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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. , Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Haig Partners LLC, the leading buy-sell advisory firm to auto, heavy truck and RV dealers in the U.S., served as the exclusive advisor on the sale of a majority stake in John Elway's Crown Toyota to Swickard Auto Group. John Elway's Crown Toyota, located in Ontario, CA, has been one of the highest selling Toyota dealerships in the US for many years.
The total value paid for John Elway's Crown Toyota is believed to be the second highest all-time for a dealership franchise in the U.S.
John Elway's Crown Toyota is owned by National Football League Hall of Famer John Elway, Mitch Pierce Dan Grubb, and Paxton Gagnet. John Elway's Crown Toyota regularly sells between 6,000 and 7,000 new vehicles per year. In addition, John Elway's Crown Toyota has frequently been awarded to the Toyota President's Cabinet, a status achieved by only 12 dealerships per year. This "best of the best" award reflects excellence in sales performance, customer satisfaction and other operational measures. One key in the store's success is the "one-price" sales method that John Elway's Crown Toyota has used for many years that provides pricing transparency and allows a purchase to be completed in less than an hour in many cases.
Mitch Pierce, President and Partner at Elway Dealers, and John Elway, Partner at Elway Dealers issued a joint statement, "It has been a great honor to work with an incredible team to build John Elway's Crown Toyota into one of the top performing Toyota dealerships. We thank all those who have contributed to its mighty success. But we are not retiring! We continue to own an equity stake in Crown Toyota and we want to continue to build our dealership group in the Mountain States and the Southwest. We enjoy the car business and are investing for the long-term. Many thanks to Alan Haig, who knew the one, very best, counterparty for us out of all the buyers in the market. His knowledge of the landscape of auto retailers is remarkable and his commitment to confidentiality and ability to navigate a smooth and successful transaction were invaluable for us during this process."
Swickard Auto Group owns 31 dealerships located in California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska and Texas. The group was founded by Jeff Swickard in 2014 and has grown rapidly to become one of the largest privately owned dealership groups in the United States. Swickard Auto Group ranked #64 on the 2021 Automotive News Top 150 Dealership Groups list. It generated $1.6B in revenue on the sale of 31,510 new and used vehicles.
Jeff Swickard stated, "We are excited to acquire this outstanding dealership and have Mitch and John as minority partners. John Elway's Crown Toyota is well known for its high volume and focus on guest experience, and we plan on keeping it that way. Paxton Gagnet, who has been the GM-Partner for many years, will continue to lead the dealership. I'd like to thank Alan Haig for helping Mitch Pierce, John Elway, and I to put this transaction together. Alan was instrumental in helping us shape the strategic partnership between our teams and providing insight into how we could work collaboratively on this type of opportunity, the first of its kind for our group."
Alan Haig, President of Haig Partners said, "This is a special transaction for me. I have known Mitch Pierce since 1996 when I came out with Mike Maroone to acquire his Toyota store in Arizona for AutoNation. We have been friends ever since. And Jeff Swickard has also become a close friend in the industry as we have had the opportunity to work on several transactions together. Jeff has developed an impressive management team and built one of the highest performing dealership groups in the US in less than a decade.
"I compliment him on this transaction, which reflects a growing trend towards partnerships in our industry. We are seeing dealers interested in selling some, but not all of their ownership in dealerships or dealership groups. They want liquidity or capital for future growth, but don't want to sell out completely, so they are willing to take on a partner. And we are seeing new investment firms that are seeking to put large amounts of capital to work inside dealership groups through minority or majority investments, but not full purchases. Given how capital intensive our industry is, our team at Haig Partners believes that this marriage between operating talent and deep-pocketed investment firms will be increasingly common.
"Finally, this transaction demonstrates that Toyota is perhaps the most desired brand in the industry today. Toyota is fully committed to supporting its retailers and is not dabbling in the agency model or other ideas that could harm both the retailer and the OEM. The Toyota dealership business model is superb with high new and used vehicle sales and excellent fixed operations that allow dealers to make strong profits. Plus, customers can choose from a wide variety of top-quality vehicles. Toyota's long-term commitment to the health of the dealer is a key reason that Toyota sells more vehicles than any other OEM. It's truly a win-win-win for the customer, the dealer and the OEM."
The team at Haig Partners has been involved in the purchase or sale of 67 dealerships in California and 33 Toyota stores nationwide, far more than any other team. Haig Partners has advised on the sale of 31 dealerships nationwide so far in 2022.
James Barone of Ferruzzo and Ferruzzo provided legal counsel to Elway Dealers and Michael Fletcher of Tonkon Torp provided legal counsel to Swickard Auto Group.
Haig Partners LLC helps dealers to maximize the value of their businesses when they are ready to sell. The team at Haig Partners has unmatched experience with executives from leading retail dealer groups and financial institutions. They have advised on the purchase or sale of more than 575 dealerships for over $9.0 billion, more than any other firm. Haig Partners leverages its expertise and relationships to lead clients through a confidential and customizable sales process that also maximizes the value of their businesses. They author the Haig Report, the leading industry quarterly report that tracks trends in auto retail and their impact on dealership values, and are co-author of NADA's Guide, "Buying and Selling a Dealership." For more information, visit www.haigpartners.com.
Transaction Contact:
Alan Haig, Founder and President
Haig Partners
alan@haigpartners.com
(954) 646-8921
Media Contact:
Aimee Allen, Director of Marketing and Business Development
Haig Partners
aimee@haigpartners.com
(603) 933-2194
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Cothren registered the firm in New Mexico because the state allows anonymous registration of LLCs, and rebuffed requests for in-person meetings with Casada’s fellow lawmakers, saying the company representatives were out of state.
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U.S. officials told The Associated Press that the package is expected to be announced Wednesday, the day the war hits the six-month mark and Ukraine celebrates its independence day. The money will fund contracts for drones, weapons and other equipment that may not see the battlefront for a year or two, they said.
The total of the aid package — which is being provided under the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative — could change overnight, but not likely by much. Several officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the aid before its public release.
Unlike most previous packages, the new funding is largely aimed at helping Ukraine secure its medium- to long-term defense posture, according to officials familiar with the matter. Earlier shipments, most of them done under Presidential Drawdown Authority, have focused on Ukraine’s more immediate needs for weapons and ammunition and involved materiel that the Pentagon already has in stock that can be shipped in short order.
In addition to providing longer-term assistance that Ukraine can use for potential future defense needs, the new package is intended to reassure Ukrainian officials that the United States intends to keep up its support, regardless of the day-to-day back and forth of the conflict, the officials said.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg noted the more extended focus Tuesday as he reaffirmed the alliance’s support for the conflict-torn country.
“Winter is coming, and it will be hard, and what we see now is a grinding war of attrition. This is a battle of wills, and a battle of logistics. Therefore we must sustain our support for Ukraine for the long term, so that Ukraine prevails as a sovereign, independent nation,” Stoltenberg said, speaking at a virtual conference about Crimea, organized by Ukraine.
Six months after Russia invaded, the war has slowed to a grind, as both sides trade combat strikes and small advances in the east and south. Both sides have seen thousands of troops killed and injured, as Russia’s bombardment of cities has killed countless innocent civilians.
There are fears that Russia will intensify attacks on civilian infrastructure and government facilities in Ukraine in the coming days because of the independence holiday and the six-month anniversary of the invasion.
Late Monday, the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine and the State Department issued a new security alert for Ukraine that repeated a call for Americans in the country to leave due to the danger.
“Given Russia’s track record in Ukraine, we are concerned about the continued threat that Russian strikes pose to civilians and civilian infrastructure,” it said.
To date, the U.S. has provided about $10.6 billion in military aid to Ukraine since the beginning of the Biden administration, including 19 packages of weapons taken directly from Defense Department stocks since August 2021.
U.S. defense leaders are also eyeing plans that will expand training for Ukrainian troops outside their country, and for militaries on Europe’s eastern and southern flanks that feel most threatened by Russia’s aggression.
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Associated Press writer Lorne Cook in Brussels contributed to this report.
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The Chicago native enjoyed a significant height and reach advantage, peppering Mino with well-placed shots. The game Mino tried to close the gap and apply pressure but was dropped with a perfectly timed body shot. Mino was visibly hurt but made it back to his feet as the bell sounded to end the round.
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SEATTLE, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Magnolia Medical Technologies, Inc., commends the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for releasing its new evidence-based guidelines, Blood Culture Contamination: An Overview for Infection Control and Antibiotic Stewardship Programs Working with the Clinical Laboratory. These guidelines support Magnolia Medical's Mission to ZERO® with the goal of eliminating sepsis misdiagnosis and are intended to aid hospitals and healthcare systems in designing and implementing proven practices and technologies that decrease blood culture contamination rates.
Blood cultures are the gold standard test for detecting bloodstream infections, including sepsis. This blood test is one of the most clinically important and frequently performed diagnostic tests in U.S. hospitals; however, up to half of positive blood culture results are false-positive due to contamination in a typical hospital.3,4 These false-positive results compromise the quality of patient care and can lead to unnecessary and prolonged antibiotic exposure, extended hospital stay, and significant avoidable hospital costs.
Magnolia Medical's flagship product family, the Steripath® Initial Specimen Diversion Device®, is the only FDA 510(k)-cleared device platform specifically indicated to reduce blood culture contamination.6 Steripath® diverts and sequesters the initial 1.5 to 2.0 mL of blood prior to specimen collection. Steripath® is also the only all-in-one device solution that meets both the recently published CLSI M47 Principles and Procedures for Blood Cultures, 2nd Edition 2022, and CDC's new evidence-based guidelines for reducing blood culture contamination.
"Magnolia Medical has invested over a decade in product and clinical evidence development as well as training and education to support hospitals and healthcare providers nationwide in our collective mission to eliminate sepsis misdiagnosis," said Greg Bullington, CEO, and Co-founder of Magnolia Medical. "We are delighted to see the significant progress made toward a 1% or below national standard for blood culture contamination and are humbled to see our technology platform, the Initial Specimen Diversion Device®, specifically recognized within the CDC Guidelines."
Recently, the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI), a national organization that develops and sets standards for laboratory quality and performance, established a 1% goal, with best practices, for blood culture contamination.5 This new goal represents a 66% reduction compared to the longstanding national standard target contamination rate. All six studies cited within the CLSI guideline examined the clinical efficacy of Steripath® and/or referenced Steripath®-specific datasets and reported a sustained 1% or lower contamination rate.
The new CDC Guidelines reinforce the CLSI goal, stating that "when best practices are followed, a target contamination rate of 1% is achievable. Such thresholds can provide a method to benchmark within or between facilities." The CDC Guidelines also provided eight evidence-based practices for reducing blood culture contamination rates, including the use of Initial Specimen Diversion Devices® that divert the initial 1 to 2 mL of potentially contaminated blood prior to blood collection.
Steripath® is supported by extensive clinical evidence including 20 clinical and cost-effectiveness studies citing sustained contamination rates of 1% or below, up to a 31% reduction in vancomycin days of therapy, and as much as a 12-fold decrease in false-positive central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) over extended periods of time.7,8,9
"By increasing awareness of clinically proven technology solutions and best practice techniques, the CDC is playing a vital role in mobilizing the healthcare community to institute quality improvement efforts that reduce blood culture contamination in support of significantly improving sepsis testing accuracy," concluded Bullington.
Magnolia Medical Technologies develops, manufactures, and markets innovative blood and bodily fluid collection devices to facilitate significant improvements in the accuracy, consistency, and predictability of critical laboratory tests. Magnolia Medical invented and patented the Initial Specimen Diversion Technique® (ISDT®) and Initial Specimen Diversion Device® (ISDD®) for blood culture collection and contamination prevention. The company has amassed an intellectual property portfolio, including more than 100 issued method, apparatus, and design patents with more than 70 additional patent applications pending. For more information, visit www.magnolia-medical.com.
- CDC. Blood Culture Contamination Prevention Actions: An Overview of Infection Control and Antibiotic Stewardship Programs Working with the Clinical Laboratory. July 2022.
- CDC. National Email Update to Clinicians. Clinicians: Use this guide to decrease blood culture contamination rates. July 22, 2022.
- CLSI. Principles and Procedures for Blood Cultures; Approved Guidelines. CLSI document M47-A. Wayne, PA: Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute; 2007.
- Zwang O, Albert RK. Analysis of strategies to improve cost effectiveness of blood cultures. J Hosp Med. 2006;1(5):272-6. doi:10.1002/jhm.115.
- CLSI. Principles and Procedures for Blood Cultures. 2nd Ed. CLSI Guideline M47. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute; 2022.
- Indicated to reduce the frequency of blood culture contamination when contaminants are present, compared to standard method controls without diversion.
- Date on file.
- Nielsen LE, Nguyen K, Wahl CK, et al. Initial Specimen Diversion Device® reduces blood culture contamination and vancomycin use in academic medical center. J Hosp Infect. 2021;117. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2021.10.017.
- Tompkins LS, et al. Getting to zero: impact of a device to reduce blood culture contamination and false-positive central line-associated blood stream infections. Submitting to ICHE in 2022.
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According to federal prosecutors, the rapper has pleaded guilty to conspiring to possess and distribute at least 500 grams of cocaine. Fetty Wap’s attorney has asked for an expedited sentencing date.
According to federal prosecutors, the rapper has pleaded guilty to conspiring to possess and distribute at least 500 grams of cocaine. Fetty Wap’s attorney has asked for an expedited sentencing date. | https://www.saobserver.net/trending-video/fetty-wap-pleads-guilty-to-cocaine-conspiracy/ | 2022-08-23T18:00:18Z | https://www.saobserver.net/trending-video/fetty-wap-pleads-guilty-to-cocaine-conspiracy/ | false | null |
Sony has already revealed its plans to launch the new PS VR2 headset and has even showcased its design back in February. While a launch timeline was never known, recent information shared by the company fills that gap too. Here’s when to expect the PS VR headset successor.
Sony PS VR2 Headset Coming Soon
Sony, via a recent Instagram post and even a tweet, has confirmed that the PS VR2 headset will launch in early 2023. You should know that the exact launch date is still under the wraps and more on this should be out soon.
For those who don’t know, Sony has already revealed the design of the PS VR2 headset and the PS VR2 Sense controllers. Sony has paid attention to ergonomics and has even made the headset slimmer and more compact.
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The headset looks similar to the PS VR but comes with a few changes. For instance, it matches the aesthetics of the PlayStation 5 consoles and also features the Orb design to show the 360-degree view experienced by users. This is also the vibe for the PS VR2 Sense controllers. The PS VR2 headset features the new vent design, which is meant for easy heat dissipation so that the lens doesn’t fog up. It also comes with a new lens adjustment dial and a new built-in motor for required headset feedback.
As for the specs, the PS VR2 will come with support for a 4K HDR OLED display with up to a 120Hz refresh rate, eye tracking, 3D audio, new sensor features, and headset-based tracking instead of using a dedicated connected camera for this. It is also confirmed to support 20 major game titles at the launch.
However, we still don’t know the Sony PS VR2 price and this shall be revealed at the time of launch. the PS VR2 headset will compete with Meta’s Project Cambria and Apple’s much-rumored headset, slated to arrive in 2023. We will update you on all these details. So, stay tuned, and do let us know if you are excited about the Sony PS VR2 headset in the comments below. | https://beebom.com/sony-ps-vr2-launch-time-revealed/ | 2022-08-23T18:00:20Z | https://beebom.com/sony-ps-vr2-launch-time-revealed/ | false | 1 |
A former Mexican police officer in Tamaulipas is believed to be the crime boss behind the weekend dumping of a dismembered body.
The gory crime scene was found on Sunday morning in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas. According to information provided to Breitbart Texas by law enforcement sources, the body of a dismembered male was stuffed in trash bags and left in an urban plaza in the Jose Lopez Portillo neighborhood. The gunmen left a green posterboard bearing cartel threats signed by “Romeo.”
“This will happen to all the rats and emboldened [crystal sellers], Atte Romeo,” the gunman apparently wrote.
The victim was identified as Jorge Rivaldo Castillo López, 20, who was reported missing since August 15. The victim was recently been released from a state prison after drug and burglary convictions.
Romeo is the nickname of Antonio Romero Sanchez, a former Tamaulipas State Police squad leader who was secretly a local commander with the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas.
In July 2021, officials sent Romero and his police squad to Ciudad Mante to help control cartel violence, however, he helped the CDN-Los Zetas push back their rivals. Last summer, a videos recorded and spread by the Gulf Cartel exposed Romero.
Once outed, Romero left the force and fully serves the CDN-Los Zetas in Tamaulipas. Law enforcement sources note at least eight executions in and around Ciudad Victoria involving Romero. He has gone to ground for the last seven months, however.
Last year, the Tamaulipas government announced a reward of $500,000 pesos ($25,000 USD) for information leading to his capture.
Editor’s Note: Breitbart Texas traveled to Mexico City and the states of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, and Nuevo León to recruit citizen journalists willing to risk their lives and expose the cartels silencing their communities. The writers would face certain death at the hands of the various cartels that operate in those areas including the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas if a pseudonym were not used. Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles are published in both English and in their original Spanish. This article was written by “Francisco Morales” and “J.C. Sanchez” from Tamaulipas. | https://www.breitbart.com/border/2022/08/23/graphic-exclusive-mexican-border-state-cop-turned-cartel-lord-dumps-dismembered-body/ | 2022-08-23T18:02:10Z | https://www.breitbart.com/border/2022/08/23/graphic-exclusive-mexican-border-state-cop-turned-cartel-lord-dumps-dismembered-body/ | false | 1 |
US to send $3 billion in aid to Ukraine as war hits 6 months
WASHINGTON (AP) — As Russia’s war on Ukraine drags on, U.S. security assistance is shifting to a longer-term campaign that will likely keep more American military troops in Europe into the future, including imminent plans to announce an additional roughly $3 billion in aid to train and equip Ukrainian forces to fight for years to come, U.S. officials said.
U.S. officials told The Associated Press that the package is expected to be announced Wednesday, the day the war hits the six-month mark and Ukraine celebrates its independence day. The money will fund contracts for drones, weapons and other equipment that may not see the battlefront for a year or two, they said.
The total of the aid package — which is being provided under the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative — could change overnight, but not likely by much. Several officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the aid before its public release.
Unlike most previous packages, the new funding is largely aimed at helping Ukraine secure its medium- to long-term defense posture, according to officials familiar with the matter. Earlier shipments, most of them done under Presidential Drawdown Authority, have focused on Ukraine’s more immediate needs for weapons and ammunition and involved materiel that the Pentagon already has in stock that can be shipped in short order.
In addition to providing longer-term assistance that Ukraine can use for potential future defense needs, the new package is intended to reassure Ukrainian officials that the United States intends to keep up its support, regardless of the day-to-day back and forth of the conflict, the officials said.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg noted the more extended focus Tuesday as he reaffirmed the alliance’s support for the conflict-torn country.
“Winter is coming, and it will be hard, and what we see now is a grinding war of attrition. This is a battle of wills, and a battle of logistics. Therefore we must sustain our support for Ukraine for the long term, so that Ukraine prevails as a sovereign, independent nation,” Stoltenberg said, speaking at a virtual conference about Crimea, organized by Ukraine.
Six months after Russia invaded, the war has slowed to a grind, as both sides trade combat strikes and small advances in the east and south. Both sides have seen thousands of troops killed and injured, as Russia’s bombardment of cities has killed countless innocent civilians.
There are fears that Russia will intensify attacks on civilian infrastructure and government facilities in Ukraine in the coming days because of the independence holiday and the six-month anniversary of the invasion.
Late Monday, the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine and the State Department issued a new security alert for Ukraine that repeated a call for Americans in the country to leave due to the danger.
“Given Russia’s track record in Ukraine, we are concerned about the continued threat that Russian strikes pose to civilians and civilian infrastructure,” it said.
To date, the U.S. has provided about $10.6 billion in military aid to Ukraine since the beginning of the Biden administration, including 19 packages of weapons taken directly from Defense Department stocks since August 2021.
U.S. defense leaders are also eyeing plans that will expand training for Ukrainian troops outside their country, and for militaries on Europe’s eastern and southern flanks that feel most threatened by Russia’s aggression.
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Associated Press writer Lorne Cook in Brussels contributed to this report.
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The California Senate and Assembly have approved a bill limiting the ability for lyrics to be used against rappers in court cases.
Bill AB 2799 is now awaiting the signature of Governor Gavin Newsom, who is expected to sign and confirm the bill as law.
As Billboard report, the bill would restrict the use of song lyrics as evidence, and be banned from being referenced in court unless the prosecution can prove a direct relevance between the lyrics and the particular case, and that the process will not “inject racial bias into the proceedings”.
In a statement (via Pitchfork), the author of the bill, State Assembly member Reggie Jones-Sawyer, said: “Under current law rap artists can feel as though they are being read their Miranda Rights before they even begin to write music: ‘You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law’.
“We should not stymie the creative expression of artists. Unfortunately, racial biases play a role when talking about musical genres. Rap music lyrics share many similarities to that of other musical categories yet are singled out by the judicial system to characterise an artist. AB 2799 would disallow prosecutors from triggering racial biases or reinforcing racial stereotypes and it gives judges guidance on the use of creative expression in court.”
Earlier this year, the New York State Senate passed a similar bill, but it later did not pass through the State Assembly.
The purpose of this bill, and the California version, is to set a new high bar compelling prosecutors to show “clear and convincing evidence” that a defendant’s rap song, video, or other “creative expression” is “literal, rather than figurative or fictional”.
The passing of the California bill comes after YSL rappers Young Thug and Gunna were charged in Georgia, with a large amount of prosecutors’ case against them being taken from their song lyrics.
Both rappers were named in a 28-person grand jury indictment and charged with conspiracy to violate the state of Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act.
One of the most recent examples of rap lyrics being used in a criminal trial to paint a defendant as culpable was when the late Drakeo The Ruler was charged with murder in 2016. The LA rapper was acquitted, but the DA’s office re-filed charges over the same incident, meaning Drakeo remained in jail, eventually accepting a plea deal on lesser charges and being released with time served – after three years in custody. | https://www.nme.com/news/music/california-senate-and-assembly-approve-bill-limiting-use-of-rap-lyrics-as-evidence-in-court-3296179?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=california-senate-and-assembly-approve-bill-limiting-use-of-rap-lyrics-as-evidence-in-court | 2022-08-23T18:04:29Z | https://www.nme.com/news/music/california-senate-and-assembly-approve-bill-limiting-use-of-rap-lyrics-as-evidence-in-court-3296179?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=california-senate-and-assembly-approve-bill-limiting-use-of-rap-lyrics-as-evidence-in-court | true | 4 |
Powerball Winner: Did Anyone Win Monday's $90 Million Jackpot?
By Jason Hall
August 23, 2022
The Powerball jackpot will rollover on Wednesday (August 24) after zero players matched all six numbers during the $90 million drawing Monday (August 22) night.
The jackpot will now increase to $100 million ($56.7 million cash value) for Wednesday night's drawing.
Results from Monday's Powerball game are listed below:
NUMBERS: 12-27-34-55-67
POWERBALL: 9
POWER PLAY: 2x
The Powerball jackpot reset to $20 million after a player in Pennsylvania won the $205.9 million jackpot on June 30.
The Powerball jackpot has exceeded the half a billion mark 11 times during its existence. The largest most recent jackpot totaled $699.8 million on October 4, 2021, which was on by a player in California.
Three tickets in California, Florida and Tennessee won the $1.586 billion Powerball jackpot in January 2016, which set the record for the world's largest jackpot (cash value and annuity) and was the ninth largest cash value per ticket.
Mega Millions' jackpot reached $1.3 billion on Friday, July 29, 2022, before a player in Illinois matched all six numbers. The jackpot was the second largest cash value ticket in lottery history.
The Powerball and Mega Millions games previously offered a combined jackpot of more than $1.7 billion in January 2021.
Both jackpots increase during each following game until there's a jackpot winning ticket matching all six numbers drawn, which includes the additional Mega Millions "gold ball" or Powerball in each respective game. | https://www.iheart.com/content/2022-08-23-powerball-winner-did-anyone-win-mondays-90-million-jackpot/ | 2022-08-23T18:07:58Z | https://www.iheart.com/content/2022-08-23-powerball-winner-did-anyone-win-mondays-90-million-jackpot/ | false | 46 |
The Internal Revenue Service has seen drastic cuts to its budget in the past decade. Understaffed and operating with outdated technology, it is plagued with backlogs and performing fewer audits on the rich than on the poor.
Congress is about to hand the IRS $80 billion to fund a rehaul of the federal agency.
Here & Now‘s Celeste Headlee talks with ProPublica reporter Paul Kiel for more details.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/2022-08-23/set-to-receive-80-billion-from-congress-the-irs-plans-to-go-after-wealthy-tax-dodgers | 2022-08-23T18:09:41Z | https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/2022-08-23/set-to-receive-80-billion-from-congress-the-irs-plans-to-go-after-wealthy-tax-dodgers | true | null |
Nintendo livestream to reveal Splatoon 3, Harvestella gameplay
Direct to you on Thursday.Nintendo has announced a last-minute livestream to take place this Thursday, 25th August, featuring fresh Splatoon 3 gameplay and a look at Harvestella.
Tune in at 5.30pm UK time for a "deep dive" into Splatoon 3's single-player mode plus more details and strategies for this weekend's upcoming Splatfest World Premiere demo.
Following that, we'll see "world-first gameplay" for Harvestella, the farming role-playing game being made by Final Fantasy maker Square Enix.
The timing of this broadcast fits in with Gamescom this week - even though Nintendo previously said it would not be participating in the Cologne-based expo this year, and indeed does not have a presence on the show floor.
Instead, the broadcast itself is being handled by Nintendo of America - and specifically its Treehouse division, which regularly streams gameplay each year from the showfloor at E3.
Get ready for a Nintendo Treehouse: Live presentation on 8/25 at 9:30am PT featuring 3 segments:
— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) August 23, 2022
• A deep-dive into the all-new #Splatoon3 single-player mode
• Stages & strategies for the Splatfest World Premiere demo
• World-first gameplay for Harvestella pic.twitter.com/zQryJb9afa
We'll report any new details as they arrive - and be sure to tune in to tonight's Gamescom Opening Night Live stream for the other big announcements from the show.
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Football giants lock horns in Mainland Premiership
Tuesday August 23 2022
Dar es Salaam. A total of 40 goals have been scored so far in the Mainland Tanzania Premier League that completed its first two rounds.
This is a record in the league whereby in the last season, only 24 goals were scored during the first two rounds.
So far, former champions, Simba Sports Club are at the top with six points from two matches while defending champions, Young Africans (Yanga) are placed second with the same number of points, but differs on goal aggregates and averages respectively.
Simba have already collected five goals and are yet to concede while Yanga have scored four goals while allowing one. New promoted team Singida Big Star are placed in the third place with also six points and three goals in their pocket while conceding one goal.
The statistics show that, Simba SC, Yanga SC and Singida Big Star are yet to lose or draw in the past two matches and this makes the three coaches to be in a race of being voted in the best monthly coaches award.
At the same time, Mtibwa Sugar who are placed in the fourth position, Azam FC (fifth) and Namungo FC (sixth) have managed to win one match and draw once to collect four points each.
The league standing also shows that four teams have managed to win a match while losing one to collect three points. The teams are Mbeya City, Ruvu Shooting, Tanzania Prisons and Coastal Union.
Teams that have collected one point each are Polisi Tanzania, KMC and Geita Gold FC while Ihefu, Dodoma Jiji FC and Kagera Sugar are yet to win or draw any match and are placed bottom of the standing.
Statistics also show that Namungo FC striker Reliants Lusajo is leading the golden boot award with three goals. Lusajo scored two goals in the opening match against Mtibwa Sugar before scoring winning goal against Ihefu.
Players who have scored two goals are Fiston Mayele (Yanga), Moses Phiri (Simba), Sixtus Sabilo (Mbeya City), Matheo Anthony (KMC) Teps Evans (Azam), Nassoro Kuziwa of Mtibwa Sugar. | https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/news/sports/football-giants-lock-horns-in-mainland-premiership-3924016 | 2022-08-23T18:10:23Z | https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/news/sports/football-giants-lock-horns-in-mainland-premiership-3924016 | true | 1 |
Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine was 73% effective in protecting children younger than 5 as omicron spread in the spring, the company announced Tuesday.
Vaccinations for babies, toddlers and preschoolers opened in the U.S. in June after months of delay. Only about 6% of youngsters ages 6 months through 4 years had gotten at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine by mid-August, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Health authorities authorized tot-sized vaccine doses made by Pfizer and its partner BioNTech based on a study showing they were safe and produced high levels of virus-fighting antibodies. But there was only preliminary data on how that translated into effectiveness against symptomatic COVID-19.
The new update analyzed COVID-19 diagnoses between March and June in Pfizer’s ongoing study of the three-dose vaccine. There were 21 COVID-19 cases among the 351 tots who got dummy shots -- compared to just 13 among the 794 youngsters given three vaccine doses.
The child cases primarily were caused by the BA.2 omicron version that was circulating at the time. Today, another omicron relative, BA.5, is causing most COVID-19 cases in the U.S. and much of the world.
In older children and adults, the COVID-19 vaccines have been used long enough to prove that they remain strongly protective against severe disease and death even as the coronavirus mutates -- while early protection against infection wanes. Still, scientists track that initial effectiveness rate as extra evidence of vaccine performance -- and to look for signs of how they initially hold up against new mutants.
Pfizer this week asked U.S. regulators to authorize modified vaccine doses that better match the newest omicron variants for people 12 and older as boosters this fall. The company said it also is developing updated shots for kids under 12. | https://www.sun-sentinel.com/coronavirus/ct-aud-nw-covid-vaccine-pfizer-20220823-yh26hqwigvfr3b3i72kdcunify-story.html | 2022-08-23T18:10:26Z | https://www.sun-sentinel.com/coronavirus/ct-aud-nw-covid-vaccine-pfizer-20220823-yh26hqwigvfr3b3i72kdcunify-story.html | false | 49 |
Inmate who escaped from Burnside jail arrested in Annapolis Valley
An inmate who escaped from a Halifax-area jail Monday afternoon has been arrested in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley.
Halifax Regional Police say 43-year-old Ryan Taylor Wilband escaped from the Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility in Dartmouth, N.S., around 12:30 p.m.
Police say Wilband left the area on foot and was reported missing that day.
Police alerted the public to the inmate’s escape shortly after noon Tuesday.
The RCMP confirmed to CTV News that they arrested Wilband at a home in Kingston, N.S., around 2 p.m.
Wilband has been in custody at the Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility -- also known as the Burnside jail – on charges of robbery, theft, possession of a weapon dangerous to the public and breaches of probation.
The Department of Justice says it is conducting a "full review" of the incident.
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'I was very uncomfortable': Muslim family told they couldn't swim at Manitoba waterpark due to burkini
A Winnipeg family is looking to raise awareness about burkinis after an incident at a Manitoba water park during which they were told they couldn't enter the pool because of what they were wearing. | https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/inmate-who-escaped-from-burnside-jail-arrested-in-annapolis-valley-1.6038661 | 2022-08-23T18:10:28Z | https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/inmate-who-escaped-from-burnside-jail-arrested-in-annapolis-valley-1.6038661 | false | 9 |
MANHEIM — The Keystone Chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) has recognized those members that participated in the 2022 ABC STEP Safety Management System program.
Among the participants that achieved results in the program are five companies from Berks County, and one each from Montgomery and Chester counties.
Founded more than 30 years ago, STEP is a “world-class safety program” that dramatically improves safety performance among construction industry participants, according to a press release.
The STEP Safety Management System program recognizes achievements in five different levels: diamond, platinum, gold, silver and bronze. STEP participants measure their safety processes and policies on key components through a detailed questionnaire with the goal of implementing or enhancing safety programs.
Area Keystone Chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors members recognized for their participation this year are:
Silver:
Bertolet Construction, LLC (Wernersville)
Dolan Construction Inc. (Reading)
S&S Structures, Inc. (Fleetwood)
Talent-Corps (King of Prussia)
Vision Mechanical, Inc. (Reading)
Bronze:
Pincus Elevator Company, Inc. (West Chester)
Stuebner, Inc. (Reading)
“ABC members make it their top priority to ensure the safety of their employees,” G. David Sload, ABC Keystone president-CEO, said in a statement. “By creating a culture of safety dedicated to the total human health of every employee, ABC members consistently raise the bar for safety in the construction industry.”
According to ABC’s annual Safety Performance Report, STEP participants, regardless of company size or type of work, can reduce recordable incidents up to 84%, making the best performing companies more than eight times safer than the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics industry average.
Keystone Chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors STEP Safety Management System participants were recognized Aug. 16 during ABC Keystone’s Safety Recognition Breakfast. For more information about the STEP program, visit abcstep.org.
The Keystone Chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors is a construction trade association with headquarters in Manheim, Lancaster County, representing more than 625 construction-related firms and nearly 25,000 employees in 33 counties across Central Pennsylvania. For more information about the Keystone Chapter of Associated Builders and contractors or to see the full list, visit abckeystone.org.
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The expected timeline for a restart of the Freeport LNG terminal in the US was mid-to-late October but that's been pushed back by an update today.
That will mean more gas is stuck in the US and unavailable for export to Europe and the rest of the world. The huge 2 bcf terminal suffered an explosion on June 8 and has been under repair.
The new timeline is for initial production restarting in early-to-mid November and ramping up until the end of the month. Notably, it will continue to operate at only 85% of export capacity until March 2023.
That's a dramatic move in natural gas on the headlines. It hit $10 today for the first time since 2008 but is down to $9.26. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/us-natural-gas-prices-fall-as-freeport-pushes-back-full-restart-timeline-for-lng-facility-20220823/ | 2022-08-23T18:14:52Z | https://www.forexlive.com/news/us-natural-gas-prices-fall-as-freeport-pushes-back-full-restart-timeline-for-lng-facility-20220823/ | false | null |
The Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council’s Child & Youth Department is seeking a term (to March 31, 2025), full-time Senior Early Years Outreach Worker (SEYOW) based in Port Alberni. This position supports the developmental of healthy infants and children (aged 0-6 years) through supporting women, men and families during preconception, pregnancy, and the early years. The SEYOW acknowledges and encourages connection with the traditional teachings, stories and rituals related to pregnancy and early childhood that have been long held by Nuu-chah-nulth-aht. This position is responsible to provide support, coordinate Early Years Outreach Workers (EYOW) activities and to support the Manager of Child and Youth Services.
Position Responsibilities
- Conduct home visits with parents and be a resource to address concerns regarding child development issues
- Facilitates the development and implementation of individual care plans for children that reflect the choices and priorities identified by their families
- Assists the family in planning activities in the home and community which will encourage the growth and development of the child
- Introduces the family to community resources and comprehensive services which will be of benefit to the child and family
- Provide ongoing evaluation on activities
- Work collaboratively with the community to deliver group services that promote positive child development
Preferred Qualifications
- A related university degree, or diploma with relevant experience in a similar discipline (e.g., Early Childhood Education with experience, Nursing, or Child & Youth Care)
- Knowledge of existing historical barriers to active First Nation families and parent involvement in their child’s development
- Sensitivity to the real needs of First Nation’s families
- Able to act with tact, meet deadlines, and maintain productive working relationships
- Provide acceptable references and criminal record check
- Must have a car, valid driver’s license, and able to travel to NTC Central Region Communities
Competitive salary based on qualifications and experience: Salary range $55,000 - $70,000 annually.
Company
Location
Contact Info
Apply before 1pm September 6, 2022 by sending your cover letter, resume and three references (available to contact) to:
Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council
P.O. Box 1383
Port Alberni, BC V9Y 7M2
Attn.: Human Resource Manager
Email: apply@nuuchahnulth.org
We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. | https://hashilthsa.com/jobs/senior-early-years-outreach-worker | 2022-08-23T18:14:55Z | https://hashilthsa.com/jobs/senior-early-years-outreach-worker | false | 2 |
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A 5-year-old girl has drowned while attempting to cross the Rio Grande to enter Texas, Mexico’s National Immigration Institute said Tuesday.
The girl was attempting to cross the river with her mother Monday, when the current swept her away. The institute said two were from Central America, but did not specify which country.
The mother told rescuers she was holding her child, but the current swept her daughter out of her arms.
The child’s body was found downstream near Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas.
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Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ:PANW – Get Rating) had its price objective lifted by Wolfe Research from $700.00 to $715.00 in a report released on Tuesday, Stock Target Advisor reports. The brokerage currently has an “outperform” rating on the network technology company’s stock. Wolfe Research’s price target points to a potential upside of 27.10% from the company’s current price.
A number of other equities research analysts also recently issued reports on PANW. Wells Fargo & Company increased their price target on Palo Alto Networks from $700.00 to $750.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research report on Tuesday. Jefferies Financial Group reduced their target price on Palo Alto Networks to $600.00 in a report on Tuesday, May 17th. Oppenheimer reduced their target price on Palo Alto Networks from $700.00 to $600.00 in a report on Friday, May 20th. Cowen reaffirmed a “buy” rating and issued a $620.00 target price on shares of Palo Alto Networks in a report on Friday, May 20th. Finally, Cowen reaffirmed a “buy” rating and issued a $620.00 target price on shares of Palo Alto Networks in a report on Friday, May 20th. Three investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and thirty-one have assigned a buy rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, the stock has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $649.58.
Palo Alto Networks Price Performance
NASDAQ:PANW traded up $54.51 during trading hours on Tuesday, reaching $562.56. 146,595 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 1,282,539. The company has a market capitalization of $56.05 billion, a P/E ratio of -141.08, a P/E/G ratio of 22.33 and a beta of 1.18. Palo Alto Networks has a 1-year low of $367.21 and a 1-year high of $640.90. The business has a 50 day moving average of $503.60 and a 200 day moving average of $531.94.
Insider Activity at Palo Alto Networks
In related news, Director Aparna Bawa sold 951 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, May 25th. The stock was sold at an average price of $501.56, for a total value of $476,983.56. Following the completion of the sale, the director now directly owns 1,899 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $952,462.44. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this link. In other Palo Alto Networks news, Director Aparna Bawa sold 951 shares of Palo Alto Networks stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, May 25th. The stock was sold at an average price of $501.56, for a total transaction of $476,983.56. Following the completion of the transaction, the director now owns 1,899 shares in the company, valued at approximately $952,462.44. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through the SEC website. Also, EVP Lee Klarich sold 4,807 shares of Palo Alto Networks stock in a transaction dated Friday, June 10th. The shares were sold at an average price of $81,700.59, for a total value of $392,734,736.13. Following the transaction, the executive vice president now owns 247,744 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $20,240,830,968.96. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders sold 56,805 shares of company stock valued at $419,078,584 in the last three months. Corporate insiders own 2.20% of the company’s stock.
Hedge Funds Weigh In On Palo Alto Networks
A number of hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of PANW. Avondale Wealth Management bought a new stake in shares of Palo Alto Networks in the 2nd quarter worth approximately $25,000. Adirondack Trust Co. raised its holdings in Palo Alto Networks by 246.7% during the 2nd quarter. Adirondack Trust Co. now owns 52 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $26,000 after acquiring an additional 37 shares during the period. Worth Asset Management LLC bought a new stake in Palo Alto Networks during the 1st quarter valued at $26,000. Quent Capital LLC bought a new stake in Palo Alto Networks during the 2nd quarter valued at $27,000. Finally, Ronald Blue Trust Inc. bought a new stake in Palo Alto Networks during the 2nd quarter valued at $28,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 84.33% of the company’s stock.
Palo Alto Networks Company Profile
Palo Alto Networks, Inc provides cybersecurity solutions worldwide. The company offers firewall appliances and software; Panorama, a security management solution for the control of firewall appliances and software deployed on an end-customer's network and instances in public or private cloud environments, as a virtual or a physical appliance; and virtual system upgrades, which are available as extensions to the virtual system capacity that ships with physical appliances.
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Sam Ingram and Hui Tang reinforce the agency's commitment to Digital Experience and Data & Analytics
NEW YORK, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today imre furthers its commitment to practice area excellence with the addition of two senior leaders, Sam Ingram, Senior Vice President of Digital Experience, and Hui Tang as Head of Marketing Analytics.
Sam Ingram brings valuable client-side perspective to imre's Digital Experience team as it strives to design individualized and hyper-relevant patient and HCP experiences architected to deliver results. For over 20 years, Sam has focused on solving challenges with digital solutions across industries and brands.
Sam joins imre from Bristol Myers Squibb where he led Engagement Planning for Worldwide Customer Capabilities and was responsible for the integration of the acquired Celgene lymphoma myeloid hematology portfolio into the BMS digital marketing ecosystem. Additionally, Sam led a cross-functional team of internal & agency resources that managed the ongoing digital strategy for six brands including Sprycel, Reblozyl, and Inrebic. Prior to BMS, Sam led a variety of digital initiatives across Nestle Health Science, Prudential Financial, and Sharp Electronics. Sam will report to Lindsay McGettigan, Executive Vice President of Digital Experience.
Imre also welcomes Hui Tang who joins the agency with 10 years of data engineering and analytics experience, stepping into the role of Head of Marketing Analytics. In this role, Hui aims to integrate measurement solutions more fluidly into client engagements with a focus on interpreting the impact of the total marketing investment. Hui will also help clients strengthen measurement strategy, appropriate measurement solutions and sufficient data integration to ensure accountability and effectiveness of marketing plans.
Hui joins imre from SOLVE(D) where she served as Vice President of Marketing Science and brings deep understanding across key therapeutic areas including oncology, immunology, women's health and neurology, among others. Hui will report to Matthew Zogby, Chief Data Officer.
"Our clients are demanding we play a wider remit across their business, expanding from our equities as a Digital AOR into DTC and HCP AOR. Both Sam and Hui bring tremendous experience to strengthen and differentiate that way our client campaigns come to life, and we're excited by the possibilities their expertise will offer," said Mark Eber, President and Owner of imre. "We're fortunate to have them join our team, and we welcome them."
Imre works with many of the world's leading and high growth brands. Driven by innovation, the agency's integrated suite of marketing communications services include brand strategy, creative, digital marketing, social media, public relations and media, data & analytics. Imre partners with a diversified and growing portfolio of brands including AstraZeneca, Bausch & Lomb, GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer, among others. The agency maintains offices in New York, Los Angeles, Baltimore and Philadelphia in addition to a growing group of employees who work from anywhere. Imre is an LGBTQ-founded company.
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LONDON (AP) — Mixed signals are emerging about travel in Europe heading into the winter season. British Airways is cutting more than 10,000 short-haul flights in and out of London's Heathrow Airport through March, while nearby Gatwick Airport is ending its limits on the number of daily flights.
Major European airports have been chaotic this summer as people eager to travel after two years of COVID-19 restrictions ran up against staffing shortages, leading to long lines, baggage delays and flight cancellations. Airports like Heathrow, Amsterdam’s Schiphol and Gatwick capped how many passengers could fly each day or the number of flights to ease the travel mayhem over the past few months.
Gatwick said Monday that it wasn't renewing its daily flight limits, while Heathrow, Britain's largest airport, decided last week to extend its daily cap of 100,000 passengers through the end of October.
Heathrow's extension led British Airways to cancel 629 round-trip short-haul flights over the next two months. The airline also is canceling 10,000 flights departing or arriving at Heathrow from U.K. and European destinations through the end of March.
“We’ll be offering customers affected by any of these changes an alternative flight with British Airways or another airline or the option of a refund,” the airline said Monday. It added that “the vast majority of our customers will travel as planned and we’re protecting key holiday destinations.”
The cancellations come on top of thousands of flights that it initially axed in response to Heathrow’s passenger cap.
Meanwhile, Gatwick, Britain’s second-largest airport, said it has gradually increased traveler capacity and recruited more than 400 new security staffers to reduce delays.
“With additional resources across the Gatwick operation in place, no further moderation of flying programs is necessary,” airport officials said.
It had reduced flights to 825 in July and 850 in August compared with a reported 900 daily flights during the same period before the coronavirus pandemic.
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Alarm Over 300 Classified Documents Held Illegally By Trump At Mar-a-Lago
How many classified documents is too many? When Hillary Clinton used a private email address during her role as secretary of state, there were three emails that had marks that may have made them classified that were stored on the still-secure server. That was enough to generate media coverage that was literally wall to wall, including every single column of the front page of The New York Times, as well as congressional investigations, a prolonged investigation from the FBI, and endless chants of “lock her up!”
But when it comes to the boxes of material removed from Mar-a-Lago, the number of classified documents seems to be somewhat higher. Like, orders of magnitude higher. Because on Monday evening, the same New York Times reported that Trump was hoarding more than 300 classified documents. That includes at least one set of materials containing an unknown number of documents that were marked with the highest level of ”top secret/sensitive compartmented information.”
More than 150 classified documents were in the first tranche of material that Trump finally handed over in January after long efforts to secure their return by the National Archives. It was looking through that information that made it absolutely clear that Trump was holding hostage secrets that are vital to the nation. What the FBI found when they went back into the material Trump had not returned was as least as many more examples of classified material as it had found on the first pass.
On Tuesday morning, the story of Trump’s massive cache of national secrets does at least rate an appearance in the Times, even if it doesn’t get the screaming headlines and full-page coverage of someone who kept secure an ambiguously labeled email.
Exactly what subjects were covered by the materials recovered in the FBI raid is not specified, but there are two things of immediate note. First, the 15 boxes of material recovered in January reportedly held “documents from the C.I.A., the National Security Agency and the F.B.I. spanning a variety of topics of national security interest.”
The nature of these documents was such that,” not only did the National Archives immediately continue their correspondence with Trump in an effort to secure the remainder of the documents he had taken to Mar-a-Lago, they almost immediately began preparing to contact the FBI.
The second notable fact about these documents is that Trump claimed to have gone through all the information personally. According to the Times, multiple people have reported that Trump “went through the boxes himself in late 2021.” So even if Trump can claim to be ignorant of what got tossed into the boxes that he illegally hauled away from the White House, he certainly knew what he had even before sorting out the documents that were given to the Archives in January, And he gave no more than half of the documents that were classified.
That includes Trump taking documents that former White House officials had selected to be returned and putting them in a set of boxes for things he wanted to keep. Boxes that Trump labeled “Mine.”
The 26 boxes that the FBI carried away from Mar-a-Lago following the raid reportedly contain at least 11 sets of material clearly marked as classified, including that set of Top Secret/SCIF material. Earlier this month, Trump all but admitted that the documents recovered included information on the nation’s nuclear secrets after reports that nuclear weapons information was part of what drove the urgency in getting the material back.
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PHOENIX and ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators® (AAMVA) has incorporated U-Haul Safe Trailering® best practices in the latest version its Model Driver's License Manual, which is used as part of its Noncommercial Model Driver Testing System (NMDTS).
AAMVA develops and maintains NMDTS for use by motor vehicle agencies to assist with testing new drivers.
The updated AAMVA Model Driver's License Manual includes a section dedicated to safe trailering, with content provided by DIY moving and self-storage industry leader from its acclaimed U-Haul Safe Trailering Driver Education program. The program offers trailering education to the North American public for the purposes of preventing injuries, hazards and fatalities on our roadways.
"Trailering activities have broadened each year, and the need for safety education has increased accordingly," stated Joe Cook, U-Haul Vice President of Government Relations. "We are proud to partner with AAMVA to provide practical trailering information and basic guidelines for new drivers. Nearly everyone is exposed to trailer towing in one form or another. Understanding the elements involved is vital for safety. With U-Haul Safe Trailering content adopted into AAMVA best practices, jurisdictions can convey necessary information to new drivers before they begin their tow."
U-Haul® participation and cooperation with AAMVA spans decades in what began as an effort to facilitate vehicle registration reciprocity that would be fair to the transportation industry and member jurisdictions. Since 1959, U-Haul has partnered with AAMVA to sponsor and host the Traditional Past Chairs'/Presidents' Breakfast during the AAMVA's international and regional conferences.
"AAMVA and our members are committed to promoting highway safety and preparing drivers to be safe when they get behind the wheel," said Anne Ferro, AAMVA CEO. "The new guidance in our Model Driver's License Manual, including new information on safe trailering developed with our partners at U-Haul, will strengthen our already robust training materials and bring us closer to achieving our goal of Safe Drivers, Safe Vehicles, Secure Identities, Saving Lives."
The NMDTS establishes uniformity between jurisdictions for the testing of noncommercial operators and provides a base of core information for driver manuals and graduated driver license (GDL) parent instruction guides. The development and maintenance of the NMDTS ensures that new drivers receive proper information on safe operating practices and are tested to determine whether they possess the minimum knowledge and skills for entering the driver's license system.
Chrissy Nizer, Administrator of the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration and Chair of the AAMVA International Board of Directors, noted: "AAMVA members nationwide take their responsibility of training new drivers very seriously, knowing that the risk of a crash during the first few years of driving is much more likely. The new guidance provided in our Model Driver's License Manual and in the Noncommercial Model Driver Testing System, including the safe trailering information, is essential to helping our members do their jobs to ensure each person who receives their license is prepared for the road."
The U-Haul Safe Trailering initiative is adaptable to an assortment of audiences, including Driver's Education professionals, Highway Safety Offices, Law Enforcement agencies, youth safety groups and general public safety organizers. As a corporate member of the American Driver and Traffic Safety Education Association (ADTSEA) and National Student Safety Program (NSSP), U-Haul continues its longstanding commitment of encouraging the study and teaching of safe trailering.
U-Haul provides all education materials and experiences 100% free of charge to government, education and industry groups as a public service. The primary way U-Haul accomplishes this is with the Marco Garcia Trailering Demonstrator, a visual teaching tool that features a one-tenth-scaled car on a running treadmill; a weight-toting bar attached to the car, representing a trailer; and a wheel at the end of the treadmill for guests to steer the car.
VIDEO: Demonstrator teaches U-Haul Safe Trailering best practices
When loaded properly with 60% of the cargo weight toward the front of the trailer (in front of the axle), the wheel can turn abruptly and the trailer remains behind the car. But when loaded incorrectly with too much weight in the back, the demonstrator shows how an abrupt turn causes the trailer to fishtail, whipping and potentially creating a catastrophic towing scenario.
To inquire how the U-Haul Safe Trailering program can be your safe towing resource, please email trailerdemonstrator@uhaul.com.
About U-HAUL
Since 1945, U-Haul has been the No. 1 choice of do-it-yourself movers, with a network of more than 23,000 locations across all 50 states and 10 Canadian provinces. U-Haul Truck Share 24/7 offers secure access to U-Haul trucks every hour of every day through the customer dispatch option on their smartphones and our proprietary Live Verify technology. Our customers' patronage has enabled the U-Haul fleet to grow to approximately 186,000 trucks, 128,000 trailers and 46,000 towing devices. U-Haul is the third largest self-storage operator in North America and offers 895,000 rentable storage units and 76.6 million square feet of self-storage space at owned and managed facilities. U-Haul is the largest retailer of propane in the U.S., and continues to be the largest installer of permanent trailer hitches in the automotive aftermarket industry. U-Haul has been recognized repeatedly as a leading "Best for Vets" employer and was recently named one of the 15 Healthiest Workplaces in America. uhaul.com
About AAMVA
Founded in 1933, AAMVA serves North American motor vehicle and law enforcement agencies to accomplish their missions. The Association's vision of Safe Drivers, Safe Vehicles, Secure Identities, Saving Lives guides AAMVA's activities, resources, and programs in driver licensing, vehicle titling/registration, motor carrier services, identity management, and technology solutions. For more information visit www.aamva.org.
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MIAMI DOLPHINS (10-7)
New faces: Head coach Mike McDaniel (former 49ers offensive coordinator), WR Tyreek Hill, RB Chase Edmonds, T Terron Armstead, WR Cedrick Wilson Jr, LB Melvin Ingram, QB Teddy Bridgewater, OL Connor Williams, RB Raheem Mostert, DB Keion Crossen, FB Alec Ingold.
Key Losses: QB Jacoby Brissett, WR DeVante Parker, WR Mack Hollins, RB Duke Johnson, head coach Brian Flores.
Strengths: The Dolphins were second in scoring defense in the final nine games of the 2021 season, and they returned the majority of their defensive starters. Most importantly, Miami re-signed cornerback Xavien Howard, who leads the league in interceptions since 2016. On offense, the Dolphins have surrounded third-year quarterback Tua Tagovailoa with the playmakers he needs to take the next step. The receiving duo of second-year player Jaylen Waddle and former Kansas City Chief Tyreek Hill figures to be one of the speediest and most electrifying units in the NFL.
Weaknesses: Miami did not run the ball well last season in part because of issues and inconsistency along its offensive line. The Dolphins brought in three running backs in the offseason: Chase Edmonds, Raheem Mostert and Sony Michel, and they signed Pro Bowl offensive tackle Terron Armstead and Connor Williams to address their offensive line. The Dolphins haven’t shown much production in the run game so far in the preseason, but McDaniel has been associated with offenses known for their successful rushing attacks.
Camp development: Dolphins second-year safety Jevon Holland has had one of the best camps of any of Miami’s players and has shown how important he will be in Miami’s secondary. He recently had a multiple-interception practice, and has shown his closing speed in trailing Hill.
Fantasy Player To Watch: Waddle. The attention that Tyreek Hill will demand from opposing defenses will open up opportunities for other receivers in Miami’s offense, especially the Dolphins’ quick second-year receiver. Waddle had 104 receptions for 1,015 yards and six touchdowns last year.
FanDuel Says: Win Super Bowl: 40-1. Over/under wins: 8.5
Expectations: The Dolphins had one of the worst stretches in the NFL last season, losing seven straight games after winning their season opener. Then they went 8-1 to finish the season, though they missed the playoffs for the fifth straight season. Miami has surrounded Tua Tagovailoa with receiving options. The Dolphins brought in a new head coach in McDaniel, who came from a team with one of the best rushing attacks in the league. They added new pieces along their offensive line to address their protection issues and returned most of their defense from a year ago. If all of Miami’s offseason work pays off, multiple playoff wins are attainable, even in a tough, competitive AFC.
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Serena Williams tells Meghan of baby´s injury before match
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Serena Williams and Meghan recount challenges they've experienced as working mothers on the Duchess of Sussex's first podcast, including stories of having to work soon after scary incidents involving their children.
Williams, a 23-time Grand Slam champion who said recently "the countdown has begun" to her retirement, recounted on Meghan's "Archetypes" Spotify podcast Tuesday that she played a match at the 2018 French Open after a nearly sleepless night after her daughter, Olympia, broke her wrist.
"I somehow managed to win, but I was so emotionally spent and just like so emotionally drained that it was, it was crazy. And, you know, and then like every night after that, I just was with her the whole time and was like you´re going to be with me," said Williams, who has indicated that her final tournament will be the U.S. Open, which starts in New York next week.
The tennis great and Meghan, who are friends, spoke at length on Tuesday's episode about the challenges of balancing high profile careers in the public eye and motherhood.
"So when you went and played that match the next morning, no one knew what your night had been like the night before. They forgot that human piece of it," Meghan said about Williams' French Open experience.
Meghan recounted an incident during a tour of South Africa with her husband, Prince Harry, and their son, Archie, in which a fire broke out in her son's room and the pair had to leave their baby to continue their official duties. Archie was supposed to be napping in the room at the time, but his nanny had taken him out to get a bite to eat. The incident left everyone shaken, Meghan said.
Serena Williams appears at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, Calif., on March 27, 2022, left, and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, appears at a service of thanksgiving for the reign of Queen Elizabeth II in London on June 3, 2022. The first episode of "Archetypes," a podcast by Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, features a discussion between her and Williams on motherhood. The podcast is Meghan's first release as part of an exclusive deal with Spotify. (AP Photo)
She said she wanted to spend time with her son, but she and Harry had to go and do another official engagement.
"The focus ends up being on how it looks instead of how it feels," Meghan said. "And part of the humanizing and the breaking through of these labels and these archetypes and these boxes that we´re put into is having some understanding on the human moments behind the scenes that people might not have any awareness of and to give each other a break.
"Because we did - we had to leave our baby," she said.
Williams, who turns 41 next month, and Meghan spoke about the tennis star's recent announcement about stepping away from tennis. Williams said she discussed it with Prince Harry before revealing her decision publicly.
"Obviously I´m retiring professionally, but it´s also an evolution. I´m doing more business things. And I really want to expand my family. And, you know, I´ve been putting it off for so long. And as a woman, there´s only so, so long you can put that off," Williams said.
Harry and Meghan have a multi-year deal to produce and host podcasts for Spotify under their production company Archewell Audio. Meghan has said the "Archetypes" podcast will focus on harmful labels and stereotypes applied to women.
The Spotify deal is one of several high-profile deals the couple have struck, including one with Netflix. Harry and Meghan stepped away from royal duties in March 2020 over what they described as intrusions and racist attitudes of the British media toward the duchess. They have since relocated to California, where they are raising their children, Archie and Lili. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-11138895/Serena-Williams-tells-Meghan-baby-s-injury-match.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-23T18:24:39Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-11138895/Serena-Williams-tells-Meghan-baby-s-injury-match.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true | 12 |
Y'all know me, still the same O.G. but I been low-key
hated on by most these &^$$@s with no cheese, no deals and no G's, no wheels and no keys, no boats, no snowmobiles, and no skis, mad at me cause I can finally afford to provide my family with groceries
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BJP fumes over Muslim minister’s visit to Gaya temple along with Nitish
Bihar CM Nitish Kumar had on Monday offered prayers at the famous Vishnupad temple in Gaya, where he was accompanied by Mohammad Israil Mansuri, a cabinet colleague from his new ally RJD.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday accused Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar of causing “deliberate insult” to Hindu sensibilities by taking along a minister from another faith inside an ancient temple in Gaya where it is prohibited.
Kumar had on Monday offered prayers at the famous Vishnupad temple in Gaya, where he was accompanied by Mohammad Israil Mansuri, a cabinet colleague from his new ally RJD.
Mansuri, a Pasmanda Muslim who holds information technology portfolio, had later told reporters, “I feel blessed to have got the opportunity for a darshan of the temple with the honourable chief minister”.
As per convention, ministers in Bihar are given “prabhaar” (charge) of districts where they also head the respective program coordination committee. Mansuri has been given the charge of Gaya.
However, Bihar BJP president Sanjay Jaiswal reacted furiously.
“We demand a public apology from the chief minister. Can he think of setting his foot inside Mecca? Why must Hindus always adjust their religious sensibilities in the name of tolerance?” he asked.
“If the chief minister refuses to apologize, he should brace for protests from BJP workers everywhere, including the state assembly,” said Jaiswal, whose party is sore over loss of power in the state.
When pointed out that priests of the temple were reluctant to voice their anguish, the BJP leader said, “A common man cannot do much when the chief minister is intent on a deliberate insult to Hindu sensibilities”.
Working president and secretary of the trust managing the temple, Shambhu Lal Vitthal and Gajadhar Lal Pathak respectively, said they were not aware of Mansuri’s entry but it should have been “avoided” since a notice board outside the premises clearly stated that “only those believing in Sanatana Dharma” were allowed.
When deputy chief minister Tejashwi Yadav was asked to comment on the controversy, he said, “Nobody pays attention to BJP which stands for badka jhuttha (big liar) party”.
State cabinet minister Ashok Choudhary, who is also a senior leader of CM Kumar’s JD(U), said, “It is BJP’s mindset that Hindus and Muslims must not go to each other’s places of worship. We visit temples and mazaars with the same spirit”.
When pointed out that entry of non-Hindus is prohibited inside the Vishnupad temple, Choudhary said, “Mansuri ji must not have been aware of such a convention. But it is not something over which a fuss should be made.”
The chief minister was in Gaya to review the preparations for the forthcoming Pitri Paksha Mela, commencing from September 9 this year.
Mahesh Gupt, the senior most member of the Vishnupad temple committee, said, “We were not aware that anyone among the guests on Monday was a non-Hindu. We couldn’t recognize him (Mansuri) as we had not seen him and he did not appear different from others. But this could have been avoided. There’s a notice Board at the temple, stating clearly that admittance of non-Hindus is not allowed.”
Danish Rizwan, the spokesperson of Hindustani Awam Morcha, a constituent of the ruling alliance in the state, said, “It’s a secular country. Nobody would be allowed to encourage communal feeling.”
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UP’s largest biogas plant to come up in Mathura
Uttar Pradesh's largest biogas plant, with a feedstock capacity of 600 tonnes per day, is coming up in Barsana town of Mathura district, a government spokesperson said here on Tuesday. “With the operation of this plant, being set up in collaboration with Barsana-based the state, cow shelter Shri Mataji Gaushala will become one of the major contributors to bio-energy in the country,” he said.
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PMC schools to be ranked on cleanliness
The Pune Municipal Corporation has decided to rank its schools on cleanliness and solid waste management parameters. PMC with the help of Centre for Environment Education has started an annual awareness programme covering schools under the Swachh Survey 2023. The civic body on Tuesday organised a three-day workshop for teachers appointed as nodal officer by their school. The population of students in the city is around 10 per cent.
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Swargate-Katraj metro extension plan awaits Centre’s approval: CM
Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde on Tuesday told the Assembly that the Swargate-Katraj Metro extension route plan has been forwarded to the Centre for financial and technical approval. The 5.4-km Swargate-Katraj Metro underground route plan covers three stations though elected members demand one more station either near Bharati Vidyapeeth or at Balajinagar as there is no station between Padmavati and Katraj. The project, after the Centre's consent, is expected to be completed by April 2027.
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50 piers installed in 6 months, work of Pune Metro Line 3 gains pace
The installation of piers of the Pune Metro Line 3 project connecting the IT hub of Hinjewadi with the central hub of Shivajinagar has gained momentum as work for the 50th pier was completed on Monday at the Balewadi phata. The work of Pune Metro Line 3 on the Hinjewadi to Shivajinagar route has been jointly undertaken by Tata Group and PMRDA on the basis of Public Private Partnership.
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Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde, on Monday announced that ₹250 crore has been allocated for the land acquisition of the Pune ring road project, which is being executed by the Maharashtra Road Development Corporation. The land acquisition will be carried out in 83 villages in six talukas of Pune district. The state government has set a budget of ₹1,500 crore for this ambitious project, of which, ₹250 crore has been allocated. | https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/patna-news/bjp-fumes-over-muslim-minister-s-visit-to-gaya-temple-along-with-nitish-101661272887939.html | 2022-08-23T18:31:02Z | https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/patna-news/bjp-fumes-over-muslim-minister-s-visit-to-gaya-temple-along-with-nitish-101661272887939.html | true | 1 |
Covid and climate change pose similar behavioural challenges
4 min read . Updated: 23 Aug 2022, 10:23 PM ISTOur precious resources of public concern must not get squandered
Our precious resources of public concern must not get squandered
Climate-change activists should take some lessons from the mismanagement and miscommunication around the covid pandemic. In both cases, people across the political spectrum feel helpless in the face of the problem. In both cases, experts need to figure out how to get people to overcome these feelings and act.
True, these are not perfect parallels. Climate action faces a hurdle that hasn’t come up in the pandemic: a powerful fossil fuel lobby that’s been clever and influential, seeding public doubts about the science behind climate change. Still, climate-change denial is becoming rarer all the time, according to a survey released in April. It shows more than half of Americans believe human activity is causing climate change, and 64% say they are worried about it.
That study comes from George Mason University and the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, founded by Anthony Leiserowitz. He says both covid and climate change suffer from what he calls a lack of efficacy. Leiserowitz has looked at how public perception of the climate problem has evolved over the years. To keep up motivation to pitch in, he said, people need a sense that they can do something that’s effective—something that makes a true difference.
With the pandemic, people are feeling ‘done with Covid’ in part because they expended so much energy on things that, in retrospect, didn’t have much efficacy— from disinfecting their mail to keeping kids out of playgrounds to attempting to go for jogs in masks.
With climate change, the problem of emissions is so big people don’t know where to start. Everything we do and eat and buy leads to carbon emissions. “We have much more work to be done on that side," Leiserowitz said. “Even the people most alarmed about climate change don’t know what they can do as individuals or collectively."
Writing in The New Atlantis, social scientist Taylor Dotson uses the phrase “unsustainable alarmism" to describe the deflating bubbles of enthusiasm for covid or climate mitigation. “[W]hile catastrophes often demand large personal sacrifices to overcome, the public’s capacity to sustain these sacrifices has hard limits, and we should not simply treat this as a moral failure," wrote professor Dotson.
Yet, experts in both areas have been too condescending and too focused on how to manipulate people to behave, said Baruch Fischhoff, a professor of engineering and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University. “There’s very little emphasis in either domain on just getting the facts out or helping people," he said. People need more steps they can take that have a positive impact and less guilt and blame for not being perfect.
For example, think about masks. Getting scientific information on the loose-fitting masks people find comfortable still isn’t easy; the limited studies we have on universal masking to protect society have shown small effects with lots of uncertainty. I tried recently to ask an expert about the efficacy of surgical masks—since that’s what most people are wearing—and all I got was a vague answer that high-quality masks work. But should surgical masks count as ‘high quality’?
Fischhoff said that to make matters worse, experts often harp on things people already know and forget what they don’t know. With climate change, he said, experts wrongly assumed people knew that excess carbon dioxide can persist in the atmosphere for centuries, when in reality people mostly thought it would dissipate quickly like many other forms of air pollution. They didn’t see it as cumulative. And with covid, people are still unclear on which settings and activities pose people the highest and lowest risks.
In both domains, experts have been slow to admit that all mitigation measures come with costs. Many people find it hard to communicate and be understood when masks are worn all day at work or school. Likewise, measures to reduce emissions will cause more pain for some than others.
Of course, poor communication is far from the only problem. Political polarization has made it next to impossible for Americans to work together on climate. Every Republican in Congress voted against the Inflation Reduction Act, which appropriates an unprecedented amount of money to developing cleaner energy. And it didn’t take long for political fault lines to open up about covid, either. It doesn’t have to be this way. Americans weren’t always so polarized on climate change, said Leiserowitz, and there’s little polarization in Europe.
But covid has reminded us how quickly the precious resources of public concern and goodwill can be squandered. Let’s not make the same mistake with climate change.
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(The Hill) – Former White House chief of staff Karl Rove on Monday said former President Trump’s mounting legal problems “dampens the Republican enthusiasm” ahead of the midterm elections, estimating that Democrats are gaining ground in polls amid investigations into the GOP leader’s business and political practices.
Rove, who served in the George W. Bush administration, told Fox News that for the last two weeks the political conversation has centered on the FBI raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate rather than on high inflation and economic uncertainty under President Biden’s watch.
“The more we talk about that and the less we talk about the problems that we face as a country here and now, the better off the Democrats are,” Rove said. “It raises their enthusiasm, dampens the Republican enthusiasm.”
The FBI raided Trump’s Florida estate on Aug. 9 in connection to classified documents he allegedly took after leaving the White House.
The Department of Justice is investigating Trump for potentially violating the Espionage Act because the documents, possibly containing information on nuclear weapons, were supposed to be turned over to the National Archives.
While the GOP rallied around Trump after the unprecedented search of a former president’s home, the raid added to ongoing probes into the former president over the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol and a New York investigation into his business and tax dealings.
A Politico-Morning Consult poll released last week showed Democrats are leading Republicans by four percentage points on a generic congressional ballot ahead of the November midterm elections.
Republicans had been favored to win the House and possibly overtake the Senate earlier this year when Biden struggled to contain the political fallout and high inflation rates.
Democrats appear to be gaining steam after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and the nearly 50-year constitutional right to abortion, igniting protests, and passing crucial legislation in Congress, such as a major tax and spending bill and expanded health care benefits for veterans.
Still, nearly three-quarters of voters say the country is headed in the wrong direction, showing a wide disconnect between Americans and elected officials in both parties.
Rove on Monday said the renewed attention on Trump’s legal battles is distracting from what he said is the failure of Democrats to manage the nation.
“Ironically enough, the more we see Biden on the campaign trail, the more it’s going to remind people of the challenges that they think the country faces,” he said. “But that’s not where we’ve been for the last couple weeks.” | https://www.wtnh.com/hill-politics/karl-rove-trump-legal-problems-dampening-republican-enthusiasm-ahead-of-midterms/ | 2022-08-23T18:36:07Z | https://www.wtnh.com/hill-politics/karl-rove-trump-legal-problems-dampening-republican-enthusiasm-ahead-of-midterms/ | false | 11 |
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Footage of Oleksandr Usyk's defensive masterclass shows EXACTLY why Anthony Joshua couldn't defeat the Ukrainian, with the world champion's incredible footwork and slip counters bamboozling the Brit
- Footage shows Oleksandr Usyk's defensive masterclass against Anthony Joshua
- The 35-year-old beat the British challenger by split decision on Saturday night
- His quick footwork and superb slip counters continually frustrated Joshua
- The 32-year-old fighter lost his temper after he suffered defeat to the Ukrainian
- Usyk left Jeddah with two black eyes despite putting in a defensive masterclass
Footage of Oleksandr Usyk's defensive masterclass has shown exactly why Anthony Joshua struggled to defeat the Ukrainian in Saudi Arabia on Saturday night.
The 35-year-old boxer dazzled the Brit with brilliant footwork and slip counters throughout the fight, ultimately winning the bout by split decision and defending his IBF, WBO and WBA heavyweight belts.
The video footage shows Usyk continually chipping away at Joshua after countlessly dodging the challenger's efforts to land a left jab.
Oleksandr Usyk beat Anthony Joshua by split decision in Saudi Arabia on Saturday night
Footage shows Usyk dazzling the British fighter with fast footwork and superb slip counters
The frustrating nature of the fight - brought on largely by the Ukrainian's defensive brilliance - prompted Joshua to lose his temper after the defeat.
The former world champion threw two of Usyk's belts out of the ring and stormed off towards his dressing room, before returning to square up to the victor.
Joshua then grabbed the microphone to deliver an impassioned speech to the crowd, admitting that emotions had got the better of him.
The challenger cried during his post-fight press conference after losing his temper in the ring
The Brit said: 'If you knew my story you would understand the passion.
'I ain't no f***ing amateur boxer from five-years-old that was an elite prospect from youth.
'I was going to jail, I got bail and I started training my a*** off, because if I got sentenced I wanted to be able to fight.'
The Ukrainian still picked up two black eyes from his fight with Joshua despite defending well
In his post-fight interview, Joshua added: 'I had two fights, one with Usyk and one with my emotions and both got the better of me.'
Despite evading the 32-year-old numerous times throughout the fight, Usyk was pictured sporting two blacks eyes at Jeddah airport on Sunday.
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Crowds gather for music and family fun at Saffron Fest
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This year's Saffron Fest was held on The Common over the weekend, with a mixture of live music and family entertainment.
While organisers were pleased with the festival itself, some attendees experienced issues with queueing and accessing the site.
The event featured a range of music from the 1970s and 80s, including tribute acts to Abba and Queen, followed by the Ibiza Anthems Garden Party.
A family fun day was held on the Sunday with an Open Air Cinema showing The Greatest Showman and Grease. There was also live music from Graham Buxton and Laura Dennis, a bouncy castle, a giant slide and an obstacle course, and a meet and greet with film and TV characters.
A statement from the Saffron Fest organisers said: "We were pleased with the festival itself, which on the whole ran smoothly with no major incidents.
"There have, however, been issues raised with queues in relation to accessing the site and for the bars/food vendor. Saffron Fest holds customer’s safety and experience, cordial neighbourhood relations and approval of the responsible authorities to the very highest importance.
"This is why Saffron Fest liaised with those authorities to devise a very detailed Event Management Plan that included the management of queuing systems.
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"Unfortunately, on Friday, August 19 we were let down by a number of our staff who had contracted Covid. As per our safeguarding policy these staff members were told to stay at home.
"We worked throughout the night to address the issues raised by ticket holders on the 19th so that we could improve the customer experience for Saturday’s show on August 20.
"These improvements included but were not limited to; booking additional staff, placing additional lighting above the toilets, making the bars/food vendor contactless, ensuring our toilet provider carried out more regular services.
"We wish to sincerely apologise for any local residents should they have been affected on the day."
The organisers thanked everyone who worked in conjunction with the festival, and added that their "efforts to make the event a success are truly appreciated".
The family fun day raised a significant amount for Addenbrooke's Hospital Trust, with the total being calculated in the next few days. | https://www.saffronwaldenreporter.co.uk/news/saffron-fest-held-at-the-common-9227082 | 2022-08-23T18:36:35Z | https://www.saffronwaldenreporter.co.uk/news/saffron-fest-held-at-the-common-9227082 | false | 1 |
Retired New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning may not suit up in blue on Sunday’s anymore, but that hasn’t stopped him from working off the field.
In fact, Eli seems to enjoy doing commercials, whether on his own or with his family. Last year, Eli appeared in commercials for Caesars Sportsbook with his brothers, Peyton and Cooper, and their father, Archie.
Buy Giants TicketsIt’s a new season, but they’ve decided to stick together.
The Mannings appeared in a new commercial for Caesars Sportsbook that debuted during Week 2 of the preseason. The ad aired on Monday night during a game between the New York Jets and Atlanta Falcons.
The commercial depicts the Mannings playing charades with “Caesar” (J.B. Smoove). Peyton guesses “Omaha” while Eli guesses “helmet catch” multiple times. Both are incorrect, though, and Cooper amazes the table by guessing correctly.
So that's why Cooper Manning is Caesar's favorite 😁@CaesarsRewards @CaesarsEnt pic.twitter.com/qIFEjLJF66
— Caesars Sportsbook (@CaesarsSports) August 19, 2022
Cooper gets kudos from Archie, while the other two blame Caesar for his poor clues and an answer that is too long. Because Peyton and Eli always get the attention, it seems fitting that the oldest (and often less visible) Manning brother schools the other two. | https://giantswire.usatoday.com/2022/08/23/see-it-new-york-giants-legend-eli-manning-appears-new-caesars-ad-with-brothers/ | 2022-08-23T18:36:47Z | https://giantswire.usatoday.com/2022/08/23/see-it-new-york-giants-legend-eli-manning-appears-new-caesars-ad-with-brothers/ | true | 1 |
Pete Carroll may not be feeling pressure to name a starter for the Seahawks’ Week 1 matchup with the Broncos. Truthfully, whether it’s Drew Lock or Geno Smith it’s unlikely either one will become this team’s next franchise quarterback. The best place to find him will likely be in the 2023 NFL draft, which is stocked with talent at the game’s most important position.
In a new two-round 2023 mock from Luke Easterling at Draft Wire, Seattle selects Ohio State QB C.J. Stroud at No. 3 overall.
Buy Seahawks Tickets“The Seahawks don’t have a starting-caliber quarterback on their roster after trading away Russell Wilson, and finding one will be their top priority next offseason. This would be the ideal scenario, with no quarterbacks off the board yet. Stroud has all the tools to be this year’s top prospect, and the upside to be a star at the next level.”
Stoud (6-foot-3, 215 pounds) is coming off a strong 2021 season, having posted 4,435 passing yards, 44 touchdowns, six interceptions and a 186.6 rating. Here’s the highligh reel.
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BitForex Token (BF) traded up 2.7% against the US dollar during the 24-hour period ending at 13:00 PM ET on August 23rd. BitForex Token has a market capitalization of $13.16 million and $418,756.00 worth of BitForex Token was traded on exchanges in the last day. Over the last week, BitForex Token has traded down 8.5% against the US dollar. One BitForex Token coin can currently be bought for $0.0031 or 0.00000014 BTC on cryptocurrency exchanges.
Here is how related cryptocurrencies have performed over the last day:
- Binance USD (BUSD) traded 0% lower against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00004658 BTC.
- BITCOIN ADDITIONAL (BTCA) traded up 0.7% against the dollar and now trades at $21,453.15 or 1.00000000 BTC.
- Crypto.com Coin (CRO) traded up 5% against the dollar and now trades at $0.41 or 0.00001075 BTC.
- Mammoth (MMT) traded 1.2% higher against the dollar and now trades at $1.01 or 0.00004698 BTC.
- Dai (DAI) traded 0.1% higher against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00004658 BTC.
- Polygon (MATIC) traded up 3.9% against the dollar and now trades at $0.82 or 0.00003824 BTC.
- yOUcash (YOUC) traded down 0% against the dollar and now trades at $0.51 or 0.00002381 BTC.
- FTX Token (FTT) traded up 1% against the dollar and now trades at $27.67 or 0.00128875 BTC.
- Chainlink (LINK) traded up 4.9% against the dollar and now trades at $7.19 or 0.00033483 BTC.
- Geegoopuzzle (GGP) traded down 5.6% against the dollar and now trades at $16.17 or 0.00075387 BTC.
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How To Find A Good Website Development Company?
On this weblog article, we check out find out how to discover a good web site design and growth firm. You’ll study what you have to be in search of in a agency, some frequent errors that individuals make after they’re hiring internet design corporations, and the significance of figuring out how a lot work is required earlier than you begin your undertaking.
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What does an internet site growth firm do?
An internet site growth firm creates, designs, builds, maintains and updates web sites.
Net growth corporations additionally supply different web-related providers similar to internet hosting, area registration, and search engine marketing. For extra specification, Go to Trady.com, which offer internet growth providers to contractors for his or her clean enterprise operations.
To discover a good web site growth firm, you’ll need to take into account the next components:
1. Measurement and expertise. An organization with a big portfolio can have extra expertise than a smaller firm and can have the ability to deal with extra advanced tasks. Nevertheless, it’s vital to ensure that the corporate has sufficient sources to deal with your undertaking—a small firm won’t have the ability to present the identical stage of assist as a bigger one.
2. Value level. Web sites can vary in worth from round $1,000 to properly over $10,000 per hour (or much more), so it’s vital to discover a firm that’s comfy working inside your price range.
3. Companies supplied. An internet site growth firm ought to supply a spread of providers, from web site design and growth to internet hosting and advertising help. Ensure that the corporate you select has the abilities and sources wanted to finish your undertaking efficiently.
An internet site developer is an individual who’s skilled to create an internet site. What are some issues that an organization wants after they rent an internet designer or developer?. Expertise with on-line funds, customized software program growth, and expertise creating responsive websites can be useful. Figuring out find out how to work with shoppers remotely may also be useful because it will get tougher for corporations to seek out in-house staff who can work at home.
Totally different Forms of Web site Improvement Firms
If you end up in search of an internet site growth firm, there are some things to contemplate. First, what sort of web site would you like? The primary varieties: on-line retail shops, on-line portals. Second, what’s your price range? Third, what’s your deadline? Lastly, how skilled are the builders you’re contemplating?
On-line Retail Shops
The most typical sort of web site is a web based retail retailer. These websites are used to promote merchandise to customers. As a result of these websites should be interactive and simple to make use of, they normally use a template or design offered by the developer. The developer may also create the pages and content material for the location.
On-line Portals
Portals are much like retail shops, however are used to advertise companies. These websites permit customers to seek out details about companies and make purchases from them. Portal web sites normally use a template offered by the developer. The developer may also create the pages and content material for the location.
There are a lot of kinds of web site growth corporations, so it may be exhausting to know which one is the perfect match in your undertaking. Listed below are 4 kinds of corporations and what they specialise in:
1. WordPress Improvement Firms: WordPress is a well-liked open supply content material administration system (CMS) that many web site builders use. These corporations will create a customized WordPress website for you, based mostly in your specs. They could additionally supply customization providers like including customized themes and plugins.
2. Web site Design and Improvement Firms: These corporations create whole web sites from scratch, from the bottom up. They could have expertise with totally different internet growth frameworks, to allow them to construct you a website utilizing the perfect choices in your wants. In addition they regularly have employees who may help you with search engine optimization (search engine marketing), design, and copywriting.
3. Content material Administration Programs (CMS) Improvement Firms: A CMS is a platform that allows you to simply handle your web site’s content material, together with creating pages, posts, and recordsdata. Many CMS are free or cost-effective to make use of, and these corporations usually develop them particularly for companies or organizations. Some examples of CMS are WordPress, Drupal, and Magento.
How To Discover A Good Firm?
There are a lot of issues to contemplate when in search of an internet site growth firm. An important issue is discovering an organization that you just belief and may belief together with your undertaking. It’s also vital to analysis the totally different corporations earlier than selecting one. Listed below are some recommendations on find out how to discover a good web site growth firm:
-First, ensure that the corporate has expertise in creating web sites. This can assist be certain that the undertaking can be performed accurately and on time.
-Subsequent, analysis the corporate’s portfolio. Take a look at their previous tasks and see if they’ve been profitable in finishing comparable tasks.
-Lastly, interview a number of corporations to see which one most closely fits your wants. Ask questions on their expertise, pricing, and timeline for finishing the undertaking.
Conclusion
While you’re in search of an excellent web site growth firm, it may be robust to know the place to start out. With so many corporations on the market, it may be tough to find out which one is best for you. On this article, we’re going to define the issues that it’s best to search for when selecting an internet site growth firm and provide you with some recommendations on find out how to discover one. So whether or not you’re in search of a brand new web site or simply want some help with present website upkeep, learn on! | https://www.mccourier.com/how-to-find-a-good-website-development-company/ | 2022-08-23T18:41:23Z | https://www.mccourier.com/how-to-find-a-good-website-development-company/ | true | 1 |
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OCALA, Fla. (AP) — A man charged in the prison killing of notorious Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger will remain behind bars while he awaits trial, a federal judge ruled Monday.
Sean McKinnon, 36, was on federal supervised release when he was arrested Thursday in Florida on charges including conspiracy to commit first degree murder.
Two other men charged in Bulger’s killing — Fotios “Freddy” Geas, 55, and Paul J. DeCologero, 48 — were already locked up.
The men are accused of conspiring to kill Bulger hours after he was transferred to USP Hazelton in West Virginia from a prison in Florida in 2018. Bulger, who served as an FBI informant and later became one of the nation’s most-wanted fugitives, had been serving a life sentence for 11 murders and other crimes.
Authorities say Geas and DeCologero struck Bulger in the head multiple times while McKinnon acted as a lookout. McKinnon is charged separately with making false statements to a federal agent. Prosecutors say he told federal agents he wasn’t aware of what happened to Bulger.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Philip Lammens in Florida granted prosecutors’ request to keep McKinnon detained until trial, calling him both a flight risk and a danger to the community.
Authorities have not revealed a possible motive for Bulger’s killing, which has raised questions about why the 89-year-old was moved to the prison nicknamed “Misery Mountain” and placed in its general population instead of more protective housing.
McKinnon, who was Geas’ cellmate at Hazelton, pleaded guilty in 2015 to stealing a dozen handguns from a Vermont firearms dealer. He was moved to a halfway house in February before being released from there in July.
An email seeking comment was sent to an attorney who represented McKinnon at his detention hearing on Monday.
DeCologero, who was in an organized crime gang led by his uncle in Massachusetts, was convicted of buying heroin that was used to try to kill a teenage girl his uncle wanted dead because he feared she would betray the crew to police. The heroin didn’t kill her, so another man broke her neck, dismembered her and buried her remains in the woods, court records say.
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(Clarinda) -- Rapp Park Recreation Area is getting a new boat ramp--but not after considerable debate at Tuesday's Page County Board of Supervisors meeting.
By a 2-to-1 vote, the supervisors approved Page County Conservation's request to use American Rescue Plan Act funding to complete renovation of a boat ramp at the park north of Shenandoah on Highway 48. County Conservation Director John Schwab made the request, providing a history of issues surrounding the ramp--which is actually the end of a gravel road leading into one of the park's lakes.
"From my understanding, when we first acquired Rapp Park," said Schwab, "the boat ramp we have now is the old quarry road that went to the quarry. All we did was come down, and we put some more gravel on it. We probably spent about $3,000 to $5,000 every year in excavation work, or bringing in more gravel or cleaning it out. It's nickel and diming us every year.
"It's easy to launch your boat--recovering it is an issue," he added."
After experiencing difficulty in soliciting a contractor for the project, Schwab says the county sought the Iowa Department of Natural Resource's assistance.
"We contacted the DNR to see if they had anyone that they knew," he said. "they put us in contact with Hymbaugh Construction out of Creston. They actually do all the boat ramps and river accesses kind of down this part of the state. I met with them down at Rapp. We looked over everything. They pointed out quite a few issues that need to be fixed."
Page County Supervisor Jacob Holmes cast the lone dissenting vote. Holmes argued spending ARPA funding for the project was not wise, and the money could be better spent on other needs, such as road and bridge repair.
"We've got roads that are a mess, with holes and safety issues," said Holmes. "We're always talking about safety. I think roads that are ground up and need to be put back are more important than this nice thing for fishing. I understanding it would be great--I'm taking my boys fishing tomorrow night. But, I think this is more of a want than a need, and that we could wait and make sure we have our needs covered."
While saying the ramp project's pricetag is expensive, Supervisor Chuck Morris motioned to approve Schwab's request for two reasons.
"Rapp Park is recreation that serves not only our county residents, but I've heard multiple compliments about boating and fishing from our veterans out there," said Morris. "Secondly, I think, historically, we have probably as a board underfunded conservation over the years, and I would make a motion to approve."
Schwab later told KMA News boat ramp construction is expected to begin around Labor Day weekend. By unanimous vote, the supervisors approved county conservation's other request to use $6,000 in reserve funds for new playground equipment at the county's parks. Schwab says the money actually entails grants from the Clarinda and Shenandoah foundations. | https://www.kmaland.com/news/page-county-supervisors-back-rapp-park-boat-ramp/article_c228cff2-2304-11ed-8534-2fbc0fa53289.html | 2022-08-23T18:48:45Z | https://www.kmaland.com/news/page-county-supervisors-back-rapp-park-boat-ramp/article_c228cff2-2304-11ed-8534-2fbc0fa53289.html | false | 1 |
Loyola University’s Sister Jean turns 103
CHICAGO (WLS) – Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, the beloved ambassador of Loyola University, turned 103 on Sunday.
The city of Chicago is honoring her by naming a plaza on campus after her. Friends, family and people from all over the community gathered to celebrate her birthday and plaza dedication.
A sign on the plaza reads, “Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, BVM Plaza” and “Home of the World Famous Sister Jean!”
Schmidt said she plans on visiting her namesake plaza more often.
“And to dedicate the plaza? That’s something very special. I’ll come more frequently, I know that! I know that for sure,” she said.
Donned in her maroon and gold, whether off or on the sidelines, and cheering for the Ramblers, she makes an impact that goes well beyond the court as an educator and mentor.
Sister Jean gained overnight popularity in 2018 during the NCAA Tournament when Loyola upset Miami.
She said her secret to longevity is eating well, sleeping well and praying well.
She will continue her birthday celebration on Tuesday when she will throw out the first pitch at the Chicago Cubs game.
Schmidt said perhaps she should “get better prepared to get to heaven,” but for now, “I’m having so much fun.”
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It sounds like a caper from a movie: a thief seems to have swapped out the famous portrait of a scowling Sir Winston Churchill, photographed by Yousuf Karsh in 1941, with a signed copy.
A staff member at Ottawa’s Château Laurier noticed on Friday that the frame in the Reading Lounge wasn’t hanging properly and didn’t look the same as the others in the collection. An inspection revealed the photo in the frame was not the original, but it is not clear how long the copy has been hanging.
The hotel’s general manager, Geneviève Dumas, said staff are “deeply saddened by this brazen act.”
Police have been informed and the hotel is seeking information from the public about the theft.
“The hotel is incredibly proud to house this stunning Karsh collection, which was securely installed in 1998,” Dumas said in a statement.
Six of the portraits are displayed in the Reading Lounge and another nine in the downtown hotel’s Karsh Suite.
The remaining five photos in the lounge have been taken down until they can be secured properly.
The photographer and his wife lived at the Château Laurier for 18 years. Karsh’s studio was in the hotel for 20 years, from 1972 on, and it was the location of several of his famous portraits, including one of South Africa’s Nelson Mandela in 1990.
The Churchill portrait changed Karsh’s life, according to the artist’s website. It was taken after the then-British prime minister gave a speech to Canada’s House of Commons on Dec. 30, 1941.
Churchill began by thanking Canadians for their wartime efforts, saying, “I think it is extremely unlikely that this war will end without the Canadian Army coming to close quarters with the Germans, as their fathers did at Ypres, on the Somme, or on the Vimy Ridge.”
He also spoke of the collapse of the French army and the failure of the French government.
“When I warned them that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their prime minister and his divided cabinet, ‘In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken.’ Some chicken; some neck,” he said.
According to Karsh, he waited in the Speaker’s chamber after the “electrifying speech” to take a photograph, but Churchill “growled” that he hadn’t been informed. Karsh recalled that the prime minister refused to put down his cigar — and it’s what happened next that allowed him to immortalize the scowl.
“Then I stepped toward him and, without premeditation, but ever so respectfully, I said, ‘Forgive me, sir,’ and plucked the cigar out of his mouth,” Karsh recalled, according to a write-up on the Estate of Yousuf Karsh website.
“By the time I got back to my camera, he looked so belligerent he could have devoured me. It was at that instant that I took the photograph.”
The portrait was added to the British five-pound note in 2016, 14 years after Karsh’s death.
—Sarah Ritchie, The Canadian Press
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Actress Shefali Shah, who is reprising the role of DCP Vartika Chaturvedi for the second season of ‘Delhi Crime’, says that the grain of the show is that it’s very real and raw.
She shared that the characters are not super cops and that the moment she had the uniform on for her character she walked taller.
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Actress Shefali Shah during the promotion of Delhi Crime season 2 in the national capital said: “The grain of the show is that it’s very real. It’s very raw. They are not super cops, they are human. Their strengths and weaknesses are a part of them.”
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Shefali Shah added: “The show does not make a social commentary but raises social questions and all these people are a part of that society. So they are equally understanding of probably where they are faltering.”
Donning the uniform for the second time for the show gave Shefali goosebumps. The 49-year-old actress shared: “That uniform does something to you. Trust me. Wearing that uniform, something else just happens. When we were about to do Delhi Crime 2, the thing that was going on in my mind was that the first instalment happened but how do I fit those shoes again. How will I ever be able to do it?”
Shefali Shah added: “And trust me when I stepped into those shoes it was something else. I walked taller and the respect for that uniform… people on the sets gave you way to actually walk. To be able to wear it for even for a show is something else.”
Asked how in ‘Delhi Crime’, the portrayal of cops is different from what we usually see in mainstream films and series, Shefali, in response to the question asked by IANS during a press conference, said: “There is a Bhupinder, Neeti, Subhash and Vartika. They are real characters. They are not larger than life, they were never meant to be. They are human and they are not super cops. They are not completely right or wrong.”
Shefali Shah added: “They are trying to deal with a situation with the best of their abilities. I think it’s very different. Not just portrayal of cops, the show itself it is so raw. It’s almost like watching it voyeuristically.”
Delhi Crime season 2 will drop on Netflix on August 26.
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Man Arrested in Centralia After Crash Also Accused in 100 MPH Chase in June, Attempted Robbery in March
Aug. 23—Bail has been set at a total of $500,000 for Damien J. Madison, 24, of Chehalis, who is accused of crashing into a power pole in Centralia on Saturday then fleeing into the Skookumchuck River in an attempt to escape arrest on multiple outstanding warrants from other Lewis County cases.
"This has been quite a run for Mr. Madison," said deputy prosecuting attorney Will Halstead of the string of allegations Madison has accumulated since the court first issued a warrant for his arrest on March 10.
That warrant dealt with an attempted armed robbery that occurred a few days prior, on March 1.
Madison, 24, of Chehalis, is accused of approaching a couple outside a motel on Belmont Avenue and pointing a large pistol at their faces while attempting to rob them. A physical fight for the gun ensued, during which Madison allegedly struck a woman on the back of the head and helped kick and punch a man who was on the ground.
Madison was charged with one count each of second-degree assault, fourth-degree assault and first-degree unlawful possession of a firearm stemming from that incident.
A Lewis County Superior Court judge issued a $100,000 warrant for Madison's arrest that same day.
Madison's alleged co-defendant in that case, Brandon Lee Caley, 24, of Rochester, was charged and arrested on March 9. Caley was not in custody at the Lewis County Jail as of Monday afternoon.
An officer with the Napavine Police Department reportedly saw Madison driving a white van at approximately 1 a.m. on June 25. The officer reportedly tried to pull the van over after the officer observed the vehicle failing to use turn signals or stop at stop signs, but when the officer activated his lights, the van "initially slowed down as if it was going to pull over but then quickly accelerated away," traveling 85 to 90 mph on northbound Interstate 5. That officer ended his pursuit, but an officer with the Centralia Police Department soon found the same vehicle speeding in downtown Centralia and began to pursue. The van got up to speeds of 100 mph in residential and downtown business areas before the officer ended the pursuit, according to court documents.
Madison was charged with two counts of attempting to elude a pursuing police vehicle in August.
At approximately 7:15 a.m. on Aug. 19, officers with the Centralia Police Department were dispatched to a reported crash in the 400 block of Downing Road. A Honda Civic had reportedly struck a power pole and sustained severe damage. When the officer arrived, the officer saw the car and the pole and reported "it was obvious the vehicle struck the power pole," but there were no visible occupants in the vehicle.
The officers soon found two people, a man and a woman, on a nearby bridge. When they saw the officers approach, the man — who was later identified as Madison — reportedly "jumped over a guardrail and ran."
The Centralia Police Department dispatched K9 Pax, who found Madison running down the river and detained him, according to court documents.
When questioned by the officers, Madison reportedly said he recently took fentanyl. He was taken to a hospital for treatment, where he reportedly had slurred speech, "kept falling asleep and could not answer the questions posed by the hospital staff."
The woman on the bridge, who had a head injury and an injured hand from the car crash, told police Madison had offered her fentanyl, which she accepted and took, while he was driving the car. She said she fell asleep and "the wreck woke her up." She said she fled with Madison from the crash "because she was confused," according to court documents.
After the woman said she recalled seeing a black pistol in Madison's vehicle, police obtained a search warrant for the car and found a semi-automatic pistol in the backseat along with fentanyl pills.
Madison was booked into the Lewis County Jail just before 11:30 a.m. on Aug. 20 and has since been charged with one count each of vehicular assault, hit-and-run with injuries and first-degree unlawful possession of a firearm.
While law enforcement suspected Madison was driving under the influence (DUI) and obtained a warrant for a sample of Madison's blood, Madison's Lewis County Superior Court case did not include a DUI charge as of Monday afternoon.
During Madison's preliminary hearing in Lewis County Superior Court on Monday, Halstead asked Judge Joely Yeager to maintain the $100,000 bail set in the warrant for the March case, set a consecutive $150,000 bail for the June case and set an additional $250,000 bail for the most recent case, for a total $500,000 bail amount.
While defense attorney Rachael Tiller asked Yeager to set bail no higher than $25,000 per case due to Madison's financial situation, Yeager said she agreed with Halstead's recommendation.
She cited "extreme community safety concerns" surrounding the allegations and concerns with Madison's criminal history as reasons for the high bail amount.
After reading the court documents prior to Madison's hearing, she said "$500,000 was what I was thinking when I walked in here.Mr. Halstead kind of hit it right on the head there."
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Slain deputy Sgt. Bobby Swartz said job as Oklahoma County sheriff's deputy was 'rewarding' in 2018 video
Sgt. Bobby Swartz, a 58-year-old Oklahoma County sheriff’s deputy was shot to death Monday while serving an eviction notice in southwest Oklahoma City.
Swartz served in the Army Reserves prior to joining the Sheriff’s Office in 1997.
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He started on jail duty, then worked at the courthouse and later took an assignment on patrol.
“I’ve enjoyed every bit of it,” he said.
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Swartz said he joined the Sheriff’s Office because he enjoyed helping people.
“It changes you,” he said. “You look at the world a whole new different way because you’ve seen the worst in people,” he said. “But the rewarding part is you can see how good and how blessed people are.”
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OWLS’ REVENGE
Defense, freshman QB lead physical Owls to dominant win, avenge back-to-back losses to Tigers
By Terry Collins
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CARTHAGE — The county’s two high school football teams met on the gridiron last Saturday night to kickoff the 2022 regular season at Owl Stadium in Carthage.
Smith Co. used their superior size to break a two-game losing skid to their cross-county rival Gordonsville by a final score of 27-7.
“I am extremely proud of our players and coaching staff, tonight. They all did a great job tonight. I am also proud of our fans and community support, tonight. That was an electric and exiting atmosphere,” said Smith County head coach Matt Dyer. “Gordonsville is a good football team and they will go deep in the 1A playoffs. Coach (Stephen) Jackson, Coach (Adam) Shaw, Coach (Mac) Petty, and all those guys do a great job with that program. I know there were some injuries tonight for both teams so I hope everyone is all right and has a speedy recovery — prayers for them.”
Gordonsville first year head coach Stephen Jackson shared his thoughts on the season opener for Big Blue.
“Carthage was very physical and they brought it tonight,” said Jackson. “We saw that on film. They are a big, fast and strong team. We just have to get stronger and faster this season — and go back to work.”
Jackson continued when asked about what led to the Owls second half surge, “I think it was missed tackles — that was the difference. We have to go back and work on our tackling — get better on tackling.
“I think our kids played hard. It comes down to tackling and being in the right position — reading your keys.”
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Diamonds are Forever
August 23, 2022 | Tags: BEACON
“We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders,”
~ G.K. Chesterton
Forged miles beneath the earth’s crust.
Eternal—or as close as we get in this vale of tears.
Objects of endless fascination and avarice, the diamond is at times witness to bloody conflict in its production and exchange (more on that below).
Diamonds have proven irresistible to the scholar’s pen (admittedly, a low bar) and the professor’s lecture (admittedly, a lower bar).
They’re also my answer to a friend’s question recently posed to me.
“Suppose you had to teach a semester-long class,” he began.
“So far, so good,” I’m thinking.
“Using examples from only one object.”
“That’s a lot harder,” I chew on the problem.
“What would it be?” he asks.
It wasn’t but a moment before I hit on my answer.
A typical semester includes about fourteen weeks of instruction.
How much economics could I teach, using only diamonds for illustration? Pretty far, I think, and far enough.
Here’s a quick whirlwind tour—fourteen topics, fourteen weeks.
I’d have to teach the class to flesh out the details, but this is a start.
Value
Where else to begin but the diamond-water paradox?
This famed intellectual puzzle is not just the premier diamond-using economics example. It also elucidates what’s at the core of contemporary economic theory: subjective marginalism.
The paradox ponders: Why are diamonds—a frippery—more expensive than water—necessary to sustain human life?
Some version of this question flummoxed Aristotle, Plato, Aquinas, Copernicus, Locke, Benjamin Franklin, Adam Smith, and a host of other luminaries.
The solution came by way of a watershed intellectual event called the Marginal Revolution.
Disarmingly simple, the puzzle’s key resides in the fact that humans don’t value entire classes of items. Instead, they always choose between “a little more of this” and “a little less of that.”
Since water, in most contexts, is so much more plentiful than diamonds, a little more water is much less valuable than a little more diamonds. We can access water for free—open your mouth when it’s raining. We have so much water that we “waste” it in frivolous activities like water-balloon fights or in stunts like the once-popular ALS ice-bucket challenge. Most people in most places would satisfy a relatively unimportant goal with an additional gallon of water.
Change the context, change the results. Someone dying of thirst in the desert will sign their life away for a glass of water. An entire cup—even a bucket—of diamonds? They’ll pay pennies, or nothing at all.
Were one confronted with the fantastical and unenviable choice of eliminating either all the water or all the diamonds from earth in a reverse genie situation, a non-sociopathic chooser would clearly banish diamonds.
Likewise, if tomorrow we discovered a diamond waterfall hidden in the Amazon rainforest—an endless stream of diamonds—their price would plummet. Diamonds would be like water is now. You’d go to your favorite restaurant and ask for a cup of diamonds, which your host would oblige without blinking an eye.
In fact, scientists estimate that there are over a quadrillion tons of diamonds buried deep beneath the earth’s surface. Perhaps one day diamonds will serve as children’s baubles—and little else.
Cost and Price
Diamond mines are expensive.
The heavy machinery used to excavate diamonds likewise comes with a hefty price tag.
Unsurprisingly, diamonds themselves can be jaw-droppingly pricey. The Pink Star diamond, mined in 1999, and about half the size of a strawberry, sold at a 2017 auction for $71 million. And that was 2017—so $71 million meant something.
This all raises the question of whether there is a causal relationship between the price of diamond inputs (mines, equipment, labor, etc...) and diamonds themselves. And if so, which direction does the causation run?
Classical, pre-Marginal Revolution economists suggested that high input prices were somehow transmitted to the price of consumer goods—at least in the long run.
Yet, this view mires us in insuperable circularities. For instance, how to explain the price of bread? The Classical economists appealed to the price of labor inputs (wages) necessary to produce bread. But what explains those labor input prices? Well...the prices of all the stuff that sustains workers, including...bread.
Suffice it to say that the Marginal Revolution corrected this mistaken perspective on causality. A brief thought experiment may be clarifying. Suppose that international demand for diamonds collapses—perhaps because of mass conversions to a religion that condemns diamonds as excessively showy.
If diamond mines were exclusively capable of producing diamonds, if mines had no other use, such widespread conversions would cause mines to lose all their value. Simple once you see it, the Marginal Revolution showed that value—and prices—flow from final consumer goods like diamonds back to input prices like mines, not the other way around.
Botuobinskaya, a Russian mine opened in 2015, is expected to yield about 1.5 million carats of diamonds annually for forty years. While I can’t find the mine on Zillow, one would expect a hefty price tag to accompany this plot of barren, desolate earth. People love their diamonds, which is why they’re willing to pay a lot to own them. Accordingly, mines capable of yielding large quantities of high-quality diamonds are outrageously expensive.
Yet, not every input in the diamond production process commands jaw-dropping compensation. Lapidary—gem cutter—wages are not particularly high. And like all prices, wages are set by the interaction of supply and demand. While the demand for diamonds is substantial, the supply of lapidaries is also large relative to that demand. The job simply doesn’t require the skills of a professional athlete or a CEO. If only a handful of people could become lapidaries, we’d expect higher wages for them, all else equal. Here we see the insights of the Marginal Revolution again, this time applied to labor markets.
Such basic, supply and demand reasoning should inform our thinking about wages in every market. For instance, teachers aren’t paid much. That’s because many people can become teachers. They’re the water of the Diamond-Water Paradox; NFL quarterbacks are the diamonds.
Imagine a world where teachers are billionaires. The implication would be that the skills required for teaching are extremely rare, only a few people each generation possessing the requisite capabilities.
In such a world, teachers would be well-paid, but children would be illiterate.
The Division of Labor
It’s obvious that the distribution of the world’s resources is vastly unequal.
What’s sometimes overlooked is that this fact confronts mankind before trade, or any other human activity, alters the distribution and ownership of resources.
Inequality is built into the structure of reality.
A four-letter word in the lexicon of some, inequality of resource distribution is one of the important drivers of the division of labor at national, regional, and individual levels. And without the division of labor, humans would be condemned to live isolated, impoverished lives. Imagine trying to produce everything you wish to consume without making a single trade.
The world’s stunning resource diversity contributes to the law of comparative costs (i.e. “comparative advantage”) because such regional diversity gives rise to different opportunity costs associated with producing various goods and services.
While there is one tiny, active (and open to the public) diamond mine in the United States (in Murfreesboro, Arkansas), it’s relatively costly for the United States to produce diamonds. They’re sparse, buried deeply, and of lower quality than can be found in other locales. It’s therefore unsurprising that the United States produces hardly any diamonds.
The top five diamond-producing countries—Russia, Botswana, the Congo, Australia, and Canada—boast large, high-quality diamond deposits, relatively close to the earth’s surface. Botswana, roughly the size of Texas, is home to seven of the world’s best diamond mines.
Americans could outlaw the purchase of any foreign diamonds. Buy American (diamonds)!
As a result, we would mine deeper, dig harder, and pay more for our jewelry. The unseen cost would come from all the labor and machinery inefficiency diverted to diamond production, at the expense of other things we’re better at producing. We’d be wealthier to rely on international trade for the bulk of our diamonds.
There’s another aspect of the division of labor that’s relevant here too, and it occurs at the individual, rather than the national level. Adam Smith famously observed that “the division of labor is limited by the extent of the market.” It only makes sense to specialize in that for which a sufficiently large market exists.
Most people treat diamonds as luxury items. We thus wouldn’t expect to see them produced and traded in primitive societies. When basic wants are still unsatisfied, no one would find it profitable to specialize in the production and sale of diamonds. While primitive tribesmen might trade items such as seashells for jewelry, we wouldn’t find them opening mines or going to school (there wouldn’t be “schools”) to become gem cutters.
The extent of the market is an upper bound on specialization.
Elasticity
You might think that cash-strapped governments could easily balance their budgets by taxing expensive items like diamonds. If you’re a progressive, you might even see an added benefit of soaking the rich, while avoiding taxes on the poor. Diamonds seemingly present themselves as an attractive source of funds to squeeze.
Yet, this notion is flawed.
In 1991, the Bush administration implemented a luxury tax on items like yachts and jewelry with the explicit aim of reducing the federal deficit. The tax lasted only two years before the Clinton administration repealed what had been an utter failure from the perspective of those implementing the tax.
The rich have innumerable options for spending their money. It’s easy for them to “escape” from taxed items. When the luxury tax increased the price of yachts and jewelry, the rich fled these assets and put their money elsewhere (real estate, stocks, etc...). The demand for yachts/diamonds is highly elastic—sensitive to price changes—as opposed to (say) the demand for cigarettes.
The demand for the taxed luxury items was so elastic that the tax worsened the government’s budgetary position. In fact, the drop-off in yacht sales was so steep that the industry contracted severely and many ship-building construction workers lost their jobs. The government paid out more in unemployment benefits than it collected in taxes.
The deficit grew larger.
Middlemen
Individual jewelry consumers don’t buy directly from the De Beers Group.
Instead, they go to a local jeweler—a middleman.
In fact, in advanced, industrial economies, buying from middlemen is the rule, not the exception. Most people don’t buy their food directly from farmers or their clothing directly from textile manufacturers. Most students don’t rent the hourly services of scholars to teach them. Instead, they attend a university staffed with experts who have studied work generated (largely) by others.
Market economies are shot through with middlemen. Many people argue that these entities are parasites, leeches on otherwise valuable exchanges. At my first job, I recall one lunch hour during which I was harangued by a co-worker who insisted that banks and insurance companies are nothing more than exploitative “money movers.” My friendly colleague is not alone; Thomas Sowell documents that people have directed intense animus at middlemen across the globe and throughout history.
However, it’s probably not an exaggeration to say that, without middlemen, life would be “nasty, brutish, and short” to borrow Thomas Hobbes’ felicitous expression. Middlemen specialize in uniting those who would like to buy and those who would like to sell. Stock brokerages or other financial intermediaries like banks—the organizations my lunch partner railed against—are the classic examples.
Without middlemen, there’d be no such thing as credit markets, to take one example. The return to saving would be lower. Without as much saving, there’d be less capital goods accumulation and thus less output of consumer goods. The world would be vastly poorer.
But middlemen do more than that. They also specialize in discerning the quality, genuineness, attributes, and safety of products. What’s more, they put their own reputation on the line to do so. This saves buyers the costs of search, knowledge acquisition, inspection, and the like.
In performing this role, middlemen reduce the individual number of reputations that a consumer must keep track of to make successful purchases. While there are hundreds of producers extracting valuable stones and while there are thousands of persons cutting and polishing them, a consumer need only know what sort of quality and product variety to expect from (say) Kay’s Jewelers. Buyers know that Kay’s will sell certain types and qualities of jewelry and that Walgreens won’t carry medicines that are poisonous at recommended doses.
Depending on time, it might also make sense for us to touch on vertical integration in this section of my hypothetical course. Clearly, some companies specialize in diamond extraction, others in polishing and cutting, and still others in retail sales to consumers. The reasons for vertical disintegration in this instance are not particularly clear to me, but each of these topics is a week in class, so there’d be plenty of time to ponder.
Time Preference
Diamonds are forever.
(Technically, diamonds aren’t indestructible. Nuclear blasts and hammers alike would render them liquid or dust, respectively—I asked a materials science guy).
But most of the time, diamonds are here to stay, which means their services also stretch into perpetuity. In this regard, diamonds resemble a plot of land—its services aren’t “used up” over time. They’re like the burning bush of biblical fame.
The fact that both land and diamonds exchange for finite prices is proof that humans place a premium on the present or, to say the same thing, that they discount the future.
Land yields an infinite stream of services (barring something like nuclear cataclysm); diamonds yield an infinite stream of satisfaction. If they didn’t discount the future, humans would be willing to pay an infinite amount for an infinite stream of something valuable. Yet, we never see exchanges occurring at infinity prices.
Humans’ discount of the future is why goods with services which aren’t consumed in use still sell for finite prices.
Cartel and Monopoly
Besides the Diamond-Water Paradox, diamonds probably come up most frequently in economics courses to illustrate issues pertaining to cartels and monopoly.
For a good chunk of the 20th century, the De Beers Group (1888-present), a cartel, held the leasing rights for most of the world’s known diamond mines. Along with the Alcoa bauxite mines, the De Beers case is one of the only examples of (essentially) one seller controlling the global supply of a natural resource. As most mines were in South Africa, keeping track of the world’s supply of diamonds was initially a manageable task.
De Beers also convinced most of the rest of the world’s diamond miners to sell through its Central Selling Organization (CSO). The CSO inspected and sold these diamonds to downstream dealers—see more on this unusual process below.
To my mind, the De Beers’ cartel raises three important issues. It would be tough to squeeze them all into a single week, but I suppose more opportunities to remind students of scarcity are better than fewer.
First, Econ 101 teaches us that cartels are highly unstable arrangements. Cartel members face incentives to cheat, to “chisel,” on the cartel arrangement; external pressure derives from producers who never joined the cartel or who eventually break away.
The persistence of the De Beers cartel is therefore somewhat of a puzzle.
Unlocking this mystery lies in realizing that in the heyday of De Beers’ cartelization, there was no free diamond market at all. The South African government nationalized the diamond mines. De Beers would lease the mines from the government, which laid first claim to any new deposits in the country. From there, De Beers made their own production and pricing decisions, albeit in the context of a highly interventionist system.
When new mines were discovered in the former U.S.S.R., that government cut a deal with De Beers, and the cartel went international. The South African government even patrolled the coast to prevent diamond smuggling. See Murray Rothbard’s discussion for more details. The lesson: persistent cartels require enforcement mechanisms, and government is the most common and effective enforcer.
Secondly, many infer that De Beers’ dominance allowed it to enjoy “monopoly profits.”
My view is that the cartel did not bestow monopoly profits, but that it did result in higher diamond prices.
De Beers, which would rent land from the government, would have paid the fully capitalized value of the land (assuming the government charged a price comparable to what a private owner would, of which there is no guarantee). Presumably, this fully capitalized price reflected the value to De Beers of having a government-backed cartel. This price is higher precisely because having a government-backed cartel allowed De Beers to sell diamonds for higher prices.
In short, windfall gains would have gone, in one way or another, to government officials, but not to De Beers’ owners.
The third issue concerns the prices that De Beers’ cartel status allowed them to charge. Even during the heyday of DeBeer’s dominance, its ability to charge elevated, monopoly prices for diamonds was still highly constrained by several factors. This idea also relates to my second point above in that these constraints would have influenced how much De Beers would be willing to pay to lease a mine.
Importantly, there are myriad close substitutes for diamonds. For example, alongside diamonds, the Bible mentions over twenty stones prized for their beauty. These stones were known thousands of years ago, and all existed in the relatively small geographic region (Palestine) where the Bible’s authors lived. Like the diamond, these stones were and are all used in jewelry and architecture. Today, the Gemstone Encyclopedia lists over 300 beautiful stones. Substitutes for diamonds abound.
What’s more, diamonds’ permanence severely curtails the higher price that might arise from one entity controlling all known sources of a commodity. This idea, known as the Coase Conjecture, suggests that once the durable cat is out of the bag, it becomes another source of competition. As soon as De Beers makes a sale, it creates a secondary diamond market. New diamond owners become competitors with De Beers. A single global seller of diamonds is thus analytically distinct from a single global seller of bread, a highly perishable item.
Lastly, you might have noticed the important caveat word “known” in the preceding sentences. Potential competition for De Beers stems from the fact that anyone on earth, at any moment, could discover an as-of-yet unknown diamond deposit. This happens, time-to-time, with diamonds.
Throughout the 20th century, people discovered new diamond deposits across several continents.
Transaction Costs
When De Beers meets with a prospective, commercial buyer, the interaction looks, well, bizarre.
The customer tells De Beers what they’re looking for. De Beers responds by offering the would-be buyer a “sight”—a packet of diamonds De Beers representatives have selected.
De Beers makes this offer on a “take-it-or-leave-us” basis. If the buyer is unsatisfied with the packet and decides not to buy, De Beers will never interact with that buyer again. Ever. Not exactly how exchange works at the local supermarket.
Most analyses suggest this odd arrangement reflects exploitation or nefarious market power. Given the wide-ranging secondary market for diamonds, such an explanation is uncompelling. Furthermore, this practice continues to the present-day, years after it has been meaningful to talk of a De Beers cartel.
Yoram Barzel has argued that the curious De Beers selling arrangement maximizes the value which the exchange creates—for both parties.
It does so by reducing transaction costs. Buyers can economize on the costs associated with sorting, measuring diamond quality, negotiating on price, and the like. Saving on such transaction costs increases the price sellers receive and reduces the measuring costs buyers incur, yielding gains for both.
This curious exchange structure raises the specter of De Beers cheating potential customers by offering a diamond “sight” of low quality relative to the price being asked. But De Beers’ valuable brand name constrains them. If they developed a reputation for short-changing their customers, it wouldn’t be long before buyers would resort entirely to secondary markets or other producers, refusing interactions with De Beers. Remember, De Beers is not the only option to acquire diamonds.
What incentive would De Beers have to repeatedly offer bad batches of diamonds? They’re in the business of making exchanges, after all.
And due to the value of their brand name, we have reason to believe that De Beers’ commitment to quality is credible.
Commitment
At least in the United States, engagement rings are a relatively recent invention.
Before 1935, it was not customary for a man to offer a woman an engagement ring as a promise of his intention to wed.
That all changed when Indiana became the first state to strike down the so-called “breach of promise” action.
We might dispute the justice of such a law, but let’s focus on the economics instead. In short, the law had granted women the right to sue men for monetary damages when the latter broke off an engagement.
For women, at the time, a broken engagement could spell disaster. Their opportunities in labor markets were highly constrained and men were hesitant to marry women who’d been promised to someone else. Marriage was therefore critical to a woman’s earthly comfort. The breach of promise law gave women confidence that a man’s offer to marry was likely a serious one—he faced a lawsuit if he developed cold feet.
With this legal rug yanked from beneath her feet, a woman sought other means to establish the credibility of a man’s promise to marry. People don’t come with their character type tattooed on their forehead. And Hobbes once observed that “nothing is more easily broken than a man’s word.” How could a woman sort the boyish chaff from the masculine wheat?
Margaret Brinig offers a compelling answer. Diamond engagement rings filled the commitment vacuum left by the disappearing breach of promise laws. Men began offering diamond rings to women as a sort of performance bond. If a man broke his promise to wed, he would also forfeit the costly investment he’d made in a ring. In the event of a non-committal suitor, women could sell their ring into secondary jewelry markets, earning, as it were, monetary damages.
More importantly, women knew that saying yes to a man who didn’t offer a ring was risky business.
Advertising
Brinig also documents that America’s first nationwide advertising campaign began in the 1930’s at De Beers’ behest by New York advertising agency Ayers (1869-2002).
It was Ayers (in 1947) which coined the expression “diamonds are forever.” Ayers went so far as to negotiate with Hollywood producers to shoehorn betrothal scenes into movies, the most notable of which occurred between Mae West and Cary Grant in the 1933 She Done Him Wrong (adapted from a 1928 play named, coincidentally, Diamond Lil).
Like middlemen, advertising often gets a bad rap.
John Kenneth Galbraith is famous for arguing that capitalists “create” new wants in consumers by way of advertising. Yet, in the diamond case, Ayers most certainly did not create the new diamond craze that was sweeping the United States. As Brinig shows, the diamond engagement ring took off four years before the Ayers campaign began in 1939. Ayers apparently piggybacked on the momentum created by women’s demand for a credible indication of marital commitment.
Advertising, by itself, is not sufficient to compel consumers to develop brand loyalty. As Joseph Schumpeter once remarked, “The prettiest girl that ever lived will in the long run prove powerless to maintain the sales of a bad cigarette.”
What gets lost in the Galbraithian preference debate are all the other functions that advertising fulfills in the free enterprise system. It provides useful product information to buyers. It allows producers to engage in the sort of rivalrous jostling that ultimately delivers value to consumers. It facilitates the opportunity of one producer to expose the secrets of others, keeping them mutually honest.
And, just like diamonds themselves, advertising fosters commitment. When consumers observed De Beers launching the first nationwide ad campaign in U.S. history, they were reassured that De Beers was in it for the long run.
Imagine what would have happened if De Beers had attempted to cut costs by selling faux diamonds. People would have stopped buying diamonds, at least new diamonds from De Beers. As a result, De Beers would never have recouped the massive advertising investments they made.
Advertising serves to make commitments credible.
Labor Contracts
Speaking of movies, in Diamonds are Forever, the seventh film in the James Bond juggernaut, Sean Connery was paid what was then a record-breaking sum of $1.25 million for his role as the world’s most iconic spy.
Connery’s sum looks paltry now, even adjusted for inflation.
In 2016, Robert Downey Jr. earned a $40 million lump sum to appear in Captain America: Civil War. These enormous lump sums notwithstanding, the biggest box-office paydays often come from actors’ profit-sharing agreements with movie studios. Downey made (at least) an additional $40 million from other aspects of his contract, including profit-sharing. Connery, in Diamonds are Forever, made (roughly) an additional $4 million.
Why are actors sometimes paid lump sums, other times by way of risky profit-sharing, and why so often a mixture of both?
Darlene Chisholm has explored these questions in the Hollywood context. Higher effort levels from actors correlate positively with the box-office bottom line. A problem arises because actors have an incentive to shirk since work isn’t always fun—even for actors. Thus, offering a profit-sharing agreement is one way to discipline actors’ shirking. It gives them a stake in the final product.
Why, then, do studios use any contract other than a profit-sharing agreement for actors and actresses? Hammering out the details of profit-sharing contracts is costly, and a standardized fixed-payment contract saves resources. Studios offer profit-sharing contracts only when constraining shirking is particularly valuable.
Two quick examples illustrate some of the variables influencing this calculus. Big-name actors are more likely to receive share contracts because they have an incentive to coast on the reputation they have already established. Actors are more likely than actresses to receive share contracts.
An instance of hypocritical, Hollywood elites discriminating against women? Hardly.
Some 70% of leads are played by men and incentivizing the lead is of utmost importance. When a woman plays a leading role, she is also more likely to be offered a share contract. (Someone could argue that a disproportionate share of male leads is evidence of discrimination, but I’m not investigating that claim here).
It thus makes sense that a superstar like Connery would have received a share contract, especially for playing one of the most recognizable leading roles of all time.
To alter laborers’ incentives and thus their behavior, change the way they’re paid.
Property Rights
Property rights, in the economic sense, describe a person’s capacity to exercise control over an asset.
Control refers to the ability to appropriate the services an asset may render. Private property rights exist when the ability to exercise control is held by a party or parties who aren’t part of government.
For instance, a private property right gives a diamond owner the ability to display it (on the owner’s property), destroy it (see the point about hammers above), exchange it, wear it, or bury it in the owner’s backyard.
Yet, property rights do not fall exogenously from the heavens. They require resources to establish, define, and protect against all-comers. How much owners invest in protecting their property rights derives from how highly they value the property in question. Diamonds are highly valuable assets—see their market price—which suggests that people will invest significant quantities of resources in their protection.
Think of any heist movie. Much of the plot’s drama resides in how the would-be thieves will overcome the series of near-impossible obstacles standing between them and the object of their desire. It’s that way with diamonds too. People keep their diamonds in expensive lockboxes or behind crisscrossing lasers.
It’s instructive to contrast diamonds with another small object: pencils. How many resources do people typically expend to secure property rights to their writing utensils? Almost none. Pencil thieves, therefore, abound. Yet somehow the pencil thief problem does not rise to the level of national conversation.
On the flip side, people never absent-mindedly leave diamonds scattered on their desks.
The bottom line is that the strength of private property rights protection is a choice variable. The value of the resources in question influence that choice.
Private Governance
Yes, diamonds are well-protected, but they also have characteristics which make them easier to steal, characteristics that raise the costs of protecting them.
Namely, diamonds exhibit some of the highest value-to-weight ratios of any item in the world.
Items with this characteristic are primary targets of theft—they’re easy to conceal and therefore steal.
Furthermore, only highly skilled individuals can distinguish fake diamonds from the genuine article. Trade in diamonds seemingly provides ample opportunity for fraud and theft.
It’d be reasonable to expect that the diamond dealing industry always relies heavily on the state’s laws and courts to enforce contracts, punish theft, and curtail fraud.
It does not.
In fact, the diamond industry is one of the world’s preeminent examples of private governance—privately devised rules for regulating commercial interaction. The details are documented extensively by Lisa Bernstein in a series of papers, and by Barak Richman in his book, Stateless Commerce: The Diamond Network and the Persistence of Relational Exchange.
As Richman shows, Manhattan’s 47th Street—the world-renowned Diamond District—was a virtually government-free zone (at least with respect to diamonds) for decades.
Rather than rely on government, the Orthodox Jews of the diamond business did commerce and adjudicated disputes through their self-created Diamond Dealers Club (DDC). The discipline of continuous dealings undergirded trade and the DDC’s communication of prior arbitration decisions informed diamond dealers about who to avoid. Richman’s book also reveals some the causes behind the unraveling of long-standing private governance in the diamond industry.
So, why, exactly, was a self-created, informal legal arrangement better for so many diamond dealers? Interestingly, Medieval merchants also forsook local government courts in favor of law they themselves created, the world-famous Lex Mercatoria.
For both Medieval merchants and for diamond dealers, opting out of the formal legal system made sense because the state-sponsored legal system was too costly along a host of margins. Uncertainty about future judicial rulings made contract formation hard. Courts don’t always calculate damages correctly. They’re slow. They’re expensive.
Instead, as Bernstein puts it: “Jewish diamond dealers in the New York bourse [trading center] in the early 1990s were able to exchange millions of diamonds simply by shaking hands and intoning the [Hebrew] phrase mazal u b’racha.” When disputes arose, they were handled by the Diamond Dealers Club. Yet, true crime was rare. Members of the Jewish diamond community had just about everything to lose upon expulsion from their tight-knit diamond network.
For details on this sophisticated system of dispute resolution, ostracism, and extralegal governance, see Richman’s book.
The Resource Curse
Some economists have made the counterintuitive case that a nation apparently blessed with an abundance of natural resources is actually cursed.
The so-called resource curse says that conflict over a country’s valuable resources mires it in endless rent-seeking, extortion, bribery, nationalization, and even outright violent contestation.
While all these outcomes are possible in a world of rich natural resource endowments, the divergent paths of two of the world’s leading diamond exporters—Botswana and the Democratic Republic of the Congo—demonstrate that the resource curse is anything but deterministic.
Over the last few decades, the landlocked Botswana has become one of Africa’s success stories. Meanwhile, the Congo remains mired in civil war and grinding poverty. GDP per capita is about ten times higher in Botswana relative to the Congo.
The presence or absence of natural resources is never the ultimate cause of economic development.
Underlying all other proximate causes of development are institutions, the formal and informal rules of the game that structure economic interactions. Dramatically oversimplifying, Botswana more closely approximates an ideal of secure private property rights, low taxes, liberalized trade, sound money, and the rule of law.
The Congo is anything but.
Within the context of the right institutional infrastructure, large diamond deposits—or any other natural resource—will not doom a country to endless infighting. Saudi Arabia and Australia are two good examples: both resource-rich, both prosperous, both free of violent, internal conflict. Counterexamples are readily available, but this only reinforces my point that institutions are the ultimate cause.
Of course, the story of how to get and keep “good” institutions is far more complicated. Yet, the resource curse is a good jumping off point for a discussion of institutional origins, function, and evolution.
These topics don’t exhaust the economic lessons that the tiny, glorious diamond illuminates.
A course with time to spare might explore how workers’ compensation in diamond mines influences their wages, the impact of tort law on investments in mining safety and pollution control, or the rates at which entrepreneurs deplete their mines.
But suppose someone said I couldn’t use diamonds for my illustrations.
What then?
I’d go with the tennis ball—but that’s a story for another day.
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GRANDVIEW, Mo. (WFAF) — A Missouri woman says it has been almost three months since her husband was laid to rest and still there’s no headstone.
Colleen and Bennie Asberry prepaid for burial services at 12 Gates Memorial Gardens in Kansas City, Missouri. They wanted to be side-by-side, sharing a headstone.
But Colleen Asberry was told because of how the contracts were written, the cemetery cannot place the headstone there until she, too, dies.
“He was the light of my life,” Colleen Asberry said. “We’d been married 28 years. We’ve been together 35, and we did everything together.”
But in May, Bennie Asberry died.
“We all were there when he took his last breath, and it was just — It still hurts me to talk about, you know, to see him go like that,” Colleen Asberry said.
Less than two weeks later, Bennie Asberry was buried at 12 Gates.
“That’s when I was informed that the headstone would not be laid until after I died,” Colleen Asberry said. “That doesn’t make sense to me. When I took out the policy neither one of us knew who was going to go first.”
Each person had a prefunded funeral agreement done through insurance. Each was paid in full.
In Colleen Asberry’s contract, there is a $980.80 charge for a “gray grass marker.”
It’s not on Bennie Asberry’s, and that’s the problem.
Todd DeMint of Meyers Funeral Chapel, which is not involved in the Asberry case, said prepaid burials are beneficial. But he said items like the headstone should be paid for separately, perhaps put in a third contract with each of the two names.
“If they wrote separate contracts, which they have to do in the state of Missouri, if they put the headstone under one of them, then you’ve got to have the right person pass away first for that headstone to be completed,” DeMint said.
DeMint said people need to know specifically what they’re asking for and vocalize it when arranging prepaid services.
“When you’re purchasing something, and you have goods and services, it needs to be in black and white what those goods and services are, and you need to know what your expectations are once it’s time to fulfill that contract,” DeMint said.
Nexstar’s WDAF spoke with the cemetery Monday and was told Colleen Asberry could cash-surrender her policy and use some of that money to pay for a new headstone. The cemetery said the remainder of the cash would go back into the pre-need policy.
But Colleen Asberry fears cashing out will cost her money, and she’s not spending another dime out-of-pocket.
The cemetery declined to be interviewed.
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Hurricanes sign veteran forward Paul Stastny to 1-year deal
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Carolina Hurricanes have signed veteran forward Paul Stastny to a $1.5 million contract for next season. Stastny’s addition could fill a void with winger Max Pacioretty expected to miss several months after surgery to repair a torn Achilles tendon. The Hurricanes are trying to improve their scoring after averaging fewer than three goals a game in the playoffs this past season. Stastny scored 21 in 71 games with Winnipeg last season and has 310 in the regular season and playoffs since breaking into the NHL. The 36-year-old also gives Carolina some depth down the middle after losing Vincent Trocheck in free agency. | https://ktvz.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/08/23/hurricanes-sign-veteran-forward-paul-stastny-to-1-year-deal/ | 2022-08-23T19:10:02Z | https://ktvz.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/08/23/hurricanes-sign-veteran-forward-paul-stastny-to-1-year-deal/ | true | null |
Bettendorf Middle School launched "Where Everyone Belongs" (WEB) Tuesday morning, a year-long transition program that pairs 8th-grade mentors with 6th-graders to help them acclimate to middle school.
Laina Crocker, a 6th-grader, said she's most excited to meet new people and have "a lot of fun" through the WEB program.
The program will include several activities and mentorship opportunities throughout the year. Beginning with Tuesday's middle school orientation, where all 6th-graders gather to learn about how to succeed in middle school and start building rapport with the WEB leaders. Activities throughout the year consist of academic and social follow-ups, leader-initiated contacts and other events.
Current 8th-graders could apply to be WEB leaders last spring. Once applicants were accepted, staff led them in a run-through of what 6th-graders would be doing in the program. They also completed 10 leader training hours this summer.
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Jaden Davis said his 6th-grade experience prompted him to become a WEB leader this year.
"A lot of older kids and teachers would help me out and make me feel more comfortable, so I thought I'd return the favor for all the incoming 6th-graders," he said.
Instructional coach Rachael Dierckz will serve as the program's coordinator for the school. She believes WEB mutually benefits both 6th and 8th graders.
"This has been a great opportunity for 8th-graders to take on leadership roles, as well as welcoming in the 6th-graders positively," Dierckz said.
Bettendorf High School has run a similar mentorship program, the Social-Emotional Learning Leaders (SELL) Crew Project, since the district received a "SEL In Acton Award" grant in 2020. Bettendorf were one of eight awardees out of 40 nationwide.
The $25,000 grant funds both the SELL Crew Project and, now, the WEB program. Principal Alan Hartley said WEB was initiated as an extension of what saw at the high school level.
"We had the opportunity to go to a [program] training this past spring," he said. "Our goal was to try and implement it over the course of this year, but once our team got back from training they said, 'We can't wait, you have to do this right now.' So we had several staff members who were trained and really did the heavy lifting to make the day happen."
After this pilot year, Diercks said the goal is for the program to remain at the middle school.
"We want to make sure our 6th-graders feel welcomed and for it to be a positive, uplifting environment when they first come in the doors," she said. "It just creates a big school community."
Hartley seconds these sentiments, adding that the program may positively impact students during a pivotal - and sometimes nerve-wracking - point in their lives.
"If you think back to middle school, what do you remember? It probably isn't a test or homework assignment, it's probably a moment, memory or relationship. Hopefully today we're creating those for someone," he said. "Middle school is never an easy time ... we have 300 students that are starting at a brand-new school, and that can be intimidating. We wanted to create an opportunity for them to alleviate that fear, create relationships with classmates, and with WEB leaders that will be mentors for them."
Crocker said she'd like to be a WEB leader in 8th-grade.
"I'm a very social person, and I'm great at talking to people and helping them out," she said. "I'm adaptable to the kids around and my surroundings, so I'd really like to be doing that." | https://qctimes.com/news/local/education/watch-now-bettendorf-middle-school-launches-transition-mentoring-program-for-6th-grade-students/article_0e2837f0-1799-51e0-8161-5bbeb9eb651e.html | 2022-08-23T19:10:26Z | https://qctimes.com/news/local/education/watch-now-bettendorf-middle-school-launches-transition-mentoring-program-for-6th-grade-students/article_0e2837f0-1799-51e0-8161-5bbeb9eb651e.html | false | 1 |
- One of the world's premier bio-pharmaceutical companies selects Controlant, a leader in supply chain management, powered by Telit, as the connected IoT temperature monitoring gateway for vaccine shipments throughout 2021
- Telit and Controlant receive the 2022 GLOMO Award for Best Innovation for COVID-19 Pandemic Response and Recovery
LONDON and REYKJAVIK, Iceland, April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Controlant announced today it has successfully concluded the world's single largest cellular IoT rollout for vaccine distribution using Telit modems for connectivity. Telit is a global enabler of the Internet of Things (IoT), and Controlant is leader in real-time supply chain monitoring and visibility technologies for heavily regulated industries such as pharmaceuticals, life sciences, food and beverages.
In the battle against COVID-19, Controlant produced close to one million cellular cold-chain data logger devices, powered by Telit IoT modules, to secure the efficient distribution and the quality of billions of COVID-19 vaccine doses that one of the world's premier biopharmaceutical companies is distributing across the globe.
"It's been a roller coaster ride for the biopharmaceutical industry, racing first to come up with COVID-19 vaccines and then to distribute them safely. During a time of unprecedented disruptions in the global supply chain, Controlant produced nearly a million cellular cold-chain data logger devices, using Telit modems, to secure the efficient distribution and quality of billions of vaccine doses. Winning the GLOMO award is testament to the hard work of a great many people and to the strength of our partnership with Telit," said Erlingur Brynjulfsson, CTO and co-founder, Controlant.
Controlant's Cold Chain as a Service solution is a single source of supply chain truth. It is a powerful combination of IoT, advanced visibility and cost-reducing operational services that increase workflow efficiency and responsiveness while supporting quality and compliance efforts. COVID-19 vaccines, in particular, must maintain strict temperature control along every mile of the supply chain to ensure quality and integrity. Real-time supply chain monitoring solutions from Controlant offer complete visibility into shipping, distribution and warehousing, all of which reduce risk of spoilage, reducing product waste by more than 90 percent.
"Despite a period of severe material shortages and production challenges during various waves of virus outbreaks and regional lock-downs, Telit and its suppliers and production partners engaged in unprecedented collaboration to deliver all vaccine units in record time and enable the vaccination campaigns to be implemented without any disruption in the supply," said Martin Krona, SVP, EMEA, Telit. "We are very pleased that our collaboration with Controlant's R&D and product teams, employing Telit module technologies during a time of rapidly-changing cellular ecosystem and infrastructure, has been recognized by this award."
The GLOMO Award was announced on March 2 during a virtual ceremony co-hosted by Sasha Twining and Justin Springham from Mobile World Live and streamed to audiences around the globe via LinkedIn. Telit and Controlant received the award for outstanding achievement in the category Best Innovation for COVID-19 Pandemic Response & Recovery.
"Congratulations to all of our 2022 GLOMO Award winners. The GLOMOs recognize the most innovative organizations in our ecosystem. The winners are changing how people, communities and businesses interact and evolve in a digital-first world," said John Hoffman, CEO of GSMA Ltd. "This win affirms achievements of the highest merit, as judged by peers across the entire industry."
The GLOMO Awards, chaired by Shaun Collins, Executive Chairman of CCS Insight, are adjudicated by over 200 independent industry experts, analysts, journalists, academics, mobile operator representatives, and CTOs; and are widely recognized as the most prestigious accolade in the mobile industry.
Further information about the winners and nominees of the GLOMO Awards 2022 can be found here https://www.mwcbarcelona.com/mobile-awards.
About Controlant
Controlant's mission is to improve product quality, safety and sustainability of the supply chain. Our automated Cold Chain as a Service® solutions deliver value across the supply chain by dramatically increasing the visibility of product quality conditions and location, while minimizing waste. Controlant's real-time monitoring enables real-time control for pharmaceutical and food and beverage companies to make their operations significantly more reliable and cost-effective. We provide automated, pay-as-you-go visibility with real-time tracking, mission-critical analytics, and cost-reducing services for quality, compliance, and tangible ROI. With IoT, cloud-enabled analytics, API connectivity, and advanced operational services, our customers can automate their business processes and optimize communication through technology.
About Telit
Telit simplifies onboarding of connected 'things' with a portfolio of enterprise-grade wireless communication and positioning modules; cellular MVNO connectivity plans and management services; edge and cloud software; and data orchestration, IoT and Industrial IoT platforms. With over two decades of pioneering IoT innovation experience, Telit delivers award-winning, secure, integrated IoT solutions for many of the world's largest enterprises, OEMs, system integrators and service providers, so they can connect and manage IoT at any scale.
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VIRGINIA BEACH — Stable global oil prices and modest domestic demand for gasoline led pump prices to fall a nickel in the past week to $3.90.
“Drivers are now benefiting from gas prices that are $1.11 less than their peak in mid-June,” said Ryan Adcock, AAA Tidewater public relations specialist. “But now we need to keep an eye on the weather as hurricane season arrives. These storms can affect prices by disrupting oil production in the Gulf of Mexico and impacting large coastal refineries.”
AAA finds that drivers are making significant changes to cope with high pump prices. In a recent survey, almost two-thirds of U.S. adults say they have changed their driving habits or lifestyle since March. Drivers’ top two changes to offset high gas prices are driving less and combining errands.
According to data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA), gas demand rose slightly from 9.12 million b/d to 9.35 million b/d last week, which is nearly identical to this time last year. Total domestic gasoline stocks decreased by nearly 5 million bbl to 215.7 million bbl. Although gasoline demand has risen and supplies have tightened, easing oil prices have helped lower pump prices. If oil prices edge lower, drivers will likely continue to see falling pump prices.
Today’s national average of $3.90 is 51 cents less than a month ago but 74 cents more than a year ago.
Local Stats
Prices across the Commonwealth fell for the tenth straight week landing at $3.69. This is $1.17 lower than the highest state average of $4.86, reached on June 14. In Hampton Roads, prices decreased nine cents to $3.63, which is $0.55 lower than last month but $0.69 higher than a year ago.
Oil Market Dynamics
At the close of Friday’s formal trading session, WTI increased by 27 cents to settle at $90.77. Although crude prices increased at the end of the week due to EIA reporting that total domestic crude supply decreased by 7 million bbl to 425 million bbl, crude prices declined earlier in the week after U.S. housing data showed that homebuilding dropped to its lowest level in 1.5 years in July. Higher mortgage rates, alongside the rising costs of materials, played a role in decreasing the demand for new housing. Lower housing demand also pushed oil demand expectations lower. If crude demand expectations remain low this week, crude prices could decline further.
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Waste Connections
Waste Connections (TSX:WCN)(NYSE:WCN) continues to be quietly profitable even during this market downturn. In its latest earnings report, Waste Connections stock proved that even should North America meet a recession and see volume decrease, the company has the growth potential to continue to support its stock. Revenue for the solid waste collector in the second quarter was up 18% to $1.8 billion, with net income up 26.6% to $224 million.
This year looks strong, with Waste Connections increasing its revenue and net income guidance. Due to its ability to combat inflation, investors are latching onto this stock, so it’s not cheap trading at 53 times earnings. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t buy it.
Right now, it’s one of the dividend stocks offering a yield of 0.64%, but add on a lot of stable growth as well. Shares are up 7% year to date, and 134% in the last five years alone.
WSP Global
WSP Global (TSX:WSP) is another of the strong dividend stocks you can buy up and drool over. The company has been on a buying spree, growing through acquisitions at an astounding rate. In particular, WSP stock is focusing on being the engineering company of choice to create clean energy infrastructure.
Analysts are impressed by the acquisition strategy as it takes over companies during the market dip. They remain confident it will continue to unlock shareholder value for long-term holders. Plus, it’s one of the dividend stocks that offers a 0.94% dividend yield. That should rise far higher once this merger and acquisition activity is done. Yet with shares down 12% year to date, you can grab this at a major discount. WSP is worth a closer look, especially considering shares have risen 900% in the last decade alone!
Colliers
Finally, economists also remain confident on the future performance of Colliers International Group (TSX:CIGI)(NASDAQ:CIGI). This real estate investment manager offers investors a diversified portfolio, with the ability to make further acquisitions in the future to meet growth targets. In fact, its plan is to double its profitability from 2020 levels by the end of 2025. And with half of its revenue coming from recurring sources, that looks like a fairly easy accomplishment.
So yes, a dividend yield of 0.24% isn’t a high one for those seeking high-paying dividend stocks. But it does offer a large amount of stable growth! And huge growth at that over the next five years. And with shares down 5% year to date, it’s a great time to latch onto the stock. Especially as it’s climbed 912% in the last decade alone. | https://www.fool.ca/2022/08/23/3-drool-worthy-dividend-stocks-top-economists-already-own/ | 2022-08-23T19:25:33Z | https://www.fool.ca/2022/08/23/3-drool-worthy-dividend-stocks-top-economists-already-own/ | false | 1 |
Five Days at Memorial can be difficult to watch because when you think about it, you remember the events happening are based on real-life situation. Of course, like any show or movie, the Apple TV+ limited series is dramatized at times. But, much of what’s portrayed actually happened.
The series shows us how the doctors and other medical staff are left to their own devices to survive Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. They only had a few limited choices they otherwise wouldn’t have made. They are euthanizing some patients for the lack of food and water, foul air condition, etc.
The cast of this medical drama involves
Vera Farmiga as Dr. Anna Pou,
Cornelius Smith Jr. as Dr. Bryant King,
Adepero Oduye as Karen Wynn,
Julie Ann Emery as Diane Robichaux,
Cherry Jones as Susan Mulderick,
Molly Hager as Virginia Rider,
Michael Gaston as Arthur “Butch” Schafer, and Joe Carroll as Michael Arvin.
Five Days at Memorial was released on 12th August with only the first three episodes. The streaming service ordered a total of eight episodes for this series. This means that we’re already halfway through the season. The finale is supposed to be on Friday, 16th September.
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A Navy-trained dolphin has been caught on video enjoying a meal of venomous sea snakes in a shocking and never-before-seen display.
The US Navy train bottlenose dolphins so they can hunt for underwater mines in the ocean.
A non-profit fitted the dolphins with cameras to watch them go about their lives and hunt.
The video shows the camera attached to the creature as it swims through the dark, murky depths of the sea.
It's not super clear, but viewers can see the dolphin's head, eye and nose as it swims through the dark water.
At one point the dolphin dips above the surface of the water momentarily.
The creature is making a calling sound and you can also hear the sound of the water as the dolphin swims through it.
Suddenly the viewer sees the dolphin capture a sea creature with an obvious fin - some kind of fish - in its mouth and eat it.
The dolphins are trained by the US Navy's Marine Mammal Program to find underwater mines, reports CNN.
But the video goes on to explain that one of the dolphins was spotted tucking into some poisonous sea snakes.
It said: "One of the dolphins was observed eating eight venomous sea snakes, a behaviour never before see in the wild.
"The study authors wanted to learn more about the different feeding techniques of dolphins."
Bottlenose dolphins are not by any means the only animals displaying fascinating behaviour we may never have realised is possible.
A rare and endangered two-headed turtle with four front legs has left experts baffled.
The African spurred tortoise, known as Centrochelys sulcata, is predicted to live a long, healthy life - despite a CT scan revealing one set of internal organs and two heads.
In addition, the tortoise is also listed as endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List of Threatened Species.
This particular tortoise - nicknamed Sorte, or 'Luck' in Portuguese - was hatched on August 1 to a breeder called Ruben van Schoor in Putten, Holland. | https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/navy-trained-dolphin-can-hunt-27813735 | 2022-08-23T19:25:55Z | https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/navy-trained-dolphin-can-hunt-27813735 | false | 1 |
Burnley
Wiles, Mikautadze, Westwood: The latest Burnley news you might have missed
Burnley have had a fairly solid start to life in the Championship so far having lost just one game so far.
However, with one win and three draws from their other four games, new manager Vincent Kompany will no doubt feel there is still work to be done so his side are able to start converting those draws into victories.
Tonight, the Clarets face a trip to Shrewsbury Town in the EFL Cup where a win and progression into the next round will no doubt give the boss some joy as they then prepare for trip to Wigan in the league on Saturday.
With the summer transfer window nearly coming to a close and the season starting to settle down, here we take a look at the latest news coming out of Turf Moor.
Ben Wiles
Burnley have been keen on a move for Rotherham United’s Ben Wiles this summer although previous efforts to sign him throughout summer have been knocked back.
However, as per our exclusive Football League World report, the Clarets are not giving up in their pursuit of midfielder and have approached the Millers with a fresh offer for the player.
Whether this latest attempt will be successful is yet to be seen although with Wiles out of contract with his current club next summer, Rotherham could have a breaking point at which they become tempted to engage in a conversation with Burnley over a possible deal.
That being said, the 23-year-old is a Rotherham boy and has only ever played for his current club meaning he will not be easy to pull away.
However, with the summer transfer window open for just another week, we will have to wait and see whether Burnley will be successful in their aims.
Quiz: Can you name which club these 26 ex-Burnley midfielders play for currently?
Georges Mikautadze
Burnley are having offered rejected from elsewhere too this summer as they have seen a €2.5million offer for Georges Mikautadze turned down as per a report from journalist Sacha Tavolieri.
Burnley could do with some further attacking options before the summer transfer window closes this summer and Kompany has already shown he is willing to look overseas for these options.
Furthermore, despite seeing their first move for the player rejected, it doesn’t mean that a deal can’t be agreed especially with Tavolieri reporting that Kompany has already been in talks with the player.
The 21-year-old scored nine goals in 28 league games in the top flight of Belgian football last season so there is no reason he couldn’t add to Burnley’s efforts if they can land him this summer.
Ashley Westwood
Westwood has been absent from the Burnley side since April after picking up an ankle injury.
However, the midfielder was able to provide fans with some positive news regarding his recovery this week as he says he feels “ready to play”.
The 32-year-old has admitted that he has to be careful given his age so we still won’t see him return to action for some time.
However, Westwood is positive about returning before initially thought with the hope that will be before November.
This will be a great boost for the Clarets with Westwood providing plenty of experience and ability on the pitch. | https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/wiles-mikautadze-westwood-the-latest-burnley-news-you-might-have-missed/ | 2022-08-23T19:27:10Z | https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/wiles-mikautadze-westwood-the-latest-burnley-news-you-might-have-missed/ | true | 1 |
DETROIT, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- For years, automakers have talked about electric vehicles and autonomous driving as two connected parts of the future of cars. But new research from Ipsos shows that automakers might be better off if they talked about them separately.
Ipsos' latest Mobility Navigator Study shows that while almost half of drivers (49%) say they're interested in an electric vehicle for their next car, only 31% would be interested in a fully autonomous (aka self-driving) car. And people are growing more interested in electric vehicles every year, while interest in self-driving cars remains stubbornly low.
"Combining electrification and autonomous as a bundled technology advancement may not be a match made in heaven," said Chance Parker, Vice President, U.S. Automotive & Mobility Development at Ipsos. "Dedicated education about autonomous vehicles with a clear safety benefit can help reduce misconceptions and improve trial and acceptance across all generations."
That's not to say people aren't interested in any new driving technology to help them on the road. More than 60% of consumers say they are interested in individual features like accident avoidance, night/all-weather vision, and advanced driver assistance, which are key advancements in driving technology.
Vehicles today offer more potential interactions for the driver, raising concerns over the level of driver distraction. These worries are becoming a common issue. In a U.S. poll of 1,000 adults conducted in 2021, Ipsos found that drivers believe they encounter a distracted driver in one of every two drives they take.
In addition to identifying which features and technology generate the most interest among consumers, the study results also reaffirm that the auto industry is facing a potentially sticky generation gap regarding these transformational technologies. The latest Mobility Navigator data on electric vehicles shows a dramatic difference in attitudes toward electric vehicles by generation. Millennials and Gen Z consumers are much more positive about electric vehicles than their Boomer counterparts. When consumers are asked about autonomous driving technology, the same gap emerges, and may be getting worse.
"Differences in attitudes toward new technology between younger and older consumers are not new – but these technologies aren't simply features than can be used or ignored as you see fit," Parker said. "Instead, both technologies completely change your relationship with your vehicle. Given the billions of dollars being poured into both technologies, the stakes are extremely high."
Another finding with far-reaching ramifications: Consumers ultimately want control of autonomous technology. Even those consumers who are pro-autonomous driving vehicles express that there is a time and place for it: Three out of four consumers who would consider autonomous technology say they would only want to use it in certain circumstances. This will also require more education for consumers, so they better understand and trust the technology. And until full autonomy is embedded and accepted, it will mean that consumers need user-friendly controls and interfaces with which to control the autonomous tech in their vehicle.
To see more charts and learn more about the study, visit https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/knowledge/customer-experience/Why-are-consumers-still-leery-of-autonomous-driving-technology or watch our on-demand webinar at https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/knowledge/customer-experience/Features-and-technology-driving-interest-in-new-automobiles-recording.
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Morgoth may have been defeated, but evil still lurks in the full, final trailer for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, which arrives with the first two episodes on Thursday, Sept. 1 (get release schedule details).
The new, two-minute-and-36-second trailer highlights the expanse of Middle-earth in its Second Age, and reveals how Galadriel and many more of J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendary characters will come together against all odds, and across great distances, to guard against the feared reemergence of evil to Middle-earth.
The trailer features the characters of Galadriel (played by Morfydd Clark), Elrond (Robert Aramayo), High King Gil-galad (Benjamin Walker) and Celebrimbor (Charles Edwards)… Harfoots Elanor “Nori” Brandyfoot (Markella Kavenagh) and Largo Brandyfoot (Dylan Smith)… The Stranger (Daniel Weyman)… Númenóreans Isildur (Maxim Baldry), Eärien (Ema Horvath), Elendil (Lloyd Owen), Pharazôn (Trystan Gravelle) and Queen Regent Míriel (Cynthia Addai-Robinson)… Dwarves King Durin III (Peter Mullan), Prince Durin IV (Owain Arthur) and Princess Disa (Sophia Nomvete)… Southlanders Halbrand (Charlie Vickers)… Bronwyn (Nazanin Boniadi)… and Silvan-elf Arondir (Ismael Cruz Córdova).
Following the Amazon series’ double-episode premiere, the remaining six episodes of the freshman season will stream weekly, with the finale set for Friday, Oct. 14.
Rings of Power spans many different locations, from “the darkest depths of the Misty Mountains, to the majestic forests of the elf capital of Lindon, to the breathtaking island kingdom of Númenor” as old and new characters etch out legacies that will last long after they are dead.
With the show set during the Second Age, it will tackle several key events from that period, including Sauron’s rise to power; the forging of the Rings of Power, which the Dark Lord gifted to humans, elves and dwarves and secretly controlled with his master ring (aka the One Ring to Rule Them All); the rise and fall of Númenor, the island of men who happen to be Aragorn’s ancestors; and the Last Alliance of Elves and Men, a final stand against Sauron (depicted in the prologue of Peter Jackson’s Fellowship of the Ring).
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Reinforcement of Cruzeiro for the rest of Série B of the Brazilian, the side Wesley Gasolina believes he is ready to play the 90 minutes. However, it is not yet the planning of coach Paulo Pezzolano.
Cruzeiro draws with Grêmio in game with Pezzolano sending off and fight in the stands
At the end of the match against Grêmio, this Sunday, Wesley said he was ready to play throughout the game, but said he agreed with the coach’s option of putting him on little by little.
– I think I can play the full 90 minutes and now we’ll see what he has to do. I totally agree with the coach, because the choices he makes for the team are up to him. These games are being very important. I played 45 against Chapecoense, I played against Grêmio for another 35 minutes today. I’m gaining minutes and game rhythm.
Wesley Gasolina was hired from Sion, Switzerland. The player played throughout the second half against Chapecoense and entered the second stage against Grêmio, having good performances.
Wesley Gasolina and Paulo Pezzolano — Photo: Staff Images
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At the press conference, coach Paulo Pezzolano said that it is not yet time for Gasolina to be a starter at Cruzeiro. According to him, the side still showed a drop in pace during his performances.
– We have to try to get the best out of them so that they keep improving. Today, Gasoline was not in a good time to start playing. He has good moments, but gets drowned. It’s catching on. We have a very intense style of play – said the Cruzeiro coach.
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According to Pezzolano, Gasolina is in a different stage of preparation than other players signed in the same window. Cases of Bruno Rodrigues and Chay, according to the coach.
– Bruno was prepared for that. He was used to it. Chay is also used to it, sometimes he can’t handle every game, but he can handle more. Gasoline still doesn’t work. He does three, four sprints, but he gets drowned. Right now, we’re going to keep him, so he doesn’t have to leave during the game. So, let’s try to keep improving physically.
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Kelly Kay has shared some touching news in the wake of her loss.
Kay, who is the girlfriend of late Oregon Ducks football player Spencer Webb, announced that she is expecting his child after the 22-year-old passed away from an accidental fall in July. In honor of the news, she took to Instagram to pen a message to her late partner.
"We created an angel before heaven gained one," she wrote on Aug. 22. "All you ever wanted was to be a father...I know you'll be the best one from up above."
She continued her thoughts by reflecting on her future as a mother. "Can't believe I have to do it without you but knowing I'll have a piece of you keeps me going," Kay wrote. "I can't wait to meet the person that's half you, half me."
She added, "I love you forever, both of you."
Kay shared photos of herself with a sonogram and a message that read, "I'll be your legacy. I'll be your voice. You live on in me. So I've made the choice. To honour your life. By living again. I love you. I miss you. I'll see you again."
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The announcement of her little one comes more than a month after Webb died on July 13. At the time, a statement from the Lane County Sheriff's Office reported that he was found about 100 yards down a steep hill after he "fell and struck his head."
One day later, Kay shared a tribute for the fallen football player, referring to him as "my best friend my twin flame the love of my life."
Later in her heartfelt homage, Kay spoke on the plans they had and the legacy he left behind, writing, "I don't know where to go from here but I know you'll be watching over me keeping me strong." | https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/national-international/girlfriend-of-college-football-player-spencer-webb-who-died-in-tragic-fall-shares-shes-pregnant-with-their-child/2969992/ | 2022-08-23T19:33:59Z | https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/national-international/girlfriend-of-college-football-player-spencer-webb-who-died-in-tragic-fall-shares-shes-pregnant-with-their-child/2969992/ | true | 14 |
MORROW, Ga. (AP) — Prosecutor says he won’t pursue murder charge against Atlanta officer who killed Rayshard Brooks in June 2020.
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America's 'gender exceptionalism'
Though we tend to think that Europe is less "Christian" than the United States, in some ways, that's not true. Certainly, per capita, church attendance is lower throughout most of Europe than it is here, and religious Americans enjoy certain political freedoms that Europeans do not. However, on at least two major social issues, America has, for a while now, been more extreme than Europe.
In the case of abortion, the Supreme Court's recent decision in Dobbs reversed nearly 50 years in which Roe v. Wade kept states from passing meaningful abortion restrictions. States are now free to set their own rules on abortion and many are actually coming into line with the vast majority of European countries restricting abortion to the earliest weeks of pregnancy. America has long been a more progressive (and dangerous) place when it comes to the preborn.
Another issue in which America remains extreme and dangerously out of step with the rest of the Western world is childhood gender "transitions." This became more apparent last month when Britain's National Health Service closed its largest and most influential center for childhood gender "treatment."
Writing recently at Common Sense, Lisa Selin Davis chronicled the last days of the Tavistock clinic, which was shuttered after its "gender-affirming" treatment methods came under serious scrutiny. Thousands of children have been treated at Tavistock which, in the last 10 years, had seen a 4,000% increase in referrals for girls alone. The vast majority of younger patients were prescribed puberty blockers, drugs that are now known to cause brain swelling and vision loss.
During the clinic's heyday, numerous voices raised the alarm about its gung-ho approach to altering children's bodies. Mental healthcare employees like Sonia Appleby and Sue Evans, both of whom worked at the clinic, warned that vulnerable minors were being rushed through transition without efforts to properly discern other mental health issues they may have had. Keira Bell, a young woman who received treatment at Tavistock, won a lawsuit in 2020 that temporarily halted referrals for puberty-blockers in children under 16. Bell is just one of a rapidly growing community of "de-transitioners" who were fast-tracked through medical transitions only to regret them later.
For Tavistock, the final straw came when respected physician Dr. Hilary Cass concluded that the clinic's approach to gender dysphoria in minors had no convincing evidence to back its claims of effectiveness or safety. As she put it, there is "a lack of consensus and open discussion about the nature of gender dysphoria and therefore about the appropriate clinical response."
Following her recommendation last month, the NHS permanently shut down the clinic. "In effect," wrote Davis, Britain has rebuked "the common American medical approach" of "gender affirming care.... There will be no more top-down, one-size-fits-all transitioning for kids with gender dysphoria in the UK."
And then last week, as The Times of London reported, around 1,000 families are expected to join a lawsuit filed against the Tavistock clinic for rushing their children into life-altering puberty blockers.
Other European countries are also pumping the brakes on these sexual experiments on children. Davis pointed to "uber-progressive" countries like Sweden and Finland that have pushed back "firmly and unapologetically" against such interventions. The American approach, on the other hand, is now "at odds with a growing consensus in the West to exercise extreme caution when it comes to transitioning young people."
In fact, despite absence of evidence for benefits and real evidence of harm, medical establishments in the U.S. and both state and federal government powers are doubling down on so-called "affirming" treatments, calling puberty blockers "safe and reversible." Groups like the American Academy of Pediatrics not only endorse chemical interventions but actively work to block state bans that would protect kids from them.
All critics of runaway gender ideology, but especially Christians, have an urgent duty to speak up against our nation's dangerous experiments on children. All who love to look to Europe as a model for progress need to pay close attention to Europe's reversal on childhood gender interventions. Together, we should consider that progress in this area means taking a big step (or several) back from the edge of the abyss.
The closing of Tavistock and the impending lawsuit are powerful reminders that there is nothing inevitable about the triumph of bad ideas. They can be challenged. They can even be toppled. Protecting their would-be victims is all the motivation needed. A quick glance across the pond should disabuse us of our doom and gloom and inspire us to take a stand.
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Kauffman Foundation, Google.org, The Coca-Cola Company,
Hispanic Scholarship Fund and the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Grants
Earmarked for Aspen City Action Lab to Accelerate Success for Latino Businesses
WASHINGTON, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Aspen Institute Latinos & Society Program (AILAS) announced today it has garnered grants totaling nearly $1.7 million from prestigious partners dedicated to advancing prosperity for under-served business and entrepreneurial communities. Specifically earmarked for the Aspen City Action Lab, the grants included $600,000 from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, $500,000 from Google.org, $375,000 from The Coca-Cola Company and a $100,000 each from the Hispanic Scholarship Fund and the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
"Latinos are launching companies at a faster rate than other groups and accounted for 52% of net job growth in the past decade. This success occurred despite many having little formal business education, nor access to capital and supportive networks enjoyed by other demographics," says AILAS Executive Director Domenika Lynch. "The support of the Kauffman Foundation, Google.org, the Coca-Cola Company, the Hispanic Scholarship Fund and the U.S. Hispanic of Chamber will make a real difference in helping the City Action Lab unleash the full dynamism of this underserved sector of our nation. The resulting growth will help boost our entire economy."
The Aspen City Action Lab unites Latino small businesses with local entrepreneurial and civic leaders to spur economic growth and share ways to expand business opportunities. The object is to close a wealth and opportunity gap that widened during the COVID-19 pandemic. Issues addressed include how to access private capital, apply for public funding, and leverage digital technology to expand the customer base.
The Aspen City Action Lab launched as a pilot program in 2021 with communities in Chicago; El Paso, Texas; Miami; Phoenix; San Antonio; and San Bernardino, Calif. This innovative initiative is aiding Latino-majority cities in generating long-term, inclusive economic growth through data-driven, community-informed approaches. Having built partnerships with more than 70 cross-sector leaders in these cities, City Action Lab is also building nationwide networks so that more cities can be added when the pilot phase concludes.
The award from the Kauffman Foundation, an organization committed to advancing educational achievement and entrepreneurial success, bolsters efforts to systematize the program's design so that it can benefit future cohorts of participating cities. The funding will also help support the annual Aspen Latino Business & Entrepreneurship Summit, which assembles public and private-sector leaders to uplift policies, practices and programs supporting Latino business owners and entrepreneurs.
The grant from Google.org, the technology giant's philanthropic arm, will boost the lab's action-oriented strategies to prepare the workforce development ecosystem for the challenges and opportunities brought by the increasing digitalization of the economy.
The Coca-Cola Company is a central partner in AILAS' efforts to shift the narrative around Latinos and their contributions to the competitiveness and resilience of the American economy. The company's giving supports City Action Lab's overall initiative as well as efforts to expand the participation of Latino businesses in our nation's supply chain.
The funding from the Hispanic Scholarship Fund, the nation's largest nonprofit supporting Hispanic American higher education, and the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, the largest Hispanic business organization, representing 4.7M+ Hispanic-owned businesses, are also in support of the overall Aspen City Action Lab initiative.
About Aspen Institute Latinos and Society
The Aspen Institute Latinos and Society's mission is to empower and promote long-term economic growth and resiliency in Latino communities throughout the United States. AILAS leverages the Aspen Institute's unique convening power and deep network of leaders from the public, private, nonprofit, and philanthropic sectors to advance needed public and corporate policy that maximizes the economic potential of Latino communities, especially small and medium-sized enterprises. With a focus on equity, workforce upskilling and entrepreneurial ecosystem-building, AILAS sources data-driven, community-informed, and culturally relevant solutions to untap the economic potential of Latino workers, business owners and entrepreneurs, to the benefit of the nation.
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Ashfield Capital Partners LLC raised its position in shares of Goldman Sachs ActiveBeta U.S. Large Cap Equity ETF (NYSEARCA:GSLC – Get Rating) by 10.3% during the 1st quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The firm owned 37,537 shares of the company’s stock after buying an additional 3,492 shares during the quarter. Ashfield Capital Partners LLC’s holdings in Goldman Sachs ActiveBeta U.S. Large Cap Equity ETF were worth $3,342,000 as of its most recent filing with the SEC.
Other hedge funds have also modified their holdings of the company. Wells Fargo & Company MN raised its holdings in shares of Goldman Sachs ActiveBeta U.S. Large Cap Equity ETF by 8.1% during the fourth quarter. Wells Fargo & Company MN now owns 29,059,925 shares of the company’s stock worth $2,764,761,000 after purchasing an additional 2,182,543 shares during the last quarter. First Command Bank raised its stake in shares of Goldman Sachs ActiveBeta U.S. Large Cap Equity ETF by 131.7% during the 1st quarter. First Command Bank now owns 1,676,687 shares of the company’s stock valued at $149,293,000 after buying an additional 953,085 shares during the last quarter. Monolith Advisors purchased a new position in shares of Goldman Sachs ActiveBeta U.S. Large Cap Equity ETF during the 4th quarter valued at approximately $31,008,000. LPL Financial LLC lifted its stake in shares of Goldman Sachs ActiveBeta U.S. Large Cap Equity ETF by 7.0% in the 4th quarter. LPL Financial LLC now owns 4,852,728 shares of the company’s stock valued at $461,688,000 after purchasing an additional 316,232 shares during the period. Finally, Betterment LLC boosted its holdings in Goldman Sachs ActiveBeta U.S. Large Cap Equity ETF by 12.7% during the fourth quarter. Betterment LLC now owns 2,595,562 shares of the company’s stock worth $246,942,000 after buying an additional 291,929 shares in the last quarter.
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GSLC traded down $0.08 on Tuesday, reaching $81.93. The stock had a trading volume of 1,700 shares, compared to its average volume of 527,961. The business’s 50-day moving average price is $78.53 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $82.42. Goldman Sachs ActiveBeta U.S. Large Cap Equity ETF has a 12-month low of $72.19 and a 12-month high of $95.90.
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Looming Energy Shortages Forcing Digital Signage, DOOH Screens Off Overnight In Europe
August 23, 2022 by Dave Haynes
My very smart content partners at the German consulting and publishing firm Invidis have been writing in recent years about the importance of what they call green signage, and how energy usage is an increasingly big consideration in how digital signage and Digital OOH technology is sourced and used in Europe.
The company’s German language blog (but auto-translated by my browser!) has a post up about just how important energy usage is right now, and particularly will be this fall and winter as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has impacted energy availability around Western Europe.
Starting tomorrow, Invidis reports, the government “intends to adopt a series of measures and bans for Germany that are intended to prevent an energy shortage from September. Out-of-home and retail are particularly affected. All advertising must be switched off between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.”
So that means a whole bunch of screens will blink off come 10 pm, including Digital OOH street furniture displays and digital billboards. Spain already put similar measures in place earlier this month.
“Europe has to save energy, and from September the saving measures will also be visible in the German cityscape. The EU’s gas emergency plan came into force in August, under which the member countries have to save 15 percent on gas. Germany has a self-imposed target of 20 percent savings.”
“Outdoor advertising systems such as analogue and digital out-of-home advertising spaces, but also digital signage (displays and LEDs) in shop windows and neon letters on facades must remain switched off between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.”
“The restriction is manageable for the out-of-home industry, since most advertising spaces have always been switched off by midnight.”
“For retailers, it is prohibited to keep shop doors and entrance systems open permanently in retail business premises.”
In this case, the restrictions owe to expected shortages in energy supply, but green signage also owes to cost. Rising energy prices – particularly when you get into outdoor-rated displays that need to somehow win visibility and cooling battles with midday sunlight – mean solutions providers and their customers need to think through what they do, what they use and where displays are placed. I don’t get a sense energy consumption and costs are big parts of the discussion for AV projects in North America, but that will change. | https://www.sixteen-nine.net/2022/08/23/looming-energy-shortages-forcing-digital-signage-dooh-screens-off-overnight-in-europe/ | 2022-08-23T19:40:44Z | https://www.sixteen-nine.net/2022/08/23/looming-energy-shortages-forcing-digital-signage-dooh-screens-off-overnight-in-europe/ | true | 1 |
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More trouble for Shahbaz Gill as Islamabad Police register illegal weapons case against him
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ISLAMABAD – In another blow to detained PTI leader Dr Shahbaz Gill, Islamabad Police have registered a case over possession of an illegal weapon against Imran Khan’s close aide.
The case was registered after federal cops conducted a raid on the defiant leader’s apartment at Parliament Lodges and recovered a handgun, satellite phone, passport and other things.
The case was registered in the Secretariat Police Station after Khan’s former chief of staff failed to produce licence for the revolver.
The FIR stated that Gill committed a crime by possessing a 9mm pistol without a licence. The PTI leader maintained that one of his security guards owns the weapon. He however could not present the employee or firearm licence.
During the raid, the accused said that several things were altered in his room, hinting at someone’s presence. He however maintained that all he had was an AK-47 rifle, for which he had a licence.
Law enforcers conducted the raid after a district and sessions court granted cops two-day physical remand of Gill, who is already facing a sedition case.
Earlier in the day, a district and sessions court granted a two-day physical remand of Gill in the sedition case filed against him, after reviewing his medical report.
Gill’s medical reports suggest he is in good physical health and no signs of torture were found on his body.
PTI’s Shahbaz Gill remanded to police custody ... 05:16 PM | 22 Aug, 2022ISLAMABAD – A local court in the country’s federal capital Islamabad on Monday granted a two-day physical ...
Meanwhile, the country’s former ruling PTI alleged that Gill was tortured in police custody previously and his life remains in danger.
Marriyum debunks 'propaganda' about torture on ... 05:19 PM | 20 Aug, 2022ISLAMABAD – Information Minister and senior PML-N leader Marriyum Aurangzeb has rejected claims by Pakistan ...
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Isadora Cruz is the protagonist of TV Globo’s new 6 pm soap opera, “Mar do Sertão”. The actress, who will play Candoca, was born in João Pessoa, Paraíba, but has lived in two other countries.
This is not Isadora’s first soap opera on Globo: she has already starred in a soap opera in the 7pm slot on the network. In addition, the artist also participated in some international productions.
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Moving to Miami, USA
Isadora lived from the age of five to nine in Miami, in the United States. There, she had her first contact with the stage, taking ballet classes. When she returned to Brazil, she bet on another style: jazz.
At the age of 16, he took a scenic arts course in São Paulo and discovered his vocation for acting.
course in France
Later that year, Isadora went to Paris, France. She did a seven-month exchange, in which she studied French at the Sorbonne University and theater at the Cours Florent, an actor training school.
Before that, she briefly studied administration at the UFPB (Federal University of Paraíba), but she stopped the course with her father’s support to follow her dream of being an actress.
In addition to the course in France, Isadora also studied at CAL (Casa das Artes de Laranjeiras, in Rio de Janeiro) and graduated in the United States in theater and psychology.
Chris in “Let There Be Heart”
In 2016, Isadora played the character Cris, in “Haja Coração” (TV Globo). In the plot, she was the daughter of Vitória (Betty Gofman) and sister of Felipe (Marcos Pitombo).
In an interview with Quem, she said that she was ready to study performing arts at the University of Miami, when she was invited to participate in the soap opera.
It was very difficult. I thought I was very immature because I had only done theater in English, I didn’t master acting in Portuguese. But I have the greatest affection for the work I did. That role meant that I had the knack for being an actress. Isadora Cruz in an interview with Gshow
With the end of the 7pm soap opera, Isadora returned to the US where she filmed the American horror film “The Evil Hatter” (2021) and the Dutch feature film “Men At Work – Miami” (2020).
Working with Halyna Hutchins
In “The Evil Hatter,” Isadora worked with Halyna Hutchins, a director killed by an accidental gunshot wound by Alec Baldwin on the set of the movie “Rust.”
“I got to know her too much. […] Halyna was super happily married, she told a lot about her love story with her husband, she said it was at first sight. They were very passionate, they had a very cute little boy,” she told Quem magazine.
She was finally getting the jobs she deserved for her talent. And when I heard about the death, I couldn’t believe it, because we had spoken two weeks before, I said I was in LA and she said she was in New Mexico and when she got back to LA we were going to meet. And there was that tragedy. Isadora Cruz in an interview with Quem
love for animals
Isadora learned to ride a horse at the age of 10, on her grandfather’s farm in the interior of Paraíba. Therefore, she did not need stunt doubles to record some scenes of “Mar do Sertão”.
“They [os cavalos] feel everything, all your energy. I always try to talk to them, I pray,” he told Gshow.
Furthermore, she loves to post records with her pets on social media.
foreign boyfriend
After the end of the recording of “Mar do Sertão”, Isadora must return to the United States. She left her boyfriend, Elik Yagubov, in Miami.
“I really miss my boyfriend, who lives in Miami. We’ve been together for three and a half years and we’re still dating from a distance,” the actress told Gshow.
She has already shared some photos with her beloved on social media.
“Two of the best years of my life with you. Happy anniversary beautiful. You stole my heart,” she wrote in a 2020 post.
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CAPITOL HEIGHTS, Md. (AP) — The death of a 5-year-old girl last week has been ruled a homicide, police in Maryland announced Tuesday.
Prince George's County police identified the child as Pradeline Delinois in a news release.
Officers with the Capitol Heights Police Department responded to a report of an unresponsive child on Cumberland Street on Thursday. Delinois was taken to a hospital in Washington, D.C., where she was pronounced dead a short time later, county police said.
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Washington conducted an autopsy and determined the cause of death to be blunt force trauma and the manner was ruled a homicide, police said.
County police will investigate as the department investigates all homicides in the town of Capitol Heights. | https://www.darientimes.com/news/article/Police-5-year-old-girl-s-death-ruled-a-homicide-17392772.php | 2022-08-23T19:46:05Z | https://www.darientimes.com/news/article/Police-5-year-old-girl-s-death-ruled-a-homicide-17392772.php | false | null |
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – A former Louisville police detective who helped falsify the warrant that led to the deadly police raid at Breonna Taylor's apartment has pleaded guilty to a federal conspiracy charge.
Federal investigators said Kelly Goodlett added a false line to the warrant and later conspired with another detective to create a cover story when Taylor's March 13, 2020, shooting death by police began gaining national attention.
Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman, was shot to death by officers who knocked down her door while executing a drug search warrant. Taylor’s boyfriend fired a shot that hit one of the officers as they came through the door and they returned fire, striking Taylor multiple times.
Goodlett, 35, appeared in a federal courtroom in Louisville on Tuesday afternoon and admitted to conspiring with another Louisville police officer to falsify the warrant. Goodlett briefly answered several questions from federal judge Rebecca Jennings Grady.
Taylor's mother, Tamika Palmer, was in the courtroom Tuesday but did not speak after the proceedings.
Three former Louisville officers were indicted on criminal civil rights charges earlier this month by a federal grand jury. Goodlett was not indicted, but charged in a federal information filing, which likely means the former detective is cooperating with investigators.
Goodlett will be sentenced Nov. 22. Grady said there may be “extenuating circumstances” that may move the court to push back the sentencing date. Part of the plea hearing was also kept under seal and was not discussed in open court Tuesday. She faces up to five years in prison for the conviction.
She resigned from the department Aug. 5, a day after U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced new federal charges in the Taylor case.
Former officers Joshua Jaynes and Kyle Meany were indicted on charges related to the warrant used to search Taylor's home. A third former officer, Brett Hankison, was charged with using excessive force when he retreated from Taylor’s door, turned a corner and fired 10 shots into the side of her two-bedroom apartment. He was acquitted by a jury on similar state charges earlier this year. Jaynes, Meany and Hankison have all been fired.
The three former officers face a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted on the civil rights charges.
Federal prosecutors said in court records that Jaynes, who drew up the Taylor warrant, had claimed to Goodlett days before the warrant was served that he had “verified” from a postal inspector that a suspected drug dealer was receiving packages at Taylor’s apartment. But Goodlett knew this was false and told Jaynes the warrant did not yet have enough information connecting Taylor to criminal activity, prosecutors said. She added a paragraph saying the suspected drug dealer, Jamarcus Glover, was using Taylor’s apartment as his current address, according to the court records.
Two months later, when the Taylor shooting was attracting national headlines, the postal inspector told a media outlet he had not verified packages for Glover were going to Taylor’s apartment. Jaynes and Goodlett then met in Jaynes’ garage to “get on the same page” before Jaynes talked to investigators about the Taylor warrant, court records said.
They decided to say Sgt. John Mattingly, who is identified in the court records as J.M., told them Glover was receiving packages at Taylor’s home, according to prosecutors. Mattingly was shot in the leg during the raid at Taylor’s apartment.
Meany, who signed off on the Taylor warrant and was still a Louisville police sergeant when he was indicted on Aug. 4, was fired by Louisville Police Chief Erika Shields on Friday.
Shields said in a statement that Meany has not yet had his case heard by a jury, but “he is facing multiple federal charges after a lengthy investigation by the DOJ” and should not “expect continued employment under such conditions.”
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No player managed to nail the six tens of the 2512 contest and the prize ended up accumulated. The draw was held on Saturday night (20), at Espaço de Loterias da Caixa, on Avenida Paulista, in São Paulo.
Players were able to follow the draw through the Youtube and more CEF social networks.
The numbers revealed by the globe were: 07-10-34-47-49-52.
At Mega-Sena there are prizes for different belts, meet all the winners:
- With 6 hits – There were no winners;
- With 5 hits – 81 winning bets and each one will receive the amount of R$ 31,030.62;
- With 4 hits – 4,382 winning bets and each one will receive the amount of R$ 819.41.
According to Caixa, the amount raised was a total of R$ 43,594,798.50.
When will the next Mega-Sena contest be?
The next contest is scheduled for Wednesday (22), starting at 8 pm, according to Brasília time.
The prize pool is estimated at R$ 14 million and will be paid to whoever matches the six numbers.
Players will be able to play until 7 pm and this can be done at a lottery shop or online, through the lottery website or app.
Remembering that the app can be downloaded for free from the Google Play Store or Apple Store.
To bet online, the user needs to register in advance and, for that, he must fulfill some requirements: be over 18 years old, have a valid CPF, have an email address, have a credit card or be a Caixa Econômica Federal (CEF) account holder. .
How to compete for the R$ 14 million prize?
As previously mentioned, players can bet in person or online.
In the case of online betting, the minimum bet amount is R$ 30, but this balance can be distributed among other modalities, such as + millionaireQuina, Lotomania, Lotofácil, Lucky Day, super seven, among others.
It is worth remembering that there is the option of ‘Surpresinha’, where the system marks the numbers by the player. An alternative is ‘Teimosinha’, which allows your game to be repeated for 2, 4 or 8 consecutive contests.
For those who increase the chances of winning, just use the Mega-Sena pool option, which allows you to bet more numbers without spending too much.
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WASHINGTON — Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine was 73% effective in protecting children younger than 5 as omicron spread in the spring, the company announced Tuesday.
Vaccinations for babies, toddlers and preschoolers opened in the U.S. in June after months of delay. Only about 6% of youngsters ages 6 months through 4 years had gotten at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine by mid-August, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Health authorities authorized tot-sized vaccine doses made by Pfizer and its partner BioNTech based on a study showing they were safe and produced high levels of virus-fighting antibodies. But there was only preliminary data on how that translated into effectiveness against symptomatic COVID-19.
The new update analyzed COVID-19 diagnoses between March and June in Pfizer's ongoing study of the three-dose vaccine. There were 21 COVID-19 cases among the 351 tots who got dummy shots -- compared to just 13 among the 794 youngsters given three vaccine doses.
The child cases primarily were caused by the BA.2 omicron version that was circulating at the time. Today, another omicron relative, BA.5, is causing most COVID-19 cases in the U.S. and much of the world.
In older children and adults, the COVID-19 vaccines have been used long enough to prove that they remain strongly protective against severe disease and death even as the coronavirus mutates -- while early protection against infection wanes. Still, scientists track that initial effectiveness rate as extra evidence of vaccine performance -- and to look for signs of how they initially hold up against new mutants.
Pfizer this week asked U.S. regulators to authorize modified vaccine doses that better match the newest omicron variants for people 12 and older as boosters this fall. The company said it also is developing updated shots for kids under 12. | https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/vaccine/pfizers-covid-vaccine-for-children-under-5-is-73-percent-effective/507-f7234cd4-6da9-4293-9076-8b9a2a0eccd9 | 2022-08-23T19:52:37Z | https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/vaccine/pfizers-covid-vaccine-for-children-under-5-is-73-percent-effective/507-f7234cd4-6da9-4293-9076-8b9a2a0eccd9 | false | 49 |
BRAINTREE, Mass., Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Crews & co. (formerly Crews Consulting Group) has officially secured a spot on the Inc. 5000 2022 Exclusive Guide to America's Top Private Companies, a listing of fast-growth, privately-held US businesses demonstrating significant annual growth. Since its first publication in 1982, the prestigious Inc. 5000 list has become a well-known indicator of entrepreneurial success.
The Inc. 5000 list measures revenue over three fiscal years and reflects the top 0.07% of all companies in growth. Crews & co. has landed at number 2156 on this year's list, having grown 275% in revenue from 2019 to 2021.
During that time, the firm has added 11 business consultants, built out its finance services division, and developed critical infrastructure to prepare for significant growth. The firm also launched the Growth Method (previously known as GROWTH), a comprehensive business operating system built by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs, in April of 2021.
"We have worked tirelessly over the last few years, and investing in our team has significantly expanded our capacity to help more businesses scale" says Founder and CEO Eric Crews. "It's been a privilege to help nearly 100 incredible clients achieve the business success they are looking for. I am so proud of our company for everything we have accomplished and grateful for every opportunity we have had to get where we are today."
Crews & co. is proud to be making its debut on the Inc. 5000 list in the top 50% of honorees. The company also came in at #48 in Boston, #57 in Massachusetts, and #204 in the Business Products and Services category.
The firm, which was formerly known as Crews Consulting Group, is in good company. Fellow Inc. 5000 honorees include an impressive census of dauntless organizations whose growth defies the pandemic-era impacts on labor, supply chains, sales and marketing initiatives, and global connectivity.
"Despite the many challenges posed by a global pandemic, we maintained our focus on helping seven-figure businesses achieve their first $10M, $20M, or $50M year," says Crews. "We prioritized developing our Growth Method, strengthening our team, and doubling down on our commitment to client success. It's extremely humbling to be on this list among so many excellent organizations."
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We’ve got another slate of fights on deck this week for Episode 5 of Dana White’s Contender Series set for Tuesday, August 23. The five-fight card will be held at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas and allow shareholder and UFC president Dana White to scout talent with the opportunity for the best fighters to earn contracts.
The main event for this week is going to be between heavyweights Mick Parkin and Eduardo Neves. Both guys are undefeated in MMA. Parkin (6-0) has won all of his fights by stoppage and only one has gotten out of the first round. Neves (5-0) is also a big punch with bad intentions. He’s won four of his five fights by knockout with three of the wins coming in less than a minute. It looks like someone might be going to sleep tonight!
Eduardo Neves with the walk off KO pic.twitter.com/5ZMVWeKNil
— ShayMyName2 (@imstillshannon) March 12, 2022
Full fight card for Dana White’s Contender Series: Episode 5 (odds via DraftKings Sportsbook)
- Main event: Mick Parkin (+160) vs. Eduardo Neves (-190), heavyweight
- Darrius Flowers (+230) vs. Amiran Gogoladze (-275), welterweight
- Jesus Santos Aguilar (+150) vs. Erisson Ferreira da Silva (-175), flyweight
- Cameron Saaiman (+190) vs. Josh Wang-Kim (-225), bantamweight
- Rayanne Amanda (+215) vs. Denise Gomes (-255), women’s strawweight | https://dknation.draftkings.com/ufc-mma-mixed-martial-arts-cards-ppv/2022/8/23/23318124/ufc-dana-whites-contender-series-full-card-episode-5-mick-parkin-vs-eduardo-neves-flowers-gogoladze | 2022-08-23T19:54:42Z | https://dknation.draftkings.com/ufc-mma-mixed-martial-arts-cards-ppv/2022/8/23/23318124/ufc-dana-whites-contender-series-full-card-episode-5-mick-parkin-vs-eduardo-neves-flowers-gogoladze | true | 1 |
GALT — To help keep costs down once SB 1383 is implemented next year, the City of Galt and Cal-Waste will work together to build a new transfer station off Twin Cities Road.
During the Aug. 16 Galt City Council meeting, public works director Mike Selling said the city and the solid waste collection agency were currently negotiating 2023 rates as the implementation of SB 1383 approaches. The bill requires California residents to place all organic and food waste into yard waste bins provided by trash collectors in an effort to reduce organic waste disposal from 23 million tons to 5.7 million tons by 2025.
To comply with the law, many trash collection agencies will begin picking up the yard waste bins on a weekly basis rather than every other week.
Increased yard waste collection translates into monthly rate increases for customers.
Cal-Waste provides three different sized bins to customers in Galt: a 38-gallon bin, a 64-gallon bin and a 96-gallon bin.
Current monthly collection rates for residents are $34.64 for the 38-gallon bin, $40.42 for the 64-gallon bin and $64.42 for the 96-gallon bin, Selling said.
On March 1, 2023, rates will increase to $38.86 for the 38-gallon bin, $44.93 for the 64-gallon bin, and $70.13 for the 96-gallon bin.
By 2026, those rates will increase to $45.96, $52.86 and $82.16, respectively.
Monthly commercial rates range from $213.82 for a 1-cubic-yard trash bin and $181.75 for a 1 cubic yard recycling bin, to $1,014.18 for a 6-cubic-yard trash bin and $862.05 for a 6-cubic-yard recycling bin.
Next year, commercial trash rates will change to $180.05 for a 1-cubic-yard bin and $854.01 for a 6-cubic-yard bin, and $153.05 for a 1-cubic-yard recycling bin and $725.90 for a 6-cubic-yard recycling bin.
Selling said businesses and multi-family units that generate less than 10 gallons of waste if they have a 2-cubic yard bin, or generate less than 20 gallons of waste if they have a bin larger than 2 cubic yards, can qualify for an exemption to SB 1383.
They may also qualify for a physical space waiver if they can demonstrate legitimate space constraints for new waste bins, he said.
If a customer had to move a wall to create a bigger space to accommodate a new organics waste bin and the construction was overly expensive, then they could get the space waiver, Selling said.
“The other check on it though is that (some businesses have) always had (a certain size) of container in their dumpster area, and we’ll look at if they go to a small container,” he said. “Maybe they’ve got a 4-cubic-yard dumpster and they really only need two. If we can shrink that container, then that creates the space for it and they wouldn’t qualify for the exemption.”
There is also an alternative recycling option for businesses, which Selling said typically applies to larger ones such as grocery stores that may have self-haul operations in which they already haul organics to an approved processing facility.
Residential customers will not qualify for any exemptions, Selling said.
The planning and permitting process for the proposed transfer station should take between 18 and 24 months, and construction should take 12 months, he said.
Without the transfer station, which will be located near the city’s wastewater treatment plant, Selling said SB 1383 rates would be as much as 50% higher than proposed, depending on how the city and Cal-Waste could potentially reduce other services to offset costs.
The city and Cal-Waste are expected to finalize negations by the end of month, and SB 1383 implementation should take effect by Dec. 31.
Mayor Shawn Farmer said there have been discussions in the past to build a transfer station, but the idea was met with opposition because the locations were always near the city limits.
“This is outside the city limits on property that is on our wastewater treatment plant property,” he said “I don’t know if anyone would really use (the site) for anything else. Nobody wants to be next the to the plant. But it makes sense for something like this, and this is why we zeroed in on this spot. It’s the spot that would make the most sense.”
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Being a major college football coach is as much a lifestyle as it is a career.
Long hours. Rare days off. It’s a job that can pull those who do it away from their families, so maybe it’s no surprise when coaches try to carve out space at work for their loved ones.
A propensity to follow in Dad’s footsteps is a common one across the sport, but it has also helped perpetuate a lack of racial and ethnic diversity at the highest levels of coaching in college football.
The Associated Press examined the coaching rosters of the 65 schools that compete in Power Five conferences and found 26 instances of family members on the same coaching staff.
Of those, 23 involved white coaches, including at Iowa where coach Kirk Ferentz’s son, Brian, is the offensive coordinator. It also includes Purdue, where coach Jeff Brohm has brothers as offensive coordinator and chief of staff.
“The industry of football that we’re part of is so different from corporate,” said Maryland coach Mike Locksley, who is Black. “It’s corporate, but it is very familial. It crosses the line. Usually when you work somewhere you go home and it’s done. This private life, work life is so intertwined in the game of football and even in it’s hiring practices when you see the number of nepotism hires and the affiliations. The family trees, per se.”
Nepotism is a significant factor in why Black coaches are under-represented in major college football, according to the National Coalition of Minority Football Coaches, which was founded by Locksley in 2020 to prepare and advocate for minority coaches at all levels of football.
“I don’t think anyone can debate that,” said attorney Raj Kudchadkar, the group’s executive director. “We can plow our resources into developing minority coaches, but if the top decision-makers are set on hiring family members all the training and advocacy in the world won’t get one of my members that position.“
According to the latest data compiled by the NCAA, 79% of head coaches at Power Five conference schools during the 2020 football season were white, 15% were Black and the rest were from other minority groups. Their teams were comprised of 45% Black players, 37% white and 18% from other groups.
Coaches tend to carefully craft and protect the culture of their programs, so they are apt to hire people they know and trust. And who can you trust more than a family member?
All three of Ferentz’s sons played football at Iowa. When Brian was done playing and expressed an interest in coaching, his father’s advice was to get out of Iowa City.
Brian Ferentz started his career as an offensive quality control/ scouting assistant for the New England Patriots; Kirk Ferentz had worked as an assistant for Patriots coach Bill Belichick in Cleveland during the mid-1990s.
Brian Ferentz worked his way up to tight ends coach with New England in 2011, and when his father had an opening at offensive line coach in 2012, he moved back to Iowa.
The hire was met with scrutiny because it seemed to violate the school's policy that discourages nepotism. A plan was approved by school officials to have athletic director Gary Barta evaluate Brian Ferentz’s performance; Barta at the time said it was his decision to hire the younger Ferentz.
“Why would a head coach not try to get the best possible assistant?” asked Kirk Ferentz, whose 110 Big Ten victories over a 24-year career ranks fourth in league history. “We all understand the economics and how it works, how the world works. But more importantly, we all want to be successful, have good teams. I don’t think there’s anything more important than hiring your staff.”
Half of Kirk Ferentz’s assistant coaches this season are former Iowa football players. Other than Brian Ferentz, the other former Hawkeyes on the staff are Black.
“That’s another form of nepotism, I guess,” Kirk Ferentz said. “I know their DNA, if you will, having been in the program.”
Colorado State quarterbacks coach Matt Mumme did not want a career in coaching when he was done playing college football for his father. But Hal Mumme pulled his son into the business when he became head coach at Southeastern Louisiana in 2003. Hal Mumme’s previous stop at Kentucky had ended in turmoil and NCAA violations.
“After the Kentucky thing, he’s like, ‘I just need to make sure that I have people that are loyal to me. That have my back when I have to be doing other things,’” Matt Mumme said.
The 47-year-old Mumme said Louisiana nepotism rules prevented his father from hiring him as a full-time coach so he worked for free there, and then followed Hal to New Mexico State.
South Carolina’s Shane Beamer is among 21 Power Five head coaches whose father coached football at either the high school, college or professional level. Among the others are Michigan’s Jim Harbaugh and Mississippi’s Lane Kiffin, according to AP research. Only one of those 21, David Shaw of Stanford, is Black.
When Beamer decided to get into coaching, he was determined to do it without the help of his Hall of Fame father, Frank Beamer of Virginia Tech. He said he sent dozens of letters to programs all over the country trying to land a graduate assistant position.
Graduate assistant is a highly coveted, entry-level job in coaching, especially at big programs. Rutgers coach Greg Schiano’s son, Joe, is a graduate assistant for the Scarlet Knights; Kansas State coach Chris Klieman’s son, Deven, is a graduate assistant for the Wildcats; and Indiana coach Tom Allen hired his son, Thomas, as a GA.
Shane Beamer landed his first grad assistant position in 2000 at Georgia Tech, where the athletic director and offensive coordinator at the time had previously worked with his father.
“I’m not naive. I get it,” Beamer said. “So that certainly helped me get my foot in the door. But then ultimately you’ve got to be able to keep yourself in the profession.”
Both Locksley and Kudchadkar are quick to point out that just because someone is the son of a coach it doesn’t mean they are undeserving of a position.
“You can’t blame the coaches that benefit from nepotism. But what I always say is in the same respect, we can’t ignore the issue and simply say it is what it is, right?” Kudchadkar said. “Many schools already have rules that address nepotism. We just need more schools to address it.”
Locksley said he has tried to get his son, Kai, who played quarterback at UTEP and is with the CFL’s Edmonton Elks, to pursue a coaching career.
“When I’ve talked to him about that he’s, like, ‘No, I want to see my kids grow up,’” Locksley said.
For the kids of coaches who are exposed to the game and lifestyle at a young age, the experience can be invaluable preparation for a career.
“I don’t necessarily think it’s a negative that these guys grow up in the profession and they grow up on these practices fields and they become coaches,” Locksley said. “Now the issue is — because we don’t have the minority numbers — you don’t see it very often with us.”
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Food review: 'Could this be the perfect Suffolk pub?'
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I was a bit giddy after a visit to a Suffolk pub last week – and, truly, it wasn’t because I’d guzzled too much beer.
But it was that I’d stumbled upon the rare beast that is the ‘perfect pub’. The kind that ticks all the boxes...the sum of its parts fitting together like a neatly cut jigsaw.
That pub is the Edwardstone White Horse.
It’s not fancy. It doesn’t serve scallops or lobster or twee posh desserts (pudding here is a Mars Bar). But what it does have is bags of character, and the kind of honest- to-good ambiance that gives you a warm and toasty feeling inside.
Now, what do I mean by a proper pub? Gastropubs aside (we have many of these, lots of them excellent), to me, the ideal pub is somewhere unpretentious where the whole community is welcome. Somewhere you can roll up in your mud-caked wellies for a pint and a packet of crisps after a walk, or pull up a chair with friends after a long day for a chat.
Somewhere you know, if you go alone, after a few minutes at the bar you’ll have found someone to chat to.
Sadly, these kinds of institutions are scant as hens’ teeth – many of them swallowed up into housing. And the effect of their loss cannot be underestimated.
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I remember fondly the time (pre-children) when my husband and I lived near The Bell in Kersey. It felt, for a while, like the centre of our little world.
Back then, chef Jonathan (who was excellent) ran the kitchen, dosing out fantastic pies, steaks and puds. We’d go there after work for dinner. For Sunday lunches. For drinks with friends.
There was always a pack of dogs warming themselves by the fire at the bar, and a rollcall of locals, from all walks of life, chatting away – from farmers to doctors, to families.
One very harsh winter we got snowed into the village and tried (in the stupidity of youth) to walk to Hadleigh for supplies in gale force winds, battered by drifts of frozen rain. We failed.
Returning to the Bell, we were taken in, and given mugs of tea and bowls of hot soup. How’s that for community spirit?
The White Horse was somewhere else we’d pop to from time to time. And when our children were small, it was a regular haunt for Sunday lunch - at one point I’m sure a national paper cited it as being amongst the best for roasts in the country.
It’s changed hands a few times over the years and had, I’m sad to say, dropped off my radar until a friend visited recently, sending a running commentary on the place via our friendship circle’s Whatsapp group:
‘We’ve got pizza...it’s really good,” came the first message, with a picture of said pizza.
Then: ‘Ooh, the wagyu burger van just turned up. We’ve got chips. They are good chips!’
Followed by: ‘Now not one, but two ice cream vans!’
The pub is visited regularly by food trucks at weekends, which supplement its offering – although I have to point out, my friend discovered the ice cream vans weren’t on the rota – the drivers were just stopping by for a drink. However, they did oblige those who wanted a 99 with a Flake.
Having revisited, I honestly believe this place has a bit of magic about it. It’s an inn to be sought out, visited often, and treasured.
The pub resides in a picture-perfect rural location (there are superb walks from the beautiful local church, or the Millennium Green opposite). There’s a campsite to pitch up in.
It has its own brewhouse – The Little Earth Project – whose Hedgerow Blend and It’s Life, Jim, beers were recently selected as being amongst 250 of the best on the planet, featuring in CAMRA’s World’s Greatest Beers book.
And there’s a simple menu that screams ‘eat me’.
On our visit a blend of holidaymakers and locals were sat in the garden, relishing the relative coolness of the early evening air as we recovered from the most recent heatwave.
While the exterior is rustic, inside is far from ‘spit and sawdust’. The pub is spotless and nicely appointed - brick and beam complemented by solid furniture, heavy curtains, shelves of beer-related books, and piles of boardgames.
After a warm welcome, we were eyeing up the chalk board. The White Horse, being a free house, has so much choice (including Little Earth Project’s wild ferments and sours) on tap, with third pints available in flights.
Just when you think you’ve made a decision, though, you realise there’s a whole other ‘bible’ of bottled beer to sift through – again, with a strong focus on wild and interesting varieties.
You’ll see their own Stupid Sexy Suffolk (a blended Flander’s style red beer), and dozens of 750ml bottles to be shared like wine, including Burning Sky’s Saison de Peche (aged with yellow and white peaches), and Crossover Blendery’s Barbarian Lands (aged in stages, from French oak barrels to the barrels that once contained their Mount Ida raspberry beer).
There are guest cans too. And ciders. Oh, and natural and biodynamic wines.
My husband stuck with the familiar – a pint of (also local) Burnt Mill’s wonderful Pintle. A herbaceous, hoppy, crisp number with a hint of pine.
Naturally I couldn’t decide, so opted for one of the flights, with third pints priced variously from £1.35 to £2.60. First up, their own blackberry and blackcurrant sour. Sour beer is an acquired taste, but is something I really enjoy. This one was kinda funky, with a touch of farmyard, and bright, tart notes from the fruit.
Braybrooke’s Black Lager was smooth, lighter than stout in body, but with those lingering dark chocolate, malted biscuit and coffee notes you might expect.
And Ampersand’s Nettle Petite Saison was an unusual but pleasurable drink. Really interesting, almost with hints of young green pepper and fresh lime.
Onto the food. I’d had a bad experience earlier in the week at a place (which shall remain nameless), that had overcomplicated its menu to its own detriment.
I was craving decent, for want of a better word, ‘grub’.
The White Horse has hit the nail on the head here. There’s no fussy, frilly bits. Like the beer offering, the team have chosen quality above all else. We tried a bit of everything.
Pizzas are available from Wednesday onwards, and while not being exactly authentic Italian, they are pretty darn good, being made with their own sourdough mix, a rich tomato sauce, creamy mozzarella, and local goodies. The puffy crust was sensational.
Also, they’re so big, we had to take half of each home. One a simple margherita, the other festooned with Dingley Dell’s salami.
It was refreshing to see a local pork pie on the menu. And decent it was too. Lightly spiced, plump with meat, crisp-bottomed pastry, and a vat of piccalilli on the side.
The thing I’d go back for, over and over again, is the pubs charcuterie and cheese platters. What more could you want alongside a few beers?
Priced at £14 for cheese or charcuterie, or £18 for a mixed plate to share, these are generous portions indeed.
We definitely didn’t need the extra portion of bread I ordered alongside (these things never usually have enough). By the time everything arrived, I’m almost positive we had half a loaf on the table. Did we eat it all? Of course. But that’s not the point!
As to the bread. It was brilliant. Their own, homemade sourdough. Thinner crusted than most (better for my poor gnashers), and less tangy, with a bouncy crumb and malty, nutty flavour, I’d go so far as to say it’s some of the best house-baked bread I’ve eaten in a pub. Alongside was some rapeseed oil and vinegar, and a portion of cultured, salted butter.
The platter itself was a feast. Hand-cut Dingley Dell salamis, slivers of their whole meat cuts, a wedge of oozing Baron Bigod sidled up next to Suffolk Gold, and Binham Blue. There was salad. Wheels of home pickled beets and cucumber. And a gloriously gloopy beer-scented chutney with hints of spice and sweetness.
All told, with a flight of beers, a pint, two posh pops, two large pizzas, a pork pie, the sharing platter and extra bread, the bill came to £65.40.
We left, comparing diaries, desperately trying to pencil in a date for another visit. Maybe, next time, with a tent in tow.
Don’t let The Edwardstone White Horse pass you by – it's time to trot over and give it a whirl.
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Consultations are currently in an initial stage, and the system may be introduced in a year’s time, Jasmine Shah, vice-chairperson of the Dialogue and Development Commission of Delhi, said
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NEW DELHI :The Delhi government plans to introduce a time-of-day tariff system for charging electric vehicles (EVs) to incentivize users.
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NEW DELHI :The Delhi government plans to introduce a time-of-day tariff system for charging electric vehicles (EVs) to incentivize users.
The Delhi government is planning to introduce a time-of-day tariff system for charging EVs to incentivize users. Consultations are currently in an initial stage, and the system may be introduced in a year’s time, Jasmine Shah, vice-chairperson of the Dialogue and Development Commission of Delhi, said in an interview.
The Delhi government is planning to introduce a time-of-day tariff system for charging EVs to incentivize users. Consultations are currently in an initial stage, and the system may be introduced in a year’s time, Jasmine Shah, vice-chairperson of the Dialogue and Development Commission of Delhi, said in an interview.
“Right now, ToD (time-of-day) is not there on charging electric vehicles. As the number of EVs increases, grid stability is also important. If someone wants to charge at 10 pm when Delhi’s power load increases, do it at higher prices, but if you can charge your car at 2 a.m., then it would cost less," he said.
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Noting that the system would be implemented through the separate EV metres provided to the consumers, he said: “EV tariff in Delhi is ₹4.5, commercial tariff ₹7.5 and domestic is obviously much less for low users, but if you have heavy-duty domestic consumption then the highest tariff would be ₹6-6.5. It makes sense for you to rather than consumer your domestic power, which is at ₹6, put up an EV meter at ₹4.5."
He said that discussions are at an initial stage and the regulator and the power discoms need to come on board for the system to be implemented. Shah said that with the rapid growth in EV adoption in the national capital, the time-of-day tariff system is the need of the hour.
On the estimated timeline for implementation of the system, he said: “My guess is probably in a year’s time."
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The action plan of EV charging infrastructure for 2022-2025 for the national capital said that the state’s transport department would work with discoms to recommend measures like ‘time-of-day’ tariffs and ‘managed charging’ to the regulatory commission.
On 18 August, Mint reported that the Centre plans to extend the time-of-day power tariff system to retail power customers. Currently, this system, under which electricity costs more or less depending on the time of the day, is available for some commercial and industrial users.
Under this system, power consumption during peak-demand hours costs more, and during lean-demand hours costs less. The plans to incentivize consumers and lower the load on the grid come at a time EV sales are picking up, and the national capital has emerged out of the record high power demand during April and May.
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According to estimates, nearly 26,000 EVs were sold in the national capital in the first half of 2022. A recent report by the India Energy Storage Alliance estimated that demand for electric vehicles in India may grow by up to 49% per year between 2021 and 2030.
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