love that it is so affordable too!”
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Limited edition merchandise from Eric Emanuel, New York Sunshine and Warren Lotas will drop in August.
– New York City: Aug 4, 5; and Los Angeles: Aug 11, 2022 –
NEW YORK and LOS ANGELES, Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- To help prevent a blood shortage this summer, The American Red Cross, in partnership with creative agency MONO, part of Stagwell, announced the launch of Drop For DropTM, an innovative pro-bono campaign designed to invite a new, younger generation of blood donors.
Joining forces with three legendary streetwear designers: Eric Emanuel, New York Sunshine and Warren Lotas, the Red Cross are offering exclusive access to custom, limited edition designs to those who come out to give blood at select blood drives in NYC and LA.
"We're seeing a concerning decrease in blood donations causing the blood supply to drop nearly 20% in recent weeks. While the summer months are historically a challenging time to engage donors – especially younger donors – the pandemic has caused a steep decline in donors between the ages of 18 and 24," said Selma Bouhl, VP, Marketing Strategy & Creative Services, American Red Cross. "MONO approached us with a creative idea that will resonate and motivate an entirely new generation of blood donors by tapping into streetwear culture in an authentic and engaging way."
"In our business, we don't often get the opportunity to use our creativity and desire to bring unexpected ideas to our clients, while saving lives," said Jim Scott, Founder and Managing Partner at MONO. "With the way that Drop For Drop™ appeals to young people, via iconic designers in culture to reframe awareness around a vital social and health cause, we can literally do both."
Blood donation appointments are available starting today and are expected to fill up fast with drop-in slots available for fans who were unable to make appointments online. Anyone interested in getting in on the drop can visit redcross.org/drop to find details about the blood drives.
About the American Red Cross
The American Red Cross shelters, feeds and provides comfort to victims of disasters; supplies about 40% of the nation's blood; teaches skills to save lives; distributes international humanitarian aid; and supports veterans, military members and their families. The Red Cross is a nonprofit organization that depends on volunteers and the generosity of the American public to deliver its mission. For more information, please visit redcross.org or cruzrojaamericana.org, or visit us on Twitter at @RedCross.
About MONO
MONO is a creatively driven brand agency that believes powerful, simple ideas win. Working across media and platforms, MONO has done award winning work for Apple, Google, MolsonCoors, Sherwin Williams, Herman Miller, BluDot Furniture, AlfaRomeo as well as brand creation, including Boomchickapop. MONO has offices in Minneapolis and New York City. For more information, visit mono-1.com.
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Ground workers at four large Florida airports say they are increasingly unable to meet their personal living expenses despite a growing demand for their services from airlines, service companies, retailers and other employers, according to a survey released Wednesday by a major labor union.
Among them is Medjhie Bissainthe, a 42-year-old contract worker for Southwest Airlines who handles baggage and customer service at curbsides. The single mother of two makes $17.56 an hour. “I’m struggling a lot right now,” Bissainthe said. “Insurance gas, food, everything went up.”
She said she starts work before dawn and must leave work at 1 p.m. so she can be with her youngest child when she gets out of school. “I have to start my days early, at 4 o’clock in the morning, because I cannot afford to pay for day care.”
The Service Employees International Union 32BJ, which represents workers at South Florida’s three international airports, says its study illustrates what workers in various occupations are facing as the cost of living is pushed higher by inflation and Florida’s real estate boom.
The union, which claims a national membership of two million workers in the health care and property services industries as well as in the public sector, also represents baggage handlers, wheelchair agents, fuelers, cabin cleaners, janitors and security officers who work in commercial aviation.
“The data we collected shows that workers surveyed at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport earn an average of $17.37 per hour,” said Alexi Cardona, a union spokesperson.
“However, our analysis found that these workers require hourly earnings of at least $23.84 to afford Fair Market Rent as defined by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development,” she said. “We calculated that these workers would need to earn at least $37.31 an hour to afford the Fort Lauderdale area’s median rent. Almost 90% of FLL workers surveyed report they are cost-burdened, meaning they spend more than 30% of their income on housing.”
The survey consisted of 639 responses from contract workers at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, Miami International Airport, Orlando International Airport and Tampa International Airport between April and July of this year.
According to the union, the workers reported “earning wages that are not enough to pay for housing, lacking paid leave benefits, and bearing witness to high turnover levels that put airport safety at risk.”
Mark Hamrick, senior economic analyst for the consumer site at Bankrate.com, suggested there is a parallel between pay levels and efficient service.
“It’s a problem the headlines have been replete with accounts of how the airport experience has not been working well for everybody this summer,” he said. “It’s not just having staffing in numbers, it’s having competent labor.”
Hours and earnings
The union said living-wage ordinances in Broward and Miami-Dade counties set hourly pay at a little more than $14 an hour with an additional $3.54 in Broward and $3.59 an hour in Miami-Dade paid out for health benefits.
“Companies continue to pay living-wage rates to airport workers” at both of the counties’ international airport, the union says. But after a 2019 state court ruling, the ordinances are no longer enforceable for airline contract workers, “meaning that companies may stop paying living wages at any point in the future, increasing economic risk for workers.”
Housing
Survey responses to questions about housing “clearly show how burdensome Florida’s high and increasing housing costs are to airport workers,” the union said in its survey summary.
The report indicates that approximately 85% of respondents fit into the cost-burdened category, meaning they spend more than 30% of their income on housing. The report compared housing expenses to their estimated wages based on weekly hours worked.
Only 21% of workers were homeowners and 38% now share their housing costs with others who are not their partner or spouse.
“An overwhelming majority (93%) of those workers stated that they would not be able to afford living on their own,” the union said.
The union estimates the airport workers require hourly earnings of at least $23.84 to afford fair market rent, the cost to rent a moderately-priced dwelling in the local housing market as defined by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. They would need at least $37.31 an hour to afford the Fort Lauderdale area’s median rent.
Rashad Grant, a wheelchair attendant at the Fort Lauderdale airport, said his rent rose $300 this year.
“I work 64 hours a week just to be able to pay my bills,” he said Wednesday. “Many of us are working multiple jobs. The airport should be a place where we see ourselves working for 20 or 30 years. But you have to compensate people fairly in order to keep experienced workers.”
Grant said there have been times when he has had to go beyond the call of duty, such as the day in January 2017 when he assisted passengers fleeing the shooting at the airport’s Delta Air Lines terminal, an incident that resulted in five people killed and seven injured.
He recalled, “We were figuring things out on the fly and did the right thing the best we could. You may be hired as a wheelchair pusher, but that day we were first responders and acted as part of an evacuation team that helped travelers get to safety.”
Enrique Lopezlira is a labor economist and director of the Low-Wage Work program at the University of California Berkeley Labor Center.
“The good news is we have seen some wage growth ...,” he said. “There have been more job openings than workers. The problem is some of that wage growth has slowed down and with inflation creeping up, the real purchasing power of the wage has declined.”
Lack of paid sick time
Despite working in a “high-risk environment” during the COVID-19 pandemic, 90% of workers surveyed also said they do not have access to paid sick leave, the union says.
Moreover, the workers face “insurmountable economic pressure to come to work,” with 83% saying they reported to work while sick.
The union said many of the South Florida workers surveyed said they “opt out of their employers health insurance because of deductibles and co-payments. Many prefer to risk being uninsured or pay out of pocket to buy their own insurance.”
Help wanted
As the COVID-19 pandemic has eased its grip on the aviation industry and traveler demand continues a strong rebound, industry employers continue to advertise for workers.
A little more than two weeks from now, more than two dozen businesses at the Fort Lauderdale airport will be seeking new workers during a job fair in Sunrise.
In Broward County, more than 20 employers are scheduled to participate in the airport’s job fair, which is scheduled for Aug. 17 at the FLA Live Arena, home of the Florida Panthers NHL hockey club, 1 Panther Parkway, Sunrise.
Employers, according to an airport statement, “are looking to fill dozens of positions to bolster staffing ahead of the year-end holiday travel season.”
“Currently, FLL is one of the fastest-recovering U.S. airports, with domestic passenger traffic approaching pre-pandemic levels,” the statement says. “In 2021, the airport served nearly 28.1 million passengers.”
Companies looking to hire new workers include airlines, restaurants, retail shops, passenger service firms, government agencies, fixed base operators, cargo handlers, and ground transportation providers, among others.
Those committed to participate thus far include Miramar-based Spirit Airlines, FEDEX Express, the U.S. Transportation Security Administration, Allied Universal Security Service, Jet Aircraft Maintenance, Keolis Transit America, Hudson Group/AMS and Gideon Toal Management Service, operator of airport lounges.
Spirit, according to a hiring website it controls, had a wide range of nearly 160 job openings statewide as of Wednesday. They include first officers, flight attendants, technology specialists, finance and marketing employees, maintenance workers, stock clerks, ramp service (to handle baggage and other tasks) and guest service agents to help greet and check-in passengers among other duties.
The starting pay for the latter two jobs is listed at $16 an hour.
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For all of its positions, the company says its salaries are “competitive” while the benefits are “comprehensive.” The latter include medical, dental, short- and long-term disability and life insurance, a 401(k) retirement plan, paid time off, travel benefits “and much more,” according to the career website.
All told, the package appears to exceed what a worker could get from a third-party contractor.
Time for policy changes?
In Washington, U.S. Sens. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) introduced a bill two months ago called the “Good Jobs for Good Airports Act,” which would lift wages for workers who toil at airports.
The bill seeks a $15 an hour nationwide minimum for airport workers, including those working for contractors, as well as paid time off and at least $4.60 an hour for health insurance.
The measure is supported by the SEIU, Transport Workers Union, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers and others.
“The timing is right for some policy solutions to the gaps between these wages and actual living wages,” said Lopezlira of UC Berkeley.
“We see that unions have the highest support that they’ve had since the ’60s.” he said. “The question is will there be a political will to enact those public policies?” | https://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/fl-bz-airport-worker-wages-20220803-jxyuqbw7kbbedd4bbfodkqwgrq-story.html | 2022-08-03T23:13:43Z | https://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/fl-bz-airport-worker-wages-20220803-jxyuqbw7kbbedd4bbfodkqwgrq-story.html | false | 1 |
A section of Māhia's Nuhaka Opoutama Road dropped away earlier this year following heavy rainfall. The council say climate change appears to be exacerbating erosion in the area. Photo: Ben Cowper / Gisborne Herald
By Matthew Rosenberg, Local Democracy Reporter
The coastal road providing the main access to Māhia Peninsula is slowly dropping into the sea, leaving one concerned resident wondering what plan of action is to be taken.
Nuhaka Opoutama Road connects Hawke's Bay/Wairoa (from the south) and Gisborne (north) with Māhia - a peninsula home to 1100 people which burgeons with holidaymakers over summer.
But road cones have become a familiar sight on the road, where coastal erosion has created slumps and drop-offs, forcing drivers into a single lane at some sections.
At one point, traffic comes within a few metres of a cliff's edge, where the road's shoulder has given away and crumbled onto the beach below.
For Mahia resident Merv Goodley, who has lived in the area for 39 years, seeing the coastline drop into the sea has become normal.
"They've just got to put a new road through ... just shift it all in," he said. "I don't think they can cut inland over the other side of the hill.
"It's stuffed. Beach Loop proves that. It's all dropping into the sea."
Part of the problem was the papa the roads were built on, he said, referring to the East Coast's soft mudstone rock that is prone to crumbling.
Goodley feared Nuhaka Opoutama Road could be destined for the same fate as Beach Loop - an area between Māhia and Gisborne - where the landscape changed significantly after a landslide in November last year.
The area had particular interest to him because of its significance as part of the Napier-Gisborne railroad, which ceased operation in 2012 following severe weather.
In May, the railroad was thrust back into the spotlight when it was revealed Gisborne District Council, Hawke's Bay Regional Council and Wairoa District Council had spent $60,000 on a report looking into a potential reopening.
The Napier-Wairoa section reopened in 2019 but the stretch to Gisborne has remained closed.
Goodley feared holding on to hope for rail reinstatement had come at the expense of Nuhaka Opoutama Road.
At a section before Opoutama, the road has been reduced to a single lane adjacent to the now-unused railway track.
Wairoa District Council told Local Democracy Reporting it was working with KiwiRail, which had agreed to move the rail inland at the blowhole site to allow for shifting the road over.
The council is aware of two new dropouts - one along Blacks Beach, where the road has been reduced to a single lane, and one along Mahia East Coast Road.
Wairoa District Council chief executive Kitea Tipuna said both occurred during the heavy rainfall events of March and April.
"Climate change appears to be exacerbating coastal erosion," Tipuna said.
Coastal erosion and Māhia connectivity had been identified as key areas of the council's land transport activity management plan for 2021-2031, he said.
The Nuhaka Opoutama Road was recognised as a key project in the Hawke's Bay Regional Transport Plan, and the council was also working with external funders to secure 25 percent of an estimated $8.4 million required to strengthen the coastline. The remainder would be funded by Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency.
In 2020, a business case funded by the Provincial Growth Fund found protecting the existing Nuhaka Opoutama Road, including the blowhole dropout, was the best way forward.
Local Democracy Reporting is Public Interest Journalism funded through NZ On Air | https://www.teaomaori.news/mahia-peninsula-road-gives-way-climate-change-blamed | 2022-08-03T23:14:10Z | https://www.teaomaori.news/mahia-peninsula-road-gives-way-climate-change-blamed | true | 2 |
The last year has seen a surge in the popularity and profitability of publisher podcasts and brands are keen to cash in this trend.
We spoke to Shannon Martin, director of communications at Podbean, a major player in podcast hosting, to understand how businesses can improve their chances of success when it comes to podcast.
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Branded podcasts: Why are you here?
“The most important tip before getting started is to understand what the company is trying to accomplish with the podcast. This helps guide decisions such as content, timing, format, and, of course, success metrics.
“For example, a company trying to firmly establish itself as a thought leader and get in front of key contacts probably wants to select an interview format. Just the process of interviewing experts in the field provides new opportunities through deeper connections with the interviewees.
“Other company podcasts may be focused on a specific initiative or an educational series for a target audience of professionals.”
Mathew Rouse, podcast lead at Octave Audio who deal with brands including Absolute, KISS and talkSPORT, agrees with this approach.
“When brands decide to launch their own podcast, the first questions they should always ask are: ‘What story am I trying to tell?’ and ‘Who is actually going to listen to this?’
“Brands usually want to create podcast content simply because they feel they need to, but these can quickly turn into vanity projects. This means when the audience numbers fall short of expectations, trust in the popularity of the media then also plummets.”
Branded podcasts: What are we going to talk about?
“Starting a podcast is easy, but good planning makes the difference between a successful branded podcast and one that falters.
“Remember, a podcast is not an ad. Consider storytelling elements, good flow and sound design, and content designed around your target audience. Content is key for attracting and maintaining an audience. People need to clearly see the benefits of using their time to listen,” says Shannon.
“The key is to elegantly weave a brand into the podcast content. For example, using comedy (one of the most popular genres in the podcast market) as a vehicle to deliver key messaging and using a celebrity host to authentically deliver the strapline.
Brands therefore shouldn’t rely on recognition of their name for success. Known hosts can be crucial as they will already have an inbuilt fan base that can be tapped into for promotion through their own social channels,” continues Mathew.
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Branded podcasts: Where are you?
Discovering a podcast can be more luck than judgement, but to give a branded podcast the best chance then targeted promotion is key.
“Your company should determine how you will promote the podcast, focusing again on who your target listener is and where your efforts will be most fruitful. Don’t forget LinkedIn for promoting amongst professionals.
“It often helps to get the word out to listeners of similar podcasts, by cross-promoting or running promotional ads on podcasts or podcast apps.
“Most importantly, create something valuable for listeners and you will find success. And, remember that success for a branded podcast does not necessarily mean millions of downloads. Even a small listenership can drive big results for a business,” concludes Shannon.
“Podcast discovery is an industry-wide issue and a brand must be prepared to promote any new podcast themselves.
“Whether that be by using their own existing channels or by running ads across other podcasts, listeners are always looking for new recommendations,” confirms Mathew. | https://pressgazette.co.uk/branded-podcasts-audio-specialists/ | 2022-08-03T23:14:30Z | https://pressgazette.co.uk/branded-podcasts-audio-specialists/ | false | 1 |
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s government on Wednesday released its first-ever climate adaptation plan, which includes the possibility of moving some communities to higher ground.
But the six-year plan, which runs nearly 200 pages, comes up short on some important details, including how much the changes will cost and who will pay.
Climate Change Minister James Shaw told reporters that about 70,000 coastal homes in New Zealand were at risk from rising seas, and many more inland homes were at risk from flooding rivers. He said New Zealand had been slow to adapt to climate change, which would end up costing more money over time.
“I am frustrated that for the last three decades, successive governments have not paid any attention in any real form to the challenges that we face from the effects of climate change,” Shaw said. “We had to start somewhere.”
The National Adaptation Plan includes the possible relocation of low-lying homes and assets as rising seas and increased storms make flooding more common.
“In some highly exposed areas, the risk from natural hazard and climate impacts may become intolerable,” the report says. “Inundation of buildings and infrastructure will start to occur, leading to direct damage and loss of some facilities like roads or other lifeline services, and public open space.”
The report says that a “managed retreat” from such areas will often be considered a last resort, to be used in conjunction with other adaptations such as installing seawalls and raising houses on stilts.
Shaw said the costs for adaptation will be borne by a combination of homeowners, insurers, banks, local councils and central government. He said the government was taking hardship into account, and would target help to those least able to pay for changes themselves.
The plan also aims to make granular climate-change data more widely accessible, which in some cases could impact insurance rates and property prices.
Luke Harrington, a senior lecturer in climate change at the University of Waikato, said in a statement the report was a timely reminder that New Zealand needed to contend not only with rising seas, but also with other climate impacts such as more severe droughts and extreme rainfall.
“This National Adaptation Plan is a great first step towards addressing some of these challenges, though paucity remains in some of the details,” he said.
The adaptation plan comes two months after the government released a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, which includes a trial program to help lower-income people scrap their old gas guzzlers and replace them with cleaner hybrid or electric cars.
The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research said that the first six months of 2022 were the second-hottest ever recorded in New Zealand, with temperatures averaging 15 Celsius (59 Fahrenheit), about 1.2 C (2.2 F) above normal. | https://fox40.com/morning/science/ap-science/new-zealand-climate-plan-includes-relocating-some-homes/ | 2022-08-03T23:18:51Z | https://fox40.com/morning/science/ap-science/new-zealand-climate-plan-includes-relocating-some-homes/ | true | 63 |
DALLAS (AP) _ Texas Pacific Land Corporation (TPL) on Wednesday reported profit of $118.9 million in its second quarter.
The Dallas-based company said it had profit of $15.37 per share.
The landowner posted revenue of $176.3 million in the period.
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Daria Saville of Australia garnered another big win in her resurgent season after injuries, ousting No.1 seed and defending champion Jessica Pegula 7-5, 6-4 in the second round of the Citi Open on Wednesday.
Saville is now 3-3 against Top 20 opposition this year, and she notched her second Top 10 win of 2022 with her 1-hour and 38-minute victory over World No.7 Pegula, the American No.1. Saville also earned a Top 10 win over Ons Jabeur at Indian Wells in March.
Comeback continues: Former Top 20 player Saville was ranked as low as World No.627 as recently as February of this year, following Achilles tendon surgery which kept her out of action for almost the entire 2021 season.
But the 28-year-old Aussie has rapidly charged back into the Top 100, bolstered by a quarterfinal run at WTA 1000 Miami and a Round of 16 showing at WTA 1000 Indian Wells.
After beating Pegula in their first meeting, Saville is now into her third quarterfinal of the year, all on hard courts, after Miami and WTA 250 Guadalajara.
Match moments: Pegula was perfect behind her first serve through 4-4, but it went wrong for the defending champion in the following game as Saville broke the top seed at love.
Pegula, who won her first WTA singles title at the most recent edition of the Citi Open in 2019, pulled back level at 5-5, only to drop her serve again and give Saville a 6-5 lead. Saville closed out the one-set lead on her second opportunity.
Saville broke serve in the first game of the second set, but Pegula had six chances to break back over the remainder of the match. Saville saved every one of those break points, never relinquishing her lead as she closed out another Top 10 win.
Marino next: Saville will take on Canadian qualifier Rebecca Marino in the quarterfinals, in their first meeting. World No.111 Marino knocked off a former Top 10 player for the second match in a row, taking out Germany's Andrea Petkovic 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 on Wednesday.
Following a pair of three-set victories in qualifying, 31-year-old Marino started the main draw with a come-from-behind win over former World No.1 Venus Williams, who was playing her first singles match in nearly a full year.
Marino made it a fourth consecutive three-set win this week with her 1-hour and 53-minute upset of World No.68 Petkovic. The Canadian, who has made a comeback after four years off tour between 2014 and 2017, is into her first tour-level quarterfinal since 2018 Quebec City.
Kalinskaya advances after Halep retirement: World No.71 Anna Kalinskaya also booked a spot in the quarterfinals on Wednesday, after former World No.1 Simona Halep retired from their match due to illness while Kalinskaya led 7-5, 2-0.
Halep fought back from 4-0 down in the first set, but the No.3 seed did not hold a 40-0 lead at 5-5, and Kalinskaya broke for 6-5 before serving out the set. Kalinskaya grabbed an early break in the second set before an ailing Halep was unable to continue.
Kalinskaya is now 7-1 at the Citi Open over the last two editions (including qualifying matches). She made the semifinals as a qualifier in the most recent edition of the event in 2019. | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2715128/saville-upsets-pegula-in-washington-ailing-halep-retires | 2022-08-03T23:20:55Z | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2715128/saville-upsets-pegula-in-washington-ailing-halep-retires | true | 2 |
(NEXSTAR) – A “coronal hole” in the sun’s atmosphere could trigger a geomagnetic storm, the effects of which may be felt on Earth on Wednesday, according to the Space Weather Prediction Center.
In an image of the sun shared with Nexstar, the disturbance on the sun’s surface is visible in the bottom right quadrant. There’s another, more defined spot on the sun’s left side.
These coronal holes “appear dark because they are cooler, less dense regions than the surrounding plasma and are regions of open, unipolar magnetic fields,” NOAA explains. “This open, magnetic field line structure allows the solar wind to escape more readily into space, resulting in streams of relatively fast solar wind.”
While some headlines make the occurrence sound like a doomsday-inducing hole in the sun, Rob Steenburgh of NOAA’s Space Weather Forecast office told Nexstar, “They happen all the time and are no cause for alarm.”
This type of disturbance can lead to mild or even moderate geomagnetic storms, Steenburgh said. A minor geomagnetic storm may cause weak fluctuations in the power grid, impact satellite operations on spacecraft, and make aurora displays in the sky visible at high latitudes, like in parts of Michigan and Maine.
Strong geomagnetic storms can cause power blackouts, radio issues and problems with satellite navigation – but that’s nothing like what we’re expecting to see Wednesday.
There are no active warnings related to space weather. | https://wreg.com/news/nation-and-world/geomagnetic-storm-caused-by-a-coronal-hole-on-the-sun-possible-how-it-will-impact-earth/ | 2022-08-03T23:21:23Z | https://wreg.com/news/nation-and-world/geomagnetic-storm-caused-by-a-coronal-hole-on-the-sun-possible-how-it-will-impact-earth/ | false | 24 |
The Herald
Zvamaida Murwira
Senior Reporter
ZIMBABWE will attain a prosperous future and overcome the economic challenges being engineered by its detractors bent on making the economy “scream” through asymmetrical warfare targeting ordinary citizens, President Mnangagwa has said.
In his keynote address at the burial of national hero, Brigadier General Benjamin Mabenge (Retired), at the National Heroes Acre in Harare yesterday, President Mnangagwa said despite evil machinations from the country’s detractors, Zimbabweans will remain masters of their own destiny in charge of their natural resources, which they will exploit towards the attainment of Vision 2030 to become an upper-middle-class economy, as spelt out in the National Development Strategy 1 (NDS1).
Brig-Gen Mabenge, whose Chimurenga nom de guerre was Cde Freddie Matanga, died on Monday in Harare and was declared a national hero owing to his illustrious contribution to the liberation struggle.
President Mnangagwa said while liberation war icons like Cde Mabenge went to the bush to fight the minority Ian Smith regime that had the backing of Western countries, this time the war has assumed a new form.
“While yesteryear the war was fought on the battle front, the Second Republic is well aware of the machinations of our detractors who are fighting us on the economic front. Today they are waging asymmetrical warfare to make our economy scream and our people suffer,” he said.
“Under my watch, they will never succeed, we will never surrender our economy. Against all odds, we will win the economic battle and attain a prosperous future for our people.”
President Mnangagwa said the quest for independence called for strategic innovative and creative thinkers who were able to find practical solutions in the waging of the protracted armed smuggle, something that was shown by a few who included Cde Mabenge.
“As a nation, let us draw from this rich liberation war culture to accelerate the attainment of our National Vision 2030. In doing so, we must remain resolute, determined and focused, particularly in an environment in which our former colonisers and those that seek global hegemony continue to punish us for owning our land and that which is under it.
“Under my leadership and watch, Zimbabweans shall forever be masters of their own destiny, in charge of their rich God-given natural resource endowments. ‘Tisu vene venyika ino. Nyika inotongwa, inovakwa nevene vayo.”
Turning to Cde Mabenge, President Mnangagwa described him as a forthright and articulate man passionate about the well-being and economic development of his country.
“Due to his service to our country before and after independence, it was seen fit to bestow him with the highest honour, hence we are interring him alongside other national heroes and heroines of our liberation struggle,” he said.
“I call upon Zimbabweans to take a leaf from the life of Cde Mabenge of sacrifice and giving honest hard work as a service to your country. Integrity, transparency and accountability should continue to guide both public and private business. In honour of our fallen heroes and heroines, let us therefore, reject, expose, name and shun all forms of corrupt tendencies.”
President Mnangagwa implored State-owned enterprises to be guided by the ethos of the liberation struggle to propel the socio-economic development of the country for the benefit of the people.
“Those cadres deployed to serve in national institutions, parastatals and other related boards must be patriotic and loyal to the national interest,” he said.
Turning to the forthcoming 2023 harmonised elections, President Mnangagwa implored Zimbabweans to jealously safeguard the national unity, peace and development which were championed by the country’s forebearers.
“I, therefore, call upon the nation, all political parties, civil society organisations, the media and private individuals to desist from sowing seeds of hatred, division and violence,” he said.
The President said the death of Cde Mabenge was a huge blow to the nation coming barely a fortnight after losing yet another national hero, Engineer Oliver Chidawu, who was buried at the National Heroes Acre.
He said Cde Mabenge was 11-years-old when the settler regime used the Unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1965 to consolidate their colonial grip on the country.
“Benjamin was 11-years-old when the settler regime led by Ian Douglas Smith used the Unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1965 to consolidate their colonial grip on the country.
“He witnessed first-hand colonial subjugation which sought to entrench whites only privileges while relegating blacks to disenfranchised forced labour in their own motherland,” said President Mnangagwa.
Cde Mabenge was born on August 6, 1954, in Mazvihwa area of Zvishavane district in the Midlands province and went to Copper Queen Primary School.
He later teamed up with other youths and crossed into Mozambique in 1973 to join the armed liberation struggle before moving to Mgagao in Tanzania where he got military training in a group that included the late national hero, Lieutenant General Edzai Absolom Chimonyo, and the current Commander of the Zimbabwe National Army Lieutenant General David Sigauke.
Cde Mabenge was later deployed to work on various projects in Mgagao targeted at the upkeep of cadres during military training in Tanzania.
In 1974, he left Tanzania and joined other freedom fighters on the war front.
In 1976, Cde Mabenge was appointed a Member of the General Staff and subsequently a member of the High Command.
Between 1977 and 1979 he operated in Gaza Province as the Provincial Commander.
Following the country’s independence in 1980, he was attested into the Zimbabwe National Army on March 1, 1981, and rose through the ranks to become Brigadier General.
He did a Senior Officers Orientation Course at the Zimbabwe Military Academy and on completion, he held several appointments one of which was Brigadier General Quarter Master Staff at Army Headquarters Responsible
for Army Logistics.
He was a recipient of several awards that included the Liberation Medal, Independence Medal, Ten Years’ Service Medal, Long, and Exemplary Service Medal, Mozambican Campaign, and the Grand Officer of the Zimbabwe Order of Merit Award.
Cde Mabenge did various tertiary courses in business administration and management.
Upon his retirement, he was deployed to several national boards, including the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation and Zimbabwe Defence Forces Services Commission.
Between 2010 and 2014, he also served as Deputy General Manager for Anjin Diamond Mining Company.
He was also a strong and active member of the ruling party Zanu PF where he held several portfolios. | https://www.herald.co.zw/we-will-win-economic-war-president/ | 2022-08-03T23:21:52Z | https://www.herald.co.zw/we-will-win-economic-war-president/ | true | 1 |
New chancellor Nadhim Zahawi set for crunch talks with billionaire Masayoshi Son over bringing Arm back to London
- The Chancellor will meet the SoftBank chairman this month as Zahawi looks to resume the charm offensive started by Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson
- SoftBank is in the process of listing Arm on the public markets, after buying the British tech giant in 2016 but so far, Son leans towards a US float
- Sources say Zahawi wrote to Son two weeks ago requesting a meeting, following SoftBank's decision in July to halt plans to explore a listing of Arm in the UK
Nadhim Zahawi is set for crunch talks with billionaire Masayoshi Son over bringing Arm back to London.
The Chancellor will meet the SoftBank chairman this month as Zahawi looks to resume the charm offensive started by Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson.
SoftBank is in the process of listing Arm on the public markets, after buying the British tech giant in 2016. But so far, Son leans towards a US float.
Nadhim Zahawi is set for crunch talks with billionaire Masayoshi Son, pictured, over bringing Arm back to London
Sources say Zahawi wrote to Son two weeks ago requesting a meeting, following SoftBank's decision in July to halt plans to explore a listing of Arm in the UK during the political turmoil.
Having Arm list in London is a top priority for Zahawi, who became Chancellor on July 5, and would be a major boost for the London Stock Exchange.
A source told the Mail: 'It is no surprise this high on the agenda for Zahawi. He's a swashbuckling character who likes to make things happen.'
Hopes are that Zahawi will convince billionaire Son to float Arm in London, or at the very least have a secondary listing in the capital. Analysts estimate Arm would float with a market value of £34bn, which would make it the largest tech company in London, more than four times the size of the current leader Ocado.
It is understood Son will make a decision this summer, and has become increasingly frustrated by the chopping and changing at the heart of the Government. Former investment minister Lord Grimstone was leading discussions with SoftBank along with ex-tech minister Chris Philp, but both have resigned.
Sources say Zahawi wrote to Son two weeks ago requesting a meeting, following SoftBank's decision in July to halt plans to explore a listing of Arm in the UK during the political turmoil
SoftBank halted talks on a London listing as a result, and the source said messages from ministers are going unanswered. Andrew Griffith, an ex-Sky executive and now minister for exports, is said to be helping with the renewed efforts.
The source said: 'Son wants reassurances from the UK and he wants clarity. He had a particularly good relationship with Gerry Grimstone who was doing a good job championing London and convincing Son.'
Zahawi faces an uphill battle as Son told the annual meeting in June that the Nasdaq was the favoured destination. Son said he had received 'a strong love call' from London, after months of intense lobbying.
Efforts included meeting former Chancellor Mr Sunak, while in June Grimstone flew to Tokyo to meet SoftBank executives. The Prime Minister wrote to SoftBank executives in May. Arm was listed in London until it was bought by SoftBank for £24bn in 2016.
The Japanese conglomerate was pushed into floating it again after US chip giant Nvidia abandoned a £32bn takeover bid this year. Arm was founded in 1990 and is based in Cambridge. It designs the processors that run virtually every smartphone on the planet and its customers include Apple, Qualcomm and Samsung Electronics. It employs 6,400 people globally, 3,500 of them in the UK.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has filed its first legal challenge to a state abortion ban since the end of Roe v. Wade, arguing Idaho’s restrictive abortion law leaves doctors facing criminal penalties for providing abortion-related medical care to women in life-threatening medical situations.
The Justice Department may have a strong argument in the Idaho case filed under federal health care law, but even if they win it wouldn’t allow full access to abortion there, legal experts said. It could, though, give doctors more latitude to provide an abortion in an emergency or a situation that could become one.
But Texas is already pushing back with another lawsuit over the same federal statute, arguing federal health-care law doesn’t allow for abortion-related care banned under state law.
Here’s a look at how the dueling cases could affect the fraught medical and legal landscape after the Supreme Court overturned the nationwide right to abortion:
WHAT DOES THE FEDERAL LAW SAY?
The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, or EMTALA, went into effect in 1986 and was aimed at making sure people could get emergency care regardless of their ability to pay. It’s been at the center of court battles before.
In the 1992 case of “Baby K,” for example, a court sided with parents who said the federal law required a hospital to keep treating a baby born without a cerebral cortex, even though doctors said it would be medically futile and cited a state law in support, said Lindsay Wiley, a law professor and director of the Health Law and Policy Program at UCLA Law.
Hospitals that violate the emergency treatment act could lose access to payments from Medicare, a major blow.
The Idaho lawsuit comes after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued similar guidance, saying hospitals must provide abortion services in emergencies or situations that could become emergencies.
DON’T ABORTION LAWS ALREADY HAVE HEALTH EXCEPTIONS?
Many abortion bans, including the law set to go into effect in Idaho, are written to allow abortions if a pregnant person’s life is at risk. But they don’t always say exactly what that means, and some doctors say the laws are so vague that it’s hard to know when the exceptions apply. Notably, Idaho’s exception is written so that it can only be used as a defense in a criminal trial, after the doctor has been charged.
The deep uncertainty and possible criminal charges against doctors have already had profound repercussions in reproductive medicine and other areas of medical care.
“The risk of criminal prosecution is one of the most extreme, most heavy handed things that law can do. It has a huge chilling effect,” Wiley said. “It’s not surprising that clinicians, if they were only focusing on state law, would be very hesitant to do what they’ve always done to provide standard of care.”
The federal emergency-medical treatment act, by contrast, has a wider definition of emergency care and stabilization, as well as a specific set of rules and policies developed over three decades.
Idaho Gov. Brad Little, a Republican, said the Supreme Court gave states the sole ability to regulate abortion and he would defend the law against federal overreach.
WHO WILL WIN? WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
Federal law trumps state law under the U.S. Constitution, and that includes the federal emergency-care law, said Allison Hoffman, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and expert on health-care law.
“That’s a pretty strong argument,” she said. “But I think that this case will get to the Supreme Court, and it’s really hard to predict what will happen when it gets there.”
James Blumstein, a health-care law expert at Vanderbilt University, said the emergency-care law tied to a federal spending program is fundamentally different from state abortion bans that carry criminal penalties. The federal law, meanwhile, applies mostly to hospitals while abortion bans are typically aimed at doctors. “I could not advise a doctor to violate state law under the circumstances,” he said in an email.
If the Justice Department wins, it would likely allow abortion care in a wider set of circumstances – but there would still likely be a big legal gray area for doctors and hospitals. “This is really squishy territory. What does it mean to have a condition so that the absence of immediate medical attention could be reasonably expected to result in placing the health of somebody in serious jeopardy?” Hoffman said.
Many other lawsuits are playing out in Idaho and the rest of the country over abortion. Democratic President Joe Biden is also taking other steps to allow people to keep getting abortions, including signing an executive order Wednesday aimed in part at making it easier for women to travel between states to get abortions.
WHAT ABOUT THE TEXAS LAWSUIT?
Texas sued the federal government last month over the guidance from Department of Health and Human Services under the same federal law. The state argued the guidance disregards the state legislative process and leaves doctors and hospitals vulnerable to losing their licenses or being charged with crimes under state law.
Texas officials also argued that the administration wants to “transform every emergency room in the country into a walk-in abortion clinic” and the federal emergency care law should have doctors considering how to preserve “the life or health of an unborn child.”
A near-total abortion law enforced by the threat of civil lawsuits went into effect in Texas last year, and another law carrying criminal penalties is set to go effect in the coming weeks.
Those arguments could get traction with judges there, said Elizabeth Sepper, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law. If the Biden administration prevails, it would apply in an urgent but fairly narrow set of circumstances.
“EMTALA doesn’t create a right to treatment or a right to go around the abortion ban, but it will provide some reassurance to emergency room doctors,” she said. | https://www.rochesterfirst.com/news/health/explainer-does-health-care-law-protect-emergency-abortion/ | 2022-08-03T23:24:37Z | https://www.rochesterfirst.com/news/health/explainer-does-health-care-law-protect-emergency-abortion/ | false | 33 |
To Participate in Public Tender of Macau Gaming Concession
Full Confidence in Macau Future Development
HONG KONG, Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MGM China Holdings Limited ("MGM China" or the "Company"; SEHK Stock Code: 2282) today announced selected unaudited financial data of the Company and its subsidiaries (the "Group") for the second quarter and the first half of 2022.
Macau and Greater China are under the adverse impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2022. We saw customer demand pick up during the Chinese New Year. However, the COVID-19 resurgence first in mainland China started at end-March followed by local outbreak in Macau at end-June, led to safeguard measures as well as enhanced travel and border controls that severely constrained Macau visitation.
Macau total visitor arrivals and the total visitation from mainland China both decreased by 12% for the first six months in 2022 from a year ago.
For the first half of 2022, Macau gross gaming revenue (GGR) was down by 46% from the same period last year. Headline GGR in the second quarter hit the lowest level since the border opened, down 67% year-on-year and 52% quarter-to-quarter MOP8.5 billion or MOP93 million per day, representing 12% of 19Q4 pre-COVID level.
- During the first half of the year, MGM China recorded total revenue of approximately HK$3.2 billion, compared to HK$4.7 billion same period a year ago. The Group recorded negative adjusted EBITDA of approximately HK$337 million, compared to adjusted EBITDA of approximately HK$200 million previously. Overall occupancy rate was 37.6%, compared to 61.5% same period last year.
- For the second quarter, MGM China posted revenue of HK$1.1 billion (22Q1: HK$2.1 billion). The Group recorded negative adjusted property EBITDA of HK$382 million, compared to adjusted EBTIDA of HK$46 million in the first quarter.
- MGM China maintained market share of 13.6% for the first half of the year, up from 11.4% a year ago. Second-quarter market share rose to 14.3% from 13.3% in first quarter with our strength in premium mass business. Our daily GGR in second quarter was 18% of 19Q4 pre-pandemic levels, compared to 12% market levels. Our team is working to control costs while positioning our properties to capture opportunities in premium mass business as demand returns in the longer term.
- The Group maintained a healthy financial position. As of June 30, 2022, the Group had total liquidity of approximately HK$10.7 billion, comprised of cash and cash equivalent and undrawn revolver.
The COVID-19 pandemic continued to have significant impacts on Macau and our business during the reporting period. This is an unprecedented global public health crisis and we place high importance on the health and safety of our employees, guests and all Macau citizens as the fight against this pandemic continues.
During the reporting period, Macau has made significant progress over the amendment of gaming law and set preparation for the retendering of gaming concession.
The Macau Government had extended in June the six concession and sub-concession contracts for six months up to December 31, 2022. Earlier in January, the Government announced a bill to amend the gaming law, as a necessary precedent step to the retendering. In June, the new gaming law was approved by the Macau Legislative Assembly and published in the Official Gazette.
On July 1, the Macau Chief Executive approved Administrative Regulation 28/2022 which sets up the rules for the retendering of the Macau gaming concessions, covering details of the bidding for gaming concessions, the qualifications of bidding companies and the criteria for granting. On July 28, the Chief Executive Dispatch was published, announced the opening of the public tender.
The Group intends to submit a bid for a gaming concession and believes we are in position to satisfy the relevant requirements set out by the Macau Government relating to the tender for a gaming concession.
Kenneth Feng, President, Strategic & Chief Financial Officer of MGM China said: "We have full confidence in the future development of the Macau. We are ready and will actively participate in the public tender of Macau gaming concession. MGM will continue to unswervingly support the Macau Government to promote economic diversification, helping Macau further consolidate its position as a World Center of Tourism and Leisure as well as scale new heights for its economic development."
About MGM China Holdings Limited
MGM China Holdings Limited (HKEx: 2282) is a leading developer, owner and operator of gaming and lodging resorts in the Greater China region. We are the holding company of MGM Grand Paradise, SA which holds one of the six gaming concessions/sub-concessions to run casino games in Macau. MGM Grand Paradise, SA owns and operates MGM MACAU, the award-winning premium integrated resort located on the Macau Peninsula and MGM COTAI, a contemporary luxury integrated resort in Cotai, which opened in early 2018 and more than doubles our presence in Macau.
MGM China is majority owned by MGM Resorts International (NYSE: MGM) one of the world's leading global hospitality companies, operating a portfolio of destination resort brands including Bellagio, MGM Grand, Mandalay Bay and The Mirage. For more information about MGM Resorts International, visit the Company's website at www.mgmresorts.com.
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Which women’s life jacket is best?
As the summer wears on and temperatures continue to hit record levels around the globe, a popular way to cool off and have fun is to leap into the water. But the water holds many dangers, and it’s frighteningly easy to suddenly find yourself in danger. Don’t take risks. Always wear a life jacket.
The best women’s life jacket is the Onyx MoveVent Dynamic Paddle Sports CGA Life Vest. It’s highly breathable so you can feel comfortable while you’re on the water for long periods.
What to know before you buy a women’s life jacket
Women’s life jacket types
There are four types of life jackets and one additional type of personal floatation device.
- Type I jackets are meant for use on the open ocean and especially in rough or stormy water. They have very high buoyancy, typically 20 to 35 pounds worth, to keep you floating for extended periods. This type isn’t often available to the general public and is most commonly found on commercial vessels.
- Type II jackets are the most basic, usually meant for short-term or emergency use. They have at least 15 pounds of buoyancy.
- Type III jackets are more advanced and are typically used for water sports in lakes or on an ocean’s shoreline. They are more comfortable and feature-rich than type II jackets but won’t help you float any better, as they share the same buoyancy.
- Type IV aren’t jackets at all, but throwable floatation devices such as cushions, tubes and rings.
- Type V jackets are a special class mostly used by Coast Guard rescue teams, so you can’t buy one. They have the same high buoyancy as type I jackets.
Fit
Most life jackets are unisex, though a handful cater to women by having more chest space. Finding the right fit is usually as simple as measuring your chest and picking the appropriate size on the jacket’s sizing chart.
Keep in mind that a life jacket is supposed to fit tightly and shouldn’t be able to shift. If you tighten a jacket all the way and it’s shifting, you need a smaller size.
What to look for in a quality women’s life jacket
Coast Guard approval
The best life jackets are officially approved, and recognized as effective personal floatation devices, by the Coast Guard. If a jacket is Coast Guard approved it’s clearly and explicitly stated in the product description. If you don’t see the approval, do not buy the jacket.
Reflective zones
If an accident happens late and sunlight is fading or gone, having reflective zones on a life jacket can be as important to your rescue as the jacket’s buoyancy. If there is even the slightest chance you’ll be on the water at night, make sure you have some.
How much you can expect to spend on a women’s life jacket
They can cost as little as $10 or as much as $150. Type II jackets cost the least, usually no more than $50. Type III jackets typically start around $30-$40 and get more expensive the more comfortable and feature-rich they are.
Women’s life jacket FAQ
Do I need a life jacket with more buoyancy the heavier I weigh?
A. Not necessarily. No matter if your body weight comes from fat or muscle, even a life jacket with 15 pounds of buoyancy should be enough. If you’re still worried, you can always use a life jacket with 20-25 pounds of buoyancy.
How long does a life jacket last?
A. Life jackets are built to be tough and last for years, but you still need to maintain them. This is as simple as giving them a thorough rinse after every trip and storing them in a cool, dry place out of direct sunlight. Do this and the average life jacket should last for at least five years.
What’s the best women’s life jacket to buy?
Top women’s life jacket
Onyx MoveVent Dynamic Paddle Sports CGA Life Vest
What you need to know: If you’re on the water more than you’re on land, it’s hard to do better than this jacket.
What you’ll love: The lower back is all mesh to increase breathability, and there are multiple points of adjustment so you can be sure it will fit perfectly. It has several reflective straps and a safety whistle is attached for emergencies. It comes in four colors.
What you should consider: A few consumers found the whistle to be lacking. Those with especially large chests may find the vest uncomfortable.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Dick’s Sporting Goods
Top women’s life jacket for the money
Airhead Type II Keyhole Life Jacket
What you need to know: This basic life jacket is a great choice for the occasional trip.
What you’ll love: Having buoyancy only in the front ensures that an unconscious person will float face up. The adult size fits chests of 30 to 52 inches and the oversized size fits chests of 50-60 inches. It comes in classic orange or American flag colors.
What you should consider: This isn’t meant for extended use but rather for emergencies or short durations. Some customers found it rubbed uncomfortably at their necks.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
O’Brien Women’s Impulse Neo Life Vest
What you need to know: This is another great jacket for those who love being on the water.
What you’ll love: It comes in several sizes and has two straps for adjusting the fit across the abdomen. It has a small loop for attaching safety items such as knives and whistles.
What you should consider: A few purchasers struggled to keep it from riding up in the back. Others suggested that women order a size up for more chest space.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Colonial Forge’s Matt Hartley and Makayla Grubbs each shot 72 to earn medalist honors at Monday’s season-opening Bear Invitational high school golf tournament at Fawn Lake.
Hartley won a tiebreaker against Battlefield’s Will Sear for boys’ medalist honors. Riverbend’s Dyllan Bell finished a shot behind.
Grubb finished four shots ahead of her closest female competitor, Langley’s Emily Wang.
Battlefield was declared team champion in a tiebreaker after the Bobcats and Colonial Forge tied with team scores of 306. Host Riverbend was third in in the 12-team field at 319.
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They demand higher pay and better working conditions
Airbus has revoked its entire outstanding order from Qatar Airways for A350 jets, severing all new jetliner business with the Gulf carrier in a dramatic new twist to a dispute clouding World Cup preparations, two industry sources said.
No comment was immediately available from Airbus or Qatar Airways.
The two aviation titans have been waging a rare public battle for months over the scarred condition of more than 20 long-haul jets that the airline says could pose a risk to passengers and which Airbus insists are completely safe.
Qatar Airways, which was the first airline to introduce the intercontinental jet to the skies in 2015, is suing Airbus for at least $1.4 billion after almost half its A350 fleet was grounded by Qatar's regulator over premature surface damage.
It has refused to take delivery of more A350s until it receives a deeper explanation of damaged or missing patches of anti-lightning mesh left exposed by peeling paint.
Backed by European regulators, Airbus has acknowledged quality problems on the jets but denied any safety risk from gaps in the protective sub-layer, saying there is ample backup.
Until now, the dispute has had a piecemeal effect on the order book for Europe's biggest twin-engined jet as first Airbus, then Qatar Airways, terminated some individual jets.
Now, however, Airbus has told the airline it is striking the rest of the A350 deal from its books, the sources said, asking not to be identified as discussions remain confidential.
At end-June, the European planemaker had outstanding orders from Qatar Airways for 19 of the largest version of the jet, the 350-passenger A350-1000, worth at least $7 billion at catalogue prices or closer to $3 billion after typical industry discounts.
The sweeping new A350 cancellation comes six months after Airbus also revoked the whole contract for 50 smaller A321neo jets in retaliation for Qatar refusing to take A350 deliveries.
The spillover to a different model was branded "worrying" by the head of a body representing global airlines, the International Air Transport Association. read more
The latest move is likely to widen a rift between two of the flagship companies of close allies France and Qatar.
Barring an elusive settlement, the dispute is already set for a rare corporate trial in London next June.
It comes as the airline industry grapples with an uneven recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic and as Qatar Airways is preparing to handle the bulk of some 1.2 million visitors expected for the FIFA World Cup in November and December.
Airbus has argued that the airline is using the dispute to bolster its finances and reduce its fleet of costly long-haul jets as its target long-haul market recovers sluggishly.
Qatar Airways, which in June posted its first annual profit since 2017, maintains it needs more capacity for the World Cup, forcing it to lease planes and bring less efficient A380s out of retirement to plug a gap left by grounded A350s.
The row centres on whether the A350's problems - including what appears to be damage to parts of the wings, tail and hull according to two jets seen by Reuters - stem from a cosmetic issue or, as the airline claims, a design defect. read more
A Reuters investigation in November revealed that several other airlines had found surface damage since 2016, the second year of A350 operations, prompting Airbus to accelerate studies of an alternative mesh that also saves weight. read more .
So far, however, none of the A350's other roughly three dozen operators has joined Qatar in voicing concerns over safety as a result of surface flaws, as they continue to fly the jet.
They demand higher pay and better working conditions
Restriction on airline's operation for eight weeks
Onboard warning system helps PIA pilots correct course and avoid collision
This is in response to high demand for travel to, from Israel
The carrier has grounded 678 flights at Frankfurt, 345 flights at Munich
Demand rises with less than 130 days to go until the event
Defense workers to strike in St Louis area over pay issues
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Dubbed the empress of reggae music, long time musical sensation Marcia Griffiths began her professional singing career in 1964 at age 15, with Byron Lee and the Dragonaires band.
Philip James of The Blues Busters, who heard her singing in her neighbourhood, introduced her to the mainstream music industry. Clement Dodd later offered her a signing opportunity, and she released her debut song, Feel like jumping in 1978 under Coxsone Dodd’s Studio One label. While there, she released several duets including Young, Gifted, And Black in 1970 and The Pied Piper in 1971 as half of the duo, Bob and Marcia.
Following the success of her duet, she launched her solo career on the High Note label, working with one of reggae’s only established female producers, Sonia Pottinger, on many tracks. She produced several hit songs and two well-known albums, Naturally and Stepping.
In 1974, Griffiths joined forces with Rita Marley and Judy Mowatt to form the I-Threes. Together, they were integral members of Bob Marley’s entourage. Even as she toured with this important group, she continued to develop her solo singing career.
When her massive single Electric Boogie was released in 1982, Griffiths became a household name on a global scale. When it was initially released, the song topped the Jamaican charts and later became popular in Washington, DC when a disc jockey started playing the song and it was added to the station’s regular rotation list.
The song then inspired the creation of the cool, chic, and simple dance moves of the Electric Slide. The dance proved to be a boon that led to a huge increase in music sales. The song and dance have also been featured on several international television shows, including the Oprah Winfrey show and Black Entertainment TV (BET).
Speaking on her influence and experience in the industry, “It’s been a rough, tough job standing up as a woman in this business. My views on women in reggae are positive; most of the new or upcoming female singers in reggae started out singing my songs before doing their own originals. I feel very good about that; to know that I have influenced my people positively,” Griffiths said in an interview recorded on Last FM.
In 2002 when Jamaica celebrated its 40th year of independence, Marcia received the Prime Minister’s Award of Excellence. She was also awarded the Jamaican Order of Distinction in 2014 for her contribution to reggae music. Marcia will celebrate 58 years of music this year and she continues to support her community through the Marcia Griffiths Foundation. | https://www.caribbeannationalweekly.com/jamaica-trinidad-60/the-empress-of-reggae-music-marcia-griffiths/ | 2022-08-03T23:38:35Z | https://www.caribbeannationalweekly.com/jamaica-trinidad-60/the-empress-of-reggae-music-marcia-griffiths/ | true | 1 |
(WSYR) — Those who lived in the 80s certainly hold some unforgettable memories that no one else can fully understand. The 80s were filled with poofy hair, vibrant clothing, rock n’ roll … and a lot of unsafe or unethical actions that were legal at the time.
In today’s world, parents are much more aware of the dangers that can come from things they went through when they were younger. Some people look back at the experiences as “character building” moments, but others might see them as inhumane or morally wrong.
Either way, whoever grew up in the 80s survived through some bad ideas — which influenced some things on what not to do as a parent.
Below is a list of some of the craziest things allowed in the 80s that aren’t allowed today.
1. Having kids buy your cigarettes and lottery tickets
Shorenewsnetwork.com shares that it was totally acceptable to have your children go into a store to buy a pack of cigarettes for you. During the time, children as young as 10 could go and pick up a few lottery tickets as well. Today, you must be at least 18 years old to purchase either of these — usually, regardless of age, the cashier will also ID you.
2. Allowing your children to play outside unsupervised, only yelling for them when dinner was ready
During the 80s it was not uncommon to go outside unsupervised, and many kids would stray from their homes. Playing outside could mean going to your friend’s house down the street or to the local playground. Usually, the only actual rule you may have had was to stay within earshot so that way you could hear when you were being called inside by a parent for dinner!
Another sign for kids to get home would be when the street lights started turning on. If you came home too early or too late, you may have gotten the next thing on the list!
3. Spanking
According to throwbacks.com, the idea of “spare the rod, spoil the child” was considered a totally reasonable method of discipline. Christianity.com explains that the saying derives from a term pitted in The Bible’s Book of Proverbs: “Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you punish them with the rod, they will not die.”
If a child was being unruly, it wasn’t uncommon to see a family member, friend, or even a teacher spank the child. Parents who discipline their kids physically today, however, could be accused of child abuse.
4. Hitchhiking
Although hitchhiking was more prominent in the late 60s and into the 70s, there was still hitchhiking in the early 80s, according to shorenewsnetwork.com. Hitchhiking is obviously very unsafe, but back then, if you really wanted to get somewhere and couldn’t get a family or friend on board with your plan, hitchhiking was the way to go.
Today, society has become more aware of all the dangers that comes with hitchhiking, including abduction and murder. By the end of the 80s, hitchhiking faded out of style, possibly because of Hollywood creating movies like “The Hitcher” and the HBO series “The Hitchhiker” as shorenewsnetwork.com cited.
5. Riding in the back of a pickup truck
In today’s society, people are not allowed to ride on main roads in the back of a pickup truck in a number of states as it is highly dangerous and could lead to death. However, in the 80s, people would ride in the back part of the truck anywhere, including on highways. Parents would allow their children — and even their children’s friends — to ride in the back of the truck if they needed to go somewhere and didn’t have enough seats in the cab.
Nowadays, people can still do this if they are going a short distance, like at a beach or in a park. However, according to shorenewsnetwork.com, riding in the back of a pickup truck can result in fines and points on your license. Those who are 18 and older can still ride in a bed of a truck. Dui.info explains that those of legal age can consent to riding in the bed of the truck. If anyone 18 and younger is found in the bed, drivers will automatically be guilty of misdemeanor and will receive violations.
Some states still allow you to ride in the back of a pickup truck with no issue: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
6. Car Safety
According to throwbacks.com, a lot of safety regulations were more like suggestions … suggestions that most people ignored. Although seatbelts were invented in the 19th century, some people didn’t have seatbelts in their cars until 1968. It took until 1995 for all states within the U.S. (besides New Hampshire) to enforce the “Click It or Ticket” laws.
A lot of children in the 80s would ride up front and without a seatbelt — which inevitably meant that if the car were to crash, the child would ultimately be launched forward, with potentially fatal results.
Today, all cars require seatbelts and car seats for children of age. Parents can get major violations against them if authorities witness this act.
7. Giving children beer for fun and for pain relief
Although not everyone participated in giving children alcohol for “fun,” this was still happening in the 80s. According to vinepair.com, some parents would give their children alcohol to help them “calm” down. For those who had teething babies, they would stick with the old whiskey on the gums idea created in the 1800s. This would allegedly act as a numbing agent to help the baby with their teething pain.
Parents can now use products like Gripe Water to help soothe a cranky baby, there are also gel supplements to rub on a babies gums like Baby Orajel, which does actually numb the babies pain. | https://www.abc27.com/national/things-in-the-80s-that-are-unacceptable-in-todays-society/ | 2022-08-03T23:40:31Z | https://www.abc27.com/national/things-in-the-80s-that-are-unacceptable-in-todays-society/ | true | 29 |
NEW YORK (AP) _ Cowen Group Inc. (COWN) on Wednesday reported second-quarter profit of $14.2 million.
The New York-based company said it had earnings of 41 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring gains, were 12 cents per share.
The financial services company posted revenue of $302.4 million in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $268.6 million, beating Street forecasts.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Nashville firefighters were busy most of Wednesday afternoon putting out a fire outside of a recycling center in North Nashville.
The fire was reported in the 700 block of 19th Avenue North.
Firefighters contained the fire, but officials say smoke is expected to be seen in the area for quite some time.
No injuries were reported. | https://www.newschannel5.com/news/firefighters-battle-fire-outside-nashville-recycling-center | 2022-08-03T23:44:10Z | https://www.newschannel5.com/news/firefighters-battle-fire-outside-nashville-recycling-center | true | null |
A woman with an open bottle of Jack Daniel's whiskey in a bag was arrested for driving a golf cart on Florida’s busiest interstate while drunk, according to an arrest report.
The 58-year-old woman was arrested Saturday night on the shoulder of Interstate 95. She is now facing misdemeanor charges of disorderly intoxication in a public place and resisting an officer without violence.
According to a Florida Highway Patrol report, a semitruck driver spotted the woman driving in the golf cart in the center lane of Interstate 95 in Brevard County, which is the heart of Florida's Space Coast. The truck driver used her semi to steer the golf cart driver to the shoulder of the interstate, troopers said.
Once on the shoulder, the truck driver grabbed the keys to the golf cart as the woman tried to drive away. Once troopers arrived at the scene, the woman started arguing with them and insisted she needed her bag. Inside the bag, troopers found an open bottle of Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Fire Whiskey, authorities said.
Interstate 95, which stretches up and down the East Coast, is Florida's busiest interstate highway, according to the Federal Highway Administration. | https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/national-international/drunk-woman-drove-golf-cart-on-i-95-in-florida-troopers/3014999/ | 2022-08-03T23:45:35Z | https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/national-international/drunk-woman-drove-golf-cart-on-i-95-in-florida-troopers/3014999/ | false | 26 |
They announced on their Twitter profile: “Have you seen Fabian?
“He’s missing from Hove.
“Fabian is white, 5’ 4” and slim. He has short, dark hair and was last seen wearing a black zip-up jacket, a white t-shirt, blue jeans and black Nike trainers.”
Anyone with information can make a report online at sussex.police.uk or call 101, quoting 1317 of 02/08. | https://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/missing-man-from-hove-was-last-seen-wearing-a-black-zip-up-jacket-say-police-3792882 | 2022-08-03T23:46:10Z | https://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/missing-man-from-hove-was-last-seen-wearing-a-black-zip-up-jacket-say-police-3792882 | true | null |
Editor’s note: This article mentions and discusses child abduction and death.
Canada isn’t the only country to have Amber Alerts. The emergency broadcast system is used in many European and Asian countries, as well as in the US, where it originated.
On January 13, 1996, 9-year-old Amber Rene Hagerman was abducted in Arlington, Texas. Her lifeless body was recovered just two days later.
Investigators determined Amber was murdered.
The brutal killing of Amber shook the nation, and led to the development of an eponymous alert system created to quicken the process of locating missing children who could be at risk of being harmed, or worse, killed.
According to missingkids.ca, the system was initially a joint effort between law enforcement agencies and media broadcasters, and used to alert the public, in case someone had seen something and could help recover the child in question.
A backronym was later created for the “AMBER” Alert system — America’s Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response. The Alert was adopted worldwide, sometimes under more regionally relevant names.
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In Canada, Amber Alerts are used quite often to facilitate police investigations, and while there’s a national set of criteria to warrant one, factors behind it can vary provincially and depend on decisions made by local Amber Alert committees. That said, only law enforcement can issue such an alert.
Community members may be alerted through their mobile phone, TV, radio, and even social media apps, such as Facebook. They’re also coming to Instagram soon.
Here are the basic requirements to issue an Amber Alert, according to missingkids.ca:
- The child is under the age of 18.
- A belief that the child has been abducted.
- A belief that the child is in grave danger.
- Information is available that may help locate the child and/or the abductor (e.g., description of the child, the suspect, or the vehicle driven by the abductor).
- That the alert be issued within a reasonable amount of time from the moment of the abduction.
Here are the mandatory conditions that must be met in major Canadian provinces to issue Amber Alerts, according to local law enforcement:
Ontario
- Law enforcement agency believes a child under 18 years of age has been abducted.
- Law enforcement agency believes the child is in danger.
- There is descriptive information about one or more of the following:
- Child
- Abductor
- Vehicle
- There is a belief that an immediate broadcast alert will help in locating the child.
British Columbia
- The victim is under the age of 18.
- Police have reasonable grounds to believe that the victim has been abducted.
- Police have reasonable grounds to believe the victim is in imminent danger.
- Police have obtained enough descriptive information about the victim, abductor and/or the vehicle involved.
- Police believe that the alert can be issued in a time frame that will provide a reasonable expectation that the child can be returned or the abductor apprehended.
Alberta
- A child or an adult with a proven mental or physical disability has been abducted.
- The child or adult is in danger of serious harm or death.
- There’s enough descriptive information to enable the public to identify the:
- Child or adult
- Abductor, or
- Mode of transportation
- There’s a reasonable expectation the abductee could be returned, or the abductor could be apprehended.
Quebec
- The police force has reasonable grounds to believe that a child (someone under 18 years of age) has been abducted.
- The circumstances of the abduction indicate that the child is in danger of serious physical injury or death.
- The police force has sufficient descriptive information about one or more of the following elements to consider that the immediate broadcast of the alert will help in finding the child:
- The child
- The suspect
- The means of transportation used
If you receive an Amber Alert, missingkids.ca urges that you read it carefully, stay on the lookout for the child, the suspect, or the vehicle described, and call the police immediately if you see or hear anything relevant. | https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/amber-alerts-system-canada-history | 2022-08-03T23:46:29Z | https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/amber-alerts-system-canada-history | false | 1 |
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Ipsen, S.A. (FormSC TO-T) (Amended)
Accepted:
Form Type:
SC TO-T/A
Accession Number:
0001193125-22-208979 | https://www.benzinga.com/secfilings/22/08/28301392/ipsen-s-a-formsc-to-t-amended | 2022-08-03T23:47:07Z | https://www.benzinga.com/secfilings/22/08/28301392/ipsen-s-a-formsc-to-t-amended | false | 254241 |
AALBORG, Denmark, Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Asetek A/S today provided an update to its full-year 2022 revenue and operating income expectations and on recent operational developments:
- Full-year guidance temporarily suspended due to reduced visibility on OEM customer and end-user demand for Gaming & Enthusiast products as rising inflation and interest rates add to a continued uncertain and challenging business climate
- Organizational rightsizing implemented to reduce operating costs and improve efficiency
- Allocating resources to accelerate SimSports product development
- Preliminary second quarter revenue of $17 million and operating income of $0 million
Rising inflation and interest rates have recently added to the continued impact of pandemic lockdowns, supply chain disturbances and general geo-political tensions, delaying a normalization of the business climate. The effects are reduced discretionary consumer spending with decreased demand for the Company's Gaming & Enthusiast products. In addition, the Company experiences reduced visibility, caused by significantly increased volatility, in the forecasts provided by OEM customers for the second half of the year.
Due to the increased uncertainty, the Company has suspended its revenue and operating income guidance for 2022, beyond that revenue and operating income will likely be below previously communicated expectations. Previous guiding framed a revenue development in the range between a 5% decrease and 15% increase, and operating income in the range from -$1 to +$5 million. The Company will resume guidance when it has a more certain basis for providing full-year expectations.
"Inflation and rising interest rates are directly affecting demand and adds to the lingering headwinds and supply chain disturbances created by shutdowns in China, shipping bottlenecks and the invasion of Ukraine. The weaker market outlook and probable OEM inventory reductions for our Gaming & Enthusiast products has led to reduced visibility going forward and our decision to temporarily suspend guidance," said André Sloth Eriksen, CEO and founder of Asetek. "Despite being part of an industry with volatile markets and varying visibility, Asetek has over time provided guidance to ensure transparency around future expectations. In the current extraordinary environment, we need to be transparent when it comes to the shorter-term uncertainty related to our full-year 2022 numbers. We do however expect to make a loss this year, leading us to optimize our cost base as announced today", Sloth Eriksen added.
To reduce costs and drive efficiencies, the company has laid off 52 full-time employees in Asia, the US and Denmark, with an expected annual cost reduction of $4 to $5 million with full effect during the second half of the year. The staff reduction affects all business segments. The company does not expect to book any material related non-recurring costs.
As SimSports and Gaming & Enthusiast end customers largely are part of the same population, the temporary decrease in demand is experienced in both businesses. The company has limited ability to impact its Gaming & Enthusiast OEM customers' enduser demand and inventories, but possibly a stronger ability to impact the customers in the SimSports segment. As such, Asetek has allocated development resources from that segment to SimSports to accelerate product development. The company aims to expand its product program with several new products such as pedals, wheelbases and steering wheels later in 2022 and in 2023. This follows the positive market reception of the Invicta and Forte sim racing pedal sets launched earlier this year.
"The continued logistics, component and COVID-19 issues also had a negative impact on our SimSports revenue this year. On top of this, end-user demand has temporarily softened. We fully expect this to recover despite the overall market challenges that everyone currently is facing. Asetek continue to receive strong end-user feedback and acclaim from the sim racing community which is reflected in real incoming orders. We now see an opportunity to accelerate product development within SimSports as we move towards becoming a next-level immersive gaming experiences provider," said André Sloth Eriksen.
The Company will release its second quarter and report for 2022 on August 11. Preliminary figures indicate second quarter revenue of $17 million and operating income of $0 million.
For questions or further information, please contact:
CEO and Founder André S. Eriksen, +45 2125 7076, email: ceo@asetek.com
CFO Peter Dam Madsen, +45 2080 7200, email: investor.relations@asetek.com
About Asetek:
Asetek (ASTK.OL), a global leader in mechatronic innovation, is a Danish garage-to-stock-exchange success story. Founded in 2000, Asetek established its innovative position as the leading OEM developer and producer of the all-in-one liquid cooler for all major PC & Enthusiast gaming brands. In 2013, Asetek went public while expanding into energy-efficient and environmentally friendly cooling solutions for data centers. In 2021, Asetek introduced its line of products for next level immersive SimSports gaming experiences. Asetek is headquartered in Denmark and has operations in China, Taiwan and the United States.
This information is considered to be inside information pursuant to the EU Market Abuse Regulation and is subject to the disclosure requirements pursuant to Section 5-12 the Norwegian Securities Trading Act. This stock exchange release was published by Peter Dam Madsen, CFO at Asetek A/S, on August 03, 2022 at 20:30 CEST.
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NOVATO, Calif. (AP) _ Hennessy Advisors Inc. (HNNA) on Wednesday reported fiscal third-quarter earnings of $1.3 million.
On a per-share basis, the Novato, California-based company said it had profit of 17 cents.
The investment manager posted revenue of $6.9 million in the period.
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NORTHBROOK, Ill. (AP) _ Allstate Corp. (ALL) on Wednesday reported a second-quarter loss of $1.01 billion, after reporting a profit in the same period a year earlier.
The Northbrook, Illinois-based company said it had a loss of $3.81 per share. Losses, adjusted for non-recurring costs, were 76 cents per share.
The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of six analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for a loss of $1.26 per share.
The insurer posted revenue of $12.22 billion in the period. Its adjusted revenue was $12.95 billion, also surpassing Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $12.16 billion.
Allstate shares have declined 2% since the beginning of the year, while the S&P's 500 index has declined 13%. In the final minutes of trading on Wednesday, shares hit $115.06, a decline of 12% in the last 12 months.
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By RICHIE MALOUF
THE CENTER SQUARE
(The Center Square) — U.S. President Joe Biden has appointed two federal officials as the administration’s monkeypox coordinators, the White House said Tuesday.
President Biden named Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Robert Fenton as the White House National Monkeypox response coordinator and Dr. Demetre Daskalakis as the deputy coordinator.
“We look forward to partnering with Bob Fenton and Demetre Dasklalakis as we work to end the monkeypox outbreak in America,” said Xavier Becerra, U.S. secretary of health and human services. “Bob’s experience in federal and regional response coordination, and Demetre’s vast knowledge of our public health systems’ strengths and limits will be instrumental as we work to stay ahead of the virus and advance a whole-of-government response.”
This announcement comes after California, New York and Illinois have declared state emergencies amid rising monkeypox cases.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported 5,811 cases throughout the U.S.,, and the White House plans to accelerate its response to the outbreak and distribute the necessary medical supplies to those who need them.
“The administration has made over 1.1 million doses of vaccine available to states and cities across the country to control the spread of the virus, has expanded testing capacity from 6,000 tests per week to over 80,000 tests per week, and has communicated regularly with providers and local health departments encouraging them to utilize tests more often,” the White House said. “The administration also recently launched its monkeypox research agenda, aiming to galvanize the international community to identify and address gaps in information on the virus to accelerate and strengthen the global response.”
The administration estimates that its response may require up to $7 billion for tests, vaccines, and treatment options, according to a memo retrieved by The Washington Post.
Unlike the COVID-19 virus, the monkeypox virus spreads most commonly through close skin-to-skin contact, not through breathing in airborne particles.
The White House said it would coordinate efforts to ramp up its response to rising case numbers and help those most in need. “Over the coming weeks, under the leadership of Fenton and Daskalakis, the administration will advance and accelerate the United States’ monkeypox response to mitigate the spread of the virus, protect individuals most at risk of contracting the virus, and care for those who have been afflicted with it,” the White House said. | https://newspress.com/biden-names-two-federal-officials-as-monkeypox-coordinators/ | 2022-08-03T23:56:50Z | https://newspress.com/biden-names-two-federal-officials-as-monkeypox-coordinators/ | false | 1 |
Amphibious tour bus crashes into gates of 24 Sussex, PM's vacant official residence
An amphibious tour bus crashed this morning into the gates at 24 Sussex Drive, the prime minister's unoccupied official residence.
Etienne Cameron, a co-owner of Lady Dive Tours in Ottawa, says the company is investigating the crash involving one of its vehicles and the driver, whom he did not immediately identify, was the only person on board.
Photos posted to social media this morning show a red ``Amphibus'' appears to have veered off the eastbound side of Sussex Drive onto the sidewalk and crashed into the black metal gates outside the residence.
Cameron says the crash happened during a routine ``morning check'' during which a driver takes the bus out for a spin prior to tourists getting on board.
He says the company plans to bring the bus to a mechanic and make sure everything looks good before it is used again.
Ottawa police say they received a call about a single motor vehicle collision involving a commercial vehicle at 9:21 a.m., and confirmed there are no reported injuries.
(Jim O'Grady/CTV News Ottawa) | https://www.iheartradio.ca/610cktb/news/amphibious-tour-bus-crashes-into-gates-of-24-sussex-pm-s-vacant-official-residence-1.18326172 | 2022-08-03T23:57:08Z | https://www.iheartradio.ca/610cktb/news/amphibious-tour-bus-crashes-into-gates-of-24-sussex-pm-s-vacant-official-residence-1.18326172 | true | 1 |
Saber-rattling in Taiwan Strait stokes new supply chain threat
Live-fire exercises to delay shipments in ‘one of the busiest straits in the world’
China will conduct live-fire military exercises in the Taiwan Strait and around Taiwan from Thursday to Sunday in retaliation for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit — exercises that are expected to breach Taiwan’s territorial waters and block some busy international shipping lanes.
Any escalation of tensions would create yet another major threat to global supply chains.
If the strait were ever closed to commercial traffic, it would be a negative for cargo shippers and a positive for ship owners and operators. Delays would push up transit time and reduce effective vessel capacity, boosting freight rates.
“The Taiwan Strait is one of the busiest straits in the world,” said Maersk CEO Soren Skou during his company’s quarterly conference call on Wednesday.
“Obviously, if it were to close, it would have a dramatic impact on shipping capacity, in the sense that everybody would have to divert around Taiwan and add to the length of the voyages,” Skou said. “That would absorb significant capacity. But I have to say that there seems to be no suggestion that this is where we’re going.”
Bloomberg calculated that almost half of the world’s container ships and 88% of larger container ships transited the Taiwan Strait this year. It also reported that some liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers have already rerouted or slowed speed in response to the coming military exercises.
Brief ‘partial blockade’ or something bigger?
According to Peter Williams, trade flow analyst at VesselsValue, “With China conducting significant military drills and military tests around Taiwan … there is potential for substantial disruption to trade in the region.”
VesselsValue analyzed location data on commercial ships currently in Taiwanese waters, as well as those en route to Taiwan. As of Wednesday, it found 256 container ships, tankers and bulkers in Taiwanese waters, with another 308 destined to arrive. Of inbound container ships, tankers and bulkers, 60 are scheduled to arrive before the Chinese military drills conclude on Sunday.
Shipping agency GAC cautioned in a customer notice that “some of the exercise areas are within the VTS [Vessel Traffic Service] range of various ports of Taiwan. The port control bureau has set up a warning range. If a vessel enters the area, it will prompt a warning by the port VTS and be requested to leave as soon as possible to avoid any accidents.”
Maritime insurer Swedish Club warned that military exercise areas are “very close to Taiwan’s major commercial ports, including Keelung, Su-ao, Taipei, Kaohsiung, Anping, Hoping and Hualien. Therefore, navigation and safety will be affected.”
According to Evercore ISI analyst Krishan Guha, “With China warning foreign planes and ships to stay away while its military exercises proceed, the result is what Taiwan’s ministry of foreign affairs terms a blockade, though possibly only a partial one, with some air and sea lanes still potentially open.”
Guha continued: “The current exercises and effective partial blockade are scheduled to last only a few days but could be extended or restarted, leading to a more prolonged crisis, as well as more serious disruptions to global chip and other tech-component supply chains.”
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) _ Nevro Corp. (NVRO) on Wednesday reported a loss of $25 million in its second quarter.
The Redwood City, California-based company said it had a loss of 71 cents per share.
The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of seven analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for a loss of 81 cents per share.
The maker of an electrical implant that treats leg and back pain posted revenue of $104.2 million in the period, which fell short of Street forecasts. Five analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $104.7 million.
For the current quarter ending in October, Nevro said it expects revenue in the range of $97 million to $101 million.
The company expects full-year revenue in the range of $400 million to $410 million.
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WFO SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, August 3, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service San Joaquin Valley CA
326 PM PDT Wed Aug 3 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of north central Tulare
and eastern Fresno Counties through 400 PM PDT...
At 325 PM PDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 19
miles northeast of Three Rivers, or 28 miles west of Independence,
moving northwest at 5 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Roaring River Ranger Station, Sentinel Campground, Canyon View
Campground, Big Meadows, Marble Fork Kaweah, Lodgepole Campground,
Moraine Campground, Cedar Grove, Sheep Creek Campground, Mitchell
Meadow, Pear Lake Ranger Station and Lodgepole.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 3662 11856 3657 11874 3677 11893 3688 11863
TIME...MOT...LOC 2225Z 152DEG 6KT 3668 11869
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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WFO RENO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, August 3, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Reno NV
354 PM PDT Wed Aug 3 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 545 PM PDT THIS AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of east central California, including the
following county, Alpine. Mainly in backcountry terrain near Wolf
Creek Campground and the High Trail and East Fork Carson River
Trailhead.
* WHEN...Until 545 PM PDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
River or stream flows are elevated.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 350 PM PDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly in the advisory area. Between 0.75 and 1.25 inches of
rain have fallen.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
mainly rural areas of Alpine County
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Flooding is occurring or is imminent. It is important to know where
you are relative to streams, rivers, or creeks which can become
killers in heavy rains. Campers and hikers should avoid streams or
creeks.
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Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian reaffirmed on Wednesday Tehran’s commitment to stand by the Palestinian cause and Palestinian people against the Zionist regime’s atrocities.
In a meeting with Secretary General of the Islamic Jihad Palestinian resistance movement Ziad Nakhale in Tehran, Amir Aabdollahian called for unity and cohesion between Islamic countries in the face of the Israeli regime’s acts of aggression against Palestinians.
Referring to the failures of ‘Israel’ and the US against the Palestinian resistance, the top Iranian diplomat expressed hope that the enemies would be further undermined through increased harmony and unity among Islamic countries.
For his part, Nakhale hailed Iran’s support for the Palestinian people’s resistance and lauded the country’s constructive role in regional developments and its active diplomacy toward other countries.
Iran’s achievements, in fact, belong to the entire Muslim community, he said, as quoted by Press TV.
Nakhale also regretted certain efforts in the region to exert pressure on the Islamic Republic and downplay the real threat posed by the Israeli regime to the Muslim community, Palestinians in particular.
The Islamic Jihad leader, however, said the endeavors and stances of the Islamic Republic in confronting the world’s hegemonic powers and supporting the oppressed nations against the occupiers and foreign powers “herald blessings and strength for the resistant nation of Palestine and weakness for the enemies of the Muslim world.”
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LOS ANGELES, United States - The directors of "Batgirl" said Wednesday they were "shocked" that the $90 million dollar superhero film had been axed by the studio and will now not be released in any format.
Warner Bros. Discovery announced they were shelving the movie adaptation of the DC Comics character, which was to star Leslie Grace in the title role, alongside Michael Keaton as Batman, preventing it from being seen in either theaters or on streaming platform HBO Max.
"We are saddened and shocked by the news. We still can't believe it," directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah wrote on Instagram.
"As directors, it is critical that our work be shown to audiences, and while the film was far from finished, we wish that fans all over the world would have had the opportunity to see and embrace the final film themselves."
The movie had completed principal photography and much of the post-production work -- where special effects, sound and graphics are added -- was also done.
Star Grace ("In the Heights") had told interviewers how excited she was to have landed the roll, and how thrilled she was to be working with Keaton and other luminaries.
Her efforts were applauded by El Arbi and Fallah, who described themselves as "huge fans of Batman since we were little kids."
"It was a dream to work with such fantastic actors like Michael Keaton, J.K. Simmons, Brendan Fraser... and especially the great Leslie Grace, who portrayed Batgirl with so much passion, dedication and humanity," the "Bad Boys for Life" directing duo added.
The move sent shockwaves through Hollywood, where industry veterans said it was unprecedented for a movie to be so close to completion -- and with so much money already spent -- and not be released.
"Batgirl" appears to have fallen victim to a change in corporate strategy after a merger between Warner Bros. and Discovery.
Warner Bros. had committed to making movies that could go straight to HBO Max, as part of an effort to boost subscribers in the increasingly crowded streaming sector.
The decision, which was driven partially by a need to bypass Covid-hit theaters in 2021, was not popular among creatives and appears to have been rolled back after the tie-up with Discovery.
Trade title Variety quoted industry insiders saying "Batgirl" had fallen between two stools -- not big and glitzy enough for a theatrical release, with its expensive marketing requirements, but too big to make economic sense in the belt-tightening streaming landscape.
Variety said the $90 million hole this would leave in the studio's balance sheet would probably be dealt with via a tax write-down -- a process where companies reduce their exposure to tax by subtracting losses from their profits. | https://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/08/04/22/directors-shocked-by-axing-of-90m-batgirl-film | 2022-08-04T00:11:06Z | https://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/08/04/22/directors-shocked-by-axing-of-90m-batgirl-film | false | 8 |
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Ballad officials unveiled the new clinic on wheels Wednesday during a media event, but said the unit will begin serving the area next month.
“The pathway to good health starts with the connection to health care. We’re going to take that connection to people where they live and work. That is the way of the future,” Dr. Shari Rajoo, vice president and chief medical officer for population health service and medical director of the mobile unit, said. “Health care is going to have to move to people and fit into their lifestyle versus people having to fit their lifestyle into a health care system and schedules.”
Paula Masters, Ballad’s vice president for health programs, said this is part of the system’s original commitment to expand health care in rural and remote areas.
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Masters said the mobile clinic’s primary mission is to deliver general medical care and women’s health services.
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Longtime New York Yankees announcer Michael Kay paid homage to the late Vin Scully prior to the Yankees’ 7-3 loss to the Seattle Mariners on Wednesday.
Scully, the iconic broadcaster of the Los Angeles Dodgers for nearly 70 years, died on Tuesday at the age of 94.
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“It is time for Yankees baseball,” Kay said. “A very pleasant good afternoon to you, wherever you may be.”
"It is time for Yankees baseball!… A very pleasant good afternoon to you wherever you may be"
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— Talkin' Yanks (@TalkinYanks) August 3, 2022
Prior to the start of Dodger games, Scully would declare “it’s time for Dodger baseball!”
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“So this is Vin Scully wishing you a very pleasant good afternoon, wherever you may be.”
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Triathlon’s policy of requiring transgender athletes to show a lower maximum level of testosterone — 2.5 nanomoles per liter — maintained for at least two years is in line with cycling’s rules announced in June.
Any transgender woman who “has competed as a male in any sporting competition” must wait at least four years before being allowed to compete in women’s events, World Triathlon said.
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GNRC has been the subject of several research reports. Northland Securities began coverage on shares of Generac in a research report on Wednesday, May 25th. They issued an “outperform” rating and a $370.00 target price for the company. KeyCorp dropped their price target on Generac from $350.00 to $325.00 and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a research note on Thursday, July 21st. Robert W. Baird dropped their price target on Generac from $369.00 to $298.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a research note on Monday, June 13th. Roth Capital dropped their price target on Generac from $555.00 to $320.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research note on Tuesday, May 24th. Finally, Piper Sandler dropped their price target on Generac from $350.00 to $305.00 and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a research note on Tuesday, July 19th. One research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, two have issued a hold rating and nineteen have issued a buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, Generac has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $428.67.
Institutional Inflows and Outflows
A number of hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in GNRC. Signaturefd LLC grew its stake in shares of Generac by 260.2% in the 1st quarter. Signaturefd LLC now owns 479 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $142,000 after buying an additional 346 shares during the last quarter. State Street Corp grew its stake in shares of Generac by 0.8% in the 4th quarter. State Street Corp now owns 2,591,402 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $911,966,000 after buying an additional 20,575 shares during the last quarter. Sei Investments Co. grew its stake in shares of Generac by 20.0% in the 4th quarter. Sei Investments Co. now owns 117,678 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $41,368,000 after buying an additional 19,576 shares during the last quarter. Bank Julius Baer & Co. Ltd Zurich grew its stake in shares of Generac by 8.1% in the 4th quarter. Bank Julius Baer & Co. Ltd Zurich now owns 93,655 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $32,959,000 after buying an additional 7,013 shares during the last quarter. Finally, NEXT Financial Group Inc grew its stake in shares of Generac by 26.7% in the 4th quarter. NEXT Financial Group Inc now owns 4,411 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $1,552,000 after buying an additional 929 shares during the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 88.35% of the company’s stock.
About Generac
Generac Holdings Inc designs, manufactures, and sells power generation equipment, energy storage systems, and other power products for the residential, and light commercial and industrial markets worldwide. The company offers engines, alternators, batteries, electronic controls, steel enclosures, and other components.
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
0-2-5-0
(zero, two, five, zero)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
0-2-5-0
(zero, two, five, zero) | https://www.middletownpress.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-game-17349880.php | 2022-08-04T00:28:29Z | https://www.middletownpress.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-game-17349880.php | false | null |
Parliament closes $11 billion loophole
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With the mission God gave him accomplished, little Noah Herring is now in the Father’s care and has gained his “angels wings”.
Farewelled last week by hundreds of family and friends wearing bright coloured clothing to celebrate his life, he was remembered as the little boy who united not only his large family but also the Ryde-Gladesville Catholic Parish community.
With an infectious smile and impossibly long eye lashes, Noah laughed throughout his 20 months of life bringing joy and happiness to everyone he touched.
Parents Dominic and Jessica Herring simply wrote “some people only dream of angels, we were able to hold the most handsome one in our arms”.
“Aimed at providing a place where people can gather, the food van owned by his parents was as much about leaving a legacy for Noah as thanking the community for all of their support.”
Born with a remarkably rare terminal disease and unable to walk, talk or see, he encouraged Catholics and non-Catholics alike to come together in support of his family through prayers, donations and fundraising.
And he will continue to bring people together for many years to come through the Noah’s Ark café, a food truck operating in the parish grounds named in his honour.
Aimed at providing a place where people can gather, the food van owned by his parents was as much about leaving a legacy for Noah as thanking the community for all of their support.
Assistant priest at Ryde-Gladesville parish, Fr Dan Drum, who concelebrated the funeral mass at Our Lady of Lebanon Co Cathedral at Harris Park, said the little boy and his family were an inspiration for everybody in the community.
“So many people have been so inspired by the love shown to little Noah by his family and friends,” he said.
“Even though he couldn’t see, hear or speak, seeing him smile when his mum Jess stroked his face, just showed the incredible love they had for their little boy.
“Noah and his family have created such a beautiful sense of community here in our parish.
“He will always be remembered through the food van named in his honour which has been such a wonderful place for people to meet.”
“Due to his condition there was sadness but also acceptance and their faith has certainly helped them throughout that process.
“He will always be remembered through the food van named in his honour which has been such a wonderful place for people to meet.”
Noah was born with the ultra-rare condition gangliosidosis, or simply GM1 Type 1, which presents in infancy and is characterised by poor muscle tone, an enlarged liver and spleen, seizures, developmental regression and loss of vision and hearing with no available treatment.
The last reported case in Australia occurred more than 10 years ago, so very little is known about the condition apart from its bleak prognosis. | https://www.catholicweekly.com.au/noahs-courageous-life-lives-on-through-his-special-cafe/ | 2022-08-04T00:31:30Z | https://www.catholicweekly.com.au/noahs-courageous-life-lives-on-through-his-special-cafe/ | true | 1 |
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — A 74-year-old retired schoolteacher from a New York City suburb was sentenced to 30 months in prison Wednesday for mailing dozens of violent threats to LGBTQ affiliated individuals, groups and businesses over several years.
According to prosecutors, Robert Fehring threatened to blow up the Stonewall Inn, a historic bar in Manhattan considered the birthplace of the gay rights movement. He also threatened to place explosives at 2021 New York City Pride march that would “make the 2016 Orlando Pulse Nightclub shooting look like a cakewalk,” referring to the 2016 attack in which 49 people were killed and dozens wounded at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
Other messages threatened to kill, shoot and bomb LGBTQ affiliated businesses and individuals, including an African American-owned barbershop in Brooklyn that Fehring wrote in one letter “is the perfect place for a bombing.”
Fehring pleaded guilty in February to mailing threatening communications through the postal service.
"We are disappointed in the length of the sentence, but Mr. Fehring is happy to be putting this nightmare behind him," his attorney, Glenn Obedin, said in an email. “He is deeply remorseful for what occurred, and looks forward to living quietly with his family once he has served his sentence.”
An FBI search of Fehring's home last November in Bayport, Long Island, yielded two loaded shotguns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition in addition to copies of letters containing threats. Investigators also found a stamped envelope addressed to an LGBTQ-affiliated attorney containing the remains of a dead bird, according to the U.S. attorney's office for the Eastern District of New York.
“Robert Fehring made heinous threats against members of the LGBTQ community in locations throughout New York, including Suffolk County, for nearly eight years,” Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney Harrison said in a statement. “Thanks to the tireless efforts of our department’s Hate Crimes Unit detectives and the diligent work of our law enforcement partners, Fehring is being held accountable for his crimes." | https://www.wiltonbulletin.com/news/article/NY-man-who-sent-threats-to-LGBTQ-groups-gets-30-17349853.php | 2022-08-04T00:34:54Z | https://www.wiltonbulletin.com/news/article/NY-man-who-sent-threats-to-LGBTQ-groups-gets-30-17349853.php | false | 16 |
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
12-16-27-37-38
(twelve, sixteen, twenty-seven, thirty-seven, thirty-eight)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
12-16-27-37-38
(twelve, sixteen, twenty-seven, thirty-seven, thirty-eight) | https://www.chron.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Fantasy-5-game-17349881.php | 2022-08-04T00:39:09Z | https://www.chron.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Fantasy-5-game-17349881.php | false | null |
Iraq’s Muqtada al-Sadr orders supporters to continue sit-in inside the national parliament and calls for new elections to be held.
Iraqi populist Muslim scholar Muqtada al-Sadr has urged his supporters to continue their sit-in inside the national parliament in Baghdad until his demands, which include the dissolution of parliament and early elections, are met.
The remarks, delivered by the Shia Muslim leader in a televised address from Najaf on Wednesday, could prolong a political deadlock that has kept Iraq without an elected government for nearly 10 months.
Thousands of al-Sadr’s followers stormed Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone, which houses government buildings and foreign missions, last weekend and took over the empty parliament building staging a sit-in that is continuing.
Al-Sadr supporters have set up an encampment with tents and food stalls surrounding parliament.
Supporters of Iraqi populist leader Muqtada al-Sadr gather for a sit-in at the parliament building, amid political crisis in Baghdad, Iraq [Khalid Al-Mousily/Reuters]
The moves were a response to attempts by his Shia Muslim rivals, many of whom are close to Iran – mainly the Iran-backed Coordination Framework – to form a government with prime ministerial candidates of whom al-Sadr does not approve.
Sadr won the largest number of seats in parliament in an October election but failed to form a government that would exclude his Iran-backed rivals.
He withdrew his lawmakers from parliament and has instead applied pressure through protests and the parliament sit-in, drawing on his popular base of millions of working-class Shia Iraqis.
Al-Sadr reiterated during his address that he was ready to “be martyred” for his cause.
“Dissolve parliament and hold early elections,” al-Sadr said.
‘Don’t want dialogue’
Al-Sadr, who once led an anti-US militia and who has millions of devoted followers, noted in his speech that he also had “no interest” in negotiating with his rivals.
“Don’t believe the rumours that I don’t want dialogue,” Sadr said.
“But we have already tried and experienced dialogue with them,” he added.
“It has brought nothing to us and to the nation – only ruin and corruption.”
Al Jazeera’s Dorsa Jabbari, reporting from Baghdad, said al-Sadr appeared eager to show that he was “not seeking any personal gains from this process”.
“He was adamant that, of course, corruption exists in all various levels of government, he said one of the ways we can get rid of it is by having another round of elections to bring in a new slew of people,” she said.
The deadlock between al-Sadr and his rivals has left Iraq without a government for a record time in the post-Saddam Hussein era.
Outgoing Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi has called for a “national dialogue” in a bid to bring all sides together to talk, and on Wednesday he spoke with President Barham Saleh.
Both men stressed the importance of “guaranteeing security and stability” in the country, according to the official Iraqi News Agency.
But Jabbari said it is now clear that al-Sadr, as well as his representatives, are not going to be taking part “in any form of national dialogue at this stage”.
Earlier on Wednesday, the United Nations mission in Iraq called on leaders to put their country first and end the long-running power struggle.
“Meaningful dialogue among all Iraqi parties is now more urgent than ever, as recent events have demonstrated the rapid risk of escalation in this tense political climate,” the UN mission warned. | https://english.hathalyoum.net/articles/72854-iraq-sadr-demands-dissolution-parliamentearly-elections- | 2022-08-04T00:41:37Z | https://english.hathalyoum.net/articles/72854-iraq-sadr-demands-dissolution-parliamentearly-elections- | false | 4 |
NISA INVESTMENT ADVISORS, LLC recently filed their 13F report for the second quarter of 2022, which ended on 2022-06-30.
The 13F report details which stocks were in a guru’s equity portfolio at the end of the quarter, though investors should note that these filings are limited in scope, containing only a snapshot of long positions in U.S.-listed stocks and American depository receipts as of the quarter’s end. They are not required to include international holdings, short positions or other types of investments. Still, even this limited filing can provide valuable information.
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As of the latest 13F report, the guru’s equity portfolio contained 2366 stocks valued at a total of $11.43Bil. The top holdings were AAPL(5.57%), MSFT(5.15%), and GOOGL(1.90%).
According to GuruFocus data, these were NISA INVESTMENT ADVISORS, LLC’s top five trades of the quarter.
iShares Core S&P 500 ETF
The guru sold out of their 748,000-share investment in ARCA:IVV. Previously, the stock had a 2.39% weight in the equity portfolio. Shares traded for an average price of $411.02 during the quarter.
On 08/04/2022, iShares Core S&P 500 ETF traded for a price of $416.72 per share and a market cap of $308.31Bil. The stock has returned -4.67% over the past year.
There is insufficient data to calculate the stock’s financial strength and profitability ratings.
In terms of valuation, iShares Core S&P 500 ETF has a price-earnings ratio of 18.70 and a price-book ratio of 3.59.
Vanguard S&P 500 ETF
NISA INVESTMENT ADVISORS, LLC reduced their investment in ARCA:VOO by 700,500 shares. The trade had a 2.05% impact on the equity portfolio. During the quarter, the stock traded for an average price of $375.84.
On 08/04/2022, Vanguard S&P 500 ETF traded for a price of $381.07 per share and a market cap of $273.32Bil. The stock has returned -4.68% over the past year.
There is insufficient data to calculate the stock’s financial strength and profitability ratings.
In terms of valuation, Vanguard S&P 500 ETF has a price-earnings ratio of 18.68 and a price-book ratio of 3.60.
Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF
NISA INVESTMENT ADVISORS, LLC reduced their investment in NAS:VCLT by 701,953 shares. The trade had a 0.46% impact on the equity portfolio. During the quarter, the stock traded for an average price of $83.89.
On 08/04/2022, Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF traded for a price of $85.62 per share and a market cap of $4.85Bil. The stock has returned -19.31% over the past year.
There is insufficient data to calculate the stock’s financial strength and profitability ratings.
SPDR DJ Wilshire REIT ETF
The guru established a new position worth 241,929 shares in ARCA:RWR, giving the stock a 0.2% weight in the equity portfolio. Shares traded for an average price of $105.19 during the quarter.
On 08/04/2022, SPDR DJ Wilshire REIT ETF traded for a price of $101.2 per share and a market cap of $1.81Bil. The stock has returned -6.06% over the past year.
There is insufficient data to calculate the stock’s financial strength and profitability ratings.
In terms of valuation, SPDR DJ Wilshire REIT ETF has a price-earnings ratio of 27.95 and a price-book ratio of 2.18.
Amazon.com Inc
NISA INVESTMENT ADVISORS, LLC reduced their investment in NAS:AMZN by 116,718 shares. The trade had a 0.13% impact on the equity portfolio. During the quarter, the stock traded for an average price of $125.73.
On 08/04/2022, Amazon.com Inc traded for a price of $139.52 per share and a market cap of $1,421.37Bil. The stock has returned -17.11% over the past year.
GuruFocus gives the company a financial strength rating of 6 out of 10 and a profitability rating of 9 out of 10.
In terms of valuation, Amazon.com Inc has a price-earnings ratio of 125.01, a price-book ratio of 10.79, a price-earnings-to-growth (PEG) ratio of 2.98, a EV-to-Ebitda ratio of 29.31 and a price-sales ratio of 2.96.
The price-to-GF Value ratio is 0.74, earning the stock a GF Value rank of 10.
Please note, the numbers and facts quoted are as of the writing of this article and may not factor in the latest trading data or company announcements.
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Ashley Graham shows how her hairline is growing back … after shedding locks months after giving birth to twins
Ashley Graham took to Instagram on Wednesday to show how her hairline is growing back in after dealing with postpartum hair loss after welcoming twins earlier this year.
The Lincoln, Nebraska native, 34, captioned a series of shots, 'Swipe to see my hairline coming in,' as she showed off multiple shots of her coif from different angles.
The supermodel included an up-close look at her hairline, including shots in which she was posed in front of a sink in a floral print blouse and white slacks.
The latest: Ashley Graham, 34, took to Instagram on Wednesday to show how her hairline is growing back in, after dealing with postpartum hair loss after welcoming twins earlier this year
Graham, who has 18.8 million followers on Instagram, previously opened up about her health and beauty issues on the site in April, months after she welcomed twin sons Malachi and Roman on January 7.
Graham is also mother to son Isaac, two, with her husband Justin Ervin.
Ashley, who was Sports Illustrated's first-ever plus-size cover girl, sang about her hair loss issues to the tune of Carrie Underwood's Jesus Take the Wheel.
She sang, 'Jesus take the wheel, take it from my hands, cause my hair is comin', it's comin' out, cause I'm three months postpartum.'
Graham showed a close-up of her hairline to her 18.8 million followers on Instagram
The model donned a floral print blouse and white slacks in the series of Instagram shots
According to the The American Academy of Dermatology, 'Many new moms see noticeable hair loss a few months after having a baby. This is normal - and it is not true hair loss. Dermatologists refer to this condition as excessive hair shedding. The excessive shedding is caused by falling estrogen levels.'
The organization continued, 'The good news is that this excessive shedding is temporary, and you do not have to do anything to remedy it.
'Most women see their hair return to its normal fullness by their child’s first birthday. Many women regain normal fullness even earlier.'
The supermodel was posed in front of a sink in a carousel of shots she shared to social media
Graham in April showed off her hair loss in a clip on Instagram Stories, singing a parody of the Carrie Underwood hit Jesus Take the Wheel
Graham opened up about her first bout with postpartum hair loss in an interview with Parents last year, saying that her 'whole hairline fell out' four months after giving birth to Isaac in January of 2020.
'That was more traumatic than even birth because I was like, "My hair's falling out in clumps - what am I doing?" and then I realized it's actually a thing,' she said. 'My skin got a bit irritated as well, and I had a little bit of rosacea that I had to combat.'
Graham last week made headlines as she took to the social media site with a shot of her nude backside as she took a trip to New York City.
The body positive model posted parody lyrics to Vanessa Carlton's A Thousand Miles, writing, 'Making my way downtown, walking fast, faces pass, my booty’s out dun na na na na.' | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11079029/Ashley-Graham-shows-hairline-growing-shedding-locks-months-giving-birth.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-04T00:50:10Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11079029/Ashley-Graham-shows-hairline-growing-shedding-locks-months-giving-birth.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false | 2 |
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WA Marine Warnings and Forecast for Thursday, August 4, 2022
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SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY
URGENT - MARINE WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Seattle WA
849 AM PDT Wed Aug 3 2022
...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM THIS
AFTERNOON TO 6 AM PDT THURSDAY...
* WHAT...West winds 15 to 25 kt.
* WHERE...Central U. S. Waters Strait Of Juan De Fuca.
* WHEN...From 2 PM this afternoon to 6 AM PDT Thursday.
* IMPACTS...Conditions will be hazardous to small craft.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Small Craft Advisory means that wind speeds of 21 to 33 knots
and/or seas 10 feet or higher are expected to produce hazardous
wave conditions to small craft. Inexperienced mariners,
especially those operating smaller vessels should avoid
navigating in these conditions.
...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 6 PM THIS EVENING
TO 6 AM PDT THURSDAY...
* WHERE...East Entrance U. S. Waters Strait Of Juan De Fuca.
* WHEN...From 6 PM this evening to 6 AM PDT Thursday.
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2degrees has enabled a new feature today - electronic SIM cards or eSIMs, which replace the role of a physical SIM card and allow one phone, iPad or smart watch to hold two mobile plans, each with its own number.
You could use one account for personal use, and one for work, or one for a local account and one you use when roaming overseas. 2degrees says an eSIM can also be used for its service while your physical SIM card remains on a Spark or Vodafone NZ account.
2degrees says its eSIM functionality - live from today for business customers, with consumer accounts to follow later this month - will work with a range of Apple, Samsung and Oppo devices (see list end of article).
2degrees says setting up an eSIM will cost the same as a physical SIM card which sell from $5. And if you have two phone accounts on one device, you'll get charged for both. Setup involves scanning a QR code. There's no extra hardware involved. Everything runs on your device's existing electronics.
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Advertise with NZME.An eSIM (housed on your device's chip) can hold multiple profiles, each with its own mobile plan.
On most models, you can only have one eSIM profile active at a time - although you can have two phone numbers live at once if both an eSIM and a physical SIM are active.
Apple's iPhone 13 lets you have two eSIM profiles active simultaneously, but not a physical SIM at the same time.
Only one profile can be active at a time - but a device can have two numbers active at once if it has both an eSIM and its physical SIM active.
Spark became the first local telco to enable eSIM functionality for consumer customers back in 2019, shortly after Apple added the capability to its iPhone range. Its coporate customers got access to eSIMs earlier this year. "eSIM is available across our range of devices and wearables that Spark ranges and we offer One Number functionality on Apple Watch," a Spark spokeswoman said.
Vodafone NZ talked up a possible eSIM launch in 2020, but its latest online update says "We expect to have eSIM functionality available with our Pay Monthly plans in 2022". The Herald has asked Spark and Vodafone for updates.
"The real benefit to users is that they can have two SIMs active on a single handset. This is ideal for those who currently juggle a work and personal mobile, want to use a local SIM while roaming overseas, or have a backup service on their phone. Now they can use a single device and virtually switch between SIMs," says 2degrees chief marketing and strategy officer Zac Summers.
"Another huge bonus for 2degrees is that it allows people to trial our network without porting away from their current provider."
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Advertise with NZME.At launch, eSIMs will be available to business customers, with consumer services later in August and wearables to follow.
When will we see 2degrees eSIM support for Apple Watch?
"We are working on wearable functionality, but can't share a firm launch date yet," a 2degrees spokesman said.
eSIM capable devices include:
• iPhone XS, XS Max, XR, all iPhone 11, 12 & 13 ranges, iPhone SE 2020, and SE 2022
• Samsung Galaxy S20, S21 and S22 ranges (excluding FE models), Note20 and Note20 Ultra, all Fold and Flip models
• Oppo Find X3 Pro, Find X5, Find X5 Pro
• iPad Mini 5th gen (2019) and later
• iPad Air 3rd gen (2019) and later
• iPad Pro 3rd gen (2018) | https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/one-phone-two-numbers-2degrees-introduces-esims/WQVBQ7MDETWA4ZAJA47GIL7C4M/?c_id=3&objectid=12542727 | 2022-08-04T01:02:38Z | https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/one-phone-two-numbers-2degrees-introduces-esims/WQVBQ7MDETWA4ZAJA47GIL7C4M/?c_id=3&objectid=12542727 | false | 3 |
The first six of 33 Joint Light Tactical Vehicles (JLTV) bought by North Macedonia from Oshkosh Defense are on their way from Thessaloniki port, Greece.
The Minister of Defence of the Republic of North Macedonia, Slavjanka Petrovska said last week the first shipment of 6 JLTV light armored vehicles arrived Thessaloniki port, Greece with 180 Textron M1117 armored vehicles that have been donated to Greece by the United States.
“This delivery represents a serious step forward in the process of modernization and equipping of the Army according to NATO standards,” said Petrovska.
The JLTV is designed to give Soldiers and Marines a high level of mobility, transportability, and reliability while still providing warfighters with the level of protection a Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle would give them.
👏Today at Thessaloniki port, Greece, the first shipment of 6 JLTV light armored vehicles arrived.
👍This delivery represents a serious step forward in the process of modernization and equipping of the Army according to @NATO standards. pic.twitter.com/VtDn0DnkuJ— Slavjanka Petrovska (@SlavjankaPetrov) July 23, 2022
Currently, the JLTV Family of Vehicles comes to U.S. Army and Marines Corps in different variants with multiple mission package configurations, all providing protected, sustained, networked mobility that balances payload, performance and protection across the full range of military operations.
To date, Oshkosh has received orders or commitments from the following NATO, Allied, and Coalition partners including the United Kingdom, Belgium, Montenegro, Slovenia, Lithuania, Brazil, Romania, and North Macedonia. | https://defence-blog.com/north-macedonias-military-receives-initial-batch-of-new-jltv-vehicles/ | 2022-08-04T01:06:41Z | https://defence-blog.com/north-macedonias-military-receives-initial-batch-of-new-jltv-vehicles/ | false | 1 |
Avista (AVA) Q2 Earnings Lag Estimates
Avista (AVA) came out with quarterly earnings of $0.16 per share, missing the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $0.18 per share. This compares to earnings of $0.20 per share a year ago. These figures are adjusted for non-recurring items.
This quarterly report represents an earnings surprise of -11.11%. A quarter ago, it was expected that this utility would post earnings of $0.93 per share when it actually produced earnings of $0.99, delivering a surprise of 6.45%.
Over the last four quarters, the company has surpassed consensus EPS estimates three times.
Avista
The sustainability of the stock's immediate price movement based on the recently-released numbers and future earnings expectations will mostly depend on management's commentary on the earnings call.
Avista shares have added about 1.1% since the beginning of the year versus the S&P 500's decline of -14.2%.
What's Next for Avista?
While Avista has outperformed the market so far this year, the question that comes to investors' minds is: what's next for the stock?
There are no easy answers to this key question, but one reliable measure that can help investors address this is the company's earnings outlook. Not only does this include current consensus earnings expectations for the coming quarter(s), but also how these expectations have changed lately.
Empirical research shows a strong correlation between near-term stock movements and trends in earnings estimate revisions. Investors can track such revisions by themselves or rely on a tried-and-tested rating tool like the Zacks Rank, which has an impressive track record of harnessing the power of earnings estimate revisions.
Ahead of this earnings release, the estimate revisions trend for Avista: mixed. While the magnitude and direction of estimate revisions could change following the company's just-released earnings report, the current status translates into a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) for the stock. So, the shares are expected to perform in line with the market in the near future. You can see the complete list of today's Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here.
It will be interesting to see how estimates for the coming quarters and current fiscal year change in the days ahead. The current consensus EPS estimate is $0.10 on $303.9 million in revenues for the coming quarter and $1.94 on $1.5 billion in revenues for the current fiscal year.
Investors should be mindful of the fact that the outlook for the industry can have a material impact on the performance of the stock as well. In terms of the Zacks Industry Rank, Utility - Electric Power is currently in the top 33% of the 250 plus Zacks industries. Our research shows that the top 50% of the Zacks-ranked industries outperform the bottom 50% by a factor of more than 2 to 1.
Another stock from the same industry, Ameren (AEE), has yet to report results for the quarter ended June 2022. The results are expected to be released on August 4.
This utility is expected to post quarterly earnings of $0.81 per share in its upcoming report, which represents a year-over-year change of +1.3%. The consensus EPS estimate for the quarter has been revised 1.8% higher over the last 30 days to the current level.
Ameren's revenues are expected to be $1.53 billion, up 4% from the year-ago quarter.
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Tonix Pharmaceuticals Holding Corp. General Corporate Statement (Form8)
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Enovix Co. (NASDAQ:ENVX – Get Rating) CTO Ashok Lahiri sold 2,000 shares of Enovix stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, August 1st. The shares were sold at an average price of $13.30, for a total value of $26,600.00. Following the sale, the chief technology officer now directly owns 1,407,993 shares in the company, valued at $18,726,306.90. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is accessible through this link.
Ashok Lahiri also recently made the following trade(s):
- On Wednesday, July 20th, Ashok Lahiri sold 2,000 shares of Enovix stock. The shares were sold at an average price of $11.19, for a total value of $22,380.00.
Enovix Price Performance
NASDAQ ENVX traded up $0.18 during mid-day trading on Wednesday, reaching $13.51. The stock had a trading volume of 1,896,732 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,856,311. Enovix Co. has a 1 year low of $7.26 and a 1 year high of $39.48. The stock has a market cap of $2.12 billion, a PE ratio of -12.89 and a beta of 2.73. The company has a fifty day moving average price of $10.91 and a 200 day moving average price of $12.39.
Institutional Inflows and Outflows
Several hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in ENVX. FNY Investment Advisers LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Enovix during the 1st quarter valued at about $28,000. Ensign Peak Advisors Inc bought a new position in Enovix in the 1st quarter worth about $67,000. ProShare Advisors LLC bought a new position in Enovix in the 2nd quarter worth about $109,000. National Bank of Canada FI grew its stake in Enovix by 20.8% in the 1st quarter. National Bank of Canada FI now owns 8,040 shares of the company’s stock worth $114,000 after acquiring an additional 1,385 shares in the last quarter. Finally, CIBC Private Wealth Group LLC bought a new position in shares of Enovix during the second quarter valued at approximately $130,000. Institutional investors own 56.82% of the company’s stock.
Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades
ENVX has been the topic of several research reports. Cowen cut their price objective on Enovix from $24.00 to $20.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a research report on Friday, June 24th. Cowen lowered their target price on shares of Enovix from $24.00 to $20.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a report on Friday, June 24th. Five equities research analysts have rated the stock with a buy rating, According to MarketBeat.com, the stock has a consensus rating of “Buy” and a consensus target price of $29.60.
About Enovix
Enovix Corporation designs, develops, and manufactures lithium-ion batteries. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Fremont, California.
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MIAMI, Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A team of international researchers is shining a light on the often understudied "little things that run the world" — ants.
With the help of cutting-edge technology, the researchers created a first-of-its-kind global biodiversity map to begin answering a long unanswered question about where ants can be found across the globe. Lurking in this map is another one, a so-called treasure map, to guide future research and exploration into unexplored regions where undiscovered species may be found. This data is the first step in protecting and conserving ant biodiversity. The findings were recently published and featured on the cover of Science Advances.
"Much of our knowledge of biodiversity, and our planning of conservation, has been based on other animals, like mammals, reptiles and birds," said Clinton Jenkins, an Florida International University (FIU) conservation biologist in the Department of Earth and Environment and the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center, as well as one of the study's authors. "This is a major leap forward in our understanding of life on the planet and its conservation status."
Ants, thought to be nature's most industrious insects, often toil away, carrying out many jobs and juggling important responsibilities. They are hunters, farmers, harvesters, gliders, herders, weavers and carpenters. One of nature's smallest creatures they have a big impact on entire ecosystems. While there's still much to learn about them, what's clear is that the world wouldn't be the world without ants.
"When I started looking into this more than a decade ago, it was so fascinating to realize the amount of effect ants have on an ecosystem," Jenkins said. "There are tens of thousands of types of ants, and in some places, they are key for the ecosystem to function. If you lose ants, other species could disappear. Yes, ants might be small, but they have a huge impact."
Jenkins — who has studied biodiversity of other species — joined a team from the Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) and other universities to embark on this ambitious project of pinpointing where in the world ants are. Museum records, field observations and data extracted from academic research papers told part of the story. Because some species are found in more than one location, the researchers turned to computers to build better predictive models of the distribution of each species.
Okinawa in southern Japan is one of these high diversity centers. The team found many ant species in this area have small ranges — meaning this location is critically important to conserve biodiversity. The team also looked at how well-protected these areas of high ant diversity are. They found only 15 percent of the top 10 percent of ant rarity centers had some sort of legal protection, such as a national park or reserve.
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Kenon Holdings Ltd. (NYSE:KEN – Get Rating) saw a large drop in short interest in July. As of July 15th, there was short interest totalling 75,700 shares, a drop of 19.4% from the June 30th total of 93,900 shares. Approximately 0.4% of the shares of the stock are short sold. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 55,600 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.4 days.
Hedge Funds Weigh In On Kenon
A number of large investors have recently bought and sold shares of KEN. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. grew its position in shares of Kenon by 577.2% in the 1st quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. now owns 104,766 shares of the utilities provider’s stock worth $7,116,000 after buying an additional 89,295 shares during the last quarter. BlackRock Inc. bought a new stake in shares of Kenon in the 1st quarter worth approximately $5,403,000. JPMorgan Chase & Co. grew its position in shares of Kenon by 353.1% in the 1st quarter. JPMorgan Chase & Co. now owns 84,412 shares of the utilities provider’s stock worth $5,733,000 after buying an additional 65,783 shares during the last quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. grew its position in shares of Kenon by 5.0% in the 1st quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 494,679 shares of the utilities provider’s stock worth $33,598,000 after buying an additional 23,520 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Brookstone Capital Management bought a new stake in shares of Kenon in the 1st quarter worth approximately $1,259,000. 11.95% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.
Kenon Trading Up 1.2 %
Kenon stock traded up $0.53 during trading hours on Wednesday, reaching $43.61. The company had a trading volume of 32,548 shares, compared to its average volume of 52,770. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.40, a current ratio of 6.69 and a quick ratio of 6.69. The company has a 50-day moving average price of $46.67 and a 200 day moving average price of $54.23. The firm has a market cap of $2.35 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 1.69 and a beta of 1.58. Kenon has a 12-month low of $35.11 and a 12-month high of $72.90.
About Kenon
Kenon Holdings Ltd., through its subsidiaries, operates as an owner, developer, and operator of power generation facilities in Israel, the United States, and internationally. It operates in four segments: OPC Israel, CPV Group, ZIM, and Quantum. The company engages in the generation and supply of electricity and energy; development, construction, and management of renewable energy and conventional natural gas-fired power plants; manufacture of automobiles; and provision of container liner shipping services.
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Softeon Extends its Leading Software Solution Set for Third-Party Logistics Companies
Architected System Built for 3PL Needs Include Warehouse Management, Warehouse Execution, Powerful Billing System, Client Portal, Order Management and More
RESTON, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#3PL–Softeon, a global supply chain software provider with the industry’s best record of customer success, continues to add new capabilities to its market-leading software solutions for third-party logistics (3PLs) providers, leading to continued new customer partnerships.
Softeon 3PL customers include Allen Distribution, CEVA Logistics, DB Schenker, Federation Logistics, G3 Enterprises, KSP Fulfilment, OAI Global, PSS Distribution, Saddle Creek Logistics, Sony DADC, Technicolor, UPS Supply Chain Solutions, and more.
Softeon’s advantage for 3PLs starts with a solution portfolio architected specifically for multi-client 3PL environments, with nearly every attribute configurable at the individual client level, supporting unlimited client-specific workflows in the same building.
Softeon also provides robust retail e-commerce and brand company direct-to-consumer (DTC) fulfillment capabilities, combined with B2B distribution process models in a single solution. This provides 3PLs maximum flexibility to on-board new clients easily and successfully execute across multiple client business models, enhancing revenue opportunities.
That flexibility extends to scalability as well, with the Softeon WMS, for example, able to manage smaller, basic facilities up to large, very complex environments using a single solution – not multiple products as some others in the industry require.
Key Softeon solution components for 3PLs include:
Warehouse Management System (WMS): Supports the basics from receiving to shipping in a powerful, highly-configurable Cloud-based solution built for 3PLs. Includes flexible “pick route” configuration, a built-in parcel management system, labeling and document printing tools, and many other unique features.
Warehouse Execution System (WES): This is an add-on to the WMS that enables additional order fulfillment orchestration and optimization, including advanced labor planning, material handling system synchronization, and direct control and optimization of picking sub-systems such as Voice, put walls, smart carts, pick-to-light and mobile robots.
Advanced 3PL Billing System: Includes a highly flexible rate card definition; national, regional and local rates; a robust array of methods for charging for storage; pre-built integration with the Softeon WMS; the ability to bring in non-WMS data for invoicing; direct invoicing or data sent to a 3PL’s accounting system, profitability analysis, and more – the best in the industry.
Client Portal: Highly secure web tool for clients to view inventory levels, receipts, in-transit inventory, shipped orders, order status and more, tailored to each client’s needs.
Labor Resource and Management: Plans and tracks human and equipment resources, with a unique statistical approach to standards setting, and support for full discrete engineered standards as desired.
Multiple Order Management Options: Basic order management capabilities are built into the WMS and used by many Softeon 3PL customers. Softeon also offers traditional Order Management System (OMS) capabilities suitable for call center applications.
Of special interest to many 3PLs is Softeon’s Distributed Order Management (DOM) solution. Softeon’s robust DOM provides granular, real-time inventory visibility to inventory across the extended network, enabling 3PLs to offer clients a powerful capability for optimal order sourcing; the ability to manage complex sourcing rules; strong support for subscription services and much more. 3PLs can add more value in ecommerce beyond pick, pack and ship.
Configuration Wizard: Softeon’s unique Configuration Wizard enables rapid on-boarding of new clients and the ability for a 3PL to become fully self-sufficient in rolling-out the Softeon WMS to additional sites.
“Softeon has architected a solution for 3PLs that delivers powerful capabilities with maximum flexibility,” says Dan Gilmore, chief marketing officer at Softeon, adding “Those technical capabilities are matched by a partnership-oriented approach that drives joint success.”
You can learn more about the Softeon 3PL partnership story here.
About Softeon
Softeon is a global provider of supply chain solutions from planning through execution, anchored by our Warehouse Management System (WMS), Warehouse Execution, and Distributed Order Management (DOM) solutions. Our advanced services-based platform is engineered to reduce complex problems into simple solutions for a faster time to market and lower cost of ownership. Users can implement solutions incrementally to solve a specific challenge or deploy an integrated system. Configurable modules and rules-based solutions give market leaders the business agility they need to get ahead and stay ahead. Companies choose the flexibility and ease-of-use of the Softeon platform to drive higher business value and accelerate ROI. Deployment options include on-premise or in the cloud – delivered with a 100% track record of system success. For more information, please visit www.softeon.com.
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WFO EUREKA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, August 3, 2022
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HAZARD...Winds up to of 40 mph, lightning, and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
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COIMBATORE: A 46-year-old panchayat president in Krishnagiri district was attacked and murdered by a group of men in Krishnagiri district on Tuesday night. According to police Narasimmamurthy, president of Tharavendram village panchayat in Hosur was returning home after purchasing some essentials in a two-wheeler, when a group of men followed and intercepted him in their bikes. They attacked him with logs and stones. Police said Narasimmamurthy succumbed to injuries on the spot. After a postmortem at Denkanikottai Government Hospital, the body of the deceased was handed over to family members on Wednesday. Police have detained five persons in connection with the case and further inquiries are on to know the motive behind the murder.
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Former NBA player Iman Shumpert was arrested Saturday at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport after security screeners found a "sizable" bag of marijuana and a gun magazine in his backpack, police say.
According to an arrest report from DFW Airport DPS, officers were called to the TSA checkpoint at Terminal E Saturday afternoon for a report of a drug violation. Upon arrival, officers met with TSA officials who say they discovered "a sizeable amount of a green leafy substance inside a backpack during a secondary screening process," the report said.
According to the police report, a Glock magazine containing 14 nine-millimeter rounds was also found in the backpack along with 6.12 ounces of marijuana. No weapon was located.
Shumpert told police that the substance was marijuana and he was traveling to Los Angeles to pick up his daughter.
According to the report, Shumpert "asked if there was any way he could make his flight." The arresting officer told Shumpert that he wouldn't be making his flight because he was under arrest.
He was handcuffed and taken to the airport's jail.
It wasn't immediately clear if Shumpert was represented by an attorney.
No further details were immediately available.
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A severe weather warning has been issued for southeast NSW, with a cold front forecast to bring heavy rain, damaging winds and possible flooding.
The Bureau of Meteorology says heavy rain may lead to flash flooding in the Illawarra, Southern Tablelands, the Hunter, South Coast, Central Tablelands, North West Slopes and Plains, Central West Slopes and Plains, South West Slopes, Snowy Mountains, and Riverina.
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The Snowy Mountains and the south western slopes could cop six-hourly rainfall totals between 45 and 60mm on Thursday, with localised falls up to 100mm possible
Wind gusts could peak around 90km/h over the ranges to the west of the ACT, as well as the eastern Great Dividing Range from Bombala to south of Crookwell, extending north to the Blue Mountains.
"Saturated soils in the Central Tablelands and Illawarra bring an increased risk of gusty winds toppling trees and powerlines," the BOM said.
A flood watch is current for areas including Braidwood, Goulburn, Bombala, Tumbarumba, Tumut, Khancoban and Thredbo Top Station.
NSW SES superintendent Barry Griffiths said volunteers in Wagga Wagga were preparing for riverine flooding of the Murrumbidgee River around Tumut and Gundagai.
"We have mobilised two high clearance vehicles, a fixed wing and been engaged with the local government agencies in those affected areas since Monday," he said on the Nine Network on Thursday.
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MONTREAL, Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Yesterday evening, WowWee, a family-owned toymaker responsible for the award-winning Fingerlings line, was made aware that Roblox Corporation filed a lawsuit against our company. WowWee believes that Roblox's allegations are completely meritless and looks forward to vigorously defending its position, product, and brand.
WowWee created My Avastars dolls to bring kids offline in a hybrid model that uses the digital attributes of the increasingly popular metaverse and avatar customization into physical play. WowWee specifically designed the dolls to appeal to 7–12-year-old girls, a demographic that is far too often overlooked and excluded from the metaverse. Since Roblox began as a platform that encouraged collaboration with its users (to Roblox's benefit), WowWee believed My Avastars would be a welcome addition to the Roblox platform. However, in June 2022, a week after WowWee publicly announced the creation of its My Avastars dolls, Roblox changed its terms of use to the detriment of the creative community.
A week later, Roblox sent a cease-and-desist letter to WowWee threatening legal action if the company continued with the launch of My Avastars dolls. WowWee has spent several weeks trying to resolve this disagreement amicably and in good faith and without needing to resort to contentious litigation. Following the cease-and-desist letter, WowWee voluntarily disassociated My Avastars from Roblox.
WowWee is a company that is focused on designing and developing toys to astonish our costumers' imaginations, whereas Roblox's actions today show that it is an organization driven by profit and power. Roblox's lawsuit stands in stark contrast to the values of creativity, community, and companionship that our My Avastars dolls are designed to promote. WowWee's focus remains on kids rather than courts.
Unfortunately, Roblox's actions are another example of a company using litigation as a growth strategy. Despite being a publicly traded corporate giant with a multi-billion-dollar revenue stream, it is targeting a family business whose goal is to provide children with another way to express their individuality through play. Yet, as parents have been teaching their children for generations, giving into a bully encourages them to bully again. Today, WowWee intends to take a stand for the creative community. WowWee hopes you join us.
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PHOENIX (AP) — Officials in an Arizona county are vowing to overhaul their election procedures after a shortage of some ballots at about two dozen voting sites during Tuesday's primary election led to some voters leaving without being able to cast their ballots.
Pinal County Attorney Kent Volkmer and Jeffrey McClure, chair of the Board of Supervisors, both blamed the problems on human error. McClure called it “a major screw-up.”
“I have not seen evidence of a nefarious act,” McClure said at a Wednesday news conference. “I've seen mistakes made on a grand scale.”
The problems were the second in the primary. When mail ballots were sent out early in July, many were missing city races and the county — a growing suburban area south of metro-Phoenix and home to over 425,000 residents — was forced to send supplemental ballots to those voters.
On Tuesday, that earlier issue played a role during in-person voting at some of the county's 95 polling sites. Each site may have had as many as 10 ballot styles.
A surge of people going to the polls led to some sites either running short or out of ballots. The county tried to print new ballots but old printers were limited and it took a long time in some cases to get new ballots to the affected polling sites.
At most, about 750 voters could have been affected, out of about 50,000 total mail and in-person votes tallied from Tuesday's election, but that is "purely a guess," Volkmer said.
“The actual number of people impacted, we have no ability to really assess,” Volkmer saiud.
“Quite frankly, we underestimated,” he said of the ballot shortage. “There were more people who showed up than we thought were going to show up.”
Some of those people were voters who had an early ballot, but because of the problems with missing races and the supplemental ballots, decided to “spoil” that ballot at the polls and request a new one.
“We know that that was happening,” he said. "That's not something that happens very often — its not what we expect."
Adding to the crush was a 10% population increase since the 2020 election and more independents asking for partisan Republican ballots on Election Day.
"We just, we didn't order enough ballots," Volkmer said.
“We're all human, but for the grace of God there go I,” he added. “There is nothing sinister,” and the problems affected voters of both parties.
“This was widespread, it was equal opportunity, it was simply a mistake,” Volkmer said.
There were also problems with a voting site in the city of Maricopa. That site did not open as scheduled at 7 a.m. Tuesday, and voting rights advocates tried and failed to get a judge to extend the hours to make up for that lost time for about 2,000 affected voters.
The Arizona Democracy Resource Center called the county’s actions “anti-democratic, alarming, and unacceptable.”
Volkmer said keys to the voting site were not available after the person set to open was unable to do so.
The state and national Republican Party also slammed the county, whose government is dominated by Republicans. They said in a joint statement that their poll observers reported "multiple failures" with mail ballots and precincts running out of ballots.
“This is a comprehensive failure that disenfranchises Arizonans and exemplifies why Republican-led efforts for transparency at the ballot box are so important,” the statement said.
Republican Rep. John Fillmore, who was trailing in his reelection bid, demanded action, saying “the average voter doesn't have faith.”
“Why the hell was the county not prepared for people showing up at the polls,” Fillmore asked at the news conference. “There has to be a change in the administration, in the people running the elections.”
The Republican Party called for county Elections Director David Frisk, who was just hired in March after an exodus of county election officials following the 2020 election, to immediately resign. Frisk was processing the approximately 8,000 remaining ballots and did not attend the news conference, which was streamed on the county website.
No voter was turned away at the polls, and some locations remained open for more than an hour after the normal 7 p.m. close time to allow those in line to cast ballots.
But "there were those people who felt they were disenfranchised,” Volkmer said, “There were people who said, ‘I didn’t get to vote because I had to go somewhere else.'” | https://www.bigrapidsnews.com/news/article/Arizona-county-hit-with-voting-problems-17349991.php | 2022-08-04T01:39:42Z | https://www.bigrapidsnews.com/news/article/Arizona-county-hit-with-voting-problems-17349991.php | false | 38 |
WALLA WALLA, Wash. - A fire early this morning at the veteran's memorial golf course destroyed a shed that held supplies for concerts at the Wine Country Amphitheater.
Walla Walla fire department says while no other structures were damaged they estimate damages around $100,000.
The president of W3 Entertainment, Scott Daggatt, says they've already put in orders to replace what burned.
Daggatt said they should still be ready for the Bonnie Raitt concert in two weeks and hope supply chain issues don't hold up what they need.
Concerts at the amphitheater are a part of the city of Walla Walla's goal to get nationally known concerts to the city according to Daggatt. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/fires/fire-at-veterans-memorial-golf-course-burns-up-concert-shed-and-supplies-for-wine-country/article_21dac53e-138f-11ed-80f8-4bcfd26de60e.html | 2022-08-04T01:47:07Z | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/fires/fire-at-veterans-memorial-golf-course-burns-up-concert-shed-and-supplies-for-wine-country/article_21dac53e-138f-11ed-80f8-4bcfd26de60e.html | true | null |
It’s Going to be Historic…Apply for Goleta’s Inaugural Historic Preservation Commission
Five Spots Open; Deadline September 9
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GOLETA, CA, August 3, 2022 – The City of Goleta is excited to announce that it is seeking applicants for the City’s brand-new Historic Preservation Commission. This is an important next step in the implementation of the Historic Preservation and Cultural Resources Ordinance enacted by the City Council in April 2022.
The goal of the Historic Preservation Ordinance is to preserve and protect resources that, once lost, cannot be replaced or replicated. Responsibilities of the Commission include but are not limited to:
- Making recommendations to the City Council regarding the designation of eligible properties as Historic Landmarks, Historic Districts, and Points of Historical Interest within the City and Mills Act requests.
- Making recommendations to the City Council regarding the rescission of or amendment to a historic designation.
- Reviewing and making recommendations to the Design Review Board on projects involving alterations to historic resources.
- Reviewing historic resources surveys and making recommendations to the City Council on periodic updates to the City’s Historic Resources Inventory.
- Making recommendations on any proposed design guidelines that may be developed by the City for project review or review of appropriate alterations or new construction within Historic Districts.
- Acting as an advisory board to the City Council, Planning Commission, Design Review Board, City Manager, and all City departments on all matters related to historic preservation.
The Commission will be comprised of five members appointed by the Mayor. The members of the first appointed Historic Preservation Commission will term out in varying years (June 2024, 2025, and 2026). After that, terms will be for four years, with no limit on the number of terms to which members may be appointed. A majority of the members must be residents of the City. Meetings are tentatively scheduled for the 3rd Monday of every other month, subject to the agenda calendar.
The City is looking for both professional and lay members with demonstrated interest, competence, or knowledge in historic preservation. Commission members may be appointed from among the following disciplines: architecture, history, architectural history, planning, archaeology, or other related disciplines, such as American studies, landscape architecture, cultural geography, or cultural anthropology, to the extent that such professionals are available in the community. Commission members may also include lay members who have demonstrated special interest/expertise, competence, experience, or knowledge of Goleta history and historic preservation, and/or are members of local Chumash tribal group(s).
Don’t miss this historic opportunity! Apply for the City’s first Historic Preservation Commission at www.CityofGoleta.org/BoardsCommissions. Applications due by September 9, 2022, at 5:00 p.m. For questions contact cityclerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org. | https://www.independent.com/2022/08/03/its-going-to-be-historicapply-for-goletas-inaugural-historic-preservation-commission/ | 2022-08-04T01:47:45Z | https://www.independent.com/2022/08/03/its-going-to-be-historicapply-for-goletas-inaugural-historic-preservation-commission/ | true | 1 |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Chrissy Teigen and her husband John Legend are expecting another child nearly two years after the couple suffered a pregnancy loss.
Teigen made the announcement Wednesday on Instagram where she posted two photos of her baby bump. She wrote that joy has “filled our home and hearts again” in a post that comes after she had a miscarriage in 2020.
“We have another on the way,” wrote the 36-year-old model and cookbook author, who shares two children — Luna and Miles — with Legend. She touched on her fertility journey and being too nervous to unveil her pregnancy.
“Every appointment I’ve said to myself, ‘ok if it’s healthy today I’ll announce’ but then I breathe a sigh of relief to hear a heartbeat and decide I’m just too nervous still,” she wrote. “I don’t think I’ll ever walk out of an appointment with more excitement than nerves but so far, everything is perfect and beautiful and I’m feeling hopeful and amazing.”
The couple delivered a heart-wrenching post in 2020 after both announced the lost of their son, Jack, at 20 weeks of her pregnancy. She was hospitalized with excessive bleeding before the miscarriage.
In the same year, Teigen wrote in an essay explaining that doctors diagnosed her with a partial placental abruption. At the time, she urged people to share their stories and “please be kind to those pouring their hearts out.”
Legend and Teigen were married in 2013. | https://www.wbtw.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/chrissy-teigen-reveals-baby-bump-after-2-year-pregnancy-loss/ | 2022-08-04T01:49:40Z | https://www.wbtw.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/chrissy-teigen-reveals-baby-bump-after-2-year-pregnancy-loss/ | false | 39 |
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order that lays the groundwork for Medicaid to help women seeking abortions to travel between states to obtain access to the procedure.
The details are still being worked out, and the administration faces a challenging legal landscape because it’s illegal to use federal funding to pay for abortions unless the woman’s life is in danger or the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest.
However, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the Department of Health and Human Services would invite states where abortion remains legal to apply for permission to use Medicaid funds to “provide reproductive healthcare to women who live in states where abortion is banned.”
Crossing state lines to get abortions has become an increasing issue since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and opened the door for new restrictions on abortion at the state level.
The National Abortion Federation said Wednesday that it’s seen more women asking for help traveling to get the procedure in the month after the decision. The organization paid for 76 hotel rooms and booked 52 bus or plane trips, up from only a handful in the same time period last year.
Biden’s order also calls on health care providers to comply with federal nondiscrimination laws and streamline the collection of key data and information on maternal health at the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Biden described the court’s decision on abortion as a “health care crisis,” and he said he wants to make sure “every part of the federal government does its part at this critical moment where women’s health and lives are on line.”
The order came one day after Kansas voters protected the right to abortion in the conservative state, an outcome that Biden celebrated.
Biden signed the order from the White House residence, where he continues to isolate with a rebound case of COVID-19. He participated virtually in a meeting led by Vice President Kamala Harris.
“I wish I was with you in person, quite frankly,” Biden said. “But I’m getting there.”
The new order nonetheless falls short of what many Democratic lawmakers and abortion advocacy groups have demanded of the Biden administration. One chief ask has been for Biden to declare a public health emergency on abortion, which White House officials have said would do little to free up federal resources or activate new legal authorities.
Wednesday’s order is the latest in a series of executive actions from the Biden administration since the constitutional right to an abortion was eliminated in the Supreme Court’s ruling on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization in June.
Separately, on Tuesday, the Justice Department sued Idaho over its statute that criminalizes abortions, with Attorney General Merrick Garland arguing that it violates federal law.
Near the end of Biden’s remarks, he once again called on Congress to codify Roe v. Wade into law.
“If Congress fails to act, the people of this country need to elect senators and representatives who will restore Roe and protect the right to privacy, freedom and equality.”
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Follow AP’s coverage of abortion at https://apnews.com/hub/abortion. | https://www.wbtw.com/news/politics/ap-politics/biden-to-sign-executive-order-to-protect-travel-for-abortion/ | 2022-08-04T01:52:28Z | https://www.wbtw.com/news/politics/ap-politics/biden-to-sign-executive-order-to-protect-travel-for-abortion/ | true | 27 |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency is warning residents who live near medical sterilizing plants in 13 states and Puerto Rico about potential health risks from emissions of ethylene oxide, a chemical widely used in their operations.
Laredo, Texas; Ardmore, Oklahoma; and Lakewood, Colorado, are among the communities facing the highest risk from ethylene oxide emissions, EPA said.
The agency has notified 23 commercial sterilizers — 19 in the continental U.S. and four in Puerto Rico — that their operations pose an elevated risk of cancer and other ailments. The notice follows a recent survey of emissions data from almost 100 commercial sterilizers nationwide.
Ethylene oxide is used to clean everything from catheters to syringes, pacemakers and plastic surgical gowns.
While short-term or infrequent exposure to ethylene oxide does not appear to pose a health risk, EPA said long-term or lifetime exposure to the chemical could lead to a variety of health impacts, including lymphoma and breast cancer. EPA said it is working with commercial sterilizers to take appropriate steps to reduce emissions.
“Today, EPA is taking action to ensure communities are informed and engaged in our efforts to address ethylene oxide, a potent air toxic posing serious health risks with long-term exposure,” EPA Administrator Michael Regan said in a statement Wednesday.
EPA will conduct public outreach campaigns in each of the communities where elevated risks have been found, including an Aug. 10 webinar. More than half the sites on EPA’s watch list are in predominantly minority or low-income communities.
Laredo, one of the communities targeted by the EPA notice, is a border city where the vast majority of residents are Latino and more than a quarter live in poverty. Missouri-based Midwest Sterilization Corp. operates a sterilization plant in Laredo. The company also owns a plant in Jackson, Missouri that is on EPA’s watch list.
More than 40% of Laredo’s nearly 70,000 schoolchildren attend campuses in areas with an elevated risk of cancer due to ethylene oxide emissions from the Midwest plant, according to an analysis by ProPublica and the Texas Tribune.
A spokesperson for Midwest declined immediate comment. But the company told ProPublica and the Tribune last December that cancer risk from its Laredo plant is overstated. Emissions it reported to the EPA are “worst case scenarios,” rather than specific pollution levels, the company said.
The Ethylene Oxide Sterilization Association, an industry group, said in a statement that ethylene oxide has been used for decades by the health care community to sterilize a wide variety of medical devices and equipment. More than 20 billion health care products are sterilized each year in the U.S. alone.
In many cases, there are no practical alternatives currently available to ethylene oxide, the group said, adding that use of less effective cleaning methods “could introduce the real risks of increased morbidity and mortality” at hospitals throughout the country.
EPA called medical sterilization “a critical function that ensures a safe supply of medical devices for patients and hospitals.” The agency said it is committed to addressing pollution concerns associated with EO, sometimes called EtO, “in a comprehensive way that ensures facilities can operate safely in communities while also providing sterilized medical supplies.”
Proposed rules to update control of air toxic emissions from commercial sterilizers and facilities that manufacture EtO are expected by the end of the year, with final rules likely next year, EPA said.
Scott Whitaker, president and CEO of the Advanced Medical Technology Association, another industry group, applauded EPA “for its forthrightness about what it does and doesn’t know” about EtO, but added: “It is critical that the EPA get this right.″
A potential shutdown of medical-device sterilization facilities “due to misinformed political pressure, as well as uncertainty regarding which regulations the facilities must adhere to …. would be disastrous to public health,″ Whitaker said in an email.
At least seven sterilizers on EPA’s watch list are AdvaMed members, including both Midwest plants and two owned by industry giant Becton, Dickinson and Co., also known as BD.
Besides medical cleansers, EtO is used in a range of products, including antifreeze, textiles, plastics, detergents and adhesives. It also used to decontaminate some food products and spices. Two of the 23 facilities targeted by EPA — in Hanover and Jessup, Maryland — are used to sterilize spices. Both are operated by Jessup-based Elite Spice.
Other commercial sterilizers cited by EPA are located in Groveland, Fla.; Salisbury, Md.; Taunton, Mass.; Columbus, Nebraska; Linden and Franklin, New Jersey; Erie and Zelienople, Pa.; Memphis and New Tazewell, Tenn.; Athens, Texas; Sandy, Utah; and Richmond, Virginia;
Four plants are Puerto Rico: Anasco, Fajardo, Salinas and Villalba.
EPA’s announcement shines a light on health threats that sterilizer facilities pose to millions of Americans, said Raul Garcia of the environmental group Earthjustice.
“Now that EPA has new information on precisely where the worst health threats are, the agency must use its full authority to … require fenceline monitoring at these facilities (and) issue a strong new rule,” he said. “No one should get cancer from facilities that are used to sterilize equipment in the treatment of cancer.” | https://www.wbtw.com/news/politics/ap-politics/epa-chemical-in-medical-device-cleanser-poses-cancer-risk/ | 2022-08-04T01:52:42Z | https://www.wbtw.com/news/politics/ap-politics/epa-chemical-in-medical-device-cleanser-poses-cancer-risk/ | false | 49 |
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