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How to watch Frances Tiafoe vs. Nick Kyrgios at the Citi Open
MSG is where you can see Friday's matchup between Frances Tiafoe and Frances Tiafoe in the quarterfinals of the Citi Open.
How to watch Frances Tiafoe vs. Nick Kyrgios at the Citi Open
- Tournament: Citi Open
- Round: Quarterfinal
- Date: Friday, August 5
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Tiafoe vs. Kyrgios Matchup Info
Frances Tiafoe vs. Nick Kyrgios Recent Performance
- Tiafoe is coming off a 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 victory over No. 26-ranked Botic Van de Zandschulp in the Round of 16 on Thursday.
- In the Round of 16, Kyrgios was victorious 7-6, 6-2 against Reilly Opelka on Thursday.
- Tiafoe has played 32 matches so far this year across all court types, and 28.8 games per match (25.2 in three-set matches).
- Tiafoe has won 21.8% of his return games so far this year, and 78.8% of his service games.
- Tiafoe has won 79.2% of his service games on hard courts, and 18.4% of his return games.
- Kyrgios has played 24.4 games per match (20.3 in three-set matches) in his 32 matches this year across all court surfaces.
- In terms of serve/return winning percentages this year, Kyrgios has won 90.9% of his games on serve, and 19.6% on return.
- Kyrgios has won 89.1% of his service games on hard courts, and 25.2% of his return games.
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ST. IGNATIUS - The Redhorn Fire which was spotted on Monday in the Mission Mountains has grown from 180 acres to 281 acres.
The blaze is burning in the Tribal Mission Mountain Wilderness Area seven air miles northeast of St. Ignatius.
There will be a community meeting at the tribal fitness center in St. Ignatius beginning at 7 p.m. on Friday.
There are no evacuations or closures in effect, although the area is already closed to recreation due to grizzly bear habitat.
Fire managers report no structures are being threatened by the Redhorn Fire.
The lightning-caused fire is burning in heavy forest fuels and in steep rough terrain.
Crews have are building a fuel break along the M-3000 road, starting at McDonald Lake headed west.
There are 42 people assigned to the Redhorn Fire. | https://www.kpax.com/news/firewatch/redhorn-fire-grows-to-281-acres | 2022-08-05T22:31:52Z | https://www.kpax.com/news/firewatch/redhorn-fire-grows-to-281-acres | false | null |
By Noel Randewich and Devik Jain
(Reuters) – The S&P 500 ended lower on Friday, weighed down by Tesla and other technology-related stocks after a solid jobs report torpedoed recent optimism that the Federal Reserve might let up its aggressive campaign to reign in decades-high inflation.
Data showed U.S. employers hired far more workers than expected in July, the 19th straight month of payrolls expansion, with the unemployment rate falling to a pre-pandemic low of 3.5%.
The report added to recent data painting an upbeat picture of the world’s largest economy after it contracted in the first half of the year. That deflated investors’ expectations that the Fed might let up in its series of rate hikes aimed at cooling the economy.
“This is all about the Fed. A very strong jobs report like we had puts pressure on the Fed to tighten for longer,” said Adam Sarhan, chief executive of 50 Park Investments. “The market is scared the Fed is going to overshoot again. If they tighten too sharply and too long, that’s going to cause a hard landing, a deep recession.”
Tesla tumbled 6.6% and weighed heavily on the S&P 500 and Nasdaq. Facebook-owner Meta Platforms lost 2% and Amazon fell 1.2%, also pulling down the index.
U.S. Treasury yields climbed as odds increased of a 75-basis-point interest rate hike in September. That helped bank stocks, with JPMorgan rising 3%, and helping the Dow Jones Industrial Average stay in positive territory.
Focus now shifts to inflation data due next week, with U.S. annual consumer prices expected to jump by 8.7% in July after a 9.1% rise in June.
Several policymakers have this week stuck to an aggressive policy tightening stance until they see strong and long-lasting evidence that inflation was trending toward the Fed’s 2% goal.
Surging inflation, the war in Ukraine, Europe’s energy crisis and COVID-19 flare-ups in China have rattled investors this year.
A largely upbeat second-quarter earnings season has helped the S&P 500 bounce back by about 13% from its mid-June lows after a rough first-half performance.
The S&P 500 declined 0.16% to end the session at 4,145.19 points.
The Nasdaq declined 0.50% to 12,657.56 points, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.23% to 32,803.47 points.
For the week, the S&P 500 rose 0.4%, the Dow fell 0.1% and the Nasdaq added 2.2%.
Lyft Inc surged almost 17% after the ride-hailing firm forecast an adjusted operating profit of $1 billion for 2024 after posting record quarterly earnings.
Advancing issues outnumbered falling ones within the S&P 500 by a 1.3-to-1 ratio.
The S&P 500 posted four new highs and 30 new lows; the Nasdaq recorded 60 new highs and 38 new lows.
Volume on U.S. exchanges was relatively light, with 10.6 billion shares traded, compared to an average of 10.8 billion shares over the previous 20 sessions.
(Reporting by Devik Jain, Aniruddha Ghosh and Medha Singh in Bengaluru, and by Noel Randewich in Oakland, Calif.; Editing by Anil D’Silva, Aditya Soni and Cynthia Osterman) | https://www.oann.com/sp-500-ends-down/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sp-500-ends-down | 2022-08-05T22:33:03Z | https://www.oann.com/sp-500-ends-down/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sp-500-ends-down | true | 9 |
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Andrew Yang and Christine Todd Whitman, two of the co-chairs of the new national political third party, called "Forward."
Ari Shapiro has been one of the hosts of All Things Considered, NPR's award-winning afternoon newsmagazine, since 2015. During his first two years on the program, listenership to All Things Considered grew at an unprecedented rate, with more people tuning in during a typical quarter-hour than any other program on the radio. | https://www.wmuk.org/2022-08-05/former-republicans-and-democrats-form-a-new-3rd-political-party | 2022-08-05T22:34:19Z | https://www.wmuk.org/2022-08-05/former-republicans-and-democrats-form-a-new-3rd-political-party | false | null |
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With warm weather forecast for the weekend, the City of White Rock announced Friday that a cooling centre and a misting station will be set up in the city this weekend.
The White Rock Community Centre, located at 15154 Russell Ave., will serve as the cooling centre, and will be open Saturday through Monday, from 11 a.m. until 6 p.m. daily. The centre is an air-conditioned space, and chairs and bottled water will be provided.
Nearby the community centre, at the corner of Russell Avenue and Johnson Road, a cooling/misting station will be set up, and will also operate Saturday, Sunday and Monday from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. each day. Guests can sit and cool off under a tent, and will be provided with bottled water, cold compresses, fans, sunscreen, first aid and access to a water mister.
For heat status updates well as tips to stay cool in warm weather, visit www.whiterockcity.ca/heatevent
This weekend, temperatures are expected to approach 30 C in White Rock, while creeping above that in other parts of the Lower Mainland.
While no such announcements regarding specific cooling centres have been made for Surrey, the city has noted online throughout the summer – including prior to the heatwave in late July, leading into the B.C. Day long weekend – that the city’s civic facilities, from public pools and spray parks to air-conditioned indoor facilities like community centres and libraries, are open to all, and are good places to visit for heat relief.
In South Surrey, such air-conditioned civic facilities include the South Surrey Recreation Centre (14601 20 Ave.); Grandview Heights Aquatic Centre (16855 24 Ave.); Surrey Libraries’ Ocean Park branch (12854 17 Ave.) and the Semiahmoo branch (1815 152 St.).
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MC Hammer's cousin, Manteca man, charged in rape case
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This case was dismissed because of insufficient evidence as of June 15, 2010.
PLEASANTON — The Manteca cousin of rapper MC Hammer has been charged with raping a woman he met through an online social networking site.
Marvin Grant, known as Bigg Marv on the A&E reality show documenting the life of Hammer, did not enter a plea during a court appearance Monday. He asked to be assigned a public defender.
Grant, 33, was arrested last week at Hammer's home in Tracy for investigation of rape in the alleged assault of a 40-year-old woman.
Livermore police Lt. Matthew Sarsfeld said Grant exchanged romantic e-mails and telephone conversations with the woman whom he met through Twitter.com before agreeing to meet at a hotel in Livermore.
According to court documents, Grant attacked the woman after she declined his advances.
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(The Hill) – A French scientist apologized for a joke he posted on Twitter, in which he claimed a photo of a chorizo was that of a star.
Etienne Klein, who is the research director of the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, posted a photo last week that he claimed was of Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the sun, taken by the James Webb Space Telescope.
The telescope sent back its first full-color image showing the deepest view of the universe ever seen last month, after reaching its destination almost 1 million miles from Earth earlier this year.
Klein pointed to the level of detail in the image he posted and said that a “new world” is being revealed.
But he commented on his post about an hour later to reveal the joke, saying that modern cosmology states that no object from “Spanish charcuterie” exists outside of Earth.
After receiving some comments critical of the joke, Klein commented that it was meant for amusement.
“Let us learn to be wary of arguments from authority as much as of the spontaneous eloquence of certain images,” he said.
On Wednesday, Klein posted a real image of a few galaxies located 500 million light years away that the telescope took. He also apologized for the joke, saying he wanted to urge caution about images that appear to speak for themselves. | https://www.wkrg.com/international/french-scientist-admits-to-joke-tweeting-picture-of-chorizo-not-space-telescope-image/ | 2022-08-05T22:42:38Z | https://www.wkrg.com/international/french-scientist-admits-to-joke-tweeting-picture-of-chorizo-not-space-telescope-image/ | true | 17 |
Emmanuel College, an NCAA Div. II school located in Franklin Springs, Georgia, has selected Logan Reese as head men’s coach heading into the 2022-23 season.
Reese, 23, might be the youngest head coach in all of college golf. He played at Emmanuel and graduated in 2021 and later served as Assistant Sports Information Director and Assistant Golf Coach.
“The game of golf has given me so much, including the opportunity to play for Emmanuel,” said Reese. “This institution is a special place with a lot of amazing people that truly changed my life. I’m so thankful for the opportunity to give back to the Emmanuel community and the game of golf, and I hope to impact my players the way this place has impacted me. I love all of the guys on our team and can’t wait to serve them and our incoming student athletes for years to come.”
Emmanuel’s Vice President for Athletics Nate Moorman said: “Logan more than proved himself ready to lead the men’s program by the impact he had on the men’s team during the 2021-22 school year. He not only led with great passion, but was impactful athletically and personally on several of our male golfers. We’re thankful for his willingness to continue to lead. It’s always a special opportunity when two of your recent and successful alumni want to come back to EC to serve and lead with such great passion. We’re looking forward to a very bright future for both of our golf programs.” | https://golfweek.usatoday.com/2022/08/05/logan-reese-23-hired-mens-golf-coach-emmanuel-college-georgia/ | 2022-08-05T22:46:14Z | https://golfweek.usatoday.com/2022/08/05/logan-reese-23-hired-mens-golf-coach-emmanuel-college-georgia/ | false | 1 |
Airstrikes, rocket attacks: Fresh fighting between Israel and Palestinian militants
By Nidal al-Mughrabi
Gaza: Palestinian militants in Gaza fired dozens of rockets into Israel on Friday in response to Israeli airstrikes which killed at least 10 people, including a senior commander of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement.
As darkness fell, Israeli authorities said sirens had been sounded in southern and central areas, while images broadcast by Israeli television stations appeared to show a number of missiles being shot down by air defence systems. In Tel Aviv, Israel’s economic centre, witnesses said they could hear booms but there were no reports of sirens.
Islamic Jihad, a militant group with a similar ideology to Hamas, the Islamist movement in charge of Gaza, said it had fired more than 100 rockets on Friday into Israeli cities, including Tel Aviv. Israel’s ambulance service said there were no reports of casualties.
The strikes came a little more than a year after an 11-day war between Israel and Hamas in May 2021, which killed at least 250 people in Gaza and 13 in Israel and left the blockaded enclave’s economy shattered.
Earlier, local health officials in Gaza said at least 10 people, including a five-year-old child, had been killed and 55 wounded in the Israeli airstrikes, which came after days of escalating tensions following the arrest of a Palestinian militant leader during the week.
An Israeli spokesperson said the strikes had killed Islamic Jihad commander Tayseer al-Jaabari and around 15 “terrorists” but said the military did not have a final casualty total.
“Israel carried out a precise counterterror operation against an immediate threat,” Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said in a televised statement in which he pledged to do “whatever it takes to defend our people”.
“Our fight is not with the people of Gaza. Islamic Jihad is an Iranian proxy that wants to destroy the State of Israel and kill innocent Israelis,” he said.
The Israeli military said in a Twitter post that its war planes targeted Islamic Jihad sites in Gaza that “severely affect the organisation’s ability to develop military capabilities”.
An Islamic Jihad official confirmed that al-Jaabari, whom the Israeli military described as the main coordinator between Islamic Jihad and Hamas, had been killed in the strikes, which hit several targets around the densely populated strip.
Smoke rose from a building where al-Jaabari was apparently killed and glass and rubble were strewn across the street amid the sound of ambulances racing to other sites.
As mourners prepared to hold funerals for those killed in the attacks, hundreds, some holding Palestinian flags, marched through the streets of Gaza, while queues formed outside bakeries and supermarkets as people stocked up on food and staples.
The strikes came after Israel arrested Bassam al-Saadi, a senior leader of the Islamic Jihad group, during a raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin earlier this week.
It subsequently closed off all Gaza crossings and some nearby roads over fears of retaliation from the group, which has a stronghold in Gaza, further restricting Palestinian movement.
Israel’s military said Defence Minister Benny Gantz had approved plans to call up 25,000 reservists following the strikes, signalling that Israel expected an extended confrontation.
In an interview on Al Mayadeen television, a pro-Iranian Lebanese channel, Islamic Jihad leader Ziad al-Nakhala vowed retaliation for the strikes.
“There are no red lines in this battle and Tel Aviv will fall under the rockets of resistance, as well as all Israeli cities,” he said.
Hamas’ armed wing issued a statement saying: “The blood of our people and our mujahideen will not go in vain.”
United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland, warned that the “dangerous” escalation risked creating the need for more aid at a time when world resources were stretched by other conflicts.
“The launching of rockets must cease immediately, and I call on all sides to avoid further escalation,” he said.
Egypt said it was mediating between Israel and the Palestinians.
Islamic Jihad, one of a cluster of Palestinian militant groups, was founded in Gaza in the 1980s and opposes political dialogue with Israel. Considered close to Iran, it is separate from Hamas but generally cooperates closely with the movement.
The Israeli military spokesperson said authorities expected there would be rocket attacks against the centre of Israel but said Iron Dome anti-missile batteries were operational. He said special measures had been imposed in Israeli areas 80 kilometres around Gaza.
He said plans to allow fuel trucks into Gaza to keep the area’s sole power plant operational had been dropped at the last minute as intelligence picked up movements that indicated attacks on Israeli targets were imminent.
The lack of fuel is set to lead to more power cuts in Gaza, where residents already have just 10 hours of electricity a day, and further hit the economy of a region that depends on foreign aid and still struggles to recover from past wars.
A narrow strip of land where some 2.3 million people live on a patch of 365 square kilometres, Gaza has been a constant point of conflict ever since Hamas took control. Israel has fought five conflicts with Gaza since 2009.
The area has since been under blockade, with Israel and Egypt tightly restricting movement of people and goods in and out.
“We have not yet been able to reconstruct what Israel had destroyed a year ago. People didn’t have the chance to breathe, and here Israel is attacking again without any reason,” said Mansour Mohammad-Ahmed, 43, a farmer from central Gaza.
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday that China's military exercises aimed at Taiwan, including missiles fired into Japan's exclusive economic zone, represent a “significant escalation” and that he has urged Beijing to back down.
China launched the drills following a visit by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan that infuriated Beijing, which claims the self-governed island as its own territory.
Blinken told reporters on the sidelines of a meeting with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Cambodia, however, that Pelosi's visit was peaceful and did not represent a change in American policy toward Taiwan, accusing China of using it as a "pretext to increase provocative military activity in and around the Taiwan Strait."
He said the situation had led to a “vigorous communication” during East Asia Summit meetings in Phnom Penh in which both he and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi took part along with the ASEAN nations, Russia and others.
“I reiterated the points that we made publicly as well as directly to Chinese counterparts in recent days, again, about the fact that they should not use the visit as a pretext for war, escalation, for provocative actions, that there is no possible justification for what they’ve done and urge them to cease these actions,” he said.
Blinken did not sit down one-on-one with Wang but said he had spoken with the Chinese foreign minister already about the possibility of a Pelosi visit to Taiwan before it had taken place during meetings in Bali, and had made the U.S. position clear.
China on Friday announced unspecified sanctions on Pelosi for her visit. A Chinese Foreign Ministry statement said she had disregarded China’s concerns and resolute opposition to her trip.
Pelosi received a euphoric welcome as the first U.S. House speaker, and highest ranking U.S. official, to visit Taiwan in more than 25 years.
China opposes any engagement by Taiwanese officials with foreign governments, and has accused the U.S. of breaking the status quo with the Pelosi visit. The U.S. insists there has been no change to its “one-China” position of recognizing the government in Beijing, while allowing for informal relations and defense ties with Taipei.
Despite the aggressive Chinese reaction to the visit, Blinken said the U.S. would also not change its “commitment to the security of our allies in the region,” and that the Defense Department had ordered the U.S.S. Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier group “to remain on station in the general area to monitor the situation.”
“We will fly, sail and operate wherever international law allows,” he said. “We'll continue to conduct standard air and maritime transits through the Taiwan Strait, consistent with our long-standing approach to working with allies and partners to uphold freedom of navigation and overflight.”
As the East Asia Summit opened, Wang patted Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on the shoulder as he entered the room and gave the already-seated Lavrov a quick wave before taking his own seat. Lavrov waved back in response.
Blinken, who entered the room last, did not even glance at Lavrov as he took his own seat about a half dozen chairs away, or at Wang who was seated farther down the same table as Lavrov.
Ahead of the Phnom Penh talks, the U.S. State Department indicated Blinken had no plans to meet one-on-one with either man during the course of the meetings.
Following the meetings, Lavrov told reporters there had been a lot of “fiery statements” about the aftermath of the Pelosi visit.
“There have been rather sharp statements from our Chinese partners, who we support," he told reporters. "And there have been responses from the U.S. and Japan that it’s not China’s business and that the declared policy of supporting the one-China principle doesn’t mean one has to ask Beijing for permission to visit Taiwan. Surely, it’s a weird logic.”
The talks came a day after WNBA star Brittney Griner was convicted of drug possession and sentenced to nine years in prison by Russia in a politically charged case amid antagonisms over the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Blinken said the conviction and sentence “compounds the injustice that has been done to her.”
“It puts a spotlight on our very significant concern with Russia’s legal system and the Russian government’s use of wrongful detentions to advance its own agenda using individuals as political pawns,” he said.
Blinken has suggested the possibility of a prisoner swap for Griner and another American jailed in Russia, Paul Whelan, but Lavrov told reporters that such a deal could only be decided upon by Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Joe Biden.
“We’re ready to discuss this topic, but to discuss it within the channel that was agreed on by presidents Putin and Biden,” Lavrov said on the sidelines of the ASEAN meeting.
On Thursday, China canceled a foreign ministers’ meeting with Japan to protest a statement from the Group of Seven industrialized nations that said there was no justification for Beijing's military exercises, which virtually encircle Taiwan.
“Japan, together with other member of the G-7 and the EU, made an irresponsible statement accusing China and confounding right and wrong,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said in Beijing.
When Japanese Foreign Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa began to speak Friday at the East Asia Summit, both Lavrov and Wang walked out of the room, according to a diplomat in the room who spoke on condition of anonymity in order to discuss the private session.
In the wake of the Chinese missile launches into Japan's economic zone, Blinken said the U.S. stands in “strong solidarity” with Japan following the “dangerous actions China has taken.”
Associated Press writer Jim Gomez in Manila, Philippines, contributed to this report.
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In eastern Kentucky, a slow cleanup and recovery is underway after flash flooding at the end of July. More than three dozen people died and some are still missing.
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In eastern Kentucky, a slow cleanup and recovery is underway after flash flooding at the end of July. More than three dozen people died and some are still missing.
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PARIS (AP) — French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne warned that France is facing its “most severe drought” ever recorded and announced the activation of a government crisis unit.
Borne said in a written statement on Friday that many areas in France are going through a “historic situation” as the country endures its third heatwave this summer.
“The exceptional drought we are currently experiencing is depriving many municipalities of water and is a tragedy for our farmers, our ecosystems and biodiversity,” the statement said.
Weather forecasts suggest that the heat, which increases evaporation and water needs, could continue for the next 15 days, possibly making the situation even more worrying, the statement stressed.
The government’s crisis unit will be in charge of monitoring the situation in the hardest-hit areas and coordinate measures like bringing drinking water to some places.
It will also monitor the impact of the drought on France’s energy production, transport infrastructure and agriculture.
French energy giant EDF said on Friday it had to temporarily cut power production at two of its nuclear plants which use river water to cool reactors. The group warned that at least one more plant could be affected in the coming days due to high temperatures in the Rhone river.
After a 2003 major heatwave, France’s nuclear safety agency, the ASN, set temperature limits at 28 degrees Celsius (82 degrees Fahrenheit) for rivers, beyond which power plants are required to reduce their production in order not to make the water even warmer and preserve the environment. Temporary exceptions allow some plants to raise this limit by a few degrees during “exceptional situations.”
France relies on nuclear energy for some 70% of its electricity, more than any other country.
France now has 62 regions with restrictions on water usage due to the lack of rain.
Depending on local situations, restrictions go from irrigation bans during the warmer hours of the day to using water only for the population, livestock and keeping aquatic species alive.
The minister for ecological transition, Christophe Béchu, said during a visit to southeastern France that more than 100 municipalities are not able to provide drinking water to the tap anymore and need to get supplied by truck.
“The worst the situation is, the more we make drinking water the priority compared to other usages,” he said. | https://www.wtnh.com/news/international/frances-going-through-its-most-severe-drought-ever-pm-says/ | 2022-08-05T22:53:41Z | https://www.wtnh.com/news/international/frances-going-through-its-most-severe-drought-ever-pm-says/ | true | 23 |
WASHINGTON (AP) — A retired police lieutenant has been arrested after police say he fatally shot a fellow law enforcement officer Thursday during a training exercise at a Washington D.C. library.
Jesse Porter was at the end of a training exercise at a library in the district’s Anacostia neighborhood Thursday afternoon when he fired a weapon that struck 25-year-old Maurica Manyan, Metropolitan Police Chief Robert Contee said Friday. The library officer was then rushed to a local hospital where he was later pronounced dead.
Porter was arrested on an involuntary manslaughter charge after police consulted with the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington. He remained in custody Friday and it wasn’t immediately clear if he had an attorney who could comment on his behalf.
Metropolitan Police said the 58-year-old retired lieutenant was working for a private contractor providing training for a group of library police officers on how to use expandable batons when he discharged a single shot from his firearm.
There were about six people in the room at the time, including other library police officers. The city’s public library system has its own force of full-time special police officers who can be armed and are responsible for ensuring the safety and security of the library branches.
At a news conference shortly after the shooting, Contee said it was unclear why Porter had a firearm during a training exercise. Generally, law enforcement agencies take steps to ensure trainers and participants do not have access to live ammunition or actual firearms during training programs, to avoid the possibility of accidental gunfire.
“It’s not good practice,” Contee said. “I’m not sure in this situation why the trainer had a live weapon in the training environment. But it is not good practice to do this.”
The circumstances surrounding the shooting remained unclear and police said the investigation was still ongoing. | https://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/ex-lieutenant-arrested-in-library-officers-shooting-death/P7TDFMGFBBEORI5XROHKEDSA2E/ | 2022-08-05T22:58:17Z | https://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/ex-lieutenant-arrested-in-library-officers-shooting-death/P7TDFMGFBBEORI5XROHKEDSA2E/ | true | 29 |
Sam Gooden, founding member of The Impressions, has died
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Sam Gooden, one of the original members of the Chicago soul group The Impressions and a member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, has died. He was 87.
His daughter, Gina Griffin, said Gooden died Thursday, a month shy of his 88th birthday, in his hometown of Chattanooga, Tennessee, surrounded by his family. His death was first reported by WRCB-TV in Chattanooga.
The Impressions formed in the 1950s after Gooden and brothers Richard and Arthur Brooks met Curtis Mayfield and Jerry Butler in Chicago. Butler sang baritone lead on their breakthrough record in 1958, the classic ballad “For Your Precious Love,” although many of their hits featured Mayfield’s tenor, with Gooden singing bass behind him.
The Impressions remained a top group in the 1960s, known for their gospel-styled harmonies and socially conscious songs. Mayfield helped write many of their hits, including the widely covered “People Get Ready,” along with “Gypsy Woman,” “Keep on Pushing,” “It’s All Right” and “We’re A Winner.” They were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1991. Seven years later, “People Get Ready” was voted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
Mayfield left the group in 1970 for a solo career, although he continued to write and help produce for The Impressions. Gooden and fellow Chattanoogan Fred Cash continued to sing as The Impressions along with other lead singers, including Leroy Hutson. They toured until 2018.
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Sam Gooden, founding member of The Impressions, has died
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Sam Gooden, one of the original members of the Chicago soul group The Impressions and a member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, has died. He was 87.
His daughter, Gina Griffin, said Gooden died Thursday, a month shy of his 88th birthday, in his hometown of Chattanooga, Tennessee, surrounded by his family. His death was first reported by WRCB-TV in Chattanooga.
The Impressions formed in the 1950s after Gooden and brothers Richard and Arthur Brooks met Curtis Mayfield and Jerry Butler in Chicago. Butler sang baritone lead on their breakthrough record in 1958, the classic ballad “For Your Precious Love,” although many of their hits featured Mayfield’s tenor, with Gooden singing bass behind him.
The Impressions remained a top group in the 1960s, known for their gospel-styled harmonies and socially conscious songs. Mayfield helped write many of their hits, including the widely covered “People Get Ready,” along with “Gypsy Woman,” “Keep on Pushing,” “It’s All Right” and “We’re A Winner.” They were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1991. Seven years later, “People Get Ready” was voted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
Mayfield left the group in 1970 for a solo career, although he continued to write and help produce for The Impressions. Gooden and fellow Chattanoogan Fred Cash continued to sing as The Impressions along with other lead singers, including Leroy Hutson. They toured until 2018.
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Aug 4, 2022
Australia Stock Exchange’s Blockchain Project Hits Another Snag
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,(Bloomberg Law) -- The Australian Stock Exchange’s plan to replace its main trading applications with a blockchain-based system has hit another snag, and the market operator’s new CEO is bringing in consulting giant Accenture to study the project.
“ASX and Digital Asset, our application software provider, have identified that more development is required than previously anticipated to meet ASX’s scalability and resilience requirements for the application,” the exchange, known as ASX, said in a statement Wednesday.
It now says it doesn’t expect the changeover, already delayed twice this year, to go live “before late 2024.”
- The project to replace the exchange’s aging CHESS clearing and settlement system with distributed ledger technology ranks among the highest-profile blockchain projects in finance.
- Accenture will “bring external expertise to assess the remaining work required to complete delivery of the application,” ASX said. The findings of the consulting firm’s independent review will be released to the public, it said.
- The announcement came after Helen Lofthouse took over from Dominic Stevens as ASX’s managing director and CEO on Aug. 1. “In bringing a fresh set of eyes, Helen is seeking an independent assessment of the new application and the remaining deliverables, and supports a process that will strengthen stakeholder confidence,” the statement said.
To contact the reporter on this story: David Jolly in Washington D.C. at djolly@bloombergindustry.com
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Meg Shreve at mshreve@bloombergindustry.com; Alex Clearfield at aclearfield@bloombergindustry.com
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7 adults, 3 kids dead in house fire; criminal probe underway
Fire tore quickly through a house in the wee hours of Friday, killing seven adults and three children and horrifying a volunteer firefighter who arrived to battle the blaze only to discover that the victims were his family, authorities said.
A criminal investigation into the fire is underway, authorities said. The children who died in the fire were ages 5, 6 and 7, Pennsylvania State Police said in a news release.
Nescopeck Volunteer Fire Co. firefighter Harold Baker told the Citizens' Voice newspaper of Wilkes-Barre that the 10 victims included his son, daughter, father-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, three grandchildren and two other relatives.
The fire in Nescopeck was reported around 2:30 a.m. One person was found dead inside the single-family home shortly after emergency responders arrived, while two other victims were found later in the morning.
Some people were able to safely flee the burning home, authorities said.
Baker said that the address initially given for the call was a neighboring home, but that he realized it was his family’s residence as the fire truck approached.
“When we turned the corner up here on Dewey (Street) I knew right away what house it was just by looking down the street,” Baker told the Citizens' Voice. “I was on the first engine, and when we pulled up, the whole place was fully involved. We tried to get in to them."
Neighbors reported hearing a loud popping sound or explosion before seeing the front porch of the home rapidly consumed by flames. Some also reported hearing a young man screaming in front of the home, “They’re all dead."
Baker, who was relieved of his firefighting duties because of his relationship to the victims, said 14 people were living in the home. One of them was out delivering newspapers, and three others escaped, he said.
“It’s a complex criminal investigation with multiple fatalities," Pennsylvania State Police Lt. Derek Felsman said. Troopers were interviewing survivors, he said. | https://www.wlky.com/article/family-dead-pennsylvania-house-fire/40821425 | 2022-08-05T23:02:01Z | https://www.wlky.com/article/family-dead-pennsylvania-house-fire/40821425 | true | 14 |
After 2,190 days, Kahili Ollivierre, popularly referred to as “Q,” remains missing. Ollivierre was last seen outside Dougan’s shop in Calliaqua on August 4th, 2016.
In 2016, Maxine Ollivierre, the mother of the missing youth, pleaded with anyone with information about her son to come forward and notify the police, but her pleas went unanswered.
According to the mother, her last communication with her son was in July of 2016 and there was no sign he might be in trouble, so his disappearance came as a surprise.
According to Ollivierre, she discovered her son was missing on Sunday, 7th August 2016. She indicated that this information came from family members. It is frightening to hear that someone can go missing so easily without any witnesses or ears in such a small community as SVG, the mother stated.
Information indicated that police on the island in September of 2016 concentrated their search in the Fenton Mountain area and questioned villagers, however, it yielded no results.
Police have not made any progress in the case as of 2022. | https://www.stvincenttimes.com/kahili-q-ollivierre-missing-since-august-2016-2190-days/ | 2022-08-05T23:03:05Z | https://www.stvincenttimes.com/kahili-q-ollivierre-missing-since-august-2016-2190-days/ | false | 1 |
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“The scale of, and diverse contexts within, the Odana Area allows for a wide variety of housing types to be built. This includes ‘missing middle’ housing types like townhomes and small multifamily, as well large scale apartments and residences in mixed-use buildings,” the plan states.
The Odana area is dominated by commercial land uses, with only a few residential buildings. The goal for the city is that new housing in the area can link existing isolated areas to create a more cohesive neighborhood, and because redevelopment will primarily occur on underutilized parking areas or commercial sites, it will not result in displaced residents.
With redevelopment proposals pouring in for the area, the reality may be more complicated.
“This whole area is just rapidly changing, and, to me, it's all very exciting,” said Ald. Keith Furman, who represents that area, District 19. “But I recognize anytime we talk about anywhere you get this pushback of people not wanting to see that.”
“Change is always hard,” he added.
6604 Odana Road, formerly Market Square Theatre
After Market Square Theatre, Madison’s budget movie theater on the city’s west side abruptly closed its doors permanently in February, Apex Real Estate Holdings and Walter Wayne Development put together a proposal for the site at 6604 Odana Road.
Apex has owned the Market Square Shopping Center since 2008. When the pandemic forced the theater’s closure, Bosben, the managing member of real estate holdings for the company, took what was being advocated in the Odana Area Plan as the starting point for a proposal.
“We figured the most obvious use for the site would be another apartment building,” Bosben said.
The proposal is for approximately 98 residential units in five stories over two levels of parking (six stories would be above ground and one underground) and is working its way through the city’s public notification process. The development at the Market Square Shopping Center would require a demolition permit and conditional use approval.
The lot is adjacent to Normandy Square Apartments, a senior independent living facility, and some of those residents have expressed concerns about what the construction of a large development will mean.
“There's no advantage to us to have a massive housing project this close,” one resident told the Cap Times, after attending a public information meeting in late July. “I asked, ‘Would you want your elderly parents (or) grandparents to spend their nether years in the shadow, literally, of this behemoth?’ No one answered that.”
Neighboring resident concerns
Chris Wells, a development review planner for the city, has been involved in the neighborhood meetings for the development and said most of the concerns are about the noise, traffic and dust from construction.
Bosben said that can all “be dealt with.” The site has good access from multiple sides, which should lead to little construction traffic interfering with the existing apartments. The contractor can put up a large fence with fabric on it to minimize dust. City ordinances limit hours of noisy construction to between 7 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.
Both Wells and Furman emphasized the city is taking concerns seriously.
“The city does have strict regulations when it comes to development… so I am confident the developer will recognize that and do everything they can to minimize it,” Furman said.
Neighbors mentioned another apprehension, too, Bosben said: affordable housing.
“They were worried that we might do low-income housing adjacent to their building, and they were very much afraid of that,” Bosben said of some people who live in the area and oppose the new development. “It’s the irony of low-income housing — everybody says that somebody else ought to build low-income housing, but nobody wants it built anywhere near them.”
But it’s a moot point since Apex doesn’t plan on imposing income restrictions or offering subsidies for this particular building. Apex is a provider of market-rate housing, and the vast majority of their apartments rent for under $1,000 a month, according to Bobsen.
“We are one of the biggest providers of modest-priced housing in Madison, and we're going to build this and rent it for whatever price the market dictates,” Bosben said.
Yet with new construction, it can be challenging to keep costs low.
“It's just not possible. The requirements that are imposed by the government probably add 30% to the cost of a typical building, and that price has to be dealt with in the rent,” he said. “The fact is that the residents pay it.”
Apex is looking at submitting its formal application for the development in September, which would mean it would go before the city’s Plan Commission in November, the full council in December and could begin construction in spring 2023.
Once Apex finalizes the design and gets it approved by the city, then it gets bid out — and if the prices of construction continue to climb, that could pose a big threat to the entire development, Bosben said.
“There's a limit to how much people can afford to pay in rent and if we can't rent it for enough to cover its costs, then we can't build it,” Bosben said. “I don't expect that's going to be what happens, but I can't control it.
“There have been so many weird hiccups in the price of things that I'm nervous about it.”
Future Odana area developments
If new developments get underway, Furman said it could clear a path for a totally revitalized Odana neighborhood.
“As far as what the neighborhood looks like after something like (the Market Square development) or looks like after these other projects, I think people should be excited about it. I think it makes the neighborhood more vibrant,” Furman said. “I expect a lot of other great things to follow, including more green space and more businesses and restaurants.”
More housing developments in the area are springing up rapidly.
Northpointe Development and DreamLane Real Estate are submitting a mixed-use development proposal for 6706-6714 Odana Road. The space would hold approximately 124 residential units and 5,000 square feet of commercial space. It would be four stories over one level of parking and require a demolition permit and conditional use approval.
Furman is hosting a virtual community meeting about the potential development on Aug. 10.
The city also recently met with Vivo Investment Group, a California developer that converts hotels into “naturally occurring affordable housing” — or NOAH — about the Radisson Hotel at 517 Grand Canyon Drive. NOAH refers to apartments that are affordable but unsubsidized by any federal programs. Their rents are relatively low compared to the regional housing market.
“We had a positive meeting last week with planning and zoning staff who believe the project fits within the vision and recommendations of the Odana Corridor Plan,” Furman said.
The renovation will either be a conditional use under the existing zoning, transitioned to commercial zoning or need to be rezoned altogether.
It’s also likely that a new office building will go up in the next year or two where the Clock Tower Office Park currently sits at 6417 Odana Road, according to Furman.
These projects have not been formally submitted to the city and will need approval from the Plan Commission and City Council before moving forward. Furman said community feedback will be taken into account along the way.
“(Developments) need to fit with the vision of the plan, (which) says this is what we're looking for. I think the fact that they fit with the vision is certainly a positive for them, but it really comes down to the details of what they are proposing,” Furman said. “That whole area is transforming.” | https://captimes.com/news/government/the-city-s-odana-area-plan-is-starting-to-unfold-here-s-what-it-could/article_964a3e63-87ec-550b-814d-9bef12cecd03.html | 2022-08-05T23:07:58Z | https://captimes.com/news/government/the-city-s-odana-area-plan-is-starting-to-unfold-here-s-what-it-could/article_964a3e63-87ec-550b-814d-9bef12cecd03.html | true | 1 |
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Ukraine Situation Report: Rumors Swirl Around Macedonian Su-25 Delivery
Despite the unconfirmed reports, where exactly the Macedonian Su-25 jets are at this point in time is unclear. But we do know they’re gone.
Several Ukrainian media outlets have begun reporting that various government entities told them four Macedonian Su-25 subsonic jet aircraft were recently delivered to Ukraine in some capacity. If true, the jets, three of which originally belonged to Ukraine before 2001, would join the T-72 tanks Macedonia had donated to Ukraine in July, officially disbanding the country’s only tank battalion. Although, neither the Macedonian Ministry of Defense nor the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense has released official statements confirming the potential jet transfer.
Macedonia received a rush delivery of four Su-25s in 2001 for use against Albanian insurgents. Three single-seaters from Ukraine and one two-seater from Belarus made up the fleet. The aircraft stopped flying around 2004 and have been left sitting prepared for sale in the open at Petrovec airbase in Macedonia since then.
The Macedonian news outlet MKD unofficially cited government sources claiming that Ukrainian military engineers were spotted inspecting and fixing the jets at the airbase in June, however, those reports are unconfirmed.
The War Zone has obtained Google Earth imagery from February that showed the four Su-25s at Petrovec, and Planet Labs imagery continued to place them there up until April. However, the most current Planet Labs satellite data from July shows that the jets are no longer there. This comparison reveals that between the months of April and July, the Su-25s were moved, in one way or another, to an undisclosed location.
This finding could line up with MKD’s claims that the aircraft were spotted undergoing rehabilitation with Ukrainian engineers in June, however, it is important to note that the jets could have also been transported to an additional location to be stripped for parts. When asked about the rumors by MKD, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense didn’t outright confirm or deny that the transfer of either complete jets or aircraft parts has taken place.
"The exact details of these decisions, their content, and explanation will be declassified and transparently published,” said the Ukrainian ministry. “With the decisions made so far, the combat readiness of our army is not violated.”
The Su-25 is a Soviet-era Sukhoi ground-attack and close-air-support jet that has become a household name throughout the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Even the Russian Air Force is known to have been operating a number of the Frogfoot jets, rather unsuccessfully at times, and Ukrainian forces also operate the type, often flying at incredibly low altitudes to avoid the threat of Russian air defense systems.
If the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense does, in fact, publish declassified information regarding this potential transfer as they have seemingly committed to doing, The War Zone will be sure to provide an update.
Before we get into more details about the past few days of fighting in Ukraine, you can catch up on our previous rolling coverage of the war here.
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According to the U.K. Ministry of Defense's latest defense intelligence update, the intentions of Russian forces as they continue to hold the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in the southeastern city of Enerhodar remain unclear. The ministry insists that the actions Russian forces have taken in the area continue to display a blatant disregard for the safety protocol typically implemented by the International Atomic Energy Agency, which hasn’t been able to visit the plant for routine inspections as the warring countries grapple with who has control of the territory.
A video has also begun circulating on social media that reportedly shows smoke emanating from various sites of Russian shelling near the nuclear power plant. A corresponding article published by Reuters as this piece was being written explains that Energoatom, a Ukrainian state enterprise operating all four nuclear power stations in the country, confirmed this information and blamed Russia for the recent damage inflicted upon the power plant.
"On 5 August, the Russian military again resorted to provocations. As a result of their attack at 14:30, three strikes were recorded near the ZNPP industrial site,” read the Energoatom statement on Telegram. “The enemy hit the high-voltage communication line of the 330 kW switchgear between the ZNPP autotransformer and the Zaporizhzhia Thermal Power Plant."
Russian forces are almost certainly using the wider facility area as a firebase, thus protecting their artillery systems from a Ukrainian counterattack, as launching one could be of great detriment to the plant. You can read more about the unstable situation at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in our previous reporting here.
The hazardous operations being carried out near the plant have even prompted some to call upon Amnesty International as the fallout from any major damage done to Zaporizhzhia could quickly become a global catastrophe. The non-governmental organization, which is centered around human rights initiatives, has recently come under fire for sharing a highly controversial report claiming that “Ukrainian forces have put civilians in harm’s way by establishing bases and operating weapons systems in populated residential areas.”
The article goes on to cite that such residential areas include hospitals and schools, and Amnesty International’s Secretary General Agnès Callamard claimed that the organization has “documented a pattern of Ukrainian forces putting civilians at risk and violating the laws of war when they operate in populated areas.” According to the article, these areas were often located kilometers away from the front lines.
The article has sparked such an outcry, in fact, that the Director of Amnesty International Oksana Pokalchuk has since resigned from her position. In a lengthy Facebook post, Pokalchuk, who is Ukrainian, openly criticized the report and cited its publishing as a primary reason for her departure from the organization among other grievances with its leadership.
In better news, three more grain ships departed from Ukrainian ports on Friday carrying thousands of tons of corn. The Associated Press reported that the ships sailed through supposedly mined waters toward inspection sites, and upon approval for passage, will then travel to Ireland, the United Kingdom, and Turkey on the heels of Sierra Leone-flagged ship Razoni. However, many of the transport ships currently full of additional grain harvested in “the world’s breadbasket” remain held in Ukrainian ports.
As part of Canada and NATO’s Operation Reassurance, multiple CF-18 Hornets from Canada’s 425 Tactical Fighter Squadron arrived at the Mihail Kogalniceanu Airbase in Romania beginning July 26. According to a NATO press release, the Canadian Air Force fighter jets will carry out the air policing mission to secure Eastern European airspaces alongside the Romanian Air Force for the next four months.
“Six Royal Canadian Air Force's CF-188 fighters and personnel from Canada's Armed Force Air Task Force-Romania (ATF-R) deployed to Romania in early August 2022,” read the NATO press release. “This is the seventh time that Canada has deployed an ATF to Romania on Operation Reassurance since 2014.”
The overall purpose of the deployment is largely similar to the U.S. Air Force’s recent and unprecedented F-22 Raptor arrival in Lask, Poland. The Raptors will be carrying out similar air-shielding operations to deter any possible Russian aggression in the airspace along NATO’s eastern border. You can read more about that here.
The Institute for the Study of War’s (ISW) daily conflict assessment has highlighted a number of areas where Ukrainian forces seem to be gaining ground. For example, ISW reports that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are “likely seizing the strategic initiative and forcing Russia to reallocate forces and reprioritize efforts in response to Ukrainian counteroffensive operations.”
One of the more prominent counteroffensives is purportedly taking place near the city of Kherson. Ukrainian forces are seemingly launching a revitalized effort to take back the region from Russian occupiers, and such claims are only further evidenced by additional ISW reports that Ukrainian forces have allegedly struck two Russian strongholds northwest of Kherson city.
Russian ammunition depots, train stations, and bridges continue to suffer strikes launched by Ukrainian forces, as well. These attacks come amid multiple attempts made by Russian forces to maintain control over occupied territory and continue their advancements, however, ISW notes that many of these efforts have remained just that — attempts. The institute explains that Russians tried to advance northwest of Izyum, but were instead met with a series of localized counterattacks launched by Ukrainian forces to regain positions in various settlements.
After at least two Russian ships were seen smoking off the coast of Crimea yesterday, leading many to suggest that they had been struck by Ukranian missiles, recent reports dictate that the Russian warship of the Vasiliy Bykov class entered Sevastopol bay with her stern’s paint damaged by fire. However, the crux of the incident is still unclear and the ship clearly remains well intact.
Speaking of Russian warships, the country’s navy has seemingly adopted quite an eye-catching and, in some cases, ominous aesthetic. The Russian ‘Z’ is prominently displayed, this time in lights. It is likely that the decorations were part of Russia’s Navy Day parade on July 31.
We will continue to update this post until we state otherwise.
Contact the author: Emma@thewarzone.com
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Elon Musk's real beef with Twitter revealed
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Elon Musk accused Twitter of fraud in a countersuit over his aborted $44 billion deal for the social media company, which he claimed held back necessary information and misled his team about the true size of its user base.
The countersuit by the billionaire and Tesla CEO alleges that Twitter committed fraud, breach of contract and violation of a securities law in Texas, where Musk lives.
Musk's counterclaims were filed confidentially last week and unsealed in a filing late Thursday at the Delaware Chancery Court.
Musk offered to buy Twitter earlier this year, then tried to back out of the deal by claiming the social platform was infested with a larger numbers of "spam bots" and fake accounts than Twitter had disclosed.
Twitter sued to force him to complete the acquisition. Musk responded by filing his countersuit.
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Musk's attorneys argue in the countersuit that Twitter "misrepresentations or omissions" distorted the company’s value and caused Musk to agree in April to buy it at an inflated price. They said Twitter’s own disclosures revealed that it has 65 million fewer "monetizable daily active users," who can be shown digital ads, than the 238 million that Twitter claims.
The filing also said most of Twitter's ads are shown only to a sliver of the company's user base.
Musk's team also accused Twitter of making too many major changes in recent months without consulting Musk, including personnel decisions and allegedly disobeying social media restrictions imposed by the government of India, which is Twitter's third largest market. Musk had pledged to make Twitter a haven for free speech but has also said it must comply with the local laws where it operates.
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In an unexpected twist, Twitter filed its response denying Musk's accusations before Musk’s own counterclaims surfaced.
Twitter called Musk’s reasoning "a story, imagined in an effort to escape a merger agreement that Musk no longer found attractive." The company, in particular, took issue with Musk's estimate of fake accounts, saying the analysis relied on a "generic web tool" that designated Musk's own Twitter account as a likely bot.
"The result is a distortion that Musk is hoping will nonetheless make waves," Twitter's response said.
The case is scheduled to go to trial on October 17. The Delaware court handles many high-profile disputes between businesses, such as Twitter, that are incorporated there. | https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/elon-musks-real-beef-with-twitter-revealed | 2022-08-05T23:15:11Z | https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/elon-musks-real-beef-with-twitter-revealed | true | 62 |
Russia has banned investors from so-called unfriendly countries from selling shares in key energy projects and banks until the end of the year, stepping up pressure in the sanctions stand-off with the West.
Western countries and allies, including Japan, have piled financial restrictions on Russia since it sent troops into Ukraine in late February. Moscow retaliated with obstacles for Western businesses and their allies leaving Russia, and in some cases seized their assets.
The decree signed by President Vladimir Putin and published on Friday, immediately bans investors from countries which supported sanctions on Russia from selling their assets in production sharing agreements (PSA), banks, strategic entities, companies producing energy equipment, as well as in other projects, from oil and gas production to coal and nickel.
Putin could issue a special waiver in certain cases for the deals to go ahead, the decree said, and the government and the central bank should prepare a list of banks for the Kremlin’s approval. The decree mentioned no investors by name.
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The ban covers almost all big financial and energy projects where foreign investors still have stakes, including the Sakhalin-1 oil and gas project.
On Thursday, Russian state oil champion Rosneft blamed ExxonMobil for falling output at the Sakhalin-1 group of fields, after the U.S. energy major said it was in the process of transferring its 30% stake “to another party.”
Separately, a government decree signed on Aug. 2 gave foreign investors at the Sakhalin-2 liquefied natural gas (LNG) project – Royal Dutch Shell and Japanese trading houses Mitsui & Co and Mitsubishi Corp – a month to claim their stakes in a new entity which will replace the existing project.
The new decree does not cover the Sakhalin-2 project, it said.
Shell was looking for options to withdraw from the project while Japan’s government reiterated its wish for the Japanese companies to maintain their stakes there.
Italy’s UniCredit and Intesa, U.S. group Citi and Austria’s Raiffeisen continue to search for options to exit Russia, while others such as Societe Generale and HSBC have found a way out.
Citigroup declined to comment on Friday, but on Thursday, the bank said in a filing it will continue to reduce its operations and exposures to Russia.
Citigroup has ceased soliciting any new business or new clients in Russia, it said.
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New prosecutor named after Georgia stun-gun death mistrial
SANDERSVILLE, Ga. (AP) - A new prosecutor has been assigned to consider retrying three former Georgia sheriff's deputies accused of killing a man walking down a rural road when they shocked him with stun guns during a 2017 arrest.
Local news outlets report that Columbus-based District Attorney Stacey Jackson was assigned to the case after the district attorney where the death occurred stepped aside.
A judge declared mistrials in October 2021 after Washington County jurors deadlocked in deliberations over the guilt of Henry Lee Copeland, Michael Howell and Rhett Scott.
The three were accused of murder, involuntary manslaughter, false imprisonment, aggravated assault, simple assault and reckless conduct in the July 2017 death of 58-year-old Eurie Martin.
Martin´s family and friends have been lobbying for another trial
"It´s been agonizing. Just waiting and seeing who is going to take this case. Is it going to be tried, right? We want a fair trial, and we want the murderers behind bars," Barbara Evans, Martin´s sister, told WMAZ-TV.
Deputies tried to arrest Martin, who had a history of schizophrenia, after a resident of the hamlet of Deepstep called 911 to report him as suspicious after he approached the person and asked for a drink of water. Martin was walking 30 miles (50 kilometers) on a hot day to see his relatives for his birthday.
Martin was Black, while all three of the now-fired deputies are white.
Prosecutors argued Copeland, Howell and Scott had no reason to detain Martin. They pointed to video evidence they said showed the deputies were unreasonably aggressive, as well as testimony from some witnesses. The deputies shocked him with stun guns repeatedly for up to 90 seconds, handcuffed Martin and minutes later found that he had no pulse, video showed.
Defense attorneys, though, said Martin had illegally walked in the road, littered when he dropped a soft drink can, and took an aggressive stance and obstructed an officer when he didn´t obey the commands of the deputies. They also argued that the stun gun didn´t cause Martin´s death, which meant officers were not assaulting him with a deadly weapon, a key underlying element of one of the murder charges.
District Attorney Tripp Fitzner recused himself after the mistrial, claiming a conflict, and asked for another prosecutor to be named.
Pete Skandalakis, executive director of the Prosecuting Attorney´s Council, said Jackson´s office is equipped to take on this type of case.
"This case does have some notoriety to it. It does have some serious implications. You want to give it to someone who has the experience ... and can handle this case," Skandalakis said.
Jackson will decide whether to retry the men or not. He could also seek new charges. For now, he hasn´t made a decision.
"I haven´t received the file yet," Jackson told the Ledger-Enquirer of Columbus. "I got the order last week."
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- BITCOIN ADDITIONAL (BTCA) traded 2.7% higher against the dollar and now trades at $23,195.83 or 0.99990000 BTC.
- Binance USD (BUSD) traded 0% lower against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00004312 BTC.
- Crypto.com Coin (CRO) traded up 5% against the dollar and now trades at $0.41 or 0.00001075 BTC.
- Dai (DAI) traded 0% higher against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00004312 BTC.
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- Mammoth (MMT) traded down 4.8% against the dollar and now trades at $0.85 or 0.00003643 BTC.
- yOUcash (YOUC) traded 0% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.51 or 0.00002204 BTC.
- FTX Token (FTT) traded up 5% against the dollar and now trades at $30.54 or 0.00131667 BTC.
- Chainlink (LINK) traded 6.6% higher against the dollar and now trades at $7.79 or 0.00033559 BTC.
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University students will need to ditch dodgy practices after the higher education watchdog blocked a range of "ruthless" academic cheating websites.
Australia's university regulator, Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA), has for the first time used new special protocols to prevent access to the most-visited cheating sites.
The 40 websites blocked by the regulator are visited about 450,000 times a month, Education Minister Jason Clare said.
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"Illegal cheating services threaten academic integrity and expose students to criminals who often attempt to blackmail students into paying large sums of money," he said in a statement.
"Cheating websites are used to sell students essays or assignments or accept payment for someone to sit exams on a student's behalf.
"Blocking these websites will seriously disrupt the operations of the criminals behind them."
Universities Australia CEO Catriona Jackson praised the money, saying "contract cheating" threatened "the integrity and operation of a university education."
“It is bad for universities and students, and any action to stop these ruthless outlets is a good thing," she said.
It's the first time the regulator has used new protocols it developed with the communications industry and internet service providers to stop people from accessing cheating services.
The protocols streamline the process for blocking illegal sites and allow the regulator to enforce Australia's anti-commercial academic cheating laws.
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(The Hill) — Organizers are warning Democrats not to take Black voters for granted ahead of the midterms, worried that the party isn’t listening to the community’s concerns in an election year where their vote could be decisive in key races.
Advocates who spoke to The Hill expressed frustration that the Democratic Party consistently overlooks Black voters until it’s too late, a sentiment common in previous election cycles.
As the U.S. grapples with the possibility of a recession and social upheaval following controversial Supreme Court rulings, growing Black voter dissatisfaction could have an outsized impact on the party in an election year where the scales already feel tipped toward the GOP.
“When we look at the challenges that this country is facing, from health care to housing to safety, these things are disproportionately impacting communities of color and Black communities specifically,” said Alicia Garza, principal of the Black to the Future Action Fund, an organization dedicated to building “black political power in cities and states,” according to the website.
But instead of addressing these issues on the ground in Black communities, Garza argued, Democrats have been focused on regaining white suburban voters, particularly white women.
This is increasingly problematic when Black families are still reeling from the disproportionate economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, she added.
A recent poll from the Black to the Future Action Fund showed economic recovery among Black Americans’ top concerns, as Black renters and mortgage holders found themselves behind on payments and concerns of food and housing security soared.
The growing frustration within the community comes amid signs that President Biden’s support among Black voters could be eroding. While a Washington Post-Ipsos poll released in June found that Black voters’ approval of the president remains the highest among most demographics, it also found signs they were less enthusiastic about him this time around.
And a New York Times-Siena poll released in July showed that Black voters were growing increasingly pessimistic about the American political system’s ability to solve the nation’s problems.
The numbers could serve as a warning to Democrats, who were bolstered in 2020 by Black voters, a demographic that has remained overwhelmingly loyal to the party. Adding to their concerns is a renewed effort by Republicans to court Black — as well as Hispanic and Asian — voters ahead of the midterms.
Cliff Albright, co-founder and executive director of Black Voters Matter, argued that Democrats need to speak to those issues that are of top concern to Black communities long before an election — something they haven’t been doing.
“It’s not just about supporting communities or knocking on doors two weeks right before Election Day,” Albright said. “There is no such thing as an off-year because there’s no being off from the issues that impact our communities.”
But even as some politicians invest more time with Black voters, some in the community still feel unheard.
One of the biggest blocs of Black voters often overlooked is Black men, said Mondale Robinson, founder and principal of the Black Male Voter Project.
“The political space said Black men are apolitical or apathetic, but that’s incorrect,” Robinson said. Rather, Black men are antipathetic because of traditional campaigning that ignores the issues most concerning to them, he argued.
Robinson, a former political consultant, added that Democrats have been focused on responding to Republican talking points, like the debate around critical race theory, in the hopes it will convince independent or undecided voters to vote for them.
But he said that’s unlikely to happen. Independents who vote Republican are unlikely to switch their votes and vice versa, he argued.
“What will happen is that Black voters will stay home,” Robinson warned. “Black voters are not a monolith, but when we vote, we vote monolithically. Democrats don’t understand that if you’re not talking to the issues that are plaguing Black people, then midterms are going to be a lot worse than they have to be.”
Additional concerns that Black men feel Democratic leaders aren’t addressing include criminal justice reform and restrictive voting laws.
Meanwhile, the effects of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade have led to heightened concerns among Black women, Albright said.
Albright argued Black women will be disproportionately impacted by the court’s decision on abortion rights — Black women suffer higher maternal mortality rates and infant mortality rates — but it goes past just health care concerns.
He pointed to highway patrols that could stop women from attempting to cross state lines.
“We already know that we get stopped disproportionately, just for driving for any reason,” he said. “So imagine what it’s going to be like as a Black woman traveling around state to state trying to get abortion. Anything that involves criminalization is going to impact our community worse.”
Albright said many within the Black community feel these concerns aren’t even considered by Democratic leaders.
Other Black voters, meanwhile, have expressed concerns over the increase in racial violence, particularly after the racist mass shooting in Buffalo, N.Y.
Garza, of the Black to the Future Action Fund, said that she believes there are “unabashed” white supremacists currently serving in Congress and running across the country, mainly spurred on by former President Trump.
“Black voters are experiencing that our government that is supposed to protect us is instead issuing a call to arms to groups and people in this country who would want to invoke racialized violence in order to maintain a balance of power in this country,” Garza said.
“It’s a scary time [for] Black voters to be living in,” she continued. “Many of us have family members who have experienced racial terror and racial violence just for doing things like daring to vote or daring to love someone or daring to buy a house in a particular community. So that has a visceral effect for us.”
Garza said the Democratic Party needs to take a look at itself and address the racism that is within its own ranks, something that allows these messages of racial violence to proliferate.
Part of that could mean having the party invest in more Black candidates up and down the ballot.
Antjuan Seawright, a political consultant based in South Carolina, said that focusing on all elections, from federal to gubernatorial to local ones, would be within the party’s best interest.
“We often say this election is critical. It’s important. It’s consequential,” Seawright said. “But make no mistake, this midterm election is literally life or death for a lot of communities that look like mine, the ones I grew up in, because the people who will have their fingers on the decision-making pins will determine whether communities and the people in those communities will live or die.”
Seawright said he does feel Democrats have been making a stronger, earlier investment in Black voters and communities this time around, and many Black voters are motivated to vote for change.
But he cautions against placing the onus of Democratic wins on Black voters alone.
“We put a lot of weight and pressure on the shoulders of Black voters, and at the end of every election cycle we’re the first to blame,” Seawright said. “However, white voters have just as much of a responsibility to show up and vote their interest as we do. I refuse to embrace this narrative that if we win it’s because of other constituencies, but if we lose it’s because Black voters didn’t do their part.” | https://www.wnct.com/news/politics/black-voters-dissatisfaction-could-spell-trouble-for-democrats/ | 2022-08-05T23:43:13Z | https://www.wnct.com/news/politics/black-voters-dissatisfaction-could-spell-trouble-for-democrats/ | false | 17 |
Wizards of the Coast Quietly Cancels Dragon+ Magazine
The online magazine Dragon+ is no more. The digital magazine published by the marketing agency Dialect in collaboration with Wizards of the Coast has folded after 41 issues. The last issue was published in April 2022, with a brief update published on July 20th that confirmed the end of the digital magazine. "We're incredibly proud of Dragon+'s success in reaching audiences through its app space as well as dragonmag.com," wrote Wizards of the Coast Digital Marketing Manager Bart Carroll in the update about the magazine. "However, as we evolve D&D's presence online, we've decided that Dragon+ 41 will be the final issue we'll be publishing in the current format."
Wizards of the Coast and Dialect launched Dragon+ as the successor to the long-running Dragon magazine back in 2015, focusing on various Dungeons & Dragons merchandise. The magazine featured interviews with Wizards of the Coast designers, segments on Forgotten Realms lore, and previews of upcoming Dungeons & Dragons books. It also had segments focusing on D&D streams and material published on the DMs Guild, a marketplace where third party publishers could sell game material using D&D IP.
It appears that some of the features planned for Dragon+ has migrated to D&D Beyond, which Wizards of the Coast purchased earlier this year. A lengthy article focused on the writers of Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel appeared on D&D Beyond last month and was written by Dragon+ editor-in-chief Matt Chapman. D&D Beyond has also hosted near-daily previews of Spelljammer: Adventures in Space, providing detailed looks at playable races and monsters found in that book.
While Dragon+ has folded, Wizards of the Coast plans to make several major announcements about the future of Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering on August 18th during its first-ever Wizards Presents stream. We'll have full details about any announcements coming out of Wizards Presents as they're revealed. | https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/wizards-of-the-coast-dragon-magazine-cancelled-dungeons-dragons/ | 2022-08-05T23:45:47Z | https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/wizards-of-the-coast-dragon-magazine-cancelled-dungeons-dragons/ | false | 1 |
Twitter breach exposed anonymous account owners
(AP) - A vulnerability in Twitter’s software that exposed an undetermined number of owners of anonymous accounts to potential identity compromise last year was apparently exploited by a malicious actor, the social media company said Friday.
It did not confirm a report that data on 5.4 million users was offered for sale online as a result but said users worldwide were affected.
The breach is especially worrisome because many Twitter account owners, including human rights activists, do not disclose their identities in their profiles for security reasons that include fear of persecution by repressive authorities.
“This is very bad for many who use pseudonymous Twitter accounts,” U.S. Naval Academy data security expert Jeff Kosseff tweeted.
The vulnerability allowed someone to determine during log-in whether a particular phone number or email address was tied to an existing Twitter account, thereby revealing account owners, the company said.
Twitter said it did not know how many users may have been affected, and stressed that no passwords were exposed.
“We can confirm the impact was global,” a Twitter spokesperson said via email. “We cannot determine exactly how many accounts were impacted or the location of the account holders.”
Twitter’s acknowledgment in a blog post Friday followed a report last month by the digital privacy advocacy group Restore Privacy detailing how data presumably obtained from the vulnerability was being sold on a popular hacking forum for $30,000.
A security researcher discovered the flaw in January, informed Twitter and was paid a reported $5,000 bounty. Twitter said the bug, introduced in a June 2021 software update, was immediately fixed.
Twitter said it learned about the data sale on the hacking forum from media reports and “confirmed that a bad actor had taken advantage of the issue before it was addressed.”
It said it was directly notifying all account owners that it can confirm were affected.
“We are publishing this update because we aren’t able to confirm every account that was potentially impacted, and are particularly mindful of people with pseudonymous accounts who can be targeted by state or other actors,” the company said.
It recommended users seeking to keep their identities veiled not add a publicly known phone number or email address to their Twitter account.
“If you operate a pseudonymous Twitter account, we understand the risks an incident like this can introduce and deeply regret that this happened,” it said.
The revelation of the breach comes while Twitter is in a legal battle with Tesla CEO Elon Musk over his attempt to back out from his previous offer to buy San Francisco-based Twitter for $44 billion.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.wtvm.com/2022/08/05/twitter-breach-exposed-anonymous-account-owners/ | 2022-08-05T23:47:03Z | https://www.wtvm.com/2022/08/05/twitter-breach-exposed-anonymous-account-owners/ | false | 22 |
BALTIMORE -- A tractor-trailer struck by an Amtrak passenger train Wednesday in Frederick County was trapped on the tracks by traffic, police said Thursday. Units responded shortly after 5 p.m. to the MARC Train Station in Brunswick for the crash, Brunswick Police said. An Amtrak train carrying 140 people hit the trailer portion of a tractor-trailer carrying lumber. The impact caused the tractor-trailer to hit a truck in front of it, which then crashed into the Brunswick Train Station building, police said.The driver of the truck was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, and was the only reported injury, according to police. Witnesses reported there was a traffic backup outside the train station when the crossing bars began to close, and that the vehicle had nowhere to go between the traffic, police said. Brunswick Police, the Frederick County Sheriff's Office, and fire and rescue teams from Frederick and Loudoun Counties responded to the scene. An investigation is ongoing. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2690721885279/1-injured-in-shoot-out-on-baltimore-washington-parkway | 2022-08-05T23:50:25Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2690721885279/1-injured-in-shoot-out-on-baltimore-washington-parkway | true | null |
Photo: Tim Petruk
A blue Kami Cabs sedan pictured on its roof after a collision that happened along Fortune Drive on Friday afternoon.
A rollover crash blocked southbound traffic along Fortune Drive on Friday afternoon.
Emergency crews were called to Fortune Drive just south of Sydney Avenue just before 3 p.m. for a report of the collision.
Two vehicles appeared to be involved in the crash, including a blue Kami Cabs sedan.
There is no official word yet on any injuries.
As of 3:15 p.m., Fortune Drive’s southbound lanes were blocked at Sydney Avenue, but northbound traffic was moving. | https://www.castanet.net/news/Kamloops/378971/Rollover-crash-blocks-southbound-traffic-on-Fortune-Drive | 2022-08-05T23:51:58Z | https://www.castanet.net/news/Kamloops/378971/Rollover-crash-blocks-southbound-traffic-on-Fortune-Drive | false | null |
- Nissan has confirmed that production of the Maxima will cease in 2023.
- After 42 years of production, the model will go out on its eighth generation, with the first Maxima dating back to the Datsun 810.
- Hinting at its forthcoming EV sedans, Nissan says to stay tuned for future Maxima news, signaling the potential for electric use of the Maxima nameplate.
As the full-size sedan market dwindles, it's easy to forget the pivotal role that the sport sedan played in providing enthusiasts with practical yet spirited driving experiences. A handful of autobahn-dominating BMW M sedans and Mercedes-AMG models dominate the modern playing field, but Nissan was actually one of the first to get the sport sedan right. Tracing its heritage back to the second-generation Datsun 810, Nissan's Maxima has been an underdog through its production life, a lineage that will come to an end shortly. Nissan has officially confirmed that, come 2023, the Maxima will cease production.
That doesn't necessarily mean the nameplate is gone forever, considering Nissan has teased incoming electric sedans, and representatives for the company have said to stay tuned for future Maxima news. The Leaf, Nissan's legacy EV hatchback, is rumored to cease production soon, in a move that would re-focus the company on an all-new EV strategy. Nissan's EV plans include 23 new electrified models—with 15 of these EVs to be introduced by 2030—and proprietary solid-state battery production.
The end of the current-generation Maxima isn't a significant hit to enthusiasts, as the model has continually grown in size and shed parts of its driver-engaging character. That said, the history of the Maxima as a tool for driving fun is extensive. The first-generation sedan started out as a hot-rod of sorts, with the 2.4-liter inline-six engine from a 240Z and a rear-wheel-drive configuration. Front-wheel drive came shortly after, with production for the second generation starting in 1985, but the good news for nostalgic design purists is that the boxy shape remained until the end of the third-generation Maxima in 1994.
Despite the addition of front-wheel drive, the Maxima became known for its versatility and comfort. Sure, the Maxima never had the finest of interior materials, but a modified version could best a 996-generation Porsche 911 in a drag race. In fact, the Maxima has been widely regarded as a sleeper since the fourth-generation model came out in 1994, with Wards Autos regarding the newly implemented VQ30DE V6 engine as one of the 10 best engines. Beyond the powerful and smooth engine, Maximas have succeeded at inducing driving joy in large part because of the model's dedication to the manual transmission, offering a five- or six-speed from 1980 to 2007.
From three-way, adjustable suspensions and digital LCD tachometers in the 1980s to continuously variable transmissions and touchscreen infotainment in 2022, the evolution of the Maxima has been mystifying, with freshness and modernity simultaneously gained and lost through each redesign. There's perhaps a grain of truth to the claimed loss of passion in some 21st-century car design; Nissan's nullification of the Maxima's Datsun Bluebird lineage in the US market would lead many enthusiasts to think so. Waxing poetic is a rite of passage for nostalgic car enthusiasts, and the end of the Maxima era is no different. Even so, let's hope the hints of a revived Maxima nameplate make for EV excitement to come.
Favor sport sedans over traditional sports cars or coupes? Have a Maxima-specific memory? Please share in the comments below. | https://www.autoweek.com/news/industry-news/a40820232/nissan-maxima-stops-production-after-42-years/ | 2022-08-05T23:55:04Z | https://www.autoweek.com/news/industry-news/a40820232/nissan-maxima-stops-production-after-42-years/ | false | 1 |
Truss promises tax cuts not ‘handouts’ to tackle cost-of-living crisis
Liz Truss has said she would help people with the cost-of-living crisis by lowering taxes, not giving “handouts”.
The Tory leadership hopeful was asked whether she would offer more help with spiralling fuel bills this winter if she becomes the next prime minister.
The Foreign Secretary told the Financial Times she would of course “look at what more can be done” but said she would do things in a “Conservative way”.
Ms Truss rejected the idea of giving “handouts”, promising to implement tax cuts instead.
She told the publication: “Of course, I will look at what more can be done. But the way I would do things is in a Conservative way of lowering the tax burden, not giving out handouts.”
Her comments come against a backdrop that is growing starker by the day.
This week, energy consultancy Auxilione said the Government’s price cap, which sets bills for more than 20 million households in Britain, could reach nearly £4,000 a year from January.
New analysis from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) also shows that close to half (44%) of UK adults who pay energy bills found it very or somewhat difficult to afford them in the last two weeks of July.
The Bank of England warned on Thursday the UK faces two years of falling household incomes, with inflation set to soar to more than 13% and the economy to relapse into the longest recession since the financial crisis.
At a Tory leadership hustings in Eastbourne, Sussex, on Friday evening, Ms Truss suggested her plans for immediate tax cuts could avert a recession.
So far, the Foreign Secretary has pledged to halt “green levies” on energy bills, reverse the national insurance hike and cancel the planned corporation tax rise.
She told Tory members: “I know there are difficult forecasts out there but forecasts are not destiny. And what we shouldn’t be doing is talking ourselves into a recession. We should be keeping taxes low.
“We can create the British version of Silicon Valley. We can create real opportunities.”
However, her rival Rishi Sunak argued that unless inflation is brought under control there is “no hope” the Tories will win the next election.
Taking a thinly veiled swipe at his opponent, Mr Sunak told the hustings he is “particularly worried about policies that risk making it (inflation) worse and last longer”.
The former chancellor said: “Well, the first thing we need to do in order to make sure we can win that election is have got through this inflation problem by then.
“And that’s why I’m particularly worried about policies that risk making it worse and last longer.
“Because this is a problem that isn’t just for this winter. It’s a problem for next winter as well, and beyond.
“Because as the Bank of England said, they are worried about inflation becoming embedded – then there’s no hope that we’re going to win that next election. Absolutely none. It’s as simple as that.”
He also insisted corporation tax is not the “right tax” to focus on, instead speaking about the need to reform business taxes to “cut them on the things that make a difference”.
Mr Sunak said: “I don’t want to stick with the failed policies of the past. That’s what some people are suggesting. It hasn’t worked.”
He added: “Investment in this economy today, no better than it was a decade ago, in spite of us doing all those things on corporation tax.
“Because it’s not the right tax to focus on. And that’s where my experience in business, my time as chancellor, my conversations with business, have led me to the conclusion we need to be much more radical.
“We need to reform business taxes to cut them on the things that make a difference.”
On Friday night, the Foreign Secretary received the backing of two Conservative former ministers, Nus Ghani and Dame Andrea Leadsom.
Ms Ghani told Tory members in Eastbourne that because of her role as the vice-chairwoman of the 1922 Committee of backbench Conservative MPs, she had not been able to back a candidate until this stage of the race.
Dame Andrea, who served as Penny Mordaunt’s campaign manager and as business secretary, wrote in the Telegraph that Ms Truss would make sure “every baby is given the best start for life”.
As she attends the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham later, the Foreign Secretary is expected to set out a series of economic reforms which her campaign team claims will “promote regional growth by reviewing funding to supercharge the right kind of investment”.
Some of the reforms include reviewing the levelling-up formula to fix underinvestment in regional infrastructure and create low tax, low regulation “investment zones” or “full-fat freeports” on brownfield sites.
However, a campaign spokesman for Mr Sunak accused Ms Truss’s team of “copy and pasting” policies the former chancellor had already put in place.
The spokesman said: “Not only are Team Truss copy and pasting policies put in place by Rishi himself, but they are also re-announcing two-year-old government policies.
“Imitation is the best form of flattery, as the saying goes.”
Mr Sunak’s camp argued “investment zones” are simply a copy and paste of the freeports he pioneered as chancellor and that Ms Truss’s plan to review the levelling-up formula comes nearly two years after he reformed it. | https://www.itv.com/news/2022-08-05/truss-promises-tax-cuts-not-handouts-to-tackle-cost-of-living-crisis | 2022-08-05T23:56:34Z | https://www.itv.com/news/2022-08-05/truss-promises-tax-cuts-not-handouts-to-tackle-cost-of-living-crisis | true | 12 |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Evening" game were:
0-7-0-5, FIREBALL: 1
(zero, seven, zero, five; FIREBALL: one)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Evening" game were:
0-7-0-5, FIREBALL: 1
(zero, seven, zero, five; FIREBALL: one) | https://www.ncadvertiser.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-Evening-game-17355577.php | 2022-08-05T23:57:24Z | https://www.ncadvertiser.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-Evening-game-17355577.php | true | null |
In France, a Battle to Save Weakened Whale Lost in the Seine
French environmentalists were hoping to feed a catch of herring to a worryingly thin Beluga whale that has strayed far from its Arctic habitat into France's Seine River.
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SAINT-PIERRE-LA-GARENNE, France (AP) — French environmentalists were hoping Friday to feed a catch of herring to a worryingly thin Beluga whale that has strayed far from its Arctic habitat into France’s Seine River. They fear that the ethereal white mammal is slowly starving in the waterway that flows through Paris and beyond.
“We are in a race against the clock, clearly,” said Lamya Essemlali, president of marine conservation group Sea Shepherd France. “It is really extremely thin. Its bones are protruding. I don’t know if it’s already too late.”
Conservationists were hoping to spare the whale the fate of another, an Orca, also known as a killer whale, that strayed and then died in the Seine in May.
The Beluga was first seen in the river earlier this week. Drone footage subsequently shot by French fire services showed the whale gently meandering in a stretch of the river’s light green waters between Paris and the Normandy city of Rouen, many dozens of kilometers (miles) inland from the sea.
“It’s quite an impressive animal, which is white (and) which seems calm. It doesn’t seem stressed, surfacing regularly,” fire service officer Patrick Hérot, from Normandy’s Eure region, told French broadcaster TF1.
But Sea Shepherd France said the whale appeared in poor shape when spotted Friday. The group had a boat on the river, along with drones, trying to monitor it — no straightforward task with a mammal that can spend many minutes underwater.
Sea Shepherd France hoped to help the whale keep up its strength by feeding it a catch of herring, Essemlali said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press.
“We are very worried,” she said. “The urgency is to feed it.”
In ocean waters, Belugas eat an array of fish as well as octopus, squid, crabs, shrimp and other animals. But the fresh water river can’t sustain its dietary needs.
“It can’t feed itself in the Seine,” Essemlali said.
Belugas are comparatively small members of the whale family, growing to about 4 meters (13 feet) in length.
Rather than try to coax the weakened whale back down the river toward the sea, Sea Shepherd France is pushing for it to be captured, so it can then be repatriated by plane to the Arctic waters it likely came from, Essemlali said. She said DNA testing could determine whether it came from waters around Norway, Canada or Russia.
“It’s logistically difficult but is is doable,” she said. “It will be a matter of will.”
“That will only be possible if we can feed it,” she added.
Authorities for the Eure region said the whale was believed to be wandering a 40-kilometer (25-mile) stretch of river between two sets of locks northwest of Paris. They also said the mammal seemed worryingly thin and that it swam away from boats hoping to guide it in the direction of the river’s wide mouth, between the sea ports of Le Havre and Honfleur.
“It is capable of spending long periods submerged and moving over long distances,” Eure authorities said in a statement.
Belugas’ pale skin and bulbous foreheads make them easily recognizable. Known also for their sociability, they habitually live, hunt and migrate together in pods.
Belugas are considered an endangered species and are often found in shallow coastal Artic waters, according to the U.S. government’s National Ocean Service. It said that because Belugas make an array of clicking, whistling, squealing, chirping and moo sounds underwater, they’re also known as the “canaries of the sea.” | https://www.snopes.com/ap/2022/08/05/in-france-a-battle-to-save-weakened-whale-lost-in-the-seine/ | 2022-08-05T23:58:25Z | https://www.snopes.com/ap/2022/08/05/in-france-a-battle-to-save-weakened-whale-lost-in-the-seine/ | false | 23 |
Area fire departments took on another large wildfire Wednesday afternoon around Payne Springs, where three firefighters reportedly suffered heat-related injuries. Officials closed a portion of Hwy. 198 and evacuated the area as the large fire began moving along the tree tops.
An evacuation area was set up in the Eustace High School parking lot around 3:30 p.m. and by 7 p.m. the fire was reported 100% contained.
Texas A&M Forest Service firefighters responded to 28 new wildfires Wednesday that burned approximately 1,586 acres. Suppression efforts continued on several carryover wildfires as well.
Persistent temperatures above 100 degrees will continue to dry out live vegetation. In Henderson County, very hot, breezy, and mostly rain-free conditions will result in a continued elevated to high wildfire threat caused by ongoing drought conditions, according to the National Weather Service.
The county is among the 224 Texas counties with burn bans in effect. | https://www.athensreview.com/news/fire-danger-remains-high-statewide/article_78437ce0-14f2-11ed-848f-f73a3ab686c2.html | 2022-08-05T23:59:43Z | https://www.athensreview.com/news/fire-danger-remains-high-statewide/article_78437ce0-14f2-11ed-848f-f73a3ab686c2.html | false | 1 |
Conformis Inc. (NASDAQ:CFMS) went up by 3.55% from its latest closing price compared to the recent 1-year high of $1.96. The company’s stock price has collected 1.40% of gains in the last five trading sessions.
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Plus, the 36-month beta value for CFMS is at 1.29. Opinions of the stock are interesting as 3 analysts out of 3 who provided ratings for Conformis Inc. declared the stock was a “buy,” while 0 rated the stock as “overweight,” 0 rated it as “hold,” and 0 as “sell.”
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The average price from analysts is $1.92, which is $1.65 above the current price. CFMS currently public float of 178.01M and currently shorts hold a 1.37% ratio of that float. Today, the average trading volume of CFMS was 714.62K shares.
CFMS’s Market Performance
CFMS stocks went up by 1.40% for the week, with a monthly drop of -23.37% and a quarterly performance of -48.66%, while its annual performance rate touched -82.47%. The volatility ratio for the week stands at 9.01% while the volatility levels for the past 30 days are set at 8.88% for Conformis Inc. The simple moving average for the period of the last 20 days is -7.94% for CFMS stocks with a simple moving average of -57.94% for the last 200 days.
CFMS Trading at -20.96% from the 50-Day Moving Average
After a stumble in the market that brought CFMS to its low price for the period of the last 52 weeks, the company was unable to rebound, for now settling with -86.28% of loss for the given period.
Volatility was left at 8.88%, however, over the last 30 days, the volatility rate increased by 9.01%, as shares sank -24.24% for the moving average over the last 20 days. Over the last 50 days, in opposition, the stock is trading -36.52% lower at present.
During the last 5 trading sessions, CFMS rose by +1.40%, which changed the moving average for the period of 200-days by -77.08% in comparison to the 20-day moving average, which settled at $0.2870. In addition, Conformis Inc. saw -64.78% in overturn over a single year, with a tendency to cut further losses.
Insider Trading
Reports are indicating that there were more than several insider trading activities at CFMS starting from Augusti Mark A, who sale 22,396 shares at the price of $0.46 back on May 07. After this action, Augusti Mark A now owns 2,433,726 shares of Conformis Inc., valued at $10,280 using the latest closing price.
HOWE ROBERT S, the CFO & TREASURER of Conformis Inc., sale 11,537 shares at $0.65 during a trade that took place back on Feb 17, which means that HOWE ROBERT S is holding 416,584 shares at $7,514 based on the most recent closing price.
Stock Fundamentals for CFMS
Current profitability levels for the company are sitting at:
- -3.01 for the present operating margin
- +65.77 for the gross margin
The net margin for Conformis Inc. stands at -2.42. Equity return is now at value -6.50, with -4.60 for asset returns.
The liquidity ratio also appears to be rather interesting for investors as it stands at 7.06. | https://newsheater.com/2022/08/05/heres-our-rant-about-conformis-inc-cfms/ | 2022-08-06T00:00:07Z | https://newsheater.com/2022/08/05/heres-our-rant-about-conformis-inc-cfms/ | true | 17415 |
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Thursday 28th July, 2022: The first two of three Opposition senators received their instruments of appointment this morning. The Political Leader, Executive and the entire membership of the party extend congratulations to Senator Norland Cox and Senator Neilon Franklyn.
In a brief ceremony this morning at Governor General’s Residence, Her Excellency Dame Cécile La Grenade congratulated both gentlemen and wished them success in their future endeavors.
Senator Neilon Franklyn said he was extremely elated to have been given the opportunity to represent not just the youth of his home constituency of St. George North West but the Youth of Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique.
Senator Franklyn also stated: “Young people serving is something that I think is important, the New National Party and Dr. Mitchell have once again fulfilled their commitment to ensure a young person has a seat at the table whether in the Lower House or now as we see in the Upper House.”
Senator Neilon Franklyn has worked previously as a Customs Officer and has been a Youth Parliamentarian on both the local and regional scene. He identified Climate Change as one of the keys issues he looks forward to addressing in his tenure.
Senator Cox who will now serve for the third time as a senator, stated his gratitude to his wife and his entire family and the New National Party and Dr. the Right Honorable Keith Mitchell for the opportunity to once again serve the people of Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique. Senator Cox spoke of using his experiences in Government and working along in communities as the catalyst for his input on various issues going forward. He pointed to opportunities for youth in education and employment as important areas he intends to address. Senator Cox has previously served as Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Carriacou and Petite Martinique Affairs and Local Government, Minister of Youth, Sport and Culture and well as Minister of Infrastructure Development, Public Utilities, Transport & Implementation.
The party will announce its third member of the senate in due time. | https://spiceislander.com/new-national-party-senators-receive-instruments-of-appointment-to-the-upper-house/ | 2022-08-06T00:06:37Z | https://spiceislander.com/new-national-party-senators-receive-instruments-of-appointment-to-the-upper-house/ | false | 1 |
Town by Town: August 8
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WGGB/WSHM) -Western Mass News is going Town by Town!
In Monson, a flag raising was held for purple heart recipients at noon Thursday. The purple heart flag will fly at Memorial Hall until Monday, August 8, in honor of military members who died, were wounded or sacrificed themselves in combat for the pride and dignity of the United States of America. The purple heart has been given out since April 5, 1917.
In Springfield, where the American Red Cross teamed up with city leaders, for a special blood donation event. Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno called the event personal and said his late mother went through many blood transfusions.
Mayor Sarno was joined at the event at the Red Cross facility on Brookdale Drive by Chicopee Mayor John Vieau and Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia.
In Holyoke, where the Holyoke Health Center held a building dedication. The organization dedicated its Maple Street location to former CEO Jay Breines, who retired after 28 years of service to the health center.
During the ceremony, a plaque was unveiled at the main entrance, dedicated to leadership towards the staff, patients and community while at the health center. He started with the organization in 1994.
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Let’s meet the 2022 Muscle Shoals Trojans.
Out in the Shoals, the Trojans are a model of consistency. Scott Basden took over the program in 2008, and since 2009, Muscle Shoals has posted a winning record in each and every season.
Basden said a big part of the success comes from the players knowing what Trojan football is all about.
“Our guys know what’s expected of them. There’s no shortcuts,” Basden said. “Those 11 guys that we run out there on that field, they’ll give everything they got to do their job. ”
Last season, the Trojans bounced back from a down year in 2020 and went 9-2. Now, as they look ahead to another season, Basden said this is the most close-knit group he’s ever had.
“I don’t have a crystal ball. They may win one game, they may win 10, they may win 15 — I don’t know. But I do know this — it means something to them, and they’ll fight for each other,” he said. “They hold each other accountable. They’ll give everything they got on a Friday night ... to not let each other down. And I think, as a coach, that’s all I can ask.”
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The kids got to go down each aisle and pick up the supplies on their lists. They were accompanied by their parents, who were happy about the relief this shopping trip provided for their budgets.
"Just to know that I don't have to worry about this amount this year is such a blessing to my family," said Robin Richardson, who has 7 kids in school this year. She calculated that this trip saved her over 400 dollars.
"It was amazing just knowing I had my list I didn't have to compromise about anything, knowing I can get everything off of it for all of my kids, even the extras the school wants," said Robinson. "It is just a rush, its an amazing rush to be able to get it all."
In addition to paying for many students' supplies, Walmart also gave four local schools 500 dollar checks for any additional materials they might need throughout the year.
The school administrators attending the event said this money will help them provide exactly what the kids need.
"This means that we will have students in classrooms with supplies they will need to be successful," said Terrance Jordan, the Director of School Leadership and Family and Community Engagement for District 186 schools. "It also means that we have some families that don't have to worry about providing supplies for their students."
Black Hawk Elementary was one of the schools that received a check. Principal Stephanie McCorkle says her students were ecstatic to get to shop.
"We are so excited that we've got children who are able to pick out their school supplies for the school year," said McCorkle. "A lot of them are excited and saying 'This is my favorite holiday of the year- getting to pick out my supplies' and getting to see their smiles is amazing."
Walmart hopes to continue its partnerships with these schools. They plan to host events during their school year to support local educators.
"We appreciate Walmart and all of our community partners," said Jim Langfelder, Mayor of Springfield. "It goes way beyond the walls here that really make our community strong and its about those that give to others that really make a difference "
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Leon Co. schools discuss new laws governing content
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - Leon County teachers are having to submit their instructional materials for review if they’re covering controversial subjects after the Florida legislature passed the measure into law earlier this year.
Districts are now also required to have a formal process to address content if a parent or a community member has any objections.
Assistant superintendent Billy Epting says he does not think the new law will have a major impact on Leon County Schools.
They have a process of addressing parent’s concerns with the material, but he says if a teacher can show their material is peer reviewed and up to state-mandated benchmarks, then they are on solid ground.
Florida parents are now given a greater say by the state over what is taught to their children in a classroom setting.
“I think from a classroom teacher’s perspective there could be some unease,” Assistant superintendent Billy Epting said.
Heading into the school year, parents of Leon County students will be able to file formal concerns and complaints with the district if they feel the material their child is learning is not appropriate.
“It’s about... are now parents going to have parts of their cirriculum censored or removed or are we going to get to a point where we’re crossing books out of the library,” Epting said.
Now every district must also have a formal process for dealing with those complaints.
Assistant superintendent Epting says teachers are now forced to walk the fine line.
“We recognize the parent’s input as well as pushing and challenging our young people to be productive members of society,” Epting said. “And then also give teachers that academic freedom.”
The state has long-standing statutes that profanity and obscene material like pornography cannot be part of the school curriculum.
Epting says the state also has a list of around 20 topics that have to be taught n schools like African American History and water safety, but no specific subject that cannot be taught.
“I have a great deal of confidence in our school administrators and our classroom teachers that they are presenting legitimate educational valued topics to the children that’s appropriate for their age level,” Epting said.
In the legislation, it holds the school principal responsible for all educational materials on their campus.
The first time a specific job title within the school is being held responsible and as a former principal, Epting says that detail is a bit concerning.
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Click & Carry Before Shark Tank
Click & Carry was founded in April 2005. It was created with the purpose to make carrying multiple bags easier and less uncomfortable. The founder, Kim Meckwood, thought up this idea during her life in a multi-story apartment. Her apartment was not located on the first floor; thus meaning she had always had to haul all her grocery bags up flights of stairs. This is much more exhausting with multiple loads to carry, hence leaving Kim to design a tool to make this task more trouble-free.
Click & Carry is an easy-to-use tool that allows users to carry more bags without having to use their hands or arms. Instead, this product sits over one’s shoulder with the attached grocery bags hanging on the front and back. This clip was designed with a cushion for increased comfort, and it can easily hold up to 80 pounds. Click & Carry is also versatile and can carry any kind of bag needed, as well as paint cans, buckets, pet leashes, etc. Overall, Click & Carry can be used on a variety of lifting and/or carrying needs with just one single click.
Already, Kim seems to have a good grip on running her Click & Carry business. However, when she had experienced some minor financial complications, Kim went on to appear on 5-Minute Pitch in search of prospects. During this competition, she pitched Click & Carry by presenting the different ways the product could be used, as well as the two patents that were already in place. From there, Click & Carry was introduced at farmers markets and swap meets, where the product did get some sales. More specifically, she was able to successfully sell 30,000 units.
Unfortunately, her business was later put on hold due to her battle with breast cancer. But she won that battle and continued on with Click & Carry. In fact, after being noticed by a QVC buyer at a Home & Housewares event, her product has been featured on QVC for a chunk of time. This was a big success for Kim and her product, which led Click & Carry to be available on Amazon as well as in stores such as The Container Store, Ralph’s, ShopRite, and CorningWare.
Although Kim has achieved many successes with her business, she wanted to step it up a notch. Her next big project was to hopefully be able to have small screen presentations showing the product’s capabilities in stores. However, that requires more money and the help of an investor. Can Kim impress the sharks of Shark Tank and leave with an offer? Let’s find out.
Click & Carry on Shark Tank
On December 11, 2020, Kim Meckwood introduced Click & Carry to the sharks. She went on to search for a $225,000 offer for 15% of Click & Carry. During her pitch, she explained how the idea for her product came to her after her breakup. She mentioned that her ex-boyfriend used to help her with the bigger grocery hauls, but now that it was just her, she wanted an easier way of carrying the bags inside. At this time, Barbara Corcoran and Lori Greiner got to sample the product themselves.
Barbara really liked Click & Carry; she went on to ask Kim if she would consider giving the company up, along with asking of Kim’s future creations. Kim explained to Barbara that she was fine with not being in control of Click & Carry; however, she still wanted to receive some sort of profit from its sales. Barbara then offers $225,000 for 85%, but Kim declines the offer.
Kevin O’Leary and Mark Cuban chime in next. Kevin is out because he believes Kim should have asked for less of an offer due to Click & Carry only being a product at this time. Mark, on the other hand, liked the idea, but he thinks she needs someone else to run the company because she is an inventor. Kevin agreed to this statement, while following with his statement, “you’re not an operator”.
Of all the sharks, Mark and Barbara are the only two who are still interested. They decide to team up – He explains that Kim would continue being the inventor, while he and Barbara manage the company and inventory. They proceed to offer Kim $225,000 for 40% of Click & Carry. Kim accepts their offer as it is the best option for the business.
Click & Carry Now in 2022 – The After Shark Tank Update
After appearing on Shark Tank in 2020, Kim successfully landed a deal with, not one, but two sharks. Considering she currently holds a record for the most attempts of getting featured on the show, that’s a pretty big accomplishment on its own. Now, as of 2022, Click & Carry is still in business and thriving. In fact, they’ve made $70,000 in sales since the airing of Shark Tank, along with more orders being placed and customers asking for more products.
Click & Carry has successfully been expanded to markets across the world, as well as in stores in Japan and England. The product was even featured in Redbook Magazine under “The Best Stocking Stuffers from Amazon Under $20”. In addition to that, Click & Carry started partnering with an organization called Canine Companion. The company donates to this organization in order to help those with disabilities to receive free training for their dogs. This training provides the assistant dogs to be able to learn how to use Click & Carry to help their owners. You can view the incredible videos of said training on their Instagram account.
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Whatever happened to the band The Wanted? They were one of the biggest pop bands just a few years ago, but it seems like they’ve completely disappeared off the face of the earth. The Wanted was a British-Irish boy band with members Max George, Siva Kaneswaran, Jay McGuiness, Tom Parker, and Nathan Sykes. The group formed in 2009 and broke up in 2014.
The Wanted’s Early Years
The band did not know each other before the band was formed. Jayne Collins, a casting director behind other British groups such as Parade and The Saturdays, held massive auditions and was able to narrow her choices down to the members. They were signed to Island Records, Mercury Records, and Universal Music under the management of Scooter Braun.
The Wanted released their first album in 2010, and it made the top 5 of the UK album charts. However, they did not get popular in the United States until 2012, when they released Glad You Came. The song made it into the Billboard Top 100 and peaked at number 3. It stayed there for four consecutive weeks, a record for British boy bands at the time.
The Wanted’s Rise to Fame
The Wanted succeeded with their debut album, The Wanted, which peaked at number four on the UK Albums Chart and spawned the hit single “All Time Low.” Their follow-up album, Battleground, reached number five in the UK and spawned the singles “Gold Forever” and “Lightning.” In 2013, the band released their third studio album, Word of Mouth, which peaked at number seven in the UK and produced the singles “Chasing the Sun” and “Walks Like Rihanna.”
The group’s fourth studio album, Blondes Have More Fun, was released in 2014 and marked a change in direction for the band, with a more disco-inspired sound. The album peaked at number twenty-six on the UK Albums Chart and spawned the single “Heart Vacancy.”
The Wanted Takes a Break – Their Downfall
On January 5, 2014, the band announced that the group had split up. McGuiness stated that the band had “taken a break” following their tour in 2013 to focus on solo projects. Parker confirmed the news on his Twitter account: “So The Wanted are no longer a band… We’re still brothers, but we’re taking time to pursue our own careers & grow as individuals.”
What’s The Wanted Doing Now in 2022 – Recent Updates
Where is Max George?
Max George was the lead singer of the band The Wanted. In 2014, after the band announced their break, he acted in the 6th season of the show Glee. His character was named Clint, the lead singer of a fictional show choir. In 2018 and 2019, he released solo singles called “Barcelona” and “Better On Me.” In 2015, he appeared on the reality show Celebrity Island with Bear Grylls. Max appeared on the dance competition show Strictly Come Dancing in 2020. In 2021, he joined British station Hits Radio as a DJ.
What’s Siva Kaneswaran Doing Now?
Since The Wanted went on hiatus in March 2015, Siva Kaneswaran has been busy. The Irish singer and member of the now-defunct boy band wrote a song for the 2016 Eurovision song contest and released solo singles in 2019, 2020, and 2021. His latest release is the album Breathe in, which came out in 2019. In 2020 he released Ready For This Love, and in 2021 he released Syrup. Kaneswaran also invested in a tech start-up in 2014.
What’s Tom Parker Doing in 2022?
Tom Parker, one of the members of the British-Irish boy band The Wanted, died on September 30, 2022, after a long and hard-fought battle with brain cancer. Parker was first diagnosed with a brain tumor in the fall of 2020, and while the cancer was inoperable, he fought hard to beat the disease. He married Kelsey Hardwick in 2018, and they had a daughter later that year. In 2019 they had a son, and in September 2021, they held a charity concert to raise money for brain cancer research in honor of Parker. Sadly, he did not survive long enough to see his son grow up.
What’s Jay McGuiness Up To?
Jay McGuiness, of the British pop group The Wanted, won first place in the British dance competition in 2015. In 2017 he appeared on another British reality show called Celebrity Hunted.
Where is Nathan Sykes Now?
Nathan Sykes was the youngest member of the British boy band The Wanted. He began his solo career in 2015 with the debut single “Kiss Me Quick.” That song reached number one on the US Dance Club Songs Billboard chart. In 2016, he performed at Capital Records’ Summertime Ball and toured with Alessia Cara. That year he also released the album Unfinished Business.
The Wanted Returns as a Group
In September of 2021, the band announced that they were going to reunite for an album consisting of their greatest hits, as well as a performance at a charity concert at the Royal Albert Hall. This was in support of Tom Parker, who was diagnosed with brain cancer six months prior.
The Wanted had their first concert in seven years on September 20th, 2021. They headlined a show at the Royal Albert Hall and raised money for cancer charities. The band released a single titled “Rule The World” on October 13th, 2021. Their greatest hits album was released on November 12th, 2021, and included two new songs and old favorites, and acoustic versions of previously released songs. | https://gazettereview.com/what-happened-to-the-wanted-update/ | 2022-08-06T00:49:25Z | https://gazettereview.com/what-happened-to-the-wanted-update/ | true | 1 |
Tyler housing report Q2 shows promising data for future
TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - The Tyler housing report for quarter two shows the housing market is strong.
More houses are available to purchase in Tyler compared to quarter two of 2021 with a 37 percent inventory increase. Also, data shows the median price of homes has slightly increased 14 percent, with a current price of $285,000.
As a result, licensed real estate agent Kelly Raulston tells us it’s important for sellers to price houses appropriately.
“When you price your home right from the beginning based on facts and not emotions, you are going to ultimately be able to have a faster home sale as opposed to picking a number based on emotions or based on how much you want to net from the sale of the house.” says Raulston.
Quarter two has shown an increase in interest rates for homebuyers; this, as our economy is also affected by inflation. Raulton says both can affect home sales.
She says, “We really need to look at home sales anywhere from 60 days to 120 days. A long time ago we were able to compare from even 12 months of data. But now we got to look at where the data is based on when the interest rates started increasing in order to price your home more accurately.”
Based on the results of this quarter, Raulston is hopeful that quarter three will play out similarly with more inventory for buyers to choose from.
“We don’t know what the interest rates are going to be doing like in six months from now or a year from now. And you don’t want to go into it saying man I wish I bought that house in 2022 and wait ten years later and then home value still increase and interest rates could still possibly increase as well.”
Raulston says real estate is a very cyclical industry, so marketing your property based on data is essential when selling a home.
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GULFPORT, Miss (AP) — A teenage student was taken into custody Friday morning after bringing a loaded handgun to a south Mississippi campus.
The teen, 15, is a student at Harrison Central High School in Gulfport, WLOX-TV reported.
Harrison County Sheriff Troy Peterson said the school resource officer received a tip from a teacher that the teen had a weapon about 9 a.m. School officials located the student on campus and found the gun tucked into the teen's waistband. Police took the student into custody minutes later as he entered the school building.
The student told officials that he brought the handgun for protection from another student, the news station reported.
The juvenile has since been charged as an adult with possession of a weapon on school property. The student is being held at the Harrison County Adult Detention Center. A $10,000 bond was set by Justice Court Judge Brandon Ladner pending his initial court appearance. It was not immediately known whether the teen had an attorney.
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CHAVIES, Ky. (AP) — Angel Campbell should have been sitting in her usual chair in her grandmother’s living room this week, looking through her old photo albums and eating her favorite soup beans.
Now the living room is gone, and so is her grandmother.
A week after 82-year-old Nellie Mae Howard died in the devastating floods that killed at least 37 people in eastern Kentucky, Campbell can’t stop thinking about how she was swept away. She said losing her “Mammaw” will plague her for a very long time.
“The way she had to leave this earth just shatters me,” she said. “It just feels so cruel.”
Eastern Kentucky has been engaged for days now in the slow, grim task of recovering and burying the dead. Local funeral homes have settled into a steady cadence of visitations and memorials, sometimes in quick succession. The somber rituals have continued as more rain falls, prompting yet another flood watch across the Appalachian mountain region. People here brace at the prospect of a new round of misery.
Funeral home workers have had to navigate the staggering losses, in communities where families have known each other for generations, some after losing their own houses. They’ve had to carry on without power or water at times, taking in so many bodies that a mobile refrigerator was brought in to add capacity.
Mobile federal emergency management centers opened across at least seven counties where people could request money for immediate needs. A relief fund set up by Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has begun distributing money to pay the funeral expenses of flood victims.
No place in eastern Kentucky suffered more deaths than Knott County, where 17 people perished in the historic flooding. The local coroner, Corey Watson, knew nearly all of them.
“I was retrieving people from scenes that I had known since I was a child or I had seen that person grow up,” Watson said. “It’s hard.”
The floodwaters tore families apart. Two sets of husbands and wives died. Whole families were “decimated,” the coroner said. Most of those who died were retirees, he said.
Watson said his training taught him how to compose himself, but in such an extreme situation, he wondered: “How do you properly compose yourself when you see a multitude of people passing away and there being attempts to save their life or to keep them together? It’s troubling, but we have to go through this. We have to overcome it. We can always hold their memory in our heart.”
The floods in Pine Top surged through Randall and Rosa Lee Vick’s front door, ripped a huge hole in their back wall and swept them into the dark water. Vick said he had just a split second to speak to her before they went under. “Whatever happens, I love you,” he said.
Vick was able to cling to a tree for about seven hours before Kevin Patrick and another neighbor lashed themselves together with extension cords and waded out to rescue him. They found his wife’s body miles away.
What’s left of their home came to rest on the opposite side of their normally placid creek. A neighbor has lent him a pop-up camper to live in, once he’s ready.
“I can’t bring back what I had,” Vick said. “I’m just going to have to get up and go on. I’ll make it.”
Denver Bates, 76, drove up to check on them Thursday. The Vicks had worked for him, cutting his grass.
“They had four and five cars in their driveway. Money. Yards kept clean. They were living good, and God let them know who’s the boss,” Bates said.
A family friend, Jade Dollarhide, gave Vick a hug while seeing what he needs.
“We may not have all the shopping centers, we may not have all these big jobs and factories and everything else, but what we lack with money, you know we’re rich in friendship and family,” Dollarhide said. “That’s what’s important.”
For some families, the funerals have offered their first chance to pause and reflect on the losses after days of digging out.
Campbell’s mother, Patricia Collins, was at home with her boyfriend next door to Howard’s home in Chavies, Kentucky, when the storms hit. Collins went to check on her, and climbed with her grandmother onto the kitchen table, but it collapsed into the surging water.
Collins was in the water for two hours, pinned between a couch and a car. The only thing that saved her was a flashing tail light that caught the eye of her neighbors, who pulled her to safety. Battered and bruised, she never saw Howard alive again.
It took nearly five hours to find Howard’s body. Campbell’s brother pulled their grandmother from the water, checked for a pulse and wiped mud from her face. Then he asked the neighbors for a sheet to cover her, and sat with her body for hours.
Both homes are now in ruins, carried in pieces hundreds of feet from where Howard had lived for half a century.
Campbell said her grandmother was like her second mother. They either saw each other or spoke on the phone every day. She can still hear her giggling on the other line, or telling her to remember to thank Jesus for all the good in her life. She was a deeply religious woman who tended to her rose garden and thanked the Lord each morning for letting her see another day.
She was the person Campbell most often went to for advice — she knew just what to say.
“I always thought one day when I had to say goodbye to her I would still get to go sit in my favorite chair and remember all the good times,” she said. “But I can’t even do that and that really hurts.”
Almost everything her grandmother and mother owned was lost in the flood. Miraculously, a photo still hung on one wall – a portrait of her grandmother and her grandfather, who passed away 13 years ago.
That photo was displayed next to the white casket at her funeral this week, near a spray of roses put together by a family friend.
Just like the ones in her grandmother’s garden.
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Rep. Guy Reschenthaler, R-Pa., told Newsmax that Republicans who oppose former President Donald Trump are making decisions based on "personality, not about policy."
Reschenthaler's comments Friday on "The Chris Salcedo Show" are in response to a recent attack ad by former Vice President Dick Cheney in support of his daughter, Rep. Liz Cheney, who is facing a Trump-backed Republican primary challenger in Wyoming.
"Remember, Trump won Wyoming overwhelmingly. His favorability in Wyoming is very high. So if the Cheneys are trying to make this election a referendum on Trump, they're going to be sorely disappointed in the results," Reschenthaler said.
Cheney's top challenger is former Republican National Committee member Harriet Hageman, who is leading the incumbent representative by a 28-point margin, 59% to 31%, according to a recent WPA Intelligence survey. Meanwhile, candidate Anthony Bouchard sat at 5%.
"I think that Liz Cheney will ultimately lose in Wyoming," Reschenthaler said. "But additionally, this talk saying that 'President Trump is the greatest threat to democracy' — if we look back, we had the Brits in the War of 1812 literally burning our Capitol building to the ground ... I could rattle off a litany of threats that are more dangerous than one single man.
"To compare him to some kind of danger is totally misleading," he added.
Reschenthaler also claimed that with economic hardship and budgeting issues hampering military development, President Joe Biden's lack of leadership on the world stage has exacerbated the United States' vulnerability on the world stage.
"With Biden and [Secretary of State Antony] Blinken, the woke left kowtowing to communist China, showing acquiescence in the land war in Europe and then the disastrous withdrawal and surrender in Afghanistan, we're not taken seriously," the congressman said.
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Laal Singh Chaddha to Raksha Bandhan: 'Struggling' Bollywood's online hate problem
By Meryl Sebastian
BBC News, Cochin
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Two of India's biggest Bollywood stars have been facing social media calls to boycott their upcoming movies - but do such campaigns actually have any effect?
Laal Singh Chaddha and Raksha Bandhan, starring Aamir Khan and Akshay Kumar, respectively, have been trending this week on social media amid demands by a section of users to boycott the films, the actors and even Bollywood itself. Both movies are set to release in theatres on 11 August.
The social media trends seem to reflect the changing relationship between Bollywood - India's Hindi-language film industry which employs millions of people - and its audience, but experts say it's difficult to measure how much damage such calls can wreak.
Bollywood is yet to recover from the massive losses it incurred when theatres were shut for months during the Covid-19 lockdowns. Even after they reopened, several big-budget movies have failed at the box-office, leading some pundits to predict that the industry is staring at a major crisis. Adding to this is the massive success of a handful of films from southern Indian states which have scored even with Hindi-speaking audiences.
So there's a lot of hope and money riding on Laal Singh Chaddha - an official adaptation of Tom Hanks-starrer Forrest Gump - and Raksha Bandhan, in which Kumar plays a devoted big brother to four sisters.
But right-wingers online have raked up old remarks made by the stars or others associated with the movies to accuse them of being "anti-India" or against Hindus.
Khan has had to defend himself and publicly affirm that he loves India after some people pointed to a 2015 remark expressing alarm over religious intolerance.
The remarks were widely seen as pointing to rising attacks on minorities after 2014, when a government led by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power. After the comments caused a controversy, Khan has often said that his words were taken out of context.
This week, the actor said he was "sad" that people seemed to truly believe he did not like India. "I want to assure everyone that it's not the case so please don't boycott my films," he told the media.
It's harder to pinpoint exactly what's driving the opposition to Raksha Bandhan - Kumar is one of India's most bankable stars who has made a slew of films that appeal to Hindu nationalists. But many social media posts have criticised the film's screenwriter for criticising lynching by cow vigilantes; others have pointed to Kumar's tweet on milk being wasted in temple rituals and a 2012 film which criticises religious charlatans.
"It's true there's been a marked increase in calls to 'blacklist' online," says film critic Uday Bhatia. "These are almost never organic, and often push a right-wing agenda."
Campaigns like these, Mr Bhatia points out, "usually revolve around some imagined hurt to public sentiments that the film or the actor is causing".
This is ironic because, as he adds, Hindi films "go out of their way to appease their audience".
One of the year's biggest hits was a small-budget movie called The Kashmir Files, which polarised viewers with its treatment of the exodus of Hindus from Kashmir in the 1990s.
"Nationalism, Hindu honour, historical Hindu icons, Hindu suffering in the past and contemporary military strength have all become popular subjects for filmmakers in Bollywood," critic Sowmya Rajendra wrote recently.
Over the past few years, India's entertainment industry has also seen a divide between supporters and critics of the BJP's Hindu right-wing ideology.
Most big Bollywood stars prefer to keep their political opinions to themselves, fearing a backlash. Filmmakers who handle controversial subjects often face massive trolling campaigns and sometimes even police cases.
Added to this was a campaign - triggered by the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput in 2020 - that sought to brand all of Bollywood as a nepotism-driven industry that punished talented outsiders. While there was some measure of truth to this, supporters pointed out that these challenges permeated across sectors, not just the film industry.
The effect of social media trolling and the toll it takes on people in the film industry has been a recurring topic of discussion on the latest season of the popular talk show Koffee with Karan.
"We as an industry were vilified. We were put in the dungeon for two years," producer-director Karan Johar, who hosts the show, said in one of the episodes.
But while people in the industry have become more and more careful about their public image, experts say boycott calls may not affect box office results too much.
"True public opinion about industry folk is rarely reflected. Akshay Kumar is probably the most popular Hindi film star today, yet calls to boycott his film Raksha Bandhan were recently trending," Mr Bhatia says.
Trade analyst Taran Adarsh points to the success of films such as Dangal - starring and produced by Khan - and Padmaavat, which faced massive right-wing protests.
"Everyone has become very cautious. But to understand whether or not [social media trolling] affects a film, you have to wait till its release. The audience response will tell you," he says.
Negative campaigns, Mr Adarsh says, make these films a talking point and whip up emotion before the public has even seen the film.
"But at the end of the day, if the audience loves a film, there is no stopping it," he says.
While every Bollywood success can't be attributed to "good content", Mr Bhatia feels that the viewer remains king for now - "not the troll".
But with online spaces only becoming more toxic, it's unlikely that Bollywood's troubled relationship with social media will heal anytime soon.
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New Delhi [India], August 6 (ANI): As India marked another milestone in the ongoing Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, with wrestler Sakshi Malik rising to the top of the podium with a gold medal, President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi took note of the achievement and congratulated Malik on her victory.
President Murmu called the star wrestler a 'role model for youth and young girls'.
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"Historic gold medal won by Sakshi Malik in wrestling at #CommonwealthGames. She overcame a stiff challenge and made Indians proud. You are a role model for our youth, especially girls. May you go from strength to strength. Heartiest congratulations!," tweeted President Murmu.
Indian wrestler Sakshi Malik clinched the country's third medal in wrestling of the day at the ongoing Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham by defeating Ana Paula Godinez Gonzalez in the finals of the women's freestyle 62 kg category on Friday.
Calling the Indian wrestler a power house of talent, Prime Minister Narendra Modi also congratulated Sakshi for her maiden gold medal win.
"Our athletes continue to make us proud at CWG Birmingham. Thrilled by the outstanding sporting performance of @SakshiMalik. I congratulate her on winning the prestigious Gold medal. She is a powerhouse of talent and is blessed with remarkable resilience," tweeted PM Modi.
The Canadian Gonzalez was dominating the match initially as she gained a 0-4 lead in the first period. Then in the second period, Malik scripted an entire comeback to equal the scores 4-4 and won the match via fall. The match lasted for 3 minutes and 47 seconds.
Malik entered the finals by defeating Etane Ngolle of Cameroon by 10-0 on the basis of technical superiority.
Sakshi Malik defeated Kelsey Barnes of England by 10-0 via fall in the quarter-final of the Women's Freestyle 62 kg to enter the semi-finals.
Earlier, star Indian wrestler Bajrang Punia clinched Gold Medal for India after winning the final against Canada's Lachlan Mcneil in the men's 65 kg at the ongoing Commonwealth Games 2022 at Birmingham on Friday.
Punia was extremely dominant in the first period and did not let his opponent score. He finished with a 4-0 lead over McNeil at the end of the first period.
Grappler Anshu Malik also won the silver medal in the Women's Freestyle 57kg category in the ongoing Commonwealth Games 2022 after losing to Odunayo Folasade Adekuoroye of Nigeria at the Coventry Arena Wrestling Mat B on Friday.
Malik faced a 3-7 defeat against Nigeria's Adekuoroye in the gold medal match. Malik bagged the first medal for India in the wrestling of the ongoing Commonwealth Games 2022.
Wrestler Deepak Punia will be battling for Gold against Pakistan's Muhammad Imam later tonight.Also, Divya Kakran and Mohit Grewal will be battling in their Bronze medal matches.Commonwealth Games 2022 started in Birmingham on July 28 and will go on till August 8. (ANI)
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Blue Jays: 1 MLB trade deadline move Toronto should have made
The Toronto Blue Jays were quieter than expected at the MLB Trade Deadline. While they did acquire a few relievers to strengthen the bullpen, the organization really needed another starter to add to the rotation. Alek Manoah and Kevin Gausman have been great all year, but Yusei Kikuchi and Jose Berrios are struggling. Ross Stripling has done well at times, however, there were numerous top-end arms on the market that Toronto could’ve gone after.
Among them were Luis Castillo, Frankie Montas, Noah Syndergaard, and Pablo Lopez, although the latter ended up staying put. Moral of the story: There was no shortage of options on the bump for the franchise.
Here is the 1 deal the Blue Jays should’ve made at the deadline.
1 move the Blue Jays should have made at trade deadline
Trade for Luis Castillo
Castillo was arguably the best arm available. He’s a Cy Young caliber guy and the Seattle Mariners beat everyone to the punch for him. This is a starter the Blue Jays should’ve focused on. Montas was always going to the Yankees once New York missed out on Castillo. If Toronto had managed to add Castillo to their rotation, you could’ve argued they’d have one of the best staffs in the American League.
Berrios is coming around lately. Kikuchi is improving. Regardless, after Gausman and Manoah, it’s a bit of a grey spot for the Blue Jays. Castillo has swing and miss stuff and is already putting his brilliance on full display with the Mariners. Sure, Toronto would’ve had to give up some top prospects in order to acquire Castillo, but that’s the price.
The Blue Jays were never seriously in the mix for Castillo. That’s just unfortunate. Ross Atkins should’ve been making numerous calls to the Reds and seeing what they wanted in return. Toronto did a nice job of finding some more bullpen pieces in Anthony Bass and Zach Pop. Are they game-changers, though? No.
Toronto was reportedly interested in Castillo last winter as well, but nothing ever came to fruition as he ended up staying in Cincinnati for another half-season. The Blue Jays had a clear opportunity to get a lot better at the trade deadline. Instead, the contenders around them did so. The Yankees were already top dogs and after getting Montas and Benintendi, they are even scarier. The Mariners trading for Castillo makes a massive difference and one could argue they’re a threat to Toronto in the Wild Card race. The Astros meanwhile brought in Trey Mancini, Christian Vazquez, and another late-inning arm, Will Smith. Houston was already one of the elite teams in the American League and there is little doubt they’re above the Blue Jays now with these moves.
The Blue Jays simply didn’t do enough. It’s already a foregone conclusion Toronto is not going to win the division. This team will make the postseason, but it’s about actually being in a World Series. That is the goal and the Blue Jays aren’t in a position to do so after the trade deadline. Relievers and Castillo? You could argue the Jays would be a serious contender in the AL.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. — When Dr. Audrey Lance, an OB-GYN at Northland Family Planning Centers in Metro Detroit, got to work Monday morning, abortion was legal in the state of Michigan.
By noon, it wasn't.
Then by 5 p.m., it was legal again, with at least some certainty it would probably stay that way, at least until a hearing Wednesday. At that hearing, a judge ruled the temporary restraining order preventing county prosecutors from criminally charging abortion providers, would remain in place ... at last until another hearing in two weeks.
"It's confusing even to lawyers, let alone a layperson who is just trying to figure out if their appointment is still booked or not," Lance said Monday, speaking by phone.
This is the chaotic reality of abortion rights in one of the few Midwestern states that didn't enforce new restrictions after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in late June. Since then, waves of abortion patients fleeing regulations in Ohio, Wisconsin, and even as far away as Texas have traveled to Michigan. Planned Parenthood of Michigan says the number of of out-of-state abortion patients coming to its clinics have tripled since the court ruling. And providers say those patients are increasingly desperate.
One of Lance's recent patients was a "young girl" who drove seven hours with her mother from Milwaukee for her appointment, then turned around and drove back home.
When asked if she could provide the girl's age, Lance hesitated, finally saying: "Let's just say she was a minor."
Another patient was so frantic that when Lance was going over a routine list of possible medical complications from abortion, the patient cut her off.
"She said, 'It's fine, I don't care what the risks are. You could shoot me in my uterus, and that would be fine. I just cannot have another child right now.'"
On Monday, telling patients: You may need to go to yet another state
The waitlists at Northland Family Planning Centers have been growing, and Monday morning was as busy as ever. Patients were in the middle of ultrasounds and counseling sessions when Lance got the call from her boss.
"We had to immediately halt kind of what we were doing," Lance said.
That's because a new court ruling had just been issued. In April, Planned Parenthood of Michigan filed a lawsuit seeking to permanently block enforcement of the state's 1931 abortion ban, which criminalizes abortion even in the cases of rape or incest. The ban had been unenforceable under Roe.
In May, a Court of Claims judge issued a preliminary injunction, preventing the ban from being enforced by Michigan's attorney general and local county prosecutors.
But on Monday, the Court of Appeals ruled that the preliminary injunction didn't apply to local county prosecutors — several of whom have said they would prosecute abortion providers under the 1931 law.
"The Court of Appeals reaffirmed the independent authority of local prosecutors and upheld Michigan's Constitution," said attorney David Kallman, who represents Jackson County Prosecutor Jerard Jarzynka and Kent County Prosecutor Christopher Becker, both of whom filed a legal challenge to the preliminary injunction. "Michigan's abortion statute is immediately in effect and enforceable by local prosecutors."
While there was some debate about when the Court of Appeals' ruling would go into effect, the impact on healthcare providers was immediate.
"[I] felt a total gut punch, and in real time [was] trying to figure out what this means for the patients that are literally sitting in my clinic," Lance said.
Many of those patients had already traveled for hours to get there.
"We [told them we] wanted to do our very best to take care of them, but that we had to stop for the time being to figure out what we were legally going to be able to do."
Similar scenes were playing out at the University of Michigan's health system, which primarily performs abortions for patients with complex medical cases who may require hospitalization, says professor Dr. Lisa Harris, an OB-GYN.
"Everyone that I've seen from out of state for abortion care in the past three weeks are people who had an appointment scheduled the day that the ... decision was handed down, or the week or two after that, and then were unable to get that care because abortion then became illegal in their state," Harris said.
That includes one patient whose son had recently been diagnosed with a malignant tumor that would require chemotherapy and radiation.
"And she couldn't continue the pregnancy and care for her son with all his medical needs," Harris said. "And [she] had her appointment in another state canceled at the last minute. It took her a couple of weeks to find care with us in Michigan, and ultimately she had her abortion procedure the day before her child was about to have major cancer surgery."
Planned Parenthood of Michigan announced it would continue to offer abortions, citing Michigan court rules that say "the Michigan Court of Appeals ruling cannot take effect during the 21-day appeal window."
But there was enough uncertainty that by mid-morning, Harris said the University of Michigan's clinicians had to tell patients to make other plans — again.
"We are telling them that [Tuesday] or Wednesday, when their procedures would happen, we may not actually be legally able to provide that care," Harris said Monday. "And we understand how crushing that likely feels to them. And we are going to ask them to begin looking for care out of state, likely in Illinois."
Confusion, uncertainty as legal status of abortion flip flops
By late Monday afternoon, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer had asked the Oakland County Circuit Court to intervene.
"Michiganders will suffer an irreparable injury if Defendants are permitted to enforce ... a near-total ban on abortion that violates the Michigan Constitution," Whitmer's filing said.
Around 5 p.m., Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Jacob Cunningham issued a temporary restraining order, once again blocking enforcement of the 1931 ban "until further Order of the Court." Cunningham also ordered Whitmer's legal team, as well as attorneys representing local county prosecutors, to convene for a hearing Wednesday.
Still, on Monday evening, Lance said they'd decided to stop offering abortion care for now at their Sterling Heights clinic, because it's in Macomb County.
"And the Macomb county prosecutor has clearly stated he wants to prosecute [abortion providers under the 1931 ban,]" she said. "So we thought it would be the safest thing not to see patients there, because this was still so unclear."
Meanwhile, patients were calling, uncertain about whether they still had appointments.
"Of course they're very upset at the situation," Lance said.
On Tuesday, the University of Michigan announced it would continue to offer abortion care, "support our employees and learners, which includes providing legal defense for those who might become parties in civil or criminal legal proceedings by virtue of their good-faith efforts to perform their duties."
A series of high-stakes court battles over abortion
In a tense hearing Wednesday afternoon, attorneys for Whitmer, as well as the county prosecutors who want to enforce the 1931 abortion ban, argued over whether Cunningham's temporary restraining order should remain in effect.
Whitmer's attorneys cited the ongoing confusion over the legal status of abortion in the state, saying that if even only a few county prosecutors enforced the 1931 abortion ban, it would have an immediate "chilling effect" on abortion providers throughout Michigan.
But Kallman said the request for the temporary restraining order was an overreach by the governor, whom Kallman accused of essentially asking the judge to create a constitutional right that "doesn't exist."
Washtenaw County Prosecutor Eli Savit, who opposes the state abortion ban, told the judge that if the temporary restraining order was lifted, county prosecutors would essentially be in charge of determining when abortions are valid to "save the life of the mother," since that's the only exemption in the ban.
"These are emergency decisions that doctors have to make in the moment," Savit told the court. "And to ask them what their county prosecutor, or a neighboring county prosecutor might do, puts doctors and patients in an untenable position. And renders it quite likely that lifesaving care [won't happen.]
"We simply ask that the status quo that has existed for 50 years in this state continue, and we not see the type of chaos that we saw on Monday," Savit said.
"Look, you want to talk about public interest and harm? There's 1,700 lives per month being aborted," Kallman told the court minutes later. "There's a harm, of all those lives being lost. And that's a part of the balance the court should look at."
There were 30,074 abortions performed in the Michigan last year, according to the state health department. That's roughly a 1% increase from the prior year, but nearly a 40% decrease from 1987, the year with the largest number of induced abortions.
Ultimately, Judge Cunningham ruled to leave the temporary restraining order in place until a second hearing later this month to determine whether a new injunction about enforcing the 1931 ban should be issued.
What's important for patients to understand, Dr. Harris said, is that abortion is still legal and available in Michigan.
"But if people don't know that, or have doubts about it, or are afraid of driving seven hours only to be turned away, which is what happened to some patients on Monday, [then] yes, they will probably think twice, or not think Michigan is going to be a welcoming place for their care," she said.
All of this uncertainty could be cleared up if the Michigan Supreme Court decides to step in, as Whitmer and Planned Parenthood of Michigan have requested. And in November, voters may also get decide if Michigan should have a constitutional amendment protecting abortion. Until then, abortion rights in the state will hang on the next court ruling — whatever that may be.
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA / ACCESSWIRE / August 5, 2022 / Jaguar Health, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAGX) ("Jaguar" or the "Company") today announced that, effective August 5, 2022, the Company granted 12,500 restricted stock units (RSUs) to one new employee.
The RSUs for this new employee vest equally over three years, with one-third of the shares vesting each year starting from the date on which this new employee was hired by the Company.
The RSUs for this new employee were granted as an inducement material to this new employee's acceptance of employment by the Company and were approved by the Compensation Committee of Jaguar's Board. Vesting of the RSUs is subject to this new employee's continued service with Jaguar through the applicable vesting dates.
About Jaguar Health, Jaguar Animal Health, Napo Pharmaceuticals, & Napo Therapeutics
Jaguar Health, Inc. is a commercial stage pharmaceuticals company focused on developing novel, plant-based, non-opioid, and sustainably derived prescription medicines for people and animals with GI distress, including chronic, debilitating diarrhea. Jaguar Animal Health is a tradename of Jaguar Health. Jaguar Health's wholly owned subsidiary, Napo Pharmaceuticals, Inc., focuses on developing and commercializing proprietary plant-based human pharmaceuticals from plants harvested responsibly from rainforest areas. Our crofelemer drug product candidate is the subject of the OnTarget study, an ongoing pivotal Phase 3 clinical trial for prophylaxis of diarrhea in adult cancer patients receiving targeted therapy. Jaguar Health is the majority shareholder of Napo Therapeutics S.p.A. (f/k/a Napo EU S.p.A.), an Italian corporation established by Jaguar Health in Milan, Italy in 2021 that focuses on expanding crofelemer access in Europe.
For more information about Jaguar Health, please visit https://jaguar.health. For more information about Napo Pharmaceuticals, visit www.napopharma.com.
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A Look Back at Brad Pitt’s ‘80s and ‘90s Style
Brad Pitt made waves when he hit the red carpet at last month’s Bullet Train premiere wearing a black linen skirt. The youngins may not have realized it, but it was hardly the first time the 58-year-old Academy Award winner has sparked a conversation about gender norms with his wardrobe: He memorably modeled an array of mini dresses for Rolling Stone in 1999. Those who were shocked clearly hadn’t seen much of him off screen. From the very start, Pitt established that he wasn’t going to dress like your typical movie star—at least for a time: The two decades that followed reliably found the actor in an ordinary tux or suit. Fortunately, Pitt has come to a realization that’s led to his least conventional era yet. “We’re all going to die,” he told Variety of why he wore the aforementioned skirt. “So let’s mess it up.” As we await to see whatever he serves up next, take a look back at his more playful sartorial past.
He was part nerd, part rocker when he attended the Los Angeles premiere of Red Heat wearing a leather motorcycle jacket and glasses.
Ripped jeans and a graphic tee for a day on the slopes? The ones that Pitt hit with his then girlfriend Shalane McCall were actually constructed for a March for the Dimes benefit in sunny Los Angeles.
And so begins Pitt’s devotion to couples style. He matched his onetime fiancée Jill Schoelen in a wide-brimmed black hat at the launch of the Mondrian Models & Photographers Club.
He would go on to make jeans his signature ensemble for premieres like that of Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives!.
In fact, Pitt—seen here with E. G. Daily at her album listening party—could reliably be found in light-wash jeans in the late ‘80s.
He matched them with tinted blue sunglasses at the Los Angeles premiere of Thelma & Louise.
Imagine Pitt looking so casual at the My Private Idaho premiere if the film were released today.
Formalwear, but make it Brad—who was then dating Juliette Lewis—in his early thirties.
To match the hippie vibes of his long hair, Pitt wore a colorful paisley button-down to the Los Angeles premiere of True Romance.
By the time he attended the next year’s VHI Honors Awards, his look was much more Kurt Cobain. (Who just so happened to also be a light wash denim lover unafraid to wear a dress.)
Seriously: ‘90s era Brad—seen here with Jitka Poheldek at the Legends of the Fall premiere—was made to star in a biopic of the Nirvana frontman. (We’d agree with Courtney Love that Pitt isn’t right for the role in the present day—though would probably use softer phrasing than “Kurt had more presence and more beauty than Brad” to explain why.)
Ah, the Gwyneth Paltrow era. Whereas Pitt uncharacteristically wore corduroys when they stepped out in New York City, Paltrow channeled old Brad in a leather jacket and light wash jeans. (Made all the better by the ultimate accessory: a copy of this very magazine.)
Between the previous look and the above sweater vest he wore to the premiere of The Pallbearer, you may think that Pitt aired on the preppier side over the course of their three-year relationship. Allow the two slides that follow to prove otherwise.
The hair stylist Chris McMillan was (accidentally, per Paltrow) responsible for their matching haircuts at the premiere of The Devil’s Own. As for their matching black ensembles? Perhaps the pair was in mourning for the relationship that would end later that year.
Whatever the reason, Pitt seems to have had a predilection for black that spring. For the record, Brad, while you’re at it with experimenting, we’d love to see you give goth another go. | https://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/brad-pitt-80s-90s-style | 2022-08-06T01:37:56Z | https://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/brad-pitt-80s-90s-style | false | 1 |
Intel Core i9 13900K vs i9 12900K
We compared two desktop CPUs: the 3.3 GHz Intel Core i9 13900K with 24-cores against the 3.2 GHz i9 12900K with 16-cores. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.
Please note that the tests on the i9 13900K are done on engineering sample provided by our insiders. The data will be more accurate after we get the final version of this CPU.
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Advantages of Intel Core i9 13900K
- Has 38 MB larger L3 cache size
- Has 8 more physical cores
- 6% higher Turbo Boost frequency (5.5 GHz vs 5.2 GHz)
- Newer - released 11-months later
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- Consumes up to 17% less energy than the Core i9 13900K – 125 vs 150 Watt
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Albert Woodfox, who spent nearly 44 years in solitary confinement — thought to be the longest in U.S. history — died Thursday from coronavirus-related complications, according to his family.
He was 75.
In 1965, Woodfox was incarcerated at the Louisiana State Penitentiary on armed robbery charges. Woodfox and the late Herman Wallace were convicted of the 1972 murder of Brent Miller, a corrections officer, but had long maintained their innocence.
The prison sits on a former plantation known as Angola and Woodfox, Wallace and another inmate, Robert King, became known as the "Angola 3" for the immense length of their solitary confinement.
Amnesty International and other advocacy groups believed the Angola 3 were targets of mistreatment because of their Black Panther Party efforts inside the prison.
Woodfox spent the next 43 years inside a 6-by-9-foot cell for 23 hours per day, enduring claustrophobia, gassings, beatings and other forms of torture.
"Well, gas was a standard form of weapons that the security people used. So anytime you challenge inhumane treatment or you challenge unconstitutional conduct, they would gas you," he told NPR's Scott Simon in a 2019 interview.
"And depending on the severity of the confrontation, they would open up your cell, and they would come in and beat you down and then shackle you and bring you to the dungeon, and you probably would stay there a minimum of 10 days," he added.
Woodfox is remembered for his optimism and resilience throughout those many years of torture.
He spent his time educating himself and others. He taught fellow incarcerated people how to read and played games with them.
He also refused to stay silent. Woodfox protested and organized strikes on the prison's deplorable conditions, racial injustice and exploitative work hours.
"I spent a lot of time reading, writing — self-education. I used the time to teach myself both criminal and civil law," Woodfox said.
"And we lived on what we call an organized tier along the principles of the Black Panther Party, developing unity among the other guys on the tier. We taught guys how to read and write, which I think was my greatest achievement," he said.
Woodfox said the strength and determination his mother instilled in him kept him going. Having Wallace and King as not only his comrades, but his best friends, also helped him endure the isolation, he said.
His conviction for Miller's murder was overturned multiple times throughout his time in solitary confinement. Woodfox was set free on his 69th birthday in 2016 after a plea deal to lesser charges.
He spent the next six years educating the U.S. and world on the horrors of the criminal justice system and advocating against solitary confinement.
Woodfox joined King's fight to end solitary confinement in the U.S.
King was released from prison in 2001. Wallace was released in 2013, but he died shortly after from cancer.
Woodfox's 2019 memoir Solitary, which he co-authored with his partner Leslie George, became a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist.
Throughout the solitary confinement, Woodfox never gave up the hope of being released.
"That's the one thing I didn't give up. When this first started out, we knew that, if we were going to survive, we had to look for strength from the outside, from society, so instead of turning inward and becoming institutionalized, we decided that we would turn outward to society," he said in a 2016 interview on NPR's All Things Considered.
"I would not allow prison staff to define who I was and what I believed in," he added.
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We see this at work all over a WWII battlefield. Be it in with airplanes, tanks, and trucks, with soldier's rifles, war rations, or medical supplies. All these things and more, the United States provided in droves behind a total-war mass production campaign that dwarfs every other war effort in history.
But perhaps nowhere else was this emphasis on feverish production more prominent than on the water. This is the story of the Liberty Ships, the WWII cargo vessels the U.S. cranked out like Toyotas. Like a fully-loaded Tundra, these American ships were pretty amazing at hauling heavy loads.
The story of the American Liberty Ship is one of worldwide desperation and the awakening of a world superpower. One whose emergence from a national depression ensured the United States was ready to rain a torrent of punishment upon Germany, Japan, and their allies.
At least, that was the case after Pearl Harbor. In the early days of the war, particularly from the fall of France until late 1941, it was the United Kingdom alone fending itself from a German blitz that was threatening to reduce major cities like London, Manchester, Glasgow, and so many others to rubble.
Though not yet involved directly in the combat in Europe or in Asia, the United States played a vital role in the war from afar. Under the Lend-Lease Act signed by President Franklin D Roosevelt, the United States used its far proximity from the bulk of the fighting and great swaths of land packed with factories from sea to shining sea to contribute to the Allied war effort. Saving Britain and Russia as well from the clutches of the German Wehrmacht in the process with the supplies Liberty Ships supplied.
In the docks and shipyards along America's coastal cities at this time, like Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, San Diego, and Los Angeles, a new class of cargo ship was being forged. In truth, the genesis of these ships had little to do with the war overseas. Rather, they were a result of the American Merchant Marine act of 1936.
Under this act, purpose-built ocean cargo vessels operated by the newly founded U.S. Merchant Marines could be commandeered by the Navy or Marine Corps in times of war.The ships under construction were indeed based upon technology from the previous World War but would have a tremendous impact on the Second.
No fancy diesel engines to be found here, just old-fashioned steam power and a hearty crew. These large, powerful, and capable ships could haul hundreds of soldiers or civilians, dozens of Jeeps and trucks, tanks, airplanes, or nearly any military payload the Allied forces required.
As far as transcontinental ocean vessels were concerned, Liberty Ships couldn't have been simpler. With dimensions of 441 ft 6 in (134.57 m) in length with a 56 ft 10.75 in (17.3 m) beam, the ships were constructed with high-grade domestically produced riveted steel. Sourced from metal foundries in the American heartland like Bethlehem Steel near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Though choosing rivets instead of welds became a liability later in their service, the simplistic nature of their construction meant Liberty Ships could be mass-produced in numbers some modern boutique luxury car makers struggle to meet in the same time frame, and doing so cheaply as well. If it were possible to adjust Liberty Ship production to the scale of an economy car, we'd bet even Honda and Toyota would be impressed in hindsight.
Powering these beefy cargo ships was an engine with technology seemingly derived from an old steam trolley and then scaled up. Indeed, the triple-expansion steam piston engine with three separate chambers allowing for three stages of varying pressure was the ultimate form of steam-driven marine drivetrains.
From the perspective of the average gearhead, the inner workings of a Liberty Ship engine almost appear to use a similar formula as variable geometry turbochargers on modern sports cars. Like twin turbos, three chambers with variable water vapor pressures maximized power while, unlike a triple rotor Mazda engine, proving fairly reliable and efficient.
Though if we're going to reach for the comparison, it's worth noting the 140-ton engine alone on a Liberty Ship weighed as much as around 100 FD RX-7s. The more you know. With a range touching 20,000 nautical miles (37,000 km; 23,000 mi), there weren't too many places Liberty Ships couldn't reach.
The SS Patrick Henry, the first of the Liberty Ships, launched from Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, Baltimore, Maryland, in September 1941. Just in time to begin wartime service in the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor Naval Base attacks just three months later.
The Patrick Henry was the first of a flood of hundreds of ships leaving American ports each month in a clockwork-like manner from just before the American entry into the war until shortly after its conclusion. Though Liberty Ships and their Merchant Marine crew were never intended to be combat operatives, they found themselves perpetually in the crossfire of the aggressive German Navy and their fearsome U-boats.
Only once did a Liberty Ship, with its meager and often inconsistent defensive armament, emerge victorious over an Axis vessel on September 27th, 1942. On this day, the SS Stephen Hopkins engaged a single German auxiliary cruiser named the Stier off the coast of Suriname in the Caribbean Sea. Stephen Hopkin's single four-inch cannon started a fire aboard the Stier. This attack started a fire aboard the German vessel, killing soldiers aboard the ship and causing it to take on water.
The two vessels ultimately took each other to the bottom of the sea, taking 42 souls aboard the Stephen Hopkins. After the war, Liberty Ships were sold off to a slew of domestic and international business associates for a plethora of cargo hauling duties. But ultimately, the plucky ships that formed the backbone of American transcontinental logistics began to pile up in shipyards across America waiting to be scrapped.
Today, only four Liberty Ships remain. Two of which, the SS John W. Brown and the SS Jeremiah O'Brien, are fully mobile living museum ships. For how important they were to the Allied war effort, they served as fitting tributes for a ship that was cheap like a Corolla but built tough as Ford trucks market themselves to be.
Check back soon for more from Sea Month here on autoevolution.
But perhaps nowhere else was this emphasis on feverish production more prominent than on the water. This is the story of the Liberty Ships, the WWII cargo vessels the U.S. cranked out like Toyotas. Like a fully-loaded Tundra, these American ships were pretty amazing at hauling heavy loads.
The story of the American Liberty Ship is one of worldwide desperation and the awakening of a world superpower. One whose emergence from a national depression ensured the United States was ready to rain a torrent of punishment upon Germany, Japan, and their allies.
At least, that was the case after Pearl Harbor. In the early days of the war, particularly from the fall of France until late 1941, it was the United Kingdom alone fending itself from a German blitz that was threatening to reduce major cities like London, Manchester, Glasgow, and so many others to rubble.
Though not yet involved directly in the combat in Europe or in Asia, the United States played a vital role in the war from afar. Under the Lend-Lease Act signed by President Franklin D Roosevelt, the United States used its far proximity from the bulk of the fighting and great swaths of land packed with factories from sea to shining sea to contribute to the Allied war effort. Saving Britain and Russia as well from the clutches of the German Wehrmacht in the process with the supplies Liberty Ships supplied.
In the docks and shipyards along America's coastal cities at this time, like Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, San Diego, and Los Angeles, a new class of cargo ship was being forged. In truth, the genesis of these ships had little to do with the war overseas. Rather, they were a result of the American Merchant Marine act of 1936.
Under this act, purpose-built ocean cargo vessels operated by the newly founded U.S. Merchant Marines could be commandeered by the Navy or Marine Corps in times of war.The ships under construction were indeed based upon technology from the previous World War but would have a tremendous impact on the Second.
No fancy diesel engines to be found here, just old-fashioned steam power and a hearty crew. These large, powerful, and capable ships could haul hundreds of soldiers or civilians, dozens of Jeeps and trucks, tanks, airplanes, or nearly any military payload the Allied forces required.
As far as transcontinental ocean vessels were concerned, Liberty Ships couldn't have been simpler. With dimensions of 441 ft 6 in (134.57 m) in length with a 56 ft 10.75 in (17.3 m) beam, the ships were constructed with high-grade domestically produced riveted steel. Sourced from metal foundries in the American heartland like Bethlehem Steel near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Though choosing rivets instead of welds became a liability later in their service, the simplistic nature of their construction meant Liberty Ships could be mass-produced in numbers some modern boutique luxury car makers struggle to meet in the same time frame, and doing so cheaply as well. If it were possible to adjust Liberty Ship production to the scale of an economy car, we'd bet even Honda and Toyota would be impressed in hindsight.
Powering these beefy cargo ships was an engine with technology seemingly derived from an old steam trolley and then scaled up. Indeed, the triple-expansion steam piston engine with three separate chambers allowing for three stages of varying pressure was the ultimate form of steam-driven marine drivetrains.
From the perspective of the average gearhead, the inner workings of a Liberty Ship engine almost appear to use a similar formula as variable geometry turbochargers on modern sports cars. Like twin turbos, three chambers with variable water vapor pressures maximized power while, unlike a triple rotor Mazda engine, proving fairly reliable and efficient.
Though if we're going to reach for the comparison, it's worth noting the 140-ton engine alone on a Liberty Ship weighed as much as around 100 FD RX-7s. The more you know. With a range touching 20,000 nautical miles (37,000 km; 23,000 mi), there weren't too many places Liberty Ships couldn't reach.
The SS Patrick Henry, the first of the Liberty Ships, launched from Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, Baltimore, Maryland, in September 1941. Just in time to begin wartime service in the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor Naval Base attacks just three months later.
The Patrick Henry was the first of a flood of hundreds of ships leaving American ports each month in a clockwork-like manner from just before the American entry into the war until shortly after its conclusion. Though Liberty Ships and their Merchant Marine crew were never intended to be combat operatives, they found themselves perpetually in the crossfire of the aggressive German Navy and their fearsome U-boats.
Only once did a Liberty Ship, with its meager and often inconsistent defensive armament, emerge victorious over an Axis vessel on September 27th, 1942. On this day, the SS Stephen Hopkins engaged a single German auxiliary cruiser named the Stier off the coast of Suriname in the Caribbean Sea. Stephen Hopkin's single four-inch cannon started a fire aboard the Stier. This attack started a fire aboard the German vessel, killing soldiers aboard the ship and causing it to take on water.
The two vessels ultimately took each other to the bottom of the sea, taking 42 souls aboard the Stephen Hopkins. After the war, Liberty Ships were sold off to a slew of domestic and international business associates for a plethora of cargo hauling duties. But ultimately, the plucky ships that formed the backbone of American transcontinental logistics began to pile up in shipyards across America waiting to be scrapped.
Today, only four Liberty Ships remain. Two of which, the SS John W. Brown and the SS Jeremiah O'Brien, are fully mobile living museum ships. For how important they were to the Allied war effort, they served as fitting tributes for a ship that was cheap like a Corolla but built tough as Ford trucks market themselves to be.
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New York City — In honor of National IPA Day, No-Li Brewhouse is showing off Spokane Craft Brewing to the world at the Times Square Nasdaq Board in New York City!
No-Li, the #1 internationally award-winning brewery in America since 2020, is featured for National IPA Day on August 4th on the Times Square, New York City, eight-story tall Nasdaq digital board for the world to see and recognize that great things come from big-small towns.
Since 2012, No-Li has put Spokane, WA on the US beer map. Now No-Li is putting Spokane on the global map.
In 2021, No-Li received 58 international brewing medals spanning around the world, including Australia, Belgium, England, Germany, Japan, Mexico, and the USA. It is no exaggeration to say thatSpokane and the InlandEmpire are home to some of the best beers in the world.
“Spokane has been discovered and our region leads the country in economic and cultural growth. Craft beer has become a central part of northwest culture that keeps our communities rooted and strong,”says John Bryant, Owner of No-Li Brewhouse.
Lawn Love ranked Spokane as the #1 Best Beer City in the USA, ahead of Seattle, Portland, & Denver. Lawn Love writes that “Spokane, Washington, took home the crown as our No. 1 Beer City and also placed second in both access and the prestigious World Beer Awards. With its close proximity to inland wheat, barley, and the state’s hop fields, Spokane has all the ingredients to craft a delicious brew.”
No-Li is located at1003 E Trent Ave, Spokane, WA 99202.WWW.NOLIBREWHOUSE.COM
About No-Li Brewhouse
No-Li Brewhouse is a progressive, forward-moving and community minded brewery. We have a deep passion for the artisan craft of beer making. It takes many partnerships, and the work of many hands, to bring 93+ International Awards home to Spokane, USA. Together, we are establishing Spokane as a craft beer epicenter.
A marker of an economically vibrant & thriving city is the cultural addition of a regional craft brewery. We are proud to live in Spokane; a community with tradespeople honing their craft and growing their careers with living-wage jobs and full benefits. Craft brewing helps to bind a community together. It gives us a sense of local place and pride | https://www.brewbound.com/news/no-li-brewhouse-featured-on-nyc-nasdaq-board-in-times-square/ | 2022-08-06T02:00:52Z | https://www.brewbound.com/news/no-li-brewhouse-featured-on-nyc-nasdaq-board-in-times-square/ | false | 1 |
PLANO, Texas, Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NuZee, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUZE), a leading U.S. producer and co-packer of single serve coffee formats, today announced it has commenced a firm commitment underwritten public offering of its common stock. NuZee intends to grant the underwriters a 45-day option to purchase up to an additional fifteen percent of the number of shares of its common stock offered in the public offering to cover over-allotments, if any. The public offering is subject to market conditions, and there can be no assurance as to whether or when the public offering may be completed, or the actual size or terms of the public offering.
NuZee intends to use the net proceeds from the offering for working capital and general corporate purposes and to acquire complementary businesses, acquire or license products or technologies that are complementary to its own, although NuZee has no current plans, commitments or agreements with respect to any such use of proceeds for acquisitions or licenses as of the date of this press release.
Maxim Group LLC is acting as the sole book-running manager for the public offering.
The public offering is being made pursuant to an effective shelf registration statement on Form S-3 that was filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on September 1, 2020 and declared effective on October 2, 2020. The securities will be offered only by means of a preliminary prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus forming a part of the effective registration statement. A preliminary prospectus supplement describing the terms of the public offering will be filed with the SEC and will be available on the SEC's website located at www.sec.gov. Copies of the preliminary prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to the public offering may be obtained, when available, by contacting Maxim Group LLC, 300 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10022, or by telephone at (212) 895-3745.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.
This press release contains forward-looking statements that are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. NuZee cautions you that such statements are simply predictions and actual events or results may differ materially. These statements reflect NuZee's current expectations and NuZee does not undertake to update or revise these forward-looking statements, even if experience or future changes make it clear that any projected results expressed or implied in this or other NuZee statements will not be realized. Further, these statements involve risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond NuZee's control, which could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. Statements related to, among other things, the consummation of the offering of common stock and potential changes in market conditions constitute forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond our control, include: NuZee's plan to obtain funding for its operations, including funding necessary to develop, manufacture and commercialize its products; the impact to NuZee's business from COVID 19, including supply chain interruptions; general market acceptance of and demand for NuZee's products; NuZee's reliance on third-party roasters to roast and blend coffee beans necessary to produce its products and provide its co-packing services; NuZee's ability to successfully achieve the anticipated results of strategic transactions; the fact that certain of NuZee's single serve coffee products are expected to be manufactured, processed and packaged for NuZee by its new partner on a purchase order basis pursuant to the agreement between the parties; the fact that sales are completed on a purchase order basis without any written agreement between NuZee and its customers; and NuZee's commercialization, marketing and manufacturing capabilities and strategy. For a description of additional factors that may cause NuZee's actual results, performance or expectations to differ from any forward looking statements, please review the information set forth in the 'Risk Factors' and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" sections of the NuZee's public reports and NuZee's other filings made with the SEC.
NuZee, Inc., (NASDAQ: NUZE), is a leading co-packing company for single serve coffee formats that partners with companies to help them develop within the single serve and private label coffee category.
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Dr. Stephanie Fiely, who has served in many administrative roles at the University of Pittsburgh at Titusville for more than 20 years, has been appointed executive director of Pitt-Titusville’s Education and Training Hub.
Fiely, who had been serving as the hub’s assistant executive director since May 2020, began her new role on Monday, Aug. 1.
“Stephanie brings to this position her steadfast commitment to the hub as well as to the community,” said Rick Esch, Pitt-Titusville’s president. “Throughout her long career at Pitt-Titusville and her work as assistant executive director of the hub, Stephanie has developed strong relationships with the community and business and industry partners that have helped to enhance the hub and its offerings to the residents in the region.”
Fiely replaces Dr. David Fitz, who had served as the hub’s interim executive director since May 2020.
As the hub’s assistant executive director, Fiely worked with Fitz and others to help advance the hub and its operations.
She helped to draft a successful $1.2 million federal WORC grant, which provided the funding necessary to support the addition of the Manufacturing Assistance Center and the Brockway Center for Arts & Technology, a sister organization of Manchester Bidwell Corporation. Fiely also oversaw renovations to the Broadhurst Science Center, which includes enhanced lab and classroom spaces, and assisted in the MAC’s move to Titusville.
“I’m excited to have the opportunity to continue to work with the hub’s partners and members of the community to build upon the progress that has been made so far,” Fiely said. “The programs that have been offered at the hub are already helping to transform the lives of our friends and neighbors.”
Fiely, a longtime resident of Titusville, began her career at Pitt-Titusville in 1999 as the director of student activities, a position she held for 10 years.
In July 2009, she was appointed director of student life. During her 11-year tenure in that position, she also served in other capacities at Pitt-Titusville, including interim executive director of student affairs, interim director of residence life, and instructor of communication and the freshman-year experience.
Fiely also served as interim director of housing at Pitt-Bradford from August 2019 to January 2020 and was a proctor for the Northern Pennsylvania Regional College’s site in Warren from May 2019 to May 2020.
She has been recognized for her dedication to the university, her work in student activities and the community.
Fiely received the University of Pittsburgh Chancellor’s Award for Community Engagement in 2017, the National Association for Campus Activities Legacy Award in 2012 and the National Association of Campus Activities Mid-Atlantic Region Outstanding Professional Award in 2006.
Fiely, who was a member of Rotary International for seven years, received the Rotarian Spouse/ Partner Service Award in 2005.
She is also active in other aspects of the community. Fiely is a member of the Titusville Area Chamber of Commerce, the Titusville YWCA board of directors, and a board member of the United Way of the Titusville Region.
Fiely holds a doctoral and master’s degree in higher education management, both from the University of Pittsburgh, and a bachelor’s degree in communication from Waynesburg College.
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Old Sears store set to be sold at Mall at Fox Run: Here's what we know.
NEWINGTON — Changes might be on the way for the vacant former Sears store at the Mall at Fox Run .
Officials with the mall and the town have confirmed the old Sears space is under contract to be sold and is in the due diligence phase.
The sale is not final and the identity of the buyer wasn't confirmed by local officials.
Newington's Economic Development Committee was informed in June that Seritage Growth Properties, the owner of the former Sears, had sold the property, according to Michael Donahue, a member of the committee. The identity of the buyer was not released to the committee, he said.
Newington Town Administrator Martha Roy said while she doesn't know the buyer's identity, town officials are “closely watching the sale and waiting to see the outcome.” Roy said the sale could affect the property tax rate in the small town, which has a population of less than 1,000 people but is home to large shopping centers like the mall.
Roy said the town has high hopes for the property sale, and noted the buyer will have to meet with the Newington Planning Board and town planner to ensure the use of the property aligns with zoning rules.
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Sears left the Mall at Fox Run in 2019. The company announced the closure of more than 140 locations in 2018, filing for bankruptcy after more than 130 years in business.
Last year, a state of New Hampshire COVID-19 vaccine clinic temporarily took over the former Sears space at the Mall at Fox Run, but it has remained mostly vacant.
The mall's anchor store spaces, like the former Sears, are owned and managed independently from the overall mall management.
The Mall at Fox Run, which is about 600,000 square feet on one level and was built in 1983, has also seen a lot of changes in recent years. The mall has been managed by Jones Lang Lasalle and Simon Properties in the past. Since 2018, Spinoso Real Estate Group has leased and managed the core of the mall.
A vision emerges: What is the future for Mall at Fox Run?
In recent years the mall management has shifted its focus away from the traditional retail approach and moved toward a local experience-based mall, a community hub where one could shop, dine, dance, or learn something new like jujutsu.
"We are looking forward to the continued evolution of the Fox Run Mall," said Eric Braiser, general manager of the mall.
The sale of the Sears property, if finalized, would be the latest major retail space sale in Newington.
The Crossings shopping center, home to Best Buy and Kohl's among other retailers, was acquired by RPT Realty in an off-market $104 million deal earlier this year. Nearby, real estate development and investment company Torrington Properties in 2021 acquired the Newington Park Shopping Center , home to Savers and other retailers, for $13.3 million.
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Duolingo (NYSE:DUOL – Get Rating) issued its earnings results on Thursday. The company reported ($0.38) EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of ($0.50) by $0.12, Briefing.com reports. Duolingo had a negative return on equity of 16.22% and a negative net margin of 21.26%. The company had revenue of $88.39 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $85.71 million. During the same quarter last year, the firm earned ($0.01) EPS. The business’s revenue was up 50.3% on a year-over-year basis. Duolingo updated its FY 2022 guidance to EPS and its Q3 2022 guidance to EPS.
Duolingo Price Performance
Shares of NYSE DUOL traded up $4.39 during mid-day trading on Friday, reaching $103.07. The company had a trading volume of 1,466,685 shares, compared to its average volume of 542,975. The company has a current ratio of 4.72, a quick ratio of 4.72 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.05. The stock has a market cap of $4.04 billion and a PE ratio of -58.56. The company has a 50-day moving average price of $94.83 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $89.98. Duolingo has a 1-year low of $60.50 and a 1-year high of $204.99.
Analysts Set New Price Targets
Several analysts have weighed in on the company. Needham & Company LLC assumed coverage on Duolingo in a research note on Thursday, July 7th. They set a “buy” rating and a $115.00 target price on the stock. Piper Sandler lifted their target price on Duolingo from $95.00 to $119.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research note on Friday, June 24th. Raymond James raised Duolingo from a “market perform” rating to an “outperform” rating and set a $98.00 price objective on the stock in a research note on Friday, May 13th. The Goldman Sachs Group boosted their price objective on Duolingo to $84.00 in a research note on Thursday, June 9th. Finally, Barclays boosted their price objective on Duolingo from $95.00 to $102.00 in a research note on Friday. Two investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and eight have assigned a buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $112.56.
Insider Buying and Selling
Institutional Inflows and Outflows
A number of institutional investors and hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of DUOL. Captrust Financial Advisors grew its stake in Duolingo by 620.8% in the first quarter. Captrust Financial Advisors now owns 555 shares of the company’s stock valued at $53,000 after purchasing an additional 478 shares in the last quarter. Canada Pension Plan Investment Board purchased a new position in Duolingo in the first quarter valued at about $342,000. California State Teachers Retirement System grew its stake in Duolingo by 11.0% in the first quarter. California State Teachers Retirement System now owns 6,043 shares of the company’s stock valued at $575,000 after purchasing an additional 599 shares in the last quarter. Dynamic Technology Lab Private Ltd purchased a new position in Duolingo in the first quarter valued at about $620,000. Finally, Hsbc Holdings PLC purchased a new position in Duolingo in the first quarter valued at about $771,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 40.17% of the company’s stock.
Duolingo Company Profile
Duolingo, Inc develops a language-learning website and mobile app in the United States and China. The company offers courses in 40 different languages, including Spanish, English, French, Japanese, German, Italian, Chinese, Portuguese, and others. It also provides a digital language proficiency assessment exam.
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Henry Schein (NASDAQ:HSIC – Get Rating) updated its FY 2022 earnings guidance on Tuesday. The company provided EPS guidance of $4.75-$4.91 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of $4.86. The company issued revenue guidance of $12.77 billion-$13.14 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $13.05 billion.
Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades
A number of brokerages recently commented on HSIC. Credit Suisse Group reduced their price objective on shares of Henry Schein from $100.00 to $90.00 and set an outperform rating for the company in a research report on Wednesday. Piper Sandler decreased their price target on shares of Henry Schein from $100.00 to $96.00 in a research report on Tuesday. StockNews.com lowered shares of Henry Schein from a strong-buy rating to a buy rating in a report on Tuesday, July 19th. William Blair reaffirmed a market perform rating on shares of Henry Schein in a research report on Tuesday, May 3rd. Finally, The Goldman Sachs Group cut shares of Henry Schein from a buy rating to a neutral rating and cut their target price for the stock from $93.00 to $85.00 in a report on Thursday, July 21st. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, three have issued a hold rating and four have given a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the stock has a consensus rating of Hold and an average price target of $87.14.
Henry Schein Trading Up 1.7 %
Shares of HSIC traded up $1.23 on Friday, reaching $75.38. 659,632 shares of the company’s stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 927,006. Henry Schein has a 12 month low of $70.25 and a 12 month high of $92.68. The company has a current ratio of 1.83, a quick ratio of 0.91 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.18. The stock has a market capitalization of $10.41 billion, a P/E ratio of 16.18, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.01 and a beta of 0.75. The business has a 50 day moving average price of $78.19 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $81.97.
Insider Activity
In related news, EVP Gerald A. Benjamin sold 11,489 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, May 26th. The shares were sold at an average price of $85.47, for a total transaction of $981,964.83. Following the transaction, the executive vice president now directly owns 95,616 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $8,172,299.52. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available through this hyperlink. Insiders own 1.00% of the company’s stock.
Institutional Investors Weigh In On Henry Schein
Several hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the business. Toroso Investments LLC raised its holdings in Henry Schein by 13.4% during the 1st quarter. Toroso Investments LLC now owns 7,202 shares of the company’s stock worth $628,000 after purchasing an additional 853 shares during the last quarter. BNP Paribas Arbitrage SA increased its stake in Henry Schein by 277.4% during the 1st quarter. BNP Paribas Arbitrage SA now owns 96,314 shares of the company’s stock valued at $8,398,000 after purchasing an additional 70,793 shares in the last quarter. Wealthfront Advisers LLC increased its stake in Henry Schein by 2.0% during the 1st quarter. Wealthfront Advisers LLC now owns 15,391 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,342,000 after purchasing an additional 304 shares in the last quarter. Mirabella Financial Services LLP purchased a new position in Henry Schein during the 1st quarter worth $287,000. Finally, Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Co boosted its holdings in Henry Schein by 62.9% during the 1st quarter. Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Co now owns 5,105 shares of the company’s stock worth $445,000 after acquiring an additional 1,971 shares during the last quarter. 94.30% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
Henry Schein Company Profile
Henry Schein, Inc provides health care products and services to dental practitioners and laboratories, physician practices, government, institutional health care clinics, and other alternate care clinics worldwide. It operates through two segments, Health Care Distribution, and Technology and Value-Added Services.
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Genetic variants that reduce the editing levels of double-stranded RNA are associated with autoimmune and immune-mediated conditions, a study finds.
Aug 5, 2022
Following transcription, RNA molecules can undergo modifications. For example, nucleotides may be inserted, deleted, or changed. One of the most common edits, which new research shows plays an important role in the onset of inflammatory disease, is the transformation of the nucleotide adenosine into inosine within a double-stranded RNA. A study published Wednesday (August 3) in Nature reveals that genetic variants that dampen this specific modification are associated with an increased risk of autoimmune and immune-mediated inflammatory disorders such as psoriasis, inflammatory bowel disease, and type 1 diabetes. The authors propose that a sensor protein likely mistakes these less-edited RNAs for foreign molecules, triggering an inflammatory response.
“I think it’s really a major breakthrough,” says Mary A. O’Connell, a molecular biologist at the Central European Institute of Technology at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic who did not participate in this study but has previously collaborated with some of the authors. She adds that she found it “really striking” how important RNA editing appears to be for inflammatory diseases, compared to gene expression or splicing.
The transformation of adenosine into inosine is catalyzed by adenosine deaminase acting on RNA (ADAR) enzymes. By binding to a double-stranded RNA and converting the selected nucleotide, the enzyme alters the base pairings within the RNA, thereby also changing its conformation. In 2015, scientists demonstrated how essential this process is to health: mutant mice carrying a deficient ADAR died before birth. The fatal outcome, however, was prevented by deleting another protein, MDA5, a vigilant molecule that recognizes foreign invaders through their double-stranded RNA and triggers an inflammatory response. These previous findings revealed that ADAR-dependent RNA editing of adenosine into inosine is necessary to avoid drawing the attention of MDA5.
See “Left-Handed DNA Has a Biological Role Within a Dynamic Genetic Code”
Subsequent research found that mutations that affect the editing capacity of ADAR or increase the sensitivity of the MDA5 sensor can lead to rare autoimmune diseases, such as Aicardi-Goutières syndrome and other neurological conditions, in humans. These mutations, however, “are very rare,” says Stanford University geneticist Jin Billy Li, one of the researchers behind the new study as well as the 2015 paper. But he says he and his colleagues wondered, “what happens to many of these double-stranded RNAs that may not be properly edited?”—could editing deficiencies not due to these known protein mutations be at fault in more common diseases?
To test their hypothesis, Li and his colleagues first identified genetic variants that affect RNA editing. To do so, they analyzed genomic and genetic expression data of postmortem samples of various tissues taken from 838 human donors whose information is stored in the Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) catalog. Computational analyses of these variants suggest that they affect the binding strength between ADAR and the RNAs. Next, the team assessed whether these variants were significantly abundant in regions of the genome previously associated in genome-wide association studies with an increased risk for certain diseases.
Doing so revealed that the genetic variants linked to reduced RNA editing were common among variants previously associated with multiple autoimmune or immune-related conditions, such as lupus, multiple sclerosis, and coronary artery disease. The variants affecting RNA editing appeared to have stronger associations with those diseases compared to variants affecting gene expression or splicing, which have also been linked to immune-related diseases. Moreover, the effect of the RNA editing variants was clearly directional: They were associated with reduced, not increased, editing levels, reinforcing the idea that a lack of ADAR-mediated editing is detrimental to one’s health.
See “In Editing RNA, Researchers See Endless Possibilities”
The main achievement of the authors was to establish a link between RNA editing variants and immune-related and common inflammatory diseases, says Yi Xing, a computational biologist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia who did not participate in this study. But in addition to that, they provided “a really interesting mechanism” to explain such a link, he says.
O’Connell adds that these findings may have major clinical implications in the future. If we now know that RNA editing is important, she says, it will likely not be so difficult to develop clinical tests for RNA editing levels. Understanding the vulnerability of someone based on such information may help clinicians to prevent or control inflammation, she notes.
Li, who is a cofounder of the biotech company AIRNA Bio, a consultant for Risen Pharma, and has filed a patent for a method to predict double-stranded RNA burden, says these findings suggest that for “a subset of patients, the inflammation might be driven by the insufficient editing of many double-stranded RNAs.” He adds that he and his colleagues are now trying to determine whether it would be possible “to dampen this double-stranded RNA sensing pathway” and, as a result, treat these common diseases. | https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/deficient-rna-editing-implicated-in-inflammatory-disease-70329 | 2022-08-06T02:11:06Z | https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/deficient-rna-editing-implicated-in-inflammatory-disease-70329 | true | 1 |
Online influencers shun altered images to be the real deal
After years of sharing altered images of perfect bodies online, a growing number of social media influencers are choosing to show their “authentic selves” (Elisabeth Perlman writes).
Yet when Alex Light, an influencer, ditched the filters to embrace body positivity, she wasn’t applauded by the fashion brands that she worked with. She was shunned.
Light, who has more than half a million followers on Instagram, said she lost sponsorship deals worth tens of thousands of pounds when she stopped editing her photos on the platform.
Many people generate an income by posting images of products on their social media accounts, which are then “liked” and commented on by followers. Brands will often have deals with influencers who are paid every time they post or are | https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/online-influencers-shun-altered-images-to-be-the-real-deal-tbmjh9jj9 | 2022-08-06T02:26:35Z | https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/online-influencers-shun-altered-images-to-be-the-real-deal-tbmjh9jj9 | false | null |
BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Massachusetts Lottery's "MassCash" game were:
06-10-17-26-32
(six, ten, seventeen, twenty-six, thirty-two)
BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Massachusetts Lottery's "MassCash" game were:
06-10-17-26-32
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(The Hill) — A jury in Minnesota ruled on Friday that a pharmacist did not commit discrimination when he did not fill an emergency contraception prescription for a woman after her prior contraceptive method failed, according to the gender advocacy group Gender Justice.
A jury in Aitkin County found that a pharmacist’s decision not to provide an emergency contraception prescription to Andrea Anderson, the plaintiff in the case, after citing his “beliefs” did not constitute discrimination.
According to court documents, Anderson went to the only pharmacy located in her town to retrieve a prescription of emergency contraception after another method failed, but the pharmacist there rejected her request.
The filing further claims that she would later have to drive more than 100 miles in total in order to get her morning after pill after experiencing several pharmacies reject her request.
Anderson was awarded $25,000 over emotional harm caused by the initial pharmacist who rejected to fill the prescription.
“I can’t help but wonder about the other women who may be turned away,” Anderson said in a statement.
“What if they accept the pharmacist’s decision and don’t realize that this behavior is wrong? What if they have no other choice? Not everyone has the means or ability to drive hundreds of miles to get a prescription filled.”
The legal director for Gender Justice, which is representing Anderson, said it plans to appeal the decision.
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The United States does the heavy lifting, but Canada provides consistent behind-the-scenes support to enable the plunder of Congo and other nations in the Global South.
On October 14, 2004, a group of ten armed men took control of the city of Kilwa in the eastern Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and promptly declared the province’s independence. Part of an obscure secessionist movement called the Mouvement Révolutionnaire pour la Liberation du Katanga, they hoped to attain local support by playing to local grievances against the central government and the Montréal-based company Anvil Mining, which owned the nearby Dikulushi copper mine.
Many locals felt that Anvil, which allegedly operated “with the support of certain members of the presidential team who had links with Katanga businessmen,” did not contribute enough of its revenues from the mine ($10-$20 million annually) to the surrounding community, and it appears that the secessionists felt they could use local distaste for the mining company and its rich backers in Kinshasa and Katanga to their advantage.[1]
Predictably, Anvil Mining was displeased by the uprising, which blocked the company’s access to the port in Kilwa, from which they exported copper and silver for processing.
The day after the rebels took Kilwa, Congolese soldiers stormed the town and killed 73 villagers, 20 of them by summary execution, and buried their corpses in mass graves. With this massacre, the town was returned to central government control.
Survivors of the violence reported the arbitrary killing of civilians, looting, rape and torture by Congolese troops. They also reported that the soldiers were driving vehicles provided to them by Anvil Mining.
A United Nations investigation found that the Canadian-Australian company logistically and financially supported the military action against Kilwa. The UN mission and later investigative work revealed that Anvil had provided the perpetrators of the killings, who were operating under orders to “shoot anything that moved,” with drivers, vehicles and supplies, and even transported soldiers on its chartered planes.
Bill Turner, then-CEO of Anvil Mining, admitted that the army “requested assistance from Anvil for transportation” and that his company “provided that transportation.”[2]
The Canadian general manager of Anvil’s Congo operations was prosecuted and cleared of charges in a trial that was widely condemned as an injustice by numerous organizations, including the UN.
Meanwhile, both the Québec Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada refused to hear the case and said that survivors needed to sue the company in Congo or Australia, despite the fact that Anvil was headquartered in Montréal and its largest shareholders were Vancouver-based mining company First Quantum Minerals and the Canadian Pension Plan.
In response to the ruling, Matt Eisenbrandt of the Canadian Association Against Impunity stated, “It is unacceptable that…victims are still unable to hold Canadian companies accountable in Canadian courts, for their alleged involvement in serious human rights violations committed abroad. We look forward to a time when Canadian companies are held responsible for their actions.”
Adèle Mwayuma, whose two sons were killed during the Kilwa massacre, stated that Canada’s refusal to hear the case was “another rebuff for the families who have suffered so much and struggled so long to have this case heard.”[3]
The Canadian government’s refusal to hold Canada-based companies responsible for their abuses abroad is part and parcel of the mechanisms by which Canadian imperialism operates.
In Congo specifically, Canada has historically cooperated with more forceful imperialist powers, including the United States, to create an investment climate that is friendly to multinational business.
In Western media, much has been made of China’s increasing investment in critical Congolese minerals, a trend which the Biden administration has identified as a “U.S. supply chain concern”—however, to focus simply on China’s ownership of mineral resources in the region would belie the reality that, in relation to its size, Canadian mining capital has historically held far more weight in Africa.[4]
The DRC is the tenth largest recipient of Canadian development aid, a fact that the Government of Canada proudly proclaims on its webpage for Canada-DRC relations.[5] Congo is also the third most profitable African country for Canadian mining companies—a less publicized fact, and one which offers a window into Canada’s deeply exploitative role on the African continent, both historically and presently.
In the 2020-2021 fiscal year, Congo received CAN$121 million in Canadian aid, which the Government of Canada upholds as evidence that “Canada contributes to the development of the DRC.”
However, a glance at Canadian investment statistics reveals a yawning chasm between the amount of aid Canada sends to Congo and the amount of profit Canadian companies extract. Indeed, statistics from Natural Resources Canada note that Canadian mining assets in the DRC are worth $6.5 billion.[6] Total Canadian aid contributions from 2020-2021 are less than 2% of that figure.
The grim truth is that the DRC, once led by a fierce champion of anti-colonialism in Patrice Lumumba, has effectively been recolonized by Western capital. Canada, which haughtily proclaims its global munificence, was not an innocent bystander in this process—in fact, individual Canadians and the Canadian state itself played a notable role in supporting the Belgian colonization of Congo, perpetuating the colonial system, and working alongside Belgium and the U.S. to destroy Lumumba’s vision for an independent, decolonized, pan-Africanist Congo.
Patrice Lumumba just before his assassination. [Source: face2faceafrica.com]
Canadian companies and government officials have also been implicated in the continuation of the resource conflicts in the country’s east that erupted after the fall of Mobutu Sese Seko in the late 1990s.
When King Leopold II, the execrable Belgian ruler who began the genocidal colonization of the Congo, established the “Congo Free State” in 1884, the U.S. administration of Grover Cleveland was the first government in the world to recognize him as the area’s sovereign ruler.
Following American recognition, the European powers acquiesced to Leopold’s personal rule of the territory at the Berlin Conference of 1885 and, thereafter, the Belgian king began to put more time into mapping the region’s land and resources and repressing local resistance.
Many are not aware that Leopold employed a Canadian, William Grant Stairs, to help him spread Belgian control across the region. In 1891, Leopold sent Stairs, a graduate of the Royal Military College of Canada and a well-to-do Haligonian whose family accrued part of its wealth by selling food and construction materials to Caribbean slave plantations, to conquer the mineral-rich Katanga region of the Congo. In his diary, Stairs wrote that his goal was to “discover mines in Katanga that can be exploited” and to make Msiri, the region’s ruler, “submit to the authorities of the Congo Free State, either by persuasion or by force.”[7] He led an army of 2,000 men to accomplish this task.
While traversing the territory, the Stairs expedition was known to flaunt the severed heads of Africans as a “lesson” to locals. Yves Engler writes that “there are disturbing claims that some white officers took sex slaves and in one alarming instance even paid to have an 11-year-old girl cooked and eaten.”[8] Ultimately, the expeditioners killed Msiri, the chief of Congo’s Yeke kingdom, cut off his head, and stuck it on a pole as a “warning” to his people.
When Stairs and his men returned Msiri’s body to be buried, the ruler’s head was not included. To this day, the people of Congo do not know what became of Msiri’s head, but they do know one thing: The Canadians came to their land to pillage, kill and enslave.
By the expedition’s end, Stairs and his men had added 150,000 square kilometers to King Leopold’s “Congo Free State.”
In June 1892, Stairs died of malaria while in the Congo. He was promptly lionized by the Canadian government, which placed two brass plaques in his name at the Royal Military College. One of the plaques praises Stairs’s “courage and devotion to duty” and notes that he “died of fever…whilst in command of the Katanga Expedition sent out by the King of the Belgians.”[9]
Some sources attest that half of the Congo’s population—more than 10 million people—died under the Belgian king’s tyranny. Torture and maiming were institutionalized practices.
The colonial police force, the Force Publique, imposed strict rubber extraction quotas on enslaved Africans and, when an African failed to meet the quota, officers were instructed to cut off a hand as punishment.
In addition to corpses, baskets of severed hands littered the Congo Free State, a putrid emblem of the brutality of Belgium’s colonial rule. And although the Belgian government annexed the Congo in 1908 due to supposed humanitarian concerns, conditions did not notably improve thereafter.
By the early 20th century, numerous American companies had expressed interest in the Belgian Congo. J.P. Morgan met with Leopold in Dover, while Thomas Fortune Ryan and John D. Rockefeller, Jr., visited the king in Brussels. The American Congo Company, owned by Ryan and Daniel Guggenheim, were granted a 99-year concession of 4,000 square miles from which to harvest rubber and vegetable products, a concession they ultimately traded for nearby mining rights.
American investors also joined Belgian financiers (and King Leopold himself) to back the creation of Forminière, a mining company which acquired a 99-year monopoly on mining rights in an area covering about half of the Congo Free State.
A December 1906 exposé published by William Randolph Hearst’s New York American identified several towering figures of U.S. capitalism as having financial interests in the Congo Free State: “Thomas Fortune Ryan, James D. Stillman, Edward B. Aldrich (son of Nelson W. Aldrich, Republican leader in the Senate, and brother of Winthrop W. Aldrich, Mr. Eisenhower’s ambassador to the Court of St. James’s), the Guggenheim brothers, J. P. Morgan, and John D. Rockefeller, Jr.”[10]
Canada sought to invest in the Belgian Congo as well. Indeed, Kevin A. Spooner writes that “the Belgian Congo was served relatively well by Canadian officials.” In 1946, the Congo was the site of one of only three Canadian trade commissions in Africa, and Canada remained a “top twelve trading partner” until the early 1950s. Canadian officials were primarily interested in the minerals in the country’s east.
“As early as the 1920s,” writes Spooner, “the Canadian trade commissioner in South Africa, G.R. Stevens, had gathered information on opportunities for Canadian trade in the Congo. In his report, Stevens noted the importance of minerals in the eastern Katanga province, which the Canadian William Grant Stairs had helped bring under Belgian control thirty years prior.”[11]
Throughout the 20th century, the merciless European empires continued to relegate Africans to the status of colonized peoples across the continent, extracting profit through repressive systems of forced labor and answering any resistance with violence. While in Washington opinions about the continuance of colonialism occasionally differed, Ottawa supported the system completely.
A number of Canadian companies had a material investment in its perpetuation. Between 1950 and 1965, the Canadian government allocated millions of dollars to private contractors for the purpose of resource surveys, including geological surveys, in Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, and across West Africa.[12] By 1960, Canadian businesses had invested almost $70 million in Africa.[13]
As a result, the Canadian government maintained strong relationships with the colonial administrations, particularly those of Britain, and did not make any official diplomatic contact with indigenous Africans. By the mid-twentieth century “Ottawa had neither made any public utterances condemning British colonial policy [in Africa] nor had it requested the speeding up of the giving of independence to members of the Commonwealth.”[14]
Alongside the U.S., Ottawa gave military assistance to the empires which were seeking to quash the independence aspirations of Africans. Between 1950 and 1958, Canada donated approximately $1.5 billion ($8 billion today) to fellow NATO nations through the organization’s Mutual Aid fund.[15]
Three-quarters of Canadian Mutual Aid was military, including “anti-aircraft guns, military transport vehicles, ammunition, minesweepers, communications and electronic equipment, armaments, engines, and fighter jets.”[16]
The largest recipients of Canadian arms and equipment were France (which was attempting to suppress anti-colonial movements in North Africa and Indochina), Britain (which had launched a similar campaign in Malaya), the Netherlands (Indonesia and West Papua New Guinea), Portugal (Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau), and, most relevant to this article, Belgium (Rwanda, Burundi and Congo).
The Canadian military also ran training programs, such as the NATO Air Training Plan, in which the Royal Canadian Air Force trained approximately 5,500 pilots and navigators from ten NATO countries, including Belgium.
In the late 1960s, the Canadian government donated $25.5 million to the British-led Special Commonwealth Africa Assistance Program (SCAAP). The overall purpose of the SCAAP was to ensure that capitalist structures remained in Africa as countries gained their independence, and that Canadian business retained lucrative investment opportunities within those structures.
Secretary of State for External Affairs Sidney Smith stated that, without a Canadian presence in Africa, “these underdeveloped [African] countries…may be prone to accept blandishments and offers from other parts of the world”—implicitly, communist parts of the world.[17]
Patrice Lumumba was the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo following the Congolese peoples’ victory over Belgian colonial rule. He was detested by leading U.S. and Canadian officials.
While UN officials were open in their scorn for Lumumba’s independent domestic and foreign policy—UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld asserted that he must be “broken,” while his special representative Andrew Cordier said “Lumumba is [Africa’s] little Hitler”—Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker kept his distaste close to the vest. He privately referred to Lumumba as a “major threat to Western interests” and joined other Western nations in supporting a separatist movement in the Katanga province to destabilize the Congolese leader’s fledgling administration.[18]
In August 1960, U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower ordered the CIA to “eliminate” Lumumba. Pursuant to this task, the Agency sent a kit of various poisons, including a tube of poisoned toothpaste, to the CIA station chief in Léopoldville (now Kinshasa), Lawrence Devlin, alongside orders to kill the prime minster.
Ultimately, Lumumba was not poisoned. In 1961, he was murdered by Katanga separatists who were working with Belgian and American intelligence forces. The brutality of this killing is widely understood; less known is the fact that a Canadian peacekeeper has claimed responsibility for delivering Lumumba to his killers. Québec native Jean Berthiaume, chief of staff of the UN peacekeeping force, says that he located Lumumba after the leader’s escape from house arrest and informed army chief Joseph Mobutu of his whereabouts. “I called Mobutu,” the Canadian peacekeeper recalled decades later.
“I said, ‘Colonel, you have a problem, you were trying to retrieve your prisoner, Mr. Lumumba. I know where he is, and I know where he will be tomorrow.’ He said, ‘what do I do?’…it’s simple, you take a Dakota [plane], send your paratroopers and arrest Lumumba in that small village…That’s all you’ll need to do, Colonel. He arrested him, like that, and I never regretted it.”[19]
After his arrest, Lumumba was held in starvation conditions in a military prison in Thysville (now Mbanza-Ngungu). Fearful that he would continue to inspire popular resistance among the Congolese people, the Belgians had him flown to Katanga. On the flight, he and his associates were beaten nearly to death by Katangese and Belgian soldiers.
Upon landing, they were executed by firing squad. In order to prevent his place of death from becoming a site of national remembrance, Belgian officers dismembered his corpse and dissolved its pieces in sulfuric acid.
After Lumumba’s murder in January 1961, Canadian officials jumped at the chance to ingratiate themselves with the Mobutu regime. In 1992, Canadian diplomat Michel Gauvin recalled, “During my time in Leopoldville as Chargé d’Affaires [from 1961 to 1963] I got to know Mobutu very well. I was one of the only whites invited to the baptism of one of his girls.”[20]
Historian Fred Gaffen explains that “Mobutu learned to trust the Canadian officers [and] visited Canada in May of 1964. At that time, he thanked those Canadian officers who had contributed so much to the maintenance of the unity of the country.”[21]
The transition from Lumumba to Mobutu, however, was not a smooth one. Following Lumumba’s killing, a group of anti-imperialist “Lumumbist” rebels took up arms in the eastern Simba region, intending to resist the new U.S.-backed Moïse Tshombe administration.
The U.S. government provided T-6 Texan airplanes to the Tshombe government, trained Congolese pilots, and ran several combat missions against the Lumumbists in the east. Tshombe also employed white mercenaries to fight the resistance forces, including Irishman “Mad Mike” Hoare and a Belgian plantation owner and white supremacist named Jean Schramme. By the end of 1964, the Lumumbist resistance was defeated.
Joseph Mobutu, the Army Chief of Staff who had helped organize Lumumba’s overthrow, took power, renaming himself Mobutu Sese Seko and renaming his country Zaire. To solidify his rule, Mobutu isolated the white mercenaries who had previously been a key element of Tshombe’s anti-Lumumbist offensive in the east.
Some of the mercenaries, including plantation owner Jean Schramme, revolted. When it became clear that Schramme and his mercenaries would not be able to restore Tshombe to power, they consented to leave the country in an International Red Cross airlift. Canada agreed to assist in the transportation of 900 Schramme supporters in an operation dubbed “PELI PELI.”
Western nations—primarily the U.S. and France—kept Mobutu in power for more than three decades. His regime was one of the most notoriously corrupt in history.
The U.S. contributed more than one billion dollars in civilian and military aid during Mobutu’s 30 years in Kinshasa, while the French were even more generous. “For [their] heavy investment,” Adam Hochschild writes, “[they] got a regime that was reliably anti-Communist and a secure staging area for CIA and French military operations, but Mobutu brought his country little except a change of name, in 1971, to Zaire.”[22]
In 1997, his personal wealth was estimated at $4 billion, making him one of the richest men in the world. That same year, a UN Conference on Trade and Development report revealed that the overwhelming percentage of Congo’s population did not have access to safe drinking water,
Twelve percent of infants died at birth, and state health expenditures were less than 1% of total GDP. Congo was also the world’s most “severely indebted LDC.”[23] However, despite his willingness to adopt Western-backed “structural adjustment” policies, Mobutu kept most of Congo’s mining industry under state management through the Societe Generate des Carrieres et des Mines (Gecamines) and the Societe Miniere du Bakwanga (MIBA).
In addition to producing huge amounts of gold, copper, diamonds and uranium, Congo is also the world’s largest producer of cobalt, producing more than half of the global supply. Cobalt is a central component in cell phones and other consumer electronics which, by the late 1990s, were becoming an increasingly profitable industry.
Mobutu’s control over reserves of cobalt and other mined goods “never ceased to irritate the great transnational mining corporations,” and toward the end of his time in power, he began to negotiate investment terms.[24] Many of the companies that entered negotiations were Canadian. They included Lundin Group, Banro, Mindev, South Atlantic Resources, Anvil Mining and Barrick Gold.
Mobutu’s caginess around Congo’s mineral wealth irked Canada and the U.S., and it contributed to their gradual abandonment of their once-beloved dictator. In the 1980s, Canada had channeled more than CAN$140 million to Mobutu through its international aid agencies (it is estimated that CAN$16 million went directly to the regime) but, between 1989 and 1994, aid numbers shrank to one-thirtieth of their previous size.[25]
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In April 1997, a Washington Post article reported that “American companies are leading the race into rebel-held areas of Zaire to exploit the country’s mineral wealth…a major shift after years of European domination in Africa’s largest French-speaking country.” The author, Cindy Shiner, noted that “miners, bankers, lawyers and communications companies have been courting the rebel alliance led by Laurent Kabila, a former Marxist who has embraced free-market reform and pledges to overthrow the corrupt government of President Mobutu Sese Seko.”[26]
America Mineral Fields Inc., a U.S. mining company based in then-President Bill Clinton’s hometown of Hope, Arkansas, signed a $1 billion contract with the rebels to explore copper and cobalt deposits in the country’s south. A subsidiary of the company, America Diamond Buyers, was the first foreign firm to sign a contract with Kabila’s forces.
Meanwhile, the Washington-based New Millenium Investment Ltd. opened the first bank in the rebel stronghold of Goma and signed a contract to “revitalize Goma’s telecommunications.” COMSAT and Citibank also “expressed interest in the region.”[27]
On the Canadian side, the three largest companies in Congo were Adastra (the new name for America Mineral Fields Inc.), First Quantum Minerals, and Barrick Gold. These companies were so eager to tap unexploited reserves that they signed contracts for land that had not yet been claimed by Kabila’s forces, and even provided equipment to his men as they pushed toward Kinshasa. In 1997, Kabila visited Toronto to speak to Canadian mining companies about “investment opportunities,” a trip that “may have raised as much as $50 million to support [his] march on the capital.”[28]
The Wall Street Journal reported that “American, Canadian and South African mining companies are negotiating deals with the rebels controlling eastern Zaire. These companies hope to take advantage of the turmoil and win a piece of what is widely considered Africa’s richest geological prize.”[29]
Former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, former U.S. President George H.W. Bush and former CIA Director Richard Helms were on Barrick Gold’s board during this period, while Vancouver-based First Quantum Minerals hired former Prime Minister Joe Clark to serve as their special adviser on Africa as well as their representative to Kabila.
Clark soon became part of what The Christian Science Monitor called Kabila’s “circle of Canadian advisers.”[30] The stock prices of all the above-listed companies rose considerably as Kabila barreled toward, and finally captured, Kinshasa in 2001.
Speaking in his capacity as First Quantum’s Africa specialist, Joe Clark said that “the government of Congo knows that if it’s going to make progress quickly in terms of using assets that create jobs, mining is more likely to do it than other sectors.”[31]
Meanwhile, the UN Security Council condemned the illegal exploitation of Congolese resources and stated, in the plainest possible terms, the role that mineral extraction played in the country’s conflicts: “The Government of the DRC has relied on its minerals and mining industries to finance the war…Bilateral and multilateral donors and certain neighboring and distant countries have passively facilitated the exploitation of the resources of the DRC, and thereby the continuation of the conflict.”[32]
In September 2009, Canada and the Congolese government clashed once more. That month, new president Joseph Kabila, a man of murky origins alleged to be the son of AFDL leader and U.S.-Canadian ally Laurent-Désiré Kabila but believed by some Congolese to be an impostor named Hyppolite Kanambe, withdrew First Quantum’s rights to a copper mine in Congo’s east.
Stephen Harper’s Conservative government immediately released a statement calling on Kabila (Kanambe) to “enhance governance and accountability in the extractive sector.”
Later, the Financial Post reported that “Harper will raise the case of Vancouver-based First Quantum Minerals Ltd. with representatives from the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and other governments that do business with the DRC.”
The Congolese information minister called Canada’s response “unacceptable,” but Harper continued to apply pressure, threatening to prevent a much-needed restructuring of debt accrued during the Mobutu dictatorship.[33]
Ultimately, Ottawa backed off when the Kabila government gave concessions to First Quantum. Canada’s aggressive response becomes even more shameful when one learns that, of the $41 billion produced by the Congolese mining industry between 2007 and 2012, less than 3% went into the country’s national budget.[34]
Canadian investments in Africa grew steadily during the Harper and Trudeau years. No longer is Canadian interest concentrated in South and Central Africa—significant investments spread through West Africa when exploration missions discovered massive gold reserves in the region.
Now, Canadian companies own more than half the gold mines in Burkina Faso with assets valued at over $2.5 billion.[35] They also own many of the most profitable mines in neighboring countries, including Loulo Gounkoto (80% owned by Barrick Gold) and Fekola (90% owned by B2Gold), both in Mali.
Canadian-owned mine in Burkina Faso where eight African miners became trapped underground. [Source: thetyee.ca]
The Canadian state currently has its eyes on recently discovered mineral reserves in East Africa as well. In April 2016, Global Affairs Canada allocated $15 million in aid to Ethiopia to “improve policies, practices, and capacity to attract more interest and investment in the [mining] sector.”[36]
By 2020, Ethiopia had become the largest recipient of Canadian development aid, with a particular focus on “extractive sector development.”[37]
The U.S. and Canada have always aimed to undermine African sovereignty and facilitate resource exploitation by U.S. and Canadian companies generally, and Western companies more broadly.
While Canada is often omitted from analyses of Western imperialism, the country’s role in Congo has been very active and aggressive throughout history.
One can see evidence of this in the Canadian government’s support for the Stairs expedition and the Belgian colonial administration, in Ottawa’s clear distaste for Lumumba and his pan-Africanist principles, and in the state’s unwavering support for Canada-based companies accused of illegalities there, such as First Quantum and Anvil Mining.
And yet, in the minds of many people, Canada appears to be a gentle or downright benevolent presence on the world stage.
This is how Canadian imperialism functions.
The United States does the heavy lifting, but Canada provides consistent behind-the-scenes support and, as a result, its companies reap the rewards of the capitalist systems that its more overt imperialist partner imposes on these underdeveloped countries.
Notes
- “Massacre in Kilwa facilitated by Anvil Mining, operating Dikulushi open pit, Katanga province, DR Congo,” Environmental Justice Atlas, https://ejatlas.org/conflict/kilwa-mine. ↑
- Quoted in Yves Engler, Canada in Africa: 300 years of aid and exploitation (Vancouver and Winnipeg: RED Publishing/Fernwood Publishing, 2015), 154. ↑
- Quoted in “No justice in Canada for Congolese massacre victims as Canada’s Supreme Court dismisses leave to appeal in case against Anvil Mining,” Global Witness, November 6, 2012, https://www.globalwitness.org/en/archive/no-justice-canada-congolese-massacre-victims-canadas-supreme-court-dismisses-leave-appeal/. ↑
- Congressional Research Service, “Democratic Republic of Congo: Background and U.S. Relations,” March 25, 2022, https://sgp.fas.org/crs/row/IF10216.pdf. ↑
- “Canada-the Democratic Republic of Congo relations,” Government of Canada, https://www.international.gc.ca/country-pays/democratic_republic_congo-republique_democratique_congo/relations.aspx?lang=eng. ↑
- “Canadian Mining Assets (CMAs), by Country and Region, 2019 and 2020 (p),” Natural Resources Canada, https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/maps-tools-and-publications/publications/minerals-mining-publications/canadian-mining-assets/canadian-mining-assets-cma-country-and-region-2018-and-2019/15406. ↑
- Quoted in Engler, Canada in Africa, 32. ↑
- Yves Engler, “William Grant Stairs of Halifax helped conquer the Congo,” Rabble, June 28, 2017, https://rabble.ca/anti-racism/canadian-who-helped-conquer-congo/. ↑
- Quoted in Engler, Canada in Africa, 33. ↑
- Robert Wuliger, “America’s Early Role in the Congo Tragedy,” The Nation, October 10, 2007, https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/americas-early-role-congo-tragedy/. ↑
- Kevin A. Spooner, Canada, the Congo Crisis, and UN Peacekeeping, 1960-64 (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2010), 15-16. ↑
- Keith Spicer, A Samaritan State?: External Aid in Canada’s Foreign Policy (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1966), 154-155, 161. ↑
- Tyler Shipley, Canada in the World: Settler Capitalism and the Colonial Imagination (Halifax, NS: Fernwood Publishing, 2020), 255. ↑
- Chukwudi Pettson Onwumere, quoted in Engler, Canada in Africa, 10-11. ↑
- Engler, Canada in Africa, 91. ↑
- Engler, Canada in Africa, 91. ↑
- Quoted in Engler, Canada in Africa, 112. ↑
- Quoted in Engler, Canada in Africa, 120. ↑
- Quoted in Engler, Canada in Africa, 121. ↑
- Quoted in Engler, Canada in Africa, 122. ↑
- Quoted in Engler, Canada in Africa, 122. ↑
- Adam Hochschild, King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (New York: First Mariner Books, 1999), 303. ↑
- United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, “The Least Developed Countries: 1997 Report,” https://unctad.org/system/files/official-document/ldc1997_en.pdf. ↑
- Pierre Baracyetse, quoted in Delphine Abadie, “Canada and the geopolitics of mining interests: a case study of the Democratic Republic of Congo,” Review of African Political Economy 38, no. 128 (2011), 290. ↑
- Abadie, “Canada and the geopolitics of mining interests,” 290. ↑
- Cindy Shiner, “U.S. Firms Stake Claims In Zaire’s War,” The Washington Post, April 17, 1997, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/africa/april/17/usstake.htm. ↑
- Shiner, “U.S. Firms Stake Claims.” ↑
- Quoted in Asad Ismi, “October 2001: The Western Heart of Darkness,” Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, October 1, 2001, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/monitor/october-2001-western-heart-darkness. ↑
- Robert Block, “Mining Firms Want a Piece of Zaire’s Vast Mineral Wealth,” The Wall Street Journal, April 14, 1997. Quoted in Engler, Canada in Africa, 209. ↑
- Engler, Canada in Africa, 210. ↑
- Quoted in Ismi, “October 2001,” Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. ↑
- Security Council, “Security Council Condemns Illegal Exploitation of Democratic Republic of Congo’s Natural Resources,” United Nations, May 3, 2001, https://www.un.org/press/en/2001/sc7057.doc.htm. ↑
- Quoted in Engler, Canada in Africa, 215. ↑
- Engler, Canada in Africa, 156. ↑
- Owen Schalk, “Canadian imperialism and the underdevelopment of Burkina Faso,” Canadian Dimension, 28 Jul 2021, https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/canadian-imperialism-and-the-underdevelopment-of-burkina-faso. ↑
- “Supporting the Ministry of Mines (SUMM) Ethiopia,” Canadian International Resources and Development Institute, 2021, https://cirdi.ca/project/supporting-the-ministry-of-mines-summ-ethiopia/. ↑
- “Evaluation of International Assistance Programming in Ethiopia 2013-14 to 2019-20,” Government of Canada, January 2021, https://www.international.gc.ca/gac-amc/publications/evaluation/2021/evaluation-ethiopia.aspx?lang=eng. ↑
Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Owen K. Schalk writes short stories, novels, political analyses, and essays on film and literature. He is a columnist at Canadian Dimension and has written for The Canada Files, People’s Voice, Alborada, and many other publications. His journalistic work covers a wide range of topics including Canada’s domestic and foreign policy, the imperialist and colonialist nature of the Canadian state, and Western imperialism in the Global South. Owen can be reached at owenkschalk@gmail.com. | https://libya360.wordpress.com/2022/08/05/once-led-by-a-fierce-champion-of-anti-colonialism-patrice-lumumba-the-democratic-republic-of-congo-has-been-recolonized-by-western-capital/ | 2022-08-06T02:45:49Z | https://libya360.wordpress.com/2022/08/05/once-led-by-a-fierce-champion-of-anti-colonialism-patrice-lumumba-the-democratic-republic-of-congo-has-been-recolonized-by-western-capital/ | false | 1 |
Washington [US], August 6 (ANI): Hollywood star Will Smith's daughter Willow Smith has defended the now-infamous moment her father slapped Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars, saying it is human nature to make mistakes.
According to Page Six, in an interview published by Billboard on Friday, the 21-year-old singer said, "I see my whole family as being human, and I love and accept them for all their humanness... "Maybe It's My Fault."
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Willow added, "Because of the position that we're in, our humanness sometimes isn't accepted, and we're expected to act in a way that isn't conducive to a healthy human life and isn't conducive to being honest."
In March 2022, Will shocked the whole world when he smacked Rock, on stage at the Academy Awards after the comedian made a joke about the 'King Richard' star's wife Jada Pinkett Smith's bald head.
Following that, the famous family faced an onslaught of scrutiny, which Willow said did not impact her as much as her "own internal demons."
Willow's comments come a week after her dad took to social media to issue yet another apology for his "unacceptable" behaviour.
Although the Smith family has continued to open up about the incident, Rock made it clear he is not ready to sit down with the 'Fresh Price of Bel-Air' star.
The stand-up comic has briefly addressed the slap during some of his comedy shows, but an insider told Page Six last month that Will's latest apology was "too little, too late." (ANI)
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Ogun State Governor and Visitor to Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijagun, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has confirmed the appointment of the Acting Vice Chancellor, Prof. Oluwole Banjo, as the 5th substantive and second indigenous Vice Chancellor of the school. The announcement was made through a letter sent by the Ogun State Ministry of Education Science and Technology to the Acting Registrar of the Institution, Mr. Dapo Oke on August 4, 2022.
The appointment takes effect from November 2, 2020. Banjo has M.Sc in Wildlife Ecotourism and Masters Degree in Personnel Psychology. He also has a Ph.D. in Wild Life and Ecotourism Management from the University of Ibadan. The new Vice-Chancellor had over 20 years of teaching experience while he had also served as a Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Chairman, Academic Ceremonies Committee of the University, and the Pioneer Dean, College of Vocational and Technology Education (COVTED). | https://www.newtelegraphng.com/ogun-confirms-appointment-of-tasued-vc/ | 2022-08-06T02:57:31Z | https://www.newtelegraphng.com/ogun-confirms-appointment-of-tasued-vc/ | true | null |
Detroit Tigers star Miguel Cabrera told the Detroit News on Friday that he plans to be back in the 2023 season, one day after he hinted at thoughts of retiring after 2022.
Cabrera has one season remaining on an eight year, $248 million contract. The two-time American League MVP is set to earn $32 million in 2023.
"I'm not going to retire," Cabrera told the newspaper. "Not until after next year when my contract is done. They didn't understand what I said. No way am I going to quit."
Cabrera, 39, has been dealing with persistent right knee pain in recent weeks and told reporters Thursday that "right now we don't know" what his plan would be following the season.
"I've got to talk to my agent, I've got to talk to the GM, I'm got to talk to everybody (and) see what's going to be the plan for next year," Cabrera said in his original comments. "Right now we don't know. We're focused on today. We're going to go day by day and see what happens. I don't think about next year. I'm thinking about trying to finish healthy this year."
A four-time batting champion, Cabrera is hitting .268 with four home runs and 36 RBIs in 91 games for Detroit this year. He recorded his 3,000th career hit on April 23 against the Colorado Rockies. The hit made Cabrera the seventh player in major league history with 3,000 hits and 500 homers.
Cabrera also was named to the All-Star Game by commissioner Rob Manfred as a "legends selection." It marked the 12th All-Star selection for Cabrera.
Cabrera, who was hitless in his past 23 at-bats, was not in the starting lineup for Tigers' Friday game against the visiting Tampa Bay Rays.
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US actress Anne Heche was reportedly taken to hospital in a critical condition following a collision that left her vehicle “engulfed in flames”.
The incident occurred on Friday morning in the Mar Vista area of Los Angeles, near to Ms Heche’s home.
The actress, 53, is the former partner of US talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, and is known for films including Donnie Brasco, Cedar Rapids, and Psycho.
Pictures and video footage obtained by US media outlet TMZ showed Ms Heche driving a blue Mini Cooper, which was later pictured severely damaged at the scene.
The vehicle struck a two-storey home and “erupted in heavy fire” according to the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD).
“59 firefighters took 65 minutes to access, confine and fully extinguish the stubborn flames within the heavily damaged structure,” an LAFD report stated.
“One female adult (was) found within the vehicle, who has been taken to an area hospital by LAFD Paramedics in critical condition.”
The LAFD also confirmed to the PA news agency that the vehicle had driven 30ft into the residence but that the occupant had escaped without injury.
The building was left “uninhabitable”, spokesman Brian Humphrey added.
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Officials have identified a man who was shot to death by an on-duty security guard at a Brooklyn Park apartment complex early this week who said he was defending a woman from being stabbed.
The Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office said that Spencer Carpenter, 62, was shot multiple times Monday night and died about 12:20 a.m. the next day at North Memorial Health Hospital.
Officers went to the Huntington Place apartments in the 5800 block of N. 73rd Avenue about 11:40 p.m. and found Carpenter with gunshot wounds.
The security guard, who is employed by 10-Code Security, told officers he saw Carpenter attempting to stab a woman with a knife, according to Deputy Police Chief Mark Bruley. The guard told Carpenter to drop the weapon and fired when he did not comply, Bruley said.
The man who was shot and the woman had a domestic relationship, the deputy chief said, but he did not offer any more specifics.
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NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Former Attorney General of Louisiana, Charles C. Foti, Jr., Esq., a partner at the law firm of Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC ("KSF"), provides an update to KSF's continued investigation into FibroGen, Inc. (NasdaqGS: FGEN).
On April 6, 2021, the Company disclosed that cardiovascular safety data it had previously submitted for the Phase 3 program of its Roxadustat product "included post-hoc changes to the stratification factors." Then, on July 15, 2021, the FDA's Advisory Committee unequivocally concluded that the Company's own undisclosed, prespecified sensitivity analyses demonstrated that Roxadustat's efficacy over Epogen was inconclusive at best, that it caused "greater rates of some important adverse events [] than even [Epogen]," including a higher rate of death and other major side effects, and that the Committee had voted virtually unanimously against approval for Roxadustat for any patient population, even with a "Black Box" warning.
The Company was subsequently sued in a securities class action lawsuit for failing to disclose material information, violating federal securities laws.
Recently, the court presiding over that case denied the Company's motion to dismiss in part, allowing the case to move forward.
KSF's investigation is focusing on whether FibroGen's officers and/or directors breached their fiduciary duties to the Company's shareholders or otherwise violated state or federal laws.
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A 5-year-old girl and Tayseer al-Jabari, commander of the PIJ armed wing Al-Quds Brigades, as well as his three aides were killed in the heavy Israeli air raid on a residential apartment in the Palestinian Tower in central Gaza that houses media offices, according to eyewitnesses, the PIJ, and the Palestinian health ministry.
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At least six of the injured were in critical condition, the health ministry said in a statement.
The Israeli airstrikes, dubbed the Breaking Dawn operation, targeted "10 terrorist operatives" of the PIJ in Gaza, to "eliminate the threat to the citizens of Israel," according to the Israeli military.
Security sources in Gaza said Israeli airstrikes targeted military lookout posts and a motorcycle in northern and southern Gaza. The Palestinian health ministry has announced emergency readiness across all local hospitals and ambulances stations.
The heightened tension came after Israeli forces arrested a senior official of the PIJ in the West Bank city of Jenin on Monday. The PIJ vowed to take revenge, prompting the Israeli military to raise its alert along the border with Gaza.
Late on Friday, the Israeli military announced that up to 25,000 reservists will be called up to the border with Gaza in case of rocket firing from the Palestinian enclave, adding the country's Iron Dome defense system has intercepted rockets fired from Gaza into Israel in the evening.
The PIJ said they fired more than 100 rockets toward southern and central Israeli towns in the evening after the Israeli airstrikes.
"The Israeli enemy is the one who started the escalation against the resistance in Gaza, and committed a new crime. It must pay the price and bear full responsibility for it," said Fawzi Barhoum, spokesman of Gaza's ruling faction Hamas.
Meanwhile, the PIJ spokesman Daoud Shehab told Xinhua that just before the Israeli raid, Egypt was contacting the movement for a possible meeting between the two sides on Sunday "to break up the crisis."
"But what happened today is a message of disdain for the mediators," Shehab said.
An Egyptian official told a local TV that Egypt is conducting intensive communications with the Palestinian and the Israeli sides to end the ongoing escalation in Gaza and to contain the situation, according to official Ahram online news website.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah Party said in a statement that the Israeli bombing of Gaza and the targeting and intimidation of defenseless civilians "is a new crime added to the crimes" committed by Israel against the Palestinian people.
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CHINO HILLS >> The term “dual-threat quarterback” is a seemingly innocuous one that is commonly used when classifying college recruits.
But it’s one that Ayala junior Bryan Wilson would like to shed.
“I’m listed as a dual-threat. There’s a negative connotation with dual-threat, that he’s just for running, he can’t really pass. They’re not as smart,” Wilson said. “I feel that I need to go above and beyond with my passing: accuracy, strength and IQ.”
“When people ask me what kind of quarterback I am, (I say) ‘I’m just a quarterback.’ A quarterback’s job is to do whatever the offense needs him to do to win.”
A junior season is often the key one for football recruiting and Wilson, who started each of the last two years, will have more on his shoulders than last year.
“I think the passing game will be more dynamic (this year),” said Ayala coach A.J. Gracia, a former Chino High quarterback. “He’ll have multiple options in the passing game. Now we can put the offense on his back. The key is being efficient this year.”
The 6-foot, 205-pound Wilson didn’t start out as a quarterback.
“My first position was running back,” Wilson said. “Our quarterback got hurt, broke his wrist when I was 10, 11. They put me in the quarterback position and I just loved it.”
Two years ago, the COVID-19 pandemic might have helped his transition to high school football. The fall 2020 season was pushed to the spring of 2021, giving Wilson more time to prepare. Although the season was shortened and there no playoffs, Ayala went 5-0 and was considered one of the top teams in the area.
“I had heard about him. I knew he had tremendous skill as an incoming freshman and I could quickly see he could handle being a varsity-level quarterback,” Gracia said.
But with an experienced offensive line and running game, Wilson wasn’t asked to do a lot.
Last year, Gracia felt the receiving corps was too inexperienced to really open up the passing game.
Wilson still had a solid season, completing 87 of 169 passes for 1,264 yards, 16 touchdowns and five interceptions in 10 games. He also had the third-most rushing attempts on the team, rushing 52 times for 160 yards and four touchdowns.
But his season didn’t end the way he wanted. During the final game of the regular season (a win over Charter Oak), he broke his collarbone as the team finished the regular season 9-1 but Wilson missed his chance to play in the playoffs for the first time. Ayala lost to Foothill in the CIF-SS Division 3 first round.
“The injury, it sucked. But I tried not to get too down,” he said.
The injury to the right-handed Wilson was to his right collarbone and sidelined him until February. But he has no restrictions now.
“I want to show I can consistently complete every single ball,” he said. “I can make any throw possible with my arm. I want to throw for at least 2,500 yards. I want to have a good amount of rushing yards. Most importantly, I want to win.”
All of those goals are within reach with Ayala’s experienced offensive line and receiving corps this season.
Wilson’s father Kevin, who played defensive back at Ganesha, is Black and his mother Rupali is Indian. He know it’s a diverse lineage.
“It’s cool to be mentioned like that, but it’s not really at the forefront of my mind,” he said.
Academics are a huge part of his life. He carries a 4.1 GPA. Schools such as Texas A&M and Florida State are interested in him, but has interest in other schools that are well-known for their academics.
“The ones I’m focusing on are UCLA, UC Berkeley, Northwestern, Duke, North Carolina, some of those top-notch academic programs,” he said.
If he has that breakout season as expected, he might have his pick of any of those schools.
— PETE MARSHALL
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Koa Apana, Temescal Canyon: Fourth-year starter has more than 4,500 career passing yards.
Izzy Carter and Carson Conklin, Centennial: The two seniors combined for 34 total touchdowns in 2021.
Christopher Cooper, Beaumont: Passed for 3,610 yards and 35 touchdowns as a sophomore.
Landon Debruyn, Rancho Verde: The senior has thrown for 2,314 yards over 12 career starts.
Dereun Dortch, San Jacinto: Threw for 21 touchdowns and only two interceptions as a junior.
Erick Harrison, Montclair: Finished junior season with 2,608 passing yards and 23 touchdowns.
Hunter Herrera, Citrus Valley: Had spectacular start to junior season before suffering an injury.
Martinez Miles, Cajon: Passed for 1,764 yards and 20 touchdowns in his sophomore season.
Dre Robles, Aquinas: Threw for 2,120 yards and 20 touchdowns during his junior campaign.
C.J. Tiller, Rancho Cucamonga: The Boise State commit is a highly-rated transfer from Arizona.
Dominic Tubbs, Santiago: Threw for 2,427 yards and 26 touchdowns during his junior season.
Julian Viramontes, Roosevelt: Finished junior season with 2,263 yards and 18 touchdowns.
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The 60-and-older softball standouts in the Olde Tymers Softball League competed this past Tuesday, Aug. 2, and last Thursday, July 28, on the Church of God field near the intersection of Route 113 and Route 26 in Dagsboro.
Here are the highlights from games that were played on Tuesday, Aug. 2.
• Diamondblade Tileworks 14, Atlantic Orthopaedics 11.
Diamondblade prevailed in a back-and-forth battle behind the hot bats of Ray Myers and Tom Malin. Frank “The Mayor” Kerns led Atlantic Ortho with his impressive power hitting, while Drew Sheftz’s diving catch on a line drive in right-centerfield started a key double play.
• The Original Greene Turtle 8, American Legion Post #28 4.
Rick Cornacchini and substitute Russ Bowen each stroked three hits, while Gregg Woolston smacked two hits and drove in a pair of runs for Green Turtle. Bob LaDuca and Larry Redding had contributed three hits each for Post #28.
• Atlantic Physical Therapy 10, Giant of Millville 9.
Russ Bufflap smacked four hits, while substitute Joey Royster and Frank Sobera each contributed three safeties. Outfielders Larry O’Laughlin and Mel Taylor both made outstanding defensive plays.
• Edward Jones Investments 15, B&E Tire & Alignment 14.
Butch Grover scored three runs, and Dave Lucas scored the winning run for Edward Jones. John Smart ripped three hits for B&E Tire.
• Logo Motive 17, Ocean View Family Restaurant 5.
Bill Hammonds, Dick Mullins and Don Webster each contributed timely hitting for Logo Motive. Buddy Griffith, Dave Januchowski and Bill Love each went 3-for-3 for OVFR.
• Community Bank Delaware 19, Colonial East 10.
With the game tied 10-10, Community Bank broke the deadlock with nine runs in the top of the 7th to secure the win. Frank Sica went 4-for-4 and Bill McNamee was 3-for-4, including a bases-clearing inside-the-park home run. Rob Gerbino led Colonial East with three hits.
• League-leading Millsboro Bowling Lanes and American Legion Post #24 had byes.
Here are the highlights from games that were played last Thursday, July 28.
• Community Bank Delaware 10, Edward Jones Investments 3.
Bill McNamee ripped a two-run homer for Community Bank, while Joe Sidlowski pitched a very strong game. Butch Grover pitched well for E.J.
• Colonial East 12, Atlantic Orthopaedics 11.
The winners scored six runs in the top of the 7th for the come-from-behind win. Sewall McCabe went 4-for-4, while Tim Redding provided excellent fielding for the winners. Atlantic Ortho’s Ken Placek excelled at shortstop, and Jack Kowalski went 4-for-4 at the plate.
• Diamondblade Tileworks 17, Ocean View Family Restaurant 12.
Diamondblade scored seven runs in the top of the ninth to break the tie. Bill Ardito went 5-for-5 at the plate. OVFR was led offensively by Buddy Griffith and Tom Wendorf.
• American Legion Post #28 10, American Legion Post #24 9.
Bob LaDuca hit two home runs, including two-run drive in the home 7th for the come-from- behind triumph. Russ Bowen went 3-for-4, while Pat Panuska and Jeff Kitchen each had two hits for Post #24.
• Logo Motive 13, Giant of Millville 0.
Bob Williams, Jim Leonard, Greg Ward and Rick Chamberlin each went 3-for-3 for L.M.
• Millsboro Bowling Lanes 17, The Original Greene Turtle 12.
The first-place Keglers prevailed in a slugfest as substitute Kris Keller ripped four hits. The Greene Turtle’s nine-run outburst, highlighted by Rich Cornacchinitie’s home run, tied the game in the 6th inning.
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A gunbattle in Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul left at least five people dead Wednesday, including two Taliban police officer and three Islamic State group gunmen, a Taliban official said. According to Associated Press, Khalid Zadran, the Taliban spokesman for the Kabul police chief, said police had launched an operation against the gunmen's hideout, killing at least three in the Karti Sakhi neighborhood in western Kabul. He said the gunmen were Islamic State group fighters.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
One of the police officers killed was a woman, said Zardan, adding that four Taliban police were wounded and one gunman was arrested.
The regional affiliate of IS, known as the Islamic State in Khorasan Province, has increased attacks on mosques and minorities across the country. It has been operating in the country since 2014.
IS is seen as the greatest security challenge facing the country’s Taliban rulers. Since the Taliban seized power in Kabul and elsewhere in the country last August, the Taliban have launched a sweeping crackdown against the IS headquarters in eastern Afghanistan.
Wednesday's gunbattle took place near the Sakhi shrine in the minority Shiite neighborhood where people were busy preparing for the upcoming Ashura holiday. Ashura is the 10th day of Muharram, the first month in the Islamic lunar calendar.
Recently, an explosion took place at the Kabul International Cricket Stadium during the Shpageeza cricket tournament, killing at least 19 people. Denouncing the attack, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the attack against any civilian is strictly prohibited under international humanitarian law. "I strongly condemn Friday's attack at the Kabul International Cricket Stadium, which claimed the lives of at least 19 civilians & caused additional casualties. Attacks against civilians and civilian objects are strictly prohibited under international humanitarian law," he tweeted.
Afghanistan's situation has worsened since the Taliban seized power in August of 2021. A report on the condition of human rights in Afghanistan during the first in 10 months following the Taliban takeover was published by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). The report focuses on the protection of civilians, extrajudicial murders, torture, and ill-treatment, arbitrary arrests and detentions, the rights of Afghan women and girls, basic freedoms, and the environment in incarceration facilities.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican hopes to reclaim a crucial governor’s seat in swing-state Wisconsin this year long appeared to rest on Rebecca Kleefisch, a former TV news anchor who spent eight years as former Gov. Scott Walker’s heir apparent and vowed to continue his sharply conservative policies. Then a wealthy construction company owner jumped in, dumped $12 million of his own money into the race and won Donald Trump’s backing.
Now Tim Michels is in a competitive race against Kleefisch heading into Tuesday’s primary to decide who will face Democratic Gov. Tony Evers in November.
The contest is part of a deepening proxy fight between Trump and his estranged former vice president, Mike Pence, who has thrown his support to Kleefisch. And it could ultimately have implications for 2024, when Trump has dangled the possibility of another White House bid and has shown his willingness to pressure elected officials, including those in Wisconsin, to overturn election results.
Michels has focused on shaping an outsider candidacy — bolstered by the Trump endorsement — while Kleefisch has embraced her establishment support as evidence that she’s a more reliable GOP choice.
Trump appeared with Michels at a Friday night rally in Waukesha, the heart of Milwaukee’s conservative suburbs. Trump called Kleefisch “a career politician and a political insider. I’ve known her for a long time. She’s the handpicked candidate of the failed establishment, the RINOs.” That’s a derogatory term standing for ”Republican in name only.”
“Rebecca Kleefisch does not have what it takes to beat Tony Evers,” Trump said. “He’s going to win if he runs against Rebecca.”
Michels appeared on stage with Trump, but did not call for overturning the 2020 election.
Kleefisch and Michels have both questioned President Joe Biden’s victory over Trump in Wisconsin in 2020 — an outcome that has withstood recounts, lawsuits and reviews — but neither has taken up Trump’s pressure campaign to have those results decertified.
Kleefisch has called the 2020 election “rigged” but said she won’t consider decertification because “it’s not constitutionally possible.” Michels initially called decertifying Biden’s 2020 win in Wisconsin “not a priority” and then later said “everything will be on the table.”
Both Michels and Kleefisch want to do away with the current bipartisan commission that runs elections in the state.
A third Republican candidate for governor, state Rep. Tim Ramthun, has repeatedly called for decertification and made it the centerpiece of his longshot campaign.
Biden’s win in Wisconsin has withstood two partial recounts, numerous lawsuits, a nonpartisan audit and a review by a conservative law firm. Republican legislative leaders have repeatedly said decertification is impossible.
Kleefisch has racked up support not only from Pence, but also her former boss Walker, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, GOP leaders of the Legislature, 56 lawmakers, the state chamber of commerce, the Tavern League and a majority of the state’s county sheriffs.
“I am the one who is tested and proven and ready to go,” Kleefisch said after Pence touted her at a stop in suburban Milwaukee on Wednesday. “I am the one who has won statewide four times.”
Michels claims that he is “not a politician,” but he’s been a power player largely behind the scenes for decades and previously ran for U.S. Senate in 2004, losing to then-Sen. Russ Feingold. He’s been a regular donor to Republicans, including both Walker and Kleefisch.
“People want an outsider, people want a veteran, people want a businessman,” Michels said in a candidate debate.
Wisconsin is the third state where Pence and Trump have been on opposite sides in governor’s races that highlighted deep divisions about the GOP’s future. In Georgia, Pence-backed Gov. Brian Kemp thumped Trump’s choice, former Sen. David Perdue, by more than 50 percentage points. In Arizona’s governor primary, Trump-backed former TV news anchor Kari Lake and Pence-backed businesswoman Karrin Taylor Robson were in a race that was too early to call on Thursday.
The territory that drew Pence and Kleefisch on Wednesday is the heart of Republican Wisconsin and home to the key suburban Milwaukee voters who will likely decide the fall election. It’s also Kleefisch’s home turf. Trump, whose support in the area declined from 2016 to 2020, held his Friday rally for Michels just three miles from where Pence came for Kleefisch.
“There is no candidate for governor in America who is more capable, more experienced, or a more proven conservative than Rebecca Kleefisch,” Pence said in touting Kleefisch without mentioning Trump or Michels.
Kleefisch is a former Milwaukee television news anchor and teenage beauty pageant contestant who got into politics in 2010 and won a five-way primary for lieutenant governor. After Evers beat Walker in 2018, Kleefisch started laying the groundwork for her own run.
She has reminded Republicans about the fights she went through with Walker, when his proposal effectively ending collective bargaining led to massive protests in 2011 and eventually a failed attempt to recall both him and Kleefisch from office. This cycle, she has focused on issues like instituting a flat income tax, expanding school choice programs and investing more in law enforcement.
Michels co-owns the state’s largest construction company, Michels Corp., along with his brothers, and has spent nearly $1 million a week of his own money since getting into the race. Though he uses the Trump endorsement as evidence of his outsider status, he’s also backed by Wisconsin’s ultimate Republican political insider — four-term former Gov. Tommy Thompson, who briefly flirted with his own run.
Michels has stumbled at times.
He flip-flopped this week when asked whether he would back a Trump run in 2024, first refusing to say, then 24 hours later saying he would back Trump for president. At an earlier debate, he didn’t appear to know what DACA — Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, a highly contentious immigration program — stood for. And he’s faced criticism for purchasing $30 million in properties in New York and Connecticut between 2015 and 2020 and splitting time between Wisconsin and the East Coast, where his children attended and graduated from high school.
Michels’ positions on the boards of various transportation-related industry groups have caused him some heartburn, with Kleefisch seeking to tie him to those groups’ past support for raising the state gas tax. Michels says he opposes an increase.
He is also running ads taking a strong anti-immigrant position, even though he headed the board of directors of a transportation group that opposed an anti-immigrant bill that would have prevented companies that employ “illegal aliens” from getting state contracts.
While the Republicans battle, Evers has raised more than $11 million this year and is casting himself as the only block against Republicans who want to overhaul elections for the 2024 presidential campaign and keep in place an 1849 state law banning abortions. Both Kleefisch and Michels support the ban and the law, which is being challenged in court by Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul.
“I have a good record,” Evers said, highlighting the state’s 2.8% unemployment rate, increased funding for public schools, expanded rural broadband access, emphasis on repairing roads and a 15% cut in income taxes. “Let them bring it on.” | https://wgnradio.com/news/political-news/trump-ally-takes-on-walker-protege-in-wis-governors-race/ | 2022-08-06T03:23:48Z | https://wgnradio.com/news/political-news/trump-ally-takes-on-walker-protege-in-wis-governors-race/ | false | 32 |
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC ("KSF") and KSF partner, former Attorney General of Louisiana, Charles C. Foti, Jr., remind investors that they have until September 6, 2022 to file lead plaintiff applications in a securities class action lawsuit against Outset Medical, Inc. ("Outset" or the "Company") (NasdaqGS: OM), if they purchased the Company's shares between September 15, 2020 and June 13, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). This action is pending in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
If you purchased shares of Outset as above and would like to discuss your legal rights and how this case might affect you and your right to recover for your economic loss, you may, without obligation or cost to you, contact KSF Managing Partner Lewis Kahn toll-free at 1-877-515-1850 or via email (lewis.kahn@ksfcounsel.com), or visit https://www.ksfcounsel.com/cases/nasdaqgs-om/ to learn more. If you wish to serve as a lead plaintiff in this class action, you must petition the Court by September 6, 2022.
Outset and certain of its executives are charged with failing to disclose material information during the Class Period, violating federal securities laws.
On May 5, 2022, the Company disclosed negative results for 1Q2022, which, among other things, analysts attributed to the untested nature of Tablo, its flagship product which is a dialysis machine that purifies tap water and then artificially purifies and removes toxins from the blood of patients suffering from kidney failure. On this news, shares of Outset fell more than 40% over the three trading days that followed, from a closing price of $39.94 per share on May 4, 2022, to a closing price of $23.06 per share on May 9, 2022.
Then, on June 13, 2022, the Company disclosed a hold on all shipments of Tablo for home use by the FDA until proper regulatory clearance was received. The Company subsequently disclosed that the "ship hold" had been in place for weeks before investors were informed and that as a result of the hold, the Company was "suspending our prior full-year and long-term guidance.". On this news, shares of Outset fell another 33%, from a closing price of $20.41 per share on June 13, 2022, to a closing price of $13.46 per share on June 14, 2022.
The case is Plymouth County Retirement Association v. Outset Medical, Inc., 22-cv-04016.
KSF, whose partners include former Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., is one of the nation's premier boutique securities litigation law firms. KSF serves a variety of clients – including public institutional investors, hedge funds, money managers and retail investors – in seeking recoveries for investment losses emanating from corporate fraud or malfeasance by publicly traded companies. KSF has offices in New York, California, Louisiana and New Jersey.
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nationwide - Warner Norcross + Judd, LLP ("WNJ") learned of a data security incident that may have impacted personal and protected health information belonging to certain individuals. WNJ has sent notification of this incident to potentially impacted individuals and has provided resources to assist them.
On October 22, 2021, WNJ learned that unauthorized activity was reported involving some of its systems. WNJ immediately took steps to secure its network and engaged a digital forensics firm to investigate the cause and scope of the incident. On May 27, 2022, WNJ learned that personal and protected health information belonging to certain individuals was contained within the systems. WNJ then took steps to identify current mailing addresses in order to complete notification to the impacted individuals.
There is no evidence of the misuse of any information potentially involved in this incident. However, starting on July 11, 2022, WNJ provided notice of this incident to the potentially impacted individuals and provided the impacted individuals steps they can take to protect their personal information.
The following personal and protected health information may have been involved in the incident: first name or first initial and last name in combination with one or more of the following: date of birth, Social Security number, driver's license number, government issued ID, 2019 and 2020 annual compensation, 2019 and 2020 benefit contribution information. Credit card or debit card number, credit card or debit card pin, financial account or routing number, passport number, patient account number, health information and life insurance policy information.
WNJ has established a toll-free call center to answer questions about the incident and to address related concerns. Call center representatives are available Monday through Friday from 9:00 am – 9:00 pm Eastern and can be reached at (833) 423-2982.
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Abel Lujan again sentenced to 48 years in prison after retrial in Longmont murder
Aug. 5—Abel Lujan was sentenced to the maximum 48 years in prison for the 1999 strangling death of Bernadine "Bernie" Frost.
Lujan was found guilty of second-degree murder by a Boulder County jury in June after a four-day retrial on the case.
On Friday, Boulder District Judge Norma Sierra sentenced Lujan to 48 years in prison, the maximum allowed for second-degree murder.
But Lujan, who has been in custody either in jail or prison since his initial arrest back in 2013, will receive credit for 3,160 days time served, a total of almost nine years.
The 48-year sentence is the same as the sentence applied in Lujan's overturned case.
Boulder County District Attorney Michael Dougherty credited police and prosecutors for getting a conviction at a retrial even after some witnesses had died since the original case.
"Bernie Frost was the victim of a brutal and horrific murder," Dougherty said in a statement. "Her killer deserved the maximum sentence for what he did to Bernie, her loved ones, and this community. Chief Deputy DAs Fred Johnson and Adrian Van Nice handled both of the trials. The two of them are tireless and outstanding prosecutors; they were honored to fight for justice for Bernie. The Longmont Police Department pursued this case relentlessly and their efforts made today's sentence possible.
"It has been a long road, but this sentence is the right outcome for what he did."
Prosecutors said Lujan beat and strangled Frost, 30, shortly after the two left a Longmont apartment where they had attended a party in April 1999.
A man at the party found Frost's body lying in an alley outside the apartment building the next morning. Police believe Lujan had staged her body after killing her.
Investigators long suspected Lujan had killed Frost, but previous district attorneys did not file charges against him until 2013, when then-Boulder District Attorney Stan Garnett elected to move forward with the case.
Lujan denied killing Frost during several police interviews, but during the trial his defense team pushed for manslaughter and acknowledged Lujan had killed Frost. However, they insisted that he killed Frost after flying into a jealous rage after she hugged another man at the party.
Lujan was found guilty of second-degree murder following a trial in 2015, but the case was remanded back to Boulder District Court after the Colorado Court of Appeals overturned the conviction as a result of several errors by the trial judge that the court felt could have cost Lujan a fair trial.
Although Lujan was originally charged in the case with first-degree murder, he was retried on a count of second-degree murder because the jury chose to convict on that lesser charge in his original conviction. | https://news.yahoo.com/abel-lujan-again-sentenced-48-032400093.html | 2022-08-06T03:41:30Z | https://news.yahoo.com/abel-lujan-again-sentenced-48-032400093.html | true | 3 |
Pianist Geraint Watkins: 'Dial W' Published October 25, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Listen • 0:00 Reviewer David Greenberger has been listening to the latest release of the British pianist and accordion player Geraint Watkins, Dial 'W' for Watkins. Copyright 2004 NPR | https://www.wamc.org/2004-10-25/pianist-geraint-watkins-dial-w | 2022-08-06T03:42:37Z | https://www.wamc.org/2004-10-25/pianist-geraint-watkins-dial-w | true | null |
Commitment Breakdown: Justin Brown
Mississippi State's recruiting class got a big offensive boost on Friday with the commitment of Blackman (Tenn.) wide receiver Justin Brown. The three-star prospect announced his pledge on Friday, choosing the Bulldogs among a Top 5 that also included Penn State, Purdue, Pitt, and West Virginia.
WHAT MISSISSIPPI STATE IS GETTING...
At 6-foot-2, 185-pounds, Brown is a big-bodied wide receiver with the quickness and footwork that will allow him to be a threat on the outside and from the slot position as well. He's been described as an "SEC guy" since his junior season, when he burst on the scene by tallying 69 catches for 1,144 yards and 11 touchdowns in Blackman's high-powered offense. It's clear he was leaning towards being in a wide receiver friendly offense and Mississippi State and Mike Leach's scheme is a pass-catcher's dream.
Brown only took one official visit in June to Purdue, but the Bulldogs have remained in the picture throughout and were able to land another high-profile prospect from the Nashville area to go along with four-star offensive tackle Joe Crocker. Mississippi State is also hoping to land a Tennessee trifecta as they are making major push for Ravenwood (Tenn.) quarterback Chris Parson, who was back in Starkville last weekend and is trending towards the Bulldogs. | https://mississippistate.rivals.com/news/commitment-breakdown-justin-brown | 2022-08-06T03:42:40Z | https://mississippistate.rivals.com/news/commitment-breakdown-justin-brown | false | 1 |
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