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Chairpersons of Women’s Commission and Family Council appeal to elderly and children to receive COVID-19 vaccination
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The following is issued on behalf of the Women’s Commission and the Family Council:
The Chairperson of the Women’s Commission, Ms Chan Yuen-han, and the Chairperson of the Family Council, Ms Melissa Pang, today (August 6) appealed to members of the public, in a short video, to make reservation for the COVID-19 vaccination for the elderly and children in their families in order to protect their health and help Hong Kong emerge from the epidemic.
Ms Chan reminded people to register for the free door-to-door vaccination service via the Home Vaccination Service for their unvaccinated elderly family members aged 70 or above. Ms Pang encouraged people to bring the elderly and children to receive vaccinations to build a protective barrier for themselves and family members.
In the short video, Ms Chan and Ms Pang called on the public to “Protect the young and old – get vaccinated”. The video has been uploaded to the webpages of the Home and Youth Affairs Bureau, Women’s Commission and Family Council. | https://www.webnewswire.com/2022/08/06/hong-kong-chairpersons-of-womens-commission-and-family-council-appeal-to-elderly-and-children-to-receive-covid-19-vaccination/ | 2022-08-06T14:13:34Z | https://www.webnewswire.com/2022/08/06/hong-kong-chairpersons-of-womens-commission-and-family-council-appeal-to-elderly-and-children-to-receive-covid-19-vaccination/ | true | null |
Popular Nigerian entertainer and crossdresser, Denrele Edun, has recounted his experience with applicants of Big Brother Naija reality TV show.
Appearing in an interview on Lunch Time with Vanguard, published on Saturday, the media personality admitted to being “instrumental” in the show’s proceedings.
According to him, people who want to be on the show reach out to him to help them get selected and become contestants.
He said, “I get a lot of nudes from people who want to go for BBNaija. I get all kinds of monetary offers.
“I have gotten N100m, N50m, N30m and I tell people go and do something reasonable with your money.
“So, let’s just say if you don’t have a Denrele in your life that can help you rediscover yourself or help you get to the next level and give you direction to help you navigate your way through life, then what are you looking for? Go and find a Denrele.
“Away from that, yes! I have been instrumental to a lot of these things. It is what it is.
“I’m at the industry’s center of gravity. Let’s just say I know people in the right places, when they ask you, tell them to come and meet me.”
He noted it all started when winner of 2011 Big Brother Africa, Karen Igho, spoke about how he helped her to fill her application form.
“It all started when my good friend, Karen Igho got into the house and was always saying ‘na Denrele help me fill my form’.”
When he was asked if his influence got anyone into the ongoing BBNaija season 7, Denrele said he has lot of amazing people in the house and confirmed that more housemates will be joining the show
Denrele said, “Well! I have a lot of amazing people in the house and some that are still coming in.” | https://punchng.com/bbnaija-applicants-sent-me-nudes-n100m-n50m-denrele/ | 2022-08-06T14:14:31Z | https://punchng.com/bbnaija-applicants-sent-me-nudes-n100m-n50m-denrele/ | false | 4 |
The Kremlin says it's open to talking about a trade for U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner. It warned Washington against using the media in negotiations over a swap.
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The Kremlin says it's open to talking about a trade for U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner. It warned Washington against using the media in negotiations over a swap.
Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.tpr.org/2022-08-06/russia-is-open-to-freeing-brittney-griner-in-a-prisoner-swap | 2022-08-06T14:15:09Z | https://www.tpr.org/2022-08-06/russia-is-open-to-freeing-brittney-griner-in-a-prisoner-swap | false | null |
Shahab Hosseini, a Cannes best actor winner in 2016 for his layered, complex performance in Asghar Farhadi’s Oscar-winning “The Salesman,” is attached to star in “The Far Mountains,” from Mitra Tabrizian.
A nuanced coming-of-age tale with an allegorical undertow, “The Far Mountains” marks Tabrizian’s follow-up to her critically acclaimed debut feature “Gholam,” also starring Hosseini and selected by The Guardian/Observer’s Mark Kermode as Film of the Week on its release. “Gholam” was theatrically released in the U.K. and major VOD platforms internationally.
“Gholam” producer Zadoc Nava at London-based Stray Dog Films will be introducing “The Far Mountains” at Locarno’s Match Me! where it looks like one of its highlights. at the networking initiative.
Written by Tabrizian and Cyrus Massoudi, the co-scribes of “Gholam,” “The Far Mountains” turns on Ali, a 12-year-old boy living in a small town in Iran whose mother disappeared when he was very young. His father has now married.
Troubled, craving his father’s attention, he loses the injured bird he’s been diligently caring for, and sets out to exact revenge, whatever the consequences.
“The Far Mountains” has already attracted considerable industry interest. Reinier Selen at Dutch production house Rinkel Film (“Nasir” “Rafiki” ) co-produces out of the Netherlands; BAFTA-winning producer Janine Marmot (“Birdsong,” “Kelly + Victor”) executive produces.
Raphael Berdugo at Paris-based Cité Films, a classic art and crossover film sales house, has acquired international sales rights.
“This is a coming-of-age story with a difference – an allegorical tale on the current situation in Iran with little/no future for the young generation,” Tabrizian commented.
“Ali, the reckless 12-year-old has to come to terms with his mother’s disappearance!,” she said. “The film differs from the usual family drama – it focuses on the effect of the mother’s absence, rather than the reason behind it. The mother has a significant presence. But we never know why she disappeared.”
She added: “In this respect, it deviates from a more conventional narrative and departs from the ‘existential problem’ of Michelangelo Antonioni’s ‘L’Avventura’ despite the influence, where the woman also disappears without explanation. Within the context of Iran, the film raises a different question: has her disappearance been politically motivated? Many people disappeared during the Green Movement protests that erupted in Iran after the 2009 rigged election.”
Hosseini has consistently scored high praise for his performances. Owen Gleiberman wrote in his Variety review that “The Salesman” was “beautifully acted” by Hosseini and Taraneh Alidootsi, who plays his wife, “Shahab Hosseini mesmerises as an Iranian exile in London,” Kermode said of “Gholam.”
A British-Iranian artist-turned-writer-director, Tabrizian’s short films include 2019’s “The Insider,” made in collaboration with Booker Prize winner Ben Okri, and commissioned by London’s Coronet Theatre to accompany Albert Camus’ “The Outsider,” adapted for the stage by Okri. The film was also screened at The British Museum and The Smithsonian Museum in Washington.
As a photographer, Tabrizian’s solo museum shows include Tate Britain in 2008. In 2021, she received an honorary fellowship from the Royal Photographic Society for innovation and contribution to photography art.
A former documentary, commercials, and short film director, Zadoc produced Tabrizian’s previous shorts, including “The Insider.” He was included in the Berlin Talent program
in 2017 and in 2019 in Film London’s Lodestar inaugural list of 25 of London’s most promising filmmakers and creative talents. | https://variety.com/2022/film/global/shahab-hosseini-mitra-tabrizian-far-mountains-1235335209/ | 2022-08-06T14:15:22Z | https://variety.com/2022/film/global/shahab-hosseini-mitra-tabrizian-far-mountains-1235335209/ | true | 2 |
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.)
James Walker, Saint Xavier University and Judith R. Hiltner, Saint Xavier University
(THE CONVERSATION) Vin Scully, who died on Aug. 2, 2022, is widely viewed as the greatest baseball announcer of all time. But for an earlier generation, his mentor, Red Barber, held that distinction.
In our recent biography “Red Barber: The Life and Legacy of a Broadcasting Legend,” we uncovered moving private letters and public references documenting the rich personal bonds between these two great voices of the game.
In 1939, Barber brought daily radio broadcasts of Dodgers baseball to Brooklyn’s fans for the first time. By the time Scully arrived in 1950, Barber – known as “the Old Redhead” – was the toast of Flatbush.
For a combined century – 33 years for Barber and 67 for Scully – the two blessed baseball fans with some of the sharpest word pictures ever painted of the grand old game. Together in the Brooklyn booth for four crucial years, from 1950 to 1953, they forged a relationship that proved to be both demanding and gratifying.
The chance of a lifetime
After Scully graduated with a degree in English from Fordham University in 1945, he papered East Coast radio stations with applications. He eventually scored an interview with CBS Radio, where Barber was director of sports. Barber came away impressed, but there were no openings at the time.
Barber later phoned Vin Scully when, at the last minute, he needed a reporter to cover a college football contest at Fenway Park in Boston for CBS College Football Roundup. Scully’s mother answered the phone and took the message for Vin that “Red Skelton” wanted to talk to him about a job – confusing Barber with the popular entertainer.
Fortunately, Scully figured out who was calling. He hustled to the park, only to learn there was no room for him in the press box. With only a light topcoat to defend himself against the cruel New England elements, he had to call the entire game from the roof, braving the winds on a chilly fall day with only a 60-watt light bulb to warm his hands. Barber, initially unaware of Scully’s plight, later wrote that when he learned his announcer had called the game from the roof, he was impressed by the young broadcaster’s stamina and even more impressed that Scully had never complained about the brutal conditions.
When Ernie Harwell, who would become the legendary voice of the Detroit Tigers, left the Brooklyn Dodgers’ broadcast booth for the New York Giants, Red Barber needed to find a replacement. He decided to go with the young broadcaster who had so impressed him – later describing Scully as “a pretty appealing young green pea … a boy who had something on the ball.”
So Vin Scully, just 22 years old, was given the chance of a lifetime, to broadcast the games of the Brooklyn Dodgers, the National League’s most successful team.
But this golden opportunity was challenging in ways Scully did not foresee.
Barber takes Scully under his wing
Red Barber, who early in life planned to be a college professor, was a tough grader. He demanded a lot of himself, and he held those who worked with him to just as high a standard.
When Vin first entered the Dodgers broadcast booth, Barber told the young man that his job was to do whatever Red and his colleague Connie Desmond didn’t want to do. He also made it clear that any Scully errors would be corrected on air for all to hear. When Barber saw Scully drinking a beer with his pregame sandwich – a common practice at the time – he told Vin he never wanted to see him do it again.
Barber was no teetotaler – far from it; leisure hours drinks were something he treasured. But he believed a broadcaster should never have a drink, even a beer, on the job. Barber reasoned if Scully made an error, something inevitable for a broadcaster ad-libbing for hours at a time, anyone who saw him sipping the press room brew would conclude that alcohol had clouded his performance.
One of Red’s broadcasting mantras was pregame preparation. So before one game, when Scully told his mentor that a Dodgers’ regular would be out of the lineup, Barber demanded to know why. Scully told him he had no idea. To Barber, that was unacceptable.
Scully quickly realized that he needed to know the “whys”; he had to get to the stadium early and spend time talking with managers and players, absorbing compelling facts and stories to keep listeners engaged during slow stretches of each contest.
The delicate bonds that develop between any mentor and mentee, though often fruitful, almost always involve some degree of resentment and frustration, likely because each member of the pair has so much vested in winning the respect and affection of the other. Some of Barber’s barbs must have stung. But throughout his career Scully always credited Red for instilling in him the discipline and values of a professional baseball announcer. He claimed that the greatest virtue of Red as a mentor “was the fact that he cared. I wasn’t just another kid in the booth, just another announcer. … He made sure that my work habits were good, and he rode me if I drifted away from his ideal of the right way to work.”
Scully in the spotlight
In 1953, Barber left the Brooklyn booth after a dispute over his pay.
Ahead of that season’s World Series between the Dodgers and the New York Yankees, the Series’ sponsor, Gillette, offered Barber only $200 per game, take it or leave it. Barber left it, and when he did not get the support he wanted from Dodgers owner Walter O’Malley, he decided to sit out the Series and sign with the Yankees for the following season.
Gillette then turned to Scully, asking him if he’d announce the Series. Scully called Red seeking his permission. Barber was genuinely moved by Scully’s request, given that his permission clearly was not needed.
All of a sudden, Scully, at the age of 25, was thrust onto the national stage. He remains the youngest person to ever call a World Series. Two years later, he announced the Brooklyn Dodgers’ only World Series win, and in 1958 he moved with the club to Los Angeles, where he would call games for the next 59 seasons.
Barber and Scully maintained an affectionate dialogue for the remainder of Red’s life.
When Barber and Mel Allen were honored by the National Baseball Hall of Fame as the first recipients of the Ford C. Frick Award, presented yearly to a broadcaster for “major contributions to baseball,” Scully wrote his old teacher, “I know as well as anyone alive what a true artist you were behind the mike. There is a great deal of you in anything I do well in play-by-play, and it will live in me as long as I am working.”
When Barber died in 1992, Scully penned a tribute in Reader’s Digest, calling him “radio’s first poet … and the most honorable man I ever met.”
At Barber’s funeral, Scully told a reporter that he was preparing to announce the fourth game of the World Series when he first learned of Red’s death. After absorbing the sad news, he began hearing his old mentor chiding him: “Now don’t you talk about me during the game. These people aren’t tuning in to hear about me. Talk about the game.”
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here: https://theconversation.com/how-vin-scully-scored-his-dodgers-gig-at-22-years-old-188264. | https://www.michigansthumb.com/news/article/How-Vin-Scully-scored-his-Dodgers-gig-at-22-years-17356264.php | 2022-08-06T14:16:57Z | https://www.michigansthumb.com/news/article/How-Vin-Scully-scored-his-Dodgers-gig-at-22-years-17356264.php | false | 16 |
The 1962 Governor’s Race was between George Wallace, James “Big Jim” Folsom, and newcomer Ryan DeGraffenreid, a state senator from Tuscaloosa. Television had become the new medium. Therefore, Wallace, Folsom, and DeGraffenreid had all bought 30-minute, live television shows the night before the election.
George Wallace came on first at 7:00 p.m. He did pretty well, not great, but he did not hurt himself.
Ryan DeGraffenreid came on at 7:30 p.m. He was magnificent. He helped himself immensely. He was telegenic and took to television like a duck to water. He was a hit and picked up some votes.
Big Jim came on last at 8:00 p.m. That was probably too late for Big Jim. They had him sitting on a sofa that was too small for him. His knees jutted up almost to his chest. Television advisors will tell you to look squarely into the camera. Obviously, the last thing Big Jim had been told before he went on the air was to look right into the camera. He hunkered down like he was staring a hole in the viewer the way he stared at the camera. Unfortunately, the advisor had forgotten to tell Big Jim to comb his hair. He had a wayward strand of hair hanging right down in his face.
His first words portended what was to come. His speech was slurred, and he was clearly drunk. After his opening statement of about four minutes, even though I was only 11, I could tell Big Jim seemed impaired. I walked back to my mama’s bedroom door where she was reading and I said, “Mama, you need to come in the living room and see Big Jim on TV. I believe he is drunk.” She walked in, glanced at him and assured me that was just Big Jim’s personality. She said he was putting on a show for the television audience. I think she was taking up for him because she was for him. So, I settled back in for the remainder of the show.
Big Jim had several children, so they were going to have him introduce his children one-by-one. Little Jim came out first and he did pretty well with him, “This is my little boy, Jim.” Although he did tousle his hair pretty badly. The second son, Jack, came out and Big Jim said, “This is my boy...” He stammered around trying to think of his name. Finally, he blurted out, “Boy what is your name?” The television folks dropped the idea of trying to introduce the rest of Big Jim’s family after that.
They let him start talking again. He was weaving back and forth. The long strand of hair was hanging right over his nose. He was now pontificating on the virtues of progressivism, free textbooks and Farm-to-Market roads. I called mama in again to view the spectacle. She stood there for a full two minutes with her mouth open and finally said, “Son, I believe you’re right. Big Jim is drunk.”
He finished by getting mad at George Wallace and calling him a cuckoo bird for trying to steal his platform. He waved his arms wildly for three solid minutes on statewide television mimicking a cuckoo bird.
Folks around the state had heard tales and rumors about Big Jim’s drinking for years. They had dismissed it as political talk. However, seeing Big Jim live and drunk on statewide television was an eyeopener. He never recovered. He failed to make the runoff the next day. Wallace led the ticket and DeGraffenreid edged Big Jim out of the runoff. Wallace beat DeGraffenreid in the runoff.
Later, Big Jim said Wallace’s people drugged him. This story is not likely. Big Jim had pretty much succumbed to alcohol by this time in his life. The night Big Jim came on television drunk was the end of his political career but it was a heck of a show.
Some old time political observers contend Big Jim would have won that 1962 race had he not come on television drunk the night before the election. I disagree. George Wallace was going to win that year because he had captured the race issue and exploited and demagogued it to get to the governor’s office, which he aspired to more than life itself. Big Jim would have finished second but Wallace would have pounded Big Jim in the runoff. Big Jim was soft on the race issue. He was a true progressive. | https://times-journal.com/opinion/article_06cd4ad6-14e4-11ed-8d18-f311427afbe0.html | 2022-08-06T14:17:58Z | https://times-journal.com/opinion/article_06cd4ad6-14e4-11ed-8d18-f311427afbe0.html | false | 5 |
Democrats change some tax provisions as they ready economic bill
Democrats pared part of their proposed minimum tax on huge corporations and made other changes in their giant economic bill, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Friday, as they drove toward delivering a campaign-season victory to President Joe Biden on his domestic agenda.
In an unusual peek at closed-door bargaining, Schumer, D-N.Y., said Democrats dropped a proposed tax boost on hedge fund executives after pivotal centrist Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., said she would otherwise vote “no.” Schumer said that in its place, the measure now has a new tax — which others said will be 1% — on the shares companies buy back of their own stock, netting the government far more revenue.
“Sen. Sinema said she would not vote for the bill" or even vote to let debate begin unless private equity tax was removed from the legislation, Schumer told reporters. “So we had no choice.”
He spoke a day after he and Sinema announced compromise revisions to the environment, health care and tax package. With final numbers still to be calculated, the overall measure raises over $700 billion in revenue — including more robust IRS tax collections — using most of it for energy, climate and health initiatives and reducing federal deficits by $300 billion.
The accord puts Democrats on the verge of a more modest yet striking resurrection of many of Biden domestic aspirations that appeal strongly to party voters. Those include taxing big business, restraining prescription drug prices, slowing climate change, helping families afford private insurance and trimming federal deficits.
In another change, Schumer said a proposed 15% minimum tax on mammoth corporations had been trimmed and would now raise $258 billion over the coming decade, down from $313 billion. That provision, which has been the legislation's biggest revenue raiser, will now let those companies depreciate their equipment costs more quickly, lowering the government's tax take and helping manufacturers who buy expensive machinery. The new tax is expected to apply to around 150 companies with income exceeding $1 billion.
Democrats plan for the Senate to begin considering the bill Saturday, and the House will return next Friday for votes. The measure is sure to face unanimous Republican opposition in the 50-50 Senate, where the backing of Sinema and all other Democrats will be needed for passage, along with Vice President Kamala Harris' tie-breaking vote.
“This bill is a game changer for working families and our economy,” Biden said at the White House.
Still other revisions are possible. But the package passed one hurdle when the Senate parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, said a provision could remain requiring union-scale wages be paid if energy efficiency projects are to qualify for tax credits.
She upheld another section limiting electric vehicle tax credits to those assembled in the U.S. and containing batteries with minerals from countries with whom the U.S. has free trade agreements.
“I’m especially pleased that our prevailing wage provisions were approved. These provisions guarantee wage rates for clean energy projects,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said early Saturday.
Democrats were awaiting the parliamentarian’s decision on other issues including requirements that pharmaceutical makers pay penalties if they raise prices above inflation for drugs patients get from private insurers.
Democrats are using special rules that let them overcome GOP opposition and pass the package without needing the 60 votes most bills require. Under those procedures, the parliamentarian can force provisions to be dropped that break rules requiring them to be chiefly aimed at changing the federal budget, not making new policy.
Republicans say the measure will worsen inflation — a premier concern of voters — discourage companies from hiring workers and raise already high energy costs with its taxes.
“The pain at the pump is going to get worse, and it’s not just on the cost of energy to drive your car,” said Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming, the Senate's No. 3 GOP leader. “It’s also the energy to heat your home, energy that powers our country, energy for electricity."
Nonpartisan analysts have said the legislation will have a modest impact on inflation and the economy.
“We’re feeling pretty good,” Schumer said about the legislation. “It’s what the country so desperately needs. And it’s what Democrats will deliver on in the coming days.”
The measure will also include $4 billion sought by Western senators to help their states cope with ruinous drought conditions, according to Sens. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., and Michael Bennet, D-Colo. The group had sought $5 billion.
The bill faces a long weekend, including a “vote-a-rama” of unlimited, non-stop votes on amendments, which will mostly come from Republicans. Most are destined to lose, though the GOP hopes some will box Democrats into votes that would create campaign-ad fodder.
Taxing executives of private equity firms, such as hedge funds, has long been a goal of progressives. Under current law, those executives can pay significantly less than the top 37% individual tax rate on their income, which is called “carried interest."
That measure was also a favorite of conservative Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., a long-time holdout against larger versions of Biden's domestic plans who helped write the compromise legislation with Schumer.
But progressives also support taxing publicly traded companies that buy back their own stocks, a move that critics say artificially drives up stock prices and diverts money from investing. The buyback tax will net $74 billion over 10 years, much more than the $13 billion the “carried interest” plan would have raised. | https://www.kmbc.com/article/democrats-change-some-tax-provisions-as-they-ready-economic-bill/40821482 | 2022-08-06T14:20:23Z | https://www.kmbc.com/article/democrats-change-some-tax-provisions-as-they-ready-economic-bill/40821482 | false | 30 |
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Sudan accuses Chad of cross-border attack it says killed 18
CAIRO (AP) — Sudan has accused neighboring Chad of a cross-border attack earlier this week that a top commander says killed at least 18 nomads in Sudan’s western Darfur region. Sudan’s ruling sovereign council said armed Chadian assailants crossed into West Darfur province and attacked a group of nomads staying in an open area near the border towns of Beir Saliba and Ardeiba last Thursday. A number of Sudanese were also wounded in the attack and their livestock was looted and taken to Chad. There was no immediate comment from Chad on the accusations. | https://kesq.com/news/2022/08/06/sudan-accuses-chad-of-cross-border-attack-it-says-killed-18/ | 2022-08-06T14:26:04Z | https://kesq.com/news/2022/08/06/sudan-accuses-chad-of-cross-border-attack-it-says-killed-18/ | false | null |
HAVANA -- Lightning struck a crude oil storage tank in the city of Matanzas, causing a fire that led to four explosions which injured more than 40 people, Cuban authorities said Saturday.
Firefighters and other specialists were still trying to quell the blaze at the Matanzas Supertanker Base, which began during a thunderstorm Friday night, the Ministry of Energy and Mines tweeted.
The official Cuban News Agency said the lightning strike set one tank on fire and the blaze later spread to a second tank.
The accident comes as Cuba struggles with fuel shortages. There was no immediate word on how much oil had burned or was in danger at the tank farm, which stores oil used to fuel electricity production.
Faustino Pérez Hospital reported it was treating 49 people, two of them with critical injuries, the official cubadebate portal said.
“I was in the gym when I felt the first explosion. A column of smoke and terrible fire rose through the skies,” resident Adiel Gonzalez told The Associated Press by phone. “The city has a strong smell of sulfur.”
Authorities said the Dubrocq neighborhood closest to the fire was evacuated, while Gonzalez added that some people decided to leave the Versailles district, which is a little farther from the tank farm.
There were many ambulances, police and fire engines, he said.
Matanzas, which has about 140,000 inhabitants, is 100 kilometers (62 miles) from Havana, on Matnzas Bay.
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel traveled to the area of the fire early Saturday, officials said.
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Andrea Rodríguez on Twitter: www.twitter.com/ARodriguezAP | https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/lightning-sets-off-fire-cuban-oil-tank-farm-88035084 | 2022-08-06T14:26:08Z | https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/lightning-sets-off-fire-cuban-oil-tank-farm-88035084 | true | 10 |
Dodgers’ place Kershaw on IL; Taylor activated
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Dodgers placed left-hander Clayton Kershaw on the 15-day injured list Friday, one day after he left a start with lower back pain.
This marks the 34-year-old Kershaw’s second trip to the injured list this season. He was previously sidelined with inflammation in a pelvic joint.
Kershaw had an X-ray and an MRI on Friday, but Dave Roberts didn’t know the results of the MRI prior to Los Angeles’ game against San Diego. Roberts said Kershaw was sore on Friday.
“Hopefully it’s going to be shorter than longer,” Roberts said.
Roberts said he’s hesitant to give a timeline until they have results of the MRI.
Kershaw’s previous back injury was on the right side, and this one is more on the left side, according to Roberts.
The three-time NL Cy Young Award winner was warming up before the fifth inning of a 5-3 victory over San Francisco on Thursday when he winced and pointed to the Dodgers’ dugout. He later walked off the field with a trainer.
Kershaw, a nine-time All-Star, is 7-3 with a 2.64 ERA and 88 strikeouts in 85.1 innings.
Also Friday, the Dodgers activated utilityman Chris Taylor, who missed a month with a fractured left foot. He’s batting .238 with six homers and 27 RBIs in 74 games.
The Dodgers also recalled right-hander Reyes Moronta and optioned outfielder James Outman.
Moronta is 0-0 with a 4.67 ERA and 20 strikeouts in 17.1 innings. Outman went 6 of 13 with one homer and three RBIs in four games with the Dodgers.
The Dodgers will need to fill Kershaw’s spot in the rotation in the near future. Dustin May, who had Tommy John surgery last year, is trending toward a return soon. May has another rehab start Tuesday in Triple-A Oklahoma City.
“The world will look different then,” Roberts said. “Then we’ll make a decision on whether he should make another one, which is most likely, so now you’re looking at somebody in our system to make that (next start). (Ryan) Pepiot certainly makes sense.”
Kremlin says Griner swap must be discussed without publicity
MOSCOW — The Kremlin said Friday that it’s open to talking about a possible prisoner exchange involving American basketball star Brittney Griner but strongly warned Washington against publicizing the issue.
Griner, a two-time U.S. Olympic champion and an eight-time all-star with the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury, has been detained in Russia since Feb. 17 after police at a Moscow airport said they found vape cartridges containing cannabis oil in her luggage.
A judge convicted the 31-year-old athlete Thursday of drug possession and smuggling, and sentenced her to nine years in prison. The politically charged case comes amid high tensions between Moscow and Washington over Russia’s military action in Ukraine.
Asked at the White House Friday about the prospects of securing Griner’s release, President Joe Biden said: “I’m hopeful ... We’re working hard.”
Tom Kim going places in a hurry, among leaders at Wyndham
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Joohyung “Tom” Kim began the Wyndham Championship with a quadruple bogey on his first hole and wasn’t the least bit bothered. The kid seems to be going places in a hurry.
Already assured a PGA Tour card for next season, Kim overcame his rough start with a 6-under 64 on Friday that gave him a share of the lead with Brandon Wu and Ryan Moore in the final PGA Tour event of the regular season.
Kim, a 20-year-old South Korean, has to win at Sedgefield Country Club to qualify for the FedEx Cup playoffs because he will not be considered a PGA Tour member until September when the new season starts. Only a victory gives him instant membership.
He doesn’t feel extra pressure to get it done. Considering where he was a month ago, Kim is happy to be where he is.
Kim — he goes by “Tom” because of his fascination as a kid with Thomas the Tank Engine in the TV series “Thomas & Friends” — finished third in the Scottish Open, made the cut in the British Open and 3M Open, and then finished seventh last week in the Rocket Mortgage Classic.
That gave him enough points to be assured of a card next year. And as he has shown in two days, it takes a lot to stop this train.
He took eight shots for his first hole on Thursday. Since then, Kim has made 14 birdies and reached 9-under 131 along with Wu (67) and Moore (67).
John Huh, who opened with a 61, had a 71 and was one shot behind along with Russell Henley (65) and Sungjae Im (67).
A storm late in the afternoon led to a delay that kept the second round from finishing until Saturday morning.
US stays top of FIFA women’s rankings; England up to No. 4
ZURICH — The United States women’s soccer team extended its five-year reign atop the FIFA rankings on Friday and new European champion England moved up to No. 4.
The U.S. won its regional championship for the third straight time in July and leads No. 2 Germany, which rose three places despite losing the Euro 2022 final on Sunday.
Sweden, the 2020 Olympics silver medalist, drops one place to No. 3 after being beaten by England in the semifinals at Euro 2022.
Fifth-place France and No. 6 Netherlands both dropped two spots. Olympic champion Canada is No. 7.
New African champion South Africa jumped four places to No. 54 in the rankings which now include a record 185 of the 211 FIFA member federations.
Union files brief replying to NFL’s appeal in Watson case
CANTON, Ohio — The NFL Players Association has filed a brief replying to the league’s appeal in Deshaun Watson’s discipline case.
Former New Jersey Attorney General Peter C. Harvey now has the necessary paperwork to issue a ruling.
The players’ union announced the reply brief shortly before Friday’s deadline but didn’t release its contents because it’s confidential.
Harvey was selected by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on Thursday to hear the league’s appeal of the six-game suspension given to Watson for violating the personal conduct policy.
The NFL said Friday there’s no timeline for Harvey to issue a ruling. The policy says the appeal will be “processed on an expedited basis.”
Astros manager Baker tests positive for COVID-19
CLEVELAND — Houston Astros manager Dusty Baker tested positive for COVID-19 prior to Friday night’s game against the Cleveland Guardians.
Baker held his usual pregame availability with the media about two hours before the 7:10 p.m. game. The announcement of the positive test came after the game started.
Baker, 73, is in his third season as Houston’s manager. Bench coach Joe Espada filled in for Baker against Cleveland.
The Astros (69-38) lead the AL West by 11½ games over Seattle.
Padres star Tatis Jr. to begin rehab assignment
LOS ANGELES — Star shortstop Fernando Tatis Jr. will begin a rehab assignment with Double-A San Antonio either Saturday or Sunday, San Diego Padres manager Bob Melvin said.
Tatis took batting practice with the Padres at Dodger Stadium on Friday afternoon and then left for Texas. Tatis has been sidelined since having surgery in mid-March on his fractured left wrist, reportedly suffered in an offseason motorcycle accident in his native Dominican Republic.
Although there’s no timetable for his return, starting the rehab assignment is a big step for Tatis and the Padres.
“He didn’t have a spring and hasn’t played in the field yet, so we’ll monitor as we go along,” Melvin said.
Tatis will play shortstop, center field and spend time as the designated hitter.
When Tatis returns, he’ll be in a new-look lineup with newly acquired superstar Juan Soto, Josh Bell and Brandon Drury, all obtained before Tuesday’s trade deadline. San Diego also landed All-Star closer Josh Hader.
Tatis was an All-Star in 2021 and finished third in voting for NL MVP. He batted .282 with an NL-leading 42 home runs and 97 RBIs.
US national team star Mewis out for season with knee injury
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — U.S. national team midfielder Sam Mewis will miss the remainder of her season with the Kansas City Current because of what the club called “a long-standing progressive injury to her right leg” that occurred before she joined the team.
The 29-year-old Mewis had arthroscopic surgery on her right knee last August.
Mewis emerged as one of the world’s best players while spending time with Manchester City, then returned to the National Women’s Soccer League with the North Carolina Courage last year. She was traded to the Current last November.
Mewis played a big role in helping the U.S. win the 2019 World Cup, playing six of seven matches and scoring a pair of goals.
She played in the Americans’ 2-0 defeat of the Netherlands in the final.
Even though she’s out the rest of the season, Current general manager Camille Levin Ashton said Mewis would continue to help the team as it fights for the postseason. The Current are presently in the sixth and final playoff spot.
Kyrgios concludes match, poised for more at steamy Citi Open
WASHINGTON — Wimbledon runner-up Nick Kyrgios needed 14 minutes to complete his rain-delayed Citi Open match against Reilly Opelka, efficiently closing out a 7-6 (1), 6-2 victory on Friday.
Saving energy was key for Kyrgios and others playing in hot, humid conditions at the hard-court U.S. Open tuneup. Kyrgios, the 2019 champion in Washington, was scheduled to return to the court Friday night for a quarterfinal match against Frances Tiafoe, who grew up just outside the nation’s capital in Maryland.
Play was suspended again Friday afternoon because of lightning.
Tiafoe, the No. 10 seed, beat eighth-seeded Botic van de Zandschulp 4-6, 6-2, 6-3.
Also having to play two matches on Friday — weather permitting — was top-seeded Andrey Rublev, who rallied in a second-set tiebreak to beat Maxime Cressy 6-4, 7-6 (8). Trailing 5-3, Rublev used his reflexes to lob back an overhead smash by Cressy, who missed wide.
“In my head, the second set was done and I’ll just do my best to finish the second and I’ll fight for the third,” Rublev said.
The Russian is seeking his fourth ATP title this year, which would draw him even with Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz for the most in 2022. He next faces American wild card J.J. Wolf, who advanced to his first tour-level quarterfinal by rallying to win the last four games and beat Holger Rune 7-5, 4-6, 6-3.
Another American, Sebastian Korda, advanced to the quarterfinals by beating fifth-seeded Grigor Dimitrov 4-6, 6-1, 6-2.
On the women’s side, fourth-seeded veteran Victoria Azarenka endured an 80-minute first set to beat Tereza Martincova 7-6 (7), 6-2, and sixth-seeded Kaia Kanepi got past Anna Kalinskaya 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-3 in a match that lasted 2 hours, 33 minutes.
U.S. Open champion Emma Raducnau was scheduled to face Liudmila Samsonova on Friday night, followed by Azarenka’s second match of the day, this time against Xiyu Wang.
Quakes sign defender Akapo after stint with Cadiz in Spain
SAN JOSE — The San Jose Earthquakes have signed defender Carlos Akapo, who has played with Cadiz in Spain’s LaLiga since 2019.
The deal runs through the 2023 season with a club option for 2024. Akapo, a free agent, will occupy an international roster spot.
Akapo, 29, joined Cadiz before the 2019-20 season and made 47 appearances with the club. His contract expired in July.
“Carlos is a talented player with significant experience for both club and country,” Quakes general manager Chris Leitch said in a statement on Friday. “He’s made 200 professional appearances in Spain, including more than 50 in LaLiga. He will be an important addition at a position of need. He’s also capable of contributing on both sides of the field which should improve the flexibility and versatility of our roster.”
Akapo has appeared in 28 games for Equatorial Guinea in international play.
Akapo will join the Earthquakes once he obtains his visa and transfer papers.
Michigan cuts ties with embattled hockey coach Mel Pearson
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The University of Michigan has cut ties with hockey coach Mel Pearson.
Athletic director Warde Manuel said Friday the decision “has been weighed heavily and for some time.” Pearson’s contract expired after last season, and he had been an at-will employee, pending a review of the program.
An investigation, obtained by MLive among others, that was given to the school in May revealed in part that Pearson pressured student-athletes to lie about COVID-19 contact tracing during the 2020-21 season.
“Our student-athletes having a positive and meaningful experience is of paramount importance, and a clear expectation within our department is that all employees and staff are valued and supported. I deeply appreciate and value the many individuals who came forward throughout this review,” Manuel said in a statement released by the school. “Today’s announcement reflects the seriousness with what we’ve heard and the values we hold dear at Michigan.”
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After several students said they faced technical issues in some of the centres of Common University Entrance Test-Undergraduate (CUET) UG 2022, the National Testing Agency (NTA) reviewed the entire situation yesterday. It claimed that some of the exam centres had failed to comply with the laid down protocols by the agency. It has now decided to postpone the exams at across 50 centres.
“Taking cognisance of the inconvenience faced by the students in some of the centres of CUET, NTA reviewed the entire situation yesterday. It was found that some of the centres failed to comply with the laid down protocols. Any incidence of non compliance/sabotage/ignorance will be viewed very seriously and strict action will be taken against those centres to ensure smooth conduct of examinations in future," said NTA.
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NTA has also informed that the grievances of affected students can be addressed at email — cuetgrievance@nta.ac.in. Candidates must mention their application number in the subject. “NTA is committed to protecting the interests of the students," it said.
On August 4 too, the exam was cancelled at a few centres across 17 states in the first shift, while the second shift exam was cancelled at all 489 centres. Several students complained that they waited for two hours only to be informed that the exams scheduled for the day had been called off.
“Due to various administrative and technical reasons, the CUET (UG) – 2022 examination scheduled for 04 August 2022 (first shift) has been postponed to 12 August 2022 for a few examination Centre," the NTA said in the official notice.
“Reports were asked from the observers /city coordinators on the ground. Based on their recommendations, the second shift scheduled for 04 August 2022 (Shift 2) (from 3pm to 6 pm) is cancelled and the same will now be conducted between 12 to 14 August 2022. The same admit card will be valid for the concerned candidates whose examinations have been postponed. In case, 12-14 August 2022 is not suitable, the candidates can send an e-mail to datechange@nta.ac.in mentioning their desired date and roll number," the exam conducting body had said.
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TV personality and former Gladiator presenter Ulrika Jonsson has blasted Rebekah Vardy after she lost her recent case against Coleen Rooney, branded Wagatha Christie.
Footballer's wife Rebekah, 40, took Coleen, 36, to the High Court after she was accused of leaking private messages from the star’s private Instagram account to the press.
But despite losing her battle, Rebekah protested her innocence in a candid interview where she discussed her thoughts and feeling regarding the whole ordeal.
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Although, Rebekah is attempting to restore her reputation Ulrika, 54, isn't buying any of her recent claims and labelled her an "arrogant wannabe".
She fumed in her latest column: "The arrogance of Vardy thinking that the rest of us would buy the words of someone who has so damningly been found to be responsible for such a public betrayal of a friend is overwhelming.
"As for her claim of being let down by the legal system, it will leave many people reeling.
"Women who’ve been raped and find that only 1.3 per cent of their cases see the light of court – now THEY can claim they’ve been let down by the court system."
Discussing the verdict for the first time last month, Rebekah said: "I am extremely sad and disappointed at the decision that the Judge has reached.
"It is not the result that I had expected, nor believe was just. I brought this action to vindicate my reputation and am devastated by the Judge’s finding.
"The judge accepted that publication of Coleen's Post was not in the 'public interest' and she also rejected her claim that I was the 'Secret Wag. But as for the rest of her judgement, she got it wrong and this is something I cannot accept."
Taking to her Instagram, Coleen issued a statement which read: "Naturally, I am pleased the judge has found in my favour in her judgement today. It was not a case I ever sought or wanted.
She said: "Both before and after my social media posts in October 2019, I made constant efforts to avoid the need for such a public and drawn-out court case.
"But all my efforts to do so were knocked back by Mrs Vardy and her lawyers."
She continued: "This left me with no alternative but to go through with the case to defend myself and to end the repeated leaking of my private information to The Sun."
"The leaks from my private Instagram account began in 2017. They continued for almost two years, intruding on my privacy and that of my family.
"Although I bear Mrs Vardy no ill will, today’s judgement makes clear that I was right in what I said in my Instagram posts.
She then went on thank her legal team for their support.
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Official: Russian forces shell Nikopol
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CAIRO (AP) — Sudan has accused neighboring Chad of a cross-border attack earlier this week that a top commander says killed at least 18 nomads in Sudan's western Darfur region.
According to Sudan’s ruling sovereign council, armed Chadian assailants crossed into West Darfur province and attacked a group of nomads staying in an open area near the border towns of Beir Saliba and Ardeiba last Thursday.
Apart from those killed, several nomads were also wounded in the attack and their livestock was looted and taken to Chad, the council said Friday.
There was no immediate comment from Chad on the accusations.
A Sudanese outlet, Darfur 24 news, reported a minor clash Friday between Chadian and Sudanese forces in the area, saying three Sudanese troops were wounded.
Senior Sudanese Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, the deputy head of the sovereign council, had travelled to Chad before the attack for a previously scheduled meeting Thursday with Chad’s acting president and head of the country’s ruling transitional military council, Mahamat Idriss Deby.
He then returned to Darfur where he has resided for weeks to help defuse tribal tensions and violence that has rocked the troubled region in recent months.
Dagalo attended the funerals of the slain nomads on Friday and urged tribal leaders and residents in West Darfur for restraint. On Saturday, he met with a Sudanese-Chadian joint committee and held talks with local officials and tribal leaders to prevent a further escalation.
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Jake Wightman ‘relieved’ to win 1500m bronze as bid for golden hat-trick ends
World champion Jake Wightman admits he did “as good as I could have” as he missed out on a stunning summer hat-trick after coming third in the 1500m at the Commonwealth Games.
The 28-year-old Scot took bronze in Birmingham on Saturday behind Australia’s Oliver Hoare and Kenya’s Timothy Cheruiyot after being passed on the home straight.
He was hoping to continue his unique treble quest – after July’s World Championships victory – but must now refocus for the 800m at the European Championships later this month.
“That was as good as I could have done,” said Wightman, who ran three minutes 30.53 seconds. “I didn’t want to be a pedestrian and be running for minor medals. I wanted to make a statement but I didn’t feel anywhere near as good as I did a couple of weeks ago.
“I knew when I went I was going to have a tough home straight but hoped everyone else would be feeling the same.
“Initially I was pretty disappointed but if I told myself I would come back two weeks after winning the world champs and in a similar field pick up a bronze I’d be pretty happy. It’s mentally so tough to come back from that.
“To get a bronze is a relief, to have something to show for the shape I’m in.
People don't realise how high that World Championships was, two weeks is nothing to have to reset. I'm not buzzing but I'm relieved.
“I put it on the line. To hang on for a bronze, I’m pleased. I hope I don’t get shot down too much for not having won it being a world champion.
“People don’t realise how high that World Championships was, two weeks is nothing to have to reset. I’m not buzzing but I’m relieved.
“I was hanging on in the home straight, as opposed to feeling strong. I felt pretty vulnerable.”
Wightman stunned Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtgsen to win in Eugene last month as dad and coach Geoff commentated on the race at Hayward Field.
Wightman senior was again the announcer at the Alexander Stadium and watched as his son made a move with around 300m to go but he was overhauled by Hoare and Cheruiyot.
Soon after, England’s Nick Miller won gold in the hammer with a throw of 78.43m to defend his 2018 title.
He said: “I’m incredibly proud, I’m sure we’ll have a few more later. I’ve had a lot of injury and illness, it’s nice to take a turn and have a positive outcome.
“I feel we’re in a good place moving forward.”
Earlier, England’s men’s 4x100m relay squad of Jona Efoloko, Harry Aikines-Aryeetey, Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake and Ojie Edoburun won their heat to reach Sunday’s final in 38.48 seconds.
Asha Philip, Imani-Lara Lansiquot, Bianca Williams, Ashleigh Nelson progressed to the women’s final by finishing second in their heat in 42.72 seconds.
Morgan Lake finished fourth in the high jump with England team-mate Zak Seddon eighth in the 3,000m steeplechase.
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(NEXSTAR) – There isn’t a single state in America where a minimum-wage worker can afford the average two-bedroom apartment, according to the latest report from the National Low Income Housing Coalition.
The NLIHC’s 2022 Out of Reach report, released last week, aims to highlight the disparity between earnings and rent for the average low-wage worker, according to the organization. This year, the report indicates that median rental costs for two-bedroom apartments in U.S. metropolitan counties had jumped 15% between the first quarters of 2021 and 2022 — or more than four times the increases observed over the last several years.
The problem isn’t limited to metro areas, either.
“In no state, metropolitan area, or county in the U.S. can a worker earning the federal or prevailing state or local minimum wage afford a modest two-bedroom rental home at fair market rent by working a standard 40-hour work week,” the report states.
One-bedroom apartments, too, were determined to be unaffordable for low-wage workers in all but 9% of U.S. counties.
For the purposes of its report, the NLIHC defined “affordability” as costing no more than 30% of a tenant’s income (rent and utilities), based on the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development’s definition of fair market rent. In dollar amounts, that means the average U.S. worker would need to earn $25.82 per hour to afford a two-bedroom apartment, or $21.25 for a single-bedroom apartment, the NLIHC determined.
But that’s just the national average; some states have significantly higher “housing wages” — i.e., the estimated full-time wage a renter must earn to afford a modest rental property by HUD standards. In Hawaii, for instance, the “housing wage” is $40.63 per hour for two-bedroom, while the housing wages in California ($39.01 per hour), Massachusetts ($37.97), New York ($37.72) and Washington, D.C. ($34.33) weren’t far behind, according to the report.
The average housing wage in the most “affordable” states, meanwhile, were determined to be in Arkansas ($14.89 per hour), where the basic minimum wage is $11, followed by West Virginia ($15.38), Mississippi ($15.67), South Dakota ($16.11) and Kentucky ($16.18). Puerto Rico was the only territory with a lower housing wage ($9.88).
The NLIHC’s report also indicated that Black and Latino workers were most likely to be affected by the wage/rental disparities, as “they are more likely at all income levels to be renters.”
“With rents rising rapidly, homelessness worsening, and millions of families struggling to stay housed, federal investments in expanding proven solutions – like Housing Choice Vouchers, the national Housing Trust Fund, and public housing – are badly needed and long overdue,” said NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel in a press release issued along with the 2022 Out of Reach report. “As a country, we have the data, partnerships, expertise, solutions, and means to end homelessness and housing poverty – we lack only the political will to fund solutions at the scale necessary.”
The National Low Income Housing Coalition, founded in 1974, is a non-profit organization committed to advocating for federally assisted housing resources.
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Winning €1million EuroMillions raffle ticket sold in Sligo as players urged to check slips
SLIGO is now home to Ireland's newest millionaire after a lucky punter won last night's EuroMillions ‘Ireland Only Raffle’ draw.
The winning ticket of €1million was sold in The Regional Stores, Ballinode in Co. Sligo.
This winner is the first of four guaranteed new Irish millionaires this month.
The winning raffle code in last night’s EuroMillions draw is I – NBF – 65003.
Owner of the store Michael Higgins was over the moon when he found out his shop sold the winning ticket.
He said: "The first thing I did was ring my wife and asked her if she played last night, she said she did.
"I told her to get in quick and check the ticket! But alas it wasn’t to be us.
"We were surprised to find out though we did sell the winning ticket to one of our lucky Sligo customers!"
Every player in Ireland who buys a ticket for any Friday EuroMillions draw between August 5 to 26 will be automatically entered into the ‘Ireland Only Raffle’ for that corresponding draw.
Four players over the four weeks will become guaranteed millionaires.
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Usually in the EuroMillions draws ten players in Ireland win €5,000 on the ‘Ireland Only Raffle’.
However, in last night’s draw an additional €1million was added to the special raffle draw.
This meant that among nine lucky winners of €5,000, one of those won an additional €1million.
Michael added: "We’re selling the lotto in here since day dot and we never had a substantial winner, until today!
"We’re absolutely delighted for the winner."
IRISH WINNERS
There was no winner of the €30,356,111 jackpot, which now rolls to a massive €40 million for next Tuesday's draw.
Last night’s draw also saw a player from Meath match 5 numbers, winning a whopping €32,589.
The quick pick ticket was sold on the day of the draw in Gala, The Brink Service Station, Rathdrinagh in Co Meath.
The National Lottery is encouraging all of its players to check their tickets carefully.
A National Lottery spokesperson said: "We are asking everyone in Sligo to check those tickets and see if their raffle code is I – NBF – 65003.
"If that code matches the one on your EuroMillions ticket then we would ask you to sign the back of the ticket and contact our prize claims team." | https://www.thesun.ie/money/9212019/irelands-millionaire-sligo-shop-celebrates-mega-win/ | 2022-08-06T14:57:44Z | https://www.thesun.ie/money/9212019/irelands-millionaire-sligo-shop-celebrates-mega-win/ | false | 1 |
The Marlins are at the Cubs and I haven’t been this excited since Klondike hinted Choco Tacos are coming back.
The trade deadline has come and gone and Pablo Lopez (7-6, 3.41) is still a Marlin. May have had something to do with his last start.
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Lopez gave up six runs, 12 hits to the Mets and was gone after 2 ²/₃ innings. He was brilliant two starts back, two-hitting the Reds for seven innings.
Drew Smyly (3-6, 4.42) goes for Chicago. Smyly wasn’t smiling after his last start either. The Giants scored five times. And those are not “Dreeews” you’re hearing at Wrigley. They’re “Boooos.” Smyly is 0-3 at home.
Play 10 units on the Fish.
Dylan Cease pitched six strong innings, the bullpen was spotless and the White Sox snuck by the Rangers 2-1. Eloy Jimenez homered.
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Andrea Connor has become "the accidental COVID Czar" of Lake Forest College, a small school north of Chicago where she serves as dean of students.
"When COVID started, our crisis management team sort of multiplied," she says.
Now, she's relying on that same team to respond to a new health threat: monkeypox.
"There's a lot of fear, a lot of concern," Connor says. "So we want to educate people." Her team is putting together guidance detailing monkeypox signs and symptoms, and what a student should do if they think they might be infected. Monkeypox is much less contagious than COVID-19, but Connor says it's a school's job to be prepared.
Ahead of the new school year, colleges across the country are repurposing the tools they developed during the pandemic to address the monkeypox outbreak, which the White House recently declared a public health emergency. It's a different virus, with different risks, and colleges are having to adapt, says Dr. Lindsey Mortenson of the American College Health Association (ACHA).
"Many colleges and universities are thinking about 'how do we turn the page institutionally?" Mortenson says. " 'How do we take all of these public health informed practices and apply them in a different context?' "
The risk of contracting monkeypox is low, but colleges are beginning to see cases
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the risk of contracting monkeypox in the U.S. is "believed to be low." More than 7,000 cases have been confirmed in the U.S. as of Thursday, though experts say that number is likely higher due to testing limitations.
Monkeypox is most often associated with a rash that can appear anywhere on the body including the face, feet, hands, genitals and inside the mouth, the CDC says. But symptoms can also include fever, headaches and muscle aches.
The virus spreads through physical contact with the monkeypox rash, and the vast majority of people affected by the current outbreak appear to be catching it through sexual contact. Cases have been largely concentrated in the gay and queer community, primarily among men who have sex with men. But the CDC says sexual contact is not the only way the virus can spread. It's possible for close face-to-face contact or indirect contact with the rash to result in transmission, though data show this is less common.
As a result, experts say, everyone should be paying attention to the virus.
"No outbreak stays limited to any one social network," says Dr. Jay Varma, an epidemiologist at Weill Cornell Medical College. He adds that although the virus has been concentrated in the gay and queer community, "There's no biological reason it couldn't spill over into other groups."
On college campuses, Varma says, areas to watch are those where students come into close physical contact with each other's skin, including locker rooms, gyms or even theater groups.
The virus has already appeared on some college campuses. Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., University of Texas at Austin and West Chester University in Pennsylvania all told NPR they had at least one confirmed case over the summer.
At West Chester University, spokesperson Nancy Gainer says, "The student is in isolation and continues to do very well. There is a plan in place for them to finish their class remotely, and the student will not return to campus for the summer term."
On July 28, the ACHA, which represents over 700 institutions of higher education, sent an email to its members with basic information about monkeypox, but more detailed guidance is still in progress, says Rachel Mack, director of communications at the ACHA. She says the ACHA is now coordinating with the CDC to schedule a webinar, and they're also creating an FAQ document to share with members.
"All of this is in the early stages and we're right now assembling a team of experts to help finalize the topics that are of primary importance to [institutions of higher education]," says Mack, in an email to NPR. "Our goal is to be responsive to the needs of our members and to meet those needs as quickly as we can."
Monkeypox requires a longer isolation period than coronavirus
COVID-19 is usually contagious for less than 10 days, but a monkeypox infection can last a few weeks. That means a student who contracts the virus may need to isolate for a significant chunk of their semester.
"This presents a very important challenge for the individual, who has to put up with that level of isolation, as well as the university, which needs to make arrangements to support that," Varma says.
One challenge is that most colleges have shifted back to in-person instruction after going fully remote in 2020. Schools told NPR they are still determining what remote learning will look like for students in isolation.
At the University of California, Irvine, where all classes are back in-person, students in isolation work directly with their faculty members to decide how to learn remotely, says David Souleles, who leads the school's COVID-19 response team. "Instructors are encouraged to have a plan for such occurrences in advance," he explains.
When it comes to where students with monkeypox would isolate, there's huge variability across colleges, even in places where schools had housing set aside for students who tested positive for COVID.
"Some are retaining isolation housing for COVID, or for whatever infectious illnesses it may be needed for," says Mortenson. "Others have completely relinquished their inventory."
At Lake Forest College, Andrea Connor is working through housing logistics, and she says the school plans to help students isolate if they test positive for monkeypox. They'll also help students meet basic needs including meals and laundry.
At West Chester University, which serves over 17,000 commuter and residential students, Gainer says the school is "committed to following CDC guidelines and having students [who test positive for monkeypox] self-isolate."
In Ithaca, N.Y., at Cornell University, the campus health unit has published an online resource with information on monkeypox. The school is "developing testing, treatment and isolation protocols for those affected," says Rebecca Valli, director of media relations. "We are also considering the potential academic impacts and accommodations which may arise."
Students are concerned about monkeypox stigma
Because 99% of cases in the U.S. are related to male-to-male sexual contact, according to the WHO, there's a growing concern about stigma and bias against the LGBTQ community.
That bias can have negative public health consequences if it prevents an infected person from seeking treatment and informing their close contacts about potential exposure, an important step in mitigating spread.
Student Liz Cortes, who co-leads the Queer and Trans Student Alliance at UT Austin, says they are frustrated by the ongoing stigma and is waiting to see if the university will address it. If the school fails to, "we would make it a priority to work with public health officials on providing accurate information and addressing misconceptions about the virus and our community," Cortes tells NPR in an email.
UT Austin did not immediately respond to a request for comment about how it intends to address concerns about stigma. But the school's health services website states that "anyone can get monkeypox, regardless of age or sex."
Some universities are working with student groups to coordinate education and response efforts. At UC Irvine, Souleles says the school has convened a working group that includes representatives from the LGBT Resource Center. "We're also consulting guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on reducing stigma in monkeypox communication," he says.
Student privacy is another concern. At many larger schools, including UT Austin, University of Michigan and UC Irvine, health centers are equipped to test students for monkeypox. But other schools, including Lake Forest, don't currently have the resources for testing.
Lake Forest students have to go off campus to get tested at one of five nearby labs, Andrea Connor says. One of those labs is an STI clinic, and if a student gets tested there, their insurance might bill it as a test for a sexually transmitted infection, even though monkeypox is not considered an STI, says Connor.
"Some members of our community wouldn't want their parents to see that on their insurance," Connor explains. "So there's a lot of layers there."
Still, Connor says she remains hopeful about the fall semester.
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As we count down the days to the start of a new season, we'll focus on the exact number that will count us down to the Sept. 11 opener against the Bucs.
Today, we will continue with 36 days to the start of the season.
The Play – Jason Witten finished his illustrious career with 72 touchdowns. But you can't get to 72 without No. 1, and his first NFL touchdown occurred in 2003. Witten caught a pass over the middle from Quincy Carter against the Giants. The 36-yard touchdown was his only score of his rookie season. The next 71 occurred over the next 15 seasons.
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Canelo was an early starter as he began boxing at just 13-years-old, but it seems he wants to give his son even more of a head start in the sport.
Footage emerged recently of the Mexican in the gym on the pads with his three-year-old son, teaching him an uppercut, left hook, right hand combination.
Canelo also takes the time to teach his son the technique of how to throw a right cross, by turning over his shoulder into the shot.
It is not uncommon to see sons following in the footsteps of their fathers in the boxing world and some have seen considerable success.
There is the example of Tyson Fury who has completely outshone the achievements of his father John Fury, who didn’t even win a central area title, while ‘The Gypsy King’ has claimed every belt there is in the heavyweight division.
Another prominent duo, who could be fighting each other soon, are Chris Eubank Jr and Conor Benn, whose fathers Chris Eubank Sr and Nigel Benn had a fierce rivalry back in the early 1990’s.
As for Canelo, he can’t spend too much time training his son, as he needs to get to work himself to prepare for his upcoming trilogy bout with Gennady Golovkin on September 17.
Coming off the back of only the second defeat of his career against Dmitry Bivol in May, Canelo will be looking to bounce back in style against his long-time rival Golovkin.
The pair have met twice previously, as the first fight ended controversially in a draw, with many fans and pundits alike believing ‘GGG’ had done enough to win, while the rematch saw Canelo take a majority decision victory.
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OPKO Health (NASDAQ:OPK – Get Rating) had its target price decreased by Piper Sandler from $5.00 to $4.00 in a report published on Friday, Stock Target Advisor reports. Piper Sandler currently has an overweight rating on the biotechnology company’s stock.
OPKO Health Stock Down 5.0 %
Shares of NASDAQ:OPK opened at $2.28 on Friday. The stock’s 50-day moving average price is $2.62 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $3.00. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.13, a current ratio of 2.44 and a quick ratio of 2.12. OPKO Health has a 12-month low of $2.15 and a 12-month high of $5.25.
OPKO Health (NASDAQ:OPK – Get Rating) last released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, August 4th. The biotechnology company reported ($0.14) EPS for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of ($0.02) by ($0.12). The firm had revenue of $309.90 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $326.87 million. OPKO Health had a negative return on equity of 7.76% and a negative net margin of 14.18%. The business’s revenue for the quarter was down 30.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the business earned ($0.03) earnings per share. As a group, equities analysts expect that OPKO Health will post -0.22 EPS for the current fiscal year.
Insider Transactions at OPKO Health
Institutional Inflows and Outflows
Hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. Vanguard Group Inc. raised its stake in shares of OPKO Health by 1.0% in the 1st quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 36,072,131 shares of the biotechnology company’s stock worth $124,088,000 after buying an additional 346,707 shares in the last quarter. State Street Corp raised its position in shares of OPKO Health by 56.7% during the first quarter. State Street Corp now owns 27,688,831 shares of the biotechnology company’s stock worth $95,250,000 after purchasing an additional 10,014,088 shares during the period. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP raised its position in shares of OPKO Health by 73.2% during the first quarter. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP now owns 7,184,414 shares of the biotechnology company’s stock worth $24,717,000 after purchasing an additional 3,037,320 shares during the period. Point72 Asset Management L.P. acquired a new stake in shares of OPKO Health during the fourth quarter worth $32,006,000. Finally, D. E. Shaw & Co. Inc. grew its holdings in shares of OPKO Health by 96.4% during the fourth quarter. D. E. Shaw & Co. Inc. now owns 4,081,001 shares of the biotechnology company’s stock valued at $19,629,000 after buying an additional 2,003,147 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 27.83% of the company’s stock.
About OPKO Health
OPKO Health, Inc, a healthcare company, engages in the diagnostics and pharmaceuticals businesses in the United States, Ireland, Chile, Spain, Israel, Mexico, and internationally. The company's Diagnostics segment operates BioReference Laboratories that offers laboratory testing services for the detection, diagnosis, evaluation, monitoring, and treatment of diseases, including esoteric testing, molecular diagnostics, anatomical pathology, genetics, women's health, and correctional healthcare to physician offices, clinics, hospitals, employers and governmental units; and a novel diagnostic instrument system to provide blood test results in the point-of-care setting, as well as 4Kscore prostate cancer testing services.
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Williamsport, Pa. — Thanks to the generosity of a leading manufacturer of welding equipment, Penn College's welding lab is now home to some great new tools. The new equipment will be used by about 100 students per semester.
Abicor Binzel USA Inc. donated more than $16,000 worth of equipment, including a gas metal arc welding gun, a shielding gas management system, and two fume extraction systems for the college’s 55,000 square-foot, state-of-the-art welding lab.
“We are grateful to add Abicor Binzel to the growing list of Corporate Tomorrow Makers dedicated to a skilled, high-tech workforce,” said Elizabeth A. Biddle, senior corporate relations director. “The company’s equipment donation is truly an investment in the next generation of welding professionals. The college is very appreciative of Abicor Binzel’s support.”
Students will be able to have hands-on experiences with the GMAW gun, and will have access to a product that increases efficiency and optimizes the use of shielding gases. The fume extraction systems will provide ventilation for the college's automated laser room and manual welding areas. These extraction systems ensure that welding fumes are filtered, offering an improved environment for students to learn and work.
“Abicor Binzel is pleased to partner with Penn College and its welding department,” said Jeff Barron, manager – Key Accounts Group – Arc. “A relationship like this proves to be mutually beneficial because students will be able to utilize new Abicor Binzel equipment, gaining familiarity with our products. We believe that students will gain an understanding of the benefits of our welding solutions and will remember us after graduating when they are in positions of purchasing influence.”
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Williamsport — Eugene E. "Geno" Schuler, Jr., a resident of Ashland, Ohio, for 40 years, died on July 22, 2022.
He was born in Williamsport on Oct. 6, 1960, a son of Eugene E. Schuler Sr. and the late Lettie (Morrison) Biviano.
Geno worked for PARR for 40 years in Ohio in injection molding. He enjoyed playing bingo, working on puzzles, and taking care of his tropical fish. He was a member of Southview Grace Brethren Church and enjoyed reading the Bible.
His wife, the former April Vance, preceded him in death.
Geno is survived by his father, Eugene E. Schuler Sr. of Williamsport; three sons, Brandon, Ethan and Anthony Schuler, all of Ohio; and brother, William "Bill" (Jen) Schuler of West Salem. He is also survived by many nieces and nephews.
In addition to his wife, April, he was preceded in death by his mother, Lettie Biviano, and infant brother Timothy.
The family will receive friends and family at the Crouse Funeral Home, 133 E. Third St., Williamsport, on Saturday, Aug. 13, from noon to 2 p.m. with a prayer service at 1 p.m. with Rev. Robert J. Antonelli officiating. To share a memory or sign a register book, please visit www.crousefuneralhome.com. | https://www.northcentralpa.com/obituaries/eugene-e-geno-schuler-jr/article_70ac80c6-154c-11ed-8fa0-37bbc7a31289.html | 2022-08-06T15:13:00Z | https://www.northcentralpa.com/obituaries/eugene-e-geno-schuler-jr/article_70ac80c6-154c-11ed-8fa0-37bbc7a31289.html | false | 1 |
Toddler dies after cement truck goes over overpass, lands on car
Published: Aug. 6, 2022 at 8:50 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
HOUSTON (KHOU) - A toddler is dead after a tragic crash in Houston Friday.
It happened after a cement truck careened off an overpass and landed on a car.
Police say four people were in the car when the truck landed on it, two adults and 22-month-old twins.
The cement truck driver was a 36-year-old woman who police say did not show any signs of intoxication.
A preliminary investigation shows that she attempted to slow the vehicle down before it went over the overpass.
Authorities believe slick roadways may have caused the crash.
The crash is still under investigation and no charges have been filed at this time.
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Shares of Public Service Enterprise Group Inc.
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+0.02%
inched 0.02% higher to $64.74 Friday, on what proved to be an all-around mixed trading session for the stock market, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA,
+0.23%
rising 0.23% to 32,803.47 and the S&P 500 Index
SPX,
-0.16%
falling 0.16% to 4,145.19. Public Service Enterprise Group Inc. closed $10.87 short of its 52-week high ($75.61), which the company reached on April 21st.
The stock outperformed some of its competitors Friday, as Duke Energy Corp.
DUK,
-0.52%
fell 0.52% to $109.16, Southern Co.
SO,
-0.90%
fell 0.90% to $77.27, and Xcel Energy Inc.
XEL,
-1.02%
fell 1.02% to $73.80. Trading volume (2.5 M) remained 257,255 below its 50-day average volume of 2.8 M.
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Fulham’s new faces and old give early optimism over survive and thrive Premier League plans
Marco Silva has said he wants more new players but The Cottagers went close to making the perfect start to the season anyway
At the interval on the opening weekend of the season, Fulham fans would have been riding high on optimism, not just for the 90 minutes but for the season and even beyond.
It wasn’t just that they were beating Liverpool, nor even that they were deservedly ahead. Nor was it solely about the usual (and warranted) over-excitement of a Premier League return, more impending transfer arrivals in the final week of the window or the prospect of clocking up about 8 per cent of the points required to stay up already, on day one.
The added surge of hope and belief would also have been in part due to the debut performance of Joao Palhinha, a summer signing from Sporting CP who had previously been linked with bigger, more established top-flight clubs. On the basis of how he handled Liverpool’s midfield in that opening period, maybe a few are already regretting their hesitation.
Ultimately, the Cottagers didn’t quite over the line for three points, though even claiming one by the final whistle was clearly big for the home fans, who had roared on their team and berated the officials all afternoon in equal measure en route to a 2-2 draw.
And yet despite that, this would very much count as a “point won” rather than two dropped, in the theoretical plan of the season and where they could pick points up along the way to survive - and perhaps rather more than that.
Aside from in the immediate aftermath of the game, there will be obvious concerns about sustaining the performance level from this game, which was extremely good from the promoted side. They were energetic, aggressive, combative, quick to react to changes of the flow of the game - all of those they did better than Liverpool.
But the squad remains thin, hence Marco Silva’s call for significant recruits before the transfer window shuts, and there’s a huge world of difference between being up for the club’ first big game in the top flight for well over a year, and maintaining that type of intensity game after game, week after week.
Two key figures, though, showed they will have a massive impact on Fulham’s fortunes, starting with Palhinha in the middle.
The new signing was exceptionally quick into the challenge, strong in the air and relentless in giving the visitors’ midfield no chance to settle into a passing rhythm or even play forwards - he was constantly forcing Thiago and Co to turn back to the full-backs or central defenders, rather than being able to link with Luis Diaz and Mohamed Salah.
Six tackles from the Portuguese was easily the best on the park in that category, while he also strode forward often enough to get a couple of shots away and help relieve pressure at times.
He’s new, he’s exciting, he gives hope to the supporters that the recruitment team is going to get it right more frequently this time, given the horror show of 2018 and the half-hearted 2020 version.
Further forward, it was a much more familiar face who made the crucial difference. Aleksandar Mitrovic has been at Fulham for more than four-and-a-half years now, including the original loan, but his Premier League impact has been minimal until now.
Here he scored, won a penalty, scored again and showed all the defensive contribution, hold-up play, ball-carrying abilty and willingness to help out his side in deeper zones that Fulham are going to badly need if they are to maintain this early season optimism. The Serbian striker already only needs one more goal to match his haul from the entire campaign in 20/21.
Silva, in the dugout, won’t be getting carried away just yet. He will likely allow himself an amount of satisfaction in putting a ridiculously early dent in the title hopes of the team who beat him in his final game in charge of Everton, before being sacked, but far more importantly, he has an early barometer to point his team towards for what’s required every single time this season.
It has been said a thousand times before, but if a side plays with that vigour and direction more often than not, they’ll be unlikely to go down. The challenge is maintaining that energy once the newness of the season wears off, and in a run-of-the-mill away day to a mid-table side, rather than a high-profile meeting with a titan.
But the positive signs were there right from kick-off, with both new signings and old guard contributing to making Fulham’s return to the elite of English football a happy one for the home support.
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Commonwealth Equity Services LLC purchased a new stake in Capital Group Core Plus Income ETF (NYSEARCA:CGCP – Get Rating) in the first quarter, HoldingsChannel reports. The institutional investor purchased 153,721 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $3,882,000.
Separately, Landmark Wealth Management LLC acquired a new stake in Capital Group Core Plus Income ETF in the first quarter valued at $149,000.
Capital Group Core Plus Income ETF Stock Down 0.9 %
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How to watch Daria Saville vs. Kaia Kanepi at the Citi Open
Turn on MSG on August 6 to watch the semifinals of the Citi Open, which includes a head-to-head matchup between Daria Saville and Kaia Kanepi.
How to watch Daria Saville vs. Kaia Kanepi at the Citi Open
- Tournament: Citi Open
- Round: Semifinal
- Date: Saturday, August 6
- TV Channel: MSG
- Live Stream on fuboTV:Start your free trial today!
- Court Surface: Hard
Saville vs. Kanepi Matchup Info
Daria Saville vs. Kaia Kanepi Recent Performance
- Saville is coming off a 6-1, 7-5 victory over No. 111-ranked Rebecca Marino in the quarterfinals on Friday.
- In the quarterfinals, Kanepi won 6-7, 6-4, 6-3 versus Anna Kalinskaya on Friday.
- Saville has played 22.6 games per match (22.6 in three-set matches) in her 34 matches this year (across all court types).
- In terms of serve/return winning percentages this year, Saville has won 68.3% of her games on serve, and 35.2% on return.
- In terms of serve/return winning percentages on hard courts, Saville has won 68.2% of her games on serve, and 36.6% on return.
- Kanepi has played 30 matches this year, and 23.3 games per match across all court types (23.3 in three-set matches).
- Thus far this year, Kanepi has won 32.9% of her return games and 70.7% of her service games.
- On hard courts, Kanepi has won 40.6% of her return games and 68.8% of her service games.
How To Watch
August
6
2022
Citi Open, Semifinals
TV CHANNEL: MSG
Time
12:00
PM/EST
Live Stream: FUBOTV
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It's been almost a year since the Taliban took over Afghanistan again and the U.S. military pulled out of the country.
As the withdrawal unfolded, Marine Corps veteran Elliot Ackerman was watching the chaos from a distance. He was on a family vacation in Italy but couldn't tear himself away from what was happening.
Ackerman had deployed to Afghanistan multiple times. He felt bound to America's Afghan allies, so when the U.S. announced it was leaving and those same Afghans were desperate to get out, he lay awake at night, glued to his phone.
"My entire network was lighting up and it had become quickly a crowdsourced evacuation, with each person playing their part," Ackerman told Morning Edition.
''Some people were trying to raise money for charter flights, other people were arranging the buses that would transport evacuees from various pickup points in Kabul into the airport."
Ackerman was key because he knew Marines who were inside the airport, manning those gates and deciding who could come in and who could not. He writes about this experience in his new book, The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Interview highlights
On mobilizing to help Afghans evacuate
Everyone was very much focused on the task at hand, because the stakes are obviously very high. You know, you've got the photographs of the people who are trying to get out and their families, [because] these aren't people any of us knew — the only family that I got out who I had a direct personal connection to was my interpreter. He has since moved to the U.S. but his family was still there and we were able to get his family out. But everyone else, these were strangers and they were strangers for most of us. So in that moment, you can't really step away.
But there were certainly little interludes. And my wife, in the book, she almost comes off like a Greek chorus conscience of the book, saying, you know, "Why are you all having to do this? Why are the people who left the wars 10 years ago now being sucked in to try to finish them?"
On how he views America's exit from Afghanistan
I think it was a collapse of American morals that we made these promises and we fell short. It was a collapse of American competence. I mean, listen, despite the heroic efforts of those who were at the airport — and our efforts were truly heroic, so I'm not questioning their competence — but I would question the competence of decision-making that put us into this position where our back was up against a wall with this Aug. 31st withdrawal date that we couldn't seem to move.
It was a collapse of hierarchy, because as the war was ending in those days, I found myself on text chains and phone calls with retired four star generals and admirals, some of whom had commanded the entire war, because no one could get anyone out because of the craziness. And because, for a brief window, the team that I was working with was having some success, we found ourselves serving in this collapsed hierarchy all working together. And that was surreal for me at times.
On how it's impossible to really separate yourself from the experience of war
People have sometimes asked me, "Elliot, how do you think the war's changed you?" and I've never known how to answer that question. Because the war in so many ways made me. I don't know how to unbraid it out of the knots that are me. But the friendships that I have there, the memories that I have from that time, of course I think about and it's the time when I was growing up. I mean, I grew up there in the war.
I entered the service and started that training pipeline at 17 years old. And as you see in the book, those friendships have projected out because as Kabul was falling, so many of the people I'm working with, these are folks who've also transitioned. They've ended the wars themselves and we're all still friends.
On what an appropriate memorial would look like to these particular American wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
I started thinking about it with regards to the recent passage of the Global War on Terrorism Memorial Location Act, which has gone through Congress to authorize a memorial to these wars. But the global war on terrorism isn't over yet, so it's actually interesting.
For the first time as a country, we will be trying to make a memorial to a war that we are still technically fighting. But it got me thinking, how would you make a memorial to a forever war? And that got me thinking, well maybe what would be more appropriate instead of erecting all these memorials upward, maybe we should dig downward, kind of like the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
And I imagined a war memorial that would look almost like the sloping granite rock, sort of descending downward conically like something from Dante, and we would get rid of all the memorials to each specific war and we would just have one American War Memorial.
It would begin with the names, the first being Crispus Attucks, who was killed at the Boston Massacre. And we would just list them all chronologically digging ourselves deeper and deeper and deeper. So we have more than a million war dead at this point in our country's history. And every time we fund a new war, we just add the names going down and down into the earth. And then, in my imagination of this war memorial, when you got to the very last name, there would be a desk and a pen. And Congress would pass a law that before any troop deployment, the president — he or she — would have to come down to the war memorial and that pen would be the only pen that could be used to sign that troop deployments.
They would have to walk by all of the war dead before they would need to do that. And then we wouldn't have to have any more debates about war memorials — we would just know what we did every time we fought a war, we'd just add the names.
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Under Armour, Inc. (NYSE:UAA – Get Rating) – Equities researchers at William Blair dropped their Q3 2023 EPS estimates for shares of Under Armour in a note issued to investors on Wednesday, August 3rd. William Blair analyst S. Zackfia now forecasts that the company will post earnings of $0.17 per share for the quarter, down from their previous estimate of $0.23. William Blair currently has a “Sell” rating and a $7.00 price target on the stock. The consensus estimate for Under Armour’s current full-year earnings is $0.50 per share. William Blair also issued estimates for Under Armour’s Q4 2023 earnings at $0.11 EPS.
A number of other research analysts also recently issued reports on UAA. Credit Suisse Group dropped their price target on shares of Under Armour from $13.00 to $11.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a research report on Thursday. Cowen downgraded shares of Under Armour from an “outperform” rating to a “market perform” rating and dropped their price target for the stock from $13.00 to $10.00 in a research report on Tuesday, June 21st. Wedbush lowered their price objective on shares of Under Armour to $18.00 and set a “hold” rating for the company in a research note on Thursday, May 19th. Williams Capital lowered shares of Under Armour from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Thursday, May 19th. Finally, B. Riley set a $9.00 price objective on shares of Under Armour in a research note on Tuesday, July 19th. Two investment analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, eighteen have issued a hold rating and ten have issued a buy rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the company has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $14.54.
Under Armour Stock Up 0.3 %
Under Armour (NYSE:UAA – Get Rating) last posted its earnings results on Wednesday, August 3rd. The company reported $0.03 EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.04 by ($0.01). Under Armour had a return on equity of 11.61% and a net margin of 2.99%. During the same quarter last year, the company earned $0.24 EPS.
Insider Buying and Selling at Under Armour
In other Under Armour news, Director David W. Gibbs acquired 25,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Tuesday, May 31st. The shares were acquired at an average cost of $9.60 per share, with a total value of $240,000.00. Following the completion of the acquisition, the director now directly owns 50,000 shares in the company, valued at $480,000. The purchase was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this link. Insiders own 16.40% of the company’s stock.
Institutional Investors Weigh In On Under Armour
Institutional investors and hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of the company. CWM LLC lifted its holdings in shares of Under Armour by 172.6% in the first quarter. CWM LLC now owns 4,446 shares of the company’s stock worth $76,000 after buying an additional 2,815 shares in the last quarter. Cornerstone Advisory LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Under Armour in the fourth quarter worth about $39,000. State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D lifted its holdings in shares of Under Armour by 37.1% in the first quarter. State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D now owns 156,482 shares of the company’s stock worth $2,663,000 after buying an additional 42,333 shares in the last quarter. Janney Montgomery Scott LLC lifted its holdings in shares of Under Armour by 7.1% in the fourth quarter. Janney Montgomery Scott LLC now owns 17,234 shares of the company’s stock worth $365,000 after buying an additional 1,150 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Versor Investments LP lifted its holdings in shares of Under Armour by 100.3% in the first quarter. Versor Investments LP now owns 48,983 shares of the company’s stock worth $834,000 after buying an additional 24,532 shares in the last quarter. 38.72% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.
Under Armour Company Profile
Under Armour, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the developing, marketing, and distributing performance apparel, footwear, and accessories for men, women, and youth. The company offers its apparel in compression, fitted, and loose fit types. It also provides footwear products for running, training, basketball, cleated sports, recovery, and outdoor applications.
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Jacobi Capital Management LLC bought a new stake in shares of CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWD – Get Rating) in the 1st quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The institutional investor bought 1,824 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $414,000.
Several other institutional investors and hedge funds have also added to or reduced their stakes in CRWD. Beese Fulmer Investment Management Inc. lifted its position in shares of CrowdStrike by 1.0% in the 1st quarter. Beese Fulmer Investment Management Inc. now owns 5,121 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,163,000 after acquiring an additional 50 shares in the last quarter. Gemmer Asset Management LLC lifted its position in shares of CrowdStrike by 1.5% in the 1st quarter. Gemmer Asset Management LLC now owns 3,383 shares of the company’s stock valued at $768,000 after acquiring an additional 50 shares in the last quarter. Capital Investment Advisors LLC lifted its position in shares of CrowdStrike by 4.3% in the 1st quarter. Capital Investment Advisors LLC now owns 1,338 shares of the company’s stock valued at $304,000 after acquiring an additional 55 shares in the last quarter. Evanson Asset Management LLC lifted its position in CrowdStrike by 1.6% in the 1st quarter. Evanson Asset Management LLC now owns 3,455 shares of the company’s stock worth $785,000 after buying an additional 56 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Montag A & Associates Inc. lifted its position in CrowdStrike by 44.1% in the 4th quarter. Montag A & Associates Inc. now owns 196 shares of the company’s stock worth $40,000 after buying an additional 60 shares in the last quarter. 63.02% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
CrowdStrike Stock Up 1.0 %
Shares of CrowdStrike stock opened at $191.17 on Friday. The firm has a fifty day moving average price of $175.99 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $183.55. CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. has a fifty-two week low of $130.00 and a fifty-two week high of $298.48. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.66, a current ratio of 1.83 and a quick ratio of 1.83.
Wall Street Analyst Weigh In
A number of research firms have issued reports on CRWD. Oppenheimer cut their target price on shares of CrowdStrike from $300.00 to $250.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a research report on Friday, June 3rd. Canaccord Genuity Group cut their target price on shares of CrowdStrike from $260.00 to $200.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research report on Thursday, May 19th. Jefferies Financial Group increased their target price on shares of CrowdStrike from $200.00 to $215.00 in a research report on Friday, June 3rd. BTIG Research cut their target price on shares of CrowdStrike from $257.00 to $234.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research report on Friday, June 3rd. Finally, Royal Bank of Canada dropped their price target on shares of CrowdStrike from $275.00 to $225.00 in a research note on Tuesday, May 31st. Twenty-seven analysts have rated the stock with a buy rating, According to data from MarketBeat.com, the company presently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and a consensus target price of $251.38.
Insider Transactions at CrowdStrike
In other news, insider Shawn Henry sold 8,713 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, June 21st. The shares were sold at an average price of $165.03, for a total transaction of $1,437,906.39. Following the completion of the transaction, the insider now directly owns 185,584 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $30,626,927.52. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this hyperlink. In related news, insider Shawn Henry sold 8,713 shares of CrowdStrike stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, June 21st. The shares were sold at an average price of $165.03, for a total transaction of $1,437,906.39. Following the completion of the transaction, the insider now directly owns 185,584 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $30,626,927.52. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website. Also, CEO George Kurtz sold 71,528 shares of CrowdStrike stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, June 21st. The shares were sold at an average price of $165.35, for a total transaction of $11,827,154.80. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer now directly owns 958,309 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $158,456,393.15. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. In the last three months, insiders sold 91,679 shares of company stock valued at $15,154,848. Company insiders own 6.82% of the company’s stock.
CrowdStrike Profile
CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc provides cloud-delivered protection across endpoints and cloud workloads, identity, and data. It offers threat intelligence, managed security services, IT operations management, threat hunting, Zero Trust identity protection, and log management. The company primarily sells subscriptions to its Falcon platform and cloud modules through its direct sales team that leverages its network of channel partners.
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- Mitrovic stars to frustrate lacklustre Liverpool
- Van Dijk out of sorts & concedes penalty
- Nunez & Salah rescue a point
WHAT HAPPENED? Fulham were denied a shock win over Liverpool on the opening weekend of the Premier League season as two goals from Aleksandar Mitrovic were cancelled out by Darwin Nunez and Mohamed Salah.
THE BIGGER PICTURE: Fulham have every reason to celebrate after securing an unlikely point against Jurgen Klopp's side, with the German furious with the below-par Reds, who needed new signing Nunez to bail them out.
THE MATCH IN THREE PHOTOS:
DID YOU KNOW?
Mohamed Salah has scored on the opening day every single season he's been at Liverpool 👑 pic.twitter.com/qVQerLuYuc
— GOAL (@goal) August 6, 2022
WHAT'S THE VIBE?
A frustrating start for Liverpool, as much in terms of performance as result.
— Neil Jones (@neiljonesgoal) August 6, 2022
Clear improvement once Nunez was on field, but too many short of their normal level today, across the pitch. Injuries already a worry.
Fulham deserving of a result, Mitrovic excellent.#LFC #FULLIV pic.twitter.com/W6xoNx4JVi
Trent Alexander Arnold at the back post again, if I speak I’m in big trouble…
— Mod (@CFCMod_) August 6, 2022
"Then we wanted to fight back, but then you don't find it easy. The pitch was dry.. we played really in their cards."
— NBC Sports Soccer (@NBCSportsSoccer) August 6, 2022
Jurgen Klopp doesn't think his side deserved more than a point against Fulham. #MyPLMorning | #LFC pic.twitter.com/2pZToqDZ73
So a chastening afternoon for Klopp and his Liverpool side and surely now it's time to start Nunez?
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NEW YORK (AP) — In 2020, Kelly Jackson and Davina Arceneaux wanted to leave their company jobs and become business owners. They were looking for something both COVID-proof and recession-resistant.
Instead of completely stepping out from under a corporate umbrella, they looked at franchising. The two worried about the notoriously tight margins for restaurants. They looked at a drug testing franchise, but the initial investment was too steep.
A franchising mentor told them about Motto Mortgage Home Services, and Jackson and Arceneaux opened one in Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois, in July of 2020 with an initial investment of $35,000.
“People always need new places to live and are always buying and selling houses,” Jackson said. He takes rising interest rates in stride. “Interest rates move up and down, that’s what they do, that’s part of the industry.”
Jackson and Arceneaux, who had been a senior IT program and project manager and an assistant director of catering, respectively, had no experience with mortgages, but Motto Mortgage provided training and support.
“You don’t necessarily need experience in that industry in order to go into that category, the brand will train you,” said Matt Haller, president and CEO of the International Franchise Association.
In the months after the pandemic hit, many people with corporate jobs decided to strike out on their own, in what’s referred to as the “Great Resignation." They looked for alternatives, including opening up a franchise with an established brand.
The “quasi-preneurs” opening franchises say they like the ability to buy into a proven brand name and the access to tools and operations that you wouldn’t get if you started your own small business. But franchising has plenty of challenges, too. There are a lot of rules and regulations to abide by. Contracts are lengthy and can be difficult to terminate.
The number of U.S. franchises grew an estimated 3% in 2021 to 774,965 after a dip in 2020, according to IFA. Those include big franchises like McDonald’s or 7-Eleven, but all types of businesses can be franchised, from pool cleaners to barbershops.
There are about 3,000 franchisor brands in the U.S. The IFA predicts franchises in the U.S. will grow 2% to 792,014 this year. That’s still just a fraction of the 32.5 million total small businesses in the U.S.
Franchise owners buy in with an initial fee – anywhere from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars -- to get their business, and then pay a monthly royalty percentage. In return, they get use of the brand name and marketing, and other support.
As a classically trained pastry chef, Helen Kim often dreamed of owning her own bakery. But when she decided to strike out on her own, Kim thought building a business from scratch would be “too big of a mountain for me to climb.”
While working at the Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Kim was a frequent customer at Paris Baguette. She was impressed, and last year bought a Paris Baguette franchise in the city with her sister.
While the financial requirements are strict -- according to the company website, franchisees need a net worth of $1.5 million and $500,000 in liquid assets – Kim said it was worth it. While the money invested in a franchise is still at risk if the business fails, brand name recognition and franchisor support offer more of a safety net than establishing an unknown brand.
However, getting used to a franchise structure can be an adjustment. When Chris Dordell and his husband Jason Fenske decided to leave their jobs at Wells Fargo and Salesforce and open two Club Pilates in 2018 and a YogaSix studio in 2020, in and around Palm Springs, they appreciated the playbook provided by the franchisor, Xponential.
“It was appealing at this stage after being in corporate jobs for 20-plus years that we could plug into an existing model,” Dordell said.
But Dordell said following the corporate rule book took some adjusting to. There were some costs incurred while building the franchises that could have been cut, but “in keeping the consistency across the company, we were required to follow the model.”
If a franchisor changes corporate management or gets sold, a franchisee can be left in the lurch.
Tom Lee and his wife opened a home health care franchise, Home Care Assistance, in Burlington, Vermont, at the end of 2016, after Lee decided to leave his career in sales management for a large company. After initially investing $300,000 and spending three years living on savings and not taking a salary, the business began to take off.
Lee currently employs 65 caregivers and had double-digit profit increases in 2020 and 2021. But the franchisor changed ownership and starting buying back franchisees to operate them privately. In 2022 it rebranded to The Key, leaving the remaining 20 or so franchisees, still known as Home Care Assistance, in limbo.
Lee said he’s still paying a 5% monthly royalty fee, but is not getting the same support. The Key made one offer to buy the business back, but it was well below market value, Lee said.
The Key did not respond to a request for comment.
“They don’t have the personnel to support us anymore,” he said. “They’ve really abandoned the brand.”
As with any business venture, franchisees need to be aware of what they’re getting themselves into.
Mario Herman, a lawyer based in Washington that focuses on franchise litigation, said it’s important for potential franchisees to go over the contracts carefully to make sure nothing is being obscured like previous bankruptcies or a lack of profitability.
Earlier this year the Federal Trade Commission sued Burgerim, a Calabasas, California, burger chain franchisor that it claims lured 1,500 people into paying $50,000 to $70,000 in fees to open franchises without giving them enough information about risks. Burgerim promised a refund if franchisees couldn't open a restaurant, but did not deliver, according to the complaint. Burgerim didn’t respond to a request for comment.
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Crystal Palace 0, Arsenal 2
Fulham 2, Liverpool 2
Bournemouth vs. Aston Villa, 10 a.m.
Leeds vs. Wolverhampton, 10 a.m.
Newcastle vs. Nottingham Forest, 10 a.m.
Tottenham vs. Southampton, 10 a.m.
Everton vs. Chelsea, 12:30 p.m.
Leicester vs. Brentford, 9 a.m.
Man United vs. Brighton, 9 a.m.
West Ham vs. Man City, 11:30 a.m.
Aston Villa vs. Everton, 7:30 a.m.
Arsenal vs. Leicester, 10 a.m.
Brighton vs. Newcastle, 10 a.m.
Man City vs. Bournemouth, 10 a.m.
Southampton vs. Leeds, 10 a.m.
Wolverhampton vs. Fulham, 10 a.m.
Brentford vs. Man United, 12:30 p.m.
Nottingham Forest vs. West Ham, 9 a.m.
Chelsea vs. Tottenham, 11:30 a.m.
Liverpool vs. Crystal Palace, 3 p.m.
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Huddersfield 0, Burnley 1
Blackburn 1, QPR 0
Blackpool 1, Reading 0
Cardiff 1, Norwich 0
Hull 2, Bristol City 1
Luton Town 0, Birmingham 0
Millwall 2, Stoke 0
Rotherham 1, Swansea 1
Wigan 0, Preston 0
Middlesbrough 1, West Brom 1
Sunderland 1, Coventry 1
Watford 1, Sheffield United 0
Birmingham 2, Huddersfield 1
Norwich 1, Wigan 1
Bristol City vs. Sunderland, 10 a.m.
Burnley vs. Luton Town, 10 a.m.
Preston vs. Hull, 10 a.m.
QPR vs. Middlesbrough, 10 a.m.
Reading vs. Cardiff, 10 a.m.
Sheffield United vs. Millwall, 10 a.m.
Stoke vs. Blackpool, 10 a.m.
Swansea vs. Blackburn, 10 a.m.
Coventry vs. Rotherham, 10 a.m.
West Brom vs. Watford, 3 p.m.
Watford vs. Burnley, 3 p.m.
Cardiff vs. Birmingham, 7:30 a.m.
Blackpool vs. Swansea, 10 a.m.
Huddersfield vs. Stoke, 10 a.m.
Hull vs. Norwich, 10 a.m.
Luton Town vs. Preston, 10 a.m.
Millwall vs. Coventry, 10 a.m.
Rotherham vs. Reading, 10 a.m.
Sunderland vs. QPR, 10 a.m.
Wigan vs. Bristol City, 10 a.m.
Middlesbrough vs. Sheffield United, 9 a.m.
Blackburn vs. West Brom, 10 a.m.
Birmingham vs. Watford, 2:45 p.m.
Bristol City vs. Luton Town, 2:45 p.m.
Burnley vs. Hull, 2:45 p.m.
Coventry vs. Wigan, 2:45 p.m.
Norwich vs. Huddersfield, 2:45 p.m.
Preston vs. Rotherham, 2:45 p.m.
Swansea vs. Millwall, 2:45 p.m.
QPR vs. Blackpool, 3 p.m.
Stoke vs. Middlesbrough, 2:45 p.m.
Sheffield United vs. Sunderland, 3 p.m.
Reading vs. Blackburn, 3 p.m.
West Brom vs. Cardiff, 3 p.m.
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Accrington Stanley 2, Charlton 2
Bristol Rovers 1, Forest Green 2
Cambridge United 1, Milton Keynes Dons 0
Cheltenham 2, Peterborough 3
Derby 1, Oxford United 0
Ipswich 1, Bolton 1
Lincoln 1, Exeter 1
Morecambe 0, Shrewsbury 0
Plymouth 1, Barnsley 0
Port Vale 2, Fleetwood Town 1
Sheffield Wednesday 3, Portsmouth 3
Wycombe 3, Burton Albion 0
Barnsley vs. Cheltenham, 10 a.m.
Bolton vs. Wycombe, 10 a.m.
Burton Albion vs. Bristol Rovers, 10 a.m.
Charlton vs. Derby, 10 a.m.
Exeter vs. Port Vale, 10 a.m.
Fleetwood Town vs. Plymouth, 10 a.m.
Forest Green vs. Ipswich, 10 a.m.
Milton Keynes Dons vs. Sheffield Wednesday, 10 a.m.
Oxford United vs. Cambridge United, 10 a.m.
Peterborough vs. Morecambe, 10 a.m.
Portsmouth vs. Lincoln, 10 a.m.
Shrewsbury vs. Accrington Stanley, 10 a.m.
Bristol Rovers vs. Oxford United, 7:30 a.m.
Accrington Stanley vs. Burton Albion, 10 a.m.
Cambridge United vs. Exeter, 10 a.m.
Cheltenham vs. Portsmouth, 10 a.m.
Derby vs. Barnsley, 10 a.m.
Ipswich vs. Milton Keynes Dons, 10 a.m.
Lincoln vs. Forest Green, 10 a.m.
Morecambe vs. Fleetwood Town, 10 a.m.
Plymouth vs. Peterborough, 10 a.m.
Port Vale vs. Bolton, 10 a.m.
Sheffield Wednesday vs. Charlton, 10 a.m.
Wycombe vs. Shrewsbury, 10 a.m.
Barnsley vs. Bristol Rovers, 2:45 p.m.
Bolton vs. Morecambe, 2:45 p.m.
Burton Albion vs. Ipswich, 2:45 p.m.
Charlton vs. Plymouth, 2:45 p.m.
Exeter vs. Wycombe, 2:45 p.m.
Fleetwood Town vs. Cheltenham, 2:45 p.m.
Forest Green vs. Accrington Stanley, 2:45 p.m.
Milton Keynes Dons vs. Port Vale, 2:45 p.m.
Oxford United vs. Lincoln, 2:45 p.m.
Peterborough vs. Sheffield Wednesday, 2:45 p.m.
Portsmouth vs. Cambridge United, 2:45 p.m.
Shrewsbury vs. Derby, 2:45 p.m.
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AFC Wimbledon 2, Gillingham 0
Bradford 0, Doncaster 0
Carlisle 1, Crawley Town 0
Harrogate Town 3, Swindon 0
Leyton Orient 2, Grimsby Town 0
Northampton 3, Colchester 2
Rochdale 1, Crewe 2
Salford 2, Mansfield Town 0
Stockport County 2, Barrow 3
Sutton United 1, Newport County 1
Tranmere 1, Stevenage 2
Walsall 4, Hartlepool 0
Barrow vs. Bradford, 10 a.m.
Colchester vs. Carlisle, 10 a.m.
Crawley Town vs. Leyton Orient, 10 a.m.
Crewe vs. Harrogate Town, 10 a.m.
Doncaster vs. Sutton United, 10 a.m.
Gillingham vs. Rochdale, 10 a.m.
Grimsby Town vs. Northampton, 10 a.m.
Hartlepool vs. AFC Wimbledon, 10 a.m.
Mansfield Town vs. Tranmere, 10 a.m.
Newport County vs. Walsall, 10 a.m.
Stevenage vs. Stockport County, 10 a.m.
Swindon vs. Salford, 10 a.m.
AFC Wimbledon vs. Doncaster, 10 a.m.
Bradford vs. Newport County, 10 a.m.
Carlisle vs. Swindon, 10 a.m.
Harrogate Town vs. Crawley Town, 10 a.m.
Leyton Orient vs. Mansfield Town, 10 a.m.
Northampton vs. Hartlepool, 10 a.m.
Rochdale vs. Grimsby Town, 10 a.m.
Salford vs. Crewe, 10 a.m.
Stockport County vs. Colchester, 10 a.m.
Sutton United vs. Barrow, 10 a.m.
Tranmere vs. Gillingham, 10 a.m.
Walsall vs. Stevenage, 10 a.m.
Barrow vs. Walsall, 2:45 p.m.
Colchester vs. Bradford, 2:45 p.m.
Crawley Town vs. Northampton, 2:45 p.m.
Crewe vs. Sutton United, 2:45 p.m.
Gillingham vs. Harrogate Town, 2:45 p.m.
Grimsby Town vs. Carlisle, 2:45 p.m.
Hartlepool vs. Tranmere, 2:45 p.m.
Mansfield Town vs. AFC Wimbledon, 2:45 p.m.
Newport County vs. Salford, 2:45 p.m.
Stevenage vs. Rochdale, 2:45 p.m.
Swindon vs. Leyton Orient, 2:45 p.m.
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Boxing legend Canelo Alvarez spotted training his three-year-old son ahead of his trilogy bout with Gennady Golovkin
CANELO ALVAREZ has posted footage training his three-year-old son ahead of his trilogy bout with Gennady Golovkin next month.
The Mexican, 32, takes on his Kazakh rival for a third time in Las Vegas on September 17.
But he took some time out of his rigorous training to teach his young son, 3, some boxing skills.
Canelo could be seen showing his boy an uppercut, left hook, right hand combination.
And his son then imitated Canelo by hitting the pads in the gym as he enjoyed his first taste of boxing.
Four-weight world champion Canelo drew with Golovkin back in 2017 in a fight many felt he lost.
He then rematched Golovkin 12 months later and this time secured a majority decision victory in another close contest.
Since then, the pair have exchanged trash talk in the press and their rivalry now comes to a head with a trilogy clash.
Canelo is coming off the back of a second defeat of his professional career - a unanimous decision loss to Dmitry Bivol.
Meanwhile, Golovkin has picked up four successive wins since losing to Canelo in 2018.
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In his latest bout, he stopped Japanese fighter Ryōta Murata back in April.
Exploding in a rant about Golovkin last month, Canelo told TMZ: "He's a f***ing a**hole.
"He's not honest. He pretends to be a good person and be different but he's not.
"He talks a lot of s*** about me. He'll say, 'I respect him, his career.' And, other part, 'he's an embarrassing boxer, he's embarrassing for Mexican boxing'.
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Macclesfield-formed band Cassia celebrate release of second album
Cassia, made up of Macc lads Rob Ellis (vocal and guitar,) Jake Leff (bass guitar) and Louis Cotterill (drums) released ‘Why You Lacking Energy?’ last month and are currently playing festivals
A band formed of friends from school are celebrating the release of their second album.
Cassia, made up of Macc lads Rob Ellis (vocal and guitar,) Jake Leff (bass guitar) and Louis Cotterill (drums) released ‘Why You Lacking Energy?’ last month and are currently touring festivals around the UK.
Rob and Louis both attended Fallibroome High School, while Jake attended All Hallows Catholic College, with the boys getting their start by playing pubs and clubs around Macclesfield after finishing their A-Levels - releasing their first EP in 2016.
Speaking from Trackside Studios on Elizabeth Street, where they are rehearsing for their upcoming tour dates, the band said it ‘feels great’ to finally have the album out in the world and playing shows after Covid.
“It’s just nice to have some new tunes,” said Rob, who now lives in Didsbury.
“We spent ages on it so it feels like quite an achievement to have this piece of work out in the world. It just feels great, really good.
“It feels like it’s really picked up. The shows are absolutely packed; it's great fun. I didn’t really know what to expect after everyone’s been through so much but it’s super exciting.”
After leaving school the band began playing regular gigs around the pubs and clubs of Macclesfield.
These included shows at the Swan and Snowgoose Live before moving on to play gigs in Manchester.
“It would be good to get some more venues in Macc, because we are eager to come back and play but it’s just finding the space,” said Rob.
The band returned to their home town to launch their new album at town centre venue Mash Guru - an event attended by all their family and friends.
Jake, who still lives in Macclesfield, said: “I remember we did a similar thing for the first album in Mash. It was mainly people I’d seen from Macclesfield but then this time the majority of people weren’t from Macc, which I found really cool.
“It was almost like we were welcoming people and showing people where we’re from, in a way. It was nice to introduce people to that.”
The boys are also well aware of the strong musical heritage in Macclesfield, especially Joy Division - with Rob saying he has been mistaken for Ian Curtis on the town’s new mural.
He said: “I’ve had a lot of people come up and say, I’ve seen the mural of you. I think it’s just the angle of it. I’ve had three people say ‘is that you on the building?’
“There’s definitely a good group of bands you look up to like Joy Division and local bands. We’ve got loads of mates who are in bands and the schools are really accommodating for music in Macclesfield.
“It’s got a small town vibe but then it’s close to Manchester. It gives you the space to think, you've got the rolling hills - inspiration on your doorstep.”
Jake added: “You don’t get distracted because there’s not much going on - you just get on with it. We’ll maybe go for a pint on a Friday but apart from that we’re making music all the time.
“Drake says he leaves LA and goes to Canada and makes his stuff in a vacuum. We’re kind of like the North West of England Drake.”
Cassia will be headlining a stage at this year’s Leeds Festival before heading off on tour around the UK and Europe playing Manchester’s Academy 2 on October 13.
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The Walker Rotary Club has donated $500 to Central Lakes Rotary Club to support their efforts to end human trafficking. On Aug. 2, retired licensed psychologist Mary Kay Verkennes from the Central Lakes Rotary Club spoke to the Walker Rotary on the overwhelming problem of human trafficking. In the United States alone, two to four million victims are being trafficked. Seventy-five percent are exploited for sex, almost half are children and 80 percent are women and girls. Worldwide, it is estimated there are 40 million slaves. You can help. Write down suspicious car models and license numbers, call the police or 911. The human trafficking hotline is (888) 373-7888. Support Rotary Ends Human Trafficking by attending the REHT Music Festival Aug. 12-14 at the Lakes Music and Events Park in Pine River. The festival will feature live music, food vendors as well as a children’s area. All profits go to bring awareness and education to Cass and Crow Wing counties. Bring your lawn chairs and enjoy this important event. Check it out at rehtmusicfestival.com. Pictured (from left) are Rotarian and the REHT Music Festival chairperson Duane Foss, Verkennes and Rotarian Dan Eikenberry. Photo submitted
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ROCKAWAY, N.J. (WPIX) — A restaurant employee in New Jersey has earned a new nickname — “Hoagie Hero” — after coming to the aid of a choking customer on Thursday.
Danielle Buccielli, 21, was working at PrimoHoagies in Rockaway when she jumped into action to save the woman. The dramatic moment was captured on the store’s security cameras.
Buccielli told WPIX she was at the cash register when she noticed the woman clutching her stomach and gasping for air. Within seconds, Buccielli ran from behind the counter and performed the Heimlich maneuver on the customer.
“I think it was all the adrenaline, the muscle memory, just, you know what you have to do, and you do it,” Buccielli said.
Buccielli was actually trained in the Heimlich at 15 years old when she took a public safety class. She also joined her local fire department at 16.
Luckily for the customer, Buccielli was also stationed up front at the cashier. She normally works in the back.
Lizzy Sengle, Buccielli’s coworker, said Buccielli deserves all the praise she’s getting.
“It happened so quick, you don’t even realize it,” Sengle told WPIX. “Then you watch back and, you’re like, it’s the split second between life and death.”
The customer thanked Buccielli for saving her life, but declined to be interviewed. But Buccielli told WPIX she’s just happy the incident had a happy ending.
“I don’t do it to be a hero, just to help people,” Buccielli said. “It’s the most important thing.”
Buccielli’s employers at PrimoHoagies, meanwhile, thought her good deed deserved a reward, telling WPIX they were giving her $1,000. | https://www.fox46.com/nexstar-media-wire/watch-hoagie-hero-saves-choking-customer-at-nj-sub-shop/ | 2022-08-06T15:54:29Z | https://www.fox46.com/nexstar-media-wire/watch-hoagie-hero-saves-choking-customer-at-nj-sub-shop/ | true | 16 |
After an extra-innings defeat on Friday, the Toronto Blue Jays are back at it against the Minnesota Twins tonight.
The pregame narrative: Vladimir Guerrero Jr. looks to continue his torrid run, Byron Buxton has a strong opportunity to score, and Dylan Bundy and Jose Miranda are pieces of a plus-money parlay.
Here are our Blue Jays vs. Twins prop picks for August 6.
Blue Jays vs. Twins prop picks overview
- Vladimir Guerrero Jr. over 1.5 total bases (-112)
- Byron Buxton over 0.5 runs scored (+100)
- Dylan Bundy over 3.5 strikeouts & Jose Miranda over 0.5 hits (+128)
Blue Jays vs. Twins prop picks
Best bet: Guerrero over 1.5 total bases (-112)
At the risk of sounding repetitive, we’re going back to Vladimir Guerrero Jr. as our best bet tonight. After all, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
Guerrero has cleared this line in 11 of his last 15 games and is slashing .441/.500/.729 in that span with eight doubles and three home runs — including this two-run shot last night:
Moving up to the No. 2 spot has done wonders for the 23-year-old.
Guerrero’s BA is more than 90 points higher when hitting second (.363) compared to third (.272), and he’s been racking up extra-base hits in 13.75% of at-bats since the lineup adjustment.
Toronto’s first baseman hasn’t had much success against Minnesota’s Dylan Bundy, with just two hits in 14 at-bats. That said, Guerrero’s only struck out once against the Twins starter and holds a 21.4% whiff rate against Bundy, well below his average of 32.4%.
Vladdy puts the ball in play against Bundy, and with the way he’s swinging it right now, we’re confident he’ll be able to rack up bases against the struggling right-hander.
Key stat: Guerrero has averaged 3.00 total bases per game over the past two weeks (second-most in MLB).
Read more: Blue Jays vs. Twins picks and odds
Quick picks
Buxton over 0.5 runs (+100): Buxton has been on a bit of a cold streak but has still cashed this prop in three of his last five games, scoring five total runs over that span. He leads the Twins with 57 runs scored this year in just 80 games played and should have a favourable matchup to get on base tonight.
Buxton’s biggest weakness is his 30.1 K% (bottom seven percent of MLB). Toronto’s starter Mitch White isn’t known for racking up punchouts, evidenced by his subpar 7.6 K/9.
Read more: Odds to win the World Series
Bundy over 3.5 Ks & Miranda over 0.5 hits (+128): We’re going to take two pretty juiced lines and combine them for a nice little plus-money parlay.
Bundy is faced with clearing an extremely modest 3.5 strikeout line (-175), which he’s done in three of his last five starts. Minnesota’s righty also holds a 30.7 K% against Toronto’s current lineup, with 43 strikeouts in 140 plate appearances.
Miranda has recorded a hit in nine of 12 games and is coming off a stellar July (.353/.405/.603 slash line in 20 games).
Odds as of 10:55 a.m. on 08/06/2022.
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Choco Taco may make a return, Klondike says
(CNN) - The Choco Taco may yet get a second life.
Klondike says an outpouring of support for the product has made them “reconsider our long-term plans.”
It was a few weeks ago the ice cream novelty-maker shook social media when it announced the Choco Taco would be discontinued.
They said the reason for the discontinuation was “a result of complex production challenges” amid the pandemic.
Klondike’s announcement upset many on Twitter.
Even U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat chimed in to jokingly announce he would push to invoke the Defense Production Act to “mandate” Choco Taco production.
Klondike in a statement says a plan to bring it back is in the works, although “it may take some time.”
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Northern Alaska has a winter storm warning with up to 8 inches of snow possible, and the Tanana Valley weather forecast shows nothing but rain with high temperatures in the 50s.
“We have definitely turned a corner into fall,” said Jonathan Chriest, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
In the northeastern Brooks Range above 2,000 feet, heavy snow is expected, along with difficult traveling conditions.
A winter storm warning for northern Alaska started at 1 a.m. Saturday and runs through 4 a.m. Sunday.
Rains are expected to turn to snow above 3,000 feet, with the snow level dropping by Saturday morning and snow continuing before tapering off early Sunday.
“Snow will be heavy at times with low visibility,” the National Weather Service storm warning reads. “This will make travel on the Dalton Highway over Atigun Pass difficult from late tonight (Friday) through Saturday night.
“Total snow accumulations of 6 to 8 inches are possible above 3,000 feet, with 2 to 4 inches from 2,000 to 3,000 feet.”
In Fairbanks, after a summer of sun and smoke, Chriest said rain is the norm now.
The “changeover to rain is pretty typical for this time of year, in August,” he said.
The cause is a long wave trough, or a weatherly flow characterized by long length and long duration, and it includes cooler air with high temperatures generally in the 50s with lows dropping into the 30s at times.
“That’s going to pretty much stay in place for the next week,” Chriest said. “We are expecting wet and cool conditions with snow possible over 3,000 feet.”
Contact staff writer Amanda Bohman at 907-459-7545, at abohman@newsminer.com or follow her at twitter.com/FDNMborough. | https://www.newsminer.com/news/local_news/winter-storm-warning-rain-usher-in-august-in-the-interior/article_440e7952-1515-11ed-98db-9303ae210131.html | 2022-08-06T16:02:32Z | https://www.newsminer.com/news/local_news/winter-storm-warning-rain-usher-in-august-in-the-interior/article_440e7952-1515-11ed-98db-9303ae210131.html | true | 1 |
MILWAUKEE — Eric Lauer pitched seven strong innings, Rowdy Tellez and Tyrone Taylor homered, and the Milwaukee Brewers shook out of their post-trade deadline funk with a 5-1 win over the Cincinnati Reds on Friday night.
NL Central-leading Milwaukee had lost three straight since dealing All-Star closer Josh Hader to San Diego on Monday.
Tellez hit a two-run shot in the first inning off Robert Dugger (0-1), and Taylor followed with a three-run blast in the third.
"We've played good baseball, and we know when we play good baseball, we win," Brewers manager Craig Counsell said. "Pitched very well tonight, couple home runs with some guys on base and played solid defense."
Lauer (8-3) worked out of trouble early, loading the bases in the first and putting two aboard in each of the next two frames. But the Reds couldn't cash in until Kyle Farmer's RBI single in the fifth.
"It's way nicer pitching with a lead, pitching when you're out in front," Lauer said. "You have some wiggle room. You can just go out there, pound the zone and really attack guys."
Cincinnati threatened in the ninth, putting two on with one out against Trevor Gott. The Brewers then turned to Devin Williams, who fanned Matt Reynolds and Jonathan India for his seventh save of the season and his first since taking over for Hader.
"We were putting something together in the ninth but Williams came in and did a nice job," Cincinnati manager David Bell said. "We just have to keep going."
NO REGRETS
Brewers president of baseball operations David Stearns and principal owner Mark Attanasio stood by the decision to trade Hader.
"Cost-cutting had absolutely nothing to do with this," Attanasio said. "Every player that was available, we had the resources to pick up — not just for the balance of (this) season but for (any remaining) seasons on their contract."
Stearns noted the Brewers' payroll went up after he picked up reliever Trevor Rosenthal, and he was in talks about other deals.
"We were engaged with a number of players the day before the deadline and the day of the deadline that had we been able to pull off a deal, our payroll would have gone up even further," Stearns said. "Ultimately, we didn't make those deals because I made a decision that the talent asked was too high."
RUNNERS-UP HONORED
The 40th anniversary of the Brewers' only World Series appearance, in 1982, was commemorated during a pregame ceremony. Hall of Famers Paul Molitor, Robin Yount and Rollie Fingers were in attendance.
"They're just a unique bunch of guys, as a fan you form a bond with one of them, they're your favorite," Counsell said. "That's what makes it last. They were a great baseball team, too, for a number of years."
TRAINER'S ROOM
Reds: RHP Hunter Greene was placed on the 15-day injured list with a strained right shoulder, and reliever Ryan Hendrix was recalled from Triple-A Louisville. ... RHP Jeff Hoffman (right forearm) was slated to throw a bullpen session Friday and could return to the team as early as next week. ... RHP Art Warren (right flexor strain) is expected to start a minor-league rehab assignment sometime in the next few days.
Brewers: Counsell said it's too early to determine the severity of C Omar Narvaez's strained quad.
UP NEXT
Brewers left-hander Aaron Ashby (2-9, 4.13 ERA) faces Cincinnati lefty Nick Lodolo (3-3, 4.23) on Saturday night.
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This story has been corrected to show that the Brewers were the American League champions, not the World Series champions, in 1982. The Brewers lost the World Series to the National League champion St. Louis Cardinals.
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The mass shift online brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic coincided with a boom of so-called “sextortion scams,” new data from Statistics Canada suggests.
As authorities aim to educate youth and parents about online sex crimes, experts are calling for more regulation, education and law enforcement.
Sexual extortion, or sextortion, occurs when someone threatens to distribute private, often sexually explicit, material online if the victim doesn’t comply with their demands, usually for money.
The crime gained national attention almost a decade ago when 15-year-old Amanda Todd from Port Coquitlam, B.C., died by suicide after posting a video where she used flash cards to describe being tormented by an anonymous cyberbully. It has been watched more than 14 million times.
The trial of her alleged harasser, Dutch national Aydin Coban, began in the B.C. Supreme Court in June.
He pleaded not guilty to extortion, harassment, communication with a young person to commit a sexual offence and possession and distribution of child pornography. He was not charged in relation to Todd’s death.
Closing arguments in the case wrapped earlier this week and the jury is now deliberating.
Signy Arnason, associate executive director at the Canadian Centre for Child Protection, said the issue has grown exponentially since Todd took her life in October 2012.
“It’s out of control,” she said in an interview.
Police across the country have been issuing warnings to the public about sextortion scams targeting youth.
“Unfortunately, police around the world have tragically seen some of these incidents end in victims taking their own lives,” Nova Scotia RCMP Internet Child Exploitation Unit Cpl. Mark Sobieraj said in a news release last week. “We’re urging parents and guardians to talk with children about the potential dangers, emphasizing that they can come to you for help.”
Statistics Canada data released Tuesday shows police-reported extortion cases in Canada rose by nearly 300 per cent in the last decade, but the crime significantly rose during the pandemic.
Incidents of non-consensual distribution of intimate images involving adult or child victims increased by 194 cases in 2021, representing a nine per cent jump from the year before, and a 52 per cent increase compared with the previous five-year average.
“These concerning increases are being facilitated by social media platforms and other electronic services providers,” said the Canadian Centre for Child Protection’s executive director, Lianna McDonald, in a news release. “It should be a wake-up call.”
Cybertip.ca, a national tip line for reporting online child sexual abuse, said it has received “an unprecedented volume of reports from youth and sometimes their concerned parents about falling prey to aggressive sextortion tactics,” amounting to about 300 online extortion cases a month.
Wayne MacKay, a professor emeritus of law at Dalhousie University, said the increase could be partly explained by awareness and better policing of cybercrime, but noted research also suggests that online child sexual abuse often goes unreported.
A review of the 322 sextortion cases Cybertip.ca received in July found that when gender was known, 92 per cent of them involved boys or young men.
“The review also showed an emerging tactic where the victim is sent nude images of children from the person behind the fake account. The offender will then threaten to report the victim to police, claiming they are in possession of child sexual abuse material. Demands for money immediately follow,” the child protection centre said in a news release this week.
David Fraser, an internet and privacy lawyer with the Canadian law firm McInnes Cooper in Halifax, said a main reason some youth may not come forward is they believe they could be charged with child pornography of their own image. He said this is a wide misconception, sometimes even among law enforcement.
“We need to be very careful about the messaging we send to young people, just to make sure that there are safe places that they can go to and get support before things escalate,” Fraser said.
He cited a 2001 Supreme Court of Canada decision that established a “personal use” exception to the child pornography provisions. It said young people have a right to create intimate images of themselves as long as they don’t depict illegal sexual activity, are held only for private use, and were created with the consent of the people in the image.
Fraser would like to see more police resources and education around the issue.
“I have generally seen across the board a lack of skill and competence on the part of police to take existing laws and translate them into the online context,” he said.
“Extortion is extortion whether you’re extorting somebody by threatening to disclose nude pictures that you have extorted them to provide, or whether you’re extorting somebody through other forms of more conventional blackmail.”
Molly Reynolds, a lawyer with Torys LLP in Toronto, said her civil caseload on sexual extortion has increased significantly.
“The demand is huge. It is at least a 10-year-old crisis, and we are just beginning to understand it more broadly across Canada,” she said. “There are still a lot of people who really don’t get police attention when they do report this criminal conduct.”
She said civil court tends to be a better option for adult victims who know their perpetrator.
“You’re more likely to see a law enforcement response if it can fall into the child pornography offences, and not just the non-consensual distribution offences or voyeurism ones,” she said.
“(Children) are, in some ways, better served through the criminal procedure, whereas adults, I think, are more often having to turn to the civil procedures.”
Darren Laur, chief training officer at White Hatter, an internet safety and digital literacy education company, said the law has not kept up with technological advancements.
He said so-called deep fakes, in which an existing image or video is used to create fake but believable video footage, will create new challenges because extortionists will no longer need to coerce a person to perform explicit acts.
“The reality is people are going to use the goodness of technology and sometimes weaponize it. That’s the problem with deep fakes. I perceive that deep fakes are going to be weaponized, especially when it comes to tech-facilitated sexual abuse,” said Laur, who is a retired Victoria police sergeant.
Reynolds agreed but said she doesn’t think the law will ever be able to “keep up with technology and the harms it can create.”
“There is a really big role, I think, for the courts to interpret what we already have, and allow it to evolve just as the technological risks evolve. We need to be able to make it easier for people to get these cases to court, whether criminal or civil, and to test the boundaries,” she said.
McDonald, with the Canadian Centre for Child Protection, has begun calling for more regulation of social media companies, including Snapchat and Instagram, where the organization has found most of the harm to children occurs.
“This is an ongoing problem that is getting worse, and so it really does beg the question about what are these companies doing to keep children safe? It is incredulous that social media platforms allow total adult strangers to directly reach out and target our children without any consequence,” she said in a news release Thursday.
Laur said he has been calling for years for the creation of an online regulatory agency, like Australia’s eSafety Commissioner.
“They basically have the blueprint on how to do this,” he said. “We need something similar here in our country.”
The Department of Canadian Heritage said in a statement the federal government “is currently developing an approach to address harmful content online, which includes the potential creation of a regulatory body.”
As part of this process, it said Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez is “currently conducting roundtables across Canada to hear from victims of online harm, including children and youth.”
– Brieanna Charlebois, The Canadian Press | https://www.abbynews.com/local-news/sextortion-boom-coincides-with-pandemics-online-shift-as-experts-raise-alarm/ | 2022-08-06T16:09:49Z | https://www.abbynews.com/local-news/sextortion-boom-coincides-with-pandemics-online-shift-as-experts-raise-alarm/ | false | 13 |
Rationing Is Back – and Britain’s Authoritarian Greens Are Delighted
August 6, 2022 | Tags: LIBERTY DAILY
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Leeds city centre bar The Green Room has been listed as one of the best rooftop bars in Europe according to popular travel website Big 7 Travel.
The Green Room was listed alongside several other beautiful bars in Turkey, Lithuania and Switzerland, and ranked in 49th place overall.
Topping the list was Salling Rooftop in Denmark, The Roof in Iceland and Kranen Bar in Oslo.
Unlike many other long standing bars on the list, The Green Room only opened its doors recently, unveiling its spectacularly decorated rooftop this spring.
Posted on the Big 7 Travel website, a reviewer said: "Not just one of the best rooftop bars in Europe, The Green Room is also one of the newest rooftop bars on the scene."
Currently serving up delicious brunch plates, tasty cocktails, craft beers and live music from local DJs every weekend, The Green Room has been met with massive success since its launch, and offers a good range of vegetarian and vegan options across its menu too.
There are also several rentable apartments tucked away in The Green Room for customers who want to stay the night in the midst of a bustling city centre.
The Green Room can be found on 36 Wellington Street, LS1 2DE, next to the newly renovated Channel 4 Majestic building.
Its opening hours are as follows:
Sunday to Wednesday - 10am to midnight
Friday – 10am to 1am
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Bank of South Carolina Co. (NASDAQ:BKSC – Get Rating)’s share price passed below its 200-day moving average during trading on Thursday . The stock has a 200-day moving average of $18.29 and traded as low as $16.84. Bank of South Carolina shares last traded at $16.84, with a volume of 3,357 shares changing hands.
Bank of South Carolina Trading Up 2.1 %
The stock has a fifty day moving average of $17.12 and a two-hundred day moving average of $18.27. The company has a market capitalization of $95.49 million, a PE ratio of 15.64 and a beta of 0.42.
Bank of South Carolina Announces Dividend
The business also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, July 29th. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, July 5th were paid a dividend of $0.17 per share. This represents a $0.68 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 3.95%. The ex-dividend date was Friday, July 1st. Bank of South Carolina’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 61.82%.
Institutional Trading of Bank of South Carolina
Bank of South Carolina Company Profile
Bank of South Carolina Corporation operates as a bank holding company for The Bank of South Carolina that provides a range of financial products and services primarily in Charleston, Berkeley, and Dorchester counties of South Carolina. Its deposits include non-interest-bearing demand accounts, NOW accounts, money market accounts, time deposits, and savings accounts, as well as certificates of deposit.
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BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom, Aug 6 – Conseslus Kipruto hopes to bounce back bigger and stronger at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest.
The never-say-never Kipruto champion returned a disappointing sixth in 8:34.96 as Abraham Kibiwott (8:11.15) eclipsed India’s Arvinash Sable to win the men’s 3000m steeplechase title at Birmingham’s Alexander Stadium.
Sable managed a personal best of 8:11.20 as 2021 World Under-20 champion Amos Serem settled for the bronze medal in 8:16.83.
After his Commonwealth Games debacle, Conseslus congratulated his compatriots Abraham and Amos for bringing the medals back home.
“The gold and bronze are coming back home. That’s our joy. I congratulate Amos and Abraham for being on the podium. And Abraham for his first senior medal.”
“I am congratulating him and still encouraging our guys to continue to work hard. we still have a long way to go,” Conseslus reflected on the medal rush which eluded him due to a back injury.
“We started well, but actually in the middle of the race, I developed back problems which didn’t allow me to be competitive and that’s why I slowed down.”
“At the time I just wanted to finish the race. It reached a moment when I couldn’t attack,” narrated Conseslus whose role model is steeplechase legend Ezekiel Kemboi.
Conseslus goes on to explain that he didn’t want to aggravate the situation as he is still looking to come back stronger next year.
“I will come back in a big way but I want this injury to heal because if there is injury there is little you can do to get to the summit.”
“I am going home to take a rest as I undergo treatment and then next year in the Budapest Worlds I will be going for the kill.”
-Alex Isaboke is reporting from Birmingham, United Kingdom- | https://www.capitalfm.co.ke/sports/2022/08/06/conseslus-i-will-be-back-bigger-and-stronger-in-budapest/ | 2022-08-06T16:23:42Z | https://www.capitalfm.co.ke/sports/2022/08/06/conseslus-i-will-be-back-bigger-and-stronger-in-budapest/ | false | 1 |
Vinales is back
The last rider to cross the line on a flying lap was Vinales - and it was a belter.
Top Gun's 1:57.865 was enough to shoot him up to second place, earning the Spaniard his best qualifying result with Aprilia and his first front row since claiming pole at the 2021 Dutch TT.
Miller in front row
Miller claimed a front row in P3 after a stellar show. In the battle to make it into the pole position fight, early drama unfolded for Alex Marquez (LCR Honda Castrol) as the Spaniard crashed down at the Vale chicane.
Enea Bastianini (Gresini Racing MotoGP) went fastest and went faster again on his final flying lap to cement P1, as Ducati counterpart Marco Bezzecchi (Mooney VR46 Racing Team) snatched P2 away from Brad Binder (Red Bull KTM Factory Racing) on his last lap to sail into Q2.
Quartararo fourth
In the end though, Zarco's new all-time lap record gives the man third in the 2022 FIM MotoGP World Championship chase his second pole position of the season.
Quartararo will be praying for a great getaway from P4 as he faces the much-talked-about the long-lap penalty on Sunday afternoon.
Bagnaia in the mix
Three main title contenders line up on the second row. -- Francesco Bagnaia starts P5 and Aleix Espargaro starts P6. After coming through Q1, Marco Bezzecchi starts seventh ahead of fellow Q1 graduate Enea Bastianini - amazingly, both of the Ducati riders were under Marc Marquez's (Repsol Honda Team) old lap record at Silverstone.
That is just how competitive MotoGP is in 2022. Jorge Martin has to settle for P9 despite being less than half a second away from pole position, as Luca Marini (Mooney VR46 Racing Team), Rins and Joan Mir (Team Suzuki Ecstar) round out the Q2 places in P10, P11 and P12 respectively. All this means we are set up for a spell-binding Sunday at Silverstone. | https://www.mykhel.com/motorsport/british-motogp-johann-zarco-grabs-pole-with-a-new-lap-record-at-silverstone-195226.html | 2022-08-06T16:32:17Z | https://www.mykhel.com/motorsport/british-motogp-johann-zarco-grabs-pole-with-a-new-lap-record-at-silverstone-195226.html | false | 1 |
I tried pulling the bedspread up over my ears. It didn’t help.
Covering my head with the pillow only made it hard to breathe.
Through the wall, Columbo said, “Oh, just one more thing …”
I glanced at the bedside clock: 12:43 a.m.
This is going to be one of those nights …
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We’d checked into the hotel after a long drive, had a nice dinner, soaked in the hot tub and got back to our room just before 10 o’clock. The bed was comfortable, the linens were fresh and the sheet was so tightly tucked you could have bounced a quarter off it.
It took me 10 minutes to fall asleep.
The sound of squealing tires jolted me awake, and it took a minute to get my bearings.
Crisp sheets? Too many pillows? Where … ?
Ah, the hotel. But squealing tires on the seventh floor?
Someone said, “The body’s in the den, Lieutenant.”
Great, I thought … an entire hotel, and my neighbor is an insomniac. A LOUD insomniac.
If he’d been watching anything but “Columbo” I’d have knocked on his door right away. But even “Columbo” got annoying after 10 minutes.
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I got dressed and stepped into the hallway. If it was possible, the blare from the television was even louder out there. I stood at the door to the adjoining room for a moment and considered my knocking strategy; too soft and whoever was watching TV in the middle of the night wouldn’t hear it. Too loud and I’d wake up everyone else on our floor.
The sound of gunfire and breaking glass came from behind the door, and I figured anyone close enough to hear my knock would already be awake.
I rapped on the door a couple of times. No one answered, so I rapped louder.
“Yes?”
“Could you turn down the TV?”
“Okay.”
The volume dropped by a few decibels; instead of sounding like a jet taking off, it only sounded like a jackhammer.
A commercial came on and a woman moaned, “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!”.
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I went back to my room and crawled into bed. The movie returned, and Columbo asked, “Why was the door locked from the INSIDE?”
Somehow Carla had fallen asleep, and I considered turning on my TV and channel-surfing until I found a guy with a rumpled raincoat and a soggy cigar; I could watch it on “mute” thanks to the guy in room 709.
But that would make our room loud AND bright, which isn’t really conducive to sleep. So I went to the bathroom, sat on the floor and read a Stephen King novel before deciding that it wasn’t exactly conducive to sleep, either.
I went back to bed. It was 1:19 a.m.
From the other side of the wall: “Oh, just one more thing …”
Someone pounded on the door of the room next door.
“Yes?”
The pounder didn’t sugar-coat his request the way I had: “Turn down the TV!” It wasn’t a shout, but it was close.
Through the wall, Columbo said in his bumbling yet perceptive way, “The answer was in front of me the whole time. The killer is …”
The sound disappeared.
Wait! You’re turning the sound down now? Turn it up! Turn it up!
The room was finally quiet but I lay awake for the next hour, sorting through the clues.
And even though I’ve been looking for it to learn whodunit, I’ve never found that episode of “Columbo.”
But I think the butler did it.
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Retired Oxford academic, 89, fights for her life in hospital after being knocked down by van on road where she had been campaigning for safe crossing to be installed
- Dr Shirley Pike, 89, was hit by a Ford Transit van on Thursday evening in Oxford
- She sustained life-threatening injuries and a nurse had to do CPR at the scene
- Today a man, 45, has been arrested on suspicion of driving a motor vehicle while unfit through drink or drugs and causing serious in jury by dangerous driving
- Pike had been writing to Oxford council asking for safe crossings in that area
A retired leading Oxford academic is in a 'life-threatening' condition in hospital after getting hit by a van on Thursday, near to where she had been campaigning for a safe crossing to be installed.
Dr Shirley Pike, 89, was walking when she was struck by a Transit van at around 7.45pm on Woodstock Road in Oxford and suffered life-threatening injuries.
Pike was transported to the city's John Radcliffe Hospital where she is being treated.
Justin Pike, Dr Pike's son, told the Oxford Mail that his mother had broken her pelvis and several ribs as well as sustaining a damaged liver.
She also has a bleed to the brain and doctors are concerned by the damage to her lungs.
A nurse who happened to be in the area initially had to do CPR at the scene of the collision.
Dr Shirley Pike sustained life-threatening injuries after getting hit by a Ford Transit Van on Thursday evening
Dr Pike and residents at Charles Ponsonby House had written to Oxfordshire County Council in the past to request improved road safety in the area.
A 45-year-old van driver from Thatcham, Berkshire, was arrested today and is being questioned by police following the collision.
Police said that officers investigating the incident had arrested a 45-year-old man on suspicion of driving a motor vehicle while unfit through drink or drugs and causing serious in jury by dangerous driving.
A spokesman for Thames Valley Police appealed for any witnesses to the collision to contact them.
Thames Valley Police said: 'At around 7.45pm on Thursday, a grey Ford Transit van and a pedestrian were involved in a collision on Woodstock Road near the junction with Osberton Road.
The collision happened on Woodstock road near the junction with Osberton Road, close to where Pike had been campaigning for safe crossings to be installed
'The pedestrian, a woman in her 80s, was taken to hospital with serious injuries, where she remains in a life-threatening condition.'
Police constable Julia Stroud, of the Serious Collision Investigation Unit at Bicester police station, said: 'We would ask anyone with dash-cams and who was in the area around the time of this incident to please check any footage in case it may have captured something that could assist with our investigation.'
Thames Valley Police said the 45-year-old has been released under investigation for the incident. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11087463/Oxford-woman-fights-life-knocked-road-campaigned-safe-crossing.html | 2022-08-06T16:37:38Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11087463/Oxford-woman-fights-life-knocked-road-campaigned-safe-crossing.html | false | 3 |
Warner Bros. axes $90 million ‘Batgirl’ movie. Directors ‘saddened and shocked’
LOS ANGELES — Warner Bros. has scrapped plans to release a nearly finished “Batgirl” movie that was planned for the streaming service HBO Max, according to two people familiar with the matter who were not authorized to speak publicly.
The Burbank movie studio had finished shooting the DC superhero spinoff, which cost an estimated $90 million to make. The movie was in postproduction.
But the project fell short of what the company wanted for its key comic book franchise and no longer fit with the studio’s film strategy, the sources said.
“Batgirl” was originally commissioned as a straight-to-streaming film, as part of a broader plan to use the DC franchise to boost subscriber numbers for HBO Max.
At the time, Warner Bros. was part of AT&T-owned WarnerMedia, run by Jason Kilar, who wanted multiple original films made specifically for the direct-to-consumer platform. Kilar left the media company ahead of its combination with Discovery Inc. in a $43 billion deal that closed this year.
Now, Warner Bros. has a different corporate mandate as part of the new Warner Bros. Discovery whose chief executive, David Zaslav, has been open about his view that big movies perform better on streaming when they first premiere exclusively in movie theaters.
With a production budget of tens of millions of dollars, releasing “Batgirl” direct to streaming made little sense financially, one person close to the company said. But the movie, as scripted and produced, also wasn’t a big enough of a spectacle to merit a full-blown theatrical release.
The film, which cast “In the Heights” star Leslie Grace in the title role, was conceived with the small screen in mind. And while $90 million is hardly chump change, it’s far less than the $150 million to $200 million studios typically spend to produce big superhero movies before marketing costs.
Matt Reeves’ “The Batman” had an estimated budget of $185 million and was released in theaters for 45 days before it debuted for streaming. The movie grossed $770 million in global ticket sales.
“Batgirl” was directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, who had previously worked on the acclaimed Disney+ superhero series “Ms. Marvel” and the box office hit “Bad Boys for Life” for Sony Pictures. Alongside Grace, the cast included J.K. Simmons, Michael Keaton and Brendan Fraser.
The decision to kill the movie stunned Hollywood insiders. Axing a movie after shooting is completed, especially one with such a high profile, is highly unusual. Choosing to not release a film of that size means the company will have to eat substantial costs.
A cut of the film tested poorly with audiences, another person familiar with the matter said. Test screenings are typically used as a tool to gauge audience reaction and determine what needs to be fixed. But rather than spend additional money on a theatrical campaign, the company decided to shelve the project. Mothballing “Batgirl” will probably allow the company to take a tax write-off, people familiar with the matter said.
El Arbi and Fallah, in a Wednesday statement, said they were “saddened and shocked” by the decision.
“We still can’t believe it,” the directors said. “As directors, it is critical that our work be shown to audiences, and while the film was far from finished, we wish that fans all over the world would have had the opportunity to see and embrace the final film themselves. Maybe one day they will insha'Allah.”
Representatives for Warner Bros. and Warner Bros. Discovery declined to comment.
The decision, first reported by the New York Post, comes as Warner Bros. Discovery prepared to report quarterly earnings this week. Zaslav has promised Wall Street $3 billion in cost savings from the merger, but one of the people close to the company said that scrapping “Batgirl” was not a money-saving measure. The company has also shelved a “Scoob!” sequel that was planned for HBO Max.
HBO and HBO Max reported a combined 76.8 million subscribers at the end of the first quarter of 2022, making it one of the more formidable competitors to Netflix and Disney+. HBO Max is the streaming home of a broad array of DC content, including the “Dark Knight” trilogy, “Peacemaker” and the animated “Harley Quinn” series.
“As huge fans of Batman since we were little kids, it was a privilege and an honor to have been a part of the [DC Extended Universe], even if it was for a brief moment,” the “Batgirl” directors said. “Batgirl For Life.” | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2692254621576/warner-bros-axes-90-million-batgirl-movie-directors-saddened-and-shocked | 2022-08-06T16:37:49Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2692254621576/warner-bros-axes-90-million-batgirl-movie-directors-saddened-and-shocked | true | 3 |
Welcome to this week’s edition of Let’s Argue!
Let’s Argue is a recurring series that looks at hot takes, unpopular opinions, wacky predictions and more from Kansas City Chiefs fans.
Skyy Moore is the Chiefs’ Justin Jefferson
Skyy Moore is our Justin Jefferson compared to when diggs went to Buffalo and is losing reek
— king_Dad (@MrLovey_Dovey) August 2, 2022
The Chiefs have been in training camp at Missouri Western State University in St. Joseph for over a week now — and it’s safe to say that rookie wide receiver Skyy Moore has been turning heads.
Obviously it’s just training camp, so we need to be careful about getting too high or too low on guys.
I love the idea of this tweet, however.
When the Minnesota Vikings traded Pro Bowl receiver Stefon Diggs to the Buffalo Bills, many wondered who would step up as the the Vikings’ main guy. Well, they got their answer rather quickly, when Minnesota used the picks they got to acquire Justin Jefferson.
Now... will Moore get to Jetta’s level? That remains to be seen — but I’m willing to let it play out, because the talent is there.
Clyde Edwards-Helaire is going to explode this season
CEH is going to explode this season. Andy will find a way to integrate him into the screen game more.
— Ryan the Intern (@ReadyRDE) August 2, 2022
This is exactly what Chiefs fans have been waiting to see.
When Edwards-Helaire was drafted, the initial thought was that he’d be heavily featured in the passing game. During his junior year at LSU, he hauled in 55 passes. To put that number into perspective, he’s totaled 55 catches in two years with Kansas City.
With that being said, I truly believe this is the year we will see Edwards-Helaire involved through the air. For the first time in the Patrick Mahomes era, Tyreek Hill won’t be on the outside — which should force Kansas City to have a more well-rounded offense.
The Chiefs need to run the ball more
We need to run the ball more.
— Robert Williams (@RobWilliams1971) August 2, 2022
This goes back to what I just said.
Without Hill, the Chiefs’ offense will look different — but that doesn’t mean it still can’t put up a plethora of points.
It’s hard to take the ball out of Mahomes’ hands. But at times, it’s the right thing to do — especially when the team has such an athletic, physical offensive line.
Besides... an efficient running game will only make life easier for the world’s best quarterback.
The Chiefs won’t win another Super Bowl under Andy Reid
We don't win another Superbowl under Andy Reid
— ShadyPotatoes (@Andrew45903319) August 2, 2022
I’m not sure why I even addressed this negativity.
But since we’re here, let’s talk about it. There’s just not that much to say.
Winning a Super Bowl is extremely hard. But as long as head coach Andy Reid has Mahomes, I like the team’s chances. | https://www.arrowheadpride.com/2022/8/6/23293331/lets-argue-skyy-moore-is-the-chiefs-justin-jefferson | 2022-08-06T16:46:14Z | https://www.arrowheadpride.com/2022/8/6/23293331/lets-argue-skyy-moore-is-the-chiefs-justin-jefferson | false | 1 |
Will Jemimah Rodrigues play CWG 2022 final? Skipper Harmanpreet Kaur gives big injury update on star batter
CWG 2022: The Indian women's cricket team scripted history by reaching the final of the 2022 CWG. The Women in Blue will face either Australia or New Zealand in the gold medal match. India suffered an injury blow in the form of star batter Jemimah Rodrigues and her availability for the final is in doubt.
The Indian women's cricket team created history on Saturday (August 6) at the Edgbaston Cricket Ground in Birmingham. The Women in Blue sealed their place in the final of the 2022 Commonwealth Games (CWG) and confirmed India's first-ever medal in the history of the quadrennial games.
In a nail-biting clash, the Women in Blue held their nerve to seal a three-run win. India will face either Australia or New Zealand in the gold medal match on Sunday (August 7) at Edgbaston. While India will fancy their chances of securing the gold, they have suffered a massive injury scare as star batter Jemimah Rodrigues suffered an injury during the match. In fact, she did not take the field during England's innings and was spotted with strapped hand.
After India's victory, skipper Harmanpreet Kaur revealed that Jemimah should be fit for the big game. Harmanpreet hailed the right-handed batter as a 'fighter' and claimed she suffered a little strain but should be ready to take the field in the marquee clash.
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"Jemimah is a fighter, these things happen. She will be fine, she got a little strain on her hand but she will be fine," said Harmanpreet in an interview with SonySports
Jemimah played a vital role in India's victory by scoring an unbeaten knock of 44 in 31 balls. After a minor collapse, Jemimah's knock helped India put on a big score of 164 on the board. Earlier Smriti Mandhana had played a stunning knock of 61 in just 32 balls. Mandhana's 23-ball half-century was the quickest by an Indian women's batter in the shortest format.
Jemimah came into the game in some great form having scored a half-century in India's last group stage game against Barbados. After playing the first game at no. 5 and not getting a bat in the clash against Pakistan, she was promoted to the no. three position and has justified the team's decision.
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Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Saturday inspected the under-construction 'Uttarakhand Niwas' building in New Delhi.
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Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Saturday inspected the under-construction 'Uttarakhand Niwas' building in New Delhi. The Chief Minister said that the construction work should be ensured to be completed within the stipulated time frame while maintaining quality.
Seeing the map of Uttarakhand Niwas, Chief Minister Dhami took detailed information about all the provisions of the building. Dhami while directing the working organization said that from the point of view of ease of work in the new "Uttarakhand Niwas", Uttarakhand Local Commissioner's office and Uttarakhand State Information Center should be considered in the said building.
"Today, Chief Minister Shri @pushkardhami inspected the under construction building 'Uttarakhand Niwas' in New Delhi and took detailed information about all the provisions of the building. Chief Minister Shri Dhami said that while maintaining the quality of construction work, it should be ensured to complete it within the stipulated time frame," tweeted the Chief Minister's Office. Dhami will attend the seventh meeting of the Governing Council of NITI Aayog that will be held in New Delhi on August 7.
The agenda points of the meeting of Chief Ministers at NITI Aayog will include the implementation of the National Education Policy 2020 in school education and higher education and the implementation of schemes related to urban administration. CM Dhami has discussed department-wise issues related to the agenda to be placed before the NITI Aayog. The Chief Minister said that the policies and centrally funded schemes laid down by NITI Aayog are made equally in view of all the states of the country. In this, he spoke of the need to focus on making a separate policy for the Himalayan states keeping in mind their ecology and geography. (ANI)
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(The Conversation) – Fears about declining fertility rates have come from sources as diverse as Pope Francis and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson could force women to give birth against their wishes, while a recent British editorial even proposed a tax on people without children.
Media outlets regularly point out that more Americans are having fewer children or forgoing parenthood altogether.
But how many Americans want to have kids and can’t? Or are still planning to be parents down the road? How many are consciously making the choice to never have kids?
While official statistics in the United States and elsewhere track fertility, they don’t provide insight into the people who have not had children. There are many different types of nonparents: “Childfree” people do not want children; “childless” people want children but can’t have them; “not-yet parents” plan to have children in the future; “undecided” people aren’t sure they will have children; and “ambivalent” people aren’t sure they would have wanted children.
In a 2022 study of 1,500 adults in Michigan, we found that 21.64% of adults do not want to have children and therefore are choosing to be childfree.
Identifying childfree people
To identify childfree people, we asked each participant a series of up to three questions:
- Do you have, or have you ever had, any biological, step-, or adopted children?
- Do you plan to have any biological or adopted children in the future?
- Do you wish you had or could have biological or adopted children?
Respondents could answer “yes,” “no,” or “I don’t know” to each question. We classified as childfree those who answered “no” to all three.
Our estimate of the number of childfree people is much higher than past national studies, which placed the percentage between 2% and 9%. This likely happened because our measurement focuses on a person’s desire to have children, not their ability. This is important because a person can be childfree whether they are biologically capable of having children or not.
Our estimate is also slightly lower than an initial estimate – 27% – from a 2021 study that we wrote about a year ago. The original study did not allow respondents to answer “I don’t know” to these questions and therefore could not separate the undecided or ambivalent from the childfree. We were surprised that after refining our measurement to distinguish these unique groups, we still observed so many childfree adults.
Roughly half the adults in our study were parents, but childfree adults were the largest nonparent group. While our survey wasn’t nationally representative, the 2021 Census showed that Michigan is demographically similar to the United States in terms of age, race, education and income. If the pattern we have observed in Michigan reflects national trends, it would mean 50 million to 60 million American adults are childfree.
They’re deciding early in life
People, especially women, who say they don’t want children are often told they’ll change their mind. But we found that’s likely not the case.
In our study, people reported making the decision to be childfree early in life, most often in their teens and 20s. Moreover, it isn’t just young people who are claiming they don’t want children. Many women who decided in their teens to be childfree are much older now, and are still childfree.
Our findings depart from research conducted in the 1970s, which found that childfree adults tended to arrive at their decision later in life after postponing parenthood for many years. Earlier decisions may reflect changing norms toward parenthood and an increasing recognition and acceptance of a childfree lifestyle.
Underpopulation isn’t the problem
Despite Musk’s insistence that there is an underpopulation crisis, the global population will continue to grow.
This growth will likely have a negative impact on climate change – some researchers contend that one of the best ways to reduce carbon emissions is to have fewer children.
Meanwhile, the Dobbs decision has chilling implications for the millions of Americans who are childfree: A significant swath of them are now at risk of being forced to have children despite not wanting them.
Issues affecting childfree Americans go beyond reproductive freedom. For example, workplace policies on work-life balance often favor parents. Because so many people are childfree, we believe the needs of this group warrant more attention from policymakers. | https://www.dcnewsnow.com/news/more-than-1-in-5-us-adults-dont-want-children/ | 2022-08-06T17:00:11Z | https://www.dcnewsnow.com/news/more-than-1-in-5-us-adults-dont-want-children/ | true | 32 |
Happy friendship day to you and all your friends. Friendship day is observed on August 7 every year. On this day, we especially thank our friends from the core of the heart for being such an important part of our life.
Be thankful to the friend who made your life easier, be grateful to the friendship which served as a beacon of light during your dark times, be humble to that friend who never left your side even when you were in seclusion, be happy to have that friend in your life who always kept you before others.
Book tickets for a movie, book a seat at your favorite restaurant, plan a trip to the college or university where your friendship had started for the first time, or else plan to meet at the same tea stall where you had long gossips about everything in life: love, crush, job, aspirations, ambitions and dreams.
Do not leave anything undone and unsaid this day. THis is the day you make your friend feel special about you and this is the day you make them realise how important they are to you.
If you are not able to join them in the celebration make sure to send the best greetings, messages and wishes on this day. Make them feel that they are the one who have made your life easier, happier and better than it was earlier. A friend is not just another person, a friend is a soulmate who knows you inside out.
Happy Friendship Day 2022: Wishes
Doesn't matter if you meet them today or after a decade, the banter between friends never gets old.
Happy friendship day 2022! I’ve always found you whenever I needed support, guidance, and someone to watch my back. Thanks for everything that you’ve ever done for me.
You know every trick to make me smile and every magic to make my sadness disappear. Your kind of friend is so rare because you are the most precious gem in the world!
“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little the heart finds its mornings and is refreshed.”- Khalil Gibran
Hey, friend! Happy Friendship Day 2022! You are one of the kindest, funniest, and most helpful one I’ve ever met. Let’s stick to each other forever.
Happy Friendship Day 2022: Messages
Dearest friend, I love you the most because you are always there to join me in the stupidest things in life…. Happy Friendship Day to you!
Wishing you a happy friendship day, my dear friend. May God strengthen our bond and fill our lives with happy memories.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. — Anais Nin
Happy Friendship Day 2022: Quotes
There is no distance in this world that can part our because we are strongly connected with our hearts and our friendship is eternal. On the occasion of Friendship Day, let us raise a toast to the best relationship of our lives. Love you dear!
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Let us celebrate the beautiful friendship that we share to make it a perfect Friendship Day, the day that gives us another reason to spend more time together.
Happy Friendship Day 2022: Images
Happy Friendship Day 2022: Facebook status
Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.
Wishing a very Happy Friendship Day to my friend. You are the brightness to my smile, you are the light in the dark, you are the hope when I am lost.
I find myself extremely lucky to have a friend like you who is much more than a friend to me, who is my life. Warm wishes on Friendship Day.
Happy Friendship Day 2022: WhatsApp status
"There is no distance in this world that can part our because we are strongly connected with our hearts and our friendship is eternal….. On the occasion of Friendship Day, let us raise a toast to the best relationship of our lives…. Love you dear!!!”
You are an angel sent from heaven to make my life beautiful, my heart happy and take care of my smile…. Happy Friendship Day to you my dear.”
“Working together makes us colleagues but understanding each other and supporting one another at each and every step of our lives make us wonderful friends….. Best wishes on Friendship Day to my colleague who is more of a friend to me.”
“She recognized that that is how friendships begin: one person reveals a moment of strangeness, and the other person decides just to listen and not exploit it.” —Meg Wolitzer, The Interestings | https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/events/happy-friendship-day-2022-wishes-messages-quotes-images-facebook-whatsapp-status/articleshow/93390513.cms | 2022-08-06T17:00:36Z | https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/events/happy-friendship-day-2022-wishes-messages-quotes-images-facebook-whatsapp-status/articleshow/93390513.cms | false | 1 |
Erling Haaland says "it’s good to have a little bit of pain here and there" as he looks to kick start his Premier League career with Manchester City on Sunday. The Norwegian international said he believes his body is ready for the physicality of England's top flight.
The 22-year-old striker will get his first taste of Premier League action when his side begin their title defence against West Ham in London.
What has Haaland said about the Premier League?
Haaland said to The Athletic: “I think it will be a bit more physical, higher tempo. And more pressure.
"It’s a really physical league and it’s going to be tough. But my body is ready and yeah, a good duel is always nice.”
Haaland said that after being a spectator his whole life, he just wants to get stuck in and play, adding: “I always watched the Premier League and every game is living its own kind of story.
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“So many games to play, different atmospheres. From watching outside my whole life to finally be in it, I’m just really looking forward to it.”
How has Haaland settled in at Manchester City?
Haaland hinted that due to the slightly different styles of play that his former team Borussia Dortmund and Manchester City play, there may be a period of adjustment.
“It’s a lot about chemistry,” he said. "I was two and a half years in Dortmund, so I knew really well the players there and it will come here as well, about passing the ball at the perfect timing.
"It’s something that has to come and will come. At the top level, it will come."
He was particularly complementary about the level of his team-mates, and believes that once he has clicked, all will be fine.
“I think it’s going to be good because when we get to know each other - it may take a while, we will have to see - the level of these players is so insane," he said.
Haaland's first few tests
Manchester City kick off their title defence away at West Ham on Sunday where Haaland will be hoping he can make the perfect start to life in England.
His first home game will see Bournemouth visit the Etihad before a trip to Newcastle.
City round of the first month of the season with two home matches against Crystal Palace and Nottingham Forest respectively. | https://www.goal.com/en-ph/news/haaland-is-prepared-to-suffer-pain-in-the-premier-league/blt92ed58079f729736 | 2022-08-06T17:06:02Z | https://www.goal.com/en-ph/news/haaland-is-prepared-to-suffer-pain-in-the-premier-league/blt92ed58079f729736 | false | 14 |
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BOSTON (AP) — A former dean at a Boston high school known affectionately by students as “Rev” has been ordered by a federal judge to pay more than $10 million in damages to a former student he was convicted of trying to kill in a dispute over drug sales.
The default judgment Friday against former English High School Dean Shaun Harrison includes $7.5 million in damages for pain, suffering and emotional distress; $2.5 million in punitive damages; and more than $80,000 for the victim's medical bills.
Harrison was convicted in state court in 2018 of assault and other charges, and sentenced to up to 26 years in prison.
Harrison, who had a background as a community organizer and youth minister, was dean of academics, a job that required keeping order and mentoring students, according to testimony at trial.
But he was leading a double life, authorities said. He had ties to the violent Latin Kings gang, recruited students to sell drugs for him, and kept a gun at his apartment.
Harrison denied the charges, telling a Boston television station that he “never lived a double life.”
The victim, who had been recruited by Harrison to sell marijuana, was 17 when he was shot in the back of the head at point-blank range on a snowy Boston street in March 2015.
The bullet barely missed the victim’s brain stem and carotid artery, but shattered his jaw. He underwent two surgeries, had his jaw wired shut for nine months, remains paralyzed on half of his face, suffers from facial neuropathy, hearing loss, and requires weights on his eyelids to help with opening and shutting his eyes, according to court documents. He continues to experience pain from the bullet that remains lodged in his head and developed an addiction to opioids prescribed for the pain.
No attorney was listed for Harrison in the civil case filed by the victim in 2019.
It's unclear whether the victim will ever get any money from Harrison.
“The judgment against Mr. Harrison as an individual will ensure that he is never able to profit from any endeavors when he is released from prison, including selling the rights to this story for publication,” the plaintiff's attorney, John Martin said in an email Saturday.
The Boston Public Schools was also named as a defendant, but the judge dismissed claims against the system. That ruling is being appealed, Martin said.
“Boston Public Schools was absolutely dismissive of student safety and grossly negligent when it allowed a predator to have a position of trust and authority at that school after multiple incidents that should have resulted in his termination,” he wrote. | https://www.lakecountystar.com/news/article/School-dean-who-shot-student-ordered-to-pay-10M-17356395.php | 2022-08-06T17:07:16Z | https://www.lakecountystar.com/news/article/School-dean-who-shot-student-ordered-to-pay-10M-17356395.php | false | 27 |
Myanmar has been trapped in a spiral of violence since the military seized power last year and ended a decade of tentative democracy, triggering a backlash of protests, strikes and armed resistance that the generals have met with deadly force.
Prak Sokhonn said the junta's recent execution of four activists tied to a militia movement was a major blow for any peace hopes and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) agreed that without future progress, its position on Myanmar would have to be reconsidered.
"I haven't seen any sign of will from all parties to stop the fight. The only way I see now is to continue to fight. Why? Because of the lack of trust," he said.
"Without this trust, the fight will continue and the political process will never stop, because no one will come if they fear for their life."
The junta has become an international outcast due to its fierce crackdown on its opponents. ASEAN has barred the military from representing Myanmar at international meetings until starts to implement a peace plan.
A United Nations-backed peace plan that Myanmar's coup leader agreed to with ASEAN in 2021 has yet to move forward and remains the only diplomatic process in play.
In a statement late on Friday, Myanmar's junta said ASEAN members should not interfere in its affairs, nor engage with "terrorists" opposed to its rule.
It said the military had always been clear that its commitment to the peace process would be determined by developments on the ground.
"ASEAN should respect the right of every member state and refrain from interference ... subversion and coercion," it said, adding the junta was making "notable progress" in peace efforts. | https://en.prothomalo.com/international/south-asia/7fbaojknuh | 2022-08-06T17:11:10Z | https://en.prothomalo.com/international/south-asia/7fbaojknuh | false | 5 |
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During July more than 3,700 flights were cancelled and 380,000 passengers were affected by the SAS’ Scandinavia pilots unions strike action that was concluded on July 19.
In July 1.3 million passengers travelled with SAS, an increase of approximately 23% compared to the same month last year. SAS’ capacity increased by approximately 8% compared with the same period last year. In comparison with last month, the total number of passengers decreased by 32% and capacity decreased by 23%, which was a result of the 15-day pilot strike. The flown load factor for July was 82%, an improvement of 21 percentage points compared to July last year.
“We sincerely apologize to our customers who were affected by the July strike. We are happy operations returned to normality again allowing us to start regaining our customers’ trust. We also continue executing our restructuring plan, SAS FORWARD and filed for chapter 11 in the US on the 5th of July to accelerate the transformation process that will lead to a financially stable airline, that will be able to deliver the service our customers are expecting”, says Anko van der Werff, President & CEO of SAS. | https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/scandinavian-airlines-system-sas/sas-july-2022-traffic-figures-severely-impacted-by-15-day-pilot-strike/ | 2022-08-06T17:15:49Z | https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/scandinavian-airlines-system-sas/sas-july-2022-traffic-figures-severely-impacted-by-15-day-pilot-strike/ | false | 2 |
The word “plan” in relation to the film industry, particularly as it pertains to IP blockbusters, is a dirty word at this point. Executives have used it so often that it’s not only lost all meaning, it can actively kill any excitement you may have for an upcoming film, because it’s basically advertising that something in that movie will take up way too much time in order to set up a franchise that only exists in the mind’s eye of someone who’d like to keep their job for the next few years.
Yet here’s Warner Bros using the word “plan” again, once again related to adapting DC Comics to film. During its investor call earlier in the week, WB Discovery CEO David Zaslav said that the company’s built a team that’ll set up a 10-year plan for DC. The aim is to finally give DC its own Kevin Feige, or rather, its own Kevin Feige who the company will actually put faith in for longer than two-and-a-half movies. This is partially why Batgirl got canned, according to Zaslav: it didn’t fit with the plan, and since WB is now concerned with protecting the DC brand, that involves a reset that hinges entirely on an upcoming movie whose lead actor has become such a PR nightmare, the sensible thing would be for WB to just drop the thing on HBO Max and call it a mulligan.
There’ve been enough would-be cinematic universes that have publicly failed that you’d think studios would quit trying to chase Marvel’s success of currently diminishing returns. It’s especially damning for Warner Bros., of all companies, to try this shtick again: even if you don’t want to talk about Zack Snyder’s divisive tenure with DC, the company is clearly not suited to the long-term game. They weren’t back in 2011 when Ryan Reynolds wore that Green Lantern suit, and they weren’t in 2017 when they decided to bring in Joss Whedon and try to right the ship and only served to highlight how out of their depth they were with their superheroes. At this point, Warner Bros. has pissed away so much goodwill that they couldn’t pass an insultingly easy drug test.
Know what Warner Bros. is good at, the short term game. After Justice League 2017, the fractured nature of the DC Extended Universe became a boon and allowed the movies to just be self-contained affairs. Aquaman, Shazam, and Harley Quinn were all great in their own various ways that allowed their respective directors to not worry about how the films line up with everything else and just have some fun. If Marvel movies all feel like they’re largely from the same guy, DC movies post-2017 have, for better or worse, felt uniquely individualistic. Crack jokes all you wish, it’s easy to tell how Nolan’s Batman is different from Snyder’s Batman and the new Batman from Matt Reeves earlier in the year.
It’s the human element of DC movies that Warner Bros. needs to focus on for the next decade. Damn cinematic universes, fuck plans with a hypothetical endgame in mind, none of that is interesting anymore. If we’re fated to be stuck in this IP-heavy blockbuster era, at least let it be a playground for directors and writers to do what they do best. You’d think that by now, WB’s plan would be to learn and internalize such a simple concept.
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Since the 1960s, crime has gone in waves. The 1960s civil unrest and especially the 1980s crack epidemic led to crackdowns, such as increases in incarceration and California’s 1994 Three Strikes law. A decade or so ago, the cycle flipped, leading to sentencing reforms, such as California’s Proposition 47 in 2014.
And the reform atmosphere has led to the election of progressive district attorneys such as Chesa Boudin in San Francisco, recently recalled; and George Gascon in Los Angeles, who may be recalled this November. Then there are such lamentable police abuses as the death in police custody of George Floyd in Minnesota two years ago and homeless man Kelly Thomas in Fullerton in 2011.
For some reason, we can’t get it right: Keep the streets safe, but don’t become a police state. Yet in the end, eventually people prefer a crackdown on crime to getting cracked on the head.
One crime expert I’ve been reading with profit for years is Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute, recently returned to her native California. She spoke Aug. 3 at a Pacific Research Institute event at the Pacific Club in Newport Beach before local community and civic leaders.
“The state must put the interests of the law-abiding and the hard-working ahead of the interests of the criminal and deviant,” she said. “We need to declare unambiguously that the expectation of safety and freedom from fear is not a manifestation of white privilege. It is the basic entitlement of anyone living under constitutional government. No one should apologize for wanting to live in a clean, orderly environment. That is not a form of racism. It is a form of sanity.”
In the Q&A, I asked if the exodus of people from California would affect crime for those who remain. “It’s always bad when you have law-abiding people leave your neighborhoods,” she said. “And it leaves less of a bulwark. Policing is not the ideal solution to crime. It’s the second-best solution. The best solution is families and communities and to get back to that time when neighbors were willing to call out anti-social behavior.”
She also said the exodus could lead to “an even more radically bifurcated state, with the very wealthy in their limos with their chauffeurs, who prefer not to see the homeless tents all around them.” Back in the day conservatives branded such people “limousine liberals.”
I would add a positive development is the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision ending restrictive laws against concealed-carry permits. Coincidentally, our editorial board interviewed California Attorney General Rob Bonta earlier the day Mac Donald spoke. Bonta favors more gun control and opposed the court’s action. But he told us he instructed every California sheriff to enforce the court order and loosen concealed-carry policy.
As John Lott and other gun scholars have shown, when other states started liberalizing their concealed carry laws three decades ago, crime started dropping quickly. Criminals feared being shot by the victims. That well could happen here. In another context, theft, Mac Donald said criminals are surprisingly well-versed in the criminal statutes. I expect the crooks already are assessing what a better-armed citizenry means.
She also lamented how the liberal media are not covering the story she is telling. Fox News and the Wall Street Journal do. But CNN and MSNBC do not. After five police were gunned down in Dallas in 2016 just after her book “War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe” came out, CNN first booked her for an interview, as would seem obvious, then canceled it. She wasn’t following the “narrative,” as progressives like to say.
Finally, Mac Donald praised Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer, just re-elected in June. Our editorial board has had differences with him, but he gained our endorsement with sensible reforms to the troubled department he inherited, keeping people safe while protecting everyone’s civil rights.
Mac Donald’s work, based on the latest crime statistics, contributes to similar solutions in other areas of California and the country.
John Seiler is a member of the SCNG Editorial Board.
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BEIJING (AP) — Taiwan said Saturday that China's military drills appear to simulate an attack on the self-ruled island, after multiple Chinese warships and aircraft crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait following U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taipei that infuriated Beijing.
Taiwan's armed forces issued an alert, dispatched air and naval patrols around the island, and activated land-based missile systems in response to the Chinese exercises, the Ministry of National Defense said. As of 5 p.m., 20 Chinese aircraft and 14 ships continued to carry out sea and air exercises around the Taiwan Strait, it said.
The ministry said that zones declared by China as no-go areas during the exercises for other ships and aircraft had "seriously damaged the peace." It emphasized that Taiwan's military does not seek war, but would prepare and respond for it accordingly.
China's Ministry of Defense said in a statement Saturday that it had carried out military exercises as planned in the sea and airspaces to the north, southwest, and east of Taiwan, with a focus on "testing the capabilities" of its land strike and sea assault systems.
China launched live-fire military drills following Pelosi's trip to Taiwan earlier this week, saying it violated the "one-China" policy. China sees the island as a breakaway province to be annexed by force if necessary, and considers visits to Taiwan by foreign officials as recognizing its sovereignty.
Taiwan's army also said it detected four unmanned aerial vehicles flying in the vicinity of the offshore county of Kinmen on Friday night and fired warning flares in response.
The four drones, which Taiwan believed were Chinese, were spotted over waters around the Kinmen island group and the nearby Lieyu Island and Beiding islet, according to Taiwan's Kinmen Defense Command.
Kinmen, also known as Quemoy, is a group of islands only 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) east of the Chinese coastal city of Xiamen in Fujian province in the Taiwan Strait, which divides the two sides that split amid civil war in 1949.
"Our government & military are closely monitoring China's military exercises & information warfare operations, ready to respond as necessary," Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen said in a tweet.
"I call on the international community to support democratic Taiwan & halt any escalation of the regional security situation," she added.
The Chinese military exercises began Thursday and are expected to last until Sunday. So far, the drills have included missile strikes on targets in the seas north and south of the island in an echo of the last major Chinese military drills in 1995 and 1996 aimed at intimidating Taiwan's leaders and voters.
Taiwan has put its military on alert and staged civil defense drills, while the U.S. has deployed numerous naval assets in the area.
The Biden administration and Pelosi have said the U.S. remains committed to a "one-China" policy, which recognizes Beijing as the government of China but allows informal relations and defense ties with Taipei. The administration discouraged but did not prevent Pelosi from visiting.
China has also cut off defense and climate talks with the U.S. and imposed sanctions on Pelosi in retaliation for the visit.
Pelosi said Friday in Tokyo, the last stop of her Asia tour, that China will not be able to isolate Taiwan by preventing U.S. officials from traveling there.
Pelosi has been a long-time advocate of human rights in China. She, along with other lawmakers, visited Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1991 to support democracy two years after a bloody military crackdown on protesters at the square.
Meanwhile, cyberattacks aimed at bringing down the website of Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs had doubled between Thursday to Friday, compared to similar attacks ahead of Pelosi's visit, according to Taiwan's Central News Agency. The ministry did not specify the origin of the attack.
Other ministries and government agencies, such as the Ministry of Interior, also faced similar attacks on their websites, according to the report.
A distributed-denial-of-service attack is aimed at overloading a website with requests for information that eventually crashes it, making it inaccessible to other users.
Also Saturday, the Central News Agency reported that the deputy head of the Taiwan Defense Ministry's research and development unit, Ou Yang Li-hsing, was found dead in his hotel room after suffering a heart attack. He was 57, and had supervised several missile production projects.
The report said his hotel room in the southern county of Pingtung, where he was on a business trip, showed no signs of intrusion.
Taiwanese overwhelmingly favor maintaining the status quo of the island's de facto independence and reject China's demands that the island unify with the mainland under Communist control.
Globally, most countries subscribe to the "one-China" policy, which is a requirement to maintain diplomatic relations with Beijing.
Any company that fails to recognize Taiwan as part of China often faces swift backlash, often with Chinese consumers pledging to boycott its products.
On Friday, Mars Wrigley, the manufacturer of the Snickers candy bar, apologized after it released a video and materials featuring South Korean boy band BTS that had referred to Taiwan as a country, drawing swift criticism from Chinese users.
In a statement on its Weibo account, the company expressed "deep apologies."
"Mars Wrigley respects China's national sovereignty and territorial integrity and conducts business operations in strict compliance with local Chinese laws and regulations," the statement said.
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No militant group has claimed responsibility for the attack, which occurred on a busy street in west Kabul, a predominantly Shia neighbourhood.
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Colchester and Carlisle had to settle for a point apiece after playing out an entertaining 1-1 draw.
Colchester almost took a sixth-minute lead when Freddie Sears’ shot clattered the inside of the post.
But Carlisle came close soon after when Jack Armer’s diving header flew inches wide and Colchester goalkeeper Sam Hornby then pulled off a fine save to deny striker Kristian Dennis, after Ryan Clampin had under-hit a back-pass.
Colchester took a 19th-minute lead when Noah Chilvers collected Luke Hannant’s pass and drilled a fine shot into the far corner of the net.
But Carlisle refused to lie down; Dennis’s low 25-yard effort was well saved by Hornby.
And the Cumbrians deservedly equalised in the 44th minute when Dennis glanced home a superb header, following Owen Moxon’s excellent cross from the left.
Colchester were the better side in the second half and Carlisle keeper Tomas Holy made a fine save to deny Chilvers but Hornby saved Armer’s header late on, as the match ended in a draw.
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An early morning house fire on Saturday required three additional calls for backup, north of Mint Valley Elementary School in Longview.
A pet cat died, but no people were injured, reports the Longview Fire Department, after firefighters battled a blaze at 11 Curtis Lane for about an hour before the fire was considered under control.
Longview police arrived on scene first, after emergency crews received a 12:45 a.m. report of a residential structure fire, and confirmed residents were out of the building and evacuated neighbors.
Within about 10 minutes, Longview fire crews called for backup when the scene was considered a second-alarm fire, the department reports. By 1:05 a.m., firefighters were forced to withdraw from the house as the blaze grew.
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NPP Delegates Conference: Pan African TV crew was told to drink 'koko' and monitor on TV - Kwasi Pratt
Veteran Journalist and Managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper, Kwesi Pratt, has made public the reason why his media outfit, Pan African TV, was denied accreditation to cover the 2022 National Delegate Conference of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
According to Kwesi Pratt, a recorded conversation between the then Deputy National Communications Director of the NPP, Kamal Deen, and the Pan African TV team seeking accreditation revealed that the media outfit was denied accreditation because the party thought Pan African TV would not help push its desired narrative.
“African television team that was to cover the NPP National Delegate Conference was not given accreditation. I was wondering why those who got in touch with the NPP communication team recorded the conversation, so I asked to listen to the conversation. I was shocked. The Deputy Communications Director of the NPP actually told the Pan African team that he has a job to do and he knows the media which can do that job for him, he then advised them to go back to the office, drink koko and watch the proceedings on TV on other networks,” Kwesi Pratt revealed.
Kwesi Pratt expressed his disappointment in the posture of the NPP’s communication officer because the NPP also preached media freedom and media empowerment.
He said, “Look, I was really shocked because the NPP always spoke about media freedom and allowing the media to operate freely, so why this?”
The Managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper has become known for criticizing and pointing out the ills of the incumbent NPP government.
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RPg Family Wealth Advisory LLC bought a new position in Sysco Co. (NYSE:SYY – Get Rating) in the 1st quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the SEC. The institutional investor bought 38,332 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $3,148,000. Sysco accounts for about 1.3% of RPg Family Wealth Advisory LLC’s holdings, making the stock its 27th largest holding.
Several other hedge funds also recently bought and sold shares of the company. EverSource Wealth Advisors LLC bought a new position in shares of Sysco during the 4th quarter valued at about $25,000. DeDora Capital Inc. purchased a new stake in shares of Sysco in the first quarter worth about $31,000. Allegheny Financial Group LTD bought a new position in Sysco during the fourth quarter valued at approximately $31,000. KRS Capital Management LLC purchased a new position in Sysco during the 4th quarter valued at approximately $31,000. Finally, Column Capital Advisors LLC raised its holdings in shares of Sysco by 4,900.0% during the 1st quarter. Column Capital Advisors LLC now owns 400 shares of the company’s stock worth $33,000 after acquiring an additional 392 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 80.64% of the company’s stock.
Sysco Price Performance
Shares of SYY stock opened at $86.25 on Friday. Sysco Co. has a twelve month low of $68.05 and a twelve month high of $91.53. The stock has a market capitalization of $43.94 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 44.46, a P/E/G ratio of 2.22 and a beta of 1.02. The stock has a fifty day simple moving average of $84.59 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $83.27. The company has a current ratio of 1.24, a quick ratio of 0.72 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 8.03.
Insider Buying and Selling
In other Sysco news, CFO Aaron E. Alt purchased 1,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Tuesday, June 21st. The stock was bought at an average cost of $80.09 per share, for a total transaction of $80,090.00. Following the completion of the purchase, the chief financial officer now owns 14,220 shares in the company, valued at approximately $1,138,879.80. The purchase was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through the SEC website. 0.31% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.
Analyst Ratings Changes
Several analysts have recently issued reports on SYY shares. Credit Suisse Group upped their price objective on Sysco from $97.00 to $107.00 in a report on Wednesday, May 11th. Piper Sandler boosted their target price on Sysco from $83.00 to $90.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research report on Friday, April 8th. Barclays boosted their target price on Sysco from $97.00 to $102.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research report on Wednesday, June 29th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft boosted their target price on Sysco from $82.00 to $84.00 in a research report on Wednesday, May 11th. Finally, StockNews.com raised Sysco from a “buy” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, July 14th. Three analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, five have assigned a buy rating and one has given a strong buy rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, Sysco currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $94.88.
Sysco Company Profile
Sysco Corporation, through its subsidiaries, engages in the marketing and distribution of various food and related products primarily to the foodservice or food-away-from-home industry in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, and internationally. It operates through U.S. Foodservice Operations, International Foodservice Operations, SYGMA, and Other segments.
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It's been almost a year since the Taliban took over Afghanistan again and the U.S. military pulled out of the country.
As the withdrawal unfolded, Marine Corps veteran Elliot Ackerman was watching the chaos from a distance. He was on a family vacation in Italy but couldn't tear himself away from what was happening.
Ackerman had deployed to Afghanistan multiple times. He felt bound to America's Afghan allies, so when the U.S. announced it was leaving and those same Afghans were desperate to get out, he lay awake at night, glued to his phone.
"My entire network was lighting up and it had become quickly a crowdsourced evacuation, with each person playing their part," Ackerman told Morning Edition.
''Some people were trying to raise money for charter flights, other people were arranging the buses that would transport evacuees from various pickup points in Kabul into the airport."
Ackerman was key because he knew Marines who were inside the airport, manning those gates and deciding who could come in and who could not. He writes about this experience in his new book, The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Interview highlights
On mobilizing to help Afghans evacuate
Everyone was very much focused on the task at hand, because the stakes are obviously very high. You know, you've got the photographs of the people who are trying to get out and their families, [because] these aren't people any of us knew — the only family that I got out who I had a direct personal connection to was my interpreter. He has since moved to the U.S. but his family was still there and we were able to get his family out. But everyone else, these were strangers and they were strangers for most of us. So in that moment, you can't really step away.
But there were certainly little interludes. And my wife, in the book, she almost comes off like a Greek chorus conscience of the book, saying, you know, "Why are you all having to do this? Why are the people who left the wars 10 years ago now being sucked in to try to finish them?"
On how he views America's exit from Afghanistan
I think it was a collapse of American morals that we made these promises and we fell short. It was a collapse of American competence. I mean, listen, despite the heroic efforts of those who were at the airport — and our efforts were truly heroic, so I'm not questioning their competence — but I would question the competence of decision-making that put us into this position where our back was up against a wall with this Aug. 31st withdrawal date that we couldn't seem to move.
It was a collapse of hierarchy, because as the war was ending in those days, I found myself on text chains and phone calls with retired four star generals and admirals, some of whom had commanded the entire war, because no one could get anyone out because of the craziness. And because, for a brief window, the team that I was working with was having some success, we found ourselves serving in this collapsed hierarchy all working together. And that was surreal for me at times.
On how it's impossible to really separate yourself from the experience of war
People have sometimes asked me, "Elliot, how do you think the war's changed you?" and I've never known how to answer that question. Because the war in so many ways made me. I don't know how to unbraid it out of the knots that are me. But the friendships that I have there, the memories that I have from that time, of course I think about and it's the time when I was growing up. I mean, I grew up there in the war.
I entered the service and started that training pipeline at 17 years old. And as you see in the book, those friendships have projected out because as Kabul was falling, so many of the people I'm working with, these are folks who've also transitioned. They've ended the wars themselves and we're all still friends.
On what an appropriate memorial would look like to these particular American wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
I started thinking about it with regards to the recent passage of the Global War on Terrorism Memorial Location Act, which has gone through Congress to authorize a memorial to these wars. But the global war on terrorism isn't over yet, so it's actually interesting.
For the first time as a country, we will be trying to make a memorial to a war that we are still technically fighting. But it got me thinking, how would you make a memorial to a forever war? And that got me thinking, well maybe what would be more appropriate instead of erecting all these memorials upward, maybe we should dig downward, kind of like the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
And I imagined a war memorial that would look almost like the sloping granite rock, sort of descending downward conically like something from Dante, and we would get rid of all the memorials to each specific war and we would just have one American War Memorial.
It would begin with the names, the first being Crispus Attucks, who was killed at the Boston Massacre. And we would just list them all chronologically digging ourselves deeper and deeper and deeper. So we have more than a million war dead at this point in our country's history. And every time we fund a new war, we just add the names going down and down into the earth. And then, in my imagination of this war memorial, when you got to the very last name, there would be a desk and a pen. And Congress would pass a law that before any troop deployment, the president — he or she — would have to come down to the war memorial and that pen would be the only pen that could be used to sign that troop deployments.
They would have to walk by all of the war dead before they would need to do that. And then we wouldn't have to have any more debates about war memorials — we would just know what we did every time we fought a war, we'd just add the names.
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A two-year delay to the trial of former Ports of Auckland chief executive Tony Gibson on charges related to the death of a worker crushed under a container has angered family of the father-of-seven and "outraged" the maritime union.
The former Ports chief executive was charged on August 13, 2021, a year after 31-year-old stevedore Pala'amo (Amo) Kalati was crushed when a container was dropped during a lifting operation on a night shift.
Kalati's brother-in-law, Gareth Fraser, told the Herald his seven children "still aren't coping very much at all" two years after his death at the Fergusson Container Terminal on August 30, 2020.
"They still have their moments and my sister still has bad days and good days. But those bad days are not as bad anymore," Fraser said, who has acted as the family's spokesman.
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Advertise with NZME.The Herald understands the Kalati family is still negotiating a financial settlement with POAL.
Gibson's charges under the Health and Safety at Work Act are unprecedented for an executive of a major New Zealand company and could bring $400,000 in fines if he is found guilty.
Gibson was scheduled to appear in the Auckland District Court on May 24 to plea to the charges, but a written not guilty plea was made and the hearing was postponed to October 10.
The Herald can now reveal Gibson's first hearing has been delayed again until 2024.
Fraser said the Kalati family were "very frustrated at the whole process" and "feel that the death was in vain as nobody has been held accountable and it's business as usual with yet another death at the Ports of Auckland since [Kalati's death]".
Fraser was referring to the April 19 death of yet another stevedore at Ports of Auckland [POAL]: 26-year-old new father Atiroa Tuaiti, who was a contractor for Wallace Investments.
The death of Tuaiti marked the fourth death at the POAL since 2017 and led Workplace Relations and Safety Minister Michael Wood to order a review of ports operations nationwide.
"We've already had another death at the ports. I understand it wasn't an 'employee of the Ports of Auckland' but it's still a death at the Ports of Auckland," Fraser said.
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Advertise with NZME."And Maritime [Union], WorkSafe, the Government haven't done f*** all. What everyone says: 'They're doing reviews' but people are still dying at this place.
"If you contract out you should still have the overall say in health and safety and make sure that everybody across the board is safe and able to go home to their families."
Gibson was charged under Section 48 and 49 of the Health and Safety at Work Act, which relate to offences of "failing to comply with duty that exposes individual to risk of death or serious injury or serious illness".
Because Gibson, as Ports chief executive, is an individual who is a person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU), or an officer of a PCBU, he could be fined up to $300,000 if found guilty of Section 48 and $100,000 if found guilty of Section 49.
Gibson's lawyer John Billington, QC, confirmed to the Herald the former chief executive had pleaded not guilty in May to the two charges.
Billington said the delay to Gibson's case until 2024 was a "reflection of the current system" and was in the courts hands, not theirs.
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Advertise with NZME.Maritime Union of New Zealand treasurer Russell Mayn said he was "very disappointed" in the court postponement and it potentially put at risk the safety of port workers in the interim two years it will take for Gibson to face a judge.
"It seems [incredible] that something of such importance could be delayed for that time. I'm not sure what the reasons are," Mayn said.
"I can't understand how the system could allow that to go out for so long. I mean it just doesn't seem reasonable in any way or form that it should be allowed to happen."
Mayn said the Maritime Union's lawyers had been asked to investigate the justification for the two-year postponement.
"It's of real public interest, because this is the first CEO to be taken to task over health and safety issues," Mayn said.
"It also has the ability to apply pressure to other companies in New Zealand to make sure they get their act together, so it may protect other workers from being killed on the job. So there's a bit more than public interest when you look at it from that aspect.
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Advertise with NZME."Our members are outraged. If one of our members does something like that it's dealt with very efficiently by not only the companies but by the court system. If he [Gibson] was to be convicted that means he's got to relinquish his job as trustees or board members or all of that. This has just bought more time to sit at those positions."
New Ports of Auckland chief executive Roger Gray took over the top job this year after Gibson resigned in May 2021.
Gibson had come under intense media scrutiny and union pressure to vacate the role after the release of a port review by Construction Health and Safety New Zealand (CHASNZ) in March 2021.
The CHASNZ report found: "Elements of the workforce who undertake high risk roles (mainly terminal operations) believe that executive management prioritises profitability and productivity over health and safety".
Mayn said in light of the repeated delay to Gibson's hearing, the Maritime Union members had "lost faith" with the POAL board and their lack of direct accountability for the port's terrible recent safety record.
"There are questions in the ability of the board who are supposed to be there for governance," Mayn said.
"They are responsible, those board members, and not only did they fail abysmally in health and safety, but they failed with the automation process. Our membership has lost all respect or faith in boards. They just say 'how can this happen?'"
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Gators pushing hard for local defensive lineman in class of 2024
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If there is one thing Billy Napier has made clear since taking over the Florida Gators football team it’s that he wants to make UF the most desirable university in the state.
Napier has done well to bring in local talent, with 14 of the 16 recruits committed to the Gators in the class of 2023 coming out of Florida while the other two are Georgia kids. Two of those 14 are from Gainesville: four-star defensive lineman Gavin Hill and three-star athlete Creed Whittemore. Both are rising seniors at F.W. Bucholz High, but there’s also a rising junior that Napier has his eye on, three-star defensive lineman Kendall Jackson, according to 247Sports.
UF offered Jackson back in June after an impressive showing at one of the team’s Day One camps. Since then, the coaching staff has kept in touch with them and their message to Jackson is a familiar one: stay in Florida and be great at home.
“Their message to me is all the same. It’s they want me to stay home,” Jackson said. “That is pretty much the message every coach I talked to had. They said they want me to stay home. I talk with Coach (Kali) James from time to time when I call him … Coach James wants to make sure he keeps you close and let you know he is going to love you and that he wants you to be a Gator.”
At the time of the offer, Jackson wasn’t as well known in the recruiting space as he is now. He now holds the No. 388 overall spot on the 247Sports composite and is No. 33 among defensive linemen in the class. The service has him listed at No. 26 among those at his position in the site’s standalone rankings as well.
Those numbers could improve with a strong senior year, and Jackson is already receiving interest from some other Power Five programs. Miami is the other main school he’s gotten to know well over the summer, and he hopes to stop by both programs as well as Georgia and UCF over the course of the season.
There’s still plenty of time until he needs to make a decision, but Jackson says Florida is playing its cards the right way.
“Florida definitely is a top school for me,” he said. “I don’t necessarily have a number for anything right now. I am just keeping it open.”
Being a local talent, missing out on Jackson could look bad for the Gators, especially if it’s to the likes of another in-state program. Expect the UF staff to keep pushing for him until a decision is made.
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Chelsea and Everton are about to kick off at Goodison Park in the first game of the new Premier League season for them. Both teams will be hoping to get off to a good start after finishing at opposite ends of the table last season. For a bit of pre-match reading, we sat down with Trent Nelson of Royal Blue Mersey to chat about the expectations for the next 90 minutes and next 9 months ahead. Be sure to check out the reverse version of this Q&A, where we talk about all the drama of Chelsea Football Club.
WAGNH: Last season ended on a most incredible high, despite a most incredibly low league position, but from the outside, it looks like Everton haven’t really been able to build on those feelings and the squad looks weaker, if anything. So what has gone on this summer and what’s the thinking among the club hierarchy?
RBM: It has been difficult but also not unexpected. The team is still trying to overcome FFP rules and limits that, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, have become difficult to manage.
Selling Richarlison helped, despite that it hurt us Toffee supporters, and especially to Tottenham. With that said, signing Dwight McNeil was major, as was the free transfer for James Tarkowski. Other moves like those rumored for former Blue Idrissa Geuye, Lille midfielder Amadou Onana, or for some Chelsea strikers or midfielders are necessary but in the meanwhile, resilience and hard work is the name of the game.
WAGNH: Frank Lampard seems to have earned himself cult hero status thanks to the aforementioned escape, but how do you rate his time in charge so far and what are your expectations of him going forward? Along those lines, what are your expectations for the season ahead? Can Everton hope for anything more than another relegation battle, or are we all underestimating them?
RBM: Frank Lampard’s Merseyside story is nowhere near over yet, but yes, he has been embraced by this team and its supporters precisely because of how he embraced them and the history of this club.
His great escape that he engineered was brilliant, but in the larger scale of things, it only allows for this team to rebound without spending time in the Championship. My colleagues are a bit more conservative regarding Everton’s chances this year, but I think the team can rebound and play more like it did under Carlo Ancelotti than under Rafa Benítez.
I don’t think we’ll be in a relegation fight again this year but few suspected it would happen last year either, so we will see.
WAGNH: Lampard’s constantly linked with swooping for one of many fringe players at Chelsea. But do Everton actually have a need for someone like Michy Batshuayi or Billy Gilmour?
RBM: As you’ve alluded to yourself, the team lost Richarlison this summer and needs creative and imaginative reinforcements and depth now. Everton haven’t had sufficient depth at the centre-forward position for years and without Richy it’s even worse.
However, names like Dwight McNeil help, and Batshuayi, Broja and someone like Gilmour would provide more striking and midfield support which is needed for this team to punch above their weight this year so go speak.
WAGNH: Can you please take Ross Barkley home?
RBM: Haha no thank you. -Sincerely, all of the Blue on Merseyside.
WAGNH: What makes Goodison such an ominous place for Chelsea to play? Is it the water? Something in the air? The cold showers?
It is absolutely not an easy place for anyone to play. The atmosphere is electric and every opponent feels it — not just Chelsea. With that said, there’s been some good luck for the Toffees and bad luck of you all.
Goodison is the type of place where all Everton needs is one mistake and they can — along with the crowd — do their best to try to hold it steady from there.
WAGNH: What can we expect from Everton this weekend, given the various injuries also affecting the team? Any predictions for this game?
EBM: I think that Everton will have a difficult time matching the talent level that Chelsea can field. I’ll say 2-1 as the final score.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Three-Midday" game were:
1-2-1, SB: 3
(one, two, one; SB: three)
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1-2-1, SB: 3
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Wolverhampton Wanderers are waiting to learn the extent of Joao Moutinho's set-back which kept him out of the season's opener at Leeds United on Saturday.
Portuguese maestro Moutinho, who agreed a further year's stay at Molineux over the summer, didn't travel to Elland Road as Leeds inflicted a first defeat of the new campaign on Bruno Lage's Wolves.
The midfield regular's technical ability was sorely missed in the battle with the Whites, but Lage is hopeful that the injury isn't too severe and that the recovery period will be days, rather than weeks.
Read: The Wolves player ratings at Leeds as Ait-Nouri endures shocker
Moutinho picked up the injury during training in the week when he struck a ball with his weaker left foot and jarred it. Clearly in some discomfort, he was forced to sit out Saturday's defeat.
The experienced pro is now in a race against time to be A1 for the first game of the new term at Molineux, when Fulham visit Wolves next weekend.
"It was a strange injury, because he tried to shoot with his left foot and he twisted it in the last training session," Lage revealed. "I said to him 'why are you shooting with your left foot? Don't shoot!
"These kind of things can happen. Let's see what happens. Sometimes it's a problem for one day, or two or three days, it kept him out of this game. Now it's about understanding how he can improve.
"I don't think it's a hard injury, but let's see how much time he needs to recover."
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LEEDS, England (AP) — American midfielder Brenden Aaronson helped Leeds open the English Premier League with a 2-1 comeback win over Wolverhampton on Saturday.
Aaronson, making his debut for Leeds after joining Jesse Marsch's team this offseason, looked poised to convert a cross from Patrick Bamford in the 74th minute after a run into the area, forcing defender Rayan Ait-Nouri to stick out a foot for an attempted clearance that ended up in his own net.
The own goal completed a turnaround for Leeds, which went behind early when Daniel Podence scored for the visitors in the sixth minute with a volley that spun off the turf and in off the underside of the crossbar.
Aaronson went close to an equalizer when his neat turn and shot was deflected for a corner, but Rodrigo leveled for the hosts in the 24th.
Ait-Nouri was caught dithering in his penalty area and, when the ball broke to Rodrigo on the right edge of the box, the Spain forward drilled a low angled shot inside goalkeeper Jose Sa’s near post.
American midfielder Tyler Adams also made his league debut for Leeds.
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Celtic manager Ange Postecoglou expressed satisfaction over his squad’s strength in depth after late call-up Moritz Jenz scored a crucial debut goal against Ross County.
The on-loan Lorient centre-back headed home Celtic’s second goal in the 84th minute before the cinch Premiership champions went on to seal a 3-1 victory in Dingwall.
With Carl Starfelt only just recovered from a hamstring injury, the German defender was drafted into the team after Stephen Welsh was ruled out through illness after Friday’s training session, and he made his mark in dramatic fashion.
Postecoglou said: “Yeah, he was great. He has been training well, he has fitted in really well. I keep saying, these guys, you see them on weekends but I see them every day.
“The level of training is really high at the moment. Everyone is putting their best foot forward, which makes training pretty competitive, so if I have to make a change to the line-up for whatever reason I’m really confident about the guys coming in.
“Obviously they have to take their opportunity but they are ready for that opportunity.
“It was a different game for him. There was a lot of contests he needed to win in the air, but he also had a lot of the ball and I really thought he showed some real good composure considering he has only been with us for a couple of weeks. It’s a great way for him to start his Celtic career.”
Celtic opened the scoring in the 48th minute when Jota cut back for Kyogo Furuhashi to slot home but Alex Iacovitti headed home from a corner 10 minutes later.
Joe Hart made a good stop from County substitute Owura Edwards before Celtic edged home late on when Jota set up further goals for Jenz and sub Liel Abada.
Postecoglou said: “We know it’s a difficult place to come and it’s a difficult team to play, and with the conditions being as they are with the wind, you know it’s going to be a real challenge.
“But credit to the players, from start to finish we played it on our terms. We were patient when we needed to be, we got a goal I thought we deserved.
“They scored from a corner which is always a possibility, they are a big strong team.
“But our response was outstanding. We stuck to our task, played our football, scored another good goal and even then there was no thought of stopping there, we got our third and I’m really pleased with every aspect of our game.”
County manager Malky Mackay had worked hard on his tactical plan and was frustrated for his players that they did not get their rewards for following it out.
“It’s been a tough week in terms of the work we’ve done off the pitch in terms of the tactical messages I have given them and the footage we have watched,” said Mackay, who revealed full-back Connor Randall would go to hospital to get a lower-leg injury assessed.
“We play in a manner that doesn’t allow us to be carved open because we were playing against a Champions League team.
“At the same time we needed the belief to, at times, threaten their goal, which we did.
“I was heartbroken for them because they were four or five minutes from putting in a performance that really puts people’s heads up in Scottish football saying ‘what’s going on there?'”
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair the seventh governing council meeting of the NITI Aayog on Sunday. The meeting will be attended by chief ministers of states, lieutenant governors of Union Territories, Union ministers, the Vice Chairman of Niti Ayog and members of the body at the cultural Centre of the President's House.
This will be the first highest level of physical meeting post-pandemic as the last governing council meeting was physically held in February 2015. The council meeting was not convened in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is the chairman of NITI Aayog, will make the opening statement at 10.15 am and then the session will be moderated by the Defence Minister.
All parties will discuss various issues, including crop diversification, a self-reliant mechanism for the agriculture sector and the economy. Significantly, the governing council will also discuss the national education policy and its implementation.
The government council meeting will also discuss achieving self-sufficiency in Oilseeds & Pulses and other Agri Commodities, as per the agenda of the meeting.
Foreign Minister S Jaishankar will also make a presentation to the governing council on G20.
The meeting is also significant to improve better center and state relationships and cooperative federalism. Recently, many Chief Ministers from the opposition camp accused the Centre government of violating cooperative federalism and center-state relationships.
The National Conference of Chief Secretaries was held in Dharamshala in June 2022.
However, the day before this meeting, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao refused to be part of it.
At this meeting, however, the archrival of the BJP Chief Minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee, will be attending this meeting.
Telangana CM KCR in a statement said, "I will not be a part of the 7th Governing Council meeting of NITI Aayog which is going to be held in Delhi tomorrow, as a mark of protest".
In a strongly-worded letter to PM Modi, Rao, KCR expressed anguish against center, for states not being given "flexibility to design & modify schemes based on their needs & conditions to ensure maximum benefit to people."
Responding to KCR's letter to PM Modi, Niti Aayog, in a statement, said that the institution has already taken a number of measures to work closely with the states.
"It is unfortunate that the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Telangana has chosen not to participate in the Governing Council meeting of NITI Aayog to be held on August 7. The Governing Council is a forum where the highest political leadership in the country at Centre and State levels deliberates on key development-related issues and agrees on appropriate outcome-oriented solutions for national development," it said.
NITI AAYOG:
NITI Aayog was formed via a resolution of the Union Cabinet on January 1, 2015. The Governing Council of NITI Aayog, comprising Chief Ministers of all the States and Union Territories with legislatures and Lt Governors of other Union Territories, came into effect on February 16, 2015 via a notification by the Cabinet Secretariat. The Governing Council was reconstituted via a notification dated February 19, 2021 by the Cabinet Secretariat.
The Governing Council is the premier body tasked with evolving a shared vision of national priorities and strategies, with the active involvement of the States, in shaping the development narrative. The Governing Council, which embodies the objectives of cooperative federalism, presents a platform to discuss inter-sectoral, inter-departmental and federal issues to accelerate the implementation of the national development agenda.
So far, six meetings of the Governing Council have been held under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister with Chief Ministers/Lt Governors of the States/UTs and other members of the Governing Council.
The sixth meeting of the Governing Council of NITI Aayog was held on February 20, 2021 under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Narendra Modi via video conferencing. It was attended by 26 Chief Ministers, 3 Lieutenant Governors and 2 Administrators, apart from Union Ministers who are Ex-Officio Members, and Special Invitees. NITI Aayog’s Vice Chairman, Members and CEO; Principal Secretary to the PM and other senior officers from PMO; Cabinet Secretary; and Chief Secretaries of States/Union Territories also attended the meeting. Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh moderated the meeting.
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It's been almost a year since the Taliban took over Afghanistan again and the U.S. military pulled out of the country.
As the withdrawal unfolded, Marine Corps veteran Elliot Ackerman was watching the chaos from a distance. He was on a family vacation in Italy but couldn't tear himself away from what was happening.
Ackerman had deployed to Afghanistan multiple times. He felt bound to America's Afghan allies, so when the U.S. announced it was leaving and those same Afghans were desperate to get out, he lay awake at night, glued to his phone.
"My entire network was lighting up and it had become quickly a crowdsourced evacuation, with each person playing their part," Ackerman told Morning Edition.
''Some people were trying to raise money for charter flights, other people were arranging the buses that would transport evacuees from various pickup points in Kabul into the airport."
Ackerman was key because he knew Marines who were inside the airport, manning those gates and deciding who could come in and who could not. He writes about this experience in his new book, The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Interview highlights
On mobilizing to help Afghans evacuate
Everyone was very much focused on the task at hand, because the stakes are obviously very high. You know, you've got the photographs of the people who are trying to get out and their families, [because] these aren't people any of us knew — the only family that I got out who I had a direct personal connection to was my interpreter. He has since moved to the U.S. but his family was still there and we were able to get his family out. But everyone else, these were strangers and they were strangers for most of us. So in that moment, you can't really step away.
But there were certainly little interludes. And my wife, in the book, she almost comes off like a Greek chorus conscience of the book, saying, you know, "Why are you all having to do this? Why are the people who left the wars 10 years ago now being sucked in to try to finish them?"
On how he views America's exit from Afghanistan
I think it was a collapse of American morals that we made these promises and we fell short. It was a collapse of American competence. I mean, listen, despite the heroic efforts of those who were at the airport — and our efforts were truly heroic, so I'm not questioning their competence — but I would question the competence of decision-making that put us into this position where our back was up against a wall with this Aug. 31st withdrawal date that we couldn't seem to move.
It was a collapse of hierarchy, because as the war was ending in those days, I found myself on text chains and phone calls with retired four star generals and admirals, some of whom had commanded the entire war, because no one could get anyone out because of the craziness. And because, for a brief window, the team that I was working with was having some success, we found ourselves serving in this collapsed hierarchy all working together. And that was surreal for me at times.
On how it's impossible to really separate yourself from the experience of war
People have sometimes asked me, "Elliot, how do you think the war's changed you?" and I've never known how to answer that question. Because the war in so many ways made me. I don't know how to unbraid it out of the knots that are me. But the friendships that I have there, the memories that I have from that time, of course I think about and it's the time when I was growing up. I mean, I grew up there in the war.
I entered the service and started that training pipeline at 17 years old. And as you see in the book, those friendships have projected out because as Kabul was falling, so many of the people I'm working with, these are folks who've also transitioned. They've ended the wars themselves and we're all still friends.
On what an appropriate memorial would look like to these particular American wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
I started thinking about it with regards to the recent passage of the Global War on Terrorism Memorial Location Act, which has gone through Congress to authorize a memorial to these wars. But the global war on terrorism isn't over yet, so it's actually interesting.
For the first time as a country, we will be trying to make a memorial to a war that we are still technically fighting. But it got me thinking, how would you make a memorial to a forever war? And that got me thinking, well maybe what would be more appropriate instead of erecting all these memorials upward, maybe we should dig downward, kind of like the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
And I imagined a war memorial that would look almost like the sloping granite rock, sort of descending downward conically like something from Dante, and we would get rid of all the memorials to each specific war and we would just have one American War Memorial.
It would begin with the names, the first being Crispus Attucks, who was killed at the Boston Massacre. And we would just list them all chronologically digging ourselves deeper and deeper and deeper. So we have more than a million war dead at this point in our country's history. And every time we fund a new war, we just add the names going down and down into the earth. And then, in my imagination of this war memorial, when you got to the very last name, there would be a desk and a pen. And Congress would pass a law that before any troop deployment, the president — he or she — would have to come down to the war memorial and that pen would be the only pen that could be used to sign that troop deployments.
They would have to walk by all of the war dead before they would need to do that. And then we wouldn't have to have any more debates about war memorials — we would just know what we did every time we fought a war, we'd just add the names.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Day" game were:
3-8-4-9, FIREBALL: 4
(three, eight, four, nine; FIREBALL: four)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Day" game were:
3-8-4-9, FIREBALL: 4
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Jazz Must Beware Prioritizing Picks Over Players in Donovan Mitchell Trade with Knicks
The New York Knicks have a plethora of future draft picks and young talent that the Utah Jazz will be targeting as they try to trade Donovan Mitchell.
Tony Jones of The Athletic recently stated on ESPN radio that Jazz executive Danny Ainge would prefer picks over players if a trade were to occur.
“If you’re Danny Ainge, the value of this deal comes from unprotected picks,” Jones said.
But there’s a problem with loading up on draft capital from the Knicks. New York would have a solid young core of RJ Barrett (22), Jalen Brunson (25), and Mitchell (25) entering their prime years. Could the Knicks be hitting a window where they’ll be in playoff contention year in and year out? At the least, this is not a team headed for the lottery.
This wouldn’t be good for the Jazz. It might be a challenge to get equal value back for Mitchell if the compensation ended up being selections in the 20s down the road.
The good news is the Knicks have three up-and-comers that should be prioritized by Utah over picks if a trade were to take place.
Don’t let Obi Toppin’s stat line of nine points and 3.7 rebounds per game fool you. The development of the former No. 8 pick in the 2020 draft has been stalled because Julius Randle took most of the minutes at the 4, but in the last five games of the regular season, he was given an opportunity to shine.
Toppin averaged 27 points and six rebounds per game while shooting 55% from the field. It’s unlikely the Jazz would do better with a late or mid-first rounder.
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Quentin Grimes is only one year into his rookie deal and is another player who has a huge upside but hasn’t had the opportunity to get minutes in New York. His stock recently went up as he earned first-team honors in this year's Summer League while averaging 22.6 points a game.
Grimes is 6-foot-5 with a wing span of 6-foot-8 with a chance of being an elite defender, and Salt Lake City is a perfect place to get the live reps to develop. The chances of the Jazz getting a player as good as Grimes with a draft pick above No. 15 is definitely plausible, but less than a 50-50 proposition.
Immanuel Quickley is another young player that’s already cemented his place as a solid rotation piece in the league. He averaged 11 points in just 23 minutes a game last year, and at only 22 years of age, may have just scratched the surface.
According to Cleaning the Glass, the Knicks were 12.2 points better per 100 possessions when Quickley was in the game. The former first-round pick out of Kentucky will be a backup with the addition of Mitchell and Brunson, but could start in Salt Lake City if the Jazz were to clean house.
Toppin, Grimes, and Quickley could all be under team control for 6-7 years, which is vital for a small-market team that knows all too well the difficulty of drawing talent to Utah via free agency. Now, this doesn’t mean that picks shouldn’t be a part of a trade, but these three players need to be priority No. 1.
Ainge should be commended for the haul that was acquired in the Rudy Gobert trade, but prioritizing picks over players with the Knicks could prove costly.
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BY JESSICA GREEN FOR MAILONLINE
After six years of marriage, Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall are to divorce, leaving the Texan model single again at 65.
Miss Hall has never been short of admirers since she burst onto the fashion scene after being discovered sunbathing in the south of France in the 1970s, however her love life has been anything but plain sailing.
She tied the knot with the Rolling Stones frontman, who she met in 1976, on a beach in Bali in 1990, however, their supposed marriage was deemed void by the UK high court following their split.
It was another humiliation for Miss Hall, after putting up with the rocker's notorious philandering for years, admitting she 'forgave, and forgave, and forgave' to an 'unhealthy' extent.
Her union with Mick wasn't her first star-studded relationship, with the Texas native dating singer Bryan Ferry before her relationship with Jagger and appeared on the cover of his 1975 album Siren.
The couple became engaged, but she was wooed away from Ferry by Jagger.
Friends of the 91-year-old media tycoon Mr Murdoch and 65-year-old model, who wed in March 2016, were left 'surprised' by their sudden split, The New York Times said.
The union was the fourth marriage for Mr Murdoch, who is worth an estimated $17 billion, while it was technically Hall's first marriage after her 22-year relationship – and four children – with Sir Mick Jagger.
Here, FEMAIL takes a look back at Hall's varied loved life.
Bryan Ferry and Jerry Hall posed together in the Amstel Hotel in 1976 in Amsterdam
BRYAN FERRY: 1975 - 1977
Miss Hall is best known for her relationship with Jagger - however, she had a star-studded relationship history long before meeting him.
She moved to Paris as a model in the 70s and in 1975, in the guise of a mermaid, Hall appeared on the cover of her boyfriend Bryan Ferry's latest record album, Roxy Music's Siren.
Despite the age difference - Hall was 19 and Ferry was 30 - they started dating.
Five months later, the lead singer proposed to MIssHall and their professional and personal relationship continued, with her appearing in the video for Ferry's 1976 solo hit, Let's Stick Together.
By now, Hall was one of the most photographed models of her era, truly one of the first to gain the status of 'supermodel' and from the front covers of Vogue and Cosmopolitan magazines to the social pages of every publication, a woman instantly synonymous with glamour.
The girl from Texas was also earning a daily fee of $1000. The gossip columns would say that Hall met Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger at a dinner party in Manhattan and left Bryan Ferry for him.
But as Hall later revealed in her 2010 autobiography, Tall Tales, Jagger pursued her while she was still a teenager and engaged to Ferry, eventually seducing her in 1977.
Together, Jagger and Hall partied at the notable nightclubs of the day, Studio 54 and 21 Club in New York. Ferry would later write the song Kiss and Tell about Hall's infidelity.
MICK JAGGER: 1977 - 1999
Hall was previously in a long-term relationship with Rolling Stones rocker Mick Jagger, with whom she shares four children - Elizabeth, 38, James, 36, Georgia May, 30, and Gabriel, 24.
However the two parents, who met in 1976, never officially tied the knot during their 22-year relationship together.
While Hall's marriage to Murdoch marked her first official walk down the aisle - she and Jagger did have an unofficial marriage ceremony in Bali in 1990, however that was deemed void by the UK high court following their split.
They went through a legal battle over whether or not their 1990 Bali wedding service had been official after she filed for divorce in 1999. Her split from Jagger left her with an estimated settlement of up to $22 million.
The former supermodel, who was born in Texas, said she had thought that the marriage was 'valid' and that - as a result - the pair would need to go through official divorce proceedings.
However, a high court judge in the UK declared that the ceremony was not valid under British or Indonesian law and he therefore declared the marriage null and void.
In 2005, Hall opened up about her feelings over Jagger's alleged womanizing during their relationship.
She told the Evening Standard that she 'forgave, and forgave, and forgave and forgave to the point where it wasn't very healthy at all', adding: 'Sure, he wasn't a great husband, and I could gripe and grouse, but I think that's old hat.'
She also confessed at the time that she 'still loved' Jagger, but that their relationship had been so 'unhealthy', it had left her 'so depressed' and 'unhappy'.
'I still love him. But it made me so unhappy. I was unable to do anything because I felt so depressed,' she said. 'If you're in an unhealthy relationship, it's bad for your self-esteem. You have so many ups and downs that you can't be consistent...'
In 2008, Hall insisted she would never want her daughters to date a man like Jagger in an interview with Psychologies magazine.
She said: 'No, never. But I don't think they would. They have far more confidence than I did, and they have great boundaries. It took me longer to learn those.'
Hall shares four children - Elizabeth, 38, James, 36, Georgia May, 30, and Gabriel, 24 - with Jagger (pictured together in the '80s)
Hall conceded she had put up with the star's behavior for too long.
She said: 'I always thought he would change, and that was my big mistake. People don't change, unless they really want to, and you can't make them.
'I probably stayed with him for longer than I should have done. All I can say is that I really loved him, and he really loved me, in spite of all the other women.'
At the time of Hall and Murdoch's wedding in 2016, sources reported that Jagger was 'seething' over the union, with one friend saying that the rocker 'had a real problem' with the idea of the Australian media tycoon becoming a part of his family.
'This means that Rupert Murdoch is going to become a part of his extended family, and Mick has a real problem with that,' the insider claimed.
Hall reportedly ended things with Jagger after he had a child with Brazilian model Luciana Gimenez, but the former couple remain close friends.
Sangster was married to Susan Sangster (pictured) at the time. In 2015, Hall revealed to Radio Times that she embarked on an affair of her own with wealthy horse breeder Robert Sangster in order to give Jagger a taste of his own medicine in 1982
ROBERT SANGSTER: 1982
In 2015, Hall revealed to Radio Times that she embarked on an affair of her own with wealthy horse breeder Robert Sangster in order to give Jagger a taste of his own medicine in 1982.
Although her retaliation initially worked, in the end she was forced to realize Jagger would never change.
Commenting on his philandering and the incessant lies he told her, Jerry was asked if she ever sought revenge at which point she re-opened the story of her dalliance.
'I did [want revenge]. At one point I went off and had an affair with somebody else. Robert Sangster. So lovely. Horse breeder. Then Mick would beg me back.'
She admitted the fling, which she claimed only lasted a couple of weeks, made her feel good; empowered, and was the only one during her 22-year relationship with the rockstar.
'The only big time. I thought Mick would eventually change, but he didn't,' she said.
Hall's 1982 affair with Sangster, who passed away aged 67 from cancer in 2004, was well-publicized and one she is reported to have described as a 'disaster'.
However her interview with the Radio Times was believed to be the first time she admitted she was motivated by a desire to seek revenge.
She added: 'He [Jagger] never annoyed me. Not little things. I mean his actions with other women were pretty bad but that was the only thing that annoyed me. Not little things.
'I mean his actions with other women were pretty bad but that was the only thing that annoyed me. He didn't annoy me day-to-day.
'He denied everything [the affairs] to the last. Well, I think most men do. He eventually had a baby with somebody else.'
Her relationship with Sangster started when she found out Jagger was cheating on her with Italian model Carla Bruni.
She had intercepted a fax from Miss Bruni to Jagger which read 'Let's spend the night together' and was naturally furious.
She went off travelling with Sangster, who was married to Susan Sangster at the time, in an apparent attempt to make her man jealous.
Her plan worked. Within a year Jagger and Jerry, soon pregnant with their first child, Elizabeth, were back together.
Jerry dated Paramount film producer George Waud for two years after her split from Mick Jagger
GEORGE WAUD: 2000 - 2001
He was 11 years her junior and four inches shorter, but Hall, then 44, wasn't shy about gushing over her romance with film producer George Waud, who she dated for nearly two years after splitting from Mick.
'He is way, way, way too young for me, but there it is,' she said at the time. 'Go with the flow. He's gorgeous, he's smart, he's single. And he thinks he isn't good-looking which makes him all the more attractive.'
She met Waud in August 1999, just after she had received a £10million parting settlement from Jagger.
He's the son of millionaire Guy Pierre D'Abzac Waud, a former member of the council of the Distressed Gentle-folk's Association and a consultant to the American School in Cobham, Surrey.
Waud, who read Fine Arts at Oxford, was a film producer with Paramount when he and Hall started dating, and used to go out with Cecilia Peck, daughter of the Hollywood star, Gregory.
The couple split in the summer of 2001.
A few months after her split from Waud, Hall moved on with another toyboy - albeit a less diminutive one. Then 45, she met London banker Tim Attias, 35, through the Kabbalah, an offshoot of Judaism to which she is devoted
TIM ATTIAS: 2001 - 2002
A few months after her split from Waud, Hall moved on with another toyboy - albeit a less diminutive one.
Then 45, she met London banker Tim Attias, 35, through the Kabbalah, an offshoot of Judaism to which she is devoted.
The confirmed bachelor had a formidable reputation as a ladies' man and friends said it was not uncommon for him to have up to five women on the go at once.
A keen polo player, he ran a team from Lord Cowdray's estate in West Sussex, costing him up to £500,000 a year - which was not a problem with bonuses from his job with investment bankers ABN Amro said to be in the region of £2million.
During their 'intense fling' he whisked Hall off to Mustique and invited her to parties at his £1.5million Notting Hill home in West London.
Friends said he was besotted, with one adding: 'It is all Tim can talk about.'
However, it was reportedly Hall who ended things, saying she wasn't ready to commit to a serious relationship again.
Hall met Warwick Hemsley in Perth, Australia, in September 2010 while starring in The Graduate, in which she played seductress Mrs Robinson
WARWICK HEMSLEY: 2010 - 2012
Hall met Warwick Hemsley in Perth, Australia, in September 2010 while starring in The Graduate, in which she played seductress Mrs Robinson.
The property tycoon, thought to be worth £30million at the time, followed her back to London when the 21-performance run of The Graduate ended.
He crossed to the other side of the world and even moved in with her in October 2010, just weeks after they met and fell for each other.
‘I’ve never seen her so relaxed,’ a member of the West London ladies-who-lunch set, of which Hall was a fixture, previously told The Daily Mail.
‘Her relationship with Warwick has played a huge part in how contented she is these days. She’s finally ready to settle into middle age.’
Those close to her at the time suggested Hall was seriously considering marriage.
The same friend said: ‘When one of her friends made a remark about how they could see her marrying again, Jerry would always laugh it off, but recently she’s stopped being so coy.
‘In fact, she’s been saying quite openly that she likes the idea. It’s quite a surprise — I never thought she would find anyone who could live up to Mick, in her mind.’
Hall was romantically linked to New Zealand-born Armand Leroi, then 49, from January 2014 until a year later
ARMAND LEROI: 2014 - 2015
Hall was romantically linked to New Zealand-born Armand Leroi, then 49, from January 2014 until a year later.
The diplomat’s son came with impressive credentials - best known for the Channel 4 documentary series Human Mutants, he is Professor of Evolutionary Developmental Biology at Imperial College London.
Friends said at the time he was the perfect companion for Jerry. ‘He is good looking, well-read and sophisticated,’ a chum told The Daily Mail.
The son of Dutch diplomats, Armand comes from a family that is both jet-setting and intellectual. His twin sister Marie-France is an eminent lawyer in Canada, while another sister, Iracema, is a leading authority on Alzheimer’s disease.
Armand took his BSc degree at Dalhousie in Halifax, Canada, in 1989, then a PhD at the University of California.
He moved to Britain in 1996 to be a lecturer at Imperial College London, where in 2001 he was appointed Reader in Evolutionary Developmental Biology.
His emergence as a media star began with the publication of his book Mutants: On The Form, Varieties And Errors Of The Human Body, in 2004. It was widely lauded, won an award and was turned into a documentary series on Channel 4, which he wrote and presented.
Another Channel 4 series — What Makes Us Human — followed in 2006, then in 2009 came a BBC4 documentary called What Darwin Didn’t Know. He presented Aristotle’s Lagoon for BBC4 in 2010 and followed up with a book of the same title in 2014. All were greeted with acclaim and his profile rose.
RUPERT MURDOCH: 2015 - 2022
Murdoch and Hall tied the knot in London in March 2016 in a very low-key ceremony at Spencer House, which overlooks Green Park, after a whirlwind five-month romance.
At the time, the media tycoon expressed his joy over the union, tweeting shortly after the ceremony concluded that he would be taking a break from social media in order to enjoy newlywed life.
Murdoch and Hall (pictured in 2019) began quietly dating in 2015, with The Mail on Sunday revealing in October of that year that they had begun their romance after being introduced in Australia by one of Murdoch's sisters and his niece
'No more tweets for ten days or ever!' he wrote. 'Feel like the luckiest AND happiest man in world.'
One day after their official ceremony, the couple - whose unlikely romance made headlines the world over - hosted a more lavish affair, which was attended by all ten of their children.
Hall's two daughters and Murdoch's two youngest daughters acted as bridesmaids, while the media mogul's son Lachlan was understood to have presided over the pair's first ceremony.
Following the wedding celebrations, Hall shared a photo of the then-newlyweds posing with all of their kids, writing alongside it: 'My beautiful family!'
Murdoch and Hall began quietly dating in 2015, with The Mail on Sunday revealing in October of that year that they had begun their romance after being introduced in Australia by one of Murdoch's sisters and his niece.
The couple made their relationship public on October 31 when they were seen for the first time together at the Rugby World Cup final at Twickenham in London.
They then attended the Golden Globes in Los Angeles in January 2016 - days before Murdoch announced that the pair were engaged.
Murdoch popped the question with a 10-carat marquise diamond engagement ring that was said to be worth up to $3.5 million.
In December 2021, just seven months before the news of their impending divorce was reported, Hall and Murdoch purchased a $200 million cattle ranch - called Beaverhead - in Montana, which was previously owned by oil baron Fred Koch and his children.
The purchase of the 340,000-acre ranch, which is located close to Yellowstone National Park, was the priciest ranch sale in Montana history.
At the time, Murdoch told the Wall Street Journal of his new home: 'This is a profound responsibility.
'We feel privileged to assume ownership of this beautiful land and look forward to continually enhancing both the commercial cattle business and the conservation assets across the ranch.'
A spokesperson added to the publication that Hall and Murdoch were planning to spend time together on the ranch, having spent a year looking for the perfect place to snap up in the area.
In addition to the newly-purchased ranch, Murdoch also owns a $28.8 million estate and winery in the Bel-Air neighborhood of Los Angeles, a ranch in California, a four-story penthouse in New York City that is believed to be worth around $72 million, and a 25,000-acre sheep and cattle farm, called Cavan Station, in his native Australia.
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Everton’s Godfrey suffers horror injury following collision with Chelsea’s Havertz but play should have already stopped
EVERTON defender Ben Godfrey suffered an unnecessary injury in Saturday's evening match against Chelsea at Goodison Park.
The 24-year-old centre-back was stretched off in agony after launching into a tackle on German forward Kai Havertz.
However, the incident should never have happened - with the ball clearly going out of play BEFORE Godfrey's lunge.
The ball was heading out of touch when Jordan Pickford did his best to stop the corner.
But, despite the England shotstopper's best efforts, the ball clearly went over the line.
It was missed by officials who failed to make a decision in time.
Godfrey then tried to make a last-ditch tackle on Havertz as Pickford's clearance ran loose, and suffered the nasty injury.
A lengthy stoppage saw a medical team take the defender off the pitch with his leg strapped up.
He was surrounded by medics for several minutes, and was seen breathing from a gas cylinder as he was carried off the pitch on a stretcher.
The Toffees are suffering something of an injury crisis with a number of first team stars out, or carrying knocks.
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Talisman Dominic Calvert-Lewin is out for six weeks, while first team stars Tom Davies and Andre Gomes are also carrying knocks.
Colombian hardman Yerry Mina, who was a doubt, did start against Chelsea though.
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Willie Nelson & Shania Twain Sing “Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain” Together Back In 2003
Shania Twain and Willie Nelson… POWER DUO.
Willie is arguably the greatest country music artist of all time, and Shania’s career speaks for itself. She has produced some of the best selling albums of all time, in any genre.
Back in 2003, a ton of great artists came together to honor Willie for his 70th birthday (yeah, Willie was turning 70 all the way back in 2003).
The lineup included folks like Sheryl Crow, Kris Kristofferson, Kenny Chesney, Eric Clapton, Toby Keith & more. And of course, the queen of ’90s country… Shania Twain.
Taking the stage together, Willie and Shania delivered a beautiful cover of “Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain,” an old Fred Rose tune that was recorded by Roy Acuff, Hank Williams, and then Willie Nelson for his 1975 Stardust album.
They followed that up with a gorgeous duet of Shania’s “Forever And For Always.”
I mean, does it get much better?
“Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain”
“Forever & For Always”
Shania Twain Documentary, Shania Twain: Not Just A Girl, Arrives On Netflix
You have my attention.
A new Shania Twain documentary officially hit Netflix this month and if you’re a fan, it’s well worth the watch.
Produced by Joss Crowley, here’s the synopsis:
“From Nashville newcomer to international icon, singer Shania Twain transcends genres across borders amid triumphs and setbacks in this documentary.”
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Trump Begs Supporters For Donations Toward 'Upcoming' CNN Lawsuit
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Trump asked his "best and most dedicated supporters" to fund his lawsuit. (Photo: Ethan Miller via Getty Images)
Former President Donald Trump asked supporters Friday in his online newsletter for donations toward his “impending” lawsuit against CNN for calling his claims of voter fraud regarding the 2020 presidential election “baseless,” according to The Daily Beast.
“I’m calling on my best and most dedicated supporters to add their names to stand with me in my impending lawsuit against fake news CNN,” wrote Trump. “Add your name immediately to show your support for my upcoming lawsuit against fake news CNN.”
The email concluded with a link to Trump’s online donation portal. The Republican National Committee (RNC) has warned Trump they would stop footing his legal bills if he declared his presidential candidacy for 2024, according to ABC News.
The RNC has paid nearly $2 million to companies that represent Trump since October 2021.
Trump’s fundraising request came after his attorneys hit CNN with a 282-page letter in July demanding the media network remove all uses of “the big lie” and “lying” from its coverage of his claims that the election was fraudulent.
Trump wrote in a July 27 statement that he “notified CNN of my intent to file a lawsuit over their repeated defamatory statements.”
Further pushing the defamation claims, Lindsey Halligan, a Florida lawyer for Trump, said on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast on July 29 that “the big lie” was a German phrase penned in a book by Adolf Hitler, Insider reported.
“CNN branded Trump as a liar, and referred to his questions regarding voter fraud as ‘the big lie,’ which is actually linked to Adolf Hitler,” Halligan said.
While the lawsuit has yet to materialize, Trump’s legal team claimed he “subjectively believes” the election was stolen. However, at this time, no evidence of voter fraud has been found.
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HIIT exercise is one of the best ways to lose fat. It can also help you increase your metabolism and burn more calories throughout the day.
HIIT exercises are short, intense workouts that involve a variety of different movements, such as squats and burpees. To burn fat, try HIIT exercises that'll work up a sweat.
Quick HIIT Exercises For Fat Loss
Here's a look at six such workouts:
#1 Burpee
Here's how it's done:
- Start in a standing position. Lower yourself into a squat.
- Jump your feet back, and land in a push-up position.
- Push yourself up, and jump as high as you can.
- Land in a squat position; jump your feet back and stand up again to complete one rep.
#2 Walking Lunge
Walking lunges are one of the most effective exercises for fat loss. They're easy to do. They work multiple muscle groups and can be done anywhere you have a flat surface.
Here's how to do them:
- Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart
- Step forward with one leg, and lower yourself down till that knee almost touches the ground (don't let it touch, though).
- Push back up with that leg, and switch feet so that you're stepping forward again with your other foot.
- Repeat this motion for about 30 seconds or as long as you can comfortably manage before switching legs again.
#3 Jumping Jack
Jumping jacks are a classic cardio exercise that can help burn more fat and calories, boost your metabolism, and improve your overall health. They're also easy to do at home or at the gym.
Here are step-by-step instructions on how to do a jumping jack:
- Stand with feet together, arms by your sides.
- Jump up while separating legs into a wide 'V'.
- Bring your arms up overhead, with fingers interlaced (this is the jumping jack part).
- Return to the start position, and repeat for 30 seconds.
- Do as many as you can in 30 seconds
#4 Toe Touch
Toe touches are one of the most effective exercises for burning fat. They're simple to do, so you can squeeze them into your busy schedule easily.
To perform toe touches, stand in an upright position, with your feet shoulder-width apart and knees slightly bent. Flex your feet firmly against the floor, and reach as far as possible forward till you can almost touch your toes with both hands.
Pause briefly before pulling back again to starting position in a slow controlled manner for one repetition of toe touches done correctly. Repeat this exercise continuously for 30 seconds as many times as possible. You may consider breaking up the exercise into two 15-second sets.
#5 Mountain Climber
The mountain climber is a great exercise for your glutes, quads and core.
Here's how to do it:
- Start in a push-up position with your hands on the floor directly under your shoulders. Your feet should be together and knees bent at 90 degrees.
- Keeping your body straight, pull one foot in towards you at about 45 degrees away from the body (not directly above the hip) while keeping the other foot flat on the floor.
- Return to te starting position without letting go of that knee being pulled up as far as possible, and repeat on the other side.
- Keep alternating sides while maintaining form throughout both movements till you're done with all reps or feel like quitting.
#6 Squat Jump
To do a squat jump, start by standing with your feet slightly wider than hip-width apart. Bend your knees, and lower into a squat position with an upright torso. Jump up as high as possible, and land lightly in the starting position.
Perform the desired number of reps (don’t forget to have fun). If you're new to this exercise, aim for three sets of 15 reps each time you perform it with two to three minutes of rest in between sets. Once you’ve mastered it, though, try doing five sets of 30 seconds each, but still take breaks.
Takeaway
HIIT workouts are one of the best ways to burn fat and improve your health. HIIT is all about getting your heart rate up, improving endurance and building lean muscle mass through short bouts of near maximal effort or near maximal power output, followed by rest periods (recovery), allowing you to go at it again with intensity.
They’re also very easy to do, with just a few pieces of equipment or no equipment at all. HIIT exercises can be done in small spaces like your home or office without any equipment. Just use your body as resistance, like jumping jacks.
Q. How often do you do cardio?
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WFO NEW YORK CITY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, August 8, 2022
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HEAT ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service New York NY
1257 PM EDT Sat Aug 6 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT MONDAY...
* WHAT...Heat index values of 95 today, and up to 99 Sunday and
Monday.
* WHERE...Portions of northeast New Jersey, southern Connecticut
and southeast New York.
* WHEN...For the afternoon and early evening hours today, Sunday,
and Monday.
* IMPACTS...Hot temperatures and high humidity may cause heat
illnesses to occur.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Heat Advisory is issued when the combination of heat and
humidity is expected to make it feel like it is 95 to 99 degrees
for two or more consecutive days, or 100 to 104 degrees for any
length of time.
Seniors and those with chronic health problems or mental health
conditions are at an increased risk. Homes without air
conditioning can be much hotter than outdoor temperatures.
Use air conditioning to stay cool at home or go to a place that
has air conditioning. Check on vulnerable friends, family members
and neighbors.
To reduce risk during outdoor work, the Occupational Safety and
Health Administration recommends scheduling frequent rest breaks
in shaded or air conditioned environments. Anyone overcome by
heat should be moved to a cool and shaded location. Heat stroke
is an emergency! In cases of heat stroke call 9 1 1.
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Hate crime: Man sentenced for attacking Asian family he blamed for pandemic
MIDLAND, Texas (Gray News) - A Texas man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for assaulting an Asian family that authorities said he blamed for the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Justice Department announced that Jose Gomez III, 21, of Midland, Texas, was sentenced on hate crime charges for attacking an Asian family he believed was Chinese and therefore responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic.
Gomez had previously pleaded guilty to three counts of committing a hate crime.
Officials said according to the facts admitted in the plea, on March 14, 2020, Gomez entered a Sam’s Club Warehouse in Midland behind an Asian family with young children. Gomez had never seen them before and believed they were Chinese.
According to authorities, Gomez followed them in the store for several minutes because he perceived them to be a “threat” as they were “from the country who started spreading that disease around.” Gomez then momentarily left the family to find a serrated steak knife in the store.
The Justice Department reported Gomez bent the blade of the knife and returned to the family and punched the father in the face, cutting him. Gomez then left to retrieve another knife from the store. When Gomez returned, he abruptly turned towards the family’s two young children – then aged 6 and 2 years old – who were seated in the front basket of the shopping cart. Gomez slashed the 6-year-old child’s face and right ear.
Officials said Gomez also stabbed a Sam’s Club employee who intervened to stop him from further assaulting the Asian family. While being held down on the ground, Gomez yelled at the family to “Get out of America!”
The Justice Department reported that Gomez admitted he believed the family was Chinese and that he blamed them for the COVID-19 pandemic. Gomez further admitted he had attempted to kill the 6-year-old child. The 21-year-old also admitted he had attacked the store employee because he wanted to kill the 6-year-old child and the worker was preventing him from doing so.
“Pandemic-driven and racially-motivated acts of violence are deplorable crimes, and the Justice Department stands ready to use our hate crimes laws to hold perpetrators accountable,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke, with the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.
The department said the Midland Police Department and the FBI helped with the investigation of the case.
“Hate-motivated violence will simply not be tolerated in our society and every person deserves to feel safe from such vicious harm,” said U.S. Attorney Ashley C. Hoff for the Western District of Texas.
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Odom signed a contract with the Browns on Saturday, Mary Kay Cabot of The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports.
Odom has had a few brief stints in the NFL, the latest coming in 2019 when he played four games for Washington, recording 10 tackles and two sacks in limited action. Stephen Weatherly (knee) going down opened a slot for Odom to fill a backup role at defensive end, with Myles Garrett and Jadeveon Clowney locked in as the starters. | https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/football/news/browns-chris-odom-signs-with-cleveland/ | 2022-08-06T18:50:24Z | https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/football/news/browns-chris-odom-signs-with-cleveland/ | false | null |
SANTA CLARA — Signage around Levi’s Stadium is celebrating Bryant Young’s induction later Saturday afternoon into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Inside the stadium’s auditorium, coach Kyle Shanahan gave his own tribute in a pre-practice press conference.
“I love B.Y. and I was a ballboy when he got drafted,” Shanahan began. “Talk about a rookie who comes in and doesn’t act as a rookie. That guy was a man from Day 1.”
Young spent his entire 14-year career as a 49ers defensive lineman and remains the franchise’s all-time sack leader. He won a Super Bowl as a rookie, and Shanahan fondly recalled the star-studded roster from that 1994 camp, adding: “That was as cool a thing to be around as I can remember.”
Assuming the 49ers will be practicing during Young’s enshrinement speech in Canton, Ohio, Shanahan said he’d replay it for his team in tribute to the eight-time winner of the 49ers’ most prestigious honor, the Len Eshmont Award. Shanahan noted he tried to hire Young onto his staff a few years ago “and the situation wasn’t right at the time.”
“B.Y. is deserving as a player and one of the most impressive people, too,” Shanahan said.
Levi’s Stadium has signage up to celebrate #BryantYoung #ProFootballHallOfFame induction today pic.twitter.com/BFlYw39Sco
— Cam Inman (@CamInman) August 6, 2022
Asked what other player he’s come across has been “a man from Day 1,” Shanahan didn’t hesitate to say Nick Bosa, the 49ers’ fourth-year defensive end who happens to wear No. 97, Young’s former number. “Bosa’s been a professional since 3 years old,” Shanahan quipped.
As he strolled down memory lane, Shanahan shared a funny tale about that 1994 camp in Rocklin, when he was a 14-year-old ballboy and his dad, Mike, was the offensive coordinator.
Shanahan’s tale: “Richard Dent gave one of the rookie receivers a golf club for some fishing derby, he dropped the golf club, it went in the lake, and he offered someone $200 if they’d go find it. So the next day I went over with goggles and shoes, went swimming in a nasty lake, got that golf club and that $200. It was awesome.”
JASON VERRETT UPDATE
Cornerback Jason Verrett has been spotted running extremely well in his comeback from last season’s knee injury. How much longer might he remain on the physically unable to perform list?
“I would love to get him into camp. We’d love to get him ready for Week 1,” Shanahan said. “I think that’s his mindset, so I’ll never go against him on that. I’m ready if he’s not ready for Week 1 to get him ready for Week 1, Week 4, Week 8, end of the year. Everyone knows how talented he is but he’s one of the best leaders on the team, too.”
Shanahan said the 49ers brought Verrett “back a hair too early” in 2019 from his previous season’s Achilles tear. “We definitely don’t want to do anything too soon and we want to give him time to get back to being Jason,” Shanahan said.
Charvarius Ward and Emmanuel Moseley seem entrenched as the 49ers’ starting cornerbacks, though if Verrett is healthy, he’d likely be eased into the rotation with Moseley, who could perhaps shift into the slot, though he hasn’t experimented with that in camp, yet.
DEEBO’S LATE START
Shanahan was glad to hear Deebo Samuel spent some time after Friday’s practice catching deep passes from Trey Lance, after they’ve failed to hook up on such throws upon Samuel’s entry into practices Monday with his new contract. “It’s about getting Deebo back to practice consistently,” Shanahan said. “It’ll come.”
GET BACK ON TRACK
Friday’s practice opened with multiple penalty flags thrown on the offense — on purpose. Shanahan deployed a “Get Back On Track” period to simulate first-and-20 and situational plays. In the process, he enjoyed calling fake penalties on people who “don’t hold and get very sensitive about it.” Friday’s so-called violators: McGlinchey, George Kittle and quarterback Nate Sudfeld, the latter of whom went on to have what Shanahan called his best practice of camp (11-of-11 before finishing 12-of-15).
“When everything goes right, it’s kind of a fake deal, because it’s not going to go right. You have to put them through everything you can,” Shanahan added.
CHANGES WITH LANCE?
Shanahan impressively did not smirk when he asked how his offense changes with the dual-threat Lance at quarterback. “Not really at all. You do the same stuff and you’ve just got a couple more elements. When you have the threat of a running quarterback, it can change defenses, and you adjust. We had stuff in last year and worked on stuff. … If they don’t account for him, he gets to run.”
NOTES
— Wide receiver Willie Snead IV and offensive lineman Jordan Mills were signed to one-year deals before Saturday’s practice.
— Right tackle Mike McGlinchey may talk about being pain-free from his quadriceps repair but Shanahan said his reps still will be monitored out of precaution, along with other players coming off significant injuries, including defensive tackle Javon Kinlaw and linebackers Dre Greenlaw and Azeez Al-Shaair.
— Shanahan also was asked to dig into his memory banks to name the most decisive runner he’s coached (Houston’s Arian Foster) and the best route runners (Julio Jones, Andre Johnson, David Anderson). | https://www.orovillemr.com/2022/08/06/49ers-shanahan-reminisces-on-bryant-youngs-rookie-camp-and-hilarious-tale/ | 2022-08-06T18:55:32Z | https://www.orovillemr.com/2022/08/06/49ers-shanahan-reminisces-on-bryant-youngs-rookie-camp-and-hilarious-tale/ | false | 11 |
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Reporter returns safely
islamabad – Pakistani journalist Anas Malik returned safely after he went missing in Afghan capital Kabul on Friday. Anas was in Kabul for reporting killing of Al-Qaeda chief Ayman Zawahiri through US drone attack. “I am back,” was a short Twitter message of Anas Malik after he returned to his hotel in Kabul. Foreign Office spokesperson in Islamabad and Pakistan Ambassador to Kabul Mansoor Khan also, through their Twitter messages, confirmed his release. However, Anas Malik did not share any details about persons who had taken him away and how and when he was taken away from his hotel to Kabul.
Foreign Office spokesperson in Islamabad said Pakistan immediately after the rep[ort of missing Anas Malik contacted authorities in Kabul and requested them to locate him. Afghan authorities in Kabul through their security network finally launched a search operation that detected him and secured his safe release. Anas Malik after his release has immediately returned to Islamabad from Kabul.
He had plans to cover the first anniversary of the Kabul fall on 15th August, 2021. | https://nation.com.pk/2022/08/06/reporter-returns-safely/ | 2022-08-06T18:56:32Z | https://nation.com.pk/2022/08/06/reporter-returns-safely/ | true | 1 |
NFL legend, former Georgia Bulldog Richard Seymour inducted into Hall of Fame
ATLANTA, Ga. (CBS46) - Richard Seymour, a University of Georgia alum and legendary defensive end best known for his time playing on the New England Patriots and Oakland Raiders, has been inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame.
Seymour, the former No. 6 overall pick in 2001, helped the Patriots kickstart their dynastic run where they dominated the entire NFL and won three Super Bowl championships in a four-year span [2001, 2003 and 2004].
Current Falcons defensive coordinator Dean Pees was a defensive coordinator and linebackers coach in New England for the 2004 season. He served as a defensive coordinator during Seymour’s last three years in New England [2006-2008]. He described Seymour as a “monster.”
“He was a monster out there for us. He was the last of the two-gap ends, him and [Patriots defensive end Ty Warren] could actually two gap guys and play both gaps. It was surprising also of how athletic he was for as big as he was,” said Pees.
“If he had his hands up and he was a handful. The good thing was, Seymour made guys like Bruschi, [Junior Seau], pretty good inside backers too, but it made those guys’ life a lot easier too because it was hard for them to scoop and get up on to the second level.
Players such as Seymour, the great Rodney Harrison, Ty Law, Tedy Bruschi, Mike Vrable, Junior Seau, Willie McGinest, and other Patriots greats are one of a kind, according to Pees.
“Guys like that, they’re hard to find anymore. He’s a great person, great person,” he said. “He was the last of a dying breed.”
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