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Through Aug. 21
- Ridgefield coach retiring after 11 years with team
- Ridgefield 12U, and Under Travel Baseball team wins championship
- Ridgefield’s Karashik leads UConn hockey into unknown season
- Sisters share championship memory for Ridgefield
- Winter sports delayed until Jan. 19
- Ridgefield, Staples declared soccer co-champs
- Ridgefield beats Wilton on PKs, reaches Central finals
- Staples sweeps Tigers in Central finals
- Ridgefield edges Staples, wins Central title
- Rector leads Ridgefield girls to Central title | https://www.theridgefieldpress.com/sports/article/NASCAR-Gander-Outdoors-Truck-Laps-in-Top-15-17389932.php | 2022-08-22T18:28:17Z | https://www.theridgefieldpress.com/sports/article/NASCAR-Gander-Outdoors-Truck-Laps-in-Top-15-17389932.php | true | null |
AKRON, Ohio — Snowy owl parents, Frost and Cirrus, welcomed two owlets at the Akron Zoo. The owlets made their arrival into the world Sunday, July 31 and Wednesday, Aug 3.
This is the first time snowy owls have been born at the Akron Zoo.
The gender of the baby owls has yet to be determined but both are doing well. The zoo keepers are giving their parents Frost and Cirrus privacy by placing barricades in front of the snowy owl habitat so they can properly care for their new owlets.
We look forward to finding out the fun names the zoo will choose for these adorable owlets.
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Abbrea Capital LLC grew its stake in shares of The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE:PG – Get Rating) by 0.1% during the 1st quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 56,974 shares of the company’s stock after acquiring an additional 70 shares during the period. Procter & Gamble accounts for 1.2% of Abbrea Capital LLC’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 19th biggest holding. Abbrea Capital LLC’s holdings in Procter & Gamble were worth $8,706,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission.
Several other institutional investors and hedge funds have also modified their holdings of PG. Allegheny Financial Group LTD boosted its holdings in Procter & Gamble by 0.5% in the first quarter. Allegheny Financial Group LTD now owns 13,821 shares of the company’s stock worth $2,112,000 after purchasing an additional 68 shares in the last quarter. State of Tennessee Treasury Department boosted its holdings in Procter & Gamble by 8.7% in the first quarter. State of Tennessee Treasury Department now owns 674,906 shares of the company’s stock worth $103,126,000 after purchasing an additional 54,061 shares in the last quarter. Nvwm LLC boosted its holdings in Procter & Gamble by 1.0% during the first quarter. Nvwm LLC now owns 8,412 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,286,000 after acquiring an additional 84 shares during the period. Heritage Trust Co boosted its holdings in Procter & Gamble by 5.7% during the first quarter. Heritage Trust Co now owns 41,381 shares of the company’s stock valued at $6,323,000 after acquiring an additional 2,234 shares during the period. Finally, 55I LLC boosted its holdings in Procter & Gamble by 9.0% during the first quarter. 55I LLC now owns 15,781 shares of the company’s stock valued at $2,410,000 after acquiring an additional 1,302 shares during the period. 63.64% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.
Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades
A number of brokerages have recently commented on PG. Truist Financial cut their price objective on shares of Procter & Gamble from $175.00 to $160.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research report on Monday, August 1st. StockNews.com raised shares of Procter & Gamble from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a research report on Wednesday, August 17th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. cut their price objective on shares of Procter & Gamble from $165.00 to $156.00 in a research report on Thursday, July 21st. Barclays cut their price objective on shares of Procter & Gamble from $157.00 to $154.00 and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a research report on Tuesday, August 2nd. Finally, Wells Fargo & Company dropped their price target on shares of Procter & Gamble from $170.00 to $160.00 in a research report on Friday, July 22nd. Four analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and nine have issued a buy rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $162.93.
Procter & Gamble Trading Down 0.4 %
Procter & Gamble (NYSE:PG – Get Rating) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Friday, July 29th. The company reported $1.21 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.23 by ($0.02). Procter & Gamble had a return on equity of 32.67% and a net margin of 18.39%. The company had revenue of $19.52 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $19.41 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $1.13 earnings per share. The company’s revenue was up 3.0% on a year-over-year basis. Equities research analysts anticipate that The Procter & Gamble Company will post 5.94 EPS for the current year.
Procter & Gamble Cuts Dividend
The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Monday, August 15th. Shareholders of record on Friday, July 22nd were paid a $0.913 dividend. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, July 21st. This represents a $3.65 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.45%. Procter & Gamble’s payout ratio is currently 62.82%.
Insider Buying and Selling at Procter & Gamble
In other Procter & Gamble news, CFO Andre Schulten sold 987 shares of Procter & Gamble stock in a transaction on Wednesday, August 17th. The shares were sold at an average price of $149.33, for a total value of $147,388.71. Following the sale, the chief financial officer now directly owns 27,330 shares in the company, valued at approximately $4,081,188.90. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this link. In other news, CFO Andre Schulten sold 987 shares of Procter & Gamble stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, August 17th. The shares were sold at an average price of $149.33, for a total value of $147,388.71. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief financial officer now owns 27,330 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $4,081,188.90. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is accessible through this hyperlink. Also, CEO Sundar G. Raman sold 1,599 shares of Procter & Gamble stock in a transaction dated Thursday, July 7th. The shares were sold at an average price of $145.12, for a total transaction of $232,046.88. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief executive officer now directly owns 4,002 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $580,770.24. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. In the last three months, insiders have sold 238,185 shares of company stock worth $34,997,837. Insiders own 0.51% of the company’s stock.
Procter & Gamble Profile
The Procter & Gamble Company provides branded consumer packaged goods to consumers in North and Latin America, Europe, the Asia Pacific, Greater China, India, the Middle East, and Africa. It operates in five segments: Beauty; Grooming; Health Care; Fabric & Home Care; and Baby, Feminine & Family Care.
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Tech stocks on the TSX have mostly struggled over the last year. Some of the biggest names in the Canadian tech sector have stooped to substantially lower valuations than their all-time highs. After what seemed like an unending downward spiral for tech stocks, the industry is showing signs of life again.
As of this writing, the S&P/TSX Capped Information Technology Index is up by 17.81% from mid-June 2022. Make no mistake about it — investing in technology stocks is still a risky proposition. Most of the top tech stocks still trade for considerable discounts today. If everything goes well for the broader tech sector, the top tech stocks might not remain at current levels for too long.
Are you willing to assume risk and make a contrarian bet on beaten-down growth stocks? If so, these two TSX tech stocks might be worth adding to your investment portfolio.
Shopify
Shopify (TSX:SHOP)(NYSE:SHOP) is a $60.27 billion market capitalization multinational e-commerce company. Headquartered in Ottawa, Shopify was once the darling tech stock on the TSX that broke records and soared to unimaginable heights in just a few years. However, its stellar growth did not last long.
As of this writing, Shopify stock trades for $47.73 per share. It is down by almost 70% year to date and a massive 82.63% from its 52-week high. Despite its struggles highlighted in its performance on the stock market, the company has the potential to deliver substantial returns.
The company’s monthly recurring revenue has increased by a CAGR of 35% in the last five years. Moving into a post-pandemic era might have taken some of the wind out of its sails, but it has the potential to pick up the pace once the economy stabilizes and consumer spending picks up.
Nuvei
Nuvei (TSX:NVEI)(NASDAQ:NVEI) is a $6.27 billion market capitalization global payments technology company headquartered in Montreal. The company has been riding on the success of the e-commerce industry by facilitating digital payments solutions through its omnichannel payments platform.
Businesses using its platform can accept online, mobile, in-store, and unattended payments via hundreds of alternative payment methods, presenting a significant advantage to its customers.
As of this writing, Nuvei stock trades for $44.35 per share. It is down by 45.31% year to date and 75.36% from its 52-week high. The tech sector meltdown was one of the contributors to its fall from grace. Additionally, a short report published in 2021 catalyzed its decline.
The short report likely spooked many investors. However, many analysts believe that the short report was misleading and inaccurate. Nuvei stock is up by 10.54% from its July 26th level, and it has the potential to deliver multi-bagger returns in the coming years.
Foolish takeaway
A word of warning again: investing in tech stocks is still risky. The economic uncertainty and other macroeconomic factors that led to weakness in tech stocks still persist. It remains to be seen whether the tech industry will maintain positive momentum in the coming weeks. If you choose to invest, I would advise being cautious with how much you decide to allocate to tech stocks. | https://www.fool.ca/2022/08/22/rebound-rockets-2-tsx-tech-stocks-to-buy-before-they-soar/ | 2022-08-22T18:37:55Z | https://www.fool.ca/2022/08/22/rebound-rockets-2-tsx-tech-stocks-to-buy-before-they-soar/ | true | 1 |
If you’re a dog owner, coming home after work or running errands to the enthusiastic greeting of your dog may be one of the best parts of your day. Besides their furiously wagging tails and their tip-tapping feet, there is an excited gleam in their eyes. They missed you just as much as you missed them. According to a new study, that gleam in their eyes may actually be tears — tears of joy to reunite with you.
According to a new study in Current Biology, dogs, like humans, produce tears when flooded with emotions — especially when reunited with their owners.
“We found that dogs shed tears associated with positive emotions,” says Takefumi Kikusui of Azabu University in Japan in a press release. “We also made the discovery of oxytocin as a possible mechanism underlying it.”
Kikusui first made the connection after his dog had a litter of puppies. He noticed that his dog had tears as she nursed her puppies. The authors mentioned that though their tears don’t fall as often as humans, dogs do get teary-eyed.
“That gave me the idea that oxytocin might increase tears,” Kikusui says in a press release.
Oxytocin is a hormone that drives reproduction, among other things. The hormone can make you feel closer and more connected with a loved one and can be experienced through music, physical touch and even exercise.
According to the study authors, oxytocin is released in both dogs and their owners when they interact. To determine if oxytocin caused a dog to produce tears, the researchers ran a reunification test of the dogs and their owners.
The first test measured the tears in dogs' eyes before and after they were reunited with their owner versus a stranger. Tear volume increased with their owners, but not with strangers.
Second, the researchers added oxytocin to the dogs' eyes when they weren’t around their owners, and tear production also went up. This indicates that when a dog naturally produces oxytocin — like when they see their owners — they get teary-eyed.
The research team also presented humans with photos of dogs and asked them to rate which photos they liked the best. Most participants preferred the dogs with teary eyes over the dogs without suggesting that teary-eyed dogs help forge a stronger connection with people.
“We had never heard of the discovery that animals shed tears in joyful situations, such as reuniting with their owners, and we were all excited that this would be a world first!” says Kikusui in a press release.
The study indicates that dogs produce tears associated with positive emotions, though it is unclear if dogs produce tears associated with negative emotions. It is also unclear if dogs produce tears when they are reunited with other dogs as well.
“Dogs have become a partner of humans, and we can form bonds,” Kikusui says in a press release. “In this process, it is possible that the dogs that show teary eyes during interaction with the owner would be cared for by the owner more.” | https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/dogs-shed-tears-of-joy-when-reunited-with-owners | 2022-08-22T18:38:44Z | https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/dogs-shed-tears-of-joy-when-reunited-with-owners | true | 1 |
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LINCOLN, Neb., Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The retirement plans division of Ameritas Life Insurance Corp. is proud to announce a digital, interactive retirement savings and financial wellness platform, GoalWiseSM, to manage the end-to-end retirement savings journey. GoalWise offers a personalized, goal-based gamification experience for participants and insightful, targeted, event-driven communications and data trending for financial professionals and sponsors to better ensure a funded retirement. GoalWise is designed to engage key stakeholders in a digitally driven application to promote financial literacy, wellness and higher savings rates through interactive education and guidance.
Ameritas retirement plans partnered with iJoin to deliver a robust, integrated technology solution with single sign on capabilities providing a cafeteria-style approach to offering multiple managed account solutions, draw down strategies and voluntary benefits including emergency savings accounts to retirement plan participants. GoalWise will expand to offer financial literacy support services including budgeting, debt management, other savings tools and protection products wrapped in a holistic financial wellness approach.
"We are committed to helping Americans achieve a funded retirement, reduce financial stress and live healthier lives. GoalWise brings an entire suite of services and products that help people save and retire in a manner that meets participants where they want, on their schedule with digital or human interaction. The integrated, technology stack offers solutions that can be scaled while remaining flexible to meet future market demand with competitive pricing particularly down market," said Jim Kais, executive vice president, retirement plans, at Ameritas.
Steve McCoy, iJoin's chief executive officer added, "We're excited to partner with Ameritas retirement plans to support the important role financial professionals play in driving plan performance and, ultimately, plan success. We have a shared focus on evolving a goal-based participant experience that makes engagement more natural and likely to produce better outcomes."
Ameritas retirement plans serves the industry's main street market businesses, governmental and non-profit entities through all licensed financial intermediaries, brokers and registered investment advisors. Ameritas retirement plans with iJoin presents a well-differentiated retirement plan model that aligns the personalization attributes to a meaningful retirement journey.
To learn more, call 800-923-2732 or contact RPSales@ameritas.com.
About Ameritas®
Ameritas is a marketing name for Ameritas Mutual Holding Company and its affiliated subsidiary companies, including Ameritas Life Insurance Corp. and Ameritas Life Insurance Corp. of New York. Founded in 1887, Ameritas offers a wide range of insurance and financial products and services to individuals, families and businesses. These products and services include life insurance; annuities; individual disability income insurance; group dental, vision and hearing care insurance. For more information, visit ameritas.com.
About LDI-MAP, LLC (dba iJoin)
The iJoin team is committed to personalizing retirement success™ and making it easy for millions of savers to get on a path to better retirement outcomes. As a financial technology partner to the retirement plan industry, iJoin's goal-based retirement plan experience helps people immediately understand their retirement funding need and encourages action to get on track. iJoin supports financial advisors and recordkeepers with actionable data and tools to more effectively engage both employers and their employees. LDI-MAP (d.b.a. iJoin) is a registered investment advisor with the State of Arizona – 14646 N. Kierland Boulevard, Suite 125 Scottsdale, AZ 85254. Learn more at ijoinsuccess.com.
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DALLAS, Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fifteen BAL attorneys were named to the prestigious Lawdragon® 500 Leading Corporate Employment Lawyers ranking, with the firm achieving more accolades than all other corporate immigration firms.
In the newly released 2022 Lawdragon rankings, which recognizes only 79 top immigration attorneys in the country, BAL is the most cited firm for corporate immigration, representing 19% of the ranked attorneys. These BAL Partners are singled out by Lawdragon: Rob Caballero, Kelli Duehning, Jeremy Fudge, Frieda Garcia, Delya Ghosh, Kortney Gibson, Jeff Joseph, Lynden Melmed, Edward Rios, Petra Tang, Carla Tarazi, and Susan Wehrer. Additionally, Jeff Appleman and David Berry, partners emeriti, are inducted into the Immigration Hall of Fame.
BAL has solidified its reputation as the go-to immigration firm for companies seeking a business advantage in acquiring and retaining the best talent in the world. With coast-to-coast offices and a dedicated Government Strategies team in Washington, D.C., BAL elevates immigration strategy while navigating compliance issues for many of the biggest companies in the world, as well as mid-sized entities and start-ups.
"Our clients deserve teams that deliver unprecedented results in record time thanks to our one BAL collaborative culture and groundbreaking in-house legal technology," says BAL Managing Partner Jeremy Fudge. "We deliver this elite service thanks to the efforts of the leaders that Lawdragon recognized and the 1,400 BAL employees who dedicate themselves to exceptional client service."
The firm's employee-centered culture inspires leaders—reflected in the significant uptick in the number of attorneys recognized by Lawdragon this year – and attracts the best legal talent to our unconventional environment. From unlimited vacation to firmwide community service days, BAL offers perks that allow attorneys to thrive both inside and outside the office.
"We've excelled in a challenging job market and continue to attract top talent, because people recognize that there's something different going on here," says BAL's Chief Operating Officer Leslie C. Rohrbacker. "Our incredibly diverse staff, our majority-female ranks, and our fun-loving culture set us apart from traditional law firms. Add in industry-leading legal tech that frees us to focus on what really matters, and you have a special place that just keeps getting better."
BAL, the world's leading corporate immigration law firms, is singularly focused on meeting the immigration challenges of corporate clients around the world in ways that make immigration more strategic and enable businesses to be more successful. Established in 1980, BAL has consistently provided immigration expertise, people-centered client services, and leading technology innovation. In 2018, BAL entered into a first-of-its-kind strategic alliance with Deloitte U.K. to create the world's first global immigration service delivery model.
BAL's proprietary Cobalt® digital immigration services platform won the 2020 CODiE Award for Best Legal Tech Product, the prestigious CIO100 award for Innovative Use of Intelligent Automation in Immigration Services, and Legalweek's Most Innovative Law Firm Operations Team of 2021. BAL and its leaders are highly ranked in every major legal publication, including Best Lawyers, Chambers and Partners, The Legal 500, and Who's Who Legal. BAL has ranked #1 on multiple industry rankings for diversity, equity and inclusion, including the #1 Law Firm for Women on the National Law Journal's Women in Law Scorecard the past four years in a row (2019-2022), #1 on the Diversity Scorecard by The American Lawyer (2020 and 2021), and #1 on Law360's Diversity Snapshot for three years running (2020-2022). In 2022, BAL won the "Best Company for Diversity," the "Best HR Team" and the "Best Company for Career Growth" by Comparably, based solely on employee ratings. See website for details: https://www.bal.com
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota ethics board on Monday said it found sufficient information that Gov. Kristi Noem may have “engaged in misconduct” when she intervened in her daughter’s application for a real estate appraiser license that it could take action against her.
The three retired judges on the Government Accountability Board determined that “appropriate action” could be taken against Noem, though it didn't specify the action.
The board voted unanimously to invoke procedures calling for a contested case hearing that would give Noem, who has denied wrongdoing, a chance to publicly defend herself against the allegations related to “conflicts of interest” or “malfeasance.”
The retired judges also referred a complaint that Noem flew on state-owned airplanes to political events to the state attorney general’s office for further investigation. That puts the investigation under the oversight of the interim attorney general, Mark Vargo, who was appointed by Noem.
Both complaints were brought by then-Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg, a Republican who has since been impeached and removed from office over his conduct in an unrelated car crash in which he killed a pedestrian.
The board handled the complaints only by case number and did not refer to Noem directly in either case. Ravnsborg provided the case numbers to The Associated Press.
The board's moves potentially escalate the ramifications of investigations into Noem. The Republican governor faces reelection this year and has also positioned herself as an aspirant to the White House in 2024.
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BATON ROUGE, La., Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- First National Bankers Bankshares, Inc. recently elected a new member to the Board of Directors for FNBB, Inc. and its banking subsidiary, First National Bankers Bank. The term for Mr. Jerry Ledet, Jr., President and CEO of Synergy Bank in Houma, Louisiana begins on August 22, 2022. He succeeded Mr. J. Randall Prather who retired from the Board effective May 1, 2022.
"We owe a great deal of gratitude to Mr. Prather for his dedication and loyal support of FNBB, Inc. and its subsidiaries during his tenure as a board member. He served this organization in an extremely professional manner throughout his term." said Mr. Joseph F. Quinlan, Jr., Chairman. Mr. Quinlan added, "We are excited to welcome Jerry Ledet to our Board. He is a very well respected community bank leader who will serve our shareholders and customers very well."
First National Bankers Bankshares, Inc. is a holding company with four subsidiaries serving the correspondent bank needs of community financial institutions across the southeastern United States. First National Bankers Bank, chartered in 1983, has offices in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Birmingham, Alabama, Little Rock, Arkansas, Lake Mary, Florida, Ridgeland, Mississippi, Shreveport, Louisiana, and Memphis, Tennessee. The total assets as of June 30, 2022 were $1.035 billion.
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House of the Dragon has arrived and with it the expectations of every HBO executive who desperately wants Game of Thrones to transform into a franchise. From an executive perspective, everything is on the line: The future of Thrones as a franchise, an opportunity too good to pass up after the original series had become one of the most successful shows of all time; The procurement of one franchise at Warner that hasn’t fallen off of a cliff; The future of scripted dramas under Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav, whose leadership has already butchered a significant amount of scripted programming from HBO Max (itself dying next year).
From a fan perspective, corporate beads of sweat are less relevant. More relevant is the bitter taste left in the mouths of many fans by the Thrones finale, an ending maligned as being one of the worst – if not the worst – in television history. I don’t know if it’s the worst, but the disproportionate attention to Thrones certainly made it seem that way. The mechanics of what had made the show special had been unraveling for some time, but the ending crystalized just how much storytelling potential had been lost to spectacle and hollow spectacle at that.
Is the prequel series House of the Dragon good? Is it worth watching, worth investing in? And the answer to that is yes, with a caveat. The series is juggling a delicate balancing act of establishing its own identity, folding back in the fans who vowed to never return to Westeros, and defeating competition in the age of there-is-so-much-to-watch-on-streaming. And in that balancing act, the audience investment partially depends on what made you love Thrones in the first place.
My love for the series was established with its depiction of a brutal, more realistic realpolitik. George R. R. Martin understanding of humans in a political system is apt and more importantly, how history informs said humans and their actions. His understanding of history may be too heavily based on notions of the medieval era that no longer hold up to scrutiny, however, and those are the parts where Westeros feels like it’s indulging in trauma for shock value.
“Heirs to the Dragon” kicks off the celebration and warning of House Targaryen’s success 172 years before Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke). That horrific character assassination is one of the most egregious in television history and one that hopefully is rectified in some fashion in George’s books but until then, the series seems to understand that Rhaenyra (here played by Milly Alcock) needs to be given a more nuanced and carefully constructed story.
The thrust of House of the Dragon is a society in which men make it abundantly clear that they will not suffer women at the head of such a society. Westerosi nobility isn’t just averse to women on the Iron Throne – the men leading each noble house (with the frequent acceptance of my beloved Dornish) are also acutely aware that if women are allowed to rule, then what happens to their own power? (That is all I will say on that for now, but keep that in mind moving forward).
As the adult Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy) says in a voiceover, the nobles picked her father Viserys (Paddy Considine) over Rhaenys (Eve Best), the latter of whom had the better claim by order of birth but lost because Westeros hates women. That bitterness and misogyny placed at the head of the realm a kind-ish man who really has no business being king. He is too trusting, he is too foolish, he is a man who really should be with his family running a bakery or something – not being yanked around by clearly selfish men for their own ends.
The largesse of luxury throughout the pilot serves to establish the height of Targaryen power, an empire at its peak. But the largesse in and of itself calls attention to what’s beneath it. Earlier in the episode, Lord Corlys Velaryon (Steve Toussaint) drops the mention of the Triarchy, three free cities of Essos who have banded together for some purpose to be revealed later. But there is another Triarchy that forms the crux of this episode, a triarchy of brutal violence. Each form of violence is different, but they together form a much more horrific picture than a society visually established through silks, bright heraldry, and awe-inspiring dragon rides.
As Aemma (Sian Brooke) tells her daughter Rhaenyra, their bodies have a duty to the state. Unspoken in that brief but revealing conversation is the implication that their bodies are not theirs to possess or use or enjoy. They are meant for one purpose and one purpose only and soon after in the episode, Aemma’s autonomy is stolen away from her by her husband, who makes the choice to sacrifice her in extreme pain for the chance to provide the kingdom with an heir. That is happening right now – the kingdom of Westeros may not be at stake – but millions of futures are and that shouldn’t ring so true but it does. That is violence.
Daemon’s (Matt Smith) army of Gold Cloaks, resplendent in their vileness, is essentially a functioning police unit. Law and order, maybe too modern of a phrase, is nevertheless an effective description of what effectively amounts to rule through pure terror. Two carts of dismembered limbs, two full carts and the camera doesn’t shy away from the quantity of carnage, even if thankfully you only see a portion of it unspool. That is violence. Just because it is the state itself enacting that violence and not an actor that “exists outside of the law” is irrelevant. The law itself is violent. Everyone deserves to live in safety, proclaims Daemon in defense, but what is safety if you are living in a constant terror of having your hand chopped off for stealing bread to soothe your childrens’ hunger?
The violence of the tourney. As Rhaenys notes with distasteful judgment, or judgmental distaste if you prefer, the realm has known peace for so long these noble born knights seek out war through wanton, useless violence. White supremacists often like to tout human sacrifice in colonized lands, with or without evidence, as proof of white superiority. But, aside from that nonsense on its face, it’s difficult to see men just bashing in each other’s heads and faces and chests for no good fucking reason. For the bread and circus, the carnage of slaves that gave the Roman Empire tools of entertainment and therefore tools of maintaining power. It is not glory. It is to keep the masses entertained and the nobles assured of their self-importance. It is to maintain the visible legitimacy of the state. It is violence.
So when Rhaenyra is announced as the heir to the Iron Throne, Viserys is breaking a nonsensical norm of Westerosi politics, that is true. But in the same way when we see leaders who are not of a privileged class rise to power, we have to ask ourselves a deeper, more uncomfortable question. The triarchy of violence is required to sustain the sanctity of the state. The state is founded by violence. It expands through violence. It maintains itself through violence. And as we see Rhaenyra’s triumph, we must ask ourselves, if the violence required to maintain the state continues with a Queen and not a King, what are we truly breaking?
Notes:
– The VFX artists did such a phenomenal job with so many different dragons and I’m looking forward to more of their distinctive personalities coming forward throughout the series. The fire at Aemma’s funeral looked a little wonky, but whatever.
– The Iron Throne wounding Viserys is a beautiful, beautiful touch right out of the books. That one of the wounds is something not even the Maesters can heal is telling.
– I cannot stress enough the horror of the sequence in which Aemma is forced to give birth and even if Baby Baelon had survived, that violation is unforgivable
– Steve Toussaint got so much racist harassment from awful bigots and it’s just really incredible how much shit actors of color get from being in genre fare. His Corlys Velaryon is going to be on the most important characters in this story and already, with so little, he’s crushing it. His chemistry with Eve Best is also a great touch.
– The costume design on the show. Oh my lord, the costume design on this show. Chef’s Kiss.
– Speaking of kisses, if Ser Cristan Cole (Fabien Frankel) wants to call me, my number is available. Cristan was established as being both Dornish and not noble-born, so keep that in mind going forward.
– So many of the characters here are close to characters in the original Game of Thrones, but they’re different enough to be substantial characters in their own right.
– Mysaria (Sonoya Mizuno) is not just Daemon’s paramour, she is also established in the episode as a dragon rider and will prove to be very, very important.
– So the Targaryens, their dragon dreams, and prophecies. This was arguably one of the most egregious cuts made in the original show and it will prove substantially important in this story. | https://thatshelf.com/house-of-the-dragon-review/ | 2022-08-22T18:50:31Z | https://thatshelf.com/house-of-the-dragon-review/ | false | 2 |
Bolsonaro tries to grab cell phone from heckler, video shows
As Bolsonaro took selfies along with his supporters close to the Planalto Palace, the President was questioned by Wilker Leao, a military corporal identified for filming his confrontations with the right-wing chief’s supporters and posting them to YouTube.
In the video, Leao may be heard asking Bolsonaro about his alliance with a gaggle of right-wing and heart events known as “Centrao,” which holds a lot of seats in Congress.
Bolsonaro and his leftist challenger, former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, launched their rival presidential campaigns on Tuesday forward of the October election.
Lula stays the primary alternative of 47% of Brazilian voters, based on a nationwide ballot from Datafolha Institute launched by Folha de S. Paulo newspaper on Thursday evening. But the hole is closing with Bolsonaro up three share factors for the reason that final ballot in late July.
According to the Globo video, Leao is seen being pushed by an obvious safety officer, and refusing to go away. He begins to insult the President, calling him a “coward” and a “punk.”
“I come here every day, Bolsonaro. Let’s see if you have the guts to get out and talk to me,” Leao says.
The President may be seen exiting his automobile saying that he needs to speak to Leao. He grabs the YouTuber’s collar. “Come here, come here to talk to me,” he says, reaching for Leao’s telephone.
After the scuffle, Bolsonaro and Leao may be seen talking extra calmly.
“You can talk to me all you want, you can talk all you want. There’s no problem. Why this aggressiveness?” Bolsonaro says.
“Because when I talk to you, sir, calmly, when I went there, I was forbidden to go in there again to talk calmly with you, sir,” Leao replies.
Bolsonaro’s press workplace and Wilker Leao didn’t reply to CNN’s request for remark. | https://thewall.fyi/bolsonaro-tries-to-grab-cell-phone-from-heckler-video-shows/ | 2022-08-22T18:51:12Z | https://thewall.fyi/bolsonaro-tries-to-grab-cell-phone-from-heckler-video-shows/ | false | 2 |
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (NewsNation) — A federal judge on Monday formally rejected the Justice Department’s argument to keep the entire affidavit supporting the search warrant for former President Donald Trump’s estate in Florida sealed.
Judge Bruce Reinhart made the decision last week but Monday formalizes it. Reinhart will allow the Justice Department until Thursday to provide a redacted version to the court. The judge said there are portions of the affidavit that could be unsealed.
The affidavit prosecutors used to get the search warrant for Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home could provide more specific details as to what the Department of Justice believed was at Mar-a-Lago and why they felt the need to search the home.
The release of the search warrant painted a picture of the possible crimes authorities believe Trump may have committed, including violating the Espionage Act. The warrant also revealed 33 documents ranging from “top secret” to “classified” were pulled from the estate.
Trump and his legal team claim all of the documents were declassified and rightfully in his possession. The fact that the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago indicates authorities do not believe that claim to be true.
You can read Reinhart’s full ruling in the document here.
This story is developing. Refresh for updates.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | https://www.wtrf.com/news/national-news/judge-formally-rejects-doj-request-to-seal-trump-affidavit/ | 2022-08-22T18:51:25Z | https://www.wtrf.com/news/national-news/judge-formally-rejects-doj-request-to-seal-trump-affidavit/ | true | 12 |
Unveiled at Tesla AI Day 2021, the Tesla Bot is one item from Tesla Inc. TSLA that provides the electric vehicle leader with a new revenue stream.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently wrote an essay about some of the future use cases and targeted customers for the Tesla Bot.
“As technology accelerates, it may one day surpass human understanding and control. Some are optimistic and some are pessimistic," Musk wrote in China Cyberspace, a monthly magazine. "But I believe that as long as we are not complacent and always maintain a sense of urgency, the future of humanity will be bright, driven by the power of technology.”
And the smarter cars become, similar to “web-connected robots on wheels," it also makes humanoid robots a reality, Musk explained.
The Tesla Bot, which could see a prototype launch later this year, is close to the height and weight of an adult, has legs and an interactive screen interface.
“If we want a robot to adapt to its environment and be able to do what humans do, it has to be roughly the same size, shape and capabilities as a human,” Musk said.
The goal is for the Tesla Bot to serve “millions of households” with repetitive and boring tasks such as cooking, mowing lawns and taking care of the elderly.
“We plan to launch the first prototype of a humanoid robot this year and focus on improving the intelligence of that robot and solving the problem of large-scale production.”
Musk expects users of the Tesla Bot to increase every year as production scales up and costs fall. There's potential for the Tesla Bot to be cheaper than a car in the future, he says.
“Perhaps in less than a decade, people will be able to buy a robot for their parents as a birthday gift.”
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Musk, who is also at the helm of Neuralink and SpaceX, believes there are wider-use cases for robots compared to Tesla cars.
“It is foreseeable that with the power of robots, we will create an era of extreme abundance of goods and services, where everyone can live a life of abundance," Musk said. "Perhaps the only scarcity that will exist in the future is for us to create ourselves as humans."
A new prototype of the Tesla Bot could be unveiled at the second AI Day from Tesla. Benzinga previously reported that the date of AI Day was pushed back a month to Sep. 30, 2022 instead of Aug. 19, 2022, with Musk suggesting a working prototype of the Tesla Bot could be “working by then.”
Not everyone is sold on the robot idea. Wedbush analyst Daniel Ives previously called the Tesla Bot an “absolute head-scratcher” and was critical of the new product.
“While we appreciate Musk’s longer-term technology vision, a Tesla Bot is not what investors want to see with instead much more focus on chips, FSD, and reaccelerating China EV demand in this key market at a critical juncture,” Ives said.
Nevertheless, Musk continues to put focus on the program and its potential use cases.
“The importance of Optimus will become apparent in the coming years. Those who are insightful or listen carefully will understand Optimus will ultimately be worth more than the car business, worth more than FSD (full self-driving). That’s my firm belief,” Musk previously said in April.
Tesla AI Day could provide more use case examples. Investors should look for analyst updates after AI Day to see if their attitudes have changed on Tesla Bot and the potential market size estimates.
TSLA Price Action: Tesla shares are up 3% to $927.10 on Monday.
© 2022 Benzinga.com. Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved.
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NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A woman suspected of driving under the influence drove her car through a playground and off the side of a dock into the water at Southern California's Newport Beach, authorities said.
Bystanders helped rescue the motorist as her car sank in Newport Bay Friday night, CBS Los Angeles reported.
“I turned around and got a piece of the pipe from the railing and I just bashed both of the windows in. From there someone was able to open the trunk and once they were able to open the trunk they had her out,” one of the rescuers, Jehu Jogwe, told CBS LA.
Newport Beach police did not release details on the car or the driver, who officials said was hospitalized but not seriously hurt. The woman could face charges including DUI.
There were no other injuries, police said.
The car plowed through a playground at Genoa Park before plunging off the dock, according to witnesses. | https://www.turnto23.com/news/state/woman-drives-through-playground-plunges-off-california-dock | 2022-08-22T18:54:22Z | https://www.turnto23.com/news/state/woman-drives-through-playground-plunges-off-california-dock | false | 14 |
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A reminder of Kevin Durant's undeniable greatness
The SparkNotes version
A non-disputed member of the NBA's 75th Anniversary Team, Durant is one of the most accomplished players in league history. He's racked up 12 All-Star selections, 10 All-NBA selections, four scoring titles, two championships, two Finals MVP awards and one regular-season MVP award through 15 seasons.
Regardless of how the rest of his career plays out, Durant will be a first-ballot Hall of Famer.
Even at the age of 33, Durant is still among the best players in the NBA. He's coming off of a season in which he averaged 29.9 points, 7.4 rebounds and a career-best 6.4 assists. Only three players averaged more points and only 21 averaged more assists.
Had injuries not limited him to 55 games, Durant might've made the All-NBA First Team in 2021-22.
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The nerdier version
In addition to being a volume scorer, Durant is highly efficient.
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An Oakland Police Dept. spokesperson says cops are aware of the allegations ... and have launched a probe into the matter.
"The Oakland Police Department was not alerted to this until after the game," the spokesperson said, "and we have initiated an investigation."
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First Washington CORP bought a new stake in T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:TROW – Get Rating) during the first quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The fund bought 35,657 shares of the asset manager’s stock, valued at approximately $5,391,000. T. Rowe Price Group comprises approximately 2.2% of First Washington CORP’s portfolio, making the stock its 17th biggest position.
A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in TROW. Norges Bank purchased a new position in T. Rowe Price Group in the fourth quarter valued at about $387,395,000. JPMorgan Chase & Co. boosted its stake in T. Rowe Price Group by 10.5% in the first quarter. JPMorgan Chase & Co. now owns 9,442,430 shares of the asset manager’s stock valued at $1,427,600,000 after acquiring an additional 900,933 shares during the last quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. boosted its stake in T. Rowe Price Group by 44.8% in the fourth quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. now owns 2,159,851 shares of the asset manager’s stock valued at $424,714,000 after acquiring an additional 668,099 shares during the last quarter. Van ECK Associates Corp boosted its stake in T. Rowe Price Group by 852.6% in the first quarter. Van ECK Associates Corp now owns 704,200 shares of the asset manager’s stock valued at $106,468,000 after acquiring an additional 630,275 shares during the last quarter. Finally, State Street Corp boosted its stake in T. Rowe Price Group by 2.3% in the fourth quarter. State Street Corp now owns 12,103,628 shares of the asset manager’s stock valued at $2,380,057,000 after acquiring an additional 274,795 shares during the last quarter. 71.80% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.
T. Rowe Price Group Stock Performance
T. Rowe Price Group stock traded down $2.93 during midday trading on Monday, reaching $123.49. 22,564 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 1,732,856. The company’s fifty day moving average is $119.09 and its 200-day moving average is $130.83. The firm has a market cap of $27.87 billion, a PE ratio of 12.20, a PEG ratio of 2.57 and a beta of 1.30. T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. has a 52 week low of $104.72 and a 52 week high of $224.55.
T. Rowe Price Group Dividend Announcement
The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, September 29th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, September 15th will be issued a $1.20 dividend. This represents a $4.80 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 3.89%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, September 14th. T. Rowe Price Group’s payout ratio is 46.33%.
Insider Transactions at T. Rowe Price Group
In other news, insider Jessica M. Hiebler sold 959 shares of the stock in a transaction on Tuesday, August 2nd. The shares were sold at an average price of $124.57, for a total value of $119,462.63. Following the transaction, the insider now owns 12,183 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $1,517,636.31. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this link. In related news, VP Andrew Justin Mackenzi Thomson sold 11,891 shares of the stock in a transaction on Thursday, August 4th. The shares were sold at an average price of $126.91, for a total transaction of $1,509,086.81. Following the transaction, the vice president now owns 136,410 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $17,311,793.10. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available through the SEC website. Also, insider Jessica M. Hiebler sold 959 shares of the stock in a transaction on Tuesday, August 2nd. The shares were sold at an average price of $124.57, for a total transaction of $119,462.63. Following the transaction, the insider now directly owns 12,183 shares in the company, valued at approximately $1,517,636.31. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders own 2.00% of the company’s stock.
Analysts Set New Price Targets
A number of research firms have weighed in on TROW. The Goldman Sachs Group dropped their target price on shares of T. Rowe Price Group from $118.00 to $100.00 and set a “sell” rating on the stock in a research note on Wednesday, June 29th. UBS Group dropped their price target on shares of T. Rowe Price Group from $88.00 to $84.00 and set a “sell” rating on the stock in a research note on Friday, July 29th. BMO Capital Markets dropped their price target on shares of T. Rowe Price Group from $135.00 to $115.00 in a research note on Monday, August 1st. Citigroup dropped their price target on shares of T. Rowe Price Group from $110.00 to $90.00 in a research note on Friday, April 29th. Finally, Morgan Stanley dropped their price target on shares of T. Rowe Price Group from $124.00 to $123.00 and set an “equal weight” rating on the stock in a research note on Friday, July 29th. Five analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, five have given a hold rating and one has assigned a buy rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the company currently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $132.30.
T. Rowe Price Group Profile
T. Rowe Price Group, Inc is a publicly owned investment manager. The firm provides its services to individuals, institutional investors, retirement plans, financial intermediaries, and institutions. It launches and manages equity and fixed income mutual funds. The firm invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe.
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A lot has been made of Anthony Joshua’s antics after losing to Oleksandr Usyk and now we have even more insight into the madness.
On Saturday night, Usyk put on yet another masterful display, as he brilliantly out-boxed Joshua to win by split decision and defend his unified heavyweight world titles.
What happened next was bizarre to say the least, as the normally mild-mannered Joshua lost it, beginning by throwing two of Usyk’s belts out of the ring.
The Brit then stormed off before returning to the ring, taking the microphone and going on a rant about how he is too heavy to box twelve rounds, his background and the current war in Ukraine.
Footage then emerged of Joshua angrily confronting a bystander backstage and we saw him break down in tears at the post-fight press conference.
One moment that also went under the radar was when Joshua and Usyk seemed to have a heated conversation in the ring after the fight, but what was said was unknown until now.
Joshua approached Usyk and shook his hand, saying, ‘well done,’ as the pair embraced.
“You are a very strong guy. Listen, you’re very strong.” Usyk replied.
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This is when the conversation took a slight turn, as Joshua seemed to become heated and said, “I don’t care about strong, I have to have skills.
“Being strong doesn’t win boxing, skills win boxing.
“You’re not strong, how did you beat me? How? Because of skill.
“I had character and determination.”
Since Saturday night, Joshua has had time to reflect on his erratic behaviour and he put the following statement out on twitter, “I wish Usyk continued success in your quest for greatness. You are a class act champ.
“Yesterday I had to mentally take myself into a dark place to compete for the championship belts! I had two fights, one with Usyk and one with my emotions and both got the better of me.
“I’ll be the first to admit, I let myself down. I acted out of pure passion and emotion and when not controlled it ain’t great.
“I love this sport so so much and I’ll be better from this point on. Respect.”
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ROCKVILLE, Md., Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) awarded a $6.9 million grant to researchers at the Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR) to design a vaccine to combat the virus that causes Hepatitis C, an illness that affects an estimated 71 million people worldwide. Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) puts people at heightened risk for severe liver disease, including fibrosis, cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma (liver cancer). Although treatments are available, an HCV vaccine currently does not exist to help prevent infections and reduce the global burden of the disease.
This 5-year award will support a multi-disciplinary research team based at IBBR, a joint research enterprise between the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP), the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB), and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) dedicated to transformative discoveries in the field of bioscience and biotechnology. The researchers aim to design a vaccine to induce broadly neutralizing antibodies and long-term memory T cell responses that will help prevent HCV infection. This recent award is a follow-on to a $6 million grant awarded to the IBBR research team in 2017 based on their significant progress in the field.
"The vaccine development team that was assembled at IBBR to take on this challenge has done a fantastic job over the past six years in moving this groundbreaking research program forward," said Thomas Fuerst, program director, IBBR Fellow and Professor of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics at UMCP. "This new grant allows us to keep building upon that success and to hopefully realize our ultimate goal of making a vaccine against HCV available to the public."
"IBBR's mission is to harness the latest developments in science and engineering to provide solutions to complex medical and public health needs around the world," said Jennifer King Rice, Senior Vice President and Provost at UMCP. "This project is a wonderful example of the exciting and transformative research that is possible when we combine the world-leading expertise of faculty from both the College Park and Baltimore campuses."
The vaccine development team includes IBBR researchers from the Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics at UMCP, the School of Medicine at UMB, as well Princeton University. In addition to Thomas Fuerst, principal investigators include Brian Pierce, IBBR Fellow and Assistant Professor at UMCP; Roy Mariuzza, IBBR Fellow and Professor at UMCP; Gilad Ofek, IBBR Fellow and Assistant Professor at UMCP; Alexander Andrianov, IBBR Fellow and Research Professor; Nevil Singh, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland School of Medicine Department of Microbiology and Immunology; and Alexander Ploss, Associate Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University. Eric Toth, IBBR Fellow and Assistant Research Professor also serves as a co-Investigator and Yunus Abdul, IBBR Research Scientist will assist with animal studies.
IBBR is a joint research enterprise of the University of Maryland, College Park, the University of Maryland, Baltimore, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). IBBR brings together critical elements necessary to inspire transformative discoveries in the field of bioscience and biotechnology and provides innovative solutions to major scientific and engineering challenges important to society. IBBR researchers seek to advance the fields of biomedical research, therapeutic development, biomedical manufacturing, and state-of-the-art measurement technologies, to support accelerated delivery of safe and effective medicines to the public. IBBR is financially supported in part by the University of Maryland Strategic Partnership: MPowering the State, an initiative designed to achieve innovation and impact through collaboration.
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Households could soon be given the chance to cut their electricity bills if they avoid using high-powered machines in peak times, according to reports. The scheme is thought to be announced in the next two weeks.
By not using appliances that use a lot of energy, such as ovens and washing machines, during peak times, families will be able to save money, according to the BBC. It is thought the service will be available to households that have a smart meter installed.
Energy bills have increased drastically this year, threatening to plunge thousands into fuel poverty. Prices are expected to surge again in October with the average household bill forecast to hit £4,650 in January.
The scheme will be run by National Grid ESO. Speaking to the BBC, a spokesman for the company said: "We are developing a new service that will be available for consumers to benefit from across this winter and will be announcing further information soon."
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“Strippers united, will never be divided!”
For months, dancers at North Hollywood’s Star Garden Topless Dive Bar have picketed the Lankershim Blvd. club, claiming that dancers there have experienced retaliatory job terminations, unsafe working conditions and compensation problems. They’ve repeatedly staked out the sidewalk in front of the bar, holding signs, wearing costumes, cheering cars that pass by honking and trying to persuade potential customers not to enter. But on Friday night, their chants began not at the club, but a mile and a half away in North Hollywood at the parking lot of the L.A. office of union Actors’ Equity Association.
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Just a few days earlier, on August 17, Actors’ Equity — an over 100-year-old union that primarily bargains on behalf of actors and stage managers in live theater — announced that the organization was partnering with the Star Garden dancers to attempt to unionize the workplace. (A number of those dancers have not worked at Star Garden for the last few months after several protested safety conditions and say they were locked out of the club.) This effort, which the union celebrated with a rally outside their North Hollywood office on Friday, marks the first time that Actors’ Equity has attempted to organize strippers. The union push faces hurdles, but if it is successful, Star Garden dancers would be the only unionized strippers in the U.S., according to Equity. It’s a high-profile stake in the ground in an industry that has recently seen a renewed labor push, but hasn’t established a union since a success at The Lusty Lady Peep Show in San Francisco, which closed in 2013.
Addressing the crowd of supporters on Friday evening — around 40 people showed up at the start of the rally, with that number increasing over the course of the event — Actors’ Equity president Kate Shindle said, “We are ready to support and partner with and welcome the workers of the Star Garden Topless Dive Bar to Equity.” She added, “They work hard, they are entertainers and artists and athletes, and now they are our siblings in the labor movement.”
In the union’s initial announcement that the Star Garden dancers had filed a petition for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board, Actors’ Equity emphasized the similarities between the issues Star Garden dancers are raising — including alleged compensation, health and safety issues — and those that current union members face. Following her speech, however, Shindle asserted to The Hollywood Reporter, “The things that we are fighting for in your average play or musical, I don’t want to minimize them, but they sound much easier to conquer than sexual assault as a regular occurrence on the job.” She added, “When workers come to a union like ours and say ‘Can you help protect us from that?’ how could we say no?”
Calls to Star Garden for comment were not answered. When reached by THR, the club’s lawyer Joshua Kaplan said he had no comment. (In a comment to BuzzFeed in July, Kaplan said “all allegations of misconduct” were “maliciously false” and that “we have no further comment save to say we look forward to complete vindication in the proper legal forum.”)
The dancers first approached Actors’ Equity in late June 2022, according to Stefanie Frey, Equity’s director of organizing and mobilization. After listening to their stories of working at the club, Frey says the union found commonalities between some of the alleged issues at the strip club and the theater industry in terms of compensation, alleged discrimination and harassment, safety on stage and allegedly being recorded without consent.
The dancers’ group, meanwhile, wanted to unionize because, after months of protesting on the sidewalk outside the club, “we weren’t making any headway [and] we knew that we didn’t want to go back to the club without the full protections of the union and a union contract,” says Velveeta, one of the dancers (who use their stage names only when talking to the press). The group initially wanted to ally with labor and advocacy group Strippers United to form an independent union, but realized that would be difficult with limited resources, Velveeta says. A mutual contact at Glendale-based law firm Bush Gottlieb, which works with Actors’ Equity, helped put the two groups in touch. “I think we are very determined to keep the ideal of having a stripper-led movement within Actors’ Equity, and Actors’ Equity is going to respect that and bring us, they’ve said, to the highest levels of the union to make sure that we’re the ones steering the ship in our industry,” says Velveeta.
At Friday night’s rally, Strippers United’s president, who identified by the stage name Selena, said in a speech that previously other unions have been “afraid to take on the challenge of unionizing strippers.”
Actors’ Equity, conversely, is projecting optimism about future prospects in the field. The union has previously organized other non-traditional performers, including workers in mock trials, fashion shows and in patient simulations. The dancers at Star Garden fall under the union’s umbrella of live performers, Frey says; Frey and Shindle say they are open to other dancers reaching out to the union, but did not say the union is actively organizing dancers at this point.
Charm, one of the dancers, believes the Actors’ Equity push at Star Garden will ultimately “set a precedent for a complete change in the way that strip clubs are run.” Charm adds, “I think it would be completely unique for us to be in a position where we’re actually sitting at the table negotiating with our employers about what goes on in the club, what we want and what we think is appropriate. That’s not something that’s actually taken into account, really, ever, in a serious way.”
The union is currently focused on organizing the 30 dancers at Star Garden, which includes those who say they have been locked out of the club since March. The goal is to bring about an election quickly, so that the workers can return to their job under an Equity contract, Frey says, which would include language around safety and compensation.
In the meantime, says dancer Lilith, the group wants to escalate their protests “to show our bosses that we still are at full force and to show our strength.”
During the Actors’ Equity rally on Friday, dancers, activists with Strippers United and union organizer and Los Angeles City Council District 13 candidate Hugo Soto-Martinez all delivered speeches, as dancers sold merchandise — tee shirts, pins and Koozies — reading “Stripper Strike NoHo” and “Support your local stripper union.” One dancer and labor organizer, Reagan, led the crowd in a chant of “Strippers and actors, shout it from the rafters!”
Later on in the night, supporters returned once more to the sidewalk in front of Star Garden before the club’s vertical sign stating, “Topless Girls.” Granola bars and water bottles were on offer at first, and later several sizable boxes of pizza arrived, as well as cakes. The night’s protest theme was “couture,” and supporters set up a runway for dancers to strut down in costume.
As many of the dancers have not worked at the club since March, Actors’ Equity may face an uphill battle in organizing the club’s workforce. However, Frey says the workers remain “passionate” and dedicated to the cause of unionization, which gives the union hope.
“We wouldn’t have taken this on if we didn’t believe in this campaign and believe we could win,” Frey says.
Shindle is taking more of a wait-and-see approach: When asked about the likeliness of the union movement’s success, she says, “I wish I knew.” Actors’ Equity, she says, is “going straight to the workers, leveraging their solidarity and momentum and passion, and making the best case we can.”
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Report: Naby Keita Injured Again Ahead Of Liverpool's Clash Against Manchester United
Jurgen Klopp and top journalist confirm the reason why Naby Keita is missing again ahead of Liverpool's must-win match against Manchester United.
Liverpool face Manchester United at Old Trafford as the two teams search for their first win of the season.
The Reds drew their opening two matches against Fulham and Crystal Palace, while their opponents have so far yet to pick a point up, with losses to both Brighton and Brentford.
Jurgen Klopp has made some interesting changes for tonight's match, including Fabinho dropping to the bench, as James Milner, Jordan Henderson, and Harvey Elliot make up the midfield three.
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One noticeable absentee is Naby Keita, who was expected to be back in the squad. Speaking to Sky Sports on the sideline, Jurgen Klopp confirmed the midfielder's injury.
"Naby is out."
Times journalist Paul Joyce also confirmed this on Twitter, reiterating Naby Keita is out with injury. More updates for the injury will come in due time.
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LINCOLN, Neb., Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The retirement plans division of Ameritas Life Insurance Corp. is proud to announce a digital, interactive retirement savings and financial wellness platform, GoalWiseSM, to manage the end-to-end retirement savings journey. GoalWise offers a personalized, goal-based gamification experience for participants and insightful, targeted, event-driven communications and data trending for financial professionals and sponsors to better ensure a funded retirement. GoalWise is designed to engage key stakeholders in a digitally driven application to promote financial literacy, wellness and higher savings rates through interactive education and guidance.
Ameritas retirement plans partnered with iJoin to deliver a robust, integrated technology solution with single sign on capabilities providing a cafeteria-style approach to offering multiple managed account solutions, draw down strategies and voluntary benefits including emergency savings accounts to retirement plan participants. GoalWise will expand to offer financial literacy support services including budgeting, debt management, other savings tools and protection products wrapped in a holistic financial wellness approach.
"We are committed to helping Americans achieve a funded retirement, reduce financial stress and live healthier lives. GoalWise brings an entire suite of services and products that help people save and retire in a manner that meets participants where they want, on their schedule with digital or human interaction. The integrated, technology stack offers solutions that can be scaled while remaining flexible to meet future market demand with competitive pricing particularly down market," said Jim Kais, executive vice president, retirement plans, at Ameritas.
Steve McCoy, iJoin's chief executive officer added, "We're excited to partner with Ameritas retirement plans to support the important role financial professionals play in driving plan performance and, ultimately, plan success. We have a shared focus on evolving a goal-based participant experience that makes engagement more natural and likely to produce better outcomes."
Ameritas retirement plans serves the industry's main street market businesses, governmental and non-profit entities through all licensed financial intermediaries, brokers and registered investment advisors. Ameritas retirement plans with iJoin presents a well-differentiated retirement plan model that aligns the personalization attributes to a meaningful retirement journey.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge acknowledged Monday that redactions to an FBI affidavit spelling out the basis for the search of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate might be so extensive as to make the document “meaningless” if released to the public. But he said he continued to believe it should not remain sealed in its entirety because of the public interest in the ongoing criminal investigation.
A written order from U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart largely restates what he said in court last week, when he directed the Justice Department to propose redactions about the information in the affidavit that it wants to remain secret. That submission is due Thursday at noon.
Justice Department officials have sought to keep the entire document sealed, saying disclosing any portion of it risks compromising an investigation and divulging investigative techniques. They have advised the judge that the redactions to the affidavit they would likely propose would be so numerous that the public would be left without substantive new information in the event the document was released.
Reinhart acknowledged that possibility in his Monday order, writing, “I cannot say at this point that partial redactions will be so extensive that they will result in a meaningless disclosure, but I may ultimately reach that conclusion after hearing further from the Government.”
Several news organizations, including The Associated Press, have urged the judge to unseal additional records tied to this month's search of Mar-A-Lago, when FBI officials said they recovered 11 sets of classified documents, including top secret records, from the Florida estate.
Of particular interest is the affidavit supporting the search, which presumably contains key details about the Justice Department's investigation examining whether Trump retained and mishandled classified and sensitive government records. Trump and some of his supporters have also called for the document to be released, hoping it will expose what they contend was government overreach.
In his written ruling, Reinhart said the Justice Department had a compelling interest in preventing the affidavit from being released in its entirety. But he said he did not believe it should remain fully sealed, and said he was not persuaded by the department's arguments that the redaction process “imposes an undue burden on its resources."
“Particularly given the intense public and historical interest in an unprecedented search of a former President’s residence, the Government has not yet shown that these administrative concerns are sufficient to justify sealing,” he wrote.
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Marcus Rashford is on his 'LAST CHANCE' for Manchester United after being handed a starting spot against Liverpool, says NBC pundit Robbie Mustoe - as he says Erik ten Hag must 'rattle the cage of the whole squad' in a bid to turn their season around
- Marcus Rashford has been picked in Manchester United's starting XI
- The Englishman has not scored for the Red Devils since January 22, 2021
- Cristiano Ronaldo and Harry Maguire have been left on the bench vs. Liverpool
Marcus Rashford must do more and do it now, according to NBC Sports pundit Robbie Mustoe.
Ahead of their vital derby against Liverpool at Old Trafford, the former Middlesbrough man called on Rashford to step up after being named in the starting XI.
'Ten Hag has got to rattle the cage of the whole squad. Some of these players, it's got to be their last chance.
Marcus Rashford has been subject to interest from French side Paris Saint-Germain recently
Robbie Mustoe believes Rashford has reached his final chance to impress in a United shirt
'Marcus Rashford... show us! When things are going well for him, he looks a million bucks, but there's too many times when he doesn't, and he's jogging back to help his defender.'
Rashford hasn't scored for Manchester United since January 22, 2021 as the Red Devils won 1-0 at home to West Ham.
According to former USMNT goalkeeper Tim Howard, the former England international should look to pastures abroad.
'[If I'm Rashford], I want to go,' he said. 'With PSG, it's a new start. There comes a point in time where he's got to make the No. 9 his, he's got to say, "I want to be the No. 9" and back it up with production.'
Tim Howard has called on Rashford to depart his hometown club for the Ligue 1 champions
Mustoe doubled down on his earlier claims that Rashford really is in last chance saloon territory.
'This is it for Rashford. And I don't think he is a No. 9, I think he's better from the left. Let's see, if he does play up front, how he does.
'I remember Arsene Wenger saying that by the age of 23, you know what you're going to get with a player. He's going to get some experience, and knowledge... but tactically, technically, you've got it.'
With a baying Liverpool on the horizon, United manager Erik ten Hag made several changes including dropping Harry Maguire and Cristiano Ronaldo for the crunch clash.
Cristiano Ronaldo and captain Harry Maguire have been left out of United's starting XI
'He's made a big call,' NBC's Lee Dixon said on their coverage of Manchester United vs. Liverpool.
'He had to do something big in order to shake the dressing room up. We can talk all day about what's going on off the pitch with the Glazers, and protests, but we're dealing with what's on the pitch.
'I think Liverpool will look at that team-sheet, and Klopp in particular, and say, "They've made changes, and he's expecting a reaction."'
United's players were put through their places following an embarrassing loss to Brentford
'It's about character, and we haven't seen it this season. It's still looking for some character, that's all it is. Big players don't [find excuses].'
Mustoe believes the Dutchman was right to mix up his starting XI in the aftermath of their humiliating defeat at Brentford.
'[Ten Hag's] words must have stung the whole club, and the players, when he said the last two performances have lacked spirit and fight and attitude.
Erik ten Hag also left out Luke Shaw and Fred out of the starting lineup vs. old foe Liverpool
My goodness, isn't that the basics? I think it's going to be a quicker frontline, more energy, a high press. Harry Maguire isn't the quickest player, so there's more speed there.
'They had to do something... something to start the foundations, to have hope, that this guy can slowly fix some of the problems.'
Fellow analyst and former USMNT goalkeeper Tim Howard believes the efficacy of United's changes will be apparent within moments of the two sides taking the pitch.
Manchester United vs. Liverpool is one of the fiercest rivalries in the Premier League & beyond
'This is not going to take very long to see if these decisions have worked,' he said. 'Liverpool will be an expecting a reaction... I wonder if we're going to get it?
'Dropping your captain is a big call, some other players absolutely have to step up. When they went down to Brentford, there was no reaction.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Untapped, a company on a mission to make the world more equitable by broadening access to transformative careers, announced the release of its Early In Career Talent Sentiment Report. The insights uncovered will help companies attract Early In Career (EIC) talent, shape meaningful foundational employment experiences and develop magnetic employer branding that appeals to the Gen Z workforce.
Untapped surveyed nearly 800 EIC candidates as they considered the initial steps on their career path. Roughly half of the respondents were searching for an internship, while the other half were looking to land their first job. The research shows that, before and during their hunt for those foundational roles, candidates seek chances to network in order to learn about the company, assess the opportunity and confirm a meaningful self-to-employer connection. But they want to feel secure about how much of their identifying details and personal data they share throughout the process.
Internship seekers in the study are looking for inspiring employers with compelling brand reputations and a proven track record of corporate social responsibility. They also are hoping to gain communication skills and connections from potential internships. When it comes to essential first job features, those new to the hiring market heavily emphasized professional development, followed by company culture.
EIC talent indicated that aligning personal values with a company's mission is vital. A top value is a company's proven track record in diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.
Some data highlights from Untapped's Early In Career Talent Sentiment Report include:
- 66% of respondents would not accept a "dream" opportunity with a company with a poor DEI reputation
- 74% more candidates prefer to self-report their information than have their data inferred by AI
- 77% of interviewees mentioned the importance of community throughout the job searching process, noting communities are great for getting interview and process tips
- 70% survey participants would rather attend an event before applying for a role to gather information about the position and the company
"Our goal with conducting this research was to provide companies who seek to attract a diverse pipeline of EIC talent with helpful insights to shape meaningful career experiences, from the initial impression and beyond," explained Adam Gefkovicz, Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Untapped. "By better understanding EIC attitudes, companies can improve their talent strategy and outreach to candidates seeking out crucially-important foundational roles."
Click here to access the complete Early In Career Talent Sentiment Report.
Untapped is on a mission to make the world more equitable by broadening access to transformative careers. Our all-in-one recruiting platform helps companies recruit diverse teams confidently and reduce hiring time. Unlock the power of Untapped's shared talent pool of more than 35 million searchable profiles complete with self-reported information and create a more inclusive talent pipeline by taking the guesswork out of recruiting. Startups to Fortune 500 companies are using Untapped to source and connect with underrepresented talent, identify hiring bias, enhance employer branding, and measure the ROI of diversity recruiting initiatives. For more information, visit https://www.untapped.io/recruiters.
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AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — Workers at a General Electric factory in Alabama on Monday launched an effort to form a union, joining a wave of recent labor organization efforts at large national companies.
Workers at the 179-employee GE Aviation plant in Auburn, Alabama, submitted union cards to the Birmingham office of the National Labor Relations Board in an organization effort with IUE-CWA. They said it is part of a national effort to organize at GE plants across the country, and comes amid unionization efforts at other large companies like Amazon and Starbucks.
An email and telephone call to the public relations office for GE was not immediately returned.
A spokeswoman for the National Labor Relations Board confirmed the regional office received the union petition Monday. To qualify for a union election, the NLRB requires signatures from 30% of eligible voters at a specific facility. The IUE-CWA indicated that more than 50% of workers signed cards but did not provide an exact number.
Two plant workers supporting the effort told The Associated Press, in interviews arranged by union supporters, that pay, the attitude of management toward workers and benefits are among the driving concern of workers.
“We need our voices to be heard,” Marcus Durrell, who has worked at the plant for seven years, said in a telephone interview. He said experienced workers at the plant earn less than workers at other GE facilities.
He said workers at the Auburn plant see their pay top out at about $24.18 per hour after six years.
"We want better pay, better benefits, just having a seat of the table," Donna Rawlinson, 46, said. Rawlinson, who said she is on short-term disability while undergoing breast cancer treatments, said morale at the plant has declined over the years.
"They keep pushing. They want more, but they don't give anything," she said.
Labor unions appear to be having a resurgence of interest after decades of decline. Just 10.3% of workers belonged to unions in 2021, down from 20.1% in 1983, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Unionization campaigns have gained momentum recently, with workers launching efforts at Amazon, Starbucks and other large companies. The Biden administration has also supported efforts to boost unionization campaigns at major employers.
“GE workers in Alabama are sending a powerful message by coming together to form a union for the better pay, benefits, and job security they have earned. Across the country at giant corporations like Amazon and Starbucks, CEOs are getting a wake-up call from workers making their voices heard,” IUE-CWA Conference Board Chairman Jerry Carney said in a statement announcing the effort at the GE plant. | https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/GE-workers-in-Alabama-seek-union-17389969.php | 2022-08-22T19:35:55Z | https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/GE-workers-in-Alabama-seek-union-17389969.php | false | 13 |
A federal judge has acknowledged that redactions to an FBI affidavit spelling out the basis for the search of former US president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate might be so extensive as to make the document “meaningless” if released to the public.
But US Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart said he continued to believe it should not remain sealed in its entirety because of the public interest in the ongoing criminal investigation.
A written order from Judge Reinhart largely restates what he said in court last week, when he directed the Justice Department to propose redactions about the information in the affidavit that it wants to remain secret.
That submission is due on Thursday at noon.
Justice Department officials have sought to keep the entire document sealed, saying disclosing any portion of it risks compromising an investigation and divulging investigative techniques.
They have advised the judge that the redactions to the affidavit they were likely to propose would be so numerous that the public would be left without substantive new information in the event the document was released.
Judge Reinhart acknowledged that possibility in his Monday order, writing: “I cannot say at this point that partial redactions will be so extensive that they will result in a meaningless disclosure, but I may ultimately reach that conclusion after hearing further from the government.”
Several news organisations, including the Associated Press, have urged the judge to unseal additional records tied to this month’s search of Mar-a-Lago, when FBI officials said they recovered 11 sets of classified documents, including top secret records, from the Florida estate.
Of particular interest is the affidavit supporting the search, which presumably contains key details about the Justice Department’s investigation examining whether Mr Trump retained and mishandled classified and sensitive government records.
Mr Trump and some of his supporters have also called for the document to be released, hoping it will expose what they contend was government overreach.
In his written ruling, Judge Reinhart said the Justice Department had a compelling interest in preventing the affidavit from being released in its entirety.
But he said he did not believe it should remain fully sealed, and said he was not persuaded by the department’s arguments that the redaction process “imposes an undue burden on its resources”.
“Particularly given the intense public and historical interest in an unprecedented search of a former president’s residence, the government has not yet shown that these administrative concerns are sufficient to justify sealing,” he wrote. | https://www.expressandstar.com/news/world-news/2022/08/22/judge-concedes-that-trump-affidavit-may-be-heavily-redacted/ | 2022-08-22T19:38:03Z | https://www.expressandstar.com/news/world-news/2022/08/22/judge-concedes-that-trump-affidavit-may-be-heavily-redacted/ | false | 6 |
Manchester United fans are staging a major protest against the Glazer family's ownership of the club ahead of tonight's match against Liverpool.
Supporters' group 'The 1958' are urging fans to join a march from the Tollgate pub to the Trinity statue outside the stadium. The group says the protest is against "an ownership that is systematically starving and killing the greatest football institution in world football, for greed."
The Glazers have regularly taken sums of money out of the football club, and with United' s debts having risen to nearly £500m in recent financial accounts, an increase of 11.8 per cent from last year. Dividend payments have been made to shareholders in recent months, despite last season's poor performance, and fans have been dispirited by what appears to have been a shambolic summer transfer window.
While hundreds of millions of pounds have been spent on transfers in recent years, without great success, that money has come out of club profits, rather than the Glazers' own pockets, which continues to anger fans. The protest has been given extra impetus by news this week that billionaire United fan Sir Jim Ratcliffe is interested in buying the club.
We'll be following the protests with live updates from our reporters at the scene below ...
Wrap-up of the protest and stunning pictures
We've rounded up tonight's protest here.
And we've gathered together some fantastic images of the march below ...
Thanks for joining our coverage
Estimate of 10,000 fans in march
It was a huge crowd
Probably around 10,000 #mufc fans marching in protest at the Glazers pic.twitter.com/r3LaXP8Sky
— James Ducker (@TelegraphDucker) August 22, 2022
Chants continue in Munich Tunnel
Through the Munich Tunnel. Shutters down to protect the media entrance #mufc pic.twitter.com/4eZ97J29I1
— Steven Railston (@StevenRailston) August 22, 2022
A noisy arrival
#GlazersOut pic.twitter.com/UnGXyZV1pB
— Steven Railston (@StevenRailston) August 22, 2022
The scene outside Old Trafford
The United fans have arrived at Old Trafford @MENnewsdesk pic.twitter.com/kaT9GhH0Hi
— Stephen Topping (@stetopping) August 22, 2022
Video following the march to Old Trafford
Steven Railston has just been live on our Facebook page following the march on its way to Old Trafford - watch it here.
Huge crowd taking part
This probably gives the best view yet of the numbers taking part
— Fredrik A. Filtvedt (@FAFiltvedt) August 22, 2022
Old Trafford now in sight
The march is approaching the stadium
Turning the corner now with Old Trafford in sight. It’s some crowd #mufc pic.twitter.com/7v7yxlcJXr
— Steven Railston (@StevenRailston) August 22, 2022
Aerial view of the march
#GlazersOut #GlazersSellManUtd #MUFC pic.twitter.com/OxX8cGznid
— MUFC - Talks (@manunited_talks) August 22, 2022
'UNITED FOR $ALE' flag leads the march
“UNITED FOR SALE,” the banner reads with Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s face etched across #mufc pic.twitter.com/xWb6df8ixR
— Steven Railston (@StevenRailston) August 22, 2022
'The crowd is huge'
Steven's video captures the spectacle
We’re under way. The crowd is huge and goes way back - fantastic turnout #mufc pic.twitter.com/dZ5HzWkkXD
— Steven Railston (@StevenRailston) August 22, 2022
Live video from the march
Our man Stephen Topping is currently live streaming part of the march on the MEN Facebook page here.
Quite an image
The #mufc fans are marching their way to Old Trafford now, for this evening’s #GlazersOut protests.#MUNLIV #mulive pic.twitter.com/uTUfrfhCpw
— Noah Mcilroy (@NsmUnited) August 22, 2022
Protest march begins
The march is now leaving the Tollgate and heading for Old Trafford
Here we go… pic.twitter.com/ObY2hwqoFf
— Steven Railston (@StevenRailston) August 22, 2022
Talbot Road packed with protesters
This is the front of the march that's about to head off for Old Trafford
About half a mile from Old Trafford. Anti-Glazer protesters getting ready to march pic.twitter.com/mb4cCyguWQ
— Andy Hampson (@andyhampson) August 22, 2022
'Protest is stepping up a gear now'
Smoke billows over both sides of Talbot Road - both green and yellow, and red from flares. Fans are getting ready for the protest now @MENnewsdesk pic.twitter.com/NNLx6YafmZ
— Stephen Topping (@stetopping) August 22, 2022
Smoke billows as crowds increase ahead of march
The crowd is getting bigger on Talbot Road near the Tollgate
Smoke billows over both sides of Talbot Road - both green and yellow, and red from flares. Fans are getting ready for the protest now @MENnewsdesk pic.twitter.com/NNLx6YafmZ
— Stephen Topping (@stetopping) August 22, 2022
Big crowd now gathered
This gives you an idea of the crowd now gathered at the Tollgate - the march is due to start from here at 7pm:
Green and gold
There is green and gold to be seen outside Old Trafford - the colours of Newton Heath have long been associated with the anti-Glazer protests.
'Our owners keep taking and taking'
United fan Jamie's view of the Glazers:
Jamie, who has a season ticket in the Stretford End, wants the #GlazersOut pic.twitter.com/AE5ArWVBXe
— Steven Railston (@StevenRailston) August 22, 2022
Michael Knighton outside Old Trafford
Businessman Michael Knighton, who made headlines earlier this month after announcing his plan to take over the club - supported by a consortium - with a 'hostile bid' has been pictured outside Old Trafford tonight.
Knighton spoke with ITV News on Tuesday night and he admitted that he does not have sufficient resources to own United through his consortium. Instead, Knighton hinted his interview was to attract interest from Britain's richest man Sir Jim Ratcliffe.
Hundreds waiting outside Tollgate
Very rough count of a few hundred United fans outside the Tollgate and on both sides of Talbot Road, warming up their voices for later on. There’s a large flag at the pub which reads ‘We want our club back’. @MENnewsdesk pic.twitter.com/8yZNvcLtnw
— Stephen Topping (@stetopping) August 22, 2022
Fans gather at Trafford Bar
The atmosphere is building
I’m now near Trafford Bar, opposite the Tollgate pub where United fans have gathered ahead of tonight’s match, with banners and signs carrying messages against the Glazer ownership. @MENnewsdesk pic.twitter.com/zJCG3zaJ55
— Stephen Topping (@stetopping) August 22, 2022
Large police presence
There's a large police presence both outside the Tollgate and outside Old Trafford tonight.
Tollgate now 'very busy'
Tollgate is very busy now and there’s supporters outside the pub, ready to march to Old Trafford
'It's the end of the road for the Glazers'
United fan Joe tells us why he's protestng this evening:
Joe explains to me why he’s protesting today. Many fans will share his views #mufc pic.twitter.com/IrNmrRM3yz
— Steven Railston (@StevenRailston) August 22, 2022
Glazer song being aired
*That* sinister Joel Glazer chant heard for the first time this evening #mufc pic.twitter.com/5316xzYpFQ
— Steven Railston (@StevenRailston) August 22, 2022
'Good crowd' already at the Tollgate
Our reporter Steven Railston has arrived at the Tollgate where fans have been asked to gather ahead of the march, which starts at 7pm.
Have arrived at the Tollgate. Good crowd here, despite needing a match ticket to get in.
M.U.S.T: 'Let's stay United'
The Manchester United Supporters' Trust (MUST) have just posted a lengthy statement on Twitter ahead of tonight's protest in which they call for the 'right change' of ownership and for fans to 'stay United':
1/ This last week there has been much talk of share sales, possible bidders and continued protest. In response to speculation over the ownership MUST posted the statement below:
— M.U.S.T (@MU_ST) August 22, 2022
"Speculation is mounting about a potential change of ownership or new investors at Manchester United.
Ratcliffe gets £700m boost after making United wish
Failsworth-born Sir Jim Ratcliffe has seen a branch of his global chemical company, Ineos, record a three-fold profit after announcing his desire to buy Manchester United.
The newly-released figures come after Ratcliffe made public his wish to take over United from the Glazer family last week. | https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/manchester-united-fans-protest-recap-24823844 | 2022-08-22T19:38:23Z | https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/manchester-united-fans-protest-recap-24823844 | true | 1 |
Attorney: Florida school shooter was a ‘damaged person’
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — For Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz’s lead attorney, his Valentine’s Day 2018 massacre of 17 people didn’t begin when he stepped into a building at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and opened fire with his AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle.
Public defender Melisa McNeill told the jury during her opening statement in Cruz’s penalty trial Monday that while they learned in graphic and gruesome detail from prosecutors how he gunned down those 14 students and three staff members, her team’s job is tell them Cruz’s full story before they vote whether to sentence him to death or, as she hopes, life without parole.
She said nothing in that story will erase that the seven men, five women and 10 alternates have “seen things that will haunt us forever” or excuse what her 23-year-old client did. He pleaded guilty in October to 17 counts of first-degree murder and the trial will only decide his sentence.
“Everyone knows there is one person responsible for all that pain and all of that suffering, and that person is Nikolas Cruz,” she said.
But, she said, she hopes jurors will consider how Cruz was failed by his birth and adoptive mothers, Broward County school officials and others in the two decades leading up to the shooting, pointing out that the law “never requires you to vote for death,” not even “in the worst case imaginable, and it’s arguable that this is the worst case imaginable.”
McNeill deferred her opening statement from the trial’s first day of July 18 to the beginning of her team’s case. For Cruz to be sentenced to death, the jury must be unanimous — if even one juror votes for life, that will be his sentence.
Prosecutors concluded their case Aug. 4. There had been a two-week hiatus so some jurors could deal with personal issues and the lawyers with some legal ones.
The defense will be trying to overcome the horrendous evidence that was laid out by lead prosecutor Mike Satz and his team, capped by the jurors’ visit to the fenced-off building that Cruz stalked, firing about 150 shots down halls and into classrooms. The jurors saw dried blood on floors and walls, bullet holes in doors and windows and remnants of Valentine’s Day balloons, flowers and cards.
Prosecutors also presented graphic surveillance videos of the massacre; gruesome crime scene and autopsy photos from its aftermath; emotional testimony from teachers and students who witnessed others die; and four days of t earful and angry statements from parents, spouses and other family members about the victims and how their loved one’s death affected their lives. Jurors also watched video of Cruz calmly ordering a cherry and blue raspberry Icee minutes after the shooting and, nine months later, attacking a jail guard.
But McNeill said that was not the whole story. She said evidence will show that his late birth mother, Brenda Woodard, abused cocaine, alcohol and tobacco during her pregnancy, leaving him brain damaged.
The defense’s first witness, Carolyn Deakins, testified Monday that she and Woodard were Fort Lauderdale prostitutes together in the late 1990s and when they weren’t turning tricks, they were getting high on whatever they could get — crack cocaine, alcohol, marijuana — even when Woodard knew she was pregnant with Cruz.
Deakins said she tried to get Woodard to stop abusing drugs during her pregnancy, “but she didn’t care” since the baby was going up for adoption.
McNeill told the jury the adoptive family, Roger and Linda Cruz, were older — he was 62 and she was 48. But after several miscarriages and a failed adoption, Linda Cruz was desperate for a child and gladly took Nikolas, even though she likely knew about Woodard’s drug and alcohol use.
Linda Cruz wanted a perfect family, McNeill said, and when it became clear by age 2 that Nikolas was slow and different from other children, she refused to drop the facade. When her son was referred to a child psychiatrist when he was 3, she only took him to that doctor once — even though the doctor noted that he had severe issues.
At preschool, Cruz was terrified of other children, McNeill said, and a teacher placed a sheet over a table so he could go underneath it and have a private space where he felt safe. She later made him a box with cutouts he could go into.
But he couldn’t adapt. Pretending he was a tiger, he would bite, hit, kick and spit on other children, McNeill said.
Roger Cruz then died suddenly just before Nikolas entered kindergarten, leaving his mother overwhelmed and deeply in debt — problems that never went away and affected how she dealt with her son’s mental problems, McNeill said.
She refused to have him committed so she wouldn’t lose his Social Security check. She turned to law enforcement and child emergency counseling services to discipline Nikolas and his younger brother Zachary, whom the Cruzes also adopted, calling them to her home more than 50 times combined.
Still, she bought Cruz a BB gun, an air gun and, when he turned 18, his first firearm even though she was told not to by mental health experts. When she died four months before the Stoneman Douglas shooting, her family declined to take in Cruz and his brother, leaving them to fend for themselves.
And the schools failed Cruz, McNeill said, by removing him from structured programs where he had some stability and putting him into the normal chaos of middle school and high school, the kind of interactions he could not handle — even when he had to stop wearing a backpack and be escorted to classes by security guards after he was found with a knife on campus.
These are not excuses, McNeill said, but facts she asked the jury to consider.
“You have to make a decision about whether another human being lives or dies,” McNeill said. “They are part of Nikolas’ story and it’s my job to tell you that story.”
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Associated Press writer Freida Frisaro in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, contributed to this report.
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‘It’s so scary’: Ella was hospitalised after cosmetic surgery went horribly wrong
A series of disfigured patients has led to calls for a royal commission into the lucrative cosmetic surgery industry.
Ella Callis records it all. The bed she wakes up in, the sheets sodden with blood and fluids, how she becomes conscious mid-surgery and feels a long cannula being thrust in and out of her stomach. “It is scary,” she sobs into her phone camera.
Callis was having a Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL) and liposuction in five places, including her chin and abdomen, at a Cosmos Clinic in Melbourne on April 13, 2021. “I could feel them with the cannula ramming me.”
The cosmetic surgeon was Dr Reza Ahmadi, who 16 days later would perform a BBL on Keisha Amoah and accidentally liposuck her liver more than 17 times, leaving her in pain and with enduring nerve damage.
Ahmadi was contacted by this masthead but said his lawyers advised him not to comment.
For Callis the videos and photos became a diary of her cosmetic surgery ordeal. “I’m glad I have proof of how filthy and disgusting the bed was that I woke up in,” she says.
Within days of the procedure, she developed a foul-smelling infection in her groin. “It was like a dead animal … the same smell as when you walk past a dead animal.”
It then spread to her genitals, blowing her vulva to the size of an orange. Getting little help from the clinic, she took herself to the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, where she stayed for three days on intravenous antibiotics.
In the latest investigation by The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and 60 Minutes into the $1.4 billion cosmetic surgery industry, it can be revealed that in 2021 at least eight patients of Ahmadi ended up in hospital with serious infections.
Over the past 10 months, this masthead has received hundreds of emails and calls from patients of cosmetic surgeons who are living with disfigurement and pain.
This masthead’s June investigation was delayed by three weeks as founder Dr Joseph Ajaka rushed to court after receiving a series of questions ahead of publication. While the story was held up, two patients ended up in hospital in Sydney after serious infections post-surgery.
After the Court of Appeal threw out Ajaka’s claim and the story appeared, Cosmos threatened to sue for defamation but did not go through with the threat.
At the time of the June story Cosmos said in a statement that “patient safety informs everything that we do”.
In February this year Cosmos terminated Ahmadi’s employment.
“We are legally prevented from commenting on the circumstances surrounding the termination of the employment of Dr Ahmadi and his team as well as our role in having conditions placed on Dr Ahmadi’s registration,” Cosmos Clinic said in June in a press release. “We are sorry that this occurred and want to assure the public that we investigated and acted as soon as we became aware of the allegations against him.”
These are just a fraction of the failings in a poorly regulated sector that allows doctors with basic medical degrees who have completed weekend courses to call themselves cosmetic surgeons.
Oversight is so lax that many experts are calling for a complete rethink of the regulatory structure and a royal commission to expose the extent of the failings in an industry out of control.
An exposé into Daniel Lanzer’s network of clinics last October revealed a litany of safety and hygiene issues – then this masthead’s June investigation into Cosmos Clinics exposed questionable conduct at the country’s biggest cosmetic procedure network.
Raid revelations
Today, the casualties continue. Patients’ injuries come from big and small operators, who have been able to exploit gaping holes in the regulatory system to create a new kind of doctor-cum-entrepreneur, driven by profits and brand, not patients’ interests.
A list of up to 80 patients from Cosmos in Melbourne was presented to the Victorian Department of Health in March to investigate whether their 2021 surgeries were in breach of a public health order that banned cosmetic surgery during lockdown.
While the department took more than three months to raid Cosmos Melbourne after that complaint, it was much quicker to raid the workplace of esteemed plastic surgeon professor Mark Ashton’s Epworth Freemasons practice shortly after getting an anonymous tip following a promotion for a 60 Minutes exposé on the industry.
“The raid on my rooms shows that anyone who tries to take this industry on, be ready, they’re going to come after you. And they’ve come after me, they’ve come after you [the author], they come after us all because we’re shining a light onto a part of the industry they just don’t want to show,” he says.
This raid has raised a broader issue about the priorities of the regulators, and how effectively they are fulfilling their key role to keep patients safe.
The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) prides itself on being a risk-based regulator with a guiding principle of “minimum compliance and enforcement action appropriate to manage the risk posed, to protect the public”.
Social media experts Maddison Johnstone and Michael Fraser say this is basically saying the agency will do only the minimum. “This policy means doctors are being given the green light to advertise how they want as the benefits to their business outweigh the risks,” Johnstone says.
Many experts believe patients aren’t adequately protected. They argue it isn’t just cosmetic cowboys at fault but regulators that allow them to operate with virtual immunity.
Regulatory specialist Andy Schmulow describes AHPRA as a “broken and dysfunctional regulator, weak, feckless, suborned”.
“Once you have failed to adhere to your principles of priority, number one, patient welfare, I think that’s a fatal error,” he says.
Lawyer Margaret Faux, who is also a registered nurse and health regulation expert of 40 years, says the health system is an incoherent mess and describes AHPRA as pathetic.
“It’s not a question of them being asleep at the wheel, they’re nowhere near the car. They’re just nowhere,” she says.
Professor Allan Fels, the former head of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, a former hospital director and former chairman of the National Mental Health Commission, is also concerned.
“AHPRA is ineffective in protecting the public from very dangerous practices in cosmetic surgery … that’s not good enough for a regulator where public health is at risk,” he says.
One of AHPRA’s responsibilities is policing social media to ensure doctors don’t breach advertising rules or cross the line when it comes to marketing.
The agency’s chief executive, Martin Fletcher, fronted the Queensland parliament in June arguing in favour of lifting a ban on doctors using patient testimonials in advertising.
Cosmetic cowboys operate with little oversight
- Cosmetic surgery industry is worth $1.4b a year in Australia
- An estimated 500,000 cosmetic surgery procedures a year. There is a lack of official data.
- If you include laser surgery, injectables and non surgical fat reduction, Australians spend more than $6 billion a year
- Hundreds, and possibly thousands, of patients have been maimed, scarred and permanently damaged by botched surgeries. Again, there is no official data.
- 540 patients have joined a class action against Daniel Lanzer cosmetic surgery clinics
- 65 patients have contacted lawyers regarding a class action against Cosmos Clinics
- There is a confusing maze of regulators, state and federal
- Different states have different rules about what is safe
“Truth and honesty are at the heart of the relationship between a patient and their health practitioner,” Fletcher told parliament. “The proposed legislation will help uphold this core value.”
Johnstone and Fraser, who have been effectively doing AHPRA’s job over the past two years in policing more than 100 cosmetic surgeons’ social media posts, are devastated by the move.
“It’s already a billion-dollar industry, and I think that’s largely due to social media,” Johnstone says. “So by plugging testimonials, my fear is that it will really double the problems we’re seeing.”
Fraser points to the many cosmetic doctors already pushing the boundaries, citing one post by Cosmos of a man bleeding from his chest but saying he was happy with his surgery. There are also videos in which a surgeon shows a patient the results of their surgery while they are still on the operating table, possibly medicated and emotional, and they laugh or cry.
“It’s not a question of [AHPRA] being asleep at the wheel, they’re nowhere near the car.”
Margaret Faux, lawyer
The peak body for doctors, the Australian Medical Association, described AHPRA’s social media decision as bizarre. Former AMA president Dr Omar Khorshid said there were good reasons the current ban exists.
“It protects patients, in particular vulnerable patients, from false and misleading advertising,” Dr Khorshid says.
The Herald, The Age and 60 Minutes investigation has trawled thousands of leaked WhatsApp messages between doctors and nurses at the Daniel Lanzer network of cosmetic clinics, as well as social media accounts, many of which were deleted, and found more damning behaviour.
Social media sensation Dr Daniel Aronov performs surgeries in an unregistered facility in Sydney. Doctors including Aronov and Lanzer do major surgeries in registered day hospitals but use non-dedicated operating theatres such as side rooms and offices.
In a message to a nurse, Aronov says, “I told a patient to come at 6.15. I’m going to mark then leave for haircut 6.45 while you fill? And come back. Thanks.”
According to registered nurse Justin Nixon, who worked at the Lanzer clinics for two years, “fill” means to inject the patient with tumescent fluid. “So he’s leaving the premises while a patient in his care is being operated on.”
On message
In another message, in October 2020, Aronov tells nurses, “New blanket rule: I don’t want any scripts sent in my name for patients I’ve never met or aren’t the primary doctor. That means no scripts in my name for Brisbane or Sydney patients anymore.” It is illegal for nurses to write scripts.
In an audio message to staff, posted after a pharmacist calls to say she received a number of questionable scripts and was told “the nurses write the scripts”, Aronov says: “Do you guys realise that’s fraud. You are putting your own licence at risk.
“From now on there are some new rules.”
On November 29 last year, AHPRA banned Aronov from performing all types of cosmetic surgery and ordered him to remove any social media posts that related to surgery after this masthead’s investigation in October.
It allowed him to continue to work as a GP if overseen by an AHPRA-approved supervisor.
This decision came a month after “Cosmetic Cowboys” aired and 10 days after he performed a tummy tuck and liposuction on 42-year-old Tina Lombardo, who nearly died and is now the lead plaintiff in a class action against the Lanzer group. The morning after surgery Lombardo was rushed to ICU when her partner found her foaming at the mouth.
Her procedures, including a tummy tuck and liposuction of 5 litres of fat, cost her $30,000. But her subsequent treatment in hospital over 11 days cost the taxpayer at least $50,000.
A move by AHPRA to force Aronov to remove social media posts related to his surgeries was curious given it would impact the agency’s ability to monitor videos as part of its continuing investigation.
Johnstone and Fraser captured videos by Aronov doing a tummy tuck outside a dedicated operating theatre, and Lanzer and another doctor parading a patient dripping blood from her wounds after 4 litres of fat were removed in a side room.
Aronov appealed the agency’s decision to restrict his work, claiming direct supervision was tantamount to suspension and was draining him financially.
On June 30, the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) agreed with Aronov and wound back his restrictions. It means he no longer needs to be directly observed by a supervisor during patient consultations as a GP.
This was despite the judgment acknowledging AHPRA was still assessing several complaints including directing nurses to complete blank (signed) scripts, poor hygiene and control practices as well as post-operative complications.
Aronov said in an affidavit quoted in a VCAT appeal that in the past few months he had done some “serious introspection” and “personal growth” and completed a workshop into different approaches to communication by doctors and patients and where they clash.
One of his patients, Jackie M, is appalled by the decision. In December 2020, she underwent liposuction on her neck and the pain was excruciating. “I was crying in agony and he didn’t stop. And he just kept punching at the same place … I couldn’t get up and run away,” she says.
She says she was refused pain medication and ended up with nerve damage to her face, which has left her mouth and other parts of her body disfigured and lopsided. “I live daily with the discomfort. It feels like it has destroyed my confidence and my career prospects. Sometimes I feel like a monster.”
In May 2021– six months before Aronov operated on Lombardo – Jackie lodged a complaint with AHPRA asking the regulator to investigate. It has still not reported back.
“It’s really quite unbelievable that despite all the pain that’s been caused, all the victims, all the undeniable proof of wrongdoing, that AHPRA is still dragging its feet, still reluctant to acknowledge the severity of what these doctors have done,” she says.
“AHPRA has somehow decided that a doctor who has shown no respect for patients during cosmetic surgery, can still be trusted to act appropriately as a GP. It makes no sense.”
AHPRA oversees 15 boards, including the medical board, the state regulators and dozens of other public and private regulators.
States have different rules. In Victoria, it is illegal to take more than 250ml of fat in liposuction in an unregistered facility. In NSW and Queensland, it is up to 2.5 litres.
“When you’ve got two regulators that are basically both responsible for monitoring and prosecuting the same offence, neither will necessarily do it and some people will fall through the gaps, and that’s what’s happening,” Faux says.
Faux believes AHPRA is too lenient on doctors doing the wrong thing. She says Aronov should not be allowed to practise medicine. After watching some videos, including a series of surgeries in an unregistered facility in Pitt Street and a tummy tuck conducted outside a dedicated operating theatre in a day hospital, she was shocked he was still practising.
“So what you are seeing there is someone having their abdomen sliced hip to hip in what looks like an office. So that’s outrageous. And in my view that is a major departure from accepted professional standards,” she says.
“I can’t believe that that doctor is still practising medicine in any shape or form in this country, given what you have showed me. I cannot believe it.
“If that does not constitute professional misconduct, I don’t know what does. He’s slicing someone’s abdomen open in an office.”
Faux believes AHPRA also went easy on Dr Reza Ahmadi. “He liposucked someone’s liver multiple times. He was incompetent, working out of scope, unsafe, and yet, we allow him to continue to practise as a GP? What will it take before we say ‘we need to get these doctors off the street’?”
In April, AHPRA banned Ahmadi from doing cosmetic surgery but allowed him to work as a GP, which as regulatory specialist Andy Schmulow says, doesn’t make sense.
“But he is only a GP. Where is the punishment in restricting him from acting as a surgeon when he isn’t qualified as a surgeon? Where is the punishment for what he has already committed?”
One patient had a BBL and liposuction with Ahmadi in late April and ended up in hospital with sepsis. Ahmadi drove her to the hospital when she continued to lose blood. On arrival, she was given multiple blood transfusions and had a lengthy stay.
Another patient who had a BBL and liposuction in June 2021 developed cellulitis in her left knee. “It got to the point where I could not walk, had extreme fevers, extreme pain, weakness and confusion,” she says.
When the infection spread to her thigh she went to Box Hill Hospital where she stayed for several days.
A month later, in July, a patient had liposuction with Ahmadi and ended up in hospital with borderline septic shock. “It looked like a shiny, day hospital but it was anything but clean,” she says.
Professor Ashton reported Ahmadi to AHPRA in December 2021 in relation to his treatment of Keisha Amoah, including his failure to call an ambulance when she was crying out for one after he liposucked her liver.
In March, Cosmos head office also reported him and alerted the regulator to a number of cases of patient hospitalisation and surgeries during lockdown.
“The punishment delivered upon these people, who have hurt and maimed people, is so grossly inadequate. I can’t square that circle. I can’t make out how it’s allowed to continue,” Ashton says.
Call for a royal commission
In a bombshell move, shortly after Ashton appeared on 60 Minutes, the Victorian Department of Health raided him. “They had received an anonymous handwritten note alleging that I had been operating illegally during the lockdown of the most recent COVID period,” he says.
Months before the raid on Ashton, AHPRA and the Department of Health were alerted to serious problems at Cosmos in Melbourne. Yet they didn’t raid the clinic until two weeks after the 60 Minutes story – and eight days after Ashton.
Registered nurse Justin Nixon, who worked at the Lanzer clinics and first blew the whistle on the dark side of cosmetic surgery 10 months ago, is also astounded by the lack of action from regulators.
“Most of the regulators, I’ve had to call them up,” he says. Nixon says he had to organise some of the nurses at the Lanzer clinics to get in contact with AHPRA because they didn’t seem to be interested in doing it themselves. “It seems that they don’t want to pick up the phone.”
AHPRA’s CEO Martin Fletcher was invited to be interviewed on multiple occasions but declined.
Next month AHPRA will release the findings of an inquiry into cosmetic surgery, but the industry is concerned it will go the same way as other inquiries, a set of recommendations that gather dust in a drawer.
It has prompted calls for a royal commission. “We need an independent, objective inquiry into cosmetic surgery. I can’t see how any inquiry can achieve that unless it’s a royal commission,” Ashton says.
Fels also believes time is up. “There needs to be a serious royal commission or serious public inquiry into the whole situation, starting with the culture at AHPRA, also looking at the law, also at the buck-passing between federal and state regulation,” he says.
Patients such as Jackie M also believe it’s time for a change. “In Australia, you think you’re protected when you walk in the doors of any medical centre, including cosmetic surgeries,” she said. “What I learnt the hard way is that currently, you’re not. And AHPRA, up until now, has not been a voice or protector for the victims. It has enabled the perpetrators. That should be sufficient for all of us to say enough.”
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The Los Angeles Police Department is investigating a street takeover that led to a "flash mob" of people robbing a convenience store. The incident started on the night of Aug. 15 with a street take-over, where vehicles blocked an intersection on LA's south side.Watch surveillance video of the incident in the video player above. Police said drivers flooded the intersection from all directions to create a "pit" in the middle of the intersection. That enabled some drivers to cut donuts in the blocked-off street, leaving skid marks on the pavement.Then the mob rushed a nearby 7-Eleven and looted it, stealing lottery tickets and everything of value. Video surveillance from the store showed the looters fanning out across the store and grabbing merchandise. Police said the looters also vandalized the store and threw merchandise at employees.Before police could respond, the street was unblocked and the looters fled the scene.Police are asking the public if they recognize anyone to call Crimestoppers at 800-222-TIPS (800-222-8477).
The Los Angeles Police Department is investigating a street takeover that led to a "flash mob" of people robbing a convenience store.
The incident started on the night of Aug. 15 with a street take-over, where vehicles blocked an intersection on LA's south side.
Watch surveillance video of the incident in the video player above.
Police said drivers flooded the intersection from all directions to create a "pit" in the middle of the intersection.
That enabled some drivers to cut donuts in the blocked-off street, leaving skid marks on the pavement.
Then the mob rushed a nearby 7-Eleven and looted it, stealing lottery tickets and everything of value.
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Video surveillance from the store showed the looters fanning out across the store and grabbing merchandise.
Police said the looters also vandalized the store and threw merchandise at employees.
Before police could respond, the street was unblocked and the looters fled the scene.
Police are asking the public if they recognize anyone to call Crimestoppers at 800-222-TIPS (800-222-8477). | https://www.wdsu.com/article/los-angeles-convenient-store-ransacked-surveillance-video/40958514 | 2022-08-22T19:43:27Z | https://www.wdsu.com/article/los-angeles-convenient-store-ransacked-surveillance-video/40958514 | false | 11 |
ERWIN, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina couple has been charged with murder after the body of their baby was found buried in their backyard, police said.
Authorities in the town of Erwin said they’ve charged Dustin VanDyke, 28, and Gracie Riddle, 18, with first-degree murder, news outlets reported. The two appeared in court Monday and were ordered held without bond. They will be appointed public defenders.
Erwin has a population of about 4,500 people and is located about 42 miles (68 kilometers) south of Raleigh.
Police received a report Friday night that a baby had died and the death wasn't reported, Erwin Police Chief Jonathan Johnson said.
“I think this person just finally got to the point to where their conscience got to him and they decided they needed to talk about it and tell someone and that’s how we initially got the report,” Johnson said.
Police said they obtained a search warrant and with the help of a cadaver dog, they found the infant in the backyard. The death doesn’t appear to be accidental, but investigators are awaiting an autopsy for the cause of death, police said.
The baby was a newborn at the time of death and has been dead for several months, Johnson said. | https://www.thehour.com/news/article/Police-NC-couple-charged-after-baby-found-buried-17389998.php | 2022-08-22T19:44:17Z | https://www.thehour.com/news/article/Police-NC-couple-charged-after-baby-found-buried-17389998.php | false | 12 |
The Long Overdue Rain is Welcomed in East Texas Just Not the Damage
The prayers and/or rain dances have worked with some much needed sky water falling on East Texas. It has been a while since we've seen this amount of rain which has lead to a pretty big drought in the area. The problem with not getting rain in a while is some unexpected damage that comes along with it. Such has been the case in Winona, Texas today as a small tornado caused some damage in town.
Tornado in Winona
It was a little bit before 11 this morning (August 22) that a tornado warning had to be issued for the Winona and Hawkins areas of East Texas. KLTV 7 reported that authorities in Winona had visual conformation of a small tornado briefly on the ground. That small tornado did do some damage around the football field and did some damage to some homes, too.
Other Storm Damage in East Texas
West of Winona in Canton, there was no tornado damage, which Canton is all to familiar with, but there was some flood damage. A Tyler man driving by First Monday Trade Days got video of the area under water. The water didn't look deep but was high enough to get into the buildings. Get all the details on the story HERE.
There's a tree in my house right there.
You can hear that from a Winona resident who shared video to KLTV 7 of the storm damage inside her house.
Taking a Look at our Weather Forecast
The rain chances will continue today (August 22) but will diminish as we get further into the week. The rain has brought a relief in our temperatures, too, but as the rain chances decrease, the temperatures will increase this week but aren't expected to be extremely hot.
Thank you for the prayers for rain and keep those in East Texas who've suffered some damage from these storms in your prayers, too. | https://knue.com/east-texas-storm-damage-082222/ | 2022-08-22T19:45:13Z | https://knue.com/east-texas-storm-damage-082222/ | false | 1 |
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Lilium N.V. (NASDAQ: LILM) kicked off on August 19, 2022, at the price of $2.60, down -7.87% from the previous trading day. During the day, the shares moved up to $2.60 and dropped to $2.43 before settling in for the closing price of $2.67. Over the past 52 weeks, LILM has traded in a range of $2.16-$11.66.
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While this was happening, its average annual earnings per share was recorded -118.10%. With a float of $70.73 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $285.66 million.
In an organization with 964 employees, it is important to assess its efficiency. In terms of profitability, gross margin is -13702.13, operating margin of -616925.53, and the pretax margin is -871231.91.
Lilium N.V. (LILM) Insider Updates
Our next focus will be how large-scale investors are participating in this stock of the Aerospace & Defense Industry. The insider ownership of Lilium N.V. is 65.21%, while institutional ownership is 13.40%.
Lilium N.V. (LILM) Performance Highlights and Predictions
In the latest quarterly report, which was put into the public domain on 12/30/2021, the organization reported $1 earnings per share (EPS), higher than consensus estimate (set at -$0.16) by $1.16. This company achieved a net margin of -874544.68 while generating a return on equity of -246.30. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of -0.15 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -118.10% per share during the next fiscal year.
Lilium N.V. (NASDAQ: LILM) Trading Performance Indicators
Take a look at Lilium N.V.’s (LILM) current performance indicators. Last quarter, stock had a quick ratio of 4.90. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 16540.62.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is -1.45, a number that is poised to hit -0.15 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach -0.79 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Lilium N.V. (LILM)
Let’s dig in a bit further. During the last 5-days, its volume was 1.8 million. That was better than the volume of 1.59 million it reported in year-ago period. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 7.26%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.22.
During the past 100 days, Lilium N.V.’s (LILM) raw stochastic average was set at 6.42%, which indicates a significant increase from 3.66% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 97.00% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 107.29% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $2.70, while its 200-day Moving Average is $4.52. However, in the short run, Lilium N.V.’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $2.56. Second resistance stands at $2.67. The third major resistance level sits at $2.73. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $2.39, it is likely to go to the next support level at $2.33. Assuming the price breaks the second support level, the third support level stands at $2.22.
Lilium N.V. (NASDAQ: LILM) Key Stats
The company with the Market Capitalisation of 777.41 million has total of 285,283K Shares Outstanding. Its annual sales at the moment are 60 K in contrast with the sum of -486,290 K annual income. | https://newsdaemon.com/2022/08/22/7-54-volatility-in-lilium-n-v-lilm-last-month-this-is-a-red-flag-warning/ | 2022-08-22T19:46:43Z | https://newsdaemon.com/2022/08/22/7-54-volatility-in-lilium-n-v-lilm-last-month-this-is-a-red-flag-warning/ | false | 6580 |
Nicholas Company Inc. reduced its position in shares of Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE:MRK – Get Rating) by 0.1% during the 1st quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 713,657 shares of the company’s stock after selling 470 shares during the quarter. Merck & Co., Inc. accounts for approximately 1.0% of Nicholas Company Inc.’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 28th biggest holding. Nicholas Company Inc.’s holdings in Merck & Co., Inc. were worth $58,556,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.
Other institutional investors and hedge funds have also modified their holdings of the company. Landmark Wealth Management LLC bought a new position in Merck & Co., Inc. during the 1st quarter worth approximately $25,000. Joseph P. Lucia & Associates LLC bought a new stake in shares of Merck & Co., Inc. in the 1st quarter valued at $25,000. Financial Avengers Inc. increased its stake in shares of Merck & Co., Inc. by 115.8% in the 4th quarter. Financial Avengers Inc. now owns 328 shares of the company’s stock valued at $25,000 after acquiring an additional 176 shares in the last quarter. Front Row Advisors LLC increased its stake in shares of Merck & Co., Inc. by 89.4% in the 4th quarter. Front Row Advisors LLC now owns 339 shares of the company’s stock valued at $26,000 after acquiring an additional 160 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Okabena Investment Services Inc. bought a new stake in shares of Merck & Co., Inc. in the 4th quarter valued at $27,000. 72.88% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
Wall Street Analyst Weigh In
MRK has been the subject of several research analyst reports. UBS Group lifted their price objective on shares of Merck & Co., Inc. from $76.00 to $98.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a research note on Monday, July 18th. SVB Leerink reissued an “outperform” rating and issued a $102.00 price target on shares of Merck & Co., Inc. in a research report on Monday, June 6th. Atlantic Securities lifted their price target on shares of Merck & Co., Inc. from $105.00 to $110.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research report on Wednesday, July 13th. Mizuho started coverage on shares of Merck & Co., Inc. in a research report on Friday, June 24th. They issued a “buy” rating and a $100.00 price target for the company. Finally, Morgan Stanley lifted their price target on shares of Merck & Co., Inc. from $88.00 to $92.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a research report on Friday, July 29th. Eight equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, nine have issued a buy rating and two have issued a strong buy rating to the company. According to MarketBeat.com, the company has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $97.44.
Merck & Co., Inc. Price Performance
Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE:MRK – Get Rating) last issued its earnings results on Thursday, July 28th. The company reported $1.87 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.69 by $0.18. The company had revenue of $14.59 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $13.85 billion. Merck & Co., Inc. had a return on equity of 48.45% and a net margin of 29.00%. The firm’s quarterly revenue was up 28.0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the company earned $1.31 EPS. As a group, research analysts anticipate that Merck & Co., Inc. will post 7.32 EPS for the current year.
Merck & Co., Inc. Dividend Announcement
The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, October 7th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, September 15th will be paid a $0.69 dividend. This represents a $2.76 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 3.02%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, September 14th. Merck & Co., Inc.’s payout ratio is 42.27%.
Merck & Co., Inc. Profile
Merck & Co, Inc operates as a healthcare company worldwide. It operates through two segments, Pharmaceutical and Animal Health. The Pharmaceutical segment offers human health pharmaceutical products in the areas of oncology, hospital acute care, immunology, neuroscience, virology, cardiovascular, and diabetes, as well as vaccine products, such as preventive pediatric, adolescent, and adult vaccines.
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Microsoft just can’t stop itself from adding new “browser features” to Edge. Once a streamlined tool for browsing the web, Edge now even includes built-in loans. The latest feature is a sidebar designed to push Microsoft’s online services, including Bejeweled-style Match 3 games.
The sidebar is part of an Edge version 104 update released on August 19, 2022. I personally saw the sidebar enabled by default when I opened my Edge browser this morning. Experiences here at How-To Geek are mixed so far: Some of us see the sidebar enabled by default, while others don’t see it enabled by default.
Edge’s new sidebar has six different features: Search, Discover, Tools, Games, Microsoft Office, and Outlook. These are all designed to push you to Microsoft’s online services: The Search, Discover, and Tools features use Bing, Games takes you to MSN’s web-based games, Microsoft Office uses the Office Web Apps, and Outlook uses Outlook.com.
Games is perhaps the most unfortunate shortcut of all—not only is Microsoft placing a link to time-wasting casual games on everyone’s screens, but the games are web-based games. Yes, your PC might have the Microsoft Solitaire Collection installed already, but Edge would prefer you play it on MSN.com. (We’re not knocking casual games here, play them if you want—but do you really need a “Games” icon sitting on-screen next to every web page you view all day long?)
That’s it, by the way—you can’t add anything else to the sidebar on the right side of your browser window. There’s a “+” button that implies it might let you add additional tools, but it just lets you disable icons (at least you can disable the Games icon.)
Thankfully the sidebar is easy to disable. You can press Ctrl+Shift+/ , click the “Hide Sidebar” button at the bottom of the sidebar, or head to Settings > Appearance and toggle “Show Sidebar” off. (If you want to see the sidebar and it isn’t enabled in your browser automatically yet, you can press Ctrl+Shift+/ or use the option in Settings.)
The sidebar feels like yet another feature created to improve Microsoft’s metrics, not to help the people using Microsoft’s browser. I’m sure the team in charge of MSN Games is thrilled at the prime real estate it’s getting and how that will improve its user numbers. But ultimately, this is just more clutter in Edge that will push people away from Microsoft’s browser.
I still use Edge, and it’s getting so bad that it’s becoming entertaining. I already see an annoying icon whenever I mouse over an image on any web page, Edge wants to give me a loan, and now Microsoft wants me to play some Bejeweled clones.
What ridiculous feature will be part of Edge when I open Microsoft’s browser next month? I’m looking forward to finding out.
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota ethics board on Monday said it found sufficient information that Gov. Kristi Noem may have “engaged in misconduct” when she intervened in her daughter’s application for a real estate appraiser license, and it referred an investigation into her state airplane use to the state's attorney general.
The three retired judges on the Government Accountability Board determined that “appropriate action” could be taken against Noem for her role in her daughter's appraiser licensure, though it didn't specify the action.
The board’s moves potentially escalate the ramifications of investigations into Noem. The Republican governor faces reelection this year and has also positioned herself as an aspirant to the White House in 2024. She is under scrutiny from the board after Jason Ravnsborg, the state’s former Republican attorney general, filed complaints that stemmed from media reports on Noem’s actions in office. She has denied any wrongdoing.
After meeting in a closed-door session for one hour Monday, the board voted unanimously to invoke procedures calling for a contested case hearing that would give Noem, who has denied wrongdoing, a chance to publicly defend herself against the allegations related to “conflicts of interest” or “malfeasance.” The board also dismissed Ravnsborg's allegations that Noem misused state funds in the episode.
However, the retired judges left it unclear how they will proceed. Lori Wilbur, the board chair, said the complaint was “partially dismissed and partially closed,” but added that the complaint could be reopened. She declined to discuss what would cause the board to reopen the complaint.
The retired judges also referred a complaint that Noem flew on state-owned airplanes to political events to the state attorney general’s office for further investigation. That puts the investigation under the oversight of the interim attorney general, Mark Vargo, who was appointed by Noem.
The board handled the complaints only by case number and did not refer to Noem directly in either case. Ravnsborg provided the case numbers to The Associated Press.
“Knowing what I know as the complainant, Gov. Noem should be fully investigated for her abuse of power in getting her daughter an appraiser license, and Gov. Noem should be prosecuted for her criminal use of state resources for personal gain,” he said in a statement.
Noem and Ravnsborg have become political enemies since he fatally struck a pedestrian in 2020. Noem pushed hard for him to be removed from office, and the state Senate convicted him on impeachment charges and removed him as attorney general. He had continued to press the complaints as a private citizen.
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ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) — One woman was killed and three other people were injured during a shooting at a home near South Carolina State University, prompting a campus lockdown for a few hours overnight, authorities said Monday.
A 27-year-old woman from the Columbia suburb of Irmo was killed in the shooting late Sunday night, Orangeburg County Chief Deputy Coroner Sean Fogle said in a statement. The woman, Safiya Daniels, was not a student at the university.
Two other people had gunshot wounds and a fourth was found unresponsive and taken to the hospital, according to the police report obtained by The Times and Democrat of Orangeburg.
A college statement said one of the injured was hurt in a fall.
No arrests have been made.
Officers responding to a 911 at the Orangeburg house found “copious amounts of young people screaming," according to the police report.
Paramedics and police officers said several people on the scene argued or tried to resist emergency personnel, and that the officers could not obtain much information from witnesses.
On Monday, the university President Alexander Conyers reiterated pledges to bolster campus security.
South Carolina State University will continue a program to add six campus safety officers, who are not sworn police officers, to the school to protect students and monitor what is happening, Conyers said in a statement.
The university is also spending $1 million to install 700 cameras and 27 emergency call boxes as well as improve lighting across the Orangeburg campus, Conyers said. | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/Shooting-near-SC-State-campus-kills-1-more-17390114.php | 2022-08-22T19:57:59Z | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/Shooting-near-SC-State-campus-kills-1-more-17390114.php | false | 11 |
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Already shrunk by half, Swiss glaciers melting faster: Study
GENEVA: A new study has found that Switzerland's 1,400 glaciers lost half their total volume since the early 1930s, and researchers say the ice retreat is accelerating at a time of growing concerns about climate change.
ETH Zurich, a respected federal polytechnic university, and the Swiss Federal Institute on Forest, Snow and Landscape Research on Monday (Aug 22) announced the findings from a first-ever reconstruction of ice loss in Switzerland in the 20th century, based in part on an analysis of changes to the topography of glaciers since 1931.
The researchers found that ice volumes had shrunk by half over the subsequent 85 years - until 2016. Since then, the glaciers have lost an additional 12 per cent, over just six years.
“Glacier retreat is accelerating. Closely observing this phenomenon and quantifying its historical dimensions is important because it allows us to infer the glaciers’ responses to a changing climate,” said Daniel Farinotti, a co-author of the study, which was published in scientific journal The Cryosphere.
By area, Switzerland’s glaciers amount to about half of all the total in the European Alps.
The teams drew on a combination of long-term observations of glaciers; measurements in the field; and aerial and mountaintop photographs - including about 22,000 taken from peaks between the two world wars. By using multiple sources, the researchers could fill in gaps: Only a few of Switzerland's glaciers have been studied regularly over the years.
The research involved using decades-old techniques to allow for comparisons of the shape and position of images of terrain, and the use of cameras and instruments to measure angles of land areas. The teams compared surface topography of glaciers at different moments, allowing for calculations about the evolution in ice volumes.
Not all glaciers have been losing ice at the same rates, the researchers said. Altitude, amounts of debris on the glaciers, and the flatness of a glacier's “snout” - its lowest part, which is the most vulnerable to melting - all affect the speeds of retreat.
The researchers also found that two periods - in the 1920s and 1980s - actually experienced sporadic growth in glacier mass, but that was overshadowed by the broader trend of decline. | https://www.channelnewsasia.com/sustainability/already-shrunk-half-swiss-glaciers-melting-faster-study-2893166?cid=cna_flip_070214 | 2022-08-22T19:59:00Z | https://www.channelnewsasia.com/sustainability/already-shrunk-half-swiss-glaciers-melting-faster-study-2893166?cid=cna_flip_070214 | false | 35 |
Attorney: Florida school shooter was a ‘damaged person’
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — For Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz’s lead attorney, his Valentine’s Day 2018 massacre of 17 people didn’t begin when he stepped into a building at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and opened fire with his AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle.
Public defender Melisa McNeill told the jury during her opening statement in Cruz’s penalty trial Monday that while they learned in graphic and gruesome detail from prosecutors how he gunned down those 14 students and three staff members, her team’s job is tell them Cruz’s full story before they vote whether to sentence him to death or, as she hopes, life without parole.
She said nothing in that story will erase that the seven men, five women and 10 alternates have “seen things that will haunt us forever” or excuse what her 23-year-old client did. He pleaded guilty in October to 17 counts of first-degree murder and the trial will only decide his sentence.
“Everyone knows there is one person responsible for all that pain and all of that suffering, and that person is Nikolas Cruz,” she said.
But, she said, she hopes jurors will consider how Cruz was failed by his birth and adoptive mothers, Broward County school officials and others in the two decades leading up to the shooting, pointing out that the law “never requires you to vote for death,” not even “in the worst case imaginable, and it’s arguable that this is the worst case imaginable.”
McNeill deferred her opening statement from the trial’s first day of July 18 to the beginning of her team’s case. For Cruz to be sentenced to death, the jury must be unanimous — if even one juror votes for life, that will be his sentence.
Prosecutors concluded their case Aug. 4. There had been a two-week hiatus so some jurors could deal with personal issues and the lawyers with some legal ones.
The defense will be trying to overcome the horrendous evidence that was laid out by lead prosecutor Mike Satz and his team, capped by the jurors’ visit to the fenced-off building that Cruz stalked, firing about 150 shots down halls and into classrooms. The jurors saw dried blood on floors and walls, bullet holes in doors and windows and remnants of Valentine’s Day balloons, flowers and cards.
Prosecutors also presented graphic surveillance videos of the massacre; gruesome crime scene and autopsy photos from its aftermath; emotional testimony from teachers and students who witnessed others die; and four days of t earful and angry statements from parents, spouses and other family members about the victims and how their loved one’s death affected their lives. Jurors also watched video of Cruz calmly ordering a cherry and blue raspberry Icee minutes after the shooting and, nine months later, attacking a jail guard.
But McNeill said that was not the whole story. She said evidence will show that his late birth mother, Brenda Woodard, abused cocaine, alcohol and tobacco during her pregnancy, leaving him brain damaged.
The defense’s first witness, Carolyn Deakins, testified Monday that she and Woodard were Fort Lauderdale prostitutes together in the late 1990s and when they weren’t turning tricks, they were getting high on whatever they could get — crack cocaine, alcohol, marijuana — even when Woodard knew she was pregnant with Cruz.
Deakins said she tried to get Woodard to stop abusing drugs during her pregnancy, “but she didn’t care” since the baby was going up for adoption.
McNeill told the jury the adoptive family, Roger and Linda Cruz, were older — he was 62 and she was 48. But after several miscarriages and a failed adoption, Linda Cruz was desperate for a child and gladly took Nikolas, even though she likely knew about Woodard’s drug and alcohol use.
Linda Cruz wanted a perfect family, McNeill said, and when it became clear by age 2 that Nikolas was slow and different from other children, she refused to drop the facade. When her son was referred to a child psychiatrist when he was 3, she only took him to that doctor once — even though the doctor noted that he had severe issues.
At preschool, Cruz was terrified of other children, McNeill said, and a teacher placed a sheet over a table so he could go underneath it and have a private space where he felt safe. She later made him a box with cutouts he could go into.
But he couldn’t adapt. Pretending he was a tiger, he would bite, hit, kick and spit on other children, McNeill said.
Roger Cruz then died suddenly just before Nikolas entered kindergarten, leaving his mother overwhelmed and deeply in debt — problems that never went away and affected how she dealt with her son’s mental problems, McNeill said.
She refused to have him committed so she wouldn’t lose his Social Security check. She turned to law enforcement and child emergency counseling services to discipline Nikolas and his younger brother Zachary, whom the Cruzes also adopted, calling them to her home more than 50 times combined.
Still, she bought Cruz a BB gun, an air gun and, when he turned 18, his first firearm even though she was told not to by mental health experts. When she died four months before the Stoneman Douglas shooting, her family declined to take in Cruz and his brother, leaving them to fend for themselves.
And the schools failed Cruz, McNeill said, by removing him from structured programs where he had some stability and putting him into the normal chaos of middle school and high school, the kind of interactions he could not handle — even when he had to stop wearing a backpack and be escorted to classes by security guards after he was found with a knife on campus.
These are not excuses, McNeill said, but facts she asked the jury to consider.
“You have to make a decision about whether another human being lives or dies,” McNeill said. “They are part of Nikolas’ story and it’s my job to tell you that story.”
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Associated Press writer Freida Frisaro in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, contributed to this report.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Untapped, a company on a mission to make the world more equitable by broadening access to transformative careers, announced the release of its Early In Career Talent Sentiment Report. The insights uncovered will help companies attract Early In Career (EIC) talent, shape meaningful foundational employment experiences and develop magnetic employer branding that appeals to the Gen Z workforce.
Untapped surveyed nearly 800 EIC candidates as they considered the initial steps on their career path. Roughly half of the respondents were searching for an internship, while the other half were looking to land their first job. The research shows that, before and during their hunt for those foundational roles, candidates seek chances to network in order to learn about the company, assess the opportunity and confirm a meaningful self-to-employer connection. But they want to feel secure about how much of their identifying details and personal data they share throughout the process.
Internship seekers in the study are looking for inspiring employers with compelling brand reputations and a proven track record of corporate social responsibility. They also are hoping to gain communication skills and connections from potential internships. When it comes to essential first job features, those new to the hiring market heavily emphasized professional development, followed by company culture.
EIC talent indicated that aligning personal values with a company's mission is vital. A top value is a company's proven track record in diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.
Some data highlights from Untapped's Early In Career Talent Sentiment Report include:
- 66% of respondents would not accept a "dream" opportunity with a company with a poor DEI reputation
- 74% more candidates prefer to self-report their information than have their data inferred by AI
- 77% of interviewees mentioned the importance of community throughout the job searching process, noting communities are great for getting interview and process tips
- 70% survey participants would rather attend an event before applying for a role to gather information about the position and the company
"Our goal with conducting this research was to provide companies who seek to attract a diverse pipeline of EIC talent with helpful insights to shape meaningful career experiences, from the initial impression and beyond," explained Adam Gefkovicz, Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Untapped. "By better understanding EIC attitudes, companies can improve their talent strategy and outreach to candidates seeking out crucially-important foundational roles."
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Melinda French Gates Highlights 5 Women Inspiring Change in Their Communities in Rwanda and Senegal
The global advocate for women and girls shares the stories of some extraordinary women whose vision and ingenuity are creating new possibilities for their countries and industries.
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Like many of us, I’ve logged far more hours on videocalls the past two years than I would’ve cared to. In a normal year, I spend a significant amount of time traveling internationally for my work with the Gates Foundation. When the pandemic hit and travel ground to a halt, I really missed it.
In the more than two decades since the Gates Foundation opened its doors, I’ve learned that it’s much harder to gain a real understanding of global health and development if you never leave a conference room in Seattle. My best chance to be effective, I’ve found, is when I spend time hearing directly from the people who are experiencing the problems I’m working to help solve. It’s no surprise that the most insightful ideas often come from people with firsthand knowledge of the issues.
In June, I returned to Senegal and Rwanda, my first trip to Africa since the pandemic began. I met a number of extraordinary women—entrepreneurs, scientists, advocates, and healthcare leaders—whose vision and ingenuity are creating new possibilities for their countries and industries. Each of these women spoke of the barriers they’ve overcome to reach the position they’re in today. And many of them shared their hope that their example will make it easier for the women who come after them.
Here are some of the stories I carried home with me.
Binta Diao: Reclaiming Her Future—and Rewriting It for Others
When Binta Diao was 14 years old, her life took a sharp turn: She was forced to leave school and marry a man twice her age. But she didn’t let her story end there.
More than a decade later, an organization called Tostan came to her village in southern Senegal, and Binta was the first to sign up. In doing so, she began to reclaim her future.
Through Tostan, Binta learned that she had rights as a human being and as a woman. What’s more, she learned that her rights had been violated—both when she was forced into child marriage and when, in accordance with local tradition, she was subjected to genital cutting as a little girl. Binta put this knowledge into action and brought together women in her community to begin raising awareness about the harmful effects of these practices.
In addition to becoming an activist, Binta used her newfound confidence to start a small business selling vegetables and dairy products. Binta says that her entire view of herself changed once she began making her own money, and so did the way her community saw her. Not only were they impressed that she was earning an income, they saw how she used her money to improve the lives of her children. “Before, I was just an ordinary woman, nobody,” she said. “But then I became somebody.”
Today, Binta is the host of an educational radio program, which she uses to support other women in their quest to earn incomes of their own. She sometimes goes out into villages and asks women about the things they care about—like their challenges with their gardens or their peanut-selling businesses—and invites listeners to call in with advice and helpful tips.
Though Binta has no daughters, she does have a son. And she is proud that because of efforts by “ordinary” women like she once was, his daughter, now 12 years old, has never been cut.
Eden Gatesi: Bringing Expert Medical Care to Every Rwandan
Eden Gatesi, 21, is an undergraduate at Rwanda’s University of Global Health Equity, founded in 2015 to train a new generation of medical professionals to provide high-quality care to patients in even the most impoverished and remote areas.
Eden entered the medical field after experiencing the costs of Africa’s doctor shortage firsthand. Her mother, a nurse, has always worked long hours in an understaffed health center, with little time left for family. Eden’s high school friend Tabitha died of a heart condition that went undiagnosed, in part because of a lack of cardiac specialists. After learning there was only one cardiothoracic surgeon in all of Rwanda, Eden set her sights on becoming the second.
Eden always thought medical school would be about becoming a “genius nerd,” as she puts it—all books and memorization. But the founder of the University of Global Health Equity, global health pioneer Dr. Paul Farmer, helped her see something different: Medicine isn’t just about science. It’s about community.
Paul instilled in Eden and her classmates the importance of treating patients with dignity and connecting with them as people. He also taught them that there are no bounds to what women—who make up 70 percent of UGHE’s student body—can accomplish.
In February, Paul—a friend of mine—died suddenly, leaving a huge void for all of us who loved him. It’s a big responsibility, Eden told me, to pick up where Paul left off. But she and her classmates are deeply committed.
“In the future I am going to be the person who makes quality health accessible even to vulnerable communities,” Eden says, “and also to keep on inspiring younger generations, so that at the end of the day, it’s going to be a better world.”
Dr. Marie-Angelique Sene: Fighting Discrimination as an ‘Unapologetic’ Leader
Dr. Marie-Angelique Sene is used to being underestimated. At only 28 years old, she serves as the Head of the Microbiology and Analytical Development Lab at the Institut Pasteur de Dakar, a prestigious research facility in Senegal. But her path there wasn’t easy.
When she was 18 years old, she moved from her home in Dakar to study abroad in Paris. She had already faced gender discrimination growing up in Senegal, but now she was forced to contend with racial and ethnic discrimination as well. Her European colleagues joked that she was not “a typical African” and didn’t bother to hide their surprise that she’d graduated from an elite program.
After four years in Paris, she was almost ready to give up on her dreams of being a scientist. But her mother encouraged her to persevere. “Be grateful people are trying to break you,” she said. “It means you are doing something right.”
Now that she is back in Senegal, Dr. Sene consistently witnesses people underestimate Africa just as she herself was underestimated. “Innovating, developing, producing vaccines, launching satellites—everything that is being done in other countries, it can happen in Africa,” she said. “Sometimes I like to think about Africa as a startup, with different departments in health, in agriculture, in IT. And they are all working together to make Africa go from a startup to a Fortune 500 company.”
In addition to showing the world what Africa is capable of, Dr. Sene is passionate about helping women and girls realize their potential, once again offering words of wisdom her mother once shared with her: “You have to be unapologetic about your leadership.” Dr. Sene wants them to know that, by living out their own dreams, girls can grow up to inspire others, telling them: “Whatever you do, it will not be insignificant.”
Yaye Souadou Fall: Creating Jobs, Helping the Environment—One Recycled Tire at a Time
As a 20-year-old business student in Dakar, Yaye Souadou Fall knew she wouldn’t be able to find work when she graduated. The labor market in Senegal was just too grim. So instead of spending her energy looking for a job that didn’t exist, she and her classmate, Khady Diallo, decided to create their own.
Inspiration struck from the unlikeliest of places: the abandoned tires strewn around Dakar, marring the city’s landscape. The tires were more than just unsightly—they were breeding grounds for mosquitos that spread malaria, and they often ended up ablaze, exposing millions of people to toxic fumes.
In 2015, Yaye and Khady founded the country’s first and only tire-recycling company, E-cover. E-cover turns discarded truck tires into three major products: AstroTurf filler (specifically, the FIFA-certified crumb rubber used for soccer fields), tire chips that cement factories use as a lower-emission form of fuel, and metal rods that get melted down and used in construction.
Starting a company is rarely glamorous work, and Yaye’s experience was no different. In the early days, the two women worked in Yaye’s backyard, breaking down tires using a meat grinder and spoons. They entered competitions and applied for grants, eventually pulling in the funding they needed to get off the ground.
“We were often told that, ‘You are too young, you’re a woman, it’s too big,’” Yaye said. But eventually, they found an investor—the women-founded and women-led Women’s Investment Club—who saw the company’s potential and helped Yaye and Khady prove that these two young women were precisely the right people to bring their big idea to life.
Dr. Shivon Byamukama: Delivering Lifesaving Care Through Mobile Phones
Dr. Shivon Byamukama was working as an aviation attorney in 2017 when she learned about Babyl Rwanda. In a largely rural country where getting to a health clinic can be an insurmountable challenge, Babyl Rwanda is helping millions of people across the country connect to doctors and nurses through their phones.
At the time, Dr. Byamukama, now 43, had just finished a fellowship in the United States that got her excited about the speed at which technology was expanding possibilities. She knew right away just how transformative a company like Babyl could be—and she wanted to play a part. “Oh my goodness,” she recalls thinking. “I can contribute to the future of how health care is going to be consumed.’”
So Dr. Byamukama made a career pivot and became Babyl’s managing director. Today, she leads 650 employees in delivering health care via mobile phone to 3,000 Rwandans each day. That’s 3,000 people who can talk with a doctor or nurse without trekking to a village health clinic. Who wait on average 14 minutes for an appointment rather than lining up for hours. Who can describe the symptoms of a sexually transmitted infection to an anonymous, nonjudgmental professional instead of a community health worker who might also be their neighbor.
More than half of Babyl’s senior leaders are women, something Dr. Byamukama believes is simply common sense. “In Rwanda, women are the caretakers of their families; they are the primary users of health care,” she says. “So they should be at the forefront of finding solutions.”
Melinda French Gates is a philanthropist, businesswoman, and global advocate for women and girls.
As the co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Melinda sets the direction and priorities of one of the world’s largest philanthropies. In 2015, Melinda founded Pivotal Ventures, a company working to accelerate the pace of social progress in the United States. Melinda is also the author of the bestselling book The Moment of Lift.
Melinda grew up in Dallas, Texas. She received a bachelor’s degree in computer science and economics and an MBA, both from Duke University. Melinda spent the first decade of her career developing multimedia products at Microsoft before leaving the company to focus on her family and philanthropic work. She has three children—Jenn, Rory, and Phoebe—and lives in Seattle, Washington.
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Atlanta police: 3 shot in Midtown neighborhood; residents advised to stay off streets
Published: Aug. 22, 2022 at 3:47 PM EDT|Updated: 19 minutes ago
ATLANTA (WGCL/Gray News) - Police are on the scene of an “active situation” in Midtown Atlanta after a report that three people had been shot Monday.
The shooter is not in custody at this time, police said on Twitter. They advised people to stay off the streets in that area as officers search.
Officials will provide an update when available, police said.
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Celebrity chef line up – this is who’s cooking at Malton Food Festival
Yorkshire’s foodie Glastonbury is back for a second helping this August Bank Holiday weekend.
The Malton Food Lovers Festival offers three days packed full of foodie fun, amazing entertainment and a star-studded roster of local chefs on Saturday August 27, Sunday August 28 and Monday August 29.
The festival is free to enter and includes demonstrations and ‘sofa chats’ on the main stage as well as more than120 food stalls.
Headlining this summer’s event is Michelin-starred chef Tommy Banks. Born and raised in Yorkshire, local lad Tommy will be taking to the Yorkshire Baker main stage on the Saturday.
He will be sharing his expertise and demonstrating some of his culinary creations from the Black Swan at Oldstead and Roots, York.
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Plus, Tommy will be signing copies of his debut cookbook Roots outside Kemps General Store.
Joining Tommy Banks on this summer’s line up are Angelica and Crafthouse head chef Simon Jewitt and 2019 Great British Bake-Off winner and author David Atherton, who will both be serving up some seriously tasty treats on stage on Sunday August 28.
Highlights on Monday August 29n includes the Jono Hawthorn as seen on BBC MasterChef: The Professionals 2020, who will be giving festival goers a taste of what he cooks up at his Leeds-based fine dining restaurant Chef Jono at V&V.
Visitors can also expect to hear from local chefs, bakers and producers from the Malton area with familiar faces such as Jon Appleby from the Feversham Arms, Peter Garlick, head chef at the Talbot Hotel and Gilly Robinson, pioneer of Malton’s cookery school The Cook’s Place.
Also making a comeback as the official sponsors of the Malton Food Lovers Festival main stage is award-winning bakery, Yorkshire Baker.
Tommy Banks, said: "“The festival is going to be epic. I can’t wait to welcome you all, get cooking and showcase all that our region has to offer.”
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An eighth-grade student in Massachusetts was written up for wearing a hijab at school.
A family member of the student posted a picture of the letter on social media. It says if the infraction is not addressed, the student will lose recess and will not be allowed to participate in other school activities.
According to The Associated Press, Mystic Valley Regional Charter School said it allows students to wear religious attire but asks that they provide a letter from their clergy.
The school superintendent reportedly said that the letter was meant to start a conversation with the family about obtaining the letter. He acknowledged, however, that the situation was mishandled, according to The Associated Press.
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Lowe’s opens its tech hub in Charlotte’s South End
CHARLOTTE — Lowe’s Tech Hub is officially open for business in South End.
Lowe’s Cos. Inc. CEO Marvin Ellison says over 1,000 employees began working at the tech hub this month. A ribbon-cutting event will be held in October.
“We’re up and going and excited about getting this thing fully functional. The pandemic slowed us down,” he says.
Mooresville-based Lowe’s first announced it would anchor that 23-story tower in 2019. It is leasing 357,000 square feet at 100 W. Worthington Ave. At the time, Lowe’s said it planned to invest $153 million and house up to 2,000 tech employees there.
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Jesse Marsch's left-back revelation shines light on likelihood of further Leeds United transfers
Leeds United head coach Jesse Marsch appeared to suggest he was happy with the options at his disposal prior to Sunday’s win over Chelsea
Leeds United’s summer transfer business has largely been a successful endeavour. The Whites have added several first-team players, many of whom have already endeared themselves to the Elland Road support in the opening three matches of the season.
Brenden Aaronson and Tyler Adams in particular have hit the ground running in Leeds United white, while there is an expectation the best is yet to come from fellow summer additions Marc Roca and Rasmus Kristensen.
Throughout the transfer window, Leeds supporters have clamoured for additions at left-back and centre-forward.
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Jesse Marsch shared his thoughts on the matter last week, stating that he would ideally like to add another attacking player, but was full of praise for stand-in left-back Pascal Struijk.
“We've worked really well as a team and Andrea [Radrizzani] has tried to support everything that we've tried to accomplish from a transfer perspective. And certainly Victor [Orta] is working tirelessly with Andrea behind the scenes to achieve some of our goals,” Marsch said.
"I think Pascal is doing great [at left-back]. I think Junior’s ready and he's looked really strong even in rehab training. I think Leo played really well, Leo Hjelde played really well in the 21s game. And so currently I feel strong in that position.
"Maybe at the beginning of when Junior got hurt, we weren't sure, but we wanted to look a little at least [at Leif] Davis, we wanted to look a little at Pascal, we wanted to look a little at Leo. And right now I feel like we've covered that position really well,” the American added.
By Marsch’s own admission, he feels ‘strong’ in that position indicating Leeds’ transfer priorities may lie elsewhere in the closing weeks of the window.
"I still feel to balance our squad effectively, it would be helpful [to add a striker],” Marsch said on the hunt for an additional centre-forward. “But we need the right guy,” the head coach added.
Leeds have spent in the region of £100 million this summer on first-team and Under-21 additions, whilst also recouping a similar sum from the sales of Raphinha and Kalvin Phillips. | https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/sport/football/leeds-united/jesse-marschs-left-back-revelation-shines-light-on-likelihood-of-further-leeds-united-transfers-3814779 | 2022-08-22T20:13:53Z | https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/sport/football/leeds-united/jesse-marschs-left-back-revelation-shines-light-on-likelihood-of-further-leeds-united-transfers-3814779 | false | 1 |
Attorney: Florida school shooter was a ‘damaged person’
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — For Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz’s lead attorney, his Valentine’s Day 2018 massacre of 17 people didn’t begin when he stepped into a building at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and opened fire with his AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle.
Public defender Melisa McNeill told the jury during her opening statement in Cruz’s penalty trial Monday that while they learned in graphic and gruesome detail from prosecutors how he gunned down those 14 students and three staff members, her team’s job is tell them Cruz’s full story before they vote whether to sentence him to death or, as she hopes, life without parole.
She said nothing in that story will erase that the seven men, five women and 10 alternates have “seen things that will haunt us forever” or excuse what her 23-year-old client did. He pleaded guilty in October to 17 counts of first-degree murder and the trial will only decide his sentence.
“Everyone knows there is one person responsible for all that pain and all of that suffering, and that person is Nikolas Cruz,” she said.
But, she said, she hopes jurors will consider how Cruz was failed by his birth and adoptive mothers, Broward County school officials and others in the two decades leading up to the shooting, pointing out that the law “never requires you to vote for death,” not even “in the worst case imaginable, and it’s arguable that this is the worst case imaginable.”
McNeill deferred her opening statement from the trial’s first day of July 18 to the beginning of her team’s case. For Cruz to be sentenced to death, the jury must be unanimous — if even one juror votes for life, that will be his sentence.
Prosecutors concluded their case Aug. 4. There had been a two-week hiatus so some jurors could deal with personal issues and the lawyers with some legal ones.
The defense will be trying to overcome the horrendous evidence that was laid out by lead prosecutor Mike Satz and his team, capped by the jurors’ visit to the fenced-off building that Cruz stalked, firing about 150 shots down halls and into classrooms. The jurors saw dried blood on floors and walls, bullet holes in doors and windows and remnants of Valentine’s Day balloons, flowers and cards.
Prosecutors also presented graphic surveillance videos of the massacre; gruesome crime scene and autopsy photos from its aftermath; emotional testimony from teachers and students who witnessed others die; and four days of t earful and angry statements from parents, spouses and other family members about the victims and how their loved one’s death affected their lives. Jurors also watched video of Cruz calmly ordering a cherry and blue raspberry Icee minutes after the shooting and, nine months later, attacking a jail guard.
But McNeill said that was not the whole story. She said evidence will show that his late birth mother, Brenda Woodard, abused cocaine, alcohol and tobacco during her pregnancy, leaving him brain damaged.
The defense’s first witness, Carolyn Deakins, testified Monday that she and Woodard were Fort Lauderdale prostitutes together in the late 1990s and when they weren’t turning tricks, they were getting high on whatever they could get — crack cocaine, alcohol, marijuana — even when Woodard knew she was pregnant with Cruz.
Deakins said she tried to get Woodard to stop abusing drugs during her pregnancy, “but she didn’t care” since the baby was going up for adoption.
McNeill told the jury the adoptive family, Roger and Linda Cruz, were older — he was 62 and she was 48. But after several miscarriages and a failed adoption, Linda Cruz was desperate for a child and gladly took Nikolas, even though she likely knew about Woodard’s drug and alcohol use.
Linda Cruz wanted a perfect family, McNeill said, and when it became clear by age 2 that Nikolas was slow and different from other children, she refused to drop the facade. When her son was referred to a child psychiatrist when he was 3, she only took him to that doctor once — even though the doctor noted that he had severe issues.
At preschool, Cruz was terrified of other children, McNeill said, and a teacher placed a sheet over a table so he could go underneath it and have a private space where he felt safe. She later made him a box with cutouts he could go into.
But he couldn’t adapt. Pretending he was a tiger, he would bite, hit, kick and spit on other children, McNeill said.
Roger Cruz then died suddenly just before Nikolas entered kindergarten, leaving his mother overwhelmed and deeply in debt — problems that never went away and affected how she dealt with her son’s mental problems, McNeill said.
She refused to have him committed so she wouldn’t lose his Social Security check. She turned to law enforcement and child emergency counseling services to discipline Nikolas and his younger brother Zachary, whom the Cruzes also adopted, calling them to her home more than 50 times combined.
Still, she bought Cruz a BB gun, an air gun and, when he turned 18, his first firearm even though she was told not to by mental health experts. When she died four months before the Stoneman Douglas shooting, her family declined to take in Cruz and his brother, leaving them to fend for themselves.
And the schools failed Cruz, McNeill said, by removing him from structured programs where he had some stability and putting him into the normal chaos of middle school and high school, the kind of interactions he could not handle — even when he had to stop wearing a backpack and be escorted to classes by security guards after he was found with a knife on campus.
These are not excuses, McNeill said, but facts she asked the jury to consider.
“You have to make a decision about whether another human being lives or dies,” McNeill said. “They are part of Nikolas’ story and it’s my job to tell you that story.”
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Associated Press writer Freida Frisaro in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, contributed to this report.
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TRUCKEE, Calif. (NewsNation) — Police said Monday they believe a body found by a dive team in a California lake is that of Kiely Rodni.
During a news conference, authorities said a positive identification has not been made and the investigation is still ongoing.
The 16-year-old vanished on Aug. 6 after attending a “senior send-off” party north of Lake Tahoe in northern California, near the Prosser Family Campground in Truckee.
The dive team, Adventures with Purpose, said a car with Rodni’s body inside was found upside down in 14 feet of water in Prosser Lake, only a few hundred yards away from the campground. Police have not confirmed if Rodni’s body has been located. The Nevada County Sheriff’s Office said it was contacted by the dive team and is investigating along with the Placer County Sheriff’s Office, FBI and allied agencies.
The Placer County Sheriff’s Office and nearly a dozen other law enforcement agencies searched the Tahoe National Forest for the recent graduate and her 2013 silver Honda CRV. The investigators also combed through hundreds of tips since an estimated 200+ teenagers and young adults went to the senior bash. They scaled back their search efforts Monday.
“To date, we’ve had something like 9,000 man hours … which is astronomical,” Nevada County Sheriff’s Office Capt. Sam Brown said at the time.
In a previous interview with NewsNation, Rodni’s mother, Lindsey Rodni-Nieman, described her daughter as a special and dynamic woman who loves playing music, science, baking and dancing.
“There doesn’t seem to be anybody ever who I come across who doesn’t just love her,” her mother said. “She was so smart. She’s so funny. She’s great with little kids. I could go on and on about everything.”
Rodni-Nieman also reflected on the last text she received from her daughter.
“It was 11:30 at night and she said that she was going to be planning on leaving about 12:15 and coming home and I told her to be careful and wake me up when she got home and she said, ‘OK, Mom. I love you.’”
Rodni-Nieman said she has no reason to doubt that her daughter sent the text message and that it’s a message she had received over and over again from her.
“She was always checking. She was always letting me know where she was, when she was leaving, where she was going next,” she said in the Aug. 11 interview.
Rodni-Nieman said she woke up at around 8 a.m. Aug. 6 and realized her daughter had not woken her up when she got home.
“I got up and looked at the driveway and her car wasn’t there. I looked at her room and she wasn’t there. I grabbed my phone and I looked for her location that she always shared with me and the last update it had was from the party site at about midnight,” she said.
From there, Rodni-Nieman reached out to Kiely’s good friend to see if she was there. Once she found out she was not with her friend, panic set in.
As for Kiely’s father, Daniel Rodni says the last couple of weeks have been absolute agony.
“Every day is a roller coaster. Emotions are out of control,” he said.
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Judge Officially Rejects DOJ's Plea to Keep Trump Affidavit Sealed, Citing 'Intense Public and Historical Interest'
The legal controversy over the documents connected to the FBI raid at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home is ongoing. But a judge has announced that “intense public and historical interest” in the FBI affidavit that backed the warrant to search Trump’s home justifies unsealing parts of the affidavit.
Previously, the Department of Justice told the federal judge that releasing the affidavit would jeopardize an ongoing investigation, The Hill reported.
However, U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart in Florida issued a written order on Monday that affirmed his findings from a hearing last week that the DOJ had not made a sufficient case to keep the affidavit totally sealed, Bloomberg reported.
Reinhart was the judge who initially approved the search warrant for Trump’s home, but he rejected the DOJ’s arguments to keep the affidavit sealed entirely.
Specifically, he rejected the argument that the process of proposing redactions to the affidavit prior to releasing it would take too much time, Bloomberg reported.
“Particularly given the intense public and historical interest in an unprecedented search of a former President’s residence, the Government has not yet shown that these administrative concerns are sufficient to justify sealing,” the judge wrote in his decision.
“I therefore reject the Government’s argument that the present record justifies keeping the entire Affidavit under seal. In its Response, the Government asked that I give it an opportunity to propose redactions if I declined to seal the entire Affidavit. I granted that request and gave the Government a deadline of noon on Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022,” Reinhart added.
While Reinhart’s decision goes against the DOJ’s requests to keep the document sealed, this move favors the request from several media companies to unseal the affidavit.
CNN, the Washington Post, NBC News and Scripps filed a request for documents connected to the FBI’s search at Trump’s home to be unsealed, CNN reported.
The media outlets asked the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida to entirely unseal the record filed with the court, which included the affidavit filed to support the search warrant.
“Before the events of this week, not since the Nixon Administration had the federal government wielded its power to seize records from a former President in such a public fashion,” the media outlets’ filing read.
“Because of the historic importance of these events” the numerous media companies wanted the entirety of the affidavit unsealed.
But while Reinhart’s decision goes against the DOJ’s request for the documents to remain sealed, it also did not fully grant the request from the media outlets since the judge is allowing the government to redact parts of the document.
Reinhart did expand upon his reason for not fully unsealing the affidavit, though.
He cited the need to protect the identities of agents and witnesses as part of the reason for not completely unsealing the document, unredacted.
“Given the public notoriety and controversy about this search, it is likely that even witnesses who are not expressly named in the Affidavit would be quickly and broadly identified over social media and other communication channels, which could lead to them being harassed and intimidated,” Reinhart’s decision outlined.
Trump himself, though, has also publicly announced that he would like the documents and affidavit unsealed.
“[I]n the interest of TRANSPARENCY, I call for the immediate release of the completely Unredacted Affidavit pertaining to this horrible and shocking BREAK-IN,” Trump posted on Truth Social on Monday.
Reinhart added in his decision that there is still a lot of speculation surrounding the raid, documents and events that the government has yet to confirm.
“Much of the information being discussed is based on anonymous sources, speculation or hearsay; the government has not confirmed its accuracy,” Reinhart wrote.
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SEATTLE, Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CTI BioPharma Corp. (NASDAQ: CTIC) today announced that an authorized subcommittee of the Compensation Committee of its Board of Directors granted equity awards to two new employees as equity inducement awards outside of the Company's Amended and Restated 2017 Equity Incentive Plan (but under the terms of the Amended and Restated 2017 Equity Incentive Plan) and material to the employees' acceptance of employment with the company. The equity awards were approved on August 22, 2022, in accordance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4).
The employees received options to purchase an aggregate of 40,000 shares of CTI BioPharma common stock. The options will be issued upon each employee's grant date (the "Grant Date"), and all stock options included within the equity inducement awards will have an exercise price equal to the closing price of CTI BioPharma common stock on each respective Grant Date. One-fourth of the options will vest on each anniversary of the employee's Grant Date, subject to the employee's continued employment with CTI BioPharma on such vesting dates. The options have a ten-year term.
We are a commercial biopharmaceutical company focused on the acquisition, development and commercialization of novel targeted therapies for blood-related cancers that offer a unique benefit to patients and their healthcare providers. CTI has one FDA-approved product, VONJO® (pacritinib), a JAK2 and IRAK1 inhibitor, that spares JAK1. VONJO is approved for the treatment of adults with intermediate- or high-risk primary or secondary (post-polycythemia vera or post-essential thrombocythemia) myelofibrosis with a platelet count below 50 × 109/L. This indication is approved under FDA accelerated approval based on spleen volume reduction. Continued approval for this indication may be contingent upon verification and description of clinical benefit in a confirmatory trial(s). CTI is conducting the Phase 3 PACIFICA study of VONJO in patients with myelofibrosis and severe thrombocytopenia as a post-marketing requirement.
VONJO® is a registered trademark of CTI BioPharma Corp.
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Spartan Stores (SPTN) Moves to Buy: Rationale Behind the Upgrade
Spartan Stores (SPTN) could be a solid choice for investors given its recent upgrade to a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy). This upgrade is essentially a reflection of an upward trend in earnings estimates -- one of the most powerful forces impacting stock prices.
The Zacks rating relies solely on a company's changing earnings picture. It tracks EPS estimates for the current and following years from the sell-side analysts covering the stock through a consensus measure -- the Zacks Consensus Estimate.
The power of a changing earnings picture in determining near-term stock price movements makes the Zacks rating system highly useful for individual investors, since it can be difficult to make decisions based on rating upgrades by Wall Street analysts. These are mostly driven by subjective factors that are hard to see and measure in real time.
As such, the Zacks rating upgrade for Spartan Stores is essentially a positive comment on its earnings outlook that could have a favorable impact on its stock price.
Most Powerful Force Impacting Stock Prices
The change in a company's future earnings potential, as reflected in earnings estimate revisions, and the near-term price movement of its stock are proven to be strongly correlated. That's partly because of the influence of institutional investors that use earnings and earnings estimates for calculating the fair value of a company's shares. An increase or decrease in earnings estimates in their valuation models simply results in higher or lower fair value for a stock, and institutional investors typically buy or sell it. Their bulk investment action then leads to price movement for the stock.
Fundamentally speaking, rising earnings estimates and the consequent rating upgrade for Spartan Stores imply an improvement in the company's underlying business. Investors should show their appreciation for this improving business trend by pushing the stock higher.
Harnessing the Power of Earnings Estimate Revisions
Empirical research shows a strong correlation between trends in earnings estimate revisions and near-term stock movements, so it could be truly rewarding if such revisions are tracked for making an investment decision. Here is where the tried-and-tested Zacks Rank stock-rating system plays an important role, as it effectively harnesses the power of earnings estimate revisions.
The Zacks Rank stock-rating system, which uses four factors related to earnings estimates to classify stocks into five groups, ranging from Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy) to Zacks Rank #5 (Strong Sell), has an impressive externally-audited track record, with Zacks Rank #1 stocks generating an average annual return of +25% since 1988. You can see the complete list of today's Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here >>>>.
Earnings Estimate Revisions for Spartan Stores
This grocery store operator and grocery distributor is expected to earn $2.32 per share for the fiscal year ending December 2022, which represents a year-over-year change of 36.5%.
Analysts have been steadily raising their estimates for Spartan Stores. Over the past three months, the Zacks Consensus Estimate for the company has increased 6.7%.
Bottom Line
Unlike the overly optimistic Wall Street analysts whose rating systems tend to be weighted toward favorable recommendations, the Zacks rating system maintains an equal proportion of 'buy' and 'sell' ratings for its entire universe of more than 4000 stocks at any point in time. Irrespective of market conditions, only the top 5% of the Zacks-covered stocks get a 'Strong Buy' rating and the next 15% get a 'Buy' rating. So, the placement of a stock in the top 20% of the Zacks-covered stocks indicates its superior earnings estimate revision feature, making it a solid candidate for producing market-beating returns in the near term.
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The upgrade of Spartan Stores to a Zacks Rank #2 positions it in the top 20% of the Zacks-covered stocks in terms of estimate revisions, implying that the stock might move higher in the near term.
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A New York man is celebrating after he claimed a $10 million scratch-off lottery prize.
Wayne Murray, of Brooklyn, claimed a top prize from New York Lottery's $10,000,000 Black Titanium game, the lottery announced on Monday, Aug. 22.
“It feels very humbling and liberating,” he told NY Lottery after claiming his prize.
Murray received his prize as a single, lump-sum payment of $6,122,400 after required withholdings, the lottery said.
The winning ticket was purchased at H & A Gas & Convenience located at 4102 Ave. H in Brooklyn, the lottery announced.
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Bed Bath & Beyond’s stock continued its roller-coaster ride on Monday, falling 15% amid a broader selloff in meme stocks and concerns about the company’s future.
Shares of the troubled retailer, which has been wrestling with inventory struggles and dwindling sales, skyrocketed recently, driven by the Wall Street Bets crowd on Reddit. The company’s stock, which has fallen 35.7% this year, has risen 85.9% in the last month.
Shares of fellow meme stock GameStop Corp.
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“The outlook for BBBY is worsening, with the potential for a significant restructuring,” wrote Wedbush analyst Seth Basham, in a note released on Monday.
Cash also remains a worry. “If the company does not secure adequate financing to appease its vendor base, it might have not appropriate inventory for the key holiday period, leading to a fast downward spiral and creating bankruptcy risk,” he added. “Even so, we expect cash burn to remain high over the next two quarters until inventory becomes a source of cash in F4Q.”
“Bed Bath & Beyond appears to be a horror story,” Wes Gottesman, market adviser at TradeZing, told MarketWatch, pointing to Cohen’s move and the recent ouster of CEO Mark Tritton. “Bed Bath & Beyond hired and fired CEO Mark Tritton in the span of 3 years, which goes to show that leadership has been notably poor.”
“Consumers prefer to shop at Target, a leading competitor, over Bed Bath & Beyond,” Gottesman added. “Overall, it is a poorly run business with a struggling balance sheet.”
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(From left to right) Command Sgt. Maj. Phil Barretto, Lt. Gen. John Evans, Roy W. Burley, Jr., Nan Burley Richie, and Dr. Adena Loston, stand with the dedication plaque and oak tree during the St. Philip’s College Col. Burley Oak Tree Dedication Ceremony, held on the St. Philip’s College’s campus, August 18, 2022. The 100-plus-year-old oak tree is part of the Burley homestead of the late retired U.S. Army Col. Roy W. Burley, Sr., for many generations. The tree now resides on the college campus with a plaque to share with future generations the legacy of “The Colonel”. (U.S. Army Photo by Bethany L. Huff)
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Why PNM Resources (PNM) is a Top Dividend Stock for Your Portfolio
All investors love getting big returns from their portfolio, whether it's through stocks, bonds, ETFs, or other types of securities. However, when you're an income investor, your primary focus is generating consistent cash flow from each of your liquid investments.
Cash flow can come from bond interest, interest from other types of investments, and of course, dividends. A dividend is the distribution of a company's earnings paid out to shareholders; it's often viewed by its dividend yield, a metric that measures a dividend as a percent of the current stock price. Many academic studies show that dividends account for significant portions of long-term returns, with dividend contributions exceeding one-third of total returns in many cases.
PNM Resources in Focus
Based in Albuquerque, PNM Resources (PNM) is in the Utilities sector, and so far this year, shares have seen a price change of 5.39%. The power company is currently shelling out a dividend of $0.35 per share, with a dividend yield of 2.89%. This compares to the Utility - Electric Power industry's yield of 3.06% and the S&P 500's yield of 1.58%.
Looking at dividend growth, the company's current annualized dividend of $1.39 is up 6.1% from last year. In the past five-year period, PNM Resources has increased its dividend 5 times on a year-over-year basis for an average annual increase of 7.50%. Looking ahead, future dividend growth will be dependent on earnings growth and payout ratio, which is the proportion of a company's annual earnings per share that it pays out as a dividend. PNM Resources's current payout ratio is 52%. This means it paid out 52% of its trailing 12-month EPS as dividend.
Looking at this fiscal year, PNM expects solid earnings growth. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for 2022 is $2.60 per share, which represents a year-over-year growth rate of 6.12%.
Bottom Line
Investors like dividends for many reasons; they greatly improve stock investing profits, decrease overall portfolio risk, and carry tax advantages, among others. But, not every company offers a quarterly payout.
For instance, it's a rare occurrence when a tech start-up or big growth business offers their shareholders a dividend. It's more common to see larger companies with more established profits give out dividends. Income investors have to be mindful of the fact that high-yielding stocks tend to struggle during periods of rising interest rates. With that in mind, PNM is a compelling investment opportunity. Not only is it a strong dividend play, but the stock currently sits at a Zacks Rank of 3 (Hold).
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WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. (AP) — Kyle Larson was looking for a jolt of momentum. He got it for the second straight time at Watkins Glen International.
The reigning NASCAR Cup champion, winless since his only victory of the season at Auto Club Speedway in February, beat Hendrick Motorsports teammate Chase Elliott on a restart with five laps to go and won the weather-delayed NASCAR Cup race Sunday.
Elliott was seeking his eighth career road course victory and had control of the race late, but a caution gave Larson a chance and he took advantage, moving Elliott to the left coming out of the first turn, then pulling away for a weekend Xfinity-Cup sweep. It was the 11th straight road course win for Chevrolet.
“I did what I felt I needed to do to get the win. I knew that was my only opportunity to get by him, I’m not proud of it,” said Larson, who won 10 races last season “The restarts kept me in it. It’s good to get another win. Hopefully, it will build some momentum.”
AJ Allmendinger was second for the second straight day to Larson, Joey Logano third, Elliott fourth and Daniel Suárez fifth.
Elliott declined to criticize his teammate when interviewed postrace, but the disappointment was palpable.
“Just a huge congratulations to Kyle and everybody on the 5 team. He did a great job,” said Elliott, who wrapped up the regular-season title. “Seriously, they deserve it.”
The race began on rain tires with a single-file start, the only one of the day, and pole-sitter Elliott was passed early by Michael McDowell, who started third. But strategy played out as the race wore on with Elliott, Larson, and McDowell, all on a two-stop strategy around the 2.45-mile natural terrain layout, holding the upper hand.
Elliott regained the lead with 18 laps to go in the 90-lap race and when the final pit stops were complete he was just over 2 seconds ahead of his teammate. McDowell was more than 10 seconds behind, but a spin by Joey Hand in the first turn brought out a caution and bunched up the field for a restart with eight laps to go.
Elliott picked the outside lane for the restart and held off Larson when the green flag waved, quickly building a half-second lead. But a spin by Loris Hezemans brought out the caution that changed the outcome.
Larson also held off Allmendinger to win the Xfinity race on Saturday at The Glen, taking advantage when teammate William Byron and Ty Gibbs spun out vying for the lead with under five laps to go.
“It’s almost like we were in the same situation as yesterday,” Allmendinger said. “He (Larson) doesn’t really make any mistakes.”
Early in the second stage, Logano passed Todd Gilliland for the lead and Kyle Busch moved in behind him, but as the laps in the stage began to dwindle Elliott was lurking in fourth, backing off near the end of the segment to save fuel. Logano held off Busch for his fourth stage win of the season.
RAIN MAN
Lightning strikes and rain delayed the start two hours. It was the first time the Next Gen car raced in wet conditions on the grooved tires and Chase Briscoe took advantage. As the track began to dry he was one of the first drivers to pit to put on the faster slicks and the strategy worked as he held on to win the opening 20-lap stage, his fourth stage win of the season.
POINTS BATTLE
Fifteen drivers are locked into 16-driver field for the playoffs, with Ryan Blaney and Martin Truex Jr. still battling for points. They entered the race separated by 26 and started side-by-side on Row 13. Truex picked up only one point — finishing one spot ahead of his rival.
NO THREE-PEAT
Kevin Harvick entered the day fresh off consecutive wins at Michigan and Richmond, but he qualfiied outside the top 20 and never was a factor, finishing 12th.
KIMI’S DAY
Former Formula One champ Kimi Raikkonen drove the No. 91 Chevrolet for TrackHouse Racing in his Cup debut. Raikkonen, who qualifed 27th, had veteran crew chief Darian Grubb atop the pit box for guidance. The Finn made it into the top 10 in the second stage but was taken out in the final stage at about the midpont of the the race when he was slammed hard on the right side going through the bus stop, ending his day.
“I had a good line there. Unfortunately, I had no time to react,” Raikkonen said. “That’s how it goes.”
He was one of the record seven drivers from foreign countries competing in a series race and came out of retirement to compete for TrackHouse owner Justin Marks, whose goal is to expand the NASCAR’s international reach by fielding a Cup entry for international racers.
UP NEXT
The Cup regular season concludes Saturday night at Daytona International Speedway.
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Do These Models Provide A Glimpse Of China’s Future H-20 Bomber?
Two new models have emerged that could give us clues to the appearance of China’s secretive new long-range bomber.
The saga of China’s H-20 next-generation bomber may have taken a very interesting new turn, with the appearance of at least two models showing a new aircraft design, or at least a concept, that seems to have strong similarities to how the H-20 is expected to look. That last point is crucial, since we have not, so far, seen any official renderings of the H-20 beyond depictions that are highly obscured, and which may not actually bear much of a relationship to the final design. However, with recent hints of an imminent first flight dropped by China’s state-run media, there seems to be momentum gathering behind the long-awaited bomber, suggesting its official unveiling — or a state-approved leaking — may not be far off.
Imagery that recently appeared on social media shows an apparently metallic wind-tunnel test model, a kind of developmental aid that is used primarily to test the aerodynamic qualities of future aircraft designs. So far, it seems that three screen captures have become available, although the original video, which appears to show the model in a functioning small-scale wind tunnel, has not appeared so far.
There is also a white-colored desktop-like model, seen in a video clip in which it’s being unveiled by two apparent ‘pilots’ — one in civilian and the other in military uniform. The event shown taking place seems to be connected to the state-run Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), whose logo appears behind the model, together with the English-language sign reading “ML Aviation.”
The original source of this video is currently unknown, but it may be connected to a company named ML Aviation that purportedly produces simulators.
Meanwhile, AVIC was responsible for a previous teaser video, back in 2018, which showed a computer-generated flying-wing style aircraft under a sheet with the text “The Next...” in English. Among others, AVIC is responsible for the Xi’an Aircraft Industrial Corporation, or XAC, which is widely understood to be the prime contractor responsible for the H-20.
Another, more curious still image of the same white-colored model shows it mounted atop a Y-20 transport aircraft, although again the original source is unclear. The relative sizes of the two models make it clear that the apparent H-20 is built to a different scale. Perhaps it is intended to represent a scale model carried in a piggyback arrangement for some kind of aerodynamic trials. Alternatively, it may simply be a case of two different models in different scales.
What is perhaps most interesting, however, is how similar the two new models look compared to previous unofficial renderings of the bomber, while at the same time reflecting design features that have been mentioned in official papers and studies. Below are two unofficial depictions of a possible H-20 configuration that both share much in common with the recent models.
On the other hand, it is certainly worth keeping a degree of skepticism in mind. Not only does China have a long track record of presenting concepts that don’t necessarily relate directly to the finished products, if they ever appear, but the degree of secrecy that surrounds the H-20, in particular, could make it a particular target for disinformation, either state-sanctioned or unofficial.
The War Zone spoke to Andreas Rupprecht, a Chinese military aviation expert who was among the first to share the imagery of the models on social media.
Rupprecht told us he thinks the models have at least some relationship to official design studies being undertaken in relation to the H-20, although it is also worth noting that there will likely have been multiple different studies leading to the final bomber, and this reflects just one — and perhaps even one that was rejected. Indeed, there is evidence to suggest that both subsonic flying-wing and supersonic delta-wing configurations were considered for the H-20, with the former apparently winning through.
“Even if this doesn’t really shows the definitive configuration, my feelings tell me, we are onto something most interesting,” Rupprecht said. He also pointed to a precedent here, in that an image showing a wind-tunnel model of the J-20 stealth fighter was released years before we got to see its final configuration. In this case, the J-20 looked “exactly” like the model. “I won’t be surprised if this is indeed the H-20, or at least an early test model,” Rupprecht added.
It is worth noting that earlier imagery has appeared showing a very different wind-tunnel test article, and one that apparently was a close copy of the U.S. Air Force’s B-2 Spirit stealth bomber. While there was some speculation at the time that this depicted the H-20, it may well have been a model designed to test the qualities of the American aircraft instead, and especially to gain a better understanding of its stealth shaping.
As for these latest models, the aircraft depicted is something of a hybrid flying-wing/blended-body design coupled with a sharply angled nose and pronounced cranked wing. In fact, it is broadly similar to the planform seen in a recent Russian patent that may have a strong relationship with that country’s forthcoming Tupolev PAK DA bomber.
Like the Russian patent, the new Chinese models feature narrower outboard sections of the wings reminiscent in some ways of ‘cranked-kite’ layouts as found in the X-47B and the Russian S-70 Okhotnik drones.
While there have, in the past, been exchanges between aerospace design offices in China and in Russia, including in the early development of the Z-10 attack helicopter, but there is no evidence of any kind of collaboration between the two countries on their future bomber projects.
Also, and in contrast to the twin-engine Russian PAK DA, the Chinese models at least appear to indicate a four-engine powerplant concept, as had been expected. Clearly, the engines are fed by intakes on the upper surfaces of the wing/body, on either side, that appear very similar to those used on the B-2 stealth bomber, even down to the ‘serrated’ upper lip. The engine exhausts, too, look broadly similar to those found on the B-2, meaning they would be inherently well-suited for suppressing the infrared signature.
What is entirely unusual in the model, however, is the trailing edge of the wing, which seems to show some kind of folding vertical tail surfaces. In some of the new images, the models are seen with the twin tail surfaces folded down, to lie flat with the wing, while in others they are raised, creating V-type tailerons like those found on the YF-23. This is a feature about which there has also been significant speculation, although it’s highly probable the fins are intended to provide stability, which has long been a challenge of building large flying wing designs. The tails would therefore be deployed at slower speeds, and while maneuvering to help maintain directional stability.
Rupprecht confirmed that “we have, for some time, had several hints, including in academic papers, that some sort of foldable fins might be incorporated.”
We know that it’s very likely that models, at least, apparently including full-size ones, have already been shown to Chinese officials. In October last year, for example, an image was posted to the Weibo microblogging website that referred to the handover of a mock-up of a “special type” of aircraft. The fact that the photo included the CEO and the chief designer from XAC suggests strongly that the mock-up in question was of the H-20. There were also unconfirmed reports from July last year suggesting that a mock-up had indeed been completed.
Otherwise, those waiting patiently for imagery of the H-20 have had to make do with brief video teasers that may or may not be grounded in reality. As well as the aforementioned AVIC video, in January 2021, an official rendering of the new bomber appeared in a People’s Liberation Army Air Force, or PLAAF, recruitment video. The computer-generated aircraft was obscured by a tarpaulin or sheet but nevertheless, it had a clear resemblance to the U.S. Air Force’s current B-2 and future B-21 Raider stealth bombers.
If reports from the Communist Party-affiliated media in China about an imminent first flight of an H-20 prototype prove to be correct, then it would not be entirely surprising for some related imagery to be leaked at this stage — especially given the precedent with the J-20.
Chinese media reports in general are now speaking more openly about the H-20, although it’s still referred to euphemistically, as a project of “strategic, historic significance” or a “strategic project.”
Confusing matters somewhat are U.S. intelligence assessments indicating that China has two new low-observable bombers in the works. As well as strategic H-20, these reports also talk of a medium-size/medium-range regional bomber. The latter, however, has been reported as likely being a smaller twin-engine type, which would seem to rule out a direct relationship to these new models, which are suggestive of larger designs.
At this stage, it’s simply too early to say for certain whether or not the models genuinely reflect the appearance of the H-20, but it does appear that the program is, ever so gradually, emerging from behind its cloak of secrecy.
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Rush Acquire Alex Aleardi from Allen for Stephen Baylis
August 22, 2022 - ECHL (ECHL) - Rapid City Rush News Release
(RAPID CITY, S.D.) - The Rapid City Rush announced on Monday via a Black Hills Chiropractic Roster Adjustment that center Alex Aleardi has been acquired from the Allen Americans for the rights to Stephen Baylis, and has subsequently signed a contract for the 2022-23 season.
"I'm ecstatic," Aleardi said. "I talked to a few players I trust and have heard nothing but great things about the city and the organization from top to bottom. I can't wait to get there and get the season going."
Aleardi joins the Rush for what will be his 10th professional season. He spent the 2021-22 season with the Florida Everblades and recorded 31 goals and 28 assists over 61 regular season games. Aleardi put up an additional eight goals and four assists over 20 games during the Everblades run to the 2022 Kelly Cup Championship.
"With Alex, we are adding a veteran with huge experience as well as a champion mindset," Rush head coach and general manager Scott Burt said. "He was huge in helping Florida capture the Kelly Cup this past season and we are very fortunate to have landed Alex here in Rapid City. We are excited for him and his wife to relocate and join us in the Black Hills."
A 30-year-old native of Fort Wayne, Indiana, Aleardi has appeared in 100 ECHL games and 92 AHL games in his career. During his time in the ECHL, he has averaged over a point per game. Prior to signing with the Everblades last summer, he had spent the six previous seasons playing overseas in Sweden, Austria and France. Aleardi was acquired by Allen from Florida in a trade on August 9.
Baylis played 49 games for Rapid City in the 2021-22 season and recorded 22 goals and 22 assists. He also skated in 12 games in the AHL for the Tucson Roadrunners, where he had one assist. Over 92 games for the Rush across two seasons, he had 29 goals and 31 assists.
"When you make a big change you have to give something to get and Baylis was that player," Burt said. "He was a big part of our run last season and we wish him continued success in his career."
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TOKYO : Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has tested positive for Covid-19, forcing him to cancel a planned trip to Tunisia to attend a key conference on Africa’s development, a source said on Sunday.
Kishida, who has just returned from a week’s vacation, will work from his residence from Monday and join the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) online, the source said, asking not to be identified as he is not authorized to speak to the media.
The Prime Minister developed a cough and fever on Saturday and took a PCR test on Sunday morning, which confirmed the positive result in the afternoon, a Cabinet Office spokesman said separately.
Kishida’s infection comes as Japan saw a record resurgence in coronavirus cases in July and August, hitting businesses in the world’s third-largest economy, although deaths remained relatively low and disruptions were milder than in some other advanced economies.
Japan’s economy grew 2.2% annualized in the second quarter, a slower-than-expected rebound from a Covid-induced slump, as uncertainty remains over whether consumption can sustain a fragile recovery.
Authorities have avoided the strict lockdowns used in China and other countries throughout the pandemic, relying on widespread use of mask-wearing and social distancing to curb infections.
Prime Minister Modi wishes Prime Minister Kishida a speedy recovery
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to Twitter on Sunday to wish his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida a speedy recovery. Kishida has been diagnosed with Covid-19 and he is resting at his residence.
I wish my friend Prime Minister Fumio Kishida a speedy recovery from COVID-19,” Prime Minister Modi wrote on Twitter.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Qatar recently arrested at least 60 foreign workers who protested going months without pay and deported some of them, an advocacy group said, just three months before Doha hosts the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
The move comes as Qatar faces intense international scrutiny over its labor practices ahead of the tournament. Like other Gulf Arab nations, Qatar heavily relies on foreign labor. The workers’ protest a week ago — and Qatar’s reaction to it — could further fuel the concern.
The head of a labor consultancy investigating the incident said the detentions cast new doubt on Qatar’s pledges to improve the treatment of workers. “Is this really the reality coming out?” asked Mustafa Qadri, executive director of the group Equidem.
In a statement to The Associated Press on Sunday night, Qatar’s government acknowledged that “a number of protesters were detained for breaching public safety laws.” It declined to offer any information about the arrests or any deportations.
Video footage posted online showed some 60 workers angry about their salaries protesting on Aug. 14 outside of the Doha offices of Al Bandary International Group, a conglomerate that includes construction, real estate, hotels, food service and other ventures. Some of those demonstrating hadn’t received their salaries for as many as seven months, Equidem said.
The protesters blocked an intersection on Doha’s C Ring Road in front of the Al Shoumoukh Tower. The footage matched known details of the street, including it having several massive portraits of Qatar’s ruling emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, looking down on passers-by.
Al Bandary International Group, which is privately owned, did not respond to requests for comment and a telephone number registered in its name did not connect on multiple attempts to call it.
The Qatari government acknowledged that the firm hadn’t paid salaries and that its Labor Ministry would pay “all delayed salaries and benefits” to those affected.
“The company was already under investigation by the authorities for nonpayment of wages before the incident, and now further action is being taken after a deadline to settle outstanding salary payments was missed,” the government said.
Qadri said police later arrested the protesters and held them in a detention center where some described being in a stifling heat without air conditioning. Doha’s temperature this week reached around 41 degrees Celsius (105.8 degrees Fahrenheit).
Qadri described police telling those held that if they can strike in hot weather, they can sleep without air conditioning.
One detained worker who called Equidem from the detention center described seeing as many as 300 of his colleagues there from Bangladesh, Egypt, India, Nepal and the Philippines. He said some had been paid salaries after the protest while others hadn’t. His comments could not be corroborated.
Qatar, like other Gulf Arab nations, has in the past deported demonstrating foreign workers, and tied residency visas to employment. The right to form unions remains tightly controlled and available only to Qataris, as is the country’s limited right to assembly, according to the Washington-based advocacy group Freedom House.
Qatar, a small, energy-rich nation on the Arabian Peninsula, is home to the state-funded Al Jazeera satellite news network. However, expression in the country remains tightly controlled. Last year, Qatar detained and later deported a Kenyan security guard who wrote and spoke publicly about the woes of the country’s migrant labor force.
Since FIFA awarded the tournament to Qatar in 2010, the country has taken some steps to overhaul the country’s employment practices. That includes eliminating its so-called kafala employment system, which tied workers to their employers, who had say over whether they could leave their jobs or even the country.
Qatar also has adopted a minimum monthly wage of 1,000 Qatari riyals ($275) for workers and required food and housing allowances for employees not receiving that directly from their employers.
Activists like Qadri have called on Doha to do more, particularly when it comes to ensuring workers receive their salaries on time and are protected from abusive employers.
“Have we all been duped by Qatar over the last several years?” Qadri asked, suggesting that recent reforms might have been “a cover” for authorities allowing prevailing labor practices to continue.
The World Cup will start this November in Qatar.
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MOUNT HEALTHY, Ohio (WXIX/Gray News) – A 6-year-old girl and her father are dead after what police suspect was a murder-suicide, following a custody dispute.
According to Mount Healthy police, the bodies of Iyla Johnson and her father, 40-year-old Eric Johnson, were found with gunshot wounds in the bedroom of an Ohio apartment.
Police said they initially responded to a call at 11:40 a.m. Sunday involving a custody exchange at the Lake of the Woods apartment complex.
When officers entered the apartment, they heard a gunshot come from the bedroom. Police said as officers attempted to force entry into the barricaded bedroom, they heard additional gunshots.
A SWAT team was called and attempted to communicate with Johnson, but “repeated attempts to do so failed.” When SWAT officers entered the bedroom, they found both bodies.
Police said Johnson was a convicted felon, who was prohibited from having a firearm.
No officers were injured.
Mount Healthy is located about 10 miles north of Cincinnati.
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Closing Borders to Russians Only Helps Putin
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that Russians should "live in their own world until they change their philosophy." But keeping Russians isolated plays into Putin's hands.
Nearly six months into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainian forces are still holding their own against Russia. Foreign nations have funneled huge amounts of military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine while imposing sanctions that affect Kremlin elites and ordinary Russians alike.
But some want those measures to go further. In an interview with The Washington Post earlier this month, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Russians should "live in their own world until they change their philosophy." In practical terms, he suggested that countries should "close the borders" to Russian citizens. "Whichever kind of Russian," he said, "make them go to Russia."
A number of nations have taken steps to prevent Russians from entering. So far, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, and Poland have decided to stop issuing certain visas to Russian citizens. Finland will be slashing its current level of Russian tourist visas by 90 percent. "It's not right that at the same time as Russia is waging an aggressive, brutal war of aggression in Europe," said Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin, "Russians can live a normal life, travel in Europe, be tourists."
But these measures won't just affect tourists. According to LETA, a Latvian news agency, the Latvian Ministry of the Interior has prepared amendments to the country's immigration law in order to "stop issuing…temporary residence permits (TUAs) to citizens of Russia and Belarus," which "will affect employers' opportunities to continue employment with migrant workers from both neighboring countries."
European Union foreign ministers are expected to discuss the issue of Russian visas on August 31. Ahead of that meeting, many major figures—including people within the Zelenskyy administration—have argued against a blanket ban on visas for Russians. They recognize the ethical and practical issues that come with punishing civilians for the actions of an authoritarian government they can't feasibly control.
Oleksiy Arestovych, a military adviser to Zelenskyy, told The Washington Post that he's "not a supporter of collective responsibility [but of] individual." While it might be reasonable to sanction those who overtly support Russian President Vladimir Putin, he said, he favored a "more selective" approach to visa denials for Russians.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz likewise has rejected the idea of an E.U.-wide ban on Russian tourists, arguing that such a measure "would undermine the purpose and effect of targeted sanctions that have been applied to those supporting the war," explains Politico. "This is not the war of the Russian people, but it is Putin's war," Scholz said at a press conference last week. "It is important to us to understand that there are a lot of people fleeing from Russia, because they are disagreeing with the Russian regime."
Enforcing visa restrictions on Russians may prove to be logistically difficult, especially if only certain visa categories are targeted. European officials aren't united on the issue of a visa ban, let alone who it should include. While Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has stressed that "those few Russians who may need an asylum or humanitarian entry" shouldn't be banned, Zelenskyy has previously argued that Russians studying abroad in Europe should be sent home. Limiting entry just to Russians who don't support Putin, meanwhile, would require visa-issuing authorities to make any number of subjective judgments (a complication that Arestovych suggests may have pushed Zelenskyy to favor a blanket ban).
Zelenskyy argues that limiting the movement of Russian travelers should be done "until they change their philosophy." But keeping Russians in Russia isn't the right approach to encourage them to change their views. For one, the Kremlin has censored all manner of information about the war. Back in March, it blocked access to Facebook. It's cracked down on journalists and foreign websites, censoring sites like BBC, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and Deutsche Welle. And in March, Putin signed a law that would dole out prison sentences of up to 15 years for those who circulate "false news" about the invasion. Russia arrested over 13,000 anti-war protesters in just the first two weeks after the war began.
Isolating Russians will be counterproductive. Allowing them to travel will surely bring them some measure of joy, but it will also give them access to views and insights on the invasion of Ukraine that they'd be hard-pressed to find at home. Fencing Russians off from freer nations will ensure that they're kept in a hostile information environment, deprived of experiences that may make them more amenable to freedom and more hostile to their current regime. What's more, it could keep certain vulnerable groups—like LGBT people or political dissidents—from leaving for safer places.
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Colorado GOP senator becomes Democrat, cites vote falsehoods
DENVER (AP) — Citing alarm toward the Republican Party’s widespread embrace of 2020 election conspiracies, a moderate GOP Colorado state senator has switched his affiliation to Democrat, enhancing that party’s prospects to retain its majority in the chamber in the November midterms.
Kevin Priola, who represents Adams County in Denver’s suburbs, said in a letter Monday he was horrified by the Jan. 6 insurrection on the U.S. Capitol and had waited in vain for his party to repudiate it as well as former President Donald Trump, who continues to insist that it was stolen.
“It never came,” Priola said. “To my dismay, brave and honorable Republicans like Mike Pence, Liz Cheney, Mitt Romney and Adam Kinzinger have fought to defend the Constitution and the rule of law only to be met with ridicule and threats.”
“I cannot continue to be part of a political party that is okay with a violent attempt to overturn a free and fair election and continues to peddle claims that the 2020 election was stolen,” Priola said.
Numerous assertions that the presidential election was stolen have been proven false.
Pence, the former vice president, has been vilified in the GOP for certifying the results of the 2020 presidential race in the hours after the insurrection. Romney has been a target of Trump-aligned Republicans hostile toward the Utah senator who have used his name to derisively brand their rivals “Mitt Romney Republicans.” Kinzinger, an Illinois congressman, has been one of Trump’s fiercest critics. Cheney, who is leading the investigation into the insurrection as vice chair of the 1/6 committee, lost her Wyoming primary bid for reelection to Congress to a Trump-endorsed candidate last week.
Priola is in his second term as a state senator and is not up for reelection in November. But his switch increases the party’s chances of keeping control of the chamber in the midterms, with Democrats now holding a 21-14 majority. Seventeen of the chamber’s 35 seats are up for election this year.
Priola also cited what he called the GOP’s refusal to address climate change. “Today, my Republican colleagues would rather deny the existence of human-caused climate change than take action,” he wrote.
Priola has often voted with Democrats on legislation intended to address climate change and other issues. He said he will caucus with Senate Democrats but continue an independent streak that includes strong opposition to abortion.
Democratic Senate President Steve Feinberg and Gov. Jared Polis welcomed Priola’s decision. State GOP reaction was swift, with party chair Kristi Burton Brown accusing Priola in a statement of “lying to his constituents” and saying: “Priola will regret this decision when he is in the minority come January 2023.”
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Jazz, Knicks at a stalemate over amount of unprotected first-round picks for Donovan Mitchell
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According to sources, Jazz president Danny Ainge and Knicks president Leon Rose are at a Donovan Mitchell stalemate over really one thing — the amount of “unprotected” first-round picks in the package. On draft night in June, Rose collected a handful of protected first-rounders in his wheeling and dealing that cost him his own lottery pick at No. 11. But attaching protected first-rounders in the Utah deal hasn’t stirred Ainge’s soul.
Source: Marc Berman @ New York Post
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Berkeley IEOR Continues Partnership to Bring Engineering and Data Analytics to Underserved Youth
For the second year in a row, Berkeley IEOR has partnered with Georgia Tech ISyE and Kids Teach Tech to virtually deliver the Seth Bonder Summer Program in Computational and Data Science for Engineering. Named after pioneering American engineer and philanthropist Dr. Seth Bonder, the program is designed to give underserved youth an understanding of computer programming concepts as applied to various disciplines, including industrial engineering and operations research, the social sciences, computational biology, and more.
The Seth Bonder Summer Program is taught by Kids Teach Tech, a non-profit organization founded five years ago by Berkeley IEOR alumna Sarbani Banerjee Mulchandani and her then 10-year-old son Arjun Banerjee Mulchandani. The mission of KTT is to help bring coding education to young people while empowering them to become educators who “teach it forward.” University students train and mentor KTT youth, and then those same youth give back to their communities by delivering KTT curriculum to other underserved young people.
This year, the Seth Bonder Summer Program brought over 80 underserved K-12th graders together with KTT educators, and Berkeley IEOR and Georgia Tech university students to teach and learn key computational thinking and data science concepts. The camp curriculum included lectures and hands-on activities, emphasizing real-world applications to reinforce student learning. The program featured several modules offered in levels ranging from basic to advanced. The first module provided an introduction to the visual programming language of Snap!, followed by more advanced programming, as well as curriculum on computational data science, optimization, machine learning, and computational biology.
Recent Berkeley IEOR graduate Caleb Bugg (PhD IEOR’ 22) returned to the camp for his second year in a row this summer. About his decision to return, Bugg said, “I get stronger by helping others, and students get stronger by learning. It’s also all about access. By teaching these kids coding and engineering, they will be able to compete in tech jobs early, and regardless of their career paths, they will develop ease and confidence. It’s gratifying to take part in that.”
This year, Bugg was joined by first-time coaches Abhiygyan Biswas (B.S. IEOR 2023) and Ariel Qian (IEOR M.E.T’ 24). When asked about her favorite part of the program, Qian said, “My favorite part of the program was at the very end, when the students were able to talk about their favorite projects and showcase all the cool things they’ve completed during the week. It’s amazing to see the students’ passion after just a short week of learning. I specifically remember one student using the coding blocks to create Minecraft music. It was incredible to see how he managed to incorporate programming into something else that he really loved doing.”
Berkeley IEOR is proud to partner with Kids Teach Tech and Georgia Tech ISYE to expand access to STEM education for underserved youth. By encouraging students to learn exciting engineering, data science, and coding concepts, we can help create the next generation of innovators who change the world.
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A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after another man was found dead in Tamworth. Our pictures show a blue tent erected in Byron Road, off Masefield Drive, Leyfields, near to the main Comberford Road in Tamworth.
Forensics and multiple vehicles were seen and a police car, blue tent and police tape remained there in the days after.
Sadly, a man in his 60s was found dead on Friday. A 38-year-old man, from Tamworth, was arrested on suspicion of murder and has since been placed on conditional police bail while police inquiries continue.
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Staffordshire Police this evening, Monday, August 22, confirmed: "We were called at 4.18pm on Friday (19 August) to an address in the Wigginton Park area of Tamworth following reports of concerns for the welfare of a man.
"Officers attended the scene. Sadly, a man in his 60s was found dead a short time later.
"Formal identification will take place in due course. A file will shortly be prepared for HM Coroner."
"A 38-year-old man, from Tamworth, has since been arrested on suspicion of murder. He has since been placed on conditional police bail while inquiries continue."
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Carib Brewery launched its Rockstone Tonic Wine at the ANSA McAL Hospitality suite, Queen’s Park Oval, Port-of-Spain, on Thursday.
Rockstone Tonic Wine is a ready to drink fortified alcoholic beverage with Vitamins and a blend of natural root extracts such as macs Root, Bois Bande, Sarsaparilla Bark, Horny Goat Weed and Iron.
Brewed by Carib Brewery St Kitts and Nevis its already receiving rave reviews.
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School support staff will take a strike vote starting Sept. 23, a move their union says will “be a signal” to the Ontario government and boards that workers will not accept concessions at the bargaining table.
And while no job action is planned, the move could put the 55,000 custodians, office staff, educational assistants and early childhood educators in a strike position in October.
“Education workers holding strike votes is about workers understanding and using our collective power to win long overdue gains for students, Ontario’s families and each other,” Laura Walton, president of CUPE’s Ontario School Boards Council of Unions, said Monday at an online news conference.
The decision to hold a strike vote comes on the heels of the province’s offer of a two per cent raise each year over four years for those earning less than $40,000 and a 1.25 per cent increase for those above that income level. CUPE has been seeking a yearly increase of about 11.7 per cent, putting all workers at the top pay rates and making all overtime payable at double time, as well as guaranteed service and staffing levels in schools.
At Queen’s Park, Education Minister Stephen Lecce said the move will create anxiety. “The union is proceeding on their plan for a potential strike impacting two million kids who ought to be in school not just in September, but in October, November — every month,” he said. “And so my hope is that the union will listen to parents who have overwhelmingly pleaded with all of us to get on with business.”
Lecce said the government offer is “fair, reasonable and affordable for the taxpayer,” while CUPE’s proposal would lead to a $21-billion increase in the education budget, as it would set the standard for all other education unions that are also in bargaining now.
CUPE workers earn an average of $39,000 a year, although that includes part-time workers.
Their strike vote will be held between Sept. 23 and Oct. 2. Contract negotiations are scheduled to continue into September.
“We’re not on a path to strike,” said Walton, who added there is still time to reach a deal. “We’re on a path to ensure that we have real services in our school boards.”
All contracts for education unions expire at the end of August.
Liberal MPP Mitzie Hunter, a former education minister, said Lecce is exaggerating the strike threat from CUPE.
“Already we are seeing this rhetoric from the minister … Seeking a strike mandate does not mean that there is a strike, it means they’re utilizing the tools that they have in their tool kit in terms of fair and respectful bargaining and that can only be done at the bargaining table,” said Hunter (Scarborough-Guildwood).
“That’s where I urge the minister to spend his efforts.”
New Democrat education critic Marit Stiles (Davenport) told reporters the government’s offer to CUPE is too low when inflation has been running at an annual rate of around eight per cent.
“It’s a pay cut, and it’s not enough to live on in many parts of this province,” Stiles said.
“What I’m hearing from parents certainly is that they want to see our education workers respected. This government instead is risking, I think, disruption in the school year.” | https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/2022/08/22/ontario-school-workers-to-hold-strike-vote-starting-sept-23.html | 2022-08-22T21:12:30Z | https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/2022/08/22/ontario-school-workers-to-hold-strike-vote-starting-sept-23.html | false | 2 |
The man accused of attacking Village of Keremeos staff has been found not criminally responsible for his actions due to a mental disorder.
Cameron Urquhart will remain at a psychiatric hospital in Coquitlam until the B.C. Review Board makes a further decision on his case.
Urquhart was facing 14 criminal charges related to the Jan. 24 attack. But on Friday, Aug. 19, a Penticton provincial judge ruled that the Keremeos man was not criminally responsible.
On Jan. 24, Urquhart stormed into the Village offices wearing metal cleats and sport protective gear with a knife strapped to his chest, threatening staff with a sledgehammer, assaulting them inside the office and damaging property before chasing them outside where some were further assaulted.
According to the statement of facts entered into the court record, police were called to the Keremeos municipal offices by a witness who reported Urquhart, brandishing a sledgehammer and throwing someone on the ground.
The witness stayed on the line to provide updates while Urquhart returned inside to smash various items, including the security glass at the main counter, chasing people out of the office where he then pushed one woman onto the ground and kicked her. Another woman was punched in the face.
He was making statements for staff to get out and that the mayor was fired.
Urquhart continued to chase the other people as they fled to their vehicles. A second person also called RCMP, reporting that Urquhart was letting air out from the tires of several vehicles, as well as shouting various comments that were heard in the background of the call.
In addition to the sledgehammer, which Urquhart broke the head of during his attack, Urquhart had also worn metal cleats which left cuts on one of his victims.
One of the victims who fled was punched in the back, causing them to slip on ice outside, and giving Urquhart an opening to approach and kick them repeatedly. Thanks to others distracting Urquhart, they were able to get away and into a vehicle driven by a woman passing by.
A report completed in May found that Urquhart was not fit to stand trial.
A publication ban was put in place on the details of the psychiatric report that was completed in July and entered as part of the not criminally responsible hearing.
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Lagos takes Headies on global stage, supports Nigerian music award
Creative sector has welcomed a new content promoter into its fold. The Lagos State Government marked its debut as a major backer of the music industry, sealing a partnership with the Headies – a foremost Nigerian award.
Lagos Government will be supporting the 15th Headies award, where local musical artistes, producers, DJs, music video directors and song writers will be rewarded for their talents and creativity.
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu will be attending the event coming up next month in Atlanta, State of Georgia in the United States of America (U.S.A).
Lagos State became the first Government entity to support the Headies, an academy award modelled after the U.S. Grammy award.
The industry’s veterans and practitioners could not hide their excitement at the development when they gathered for a pre-award event tagged “Lagos Constellation of Stars”, organised by the State Government and Headies to celebrate 2022 award nominees.
A veteran music producer, Kenny Ogungbe, described the Lagos State Government’s intervention as a “powerful turning point” for the industry, noting that the development could potentially leap many local talents to the world stage.
Ogungbe, co-founder of Kennis Music, observed that many record label owners had laboured to invest their personal resources to produce most of the contemporary songs creating positive image for Nigeria across the world, stressing that the intervention initiated by the Lagos Government would go a long way in supporting young producers to turn out more talents.
“Kennis Music has produced over 80 musical albums that have nothing less than 12 tracks each; these works were produced from our sweat. We never had the opportunity of support from any Government. Now that we have a reasonable Government that believes in the future of youths and their talents coming to support creative young people, this is a powerful turning point for the music industry,” Ogungbe said.
Chief Executive Officer of Smooth Promotions Media and founder of Headies award, Ayo Animashaun, celebrated what he called “defining moment”, applauding Sanwo-Olu for initiating the intervention.
Animashaun said it was the first time a Government would deem it important to lend large-scale support to talents in the creative industry, stressing that the intervention should not be seen as a political move.
He said: “If we have a Governor in the whole of Nigeria partnering with us and giving assurance of the Government’s support to what we do, this should be seen beyond partisan politics.”
Animashaun said for the 2022 Headies award to hit the target success level envisioned, there was a need for decision and policymakers to buy into the event and support it.
“We are going to Atlanta with a lot of people; we will need some form of protection for the participants. It is only when there is cordial diplomatic relationship between Governments that this can happen,” the Headies founder said.
He added: “This intervention is not just about the Headies, it is about the whole of the creative industry. We should be proud of the progress we have made but there is a lot to achieve when the system supports our work. There are many talents who need to be shown to the world at the global stage.
“If these young Nigerian stars who will be attending the Headies award in Atlanta are accepted by the global audience, we would have exported products that the world would continue to demand and this would translate to growth of our GDP, because those artistes would not just be famous, they would also be making money that would go into our economy.”
Governor Sanwo-Olu said the intervention was a genuine move by his administration to boost the output and capacity in the creative sector, stressing that development of the Entertainment and Tourism sector was a key pillar of his Government’s agenda.
The Governor noted that the Headies was not the first to be supported in the entertainment industry, pointing out that his Government had collaborated with entertainment firms to train talents and build their capacity in the whole gamut of the industry value chain, including script writers, film directors and artists.
The benefiting youths, Sanwo-Olu said, were trained in industry-specific capability by world-class professionals, while the Government offset the costs of training and tuition.
The Governor said: “It is not something we have just created today; creating a thriving business for creatives in our entertainment industry is something that has been part of our economic agenda as Government from the outset. We are excited to be collaborating with the practitioners in the creative community to discover more talents and export not only our culture, but also our music.
“Headies Award is like the Grammy’s Award of Africa. It is local flavor going global, given the location the event will be held in the next couple of days. It is strategic for us to support the initiative. Our artistes and entertainment stars are being taken out of the country to Atlanta, where they will have larger platforms to further show the rich culture and values Lagos represents.” | https://www.africaglobalvillage.com/lagos-takes-headies-on-global-stage-supports-nigerian-music-award/ | 2022-08-22T21:16:54Z | https://www.africaglobalvillage.com/lagos-takes-headies-on-global-stage-supports-nigerian-music-award/ | true | 2 |
BRUSSELS, Belgium, Aug. 22, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sonoco-Alcore S.a.r.l. announces today that due to the continued escalation in the cost of European energy it will raise prices by €70 per tonne on all recycled paperboard grades sold in the Company’s EMEA regions effective for shipments made on or after the 1st September 2022.
“In light of the significant increases seen across the recent energy markets, the uncertainty facing the forthcoming winter period and the resultant impact on our supply costs we have no choice but to raise prices accordingly,” said Phil Woolley, Vice President – Paper Europe. “We will continue to monitor the situation closely and will take every action necessary to maintain supplies to our customers. We cannot however rule out further increases or surcharges being required at this stage.”
Sonoco Alcore S.a.r.l. is wholly owned by Sonoco (:SON) and operates 24 tube and core plants and five paperboard mills in Europe.
About Sonoco
Founded in 1899, Sonoco (:SON) is a global provider of consumer, industrial, healthcare and protective packaging. With net sales of approximately $5.6 billion in 2021, the Company has approximately 22,000 employees working in more than 300 operations in 32 countries serving some of the world’s best-known brands in some 85 nations. Sonoco is committed to creating sustainable products, services and programs for our customers, employees and communities that support our corporate purpose of Better Packaging. Better Life. The Company ranked first in the Packaging sector on Fortune's World's Most Admired Companies for 2022 as well as being included in Barron's 100 Most Sustainable Companies for the fourth-consecutive year. For more information on the Company, visit our website at www.sonoco.com.
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NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A new natural gas discovery off Cyprus’ southern coast that is estimated to contain around 2.5 trillion cubic feet of the hydrocarbon bolsters Europe’s efforts to secure alternative energy sources, the Cypriot energy ministry said Monday, as a supply crisis triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues to trouble the continent.
The ministry said in a statement that the discovery by partners Eni of Italy and France’s Total was made at the Cronos-1 well 160 kilometers (100 miles) off the coast in 2,287 meters (7,500 feet) of water inside Cyprus’ exclusive economic zone and is the second deposit that the Eni-Total consortium has discovered there.
The consortium hasn’t provided any estimates regarding how much natural gas is contained in the initial “Calypso” field found in 2018. But Eni said in a statement Monday that the Cronos-1 discovery “can unlock additional potential in the area” and is part of the company’s “successful effort to provide further gas supply to Europe.”
The Cronos discovery brings the number of deposits found off Cyprus to four — two by Eni-Total, one by ExxonMobil and partners Qatar Petroleum estimated to hold 5-8 trillion cubic feet of gas and another by Chevron and partners Shell and Israeli NewMed Energy that contains up to 4.4 trillion cubic feet.
The Energy Ministry said the Eni-Total consortium’s drill ship Tungsten Explorer has now relocated to a new well target to “assess the quantities of gas with greater precision.”
The Cypriot government has said that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine provided an additional impetus to the search for alternative fuel sources, especially after the European Union confirmed that natural gas could act as a bridge fuel until 2050 as part of the bloc’s transition to cleaner energy.
Energy Minister Natasa Pilides said the EU’s drive to wean itself off Russian gas further entrenches Cyprus’ inclusion into the 27-member bloc’s energy planning.
Pilides said the fact that the new discovery is in an area adjacent to where ExxonMobil is drilling could pave the way for cooperation with the Eni-Total consortium.
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Steve Sarkisian Reveals Why Quinn Ewers Won Quarterback Battle
Ohio State transfer Quinn Ewers is the man in Texas.
The former Southlake standout returned home this offseason and earned the starting QB job, something that Longhorns head coach Steve Sarkisian touched on at the beginning of the week:
I think Quinn provides the ability to make all the throws in our system. I think he’s got playmaking ability and he’s got a natural passing ability…I’m excited for [Quinn] and I’m excited for our team. Quinn can make all the throws. I feel very comfortable about that and I feel comfortable about his playmaking ability. His growth in the system has been one where we can really kind of see where it’s going to head under him. I’m excited about it.
Ewers was formerly the top recruit in the nation, surprising some with his decision to leave the state of Texas for Columbus, Ohio.
However, his pedigree didn't make it any easier of a decision for Sark to roll with Quinn over veteran Hudson Card. Telling reporters:
I will say it was a tough decision. Hudson is a very good football player. We’re very fortunate to have Hudson be our backup and be in the situation that he’s in with the maturity and leadership that he has.
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Blackline Safety Corp. (the "Company") (TSX: BLN) a global leader in connected safety, today announced it has signed a non-binding term sheet for a new two-year $15 million senior secured operating facility — with a potential $5 million accordion feature to increase the size of the facility — with ATB Financial. The new credit facility contemplated by the term sheet will, upon and subject to the execution of definitive credit documents, replace the Company’s existing senior secured credit facility with another lender. The current facility was not renewed on the terms presented by the lender and no amounts are currently drawn or outstanding on such facility.
The new facility is expected to provide improved financial flexibility to help the Company manage its operations, while building on its 21 consecutive quarters of revenue growth. The borrowing base under the new facility will be derived from the Company’s monthly recurring revenue with pricing that is largely consistent with the current facility. The new operating facility will be secured, including by a general security agreement over the property of both Blackline Safety Corp. and its significant subsidiaries.
"We are appreciative of the support ATB Financial is providing through this new credit facility, which we believe is especially noteworthy considering the current lending environment where many companies are being asked for stricter covenants and tighter capital availability," said Shane+Grennan%2C+Chief+Financial+Officer+of+Blackline+Safety.” We look forward to finalizing this facility in the coming weeks which, coupled with proceeds from our recently announced bought deal financing and concurrent non-brokered private placement that is expected to close on or about August 31, 2022, will provide us with a more robust capital position to execute our business plan. We would like to thank our previous lender for their support and working relationship over the past two years.”
"The technology sector is a key growing area for the Alberta economy," said Darren Eurich, CEO ATB Capital Markets & Senior Vice President, Business, ATB Financial. “We are excited to partner with Blackline Safety, an Alberta-based global technology company, through this proposed facility and provide them with the capital resources to continue to expand and innovate in their business."
The credit facility is subject to various conditions including the Company raising gross proceeds of not less than $15 million from the Company's recently announced bought deal financing and concurrent non-brokered private placement and the entering of binding definitive agreements in respect of the same.
About Blackline Safety
Blackline Safety is a technology leader driving innovation in the industrial workforce through IoT. With connected safety devices and predictive analytics, Blackline enables companies to drive towards zero safety incidents and improved operational performance. Blackline provides wearable devices, personal and area gas monitoring, cloud-connected software and data analytics to meet demanding safety challenges and enhance overall productivity for organizations with coverage in more than 100 countries. Armed with cellular and satellite connectivity, Blackline provides a lifeline to tens of thousands of people, having reported over 185 billion data-points and initiated over five million emergency alerts. For more information, visit BlacklineSafety.com and connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram.
Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains certain forward–looking information and statements within the meaning of applicable securities laws. The use of any of the words "expect", "anticipate", "continue", "estimate", "may", "will", "project", "should", "believe", "plans", "intends" and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking information or statements. In particular, but without limiting the forgoing, this press release contains statements concerning the anticipated terms of the new credit facility, the expected use of the credit facility and the potential benefits thereof; the closing of financing described herein, the conditions to entering into the new credit facility and the entering into of a definitive agreement in respect of the new credit facility. Although Blackline believes that the expectations reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on them because Blackline can give no assurance that they will prove to be correct. Since forward looking statements address future events and conditions, by their very nature they involve inherent risks and uncertainties. The terms of the new credit facility may change, the Company may not enter into a binding agreement in respect of the new credit facility in a timely manner, or at all, the Company may not complete the other financing transactions described herein, the Company may not have any credit arrangements to funds its financing plans, the amounts that may be available for borrowing under the new credit facility may change from time to time, the closing date for the financings described herein may be changed and, in the event the Company is subject to the new credit facility, the Company will be subject to the terms and conditions thereof, and any default thereunder may cause an acceleration of repayment of any amounts borrowed thereunder and if the Company was unable to repay amounts owing thereunder, the lender under the new credit facility (could proceed to foreclose or otherwise realize upon the collateral granted to them to secure such indebtedness. The forward looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date hereof and Blackline undertakes no obligations to update publicly or revise any forward looking statements or information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, unless so required by applicable securities laws.
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A warning has been issued about the danger of rip currents in the sea after two children were rescued from the water close to Portrush.
An RNLI systems technician raised the alarm after the children were spotted struggling in the water at the East Strand on Sunday afternoon.
Euan Noble had been surfing with his girlfriend in the area at the time.
Mr Noble, who works to maintain the mechanics of lifeguard equipment in the Ballymoney RNLI Support Centre, said he knew that there was a rip current in that area of the bay next to the Arcadia building.
He alerted the RNLI lifeguards on duty, but based on his own location in the water he knew that he would reach the children first, so he said he quickly paddled around to them.
He reached the young girl in the water and helped her on to his surfboard, while her brother had managed to get himself up onto the rocks, and Mr Noble manoeuvred his board around to him where they could safely stay until the lifeguards reached them.
The children were treated for some minor injuries.
Mr Noble described rip currents as unpredictable.
“I’ve been caught out by this particular rip current before, they are unpredictable and they can catch you very quickly, these things do happen,” he said.
“I usually work with lifeguard equipment, and I’ve never been a lifeguard, so my priority was getting the children into the hands of the lifeguards as safely as possible.
“I am an experienced surfer and familiar with the sea state around this area. Luckily, the children were at a lifeguarded beach, where they could be rescued quickly.”
The RNLI has described the spot, at the rocks near the corner of the bay by the Arcadia building, as dangerous for bathing because of this strong, permanent rip current.
“When you visit a lifeguarded beach, always check the flags. The area safest for swimming and bodyboarding is always between the red and yellow flags, and the area safest for paddle boarding and surfing is always between the black and white flags,” a spokesperson said.
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NeNe Leakes Drops Discrimination Lawsuit Against Bravo After Accusing Kim Zolciak-Biermann Of 'Racist' Behavior
Aug. 22 2022, Published 4:30 p.m. ET
NeNe Leakes is throwing the towel in on her battle with Bravo. The Real Housewives of Atlanta alum withdrew her discrimination lawsuit against Bravo, NBC Universal, network executives including Andy Cohen after claiming the defendants violated federal employment and anti-discrimination laws.
Legal documents obtained by OK! on Monday, August 22, stated Leakes "dismisses this action and all claims asserted by Leakes without prejudice."
"All Parties consent and stipulate to the foregoing dismissal," the court papers stated. "No party will seek recovery of costs or attorneys' fees in any submission to this Court."
Despite calling it quits on the lawsuit now, the Glee actress will have the ability to revisit the case in the future if she chooses, as at the suit is a joint stipulation dismissal without prejudice between all parties.
When Leakes filed the suit in April, she alleged the network helped "foster a corporate and workplace culture in which racially-insensitive and inappropriate behavior is tolerated — if not, encouraged," and cited costar and former bestie Kim Zolciak-Biermann, who she claimed exhibited racist behavior for years.
In the filing, The New Normal actress alleged Bravo "did not terminate their relationship with Zolciak-Biermann, nor take any other meaningful action to put an end to her racially-offensive behavior." The Don't Be Tardy star later went on to call the allegations "ridiculous."
Leakes was one of the original cast members of RHOA which premiered in 2008 but officially departed the series in 2020 after 12 seasons on the reality show.
“I am happy I was able to help all the other black women get job opportunities that are working for them," the mother-of-two wrote in a tweet throwing shade at Cohen. “He stopped me from working because I was a threat to his career! Yet he was able to abuse me for years."
“I want to release these voice recordings so bad," Leakes stated in another tweet, but without fully explaining what she meant. | https://okmagazine.com/p/nene-leakes-drops-discrimination-lawsuit-bravo-andy-cohen/ | 2022-08-22T21:25:13Z | https://okmagazine.com/p/nene-leakes-drops-discrimination-lawsuit-bravo-andy-cohen/ | true | 2 |
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A year after the Haiti earthquake, many are still looking for shelter and food – patriotic
The tin-roofed house rented by Erleen Castell and Dunord Ernst was among more than 130,000 homes damaged or destroyed by the powerful earthquake that struck southern Haiti last year, killing more than 2,200 people.
In the days following the 7.2-magnitude earthquake, they collected sheets, tarpaulins, and wood and set up shelter for themselves and their three children. More than a year after the August 14, 2021 earthquake, the family is still living in the same makeshift tent as hundreds of others, still wondering if anyone would help them.
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If recent history is any guide, few people will.
The Associated Press visited several of the camps around the southern coastal town of Les Cayes, which was one of the worst hit, and people repeatedly complained that no government officials visited them despite repeated promises that they would come to help.
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While the family was waiting for help, Ernst died of prostate cancer last year. So today, Castle is alone fighting for her family’s survival as many are struggling to resume their lives after the earthquake.
On Thursday morning, she tried to breastfeed her 9-month-old daughter. But after a year surviving on scraps in a makeshift camp, Castle had no milk. The young girl, Wood Brannan Ernest, fell asleep during her failed attempt.
Duverseau Marie Cepht shows a photo of her, before the amputation of one of her legs after she was injured last year by a 7.2-magnitude earthquake that struck the Lagodray region of Les Cayes, Haiti, Friday, August 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Audlin Joseph)
“I don’t have anything to count on them,” Castle said.
Even worse, others fall victim to the earthquake.
In one of the camps, friends of the landlord try to reclaim the land where the refugees settled. The thugs tore down huts, threw stones at families, and tried to set the camp on fire twice in recent months.
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The camp, like many others, also flows quickly when it rains, forcing hundreds to flee to higher ground while watching their belongings sink.
Said Rinil Sene, a 65-year-old who lost four children in the earthquake, and who once worked in the nearby fields of vetiver, a plant whose roots produce an oil used in luxury perfumes.
1:23 The Prime Minister of Haiti rushes to safety as an armed group opens fire. The Prime Minister of Haiti rushed to safety as an armed group opens fire – January 4, 2022
Families walk to get well water, sometimes letting sediment settle before drinking it. Many of them do not have a job. They depend on the neighbors for their only meal of the day.
Those living in the camps say they have heard over the radio that local government officials have met with international leaders about the post-earthquake plight, but wonder if they will ever be helped.
“So far, they’ve all been promises,” said 55-year-old farmer Nicholas Wilbert Ernst. “I don’t know how long I should wait.”
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On the anniversary of the earthquake, a group of government officials held a press conference describing the progress made by the administration of Prime Minister Ariel Henry, who began leading the country shortly after the assassination of President Jovenel Moise on July 7, 2021.
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The government says it has planted 400 tons of beans, cleaned 10,000 meters of canals, distributed 22,000 bags of fertilizer and donated more than 300,000 baskets full of basic goods. It provided $100 per vulnerable person in tens of thousands of homes in the South. The state also opened a temporary bridge over the Grand Anse River in early August.
But UNICEF warned last week that more than 250,000 children still do not have access to adequate schools and that the majority of 1,250 schools destroyed or damaged have not been reconstructed. He pointed out that the lack of funding and the escalation of violence delayed the reconstruction process.
Increasingly powerful gangs have taken control of the main road from the capital, Port-au-Prince, to Haiti’s southern region, disrupting efforts to provide food, water and other essential goods to those in need.
Many organizations were forced to pay bribes to avoid kidnapping employees while driving south.
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Cindy Cox Roman, CEO of the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit HelpAGE USA, said there is a “great feeling on the part of the people out there that they are on their own in this.”
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Cassendy Charles, director of the emergency program at the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Mercy Corps, estimates that it could take the region up to five years to fully recover from the earthquake. The organization had to use boats and planes to ferry supplies to the south, but even that is complicated because the port is located near the slum of Sait Soleil, where more than 200 people are believed to have been killed recently due to fighting between rival gangs. province.
“The situation is volatile,” he said.
Meanwhile, double-digit inflation has deepened poverty. Mary Daddy Dorvergos, a kindergarten teacher who lives with her two children at a camp, said a bag of rice that cost 750 gourdes ($6) last year now costs 4,000 gourdes ($31).
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Berlin Laguerre, a street vendor who once sold second-hand clothes, said the money she saved to buy more clothes went to feed her children. There was nothing left to send them to school or buy them uniforms or books.
And the kids ask me, ‘Mom, when am I going to go back to school? My friends said, “What about me?”
One morning, Laguerre stood in line with other people in front of tent #8, where Bowzel Evenio was making sweet coffee for neighbors in need, a system that became key to survival.
“I can’t do this every morning, but on the days I do, I feel happy to be able to share coffee with my neighbours,” said the 48-year-old.
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But after a moment, she said she was worried that her 14-year-old daughter might be raped in the camp. Rape was a common occurrence in similar camps that spread after the devastating 2010 earthquake that killed an estimated 300,000 Haitians.
Jocelyn Jost became the unofficial director of Camp Deverell after the last major earthquake. He and other self-appointed leaders have handwritten dozens of letters and visited local nonprofits in an effort to get government officials’ attention.
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“We are doing everything we can to survive,” he said.
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Coto reported from San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week.
MOVIES
— As an action star, Sylvester Stallone’s most iconic characters — Rocky Balboa, Rambo — have always relied on plain old brawn for his powers. (OK, and some human growth hormone.) But in “Samaritan,” the 76-year-old Stallone stars as aged superhero with superhuman strength living anonymously as a garbage collector. The film, which premieres Friday on Amazon Prime Video, was made by MGM but has seen its release delayed numerous times over the past two years before landing exclusively on the streaming platform.
— “Funny Pages,” which opens Friday in theaters and on video-on-demand, represents an even more winding path to release. Owen Kline (son of Kevin Kline and Phoebe Cates) struggled to find attention for his directorial debut. But after “Uncut Gems” filmmakers Josh and Benny Safdie signed on as producers, A24 picked up the film and it premiered earlier this year in the Directors’ Fortnight section at the Cannes Film Festival. And the film — a grungy coming-of-age tale that channels a low-budget ’90s indie spirit — is one of the year’s standout debuts. Daniel Zolghardri stars as a teenage cartoonist who shirks his posh family life in Princeton, New Jersey, to live alone in Trenton and try to make it as an R. Crumb-like artist.
— In “Me Time,” Kevin Hart plays a stay-at home father whose wife (Regina Hall) and kids go away for the weekend, allowing him to reconnect with an old friend (Mark Wahlberg). A wild weekend ensues. Streaming Friday on Netflix.
— AP Film Writer Jake Coyle
MUSIC
— If 13 is an unlucky number, don’t tell DJ Khaled. His new album “God Did” is his 13th full-length set and he’s teased it with the banger “Staying Alive” alongside frequent collaborators Drake and Lil Baby. Another apparent combo on the Friday release is a song with Future and Lil Baby, at least according to an Instagram post. Khaled also confirmed that Future would be featured on the record two times, and in a third post shouted out his two rap peers for “believing” in him. “They don’t believe in us, Future did, Lil Baby did,” Khaled wrote. If that’s not enough to entice you, earlier in August he confirmed that Jay-Z would also feature on the record.
— Marcus King and his blistering guitar skills have once again teamed up with Black Keys frontman and Grammy-winning producer Dan Auerbach to create the album “Young Blood,” out Friday. “Young Blood” follows King’s Grammy-nominated album “El Dorado,” and features the bluesy, rocking “Blood on the Tracks.” Born into a musical family, King’s musical gifts earned him a following as a teenager and the album is soaked in ’70 rock ’n’ roll. One highlight is the Free-sounding “Good and Gone” with the opening line “Look out your window baby, here come your man/Looking suspicious with that gun in his hand.”
— Duncan Sheik returns with a clutch of his own music on Friday after working on theater musicals for a while. “Claptrap” is the singer-songwriter’s ninth studio album and first in seven years. It boasts the slinky “Experience,” the Peter Gabriel-ish ballad “Maybe” and the electronic-bouncy “There’s No Telling,” which includes a nod to his theatrical roots in the lyric, “Don’t cry for me, Argentina.” The “Barely Breathing” songwriter has made a second name for himself on the stage, including the Broadway shows “Spring Awakening” and “American Psycho” as well as the new “NOIR.”
— AP Entertainment Writer Mark Kennedy
TELEVISION
— The nickname Canoe Man has a friendly ring to it. It was, however, what a British man was branded for faking his drowning death in an insurance scam. The quirkily titled miniseries “The Thief, His Wife & The Canoe” is based on the real-life story of a former prison officer whose scheme went far afield of what he promised his spouse. The couple, played by Eddie Marsan (“Sherlock,” “Ray Donovan”) and Monica Dolan (“A Very English Scandal”), left their sons in the dark and grieving over their still-alive dad, which didn’t endear them to the judge who ultimately presided over the case. The series debuts Tuesday on the BritBox streaming service.
— “Katrina Babies” reveals the hurricane’s unending toll on New Orleans. The HBO documentary is from first-time filmmaker and New Orleans native Edward Buckles Jr., who was 13 when the deadly hurricane hit in 2005. He’s spent the past half-dozen years collecting the memories of those who also endured the tragedy as youngsters. The film combines interviews, home movies, animation and archival footage to reveal the grief yet harbored by survivors and to probe the trauma of multigenerational racism. “Katrina Babies” debuts Wednesday on HBO and will be available to stream on HBO Max.
— Looking for something to tide you over until “The Crown” returns later this year? Try PBS’ “The Boleyns: A Scandalous Family,” a three-part docuseries debuting Sunday on PBS and PBS.org. Even casual royal followers may know that Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII, was beheaded for alleged crimes of adultery and treason. Turns out Anne’s fate was rooted not only in her lofty ambitions but those of her power-hungry family, as detailed in the series by rare original letters and documents from the 16th-century, the perspective of Tudor scholars and dramatic re-enactments.
— AP Television Writer Lynn Elber
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GEORGE, Wash. (AP) — The Grant County Sheriff’s Office in Washington state believes its deputies stopped a man from carrying out a mass shooting at the Gorge Amphitheater Friday night.
The sheriff’s office said people at the event and security personnel told them at around 9 p.m. of a man in the parking lot near his vehicle, KOIN-TV reported.
Witnesses saw the man inhale an unknown substance from a balloon and then load two 9mm pistols from the trunk of his car, according to the sheriff's office.
Witnesses also told investigators the man put one gun in the waistband of his pants and the other in a holster that was outside his waistband.
Witnesses say he then approached concertgoers and asked what time the concert ended and where they would be leaving the venue.
The sheriff’s office said the man, identified as Jonathan Moody of Ephrata, Washington, was stopped by security outside the gates and disarmed. The sheriff’s office said no one was injured.
After investigating, deputies arrested Moody on suspicion of one count of possession of a dangerous weapon and one count of unlawful carrying or handling of a weapon. Moody was lodged in the Grant County Jail. It wasn't immediately known if he has a lawyer to comment on his behalf.
The event happened at the Gorge Amphitheater at the time was the sold-out concert series Bass Canyon, and electronic dance music festival. The outdoor venue holds about 25,000 people.
The Gorge Amphitheater does not allow weapons on site.
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Here's Why Buffett Loves Oxy
Famed investor Warren Buffett is steadily snowballing a stake in Occidental Petroleum Corp. in what could end up being his biggest-ever acquisition. His Berkshire Hathaway Inc. on Friday won approval to buy as much as 50% of the shares. Some investors believe it’s a step toward a full takeover, which may end up costing more than $50 billion.
Here’s why Occidental is attractive to Berkshire:
Oil
Inflation looks to be the mega-trend for the first half of the 2020s and crude oil is one of the best natural hedges out there. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and a lack of investment in new oilfields over the past five years have hit supplies, leading to stagnant production profiles everywhere from OPEC to US shale. Meanwhile, demand for fossil fuels has been strong coming out of the pandemic even as governments push for a switch to clean energy.
With investments across the energy sector from utilities to solar power, Buffett claims to be a realist in the debate around fossil fuels. “People that are on the extremes of both sides are a little nuts,” he said at a Berkshire shareholder meeting in 2021.
Familiarity
Buffett first invested in Occidental in 2019 when the oil company was in a bidding war with Chevron Corp. to buy its crosstown Houston rival, Anadarko. Occidental CEO Vicki Hollub flew to Omaha, Nebraska, on the company’s Gulfstream V and convinced Buffett to add $10 billion to her war chest. It was enough to swing the deal and Chevron pulled out soon after. In exchange, Buffett got preferred shares yielding 8% annually plus warrants to buy more common stock at $59.62 apiece. Today, with Occidental at $71.29, those warrants would turn a profit of more than $900 million if exercised.
Value
Initially the Anadarko deal was a disaster because it loaded up Occidental’s balance sheet with more than $30 billion of additional debt right before the pandemic. Occidental’s market value went from $50 billion before the 2019 transaction to less than $9 billion toward the end of 2020 as oil prices crashed.
But on the flip side, this created a good value play for Buffett. When crude turned around late last year and was supercharged by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Occidental was best-placed to benefit. The stock is the best performer in the S&P 500 this year, up more than 140% compared with the index’s 11% decline.
“Oxy started this year heavily indebted with massive oil exposure,” said Bill Smead, who manages $4.8 billion at Smead Capital Management Inc. and is a top 20 shareholder in Occidental. Soaring crude prices mean “they’re now paying off that debt and gushing cash. It’s the best of all worlds.”
Cash
Too much cash has been Berkshire’s biggest investing challenge over the past few years. The conglomerate had about $105 billion on hand at the end of June. It is expected to generate about $8 billion in free cash flow each quarter for the next five years, according to Greggory Warren of Morningstar Research Services LLC. Inflation at the highest in 40 years is a great incentive to put that money to work.
Occidental would work better as a subsidiary of Berkshire than a stock holding “given the volatility that exists in the energy/commodity markets,” Warren said. “This could end up, though, evolving into a slow-motion takeover where Berkshire buys up to the stakes that FERC allows it to acquire until it can acquire Oxy whole.”
Shale
Occidental is not only one of the biggest producers in the Permian Basin, the largest US oilfield, but it also has one of the lowest costs with an oil price of just $40 a barrel needed to sustain its dividend. West Texas Intermediate currently trades at about $90 a barrel. Hollub has reined in the “drill-baby-drill” mentality that characterized shale for the first decade of its lifespan and is now prioritizing profits over production. Free cash flow hit a record $4.2 billion in the second quarter.
The Anadarko purchase may have been expensive, but it allowed Occidental to lift its land holdings in the Permian to 2.8 million acres, 14 times the size of New York City’s five boroughs combined. It also added steady, cash-flowing assets in the Gulf of Mexico and Algeria.
CEO
Buffett has a good personal relationship with Hollub, which began at the 2019 meeting in Omaha, brokered by Bank of America Corp. CEO Brian Moynihan. This year, the veteran investor praised Hollub after reading a transcript of Occidental’s Feb. 25 earnings conference call in which she pledged financial discipline even as oil prices were rising.
“I read every word, and said this is exactly what I would be doing,” Buffett told CNBC’s Becky Quick in “Squawk Box” in March. “She’s running the company the right way.”
Inflation Reduction Act
The oil industry mostly criticized the Inflation Reduction Act that President Joe Biden signed into law this month. The $437 billion legislation “discourages needed investment in oil and gas” and offers “the wrong policies at the wrong time,” the American Petroleum Institute said.
But Hollub was surprisingly upbeat, calling the bill “very positive.” That may have something to do with its expansion of tax credits for carbon capture, of which Occidental is a leading proponent. The company has plans to build the world’s biggest direct air capture plant which will command a tax credit of as much as $180 for each ton of carbon sucked out of the air.
--With assistance from Hema Parmar, Katherine Chiglinsky and Joe Carroll.
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At the end of the latest market close, Coterra Energy Inc. (CTRA) was valued at $30.30. In that particular session, Stock kicked-off at the price of $30.34 while reaching the peak value of $30.82 and lowest value recorded on the day was $30.16. The stock current value is $30.82.Recently in News on August 16, 2022, Coterra Energy Announces Management Changes. Coterra Energy Inc. (NYSE: CTRA) (“Coterra” or the “Company”) today announced current and pending retirements of three executive officers of the Company, along with the promotions of three individuals into executive leadership roles. Effective September 30, 2022, Steven W. Lindeman, Senior Vice President – Production and Operations, and Phillip L. Stalnaker, Senior Vice President – Marcellus Business Unit, will be retiring from their roles. Francis B. Barron, Senior Vice President and General Counsel has also indicated his intention to retire in the first quarter of 2023 and will transition out of his current role also effective September 30, 2022. You can read further details here
Coterra Energy Inc. had a pretty favorable run when it comes to the market performance. The 1-year high price for the company’s stock is recorded $36.55 on 06/08/22, with the lowest value was $18.39 for the same time period, recorded on 01/24/22.
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Coterra Energy Inc. (CTRA) full year performance was 125.14%
Price records that include history of low and high prices in the period of 52 weeks can tell a lot about the stock’s existing status and the future performance. Presently, Coterra Energy Inc. shares are logging -14.23% during the 52-week period from high price, and 132.47% higher than the lowest price point for the same timeframe. The stock’s price range for the 52-week period managed to maintain the performance between $13.26 and $35.93.
The company’s shares, operating in the sector of Energy managed to top a trading volume set approximately around 3468731 for the day, which was evidently lower, when compared to the average daily volumes of the shares.
When it comes to the year-to-date metrics, the Coterra Energy Inc. (CTRA) recorded performance in the market was 67.44%, having the revenues showcasing 1.33% on a quarterly basis in comparison with the same period year before. At the time of this writing, the total market value of the company is set at 24.33B, as it employees total of 936 workers.
Analysts verdict on Coterra Energy Inc. (CTRA)
According to the data provided on Barchart.com, the moving average of the company in the 100-day period was set at 29.50, with a change in the price was noted +3.07. In a similar fashion, Coterra Energy Inc. posted a movement of +11.20% for the period of last 100 days, recording 9,785,092 in trading volumes.
Total Debt to Equity Ratio (D/E) can also provide valuable insight into the company’s financial health and market status. The debt to equity ratio can be calculated by dividing the present total liabilities of a company by shareholders’ equity. Debt to Equity thus makes a valuable metrics that describes the debt, company is using in order to support assets, correlating with the value of shareholders’ equity The total Debt to Equity ratio for CTRA is recording 0.26 at the time of this writing. In addition, long term Debt to Equity ratio is set at 0.25.
Coterra Energy Inc. (CTRA): Technical Analysis
Raw Stochastic average of Coterra Energy Inc. in the period of last 50 days is set at 56.41%. The result represents downgrade in oppose to Raw Stochastic average for the period of the last 20 days, recording 90.93%. In the last 20 days, the company’s Stochastic %K was 90.91% and its Stochastic %D was recorded 81.55%.
Let’s take a glance in the erstwhile performances of Coterra Energy Inc., multiple moving trends are noted. Year-to-date Price performance of the company’s stock appears to be pessimistic, given the fact the metric is recording 67.44%. Additionally, trading for the stock in the period of the last six months notably improved by 39.59%, alongside a boost of 125.14% for the period of the last 12 months. The shares increased approximately by 5.72% in the 7-day charts and went down by 9.86% in the period of the last 30 days. Common stock shares were driven by 1.33% during last recorded quarter. | https://investchronicle.com/2022/08/22/coterra-energy-inc-ctra-cant-be-written-off-after-posting-last-3-months-average-volume-of-10-38m/ | 2022-08-22T21:43:02Z | https://investchronicle.com/2022/08/22/coterra-energy-inc-ctra-cant-be-written-off-after-posting-last-3-months-average-volume-of-10-38m/ | true | 19675 |
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