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Trump had targeted the six-term incumbent and endorsed Joe Kent, a former Green Beret, in the 3rd Congressional District contest. The district is in southwest Washington state, across the border from Portland, Oregon.
Herrera Beutler, who was first elected to the U.S. House in 2010, lead Kent by about 4,700 votes on election night but her lead shrunk throughout last week, and updated returns put Kent ahead and into the No. 2 spot on Monday night.
Once Clark County, the district's largest, and Thurston Counties updated their tallies Tuesday, Kent led by 928 votes and 22.7% of the vote, and Herrera Beutler was in third place with 22.3% of the vote.
Herrera Beutler conceded in an email shortly after the latest update, saying that “since I was first elected to this seat I have done my very best to serve my home region and our country.”
“Though my campaign came up short this time, I’m proud of all we’ve accomplished together for the place where I was raised and still call home,” she wrote, saying that “I’m proud that I always told the truth, stuck to my principles, and did what I knew to be best for our country.”
Under Washington’s primary system, the top two vote getters in each race Aug. 2 advance to the November election, regardless of party. Washington is a vote by mail state, and voters don’t have to declare a party affiliation.
Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez had already advanced to the November ballot since she was the top vote getter after the Aug. 2 primary, with 31% of the vote.
According to the secretary of state’s office, the last incumbent member of Congress to lose in a primary in Washington state was Rep. John Miller, who lost to Ralph Horr in 1930.
Because Washington is a vote-by-mail state and ballots just need to be in by Election Day, it often takes days to learn final results in close races as ballots arrive at county election offices throughout the week.
Clark County Auditor Greg Kimsey said Tuesday that the votes in his office took longer to process than usual because a large number of voters held on to their ballots longer than in previous elections. Kimsey said that 92,300 ballots arrived between last Monday and Wednesday, compared to 49,000 over that same three-day period in 2018.
Herrera Beutler has said she has no regrets about her impeachment vote following the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol — and has stood by her comments made both on the floor and on Twitter afterward — including her revelation that Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told her he spoke with Trump as rioters were storming the Capitol, and that according to McCarthy the president said: ”‘Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are.’”
Kent is a regular on conservative cable shows who echoes the former president’s grievances about the 2020 election outcome, and on Steve Bannon’s podcast Monday, Kent criticized the state primary as “not a transparent process” and said that he had to remedy a signature issue with his own ballot that day.
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Of the 10 House Republicans who voted for Trump’s impeachment, four opted not to run for reelection. Michigan Rep. Peter Meijer was defeated in a primary last week by Trump-endorsed John Gibbs and Rep. Tom Rice of South Carolina lost to a Trump-endorsed challenger in June. Rep. David Valadao of California — which has an open primary like Washington — survived a primary challenge. Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming is bracing for defeat in her Aug. 16 primary against a Trump-backed rival.
Washington Rep. Dan Newhouse advanced to the general election in his Washington state primary last week, fending off a Trump-endorsed rival, and will appear on the November ballot with Democratic opponent Doug White.
Cornell Clayton, director of the Thomas S. Foley Institute for Public Policy at Washington State University, noted that the fact that three anti-Newhouse Republican candidates each had double digit percentages helped him survive his primary with just 25% of the vote.
But in the 3rd, where the only serious Republican challengers were Kent and Heidi St. John, “It was close but there wasn’t enough to fracture the anti-incumbent vote on the Republican side.”
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Former Manchester United star Ryan Giggs headbutted his former girlfriend in the face as she tried to end their relationship, she told a jury Tuesday on the second day of his trial on charges of assault and coercive control.
Giggs, 48, who until recently served as coach of the Wales national team, was sitting in the dock at Manchester Crown Court for the trial that has upended his managerial career.
The jury has heard that Giggs subjected his former partner, 36-year-old PR agent Kate Greville, to a "litany of abuse, both physical and psychological" and revealed a "sinister side".
Giggs denies the charges, which could lead to a five-year jail term.
His lawyer, Chris Daw, said earlier the footballer "used no unlawful violence", while conceding that his behaviour "on a moral level was far from perfect".
Greville testified from behind a screen, responding to questions from prosecution lawyer Peter Wright.
She detailed the evening of November 1, 2020, when Giggs allegedly "lost control" and attacked her as she tried to leave the house they shared.
He is also charged with common assault of Greville's sister Emma, who was dogsitting at the time.
The prosecution has said Giggs deliberately elbowed Emma in the jaw.
"I hadn't seen him that angry before. He was drunk," she said, detailing how he pushed her to the floor and pinned her down.
Emma "grabbed (Giggs) round the waist to try and pull him off", Greville said, and "he pushed his arm back to try and get her off him."
Greville then told Giggs she would report his attack on her to police.
"That's when he came towards me and headbutted me in my face," she said.
"I was in shock. I fell backwards. My lip instantly swelled.
"All the other times that he had hurt me -- this was different, because it was with real intent."
The jury also saw messages where Giggs upbraided Greville for not responding promptly to him.
He threatened to forward a video she feared was "sexual" to her work colleagues and called her a "whore".
Greville detailed her numerous suspicions of his infidelity.
"Violated. I had no control of what he could do and his actions," Greville said of her feelings.
The jury earlier watched a video of the police interview Greville gave following the alleged assault.
At times in tears, she described a "pattern" of controlling behaviour.
She said that initially she "was madly in love with him" but "there were definitely red flags" from the start.
"It was like a constant battle, mentally. I started getting the most horrendous anxiety," she said.
She described an argument early in their relationship in 2017 when the couple were at a hotel and he "literally flipped", grabbed her by the arm and dragged her naked into the corridor. He then threw the contents of her suitcase into the hallway.
"That was the first time he had been aggressive with me," she said.
Greville said that at one point she had felt suicidal.
"I honestly felt like I didn't want to carry on any more," she said, sounding tearful.
She said she had viewed Giggs as her "saviour" when they met because she was married to a man who controlled her finances and had a drinking problem.
But Giggs had made her feel "paranoid" about her own perceptions of their relationship, she said, making her question whether she was being "a psycho".
"I was just naive, I was just vulnerable, I guess," she added.
The trial continues.
A dazzling teenage talent, Giggs ended his career at Old Trafford as the most-decorated player in English football history.
As a player, he made a club-record 963 appearances over 23 years for Manchester United, winning 13 Premier League titles and two Champions League trophies.
He then began his coaching career at Old Trafford, taking temporary charge at the end of the 2013/14 season after David Moyes was sacked, before working as an assistant to Louis van Gaal for two years.
Giggs was appointed Wales boss in January 2018 and helped them secure qualification for Euro 2020, just their second major tournament appearance since the 1958 World Cup.
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Dhaka [Bangladesh], August 10 (ANI): Bangladesh's textile industry is currently facing major challenges due to the global recession and inflation as retailers in both European and US markets are either deferring the shipments of finished products or delaying orders due to soaring inflation.
The world's second-largest garment exporter after China is facing prolonged challenges including power shortage domestically affecting production on one hand while its major markets are postponing shipments due to surging inflation, Bangladesh Live News reported.
Plummy Fashion Ltd; a supplier of Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation, the parent company of fashion brand Tommy Hilfiger and Inditex SA's Zara observe a drop of 20 per cent in new orders in July from a year earlier.
Bangladesh's textile industry is facing unfavourable trade policies, internal security concerns, the higher cost of imported inputs apart from post-Covid-19 supply chain disruptions and a decline in global demand.
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The energy crisis in Bangladesh has increased the cost of the business in the country.
One of the leading exporters that supply to Gap Inc. and H&M Hennes & Mauritz AB claims that it depends on generators for at least 3 hours a day to power its dyeing and washing units in the manufacturing hub of Gazipur on the outskirts of Dhaka, reported Bangladesh Live News.
The cost of electricity from generators is three times more than power from the regional grid.
At the onset of the Covid-19 outbreak, Bangladesh garment orders worth USD 2.87 billion were cancelled as of March 31, 2020, according to a Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers Association (BGMA) estimate.
This affected about 2.09 million workers and over 1,048 factories. In the first week of April 2020, RMG exports declined by almost 84 per cent.
Since then the RMG exports could not pick up to the desired level of growth due to constricted demand and radical shifts in consumer tastes apart from Covid-19-related obstacles, according to Bangladesh Live News.
According to Policy Insights, a flagship publication of the Policy Research Institute in Bangladesh, the country's RMG has considerably grown in recent decades increasing from USD 120,000 in FY 1985 to about USD 34 billion in 2019.
However, all the growth came in with massive over-concentration in a few products and few markets.
According to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) estimate, Bangladesh's growth, which had declined to 3.5 per cent in 2020 due to covid-19 led disruptions recovered to 6.9 per cent in 2021. (ANI)
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Massive catch! Man sets state record with 104-pound catfish
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According to the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks, Christopher Halley caught a 104-pound blue catfish in the Mississippi River near Natchez on a trotline.
The department shared Halley’s catch on Tuesday regarding the new State Trophy Record Blue Catfish.
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Emerson Electric (EMR - Free Report) came out with quarterly earnings of $1.38 per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.29 per share. This compares to earnings of $1.09 per share a year ago. These figures are adjusted for non-recurring items.
This quarterly report represents an earnings surprise of 6.98%. A quarter ago, it was expected that this maker of process controls systems, valves and analytical instruments would post earnings of $1.18 per share when it actually produced earnings of $1.29, delivering a surprise of 9.32%.
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The sustainability of the stock's immediate price movement based on the recently-released numbers and future earnings expectations will mostly depend on management's commentary on the earnings call.
Emerson Electric shares have lost about 3.2% since the beginning of the year versus the S&P 500's decline of -13.1%.
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While Emerson Electric has outperformed the market so far this year, the question that comes to investors' minds is: what's next for the stock?
There are no easy answers to this key question, but one reliable measure that can help investors address this is the company's earnings outlook. Not only does this include current consensus earnings expectations for the coming quarter(s), but also how these expectations have changed lately.
Empirical research shows a strong correlation between near-term stock movements and trends in earnings estimate revisions. Investors can track such revisions by themselves or rely on a tried-and-tested rating tool like the Zacks Rank, which has an impressive track record of harnessing the power of earnings estimate revisions.
Ahead of this earnings release, the estimate revisions trend for Emerson Electric: mixed. While the magnitude and direction of estimate revisions could change following the company's just-released earnings report, the current status translates into a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) for the stock. So, the shares are expected to perform in line with the market in the near future. You can see the complete list of today's Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here.
It will be interesting to see how estimates for the coming quarters and current fiscal year change in the days ahead. The current consensus EPS estimate is $1.43 on $5.49 billion in revenues for the coming quarter and $5.05 on $19.87 billion in revenues for the current fiscal year.
Investors should be mindful of the fact that the outlook for the industry can have a material impact on the performance of the stock as well. In terms of the Zacks Industry Rank, Manufacturing - Electronics is currently in the bottom 42% of the 250 plus Zacks industries. Our research shows that the top 50% of the Zacks-ranked industries outperform the bottom 50% by a factor of more than 2 to 1.
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The People’s National Movement mourns the passing of one of its stalwarts, the late Ms Joycelyn McLeod Smith.
Hailed as a trailblazer for youth and a pioneer for women in the PNM, in her constituency of Barataria/San Juan, and across the country, her dedication, passion, strong work ethic and her political astuteness were easily recognised, admired and appreciated.
Joycelyn entered the political arena in the 1960s when she joined the PNM in the then-Barataria constituency, and went on to become the chairperson of that constituency’s youth league.
Her strong advocacy and activism set the stage for her to be taken seriously as a young woman in the political arena.
Having garnered the support of the majority of the then-constituency youth leagues, she successfully challenged for the chairmanship of the PNM’s National Youth League, and thus holds the distinction of being the first woman to be elected as the chairperson of the PNM’s National Youth League. She set a high standard for all who followed in her footsteps in that portfolio.
Chairman of the then-South Port of Spain Constituency Youth League, Mr Hamilton “Bunny” Chrysostom, served alongside her as the public relations officer of the National Youth League.
He recalled that under her leadership, and with the support of then-political leader and prime minister Dr Eric Williams, the PNM’s National Youth League hosted a concert in the Queen’s Park Oval, titled Expression 71. Youth representatives from Trinidad and Tobago and across the Caribbean attended the highly successful event.
It was a watershed occasion for the youth of the region.
Joycelyn went on to serve on the PNM’s National Executive as the party’s National Youth Officer—Female, alongside the late Morris Marshall, who served as the National Youth Officer—Male.
Those under her guidance remember her as sharp yet gentle. Alderman Richard Walcott, who served on the PNM’s National Youth League when Joycelyn was the Youth Officer—Female, remembers her for her great leadership, as was evidenced when he was a part of a delegation fielded by the PNM’s National Youth League, and headed by Joycelyn, to a conference in Jamaica.
Joycelyn was dedicated to Trinidad and Tobago, and did all that she could to represent her country to the best of her ability. She worked at the National Insurance Board, at the Trinidad and Tobago Consulate in New York, and at the T&T Embassy in Washington, DC, and served with distinction in every sphere.
The PNM commiserates with her daughter, Giselle, her granddaughter, and her entire family, and our sincerest condolences are extended.
Thank you, good and faithful servant, Joycelyn. Your work here is done.
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WFO SPOKANE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, August 9, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Spokane WA
523 PM PDT Tue Aug 9 2022
...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of western Nez Perce,
eastern Adams, Garfield, central Whitman and Asotin Counties through
600 PM PDT...
At 519 PM PDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from near Kahlotus to Dayton to Pomeroy. Movement
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HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph. Local areas of blowing dust.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
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PORTLAND, Ore. -- The Oregon Health Authority has launched a new website to share updates on opioid settlement funds.
The Oregon Opioid Settlement Funds site has background on multi-state litigation against the pharmaceutical industry involving Oregon. It also has links to national settlement agreement sites, and describes how much money is available, what it can be used for, and how the settlement funds will be distributed in Oregon. The website will also provide support for opioid prevention, treatment and recovery around the state.
The money to be distributed throughout Oregon has been earned by lawsuits against opioid manufacturers, distributors and retailers sued by the State of Oregon. Four suits were reportedly settled in July 2021. The OHA says these lawsuits hold pharmaceutical companies accountable for their role in fueling the opioid epidemic, and in marketing prescription opioids while downplaying their risks to consumers and health care providers.
The OHA says about $333 million will go to the State of Oregon over the course of the next 18 years. 45% of these funds will go to an Opioid Settlement Prevention, Treatment and Recovery fund managed by the OHA, while the rest will go directly to cities and counties with populations of more than 10,000 people. The OHA adds that another $503 million will go to Oregon’s Native American tribes. Furthermore, additional lawsuit settlements are expected to add to the pool of funds. | https://www.kezi.com/news/oregon-health-authority-launches-website-to-track-updates-on-opioid-settlement-funds/article_a323fdb8-183f-11ed-a1a6-572c73771a80.html | 2022-08-10T01:56:31Z | https://www.kezi.com/news/oregon-health-authority-launches-website-to-track-updates-on-opioid-settlement-funds/article_a323fdb8-183f-11ed-a1a6-572c73771a80.html | true | 1 |
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New Delhi: A Ghana national and his associate from Cote d’lvoire (a country in West Africa) have been arrested for running a racket for supplying forged Indian visas to foreign nationals to help them overstay after expiry of their genuine visas.
The accused have been identified as Ortega Leonard and Diomnade Ali. The documents were carefully prepared using a software to dodge scrutiny during checks. Cops suspect that the duo sold scores of visas to illegal immigrants and made crores of rupees. The accused were charging Rs 4,000-5,000 from people for the fake document.
DCP (crime) Vichitraveer said that a laptop containing incriminating material, including blank sample visas, has been seized. “Twenty-eight ATM cards, six passports having the fake visa stamps, bank passbooks, cheques and 11 mobile phones were seized as well,” the DCP added.
During interrogation, the accused revealed that they had come on three months tourist visas in 2018 and started staying illegally after expiry of their travel document. The accused were also using the fake visa on their respective passports which they had made themselves. TNN
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On Thursday, the Ninth Circuit issued its opinion for California State Water Resources Control Board v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission vacating the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) orders concluding the California State Water Resources Control Board (California Board) had waived its authority to ensure that certain hydroelectric projects complied with state water quality standards.
According to the opinion, the Clean Air Act gives states the right to impose state water quality standards on federal hydroelectric projects. The state imposes these standards through a water quality certification and any standard or limitation of the certification becomes a condition of the licenses for the federal hydroelectric project.
To prevent indefinite delay of the federal licenses by the state, Section 401 requires the state to act on a request for a water quality certification within one year of a request. Further, if the state “fails to act” on the request, it waives its certification authority to impose state water quality standards on the federal project.
The opinion states that in three separate orders, FERC found that the California Board had waived its certification authority for three federal hydroelectric projects initiated by the Nevada Irrigation District, the Yuba County Water Agency and the Merced Irrigation District (Project Applicants). According to the court, FERC ruled that the California Board waived its certification authority through a coordinated scheme with the Project Applicants to delay the certification process by having the applicants withdraw and resubmit their certification requests to reset the deadline. FERC argued that because of the coordination, the California Board “failed to act” and thus waived its certifications authority.
The Ninth Circuit held the FERC’s finding of coordination in the orders were unsupported, and the evidence showed that the California Board merely acquiesced to the Project Applicants’ decision to withdraw and submit the requests rather than have them denied. Additionally, the court cast doubt on whether FERC’s interpretation of a coordination standard, as applied through its orders, was consistent with the Clean Air Act. Regardless, the opinion stated even with applying the coordination standard, the California Board did not engage in a coordinated scheme to delay certification.
Accordingly, the Ninth Circuit Panel vacated FERC’s orders concluding the California Board waived its certification authority and remanded the case for further proceedings. | https://lawstreetmedia.com/news/agriculture/ninth-circuit-vacates-ferc-orders-against-california-agency/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ninth-circuit-vacates-ferc-orders-against-california-agency | 2022-08-10T02:18:08Z | https://lawstreetmedia.com/news/agriculture/ninth-circuit-vacates-ferc-orders-against-california-agency/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ninth-circuit-vacates-ferc-orders-against-california-agency | true | 1 |
A rescue operation is underway to find and rescue a two-and-a-half year-old boy trapped inside a drain in which he fell on Tuesday afternoon. The incident took place in the Shalimar Garden area of Kapurthala city, police said.
The rescue operation, led by a team of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), was on at the time of this report going to the print with district administration saying it will not be called off till the child is located.
As per the officials, the incident took place when the boy, identified as Dehaan, along with his five-year-old sister was crossing the drain covered by concrete slabs. The boy reportedly slipped through a gap between the slabs and was trapped in the 10-foot-deep drain. Officials said that the boy was stuck somewhere near the T-Point of the drain, which is choked with garbage.
As he fell, his sister raised an alarm following which people from surrounding areas gathered to locate the child. The child’s mother also jumped into the drain to save her child but failed to find him. The wailing woman was forcibly pulled out of the drain by the locals.
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In the evening, Kapurthala Deputy Commissioner Vishesh Sarangal requisitioned a 29-member team of NDRF from Bathinda for carrying out the rescue operation.
Earlier, JCB machines and workers of a municipal corporation who clean sewers were pressed into service to rescue the boy from the slush of the nullah.
Later, the DC also requisitioned heavy machinery to break concrete slabs on sewage to rescue the child.
“The boy had slipped and fallen inside the drain. The drain is covered with concrete slabs under which the boy seems to be stuck. But at the moment we cannot say anything about the exact location of the boy as he is still missing,” the DC said, adding the rescue operation will not be called off till the child is found.
The officials said that the boy and his family originally hail from Bihar and live in the jhuggis that have come up near the Shalimar Garden area.
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One a day full of memories for some of the best NFL players of all-time, San Francisco 49ers defensive lineman Bryant Young delivered the moment fans will never forget. Young dedicated a portion of his Hall of Fame speech to his son Colby, who died of cancer in 2016.
Young began the heartfelt and emotional message by stating he's mentioned all but one of his children so far. He then shared Colby's story and explained why remembering Colby was so important on the day Young was inducted into the Hall of Fame.
Young said Colby started experiencing headaches at age-13. Doctors discovered a removed a tumor, which was cancerous. Young talked about Colby's heart and determination after that surgery. Colby's cancer returned a year later. He died in Oct. 2016.
Young said Colby wanted to know if he would be remembered after he died. Young said the family "assured Colby we would keep his memory alive and continue speaking his name." Young then addressed Colby directly. Breaking into tears, Young said, "Colby, you live on in our hearts. We will always speak your name."
Fans clapped and gave Young a standing ovation after he delivered that message.
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Young was one of six players inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Saturday. Tony Boselli, Cliff Branch, LeRoy Butler, Sam Mills and Richard Seymour were the other five players to make it into the Hall. Boselli became the first member of the Jacksonville Jaguars to receive the honor.
Seymour, a long-time member of the New England Patriots, found a way to poke fun at Tom Brady during his speech.
St. Louis Rams coach Dick Vermeil and long-time NFL official Art McNally were also inducted Saturday. Vermeil immediately turned the spotlight on his players when given the opportunity to speak in front of the crowd.
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Those with existing bookings who will be affected by the change will be notified of the new policy by the airline and moved to an earlier flight.
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“Bringing our operations back to pre-COVID standard and maintaining our focus on safety is our absolute priority,” the executive said.
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The town is receiving 100% state funding to pay for the project. The NC Coastal Federation was allocated $2 million in the state’s November 2021 budget to implement living shorelines and help cover the expense for qualifying towns and property owners.
The living shoreline will provide stabilization with the use of “soft” elements, such as vegetation or living things, combined with “hard” structures, including rock sills and oyster reefs. Once constructed, the structure attracts oysters, which attach to it and grow to make a natural habitat over time. The rock-like reefs then provide habitat for other marine animals and plants.
According to the Sandbar Oyster Company, it uses its “innovative” oyster catcher design — patented/patent-pending biodegradable hardscape — for stabilization. The Soundside Park shoreline will consist of an oyster reef sill created using two different shapes of its oyster catcher.
Within one to two years after installation, oysters will continue to grow and fill in any empty spaces.
“This will provide an invaluable educational component for our residents and visitors, as well as provide needed erosion control efforts,” town manager Kyle Breuer said in a press release.
During a July 5 town council meeting, Breuer explained the town chose the public park for its first living reef installation to allow residents to see what it could entail for their own properties.
The Coastal Federation offers a cost-sharing program for property owners interested in living shorelines. It covers $55 per linear foot, up to a maximum of $10,000. Living shorelines are typically at least 50 linear feet but can vary by land size.
The federation has been installing living shorelines for over two decades, a concept that originated in northern states, such as Maryland and Virginia. A Coastal Federation member adapted the concept in North Carolina.
Last year, the nonprofit built 4,554 feet, just under 1 mile, across 30 sites in southeastern North Carolina. This includes 118 feet of shoreline constructed at Topsail Beach, funded by a portion of a 2019 $5 million grant.
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Beyoncé has earned another No.1 album as Renaissance reaches the top of the charts in its first week of release.
According to Billboard, the album achieved 332,000 equivalent album units and sold 190,000 physical copies. Renaissance is Beyoncé’s seventh solo album to hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, making her the first female artist to have her first seven solo albums debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Her new project also entered at #1 in the UK, Ireland, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Australia, Canada, Denmark, New Zealand, South Africa, and Brazil.
“Creating this album allowed me a place to dream and to find escape during a scary time for the world,” Beyoncé said in a press release prior to the debut of Renaissance. “It allowed me to feel free and adventurous in a time when little else was moving. My intention was to create a safe place, a place without judgment. A place to be free of perfectionism and overthinking. A place to scream, release, feel freedom. It was a beautiful journey of exploration.”
The album’s lead single “Break My Soul” has also reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 this week, marking Beyoncé’s eighth Hot 100 No. 1 as a solo artist, Billboard reports. Her last No.1 single was 14 years ago with “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It).” In addition to “Break My Soul,” All 16 songs from Renaissance have made it onto the Billboard Hot 100, including “Cuff It” at No. 13, “Alien Superstar” reaching No. 19, and “Church Girl” hitting No. 22.
Along with “Single Ladies,” and “Break My Soul,” Beyoncé’s previous chart-topping hits were “Crazy in Love,” ft. Jay-Z (2003), “Baby Boy” ft. Sean Paul (2003), “Check On It,” ft. Slim Thug (2006), “Irreplaceable (2006), “Perfect,” with Ed Sheeran (2017), and “Savage,” with Megan Thee Stallion (2020)
The news of Renaissance’s first single reaching No. 1 again puts Beyoncé in rare air. Her and Mariah Carey are the only artists in Billboard history to hit the top spot of the Hot 100 in four decades – the 1990s, 2000s, ’10s and ’20s.
Beyoncé’s Renaissance is available on all streaming platforms. | https://www.essence.com/entertainment/beyonce-earns-seventh-no-1-album-renaissance/ | 2022-08-10T02:36:22Z | https://www.essence.com/entertainment/beyonce-earns-seventh-no-1-album-renaissance/ | false | 1 |
Democrat Mandela Barnes to take on Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson in November
Wisconsin's lieutenant governor Mandela Barnes is looking ahead to November's Senate election against Sen. Ron Johnson (R) after clinching the Democratic nomination on Tuesday, the Associated Press reports.
Why it matters: Barnes' victory tees up a battle between a true-blue progressive and a hard-right conservative in one of the most pivotal battleground states, Axios' Josh Kraushaar notes.
Driving the news: Barnes, 35, was all but guaranteed to win the Democratic Party's nomination after his three top competitors dropped out of the race last month.
- "Mandela won this race," Milwaukee Bucks senior vice president Alex Lasry, Barnes's closest competitor, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel last month.
- "I think it was clear there was no path forward for us to be able to win."
The big picture: Barnes, who has supported a number of left-wing ideas, including Medicare for All and the Green New Deal, earned endorsements from major progressive figures, including Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).
- He's also earned support from some more establishment Democrats, including Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.).
- Johnson, 67, one of the most vulnerable senators seeking reelection in 2022, has been a polarizing figure, having pushed former President Trump's false claims about the 2020 election and misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine.
- Barnes would be the first Black senator and one of the youngest to ever serve from Wisconsin if he wins in November.
What he's saying: In a statement, Johnson called Barnes "the most radical left candidate" and that Wisconsin voters didn't "have much of a choice" in advancing him to the primary.
- "The Lieutenant Governor will support all the destructive policies of President Biden and his enablers in Congress. This is a contest between radical left socialism versus freedom and prosperity," he added. " It will also pit the lies and distortions of Democrats and the media versus the truth."
What to watch: November's election could help decide control of the Senate as Wisconsin is a key battleground state that helped propel Trump to the presidency in 2016 and Biden eked out victory in 2020.
- Johnson, who is seeking a third term, is the only incumbent Senate Republican seeking reelection in a state that Biden won, AP notes.
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Denise Dowse, 'Beverly Hills, 90210' and 'Insecure' Actress, in a Coma From Meningitis
Actress Denise Dowse, known for her roles in Beverly Hills, 90210 and Insecure, is currently in a coma due to meningitis.
Denise's sister, Tracey, confirmed reports of the actress' condition to ET, saying, "Yes, she is still in a coma. We are hopeful that she will come out of this soon."
In a post to Denise's Instagram page this week, Tracey released a statement on Denise's coma and requested "support and prayers" for their family.
Explaining the difficult decision to go public with Denise's health battle, Tracey wrote, "As many of you have seen, my posts have been positive and uplifting. I am trying to keep my spirits up and support those who need it. As many of you know I am a private person. So this is hard for me."
She continued, "I am requesting support and prayers be offered me and my sister, and my only immediate family @denisedowse. She is currently in the hospital in a coma brought on by a virulent form of meningitis. Her doctors do not know when she will come out of the coma as it was not medically induced."
Paying tribute to her sister and offering a hopeful message, Tracey continued, "She is a vibrant actor and director that should have many years ahead of her. Thoughts, prayers and support are greatly appreciated."
In addition to Denise's work on Issa Rae's HBO comedy and the original 90210 series, the actress has had a decades-long career with roles in Coach Carter, Grey's Anatomy, Good Trouble, The Guardian and Rocket Power.
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Vivian Ewalefo has always been a champion.
As a young girl, she set her sights on being a professional basketball player and realized her dream when she was tapped to play for the Nigerian National Team right out of college, where she was studying strategic communications.
It was during this time she realized her love for connecting to different cultures.
“I traveled all around the world while playing and discovered so much more outside of myself,” the proud AfroLatina said, also sharing her Nigerian-Mexican heritage offered early exposure to cultural appreciation. “We moved around a bunch when I was a kid too, so we spent time in Louisiana, and the culture there is so rich. Ewalefo said she was San Antonio, TX and later relocated to again Las Vegas, NV then Mandeville, Louisiana in high school. She said she also spent time in the California growing up.
“That was a game changer for me,” she shared with Essence. “I learned about Chicano culture to Creole customs then living on the West Coast, allowed me to meet Samoans and Pacific Islanders and learning about Mormonism and different religions and fluid sexualities across the board.”
That worldliness charted a path for a post-basketball career that ultimately led Ewalefo to step into a role created for her at the world’s digital melting pot itself: Facebook (Meta).
As the company’s head of cultural moments & product equity communications, she gets the opportunity to spotlight underserved communities that otherwise would’ve been overlooked.
“Honestly, it’s a blessing to be able to work for a company that leans into this special niche of capabilities and expertise of its employees,” she shared. “We’re in such an interesting time in the world, so to be able to be on the forefront of that and do my part to bring diverse communities around the world along on this journey is really special. And if we’re being honest, these are the communities that drive culture and the vitality of our apps in general.”
An example of this intersectional work is Meta’s Metaverse Culture Series (MCS), a collection of VR experiences including celebrity interviews, panel discussions and other conversations that are accessible via Meta’s Oculus device.
One example of this is Pride Unbound, a series that launched in June celebrating the LGBTQ+ community and their contribution to global culture. One installment featured a discussion in the metaverse with famed stylist and designer Law Roach, Leiomy (cast of HBO Max’s hit series ‘Legendary’), Tess Holiday (pansexual body positive activist & model), Renee Montgomery (WNBA Champion & Activist), and David J Johns (Executive Director, National Black Justice Coalition identity exploration and chosen family.
“The series “is an effort to create a more accessible entry point into the future of technology for historically excluded communities,” according to a statement from Meta that was shared with Essence.
Ewalefo said she’s looking to anchoring more programmatic experiences major heritage cultural moments, and platforming them.
“We have so much more in store and I’m so excited about that,” said Ewalefo. “We’re all here to learn from each other’s commonalities and differences and I’m blessed to be able to champion that every day. That’s what life is about.” | https://www.essence.com/news/money-career/vivian-ewalefo-meta-facebook-lgtbq-metaverse/ | 2022-08-10T02:37:35Z | https://www.essence.com/news/money-career/vivian-ewalefo-meta-facebook-lgtbq-metaverse/ | false | 1 |
Reli Light Cam D1, A Newly Launched Camera that Explores Nature While Fulfilling Security Needs
An all-in-one camera that discovers nature while guaranteeing user privacy and safety
NEW YORK, NY / ACCESSWIRE / August 9, 2022 / Reli, the edge-cutting smart home solutions provider, has announced the launch of Reli Light Cam D1- a portable camera that observes nature while fulfilling security needs.
In contrast with cameras designed solely for security purposes, Reli explores nature with the brand-new animal identification system, interacting with these "unexpected visitors" whenever they show up in front of the camera. With a HD 1080p image resolution and 155° wide-angle view securing indoor and outdoor safety, users are allowed to stay connected to their homes from anywhere via live video and audio utilizing the hassle-free installation method.
Reli Light Cam D1 also supports placements in yards, walls, as well as other space in a home. There is always an option for users with different stands to access views that they don't even know about.
In the meanwhile, D1's video organizing function Tags can classify videos that are recorded at different locations. The camera automatically analyzes the location of each frame captured and categorizes them into the specific "Tags" that are pre-selected.
With facial recognition and advanced privacy protection, D1 remembers every family member's face and could send notification to allow non-registered visitors to be recorded. Every footage is being held in the cloud or micro-SD card that are visible to the users only.
A complete machine learning motion detection records every time when there is a visitor, vehicle, animal or any selected movement happening, allowing the householders to check the status of the front door 24/7 while being away. At the same time, its IP65 weatherproofing supports as low as -22℉ and protects the device from dusts and rain.
About Reli
Reli is a caring, futuristic smart home brand that prioritizes consistent quality in its products. It aims at building the smart home products that work finer, better qualified and are easy to use. Their first product Reli Light Cam D1 supports not only security needs, but also the observation of animals.
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Jobsite Theatre Announces Cast of PICASSO AT THE LAPIN AGILE
In his first stage comedy, Martin plays fast and loose with fact, fame and fortune as two of the 20th Century’s legendary geniuses Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein.
Jobsite Theater, resident theater company at the Straz Center, is thrilled will kick off its 24th season with this hilarious comedy from the original "wild and crazy guy," Steve Martin.
Jobsite first produced Picasso at the Lapin Agile in 2009. This production is once again helmed by Kari Goetz but features an all-new cast with the exception of one member returning from that record-setting production - Michael C. McGreevy as Sagot. More trivia: Jonelle M. Meyer earns a Steve Martin "hat trick" here after also starring in our productions of his Meteor Shower (2019) and The Underpants (2016).
In his first comedy for the stage, Martin plays fast and loose with fact, fame and fortune as two of the 20th Century's legendary geniuses - Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein - muse on humanity's achievements and prospects as well as other fanciful topics with infectious dizziness. It's a 1904 meeting in a bohemian Paris neighborhood that never really took place, but we all wish had. Picasso at the Lapin Agile is on stage Sep. 14 - Oct. 9 in the Straz Center's Jaeb Theater. Tickets are on sale now as part of Jobsite's 2022-23 pass, with single tickets going on sale to the public on Aug. 1.
The Cast:
NED AVERILL-SNELL [he/him] (Gaston) Previously appeared at Jobsite in Henry V, HIR, Gloucester Blue and other plays. He has also appeared at Orlando Shakes (Henry IV, Part 2), Stageworks (Twelve Angry Men, The Lifespan of a Fact), TampaREP (Every Brilliant Thing, A View from the Bridge, The Iceman Cometh), American Stage Company (Tartuffe, A Moon for the Misbegotten), the Asolo State Theatre's Dog Days series (What the Butler Saw), at various theatres in the solo play The Apocrypha of Theodore Roosevelt, and regionally at Indiana Repertory Theatre and the United Solo festival in New York. He is the author of the Florida-set mystery novel Small Professional Murder, available on Amazon.
JADA CANTY [she/her] (Germaine) grew up in the small town of Zephyrhills, FL and currently resides in the Tampa Bay area where her passion began on the stage and hopefully will land behind the camera. She completed her Associates Degree at Pasco-Hernando State College and transferred to the University of South Florida to earn her Bachelors in Theatre with a concentration in Performance. She graduated in Spring 2020, having been in three shows during her time at USF which include The Crucible (Tituba), Caresses (Middle Age Woman/Woman), and Measure For Measure (Isabella). She also directed and presented a staged reading of Zora Neale Hurston's Color Struck as her final project under the mentorship of Dr. Stephen Huff which discussed the theme of colorism within the black community. Her other credits include Trafficked as Beth/Secretary with Just Write! Lakeland which dealt with the harsh realities of human trafficking and made her debut with Jobsite in Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange as Old Lady/Governor/Dr. Branom/et al. Jada views theatre as an exploration of the human condition and diving into the emotions that make us human, using acting as a medium to tell stories and make people think. In her downtime, she loves to read and write poetry. She is excited to return to Jobsite in Steve Martin's Picasso At The Lapin Agile as Germaine. Jada would like to thank her friends and family for supporting her on her journey as an artist as she continues to grow. "If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it."- Toni Morrison
ROBERT SPENCE GABRIEL [he/him] (Pablo Picasso) is a Latino actor from Tampa, Florida. He attended the Theatre Conservatory of Chicago College of Performing arts. He recently returned home from Roanoke, Virginia where he played the (Piraguero) in Lin Manuel Miranda's In The Heights. Robert has been seen in past Jobsite productions such as The Threepenny Opera (Jake), Hir (Isaac), and Romeo and Juliet (Paris). Other Local Credits: The Lion In Winter (Prince John; Freefall Theatre), War of the Worlds (Featured Singer; Freefall Theatre). Chicago credits: Next Thing You Know (Luke); Elegies For Angels, Punks, and Raging Queens (Brian/Featured Singer).
A member of the ensemble in the 2009 Jobsite production, MICHAEL C. MCGREEVY [he/him] (Sagot) is excited to have the opportunity to revisit the role of Sagot in Picasso at the Lapin Agile. He has a long history with Jobsite that dates back to the 2001-2002 season and Maxwell: A New Rock Musical by Joe Popp. Other notable roles he has been fortunate to play with the company have included Michael in Dancing at Lughnasa, Dwight in Dead Man's Cell Phone, and The Creature in Playing with Fire: After Frankenstein. He's also been in several of the Shakespeare productions the company has presented over the years, and has also worked with Stageworks Theater, Hat Trick Theater, and most recently LAB Theater Project in The Meredith Brothers. More than anything, Michael is thrilled to be returning to the Shimberg stage and having the opportunity to work with some old friends while making new ones. It's good to be home.
JONELLE M. MEYER [she/her] (Charles Dabernow Schmendiman) is incredibly excited to be performing in her third Steve Martin production with Jobsite! Previous Steve credits are Corky in Meteor Shower and Gertrude in The Underpants. Aside from her Steve Martin appearances, Jonelle has been a part of many other local productions including Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Sylvia, Morningside, Dancing at Lughnasa, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, and the one woman run of The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe as the charmingly homeless Trudy and 12 other characters. Jonelle is the creator and star of the Jobsite Digital Short; Too Far with Mort LaCourt. Her Mort LaCourt character won her a Creative Loafing Best of the Bay Award for "Best Fake Newsperson" in 2017. She also received the Jeff Norton Award for best actress in a Comedy for Shipwrecked! (Gorilla Theatre), was nominated by Broadway World as best actress for Almost an Evening (Jobsite) and was nominated as best featured actress by Theatre Tampa Bay for her roles in Gnit (Tampa Rep) and 7 Homeless Mammoths Wander New England (American Stage). Jonelle is a proud graduate of Florida School of the Arts with an AS in Acting, a long time cast member of the sketch comedy troupe Some Sort of Show. She would like to thank Kari for this badass role, her momma for the love, her FLAQ family for their support and Pickles for being amazing.
MARTIN POWERS [he/they] (Visitor) is happy to be on the Jobsite stage again after bringing Mercutio to life in the theatre's 80's-centric Romeo and Juliet. They recently portrayed Martin in Where is the Bus with American Stage and Will in Master of the Revels with Florida Studio Theatre. Other works include: Jeff in the Short Film, "The Librarian", Flute/Moth in Jobsite's A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Priest in Opera Tampa's Cavalleria Rusticana, and Pippin in SPC's Pippin.
SYDNEY REDDISH [she/her] (Suzanne, et al) is an actor, creator, and teaching artist recently graduated with a B.A. in Theatre from the University of South Florida. Sydney has trained in Viewpoints and devising, most recently completing an intensive training with Anne Bogart and SITI Company. She was last seen in the Job-site Project, Ship. Some of her favorite credits include Measure for Measure (Lucio), and Virginia Woolf's Orlando (Orlando).
BRIAN MATTHEW SHEA's [he/him](Freddy) Jobsite performing credits include Romeo and Juliet, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Henry V, Hand To God, Dancing at Lughnasa, The Tempest, A Skull In Connemara, Vanya, Sonya, Masha, and Spike; Time Stands Still, The 39 Steps, Mindgame, and Dracula. He has performed with most of the professional theaters in the Tampa Bay area including American Stage, freeFall Theater, Stageworks, and Hat Trick Theater. This includes productions such as Murder On The Orient Express, Deathtrap, Lend Me A Tenor, Waiting For Godot, The Santaland Diaries, God Of Carnage, Art, Around The World In 80 Days, August: Osage County, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, Harvey, The Buffalo Kings, and Twelfth Night. His award-winning independent feature film Waiting On Mary can be streamed on Amazon Prime. With all his works, he strives to honor his late parents, Peter and Pat Shea.
BLAKE SMALLEN [they/them] (Albert Einstein) is a student studying mass communication and theater at the University of South Florida. They were last seen on stage as several characters in Jobsite's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui. They also were seen recently as Edward Hyde, Dr. H.K Lanyon, and several others in Jobsite's 2021 production of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Other previous work includes Cabaret (USF), The Hundred Dresses (Innovocative Theatre) and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (USF). Blake is an avid videographer and photographer in and out of school and enjoys writing, audio design/ engineering, and making music in their free time.
The Production Team:
KARI GOETZ [she/her] (Director) happily lives two lives as a non-profit community leader and as a creative artist. Some would say that, by necessity, it's the same job. She is thrilled to be back at Jobsite where she has been an artistic associate since 2002, when she moved to Tampa from Los Angeles, where she was a founding member of The Second City Hollywood. Goetz has directed and performed in numerous Jobsite productions, as well as Stageworks Theatre. She holds a BFA in Theater Performance from the University of Florida, and an MA in Communication from the University of South Florida. Goetz is (almost) Florida native (by six months), and a proud member of the Athena Society, board member for Stageworks Theatre, board member of the Tampa Bay Chamber, the advisory board of Visit Tampa Bay, and a long-time resident and enthusiast of Seminole Heights. She lives in a funky bungalow with her groovy husband, her righteous son, and a mess of pets. She shares her thoughts on the podcast, www.thecrabbygals.com.
ANNE ACOSTA [she/her] (Costumes) loves Belle Époque and is thrilled to design Picasso at the Lapin Agile. She is a proud graduate of the University of South Florida's School of Theatre and Dance, having earned her B.A. in Theatre Design (Costume Concentration) in 2021. While there, she designed her first show Magnetic North, a livestream event penned by director Helen Tennison. The following fall she served as adjunct at her alma mater and designed the Fall 2021 explosive double-bill of Dutchman/ The Owl Answers by LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka and Adrienne Kennedy (respectively) and directed by Clareann Despain. She has since gone on to serve as costume designer for Little Shop of Horrors and Nunsense, both Straz Produced shows directed by David M. Jenkins and Alison Burns-Jackson (respectively) and Patel Conservatory's Cinderella. She thanks her husband and mother (you guessed it, respectively) for their support. Portfolio: RosatoDesign.com
JO AVERILL-SNELL [she/her] (Lights) is delighted to light Picasso at the Lapin Agile. Audience members may have previously seen her lighting designs here at the Straz in Animals Out of Paper, Nunesense: A-Men, Little Shop of Horrors, A Clockwork Orange, Romeo & Juliet, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Dr. Ride's American Beach House, Shockheaded Peter, Henry V, Hand to God, Always ... Patsy Cline, Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus, SHOUT! The Mod Musical, A Tuna Christmas, or at StageWorks, Tampa Rep, freeFall, or Urbanite Theatre.
TEAH BANKS [she/her] (Stage Management and Props) has been a happy member of the Jobsite family since Spring 2017, when she joined as an intern. She has since worked several Jobsite shows, including: Animals Out of Paper, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Constellations, Dancing at Lughnasa, as well as running the matinee's for Othello and The Tempest. She would like to thank David, Newt, Ned, her mother Kelly, and step-father Tom for being so supportive and awesome.
JEREMY DOUGLASS [he/him] (Sound) is a pianist, professional live mannequin, and leader of acclaimed megasuperband the Florida Björkestra. He's been hailed as "punctual" and "inevitable". His recent past sees him as music director for Jobsite Theater's productions of LIZZIE: A Killer Rock Musical, The Threepenny Opera, Hedwig And The Angry Inch, and Shockheaded Peter. He's composed original music for Jobsite's productions of The Thanksgiving Play, Hedda, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised], Othello, The Tempest, Meteor Shower, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shockheaded Peter, Romeo & Juliet, and with Björkestra cellist Tom Kersey co-wrote an original score for Jobsite's Edgar & Emily. As founder of the Florida Bjorkestra, he's brought to the stage the music of pop pioneers like Bjork and David Bowie (and also a musical from Buffy the Vampire Slayer) with his 24-piece ensemble of Tampa Bay area musical geniuses.
TEA ROBERTS [she/her] (Scenic Artist) is excited to be working with Jobsite, and has worked in various theatres as a scenic artist for the last two years. She would like to send a big thanks to Scott Cooper for starting her on the right path in the theatre world, to Rebekah Lazaridis for all of her wonderful mentorship and painting prowess, and her endlessly supportive partner Hannah Langevin.
BRIAN SMALLHEER [he/him] (Scenic Design and Technical Direction) received his education from Harrison Center for the Visual and Performing Arts, Polk Community College (Visual Arts), and University of South Florida (Theatre Design). He has been an Artistic Associate and designer for Jobsite since 1999. As a designer for Jobsite, his work has received two Best of the Bay awards; Best Lighting Design for Einstein's Dreams (2011) and Best Local Set Designer (2014). He also received Broadway World's Best Set Design for Time Stands Still and Return to the Forbidden Planet. Other select design credits include SHOCKHEADED PETER, Henry V, Hand to God, DOUBT: A Parable, A Skull in Connemara, LIZZIE, Lebensraum, Annapurna, Orlando, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Mindgame, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, boom!, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, The March of the Kitefliers, Gorey Stories, subUrbia and Dracula. In what little spare time he has, Smallheer pursues his passion for visual arts by doing photography and painting. More info at his website bms-designs.com.
JENA RASHID [she/her] (Producing and Engagement Apprentice) graduated from the University of Central Florida with a BA in Theater Studies and a minor in music. Her career, so far, has consisted of working as a stage manager, director, playwright, actor and other roles through her schooling. Her favorite performance credits include Jessica Jewels in in The Butler Did It! for the Orlando Fringe and Understudying Rani in America in One Room at Florida Studio Theater. In her final semester of college she was an intern at the Orlando Shakes as a New Play Development intern and most recently she completed a year-long internship at Florida Studio Theater as a Literary intern. In addition, Jena still writes plays when she can and her works can be found on the NewPlayExchange.org.
DAVID M. JENKINS [he/him] (Producing Artistic Director) is a co-founder of Jobsite. He holds a Ph.D. in Communication (Performance Studies) from the University of South Florida, an M.F.A. in Acting from the University of Florida, and a B.A. in Theater Performance, also from USF. He has additionally studied with Moscow State University, the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS) and the San Francisco Mime Troupe. In addition to his full-time work for Jobsite, David teaches interdisciplinary coursework in the Judy Genshaft Honors College at USF. Recent directing credits: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Romeo & Juliet, Shockheaded Peter, Henry V, Hand to God, and Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 for Jobsite; Little Shop of Horrors, Always ... Patsy Cline, and A Tuna Christmas for the Straz Center; The Aliens for Stageworks Theatre. He has been on stage in recent years in DOUBT: A Parable (Father Flynn), The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] (himself), 1984 (O'Brien), Cloud Nine (Betty/Edward), A Skull in Connemara (Tom Hanlon), and Time Stands Still (James). Creative Loafing Best of the Bay Awards: Best Stage Director (2020, 2019, 2014), Best Artistic Director (2013, 2008, 2006). Theatre Tampa Bay Awards: Outstanding Director (2017), Outstanding Featured Actor (2017), Outstanding Sound Design (2011), BroadwayWorld Regional Awards: Best Actor (2015), Best Director of a Musical (2014). David has published articles in the scholarly journals Text & Performance Quarterly, Liminalities, and Departures in Critical Qualitative Research. He lives in Tampa Heights in a neat old house with his rad wife and a mess of critters.
STEVE MARTIN [he/him] (Playwright) began his career on "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" (1967-1969), for which he earned his first Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing Achievement in Comedy, Variety or Music in 1969. In the mid-1970s, Mr. Martin shone as a stand-up on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" and NBC's "Saturday Night Live." Martin's films are widely popular successes and are the kind of movies that are viewed again and again: The Jerk (1979), Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987), Roxanne (1987), Parenthood(1989), L.A. Story (1991), Father of the Bride (1991), and Bowfinger (1999). As an author, Martin's work includes the novel An Object of Beauty; the play Picasso at the Lapin Agile; a collection of comic pieces, Pure Drivel; a bestselling novella, Shopgirl; and his memoir, Born Standing Up. His writing has also appeared in The New Yorker. Mr. Martin is an accomplished, Grammy Award-winning, boundary-pushing bluegrass banjoist and composer who has won three Grammys for performing and composing. He has earned numerous honors including an Academy Award, five Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, the Mark Twain Prize, and the Kennedy Center Honor. Mr. Martin and Edie Brickell's musical Bright Star premiered at The Old Globe in summer 2015, played a limited engagement at The Kennedy Center, and received acclaim in its Broadway run at the Cort Theatre. In addition to five Tony Award nominations, Bright Star received Outstanding New Broadway Musical and Outstanding New Score at the Outer Critics Circle Awards. | https://www.broadwayworld.com/tampa/article/Jobsite-Theatre-Announces-Cast-of-PICASSO-AT-THE-LAPIN-AGILE-20220809 | 2022-08-10T02:45:23Z | https://www.broadwayworld.com/tampa/article/Jobsite-Theatre-Announces-Cast-of-PICASSO-AT-THE-LAPIN-AGILE-20220809 | false | 1 |
WFO SPOKANE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, August 9, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Spokane WA
642 PM PDT Tue Aug 9 2022
...Gusty outflow winds will impact portions of northeastern Adams,
northeastern Whitman, southeastern Lincoln and southern Spokane
Counties through 715 PM PDT...
At 638 PM PDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from Ritzville to Williams Lake to Colfax to
Pullman. Movement was northeast at 35 mph.
HAZARD...Winds gusts of 30 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could produce localized blowing dust and blow
around unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Pullman, Cheney, Colfax, Palouse, Tekoa, Rosalia, St. John, Sprague,
Harrington, Oakesdale, Spangle, Malden, Latah, Waverly, Lamont,
Mohler and Amber.
This includes Interstate 90 in Washington between mile markers 227
and 267.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Motorists should be prepared for rapid reductions in visibility
especially in areas with recently worked farm fields.
LAT...LON 4756 11828 4755 11773 4745 11723 4726 11705
4656 11706 4709 11757 4717 11839
TIME...MOT...LOC 0138Z 204DEG 37KT 4723 11825 4716 11753 4674 11714
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
...HEAT ADVISORY IS CANCELLED...
Temperatures across the area have decreased, in some areas
significantly due to rain showers and widespread heat is no longer
anticipated. Temperatures will continue to decrease with sunset.
Therefore, the heat advisory has been cancelled.
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The driver suspected of causing a fiery crash that killed five people and an 8 1/2-month-old fetus was charged Monday with murder.
Nicole Lorraine Linton was charged with six counts of murder and five counts of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office.
She could face 90 years to life in prison if convicted of all charges.
Linton, a 37-year-old traveling nurse from Houston, Texas, made her first court appearance Monday after being released from a hospital over the weekend. Linton, who appeared in a wheelchair, didn’t enter a plea and her arraignment was continued to October. She was ordered held without bail pending a bail hearing next week.
Prosecutors said Linton’s Mercedes-Benz was doing 90 mph (144 kph) last Thursday when it ran a red light and smashed into cars in a crowded intersection in unincorporated Windsor Hills about 10 miles (16 km) southwest of downtown Los Angeles. Several victims were thrown from the cars and several vehicles caught fire.
The crash killed 23-year-old Asherey Ryan, her 11-month-old son Alonzo Quintero and her boyfriend, Reynold Lester, Sha’seana Kerr said in a GoFundMe posting.
Lester’s family told KABC-TV that the 24-year-old security guard was the father of Ryan’s 8 1/2-month-old unborn child. The family has said Ryan was on the way to a doctor’s appointment for a prenatal checkup when she was killed.
One murder charge — but not an additional charge of vehicular manslaughter — was filed for the fetus, who was identified by the coroner’s office as Armani Lester and listed as born on the same day he died.
“A young family was destroyed in the blink of an eye,” District Attorney George Gascón said at a news conference.
Two other women were also killed but their names weren’t made public as of Monday.
“While the wreckage of this fiery crash at this intersection was removed and traffic eventually resumed, there is catastrophic damage to the families and friends of those killed and injured,” Gascón said. “It is not only a tremendous loss to the families but our entire community who learned of this incredible tragedy or have watched the now viral video of the collision,” he said.
Authorities said they haven’t found any evidence that Linton was under the influence of alcohol but prosecutors said she did have a history of dangerous crashes and knew the threat posed by her driving behavior, the Los Angeles Times reported.
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IRVINE, Calif. – Coach Sean McVay says he has finalized his contract extension with the Los Angeles Rams.
McVay and the Rams didn't reveal the terms of the long-expected deal, but the youngest coach to win a Super Bowl reaffirmed his long-term commitment to Los Angeles after practice Tuesday in training camp at UC Irvine.
“I feel good,” McVay said. “It was always kind of really good dialogue that existed. These things, they take time, but I think it’s important.”
McVay didn't specify when he finalized the deal, but it apparently happened before training camp. The 36-year-old coach is beginning his sixth season in charge of the Rams, and he has been the youngest coach in the NFL throughout his tenure.
McVay said two weeks ago that the sides were still working on a new deal, but he also said the Rams intended to announce the contract extensions for him and general manager Les Snead at the same time. On Friday, McVay said that's why he had hoped to wait to confirm his deal, until it was mentioned in a lengthy profile of the coach posted Tuesday on ESPN.com.
“Les and I have always been a pair,” McVay said. “We wanted to announce that when both of us had gotten done. Mine is done. Les is in the process of that, but in respect of wanting to show the partnership for us ... that was how I had addressed it. It is something that we've been taking care of.”
McVay's new deal is a reward for an incredibly successful half-decade in charge of the Rams, who have had five winning seasons, four playoff berths, three NFC West titles, two Super Bowl appearances and one championship during his tenure.
McVay is 55-26 in the regular season and 7-3 in the postseason with the Rams, who won nine of their final 10 games last season to earn their first title since returning home to Los Angeles. The Rams beat Cincinnati 23-20 in the Super Bowl at their home SoFi Stadium.
McVay has frequently acknowledged the burnout he feels during and after NFL seasons, and he openly discussed the idea of moving into the broadcast booth in the near future during the Rams' Super Bowl run.
Although Amazon reportedly was among the broadcasters interested in McVay, the coach quickly decided he isn't interested in changing professions quite yet — particularly not with another loaded Rams team coming back this fall. Los Angeles is committed to keeping its Super Bowl window open for the near future, and McVay is a centerpiece of the plan.
Along with the new deal for McVay and the pending contract for Snead, the team has re-signed seven-time All-Pro defensive lineman Aaron Donald — making him the highest-paid non-quarterback in NFL history — along with quarterback Matthew Stafford and Super Bowl MVP Cooper Kupp, who are both locked in through 2026.
The Rams also re-signed starting offensive linemen Joseph Noteboom and Brian Allen in the offseason and acquired free agent receiver Allen Robinson and linebacker Bobby Wagner.
Snead has been in charge of the Rams since February 2012, presiding over their final years in St. Louis before McVay's hiring kicked off a superb half-decade. Snead's partnership with McVay has only strengthened in recent years, with Snead's aggressive personnel moves providing fuel for McVay's innovative coaching style.
Since arriving in Los Angeles and immediately trading up to draft Jared Goff at No. 1 overall in 2016, Snead has built a vaunted reputation as a bold executive. The Alabama native has repeatedly given away his highest draft picks while swinging trades to acquire established stars from Jalen Ramsey and Stafford to Von Miller and Odell Beckham Jr., establishing the Rams as a prime destination for NFL veterans who want to contend for titles.
Although they joined the Rams five years apart, McVay repeatedly has said that he and Snead are linked.
“I think we're all on the same page,” McVay said. “There's just the natural semantics that need to take place. It's something that I know everybody has the anticipation and expectation that it will get done, but these are things that sometimes take time. But it is important because of the partnership that Les and I share.”
NOTES: McVay wasn't pleased with his offense's performance in team drills against the Rams' defense on Tuesday. “Not nearly good enough offensively,” he said. “Going back and looking at the film will be good. We've got a long, long way to go. We're not anywhere close to where we need to be. Nobody needs to press the panic button, but we've got to start having a little bit more sense of urgency overall, particularly on the offensive side of the ball.” ... LB Chris Garrett missed practice with a groin injury, and McVay isn't sure how long he'll be out. Fellow edge rushers Leonard Floyd, who has a nagging ankle injury, and Terrell Lewis also got rest days.
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BEIJING (AP) — Chinese authorities have closed Tibet’s famed Potala Palace after a minor outbreak of COVID-19 was reported in the Himalayan region.
The response underscores China’s continued adherence to its “zero-COVID” policy, mandating lockdowns, routine testing, quarantines and travel restrictions, even while most other countries have reopened.
A notice on the palace’s Weixin social media site said the palace that was the traditional home of Tibet’s Buddhist leaders would be closed from Tuesday, with a reopening date to be announced later.
Tibet’s economy is heavily dependent on tourism and the Potala is a key draw.
China says its hard-line policy has been successful in preventing large-scale hospitalizations and deaths, while critics including the World Health Organization have decried its impact on the economy and society and said it is out of step with the changing nature of the virus and new methods of prevention and treatment.
China announced 828 new cases of domestic transmission on Tuesday, 22 of them in Tibet. The majority of those cases showed no symptoms.
Elsewhere in China, authorities sent a first planeload of 125 tourists out of the beach resort of Sanya, where tens of thousands of travelers have been stuck since Saturday by a COVID-19 lockdown.
State broadcaster CCTV said the city in Hainan province was organizing more flights to return tourists home in batches after the initial flight to Xi’an. They are allowed to leave only after multiple negative virus test results.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes won the Democratic Senate primary on Tuesday and will face two-term Republican Sen. Ron Johnson in what is expected to be one of the country's most competitive races as the parties battle for control of the U.S. Senate.
Barnes’ top rivals dropped out of the race late last month and backed the former legislator, a sign of Democrats’ intense focus on defeating Johnson, who is one of former President Donald Trump’s most vocal supporters. The Senate is currently split 50-50, with Democrats relying on the vice president to break ties, and the Wisconsin contest is one of the few races seen as toss-ups in November.
In his victory speech in Milwaukee, Barnes emphasized his middle-class background and upbringing while casting Johnson as “self-serving” and “an out-of-touch politician” who cares only about special interests and wealthy donors.
“It is time for a change, everybody,” said Barnes, who would be Wisconsin's first Black senator if elected. “It’s time for us to be represented by somebody who shares our experiences.”
Johnson called Barnes the “most radical left candidate” Democrats could have chosen.
“This is a contest between radical left socialism versus freedom and prosperity,” he said.
Voters also were choosing a Republican nominee for Wisconsin governor who could reshape how elections are conducted in the marquee battleground, where Trump is still pressing to overturn his 2020 loss and backing candidates he sees as allies.
Trump has endorsed businessman Tim Michels, a self-described outsider who has put $12 million into his own campaign, against former Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, who has support from former Vice President Mike Pence and ex-Gov. Scott Walker. Both candidates falsely claim the 2020 election was rigged, though Kleefisch has said decertifying the results is "not constitutional," while Michels said "everything will be on the table."
The race to face Democratic Gov. Tony Evers is another proxy war between Trump and Pence, one-time partners now pursuing different futures for the Republican Party. They also backed opposing GOP rivals in primaries in Arizona and Georgia — swing states that like Wisconsin are expected to be critical in the 2024 presidential race, when both men could be on the ballot.
The primary comes a day after FBI agents searched Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate as part of an investigation into whether he took classified records from the White House to his Florida residence, two people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.
Trump also has backed a little-known challenger to the state's most powerful Republican, state Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, who has rejected the former president's pressure to decertify the 2020 results.
Tuesday's outcomes have far-reaching consequences beyond Wisconsin, a state that is almost evenly split between Republicans and Democrats and where 2022 will be seen as a bellwether for the 2024 presidential race. The person elected governor this fall will be in office for the presidential election and will be able to sign or veto changes to election laws passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature. The next governor and U.S. senator also may sway decisions on issues from abortion to education and taxes.
“We’re a 50-50 state and so every race in Wisconsin, just by definition, is going to be decided by a few percentage points one way or another,” said former Gov. Jim Doyle, a Democrat. “And those few percentage points in Wisconsin may well determine what the course of the nation is in the coming years.”
Elsewhere Tuesday, Connecticut Republicans were picking an opponent to face two-term Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal, with a Trump-backed candidate running against an establishment-supported former GOP leader of the state House of Representatives. Voters in Vermont — the only state to never have a woman in its congressional delegation — chose a woman, Becca Balint, as the Democratic nominee for the state's lone House seat. She is favored in the race to replace Rep. Peter Welch, who won the Democratic nomination for the Senate seat long held by Patrick Leahy, who is retiring. And Minnesota Republicans chose Dr. Scott Jensen, a COVID-19 vaccine skeptic endorsed by the state GOP, to face Gov. Tim Walz.
But the most-watched races are in Wisconsin, where Trump has kept up his pressure campaign to cancel President Joe Biden's 2020 victory. Biden won by nearly 21,000 votes, four years after Trump also narrowly won the state by roughly the same margin. The 2020 outcome has been upheld in two partial recounts, a nonpartisan audit, a review by a conservative law firm and multiple lawsuits.
Both Michels and Kleefisch have said overturning the 2020 election results is not a priority. But they have said they would dismantle the bipartisan commission that runs Wisconsin elections and would support prohibitions on voters having someone else turn in their absentee ballots, as well as ballot drop boxes located anywhere other than staffed clerk offices.
Evers has made voting and elections a focus of his own campaign, telling voters he's the only candidate who will defend democracy and "we are that close to not having our vote count in the state of Wisconsin."
Kleefisch is a former TV reporter who served with Walker for two terms, including when he effectively ended collective bargaining for most public employees in the state in 2011, drawing huge protests and a failed recall attempt. She says she is the best prepared to win statewide in November and to enact conservative priorities, including investing more in police, expanding school choice programs and implementing a flat income tax.
During a campaign stop with Kleefisch last week, Pence said no other gubernatorial candidate in the U.S. is “more capable, more experienced, or a more proven conservative.”
Michels is co-owner of Wisconsin's largest construction company and has touted his work to build his family's business. He lost the 2004 Senate race to Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold, and has been a major donor to GOP politicians.
At a rally on Friday, Trump praised Michels as an “incredible success story.” He criticized Kleefisch as part of the “failed establishment" and also took aim at Vos. He told supporters that Michels will win the primary “easily” and that he's the better choice to defeat Evers.
Michels pledged that “we are going to have election integrity here in Wisconsin." He also said he will bring “law and order” back to Wisconsin, criticized Evers' handling of schools and blamed Biden for rising prices.
Voter Gary Steinbrecher, 62, said he cast his ballot Tuesday for Kleefisch because she opposes abortion and has “been around for a long time.” He also thinks she has the best chance of defeating Evers.
“I think she would appeal to the suburban women voters more than the other candidates,” said Steinbrecher, who is semi-retired.
Franklin Szpot, 42, voted for Michels. He said he appreciated that Michels is a business owner and that he served in the U.S. Army. Szpot also liked the candidate's “to the point” commercials.
“It just seems like he is a no-nonsense kind of guy and that’s the kind of person we need in office right now,” he said.
GOP state Rep. Tim Ramthun is also making a long-shot bid for governor, and has made rescinding Wisconsin’s 10 electoral votes for Biden the centerpiece of his campaign.
The candidate Trump endorsed to take on Vos, Adam Steen, has said he would decertify Biden's victory.
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Burnett reported from Chicago. Reporter Gretchen Ehlke contributed from Thiensville, Wis.
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NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. (WJBF) – A North Augusta man has been arrested on child sexual abuse material charges.
According to South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, Michael Joseph Carter, 20, of North Augusta was arrested on six charges connected to the sexual exploitation of a minor.
According to investigators, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children sent out a CyberTipline report stating that Carter distributed and possessed files of child sexual abuse material.
According to the Attorney General’s office, the North Augusta Department of Public Safety along with the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force arrested Carter.
Authorities say Carter was arrested on Monday, August 8th and is charged with two counts of second degree sexual exploitation of a minor and four counts of third degree sexual exploitation of a minor with each charge being punishable by up to 10 years in prison for each count. | https://www.wjbf.com/news/crime-news/north-augusta-man-facing-child-sexual-abuse-material-charges/ | 2022-08-10T02:58:31Z | https://www.wjbf.com/news/crime-news/north-augusta-man-facing-child-sexual-abuse-material-charges/ | false | null |
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Win 4 Evening" game were:
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Verona Pharma plc (VRNA) is +5.16 at $12.11, with 6,155,440 shares traded.VRNA is scheduled to provide an earnings report on 8/15/2022, for the fiscal quarter ending Jun2022. The consensus earnings per share forecast is -0.35 per share, which represents a -56 percent increase over the EPS one Year Ago
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Apple Inc. (AAPL) is -1.0256 at $163.84, with 1,524,931 shares traded. Over the last four weeks they have had 5 up revisions for the earnings forecast, for the fiscal quarter ending Jun 2023. The consensus EPS forecast is $1.36. As reported by Zacks, the current mean recommendation for AAPL is in the "buy range".
GoodRx Holdings, Inc. (GDRX) is +2.06 at $9.82, with 1,316,259 shares traded. As reported in the last short interest update the days to cover for GDRX is 14.326451; this calculation is based on the average trading volume of the stock.
Carnival Corporation (CCL) is -0.32 at $9.69, with 1,297,853 shares traded. CCL's current last sale is 71.78% of the target price of $13.5.
Palantir Technologies Inc. (PLTR) is -0.16 at $9.66, with 954,268 shares traded. PLTR's current last sale is 74.31% of the target price of $13.
AMTD IDEA Group (AMTD) is +0.17 at $3.15, with 894,032 shares traded.
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. (NCLH) is -1.09 at $12.44, with 837,160 shares traded. NCLH's current last sale is 62.2% of the target price of $20.
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Torres’ husband, Le Roy, suffers from constrictive bronchitis, a respiratory condition that narrowed his airways and made breathing difficult. Rosie is sure it’s from his exposure to burn pits on his base in Iraq. But last week, even with the Senate just hours away from boosting health and disability benefits for veterans like her husband, she still wasn’t sure she had won over lawmakers, despite earlier votes indicating the bill was on the right track.
“It was still too good to be true,” Torres said. “Even when my senators voted, I said, ‘Something is up.’”
Torres was among the veterans and family members camped out at the Capitol last week, refusing to leave until the Senate passed the bill by a final vote of 86-11. That vote, lopsided at the last, was a momentous victory for a movement that has been years in the making but gained serious traction only during the current Congress.
President Joe Biden is scheduled to sign the bill into law on Wednesday.
The White House ceremony culminates an effort that began with the vets themselves and their harrowing stories, eventually amplified for public attention by comedian-activist Jon Stewart and personally embraced by the president, who has voiced his suspicion that burn pits led to his elder son’s death.
In the end, the bill received unanimous support from Democrats and a majority of Republicans despite its hefty price tag, estimated at roughly $280 billion over 10 years.
‘LET’S FULL-THROTTLE AND GET THIS GOING’
Another Texan, former Marine Tim Jensen, who served in Iraq in 2004 and 2005, was also part of the gathering outside the Capitol last week. He said he lost his best friend, Sgt. Frank Hazelwood, to lung cancer, and two other battalion colleagues to illnesses he attributes to serving near burn pits.
“They were all cancers of the brain and the lungs, and these were not cancers typical of that age group,” Jensen said.
He got actively involved some four years ago after a phone call with Torres, who had started an advocacy organization with her husband — Burn Pits 360. The organization serves as a clearinghouse for grim stories related by veterans and their families about the impact they believe burn pits have had on their lives.
What are these burn pits? Big, smelly and nothing anyone would want to breathe, they were commonly used by the military until several years ago to dispose of such things as chemicals, tires, plastics and medical and human waste.
Former Marine Jensen said a pivotal moment in the quest for federal help occurred when Stewart joined the effort, bringing the publicity that comes with celebrity attention.
“Rosie Torres and Burn Pits 360 have been working on this for over 10 years and they were getting very little traction,” Jensen said. “They needed some bigger push, right, to get it into a national conversation.”
Then the White House invited Danielle Robinson, the widow of Sgt. 1st Class Heath Robinson of Ohio, to attend Biden’s State of the Union address in March. During the address, Biden raised the possibility that being near burn pits led to the death of his son Beau.
“We don’t know for sure if a burn pit was the cause of his brain cancer, or the diseases of so many of our troops,” Biden said in the speech. “But I’m committed to finding out everything we can.”
Jensen said, “That’s when we knew we now have the attention and let’s full-throttle and get this thing going.”
“That certainly energized Democrats in the Senate and the House to move,” said Sen. Jerry Moran of Kansas, the ranking Republican on the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs.
On the House side, Rep. Mark Takano, chairman of that chamber’s Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, announced in early 2021 that helping veterans who experienced toxic exposure would be one of the panel’s priorities for the coming Congress. That was not long after Biden had taken the oath of office.
Takano, a California Democrat, recalled on the House floor last month how he briefed the president. He said Biden leaned over and started talking about Beau, who died from brain cancer at age 46. He had served in Iraq for about a year in 2008 and 2009.
“It was during that meeting when I knew I had a partner in President Biden,” Takano said.
The congressman was intent on avoiding a piecemeal approach. He didn’t want the legislation to pit vets from one war against those of another in a fight for limited Department of Veterans Affairs resources.
The bill not only expands health and disability benefits for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans but contains provisions to aid more Vietnam-era vets exposed to Agent Orange. It also provides support to veterans exposed to water contamination at North Carolina’s Camp LeJeune and to radiation in Palomares, Spain, site of one of the largest nuclear disasters in history, and Enewetak Atoll of the Marshall Islands, where the U.S. conducted numerous nuclear tests.
The House passed the first iteration of the bill in March. The vote was 256-174 with most Republicans opposing. They cited costs and the strain it would cause on a VA already struggling to meet current workloads.
‘DO YOUR DUTY AND PASS THIS’
A few weeks after the House vote, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., joined Stewart, veterans advocates and Danielle Robinson for a news conference in which she described what it was like being with her husband, for whom the bill is named, in his final moments as he died from lung cancer.
“I ask you to do your duty and pass this,” she implored.
Schumer promised the bill would get a vote in the Senate. “Everyone is going to have to show where they stand, and whose side they are on,” he said.
The Senate was at work on its own version of the bill. Sen. Jon Tester of Montana, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, said the veterans groups were clear that the bill was the panel’s No. 1 priority.
Tester had cooperative partners in Moran and Republican John Boozman of Arkansas, with their discussions focused on making sure the VA would be ready for the workload.
“We were talking with the VA. … Are we setting you up for failure? Is this something you can deliver on?” Tester said. “And they assured us they could. There were a few changes we had to make and we made them.”
Those changes included staggering the start for some of the benefit enhancements and providing more flexibility for hiring staff. The changes also helped trim tens of billions of dollars in spending from the House version, giving more Republicans reason to support the final product once it went back to the House.
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In cases like this, Richardson said in an interview with The Associated Press, “it’s proportional — two-for two.”
Richardson, who traveled to Russia in advance of the release by Moscow of Marine veteran Trevor Reed in an April prisoner swap, declined to discuss the current status of negotiations with Russia over Griner or Whelan or to explain what role he may be playing in the talks.
But he said he felt “relatively positive” for several reasons. For one, the conclusion of the criminal case against Griner last week — she was convicted and sentenced to nine years in prison on drug charges — provides an opening for diplomatic negotiations to begin in earnest. Plus, he said, the U.S. and Russia have already shown a willingness to carry out prisoner swaps, as evidenced by the Reed exchange. And Griner’s strategy of expressing contrition before a Russian court was important.
“And that is why I think a two-for-two deal is hopefully a likely outcome,” Richardson said.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken took the unusual step of revealing publicly last month that the U.S. in June made a “substantial proposal” to get Griner and Whelan home. He did not elaborate, but the AP and other news organizations have reported that the U.S. has offered to free Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer who is serving a 25-year sentence in the U.S. and once earned the nickname the “Merchant of Death.”
Russia made a counteroffer that the U.S. did not regard as serious, the White House has said.
It is not clear which other Russian could be included in a two-for-two deal, assuming it happens.
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Though Richardson said he was cautiously optimistic, and even though there is recent precedent for prisoner swaps, such deals aren’t easy.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Win 4 Evening" game were:
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Angela Yee says The Breakfast Club ‘as you know it’ is officially over
Radio host Angela Yee has shocked fans with a social media post claiming that the iconic radio show The Breakfast Club which she features in “is officially over”.
The Breakfast Club has been one of the longest-standing hip-hop radio shows and has hosted a ton of massive guests from stars like Kanye West, Jay-Z, and Kendrick Lamar, all the way to former United States President Barack Obama, and more.
Hosting The Breakfast Club alongside Yee were Charlemagne Tha God and DJ Envy. The Power 105.1 FM radio show has been running since 2010 and is one of the most popular in the space.
Sharing the news on social media, Yee is yet to provide any context or follow-up regarding what her statement means.
While the statement does seem definitive, there are still many different answers to what it means for the future of the show. As she mentions that the show is officially over as fans know it, perhaps it could mean that the trio will no longer be hosting together.
Some fans on social media have assumed the worst that the show is coming to an end, but as of right now no official word has been shared to support this theory.
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By Christine Green
Akwesasne Mohawk tours offer the perfect weekend getaway
Curls of shaved wood litter the ground, and the air is rich with the scent of steamed lumber. Evan Cree leans over a piece of ash, carefully bending and shaping it until it takes the shape he is aiming for. What started as a rough piece of wood has been transformed into a traditional lacrosse stick ready to be strung with string to form the pocket and shooting strings.Watching Cree work at his Traditional Lacrosse workshop is fascinating. Witnessing the art of making lacrosse sticks is just one of the many adventures I experienced when Akwesasne Travel invited me on one of their Mohawk cultural tours.
The Akwesasne Mohawk community is situated on the St. Lawrence River near Hogansburg and predates the US and Canadian border. It is also the only indigenous community that resides in two counties, two provinces, and one state.
Penny Peters, Akwesasne travel manager, believes that Akwesasne is a hidden New York gem that more people should take the time to experience. “Akwesasne is a unique place full of culture and amazing people,” she says. “Our cultural tours allow you to meet some of those people and see how their everyday modern lives are still inspired and guided by traditional practices and beliefs that have been handed down for centuries. It is one of the few places in Northern New York to have an authentic Indigenous experience.”
My visit began by checking in to the Akwesasne Mohawk Casino Resort and a dinner at Maple Steak & Ale. Diners can also enjoy beer from the on-site brewery, Maple Brewing. The next morning started with a driving tour of the area with gorgeous views of the river. Our first stop was the Akwesasne Cultural Center Museum where we were able to view everything from Mohawk headdresses called kastowas to beaded wampum belts and more. A truly fascinating and enlightening museum, the Cultural Center Museum is a must-see part of any visit to the area.
The next stop was at Carrie Hill’s basket-making studio. In 2015 Hill started making traditional baskets full time—and her company, Chill Baskets. Hill takes visitors to her studio through a brief talk on the history of basket making among the Mohawk before describing how she gathers material, preps, and designs her baskets. She then helps them make their own sweetgrass bookmark, all the while discussing her work and the process.
From there we traveled to Atsiakta, a bed and breakfast and event space along the St. Lawrence. Our gracious host, Janine Rourke, gave us a tour of her establishment before we sat down to a traditional Mohawk lunch prepared by Latoya Rourke.To say that our meal was delicious is an understatement. The base was a hearty white cornbread made with kidney beans and topped with tender, mouthwatering beef and gravy with sides of butternut squash and green beans. This was all accompanied by a drink made with home-grown strawberries and maple syrup. Latoya explained the historical and cultural significance of each dish as we ate, which elevated the whole experience making it all that more special.
Happily stuffed from lunch, we made our way to Cree’s workshop where we witnessed him do everything from split freshly cut logs to bend the heads of the sticks. We also learned that lacrosse is a traditional Haudenosaunee game played for both entertainment and as good medicine for the players and the community.
“Hopefully guests will take away a new understanding of who we are as Indigenous people. That we are still here and thriving,” says Peters.“I hope that they are inspired to understand the connections we all have to our earth and all things that surround us and the importance of acknowledging our role as humans.”
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Whether your company’s IT department is an in-house team or an outsourced partner, there are a number of important steps that you and your employees can take to maximize your relationship. Technical problems can jam up companies in all kinds of unfortunate ways, but a clear and cohesive rapport with IT professionals can make the process of finding solutions a whole lot easier.
Let’s look at six helpful tips for making interactions with IT professionals as smooth and effective as possible.
1.) Be Honest About Mistakes
For the most part, regular employees and other business leaders are not expected to be technical wizards. Things get broken sometimes and human errors happen. When they do, people have a tendency of wanting to save face. We do things like minimizing our involvement and keeping mum about the actions that led to the error. But there’s no reason to act this way. It’s much better to give your IT people all the necessary information up front. Chances are, they may have a better idea of how to resolve the issue if they have all the facts.
2.) Listen to IT
Rules regarding technology policies and practices at your company are not arbitrary. They exist primarily to keep things from breaking or losing valuable data. Cutting corners or failing to listen to the IT team’s recommendations can be disastrous for businesses. As examples, if employees are required to use a VPN when working remotely, then a VPN should absolutely be used. If two-factor authentication is advised, it’s not in place just to annoy. It’s a matter of security that should not be skipped. Listen to the IT people and stick to the rules.
3.) Describe As Best You Can
When technical problems arise, clarity in describing the error is crucial. Frustration can make this tricky. When tempers and nerves go up, especially in crunch times, it’s hard to clearly convey what kind of issues are occurring. The best course of action is to slow down and take just a moment to accurately describe the problem at hand, otherwise your IT team has to waste valuable time playing detective.
Without overloading your IT professional with too much information, do the best you can to convey what you were working on, what went wrong, and what needs to take place. Keep things brief and to the point so you get the most direct results. If an error code or number is involved, copy that down or take a screenshot to show your IT team.
4.) Don’t Hover
Working in IT is a lot like working as a certified problem solver, but that doesn’t mean the experts have seen and done it all. New types of unique problems arise every day for technology. It’s always evolving, and sometimes a little bit of research or tinkering is required to find a solution.
At times like these, we recommend giving your IT people some space to work. It’s hard to think clearly with folks hovering around your every move. Be sure to remain available, in case any questions arise, but let the experts have enough room to work their magic.
5.) No to Personal Devices
Never ask your IT team to fix something wrong with your personal device, it drives them crazy. IT experts are not there to fix your kid’s phone – even if you run the company. It’s viewed as an inappropriate request. The IT department’s job is to keep the company’s tech running its best, not to conduct personal favors. Keep things professional.
6.) Appreciation Matters
As a final humble suggestion, never underestimate the effectiveness of a little appreciation. Most people naturally want to help others and feel extremely positive when they do. It’s an IT professional’s job to solve technical issues, but that feeling of positivity still persists after a good outcome when working on a problem. Showing appreciation in these moments is very validating and has a powerful effect on motivation. Our recommendation is to say thanks and add in a detail about how their skills will help you get back to the task that needs doing. It helps instill a sense of value for the IT person’s role in the company overall.
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Technology is essential for every modern company and, one way or another, glitches and malfunctions are bound to happen at some point. But they don’t have to slow your company down too badly. By taking a few simple steps to build a great working relationship with your IT department or provider, your business will experience less idle time against things like outages or technical errors and will be back online in no time. | https://original.newsbreak.com/@building-indiana-business-1590614/2693256243239-maximizing-it-department-interactions | 2022-08-10T04:24:11Z | https://original.newsbreak.com/@building-indiana-business-1590614/2693256243239-maximizing-it-department-interactions | false | 1 |
The Enzymes market revenue was $$Million USD in 2016, grew to $$Million USD in 2020, and will reach $$Million USD in 2026, with a CAGR of $$during 2020-2026.
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Danisco
Lesaffre Group
DSM
Roche
Chr. Hansen
Adisseo France S.A.S.
ADM
Lonza Group
AB Enzymes
BASF
Novozymes
DuPont Genencor
Advanced Enzymes
Enmex
Most important types of Enzymes products covered in this report are:
Industrial
Specialty
Most widely used downstream fields of Enzymes market covered in this report are:
Food & Beverages
Detergents
Animal Feed
Textile
Paper & Pulp
Personal Care & Cosmetics
Other
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United States
Canada
Germany
UK
France
Italy
Spain
Russia
China
Japan
South Korea
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Key Companies Covered in the Realtime Bioprocess Raman Analyzer Market Research are Merck KGaA, Sartorius group, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., Tornado Spectral Systems, Rigaku, Endress+Hauser, B&W Tek, LLC, MarqMetrix, AppliTek, Renishaw. and other key market players.
The Global Realtime Bioprocess Raman Analyzer Market was valued at USD 471.15 in the year 2021. The coronavirus pandemic generated lucrative opportunities for players in the real-time bioprocess Raman analyzer industry in the short-term. Improvements to environmental detection, and testing rates have supported growth. Wide scope of biopharma applications is likely to aid growth through the coming decade as well.
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In addition, there has been a subsequent rise in the current healthcare expenditure across major economies across the world. A rise in demand from the ageing population because of the growing age-related disease will help to boost the market globally. Also, rising westernization, expanding clinical indications and soaring demand from the emerging countries is expected to fuel the market in the coming years. Furthermore, the growing investments in research and development programs by biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies are boosting the market growth.
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Shares of VF Corp.
VFC,
-0.55%
dropped 0.55% to $45.33 Tuesday, on what proved to be an all-around dismal trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index
SPX,
-0.42%
falling 0.42% to 4,122.47 and Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA,
-0.18%
falling 0.18% to 32,774.41. This was the stock's second consecutive day of losses. VF Corp. closed $36.37 below its 52-week high ($81.70), which the company achieved on August 12th.
Despite its losses, the stock outperformed some of its competitors Tuesday, as Nike Inc. Cl B
NKE,
-3.41%
fell 3.41% to $110.11, Burberry Group PLC ADR
BURBY,
-0.56%
fell 0.56% to $21.38, and Ralph Lauren Corp. Cl A
RL,
-4.34%
fell 4.34% to $96.77.true Trading volume (2.7 M) remained 694,143 below its 50-day average volume of 3.4 M.
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Next Fed rate hike size may be based on soaring 'core' costs, not food and energy prices
Medora Lee
USA TODAY
It’ll be all about the core Wednesday morning when July consumer price data are released –the inflation rate that measures price changes of everything except food and energy.
Core inflation includes all items consumers pay for like rent, transportation, medical services, cars, recreation, clothing, and education. And that core is expected to remain red hot, which could prompt the Federal Reserve to continue with aggressive rate hikes, economists say. | https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/economy/2022/08/10/consumer-prices-index-less-energy-food/10269451002/?gnt-cfr=1 | 2022-08-10T04:38:24Z | https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/economy/2022/08/10/consumer-prices-index-less-energy-food/10269451002/?gnt-cfr=1 | true | null |
NEW YORK (AP) — Lamont Dozier, the middle name of the celebrated Holland-Dozier-Holland team that wrote and produced “You Can’t Hurry Love,” “Heat Wave” and dozens of other hits and helped make Motown an essential record company of the 1960s and beyond, has died at age 81.
Dozier died “peacefully” Monday at his home near Scottsdale, Arizona, according to a statement issued by his family. The cause of death was not immediately determined. Duke Fakir, a close friend and the last surviving member of the original Four Tops, called Dozier a “beautiful, talented guy” with an uncanny sense of what material worked best for a given group.
“I like to call Holland-Dozier-Holland ‘tailors of music,’” he said Tuesday during a telephone interview. “They could take any artist, call them into their office, talk to them, listen to them and write them a top 10 song.”
In Motown’s historic, self-defined rise to the “Sound of Young America,” Holland-Dozier-Holland stood out even compared to such gifted peers as Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder and Barrett Strong. Over a four-year period, 1963-67, Dozier and brothers Brian and Eddie Holland crafted more than 25 top 10 songs and mastered the blend of pop and rhythm and blues that allowed the Detroit label, and founder Berry Gordy, to defy boundaries between Black and white music and rival the Beatles on the airwaves.
For the Four Tops, they wrote “Baby I Need Your Loving” and “Reach Out (I’ll Be There),” for Martha and the Vandellas they wrote “Heat Wave” and “Jimmy Mack,” for Marvin Gaye “Baby Don’t You Do It” and “How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You).” The music lived on through countless soundtracks, samplings and radio airings, in cover versions by the Rolling Stones, Linda Ronstadt, James Taylor and many others and in generations of songwriters and musicians influenced by the Motown sound.
“Their structures were simple and direct,” Gerri Hirshey wrote in the Motown history “Nowhere to Run: The Story of Soul Music,” published in 1984. “Sometimes a song barreled to number one on the sheer voice of repetitive hooks, like a fast-food jingle that lurks, subliminally, until it connects with real hunger.”
Brian Wilson, Ronnie Wood and Mick Hucknall were among the many musicians offering tributes Tuesday. Carole King, who with then-husband Gerry Goffin was another leading hitmaker of the ’60s, tweeted that “striving to keep up with them made us better songwriters.”
The polish of H-D-H was ideally suited for Motown’s signature act, Diana Ross and the Supremes, for whom they wrote 10 No. 1 songs, among them “Where Did Our Love Go,” “Stop! In the Name of Love” and “You Can’t Hurry Love.” Expectations were so high that when “Nothing But Heartaches” failed to make the top 10 in 1965, Gordy sent a company memo demanding that Motown only release chart toppers for the Supremes, an order H-D-H obeyed with “I Hear a Symphony” and several more records.
Holland-Dozier-Holland weren’t above formulas or closely repeating a previous hit, but they worked in various moods and styles: the casual joy of “How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You),” the escalating desire of “Heat Wave,” the urgency of “Reach Out (I’ll Be There).” Dozier’s focus was on melody and arrangements, whether the haunting echoes of the Vandellas’ backing vocals on “Nowhere To Run,” flashing lights of guitar that drive the Supremes’ “You Keep Me Hanging On,” or the hypnotic gospel piano on Gaye’s “Can I Get a Witness.”
“All the songs started out as slow ballads, but when we were in the studio we’d pick up the tempo,” Dozier told the Guardian in 2001. “The songs had to be fast because they were for teenagers – otherwise it would have been more like something for your parents. The emotion was still there, it was just under cover of the optimism that you got from the up-tempo beat.”
The prime of H-D-H, and of Motown, ended in 1968 amid questions and legal disputes over royalties and other issues. H-D-H left the label, and neither side would recover. The Four Tops and the Supremes were among the acts who suffered from no longer having their most dependable writers. Meanwhile, H-D-H’s efforts to start their own business fell far short of Motown. The labels Invictus and Hot Wax both faded within a few years, and Dozier would recall with disbelief the Hollands’ turning down such future superstars as Al Green and George Clinton. H-D-H did release several hits, including Freda Payne’s “Band of Gold” and Honey Cone’s “Want Ads.”
Holland-Dozier-Holland were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1988 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame two years later. On his own, Dozier had a top 20 hit with “Trying to Hold on to My Woman,” helped produce Aretha Franklin’s “Sweet Passion” album and collaborated with Eric Clapton and Hucknall among others. His biggest success was co-writing Phil Collins’ chart-topping “Two Hearts,” from the 1988 movie “Buster,” a mid-tempo, Motown-style ballad that won a Grammy and Golden Globe and received an Oscar nomination.
H-D-H reunited for a stage production of “The First Wives Club,” which premiered in 2009, but their time back together was brief and unhappy. Dozier and the Hollands clashed often and Dozier dropped out before the show launched. “I can’t see us ever working with Lamont again,” Eddie Holland wrote in “Come and Get These Memories,” a memoir by the Hollands that came out in 2019, the same year Dozier published the memoir “How Sweet It Is.”
Dozier acknowledged that his early success conflicted with his family life, but he eventually settled down with Barbara Ullman, who died in 2021 after more than 40 years of marriage. His children included the songwriter-record producer Beau Dozier and composer Paris Ray Dozier.
Like so many Motown artists, Dozier was born in Detroit and raised in a family of singers and musicians. He sang in the choir of his Baptist church and his love for words was affirmed by a grade school teacher who, he recalled, liked one of his poems so much she kept it on the blackboard for a month. By the late 1950s, he was a professional singer and eventually signed with Motown, where he first worked with Brian Holland, and then Eddie Holland, who wrote most of the lyrics.
Some of Motown’s biggest hits and catchiest phrases originated from Dozier’s domestic life. He remembered his grandfather’s addressing women as “Sugar pie, honey bunch,” the opening words and ongoing refrain of the Four Tops’ “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch).” The Four Tops hit “Bernadette” was inspired by all three songwriters having troubles with women named Bernadette, while an argument with another Dozier girlfriend helped inspire a Supremes favorite.
“She was pretty heated up because I was quite the ladies’ man at that time and I’d been cheating on her,” Dozier told the Guardian. “So she started telling me off and swinging at me until I said, ‘Stop! In the name of love!’ And as soon as I’d said it I heard a cash register in my head and laughed. My girlfriend didn’t think it was very amusing: we broke up. The only ones who were happy about it were the Supremes.”
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Warren Buffett’s company has bought up more than $11 billion worth of Occidental Petroleum stock this year, giving Berkshire Hathaway control of more than 20% of the oil producer.
Occidental’s stock rose more than 3.5% on Tuesday to $62.18 after Buffett revealed his latest purchases of nearly 6.7 million Occidental shares worth more than $400 million.
Wall Street follows Buffett’s actions closely, including his investments in Occidental Petroleum. Its shares have more than doubled in price this year.
Berkshire has repeatedly acquired shares of the Houston driller whenever the stock falls below $60 in recent months. Buffett also dropped more than $20 billion on Chevron stock in the first quarter of this year and took advantage of the surge in oil prices after Russia invaded Ukraine. Berkshire’s Chevron stake is worth more than $24 billion.
That means Buffett’s Omaha, Nebraska, conglomerate holds nearly $47 billion in oil sector investments because Berkshire holds another $10 billion worth of preferred Occidental shares that it picked up in 2019 when it helped finance Occidental’s purchase of Anadarko.
And Buffett may not be done. Berkshire owns warrants to buy another 83.9 million Occidental shares at $59.62 apiece. Edward Jones analyst Jim Shanahan estimates that Berkshire’s oil sector holdings are worth $46.6 billion today even without the value of those warrants.
Because Berkshire now owns 20.2% of Occidental’s stock, it will be allowed to record a proportional share of the oil producer’s earnings on its earnings reports. That could provide a roughly $2 billion a year boost to Berkshire’s bottom line.
Buffett aggressively invested in stocks this year when the market was weighed down by soaring inflation and rising interest rates. Berkshire spent more than $51 billion on stocks in the first quarter, but the pace of its investments slowed considerably in the second quarter when it was a net buyer of only $3.8 billion in stocks with much of that going into Occidental. Berkshire will detail all its second-quarter stock purchases later this month.
In addition to the stakes it holds in companies, Berkshire owns more than 90 companies outright, including BNSF railroad, Geico insurance, several major utilities and an eclectic assortment of manufacturing and retail businesses like See’s Candy, Dairy Queen, Helzberg Diamonds, Fruit of the Loom and Precision Castparts. Most of those businesses have performed well this year, but Berkshire reported a $44 billion quarterly loss over the weekend on a sharp drop in the paper value of its stock portfolio. | https://www.wate.com/news/business/ap-business/warren-buffetts-company-has-bet-47b-on-the-oil-sector/ | 2022-08-10T04:42:40Z | https://www.wate.com/news/business/ap-business/warren-buffetts-company-has-bet-47b-on-the-oil-sector/ | false | 43 |
Investors have endured a fair amount of pain as the S&P 500 has flirted with bear market territory in recent weeks. Although the market has shown some signs of recovery from its June lows, numerous stocks are still selling well below their 12-month highs.
However, thanks to that drop, a lot of companies are trading at bargain levels. Among consumer-related stocks, three could be particularly attractive right now: Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG), Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM), and Target (NYSE: TGT). Let's take a closer look.
Booking Holdings
The company formerly known as Priceline.com encompasses several travel-related websites, including Priceline, KAYAK, Agoda, and its current namesake, Booking.com. The bear market has taken its price to below $2,000 per share, down almost 30% from its high.
Despite this lower stock price, the company's financials continue to improve. Its revenue for the first two quarters of 2022 came in at just under $7 billion, which exceeds the $6.7 billion it reported in the first half of 2019 -- pre-pandemic.
Admittedly, its $157 million in net income for the first half of 2022 is a small fraction of the $1.7 billion earned in the same period of 2019. Operating expenses rose 19% over the three-year time frame, and $735 million in losses on its holdings of several equity securities dramatically reduced earnings.
While Booking didn't offer specific revenue guidance, it said on its Q2 2022 earnings call it expects to report "record" revenue in Q3. Still, assuming it can meet analyst estimates, it will have a forward price-to-earnings ratio (P/E) of 20 -- a level that could make it a bargain if travel growth moves ahead of 2019 levels.
Qualcomm
Most analysts classify Qualcomm as more of a tech stock, due to its technical lead in smartphone chipsets. Nonetheless, it continues to derive most of its revenue from handsets, a factor that makes it heavily dependent on the consumer.
Indeed, consumer trends appeared to influence the company's own estimates. For the upcoming fiscal fourth quarter of 2022, Qualcomm forecast revenue of $11 billion to $11.8 billion, indicating revenue growth of 23% year over year. That would mean a slowdown from fiscal Q3, where handset revenue increased 59% year over year.
But the fact that 23% growth indicates a "slowdown" speaks to this market's resilience. Grand View Research forecasts a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 69% in the 5G chipset market. Such an outlook indicates that the anticipated slowdown will likely not persist as the 5G upgrade cycle continues.
The anticipated growth may explain the relative strength of the stock, which has held steady over the past 12 months even as the S&P 500's total return has dropped by 6%. Yet, a P/E of 13 indicates that the market probably doesn't fully appreciate this potential. Investors should consider buying Qualcomm at these levels.
Target
Like many of its peers, Target has fallen significantly as it's dealt with a slowdown in consumer spending. Moreover, amid the supply chain constraints, Target ordered more inventory than it needed, so in the near term, it will have to sell some of its items at either lower margins or outright losses. Target stock fell to its lowest point since mid-2020 upon this news.
However, the retail stock has since rebounded, rising by just over 20% in the past six weeks. Despite the recent increase, Target's P/E stands at about 14 times earnings. By comparison, peers Walmart and Costco sell for 27 times and 42 times earnings, respectively.
Target also exhibited long-term confidence in its stock through the dividend. Following the inventory announcement, Target increased its payout by 20%, taking its streak of annual dividend hikes to 51 years. The yearly payout, now at $4.32 per share, yields 2.6%. This is well above the S&P 500 average of 1.5%.
None of this means that Target's challenges with inventory levels have ended. However, the stock's P/E multiple of 14 indicates investors overreacted to the negativity. Given that excessive sell-off, investors may want to consider buying now to collect the dividend and wait as Target's earnings multiple moves to a level more comparable with Walmart's.
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Recently one of my closest friends who is struggling with the age-old question, “should I stay or should I go?” Although she isn’t happy in her marriage to her high-school sweetheart and hasn’t been since almost the very beginning, she doesn’t believe that she has to strength to walk away for numerous reasons.
My friend isn’t the only one who is going through this predicament. Time and time again, I have a similar conversation repeatedly with my clients who stayed in unhealthy and unhappy marriages.
Although I have been in toxic relationships, I managed to walk away before dealing with a marriage commitment. However, I can empathize with these women's stories because I understand that leaving is always easier said than done. Love can blur our vision of what we actually want until it feels like it’s too late.
Here are the stories of three women who stayed in their marriages at the expense of their own happiness.
“He was going through too much for me to walk away without feeling guilty.”
For over a decade, I was with my high-school sweetheart, whom I married right after my eighteenth birthday. Even though there were times when he would tear down my looks and go through extreme mood swings, I loved him. Finally, there was a job opportunity that was going to put me elsewhere for a few months. Deciding it was perfect for a break, I packed my things and took off. Within the first couple of weeks, my boyfriend’s best friend ended up in critical condition in the hospital due to a car accident. My boyfriend called me, and I dropped everything to rush back to him. When I saw the distress he was in, I realized that I couldn’t leave. I stayed in that relationship for another decade and didn’t realize until later that I ended up putting his needs before my own.”
“I thought that it would be better for my children to have their parents together.”
My ex-husband and I were married in our mid-twenties. Although we were happy initially, as time went on, our differences became more and more blatant. The subject of divorce came up regularly in our first couple of years of marriage, and then I got pregnant. Suddenly we had a daughter, and then a few months later, I was pregnant with our son. We settled into a sort of understanding, we had children, and there was no point in separating as it would cause them to have a lower quality of life. Although the first few years weren’t as hard, as time went on and I realized that I wasn’t true to myself, I felt lost and depressed. Finally, when my children were almost legal adults, my husband and I split. My daughter told me something I will never forget, “Mom, you staying with dad in an unhappy marriage only showed me an example that I don’t want to follow.” Her words caused the heartbreaking realization that my decision to stay for my children ultimately showed them a relationship that didn’t include love.
“Everyone said my husband and I were perfect together, and I didn’t want to let them down.”
When I met the man I was going to marry, my family couldn’t have been happier. I had been in a series of toxic relationships, and Bruce was everything I could have ever wanted. As we dated, there was a tiny voice in the back of my head that said we weren’t right for each other, but I pushed it down. How could I be pickier? There was no one else that would offer as much as bruce did. I tried to tell my family that I was struggling with my conflicting feelings. They all said that I was silly and that I would never find someone as amazing as Bruce. Their invalidation of my feelings created a doubt that was the final confirmation that I needed to walk down the aisle. I remember feeling an emptiness I couldn’t describe on my wedding day, but our photos were elegant. Our guests couldn’t stop gushing about how “in love” we looked. Bruce never did anything wrong. The reality is that we weren’t compatible and that I didn’t feel how I should have a romantic partner. I eventually asked for a divorce but wish that I would have listened to my gut early on instead of what everyone else thought and wanted for me.
From a very young age, we are told that marriage is sacred and meant to last forever. When a marriage doesn’t last forever (which is half of the time) society makes us feel like we failed.
When reflecting on my friend's words, there is one key factor in her decision-making process. Everything is centered around what her partner wants instead of what she wants. She is so incredibly blinded by the fear of starting over or being alone that she chooses to live with regret and resentment.
If you are continually telling yourself that happiness doesn’t matter, I want to remind you that life is too short to carry regrets that we didn’t live to the fullest.
Remember, there will be ups and downs in any marriage as it is simply part of life, but there should also be joy and happiness. | https://original.newsbreak.com/@stacy-ann-561005/2694838918957-opinion-women-explain-reasons-for-staying-in-unhappy-marriages | 2022-08-10T04:46:44Z | https://original.newsbreak.com/@stacy-ann-561005/2694838918957-opinion-women-explain-reasons-for-staying-in-unhappy-marriages | false | 2 |
BY CLAUDIA TALLY
Member for Manus, Job Pomat was sworn in as Speaker of the 11th Parliament at 3pm yesterday in the presence of Governor General Sir Bob Dadae.
Mr Pomat was elected unopposed as the Speaker for the second time yesterday after he was nominated by Governor for Gulf Chris Haiveta and moved by Hela Governor Philip Undialu, followed by a move to close nominations by Member for Madang, Bryan Kramer.
Mr Pomat then presented himself at the Government House to be sworn in by Sir Bob and in a brief statement said he was happy to be re-elected as the Speaker of the House.
“I am honoured to be the chair for another five years,” Mr Pomat said.
Sir Bob received Mr Pomat and officiated his swearing-in ceremony in the presence of Clerk of Parliament Kala Aufa, Member for Finchhafen, Reinbo Paita, and Hela Governor Philip Undialu, and Member for Goroka, Aiye Tambua, who accompanied Mr Pomat to the State House.
Mr Pomat recited and signed the Oath of Service and the Declaration of Loyalty pledging his service to the chair that he holds.
Mr Pomat is a member of the ruling Pangu Pati and this will also be his second term in Parliament.
He was first elected as Speaker of the 10th Parliament on August 2, 2017. He served as Speaker under two different governments, the O’Niell- Dion government and the Marape-Basil government.
Being re-elected as Speaker, he will now be serving with the Marape government going forward. | https://postcourier.com.pg/pomat-sworn-in-as-speaker-of-parlt/ | 2022-08-10T04:54:34Z | https://postcourier.com.pg/pomat-sworn-in-as-speaker-of-parlt/ | true | 1 |
New Delhi: In a shocking incident, five minors stabbed a 21-year-old man to death in the Mayur Vihar area of the national capital, said police on Tuesday. The incident took place in Mayur Vihar on August 8 after an argument, said police. Three of the accused have been apprehended by police officials.Also Read - Independence Day Celebrations 2022: Here's All You Need to Know About Delhi Police's Security Arrangements
Mayur Vihar Police Station received a call about the reported stabbing at 16 Block Trilokpuri. Upon reaching the spot, it was found that the injured had already been shifted to LBS Hospital. However, at LBS Hospital, it was revealed that the victim was declared brought dead. The deceased has been identified as Tushar. Also Read - Delhi Cop Beaten By Mob Inside Police Station; Video Goes Viral
“The dead body of the deceased was preserved in the mortuary. The place of occurrence was got inspected by Crime and exhibits were lifted from the spot,” said police. Also Read - Gurugram: Retired IAS Officer Duped of Rs 1.92 Lakh Over Home Delivery of Liquor
A case under Section 302 and 34 Indian Penal Code (IPC) was registered and an investigation was taken up. During the investigation, on the basis of examination of eyewitnesses and analysis of CCTV footages, five persons, who all are minors have been identified and three of them have been apprehended.
“Initial examination has revealed that both the victims and assailants were known amongst them. Yesterday they had an altercation over some issue and during the altercation, they stabbed the victim,” it added.
Further investigation is underway.
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Bitstar (BITS) traded down 3.8% against the U.S. dollar during the 1 day period ending at 0:00 AM Eastern on August 9th. Bitstar has a market capitalization of $126,020.72 and approximately $6.00 worth of Bitstar was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. One Bitstar coin can currently be purchased for $0.0060 or 0.00000026 BTC on popular exchanges. In the last week, Bitstar has traded 0.2% higher against the U.S. dollar.
Here is how similar cryptocurrencies have performed in the last 24 hours:
- Bitswift (BITS) traded down 3.9% against the dollar and now trades at $0.18 or 0.00000798 BTC.
- Swing (SWING) traded down 3.8% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0209 or 0.00000091 BTC.
- Rimbit (RBT) traded down 3.8% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0002 or 0.00000001 BTC.
- PureVidz (VIDZ) traded down 3.8% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0002 or 0.00000001 BTC.
- Ratecoin (XRA) traded 3.8% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.0002 or 0.00000001 BTC.
Bitstar Profile
BITS is a PoW/PoS coin that uses the
Proof of Stake hashing algorithm. Bitstar’s total supply is 21,145,111 coins. The official website for Bitstar is www.bitstarcoin.com. The Reddit community for Bitstar is /r/bitstar and the currency’s Github account can be viewed here. Bitstar’s official Twitter account is @Bitstar_coinz and its Facebook page is accessible here.
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It is usually not currently possible to buy alternative cryptocurrencies such as Bitstar directly using US dollars. Investors seeking to trade Bitstar should first buy Bitcoin or Ethereum using an exchange that deals in US dollars such as GDAX, Changelly or Gemini. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Bitcoin or Ethereum to buy Bitstar using one of the exchanges listed above.
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Pakistani-American Sania Khan was shot dead by her ex-husband. According to a BBC report, a woman had posted on the social media platform TikTok about her unpleasant divorce. Sania Khan was about to leave Chicago for Tennessee when the crime happened last month, according to the news outlet. Rahel Ahmad, the 36-year-old husband, later shot himself with a gun.
According to Fox News, Mr. Ahmad travelled from Georgia to Sania's home in Chicago with the intent to murder her as a punishment of her post about their broken marriage. According to Fox News' report, which claimed local police, officers arrived at the scene on July 18 at 4.30 pm and discovered Ms. Khan and Mr. Ahmad's bodies to be shot.
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She married Ahmad in June 2021 after dating him for almost five years, and the two of them then moved to Chicago. According to Fox News, Mr. Ahmad's family had reported him missing in a police complaint. The 36-year-old had travelled more than 1,100 kilometres to Chicago, Georgia Police said their Chicago counterparts, "to salvage the marriage."
Sania Khan used to often post on the taboos surrounding divorce and the struggles of married women. Sania's friends were shocked by the unfortunate woman's passing.
"She said 29 is going to be her year and it's going to be a new beginning. She was so excited," Brianna Williams, a university friend, told media. Ms. Khan expressed criticism from her family and community in one of her TikTok videos, referring to herself as "the black sheep" in her family.
According to BBC, she wrote in one of the posts, "Going through a divorce as a South Asian woman feels like you failed at life sometimes." | https://www.dnaindia.com/viral/report-pakistani-american-woman-killed-by-ex-husband-after-posting-about-bad-divorce-on-social-media-2975321 | 2022-08-10T04:57:38Z | https://www.dnaindia.com/viral/report-pakistani-american-woman-killed-by-ex-husband-after-posting-about-bad-divorce-on-social-media-2975321 | true | 1 |
PHOENIX (AP) — Pittsburgh Pirates second baseman Rodolfo Castro apparently can’t go anywhere without his phone.
Called up from Triple-A Indianapolis before the game, Castro slid headfirst into third in the fourth inning against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Tuesday night and had his phone fly out of his back pocket.
Third base umpire Adam Hamari immediately saw the phone and pointed to it on the ground. The 23-year-old Castro picked up the phone and handed it to Pirates third base coach Mike Rebelo, who had an exasperated look on his face before taking it.
Major League Baseball has cracked down on technology being used on the field since the Houston Astros used live TV feeds to steal opposing teams' signs during their run to the 2017 World Series championship and part of the 2018 season.
Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow and manager A. J. Hinch were suspended for the 2020 season. The Astros also were fined $5 million and forfeited their first- and second-round picks in 2020 and 2021.
No word on if Castro had the ringer on vibrate.
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Public Square Finalist of the Indy Chamber Monumental Awards | News
Shelbyville Public Square was named a finalist in the Landscape Architecture category of the 45th Annual Indy Chambers Monumental Awards.
The monumental awards showcase the best performing regions in our built environment and celebrate the efforts of businesses across the region to enhance their indie placemaking, economic development and talent strategies. A movie premiere-themed event will be held on October 5 at the Tibbs Drive-In Theater. Tickets are available at indychamber.com/events.
Over the past few weeks, nine local licensing agencies reviewed projects submitted in the categories of architecture, construction, engineering, innovative reuse, interior design, landscape architecture, neighborhood revitalization, public art and real estate development. Did. The list below, arranged alphabetically by project name by category, represents the finalists selected for each category.
architecture
16 Tech Innovation District HqO submitted by DKGR
Geiger & Peters Renovation and Addition, courtesy of DELV Design
Wabash Power Valley headquarters submitted by RATIO
construction
Filed by the Consolidated Civil and Criminal Court of Indianapolis, FA Wilhelm Construction
Indianapolis Public Library West Perry Branch submitted by Powers & Sons Construction
The Park at the Phoenix submitted by INMOD Construction
engineering
Indianapolis Consolidated Civil and Criminal Court filed by Schmidt Associates
Riley Maternity Tower at Indiana University Health’s Riley Children’s Hospital, submitted by BSA LifeStructures
West Perry Branch Library submitted by Schmidt Associates
innovative reuse
16 Tech Innovation District HqO submitted by DKGR
Fort Ben Cultural Campus submitted by Arts for Lawrence
Golden Bear Preschool and Administration submitted by Schmidt Associates
interior design
Barnes & Thornburg Vault Room Renovation, CSO Submission
Crosspoint clubs submitted by DELV Design
North Mass Boulder by Blackline Studio
landscaping
Grand Junction Plaza submitted by City of Westfield
Nickel Plate Trail by Browning Day
SHELBYVILLE DOWNTOWN SQUARE BY RATIO
city revitalization
16 Tech Innovation Districts submitted by DKGR
Goodwill filed by Cook Property Inc.
Depot Street Park and Amphitheater submitted by the City of Greenfield
public art
Fort Ben Cultural Campus submitted by Arts for Lawrence
Homage to Carmel City Hoagie, submitted by the City of Carmel
The world’s fastest submitted by the Indy Arts Council
real estate development
Proscenium Agora, Courtesy of Lauth Group, Inc.
Pand Aspen Grove at Community Heights submitted by TWG
Tinner Park Development submitted by Onyx+East
Finalists will be recognized within the categories submitted during the event on October 5th, and the top winners in each category will be eligible for the night’s premier honor, the Monumental Award. All other submissions are eligible for the People’s Choice Award. The Peoples Choice Award will be available to the public on Indy Chambers’ Facebook page from August 18th through his September 1st.
Individual tickets and tailgate packages are on sale now at IndyChamber.com/events. Interested in a sponsorship opportunity at our annual event celebrating efforts to move our community forward?Email Julie Grice at her [email protected]
About Indy Chamber
The Indy Chamber is honored to be named the 2021 ACCE Chamber of the Year for its hard work and dedication to the Indy region. We act as an advocate for progress and improvement in our communities, connecting businesses and communities to sustain strong economies and quality of life. Our advocacy efforts, networking events, economic development initiatives, and other member benefits set our members, business leaders, and communities up for success. Indy has what it takes to become a world-class region where innovation meets performance. Indy Chamber is here to realize its full potential.
What Are The Main Benefits Of Comparing Car Insurance Quotes Online
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Assam looks to generate 2,000 MW solar power at investment of Rs 10,000 crore
This ambitious plan will be implemented riding on the back of two projects -- one by forming a joint venture with central PSU NLC India and another by taking a loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
Guwahati: Assam is looking to augment its solar power generation capacity by 2,000 MW at an investment of around Rs 10,000 crore within the next three-four years, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Tuesday. This ambitious plan will be implemented riding on the back of two projects -- one by forming a joint venture with central PSU NLC India and another by taking a loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
The state-run Assam Power Distribution Company Ltd (APDCL) on Tuesday joined hands with NLC India to produce 1,000 MW solar power at an investment of Rs 5,500 crore.
To effect the project and float a joint venture company, an agreement was signed here between the two firms in presence of Union Minister of Coal Pralhad Joshi and Sarma.
"We are already ready to start the work with the signing of the MoU. The total project cost will be around Rs 5,500 crore depending on the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) bids," NLC India chairman and MD Rakesh Kumar said.
He said that the project will be carried out in two-three pockets of the state and will start generating power by one-and-half years.
"The land is already available and tender documents are ready. The project will generate 1,500 million units and our target is to produce 35,000 million units in 25 years," said the CMD of NLCI, formerly Neyveli Lignite Corporation.
Kumar also stated that around 2,000 people will be employed at the construction stage of the project and will finally generate 1,000 jobs during the operational stage.
Sarma said that the two firms have formed a JV, in which APDCL will hold 49 per cent stake and 51 per cent will be with NLCI.
He also said that Assam will witness investment of another Rs 4,000 crore in solar plants to produce additional 1,000 MW power.
"This is a central government initiative and we have got in-principle approval of the ADB loan for this. This will be implemented fully by APDCL. So, Assam will see a total of around Rs 10,000 crore investment to produce 2,000 MW of renewable energy," Sarma said.
Around 2,000 MW of power is produced in Assam considering all state, central and private units, including about 200 MW of renewable power, he added.
Highlighting rising economic activities in the state, the chief minister stated that Assam had a peak hour demand of 800-900 MW before the COVID-19 pandemic.
"This has reached around 2,400 MW now. With the expansion of NRL's refinery and other activities, investments to the tune of Rs 92,000 crore are in pipeline and this will require an additional 1,000 MW of power in the next two years," he said.
Sarma claimed that for the first time, Assam's Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) will cross Rs 5,00,000 crore and budgetary expenditure will touch Rs 1,00,000 crore within this financial year.
"We need 1,000-1,500 MW of solid power because of rising economic activities. We have requested NLCI to set up a thermal power plant of 1,000 MW catering to the demands of only Assam," he said.
Joshi said that the central government is focussing more on renewable energy and is looking to produce 500 GW of power by 2030.
"Then the coal requirement of India will remain for another 50 years, it cannot be ended overnight. With rising coal production, our thermal coal import is likely to be stopped from next year. This year, domestic production will touch 900 MT," he added.
NLCI also donated Rs 5 crore to Chief Minister's Relief Fund for the recent devastating flood in Assam. | https://energy.economictimes.indiatimes.com/amp/news/renewable/assam-looks-to-generate-2000-mw-solar-power-at-investment-of-rs-10000-crore/93465544 | 2022-08-10T05:12:30Z | https://energy.economictimes.indiatimes.com/amp/news/renewable/assam-looks-to-generate-2000-mw-solar-power-at-investment-of-rs-10000-crore/93465544 | true | 4 |
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Avidity Biosciences RNA reported its Q2 earnings results on Tuesday, August 9, 2022 at 04:00 PM.
Here's what investors need to know about the announcement.
Earnings
Avidity Biosciences missed estimated earnings by 22.67%, reporting an EPS of $-0.92 versus an estimate of $-0.75.
Revenue was down $429 thousand from the same period last year.
Past Earnings Performance
Last quarter the company beat on EPS by $0.09 which was followed by a 8.36% drop in the share price the next day.
Here's a look at Avidity Biosciences's past performance:
To track all earnings releases for Avidity Biosciences visit their earnings calendar here.
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Pasquantino went 3-for-7 with two home runs, a walk and three RBI as the Royals split Tuesday's doubleheader against the White Sox.
The 24-year-old delivered a two-run shot during the matinee and a solo homer during the nightcap, providing half of Kansas City's six total runs on the day. Pasquantino made his major-league debut in late June and is a lineup regular at designated hitter with a .237/.325/.385 slash line, five home runs, nine RBI and a 16:23 BB:K through 37 games.
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Building materials solution company Visaka Industries Limited will be investing Rs 120 crore in setting up a sustainable fibre cement boards plant in Paschim Medinipur district of West Bengal, a senior company official said on Tuesday. This will be Visaka’s fifth fibre cement boards plant and the first such unit in the state. The company has one more plant in the same district for cement roof sheets.
The company is expanding capacity as fibre cement board has high demand, the official said. The new factory will have a manufacturing capacity of 72000 meters and it will be powered by an in-house solar roof. The company will start work on the new project at the earliest.
”With an investment of Rs 120 crore, we are choosing to expand our manufacturing capacity. The market would be not only in West Bengal but also for other states of East India, in response to rising demand for eco-friendly construction materials,” Visaka Industries Joint MD Vamsi Gaddam said. The plant is expected to create job opportunities for 500 people in the area. The company claimed that Vnext board, which is India’s largest selling brand of fibre cement boards, is a sustainable product and has already helped save over 5,00,000 trees. | https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/visaka-industries-to-invest-rs-120-crore-in-new-board-plant-in-west-bengal-8989831.html | 2022-08-10T05:20:35Z | https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/visaka-industries-to-invest-rs-120-crore-in-new-board-plant-in-west-bengal-8989831.html | false | 2 |
A new lawsuit alleges Centene took advantage of enrollee churn between Medicaid and health insurance exchange policies to defraud the federal government and dupe consumers, some of whom lived in Michigan.
The plaintiffs claim the insurer acquired local Medicaid carriers to enroll people into its Ambetter exchange products when they lose eligibility for the low-income health program. Centene then named its exchange policies after the Medicaid plans to mislead members into thinking they were enrolling in coverage with similar benefits, the lawsuit alleges. For example, the insurer named its Florida exchange plan “Ambetter from Sunshine Health” after its Medicaid managed-care insurer, “Sunshine State Health Plan,” the complaint says. Six Centene policyholders represented by Wexler Boley & Elgersma filed the suit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on Friday.
The company's focus on developing Silver-level Ambetter plans underscored its strategy to capture lower-income people eligible for federal premium subsidies from the marketplaces, the lawsuit alleges. These exchange plans marketed inaccurate provider networks, violated federal network adequacy standards and improperly denied care to patients, according to the lawsuit.
“Because the federal government is paying up to 90% of the premiums for Ambetter plans, the Ambetter enterprise is defrauding the federal government of hundreds of millions — potentially billions — of dollars every year,” the complaint alleges. The plaintiffs want Centene to refund their premiums and a court order halting Centene's allegedly illegal practices.
Centene strongly denied any wrongdoing. “Centene and its local subsidiaries have worked successfully with regulatory partners to help members and their families gain access to comprehensive, affordable and high-quality marketplace health plans. This lawsuit is merely one more attack on the health insurance marketplace and the [Affordable Care Act] itself. Centene will fight this lawsuit vigorously and will continue to uphold the important purpose of the ACA to improve the health of our communities, one person at a time," the company said in a statement.
The plaintiffs allege the insurer’s use of federal resources to falsely market Ambetter plans' benefits and provider networks violates the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act of 1970. The complaint also claims Centene broke 11 states’ laws restricting unjust enrichment, consumer fraud and unfair competition.
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Centene has previously faced legal challenges over its Ambetter operations, including an ongoing lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio in 2019 that alleges the insurer advertised inaccurate provider directories and faced network adequacy issues. | https://www.crainsdetroit.com/health-care/centene-sued-over-ambetter-networks-benefits | 2022-08-10T05:26:24Z | https://www.crainsdetroit.com/health-care/centene-sued-over-ambetter-networks-benefits | false | 1 |
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Patna: The script for Nitish Kumar’s exit from NDA may have been a familiar one but there were surprises in the plot that his band of
BJP ministers didn’t see coming, reports Abhay Singh.
As Nitish stepped down from the CM’s post to pave the way for a possible new government with foe-turned-old friend RJD, BJP ministers waiting to be dropped from the cabinet were left more than just flabbergasted. Some of them had been closeted with deputy CM Tarkishore Prasad at his Patna residence, contemplating if they should quit to deny Nitish the pleasure of sacking them.
A BJP insider said the party’s central leadership advised the ministers to hold their horses. “The strategy was to get the CM to oust them. The long-term impact would then be to BJP’s advantage, making the dismissed ministers from the party victims in the eyes of the people.”
Nitish, as it turned out, had a plan different from the one he had executed nine years ago, when he sacked the BJP ministers in his then NDA government and remained in office with the support of RJD and other parties outside the saffron fold.
The June 2013 exit from NDA was a fallout of the saffron camp picking
Narendra Modi as the alliance’s PM candidate. Nitish chose to sever a 17-year-old alliance and go it alone in the 2014
Lok Sabha election, little knowing that it was BJP that would come out of the snafu smiling. JD(U) won only two of the 40 parliamentary seats it contested.
This time around, Nitish seems convinced it will be different. “Nitish’s resignation has deprived BJP of an opportunity to project itself as a victim and aim to turn the situation on its head,” said a party functionary. | https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/how-nitish-outwitted-bjp-ministers-waiting-to-be-sacked/articleshow/93466959.cms | 2022-08-10T05:29:11Z | https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/how-nitish-outwitted-bjp-ministers-waiting-to-be-sacked/articleshow/93466959.cms | false | 1 |
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How Man Utd would be lining up if John Murtough listened to Ralf Rangnick on four players
MANCHESTER UNITED chief John Murtough has failed to sign any of Ralf Rangnick's four recommended transfer targets.
Rangnick questions team spirit after Man Utd lose
Manchester United were recommended four signings by Ralf Rangnick prior to his departure, according to reports. RB Leipzig pair Josko Gvardiol and Konrad Laimer, as well as Erling Haaland and Christopher Nkunku, were all suggested to John Murtough. With none of the quartet arriving, however, Express Sport will now take a look at how the Red Devils would be lining up if they’d listened to his advice.
Goalkeeper: De Gea
There are plenty of issues at United.
And while David De Gea’s distribution pales in comparison to Manchester City shot-stopper Ederson, the Spain international continues to be the club’s No 1.
The former Atletico Madrid star has spent 11 years at Old Trafford and is one of the last disciples of the Sir Alex Ferguson era.
United have loaned out Dean Henderson this summer, with the England international joining Nottingham Forest.
So the No 1 jersey is very much De Gea’s to lose at the current moment in time.
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Defence: Dalot, Gvardiol, Maguire, Malacia
If United had shown a willingness to listen to Rangnick, they may have signed Gvardiol instead of Lisandro Martinez.
The MEN claim the Croatia international was seen as a ‘must-buy’ by the German, having been impressed by his form for RB Leipzig.
Yet United, ultimately, didn’t take Rangnick up on his recommendation.
If he had joined, however, Gvardiol would likely be partnering up with Harry Maguire at centre-back.
Diogo Dalot would likely still be in the team and there’s nothing to suggest United wouldn’t have moved for Tyrell Malacia at left-back.
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Midfield: Laimer, Fred, Fernandes
Another player Rangnick thought United should pursue is Laimer, who has been at Leipzig since moving from Salzburg back in the summer transfer window of 2017.
Alas, United aren’t keen on a deal right now with Frenkie de Jong and Adrien Rabiot their main targets.
Had Laimer joined, he’d likely be partnering Fred in the middle of the park.
And, playing ahead of them, would be Bruno Fernandes in the No 10 role.
Christian Eriksen, Donny van de Beek, Scott McTominay and James Garner would then be option for the club to call on from the bench.
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Forwards: Sancho, Haaland, Nkunku
Rangnick saw Marcus Rashford toil under his guidance, which is part of the reason why he suggested Nkunku as a target.
The France international won’t be leaving Leipzig behind, however, having recently penned a new contract with the Bundesliga side.
Still, if United had acted quicker, the forward would feasibly be deployed on the left - with Jadon Sancho on the right.
And, down the middle, would go Haaland.
Rangnick felt United should have still tried to land the striker, despite their terrible campaign last term, and the German also felt it was time to move Cristiano Ronaldo on as well.
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Rangnick words not heeded
Before his departure, when speaking after a 4-0 defeat to Liverpool at Anfield, Rangnick called on United to sign as many as 10 new players.
"There will be a rebuild for sure but that does not help us when we still have five games to play,” he said.
"If you analyse the situation it is not difficult to analyse.
“For me, it is clear there will be six, seven, eight, maybe ten new players. Before you sign those players you need to be aware how you want to play."
However, his words haven’t been heeded - when they really should have been given how they’re already in crisis just one game into the new season.
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Devout residents across Wagga are "very disappointed" with the local council's decision to replace the prayer recited at the start of each meeting.
They believe removing the prayer does not reflect the desires of the community, while some have accused the council of trying to sneak through the change without people realising.
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Wagga City Council voted on Monday to replace the prayer with a reflection that does not mention God or religion.
Councillors who voted in support of the change argued the reflection was "more inclusive" and recognition of the city's surging population of non-religious residents.
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But for Danny Russell, a local Christian, the removal of the prayer is an insult to the significant number of the population who still find religion important.
"It doesn't reflect where the community is at," he said.
"The prayer kicked off with Almighty God ... which is inclusive of Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus.
"It was a very disappointing outcome."
This sentiment was shared by local resident Diana Shield, who described prayer as her "bread and butter" while addressing the councillors.
"It's a really lovely prayer in what it is asking of councillors to be and I think it's a shame to see that cancelled for a lot of reasons," she said.
"Even though your prayer seems a little bit remote to you it still matters to the community."
The previous attempt to remove the prayer from meetings in 2019 was ultimately rejected following a flood of opposition from members of the community.
This year's updated code of meeting practice was placed on public exhibition for five weeks but no submissions were received.
Mr Russell accused the council of burying the change in the extensive code of meeting practice document.
"We were only notified 24 hours before the meeting ... and we were able to rally over 100 emails and phone calls to councillors," he said.
"If the majority of people knew that council was removing the prayer there would have been a repeat of 2019 - no doubt."
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Wagga mayor Dallas Tout assured residents the information was all publicly available and nothing was being hidden.
"It was out there and it went through all the public channels it should - so we can't do much more than that," he said.
Cr Tout, who voted against the change, stressed that the reflection can still take the form of a prayer if that is what an individual wants.
"For me it still has the ability for people to make a choice, it would just be as part of a reflection and not a worded prayer," he said.
The decision has been celebrated by Meredith Doig, president of the Rationalist Society of Australia, who described it as an important win for the separation of religion from politics.
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"The change will modernise the council's meetings and make them much more reflective and more inclusive of all members of the diverse community of Wagga," Dr Doig said.
"The Wagga council provides a good example for our federal MPs and senators to now pursue a similar change in the national parliament, and for state parliaments to do the same.
"There is momentum building across the country for local governments and state and federal parliaments to replace prayer rituals with practices that are more reflective of the community.
"Wagga council is to be congratulated for being part of this movement."
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Monty is a journalist at The Daily Advertiser in Wagga. He can be reached at m.jacka@austcommunitymedia.com.au
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BENNINGTON — “I’m dead” may have been the last words spoken by a Springfield, Vermont, man shot to death in Bennington on Aug. 3, according to the affidavit filed against a Springfield, Massachusetts, man accused of his murder.
Raul Cardona, 28, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday in Bennington criminal court to the murder of Patrick Mullinnex, 38, of Springfield, Vermont.
Cardona was arraigned on a felony charge of second-degree murder. He is being held without bail.
An affidavit in the case does not give a reason why Cardona allegedly shot Mullinnex.
Police also charged three men on Friday in Windsor County court over allegations they kidnapped a man from a Springfield, Vermont, home on July 30 and assaulted him
Christopher Merritt, 40, and Jesse LaFlam Sr., 49, both of Springfield, have been charged with kidnapping and assault with a deadly weapon among other charges, in Windsor County court and Zachary Russell, 25, of Bennington, faces similar charges in the alleged incident.
Police said Mullinnex was part of the group involved in the incident and allegedly kidnapped a woman at gunpoint, before the woman and others were brought to Mullinnex’s home where the men allegedly assaulted one man and threatened to murder other people.
The affidavit written in the Cardona case does not mention the alleged kidnapping incident or provide any link between the alleged kidnapping on July 30 and Mullinnex’s murder on Aug. 3.
On Tuesday, Chief Paul Doucette, of the Bennington Police Department, said by email he couldn’t speculate on the motive for Mullinnex’s death at this time.
“The Vermont State Police are investigating the kidnapping incident in Springfield and our investigators are communicating and sharing information,” he added.
The charge against Cardona is based on an affidavit written by Detective Corey Briggs, of the Bennington Police Department, who said police responded to 324 Pleasant St. in Bennington because of a 911 call made around 9:15 a.m. on Aug. 3.
Briggs said a man, later identified as Mullinnex was laying on his right side in the bathroom of the apartment. He said there was an empty firearm holster in the front of Mullinnex’s pants and that members of the Bennington Rescue Squad, who pronounced Mullinnex dead, cut away his shirt which revealed several “bullet-hole-sized wounds to his chest.”
A witness, who is not identified by name, age or gender, initially told police that Mullinnex had woken them up and said there was a man he didn’t know in the apartment. The witness said Mullinnex and the man, who they did not see well enough to identify, talked but they did not hear what was said.
The witness initially told police the man shot Mullinnex and then left.
However, later in the affidavit, Briggs said the witness was being interviewed by other law-enforcement agents and asked them to turn off the recording device they had been using. After the recording was stopped, the witness claimed they “used to be really good friends with the male who shot Patrick.”
During that interview, the witness said they met him months ago and identified him as “Raul Cardona.” The witness said his street name in Bennington is “Chad” and his street name in Springfield, Massachusetts, is “Bo.”
The witness said they had talked to Cardona on video two days before the shooting and allegedly said they did not want to “push” for him. Briggs said he knew from his training and experience that “push” means to sell drugs.
“(The witness) said after Raul shot Patrick, he said to (the witness,) ‘I’m sorry, sis.’ (The witness) said, ‘I don’t know what to do.’ Raul said, ‘Run,’” Briggs wrote in the affidavit.
The witness said they tried to help Mullinnex after he was shot and he said, “I’m dead.”
The witness told police they know Cardona generally carries a handgun and that he had it during the day of the murder, according to the affidavit.
Briggs said the witness was able to identify Cardona from a photo lineup.
At the time the affidavit, which was dated Aug. 4, was written, Cardona had not been located but on Monday, the Bennington Police Department posted a message from Doucette to Facebook that said Cardona had turned himself in.
During Cardona’s arraignment on Tuesday, attorney Fred Bragdon, who represents Cardona, did not contest the state’s request to hold his client without bail and asked that no hearing be scheduled on bail until the defense makes a written request.
“Although my client has surrendered knowing the nature of these charges, which I think is a strong bail consideration on his behalf, your honor, he doesn’t have any local ties and the family wants to discuss whether one of the family members will try to establish residency up here for the court’s consideration,” he said to Judge Cortland Corsones.
Erica Marthage, the Bennington County State’s Attorney, said the state was asking that Cardona continue to be held without bail and not be allowed to contact Mullinnex’s family or another person who may have been the witness who spoke to police.
If Cordona is convicted of the charge, he could be sentenced to up to life in prison and would face a presumptive minimum term of 20 years in prison.
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Two legends of the game – one on the hardwood; the other on the stage – surprised dozens of children in Long Beach Tuesday.
Reigning NBA Finals MVP Steph Curry of the Golden State Warriors and entertainment icon Snoop Dogg showed up at the Boys & Girls Club to help unveil a newly refurbished basketball court and speak to the children about the importance of community.
Snoop (birth name: Calvin Broadus) and Steph (birth name: Wardell Curry II), visited the club facility at Martin Luther King, Jr. Park to surprise more than 70 kids as the club debuted its one-of-a-kind basketball court designed by comic book artist Damion Scott (birth name: Damion Scott).
Scott is a renowned artist whose unique style has graced the pages of “Batman” and “Black Panther” issues and trade paperbacks. Scott’s court design took inspiration from the facility’s location in Martin Luther King, Jr. Park, which is the same court where Snoop himself grew up playing sports.
“This is the place where I learned how to play basketball, play football, be active in the community, and build relationships. It’s where I learned how to rap, talk, and just be me basically – in this park right here,” said Snoop Dogg in a news release by Under Armour.
The redesigned and renovated court was made possible through a partnership between Steph Curry Brand and Snoop Dogg in which they look to give back to low-income communities through youth sports and provide kids a safe space to discover their love for the game.
“We want to provide a space where you can come enjoy yourself and get lost in the fun, lost in the competition, invest in yourselves, and be around a lot of amazing coaches and programs,” Curry said.
Local Boys & Girls Club officials say the refurbished court will serve thousands of kids from the local club and other organizations including Long Beach Parks and Recreation and the Snoop Youth Basketball League. More than 200 kids are enrolled at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Long Beach and the facility has served the community for nearly four decades.
It’s a place where hundreds of children and teens have found sanctuary in an otherwise scary world. It’s the place where Snoop and his wife, Shante, grew up playing. And both Snoop and Curry, as well as artist Damion Scott, hope the court will continue to endure and serve its purpose for kids in the community who need it the most.
“To come back and see the kids doing different things, trying to be better than we were – that’s what it’s all about. For us to give these kids more opportunities than we had – that’s what it’s really about,” said Snoop.
For kids at the Boys & Girls Club, the visit from Curry and Snoop Dogg featured custom t-shirts, inspirational speeches and, of course, some hoops. | https://ktla.com/news/local-news/steph-snoop-help-unveil-renovated-basketball-court-in-long-beach/ | 2022-08-10T05:52:50Z | https://ktla.com/news/local-news/steph-snoop-help-unveil-renovated-basketball-court-in-long-beach/ | false | 1 |
‘What on earth is going on with her face?’: Bizarre symptom before toddler’s cancer diagnosis
Parents who tragically discovered their toddler had cancer have opened up about their child’s symptoms prior to diagnosis.
The parents of a 17-month-old girl have opened up about their toddler’s symptoms that led to the discovery of her heartbreaking cancer diagnosis.
Parents Maddison, 40, and Jared Lamperd, 41, told NCA NewsWire that two weeks prior to her diagnosis Arielle had conjunctivitis and her face swelled up “like a balloon”.
“It was just huge and her eyes were really swollen, which I thought was quite weird,” Ms Lamperd said.
“We thought, ‘What on earth is going on with her face?’ but she seemed to be happy, she was eating, everything was normal other than that.”
The Canberran said Arielle had been unwell with a string of sicknesses that doctors assumed to be “childcare viruses” before finding out she had leukaemia.
“She had every daycare germ under the sun like all kids,” she said.
But a few months after the pair first noticed Arielle’s “puffy” face, her mother followed her intuition and pushed for doctors to run blood and urine tests.
“I said, ‘She still has a puffy face and it’s really getting worse’. You know, I was really starting to get a bit worried now,” Ms Lamperd said.
“It sounds crazy but I just knew in my gut that it was cancer.”
It wasn’t until the couple were sitting in the doctor’s office following a series of tests that they were told their daughter had leukaemia and she would need to be rushed to Canberra Hospital by an ambulance.
“I just remember freaking out, my head just couldn’t cope with what we were being told.” Ms Lamperd said.
“I guess you always think it won‘t happen to you, that it will be someone else.
“We never imagined to have a child with cancer because we don’t have cancer in the family.”
On the same day Arielle was taken to hospital, the family were flown via an emergency plane to the Royal Children’s Hospital in Sydney, where they were notified they’d need to relocate for up to 12 months for their child’s treatment.
Ms Lamperd said her daughter was “absolutely terrified” all the time of anyone wearing a mask.
“Anytime she sees someone come into the room with a mask that she doesn‘t know she starts screaming and crying because she’s scared that they’re gonna hurt her,” she said.
“It‘s harder for us parents because we can’t tell her what’s going on and she is terrified, absolutely terrified all the time.”
Research by the Children’s Cancer Institute reveals around 280 people aged 0-19 are diagnosed with leukaemia every year in Australia, making it the most common form of childhood cancer.
Leukaemia is a cancer of the blood and bone marrow that produces large numbers of abnormal white blood cells.
The cancer causes a whole range of symptoms such as bruising and bleeding, tiredness, fever, mouth sores, enlarged lymph glands and skin rashes.
The family have a long journey ahead, with a five-year wait before they will know if Arielle can go into clinical remission.
Family friends have set up a GoFundMe to help pay for the family’s living expenses now they can’t work as well as assist with Arielle’s medical treatment.
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Institutional investors and hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of the stock. Paulson & CO. Inc. purchased a new position in shares of Tellurian during the 4th quarter worth $15,400,000. First Trust Advisors LP increased its holdings in shares of Tellurian by 208.0% during the 4th quarter. First Trust Advisors LP now owns 5,360,310 shares of the oil and gas producer’s stock worth $16,510,000 after buying an additional 3,619,847 shares during the last quarter. Salient Capital Advisors LLC increased its holdings in shares of Tellurian by 100.1% during the 2nd quarter. Salient Capital Advisors LLC now owns 5,135,777 shares of the oil and gas producer’s stock worth $15,305,000 after buying an additional 2,568,885 shares during the last quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. increased its holdings in shares of Tellurian by 211.6% during the 1st quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. now owns 2,792,885 shares of the oil and gas producer’s stock worth $14,802,000 after buying an additional 1,896,469 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Long Focus Capital Management LLC acquired a new stake in shares of Tellurian during the 4th quarter worth $5,698,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 33.68% of the company’s stock.
Tellurian Company Profile
Tellurian Inc engages in the natural gas business worldwide. The company is developing a portfolio of natural gas production, liquefied natural gas (LNG) marketing, and infrastructure assets that includes an approximately 27.6 million tons per annum LNG export facility and an associated pipeline. It owns interests in 11,060 net acres of natural gas assets and 78 producing wells located in the Haynesville Shale trend of northern Louisiana.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jonquel Jones had 21 points and 10 rebounds to help the Connecticut Sun ease past the Los Angeles Sparks 97-71 on Tuesday night.
Connecticut (23-11) stayed a game behind second-place Las Vegas in the playoff chase. The Sun will stay in Los Angeles for a rematch on Thursday before closing out the regular season on Sunday against Minnesota. Los Angeles (13-21) sits in 11th, with an outside shot of passing three teams for the final playoff spot.
Los Angeles was undone by 20 turnovers and Connecticut's 40-23 edge on the boards.
Brionna Jones added 14 points, Natisha Hiedeman scored 13 and Alyssa Thomas had 11 points, seven assists and four steals for Connecticut. DeWanna Bonner scored 10 points.
Connecticut led 53-32 at halftime behind 18 points and nine rebounds from Jonquel Jones. Los Angeles turned it over 13 times in the first half and got outrebounded 23-12.
Brittney Sykes scored 18 points and Nneka Ogwumike added 16 for Los Angeles. Jordin Canada added 15 points.
Ogwumike moved past Diana Taurasi for 22nd on the WNBA career steals list with 485.
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WWE Reports Additional $5 Million In Improper Payments Made By Vince McMahon
Former WWE Chairman and CEO Vince McMahon is the focus of ongoing investigations into millions of dollars paid to former female employees to silence allegations of sexual abuse, harassment, and other misconduct.
The improper payments were revealed by the Wall Street Journal. It first reported in June that WWE's Board of Directors had launched an investigation into a $3 million payment McMahon made to a former company employee with whom he had an affair.
The board's investigation reportedly uncovered other non-disclosure agreements with former WWE employees who claimed misconduct by McMahon and then-Head of Talent Relations John Laurinaitis. Subsequent SEC filings revealed a revised total of $14.6 million in payments or future payments agreed to by McMahon between 2006 and 2022.
The Wall Street Journal's reporting detailed allegations that McMahon paid $7.5 million to a former female talent that he coerced into having sex with him. When she refused his further advances, she was demoted and then fired.
The investigation found McMahon used personal funds to make the payments. However, according to WWE, the payments were of WWE's benefit and therefore should be recorded as such. As a result, the company is amending past financial reports to account for the payments. The investigation is also looking into WWE's human resources programs, as well as company culture as a whole.
On July 22, McMahon announced his retirement from WWE, stepping down from his positions as Chairman and CEO of the company. WWE has also parted ways with Laurinaitis.
More Payments By McMahon Uncovered
While McMahon is now officially out of WWE, his past actions are still casting a shadow over the company. The investigation into his actions has now uncovered more improper spending.
WWE's latest SEC filing on Tuesday revealed an additional $5 million in payments McMahon made to two more individuals. The company stated that the payments are unrelated to the allegations that initially led to the Special Committee's investigation.
The unrecorded expenses tied to McMahon now total $19.6 million, and the company he once led is now left to clean up the financial mess. As a result, The filing of WWE"s second-quarter financial report is being delayed.
WWE expects to revise its financial statements from 2019, 2020, 2021, and the first quarter of 2022 to account for McMahon's improper spending. WWE is also examining its disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting.
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Today in History
Today is Wednesday, Aug. 10, the 222nd day of 2022. There are 143 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Aug. 10, 1945, a day after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Imperial Japan conveyed its willingness to surrender provided the status of Emperor Hirohito remained unchanged. (The Allies responded the next day, saying they would determine the Emperor’s future status.)
On this date:
In 1792, during the French Revolution, mobs in Paris attacked the Tuileries (TWEE’-luh-reez) Palace, where King Louis XVI resided. (The king was later arrested, put on trial for treason, and executed.)
In 1821, Missouri became the 24th state.
In 1885, Leo Daft opened America’s first commercially operated electric streetcar, in Baltimore.
In 1944, during World War II, American forces overcame remaining Japanese resistance on Guam.
In 1962, Marvel Comics superhero Spider-Man made his debut in issue 15 of “Amazing Fantasy” (cover price: 12 cents).
In 1969, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca were murdered in their Los Angeles home by members of Charles Manson’s cult, one day after actor Sharon Tate and four other people were slain.
In 1977, postal employee David Berkowitz was arrested in Yonkers, New York, accused of being “Son of Sam,” the gunman who killed six people and wounded seven others in the New York City area. (Berkowitz is serving six consecutive 25-years-to-life sentences.)
In 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed a measure providing $20,000 payments to still-living Japanese-Americans who were interned by their government during World War II.
In 1993, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn in as the second female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
In 1995, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were charged with 11 counts in the Oklahoma City bombing (McVeigh was convicted of murder and executed; Nichols was convicted of conspiracy and involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to life in prison).
In 2006, British authorities announced they had thwarted a terrorist plot to simultaneously blow up 10 aircraft heading to the U.S. using explosives smuggled in hand luggage.
In 2019, Jeffrey Epstein, accused of orchestrating a sex-trafficking ring and sexually abusing dozens of underage girls, was found unresponsive in his cell at a New York City jail; he was later pronounced dead at a hospital. (The city’s medical examiner ruled the death a suicide by hanging.)
Ten years ago: A man in an Afghan army uniform shot and killed three American service members in southern Afghanistan; the Taliban claimed the shooter joined the insurgency after the attack. At the London Olympics, the United States won the women’s 4×100-meter track relay in a world-record time of 40.82 seconds to give the Americans their first victory in the event since 1996.
Five years ago: President Donald Trump, continuing his criticism of Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell following the failed effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, suggested that McConnell might have to rethink his future as majority leader unless he could deliver on Trump’s legislative priorities on health care, taxes and infrastructure. North Korea’s military described as a “load of nonsense” Trump’s warning that the North would face “fire and fury” if it threatened the United States.
One year ago: New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced his resignation over a barrage of sexual harassment allegations; he denied intentionally mistreating women and said the push for his ouster was politically motivated. (Cuomo would be succeeded by Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul, who became the state’s first female governor.) The Senate approved a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan, as a rare coalition of Democrats and Republicans came together to overcome skeptics and deliver a cornerstone of President Joe Biden’s agenda. Vote-counting machine maker Dominion Voting Systems filed defamation lawsuits against right-wing broadcasters and a prominent Donald Trump ally over their baseless claims that the 2020 election was marred by fraud. Soccer star Lionel Messi signed his eagerly anticipated Paris Saint-Germain contract to complete the move that confirmed the end of a career-long association with Barcelona.
Today’s Birthdays: Actor James Reynolds is 76. Rock singer-musician Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) is 75. Country musician Gene Johnson (Diamond Rio) is 73. Singer Patti Austin is 72. Actor Daniel Hugh Kelly is 70. Folk singer-songwriter Sam Baker is 68. Actor Rosanna Arquette is 63. Actor Antonio Banderas is 62. Rock musician Jon Farriss (INXS) is 61. Singer Julia Fordham is 60. Journalist-blogger Andrew Sullivan is 59. Actor Chris Caldovino is 59. Singer Neneh Cherry is 58. Singer Aaron Hall is 58. Former boxer Riddick Bowe is 55. Actor Sean Blakemore is 55. R&B singer Lorraine Pearson (Five Star) is 55. Singer-producer Michael Bivins is 54. Actor-writer Justin Theroux is 51. Actor Angie Harmon is 50. Country singer Jennifer Hanson is 49. Actor-turned-lawyer Craig Kirkwood is 48. Actor JoAnna Garcia Swisher is 43. Singer Cary Ann Hearst (Shovels & Rope) is 43. Actor Aaron Staton is 42. Actor Ryan Eggold is 38. Actor Charley Koontz is 35. Actor Lucas Till is 32. Reality TV star Kylie Jenner is 25. Actor Jeremy Maguire is 11.
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Taiwan residents largely calm in the face of Chinese anger
By Ann Wang and I-Hwa Cheng
PINGTUNG, Taiwan, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Many people on self-ruled Taiwan look upon China's unprecedented military exercises with calm resignation, doubting that war is imminent and if anything, feeling pride in their democratic island's determination to defend itself.
China, reacting to a visit to Taiwan last week by Nancy Pelosi, the U.S. House speaker, has sent ships and aircraft across an unofficial buffer between Taiwan and China's coast and missiles over its capital, Taipei, and into waters surrounding the island since Thursday.
But Rosa Chang, proudly watching her son take part in Taiwan military exercises that included dozens of howitzers firing shells into the Taiwan Strait off Pingtung, in the island's far south, said China's behaviour was "childish".
"It's like a group of children threatening you and telling you what to do ... China really doesn't have to do all this," Chang said.
Lou Wei-Chieh, a military director general of political warfare, told reporters the annual live-fire exercises aimed at beating back invaders intent on storming island beaches, were routine and "unrelated to the current situation".
China claims Taiwan as its own and has never ruled out taking it by force, if necessary.
Taiwan rejects China's sovereignty claims, says the island's people should decide its future and vows to defend its democracy and freedom. Taiwan says China was using Pelosi's trip as a pretext for intimidation it had long had in the works.
"We're just ordinary people, there's nothing we can do," said a man, who gave his name as Chen, also watching the Pingtung drills. "If anything happens, there's nothing we can do."
Many in Taiwan say they are accustomed to decades of sabre-rattling and see little cause for alarm.
Taiwan has lived under the threat of Chinese invasion since 1949 when the defeated Republic of China government fled to the island after defeat in a civil war to Mao Zedong's Communist Party.
'NOT NERVOUS'
An opinion poll published this week by Taiwan's Chinese Association of Public Opinion Research showed that 60% of respondents were either not that worried or not worried at all that there would be a war between Taiwan and China
"We're not feeling particularly nervous," said Jenny Cheng, a 23-year-old civil servant. "Nothing special is going to happen."
Others have rallied round to support the Taiwan government's defiance.
Robert Tsao, founder and former chairman of Taiwanese chip maker United Microelectronics Corp, last week pledged to donate NT$3 billion ($100 million) to help Taiwan bolster its defences.
China said this week it would conduct more drills focusing on anti-submarine and sea assault operations - confirming the fears of some security analysts and diplomats that it would keep up the pressure on Taiwan's defences.
But on Liuqiu island, a picturesque tourist spot near one of the areas where the Chinese military was conducting exercises last week, people were largely indifferent.
"It feels very normal," said Chung Ping, 30, who owns a diving hostel.
He said no one had cancelled their holiday bookings.
"It's unlikely that conflict will happen." (Additional reporting by Aleksander Solum, Sarah Wu, Ben Blanchard and Yimou Lee; writing by Farah Master; editing by Robert Birsel) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11097985/Taiwan-residents-largely-calm-face-Chinese-anger.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-10T06:29:06Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11097985/Taiwan-residents-largely-calm-face-Chinese-anger.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false | 6 |
Over 200 participants over the weekend participated in the Tooro Kingdom MTN-sponsored empaka z’obugaali bwa Masaza in Fort Portal city.
The bicycle races that were launched as a precursor to the Kingdom’s 200th anniversary will be undertaken by all 9 counties of the Tooro kingdom.
The final race shall be held during the Empango celebrations week and shall be provided over by the King of Tooro.
Michael Wandera, the Tooro kingdom sports minister who presided over the Sunday bicycle racing event in Fort Portal said that the city had registered the highest number of participants since they started.
“I am happy that we are progressing on very well I appreciate everyone who is participating in these exciting challenges. I urge more and more people to turn up for the rest of the races,” Wandera said.
Wandera also commended MTN for supporting the bicycle racing competitions in Tooro kingdom.
“As a kingdom, we are very happy with MTN because it has supported a lot of activities in the kingdom and we shall always work with them,” Wandera noted.
Steven Ayebale who participated and came first in the ordinary bike catergory could not hide his excitement after receiving his cash prize of 500,000 shillings.
“I am happy that I have finally won and MTN has given me cash I’m going to buy another bicycle and am encouraging other people to also participate because it’s a very good event and well organized,” Ayebale said.
The other ordinary bike category winners were; Musa Kavuma in the second, Godfrey Ngozi came third, Moses Nabasa was the fourth and Robert Isingoma was the fifth.
In the sports bike category the winners, from first to fifth respectively were: David Semu, Robert Tugume, Peter Asiimwe, Frank Tusiime, and Wilbert Tusiime | https://nilepost.co.ug/2022/08/10/mtn-sponsored-bicycle-race-attracts-hundreds-in-fort-portal/ | 2022-08-10T06:30:25Z | https://nilepost.co.ug/2022/08/10/mtn-sponsored-bicycle-race-attracts-hundreds-in-fort-portal/ | true | 1 |
Parties issue long-awaited guidance on Ukraine grain shipping channel
By Trend
The United Nations, Türkiye, Russia and Ukraine issued long-awaited procedures on Monday for merchant ships exporting Ukrainian grain and fertilizer through the Black Sea, according to a document, Trend reports citing Daily Sabah.
Ships exporting Ukraine grain through the Black Sea will be protected by a 10 nautical mile buffer zone, according to the procedures seen by Reuters.
The U.N. and Türkiye brokered the agreement last month to unblock grain supplies after warnings that the halt in shipments was stoking severe food shortages and even outbreaks of famine in parts of the world.
Since then, a number of grain shipments – mainly onboard vessels that were stuck in Ukraine – have left in test voyages.
Insurers and shipping companies have been seeking more details on how the corridor will work for empty ships that will sail into three Ukrainian ports involved in the initiative: Odessa, Chernomorsk and Yuzhny.
They have also sought assurances that the journey is secure with no threat of mines or attacks to both the ships and their crews. These are typically covered in accepted maritime practices known as standard operating procedures.
“The parties will not undertake any attacks against merchant vessels or other civilian vessels and port facilities engaged in this initiative,” the “procedures for merchant vessels” document said.
The deal is overseen by a Joint Coordination Center (JCC) in Istanbul made up of Turkish, Russian and Ukrainian military officials and U.N. personnel.
According to the procedures agreed, the JCC will provide information on the planned movement of ships through the maritime humanitarian corridor, which will be shared with Russia, Ukraine and Türkiye’s military to prevent incidents.
Then as the vessel moves through the maritime humanitarian corridor it will be protected by a 10-nautical mile circle buffer zone around it.
“No military vessel, aircraft or UAVs (drones) will close to within 10 nautical miles of a merchant vessel transiting the Maritime Humanitarian Corridor, excluding territorial seas of Ukraine,” according to the document.
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WFO LAS VEGAS Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, August 11, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD WATCH
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Flood Watch
National Weather Service Las Vegas NV
947 PM PDT Tue Aug 9 2022
...FLOOD WATCH NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING...
* WHAT...Flash flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues to be
possible.
* WHERE...Portions of northwest Arizona, southeast California and
Nevada, including the following areas, in northwest Arizona, Lake
Havasu and Fort Mohave, Lake Mead National Recreation Area,
Northwest Deserts and Northwest Plateau. In southeast California,
Cadiz Basin, Eastern Mojave Desert, Morongo Basin and San
Bernardino County-Upper Colorado River Valley. In Nevada, Lake
Mead National Recreation Area, Las Vegas Valley, Lincoln County,
Northeast Clark County, Sheep Range, Southern Clark County, Spring
Mountains-Red Rock Canyon and Western Clark and Southern Nye
County.
* WHEN...Through Wednesday evening.
* IMPACTS...Excessive runoff may result in flooding of washes and
other low-lying and flood-prone locations.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- Deep moisture will fuel thunderstorms capable of producing
heavy rainfall.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
You should monitor later forecasts and be prepared to take action
should Flash Flood Warnings be issued.
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PINGTUNG, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan warned Tuesday that Chinese military drills aren't just a rehearsal for an invasion of the self-governing island but also reflect ambitions to control large swaths of the western Pacific, as Taipei conducted its own exercises to underscore it's ready to defend itself.
Angered by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's recent visit to Taiwan, China has sent military ships and planes across the midline that separates the two sides in the Taiwan Strait and launched missiles into waters surrounding the island. The drills, which began Thursday, have disrupted flights and shipping in one of the busiest zones for global trade.
Ignoring calls to calm tensions, Beijing instead extended the exercises without announcing when they will end.
Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said that beyond aiming to annex the island democracy, which split with the mainland amid civil war in 1949, China wants to establish its dominance in the western Pacific. That would include controlling of the East and South China Seas via the Taiwan Strait and imposing a blockade to prevent the U.S. and its allies from aiding Taiwan in the event of an attack, he told a news conference in Taipei.
The exercises show China's "geostrategic ambition beyond Taiwan," which Beijing claims as its own territory, Wu said.
"China has no right to interfere in or alter" Taiwan's democracy or its interactions with other nations, he added.
Wu's assessment of China's maneuvers was grimmer than that of other observers but echoed widespread concerns that Beijing is seeking to expand its influence in the Pacific, where the U.S. has military bases and extensive treaty partnerships.
China has said its drills were prompted by Pelosi's visit, but Wu said Beijing was using her trip as a pretext for intimidating moves long in the works. China also banned some Taiwanese food imports after the visit and cut off dialogue with the U.S. on a range of issues from military contacts to combating transnational crime and climate change.
Pelosi also dismissed China's outrage as a public stunt, noting on NBC's "Today" show that "nobody said a word" about a Senate delegation a few visit months ago. Later on the MSNBC news network, she said Chinese President Xi Jinping was acting like a "scared bully."
"I don't think the president of China should control the schedules of members of Congress," she said.
Through its maneuvers, China has pushed closer to Taiwan's borders and may be seeking to establish a new normal in which it could eventually control access to the island's ports and airspace. But that would likely elicit a strong response from the military on the island, whose people strongly favor the status quo of de-facto independence.
The U.S., Taipei's main backer, has also shown itself to be willing to face down Beijing's threats. Washington has no formal diplomatic ties with Taiwan in deference to Beijing, but is legally bound to ensure the island can defend itself and to treat all threats against it as matters of grave concern.
That leaves open the question of whether Washington would dispatch forces if China attacked Taiwan. U.S. President Joe Biden has said repeatedly the U.S. is bound to do so — but staff members have quickly walked back those comments.
Beyond the geopolitical risks, an extended crisis in the Taiwan Strait, a significant thoroughfare for global trade, could have major implications for international supply chains at a time when the world is already facing disruptions and uncertainty in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and the war in Ukraine. In particular, Taiwan is a crucial provider of computer chips for the global economy, including China's high-tech sectors.
In response to the drills, Taiwan has put its forces on alert, but has so far refrained from taking active counter measures.
On Tuesday, its military held live-fire artillery drills in Pingtung County on its southeastern coast.
The army will continue to train and accumulate strength to deal with the threat from China, said Maj, Gen. Lou Woei-jye, spokesperson for Taiwan's 8th Army Command. "No matter what the situation is ... this is the best way to defend our country."
Taiwan, once a Japanese colony, had only loose connections to imperial China and then split with the mainland in 1949. Despite never having governed the island, China's ruling Communist Party regards it as its own territory and has sought to isolate it diplomatically and economically in addition to ratcheting up military threats.
Washington has insisted Pelosi's visit did not change its "one China policy," which holds that the United States has no position on the status of the two sides but wants their dispute settled peacefully.
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•Leather
•Polypropylene
•Others
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•Sports
•Medical
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Which are the Most Popular but Expensive Destinations to Study Abroad
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What else more than studying abroad can shape and mold students into well-rounded individuals who understand people from different cultural backgrounds and embrace people's perfections alongside their flaws? Experiencing new places and gaining a fresh perspective of the world while earning credits towards their degree is a dream for most students.
Among all the countries in the world that welcome international students to study abroad, the lifestyle, living expenses, university costs are what make the difference between them. Some of the most popular study abroad destinations offer affordable or no tuition fees, affordable living standards, or a great education system.
International students interested in studying abroad are constantly looking for the most affordable yet highest living and educational standards. Studying abroad has proven to be more expensive than studying in one's home country and the average international student has to think about budgeting for the entire academic year of studying abroad or the duration of the program. To make it easier for students, the team at Erudera, the world's first search education platform backed by AI, has done research on the average cost of studying abroad in the Top Most Popular Study Abroad Destinations.
List of most popular study abroad destinations (starting from the most expensive)
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United States - $60,000
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United Kingdom - $43,050
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Australia - $39,303
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New Zealand - $36,340
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Canada - $36,275
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Ireland - $34,591
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Sweden - $26,822
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Turkey - $26,000
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Japan - $25,800
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The Netherlands - $25,039
Comparing the US and UK: A Case Study
As US and UK top the list, below are some main comparisons of studying in these countries.
The equally ranked universities in UK and US differ significantly in tuition fees, with the UK charging more affordable fees for international students.
- Tuition fees in the US range from $32,000 to $60,000 per year, and in the UK the average tuition cost is $14,300.
- The average monthly living expenses in the UK range from $1,300- $1,600, whereas in the US they can reach up to $3,000 per month. What makes this comparison stand out is that international students usually stay up to 9 months in the US, whereas in the UK they stay for the whole calendar year (12 months).
- The accommodation costs in the US range from $1,600 to $3,000 per month, whereas in the UK the average rent is around $850– $1000 per month.
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After struggling to start off the year, the Boston Celtics battled back and reached the NBA Finals this past season. Their path there was far from easy, though, as they had to go through some very tough opponents before making it to the Finals.
They took down Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, and the Brooklyn Nets in the first round, they beat Giannis Antetokounmpo, Jrue Holiday, and the Milwaukee Bucks in the second round, and defeated Jimmy Butler, Bam Adebayo, and the Miami Heat in the Eastern Conference Finals.
Along the way, the Celtics may have unintentionally spurred some rivalries. And based on how physical and intense their series against Antetokounmpo was, he’s one of the players to watch whenever he plays Boston from now on. And in a recent interview I conducted thanks to eBay, forward Grant Williams discussed Antetokounmpo and what it’s like playing against him.
When asked what player he enjoys playing against the most, Williams immediately turned to Antetokounmpo.
“I feel like I love playing against Giannis [Antetokounmpo], just because he brings that competitive edge every single night,” Williams explained. “Probably my favorite player to guard, favorite player to play against, just because, as much as he’s a nice guy off the court, and everything like that, I’ve never had the time to spend time with him. I’ve heard a lot of great things. But on the court, he’s so focused on winning, and that’s the guys I respect the most in the league.”
Williams, Al Horford, and the Celtics went to war with Antetokounmpo every night, but as far as Williams is concerned, that’s the best type of basketball. He loves the intensity that Antetokounmpo brings to the court.
In addition to his discussion of Antetokounmpo, Williams also discussed what he’s working on this offseason.
What Williams is Working On This Summer
Last year, Williams emerged as one of the best three-point shooters in the NBA. He worked tirelessly last summer to improve his shot, and the results spoke for themselves. And when I asked him about what he’s working on this offseason, the first thing he pointed at was shooting on the move.
“Shooting on the move, that’s the big one. Not necessarily like Duncan Robinson shooting on the move, but more so pick-and-pop. Just make sure like the shots that I am gonna have to make this upcoming season, because teams are going to run me off, teams are going to be heavily contesting, so, that’s one,” Williams explained.
As far as his defense, Williams wants to be able to keep up with speedy guards.
“Defensively, I want to improve on guarding actions, like screaming actions. Whether that’s off ball or on. Because I do a great job in isolation, I want to improve, say I’m guarding Steph [Curry] or Trae Young coming off the screen and be able to negotiate and navigate those screens,” said Williams.
On top of that, he also discussed his nickname, ‘Batman.’
Williams Reveals Origins of ‘Batman’ Nickname
Although it was rumored that Williams himself came up with the nickname ‘Batman,’ he told me that it was actually his dad that thought it up.
It was not me that came up with it. My father actually told me it two years ago when I guarded Joker [Nikola Jokic] and I guarded him well,” Williams revealed. “And he said, ‘we’re gonna call you the Batman from now on goofily. And then, the next season, I did it again, I guess, and played well. And so he texted me after the game, and I basically just joked to JB [Jaylen Brown]. I was like, ‘my dad says you guys gotta call me Batman from now on.’ And then JB said it to the media and it just went from there. It stuck. So, it’s fun. I love it. It’s a great nickname. I’ll keep it forever if I can.”
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Two More Cargo Ships Carrying Grain Leave Ukrainian Port Near Odesa
Two more cargo ships carrying grain have left Ukraine, the Infrastructure Ministry announced on August 9.
The ships were to travel across the Black Sea in a convoy headed toward the Bosphorus under a deal with Russia to ease agricultural exports from Ukrainian ports.
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The ministry said on Facebook that the two ships departed from Chornomorsk, south of Odesa, carrying a total of 70,000 tons of grain and food. It said that one of the ships, the Rahmi Yaggi, was bound for Turkey with 5,300 tons of products, while the other, the Ocean Lion, was carrying some 65,000 tons of corn to South Korea.
With the departures a total of 12 ships have left three different Ukrainian Black Sea ports under the deal between Russia and Ukraine brokered late last month by the United Nations and Turkey.
Exports from Ukraine -- one of the world's biggest grain producers -- had been halted by a Russian naval blockade and the Ukrainian mining of the ports.
The halt of grain shipments from Ukraine contributed to a spike in global food prices and caused concern about countries in the Middle East and Africa receiving enough grain and other commodities to feed their populations.
The resumption of grain exports is being overseen by a Joint Coordination Center (JCC) in Istanbul where Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish, and UN personnel are working.
The first ship to depart Ukraine under the deal brokered by the UN and Turkey reached its destination, Lebanon, on August 7, but the buyer refused the shipment citing a five-month delay, the Ukrainian Embassy in Lebanon said.
The ship was looking for another consignee to unload its cargo in Lebanon or any other country or port. It was off the coast of Turkey on August 9, according to the website MarineTraffic.
With reporting by AFP
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U.S. Pledges $89 Million To Help Ukraine Clear Land Mines Left By Russian Forces
The United States says it will provide $89 million to Ukraine for removing land mines put in place by Russian forces.
The money will support 100 demining teams and also help provide training and equipment necessary to clear land mines and unexploded ordnance for a year.
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"Russia's unlawful and unprovoked further invasion of Ukraine has littered massive swaths of the country with land mines, unexploded ordnance, and improvised explosive devices," the U.S. State Department said on August 9 in a statement.
The “grotesque” use of improvised explosive devices by the Russians in Ukraine was previously only associated with Islamic State in Syria, the statement said.
"These explosive hazards block access to fertile farmland, delay reconstruction efforts, prevent displaced communities from returning to their homes, and continue to kill and maim innocent Ukrainian civilians," it said.
The Russians left a large number of mines and other explosive devices behind when they were forced to withdraw from northern Ukraine after the failure of the initial thrust of the invasion to seize Kyiv.
Since late March Kyiv has defused around 160,000 mines, but some 5 million Ukrainians still live in areas threatened by bombs planted by the Russians, according to the State Department.
With reporting by Reuters and AFP
Ukrainian Military Reports Heavy Fighting Along Front Line In Eastern Ukraine
Heavy fighting was reported on August 9 in frontline towns of Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region as Russian troops launched waves of attacks to try to expand their control of the Donbas.
Kyiv said its troops were putting up fierce resistance and largely holding the line.
Russian troops tried to storm in several directions in the Donetsk region, the General Staff of the Ukrainian military said in a battlefield assessment issued on the evening of August 9.
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"In the Donetsk direction, the enemy, with the support of aviation, is trying to conduct assault actions in the Bakhmut and Avdiyiv directions,” the General Staff report said.
Russian forces were continuing with the "systematic shelling of positions along the contact line” to constrain the actions of Ukrainian units and prevent them from regrouping, it said.
Shelling was reported in the direction of Kramatorsk and Bakhmut, cities north of Donetsk city, while the General Staff said there was an unsuccessful attempt to storm Russian troops in the Spirniy region of Donetsk, one of the two eastern regions where Russia-backed separatists have held large swaths of territory for the past eight years.
Russian troops tried to involve intelligence groups in several districts north of Donetsk city but retreated after being hit by fire from Ukrainian defenders, the report said.
They were also unsuccessful in carrying out combat reconnaissance in the areas of Pidgorodne north of Dnipro and Bakhmut, the report says.
According to the General Staff, Russian units had "partial success" in the direction of the village of Vershina, but have not been able to improve the tactical position in the directions of Bakhmut and other cities north of Donetsk city.
Russia said its forces had captured a factory for Moscow on the edge of the eastern town of Soledar.
Other Russian-backed forces said they were in the process of "clearing out" the heavily fortified village of Pisky. And Russian media reported that a group of mercenaries from the Vagner Group had dug in near Bakhmut.
It was not possible to verify either side's battlefield accounts.
Russia has been "reinforcing defenses" in southern Ukraine while keeping up attacks on Ukrainian positions in the eastern Donetsk region, but has only managed to advance about 10 kilometers in the past month on its "most successful axis" there, according to U.K. military intelligence.
In its regular assessment earlier on August 9, British Defense Intelligence said Russian forces had not advanced more than three kilometers elsewhere in Donetsk.
Such a pace is "almost certainly significantly less than planned," Defense Intelligence added.
"Despite its continued heavy use of artillery in these areas, Russia has not been able to generate capable combat infantry in sufficient numbers to secure more substantial advances," it said.
British intelligence previously warned on August 8 that Russia was using anti-personnel mines in an effort to defend and hold its defense lines, with resulting risks to both the military and local civilian populations.
In Crimea, Moscow-imposed authorities said explosions hit a military airport near the village of Novofedorivka, killing one person and injuring several others.
The Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement that the detonation of aviation ammunition caused the explosions without clarifying who or what triggered the blasts.
The ministry's statement implied the airfield was not targeted in an attack and said that no one was injured.
Meanwhile, the United States said it would provide $89 million to Ukraine for removing land mines put in place by Russian forces. The money will support 100 demining teams as well as training and equipment necessary to clear landmines and unexploded ordnance for a year.
With reporting by Reuters and AFP
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Biden Signs U.S. Ratification Document On NATO Membership For Sweden, Finland
U.S. President Joe Biden has signed ratification documents endorsing bids by Finland and Sweden to join NATO.
Biden said the two Nordic countries’ expected entry into the alliance once they receive the backing of all 30 members will be “a watershed moment” for NATO and “for the greater security and stability not only of Europe and the United States but of the world."
Biden signed the documents -- formally called the instrument of ratification -- in a ceremony at the White House on August 9.
Sweden and Finland applied for NATO membership in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. They completed accession talks with the alliance just last month.
The U.S. Senate backed the expansion by a vote of 95-1 last week. Both Democrats and Republicans strongly approved the measure, describing Sweden and Finland as important allies whose modern militaries already worked closely with NATO.
Biden said the two countries would become "strong, reliable highly capable new allies" by making the "sacred commitment" to mutual defense in the transatlantic alliance.
Biden handed the pens he used to sign the documents to Sweden's ambassador to the U.S., Karin Olofsdotter, and Finland's ambassador to the U.S., Mikko Hautala, who witnessed the signing along with members of Congress and Vice President Kamala Harris.
Biden said Finland and Sweden both have "strong democratic institutions, strong militaries, and strong and transparent economies" that would now bolster NATO.
He also praised NATO as "the foundation of American security" and said the United States is committed to it.
Russian President Vladimir Putin's Russia on the other hand "shattered peace and security in Europe" by invading Ukraine. "Putin thought he could break us apart…Instead, he is getting exactly what he did not want."
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement that the United States appreciates the swift action of the NATO allies that have already ratified the accession protocols "and encourages all to complete the process soon."
As of last week seven member countries -- the Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, and Turkey -- had yet to formally agree to the entry of the two countries. Only Turkey has formally raised a challenge, demanding certain concessions from Finland and Sweden to back their memberships.
Blinken also said the commitment among NATO members to Article 5 of the organization's founding treaty remains "ironclad."
Article 5 says NATO members must consider an attack on one member of the alliance as an attack on all, committing each member to defend all others in what NATO calls a spirit of solidarity within the alliance.
"Allies are united in their shared mission to defend the Euro-Atlantic community, deter aggression, project stability, and uphold NATO’s values of democracy, individual liberty, and the rule of law," Blinken said. "We also remain firmly committed to NATO’s Open Door policy and to further strengthening our bilateral defense and security cooperation."
Russia cited Ukraine's ambitions to join NATO as a key reason for launching the war in February. Putin said in May that, while Russia does not see Finland and Sweden's decision to join NATO as a threat, deployment of military infrastructure in the countries may trigger a response from Moscow.
With reporting by AP and Reuters
U.S. Calls For 'Immediate Steps' To Reduce Tensions In Nagorno-Karabakh
Washington is closely following the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh and urges immediate steps to reduce tensions and avoid further escalation, the U.S. mission to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said on August 9.
In a statement delivered to the OSCE Special Permanent Council in Vienna, U.S. mission Chargé d’Affaires Courtney E. Austrian also said that “the United States expresses its deep concern over the reports of intensive fighting around Nagorno-Karabakh, including casualties and the loss of life.”
“We are closely following the situation [in Nagorno-Karabakh] and urge immediate steps to reduce tensions and avoid further escalation,” Austrian said.
“As we have said many times at the Permanent Council, the United States emphasizes the importance of a negotiated, comprehensive, and sustainable settlement of all remaining issues related to or resulting from the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,” she added.
The diplomat noted that last week U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken personally engaged Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev “to urge de-escalation and direct contacts to reduce tensions.”
“The United States is ready to engage bilaterally, with like-minded partners, and through our role as an OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair to facilitate dialogue between Armenia and Azerbaijan and help achieve a long-term political settlement to the conflict,” Austrian said.
At least one Azerbaijani and two ethnic Armenian soldiers were killed during the most recent escalation in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone, which took place on August 1-3. The two sides blame each other for the violence.
Azerbaijan and Armenia have been locked in a conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh for years.
The mostly Armenian-populated region, which had the status of an autonomous oblast within Soviet Azerbaijan, declared its independence from Baku amid the collapse of the Soviet Union, triggering a 1992-94 war that claimed an estimated 30,000 lives and displaced hundreds of thousands of people.
The war ended in a Russia-brokered cease-fire, leaving Nagorno-Karabakh’s ethnic Armenians in control of most of the region as well as several adjacent districts of Azerbaijan proper.
Internationally mediated negotiations with the involvement of the OSCE Minsk Group -- co-chaired by the United States, Russia, and France -- failed to result in a resolution before another large-scale war broke out in September 2020.
The 44-day conflict, which killed more than 6,500 people, ended in a Moscow-brokered cease-fire with Azerbaijan regaining control of all districts surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh as well as large swaths of territory inside the former autonomous oblast itself.
Some 2,000 Russian peacekeepers were deployed in the region to oversee the truce.
With reporting by By Heghine Buniatyan
Russian Border Guards Set Up Road Checkpoints In Southern Armenia
Citing increased drug trafficking and other illegal cross-border activities, Russian border guards controlling Armenia’s frontier with Iran have set up checkpoints along several roads in the country’s southern Syunik Province.
Images of the checkpoints along the road linking Meghri to other towns appeared on the Internet earlier this week, raising speculation about possible preparations for the opening of transit routes for Azerbaijan via the strategic mountainous region.
Syunik is the Armenian province through which Azerbaijan expects to get a highway and railroad connection with its western exclave of Nakhichevan under the terms of the Russia-brokered 2020 cease-fire in Nagorno-Karabakh. Under the terms of that arrangement, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) is to ensure the security of traffic along transport routes in Armenia for Azerbaijan.
Yerevan insists that it should maintain sovereignty over the roads, while Baku is seeking an extraterritorial status for them amounting to a corridor similar to the Russian-controlled Lachin corridor that connects Armenia with Nagorno-Karabakh.
At a government session on August 4, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian again implicitly rejected the corridor logic for the unblocking of regional transport routes, saying that Azerbaijan even today can use all parts of Armenia, not only Syunik, for transit purposes in accordance with Armenian legislation.
“We have been saying all the while that we are ready to provide this connection between the western districts of Azerbaijan and Nakhichevan. We are ready to ensure this connection even today, but it is Azerbaijan that does not use these opportunities offered by us,” Pashinian said.
Pashinian spoke after the latest escalation in Nagorno-Karabakh in which at least two Armenian soldiers and one Azerbaijani soldier were killed in fresh fighting near the Lachin corridor where Russian peacekeepers are deployed under the terms of the 2020 cease-fire.
Amid the escalation, ethnic Armenian authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh announced that several Armenian villages along the current corridor would be evacuated until September when Armenians are to start using an alternative road connecting Armenia and the Armenian-populated region.
Bagrat Zakarian, the mayor of Meghri, told RFE/RL’s Armenian Service on August 9 that the Russian checkpoints recently spotted in Syunik were actually set up several months ago. In total, he said, five such checkpoints were placed at roads leading from Meghri to several towns and villages in Syunik.
After media reports about the installation of new Russian checkpoints near Meghri, the FSB Border Guards Department in Armenia explained that it was done in coordination with Armenian authorities to prevent smuggling, illegal migration, and other offenses.
According to the FSB, a tense situation has been observed recently at the Meghri section of the Armenian-Iranian state border due to increased attempts to smuggle drugs from Iran to Armenia. Violations of the border by representatives of extremist and terrorist groups were also recorded.
Armenian government officials have not yet commented on the presence of Russian checkpoints along the roads in Syunik.
Meghri’s mayor acknowledged that the checkpoints create certain problems for local tourism.
“Tourists have to go through passport control procedures before they can visit several rural areas here,” Zakarian said.
With reporting by Artak Khulian
On Second Anniversary Of Disputed Belarusian Presidential Poll, Tsikhanouskaya Names 'Interim Cabinet'
VILNIUS -- On the second anniversary of the disputed presidential election in Belarus, exiled opposition leader Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya, whom many consider the winner of the August 2020 vote, has named an interim government of the country.
Tsikhanouskaya said on August 9, the final day of a two-day conference of Belarusian democratic movements and groups held in Vilnius, Lithuania, that many opposition figures had demanded that she create "a united interim government" and she said she has now established one.
The interim government consists of Paval Latushka, who is responsible for the transition of power, Alyaksandr Azarau, who will take care of the restoration of law and order, Valer Kavaleuski, who will focus on foreign affairs, and Valer Sakhashchyk who will represent the interim government on issues related to defense and national security, Tsikhanouskaya said. She also called on all Belarusians who want to contribute to the transition of Belarus to a democratic country to join her team.
After the presidential election on August 9, 2020, Belarus was hit by a wave of protests against the results of the poll, which handed victory to authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka despite claims by opposition leaders that the vote was rigged.
Many of Belarus's opposition leaders have been arrested or have been forced to leave the country, while Lukashenka has refused to negotiate with opponents of his regime.
Security officials have cracked down hard on any dissent against Lukashenka's rule, arresting thousands, including dozens of journalists, some of whom are RFE/RL correspondents.
Several protesters have been killed, and some rights organizations say there is credible evidence of torture by security officials against some of those detained.
Belarusian authorities have also shuttered several media outlets, including the Polish-funded Belsat television channel, the popular Nasha Niva newspaper, the Minsk office of RFE/RL, and dozens of regional publications for their independent coverage of Lukashenka's regime.
On August 9, RFE/RL President and CEO Jamie Fly again condemned the imprisonment of RFE/RL correspondents in Belarus who were arrested over their coverage of the disputed poll and its aftermath.
“Two years ago, Alyaksandr Lukashenka stole not only an election, but the futures of our colleagues Ihar Losik, Aleh Hruzdzilovich, and Andrey Kuznechyk,” Fly said in a statement.
“We condemn the Belarusian government’s relentless campaign to criminalize independent media, and demand the immediate release of our journalists imprisoned for reporting the truth.”
The European Union, the United States, and several other countries have refused to acknowledge Lukashenka as the winner of the vote and imposed several rounds of sanctions on him and his regime, citing election fraud and a brutal police crackdown.
Tsikhanouskaya, 39, emerged as the face of the opposition to Lukashenka after facing off against the strongman because her husband, Syarhey Tsikhanouski, had been detained to prevent him from running. He is serving an 18-year prison sentence.
Russia Extradites Belarusian Activist Despite Torture Fears
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia -- Russian authorities have extradited activist Yana Pinchuk back to her native Belarus where she faces charges for protesting the disputed August 2020 presidential election that kept authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka in power despite opposition accusations that the voting was rigged.
Pinchuk supporters said on August 9 that she was extradited to Belarus.
Pinchuk's lawyer, Maria Belyayeva, confirmed the supporters' statement, adding that her client’s exact current whereabouts are unknown.
In former Soviet countries, convicts and suspects are usually transferred in special trains, and the transfer may last for weeks or even months as the transported individuals stop for an uncertain time in detention centers in towns and cities they pass.
Last month, a court in Russia's second largest city, St. Petersburg, upheld the decision to extradite Pinchuk even after the 25-year-old activist said she may face torture if returned to custody in Belarus.
Pinchuk is wanted in Belarus on several charges, including inciting national hatred, calls for activities that damaged national security, and slander. If convicted, she faces up to 20 years in prison.
Police in St. Petersburg arrested Pinchuk on November 1 last year at the request of Belarus.
Belarusian authorities accuse Pinchuk of administering the Vitsebsk97% Telegram channel, which had been critical of Lukashenka's regime and has been labeled as extremist in Belarus.
Pinchuk has rejected all of the charges saying she immediately closed the Telegram channel after it was officially designated as extremist.
She is one of many Belarusians who have faced multiple charges linked to the mass protests following Lukashenka's contested reelection.
Thousands have been arrested and much of the opposition leadership has been jailed or forced into exile. Several protesters have been killed and there have also been credible reports of torture during a widening security crackdown.
Belarusian authorities have also shut down several nongovernmental organizations and independent media outlets.
The United States, the European Union, and several other countries have refused to acknowledge Lukashenka as the winner of the vote and imposed several rounds of sanctions on him and his regime, citing election fraud and the crackdown.
In December, the Moscow-based Memorial Human Rights Center recognized Pinchuk as a political prisoner and demanded her immediate release.
EU Envisions 'Very Quick' Responses On 'Final Text' Of Iran Nuclear Deal
The European Union says that the United States and Iran are likely to respond "very quickly" to a "final text" that has emerged to revive a crippled nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers.
EU foreign policy chief and negotiations coordinator Josep Borrell said on August 8 that the 25-page draft had been delivered to the capitals involved for decisions on acceptance.
"We have a final text. So it's the moment for a decision: yes or no. And we expect all participants to take this decision very quickly," Peter Stano, Borrell's spokesman, told reporters on August 9.
"There is no more space for negotiations," Stano said.
A State Department spokesman has said that the United States is ready to "quickly conclude a deal" to revive the 2015 agreement based on the EU proposals.
The spokesman said Washington will wait to see if Tehran's "actions match their words" following repeated signals that Iranian officials might endorse the deal.
Iran has said it is considering the draft amid "more comprehensive discussions in Tehran."
Enrique Mora, the European Union’s top negotiator, has said he's “absolutely” optimistic about the talks’ progress.
Iran struck the Joint Comprehensive Plan Of Action (JCPOA) in 2015 with the United States, France, Germany, Britain, Russia, and China. The deal saw Iran agree to limit its enrichment of uranium under the watch of UN inspectors in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions.
Washington unilaterally withdrew from the nuclear pact under then-President Donald Trump in 2018. Iran reacted by gradually backtracking on its obligations under the deal, such as uranium enrichment.
Negotiators from Iran, Russia, and the EU -- as well as the United States, indirectly -- resumed talks over Tehran’s nuclear deal on August 4 after a monthslong standstill in negotiations.
Based on reporting by Reuters
Explosions Hit Military Airport In Ukraine's Russia-Annexed Crimea, Killing One Person
Moscow-imposed authorities in Ukraine's Crimea that was illegally annexed by Russia say explosions hit a military airport near the village of Novofedorivka, killing one person.
The Russian-appointed head of Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, wrote on Telegram on August 9 that one person was killed and expressed condolences to the victim's relatives. He did not identify the victim.
Meanwhile, local health officials said that five people, including one child, were injured.
The Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement earlier that the detonation of aviation ammunition caused the explosions, without clarifying who or what triggered the blast.
The ministry's statement implied that the airfield was not targeted in an attack and said that no one was injured.
The primary cause appeared to be a “violation of fire safety requirements,” the ministry said, according to an unidentified ministry source quoted by TASS. The ministry said no warplanes were damaged.
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry said it did not know what caused the explosions but suggested that Russia may use the incident as propaganda.
An adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukraine was not taking responsibility for the explosions.
Mykhaylo Podolyak, asked by the Dozhd online television channel whether Kyiv was taking responsibility, replied: "Of course not. What do we have to do with this?"
Zelenskiy responded to the attack by vowing to retake Crimea from Russia.
“This Russian war against Ukraine and against all of free Europe began with Crimea and must end with Crimea -- its liberation,” Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address. “Today it is impossible to say when this will happen. But we are constantly adding the necessary components to the formula for the liberation of Crimea.”
Last week, five Russian Navy staff members were wounded by an explosion after a presumed drone flew into the courtyard of Russia's Black Sea fleet in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol.
Russia illegally annexed Crimea in 2014 and launched its ongoing unprovoked invasion of Ukraine on February 24.
Dozens Of Iranian Activists Condemn Islamic Republic's Oppression Of Baha'i Community
A group of 70 political and civil activists, university professors, artists, and human rights activists from Ian and abroad have condemned in a joint statement the Islamic Republic's treatment of the Baha'i community following a spike in restrictions and pressure on its members.
"The arbitrary suppression and arrest of Baha'i citizens in various cities has intensified in recent days as more Baha'i students have been deprived of education," the signatories said.
"These crimes are part of the chain of tyranny and the attempt to destroy and eliminate religious minorities and dissidents."
Baha'is -- who number some 300,000 in Iran and have an estimated 5 million followers worldwide -- say they face systematic persecution in Iran, where their faith is not officially recognized in the constitution.
Iranian security forces have arrested dozens of Baha'i followers in recent weeks and raided the homes of hundreds of others.
Among the signatories of the statement are Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi and Iranian-American movie star Shohreh Aghdashloo.
Since the Islamic Republic of Iran was established in 1979, hundreds of Baha'is have been arrested and jailed for their beliefs. At least 200 have been executed or were arrested and never heard from again.
Thousands more have been banned from receiving higher education or had their property confiscated, while vandals often desecrate Baha'i cemeteries.
The statement said the ruling autocratic ideology of Iran is the result of religious apartheid, which has deprived millions of Baha'is of their civil rights because of their religious beliefs.
Iran' Ministry of Intelligence accused a number of Baha'is who were arrested recently that they are "directly connected with the Zionist center known as Bayt al-Adl located in occupied Palestine."
Bayt al-Adl (The Universal House of Justice), located in Haifa, is the nine-member supreme ruling body of the Baha'i Faith.
Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has on several occasions called the Baha'i faith a cult and issued a religious fatwa in 2018 forbidding contact, including business dealings, with followers of the faith.
Written by Ardeshir Tayebi based on an original story in Persian by RFE/RL's Radio Farda
Russia Says Ukraine Suspended Oil Flows To Europe Due To Sanctions
Ukraine has suspended Russian oil flows to three European nations as of August 4 because the transit payment cannot be processed due to sanctions, Russia's pipeline monopoly company said.
Transneft said on August 9 that the situation had affected deliveries to the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia.
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According to the company, it made payments for the August oil transit to Ukraine's pipeline operator Ukrtransnafta on July 22, but the payment did not go through and, therefore, the money bounced back.
Gazprombank, which handled the payment, said the money was returned because of European Union restrictions, adding that oil deliveries to Poland and Germany via Belarus were under way "as usual."
Russia has already reduced gas pipeline flows to many EU member-states, citing problems with turbine maintenance on the Nord Stream 1 pipeline as well as sanctions against some buyers whom Moscow has officially recognized as "unfriendly."
Since the Kremlin launched its ongoing unprovoked invasion of Ukraine on February 24, the West has imposed unprecedented sanctions on Russia, cutting the country off from international financial institutions.
The European Union has been looking for ways to reduce its dependence on Russian energy resources and has agreed to ban more than two-thirds of Russian oil imports.
The United States banned Russian oil and gas days after Russia launched its wide-scale aggression against Ukraine.
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Kremlin Lashes Out At European Leaders For Supporting Visa Ban For All Russians
The Kremlin has lashed out at European critics including leaders of EU states and besieged Ukraine over their calls for all Russians to be banned from the West until their country ends its invasion of Ukraine along with the underlying mindset.
The sharp response follows encouragement by the Finnish and Estonian prime ministers for a ban on visas to Russians and news that the French military has banned Russian nationals from a medieval fortress and touristic site outside Paris that houses military archives.
Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine has killed tens of thousands of troops and civilians since it was launched in late February, sparked unprecedented financial and other sanctions, flight and airspace bans, and contributed to a global food crisis.
Some EU countries, including Latvia, have already stopped issuing visas to Russians, citing the war.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, whose defiant leadership has included nightly video messages imploring international assistance, this week urged the West to ban all Russians to discourage Moscow from trying to annex more territory.
Zelenskiy told The Washington Post that "whichever kind of Russian" should be made to "go to Russia."
But Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, said on August 9 that "the irrationality of thinking" behind calls for such bans "is off the charts."
Amid increasing tensions with the West, poisonings abroad allegedly ordered by senior Russian officials, and the creep of Russian troops and proxy fighters from Georgia to Ukraine to Syria and central Africa, Putin and other Russian officials have complained of growing "Russophobia."
Peskov said the fresh calls to ban Russians "can only be viewed extremely negatively" and warned that "any attempt to isolate Russians or Russia is a process that has no prospects."
EU members and Russia neighbors Finland and Estonia have hinted they're willing to try a visa ban.
Finland Prime Minister Sanna Marin told Finnish broadcaster YLE on August 8 that "it is not right that while Russia is waging an aggressive, brutal war of aggression in Europe, Russians can live a normal life, travel in Europe, be tourists."
Estonia's Prime Minister Kaja Kallas followed with a call for countries to "stop issuing tourist visas to Russians."
"Visiting #Europe is a privilege, not a human right," Kallas tweeted. "Air travel from RU is shut down. It means while Schengen countries issue visas, neighbors to Russia carry the burden (FI, EE, LV – sole access points). Time to end tourism from Russia now."
Barring all Russians would also impact the tens of thousands of people who have left that country out of protest or disagreement with the actions of Putin and his administration.
"They'll understand then," the Ukrainian president told The Washington Post. "They'll say, 'This [war] has nothing to do with us. The whole population can't be held responsible, can it?' It can. The population picked this government and they're not fighting it, not arguing with it, not shouting at it."
"Don't you want this isolation?" Zelensky added, speaking as if he were addressing Russians directly. "You're telling the whole world that it must live by your rules. Then go and live there. This is the only way to influence Putin."
The French military has imposed a ban on Russians visiting the storied Chateau de Vincennes, once the residence of French kings and a venue for tours and concerts as well as part of the French armed forces' historical archives.
AFP quoted two Russian women denied entry by French guards after showing their documents and being told they couldn't get in "because you're Russian."
Putin has spent the decades since taking office in 1999 consolidating and otherwise tightening the country's grip on media, including strictures in the past decade like laws on "foreign agents" and "undesirable" designations to punish activists, journalists, and any other perceived enemies.
Since the full-scale war in Ukraine was launched, criminal procedures and other punishments have been imposed for criticism of the Russian military or even just describing the conflict as a war, rather than the Kremlin's preferred term, a "special military operation."
With reporting by AFP and AP
Putin, Israeli Counterpart Discuss Jewish Agency Case In Call
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israeli President Isaac Herzog discussed the strained relations between their countries and the situation of the Jewish Agency in Russia in a phone call on August 9.
The Russian Justice Ministry has moved to disband the agency's Russian arm, which promotes emigration to Israel, despite protests from Israel.
Russia accuses the organization of violating the country's laws and, according to media reports, unlawfully collecting personal data from Russian citizens.
Some Israelis have seen this as retribution for Israel's criticism of Russia's military campaign in Ukraine.
The case against the Jewish Agency is due to be heard on August 19.
The discussion was "open and honest," Herzog's office said, adding that Herzog spoke at length about the activities of the agency.
Herzog was chairman of the Jewish Agency before he took over as president.
"The two presidents emphasized the important areas of cooperation between Israel and Russia, and agreed to stay in touch," Herzog's office announced.
Putin, he said, had stressed his personal commitment to remembrance of the Holocaust and the fight against anti-Semitism.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that the phone call also touched upon the Jewish Agency. Both sides had agreed that "contacts on this will continue along the responsible authorities of both countries," he said.
Peskov rejected reports that the dissolution of the organization was intended to prevent the departure of bright minds from Russia.
Based on reporting by dpa and Reuters
Bulgarian Court Orders Extradition Of Russian Protester Over Tax-Evasion Charge
A Bulgarian court has ordered the extradition of a Russian man accused at home of large-scale tax evasion in a case complicated by the suspect's burning of his Russian passport during an antiwar protest in the Black Sea resort of Varna.
The suspect, 46-year-old Aleksei Alchin, has argued that Russian authorities are persecuting him for his political leanings and criticism of Russia's war on Ukraine.
Alchin says he has been living in Bulgaria for five years.
He was declared a fugitive by Russian prosecutors in April 2018 following an investigation into alleged tax evasion.
He took part in a protest in Bulgaria two days after the large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began on February 24 in which he demonstratively burned his Russian passport.
Months later, Bulgarian authorities were notified by Russian officials that Alchin was the target of an international manhunt and a formal extradition request followed.
He was detained by Bulgarian authorities last week and his extradition case was heard on August 8 by a district court in Varna, in eastern Bulgaria.
Alchin's wife, friends, and others protested outside the court for his release.
But the court ruled that the tax-evasion charges against him were of a sufficient magnitude to warrant his extradition.
Through its press service, the Bulgarian court also cited an assurance from a Russian deputy prosecutor-general, Pyotr Gorodov, that Alchin won't be tortured or otherwise abused and that he will be allowed counsel.
Russia's heavily prosecutor-friendly legal system leads to convictions in around 99 percent of all cases, and allegations are widespread of detainee and inmate abuse.
The Varna court also cited a guarantee by Russian prosecutors that Alchin will only be investigated for tax evasion and that, if he is convicted, he will be allowed to leave Russia after serving any possible sentence.
Alchin can appeal the first-instance ruling within seven days.
It is unclear what sort of leverage officials in Bulgaria -- a NATO and EU member whose relations with Moscow have markedly worsened since Russia's military invaded Ukraine -- might have if Russian authorities abandon their pledges concerning Alchin.
Alchin requested political asylum in Bulgaria only after being detained in connection with the extradition request, which prosecutors said hurt his chances of success.
Russian authorities have sought him internationally since February 2020.
Alchin has described past employment in Russia that includes work for a State Duma committee that he says he left "due to the high level of corruption in the system."
He said he fled Russia after being warned that his metals company had attracted interest from elites and he might be accused of tax crimes.
He also said he'd never received any subpoenas, as lawyers he approached before fleeing came under "pressure" and refused to represent his interests.
Belarus Air Force Starts Exercises At Home And At Russian Base
Belarus' air force is holding exercises on its territory and at a military training base in Russia, the Belarusian Defense Ministry said on August 9.
According to the ministry, the drills involve live fire and are to be held in two phases: the first from August 9 to August 11 in Belarus, while the second one on August 22-25 will take place at Russia's Ashuluk military training base located in Russia's southwest near the border with Kazakhstan.
Belarus' authoritarian ruler, Alyaksandr Lukashenka, has openly supported Russia's ongoing unprovoked invasion of Ukraine that was launched in late February.
Although Belarusian troops have not taken part in the invasion, Belarusian authorities allowed Russia's military to use the country's territory to enter Ukraine and shell Ukrainian towns and cities from Belarus.
Based on reporting by Interfax, TASS, and Reuters
Russia-Appointed Deputy Mayor Of Ukrainian Town Detained On Criminal Charges
The Moscow-appointed deputy mayor of the occupied Ukrainian city of Nova Kakhovka, Vitaliy Efymenko, has been detained on criminal charges.
Russia-imposed authorities in the city in Ukraine's southeastern region of Kherson said on August 8 that they confiscated illegal weapons and tens of millions of rubles from Efymenko, who is also a local businessman.
According to the so-called Temporary Directorate of the Russian Interior Ministry in the region, Efymenko is suspected of being a member of a gang that conducted at least two attacks against two local businessmen in recent weeks.
After Russia occupied the Kherson region in the first days of its ongoing unprovoked invasion of Ukraine launched in late February, he was appointed by occupying forces as Nova Kakhovka's first deputy mayor.
Last week, Efymenko survived an apparent car-bomb assassination attempt.
Ukrainian media reports cited sources at the time as saying that Efymenko was a criminal kingpin.
On August 6, another deputy mayor of Nova Kakhovka, Vitaliy Hura, was shot dead by an unidentified assailant while leaving his home.
On August 5, Russian news agencies reported that the Russia-appointed governor of the Kherson region, Volodymyr Saldo, had been hospitalized. Some reports said then that he may have been poisoned.
On June 24, a car bomb in Kherson killed the Russia-appointed head of the directorate for youth policies at the Kherson region's administration, Dmytro Savluchenko.
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Disinformation Trackers Say Myth-Spreading Sites Doubled After Russian Invasion Began
The number of websites spreading Russia-Ukraine disinformation has more than doubled since Russia's unprovoked invasion was launched in late February, says a New York-based group that rates trustworthiness across media.
NewsGuard said on August 9 that its experts have identified 250 websites publishing disinformation related to those two combatant states, versus 116 in March.
It said digital platforms like Google, Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok have imposed "temporary measures in some countries against well-known Russian propaganda outlets such as RT and Sputnik News, after the European Commission prohibited distribution or advertising support for these Kremlin-funded and operated propaganda sites."
"However," it added, "the large number of other sites identified by NewsGuard continue to spread myths freely on the Internet."
It cited 54 leading myths being spread by those outlets about the five-month-old conflict or its roots in eight years of fighting between Ukraine and Russia-backed separatists.
They include "claims that the U.S. operates labs in Ukraine to develop bioweapons, that Russian troops were not responsible for the massacre of civilians in Bucha in March, and that Russian did not attack the railway station in Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine," the group said.
Many of the sites avoid disclosing ownership or control but claim -- without evidence -- to be independent think tanks or other nonprofits.
European Commission Vice President Vera Jourova recently described disinformation as "a growing problem in the EU, and we really have to take stronger measures."
NewsGuard launched a Russia-Ukraine Disinformation Tracking Center in March, days after tens of thousands of Russian troops rolled across Ukraine's border.
With reporting by Reuters
Russia Launches Iranian Satellite Into Orbit
A Russian rocket successfully launched an Iranian satellite into space on August 9 amid accusations that Moscow might use it to improve its surveillance of military targets in Ukraine.
The remote sensing satellite, called Khayyam, was launched by a Russian Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in southern Kazakhstan, at 08:52 a.m. Moscow time on August 9, according to a video broadcast by Russia's space agency on YouTube.
The Washington Post reported last week that U.S. officials are worried by the incipient space cooperation between Russia and Iran and fear the satellite will not only help Russia in Ukraine but also provide Iran "unprecedented capabilities" to monitor potential military targets in Israel and the Middle East.
Iran says the satellite is designed for scientific research including radiation and environmental monitoring for agricultural purposes and no other country will have access to information it gathers.
Russia has sought to deepen its ties with Iran since it invaded Ukraine in February.
Last month, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Iran in his first international trip outside the former Soviet Union since the war.
Based on reporting by AP, AFP, and Reuters
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Rights Group Says 'Bogus' New Charge Targets Russian Dissident Kara-Murza
Human Rights Watch (HRW) says Russia's "spurious" new charge against opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza is "a thinly veiled threat to the Russian public not to engage in dissent," as authorities there accelerate their long-running clampdown amid the ongoing war in Ukraine.
Kara-Murza's lawyer announced last week that his client had been charged with carrying out activities of an "undesirable" organization.
HRW demanded in an August 8 statement that Russian officials drop all charges against Kara-Murza and repeal the "abusive" law that underpins the latest accusation.
"It is now a pattern for the Kremlin to throw its critics behind bars on spurious charges and then continue to add new bogus charges against them to keep them there," HRW quoted its Europe and Central Asia director, Hugh Williamson, as saying. "The new charge against Kara-Murza is a blatant attempt to instill more fear among Russia’s civil society and deter it from mobilizing against the Kremlin and its war against Ukraine."
A longtime Kremlin-critic who has survived at least two apparent poisonings, Kara-Murza was already in jail after he was arrested in April for allegedly spreading false information about the Russian Army's activities in Ukraine.
On August 9, a Moscow court extended his detention until October 12, Interfax reported quoting the court's press service, on a charge of deliberately disseminating false information in a speech on March 15 to Arizona lawmakers.
According to his lawyer Vadim Prokhorov, Kara-Murza is now charged with holding a Moscow conference in October to support Russian political prisoners that was sponsored by the foreign-based Free Russia Foundation. That group has been recognized as "undesirable" in the country.
The new charge carries a maximum penalty of four years in prison, according to HRW.
"The fake charges against Kara-Murza are purely politically motivated, and he should be immediately and unconditionally released, as should the many other Russians prosecuted on outrageous 'fake news,' 'undesirable,' and similar charges," Williamson said. "The Russian authorities need to stop misusing and manipulating the justice system in their desperate efforts to stomp out dissent and opposition."
The "undesirable organization" law, adopted in 2015, was part of a series of regulations pushed by the Kremlin that squeezed many nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations that received funding from foreign sources -- mainly from Europe and the United States.
Russian lawmakers have since dramatically widened the scope of the law, including to bar Russian nationals and organizations anywhere in the world from taking part in activities of such "undesirable" groups.
A close associate of slain opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, Kara-Murza fell deathly ill on two separate occasions in Moscow -- in 2015 and 2017-- with symptoms consistent with poisoning.
Tissue samples smuggled out of Russia by his relatives were turned over to the FBI, which investigated his case as one of "intentional poisoning."
U.K. Says Russian Advances 'Less Than Planned' As Kyiv Cites Invaders' Ongoing Offensive
Russia has been "reinforcing defenses" in southern Ukraine while keeping up attacks on Ukrainian positions in the eastern Donetsk region but has only managed to advance about 10 kilometers in the past month on its "most successful axis" there, according to U.K. military intelligence.
In its latest regular assessment, on August 9, British Defense Intelligence said Russian forces had not advanced more than three kilometers elsewhere in Donetsk, one of the two eastern regions where Russia-backed separatists have held large swaths of territory for the past eight years.
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Such a pace is "almost certainly significantly less than planned," the intelligence added.
"Despite its continued heavy use of artillery in these areas, Russia has not been able to generate capable combat infantry in sufficient numbers to secure more substantial advances," it said.
British intelligence previously warned on August 8 that Russia was using anti-personnel mines in an effort to defend and hold its defense lines, with resulting risks to both the military and local civilian populations.
The Ukrainian Army's General Staff said early on August 9 that a Russian offensive is continuing toward the hub cities of Bakhmut and Avdiyivka in the eastern Donetsk region as the enemy tries to inflict "maximum losses" on Ukrainian forces.
It said the Russian Air Force was bombarding military facilities in the direction of Donetsk in support of artillery and other ground operations aimed at dislodging Ukrainian units from the front lines.
Battlefield reports from either side in the rapidly developing conflict are difficult to confirm.
But Kyiv's military planners said their forces had repelled reconnaissance and offensive operations in a handful of settlements around Ivano-Daryivka, Bakhmut, and Zaitseve.
They said Russian forces had withdrawn after unsuccessful pushes around Avdiyivka and Krasnohorivka.
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Kyiv said two Russian warships armed with Kalibr cruise missiles are poised for battle off Ukraine's Black Sea coast.
Meanwhile, international concern persisted over the weekend shelling of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant over potential for disaster at Europe's largest atomic facility.
The head of the Ukrainian nuclear power company Enerhoatom has urged that Zaporizhzhya be declared a military-free zone to avoid nuclear catastrophe.
Zaporizhzhya was seized early in the five-month-old invasion but continues to be manned by Ukrainian staff.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that "any attack to a nuclear plant is a suicidal thing" in calling on August 8 for international inspectors to be given access to Zaporizhzhya.
The Russian-installed head of the local administration was quoted by Interfax as saying on August 8 that the facility was operating "in normal mode."
Washington and the World Bank announced more support for Ukraine on the heels of U.S. President Joe Biden's committing this week to the single largest package of security assistance under his so-called drawdown authority with $1 billion in aid that includes long-range weapons and medical transport vehicles.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) said on August 8 that Washington would provide $4.5 billion more in economic funding, nearly doubling the budgetary support so far since Russia's invasion began in February.
The World Bank said it will implement the U.S. grant, which it said is aimed at urgent needs including health-care, pensions, and social payments.
Also, Reuters cited a document in which Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, and the United Nations pledged to ensure a 10-nautical-mile buffer zone for ships exporting Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea.
The long-awaited procedures are part of intense international efforts to unblock millions of tons of grain stuck at Ukrainian ports since the invasion began.
With reporting by Reuters
Russia Freezes U.S. Inspections Of Its Nuclear Arsenal Under New START
Russia has informed the United States of a freeze on U.S. inspections of its nuclear weapons under the New START arms control treaty, claiming Western sanctions have hampered similar inspections of U.S. facilities by Russian monitors.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said the sanctions on Russian flights imposed by the United States and its allies over Russia's invasion of Ukraine along with visa restrictions and other obstacles have effectively made it impossible for Russian military experts to visit U.S. nuclear weapons sites.
It said the conditions "create unilateral advantages for the United States and effectively deprive the Russian Federation of the right to conduct inspections on American territory."
The United States had no immediate response to the move.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said the freeze is temporary and allowed under the pact "in exceptional cases."
It noted that Russia "highly values" the New START treaty and said it remains "fully committed" to complying with all its provisions.
It also said that after the problems are resolved Russia will "immediately lift the exemptions from inspection activities that we have announced."
The ministry also urged a "thorough study of all existing problems in this area, the successful settlement of which would allow a return to full-scale application as soon as possible of all verification mechanisms of the treaty."
The New START treaty, signed in 2010 by President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, limits each country to no more than 1,550 deployed nuclear warheads and 700 deployed missiles and bombers, and envisages sweeping on-site inspections to verify compliance.
Just days before the New START was due to expire in February 2021, Russia and the United States agreed to extend it for another five years.
With reporting by AP and Reuters
Turkey Warns Armenia Against 'New Provocations' Over Nagorno-Karabakh
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has called on Armenia to "refrain from new provocations" several days after Yerevan and Baku traded accusations over an escalation of violence in Nagorno-Karabakh that left at least three people dead.
Speaking at a gathering of Turkish diplomats in Ankara on August 8, Cavusoglu reiterated his country’s vision of peace in the South Caucasus region.
"Since the end of the war, Turkey continues to make efforts to ensure peace in the region," Cavusoglu said, alluding to the deadly six-week war between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding areas that ended with a Moscow-brokered cease-fire in November 2020.
Backed by Turkey, an archfoe of Armenia, Azerbaijan gained control of swathes of territory that had been controlled by ethnic Armenians since the former Soviet republics fought a war over Nagorno-Karabakh in the 1990s.
"Now we are talking not about Azerbaijan's occupied territories, displaced people, refugees, and a conflict that can start again at any moment, but about regional peace and cooperation," Cavusoglu said. "We again call on Armenia to refrain from participating in new provocations [against Azerbaijan in Karabakh]."
On August 3, ethnic Armenian authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh said that two Armenian soldiers were killed and nearly two dozen others wounded in what they described as an attack by Azerbaijani forces against their military positions along the Lachin corridor conducted with the use of drones, mortars, and grenade launchers.
The Lachin corridor connects Armenia to Nagorno-Karabakh and is currently controlled by Russian peacekeepers under the terms of the 2020 cease-fire.
Baku, for its part, said the operation was in retaliation for the killing of one Azerbaijani soldier by ethnic Armenian forces in the area on August 1.
Azerbaijan also claimed to have captured some strategic heights in the mountainous region overlooking the Lachin corridor.
Nagorno-Karabakh's ethnic Armenian leader Arayik Harutiunian ordered a "partial mobilization" of army reservists in the wake of the incidents. However, the situation did not further escalate amid reported agreements that ethnic Armenians would be leaving several villages along the Lachin corridor that are to be handed over to Azerbaijan as part of the cease-fire agreement.
Despite what appears to be a deescalation of conflict in keeping with calls by Russia, the United States, and the European Union, the situation in and around Nagorno-Karabakh remains relatively tense as Armenians and Azerbaijanis continue to accuse each other of regular cease-fire violations.
Armenia said one of its soldiers was wounded along the border with Azerbaijan on August 6, a claim denied by Azerbaijan but confirmed by the Russian Defense Ministry in its latest news bulletin on the Nagorno-Karabakh peacekeeping operation.
Turkey, which is Azerbaijan's top military and political ally and has no diplomatic relations with Armenia, has been engaged in a normalization process with Yerevan since late last year.
Ankara, however, has made it clear that establishing diplomatic relations and opening borders with Armenia depends on Yerevan's acceptance of Baku's key demands.
Commenting on the prospect of normalizing Turkish-Armenian relations in July, Cavusoglu said that Yerevan should specifically negotiate a peace accord sought by Baku and open a land corridor to Azerbaijan's Nakhichevan exclave.
Azerbaijan and Armenia have been locked in a conflict over Azerbaijan's breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh for years.
Nagorno-Karabakh, which had been populated mainly by ethnic Armenians, declared independence from Azerbaijan amid a 1988-94 war that claimed an estimated 30,000 lives and displaced hundreds of thousands of people.
Internationally mediated negotiations with the involvement of the OSCE's so-called Minsk Group -- co-chaired by France, Russia, and the United States -- failed to result in a resolution before war broke out again in September 2020.
In the aftermath of the war that killed more than 6,500 people, Armenia agreed to hand over three districts ringing Nagorno-Karabakh that had been under Armenian control since the 1990s, including the Lachin corridor, and Russia deployed some 2,000 peacekeepers to oversee the truce.
With reporting by RFE/RL Armenian Service correspondent Armen Koloyan
- By RFE/RL
U.S. Seeks To Seize $90 Million Jet Belonging To Russian Oligarch
The United States has obtained a warrant to seize an Airbus jet owned by Russian oligarch Andrei Skoch, the Justice Department says.
The aircraft, valued at $90 million, is currently in Kazakhstan, according to an affidavit in support of the seizure warrant.
The warrant was signed by a U.S. district judge in New York after a federal agent submitted the affidavit, which also said Skoch was the owner of the Airbus "through a series of shell companies and trusts tied to his romantic partner."
Skoch, who is a member of the Russian State Duma, has been designated for sanctions since 2018 for alleged "long-standing ties to Russian organized criminal groups."
Further sanctions were imposed on him and his assets following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The Justice Department said after the Treasury Department designated Skoch in 2018 and continuing through 2021, U.S. dollar transactions were made to pay for the registration of the Airbus in Aruba and for aviation insurance premiums -- each necessary to maintain and operate the Airbus.
The United States and European Union have stepped up a crackdown on Russian oligarchs following Russian leader Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
They have moved to seize luxury estates, superyachts, and aircraft of Russian billionaires known to have ties to Putin in an effort to pressure people close to him and in turn influence his decisions on the war.
The United States had already revealed it was seeking to seize a $156 million superyacht belonging to Skoch. The 98-meter yacht is registered in the Cayman Islands but has most recently been docked at Port Rashid in Dubai.
With reporting by AFP and AP
Ally Of Armenian PM Downplays Armenian-Russian 'Differences' Over Peacekeepers
An Armenian pro-government lawmaker has denied any major differences between Yerevan and Moscow over the role of Russian peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh following deadly clashes in the disputed region last week.
Vigen Khachatrian, a member of the ruling Civil Contract faction led by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian, said on August 8 that there was no "tension" or "differences" with the Russian peacekeeping operation that has overseen a Moscow-brokered cease-fire between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces since November 2020.
The deadly clashes broke out between ethnic Armenian and Azerbaijani forces in early August along the Lachin corridor, an area that links Armenia to Nagorno-Karabakh and which is under the control of Russian peacekeepers as part the trilateral cease-fire deal that ended a six-month war in 2020 between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding regions.
Following the renewed fighting last week that reportedly left two Armenian and one Azerbaijani soldier dead, Armenia accused Azerbaijan of violating the cease-fire, and Pashinian on August 4 called for "adjusting" the Russian peacekeeping operation.
Azerbaijan has denied any cease-fire violations in or around Karabakh and accused Armenia of violating the agreement. The situation in the Lachin corridor and the "line of contact" monitored by Russian peacekeepers had been relatively calm since March.
Pashinian in particular suggested that the Russian contingent could be given a "broader international mandate."
"If we see that solutions are not possible in a trilateral [Russian-Armenian-Azerbaijani] format, we will have to think about activating additional international mechanisms," Pashinian said on August 4.
The following day, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Moscow had not received any concrete proposals for any changes to the peacekeeping mandate from Pashinian and said that Russian peacekeepers were "making every effort to stabilize the situation on the ground."
However, Armenian Foreign Ministry spokesman Vahan Hunanian said later on August 5 that in February 2021 the Armenian side submitted written concerns about the activities of the Russian peacekeeping contingent to Russia's top leadership, with the aim of improving efficiency and avoiding conflict in the future.
Armenia’s Foreign Ministry has not yet disclosed details of the 2021 document it says was submitted to Russia.
The exchange between the Armenian and Russian officials gave rise to speculation about a growing rift between Yerevan and Moscow.
Civil Contract lawmaker Khachatrian, however, said on August 8 it was more a lack of understanding.
"I don't think that the Foreign Ministry should publish the contents of every document. What was said is as much as could be said," he said.
Later on August 8, the Kremlin said in a statement that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Pashinian had discussed the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh by telephone.
Gegham Manukian, a member of the opposition Hayastan parliamentary faction who last year joined calls for Pashinian to step down following Armenia's defeat in the 2020 war, said it was unclear how the Armenian side envisions ways of raising the effectiveness of the Russian peacekeeping operation.
However, he did outline how his faction sees the situation.
"We should first discuss the issue of raising the number of Russian peacekeepers [deployed in Nagorno-Karabakh]," he said. "Secondly, we should reconsider the way the Russian force is deployed."
Baku and Yerevan have been locked in a conflict over Azerbaijan's breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh for years.
Armenian-backed separatists seized the mainly Armenian-populated region from Azerbaijan during a war in the early 1990s that killed some 30,000 people. Diplomatic efforts to settle the conflict between the two former Soviet republics brought little progress.
A multinational peacekeeping operation was discussed as part of the peace process before the renewed outbreak of war in 2020. But after Russia brokered the cease-fire, fellow OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs the United States and France welcomed Moscow's peacekeeping operation.
With reporting by Naira Nalbandian of RFE/RL's Armenian Service
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BROOKLYN, Mich. (AP) — LeBron James aims to give students at his I Promise School opportunities they may not have otherwise.
Recently, the NBA superstar’s mission shifted into another gear.
James Bromsey III, a sixth-grader at James’ school in Akron, Ohio, was given behind-the-scenes access before NASCAR’s race Sunday at Michigan International Speedway.
It was a fitting way to celebrate a student, whose father died four years ago. James Bromsey II shared a dream with family and friends that his son would be in the Akron Soap Box Derby, an event that dates to 1934.
“My son was six months old when his dad said he was going to be in the soap box derby,” Tomika Pope recalled.
Bromsey fulfilled a promise to participate in the event in June. He was awarded a VIP experience by Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing, which put a paint job on Chris Buescher’s No. 17 Ford to include logos, colors and words associated with the LeBron James Family Foundation.
Bromsey rode in a pace car, climbed up the spotter’s stand and had a meet-and-greet session with Buescher.
“When did you do your first flip? he asked Buescher, who said he had not flipped, but did recently have his car catch on fire. Buescher went on to tell his guests that his dad got him started in racing.
“Dad was into racing, too,” Bromsey said quietly.
During a tour of RFK’s hauler, which included a peek through an overhead opening at the space where the team stores its two cars, Bromsey’s aunt Tracy Gholston was almost brought to tears. Gholston said her brother died in 2018, shortly after a bout with pneumonia.
“He could have led this tour,” she said, choking up. “It’s so emotional to see how God put this all together.”
Bromsey added: “He would be telling you everything about all the cars.”
Bromsey also was given access to the garage area, where he posed for pictures and pointed toward the I Promise School logo on Buescher’s car. He later walked behind the Mustang as it was pushed to the track and watched as Buescher finished 16th in the 37-car race won by Kevin Harvick in the No. 4 Ford.
James is a minority owner in Fenway Sports Group, a parent company of RFK Racing. He opened the I Promise School, which is at full capacity with third to eighth-graders, four years ago in a partnership with his family foundation and Akron City Schools, aiming to support kids facing the same problems he had during a challenging childhood.
Before the race, James wished Buescher luck on Twitter and celebrated Bromsey’s experience.
“For James to have this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity at the track is amazing,” James said. “He’s an incredible kid with a love for racing. We wanted to show him that anything is possible when you go out and chase your dreams. And with the No. 17 car representing all of us, we want all the kids from Akron to know that nothing is out of reach for them.”
Did a day at the track inspire Bromsey to someday become a NASCAR driver?
“I’ll stick to the soap box derby,” he said, with a grin.
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Stifel raised the price target for the Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) stock from “a Hold” to “a Buy”. The rating was released on July 20, 2022, according to finviz. We previously noted in another research note published on July 20, 2022 by Wolfe Research that reiterated the stock to an Outperform with a price target of $251 for NFLX stock. The research report from Robert W. Baird has reiterated the stock to Neutral, with a price target set at $240. The stock was reiterated by Pivotal Research Group, who disclosed in a research note on July 20, 2022, to Sell and set the price objective to $175. In their research brief published July 20, 2022, Piper Sandler analysts reiterated the Netflix Inc. stock to Neutral with a price target of $215.
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The share price of Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) raised 2.96% to close Monday’s market session at $233.49, higher as compared to yesterday’s close. The stock price fluctuated between $226.41 and $241.96 throughout the trading session with the volume trading being 10966212 shares, which represented a significant variation when compared to the three months average volume of 10.99 million shares. The firm’s stock price fluctuated 3.22% within the last five trades and 24.88% within the last 30 trades, which was a significant change from the beginning of this year. Despite the fact that the share price decreased -43.07% in the last 6 months and 29.02% was added to its value over the previous 3 months. NFLX stock is trading at a margin of 11.54%, 19.54% and -39.66% apart from the 20-Day, 50-Day and 200-Day Simple Moving Average prices.
As of the close of trading, NFLX deals in the Communication Services domain. The stock is trading -66.69 percent below its 52-week high and 43.50 percent above its 52-week low. For example, looking both at the price and the high and low measurements of 52 weeks will give you a clearer picture of the direction the price is heading. The firm’s Weighted Alpha is -40.1. A positive weighted alpha indicates the firm has done well over the course of the year, whereas one below 0 indicates that the firm has done poorly.
What Does Netflix Inc.’s Profitability and Valuation Ratios Tell Us About the Stock?
With regard to the profitability of the company, the operating margin is currently at 19.10 percent and the profit margin is 16.40 percent, and the company has reported a gross margin of 40.60 percent. The profit margin, also known as the revenue ratio or gross profit ratio, is an efficiency figure used to estimate the business’s profitability by comparing net income and sales. The higher the number, the more profits are generated for the company and vice versa.
The stock’s market cap achieved a total value of $105.27 billion as of the last trading session. Market capitalization is the total value of all outstanding shares of a corporation and it is used to measure a company’s market value. The price-to-earnings ratio for Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) is 21.85. The price-to-earnings ratio is a method of assessing corporate values by comparing them to their per-share profit. Forward P/E stands at 21.73. Forward price-to-earnings is calculated using predicted earnings for the next financial year’s P/E determination. The stock has achieved an effective Price-to-Sales Ratio of 3.39 that mirrors the cost to be found for sales by the market. The firm managed a Price-to-Book ratio of 5.44, which equates the market value of a stock with its book value.
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By Dan Walsh
Ivan Cleary has dismissed the latest accusation of “arrogance” against his side as Penrith bid to equal the quickest minor premiership win in rugby league history.
Thursday’s clash against the Storm comes as the latest in a brewing rivalry between the 2020 grand finalists, following Melbourne chairman Matt Tripp’s attack on the “arrogance of that club and their perceived status in the game at the moment.”
Cleary gave the comments short shrift on Wednesday as Penrith put aside the drama around five-eighth Jaeman Salmon to focus on securing the club’s fourth minor premiership and second during Cleary’s tenure.
Should the Panthers down Melbourne and the second-placed Cowboys fall to the resurgent Roosters at the SCG on Saturday, Penrith would secure the J.J. Giltinan Shield with three rounds remaining.
According to Champion Data, it would be a feat matched only once in almost 50 years, by eventual 2000 premiers Brisbane, and one never bettered.
All six of the sides that secured first place three weeks out of the finals went on to win that year’s title. It’s a roll call includes some of the greatest club sides ever assembled in Brisbane (2000), Roosters (1974 and 1975), the Dragons (1965 and 1959) and Rabbitohs (1926).
Between them, the Storm and Panthers have won the past four minor premierships, with Penrith deputy chairman Greg Alexander turning the rivalry nuclear last week when he claimed Melbourne is responsible for the dangerous tackling techniques that have surfaced in the past 20 years.
Tripp’s branding of the Panthers as “arrogant” came as a result and follows similar accusations from Canberra in the past 18 months.
“Absolutely unfair,” Cleary said of Tripp’s comments.
“I’m not here to judge anyone else. But I know that Brandy [Alexander] is an outstanding commentator and a decorated figure in the game. If anyone’s able to have an opinion it’s Brandy.
“Most of his opinions are spot on. But that was his opinion in a completely different role. So, I don’t think it’s fair for everyone else at our club to be labelled what we were, but these things happen sometimes.
“I don’t know why people say it. All I can say is I don’t believe it’s true. The consistency that we’ve shown in the last three years. I don’t think you can do that if you’re disrespectful or arrogant.
“We’re proud of our club and our boys. We’re probably not perfect, but I like to think we’re doing a decent job.”
Storm coach Craig Bellamy had nothing but praise for the Panthers as “the dominant side of the last few years”.
Both sides will be without representative halves with Nathan Cleary (suspension), Jarome Luai (knee) and Jahrome Hughes (shoulder) unavailable.
Salmon starts in the halves again for Penrith after Ricky Stuart was fined and suspended for his unprecedented attack on the young playmaker last weekend.
While Cleary conceded Salmon was “a bit rattled on the night” he said the 23-year-old had shown few ill effects at training this week.
The Panthers consider the matter finalised now the NRL has sanctioned Stuart but would support any legal action taken by Salmon and his family should they pursue it.
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