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ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge on Friday said Sen. Lindsey Graham’s appearance before a special grand jury investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to influence the 2020 election in Georgia should not be delayed to allow him to continue to challenge it in court.
Earlier this week, U.S. District Judge Leigh Martin May ordered Graham to honor his subpoena for the special grand jury. Graham’s attorneys appealed that order to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and asked May to stay her ruling and prohibit the special grand jury from questioning him while that appeal plays out. May declined that request in her order on Friday.
“Under the circumstances, further delay of Senator Graham’s testimony would greatly compound the overall delay in carrying out the grand jury’s investigation,” May wrote. “Further delay thus poses a significant risk of overall hindrance to the grand jury’s investigation, and the Court therefore finds that granting a stay would almost certainly result in material injury to the grand jury and its investigation.”
Graham is currently scheduled to testify on Tuesday. But he still has another motion to stay May’s ruling pending before the 11th Circuit.
Representatives for Graham did not immediately respond to messages on Friday seeking comment.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis opened the investigation early last year and in July filed petitions seeking to compel testimony from seven Trump advisers and associates, including Graham.
Former New York mayor and Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, who’s been told he’s a target of the investigation, testified before the special grand jury for nearly six hours on Wednesday. Two other lawyers who advised Trump, John Eastman and Jenna Ellis, were ordered this week to appear before the panel later this month. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp filed a motion Wednesday seeking to quash a subpoena for his testimony.
The investigation, originally prompted by a Jan. 2, 2021, phone call between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, is one of several pending legal threats Trump faces. Willis has said she’s considering seeking to compel the former president himself to testify before the special grand jury.
Attorneys for Graham, a South Carolina Republican, have argued that a provision of the U.S. Constitution provides absolute protection against a senator being questioned about legislative acts. But the judge found there are “considerable areas of potential grand jury inquiry” that fall outside that provision’s scope. The judge also rejected Graham’s argument that the principle of “sovereign immunity” protects a U.S. senator from being summoned by a state prosecutor.
Graham also argued that Willis, a Democrat, had not demonstrated extraordinary circumstances necessary to compel testimony from a high-ranking official. But the judge disagreed, finding that Willis had shown “extraordinary circumstances and a special need” for Graham’s testimony on issues related to an alleged attempt to influence or disrupt the election in Georgia.
Willis and her team have said they want to ask Graham about two phone calls they say he made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and his staff shortly after the 2020 general election. During those calls, Graham asked about “reexamining certain absentee ballots cast in Georgia in order to explore the possibility of a more favorable outcome for former President Donald Trump,” Willis wrote in a petition.
Graham also “made reference to allegations of widespread voter fraud in the November 2020 election in Georgia, consistent with public statements made by known affiliates of the Trump Campaign,” she wrote.
Republican and Democratic state election officials across the country, courts and even Trump’s attorney general found there was no evidence of voter fraud sufficient to affect the outcome of the election.
In asking May to stay her decision, Graham’s lawyers argued that his rights to immunity would be violated the moment he was questioned.
Willis’ team responded that delaying Graham’s testimony would harms the investigation. In addition to facts he knows, he’s also expected to shed light on other sources of information that the special grand jury may want to pursue, they wrote. So waiting to talk to him “could ultimately delay” the entire investigation.
In the separate motion for a stay filed with the 11th Circuit, Graham’s attorneys argue that on Wednesday Chief Senior Assistant District Attorney Donald Wakeford agreed to postpone the scheduled testimony pending the outcome of the appeal. They included a voicemail Wakeford left for Graham attorney Brian Lea.
Lea says in a declaration filed with the motion that later that same afternoon Wakeford confirmed Graham’s grand jury appearance wouldn’t move forward until the appeal was resolved. But then Wakeford sent an email 20 minutes later “stating that he did not ‘want to characterize the contents of our response before it is written,’” Lea wrote.
Lea said he reached out to Wakeford several more times by phone and email but got no response until Wakeford sent an email at 4:40 a.m. Friday saying the district attorney’s office intended to oppose the stay and would argue that Graham should appear before the special grand jury as planned.
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Associated Press writer Meg Kinnard in Columbia, South Carolina, contributed reporting.
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Rose Bay’s $45 million trophy home Villa Florida subject to demolition DA
In the late Nineteen Nineties the 22-room mansion was renovated by architect Michael Suttor when owned by mining trade businessman Jack Horseman, the latter of whom offered it in 2000 for $9 million.
Veteran stockbroker Brent Potts and his spouse Pauline had been the earlier house owners till they offered it final 12 months for $45 million – 5 occasions what they paid for it in 2000 – making it the best home sale of the 12 months alongside the Rosemont property in Woollahra.
The DA to demolish it to make method for a brand new dwelling with a pool and related website works was lodged this week, however particulars on the brand new home stay unavailable till late this month.
Toll collector’s windfall
Scott Charlton, the silver fox chief govt of Sydney’s largest toll street operator, Transurban, has secretly offloaded his waterfront Castlecrag residence for a suburb excessive of $23.5 million, and in a simultaneous settlement popped up on Mosman’s high-end title information.
Charlton’s newly bought Mosman digs is a five-bedroom home on a waterfront reserve at Clifton Gardens, for which he paid $15.5 million together with his accomplice Amanda Street, the previous Transurban firm secretary who till not too long ago was firm secretary at Afterpay.
The couple’s Clifton Gardens buy, by Simeon Partners’ Richard Simeon, exhibits how effectively Mosman’s values rallied after a quick market shock in early 2020, when the home subsequent door offered for $8 million to tech entrepreneur Nick Cloete.
Charlton’s Castlecrag sale smashes the suburb excessive by greater than $10 million, final set in 2015 when former Tenix chairman Paul Salteri offered the Penhallow property for $12.8 million, and ends nearly 20 years possession because it final traded for $4.525 million when offered by BCI Media founder and chairman Matthias Krups.
The keys have been handed to Castlecrag native Sara Mohseni, whose buy value will make benchmark if billionaire TPG Telecom founder David Teoh, who lives subsequent door, ever decides to promote the household residence.
Banking on Vaucluse
The Vaucluse residence of former NAB chief govt and Rugby Australia chairman Cameron Clyne and his spouse Melinda was slipped on to the market on Friday.
This is the five-bedroom home bought in his spouse Melinda’s identify in 2008 for $6.15 million when Clyne took up the job because the financial institution boss, then aged simply 40.
Raine & Horne’s Albert Sassoon has landed the itemizing, coming quickly after he offered the close by designer residence of cricketer Steve Smith and his partner Dani Willis for $12.38 million.
Bronte’s boom-style manor
Bronte’s Victorian Italianate manor, Wycombe, owned by Kate Smith, spouse of Travelogic founder and former proprietor Craig Smith, goes to public sale on September 17.
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Buyers have been given a information of $11.5 million by PPD’s Alexander Phillips for the Eighties-built mansion, billed as a “rare survivor of boom-style architecture” and a up to date renovation full with a pool, fireplace pit and sunken trampoline.
The couple bought it a decade in the past, paying $5.6 million, however are reportedly downsizing to a $17 million penthouse in Danny Avidan’s Kalypso growth in Tamarama.
The couple’s former residence in Tamarama was offered a 12 months in the past for $14.3 million to Citi’s London markets head Marcus Satha, and late final 12 months they purchased a Whale Beach home for $9 million.
Woollahra household heirloom
Restaurateur Marc Polese, proprietor of the legendary Sydney establishment Beppi’s, based by his dad Beppi in 1956, has listed a terrace in Woollahra for a September 7 public sale.
The four-bedroom Victorian home with a six-metre frontage has been held by a household belief since 1979, when it was purchased by Polese’s late grandparents Angelo and Teresa Zaccaria for $160,000 from Marrickville publican Bruce Armstrong.
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Polese is enterprise a serious rebuild of his Vaucluse residence, initially bought by his mother and father in 1985 for $800,000, and which in 2019 scored council approval for a $6 million knock-down-rebuild to a Tzannes architectural design.
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Tyrese Fornah fires Reading to hard-earned victory over Middlesbrough
By PA Staff published
Reading secured their third successive Championship victory at home this season with a hard-earned 1-0 win over Middlesbrough.
In a mostly even first period, Reading went in front just before the half-hour through a fine 20-yard drive from loanee Tyrese Fornah.
Although Boro dominated much of the second half, they proved toothless in attack and the hosts held on reasonably comfortably.
Reading’s turnaround in form, sparked by a 3-0 win over Championship leaders Blackburn on Wednesday, had followed a 4-0 defeat at Rotherham.
First-choice goalkeeper Joe Lumley was unavailable, the Middlesbrough loanee ineligible to face his parent club, so summer signing Dean Bouzanis came in for his league debut.
Boro had failed to win in their opening four league outings and also went out of the Carabao Cup first round – 1-0 at home to League One Barnsley.
However, three of those league games had finished in draws, including 2-2 at Stoke on Wednesday, and it was the visitors who threatened first, in the opening minute, with Bouzanis quickly into the action.
Marcus Forss found space in the home area but his effort was weak and Bouzanis saved with ease.
Reading replied with a spell of good pressure, culminating in an excellent chance for winger Junior Hoilett.
The Canada international cleverly cut in from the left flank before unleashing a powerful shot that Boro keeper Zack Steffen did well to parry away to safety.
It was a warning for Middlesbrough but they failed to heed it, with Reading going ahead in the 28th minute.
Andy Yiadom’s cross was only half-cleared and Fornah, on loan from Nottingham Forest, thundered in the first competitive goal of his career with a superbly executed finish on the half-volley.
This time, Steffen barely moved.
Reading began strongly after the interval, with Yiadom again proving troublesome along the right flank.
His clever run to the byline – and then pass – set up Shane Long but the veteran striker totally miscued his attempted shot.
Boro still offered little going forward, though half-time substitute Matt Crooks did give them more of a physical presence up front.
However, too often the promising Middlesbrough moves broke down on the edge of the home area.
Reading broke quickly – and often – and Jeff Hendrick saw an ambitious long-range effort deflected behind for a corner, which came to nothing.
Boro did finally fashion a decent chance, with about 20 minutes left, but Duncan Watmore blazed over Bouzanis’ crossbar after being released by Paddy McNair.
And as Reading retreated to protect their lead, Middlesbrough launched a late rally that could have produced an equaliser.
Bouzanis saved well from a firm header by defender Darragh Lenihan and then Alex Mowatt fired wastefully over.
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MISHAWAKA, Ind. (AP) — Indiana Republicans on Saturday picked Rudy Yakym to replace U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski on the November ballot, after Yakym won the endorsement of the late Indiana congresswoman's husband.
Yakym will be a heavy favorite in the November election against Democrat Paul Steury, a high school science teacher from Goshen, and Libertarian William Henry. He will run both to complete Walorski’s term that ends this year and for a full two-year term. Both elections will be on the November ballot.
Yakym received the most votes Saturday from Republican precinct committee members for their party’s nomination in northern Indiana’s solidly GOP 2nd Congressional District. He won the general election ballot vacancy through the balloting process and the special election ballot vacancy via acclamation, Indiana Republican Party spokesman Luke Thomas said in an email.
Yakym, 38, is an executive with Elkhart distribution company Kem Krest and was a longtime political ally of Walorski, including working as finance director for her first winning congressional campaign in 2012.
He overcame a field of a dozen candidates, including derailing a political comeback bid by former Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill, whose 2020 reelection bid failed after he faced allegations that he drunkenly groped four women during a party.
Walorski’s husband, Dean Swihart, endorsed Yakym this past week for the Republican nomination, calling him “a political outsider who has what it takes to stand up to the Pelosi-Biden agenda.”
About 500 Republican activists were eligible to vote in the caucus Saturday.
Democrats now hold a narrow 220-210 majority in the U.S. House, with Walorski’s death giving it five vacancies.
Walorski, 58, was a passenger in an SUV with two members of her congressional office staff when it crossed the centerline of a northern Indiana state highway and collided with an oncoming vehicle on Aug. 3, the Elkhart County Sheriff’s Office said. The two staff members and the other driver were also killed.
Yakym portrayed himself as someone who would continue Walorski’s work on conservative causes.
He overcame criticism over his ties to Indiana’s Republican establishment, including work as a member of Gov. Eric Holcomb’s 2016 gubernatorial transition team and with Sen. Todd Young’s 2022 campaign finance committee. Holcomb also appointed Yakym to the state Judicial Nominating Commission, which selects finalists for appointments to the state Supreme Court and Court of Appeals.
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Can a violin be an instrument for a scam?
You may have seen people playing Bach or Vivaldi on the street, inviting passersby to toss them a coin or crumpled bill in appreciation.
But there are reports from across the country that many of the performers are not violinists, but flimflam artists. People called finger-syncers who set up on a street, flick on a speaker, and slide a bow over an electronic violin while a pre-recorded track plays. These forged Joshua Bells leave out instrument cases to receive money, often with signs saying they need help for rent or medical bills.
But the website of the UK's Classic FM and other media report that police in Florida, Maryland, Michigan, Texas, and Arizona have issued alerts, and caution that many of these ersatz Itzhak Perlmans are part of a growing national hustle.
David Wallace, chair of the Strings Department at Boston's Berklee College of Music, says he has received videos from friends around the country asking if a violinist was really playing — they weren't — and he worries that true musicians may suffer for this scam.
"Busking has been a longstanding way for musicians to earn money or to make an honest living for centuries," he told us. "But when people become skeptical about whether a musician is legitimate, they become more cautious about giving to any musician."
We seem surrounded by schemes these days. Text messages from strangers who say, "Miss you." Emails that invite you to claim winnings in lotteries you never entered, or collect spurious unpaid debts. There are tweeting bots, and deep-fake Tom Cruises, and so-called tech-support sites that ask you to grant them brief remote access to repair your computer. What could possibly go wrong?
A recent report in The New York Times says more than $100 billion of federal pandemic relief funds might have been paid to sham companies and schemers. And of course, about a third of the American people still tell pollsters that the 2020 election was rigged, a lie that has been used to raise hundreds of millions of dollars in political donations.
I don't think the duped commuters lose much money in this street violinist scam. But it may be one more raindrop in the storm of schemes that blur our view of what's right in front of us.
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has investigated 31 state governors for corruption and taken 11 of them to court, but the agency has recorded only two convictions, both of whom were pardoned without completing their sentences
On 16 March, barely hours after handing over power to his successor, Charles Soludo, former Anambra State governor, Willie Obiano, was arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Mr Obiano, who had been under the radar of the anti-graft agency, was on his way to Houston, Texas in the United States when he was nabbed by EFCC operatives at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.
Hours after his arrest, the former governor was flown to the EFCC's Abuja headquarters but was released a few days later.
Although the reason for his detention was never announced, reports said Mr Obiano was invited by the commission to explain his alleged involvement in a suspected N42 billion fraud case and misuse of public funds.
The incident made newspaper headlines and elicited a variety of reactions, with many Nigerians and anti-corruption advocates applauding the EFCC for acting swiftly and proactively in the case.
Mr Obiano's arrest was the most recent case of former state governors being detained for alleged graft immediately after leaving office. He was the 31st former governor to be detained by the anti-graft agency soon after leaving office.
However, according to data sourced by Dataphyte, a research and data news platform, only seven of the governors have so far been convicted by the courts from charges bordering on money laundering, fraud, embezzlement, corruption; while one was acquitted.
Despite the low chance of conviction for politically exposed persons (PEP), the Council of State on the recommendation of President Muhammadu Buhari recently pardoned and release two of the convicted former governors from prison - Jolly Nyame of Taraba and Joshua Dariye of Plateau, whose prison terms were upheld by the Supreme Court.
The development enraged anti-corruption activists who had been accusing the Buhari administration of lacking sincerity in its fight against corruption.
One of Nigeria's leading pro-democracy groups, the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD), said in a report last year that what can be considered a 'major win' is when more high-ranking officials accused of graft are prosecuted.
Wilson Uwujaren, the spokesperson for the EFCC, declined to comment when asked about investigations involving previous governors the commission had been investigating over the years without charges and trial.
Mr Uwujaren said he was not in a position to predict or determine when a matter would be heard in court.
"These are matters that are still under investigation and I cannot tell you when a case would be taken to court," he told our reporter in a phone interview.
Rare convictions
Since its establishment, the EFCC has had run-ins with state governors over cases of alleged misappropriation of state funds.
But because the Nigerian constitution confers immunity from any form of trial and conviction on state governors while in office, the anti-graft agency will have to wait until such a state executive leaves office before they can swing into action.
Mr Obiano's arrest came months after a former Imo state governor, Rochas Okorocha, was arrested by the EFCC in a similar fashion.
However, despite the constant media attention given to these arrests, trials frequently go poorly, and convictions have been rare even in egregious cases.
Meanwhile, the graft cases of the others are either ongoing or stalled with many of the accused still holding or seeking election to public offices.
Last year, the EFCC boss, Abdulrasheed Bawa, said 978 corrupt Nigerians were convicted between January and September 2021, insisting that the agency was winning the war on corruption.
While anti-corruption advocates and activists commended this, they urged the agency to do more against top corrupt politicians and other high-ranking officials.
Only two high-profiled public office holders were in the list of nearly the 978 convictions that Mr Bawa cited.
They are Abdulrasheed Maina, the former head of the Pension Task Force, and Farouq Lawan, a former federal senator, who were sentenced to prison over varying degrees of money laundering and bribery, respectively.
PREMIUM TIMES examines some of the stalled cases involving former governors.
1. Abdulaziz Yari - Zamfara
The former Chairman of the Nigerian Governors' Forum, Abdulaziz Yari, was on several occasions grilled by the EFCC for alleged illegal financial dealings and misappropriation of funds. But he has never been taken to court.
PREMIUM TIMES reported in February last year that Mr Yari faced a long interrogation session with detectives at the Lagos office of the EFCC over an alleged attempt to illegally move N300 billion from a corporate account in a new generation bank.
Although details of the transaction were sketchy, sources told this newspaper that Mr Yari gave a lengthy statement to the commission's operatives before he was released late in the evening of 3 February.
PREMIUM TIMES also exclusively reported how the commission again invited Mr Yari to appear for interrogation at its Sokoto office on 8 April.
Similarly, this newspaper reported how Mr Yari allegedly conspired with the embattled Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, in an alleged N84 billion fraud currently being investigated by the EFCC.
Those familiar with the matter at the EFCC told this medium that Mr Yari spent at least $700,000 on a trip to Saudi Arabia for lesser hajj.
It was said the money came from a N20 billion he received from the suspended AGF as a portion of the 13 per cent derivation funds designated for payments to eight oil-producing states.
Earlier on January 26, 2021, a judge of the Federal High Court, Abuja, Ijeoma Ojukwu, ordered the final forfeiture of some funds suspected to be proceeds of corruption found in bank accounts linked to Mr Yari.
2. Theodore Orji - Abia
Theodore Orji, a serving senator and former governor of Abia State who has been under the radar of the anti-corruption agency, was arrested in August 2021 at the Nnamdi International Airport, Abuja alongside his son.
He was granted an administrative bail after hours of interrogation at the EFCC headquarters in Abuja, sources familiar with the case told this newspaper
He was, however, released and asked to return to the EFCC office for further interrogation.
Mr Orji and his sons, Chinedu and Ogbonna, are under EFCC investigation for alleged misappropriation of public funds and money laundering.
The ex-governor was alleged to have received N500 million monthly as security vote for eight years as governor of Abia between 2007 and 2015.
Other allegations against him include alleged mismanagement of a N2 billion Ecological Fund and mismanagement of Sure-P Funds.
The investigation followed a petition dated March 17, 2017, filed by the Fight Corruption: Save Nigeria Group.
The petitioners had accused Mr Orji of diverting "N383 billion revenue from the Federation Account, N55 billion Excess Crude revenue, N2.3 billion Sure-P revenue, N1.8 billion ecological funds, N10.5 billion loan, N12 billion Paris Club refund, N2 billion agricultural loan, and N55 billion ASOPADEC money while in office."
According to the petition, the N500 million the former governor allegedly withdrew monthly was "not part of the security funds expended on the Nigerian Police, the Nigerian Army, DSS, Navy anti-Kidnapping Squad, anti-robbery Squad, purchase of security equipment and vehicles for the security agencies."
The petitioners also accused Mr Orji's son, Chinedu, of owning about 100 accounts in different banks.
3. Tanko Al-Makura - Nasarawa
The EFCC had arrested the former governor of Nasarawa State and serving senator and his wife in July.
The couple was grilled by operatives at the anti-graft agency's headquarters in Abuja.
Mr Al-Makura served as governor between 2011 and 2019 before he was elected into the Senate for Nasarawa South district. He was also a top contender in the APC national chairmanship race earlier this year, which he lost to his predecessor in Nasarawa, Adamu Abdullahi.
Sources who confided in PREMIUM TIMES said a worrying pattern of suspicious structured transactions that suggest money laundering may have caused troubles for Mr Al-Makura.
The EFCC arrested he and his wife on suspicion of involvement in dirty money flow.
PREMIUM TIMES learned that about 55 accounts controlled by the couple and their companies were involved in the suspicious transactions, amounting to billions of naira, when Mr Al-Makura was governor.
Sources said less than $250 was lodged in one of the accounts in the two years preceding his assumption of office, but soon after he became governor, huge deposits started flowing in an apparently structured pattern.
Many deposits into this domiciliary account and others were made by businesses alleged to have carried out contracts for the state government.
4. Godswill Akpabio - Akwa Ibom
The first hint of graft allegations against the former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Godswill Akpabio was in 2015.
After served as governor from May 29, 2007, to May 29, 2015, Mr Akpabio was accused of abusing his position and later entered the anti-corruption authority's records of corrupt persons.
In less than six months after completing his second term, the EFCC arrested the former Governor in October 2015 following a petition by an Abuja-based lawyer and activist, Leo Ekpenyong, accusing Mr Akpabio of looting the Akwa Ibom state treasury.
Mr Akpabio, who served as governor at a time the nation enjoyed robust oil revenue, was accused of diverting over N100 billion from the oil-rich state, an allegation which he has denied.
The allegations include that Mr Akpabio awarded bogus contracts to cronies who used the proceeds to buy several properties for him in Lagos and Abuja.
The allegations include that he acquired some multi-billion assets through surrogates and withdrew about N18 billion from the state's Federal Accounts Allocation Committee in tranches of N10 million and above, and spent over N50 billion state funds during the 2015 general elections.
Mr Akpabio later defected from the opposition Peoples Democratic party to the ruling All Progressive Party (APC) in August 2018. But in April 2021, he was taken into custody again and held at the EFCC headquarters for nearly two hours with five of his aides.
According to Sahara Reporters, Mr Akpabio was alleged to have offered $350,000 as a bribe to Abdulrasheed Bawa, the head of the anti-graft agency. The former minister later denied the allegations.
The corruption allegations that he faced did not discourage Mr Akpabio from contesting the last presidential primaries of the APC in June this year. But he stepped aside for Bola Tinubu, a former Lagos governor who had also been investigated by the EFCC for alleged financial crimes.
5. Abdulfatah Ahmed - Kwara
EFCC arrested the immediate past Governor of Kwara State, Abdulfatah Ahmed, for alleged diversion of N9 billion from the coffers of the Kwara State government while in office between 2011 and 2019.
He was grilled by operatives at the Abuja headquarters of the EFCC in May but released on administrative bail after spending two nights in the custody of the financial crimes agency.
But the EFCC has not put up the case for prosecution.
6 Aliyu Wamakko - Sokoto
After years of back-and-forth allegations of a N15 billion fund between two political allies and former governors of Sokoto State, Attahiru Bafarawa and his successor, Aliyu Wamakko, the former dragged Mr Wamakko, who was his deputy for eight years, to the anti-corruption agency for alleged mismanagement and abuse of office.
Mr Bafarawa's allegations against Mr Wamakko, the sitting senator for Sokoto-North, in a petition of 2019 was over misappropriation during their time in office.
In the petition to the then EFCC zonal head, Ahmed Lateef, at the agency's Zonal Office in Sokoto, Mr Bafarawa asked the EFCC to investigate Mr Wamakko over the N15 billion Mr Bafarawa allegedly left behind in the government's coffers.
In his reaction, Mr Wamakko described the petition as "non-existent" and said it came from "faceless persons".
He said that the allegation was targeted at tarnishing his image, challenging those involved to publish his bank accounts and other details to back their claims.
Mr Wamakko also noted that "the fake and debilitating report was circulated by the same deluded agents of doom and merchants of falsehood in April 2018, but their heinous efforts failed woefully."
Messrs Wamakko and Bafarawa who had both spent eight years together--quarrelled after the state assembly initiated a process to impeach Mr Wamakko for alleged theft.
In 2007, Mr Wamakko ran for governorship position and won after parting ways with Mr Bafarawa and joining the PDP from their All People's Party (APP). He moved to the Senate after serving two-term of eight years as governor.
7. Ali Modu Sheriff - Borno
PREMIUM TIMES had exclusively reported in 2015 how the EFCC invited the former governor of Borno State, Ali Modu Sheriff. He was later granted an administrative bail
Although the anti-graft agency did not disclose why he was arrested, sources had informed this medium that it was related to an allegation that he misappropriated N300 billion his administration received from the Federation Account between 2003 and 2011.
The former governor was again invited in 2018 to the EFCC's head office in Abuja to answer to an allegation of abuse of public office to the tune of $200 million under the guise of enforcing a dubious Boko Haram ceasefire in a neighbouring country in 2014, according to Vanguard newspaper
No charges have been pressed against the former governor in court.
8. Rabiu Kwankwaso - Kano
After shunning multiple invitations, Rabiu Kwankwaso, the immediate past Governor of Kano State, appeared at the EFCC office last October to respond to allegations of fraud against him.
Vanguard reported that Mr Kwankwaso's invitation was connected to a petition by some retired employees of the Kano State Government to the EFCC that the former governor mismanaged pension remittances to the tune of N10 billion between 2011 and 2015, which he diverted to fund a housing project for his cronies.
Sources in the EFCC also told PREMIUM TIMES that the investigation is still on and the possibility of initiating a court action in 2022 cannot be ruled out.
Mr Kwankwaso, a former Minister of Defence, is currently running for president under the New Nigeria People's Party.
9. Willie Obiano - Anambra
Although the details of the EFCC's allegations against Mr Obiano are not yet in the public domain, the commission had last year placed the former governor on its watch list.
According to sources, Mr Obiano was quizzed by EFCC detectives while in custody in March over alleged misappropriation of public funds, including N5 billion Sure-P and N37 billion security vote which was withdrawn in cash.
Part of the money is also said to have been diverted to fund political activities in the state.
A 12-second video clip that has gone viral across social media platforms, had shown Mr Obiano, who was dressed in shorts and a white shirt, drinking water from a bottle in a closed room presumed to be in EFCC custody.
The video has since elicited a wide range of opinions with many Nigerians denouncing it, and demanding an investigation into how it was leaked.
A spokesperson for Mr Obiano described the video footage, showing his principal in his "underpants" in detention, as a witch hunt.'
Since the release of the former governor, there has not been much information on his case.
10. Bukola Saraki - Kwara
A former Acting Chairman of the EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, had said the Commission was investigating Bukola Saraki, a former Senate President, for alleged financial crimes.
The two-term former governor of Kwara State had questioned the motive of the former EFCC boss for opening an investigation into his stint as governor, saying it was a 'witch-hunt' against him.
Like for his successor, Mr Ahmed, the EFCC investigated Mr Saraki for an alleged conspiracy, abuse of office, misappropriation of public funds, theft, and money-laundering.
The EFCC also marked some properties at 15a, 15b and 17 MacDonald Road, Ikoyi, Lagos allegedly belonging to Mr Saraki.
Reacting through his media aide, Yusuph Olaniyonu, Mr Saraki said the agency was only investigating what it had once probed and tagged the agency as 'mischievous.'
The probe started when the agency wrote a letter to the Kwara State Government for a breakdown of Mr Saraki's income and entitlements as governor of the state.
The anti-graft agency advised Mr Saraki not to be shaken "so long as he has no skeletons in his cupboard".
11. Bola Tinubu - Lagos
The EFCC Chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa, in an interview with This Day newspaper last June said the presidential candidate of the APC, Bola Tinubu, is under investigation over assets declaration.
Mr Tinubu's source of wealth has been the subject of controversies with many Nigerians calling for his investigation.
Although the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, denied any plan to investigate Mr Tinubu, a copy of a letter from the EFCC to the Code of Conduct Bureau demanding copies of Mr Tinubu's asset disclosure form had circulated on social media.
According to The Peoples Gazette, an online news medium that broke the news, the letter dated 6 November, 2020, was signed by the then Lagos zonal head, Mr Bawa, who is now the Chairman of the EFCC.
Mr Tinubu has been accused of having interest in Alpha Beta Consulting and diverting Lagos State cash through the company.
In a 40-page document submitted to a Lagos high court in 2020, Dapo Apara, a former managing director of the company, accused Mr Tinubu and Akin Doherty, a former commissioner in Lagos, of money laundering, fraud, tax evasion, and several other corrupt practices.
Deji Adeyanju, the convener of Concerned Nigerians, on 25 October, 2019, had also petitioned the EFCC to probe Mr Tinubu about the source of money delivered in bullion vans to his Ikoyi home on the eve of the 2019 presidential election.
The EFCC had over the years dismissed media questioning regarding Mr Adeyanju's petition against Mr Tinubu's
Lawyer, CSO react
One of the difficulties in the fight against corruption, according to the Country Director CDD, Idayat Hassan, is the amount of effort done by the defence to undermine the anti-corruption body's investigation.
"I think most times, we seem not to talk about it. It is like there has been a perception of the strategy of the defence in most instances to delay cases to choose different routes. And it has often been perfected," Ms Hassan said.
She stated that while the country must maintain its commitment to the battle against corruption, prevention should also be a top priority.
Ms Hassan also demanded that the immunity clause for public officials be repealed, and also, ensure increased financing for anti-corruption authorities.
"I think there is a need to look at challenges and what can actually be done, particularly from the side of the defence. And also the kind of evidence; what kind of evidence is needed to prosecute people, and who are the people?
"Also, for political office holders, because of the immunity clause, it makes it very difficult to get them to the court during their time in office. The removal of the immunity clause is important and it is also a way of addressing this. And the readily available resources allocated to the anti-corruption agencies.
"And moving into the future, our emphasis should be more on prevention. How don't prevent corruption from happening in the first place, and how we can block all those loopholes that have allowed for corruption is important," Mrs Hassan said.
Eluma Asuguwa, a lawyer, said conducting investigations for years without proper prosecution demonstrates that the country is not serious about combating corruption.
Citing the case involving the former Abia governor, Mr Orji, he said the former governor "left power if I am not mistaken in 2016, and this is 2022, seven years later, there is no sign of seriousness on the part of our anti-corruption institutions that investigations would take years.
"And there are plenty of such cases. Also, the slowness of our legal system. If it is taking seven years to conduct an investigation, then we can have in mind that when it gets to court eventually, it will take another 10 years at the high court before you can secure a conviction, such as the case of former governor Uzor Kalu of Abia State after all the years of prosecution he was just convicted two years ago which was later squashed.
"With all these, what it means in Nigeria is that it takes about 20 years to get an alleged culprit to answer for the crime. That does not tell the good of a system that is serious," the lawyer submitted. | https://allafrica.com/stories/202208200223.html | 2022-08-20T19:04:30Z | https://allafrica.com/stories/202208200223.html | false | 3 |
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Kochi, Aug 20 (PTI) Kerala General Education Minister V Sivankutty on Saturday criticised the stand of certain IUML leaders on the state government's gender neutral policy, alleging that they were trying to mislead the people and sought to know why they are afraid of equal opportunity for women in the society.
Slamming the statements of IUML leaders M K Muneer and P M A Salam on the issue, Sivankutty said the state government has repeatedly clarified its stand several times and those who are criticising the initiatives for gender equality, gender justice and gender awareness are not reading the writings of time on the wall.
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He was speaking on the sidelines of a students' programme organised at Kalamassery here.
"In recent days, we have seen the statements of some leaders regarding gender equality. Why are they afraid of gender equality? Why are they worried about equal opportunity and equal justice for their mother, sister, wife and daughter?" he asked.
Sivankutty made it clear that if it was the case of gender neutral uniform or mixed schools, the CPI(M)-led government does not impose any compulsion on anyone.
The government was not insisting on wearing any particular uniform or to convert any particular girls/boys school as a mixed institution, he explained.
"However, certain persons are trying to mislead the people despite repeated clarification by the government in this regard," the minister added.
After Muneer, it was Salam who had made another controversial remark on Friday saying boys and girls seated together in schools was "dangerous".
While speaking in a seminar on Thursday, Muneer had triggered a controversy asking, "If there is gender neutrality, why do you need a POCSO case? Therefore, when you say gender neutrality, you need to think about the many people in society who will misuse it."
However, he had clarified later that what he had meant to convey was that he was afraid gender neutrality would be defined in such a manner that provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act would become ineffective.
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New federal electoral districts proposal would see changes in Waterloo region
Several boundary changes to the five current electoral districts in Waterloo region have been proposed by the Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for Ontario.
The proposal comes as part of a requirement under the constitution of Canada to review electoral districts every 10 years to reflect changes and movements of Canada’s population.
The biggest proposed change would see the Cambridge electoral district absorb Hespeler Village.
The current Cambridge electoral district – which includes North Dumfries – will be severed at the city’s geographic edges to the west, east and south, and a new electoral district called Kitchener South-North Dumfries will be created.
The newly named district will replace Kitchener-South Hespeler.
Brant-Waterloo Road to the south will be the cutoff for the Kitchener South-North Dumfries district, with residents south of that road being included into with the Oxford-Brant district or the Brantford electoral district.
A minor boundary change has been proposed for the Waterloo electoral district, with Woolwich Street to Conestoga Parkway south to Bridgepoint being cut from the district. Those living in that region will instead be included in the Kitchener Centre district.
Those living south of Daimler Road and Kenzie Avenue will be included in the Kitchener South-North Dumfries district.
The Kitchener-Conestoga district proposed changes would see Trussler Road to Bleams Road moved to the Kitchener South-North Dumfries district.
Changes to the electoral boundaries will not come into effect until April 1, 2024, at the earliest.
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CPSO: Pedestrian killed by intoxicated driver
Sulphur, LA (KPLC) - A Sulphur man is behind bars for allegedly driving while intoxicated and striking and killing a pedestrian with his truck near the intersection of Etienne Daigle Road and Raleigh Reed Road.
Mark E. Brock, 61, was traveling northbound at approximately 1:00 a.m. on August 20, when he struck a pedestrian, Jonathan P. Hatfield, 42 of Lake Charles, who was walking in the middle of the northbound lane, according to the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office.
Hatfield was transported to a local hospital where he was later pronounced dead, CPSO said.
When CPSO deputies spoke to Brock, they detected a strong odor of alcoholic beverages coming from his breath, CPSO said. Brock admitted to deputies he had been drinking prior to the incident.
Brock was arrested and booked into the Calcasieu Correctional Center and charged with a DWI and vehicular homicide.
Due to new state mugshot laws, CPSO cannot release Brock’s image unless his BAC is greater than .20%, CPSO said. Brock’s BAC is currently pending toxicology testing.
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Did Kenya’s IEBC deliver? Well, it isn’t over till the fat lady sings
Saturday August 20 2022
If I spoke too soon when I gave Kenya’s electoral governing body a clean bill of health over the organisation and running of this year’s General Election, I own up and beg my readers’ indulgence.
But then, my apology will not be anywhere near self-flagellation for not seeing that the fat woman had not sung when I lauded the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) for a job well done. For, indeed it was done well, up to that point.
Up to the point when I was writing my piece, I had observed, as many others had, the orderly fashion in which the results from constituencies across Kenya were streaming in, being received, collated and posted.
It was that discipline, that serenity that had overwhelmed me and, naturally desperate to get a sweet story once in a while does not hurt anyone.
Glaring shortcomings
I am not going to change tack and see too many glaring shortcomings in the way that the election was run, because, simply, there were very few, especially when we compare them with what Kenya’s neighbours to the south and to the west are used to doing.
The point here is that in all matters developmental, even the best is not good enough, and there is always room for improvement.
For me, it has been a grim struggle all along for Kenya ever since I started following the politics of the country at various stages, since I was in my early youth.
Even today I still remember one Ronald Ngala of KADU, who advocated the policy of “Majimbo” until he died in a motor accident caused, we were told then, by bees invading his car on Mombasa road.
Is it not ironical that the policy of “Ugatuzi” embraced and practised by all today has its intellectual genesis in Ngala’s seminal labour back then?
Many a time it looked like the Kenyans were so hopelessly divided along ethnic lines that there was no possibility for them to organise along more serious issues, until it started getting accepted that the tribal units, though too often vilified, are the building blocks on top of which national cohesion could be crafted.
And why not?
Colonial expeditions
Before the colonial expeditions that came to capture our land masses, we had neither Kenya nor Kenyans, and the colonial political organisation was just for the organisation of the forced labour into which we were shoehorned to supply the metropoles with whatever they needed to make themselves more powerful.
Kenya’s example can fascinate. The British colonists who stumbled onto the rich and seductive lands around Mount Kenya and the Rift valley — remember Happy Valley? — were perhaps only passing through, going to Jinja to secure the source of the Nile, to make Egypt and the Suez Canal safer, so as to protect the passage to India!
Imperial wheel
There was precious little concern for the welfare of Kenya and Kenyans except as cogs in the great imperial wheel with its axel in Bombay.
Even these names, Kenya and Kenyans, were a British invention, just as Tanganyika was German.
Ngala’s quest around the policy of “majimbo” was a recognition of the diversity of Kenyans and the desire for the various communities to have governance structures and processes corresponding to the imperatives of their localities and cultures.
If all politics is local, devolved politics becomes king.
Of course, after 2010, there have been complaints to the effect that devolution has somehow translated into corruption being devolved to local counties, but my response to that is that it must be a good thing if that is true, as efforts to fight that corruption will also be devolved to the local levels, making every Wanjiku at the most basic level a full-fledged participant in the anti-corruption crusade.
So, as far as I am concerned, devolution has been a good thing for Kenya, and only needs to be fine-tuned to make it more efficient and responsive to local needs.
My reservations
That said, I have to register my reservation around a number of issues that I observed.
One arises out of what has come to dominate the conversations around the powers of the chair of the IEBC, who seems to have been given absolute powers (by the constitution) to make decisions without taking into consideration the views of other commissioners.
In the instant case, where a majority of the commission would effectively be in the minority by operation of constitutional provisions, I think there needs to be urgent changes to those provisions, because it is a no-brainer to have a commission that is in effect a one-man ‘commission’ in certain crucial matters.
As it seems certain that the losers in the presidential polls will challenge the chairman’s results in court, is there a possibility that more than half the commission will side with the petitioners against the results given by the chairman of the commission?
I have no way of knowing, and time will tell. It looks like the fat lady has not sung yet.
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United Way announces new president, CEO Brian Gaggin
HOLLAND — Six months after longtime President and CEO Patrick Moran announced his transition to another nonprofit, United Way of Ottawa and Allegan Counties has appointed Brian Gaggin to the post.
Gaggin assumed the role Monday, Aug. 15. He comes to United Way with 30 years of senior management leadership experience, with positions at Coca-Cola, Ultra Pac, National Beverage Corp. and Uncle Ray's Snacks. His career is highlighted by many examples of strong leadership and team-building while creating inclusive environments.
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“While the members of our executive team were impressed with Brian’s accomplishments and ability to drive revenue, more importantly, we value Brian’s ability to create lasting relationships,” said Chairperson Deborah Erikson.
“Brian’s desire to connect with others in a meaningful way enables him to advocate for growth and positive change. Brian is committed to helping our neighbors build a better life and I can’t wait for him to begin.”
Gaggin has strong family ties to West Michigan, dating back to when his maternal grandfather, Martin Van Tubergen, immigrated to Holland from The Netherlands after WWII.
“Traveling this territory daily, I really learned to appreciate and come to love West Michigan,” Gaggin said. “In fact, even after my career took me to other parts of the country, our family always maintained a cottage on Crockery Lake near Conklin.”
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Moran stepped away after more than 15 years with the United Way, taking a new position with 70x7 Life Recovery.
“My 15 (plus) years at United Way have been the most rewarding in my entire career, both personally and professionally," Moran said in February. "Our staff, board, local partners and volunteers have been able to make positive changes in the lives of tens of thousands of community residents. It has been truly phenomenal, and I’m proud to have been a part of it." | https://www.hollandsentinel.com/story/news/nonprofits/2022/08/20/united-way-announces-new-president-ceo-brian-gaggin/65410211007/ | 2022-08-20T19:27:47Z | https://www.hollandsentinel.com/story/news/nonprofits/2022/08/20/united-way-announces-new-president-ceo-brian-gaggin/65410211007/ | true | 1 |
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The squad of Corinthians ended on Saturday morning the preparation to face Fortaleza. The duel takes place at 6 pm this Sunday, at Castelão, and is valid for the 23rd round of the Brazilian Championship.
The trend is for coach Vítor Pereira to keep the rotation of athletes and select Corinthians with changes in relation to the team that thrashed Atlético-GO last Wednesday.
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Defender Bruno Méndez, who cannot defend Timão in the Copa do Brasil, has a chance to return to the team and team up with Raul Gustavo.
Fausto and Balbuena in training for Corinthians — Photo: Rodrigo Coca/Agência Corinthians
On the left side, Lucas Piton should return. On the right, as Rafael Ramos is recovering from a thigh adductor muscle injury, young Léo Mana could gain a chance if Vítor Pereira chooses to rest Fagner.
In the middle, Maycon is out, and Cantillo and Roni can get back to winning chances, as well as Giuliano.
In attack, it is possible that Júnior Moraes will have the opportunity again as a starter.
A possible formation of Corinthians for this Sunday is: Cassius; Fagner (Léo Mana), Bruno Méndez, Raul Gustavo and Lucas Piton; Roni, Cantillo and Giuliano; Gustavo Mosquito, Róger Guedes (Giovane) and Yuri Alberto (Júnior Moraes).
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – A recent clinical trial from EVA Health has found evidence that a drug used to treat asthma and eczema could improve a COVID-19 patient’s survival rate.
In the randomized trial, it was found that with the assistance of the monoclonal antibody, dupilumab, also known as Dupixent, almost 90% of patients were alive at 60 days, compared with 76.2% of patients who received a placebo instead.
The trial was designed and led by a member of the University of Virginia School of Medicine’s Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Jennifer Sasson, MD.
“Our clinical trial suggests that treatment with the anti-allergy medicine dupilumab may decrease deaths due to COVID-19. UVA is the first to test this novel and promising approach to COVID-19 treatment, which also proved safe in this small study – as we had expected, as dupilumab has proven safe and effective as an allergy medicine,” said Sasson. “A large multi-institution study to validate these preliminary results is being designed. If successful, this multi-site trial will open a new window to treatment of COVID-19 and potentially other viral pneumonias.”
Dupilumab works by blocking the effects of interleukin-13, a driver of inflammation in the body. The drug was originally approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration to treat moderate to severe eczema in 2017, but is now also used to treat asthma and chronic sinus inflammation.
The clinical trial was launched after it was discovered that patients with COVID-19 were “at significantly greater risk of needing a ventilator if their blood contained high levels of interleukin-13.” 40 patients with moderate to severe cases of COVID-19 were enrolled by Sasson and her collaborators in a double-blinded trial, so neither the patients nor the doctors knew whether the patient was receiving dupilumab or a placebo.
After 60 days, two deaths were recorded among the patients receiving dupilumab while five deaths were recorded among those receiving the placebo. Among those who were not in the intensive care unit (ICU) when the trial began, three patients receiving dupilumab were ultimately admitted to the ICU, while six of those receiving the placebo were admitted.
“We are indebted to the patients at UVA who consented to participate in this study, without even knowing if they would receive the medicine or placebo, as they are the ones who have advanced our understanding of the pandemic,” Sasson said.
The findings have been published in the scientific journal Open Forum of Infectious Diseases. The research team consisted of Sasson, Alexandra N. Donlan, Jennie Z. Ma, Heather M. Haughey, Rachael Coleman, Uma Nayak, Amy J. Mathers, Sylvain Laverdure, Robin Dewar, Patrick Jackson, Scott K. Heysell, Jeffrey M. Sturek and William A. Petri Jr. | https://www.wboy.com/news/health/coronavirus/study-finds-eczema-drug-reduces-risk-of-death-from-severe-covid-19/ | 2022-08-20T19:36:25Z | https://www.wboy.com/news/health/coronavirus/study-finds-eczema-drug-reduces-risk-of-death-from-severe-covid-19/ | false | 1 |
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The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, Friday, raised alarm over high rate at which Illicit herbal intoxicants are being used in the country, noting that act portends grave danger to the health of the users.
The agency said its findings from various operations carried out revealed a dangerous trend in the use of such substances laced with high concentration of tobacco and sometimes cannabis by the populace cutting across all genders and age groups, particularly artisans, drivers, okada riders, among others.
Director General of NAFDAC, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, who addressed a press conference to this effect,said her organisation had begun a nationwide crackdown of all illegal manufacturers and distributors of the herbal preparations with a view to bringing perpetrators to book and minimize the usage of the substance in the country.
She named the intoxicants as “Kurkura, Gargle,Herbal Aphrodisiac and alcoholic bitters.
Noting that “NAFDAC was established by Act Cap N1 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004 to regulate and control the manufacture, importation, exportation, advertisement, distribution, sale and use of food, drugs, cosmetics, medical devises, bottled water, detergent and chemicals (referred to as regulated products)”, Prof. Adeyeye said: “Recently the agency has received series of report on the use of an herbal preparation popularly known as ‘Kurkura’ particularly in the South West and Northern axis of the country.”
”The agency swung into action and carried out intelligence and enforcement action.
“We have commenced a nationwide crackdown of all illegal manufacturers and distributors of these Herbal Preparations with a view to bringing perpetrators to book and minimize the usage of the substance.
“Findings from various operations carried out revealed a dangerous trend in the use of such substances laced with high concentration of tobacco and sometimes cannabis by our populace cutting across all genders and age groups particularly Artisans, Drivers, okada riders etc”,she said.
Adeyeye said,”The ‘Kurkura’ herbal preparations discovered in circulations included: Five Minutes Power Herbs Medicine; Haonu Laha Herbal Mixture; Gamzaki Tradomedical Herbal Ventures; Barakallahu Multipurpose Herbal Mixture and Sabon Karfi Herbal Mixture.”
“Among the above, only Haonu Laha Herbal Mixture is registered, nonetheless laced with unapproved substances that are injurious to the body,”she said.
The NAFDAC boss added that:”Among many others,Kurkura is an illicit product illegally consumed for the sole aim of getting intoxicated.”
“The substance when abused, can be harmful to the body organs such as the brain, kidney and liver. The damage to the kidney and liver cannot be overemphasized. This substance can cause irrational thinking, altered state of mind, which if taken by a driver can lead to road traffic accident with the attendant fatality consequences, or can lead to criminal behaviours such as rape, kidnapping and murder,”she said.
She said,”Another herbal preparation that is of concern is aphrodisiac and we have discovered the lacing of it with cannabis.”
“In our recent operation, we impounded the following dangerous herbal aphrodisiac at some Islamic Herbal Medicines shops in Zaria, Kaduna State: Gagare Man Power,Minister For Man Power,Almenjou For Lazy Men in Bed,Nisan Zango Karfin Maza,Shagalin Ka Man Power, Dakan Jia Man Power enhancement,Wuff Male Sexual Performance,Afafata For Sexual Drive etc,”she said.
Açcording to Adeyeye,”So far, one of the illegal factories involved in the production of such unauthorized products has been shut down and the owner arrested. “
She spoke further:”Worthy of note is the discovery of the usage of Hyergra 200(Sildenafil Citrate tablet), Amafranil tablets (Clomipramine tablet 25mg) and Cannon Extra (Paracetamol 500mg+Caffeine 30mg) in the production room. The owner admitted that he dissolves the Hyergra 200, Cannon Extra and the Amafranil in a drum and mixes the content with boiled Kanafari, Garlic, Dundu, Marke, Hankufa, Sweetner and Sodium Benzoate to make up the Man Power preparation. Yet the label on the preparation read 100%Herbal
“The effect of such preparation on person with heart challenges can only be imagined.
“The makers of these products were arrested and later granted bail. Investigation is ongoing.”
Speaking on alcoholic bitters, Adeyeye said,”An alcoholic bitters product that is of grave concern is Japata Alcoholic bitters which was duly registered by NAFDAC but laced with marijuana or cannabis compared to the registered product that had only ethanol.”
“Through intelligence, NAFDAC was able to shut down the company. This product when tested in the laboratory, caused the death of the mice within five minutes. The alcoholic content was doubled compared with the registered product. The retained samples, kept at the point of registration, did not cause any injury to the animals.
“The product laced with cannabis was said to cause altered state of mind and psychological problems to the user. The owner of the company is on the run and the matter has been shared with NDLEA,”she said.
She said NAFDAC “shall continue with the raid on other illegal production outlet and the perpetrators will be dealt with in line with the extant laws and regulations.”
“This drives home the fact that eradication of fake and counterfeit drugs, adulterated and unwholesome processed foods and other regulated products is a holistic battle which should involve every well -meaning Nigerian.
“I want to assure Nigerians that NAFDAC is doing everything to ensure that only safe medicine and wholesome food of the right quality are sold to our citizenry. I would also like to use this opportunity to solicit for the support of health practitioners, community leaders, religious leaders, the press and all stakeholders to continue to educate their wards and family members to desist from patronizing quacks and hawkers of medicines on the street. Let me also use the medium to thank the gentlemen and ladies of the press and civil societies for their support to NAFDAC in this regard.
“We further advise consumers of NAFDAC regulated products to be watchful of drug, food and other regulated products they purchase and should not hesitate to report any suspicious activities within their environment to the nearest NAFDAC office,”she further said. | https://www.xtra.net/news/nigeria/nafdac-enhancing-herbal-drugs-laced-cannabis-dangerous-chemicals | 2022-08-20T19:47:09Z | https://www.xtra.net/news/nigeria/nafdac-enhancing-herbal-drugs-laced-cannabis-dangerous-chemicals | false | 4 |
DUBLIN, Feb. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The "DUV Lithography Systems Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends, and Forecast, 2021-2031" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
A new study on the global DUV lithography systems market is published by the author. It presents detailed information on key market dynamics, including drivers, trends, and challenges for the global DUV lithography systems market as well as its structure. This study offers valuable information on the global DUV lithography systems market in order to illustrate how the market is expected to expand during the forecast period i.e. 2021-2031.
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- What would be the Y-o-Y growth trend of the global DUV lithography systems market between 2021 and 2031?
- What is the influence of changing trends on the type segment of the global DUV lithography systems market?
- Would Asia Pacific continue to be the most dominant regional market for providers of DUV lithography systems over the next few years?
- Which factors would hinder the global DUV lithography systems market during the forecast period?
- Which are the leading companies operating in the global DUV lithography systems market?
Key Topics Covered:
1. Preface
2. Executive Summary
3. Market Dynamics
3.1. Macro-economic Factors
3.2. Key Market Indicator
3.3. Drivers
3.3.1. Economic Drivers
3.3.2. Supply Side Drivers
3.3.3. Demand Side Drivers
3.4. Market Restraints and Opportunities
3.5. Market Trends
3.5.1. Demand Side
3.5.2. Supply Side
3.6. Regulatory Framework
4. Associated Industry and Key Indicator Assessment
4.1. Parent Industry Overview
4.2. Supply Chain Analysis
4.3. Technology Roadmap Analysis
4.4. Industry SWOT Analysis
4.5. Porter Five Forces Analysis
4.6. Global EUV Lithography System Market Value and Forecast (US$ Mn and Units), 2017?2031
5. Global DUV Lithography Systems Market Analysis, by Type
5.1. Global DUV Lithography Systems Market Value (US$ Mn) and Volume (Units) Analysis & Forecast, by Type, 2017?2031
5.1.1. ArFi
5.1.2. ArF dry
5.1.3. KrF
5.2. Global DUV Lithography Systems Market Attractiveness Analysis, by Type
6. Global DUV Lithography Systems Market Analysis, by End-use
6.1. Global DUV Lithography Systems Market Value (US$ Mn) Analysis & Forecast, by End-use, 2017?2031
6.1.1. IDMs
6.1.2. Pure Play foundries
6.2. Global DUV Lithography Systems Market Attractiveness Analysis, by End-use
7. Global DUV Lithography Systems Market Analysis and Forecast, by Region
7.1. Global DUV Lithography Systems Market Value (US$ Mn) and Volume (Units) Analysis & Forecast, by Region, 2017-2031
7.1.1. Americas
7.1.2. Asia Pacific
7.1.3. Europe Middle East & Africa
7.2. Global DUV Lithography Systems Market Attractiveness Analysis, by Region
8. Americas DUV Lithography Systems Market Analysis and Forecast
9. U.S. DUV Lithography Systems Market Analysis and Forecast
10. Asia Pacific DUV Lithography Systems Market Analysis and Forecast
11. China DUV Lithography Systems Market Analysis and Forecast
12. Japan DUV Lithography Systems Market Analysis and Forecast
13. South Korea DUV Lithography Systems Market Analysis and Forecast
14. Taiwan DUV Lithography Systems Market Analysis and Forecast
15. Europe Middle East & Africa (EMEA) DUV Lithography Systems Market Analysis and Forecast
16. Competition Assessment
16.1. Global DUV Lithography Systems Market Competition Matrix - a Dashboard View
16.1.1. Global DUV Lithography Systems Market Company Share Analysis, by Value (2020)
16.1.2. Technological Differentiator
17. Company Profiles (Manufacturers/Suppliers)
17.1. ASML
17.1.1. Overview
17.1.2. Product Portfolio
17.1.3. Sales Footprint
17.1.4. Key Subsidiaries or Distributors
17.1.5. Strategy and Recent Developments
17.1.6. Financial Analysis
17.2. Canon
17.2.1. Overview
17.2.2. Product Portfolio
17.2.3. Sales Footprint
17.2.4. Key Subsidiaries or Distributors
17.2.5. Strategy and Recent Developments
17.2.6. Financial Analysis
17.3. Nikon
17.3.1. Overview
17.3.2. Product Portfolio
17.3.3. Sales Footprint
17.3.4. Key Subsidiaries or Distributors
17.3.5. Strategy and Recent Developments
17.3.6. Financial Analysis
18. Recommendation
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Gabriel Jesus turned in another brilliant performance as Arsenal made it three wins from three with a 3-0 victory away at Bournemouth.
While he wasn't able to add to the brace he netted against Leicester City last weekend, the former Manchester City striker played a key role in both of the Gunners' first two goals at the Vitality Stadium. Some spell-binding footwork led to the opener inside five minutes before he added an assist for Martin Odegaard's second goal just a few moments later.
For the other 79 minutes, he was a constant thorn in the side of the Bournemouth defence and didn't give the opposing defenders a second's peace. Unsurprisingly, another top-drawer performance led to some pretty special praise from his manager.
What did Arteta say about Jesus?
In his post-match interview with BBC Sport, the Arsenal boss was asked about yet another extremely strong showing from his new frontman.
"That is something you don’t train, that is individual talent," responded Arteta. "He is playing with such confidence, he was involved again in two of the three goals.
"I’m really happy, his contribution to the team has been phenomenal.”
What about Saliba, Mikel?
Alongside Jesus, William Saliba has also been mightily impressive since coming into the Arsenal side at the beginning of the season. Arteta also reserved praise for the Frenchman following his first goal for the club.
"He's trying every day to improve in every area," said the Gunners manager. "In the box is his one area where he can still improve and he's so eager and so willing to do it. And so humble at the same time.
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Artificial intelligence has been described by many as the future of technology, practically setting the pace for digital transformation across the globe. Unfortunately, the increasing popularity of AI has not particularly translated into the influx of professionals, with the level of supply not necessarily matching the spike in the demand for AI solutions. However, IAIDL looks to change this narrative by opening up opportunities for interested persons without requiring them to break the bank through a range of accreditation and individual certification programs.
IAIDL designed their easy-to-access, quality, and detailed programs to enable individuals and organizations to assess, build, and certify their competencies in the use of AI and future management tools components according to the global-recognized standard. The accreditation offers basic level and advanced level certificates, both having an adaptive pre-assessment and an exam to ascertain the level of understanding by participants.
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Reports of “rainbow fentanyl” are growing nationwide, and law enforcement suggests the colorful, candy-looking opioid could target young people. Other experts say the colors are mostly likely added to distinguish products. Over the last week, seizures of colored fentanyl have made headlines in Arizona, Oregon, California and Washington, D.C. On Wednesday, for example, border patrol agents said they found more than 15,000 rainbow fentanyl pills at Arizona’s Nogales Port of Entry – following 250,000 fentanyl pills that were seized at the same port Tuesday, some of which were multi-colored. During a search warrant by Oregon law enforcement earlier this week, 800 fentanyl pills and four grams of multi-colored, powdered fentanyl were also found in a Portland residence, Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday. “Deputies are particularly concerned about rainbow fentanyl getting into the hands of young adults or children, who mistake the drug for something else, such as candy or a toy, or those who may be willing to try the drug due to its playful coloring,” the sheriff’s office said in a news release. “The powdered fentanyl found during this investigation resembles the color and consistency of sidewalk chalk.” | https://michaelsavage.com/what-is-rainbow-fentanyl-nationwide-officials-see-spread-of-deadly-colorful-pills-powder/ | 2022-08-20T20:08:07Z | https://michaelsavage.com/what-is-rainbow-fentanyl-nationwide-officials-see-spread-of-deadly-colorful-pills-powder/ | true | 1 |
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2022 Cincinnati Masters semi final - Daniil Medvedev takes on Stefanos Tsitsipas
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Medvedev is 6-1 up against Tsitsipas on hard courts in and is bidding to reach his second final at the Western & Southern Open after winning the title in 2019. He is 3-3 versus top 10 players in 2022.
TIE-BREAK TITAN
Medvedev will fancy his chances of he’s pushed to a TB tonight. The Russian improved to 20-6 in tie-breaks at ATP Masters 1000 events during his win over Taylor Fritz and was asked for his view on his record post-match.
“That’s great, because a tie-break is a funny thing," he said. "We call it a ‘lottery.’ I do think it’s that way a little bit. I remember when I had my crazy run in 2019 [when he reeled of six straight finals], I won a lot of tie-breaks [11] in a row. Then I remember a time in my career when I lost five or six in a row. Now I’ve won a lot again. I just try to do my best, play every point. For sure, you lose some, you win some. But 20-6 is a good record. I’m happy about it.”
Top seed Medvedev into Western & Southern semis after win over Fritz
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"He’s one of the best. I’m going to have to play my game. Of course, an obstacle like Daniil is never easy, but I’m going to try to stay concentrated, try to approach my game in the most precise, best manner. I’ll let my tennis do the talking, and the rest will present itself if it’s something that I deserve.”
‘An obstacle like Daniil is never easy’ – Tsitsipas braced for difficult Medvedev challenge
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The players will be on court following the conclusion of the second WTA semi final.
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Japanese transgender woman who froze their sperm when they were a man cannot be recognised as the legal parent of the child they helped produce, Tokyo high court rules
- Only a child born before a transgender woman's surgery is theirs, court decides
- Despite freezing sperm before transition, they are not deemed the legal parent
- Japan has the strictest anti-LGBT+ laws in the G7 and even bans gay marriage
- To legally transition, transgender people must first have surgery: government
A transgender woman who froze their sperm before transitioning is not the legal parent of the child they helped produce, a court in Japan has ruled.
Only a child born before their surgery and legal gender change is formally their child, the judge on Tokyo's High Court decided yesterday.
The unidentified trans woman, a man at birth, had two daughters with their female partner using sperm preserved before their transition.
Four years ago they were legally permitted to change their gender on the family register, reports said.
A country where same-sex marriage remains illegal and many LGBT+ people remain in the closet, Japan obligates its transgender population to have surgery before they can legally change their gender.
Tokyo's high court (GV image) made the controversial ruling yesterday, two months after it decided the country's blanket ban on gay marriage was not unconstitutional
That means removing the sexual organs they were born with before taking any steps further toward transitioning, a rule sharply criticised by human rights campaigners.
Though the woman's partner was recognized as the legal mother of the girls due to having given birth to them, their request to be recognised as their parent wasn't accepted by a Tokyo family court in February.
That court said 'there is currently nothing in Japanese law to recognize her parental rights,' in a ruling the woman appealed.
The transgender woman froze her sperm before transitioning, but is not their parent (stock)
On Friday, Tokyo High Court ruled that she could be recognised as parent of the daughter born before her legal gender change, but not the second, born after.
No further details were immediately available.
Japan remains the only G7 nation not to recognize same-sex marriage.
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Starting to date again after a divorce or breakup is never easy, especially in mid-life. The emotional and logistical toll is big! Men often have specific challenges that are made more difficult by the “go it alone” mentality that most men were taught from a young age. This creates incredible pain and isolation for many men, even suicide.
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A look at the standings after Kaizer Chiefs overcame both a numerical disadvantage and Richards Bay FC in their DStv Premiership clash. Photo: Twitter @KaizerChiefs
A look at the standings after Kaizer Chiefs overcame both a numerical disadvantage and Richards Bay FC in their DStv Premiership clash.
A look at the standings after Kaizer Chiefs overcame both a numerical disadvantage and Richards Bay FC in their DStv Premiership clash. Photo: Twitter @KaizerChiefs
Kaizer Chiefs overcame both a numerical disadvantage and newcomers Richards Bay FC in their DStv Premiership clash at the Moses Mabhida Stadium on Saturday.
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Yusuf Maart was shown a straight red card in the 31st minute, but credit to Kaizer Chiefs for not letting that affect them as they scored the only goal of the match in the 62nd minute through Dillan Solomons to take all three points.
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The Glamour Boys moved up to eighth place after their win, while the Natal Rich Boyz slipped to fourth.
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How LIV is moving golf’s center of gravity away from America
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- Rory McIlroyNorthern Irish professional golfer (born 1989)
The curly-haired kid from Northern Ireland spent the first couple years of his professional career working his way up through the ranks of European golf. He was Europe’s brightest hope, the continent’s answer to Tiger Woods. And when he was barely 20 years old, he decided to jump to the United States and the PGA Tour.
Now, more than a decade later, that kid is the voice of the PGA Tour. Rory McIlroy still aligns himself with Europe — he’s been a Ryder Cup legend for his entire career — but he’s planted his flag in the United States, on the side of the PGA Tour.
“I want to play on the PGA Tour,” McIlroy reaffirmed in June, “against the best players in the world.”
The implication was that the world’s best players compete on the PGA Tour, not the what would be McIlroy's home tour in Europe. Until LIV Golf arrived, that was always the case. Now, though, winds are changing in professional golf … and they’re starting to blow away from the Tour and the United States.
Scotland invented golf, but the United States perfected professional golf. Since Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer and other players spun the PGA Tour off from the PGA of America in the late 1960s, the best players in the world play on the PGA Tour. Four of the top seven career money leaders on Tour hail from outside the United States — McIlroy, Vijay Singh, Adam Scott and Justin Rose. Ninety of the Tour’s current members are international, comprising 28 different countries.
The Tour’s geographic and logistical proximity to the majors — three of the four are held in the United States — have helped establish it as the professional standard of golf tours around the world. But the sudden growth of LIV, its alignment with the Asian Tour, its global perspective, and its attractiveness to international players all pose a clear and present threat to the Tour’s longstanding geographic dominance.
“A trend is developing. It’s pretty clear this is more likely to be influential globally than the United States,” said Martin Conway, an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and a member of Georgetown’s Global Business of Sports program. “There’s been more interest, or demand, on the player side from European and international players. They want to play the majors, play in high-dollar, high-interest events, but they’re not so interested in the John Deere Classic.”
The United States has always suffered from severe sports myopia: if it’s popular here, it’s important, and if it’s not, who cares about it? To a great extent, this was earned arrogance. Any professional baseball player who wants to compete against the best has to come to America, like Shohei Ohtani. Same thing for any professional basketball player, like Giannis Antetokounmpo. And, until very recently, for any professional golfer.
The problem with that kind of parochial thinking is that it blinds American audiences to the reality of just how vast the non-American sports audience is. American audiences just now discovered Formula One racing … a sport that the rest of the world has appreciated in staggering numbers for decades. Soccer doesn’t even register as a blip for most Americans older than the millennial generation, but the 2018 World Cup final, for instance, drew viewership numbers literally 10 times that of recent Super Bowls — 1.12 billion as opposed to around 100 million.
The growth potential for Western sports in Eastern and Middle Eastern nations far outstrips that of the United States. The Asian Tour comprises eight nations, including Japan and India, with a widespread and, so far, under-served population of potential golf fans … and potential future players.
“That’s 4 1/2 billion people sitting there with an opportunity for the game of golf to grow,” LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman said recently in a LIV-authored story on the game’s international growth. He termed the Asian market a “sleeping giant,” echoing an often-used, and now antiquated, metaphor for the vast economic potential of China.
Whether Norman is attempting to grow the game of golf among the youth of the world, providing a ready-made sponsorship vehicle for corporations with an eye on international investment, or helping the Saudi government sportswash its reputation, the effect is the same: inexorably drawing golf’s center of gravity away from the United States and the PGA Tour.
“This is a reflection globally of what happens when the U.S. league may not be the predominant league,” Conway said. “If you’re the best baseball player, you have to be here, but that’s beginning to turn. The best golfers don’t necessarily have to play on the PGA Tour.”
That’s already the case in sports such as soccer. Even American stars such as Christian Pulisic — born in Hershey, Pennsylvania — don’t stay stateside out of national loyalty; they travel to compete on much larger stages like, in Pulisic’s case, Chelsea of the Premier League.
With all due respect to the Midwest Insurance Opens and Coastal Financial Services Company Invitationals that dot the PGA Tour, international players have no institutional or hereditary loyalty to most of the Tour’s events, and understandably so. Their focus is on preeminent PGA Tour events like the Players Championship, the Memorial and the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
The PGA Tour is offering tradition and history. But for an international player, “tradition” and “history” of the PGA Tour aren’t as attractive as they were to, say, a young Justin Thomas or a young Scottie Scheffler, two avid Tour defenders raised in the United States, or a young Rory McIlroy, who had no other option if he wanted to compete against the world’s best.
If — and this is the “if” that will define professional golf for the next decade — the LIV Tour is able to secure a pathway to the majors, whether through Official World Golf Rankings or through alignment with an established tour, the arguments for joining the PGA Tour become even more fragile.
Already, Cam Smith and Marc Leishman, two of Australia’s most notable players, are strongly rumored to be joining LIV, with other high-profile international players apparently soon to follow after the conclusion of this PGA Tour season. The 2022 equivalent of McIlroy, whether he’s in Japan, India, England or Chile, might not be so quick to join the PGA Tour if the option of playing on the LIV Tour is a viable one.
“Greg Norman and his team are looking at establishing this Tour in the eyes of the World Golf Rankings, buying Asian Tour events, securing rights for players to play in the majors — that’s what’s preeminent for them,” Conway said. “I don’t think they’re as interested in securing PGA Tour memberships (for their players). It would be nice to have, but it’s not a must have.”
The PGA Tour’s United States-based tradition and history have propelled it for a half-century and counting. But unless the Tour is ready to step up its international outreach and appeal, what’s worked so well for the Tour in the Arnie, Jack and Tiger eras won’t work nearly so well in the LIV era.
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LOS ALTOS, Calif., Feb. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- For every product or service, there are thousands or even millions of people searching for them via the big search engines. The good news is that the search platforms offer automations that make basic pay-per-click marketing pretty simple to do. The bad news is virtually everyone has access to those same automations.
So, how can brands stand out if everyone is using the same tools and automations? A pioneer of paid search, Frederick Vallaeys, unlocks the mysteries of mastering the automated world of search marketing in his latest book "Unlevel the Playing Field," which is now formally released. In this book, Vallaeys takes readers on a journey that explores the power and simplicity of automations in the search engines' advertising platforms. Vallaeys also educates readers on a concept he calls "automation layering," which combines the best of human creativity with the efficiency of the machines to produce winning marketing programs.
Vallaeys is one of the leading figures in digital marketing today, building on his influence at Google as a key executive who helped shape PPC marketing from its origin as Google's first paid search evangelist. Following his successful run at Google, Vallaeys co-founded Optmyzr, which is a leading SaaS-based PPC management software suite that is an essential tool for thousands of marketers and paid search agencies worldwide.
"Unlevel the Playing Field will empower paid search marketers to stand out in an increasingly homogenized world of automated PPC," noted Vallaeys, Co-founding CEO of Optmyzr. "Standing out in the hyper-competitive world of search marketing requires marketers to embrace the biggest mindshift in PPC history. Simply relying on the in-platform automations will not cut it in 2022. Marketers who want to stand out will want to know the secrets of how to use automation layering and their own creativity to win."
"In this remarkable book, Fred reveals what's behind the next massive shift in PPC automation," commented Isaac Rudansky, an industry-leading digital advertising instructor and founder of AdVenture. "The book is a practical and actionable outline for digital marketers who want to succeed with the world's most popular advertising platform. Fred has been right before, and he's going to be right again."
Vallaeys unveiled his new book in public during the 2022 Hero Conference in Austin, Texas last week. The book debuted as a bestseller on Amazon during the same time period.
Unlevel the Playing Field is a sequel to Vallaeys' first book, entitled "Digital Marketing in an AI World: Futureproofing Your PPC Agency." That 2019 book was a staple at marketing conferences and a critically acclaimed book on Amazon and other outlets. "Unlevel the Playing Field" is also available via Amazon and will be sold directly to marketers at various digital marketing conferences scheduled for 2022.
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Calgary, Alberta--(Newsfile Corp. - February 9, 2022) - Braveheart Resources Inc. BHT RIINF 2ZR ("Braveheart" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the commencement of a Preliminary Economic Assessment ("PEA") for its 100% owned Bull River Mine, near Cranbrook, B.C.
Braveheart has engaged JDS Energy & Mining Inc. ("JDS") to complete the PEA study. JDS is ideally suited to complete the work having been involved with the project under previous owners and having completed similar studies for junior and major mining companies in northern and western Canada. The Company expects to receive the completed study within approximately 120 days. The Bull River Mine is fully developed and dewatered with 21,000 meters of underground developments in terms of ramps, raises and drifting on mineralized structures on seven levels. The surface infrastructure includes a 700 tonne per day conventional mill with adjoining crushing facilities as well as offices and mine maintenance facilities. The property is connected to grid power and there is year-round access to the site by paved and all-weather roads.
The Company recently announced a 57% increase in copper metal at the Bull River project (see press release dated December 8, 2021). The increases are due to the inclusion of new drilling from 2020 and 2021, reinterpretation of the mineralized shapes and additional certificates and QAQC being applied. The new N.I. 43-101 compliant Technical Report was independently prepared by Moose Mountain Technical Services under the supervision of Sue Bird, P.Eng. A summary of the Mineral Resource is presented below in Table 1. The N.I. 43-101 Technical Report was filed on SEDAR on January 21, 2022.
Table 1: Summary of Bull River Mineral Resource - Effective Date December 1, 2021
Mineral Resources Notes:
- The qualified person responsible for the mineral resource estimate is Sue Bird P.Eng of Moose Mountain Technical Services.
- The base case cut-off is an NSR value of CDN$65/tonne, based on Processing costs of CDN$30/tonne and Underground Mining costs of CDN$35/tonne.
- A minimum mining width of 2.0m is assumed.
- Mineral resources are based on a US$1,600/oz gold price, US$3.50/lb copper price and US$20/oz silver price and the following smelter terms: 96.25% payable Cu, 97.5% payable Au and 90% payable Ag;
- Forex of 0.79 USS:CDN$
- Treatment charges of US$5/tonne for Cu, Refining charges of US$0.005/lb Cu, US$8/oz for AuUS$0.5/oz Ag
- Transportation charges of US$100/tonne Cu concentrate
- Metallurgical recoveries have been estimated as 93% for Cu, 75% for Au, and 90% for Ag
- The mineral resource has been confined by a "reasonable prospects of eventual economic extraction" underground shape equating to an NSR cut-off of CDN$65/tonne with all material within this shape reported as the resource.
- The bulk density has been assigned values of 2.7 and 3.06 tonnes/m3 depending on mineralized domain.
- Rounding as required by reporting guidelines may result in summation differences.
Ian Berzins, President and CEO commented, "We look forward to working with JDS on completion of the PEA. JDS already has a good knowledge of the project and will be able to incorporate the results of the new Mineral Resource in the study. The study will provide our current stakeholders and the investment community with an independent evaluation of the potential of our advanced stage project."
Qualified person
The disclosure of technical or scientific nature in this news release has been reviewed and approved by Sue Bird, P.Eng. who serves as a Consultant to the Company and is a Qualified Person under the definition of National Instrument 43-101
About Braveheart Resources Inc.
Braveheart is a mining company primarily focused on two near-term copper production assets in Canada. Braveheart's main asset is the 100% owned Bull River Mine project (>135MM lbs of copper) near Cranbrook, British Columbia which has a Mineral Resource containing copper, gold and silver. Braveheart's latest acquisition is the 100% owned Thierry Mine project (>1,300MM lbs of copper) near Pickle Lake, Ontario which has a Mineral Resource containing copper, nickel, silver, palladium, platinum and gold.
Contact Information
Braveheart Resources Inc.
Ian Berzins
President & Chief Executive Officer
M: +1-403-512-8202
E: iberzins@braveheartresources.com
Website: www.braveheartresources.com
For more investor information, please contact Braveheart at:
Manish Grigo
Director, Corporate Development
M: +1-416-569-3292
E: mgrigo@braveheartresources.com
Caution Regarding Forward-Looking Information
This news release includes certain information that may constitute "forward-looking information" under applicable Canadian securities legislation. Forward-looking information includes, but is not limited to, statements about strategic plans, future work programs and objectives and expected results from such work programs. Forward-looking information necessarily involve known and unknown risks, including, without limitation, risks associated with general economic conditions; inability to access sufficient capital from internal and external sources, and/or inability to access sufficient capital on favourable terms; and other risks.
Forward-looking information is necessarily based upon a number of estimates and assumptions that, while considered reasonable, are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors which may cause the actual results and future events to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information and the risks identified in the Company's continuous disclosure record. There can be no assurance that such information will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such information. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. All forward-looking information contained in this news release is given as of the date hereof and is based upon the opinions and estimates of management and information available to management as at the date hereof. The Company disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Service Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this new release.
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Opinion
Why Gould turned off CCTV to land Ciraldo
Danny Weidler
Sport columnistCameron Ciraldo held at least 10 clandestine meetings with Bulldogs boss Phil Gould at western Sydney hotels, which were so secretive that CCTV cameras were switched off temporarily when the prospective coach entered the building.
That’s how seriously the Bulldogs took the chase for Ciraldo; a coach hunted by at least half a dozen clubs in recent years.
Ciraldo is the most significant signing Canterbury have made since securing the man who chased him down, Gould, who has been charged with the responsibility of rebuilding the club after a dismal run on the field.
“Gus” Gould lives by the motto “only the paranoid survive”, and he wanted the Ciraldo negotiations to progress without interference. He didn’t want to put a foot wrong because he was determined to respect Ciraldo’s situation at the Panthers, where he is an assistant coach. Gould didn’t want any ongoing speculation about the coach to be a distraction as Penrith chased back-to-back NRL titles.
Canterbury officials were embarrassed by the leaking of a photo from their own CCTV of Viliame Kikau posing in Bulldogs gear; it’s why they went to such great lengths to ensure the Ciraldo deal was done in the shadows. Ciraldo was grateful for that. And he was grateful the Bulldogs delivered on everything they said they would in the negotiation process.
Gould is also in the position of being the only general manager of football at an NRL club who faces a regular grilling by the media on Channel Nine’s 100% Footy and on his own podcast with Nine Entertainment Co, owners of this masthead. Gould was forced to fend off questions on both platforms while trying to put together a confidential deal with Ciraldo. His critics seized on his denials. Gould only cared about signing Ciraldo.
Wests Tigers’ negotiations with Ciraldo were very much the opposite: we heard about the five-year offer and a tour of their facilities. Ciraldo spent more than six hours at the new Tigers headquarters. We knew that almost instantly.
Now the deal with the Bulldogs has been done, we have learnt that Ciraldo didn’t just set foot in Dogs HQ once, he was actually there twice – late in the evening. He had a peaceful tour of Des Hasler’s now decade-old gym and wrestling centre, which are next to the train tracks at the back of Belmore, under the cover of darkness and away from prying eyes.
The key to the Canterbury deal was Gould’s long-term relationship with Ciraldo. Gould recruited Ciraldo to the Panthers as a player over a coffee at a McDonald’s on the Central Coast. Ciraldo agreed to sign without even hearing what money was on offer.
This negotiation was not as straightforward. Ciraldo was given a risk assessment on the Tigers and the Bulldogs by his agent, George Mimis. He also did plenty of his own research. He is known for his thorough approach.
The only genuine indication that Ciraldo was deep in talks with the Bulldogs was a photo that emerged showing he and Mimis meeting at The Locker Room sports bar and pub at Sydney Olympic Park with Craig Laundy, the son of Canterbury’s major sponsor Arthur Laundy. It was snapped by a sharp-eyed punter, who sent it to Nine News. Gould played it down, describing it as nothing more than “man walks into pub and sits at table”.
Laundy owned the pub and was invited to sit with Ciraldo, Mimis and Ciraldo’s father-in-law, who is also Ciraldo’s accountant. Those at the lunch say Gould’s version is correct. Laundy was not meant to be part of the gathering, which was about Ciraldo’s finances. Originally, the three were due to meet at The Red Lion Hotel in Rozelle – ironically another Laundy pub – but Homebush was chosen because it was more convenient.
In the end, the deal was finalised only last weekend, and it could prove to be one of the best in the club’s recent history.
Banned of the free
Tim Mannah is one of the good guys of the NRL, and he has been let down badly by the suits at Moore Park.
Mannah was encouraged by some at the NRL integrity unit to give evidence in its case against manager Isaac Moses, which led to Moses being banned in February 2021.
Moses was found to have breached his obligations as an agent in 2017 when he assisted former client Mannah to give evidence to the NRL that was false and intended to mislead an investigation into Parramatta.
Moses was hardly damaged by being out of the game. His company, Cove Agency, is still powerful and there was not a mass exodus of players, as many predicted. Moses still attended junior games. And now he’s back altogether, after the NRL approved his return as an accredited manager. Mannah went through a lot to give evidence. He is not the type to say too much publicly, but he deserved to be treated better for his stance.
Moses marches on and anything he lost business-wise will be recouped in the months ahead.
Marshall troops
Benji Marshall is having an impact at Wests Tigers already as he gathers a team around him that he will want as head coach.
Marshall, with the approval of Tim Sheens – coach for the next two seasons before Marshall takes over – has told the current members of the high performance unit they are no longer required. Marshall will put his own people in place.
The interesting name still among the training ranks at the Tigers is Ronnie Palmer. Sheens says the NRL veteran is not part of the high performance team, but the futures of all staff members are being looked at. In other words, Palmer should look around just in case. Palmer would not comment when I asked him if he had a job at the Tigers next year. His name is being mentioned in other areas, though.
Green never lost passion for coaching – right up until end
Paul Green had expressed an interest in the Gold Coast Titans coaching job – if it were to become available – through a third party, even though negotiations were well advanced for him to become an assistant coach with Wayne Bennett at the Dolphins.
It shows that Green still wanted to be an NRL head coach, and still had a great deal of passion for the game he loved. We will never know if that contributed to what he felt in his final days. Even on the Friday before he died he was asking Mat Rogers all about the Titans as the pair played golf.
Green’s desire to be a head coach clearly still burned. It is becoming increasingly clear to family members that he kept a lid on how tough and frequent his dark days were. They knew of his mental health battle for years, but still no one saw what happened as possible. Green didn’t want his mental health struggle to be widely known, in case it had an impact on his ability to get and hold another head coaching job.
He was clearly a tough character, as he reached the peak of his profession and managed to keep functioning at the highest level. But he struggled with the demands of being a perfectionist. It was hard for Green to accept his imperfect professional life. Being Dolphins assistant was a good job – but it wasn’t THE job.
One of Green’s last roles as a professional was to help select a new coach for his Brisbane junior club Wynnum Manly. He sat on the selection committee, which chose former Dragon and Tiger Mat Head.
“He was so good to deal with in the process ... I was actually hoping I could learn from him,” Head said. “I mean, why wouldn’t I? He did it all as a player and a coach, and I was hoping he was going to mentor me. I can’t believe what has happened and I really don’t know what to say. I was dealing with him two weeks ago about the job and I just feel so much for his family. I want to do a great job [at Wynnum Manly], but there is even more reason now. His family was huge at the club, he was a big figure at the club, and we need to honour him and do a great job.”
Former Souths football manager Shane Richardson was devastated by Green’s sudden passing, posting on Facebook: “Paul Green you made my life so much richer for having known you. So much richer for your friendship and loyalty. You leave a legacy that I really don’t think you understood.”
Crisis support can be found at Lifeline: (13 11 14 and lifeline.org.au), the Suicide Call Back Service (1300 659 467 and suicidecallbackservice.org.au) and beyondblue (1300 22 4636 and beyondblue.org.au)
Shark still on hunt
Andrew Fifita is not ready for retirement and it could mean the Sharks prop continues at another NRL club. The 13-year, 246-game veteran has been talked about at rival clubs. His biggest fan is coach Craig Fitzgibbon, who has marvelled at his ability to set and drive the team’s culture.
Fitzgibbon will have Fifita as a member of the club post-football without a doubt. The only issue is Fifita may want another year.
Hare apparent
The Warren name lives on at Channel Nine.
Ray “Rabbits” Warren’s son Chris is going to call some NSW Cup and NRLW games for Nine. He also has a far tougher gig as Wests Tigers media manager.
Stream the NRL Premiership 2022 live and free on 9Now.
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Ogling a woman on bus in TN will lead to jail
#CHENNAI Tamil Nadu’s amended Motor Vehicles Act has now given a provision which could lead to the arrest of those who stare at women while on board a bus. Acts like whistling, obscene gestures, and sexual overtures against women also fall under the category of crime in the state after the amended Act. Under the amended Act, the bus conductor will have to alight any male passenger or hand him over to a police station if he misbehaves with a woman en route the journey. Conductors who behave inappropriately with women will also receive stringent punishment under the rule of law. The amended Act also gives provision that if a conductor touches a woman who is boarding or alighting the bus under the pretext that he was helping her will receive punishment.
The conductor should not also make any jokes or comments or sexually coloured remarks on women passengers. The conductors are duty bound to remove any male passenger from the seat he occupies and ask him to alight from the bus if he has made any sexual overtures to a woman passenger after a proper inquiry with fellow passengers that he had indeed done a sexual overture to the woman passenger. The rules also direct the conductor to maintain a complaint book to provide to any passenger to record complaints on the shortage of duties performed by the conductor.
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WFO NORMAN Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, August 22, 2022
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...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING THROUGH MONDAY
MORNING...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is possible.
* WHERE...Portions of Oklahoma and northern Texas, including the
following counties, in Oklahoma, Bryan, Carter, Comanche, Cotton,
Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Jefferson, Kiowa, Love, Marshall, Stephens
and Tillman. In northern Texas, Archer, Baylor, Clay, Foard,
Hardeman, Knox, Wichita and Wilbarger.
* WHEN...From 7 PM CDT this evening through Monday morning.
* IMPACTS...Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers,
creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations.
Low-water crossings may be flooded.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 09, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- At the end of the settlement date of January 31, 2022, short interest in 3,265 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled 9,574,319,687 shares compared with 9,093,765,057 shares in 3,219 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of January 14, 2022. The end-of-January short interest represent 2.51 days average daily Nasdaq Global Market share volume for the reporting period, compared with 3.10 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 2,080 securities on The Nasdaq Capital MarketSM totaled 2,389,163,774 shares at the end of the settlement date of January 31, 2022 compared with 2,283,581,566 shares in 2,092 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents a 1.94 day average daily volume; the previous reporting period's figure was 1.81.
In summary, short interest in all 5,345 Nasdaq® securities totaled 11,963,483,461 shares at the January 31, 2022 settlement date, compared with 5,311 issues and 11,377,346,623 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 2.37 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 2.72 days for the previous reporting period.
The open short interest positions reported for each Nasdaq security reflect the total number of shares sold short by all broker/dealers regardless of their exchange affiliations. A short sale is generally understood to mean the sale of a security that the seller does not own or any sale that is consummated by the delivery of a security borrowed by or for the account of the seller.
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What history reveals about smallpox
It brought down empires and was used as a biological weapon. In 1978 it disappeared, but now that monkeypox is spreading, new conspiracy theories are emerging.
Virus of the Orthopoxviridae family that causes smallpox. Photo: Shutterstock
Two high-security laboratories, one in Moscow and the other in Atlanta, keep samples of smallpoxdespite the fact that the WHO has called to destroy any trace of the virus.
The smallpox has been eliminated, but now it returns to the fore after cases of smallpox of the monkey
Although it is not the same, nor is it deadly, until now, scientists fear that there is a greater relationship than is believed.
The smallpox The monkey was identified in the 50s of the last century, but in 1970 the doctors observed a case that made an impression on them: it was a nine-year-old boy from a remote village who had developed a rash on his body. The lesions were similar to those of that disease that was already taken as eliminated, the smallpox.
Scientists feared that an unvaccinated child might have escaped. Tests revealed that it was smallpox of the monkey, a close relative of the smallpox which is part of the orthopoxvirus family (which also includes the smallpox of the cows and smallpox of the raccoon). It was the first case detected in a human.
Historically, the smallpox it has been devastating. Evidence of the first fatality comes from Egypt, through the mummified remains of Pharaoh Ramses V, who died at the age of 40 in 1157 BC.
The virus that brought down empires
The smallpox It also played a role in the fall of the Roman Empire, as this agent spread through Gaul and along the Rhine around 165 AD, unleashing a pandemic that became known as the Antonine Plague, killing some seven million people. people.
The virus arrived in America with Christopher Columbus and his men. It is estimated that the native American population was about 54 million inhabitants, but the pathogen, along with other epidemics, massacres and slavery, caused profound damage to a population that had no immunity.
Thus, the Aztec empire of Mexico was reduced from 17.2 million inhabitants to only 600,000, in the year 1800. Something that explains how Hernán Cortés could have achieved his conquest with only 600 soldiers.
From sharing scabs to exposing your child
The first therapies used to combat smallpox They consisted of sharing crusts. Physicians in China, India, Egypt and Ethiopia collected the pus or ribs of the sick and placed them on the skin or nose of those who were healthy, seeking protection. This procedure was known as variolation and, although it involved a fatal risk, the rate was lower than if it was not applied. This was a clue to open the way to immunity.
However, it was not until the 18th century that the English doctor Edward Jenner came up with the definitive vaccine. The doctor vaccinated his own son Edward, and two young maids, with the benign disease of the smallpox of the cows Later, they were exposed to smallpox and the result was that they developed immunity. So the vaccine came about and by 1807 some 165,000 people were already vaccinated in England.
a conspiracy theory
The last person to die smallpox It was the medical photographer of the University of Birmingham, in England, Janet Parker. She worked on a floor above where the investigation was taking place. smallpox, in 1978 he became ill and a month later he died. The next day, Professor Henry Bedson, who ran the laboratory at the smallpoxcommitted suicide.
Today, only two high-security laboratories, one in Moscow and one in Atlanta, keep samples of the smallpox for future research, despite the fact that the WHO has called for the destruction of any trace of the virus. The biggest fear is that the samples will one day accidentally escape or be used to create a deadly biological weapon.
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AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Travis County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a homicide that happened late Friday night in the 11900 block of Menchaca Road.
Deputies responded at 11:40 p.m. Friday. A 911 caller reported that someone had been shot, and a vehicle left the scene.
When deputies arrived, they found a Hispanic male in his teens with a gunshot wound. He was transported by Austin-Travis County EMS but died of his injuries at 12:10 a.m. Saturday.
Officials said a positive identification of the victim was pending autopsy results.
Detectives collected evidence through the night and believed the victim was targeted but said this was an isolated incident.
TCSO is actively searching for multiple suspects who were reportedly seen running away, then leaving the scene in a dark-colored 4-door sedan. Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call the TCSO Tip Line at 512-854-1444 or Crime Stoppers at 512-472-TIPS (8477).
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When it comes to the world of electronics, you’d almost never see the words Apple and Samsung next to each other. But in the case of former Apple employee Sam Sung, it’s something he’s seen at least twice.
Sung, who now goes by Sam Struan, made headlines in 2014 when he auctioned off his business card from his time with Apple at Vancouver’s Pacific Centre. At the time, he raised $2,500 for the Children’s Make a Wish Foundation in B.C. and Yukon.
Auctioning the original 🏴 Apple Sam Sung business card on eBay for charity: https://t.co/fAmoCF4Dui#Apple #Samsung #thatguysamsung #applesamsungauction pic.twitter.com/TEnzW8iPtV
— Sam Struan (formerly Sam Sung) (@samthescot) August 14, 2022
Now Struan has found his original Apple business card from when he worked at the Glasgow Apple Store. He’s auctioning off the original business card on E-Bay with the hopes of raising funds for the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre in Vancouver.
As of Aug. 20, the auction is at $620. The business card which reads ‘Sam Sung, Specialist”, is framed alongside an Apple t-shirt and the lanyard he wore during his time at the store.
Bids are open until Tuesday, Aug. 23.
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A lot of uninvited guests have been turning up at Aunty Martha Koowarta's door in Aurukun recently.
But the veteran Indigenous land rights campaigner has turned all of them away from her modest house in Queensland's western Cape York.
"They want to do mining, but I have to be strong all the time - I won't let anyone do mining," Aunty Martha tells AAP.
The softly spoken grandmother says surveyors have been spotted in her late husband John Koowarta's ancestral homelands, south of the Archer River.
"Your colour try to grab that place," she says of the white interlopers, while slowly dragging on a cigarette.
The octogenarian and her late husband have been fighting state attempts to open Wik lands to bauxite mining since the 1970s.
When Joh Bjelke-Petersen blocked Mr Koowarta from buying his traditional lands back from a pastoral company, he took the former premier to the Federal Court and won in 1982.
The state then turned the land into a national park to shut Mr Koowarta out.
That case set a precedent for federal anti-discrimination cases, paving the way for the Mabo native title decision in 1992.
Four years later, the Wik people were granted native title over their lands.
In 2009, Aunty Martha won her court case against the Bligh government's controversial Wild Rivers Declarations, which would have locked up her late husband's territory.
But she fears the mining companies are circling again and will move in when her generation dies out.
It's already near impossible for people to resist mining: under Queensland law, even traditional owners are obligated to strike deals.
Rio Tinto is mining vast bauxite reserves in the Wik-Way homelands, north of Aurukun, and a Glencore-Mitsubishi joint venture is in talks for a similar project.
Aunty Martha believes the only reason company representatives are trying to get her permission is to avoid bad publicity.
In fact, the slow incursion of mining into Wik lands has shaped local history for more than four decades.
Before then, the Wik Nation was part of the Aurukun Aboriginal Reserve, officially administered by the Uniting Church.
In reality the church handed most power back to the Wik, who elected a council to run the reserve.
But under then premier Bjelke-Petersen, the state took over the reserve in 1978 - despite Wik protests - and set up its own Aurukun council.
In 1985, the government forced the council to open a wet canteen to raise funds, introducing many Wik people to alcohol for the first time.
Aurukun residents have since suffered decades of addiction, violence and poverty.
Yet the Wik have managed to hang onto their language and culture.
Today there are no passport controls for visitors crossing into the Wik Nation, but there might as well be.
Hardly anyone owns a car and most people walk barefoot in the main settlement of Aurukun.
Even in winter, the noon sun slows everything down in town as even the numerous stray dogs seek shade under towering fruit trees and palms.
On straw-dry lawns, strewn with empty cans and litter, locals yarn around roaring campfires in 32C heat.
Aurukun is far closer to Port Moresby in appearance and geography than it is to Brisbane.
The odd English word is spoken in the supermarket or outside the police station, but Wik-Mungkan is the language of the street.
Aurukun is also one of the last places in Australia where most people speak an Indigenous language at home.
Whenever someone dies, the whole community still goes into mourning - known as "sorry business" - until the burial.
While Wik traditions and lore are honoured, state laws aren't held in the same regard.
Police laid 1700 charges - mostly for assault, domestic violence order breaches and property damage - in the community of only 1100 in the year to June.
Aurukun's officer in charge, Senior Sergeant Amit Singh, thinks fostering Wik culture will help make the community more peaceful.
He wants to encourage locals to take disputes to their elders and mediators before they erupt into street fights.
"It's about changing people's thinking," Snr Sgt Singh tells AAP.
The gregarious, towering Indo-Fijian-Australian is also trying to repair frayed ties between the community and police.
He's pushing officers to learn Wik words, like "wanttak" for hello and "appow" for goodbye, to communicate better.
"In Fiji people walk around saying 'bula', it doesn't matter who you are, you gotta say 'bula' back," he says.
"But when people come into Indigenous communities, they don't do that.
"There's a language here and speaking it is a very good way to connect and show respect."
Snr Sgt Singh often finds himself using the word for "be quiet" - popam - when he's trying to break up fights.
"When people are yelling and carrying on, and you rock up and say 'popam', at first they go, 'oh, you just used our language' and they start talking about that," he says.
He's focusing on using verbal communication to calm tense situations in Aurukun, which has a history of deadly riots.
"Ninety per cent of policing starts and stops here," he says, pointing to his mouth.
Since the state takeover more than 40 years ago, youth crime has also exploded in Wik lands.
Only half of Aurukun's primary school-aged children turned up for class in 2021, while the figure was only one in three for those old enough for high school, according to state government statistics.
Aunty Koowarta says young people need more activities to keep them out of trouble.
"Instead of going round with the stick and bricks, how about if they can do something else?" she says.
The PCYC recently formed a youth club offering activities like futsal or ways to earn money by washing cars.
Snr Sgt Singh says it's important for children to connect with their Wik culture.
"They think being African American is cool culture - that's not their culture, their culture is older and cooler than that," he says.
Noel Waterman, who grew up in Melbourne, runs the council-funded Aurukun Indigenous Knowledge Centre.
Despite a limited budget, he supports Wik elders to teach local kids about their stories and lore.
"At its heart it's a genuine, authentic, spiritual Woyan-min - good way - that keeps the people healthy," Mr Waterman says.
"Otherwise, they'll end up like lots of people around Australia where their culture's lost."
Aurukun Shire Council is also trying to help people visit remote outstations in the south.
The region is one of Cape York's last unspoilt wilderness areas, abundant with fish, birds and crocodiles.
Visiting is difficult because roads are in poor condition and transport is limited.
Outstation journeys are spiritual for the Wik, but they also serve a legal purpose - native title can be extinguished if Indigenous owners don't maintain a continual connection with their land.
Aurukun local Janet Koongotema, 83, wishes she could go south more often and also hopes her people can protect the lands from mining.
"You can see a river or small creek like that, you can go down, get a (fishing) line," the Wik elder tells AAP.
"It's there you can see crabs, crawling at low-water time ... it's really good, you know."
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Reuters Health News Summary
Following is a summary of current health news briefs.
Britain faces 'humanitarian crisis' as energy costs soar, says health lobby
Britain faces a "humanitarian crisis" this winter when the difficult choices forced upon low-income households by soaring energy bills could cause serious physical and mental illness, a healthcare lobby group said on Friday. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has resisted calls to provide more support to households struggling with higher bills, insisting his government will leave major fiscal decisions to the next prime minister who takes office in early September.
Congo health officials investigating possible Ebola case - WHO
Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo are investigating a suspected case of Ebola in the country's east, the World Health Organization said on Saturday. A 46-year-old woman died on Monday in the city of Beni, one of the centres of an Ebola outbreak from 2018 to 2020 that killed nearly 2,300 people.
WHO recommends use of two antibody drugs against Ebola
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday recommended two monoclonal antibody treatments against Ebola, saying the use of such drugs combined with better care had "revolutionised" the treatment of a disease once seen as a near-certain killer. The drugs - Regeneron's Inmazeb (REGN-EB3) and Ridgeback Bio's Ebanga (mAb114) - use laboratory-made monoclonal antibodies that mimic natural antibodies in fighting off infections.
Indonesia confirms first monkeypox case in citizen returning from abroad - ministry
Indonesia has confirmed its first monkeypox infection, detected in a person who had returned from an unidentified country with documented cases, a health ministry spokesman said on Saturday. The 27-year-old male tested positive in the capital Jakarta late on Friday, Mohammad Syahril told a news conference.
Wendy's customers fall ill, CDC probes E.coli outbreak in four states
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it is probing an E.coli bacteria outbreak in four states from an unknown food source, with many of the affected reported to have had sandwiches at Wendy's Co. Of the 37 sick, 22 people were said to have consumed Wendy's sandwiches with romaine lettuce in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania in the week before they fell ill, the agency said on Friday.
North Korea imports of Chinese masks, gloves surged before declaring COVID victory
North Korea imported more than 1 million facial masks and 15,000 pairs of rubber gloves from China in July, shortly before declaring victory over COVID-19, Chinese trade showed on Saturday. Pyongyang last week declared victory over the coronavirus, ending a little-detailed fight against "fever" cases that had risen to 4.77 million. It has registered no new such cases since July 29.
EU backs changing monkeypox vaccine injection method to boost supply
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MMA star Bogdan Gnidko produced a sensational FIVE-SECOND knockout of rival Damian Piwowarczyk during KSW 73 earlier today.
With Anthony Joshua's rematch with Oleksandr Usyk being followed by UFC 278, fight fans are spoilt with action tonight.
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Unbeaten Gnidko, 21, underlined his talent by extending his record to 8-0 with a thrilling quick knockout.
The Ukrainian, who will hope to see his compatriot beat AJ tonight, triumphed over Polish 5-2 ace Piwowarczyk in emphatic fashion in Warsaw.
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In one rapid motion, Gnidko went for a single-leg takedown in response to Piwowarczyk's kick - before catching him with a vicious overhand right.
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Videos from the scene have since surfaced showing the Savannah rapper frantic talking to cops who helped get his friend medical attention after being shot. The shooting reportedly took place outside a gas station in Beverly Grove, California.
According to ABC news, Quando Rondo and his crew pulled up at the gas station in a black Cadillac Escalade to get gas. As they were going back into the vehicle to leave, a white sedan pulled up with three men dressed in all black who opened fire on the rapper’s vehicle shattering the windows. The white sedan later peeled off, leaving at least one man nursing gunshot wounds. Police picked up multiple shell casings at the scene.
Quando Rondo and company put their injured friend in the SUV and were able to drive about a mile before pulling over to call paramedics. A video shows the rapper shaking before screaming in agony as cops helped his injured friend. Police performed CPR on the injured man, who appeared to be breathing before being rushed to the hospital, where he later died.
In the meantime, Quando Rondo reps are saying he was not injured in the attack and is doing okay. Nevertheless, he appeared shaken as a result of the attempt on his life.
The Never Broke Again affiliate is not new to shooting incidents. In May last year, he was also targeted in a shooting while standing outside a gas station in Georgia. The young rapper appears to have a target on his back from his connection to King Von’s shooting death outside a Hookah lounge in Atlanta in November 2020. The two rappers were involved in a fight before Von was shot to death, reportedly by Quando’s associate Lul Tim.
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Two Harbors Investment Corp. TWO, an Agency + MSR mortgage real estate investment trust (REIT), today announced its financial results for the quarter ended December 31, 2021.
Quarterly Summary
Reported book value of $5.87 per common share, representing a (5.6)% quarterly return on book value(1)
Generated Comprehensive Loss of $128.6 million, representing an annualized return on average common equity of (24.7)%
Reported Earnings Available for Distribution (EAD) of $73.3 million, or $0.22 per weighted average basic common share(2)
Declared a fourth quarter common stock dividend of $0.17 per share
Continued strength in mortgage servicing rights (MSR) flow sale program, which offset impact of fast prepayment speeds
Annual Summary
Returned total dividends of $0.68 per common share, equivalent to an average dividend yield of 10%(3)
Reported book value of $5.87 per common share compared to $7.63 at December 31, 2020, representing a (14.2)% return on book value
Acquired $88.3 billion unpaid principal balance (UPB) of MSR through flow and bulk channels
Optimized liability and capital structure
Issued $287.5 million principal amount of 5-year convertible senior notes due 2026. Repurchased and retired $144 million principal amount of convertible senior notes due 2022
Redeemed $75 million Series D and $200 million Series E preferred shares
Issued 70 million of common shares for net proceeds of approximately $450 million
Post-Quarter End Update
Settled on $17 billion UPB of MSR through bulk channel
Expect to settle on additional commitments of $22 billion UPB of MSR through bulk transactions in the first quarter of 2022
Redeemed $144 million of convertible notes that matured in January 2022
"Our portfolio performance was impacted by spread widening and higher volatility during the fourth quarter. While the investment environment for RMBS was challenging, we capitalized on opportunities to purchase MSR at attractive levels." stated Bill Greenberg, Two Harbors' President, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer. "With the Federal Reserve firmly on the path of quantitative tightening, we are well-positioned to deploy capital into a more constructive investing environment and are optimistic about the forward outlook for Two Harbors and our paired Agency + MSR strategy."
Operating Performance
The following table summarizes the company's GAAP and non-GAAP earnings measurements and key metrics for the fourth quarter of 2021 and third quarter of 2021:
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Portfolio Summary
As of December 31, 2021, the company's portfolio was comprised of $9.4 billion of Agency residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS), Agency Derivatives and MSR as well as their associated notional hedges. Additionally, the company held $4.2 billion bond equivalent value of net long to-be-announced securities (TBAs).
The following tables summarize the company's investment portfolio as of December 31, 2021 and September 30, 2021:
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Financing Summary
The following tables summarize the company's financing metrics and outstanding repurchase agreements, revolving credit facilities, term notes and convertible senior notes as of December 31, 2021 and September 30, 2021:
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Conference Call
Two Harbors Investment Corp. will host a conference call on February 10, 2022 at 9:00 a.m. ET to discuss fourth quarter 2021 financial results and related information. The conference call will be webcast live and accessible in the Investors section of the company's website at www.twoharborsinvestment.com/investors. To participate in the teleconference, please call toll-free (877) 502-7185, approximately 10 minutes prior to the above start time. For those unable to attend, a telephone playback will be available beginning at 12:00 p.m. ET on February 10, 2022, through 12:00 p.m. ET on February 24, 2022. The playback can be accessed by calling (877) 660-6853, conference code 13723524. The call will also be archived on the company's website in the News & Events section.
Two Harbors Investment Corp.
Two Harbors Investment Corp., a Maryland corporation, is an internally managed real estate investment trust that invests in residential mortgage-backed securities, mortgage servicing rights and other financial assets. Two Harbors is headquartered in St. Louis Park, MN. Additional information is available at www.twoharborsinvestment.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This presentation includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ from expectations, estimates and projections and, consequently, readers should not rely on these forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. Words such as "expect," "target," "assume," "estimate," "project," "budget," "forecast," "anticipate," "intend," "plan," "may," "will," "could," "should," "believe," "predicts," "potential," "continue," and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements involve significant risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from expected results, including, among other things, those described in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2020, and any subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, under the caption "Risk Factors." Factors that could cause actual results to differ include, but are not limited to: the state of credit markets and general economic conditions; the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the actions taken by federal and state governmental authorities and GSEs in response, on the U.S. economy, financial markets and our target assets; changes in interest rates and the market value of our assets; changes in prepayment rates of mortgages underlying our target assets; the rates of default or decreased recovery on the mortgages underlying our target assets; declines in home prices; our ability to establish, adjust and maintain appropriate hedges for the risks in our portfolio; the availability and cost of our target assets; the availability and cost of financing; changes in the competitive landscape within our industry; our ability to effectively execute and to realize the benefits of strategic transactions and initiatives we have pursued or may in the future pursue; our decision to terminate our management agreement with PRCM Advisers LLC and the ongoing litigation with PRCM Advisers related to such termination; our ability to manage various operational risks and costs associated with our business; interruptions in or impairments to our communications and information technology systems; our ability to acquire MSR and successfully operate our seller-servicer subsidiary and oversee our subservicers; the impact of any deficiencies in the servicing or foreclosure practices of third parties and related delays in the foreclosure process; our exposure to legal and regulatory claims; legislative and regulatory actions affecting our business; the impact of new or modified government mortgage refinance or principal reduction programs; our ability to maintain our REIT qualification; and limitations imposed on our business due to our REIT status and our exempt status under the Investment Company Act of 1940.
Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance upon any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. Two Harbors does not undertake or accept any obligation to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statement to reflect any change in its expectations or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based. Additional information concerning these and other risk factors is contained in Two Harbors' most recent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements concerning Two Harbors or matters attributable to Two Harbors or any person acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements above.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
In addition to disclosing financial results calculated in accordance with United States generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), this press release and the accompanying investor presentation present non-GAAP financial measures, such as earnings available for distribution and earnings available for distribution per basic common share that exclude certain items. The non-GAAP financial measures presented by the company provide supplemental information to assist investors in analyzing the company's results of operations and help facilitate comparisons to industry peers. However, because these measures are not calculated in accordance with GAAP, they should not be considered a substitute for, or superior to, the financial measures calculated in accordance with GAAP. The company's GAAP financial results and the reconciliations from these results should be carefully evaluated. See the GAAP to non-GAAP reconciliation table on page 11 of this release.
Additional Information
Stockholders of Two Harbors and other interested persons may find additional information regarding the company at the SEC's Internet site at www.sec.gov or by directing requests to: Two Harbors Investment Corp., Attn: Investor Relations, 1601 Utica Avenue South, Suite 900, St. Louis Park, MN, 55416, telephone (612) 453-4100.
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DETROIT — It wasn’t Reid Detmers’ day Saturday.
After posting a 1.50 ERA over his previous six starts, the Angels’ left-hander gave up 10 hits and four runs in a 4-3 loss to the Detroit Tigers.
Detmers lasted just 4 1/3 innings before his outing came to an end.
“I was just having a hard time settling in,” Detmers said. “The stuff wasn’t coming out great. I didn’t have a really good feel for anything. That’s pretty much that.”
Detmers’ fastball averaged 92.0 mph, slightly down from the 93.2 mph he averaged coming into the game. Manager Phil Nevin said that was “a little concerning,” but he noted that Detmers said he was fine physically and the other pitches had their typical velocity.
“Obviously I know the velo is down,” Detmers said. “I don’t know what was causing it. It just wasn’t coming out today.”
The rookie’s recent performance had been one of the most pleasant storylines for the Angels over the past couple months, having returned from Triple-A with an improved slider.
His pitches weren’t working as they had been recently, though, and the Tigers had plenty of traffic against him.
It could have been worse, but in the second inning right fielder Taylor Ward threw Jonathan Schoop out at the plate trying to score from second on a single. The Tigers also gave Detmers one of the 13 outs he recorded with a sacrifice.
Detmers’ defense also cost him an out, when shortstop Andrew Velazquez failed to get the third out on a routine grounder in the third because he threw to third to try to nail a runner instead of throwing to first. Nevin said Velazquez told him the runner cutting in front of him “threw him off” and he “made a mistake.”
Detmers then gave up a 108-mph line drive to center field, but Mike Trout leapt and snagged it for the final out.
The Angels’ hitters weren’t able to overcome Detmers’ rough outing, despite a good start.
Luis Rengifo drove in Shohei Ohtani, who had doubled, in the first inning. Velazquez hit an opposite-field homer in the second. Jo Adell drove in Rengifo with a sacrifice fly in the third.
After that, the Angels managed just an infield hit by Adell over the next five innings. Pinch-hitter Kurt Suzuki drew a one-out walk in the ninth, but Max Stassi hit into a game-ending double play, running his hitless streak to 23 at-bats.
Ohtani had hits in his first two trips and struck out in the next two. Trout was hitless in four at-bats, including a strikeout, in his second game since coming off the injured list.
Nevin attributed the Angels’ slow offensive finish to the quality of the Tigers’ bullpen and an adjustment from starter Tyler Alexander, who made it through six innings.
“Alexander settled in a little bit,” Nevin said. “We hit some balls hard. He settled in and Reid didn’t. That’s kind of the difference in the game.”
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KIMI, COMING BACK TO NASCAR AFTER 11 YEARS, WHAT WAS THE BIGGEST FACTOR THAT BROUGHT YOU TO THIS OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE A NASCAR CUP SERIES START?
KIMI RÄIKKÖNEN: “Justin (Marks) contacted me last year at some point and then we kind of left it alone for a while. Then we had another discussion and then met with us in Switzerland. I think everything worked out well. It made to sense. The timing was right.. the kids are still on holiday from school, so we could come as a family for the trip. I think all of the small things here and there worked out; and obviously, seeing that Trackhouse Racing has been good this year and winning races, we should have a chance to do OK. If we do or not, I don’t know, but at least we’ll try and give it our best.”
WHAT WERE YOUR TAKEAWAYS FROM GETTING TO DO THE DRIVER ORIENTATION TEST LAST WEEK?
KIMI RÄIKKÖNEN: “I’ve been to the track once when I was here last time. I think it was good to get some laps to have some idea of how the cars are. Obviously, the Cup cars are quite a bit different than it used to be at that time. It wasn’t the same car that I’m going to race here, but for sure it’s helpful to get some kind of an idea of how things work.”
WHY DO THIS? IS IT TO JUST SAY YOU’VE RACED A CUP CAR? IS IT JUST PURE FUN? ARE YOU LOOKING TO DO MORE AFTER THIS?
KIMI RÄIKKÖNEN: “There’s no plans for anything after this. Obviously, I want to have fun, but also do as well as we can. As I said, I think we’ve prepared as well as we could with how the rules are.. not just here in NASCAR, but where I come from. The testing is obviously a tricky part and if you haven’t done it, you don’t get many laps. But at least we did some and NASCAR gave us a little chance to try the car. We’ll see what comes out of it.
But there’s no plans for the future. I want to have fun, but also do as well as we can”
THE RESTARTS IN NASCAR TEND TO HAVE A LOT OF CONTACT.. I’M SURE THEY’VE TOLD YOU THERE WILL BE A LOT OF CONTACT. ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT OR ARE YOU APPREHENSIVE ON JUST HOW MUCH CONTACT YOU SHOULD HAVE AND HOW MUCH YOU SHOULD ACCEPT?
KIMI RÄIKKÖNEN: “I think any form of motorsports has contact. Obviously when you have single-seater cars, you try to avoid it more because if you damage the wing, your race is compromised. In stock car racing, it’s a bit more forgiving because it doesn’t effect it much. We’ll try to stay out of any issues.. that’s the big key in any racing. There might be some or there might not, but it’s a part of racing.”
WHAT ARE YOU MOST INTRIGUED ABOUT WITH THIS WEEKEND?
KIMI RÄIKKÖNEN: “It’s a new experience. I don’t know how it’s going to go, but I think it’s just a nice challenge. Like we said already, we’ve had limited running of the car and we’ll have a very short practice here, so that will be tricky. It’ll be quite a challenge, but it’s also exciting. We’ll see where we stack up. There are very fast guys here that have been doing this for years, so it will be very hard. But we’ll see what we can do.”
AT THE END OF THE DAY, WHY DOES A WORLD CHAMPION DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS.. WHERE EVEN WITH THE TESTING, YOU’VE HAD LIMITED TIME IN THE CAR AND YOU’LL HAVE LIMITED TIME ON THE TRACK, SO IT DOES NOT GIVE YOU AS GOOD OF AN OPPORTUNITY TO SHOWCASE EVERYTHING THAT YOU CAN DO. WHY TAKE THAT RISK, IN ONE SENSE, FAILURE?
KIMI RÄIKKÖNEN: “I don’t see any risk.. why not? What do I have to lose? If I do bad in a NASCAR race or bad in any race, I don’t care.. I do it for myself. A good or bad end result, it could happen even if I did 20 races. They all could be bad for many different reasons.
I don’t see any negative. I think it’s great what Justin (Marks) and the team is doing giving a chance for all of us from Europe. It’s not as known.. obviously over the years, NASCAR is more known there, but I’m sure there are a lot of drivers that would like to have a chance to try it. It’s not very easy, so maybe it will open some doors in the future for more chances to try and get more Europeans into the sport.”
IT LOOKS LIKE YOU’RE STAYING IN THE MOTORHOME LOT WITH YOUR FAMILY. WHAT DO YOU LIKE ABOUT THE NASCAR CULTURE AND THE VIBE IN THAT SENSE COMPARED TO F1?
KIMI RÄIKKÖNEN: “It’s a lot different than when I was here the last time. I like it.. it’s very relaxed and completely different. I think the schedule is a lot different than it was last time. What happened to many sports after COVID was that they figured out that we really don’t need to spend as many days over the weekend at the track. Obviously, in hindsight, it would be better for me if we had more practice, but that’s how it is.
I really like it. It’s very relaxed.. a nice, family atmosphere. It’s a lot more of a family atmosphere here than in F1, so I like it. So far, it’s been great.”
JUSTIN, CAN YOU TALK ABOUT THE OVERALL PATH AND THE FUTURE OF PROJECT91 AND WHAT WE CAN SEE WITH THE PROGRAM MOVING FORWARD? ARE THERE ANY PLANS FOR THE REST OF THIS YEAR OR NEXT YEAR?
JUSTIN MARKS: “This is the only event for PROJECT91 this year. This is really our opportunity to sort of build this program; see how it impacts the operations of the company to field a part-time third car. I’ve been telling people; we haven’t hired one person for this project. There’s just been a lot of people at Trackhouse that have been doing time-and-a-half to get this to go. This is really just about what it looks like to field a part-time third car, as far as on the operations of the company, moving forward. This will be on the only event this year.
The road courses are kind of the ideal places to bring guys like Kimi in.. just because of the experience on the road courses. I think it’s a quicker learning curve and they can get up to speed a lot more quickly than to go to ovals.
So with that being said; ultimately PROJECT91 is a program that operates at all of the road courses during the season and then potentially some of the major events, like the Daytona 500, Coca-Cola 600, or something like that. I think at some point, you get so many races that you have to look at just actually fielding a third full-time car. But I think for PROJECT 91, it’s a six to eight race program potentially next year and beyond. It’s a brand extension of Trackhouse. I think we can get really unique on the content side, on the merchandise side and just create great stories. That’s sort of where I’d like to see it go.”
WATKINS GLEN WAS THE SITE OF THE US GRAND PRIX FOR FORMULA 1 FROM 1961 TO 1980. IF YOU GO DOWN TO SENECA LODGE, YOU CAN STILL SEE THE VICTORY WREATHS FROM THAT F1 ERA. KIMI, SINCE YOU HAVE YOUR FAMILY WITH YOU, HAVE YOU LOOKED AT ANY OF THAT HISTORY THAT EXISTED HERE WITH FORMULA 1? JUSTIN, BECAUSE OF THAT HISTORY HERE, DID THAT ENTER INTO YOUR DECISION OF HAVING KIMI HERE TO MAKE HIS CUP DEBUT WITH PROJECT91?
KIMI RÄIKKÖNEN: “We came here yesterday. Obviously I know a little bit of the history of F1 being here and have seen some old videos from it. But from that, I haven’t really seen much yet. The kids are interested in doing other things.. they’re a bit too young for that. But I certainly know the history. It’s a great place and a nice area. It sort of feels like the middle of nowhere, but I enjoy that. It’s good to be here.”
JUSTIN MARKS: “As far as Watkins Glen, there were a couple of factors that went into this one. We needed time to be able to get this team ready and it needed to match up with Kimi’s schedule. I think, more than anything, it was convenient for him and his family to be able to make this trip and Watkins Glen fell in a good time for them. I didn’t want to debut PROJECT91 in the playoffs. That was not interesting to me.
And then as far as Watkins Glen; this is a track where obviously there’s a lot of history. The fan base is huge. It’s a great event for the sport, so there’s already typically a spotlight on it just because of the history and the quality of the races. It’s a track where I think if he starts to learn the race car in the race and we have a good race going, that you can make passes and you can create a good event. This event typically doesn’t get “mickey, mousey” like Indy did and some of these other events.
I think there were a lot of factors that went into it that just made this the ideal place.”
KIMI, WHEN YOU TESTED LAST WEEK AT VIR, DANIEL (SUAREZ) WAS THERE WITH YOU. WHAT’S IT BEEN LIKE TO HAVE THAT SUPPORT SYSTEM BETWEEN DANIEL AND ROSS (CHASTAIN) TO LEARN AND ADAPT TO THE NEXT GEN CAR?
KIMI RÄIKKÖNEN: “Obviously, it’s useful. Any help is good with limited time in the car. They have a lot more experience. When we ran the simulator, they were both there, so it was good to see what they do and how it goes.
Yeah, it’s been nice. Daniel (Suarez) has spent his free time to help, so I really appreciate that. I’m happy that they’ve been very open to go to if I have questions and try to help.”
JUSTIN, WHAT ARE YOUR REASONABLE EXPECTATIONS OF THIS RACE? DO YOU THINK PROJECT91 WOULD HAVE EVER BEEN POSSIBLE WITH THE OLD CAR VERSUS NOW DOING IT DURING THE FIRST YEAR OF THE NEXT GEN CAR?
JUSTIN MARKS: “I definitely think it was possible. But I think what this car represents is a lower barrier of entry for drivers from other disciplines because this car is much more consistent with other road racing cars globally. So the transition to learn the car for someone like Kimi is just a lot more simple.
And for expectations; the speed is going to be there, the preparation is going to be there, the fitness is going to be there, all of that. I think where the heavy lift is just understanding procedurally how the race goes; making sure there’s no drama in the pits, on the restarts and things like that. I think anything is possible.. I really do believe anything is possible. We have to run a good strategy and get a little bit lucky. But what he has shown at the test, what he has shown in the simulator and some of the other things that we’ve done; I don’t have any issues with the pace, preparation or anything like that. I think it’s going to be right on par. So if we do a good job for him as a team, I think that we can have a very good day.”
KIMI, A LOT OF THE DRIVERS RECENTLY HAVE VOICED THEIR EXCITEMENT OF RACING AND MEETING YOU. ARE THERE ANY DRIVERS IN NASCAR THAT YOU FEEL THE SAME ABOUT, EITHER MEETING OR RACING?
KIMI RÄIKKÖNEN: “I think, generally, it’s just nice to race whoever it’s going to be. It’s always exciting when you race against people that you haven’t raced against before. They’re very professional. The rules are slightly different than what I’m used to, but I’m happy to be here and meet the guys. I remember from the last time; they’re very relaxed, easy-going and it’s easy to talk to other drivers. It’s a bit different than what I’m used to from where I come from.”
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HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – A couple’s first date in Hendersonville, Tennessee, turned into a church burglary. And then a trip to jail.
Police in Hendersonville said the two people, identified as a 19-year-old female and a 20-year-old male, were on their first date when they broke into the Indian Lake Peninsula Church at around 12:50 a.m. on Thursday morning.
The couple confessed to the crime, police said, claiming they broke into the church because they wanted to play the piano and thought a church might have one they could use.
Surveillance footage from the outside of the church shows the two pulling up to the church in a 2004 Ford Mustang. The male can be seen with a surprised smile on his face when they try the door and find it unlocked.
After entering the church, they stayed to play piano for about 30 minutes, police said.
“Both subjects admitted to detectives that they were looking for a piano to play because they both play the piano, they knew churches had pianos so they were looking for an unlocked church to play the piano,” said Det. Stephan Fye of the Hendersonville Police.
Police said the two also stole four bibles and two drumsticks when they left. The surveillance footage shows the female picking up a church collection plate. Police say she took it as a souvenir.
They’re also heard talking about their shock at discovering a piano.
Female: “I found a piano. I’m so shocked we found one at the first church.”
Male: “I know right?”
Female: “And there were so many more churches I was ready to go to.”
Male: “Oh my god.”
The church’s pastor discovered the break-in that morning and called the police.
Detectives and patrol officers worked to identify the suspects using surveillance footage. Police were able to identify the female’s 2004 Mustang; they quickly found both suspects from there.
The two later confessed and surrendered the stolen church items.
“They just admitted it was dumb, probably should not have done it. They knew it was a mistake inherently,” said Fye. “They did not apologize.”
The couple was charged with misdemeanor theft and felony burglary.
Indian Lake Peninsula Church Administrative Pastor Drew Altom said he hopes the young people at least learn something from their actions.
“I would tell them don’t let this one incident define you. Learn something. And together, let’s continue to grow. We all make mistakes, but we are all held accountable for those mistakes as well.”
Altom said he is very grateful to the police for the quick response and resolution to the case. Church officials also confirmed to Nexstar’s WKRN that the unlocked door was repaired immediately. | https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/couple-on-1st-date-breaks-into-church-to-play-piano/ | 2022-08-20T21:32:55Z | https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/couple-on-1st-date-breaks-into-church-to-play-piano/ | true | 21 |
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has ordered the arrest of a member of the House of Representatives, Chinyere Igwe.
Igwe is a cousin to Austin Opara, who is a supporter of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar.
The lawmaker is said to be the owner of a filling station in Diobu, Port Harcourt, which was sealed off by security agents on Friday.
Wike alleged that the product from the filling station is sourced from illegal refineries popularly known as kpo-fire.
Wike said he had told the security agencies that, “if I hear anything that any filling station is involved in oil bunkering, I will close down that filling station and therefore I have directed the security agencies to know who has that filling station in Diobu and arrest that person and we are going to prosecute the person.
“It doesn’t matter how highly placed that person is. Some of you should be used to teach a lesson.
“Time has come, we cannot allow oil bunkering, we can’t.”
Igwe, who was speaking about the sealing of his filling station on Friday, had described the action of the security agencies as “politically motivated”. | https://bioreports.net/wike-orders-arrest-of-atikus-ally-in-rivers/ | 2022-08-20T21:40:19Z | https://bioreports.net/wike-orders-arrest-of-atikus-ally-in-rivers/ | true | 2 |
WFO BINGHAMTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, August 20, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Binghamton NY
458 PM EDT Sat Aug 20 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of west central Oneida
and north central Madison Counties through 530 PM EDT...
At 458 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Verona, or near Oneida, moving northeast at 15 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Rome, Oneida, Verona, Vienna, Sylvan Beach, Oneida Castle,
Wampsville, Blossvale, New London and Verona Beach.
This includes the following highway exits...
Interstate 90 near 33.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 4318 7546 4306 7565 4314 7581 4320 7579
4331 7568 4329 7564
TIME...MOT...LOC 2058Z 220DEG 14KT 4313 7565
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
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CHERRY HILL, N.J. (AP) — Actor Gary Busey has been charged with sexual offenses at a New Jersey fan convention this month.
Busey, 78, was charged Friday with two counts of fourth-degree criminal sexual contact, one count of attempted criminal sexual contact and one count of harassment, Cherry Hill police said Saturday.
The charges stem from offenses at the annual Monster Mania Convention at the Doubletree Hotel on Aug. 12-14 in Cherry Hill, a Philadelphia suburb, police said.
Busey, who lives in Malibu, California, was scheduled as a featured guest for all three days of the event.
Police did not immediately respond to a message seeking details. It also wasn't clear whether Busey has an attorney to comment on the charges, and a representative didn't immediately return a message seeking comment Saturday.
Busey is widely known as a character actor, largely in supporting roles, though he came to attention and was nominated for an Oscar for best actor for playing the title role in the 1978 film “The Buddy Holly Story.” | https://www.theintelligencer.com/entertainment/article/Gary-Busey-charged-with-sex-offenses-at-17386889.php | 2022-08-20T21:46:22Z | https://www.theintelligencer.com/entertainment/article/Gary-Busey-charged-with-sex-offenses-at-17386889.php | true | 77 |
Luisa and her husband migrated to the U.S. 14 years ago and they now live in Tucson, Arizona. She is undocumented, doesn’t speak English, and has five children, two of whom were born in the U.S. Luisa said she loves her children, but that all of her pregnancies and births were forced. She said her husband often raped her and controlled her birth control; over the years, Luisa had four miscarriages.
“I feel guilty saying this, but it was a relief,” Luisa said. “I didn’t want to have more children with him. I felt depressed.”
Finding reproductive health resources in Arizona has been extremely difficult for people like Luisa. The chronic lack of access to reproductive health care has been the norm for undocumented people in Arizona and across the country—long before abortion bans were enacted and the U.S. Supreme Court gutted Roe v. Wade in June.
“Undocumented women face cultural, language, and socioeconomic challenges in trying to access reproductive healthcare,” said Imelda Esquer, the program manager at the Tucson-based YWCA Latina Leadership Institute. “The more vulnerable you are, the more risks you face.”
For years, reproductive and immigrant rights advocates have fostered networks of solidarity and support. These efforts grew as Arizona intensified its attacks on abortion rights before and after the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling. In Arizona, there’s also the grim legacy of SB 1070, known as the “show me your papers” law, which allowed police to function as federal immigration officials, racially profiling and questioning community members on their immigration status. It’s always been challenging for undocumented people to access health care resources over fear of coming into contact with law enforcement and immigration agents during their commute or at clinics and hospitals. There are also concerns about having to provide personal information to anyone they think could then share it with federal immigration agencies.
“And that’s exactly what state violence is about, living in fear,” said Alejandra Pablos, a reproductive justice community organizer based in Arizona. Pablos has been targeted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in retaliation for her activism and has been in deportation proceedings for about a decade. “This trauma that’s stronger and deeper in our lives. Being in deportation proceedings, being in constant surveillance for choosing our own reproductive health. The impact that’s gonna have on our people. We don’t have a space to grieve. It’s one attack after another. The existence of ICE, police, prisons, it forces some of us to not want to parent because nobody wants to parent [under] hostile conditions … The same government that’s forcing people to be pregnant would separate me from that child.”
While for some the reality of mass surveillance, criminalization, and overpolicing barely became a concern following the overturning of Roe, undocumented, Black, Latinx, and Native communities living in border states like Arizona have long been familiar with the anxiety triggered by militarization and hostile policies that target their livelihoods. These communities have also been at the forefront of resistance movements that have laid the groundwork for how to respond to these attacks.
“We have known the experience of our bodily autonomy being violated one way or another,” said Eloisa Lopez, executive director for Pro-Choice Arizona and Abortion Fund of Arizona. “This is what we’re fighting for and have been for generations, the people have always been fighting for bodily sovereignty.”
There’s still a lot of legal confusion around abortion access in Arizona. After the Dobbs ruling, most clinics suspended their services, canceling hundreds of appointments. There are two conflicting laws in the books: an abortion ban dating back to the 19th century, and a measure signed into law by Republican Gov. Doug Ducey in March that prohibited abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, which is scheduled to go into effect in September unless a court rules the near-total abortion ban from the 1800s takes precedent.
Abortion providers in Arizona have largely been congregated in Phoenix. These clinics also required a state ID, driver’s license, and health insurance, which undocumented people in the state don’t have access to. Medication abortions in Arizona couldn’t be prescribed through telemedicine, forcing people to travel to Phoenix or Tucson for their in-person appointments. For undocumented people living in Tucson and rural areas of southern Arizona, getting in a car and driving long distances poses an enormous risk.
Mobility is severely restricted in regions located within 100 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border, known as the “constitution free zone,” where for decades Border Patrol, Customs and Border Protection, and other immigration enforcement agencies have had free rein to surveil, arbitrarily stop, search, and detain people without a warrant or probable cause. In June, the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Egbert v. Boule further secured these powers.
There are also several Border Patrol checkpoints strategically positioned throughout highways in southern Arizona. Tohono O’odham and other Indigenous communities, who’ve lived in the region for centuries before that border even existed, face constant Border Patrol surveillance and harassment and are questioned on their immigration status when they’re forced to pass these checkpoints. Traveling to neighboring states like California, Nevada, Colorado, or New Mexico, where abortion is still accessible, is only an option for a few people.
“If you live in particularly militarized areas of the southern border, the potential of [being] apprehended at a checkpoint is always something that you’re going to be thinking about,” said Yvette Borja, a Tucson-based staff writer at Balls & Strikes and a former immigration attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona and The Florence Project, and host of the podcast Radio Cachimbona. The U.S.-Mexico borderlands have been known as testing grounds for surveillance and militarized policing tactics that can then be applied elsewhere. “There is a thru line between prohibiting abortion access for immigrants and now taking these policing tactics and applying them to other U.S. citizens.”
The heavy militarization of the Arizona borderlands and restrictions on reproductive and abortion care also greatly impact newly arrived asylum-seekers, who are forced to rely on human smugglers to cross through remote areas of the desert, where they’re extremely vulnerable to sexual violence from smugglers, Border Patrol, and CBP agents. ICE has said pregnant people in their custody will still have access to abortions if requested. But the agency has a disturbing record of medical neglect and abuse, including reports of sexual assaults at immigration detention centers and forced sterilizations.
Last October, the Biden administration issued guidelines directing the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which is part of the Department of Health and Human Services, to prevent pregnant migrant children in its custody from being sent to Texas, and to facilitate the transfer of children already in Texas and who are seeking abortion out to states where there’s access to the procedure. Biden officials are reportedly working to broaden those guidelines as more states have banned abortion post-Roe. But as Borja warned, it’s hard to trust ICE and other federal agencies that have been plagued with accusations of psychological and sexual abuse and neglect with the reproductive care of people in their custody.
While the legal guidelines of abortion access are clarified in Arizona, community organizers like Lopez and Pablos continue to lead efforts to raise money for abortion funds and are on the ground informing community members of access to abortion pills and other grassroots-led reproductive health resources that are available. In Pablos’ case, she’s carrying on the work under the constant threat of deportation.
“It’s scary for me to think that somebody can knock at my door at any time,” she said.
“It’s just about us on the ground, creating spaces that are going to be caring for one another,” Pablos said. “We’re not just working around abortion rights … we want to make sure communities are safe. [We’re] starting to understand that we’re fighting the bigger enemy, which is state violence … white supremacy around our lives, our sexuality, our reproduction.”
María Inés Taracena is a contributing writer covering workers’ rights at Prism. Originally from Guatemala, she's currently a news producer at Democracy Now! in New York City focusing on Central America and asylum seekers, among other stories. Follow her on Twitter @m_ines_taracena.
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Two people, including a Westchester County resident, were killed in a crash on the New Jersey Turnpike during afternoon rush hour Friday, Aug. 19, authorities said.
A Toyota Prius driven by Seyed Tarighati, age 69, of Yonkers, veered off the right side of the road and struck the guardrail heading south on the western spur around 4:15 p.m. near milepost 107.1 in Newark, NJSP Sgt. Philip Curry said.
The Toyota the crossed over the lanes of travel and struck the center concrete barrier, killing both the driver and an unidentified passenger.
The left two lanes were closed for approximately three hours resulting in heavy traffic. The cause of the crash remains under investigation.
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SINGAPORE, Feb. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Binance, the world's leading blockchain ecosystem and cryptocurrency infrastructure provider, today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for a strategic partnership with Netmarble F&C, a subsidiary of Netmarble Corp., to build a global Play to Earn (P2E) Ecosystem and NFT offering.
Through the strategic partnership, the two teams will develop and contribute to the infrastructure of Binance Smart Chain (BSC) through BSC Application Side Chain (BAS). There will be a private chain for Netmarble to develop on the BSC GameFi sidechain and Netmarble will build GameFi projects that can grow the BSC GameFi ecosystem and the global P2E ecosystem.
On top of the technological collaboration, Binance and Netmarble are discussing opportunities to launch an Initial Game Offering (IGO) on Binance NFT marketplace, conduct sales of Netmarble game NFT on Binance NFT marketplace, plug Netmarble into Binance's crypto ecosystem to support the development of crypto use cases in their future games, and more. Furthermore, there are more long-term goals for the two parties to come, with details to be shared in due course.
As the first commitment to the strategic partnership, there will be an NFT presale for 'Golden Bros', the latest casual shooting game developed by Netmarble F&C, on Binance NFT.
Helen Hai, Global Head of Binance NFT, commented on the partnership: "Netmarble has such an innovative background in the gaming industry and it will be a privilege to work together. Through the partnership, we hope to support Netmarble in building a sustainable and disruptive GameFi ecosystem which extends beyond the gaming entertainment industry."
Netmarble F&C, Inc. is a subsidiary of Netmarble Corp. established in 2014 and known for developing successful games, such as 'The Seven Deadly Sins: Grand Cross' and 'Blade & Soul Revolution'. Netmarble F&C has proven to provide the highest level of gaming entertainment to audiences around the world with creative ideas, world-class graphics, and solid development in a variety of mobile and PC games based on its powerful franchises and collaborations with intellectual property (IP) holders worldwide. With its recent acquisition of ITAM CUBE, a GameFi project on BSC, Netmarble F&C has secured P2E infrastructure and technology to integrate their existing businesses into the blockchain.
The blockchain ecosystem Netmarble F&C is building strives to tie all types of entertainment into one P2E platform. Netmarble Corp. recently announced to join the bandwagon of applying metaverse, blockchain, and non-fungible token (NFT) technologies to gaming and entertainment. Netmarble F&C will create a blockchain ecosystem that integrates game, contents, and commerce, reaching out to diverse business verticals such as web-comics, fictions, and Metahuman.
Seo woo-won, CEO of Netmarble F&C, and the Head of Metaverse Entertainment, said, "We are glad to begin our extensive partnership with Binance to pursue the same goal - bringing blockchain entertainment to the mainstream and realizing borderless joy and fun - together."
The company is incorporating blockchain technology into its next games with its first blockchain game on BSC scheduled to launch in March. Digital content and e-commerce business are also to be added to a single entertainment launcher.
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PowerTrade Fuel (PTF) traded up 1.6% against the dollar during the 24 hour period ending at 17:00 PM E.T. on August 20th. One PowerTrade Fuel coin can now be bought for about $0.0096 or 0.00000046 BTC on exchanges. PowerTrade Fuel has a total market capitalization of $223,963.01 and $69,128.00 worth of PowerTrade Fuel was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. During the last week, PowerTrade Fuel has traded 28.8% lower against the dollar.
Here’s how related cryptocurrencies have performed during the last 24 hours:
- Binance USD (BUSD) traded 0% lower against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00004792 BTC.
- BITCOIN ADDITIONAL (BTCA) traded 1.9% lower against the dollar and now trades at $20,872.73 or 1.00000000 BTC.
- Crypto.com Coin (CRO) traded 5% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.41 or 0.00001075 BTC.
- Dai (DAI) traded 0.1% lower against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00004785 BTC.
- Mammoth (MMT) traded down 0.4% against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00004787 BTC.
- Polygon (MATIC) traded down 3.5% against the dollar and now trades at $0.76 or 0.00003659 BTC.
- yOUcash (YOUC) traded up 0% against the dollar and now trades at $0.51 or 0.00002449 BTC.
- FTX Token (FTT) traded down 3.1% against the dollar and now trades at $26.25 or 0.00125747 BTC.
- Geegoopuzzle (GGP) traded 34.9% higher against the dollar and now trades at $21.39 or 0.00102488 BTC.
- Chainlink (LINK) traded 5.1% lower against the dollar and now trades at $6.72 or 0.00032179 BTC.
PowerTrade Fuel Profile
PowerTrade Fuel (PTF) is a coin. Its launch date was September 23rd, 2020. PowerTrade Fuel’s total supply is 400,000,000 coins and its circulating supply is 23,311,586 coins. The official website for PowerTrade Fuel is power.trade. PowerTrade Fuel’s official Twitter account is @PowerTradeHQ and its Facebook page is accessible here.
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Pittsburgh Penguins: Jake Guentzel welcomes a baby boy to his family
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - It's been quite the summer for several members of the Pittsburgh Penguins, for both on-ice and off-ice reasons.
Contract extensions to key veterans, free agent acquisitions, and trades that bring in new faces are all aimed at helping the Penguins win their sixth Stanley Cup this upcoming season.
However, several members of the roster have made additions elsewhere.
Penguins' forward, Rickard Rakell became a first-time father around Father's Day a few months ago.
Now, Jake Guenztel has added another member to his family after welcoming a baby boy, Charlie.
Guentzel will be looking to build on another impressive season alongside Penguins' captain, Sidney Crosby. During the 2021-22 campaign, the 27-year-old winger scored an impressive 40 goals and 84 points in 76 games.
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BATIAGHATA, KHULNA, Aug 20: Agriculture activities are hampered due to water crisis in the Nalua River in Batiaghata Upazila of the district.
Seedbeds cannot be prepared in the upazila because of water shortage in the river.
The Nalua River flowing through Batiaghata was mighty before with strong current. Speedboats, launches, steamers and other water transports would move on the river only 40 years back. Over ages the river has diminished into a narrow channel.
Now people of different professions are in living houses on its bed having also trees and factories.
This is a 21-kilometre long river. The river has originated from the Poshur River and met at the mouth of Kazibacha River. The river was 200-metre long having more than 200-metre depth.
Trading would be taking place with Khulna-Mongla Port through it.
Three out of seven unions, Bhandarcoat, Baliadanga and Amirpur, of Batiaghata were covered by the river. Its origin is located at Bhandarcoat, followed by Baliadanga in the middle and Amirpur at the end.
There were three ferry ghats over the Nalua River. People would use these ghats for going to Batiaghata Police Station from different unions. Sometimes, ferry boats would sink due to severe current.
Also there was abundance of hilsa in the river. People of about ten villages would catch fishes in it at night.
The river bed has been occupied. A vested quarter has grabbed the entire river. Only a channel of water passing is remaining as the symbol of existence.
Water stagnation develops on croplands of its banks in the rainy season. Once, the blessing river is now the river of curse. | https://www.observerbd.com/news.php?id=380090 | 2022-08-20T22:15:51Z | https://www.observerbd.com/news.php?id=380090 | true | 1 |
LOVELAND, Colo., Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Author Danae Oberlin returns to the future with her readers in They Walk Among Us, Vol. 2 ($26.49, paperback, 9781662842115; $9.99, e-book, 9781662842122).
Fans of They Walk Among Us, Vol. 1 will encounter Dana once again as she and her comrades in the government seek to fight off an ugly alien race. Using an amulet that gives her special abilities, she battles to protect her home planet.
"[They Walk Among Us is] an awesome roller coaster of adventure, travel, magic, fast cars and jets, and a love affair to beat all love triangles you've read about before! Join Dana on her journey of epic proportions to fight for all humanity!" said Oberlin.
Danae Oberlin is a U.S. Navy veteran, cancer survivor and turtle enthusiast.
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Elliott wins Cup pole at Watkins Glen International
WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. (AP) — Chase Elliott has won the NASCAR Cup pole at Watkins Glen International, edging Hendrick Motorsports teammate Kyle Larson for the top spot. Elliott, a two-time winner at The Glen, turned a fast lap of 1 minute, 10.477 seconds around the 2.45-mile natural terrain road course. Larson, who won last year’s race at The Glen, finished in 1:10.516, just ahead of Michael McDowell. William Byron was fourth and Tyler Reddick, winner of the last two road races on the schedule, will start fifth as Chevrolet took four of the top five spots. Former Formula One champ Kimi Raikkonen qualified 27th in his series debut. | https://kyma.com/news/ap-business/2022/08/20/elliott-wins-cup-pole-at-watkins-glen-international/ | 2022-08-20T22:24:27Z | https://kyma.com/news/ap-business/2022/08/20/elliott-wins-cup-pole-at-watkins-glen-international/ | true | null |
Dorli Rainey, symbol of Occupy movement, dies at 95
SEATTLE (AP) — Dorli Rainey, a self-described “old lady in combat boots” who became a symbol of the Occupy protest movement when she was photographed after being pepper-sprayed by Seattle police, has died. She was 95.
The longtime political activist died on Aug. 12, the Seattle Times reported. Her daughter, Gabriele Rainey, told the newspaper her mom was “so active because she loved this country, and she wanted to make sure that the country was good to its people.”
Rainey was a fixture in the local progressive movement for decades, demonstrating for racial justice, affordable housing and public transit, and against war, nuclear weapons and big banks.
In November 2011, in the early days of the Occupy Wall Street movement, Rainey, then 84, joined protesters in blocking downtown intersections. She was hit when Seattle police used pepper spray to clear the crowd.
Fellow protesters poured milk over her face to ease the sting, and a seattlepi.com photographer, Joshua Trujillo, captured a stunning image of her staring defiantly into the camera, her eyes red and milk dripping off her face.
The photo become a worldwide symbol for the protest movement. She was profiled by The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Associated Press and The Guardian.
“It’s a gruesome picture,” she told the AP. “I’m really not that bad looking.”
Then-Mayor Mike McGinn apologized and ordered a review of the incident. Rainey was back out protesting a couple days later.
“Dorli is legendary, and deservedly so, for her activism,” McGinn said Friday. “She was just omnipresent and a conscience and a voice for change, and I deeply, deeply, deeply respected her.”
Rainey was born in Austria in 1926. She was a Red Cross nurse and then worked in Europe as a technical translator for the U.S. Army for 10 years. She married Max Rainey, a civil engineer who got a job with Boeing, and they moved to the Seattle area in 1956.
She worked as a court-appointed special advocate, representing children who have experienced abuse or neglect, and as a real-estate agent. She served on the Issaquah School Board and ran for King County Council a half-century ago, and she made a brief run for Seattle mayor in 2009.
She had three children, Gabriele, of Asheville, North Carolina; Michael, of Boston; and Andrea, who died in 2014. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Max.
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SAN ANTONIO, Feb. 10, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AiAdvertising, Inc. (AIAD), a technology driven provider of digital advertising solutions, today announced that it has retained iPCapital Group (ipCG), a global IP strategy firm, to help accelerate the development of the Company's AI driven ad platform.
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Mr. Cronin and ipCG have worked with over 1,500 companies and approximately 15% of the Fortune 500 companies, hundreds of mid-size companies, and hundreds of startups and governmental laboratories. Over the years, Mr. Cronin has become a respected thought leader among executives who wish to align business issues with IP and translate strategies into actionable financial results. Mr. Cronin has inspired and trained thousands of engineers and scientists in the best practices of "how to invent."
Before forming ipCG, Mr. Cronin spent over 17 years at IBM and became its top inventor with over 100 patents and 150 patent publications. He created and ran the IBM Patent Factory, which was essential in helping IBM become number one in US patents and led the team that contributed to the startup and success of IBM's licensing program. Mr. Cronin is also the Chair of the Board of Directors of AdrenalineIP and a Board member of IX-Innovations.
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Soccer-Inter cruise to 3-0 win over Spezia
We knew they would create difficulties for us, but we prepared for the game in the right way," Inzaghi told Sky Sport Italia. The hosts took the lead in the 35th minute when striker Romelu Lukaku headed the ball to an unmarked Martinez right outside the box before the Argentine forward struck it into the bottom left corner of the net.
Inter Milan cruised to a comfortable 3-0 victory over Spezia in their first home game of the new Serie A season on Saturday, making it back-to-back wins for Simone Inzaghi's side.
With most of the games being played on Sunday and Monday, Inter knew that a win or a draw at home would lift them, temporarily at least, to the top of Serie A. Lautaro Martinez, Hakan Calhanoglu and Joaquin Correa all scored for Inter in a game where they were never really threatened by a toothless Spezia.
Dutch right back Denzel Dumfries could have put Inter ahead after nine minutes when he rose to meet a free kick from the right, but his header was saved by Spezia goalkeeper Bartlomiej Dragowski. "We did well in both halves. Spezia have played earlier games very well. We knew they would create difficulties for us, but we prepared for the game in the right way," Inzaghi told Sky Sport Italia.
The hosts took the lead in the 35th minute when striker Romelu Lukaku headed the ball to an unmarked Martinez right outside the box before the Argentine forward struck it into the bottom left corner of the net. Dragowski saved Spezia again in the 40th minute when he stopped a shot from Dumfries with his legs. Only two minutes later, Lukaku headed the ball onto the crossbar.
Inter dominated possession in the first half but only had one goal to show for it, with Spezia not having any shots on target. Calhanoglu doubled the lead in the 52nd minute after receiving the ball inside the box and calmly slotting it beyond Dragowski.
Correa put the ball into an empty net in the 82nd minute, shortly after coming on, after Edin Dzeko's assist from the left went past Dragowski. The win means Inter top the standings with six points from two games. Spezia are now without a victory against Inter in all seven of their meetings in Serie A and the Coppa Italia.
Inter play Lazio away next Friday, while Spezia host Sassuolo on Aug. 27.
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With the elimination of Emily Bargeron in the season three premiere of “Making the Cut” for her evening wear looks that looked way too daytime, there were nine designers left competing to become the next great global brand: Curtis Cassell, Rafael Chaouiche, Georgia Hardinge, Sienna Li, Jeanette Limas, Markantoine Lynch-Boisvert, Gabriella Meyer, Ciara Chyanne Morgan, and Yannik Zamboni. So who kept up with the pace in “Activewear Champions,” which premiered on Amazon Prime on August 19?
Assignment
The designers are immediately introduced to a special guest, Chief Design Officer for Champion North America Ned Munroe. If the title of the episode weren’t clear enough this is an activewear assignment, in which the designers will create two-look activewear collections in collaboration with Champion. They would receive Champion reverse weave fabric, plus Champion trims and logos to create their designs.
Unlike “Evening Wear,” which gave the designers two weeks to work from home before arriving on the show, this assignment gives them only two days to complete their task with the help of seamstresses and a textile printer. The winner will create a capsule collection for the “Making the Cut” store and the Champion website. “Activewear is not only for the gym. It has become a streetwear staple,” host Heidi Klum explains. “And as a reminder, accessible never means boring or watered down.” That last bit sounds like she’s throwing a little shade at the designers for their accessible looks in “Evening Wear,” many of which didn’t live up to the high-fashion runway looks in the judges’ eyes.
Day One
The assignment starts with the designers getting a bit of inspiration. Some designers head to Runyon Canyon to get glimpses of the Hollywood sign. Jeanette is there and takes inspiration from dried flowers that she plans to turn into an art piece for her runway look. Markantoine is off in a completely different creative direction, but it’s no less promising: as a child of the 1990s, he’s going to design an “activewear grunge” look inspired by Kurt Cobain and his famous black-and-red striped sweater.
Other designers visit the Banc of California Stadium, the home of the LA Football Club. But Gabriella isn’t going for a soccer look. She’s going to try to expand the usual Champion brand with après-ski looks that the company isn’t usually known for. Meanwhile, Rafael wants to make something “comfortable and cool,” Curtis is inspired by the cross patterns in the stadium to make his own new Champion textile, and Ciara wants to make … something. At this stage of the game she’s just jotting down ideas and will sort them out later, which is worrying because she just landed in the bottom two in the last assignment and only has two days for this one.
Compare her to Georgia, who is already cutting her patterns while other designers are still getting their fabrics. That makes Curtis nervous especially since he’s planning to create his own plaid fabric using the Champion trim, and “it’s going to take a while.” We get to know Curtis a little better in his profile segment that explains the inspiration for his Queera nonbinary fashion brand. He thought of the rigid binary options for brides and grooms and wanted to make a grayscale in-between those options. He was once described as a “gender-neutral” designer, and that mortified him. He thinks of himself instead as “gender-empowering, extreme masc, extreme femme. There’s nothing neutral about me.” His first major celebrity client was Billy Porter, because of course it was. I like the cut of his jib. His “Evening Wear” looks were terrific, so I’m excited by what else he has to offer.
But I’m not sure how I feel about Markantoine yet. He talks a little smack about Sienna’s win in the previous challenge. He thought it was beautiful but didn’t represent the future of fashion like his work strives to do. That’s pretty gentle smack-talk, to be fair, but there’s a fine line between confidence and arrogance, and I wonder if the show is setting up a rude awakening for him, as is sometimes the case on reality TV.
There’s also a fine line between a loose, open-minded design process and complete disorder, which is what I’m concerned Ciara is getting herself into as she still isn’t 100% sure about her designs. She says that’s her normal process, but does her normal process involve creating two finished looks in just two days? “Why does this skirt have so many freaking pattern pieces? What was I thinking?” she wonders to herself as she’s scrambling to prepare a tech pack for her seamstress. “I think I bit off a little bit more than I can chew.”
Day Two
Morning comes, and Ciara is literally praying to God. “I like to start my day with prayer because I have a lot of moments that I doubt myself,” she says. “But when that does happen I have to remind myself, okay Ciara you’ve come this far, you have to keep going.” Gotta give her credit for perseverance. She’s not giving up, though she forgot to include her elastic in her tech pack, so she’s got extra work to do.
Yannik is happy with the work from his seamstress. Rafael is just about done with his accessible look and now just needs to work on his runway look, for which he decides to incorporate netting. Markantoine is confident because he doesn’t think a lot of the other looks in the workroom seem like true activewear. He’s getting kind of a shady edit today, isn’t he? And Jeanette asks her fellow designers for their scraps of fabric so she can stuff some flowery balls for her top.
Then it’s time for Tim Talks, which will give us a sense of how the designers are really doing. For starters, Curtis’s custom fabric is “staggering … I’m crazy about it.” But Tim Gunn thinks Gabriella’s runway look isn’t nearly elevated enough to capture the judges’ attention. Yannik is making “very deconstructed underwear” and Tim “can’t wait to see this.” But “I hope they understand it,” says Yannik. I admire his creativity and willingness to push the limits; “Do you have a problem to show your butt?” he later asks one of his models. And after just a couple of episodes I feel like I can already identify a Yannik look on sight. That’s how much he stands out on a runway.
Tim thinks Rafael’s accessible look is “literally a champion,” but that means he’s going to have to step it up on the runway look to make sure it’s “more of a wow” because the accessible design is “a tough act to follow.” And as for Ciara, Tim worries that her accessible look is more elevated than her runway look. The accessible design is also made in a fabric that will be unforgiving if there are any fit issues (we in the business call that foreshadowing). And Tim can’t wait to see Markantoine’s skater-boy look on the runway, though he’s not so sure about Markantoine considering adding leopard print to his design.
At this point we get a closer look at Markantoine’s life and career in a profile that shines a new light on him. He’s had his fashion brand since 2015 full of denim and skatewear. He also works as a fashion teacher. But in 2019 he was the victim of a gay bashing and was left with four facial fractures and an inability to work for months. “But now I’m here and I’m ready to take over the world,” he says. Okay, Markantoine, you’ve won me back. You’ve earned a little shade after what you’ve been through and come back from.
Model fittings go well for Curtis, whose strappy runway look reminds him of “if Edward Scissorhands did sports.” Yannik doesn’t have anything for his models to try on yet — worrisome. And lo and behold Ciara’s unforgiving accessible look doesn’t fit her model so she’ll have to improvise. It would take took long to alter it to fit properly, so she decides it’s faster just to change the whole design. “I guess I’m just ambitious like that.” Give her credit for keeping her cool. Other designers might pull their hair out at such a setback, but Ciara is doing her best to roll with the punches.
Fashion Show
The day of the show Yannik hits a setback of his own. The seamstress returns his tech pack without a key piece of the garment due to a lack of time. “I have no pants!” Yannik exclaims. “I have to do a pair of pants or my model is naked. Gonna show his willy.” This is Amazon Prime so I think you’re allowed to show willy here, though the judges might object to that particular fashion statement. We’ll find out a few minutes later how much skin he ends up showing on the runway. But he too is good-humored and rolling with the punches. I hope he sticks around awhile.
The show itself takes place in a futuristic studio with a ceiling of multicolored lights, which has been the backdrop for photo shoots, fashion campaigns, and commercials for activewear. The first designer to show their work in this eye-popping intergalactic space station of a runway is Rafael. “This is how you start a show,” says designer and judge Jeremy Scott. They love the giant Champion logo earrings that accompany the sexy mesh runway look, and Ned appreciates that Rafael did his homework as the mesh ties in with Champion history.
Markantoine is next, and his confidence throughout the episode proves to be well-earned (sorry for doubting you, Markantoine!). “I’m here for this grunge chic,” says Jeremy, while actress and judge Nicole Richie considers it “exciting.” The accessible look is also “super cool,” according to Heidi, but not as exciting as the first look. Gabriella follows, but her two looks don’t go over very well. The skiing theme bothers Ned since it doesn’t fit the Champion brand. I don’t think Gabriella was ignorant of this, just trying to put a new spin on it, which I appreciate even though I agree with the judges that the looks don’t work. The first après-ski look feels like an après-ski costume from a Wes Anderson movie, and the second jumpsuit fits poorly in the wrong choice of fabric.
The last assignment winner, Sienna, brings out a look that reminds Nicole of a “mental asylum” … in a good way. The judges consider the two looks a little chaotic but young girls would love them. Both Heidi and Nicole think their daughters would want the designs. So not a slam dunk like Sienna’s first assignment, but not a bad showing for someone who hadn’t designed activewear before. The mental asylum is followed by Yannik’s “free the nipple” first look, about which the judges are “intrigued” — and yes, the model is wearing pants, so Yannik didn’t free willy after all. The second bathing suit/underwear look is described by Nicole as a “hot mud wrestling competition” … again, in a good way. I’m kinda digging Nicole’s taste for metaphors, and Ned digs the jockstrap reference to Champion design history.
Ciara’s struggle is evident in her two looks, with silhouettes that are too simple, lacking in wow factor, “underwhelming.” To Ned, the turtlenecks and skirts feel more like officewear than activewear. And once again they notice fit issues with an unforgiving fabric. Having this problem for two straight challenges could be damning. So far it looks like it’s between her and Gabriella for elimination. But Jeanette could be in trouble too since her bubbly art piece looks more like an “avant garde collaboration with Fruit of the Loom.” The judges also think the colors are underwhelming and that the second accessible look is bland, like a trip to the airport according to Nicole, and she doesn’t mean that in a good way.
The last two are Curtis and Georgia. Nicole likes Georgia’s “ice queen” version of sporty, though the cape seems like an afterthought to Heidi. The accessible look is strong too, but the judges feel like they’ve seen it before; it’s not new or exciting. Then, for the second week in a row, Curtis is one of my favorite designers with his woven runway look and his plaid print accessible look. The judges think the accessible look would absolutely sell, he “absolutely nailed it” with his “gutsy” designs. Hard to believe he thought the judges might hate it.
Judging
The judges call four people forward for critiques, but not two of the designers I was expecting. The top two are Rafael and Markantoine, both deserving, but I’m surprised Curtis isn’t getting a critique to make it a top three. Markantoine is the first to hear the judges’ comments, and they reiterate how strong his first look is and how his second packed a little less of a punch. Jeremy says the runway look would have made for a great accessible look and he could have punched it up even further for the high-fashion piece. Rafael is next. He hears that his runway design was fun, sexy, and dramatic, but still Champion. Unsurprisingly, given that showstopper of an accessible look, Rafael is named the winner of the assignment, so he gets a collaborative capsule collection with Champion — pardon all the alliteration. (Watch our interview with Rafael below.)
Curtis isn’t left out of the fun, though. They call him forward next, and he’s nervous since this is usually when the judges talk to the bottom designers, but in this case they have Ned deliver some more good news. Even though Curtis didn’t win this challenge, Ned still wants to work with him to make and sell his accessible look, which is almost as big a win as winning the assignment outright.
And now we get to the bottom designers: Jeanette and Ciara (not Gabriella?). Jeanette’s art piece didn’t work for the judges and didn’t lean enough into the Champion brand. They were Heidi’s two least favorite looks. But by talking to her, Jeremy changes his mind, and by majority vote Jeanette makes the cut! Heidi makes it clear that it was a close call, though. I suspect that means Nicole wanted her to stay and Heidi wanted her to go, with Jeremy changing his vote to give Jeanette another chance.
That was bad news for Ciara, though, who was the next bottom look. The fit problems. The lack of fantasy in the runway look. The fact that both looks were almost identical. The drab color choices. The lack of imagination. Ciara is eliminated. She doesn’t argue to try to change the judges’ minds, merely thanks them for their time and the opportunity to design for them. In turn, the judges encourage her to keep going. She wouldn’t have gotten on the show if she weren’t wildly talented.
“This experience has done nothing but lit a fire under me,” says Ciara in her exit interview. “This opportunity means a lot to me because I feel like I’m opening up doors for other people and paving the way for other Black fashion designers. So I feel very grateful to be representing my culture and representing Black designers like myself.” | https://www.goldderby.com/article/2022/making-the-cut-season-3-episode-2-recap-activewear-champions/ | 2022-08-20T22:53:29Z | https://www.goldderby.com/article/2022/making-the-cut-season-3-episode-2-recap-activewear-champions/ | false | 1 |
(NerdWallet) – Search the internet for “student debt stories,” and you’ll easily find dozens of anxiety-ridden tales of student loan borrowers struggling to keep up with enormous debt balances that have swelled out of control due to compounding interest.
Very few of those stories, however, end in total debt forgiveness. But that’s exactly what happened with Kristin Eliason, legal director at Network for Victim Recovery of D.C., or NVRDC, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit; she saw her $413,000 in student loan debt disappear overnight.
Eliason had her debt discharged through the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, or PSLF. The federal program has a waiver in effect that counts previously ineligible past payments.
The original amount she borrowed for public undergraduate school and private law school was around $180,000, and the interest grew too quickly to pay down any of her principal over the years, she says.
Eliason describes watching her debt balloon without any certainty it would ever be forgiven as a “mental burden.” That weight was lifted when her application was approved under the waiver.
“Once the shock wore off of not believing this was real, it was such a huge relief that I truly never thought it was going to happen,” she says.
A forgiveness program that rarely pays off
The waiver worked out for Eliason, but as for the program itself, she describes it as “a benefit on paper — not a benefit in practice.”
Most borrowers who apply to Public Service Loan Forgiveness are rejected. The approval rate since the program’s inception in 2007 hovered around 2.4%, according to an analysis of federal data.
Getting full debt discharge requires 120 qualifying payments made while working full time for an eligible employer, such as a public school, public hospital, eligible nonprofit or the government.
Borrowers have been left to their own devices to fight, sometimes for years, for payments to count toward the 120 total needed for forgiveness of their remaining debt.
As a result of public criticism, the Biden administration sought to make temporary improvements in an effort to rectify some of the flaws in the execution of the original program. Hence, the PSLF waiver: It offers borrowers the opportunity to receive credit for past payments that didn’t meet the program’s stringent rules. Since the waiver was put in place in October 2021, federal data show approvals through June 2022 have climbed to 10%.
What’s a couple extra thousand when you’re in a six-figure hole?
Eliason took out less than $15,000 in federal student loans to attend as an undergrad at the University of Virginia. She went on to study law at the Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of Law, where she says taking out large loans was common practice.
She finished law school in 2009 with $180,000 in debt. She then took out an additional private loan to help pay for her expenses while she studied for the bar exam.
Eliason made most of her payments on an income-driven repayment plan — it’s the only plan that usually qualifies for PSLF. The repayment plan kept her payments lower than they would have been on a standard 10-year repayment plan, but those lower payments allowed interest to keep accumulating.
After passing the bar, she participated in a postgraduate fellowship, a clerkship, and then experienced six months of unemployment.
“There were a few periods of forbearance where I wasn’t making monthly payments because I couldn’t afford to make monthly payments and eat,” says Eliason.
In September 2012, she began working as a legal services attorney earning $43,000 each year. Her payments were $600 per month. “It was unmanageable in the D.C. area,” she says.
When she started working at NVRDC in 2013, Eliason was able to qualify for D.C.’s loan repayment assistance program, which helps pay for the student loans of lawyers at 37 nonprofit employers. But in order to receive the tax-free benefit, her income had to stay at or below $90,000. In D.C., the current median household income as of 2020 was $90,842, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Eliason says as she inched closer to PSLF discharge, she started submitting employment certification. But her servicer miscalculated the number of payments that she believes should have counted. “They said I only made 90 payments, but I had been working at nonprofit organizations for eight years,” she says. “I knew that didn’t translate.”
She continued submitting her employment certification, and by March 2022, Eliason was notified she had reached 119 payments, but she had to submit additional forms to certify employment. In April, she was told she had made 124 qualifying payments — four more than needed — and she was now owed money. Soon thereafter, her servicer account showed a $0 balance, and she received a letter notifying her of the full discharge.
Eliason says loan forgiveness will make a big difference in her life. She won’t need the loan repayment assistance program anymore, which means no more income cap.
“It means I can get a pay raise at my job. It means if I want to do extra contract work I can do that to supplement my income. It means if work gave me a bonus it wouldn’t impact my ability to get repayment assistance,” says Eliason.
How to get the PSLF waiver
More than 128,000 borrowers have seen a collective $8 billion in loan debt forgiven through the temporary waiver. If you think you may qualify for PSLF through the waiver, there’s no downside to applying.
The PSLF waiver counts past payments that previously didn’t qualify, including:
- Late payments.
- Payments equaling less than the full amount due.
- Payments made on an incorrect repayment plan.
- Payments made on loans that previously did not qualify, such as Federal Family Education Loans, or FFEL, and Perkins loans.
- Payments not made during forbearance periods of 12 consecutive months or greater.
- Months spent in deferment, other than in-school deferment, before 2013.
Use the PSLF Help Tool to search for a qualifying employer and generate a form. It has been updated to align with the waiver.
To qualify, borrowers must already have direct loans or must consolidate their federal debt into a new direct loan. The consolidation step is critical: Borrowers can submit a combined PSLF/Employer Certification form before consolidating, but they must consolidate to be eligible for forgiveness. To find out if you qualify for additional payments and learn more about the waiver, log in to the federal student aid website.
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Sensational Modric strike helps Real Madrid see off Celta
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Madrid (AFP) – A stunning strike by Luka Modric helped Real Madrid on their way to a 4-1 victory away to Celta Vigo on Saturday as the reigning Spanish champions made it two wins from two in La Liga this season.
Modric curled home from outside the box just before half-time to put Carlo Ancelotti's side back in front after Karim Benzema's early penalty had been cancelled out by Iago Aspas, who converted a spot-kick at the other end.
Vinicius Junior and Federico Valverde added further goals in the second half while Eden Hazard had a late penalty saved as Madrid built on their La Liga season-opening 2-1 win at Almeria and joined Real Betis and Osasuna on six points at the top of the fledgling standings.
Real took the lead inside the opening quarter of an hour at Balaidos, Benzema slotting in a penalty after the referee penalised Celta's Peruvian midfielder Renato Tapia for handball following a VAR review.
Yet Celta won a penalty of their own midway through the first half as Eder Militao blocked a Goncalo Paciencia header with his arm, and veteran striker Aspas -- who scored 18 times last season -- made no mistake from the spot.
Franco Cervi then crashed a shot just wide as Celta threatened to go in front against a Real side playing their first game since agreeing to sell midfielder Casemiro to Manchester United.
However, Modric was back in the starting line-up and made it 2-1 three minutes before the interval, collecting possession in space 25 metres from goal and advancing before curling a tremendous shot high into the net from the edge of the D.
Real's class told after the break, as Modric sent Vinicius away to round goalkeeper Augusto Marchesin and slot in the visitors' third goal in the 56th minute.
It was 4-1 before the midway point in the second half, with Vinicius trying to pick out Benzema only for the Frenchman to slip, allowing the arriving Valverde to plant a low first-time shot into the far corner.
It could have been worse for Celta as Madrid won another penalty late on when Benzema was fouled in the box by Hugo Mallo.
Benzema left the spot-kick for Hazard, who had come on as a substitute, but the Belgian's kick was saved by Marchesin.
Penalties galore
That, remarkably, was the seventh penalty in three matches in La Liga on Saturday, with Borja Iglesias scoring twice from the spot as Betis won 2-1 at Real Mallorca earlier.
Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr was among the crowd watching as Iglesias gave Manuel Pellegrini's Betis a ninth-minute lead from the penalty spot in the Balearic Islands after a handball by Mallorca's Rodrigo Battaglia was penalised following a VAR review.
#photo1Kosovo striker Vedat Muriqi headed Mallorca back level early in the second half from a Lee Kang-in cross, only for Betis to win another spot-kick when the unfortunate Battaglia blocked Nabil Fekir on his way into the area.
Iglesias, who also scored in last week's season-opening 3-0 defeat of Elche, again made no mistake with his 73rd-minute penalty, and Betis held on for a 2-1 win as Lee hit the woodwork from a late free-kick.
Osasuna beat Cadiz 2-0 in Pamplona thanks to two more penalties, with Chimy Avila converting the first late in the first half and Kike Garcia slotting in the second late on after Cadiz had Tomas Alarcon sent off.
After Osasuna defeated Sevilla last week they have now won their first two matches of the season in La Liga for the first time since 1981.
Betis, who won last season's Copa del Rey, host Osasuna next weekend.
Barcelona go to Real Sociedad on Sunday evening, while Atletico Madrid entertain Villarreal.
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Overview:
Our modern crusaders against offensive speech have no loyalty to our free speech guarantees, nor a coherent position on censorship and civil rights.
The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one’s own.
Fourth Tenet of The Satanic Temple
Less than a week after literary giant Salman Rushdie was attacked and repeatedly stabbed on stage in upstate New York, sales of his offending work, The Satanic Verses, which had earned the author a fatwa over 30 years ago, have sky-rocketed, while defenders of free speech have taken to writing impassioned pleas in defense of a value that they see as under threat now more than ever.
Rushdie himself had suggested, in 2021, that our current culture is too hostile to free speech for The Satanic Verses to be accepted for publication. “The idea that being offended is a valid critique has gained a lot of traction,” he wrote.
Writing for The Atlantic, author Graeme Wood said:
We have conceded moral authority to howling mobs, and the louder the howls, the more we have agreed that the howls were worth heeding. The novelist Hanif Kureishi has said that ‘nobody would have the balls’ to write The Satanic Verses today. More precisely, nobody would publish it, because sensitivity readers would notice the theological delicacy of the book’s title and plot. The ayatollahs have trained them well, and social-media disasters of recent years have reinforced the lesson: Don’t publish books that get you criticized, either by semiliterate fanatics on the other side of the world or by semiliterate fanatics on this one.”
Author Margaret Atwood, writing for The Guardian, lamented our contemporary diminished respect for free speech following Rushdie’s stabbing, observing that what was “[o]nce a yawn-making liberal platitude, [free speech] has now become a hot-button issue, since the extreme right has attempted to kidnap it in the service of libel, lies and hatred, and the extreme left has tried to toss it out the window in the service of its version of earthly perfection.”
In light of this commentary and countless others, The New York Times ran a piece with a headline proclaiming (preemptively and optimistically, in my opinion) that “The Stabbing of Salman Rushdie Renews Free Speech Debates.” NPR later echoed the claim of fresh debate in an article titled “Since 1989, threats to Salman Rushdie have sparked support and debate on free speech.”
But while defenders of free speech are taking this opportunity to desperately attempt to renew some type of respect for free expression, I have seen very little debate from the other side, very little commentary to be seen so far, this time around, blaming the author for the vitriol directed towards him. While some may see this as a positive development indicating a general consensus in favor of a principled stand for the preservation of free speech, I believe that the silence of censorship’s contemporary champions is more indicative of intellectual cowardice than a pro-democratic change of heart.
Back in 1989, when the fatwa against Rushdie was ordered by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, former president Jimmy Carter wrote for The New York Times, opining that “[w]hile Rushdie’s First Amendment freedoms are important, we have tended to promote him and his book with little acknowledgment that it is a direct insult to those millions of Moslems whose sacred beliefs have been violated and are suffering in restrained silence the added embarrassment of the Ayatollah’s irresponsibility.”
At least Carter deemed First Amendment freedoms “important,” but many questions were left unanswered in his criticisms. Was he claiming that the book was overvalued because of the controversy surrounding it, or was he suggesting that a work of literary merit should be ignored because it is “offensive”? Did it matter that Rushdie was born into a Kashmiri Muslim family and may have been critical of viewpoints that were imposed upon him at an early age and remain a part of his inherited universal mythological framework, even as a nonbeliever? Are apostates from major world religions who grow up imbedded in those religious communities to be seen as merely joining a larger majority of non-adherents to a particular faith when they renounce those beliefs, or are apostates from those religions to be viewed as a minority within a minority, and deserving of greater protections?
Others similarly lamented the fame of Rushdie’s work at the time of the fatwa and since, but the commentary decrying The Satanic Verses was often the same as that expressed by Carter: the First Amendment is still vital to democracy, but Rushdie should not have done what he did, and we should not celebrate him for it.
As pointless and misguided as I may feel such proclamations are, our modern crusaders against offensive speech seem to have no such loyalty to the First Amendment, and they do even less to attempt a coherent position on censorship and civil rights. Thus, faced with the brutal stabbing of a respected author who offended what is in the United States (and so likely believed to be everywhere in their provincial minds) a minority religious group, it seems that the crusaders against offensive speech largely choose to hold their silence.
Unlike Carter, today’s critics of offensive speech concede little to no respect for First Amendment protections, which are often dismissed as “free speech absolutism.” Or if not “absolute,” then the acknowledgment that free speech has never actually been absolute, and that there are prohibitions against death threats, libel, etc., is often senselessly used to advance a case that censorship is merely a pre-existing norm that deserves more expansive elaboration to mitigate possible “offense.”
Today’s anti-free speech moral crusaders do not take on difficult challenges. They ignore them. Instead of attempting to create a position that would preserve artistic works like Rushdie’s and the ability to speak truth to power while delineating the borders beyond which Free Speech is deemed harmful, the “debate” is reduced to extremist platitudes expressed on social media that entirely ignore any potential for abuse and a “chilling effect” that the introduction of new censorship standards could impose. Today’s anti-free speech movement chooses only those cases that might support their cause, discarding the rest, or pretending that they are irrelevant. Outrage in the moment, and directed toward specific events, seems to have completely overtaken any attempts in public discourse to design workable standards within a principled and neutral legal framework.
Most distressingly, the mindless assault upon free speech is happening at a time when the theocratic right-wing in the United States is actively trying to impose new standards of censorship on literature and in public schools. The disingenuous simultaneous proclamations of the witch-hunting would-be book burners insisting that they are the defenders of free speech are somehow taken at face value by online armchair activists who then thoughtlessly accept that free speech is a harmful right-wing ideal that must be destroyed. Thus, we have recently seen the bizarre dark comedy of Trump-supporting Turning Point USA president and founder Charlie Kirk penning an intellectually incoherent op-ed for Newsweek, declaring, “[t]he First Amendment has long been a bedrock principle of my worldview… I support free speech, and free religious exercise, both in spirit and in the letter of the law. I’ve spent years railing against leftist censorship in all areas of society, especially on college campuses and social media,” but then unironically went on to explain that The Satanic Temple’s first annual convention in 2021, “SatanCon,” was “so objectionable—even downright evil—that [it didn’t] merit society’s protection,” and should have been prohibited.
Similarly, Arizona GOP gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake, who also fashions herself a free speech supporter, suggested publicly that local officials should have intervened and prevented a private gathering of The Satanic Temple.
Despite all of this, and despite the fact that The Satanic Temple has seldom held an event that militant Christians have not deemed to be an intentional insult against them, petitioning whomever they think they may persuade that we should be denied any ability to congregate publicly or privately, I still receive messages from would-be members who express discomfort with The Satanic Temple’s fourth fundamental tenet upholding the “freedom to offend.” Despite being a leader in a minority religious organization that has been criminally attacked for its beliefs, and despite the fact that I am, myself, the regular recipient of death threats and the topic of conspiracy theories, I find myself admonished that I simply can not understand the dangers of free speech in the modern world.
Of course, the complaints that I have received from those who express concern regarding the dangers of free speech have never bothered to answer questions regarding the dangers of censorship. Does not censorship often have the unintended consequence of paradoxically elevating an idea’s prestige as “dangerous” and forbidden? And again, determining who are the marginalized, as opposed to those who are worthy of criticism (ie apostates versus their former religious identity) is not always clear. Catholics protesting against The Satanic Temple insist that they are being marginalized by our activities which represent the larger, non-Catholic world. The Satanic Temple views itself as a minority religious group that utilizes the blasphemous in the service of its individual members’ personal journeys toward liberation from oppressive superstitions. Who do we entrust with the power to make such determinations?
Far from renewing debate regarding free speech, the overall lack of any sophisticated dialogue centered upon free speech following Salman Rushdie’s recent stabbing indicates a widespread failure to engage in honest debate at all. Too much has been yielded to our polarized extremes for whom workable democratic policies are a distant concern, if they are considered at all.
Free speech is a fundamental pillar of democracy. If we do not come to collectively rediscover its vital role as a civil right, I fear that the United States will see the introduction of anti-blasphemy laws during the next Republican administration.
If the irony of this were to be carried full circle, 20 years’ time would find me in a secular Iran writing satirical literature about the American Christian Nationalist theocracy, only to find myself rebuked by Iranian undergraduates over my lack of sensitivity. | https://onlysky.media/lgreaves/salman-rushdie-and-americas-free-speech-ambivalence/ | 2022-08-20T23:15:37Z | https://onlysky.media/lgreaves/salman-rushdie-and-americas-free-speech-ambivalence/ | true | 1 |
- Aspas penalty cancelled out Benzema spot kick
- Modric worldie restored Madrid's advantage
- Vinicius Jr and Valverde wrapped up the win for Los Blancos
WHAT HAPPENED? Following the converted penalties from Karim Benzema and Iago Aspas, Real Madrid were just far too strong for Celta Vigo. Luka Modric restored his side's one-goal lead with a brilliant curled effort from 25 yards. Vinicius Junior and Federico Valverde added a counter-attacking goal apiece before Eden Hazard had a late penalty saved.
THE BIGGER PICTURE: Having battled with Celta for much of the first half, the second half just highlighted how good Carlo Ancelotti's look again this season. Los Blancos returned to the top of La Liga for at least the evening and will be expecting to continue their 100% record when they travel to Catalonia to face Espanyol next weekend.
ALL EYES ON: Aurelien Tchouameni looked very assured in front of the Real Madrid defence. The Frenchman looks set to be the heir to the throne left vacant by Casemiro and certainly didn't look out of place. He did everything that we had come to expect of his predecessor: break up play, dribble past players and pass effectively.
THE MATCH IN THREE PHOTOS:
DID YOU KNOW? Of the 33 goals Modric has scored for Real Madrid in La Liga, more than half (54.6%) have come from outside the penalty area.
WHAT'S THE VIBE?
Benzema is wasting no time in defending his Pichichi crown.
Karim Benzema is picking up where he left off last season 🙌 pic.twitter.com/9flxwqA09n
— GOAL (@goal) August 20, 2022
You're certainly not the only one thinking it, Phil.
Luka Modric is a joke.
— Phil Kitromilides (@PhilKitro) August 20, 2022
Vinicius has been in scarily good form over the last 12 months.
Vinicius Jr. has got the taste for goals 😋 pic.twitter.com/zi0zwFEfrp
— GOAL (@goal) August 20, 2022
However, Eden Hazard is still having a torrid time of it in Madrid.
Feel sorry for Eden Hazard at this point. He hasn't scored a La Liga goal since May 2021, Benzema hands him a chance to change that from the spot with five minutes left against Celta and he misses it.
— Amos Murphy (@AmosMurphy_) August 20, 2022
What a woeful time he's had of it in Madrid.
WHAT NEXT FOR REAL MADRID? The key for Real Madrid going forward is to continue the strong start to the season. With the strength of Barcelona and Atletico below them, they probably can't afford to drop the same amount of points as they did last season. Repeats of performances like this one against Celta will stand them in excellent stead as they look to defend their crown. | https://www.goal.com/en-ie/news/modric-leads-the-way-real-madrid-cruise-past-celta-vigo-to/blt1dd9180bca94d6b0 | 2022-08-20T23:20:20Z | https://www.goal.com/en-ie/news/modric-leads-the-way-real-madrid-cruise-past-celta-vigo-to/blt1dd9180bca94d6b0 | true | 15 |
During the Monday, Aug. 15, City Council meeting, Dan Boley with GFL discussed the plans to switch from the current residential waste service to an automated trash service.
Boley said that currently the driver of the trash truck must exit his vehicle each time a cart needs to emptied. An automated vehicle can be operated from inside the cab to reach, pickup, empty and return customer carts to the curbside.
He said the main advantage to the automated service is longevity of employment. Currently residential drivers exit the vehicle, walk to the waste cart, empty it and return it to where it was, then walk back to the truck and repeat the whole process at the next stop.
With an automated truck, more than 75% of the carts serviced can be emptied and returned to the curbside without the driver exiting the cab.
Boley said that the automated trucks generally cost up to $100,000 more than a rear load truck, but the company feels the increased cost of investment is exceeded by the advantages to the drivers.
He said that with the new changes in service, pickup service remains the same. He said the trucks have a different appearance. He said that the waste carts have to be placed in a certain spot for the automated system to work smoothly.
The council asked how consumers would get the message of the change. Boley said the company would like to post information on the city’s website and would be willing to publish information in whatever format or source of publication the city recommended. The council also wanted to know the grace period. They would like to have the new service functional within the next 60 days. He said other places that were using this system were happy with it. He also said that trash pick-up would be cut from five days a week to three. Glenda Baker made the motion to go ahead with the automated service and Nathan Murrell seconded the motion, Luster abstained.
All councilmen were present for the meeting, Baker, Luster, Murrell, Gaby Kennitt and Mayor Cory Gayman. City Manager Bruce Rogers and City Clerk Kandi Baldwin were also present.
The council voted to transfer $2,500 from the General Fund as a match for the golf tournament Picnic fundraiser for Picnic entertainment. For several years the city has matched up to $2,500 that the Picnic Committee raises from their golf tournament. This year they made $3,145.
Dan Boley of GFL speaks to the El Dorado Springs City Council about the coming change in trash service.
The Council approved membership to Kaysinger Basin Regional Planning Commission, appointing Corey Gayman to represent the city. The city’s membership fee is $790.40 or 22 cents per capita.
The council approved a short from agreement for engineering services in connection with the project known as Wastewater Rate Study.
Rogers said that the tax levy meeting is scheduled for Aug. 29. He also said the Burn Ban was still in effect.
Before going into executive session to discuss personnel issues and real estate, Baker wanted to discuss a new configuration of the council table with only the council members sitting at the table and the City Manager and the City Clerk sitting together to one side of the council table. Gayman said that maybe that would work with a strong mayor form of government, but El Dorado has a city manager form of government and the current set up was working. | https://eldoradospringsmo.com/front-page/council-hears-plans-to-convert-trash-service/ | 2022-08-20T23:21:11Z | https://eldoradospringsmo.com/front-page/council-hears-plans-to-convert-trash-service/ | true | 1 |
Real Madrid made it back-to-back wins from their opening two La Liga fixtures as Los Blancos sealed a comfortable 4-1 victory over Celta Vigo at Balaidos to extend their unbeaten run over the Galician side to seventeen matches.
Despite the home side being buoyed by a loud partisan crowd, Madrid took the lead in the 13th minute courtesy of a Karim Benzema penalty after Renato Tapia handled the ball in the area.
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Celta then had a spot-kick of their own just 10 minutes later for yet another handball, as Goncalo Paciencia’s header came back off the hand of Eder Militao in the box. Iago Aspas powerfully struck home the penalty to get his side back on level terms.
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Then, a moment of magic from Luka Modric proved to be the pick of the goals. The midfielder fired in a beautiful curling strike from 20 yards out into the top corner right at the end of the first half.
Los Blancos then had their third in the 56th minute, as Vinicius Jr. rounded Celta goalkeeper Agustin Marchesin after a clinical counter attack.
The rout was complete in the 67th minute, as Federico Valverde slotted in a powerful shot into the bottom corner from the edge of the area to well and truly seal the three points for Real Madrid.
Substitute Eden Hazard then had his penalty saved by Marchesin right at the death as Los Blancos could not add to their lead.
TALKING POINT - Scoreline flatters Real Madrid
Real Madrid may have scored four goals tonight at Balaidos, but the final result maybe flatters Los Blancos a touch, as Celta were well in the contest in large spells. The home side's issue this evening was their inablity to take chances.
This is demonstrated by the shot count. Celta amassed just one less than Real Madrid - with 15 - but only two of those efforts were on target. Forward Goncalo Paciencia regularly got into good positions to score, but he could not convert.
As for Real Madrid, the strength of their side proved to be the difference, as they showed just how deadly they are on the counter attack with their two goals in the second half.
PLAYER OF THE MATCH - Luka Modric
Luka Modric
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Real Madrid's midfield maestro was pulling the strings once again from the centre of the park today for his side. The 36-year-old certainly was not showing his age out there, as his ability to cut open defences with a deep through ball was demonstrated beautifully for Los Blancos' third goal.
His strike for Real's second of the night will also be talked about, as the technique to strike the ball that well cannot be understated. Modric truly is a once-in-a-generation talent.
In total, the Croatian made three key passes, had a passing accuracy of 96%, and was directly involved in two goal contributions (one goal, one assist).
PLAYER RATINGS
Celta Vigo: Marchesin 7, Mallo 6, Aidoo 6, Nunez 6, Galan 6, Cervi 7, Tapia 6, Beltran 7, Rodriguez 6, Aspas 7, Paciencia 6. Subs: de la Torre 6, Veiga 6, Perez 6.
Real Madrid: Courtois 6, Mendy 7, Alaba 6, Militao 6, Carvajal 6, Camavinga 7, Tchouameni 8, Modric 9, Vini Jr. 8, Valverde 7, Benzema 7. Subs: Ceballos, Vazquez, Asensio 6, Rudiger, Hazard 5.
MATCH HIGHLIGHTS
14’ - GOAL! (Karim Benzema penalty) - It looks like Tapia handled the ball right by the goalline after a Real Madrid corner, which definitely helped his team clear the ball. The referee gives a penalty to Real Madrid after a VAR check! Cool as you like from Karim Benzema, who strokes his penalty to the goalkeeper's left into the net!
23’ - GOAL! (Iago Aspas penalty) - Celta have a penalty! It is also for handball! A cross comes into the box, with Paciencia and Militao in a duel for the ball. Paciencia heads it and it comes back off the hand of the Brazilian. The referee points to the spot immediately! Iago Aspas dispatches his penalty brilliantly into the bottom-right corner with power and the game is all square.
42’ - GOAL! (Luka Modric) - Luka Modric, that is sensational! The midfielder picks the ball up on the left-side of central midfield, before driving forward with the ball towards the penalty area. The Croatian then cuts inside and smacks a powerful curling shot into the top corner from the edge of the box!
56’ - GOAL! (Vinicius Jr.) - Vini Jr. gets in on the act, to the annoyance of the home crowd! They think they should have another penalty as the ball hit Eder Militao's arm in the area! Moments after that, the visitors break, and Vinicius is 1 v 1 with Marchesin after a sublime through ball from central midfield by Modric. He takes an extra touch to take the ball around the keeper that is slightly too much, but he recovers and puts the ball into the net.
67’ - GOAL! - (Federico Valverde) - There is another clinical counter attack that is executed with precision! Celta have the ball in the Madrid penalty area, but Paciencia cannot get his shot away! The home side lose the ball, and Madrid break at breakneck speed. Vini Jr. bursts down the left, before cutting it back for Benzema in the box. The forward leaves it for Valverde to hit behind him, and the Uruguayan tucks it into the bottom-left corner from the edge of the area!
KEY STATS
- Luca Modric has scored 18 of his 33 goals for Real Madrid from outside the box (54.6%). His two last goals in La Liga have been from outside the box, his best such scoring run since one of three in 2019 in the competition.
- Luka Modric has provided seven assists for the 38 goals scored by Vinicius Jr. for Real Madrid in all competitions.
- Aurelien Tchouameni made the most clearances (4), interceptions (3) and ball recoveries (9) in this match out of any player on the pitch.
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(NerdWallet) – Search the internet for “student debt stories,” and you’ll easily find dozens of anxiety-ridden tales of student loan borrowers struggling to keep up with enormous debt balances that have swelled out of control due to compounding interest.
Very few of those stories, however, end in total debt forgiveness. But that’s exactly what happened with Kristin Eliason, legal director at Network for Victim Recovery of D.C., or NVRDC, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit; she saw her $413,000 in student loan debt disappear overnight.
Eliason had her debt discharged through the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, or PSLF. The federal program has a waiver in effect that counts previously ineligible past payments.
The original amount she borrowed for public undergraduate school and private law school was around $180,000, and the interest grew too quickly to pay down any of her principal over the years, she says.
Eliason describes watching her debt balloon without any certainty it would ever be forgiven as a “mental burden.” That weight was lifted when her application was approved under the waiver.
“Once the shock wore off of not believing this was real, it was such a huge relief that I truly never thought it was going to happen,” she says.
A forgiveness program that rarely pays off
The waiver worked out for Eliason, but as for the program itself, she describes it as “a benefit on paper — not a benefit in practice.”
Most borrowers who apply to Public Service Loan Forgiveness are rejected. The approval rate since the program’s inception in 2007 hovered around 2.4%, according to an analysis of federal data.
Getting full debt discharge requires 120 qualifying payments made while working full time for an eligible employer, such as a public school, public hospital, eligible nonprofit or the government.
Borrowers have been left to their own devices to fight, sometimes for years, for payments to count toward the 120 total needed for forgiveness of their remaining debt.
As a result of public criticism, the Biden administration sought to make temporary improvements in an effort to rectify some of the flaws in the execution of the original program. Hence, the PSLF waiver: It offers borrowers the opportunity to receive credit for past payments that didn’t meet the program’s stringent rules. Since the waiver was put in place in October 2021, federal data show approvals through June 2022 have climbed to 10%.
What’s a couple extra thousand when you’re in a six-figure hole?
Eliason took out less than $15,000 in federal student loans to attend as an undergrad at the University of Virginia. She went on to study law at the Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of Law, where she says taking out large loans was common practice.
She finished law school in 2009 with $180,000 in debt. She then took out an additional private loan to help pay for her expenses while she studied for the bar exam.
Eliason made most of her payments on an income-driven repayment plan — it’s the only plan that usually qualifies for PSLF. The repayment plan kept her payments lower than they would have been on a standard 10-year repayment plan, but those lower payments allowed interest to keep accumulating.
After passing the bar, she participated in a postgraduate fellowship, a clerkship, and then experienced six months of unemployment.
“There were a few periods of forbearance where I wasn’t making monthly payments because I couldn’t afford to make monthly payments and eat,” says Eliason.
In September 2012, she began working as a legal services attorney earning $43,000 each year. Her payments were $600 per month. “It was unmanageable in the D.C. area,” she says.
When she started working at NVRDC in 2013, Eliason was able to qualify for D.C.’s loan repayment assistance program, which helps pay for the student loans of lawyers at 37 nonprofit employers. But in order to receive the tax-free benefit, her income had to stay at or below $90,000. In D.C., the current median household income as of 2020 was $90,842, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Eliason says as she inched closer to PSLF discharge, she started submitting employment certification. But her servicer miscalculated the number of payments that she believes should have counted. “They said I only made 90 payments, but I had been working at nonprofit organizations for eight years,” she says. “I knew that didn’t translate.”
She continued submitting her employment certification, and by March 2022, Eliason was notified she had reached 119 payments, but she had to submit additional forms to certify employment. In April, she was told she had made 124 qualifying payments — four more than needed — and she was now owed money. Soon thereafter, her servicer account showed a $0 balance, and she received a letter notifying her of the full discharge.
Eliason says loan forgiveness will make a big difference in her life. She won’t need the loan repayment assistance program anymore, which means no more income cap.
“It means I can get a pay raise at my job. It means if I want to do extra contract work I can do that to supplement my income. It means if work gave me a bonus it wouldn’t impact my ability to get repayment assistance,” says Eliason.
How to get the PSLF waiver
More than 128,000 borrowers have seen a collective $8 billion in loan debt forgiven through the temporary waiver. If you think you may qualify for PSLF through the waiver, there’s no downside to applying.
The PSLF waiver counts past payments that previously didn’t qualify, including:
- Late payments.
- Payments equaling less than the full amount due.
- Payments made on an incorrect repayment plan.
- Payments made on loans that previously did not qualify, such as Federal Family Education Loans, or FFEL, and Perkins loans.
- Payments not made during forbearance periods of 12 consecutive months or greater.
- Months spent in deferment, other than in-school deferment, before 2013.
Use the PSLF Help Tool to search for a qualifying employer and generate a form. It has been updated to align with the waiver.
To qualify, borrowers must already have direct loans or must consolidate their federal debt into a new direct loan. The consolidation step is critical: Borrowers can submit a combined PSLF/Employer Certification form before consolidating, but they must consolidate to be eligible for forgiveness. To find out if you qualify for additional payments and learn more about the waiver, log in to the federal student aid website.
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WFO BUFFALO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, August 20, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
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Southeastern Livingston County in western New York...
Northeastern Allegany County in western New York...
* Until 800 PM EDT.
* At 726 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Alfred, or 10
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PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
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By MADISON HIRNEISEN
THE CENTER SQUARE
(The Center Square) – In response to rising rates of depression, anxiety and suicide among youth across the nation, Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled a multi-billion dollar plan Thursday to bolster the state’s behavioral health workforce and increase prevention efforts.
The $4.7 billion plan aims to increase the state’s behavioral health workforce by 40,000 professionals in the coming years – 10,000 of which would be school counselors, doubling the state’s current amount, Gov. Newsom said. Under the plan, the state is poised to offer $20,000 scholarships to school counselors for two years of service.
The plan would also allocate billions to increase mental health screening and mental health support services for children, teens and young adults up to the age of 25.
The plan comes as children and teens nationwide are reporting record-levels of depression and anxiety in the aftermath of the pandemic. In 2021, over one-third of high school students reported experiencing poor mental health during the pandemic, with 44% saying they felt persistently sad or hopeless, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In California specifically, more than 248,000 youth are living with major depression, and suicide rates among kids ages 10-18 increased 20% between 2019 and 2020, according to a fact sheet from the governor’s office.
The pandemic cast a spotlight on the youth mental health crisis in California, which was intensified by social isolation and stay-at-home orders, officials said Thursday.
“The last two years, there has been a stacking of stress the likes of which none of us could have conceived of and none of us hope for in the future,” Gov. Newsom said Thursday. “And that stacking of stress comes from years and years where we’ve neglected your mental health or we’ve neglected investing in the subject that brings us here today.”
Gov. Newsom added that decades of underinvestment in mental health supports has led to a “fragmented system” that continues to fail struggling people. The $4.7 billion in funding for this plan is from the approved budgets over the last three years, Gov. Newsom’s office told The Center Square.
Fresno County Supervisor Brian Pacheco spoke in support of the plan Thursday, telling reporters that he “saw students struggle with mental health issues and anxiety that would challenge most adults way before the pandemic,” during his time as a school board member.
“Having these comprehensive counseling programs in our schools will be a tremendous benefit to our students and their families,” Mr. Pacheco said. “With the stay at home orders and lack of socialization experience during the pandemic these programs are even more important for our students.” | https://newspress.com/newsom-announces-multi-billion-plan-to-address-youth-mental-health/ | 2022-08-20T23:41:10Z | https://newspress.com/newsom-announces-multi-billion-plan-to-address-youth-mental-health/ | false | 3 |
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BRAINERD, Minn. (AP) — Defending event champion Matt Hagan topped Funny Car qualifying Saturday in the Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals at Brainerd International Raceway.
Paired with points leader Robert Hight for the final passes of the day, Hagan had a 3.843-second run at 331.36 mph in Tony Stewart Racing's Dodge Charger Hellcat SRT. Hight topped qualifying for the fifth time this season and 48th overall. He has three victories this year.
“It’s impressive to do that, especially with the sun shining,” Hagan said. “That’s a testament to this track and the NHRA prep. I just think of what we might have been able to run if the cloud cover had stayed out. (But) we’re in a great spot tomorrow. We need to make sure we stay No. 2 (in points) and make sure we start the Countdown to the Championship in a great position.”
Top Fuel points leader Brittany Force also qualified No. 1. A four-time winner this year, she had a 3.661 at 334.65 for her sixth No. 1 of the season and 38th overall. | https://www.lmtonline.com/sports/article/Matt-Hagan-tops-NHRA-Funny-Car-qualifying-at-17387227.php | 2022-08-20T23:45:44Z | https://www.lmtonline.com/sports/article/Matt-Hagan-tops-NHRA-Funny-Car-qualifying-at-17387227.php | true | 10 |
KING ABDULLAH SPORTS CITY, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Oleksandr Usyk retains world heavyweight titles with a split decision over Anthony Joshua in rematch in Saudi Arabia.
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Saturday At South Course Wilmington, Del. Purse: $15 million Yardage: 7,534; Par: 71 Third Round Patrick Cantlay 68-68-65—201 -12 Xander…
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At South Course
Wilmington, Del.
Purse: $15 million
Yardage: 7,534; Par: 71
Third Round
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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:
Kerala governor Arif Mohammed Khan on Saturday said he would soon order a full-fledged inquiry into complaints that several close relatives of governing CPM functionaries were appointed in state universities in the last few years, overlooking merit. Continuing his pungent remarks against Kannur University VC, Gopinath Ravindran, Khan said the VC was behaving like a "cadre of the governing party".
"I'm going to have a full-fledged inquiry into all such appointments held in the last two-three years," Khan said in Delhi. He was contemplating setting up a commission led by a retired high court/Supreme Court judge to scrutinise appointments, said sources close to Raj Bhavan. Thus, appointments of Speaker MB Rajesh's wife in Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit and former MP PK Biju's wife in Kerala University (KU) would come under the scanner.
Khan said his office received complaints against political intervention and favouritism in appointments in universities. He said he won't be a mute spectator to the open looting of state's resources. | https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/kerala-governor-to-order-probe-into-nepotism-in-varsity-postings/articleshow/93684436.cms | 2022-08-20T23:56:00Z | https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/kerala-governor-to-order-probe-into-nepotism-in-varsity-postings/articleshow/93684436.cms | true | 2 |
Rays second. Francisco Mejia singles to shallow infield. Isaac Paredes doubles to deep left field. Francisco Mejia to third. Yu Chang singles to left field. Isaac Paredes to third. Francisco Mejia scores. Yu Chang to second. Isaac Paredes scores. Taylor Walls doubles to deep left field. Yu Chang scores. Jose Siri pops out to first base to Vinnie Pasquantino. Yandy Diaz walks. Randy Arozarena flies out to deep right field to Kyle Isbel. Taylor Walls to third. Manuel Margot grounds out to shortstop, Nicky Lopez to Vinnie Pasquantino.
3 runs, 4 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Rays 3, Royals 0.
Rays fourth. Taylor Walls walks. Jose Siri flies out to right field to Kyle Isbel. Yandy Diaz doubles to deep right center field. Taylor Walls scores. Randy Arozarena grounds out to third base, Bobby Witt Jr. to Vinnie Pasquantino. Manuel Margot grounds out to shallow center field, Michael Massey to Vinnie Pasquantino.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 left on. Rays 4, Royals 0.
Royals sixth. Nicky Lopez flies out to left field to Randy Arozarena. MJ Melendez singles to center field. Bobby Witt Jr. doubles to deep right center field. MJ Melendez to third. Salvador Perez out on a sacrifice fly to deep right center field to Jose Siri. Bobby Witt Jr. to third. MJ Melendez scores. Vinnie Pasquantino singles to center field. Bobby Witt Jr. scores. Michael Massey flies out to right field to Manuel Margot.
2 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Rays 4, Royals 2.
Rays eighth. Harold Ramirez singles to shallow infield. Francisco Mejia pops out to shallow infield to Nicky Lopez. Isaac Paredes doubles to deep right field. Harold Ramirez to third. Yu Chang out on a sacrifice fly to left field to Nick Pratto. Harold Ramirez scores. Taylor Walls grounds out to shortstop, Nicky Lopez to Vinnie Pasquantino.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Rays 5, Royals 2. | https://www.ctpost.com/sports/article/Kansas-City-Tampa-Bay-Runs-17387203.php | 2022-08-21T00:10:13Z | https://www.ctpost.com/sports/article/Kansas-City-Tampa-Bay-Runs-17387203.php | true | null |
WILMINGTON, Del. – Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele went from being teammates to close friends and now seem to be inseparable on the PGA Tour, so the final round of the BMW Championship might have the feel of one of their countless practice rounds.
Except for the stakes.
Cantlay holed out from 106 yards in the fairway on the par-5 14th and had a 6-under 65 despite twice missing 3-foot par putts. That gave him a one-shot lead over Schauffele and Scott Stallings going into Sunday in the second FedEx Cup playoff event.
Schauffele had an eagle early in the round with an approach to 5 feet on the par-5 third hole and he played bogey-free for a 67.
Sunday will be the sixth time in eight FedEx Cup playoff events they have played together, and it will be the second time this year they have played in the final group. Schauffele led by one at the Travelers Championship and shot 68 to win. Cantlay had a 76.
They also won the Zurich Classic as partners.
The typical practice round is match play of some variety, winner-take-all. This one could determine who goes to the Tour Championship as the No. 1 seed and starts the chase for he FedEx Cup with a two-shot advantage.
That depends on Masters champion Scotti Scheffler, who joined Adam Scott two shots behind.
Cantlay, who was 12-under 201, is trying to become the first back-to-back winner of the BMW Championship since it became part of the FedEx Cup playoffs in 2007.
He knows from experience the value of being a top seed at the Tour Championship. After his playoff win in the BMW Championship last year at Caves Valley, he had a two-shot lead at the start of the FedEx Cup finale and wound up winning by one shot to claim the $18 million prize.
“My head is not even there right now,” Cantlay said. “I think the best way to handle this playoff system is to just focus on doing your best in the tournament that you’re in and not worry too much about the points. So that’s what I’m going to do.”
And there's another reason. This is far from a two-man show on the South course at Wilmington Country Club that is sun-baked and becoming faster by the day.
Scott, trying to work his way into the top 30 who reach the Tour Championship, held his own with a 69 and was only two shots behind. He started the postseason at No. 77 and is coming off a tie for fifth last week just to make it to the BMW.
Also two back was Scheffler, the world No. 1 who answered consecutive bogeys late in his round with a 4-foot birdie for a 68.
Collin Morikawa (65) and Aaron Wise (67) made it seven players separated by three shots.
Rory McIlroy started slowly and could only manage a 70, leaving him five shots. Jordan Spieth, who began the weekend just one shot behind, missed par putts of 3 feet and 2 feet and didn't have much else go right in his round of 74 that took him out of contention.
Cantlay and Schauffele became fast friends at the Presidents Cup in 2019 at Royal Melbourne and now take holidays together, along with countless practice rounds. It's different with a scorecard in hand, though the comfort level is obvious.
“I know how he hits the ball, he knows how I hit the ball. If I flush one or he flushes one, it sort of is extra information that we can use. I like to use that as an advantage, and we’re good friends, so it’s a very sort of easygoing pairing even though we’re trying to beat each other,” Schauffele said.
Give this round to Cantlay, just barely.
Schauffele was leading when Cantlay missed a 3-foot par putt — he also missed one from a little closer on the 17th — and after they matched two-putt birdies on the 12th, Cantlay holed a birdie putt from 8 feet on the 13th and then spun back a lob wedge for eagle at the 14th.
That put him in the lead, and after the shocker of a short miss for par, he finished with another lob ledge that expertly used a backstop and rolled down to 8 feet for birdie.
Delaware has never hosted a PGA Tour event, so this is new for everyone. That explains why Cantlay with a wedge in hand was walking to the front of every green to see the slopes and find the best play. It worked on the 14th for his eagle, and on the 18th for his birdie.
Stallings has plenty at stake on Sunday, too. He came into the BMW Championship at No. 46 in the standings and now is clearly within range of playing one more week.
“That was my No. 1 goal to start the year,” Stallings said.
This is his 12th year on the PGA Tour and the closest he has ever been to the Tour Championship.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) _ These Oregon lotteries were drawn Tuesday:
Lucky Lines
03-07-11-16-17-22-25-31
(three, seven, eleven, sixteen, seventeen, twenty-two, twenty-five, thirty-one)
Estimated jackpot: $15,000
Mega Millions
33-35-41-45-51, Mega Ball: 1, Megaplier: 2
(thirty-three, thirty-five, forty-one, forty-five, fifty-one; Mega Ball: one; Megaplier: two)
Estimated jackpot: $99,000,000
Pick 4 10PM
5-0-7-6
(five, zero, seven, six)
Pick 4 1PM
2-4-1-3
(two, four, one, three)
Pick 4 4PM
3-9-2-9
(three, nine, two, nine)
Pick 4 7PM
8-2-2-5
(eight, two, two, five)
Powerball
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Chick-fil-A testing new breakfast item: Chorizo Cheddar Egg Bites
( WJBF ) – Chick-fil-A is planning to test a new bite-sized breakfast option — Chorizo Cheddar Egg Bites — at participating locations in several U.S. markets later this month.
The breakfast item, said to be baked in-house at Chick-fil-A restaurants each morning, will contain egg, chorizo and a blend of cheddar and Monterey Jack cheeses. Each order includes four “Egg Bites.”
The dish is said to be Chick-fil-A’s first new “breakfast entrée” since the chicken chain introduced its Hash Brown Scramble Bowl in 2017.
Chick-fil-A in NC faces backlash for offering to pay ‘volunteer’ workers in chicken sandwichesChick-fil-A said the new Chorizo Cheddar Egg Bites were created in response to consumer demand, claiming guests were “asking for more bite-sized, shareable breakfast options.”
“As summer ends and the back-to-school morning routine begins, we wanted to offer our customers a new protein-packed entrée that keeps them satisfied when they’re on-the-go without sacrificing taste,” Leslie Neslage, the director of menu and packaging at Chick-fil-A, said in a statement included with a press release issued Monday.
Customers can try Chick-fil-A’s new Egg Bites starting Aug. 22 at select locations in Augusta, Georgia; Aiken, South Carolina; Columbus, Ohio; Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia; Miami; and New Orleans.
Chick-fil-A will determine if the item will be expanded to nationwide menus based on consumer feedback.
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Bears Rumors: Jaquan Brisker Expected to Play Week 1 After Surgery on Wrist Injury
August 20, 2022Chicago Bears rookie safety Jaquan Brisker still has a chance to play Week 1 against the San Francisco 49ers despite recently undergoing surgery to repair a thumb injury, per NFL Network's Ian Rapoport.
The news comes after Bears head coach Matt Eberflus told reporters Saturday that Brisker is dealing with a right-hand injury and that there is no timetable for his return.
Brisker did not play in Thursday's preseason game against the Seattle Seahawks and hasn't practiced since the team's preseason opener against the Kansas City Chiefs on Aug. 13, when he suffered the injury.
The 23-year-old made a solid impression against the Chiefs, totaling four tackles, including a tackle for a loss, and a pass breakup.
"The tackling, deflecting the ball," Bears head coach Matt Eberflus said of Brisker's performance against the Chiefs, per NBC Sports Chicago's Josh Shrock. "I think he should've had maybe a takeaway or two. He was high-energy. Man, he likes to hit. I really liked that aggressive style for him, how he's playing right now."
The Bears selected Brisker in the second round of the 2022 NFL draft out of Penn State, where he starred for three seasons. During the 2021 campaign, he posted two interceptions, 63 tackles, six tackles for a loss, five pass breakups and one fumble recovery.
Brisker is slated to be Chicago's starting strong safety this season opposite veteran Eddie Jackson. However, if he's not able to play against the 49ers come Week 1, Dane Cruikshank and Davontae Harris should see more playing time. | https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10046071-bears-rumors-jaquan-brisker-expected-to-play-week-1-after-surgery-on-wrist-injury | 2022-08-21T00:37:11Z | https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10046071-bears-rumors-jaquan-brisker-expected-to-play-week-1-after-surgery-on-wrist-injury | true | 1 |
Red sox fifth. Jarren Duran flies out to deep center field to Ryan McKenna. Kevin Plawecki singles to right field. Christian Arroyo singles to right center field. Kevin Plawecki to third. Alex Verdugo singles to center field. Christian Arroyo to third. Kevin Plawecki scores. Xander Bogaerts flies out to left center field to Austin Hays. Rafael Devers strikes out swinging.
1 run, 3 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Red sox 1, Orioles 0.
Red sox sixth. J.D. Martinez singles to deep left center field. Bobby Dalbec strikes out swinging. Kike Hernandez homers to left field. J.D. Martinez scores. Jarren Duran strikes out swinging. Kevin Plawecki flies out to center field to Ryan McKenna.
2 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Red sox 3, Orioles 0.
Orioles seventh. Ramon Urias singles to shallow right field. Jorge Mateo singles to right field, advances to 2nd. Ramon Urias to third. Throwing error by Jarren Duran. Kyle Stowers pinch-hitting for Ryan McKenna. Kyle Stowers grounds out to second base, Christian Arroyo to Bobby Dalbec. Jorge Mateo to third. Ramon Urias scores. Rougned Odor pinch-hitting for Tyler Nevin. Rougned Odor pops out to Kevin Plawecki. Jorge Mateo scores. Robinson Chirinos strikes out swinging.
2 runs, 2 hits, 1 error, 0 left on. Red sox 3, Orioles 2.
Red sox ninth. Kike Hernandez strikes out swinging. Jarren Duran singles to shallow infield. Kevin Plawecki singles to right field. Jarren Duran to third. Christian Arroyo doubles to left field. Kevin Plawecki to third. Jarren Duran scores. Alex Verdugo lines out to shortstop to Jorge Mateo. Xander Bogaerts grounds out to shortstop, Jorge Mateo to Ryan Mountcastle.
1 run, 3 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Red sox 4, Orioles 2.
Orioles ninth. Ramon Urias strikes out swinging. Jorge Mateo triples to deep left field. Kyle Stowers grounds out to first base, Bobby Dalbec to Garrett Whitlock. Jorge Mateo scores. Rougned Odor lines out to deep center field to Kike Hernandez.
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Ever since then-mayor Michael Bloomberg first proposed congestion pricing as part of his inaugural 2002 budget, it has been the holy grail of New York transportation advocacy. Why has it taken so long? In addition to alleged political corruption, the answer was always that people just didn’t get it. Non-Manhattan residents, in particular, didn’t understand that the plan wasn’t designed for Manhattanites—to keep drivers from clogging up streets in midtown and downtown—but to benefit poorer people in the outer boroughs. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2708010521109/virtually-here-to-stay | 2022-08-21T00:46:35Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2708010521109/virtually-here-to-stay | true | null |
Fiji can reach new heights of economic prosperity if it does away with racial division.
Speaking on the Radio Fiji One program, “Na Noda Paraiminisita”, Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama says his government will always stand for the rights of every citizen, regardless of race, ethnicity, or any other personal affiliation.
“We cannot assist one section of society and forget about the others. These are the sort of vibes that some political parties are giving out and we will not stand for it. If these sorts of discussions continue, it will only deter us from reaching our full potential as a nation.”
Bainimarama adds talks of racial division are what led to the events of 1987 and 2000.
The Prime Minister says Government’s focus is to improve the welfare of every Fijian and this is evident in development works and assistance being delivered thus far. | https://www.fbcnews.com.fj/news/racial-division-denies-fijis-economic-potential-pm/ | 2022-08-21T00:53:06Z | https://www.fbcnews.com.fj/news/racial-division-denies-fijis-economic-potential-pm/ | false | 1 |
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5 things to know before the stock market opens on Friday August 19
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), August 17, 2022.
Brendan McDermid | Reuters
Here are the most important information investors need to start their trading day:
1. Difficult morning for equities
2. Meme King cashes in
People walk out of a Bed Bath & Beyond store amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in New York, January 27, 2021.
Carlos Allegri | Reuters
Activist investor Ryan Cohen, a meme-stock crowd favorite on Reddit’s WallStreetBets forum, is out of Bed Bath & Beyond after all. In a filing on Thursday, Cohen’s RC Ventures said it had unloaded its entire position in the struggling home goods retailer. Meme investors this week had pushed the stock to highs it hadn’t seen since the spring, but shares tumbled as it became clear over the past two days that Cohen would bail out the company after several big moves, including a CEO change in June and a strategic review of the retailer’s Buybuy Baby business. Cohen, who also chairs stock company GameStop, had been pushing for a spin-off or sale of that unit.
3. Remember crypto?
After a Great Extinction that resulted in several bankruptcies and liquidity crises, some interesting things are happening in the crypto markets. Early Friday there was a rapid fall in crypto markets, which sent bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, below $22,000 after recently surging above $25,000 during a rally. Ether has also staged a comeback, much larger than bitcoin’s, since hitting lows in June. The big change in ether comes ahead of a planned Ethereum blockchain upgrade next month. Ether and bitcoin are still far from their highs, which they reached in November.
4. Shift at Starbucks
People walk past a Starbucks in Buffalo, New York on December 7, 2021.
Lindsay De Dario | Reuters
5. Xi and Putin plan to be at the G-20
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, China February 4, 2022.
Alexei Druzhinin | sputnik | Kremlin | via Reuters
Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are both planning to be at the November Group of 20 meeting in Indonesia, according to Reuters. It would be Xi’s first trip outside of China since January 2020, before Covid, which originated in China, became a pandemic. The development comes as Putin continues to wage war in Ukraine after his army launched an unprovoked invasion of Russia’s former Soviet neighbor earlier this year. Xi’s and Putin’s governments have been accused of human rights abuses, which they have denied. President Joe Biden, whose administration supports Ukraine’s defense, is also expected to attend the G-20 summit, and a meeting between him and Xi is also reportedly in the works. Read live updates on Ukraine here.
CNBC’s Jesse Pound, Diana Olick, Jack Stebbins, Amelia Lucas, Jenni Reid and Arjun Kharpal contributed to this report.
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What Are The Main Benefits Of Comparing Car Insurance Quotes Online
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Cardinals catcher Molina missing two games for 'business matters'
St. Louis Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina was put on the restricted list Saturday and is expected to miss the next two games.
The Canadian Press
PHOENIX (AP) — St. Louis Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina was put on the restricted list Saturday and is expected to miss the next two games.
Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol said Molina left for “business matters” and is expected to return to the team on Monday. Marmol added that the star previously asked permission to leave for the weekend and the request was granted.
Marmol said the 10-time All-Star selection wasn't scheduled to be in Saturday's starting lineup but would have played Sunday.
The NL Central-leading Cardinals have won five straight games and 14 of their past 17.
Catcher Iván Herrera was activated from the taxi squad to fill the roster spot. Molina had his first three-hit game of the season on Friday in the team's 5-1 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks.
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NFL Team Houston Texans Now Accept Bitcoin Payments for Game Suites
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2022-08-20 22:12
The professional American football team, Houston Texans, has become the latest National Football League (NFL) team to accept Bitcoin as payment for its single-game suites. The club said it had already made its first crypto sale after selling a suite to digital marketing agency EWR Digital.
Single game suites are exclusive football viewing spaces in stadiums that accommodate a small number of fans who want access to unique benefits such as food and beverages and a preferred gameday experience.
Houston Texans Partners BitWallet
The development is part of a partnership deal with U.S.-based cryptocurrency platform BitWallet. According to the announcement, the latter has become the Official Digital Currency Wallet of the Houston Texans.
BitWallet will facilitate crypto payments for game suites and convert the proceeds to U.S. dollars for the club. Aside from BTC, Texans fans might be able to pay with other cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum (ETH), Litecoin (LTC), and Bitcoin Cash (BCH) since these assets are supported on the BitWallet platform.
Company CEO John T. Perrone commented on the development, noting that “digital currency has become a primary means of payment, and by partnering with BitWallet, the Texans are leading the way in the NFL.”
Greg Grissom, Houston Texans President, said:
“We are proud to partner with BitWallet to offer an exciting option for our fans who are looking to enjoy Texans gameday in one of our suites.”
NFL Teams Adopt Crypto
Although the Houston Texans claims to be the first NFL team to accept crypto payments, Nashville-based rival Tennessee Titans announced in April that it had partnered with digital asset fund UTXO Management to enable bitcoin payments, allowing fans to season tickets, game suites, and sponsorships with BTC.
Meanwhile, aside from the Texans and Titans, other NFL teams have gained exposure to the crypto industry through exclusive partnerships and sponsorship deals.
In April, the Dallas Cowboys signed a sponsorship deal with crypto exchange and wallet provider BlockchainCom, making the exchange the exclusive digital asset partner and sponsor of the NFL team.
The post NFL Team Houston Texans Now Accept Bitcoin Payments for Game Suites appeared first on CryptoPotato.
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The owner of Regal Cinemas is having a tough time — its stock crashed as much as 80% Friday after reports that its parent company is preparing to file for bankruptcy.
British company Cineworld Group has spoken to lawyers at Kirkland & Ellis LLP to advise on the bankruptcy process in the United States and United Kingdom, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.
The stock has recovered slightly, but is still nearly 60% below its price at the start of Friday trading.
Earlier this week, Cineworld said in a press release that, despite a “gradual recovery of demand” since last spring, admissions were below expectations.
The company blamed a limited roster of films for the lack of moviegoers, a situation it expects to continue until the end of November.
The chain, which owns more than 500 movie theaters across the US, is exploring how to reduce its debt obligations, which it warned would “likely result in very significant dilution of existing equity interests” for shareholders.
Cineworld has struggled to stay afloat during the pandemic, when it was forced to close its movie theaters worldwide. It suffered a $2.7 billion loss in 2020, and $566 million loss in 2021.
It is a similar story for other movie theaters. So far this year, revenues at the US box office are nearly 30% lower than before the pandemic, according to Comscore despite a big rebound, a media data company.
Cineworld declined to comment to CNN Business on the reports that it is considering filing for bankruptcy. Kirkland & Ellis LLP did not immediately respond to CNN Business’ request for comment.
Regal has 32 locations in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties, according to its website.
Frank Pallotta contributed reporting.
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What Are The Main Benefits Of Comparing Car Insurance Quotes Online
LOS ANGELES, CA / ACCESSWIRE / June 24, 2020, / Compare-autoinsurance.Org has launched a new blog post that presents the main benefits of comparing multiple car insurance quotes. For more info and free online quotes, please visit https://compare-autoinsurance.Org/the-advantages-of-comparing-prices-with-car-insurance-quotes-online/ The modern society has numerous technological advantages. One important advantage is the speed at which information is sent and received. With the help of the internet, the shopping habits of many persons have drastically changed. The car insurance industry hasn't remained untouched by these changes. On the internet, drivers can compare insurance prices and find out which sellers have the best offers. View photos The advantages of comparing online car insurance quotes are the following: Online quotes can be obtained from anywhere and at any time. Unlike physical insurance agencies, websites don't have a specific schedule and they are available at any time. Drivers that have busy working schedules, can compare quotes from anywhere and at any time, even at midnight. Multiple choices. Almost all insurance providers, no matter if they are well-known brands or just local insurers, have an online presence. Online quotes will allow policyholders the chance to discover multiple insurance companies and check their prices. Drivers are no longer required to get quotes from just a few known insurance companies. Also, local and regional insurers can provide lower insurance rates for the same services. Accurate insurance estimates. Online quotes can only be accurate if the customers provide accurate and real info about their car models and driving history. Lying about past driving incidents can make the price estimates to be lower, but when dealing with an insurance company lying to them is useless. Usually, insurance companies will do research about a potential customer before granting him coverage. Online quotes can be sorted easily. Although drivers are recommended to not choose a policy just based on its price, drivers can easily sort quotes by insurance price. Using brokerage websites will allow drivers to get quotes from multiple insurers, thus making the comparison faster and easier. For additional info, money-saving tips, and free car insurance quotes, visit https://compare-autoinsurance.Org/ Compare-autoinsurance.Org is an online provider of life, home, health, and auto insurance quotes. This website is unique because it does not simply stick to one kind of insurance provider, but brings the clients the best deals from many different online insurance carriers. In this way, clients have access to offers from multiple carriers all in one place: this website. On this site, customers have access to quotes for insurance plans from various agencies, such as local or nationwide agencies, brand names insurance companies, etc. "Online quotes can easily help drivers obtain better car insurance deals. All they have to do is to complete an online form with accurate and real info, then compare prices", said Russell Rabichev, Marketing Director of Internet Marketing Company. CONTACT: Company Name: Internet Marketing CompanyPerson for contact Name: Gurgu CPhone Number: (818) 359-3898Email: [email protected]: https://compare-autoinsurance.Org/ SOURCE: Compare-autoinsurance.Org View source version on accesswire.Com:https://www.Accesswire.Com/595055/What-Are-The-Main-Benefits-Of-Comparing-Car-Insurance-Quotes-Online View photos
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Pete Alonso watched his latest milestone home run land 353 feet away in the third row of the left field seats to put the New York Mets in control and a rare setback well behind them.
Alonso hit his 30th home run and surpassed 100 RBIs, Starling Marte stole home and the Mets continued their season-long mastery of the Philadelphia Phillies with a 7-2 win on Friday night.
“It’s great,” Alonso said of his big numbers. “But also, I’m just trying to do the best I can to help this team win.”
Unassuming, perhaps. But Alonso is paid to hit, not fill the notebook.
The Mets were coming off their first series loss of the season after dropping three of four to Atlanta. The cure, as it seems to be this season, was a date with the Phillies.
The NL East-leading Mets improved to 12-4 against the Phillies this season — 5-2 in Philadelphia. Philadelphia’s wild-card chase could be on shaky ground with three more games this weekend against the Mets.
The Mets won two of three against the Phillies last weekend in New York; the highlight a 1-0 win that spoiled Philadelphia right-hander Aaron Nola’s mostly masterful complete game.
Nola (8-10) couldn’t come close to matching that start.
He caught some bad luck in the first when third baseman Alec Bohm’s throwing error on Alonso’s fielder’s choice — his 10th error out of 51 for the Phillies — led to a run in the first inning. Alonso anticlimactically reached 100 RBIs.
That sparked loud chants of “Let’s go Mets!” from many of the New York faithful among the sellout crowd of 43,176 at Citizens Bank Park. The Mets cheer was quickly drowned out by boos.
The boos soon turned toward the home team.
“I don’t know what it is,” interim Phillies manager Rob Thomson said. “Some teams just have other teams’ numbers.”
Alonso lined a two-run shot to left in the third and became the fifth player in Mets history with multiple 30-home run seasons. He joined New York long ball specialists Mike Piazza, Howard Johnson, Darryl Strawberry and Dave Kingman on that list.
“I’m really happy and satisfied with my consistency this year,” Alonso said.
The homer gave him 102 RBIs and Alonso joined David Wright as the only Mets with multiple 100-RBI seasons within their first four years in the league.
“You look up there and see 100 next to his name in the middle of August, it’s impressive,” Mets manager Buck Showalter said.
Alonso just might get to 40 homers this season at this rate. He might have if he could face Nola a few more times. Alsonso has five career home runs against Nola. No other major leaguer has more than three against the veteran.
Alonso could at least chase down Phillies slugger Kyle Schwarber for the NL lead. Schwarber, who has 34 homers, had been reduced to two pinch-hit appearances since he strained his right calf last week. Schwarber was back in his leadoff spot and did rip a two-RBI single to right in the fifth.
“We’ve just got to try and find a way to win a baseball game,” Schwarber said.
The Phillies left nine runners stranded and mustered little offense against Chris Bassitt (11-7). Bassitt, who had not allowed an earned run over his last 24 innings, gave up seven hits and threw 104 pitches in six innings.
Bassitt did enough to get help the Mets put the Atlanta disappointment behind them.
“We respect the Braves,” he said, “but we can’t really worry about what they’re doing.”
Marte made it 5-0 in the fifth on a mad dash toward home on the back end of a double steal and Brett Baty, who homered against Atlanta in his first major league at-bat, added a two-run single in the seventh for a 7-2 lead.
The Mets are now 32-10 in games following a loss and are 41-8 against NL East teams.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Phillies: Looks who’s (almost) back: 2021 NL MVP Bryce Harper took about 60 swings in the batting cage Friday and is on track for a rehab assignment next week in his return from a broken left thumb.
“It looked really good. Bat speed’s there, he said it felt good,” Thomson said.
UP NEXT
Let’s play two! The Phillies send RHP Zack Wheeler (11-6, 2.92 ERA) to the mound in the first game of a doubleheader and LHP Baily Falter (0-3, 4.85) starts the second. The Mets did not announce the order of LHP David Peterson (6-2, 3.30) and RHP Trevor Williams (2-5, 3.02).
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2 Ohio men fatally shot by police after earlier security incident in remote area, sheriff's office says
Two men were shot and killed by police in Knox County, Ohio, after the local emergency management agency earlier notified residents to shelter in place, according to the Knox County Sheriff's Office.
Around 9 a.m. Saturday, two men were killed following a call over a shooting at a property late Friday, said Knox County Sheriff's Office Captain Jay Sheffer.
No police officers have been injured, Sheffer told reporters during brief remarks.
A Knox County resident, Molly Mayne, took photos of SWAT vehicles in the area and told CNN she heard gunshots sometime after 12:30 a.m. on Saturday.
Police did not provide details of what led to the officer-involved shooting. Sheffer said aside from the two men shot dead, one person was "safely extracted from a residence before the shooting occurred." He said after the shooting, "one more person was safely removed from the residence."
On Saturday, the Knox County Emergency Management Agency advised local residents on Facebook to shelter in place following the "shots fired" call.
"Residents may see a law enforcement helicopter and vehicles in the area," the 7:30 a.m. advisory read. "Stay indoors, close and lock doors and windows. All persons are being asked to avoid area until further notice."
A second advisory at 10 a.m. said police were working to secure the property, adding, "Residents are no longer being asked to shelter in place but still requested to avoid the area."
CNN has reached out to the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation, which is looking into the officer-involved shooting.
Around 60,000 people live in Knox County, Ohio, according to the U.S. Census. The county is about one hour's drive from Columbus and is predominantly rural with farming listed as the area's biggest employer.
Sheffer said it's been "many, many years" since the area has dealt with an officer-involved shooting, adding that this was the first incident that occurred since he was employed by the county in 2013. | https://www.ketv.com/article/2-ohio-men-fatally-shot-by-police-after-earlier-security-incident-in-remote-area-sheriff-s-office-says/40948072 | 2022-08-21T01:23:57Z | https://www.ketv.com/article/2-ohio-men-fatally-shot-by-police-after-earlier-security-incident-in-remote-area-sheriff-s-office-says/40948072 | true | 11 |
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